Every Season of Discovery Rune That We've Discovered So Far - Day 2

Though it sounds bizarre to say it, some retailers think today is the perfect time to deploy their "boxing day" marked deals. While that wreaks havoc with my everything must be just so OCD, it's kind of awesome too. The EOY shopping experience is going to be way better if I'm not also sporting an egg nog hangover or nursing a Christmas ham food baby. By all means, let's jump the gun every year!

'Tis the season for holiday savings on games, as PlayStation has officially kicked off their massive Holiday Sale. The list of digital games included in this sale event is huge (you can check out every title available in the sale in their PlayStation Blog Holiday Sale post). It even features excellent new releases from this year that are well worth picking up, like Alan Wake 2 and even The Game Awards' Game of the Year winner, Baldur's Gate 3, has a slight discount.

Editor’s Note: Faster than we could publish our early access review, the developer announced it was shutting down and The Day Before was removed from sale . The servers remain up for those who have bought it and not yet refunded, but since our reviewer went to the trouble of playing it, it seems only right that you should get to read what he thought of the experience while it lasted.

Zombie-based survival MMO The Day Before is out as an Early Access title, and the game’s launch has been met with quite a bit of negativity from its playerbase. At the time of writing, the game is sitting at almost 11,000 player reviews on Steam, with an overall rating of Overwhelmingly Negative.

Today, Blizzard opened the gates to Diablo 4's hardest endgame dungeon, a seasonal event called the Abattoir of Zir. Experienced players have been gearing up for this moment for weeks, perfecting their builds to tackle the first tier of a dungeon that the developer teased might be completely impossible at its highest difficulty level. But in an absurdly unfortunate piece of timing, the update also introduced a bug that has reduced the power of almost every endgame player in the game.

One of the main reasons that Blizzard didn't put its Season of Discovery up on the World of Warcraft Classic PTR was to retain the mystery of the rune treasure hunt. Well, just four days after launch, they've all been found.

When starting a new life on an idyllic tropical island in , farming the game's best crops is a great way to make a quick profit and make new friends. This chill, laid-back farming sim takes the genre to the tropics, where you can farm, fish, and scuba dive. However, money still matters even in paradise, and prioritizing the game'sbest, most profitable crops lets you hit the ground running in your new home.

With the discovery of Metamorphosis, Earth Shield, and Cobra Strikes, all 108 runes in Phase 1 of WoW Classic Season of Discovery have now been found! Many runes have multiple sources, not all of which may be entirely detailed yet, but it appears that most can be obtained by any character regardless of race or faction, as long as they don't require a race-specific quest or defeating an otherwise faction friendly mob.

Considered by many to be more than worth the monthly cost, Xbox Game Pass is the front-runner in gaming’s fast lean towards subscription-based services. On top of Microsoft CEO Phil Spencer expressing interest in an Xbox mobile gaming store, the company’s Chief Financial Officer is now keen on bringing Game Pass to… well, just about everything.

Loki season two appears to have injected some much-needed life into the MCU, although its finale hitting Disney Plus as The Marvels, which fans don't seem to be quite as interested in, arrived in cinemas might have held it back a little. Nevertheless, Disney was clearly well aware of the impact more Loki would have, turning the God version of the anti-hero into a Funko Pop! as soon as season two ended. That Pop! will be available later today (December 1, 2023) alongside four other Funko Pop! products pulled from Loki's second season.

With Season of Discovery launch earlier today, the Wowhead team has been hard at work discovering the locations of many starting zone runes and updating our guides! As each race has a unique starting zone experience, these early runes have a different method of acquisition for each race, leading to many fun discoveries. A massive thank you to all of our community members who have helped us by leaving comments and uploading data via the Wowhead Client. We are continually updating and refining our guides as more discoveries are made, so keep checking back!

I'm genuinely pretty excited for Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn, shown off earlier today at our PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted showcase, and that's due to its fun position of being a sort of 'second-generation soulslike'—which is a term I just now made up and already cannot wait to stop using when we think of better words for this stuff. See, Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn gives off some major Star Wars Jedi: Survivor energy. In that it takes the slow, methodical combat of its inspirations and loosens the restraints enough to let the player feel flexible. Even calling Survivor (or Flintlock, for that matter) a soulslike feels weird. Sure, Survivor still has Meditation point bonfires, difficult bosses, an Estus Flask-style health system, a sprawling metroidvania-style labyrinth of shortcuts and blocked areas. But it also meets with modern action game sensibilities. Everything I've seen from Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn follows in the footsteps of that philosophy. Developed by A44 Games and published by Kepler Interactive, the game aims for that same cake mix of weighty, timing-focused combat, but looks like it'll top it with a more God-of-War style icing. You even get your very own cute sidekick: a little magical fox thing, Enki. Setting-wise, Flintlock is a bold mash-up of high-magic fantasy and renaissance goodness, giving you an axe, a gun, and deities to fight. The core concept is that the door to the afterlife has opened (bad) but you're part of the coalition army that's here to stop them (good). It's straightforward, sure, but if you're going for god-slaying action fantasy, straightforward works. It's also nice to see a game taking influence from the soulslike genre straying away from 'the world is screwed, we're all upset, watch a video essay to make sense of why' brand of storytelling. Instead, you're cobbling together a rag-tag resistance group to commit deicide with. These are big-budget shoes I'm expecting Flintlock to fill, but the developers A44 did also develop Ashen, a solid game we gave an 85 to in our Ashen review. It's had five years to brush up on its act since then, so I'm pretty confident that A44 Games are in with a chance of making a smashing edition to the genre's history, even as that genre splinters off into its own subcategories and becomes even more of an impossible nightmare to talk about.