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Devs Worry Blizzard Departures Could Hurt WoW, Diablo IV

It’s a pivotal moment for Blizzard, and some developers there worry the company is facing an unnecessary wave of departures that could hamper games like World of Warcraft, the long-running MMO whose recent Dragonflight expansion was praised by critics and players alike. At least a few employees say the studio’s mandatory return-to-office in July is

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The 17 Best Boss Fights In The Legend Of Zelda Series

Nintendo / NintendoComplete Zelda II is famous for being “the hard one,” and nowhere was this more apparent than in its final palace, a grand labyrinth of samey-looking screens that very much wanted to kill you. Eventually stumbling upon the proper path leads you to not one, but two final bosses. They’re not the hardest

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RIP Poster Artist And Record Label Owner Frank Kozik, 1962-2023

Image: Frank Kozik The world received the very sad news today that Frank Kozik, a man perhaps best known for his incredible music posters of the 1990s, has passed away. The Top Ten Most Played Games On Steam Deck: April 2023 Edition The Week In Games: Return To Hyrule Yesterday Kozik’s social media channels shared

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Silksong Has Been Delayed Past Q2 Of This Year

Hollow Knight: Silksong, the sequel to 2017’s classic Hollow Knight, was supposed to have been released around about now. It hasn’t, and now it won’t be either, because the team have decided to take some extra time making the game as good as it can be. The Top Ten Most Played Games On Steam Deck:

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Nintendo’s New Zelda Tears of the Kingdom Trailer Is Very Sad

There are all kinds of demographics who are going to be very into the next Zelda game, but this new trailer for Tears of the Kingdom—one that is somewhere between a personal appeal and a personal attack on me, a 43-year-old man—has one very specific audience in mind. The Top Ten Most Played Games On

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Man Jailed After Beating Neighbour To Death With Pokémon Cards

Photo: South Yorkshire Police 31-year-old British man Andrew Hague has been sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of the murder of his neighbour, 50-year-old Simon Wilkinson. The Top Ten Most Played Games On Steam Deck: April 2023 Edition The Week In Games: Return To Hyrule Yesterday The men, both residents of an

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Survivor Perfectly Mixes Every Era Of Star Wars Together

In the early years of Disney’s ownership of Star Wars, it felt like the company wasn’t interested in any era of the franchise beyond the original trilogy. The material it mined for its own projects came largely from those films, leaving vast swaths of Star Wars history by the wayside. But more recently, Disney and

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Pokémon Devs Announce Mysterious New Action-Adventure Game

What in the world? Longtime Pokémon maker GameFreak just announced something completely unrelated that will be published by Take-Two’s Private Division label. Codenamed Project Bloom, it’s in early development and billed as an action adventure game and…that’s basically all we know about it. The Top Ten Most Played Games On Steam Deck: April 2023 Edition

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Overwatch 2’s Star Wars-Inspired Event Feels Like A Distraction

Overwatch 2’s latest event, Starwatch, might as well be a licensed Star Wars tribute. While it may have missed May the 4th, the new PvP(vE) event is full of legally distinct tributes to the franchise, from an homage to the iconic text crawl in the accompanying comic to characters like Baptiste donning a bounty hunter

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Redfall’s Single-Player Is No Prey Or Dishonored

At this point, saying Redfall ain’t that great of a time is hardly a new or hot take. But, to be fair, it kind of felt like the stakes were out for developer Arkane’s co-op infected immersive sim even before its release. So is our collective disappointment just a self-fulfilling prophecy? Are we merely burnt

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