Additional Reputation Changes for Honored Coming Soon - Season of Discovery

Following a drawn-out legal dispute with original publisher Nacon, Ukrainian studio Frogwares has announced that it is now the one true publisher of the Lovecraft-inspired detective adventure The Sinking City, and that a new version of the game «with all the latest bug fixes and optimizations» is coming soon.

As 2023 rapidly draws to a close, Blizzard has shared its World of Warcaft and WoW Classic plans for 2024, which will include three more content updates before The War Within expansion arrives in late summer (or maybe early fall), and on the Classic side, a not-too-distant beta test for the upcoming Cataclysm Classic.

The nights are growing colder, and the Season of Blood is getting shorter, so if you're a new player looking into checking out the season or are looking to get a character ready for the Abattoir of Zir at level 100, then Midwinter Blight Event farming is a great way to kill two demons with one stone! New Zone Event for Midwinter Summons Red-Cloaked Horror Abattoir of Zir Returning in the Future With the Midwinter Blight in the Fractured Peaks, you will come across themed monsters, events, and special Midwinter events in the zone that will give you various materials which can be exchanged in Kyovashad at the Midwinter Square. These events are an excellent way to quickly gain large chunks of experience for your character! By hopping from event to event, you can make quick progress on the Midwinter Tribute to unlock Caches and cosmetic rewards, which can accelerate your leveling even further by drinking some of which applies a whopping 15% Experience Gain! This brew can be found in any of the Midwinter Caches you might come across while engaging in activities from the event, as well as for a low cost from Gileon himself.

Intel could be the third major PC player to debut its frame generation technology for its XeSS framework known as ExtraSS as showcased during SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 in Sydney.

Fortnite on Steam isn't out of the question, according to Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney, but it would require big changes to the way store owner Valve monetizes sales – namely a cut to what Sweeney calls "these ridiculous 30% fees."

Creative Assembly, and specifically the Total War leadership team, posted a lengthy message to the series’ community today recognizing their own missteps while promising adjustments and course corrections, especially in regards to Total War: Pharaoh and Total War: Warhammer 3.

Blizzard has pushed a series of hotfixes addressing Ashenvale PvP layer issues, Runes are now offered at Friendly instead of Honored, as well as some changes to Blackfathom Deeps.

Blizzard has added additional changes to the Season of Discovery Hotfixes that will be going live with realm maintenance starting on December 12. To see the previous changes listed, check out our previous article here.

Following the Community Council Live Chat on December 8, a member of the Community Council asked a series of questions on the forums to which WoW Classic Senior Producer Josh Greenfield responded. Sharing some insight on the development of Season of Discovery and Cataclysm Classic, which you can read below --

Tower of Fantasy will get an Evangelion collaboration in 2024, with characters from the iconic anime to feature. On the way this month is version 3.5, “Electrifying Winter Rhapsody” with a whole lot to keep you busy.

Blizzard has implemented a series of changes to the Battle for Ashenvale PvP event, addressing concern from the community regarding reputation not being rewarded. There are also additional changes regarding the bosses and Lieutenants to prevent the event from ending in such a short amount of time.

Yesterday WoW Classic Senior Game Producer Josh Greenfield teased that changes were coming to Battle for Ashenvale, and the first wave of adjustments have arrived. Camp Lieutenants have been given a health increase, and are now required to kill before a Faction Leader can be defeated. This change means that big groups of players can no longer rush to the opposite Faction's Leader and burst it down with sheer numbers, but instead actually need to spread out across the zone and defeat the Camp Lieutenants.