NVIDIA's CEO Jensen Huang has paid a visit to China, to celebrate Beijing's New Year Party, marking his steps into mainland China after several years.
02.01.2024 - 14:21 / news.blizzard.com / New Year
A new dawn breaks across hallowed ground, adventurer.
Since our last content update, players explored the Southern Dreadlands, summoned Ordinary and Aberrant Familiars, and pursued 3 new Legendary Gems, amongst many other spoils. This content update sees the return of several limited-time events, plus a handful of updates to different features across Sanctuary.
As with previous content updates, there will be server maintenance starting on January 3, from 4 p.m.–6 p.m. PST for Oceania, China, East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Europe servers, and on January 4, from 12 a.m.–2 a.m. PST for servers in the Americas. After the maintenance has concluded, all items mentioned below will be live—specific dates for any content going live afterward are provided below.
Returning Events
Feature Updates
Bug Fixes
A true warrior isn’t measured by their title but by their feats. Add to your accolades from January 4, 3 a.m.–January 12, 2:59 a.m. server time by completing Daily and Challenge tasks from the Trials of the Warrior event. Players can either complete Bounties or slay Elite monsters to earn treasures befitting their valor. Depending on the tier you achieve by the event’s conclusion, you’ll receive a corresponding reward via in-game mail. Players will only receive the reward for their highest tier achieved.
Players must log in the week following the event to receive their rewards, from January 12, 3 a.m.–January 20, 3 a.m. server time.
You may be experienced, but emerging victorious from the Trial of the Hordes is the true mark of a champion. From January 5, 3 a.m. to January 12, 2:59 a.m. go head-to-head against another player while earning rewards and climbing your way through the event’s Ranks. Each player has an enclosed lane in which broods of demons will flood in waves—your goal is to cull the demons from Hell with steadfast dedication. For more information about this event, visit this article.
Feeling underfed, the moon demands sustenance, providing you with an upcoming opportunity to sate its seemingly endless appetite for blood!
The moonlit path you’ll take to heed your lunar overlord’s howl for sustenance is ready to be travelled. Players can complete up to three tasks a day between January 6, 3 a.m.–January 13, 2:59 a.m. server time. For more information about Hungering Moon, please visit this article.
Enlist your most trusted companions and outlast enemy teams in the Wild Brawl event. In this unique, limited time PVP event from January 12, 3 a.m. to January 19, 2:59 a.m. server time, players start at Level 1, work together in teams of 6 to explore an expansive map, and endure to become the last surviving team. Equip discovered gear, gain experience to strengthen your power, and slay everything in sight to
NVIDIA's CEO Jensen Huang has paid a visit to China, to celebrate Beijing's New Year Party, marking his steps into mainland China after several years.
Developer One More Level is celebrating the Lunar New Year with an update coming to Ghostrunner 2. The update, set for release on February 8, will bring Chinese VO to the game, along with a host of new content for the title’s Roguerunner.exe mode.
Folks, I have seen some games like Hollow Knight in my day. Until this afternoon, I would've told you that the iconic Metroidvania's closest relative is probably Crowsworn, which proudly blends Hollow Knight's style with action games like Devil May Cry to make something that appears meaningfully different. But Crowsworn has now been dethroned by Deviator, a 2D Metroidvania that looks so uncannily similar that I genuinely thought we'd gotten new Hollow Knight Silksong screenshots for a split-second.
The version 4.4 update for Genshin Impact, dubbed “Vibrant Harriers Aloft in Spring Breeze,” will launch on January 31, developer miHoYo announced.
All-directional shooting action game Maid of the Dead will launch for Switch on February 15 for $19.99, followed by PC via Steam this spring, qureate announced. It will support Japanese voice-overs, and English, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese text.
The second Xbox and Bethesda Developer Direct showcase takes place today, and you’ll be able to watch events unfold live right here.
A slump in smartphone demand did not shake Apple’s resolve or the sales momentum of its iPhones because, according to the latest data, the California-based giant achieved one milestone that it took the firm 13 years to fulfill ever since it launched the first iPhone, and that is overtaking its closest adversary, Samsung, in global smartphone shipments.
2023 was a landmark year for horror (check out Wccftech's Best Of here), delivering the super-ambitious Alan Wake 2, a pair of rock-solid remakes in Resident Evil 4 and Dead Space, excellent indies like Amnesia: The Bunker, and more. 2024 may not be quite as strong, but it largely keeps the ball rolling down a similar horrifying path, with a couple of new remakes (The Last of Us Part II Remastered and Silent Hill 2), new entries in fan-favorite series (Alone in the Dark), and some promising indies (Still Wakes the Deep). Those dark days when it looked like survival horror might be finished are definitely behind us, so steel your nerves. Here are Wccftech's picks for the games that will be keeping you awake in 2024.
VVVVVV was part of the initial wave of indie platformers, which means it was released in 2010 and is now a certified classic. To celebrate its 14th birthday, developer Terry Cavanagh has dropped an update which makes it Steam Deck verified and professionally translates it into 21 new languages.
The P70 series will be Huawei’s first flagship lineup for the year, comprising of the regular model, followed by the P70 Pro and, likely, the top-tier model, the P70 Art. To make the launch slightly different from the Mate 60 from 2023 that featured the Kirin 9000S, a new rumor claims that Huawei is developing a new chipset for the upcoming family of flagship smartphones called the Kirin 9010.
The main trailer for 3 Body Problem, the new sci-fi series from the creators of Game of Thrones, has been released. The Netflix show, based on the beloved novel by Liu Cixin, is helmed by David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, and True Blood producer Alexander Woo.
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