Blizzard on Community Council - 2024 Rollover and New Content in Coming Weeks

Diablo 4 revealed the preview of Season 4 on a new Campfire Chat, confirming big changes to the game's itemization and various other adjustments. With the live-service model, Diablo 4 follows a seasonal system similar to what players saw in Diablo 3. Each season has brought a new theme, characters, content, and features to keep Diablo 4's gameplay fresh.

At GDC 2024, Epic held its State of Unreal event, unveiling the latest news and developments coming to Unreal Engine — specifically Unreal Engine 5 and Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN).

The Unreal Engine 5 remake of Riven: The Sequel to Myst, previously known as Riven: New Discoveries From the Lost D'ni Empire but now officially just called plain-old Riven, is coming this year, original developer Cyan Worlds has announced. 

World of Warcraft players are finally getting the pirate-themed content they've been craving for months, but it's arriving as a 60-player battle royale mode.

Palworld developer Pocketpair has revealed a few details about the game’s first raid, Bellanoir. The creature-collecting RPG has experienced runaway success, taking even the developer by surprise. Palworld hit the milestone of 25 million players in just a month and has filled the coffers of the small Japanese indie game studio.

Palworld developers Pocketpair have announced a new Palworld Testing program that asks players of the wildly popular monster-catching survival game to help test future updates and provide feedback on the game, ahead of new content drops being released to the general public. Players can sign-up via a Google Form now if they wish, though Pocketpair stress that "the testing branch is not intended for free play or experiencing new content early, so we hope that only those of you genuinely interested in bug hunting and testing will apply." And presumably, those genuinely interested in also not being paid for their free QA support.

E3 may be dead, but its spirit will once again hang around downtown Los Angeles this year for a week of game announcements and updates in early June.

There’s plenty of genuinely good ongoing TV to watch this week: Shōgun continues apace (with new episodes dropping on Tuesdays), Abbott Elementary is still making its way through the school year (Wednesdays at 9 p.m. EST), and The Gentlemen is all on Netflix, but hey, maybe you’re still working your way through it! But that doesn’t mean there’s not new TV coming this week — and more good TV coming fresh to a screen near you.

To celebrate its upcoming seventh anniversary, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has released its 2024 roadmap, with huge features on the way, including destructible environments and a new game engine. The new list of features promises to make PUBG feel like a totally fresh experience all over again, even for veteran players.

Microsoft held its second Xbox Partner Preview event on Wednesday.

will receive the huge 1.002 update on March 7, 2024, with many features fans have requested since the game's launch in October 2023. Insomniac's latest title was largely praised upon its release and has been nominated for and won several awards in the months that followed.

Apple is speculated to roll out the iOS 17.4 update this week which has been in beta testing for quite some time now. The upcoming operating system update for Apple iPhones will come with several new features and upgrades including those that have been ordered by the European Union. With iOS 17.4, users are speculated to get new emojis, App Store changes in the EU, Siri improvements, and more to provide better user experience to Apple iPhone users. Know what is coming later this week.