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Magic: The Gathering’s recent set of Fallout-themed cards is the franchise’s “best-performing Commander set ever” said Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks. The announcement, made Wednesday during an earnings call with investors, brings attention to the potential of the trading card games’ ambitious Universes Beyond initiative. But it also highlights the risks of working with IP licensed from other companies.

Sanlo, a fintech startup that helps gaming companies manage finances, announced Wednesday the closed beta launch of its webshop tool, giving select game developers and studios a plug-in-play solution that works alongside their existing tech stacks. Gaming companies can join the waitlist starting today.

Elite Dangerous developer Frontier has announced a significant change to the near decade-old space sim: the sale of ships for real money.

Excitement is mounting in the gaming community as Rockstar Games prepares to unveil GTA 6. The burning questions on everyone's lips: How much will it cost, and when can we pre-order? After more than ten years of speculation, Rockstar Games finally lifted the curtain on GTA 6 in early December. The game promises an unparalleled gaming experience, touted as the largest and most immersive entry in the series.

Razer has rolled out the Viper V3 Pro, its latest high-end wireless gaming mouse. What makes a gaming mouse “high-end,” you might ask? Mainly, it’s super lightweight and packed with impressive wireless and sensor tech, all of which makes it extremely responsive in competitive games. I’ve had one on hand for about two weeks now and have felt next to zero delay flicking through rounds of Halo Infinite and Apex Legends.

Hello! Welcome to the 323rd edition of the WoW Economy Weekly Wrap-up! This week we take a look at the initial flurry of information coming with the War Within Alpha and how it might affect gold making and professions. We also take a look at the economy in Season of Discovery and how the inflation of incursions has influenced gold making. My name is Samadan and I'll be your guide through the World of Gold Making!

We're closing in on a year since the release of Pokemon Sleep. A game/lifestyle app The Pokemon Company had been radio silent on for so long after its announcement that some of us were convinced it had all been a dream. Pokemon Sleep users have their phones unlocked next to them while they slumber and various Pokemon will be waiting to meet them in the morning depending on their sleep style. There will naturally be some sort of anniversary event announced for Sleep's first birthday, but if you really want to celebrate a year of the game in style, you can do so in an official Pokemon Sleep suite.

The Galaxy S24 Ultra improves upon its predecessor, the Galaxy S23 Ultra, in every possible way, and for those looking for a premium flagship on Amazon, the 512GB storage version can be yours for $200 less. Yes, you read that correctly; the current retail price for the unlocked variant of Samsung’s top-end offering is available for $1,219.99. Bear in mind that the cost of a base model that ships with 256GB of onboard memory launched for $1,299.99, so this is practically a steal if you want one of the best Android handsets at a lower price.

Garena Free Fire Redeem Codes for April 23: As the OB44 update has been rolled out in Free Fire, the game will likely introduce a series of new themed events. This will give players a chance to get their hands on new outfits, gun skins, bundles, and more. Now, Free Fire has announced the new Scorching Ring event which will empower players with Scorching Seal Bundle, Flaming Hollowface Bundle, and more exciting rewards. Know more about the event and its rewards.Garena Free Fire Redeem Codes for April 23: About Scorching Ring event

With the rise of cyber threats, iPhone users are facing a new challenge: password reset attacks, also known as "MFA bombing." This scam inundated Apple devices with multiple password reset prompts, aiming to deceive users into compromising their accounts. Here's how to protect yourself against these attacks.

Blizzard has announced that they will be implementing some Class adjustments as a part of April 23rd's scheduled maintenance.

ASUS has offered a new "baseline profile" setting in its motherboard BIOS which should help mitigate Intel 14th & 13th Gen stability issues.

The home loan you secured when you purchased your property may not be the most optimal option in the long run. Interest rates can fluctuate and your financial situation may evolve. This is where transferring your home loan balance to another lender can be helpful.

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Staying ahead means embracing innovation and scalability in the ever-evolving enterprise technology landscape. Today, businesses are not just adapting to new technologies; they are effectively transforming their operations to harness the potential of these advancements’ potential. 

Here's a first look at the rewards coming from The War Within pre-patch event! While the vendor costs are missing, we can see what dozens of rewards will be--including ilvl 493 alt catch-up gear, translucent battle pets, and Dalaran-themed weapons, all sold by Remembrancer Amuul in Dalaran.

Horizon Forbidden West is one of the best-looking games on consoles, period – a statement that now extends to PC thanks to this port from Nixxes, the Sony-owned studio responsible for the recent PC ports of PlayStation games like Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales and Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart. While this is a cross-generation game, the PS5 is where it pushes the fidelity needle most, so that’s what we’ll be using for the main console comparison. Compared to the PS5, this PC port loses none of the quality and, depending on the machine, can even exceed it. It also comes with one big and welcome improvement – Nixxes has added real-time render options via a transparent menu, a genius touch that aids PC market’s desire to fiddle, offering immediate and, most importantly, visual changes to the games rendering.

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Gaming accessory manufacturer Turtle Beach has revealed a range of upcoming wireless gaming headsets, including the open back Atlas Air, a redesigned Stealth 600, and a more affordable Stealth 500. Pre-orders for each of these products are available now via the Turtle Beach website, with all three models set to release on May 19 this year.

Meta has confirmed that it has permanently dropped the price of its entry level Quest 2 headset.

The latest buzz from Everguild is that they’re dropping some fresh content for Warhammer 40,000: Warpforge. You’ll get to see a new Black Legion warlord named Ghallaron the Pious and a deck of new cards showcasing his die-hard crew. But there’s a twist to it! Want to know more about it? Keep reading our scoop on Warhammer 40K: Warpforge’s New Reinforcement Dark Zealots!

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Blizzard has released development notes for The War Within Alpha, which include a large list of class changes! Among them are specific Warrior class changes, alongside developer comments for those changes in the class feedback thread. Note that there are no Protection Warrior specific changes this build, though some of the class changes do impact them. Arms Talent CalculatorFury Talent CalculatorProtection Talent Calculator Experiment with these changes for yourself using our updated talent calculators!

Blizzard has released all the Monk class changes alongside developer notes for The War Within Alpha, noting that the goal of the class tree is to add more options and utility, such as an Enrage Dispel! Brewmaster Talent CalculatorMistweaver Talent CalculatorWindwalker Talent Calculator Experiment with these changes for yourself using our updated talent calculators!

Blizzard has posted the very first The War Within Alpha development notes and includes major class reworks!

In Dragonflight, Professions received a complete overhaul, changing the system from one that was relatively one-note into a more nuanced way of creating items. Secondary crafting stats, such as Inspiration and Resourcefulness, were introduced in order to better target the ability to craft specific ways: if you wanted to earn a lot of bonus materials simply by crafting other people's items, Resourcefulness could allow you to do that, while being Inspired might allow you to craft the best gear more easily. Inspiration, however, was quickly determined to be a «meta» crafting stat — allowing players to create top-of-the-line gear well before their Profession Skill would technically allow it. This Secondary crafting stat was the subject of many conversations among players, some enjoying the ability to «hit it big,» while others lamented the added layer of RNG to crafting to min-max their gear. In The War Within, however, it seems that Inspiration is getting a rework — and will be removed entirely in favor of a new system. We've datamined a new Alchemy Phial, the Phial of Focused Inspiration, which indicates that Inspiration will no longer exist in the manner we're used to. Blizzard released a crafting-specific Professions Update called Concentration in The War Within, detailing the new system, Concentration: Greetings members of the Artisan’s Consortium! As we reveal much of the content coming in The War Within, we’d like discuss a new system we’re cooking up for professions. Inspiration We added Inspiration in Dragonflight to try and capture the fantasy of critical hits while crafting. If you weren’t quite capped out on your gear and specializations for a given craft, or if you weren’t using max quality reagents to guarantee that max quality item, Inspiration was a way to get that lucky crit. It could save you some money (by using lower-quality reagents) and you could craft a better item than you would otherwise. That was the hope at least, but it ended up (understandably) becoming a situation where crafters take this luck-based system, tell their customers that they would recraft an item an indeterminate number of times, and summarily charge a specific price per recraft until their Inspiration struck. So we’re making changes, because:

Blizzard has released all the Druid class changes alongside developer notes for The War Within Alpha, noting that they are reducing melee range talents across the entire game. Balance Talent CalculatorFeral Talent CalculatorGuardian Talent CalculatorRestoration Talent Calculator Experiment with these changes for yourself using our updated talent calculators!

The Fallout TV series is very popular, and people are hungry to enjoy the games that inspired it. Four Fallout games were in the top ten on Steam in Europe following the show’s debut. So it’s fantastic news that the next game is probably still a decade out.

On the first alpha build of The War Within, we were able to take a look at the pre-patch event for the first expansion of the Worldsoul Saga, Radiant Echos! This event will have you revisit old zones in Azeroth and face memories and enemies of the past. Check out all currently known details in this post!

Blaze Entertainment has made a bunch of announcements regarding its Evercade retro gaming consoles. Among other things, the company has revealed refreshed and less expensive hardware.

Here are the class and talent tree changes that we've seen on the very first War Within Alpha build which includes some reworks to Feral Druids, Windwalker Monks, and more!

The Warband bank is one of the features arriving with The War Within, which allows you to utilize resources account-wide and share them easily between alts. We've had a chance to play with the Warbank on Alpha and test some of its features. Warbands BlizzCon Feature Preview

Grand Theft Auto maker Take-Two is laying off five per cent of its workforce as part of a new cost cutting program.

It's unfortunately time for yet another round of layoffs in the gaming industry as Take-Two Interactive announced a 5% reduction of its workforce. This translates to around 600 employees and follows similar reductions announced in the last few months by the likes of Epic Games, Riot Games, Microsoft, Sony, and Electronic Arts, not to mention many other such situations that occurred at smaller studios like Supermassive Games and Hidden Path Entertainment to name a couple.

70% of developers questioned in a new survey expressed some concern about the sustainability of the live service model.

Take-Two Interactive is embarking on another cost cutting program, and this one will see the company layoff about 5% of its employees by the end of the year.

Take-Two Interactive, the publisher behind Grand Theft Auto, has announced plans to cut around 5 percent of its workforce, or around 600 people.

Take-Two Interactive plans to lay off 5 percent of its workforce, or about 600 employees, by the end of the year, as reported in an SEC filing Tuesday. The studio is also canceling several in-development projects. These moves are expected to cost $160 million to $200 million to implement, and should result in $165 million in annual savings for Take-Two.

Take-Two Interactive Software, the parent company of 2K, The Gearbox Entertainment Company, Private Division, and Rockstar Games, will lay off about five percent of its workforce, or around 600 employees, the company announced.

Overwatch 2 season 10 is now live, with a few important changes to how Blizzard is monetizing the game. Most notably, the hero shooter’s new hero Venture is free for all players, and no longer locked behind the battle pass. Overwatch 2’s battle pass now also pays out multiple kinds of currency, including the premium paid currency known as Overwatch Coins and a new type of currency called Mythic Prisms, which players can spend on mythic-tier skins.

It’s the best time of the year: The Stanley Cup playoffs begin in just a few days. When you’re not watching hockey, you could also be playing hockey with EA Sports NHL 24, which has just been added to the Xbox Game Pass lineup. EA Sports NHL 24 is coming to console subscribers on April 18, just two days before the playoffs begin.

Microcenter's Trade-In system seems to be lowballing users by offering lower value for their GPUs such as the GeForce RTX 4090 with one of our readers receiving less than half the value of the said graphics card.

Ubisoft has commented on the controversy surrounding Star Wars Outlaws after it was revealed that one of its missions will be behind a paywall from day one. Ubisoft argues that the mission in question, Jabba's Gambit, is "optional", defending the decision to lock it to a season pass.

Star Wars Outlaws will feature a Jabba the Hutt mission, but it's locked behind the game's season pass.

The former president of Blizzard has suggested that players should have the option to tip developers after finishing a game. That’s on top of paying $70 for the game in the first place, mind.

It seems like the perfect concept: Dimension 20’s Unsleeping City, an actual play Dungeons & Dragons campaign about the secret magical underbelly of New York City, played live in front of a paying audience at the Big Apple’s hall of halls, Madison Square Garden, for one epic night of adventure — an event dubbed “Gauntlet at the Garden.”

Jim Keller has an interesting proposition on NVIDIA's Blackwell GPUs, claiming that the firm should've utilized an alternative cost-efficient interconnect method.

AMD's flagship RDNA 3 GPUs have dropped to their lowest in UK, with the Radeon RX 7900 XTX down to £829 and 7900 XT down to £629.

Looking to upgrade your smartphone? Now might be the perfect time with unbeatable discounts on Apple's latest iPhones. Whether you're an avid photographer or need high-speed performance, there's a deal for you.

With the Patch 10.2.7 PTR comes a fresh round of datamined items marked for the Trading Post, with themes of Summer Fun, Dark Depths, and the Spirit of Competition! Riding Turtle from the Trading Card Game is also coming to the Trading Post.

Collectors, rejoice! During Timerunning: Mists of Pandaria, you will be able to purchase and learn transmog ensembles from other armor types. The system is working on the PTR, but it currently has a couple of bugs.

A decent gaming PC usually costs more than $1,000, but you can get one for less than that today by taking advantage of Lenovo’s offer for the Lenovo Legion Tower 5 Gen 8. From its original price of $1,500, it’s down to a more affordable $994 following a 33% discount. There’s no telling how much time is remaining before you miss out on the $506 in savings, so if you’re interested in this deal, it’s highly recommended that you complete the transaction as fast as you can. Today if possible, because tomorrow may already be too late.

Players begin their Timerunning adventure with a set of basic green gear and may loot other equipment as they go, but can also upgrade their gear using the unique Bronze currency earned through quests and other activities during the Dragonflight Patch 10.2.7 event! Fully upgrading Timerunning items will cost quite a bit of Bronze!

BLUETTI, a leading provider of energy storage solutions, has expanded its Solar+ program, a one stop solution for solar transition, to three new states in the US, starting from March 14, 2024.

At this point, most of us have some kind of VPN installed on our home PCs. Once the sole preserve of the nerdiest and most paranoid internet users, VPNs are now entirely commonplace. 

The summer season is finally here which means many of you will be looking to buy new air conditioners to beat the heat. While the season has just started, several locations in India are already at their peak of summer. The daily maximum temperature has crossed 35 degrees and it will only increase in the coming days. Therefore, before the heat waves kick in, make sure to equip your rooms with high-performance ACs that will make your room chilly in a matter of minutes. If you are planning to buy an AC this year, then you must consider a few factors. Follow the AC guide to make the right choice.

The latest generation of the Xbox has some excellent upgrades, such as a quick pause-and-play function and the option to buy a cheaper digital-only option. Luckily, both the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S are easier to come by now compared to when they launched and stock was low. That means there are a lot of great deals you can take advantage of right now, and, much like with PlayStation deals, looking around for the best deals will get you much better prices. To that end, we’ve gone out and scoured all the big and small retailers for some of our favorite deals out there.

In the upcoming Season 4 of Diablo 4 players will be able to filter by Item Power. Players may use the search bar and enter a number to filter out for that specific Item Power. In addition, when you search for an item with any filter or search query, the number of matching results will appear on the individual Stash Tabs!

Electronic Arts has announced that it will be increasing the cost of its EA Play subscription service next month.

Ubisoft has sparked a debate after announcing Star Wars Outlaws’ expensive gold and ultimate editions, which offer early access and a season pass, among other things.

Helldivers 2 has its next premium warbond, called Democratic Detonation, and there’s an explosive theme with this one.

The new Helldivers 2 Democratic Detonation Warbond is now live, but developer Arrowhead has quietly added brand new ship modules to the shooter.

Electronic Arts' EA Play video game subscription service will soon be increasing in price. A new report reveals that Electronic Arts will be raising the cost of its EA Play service later this summer, with several tiers of the online service becoming pricier for players.

MegaCrit Games announced Slay the Spire 2 during the Triple-i Initiative Showcase.

Some new swimwear is debuting on the Trading Post in Patch 10.2.7, including bikinis, murloc floaties, and a rainbow beach chair! We're diving into datamining the Patch 10.2.7 PTR, and we've discovered some new models for swimwear that will likely hit the Trading Post this summer. With the June Trading Post Theme revealed to be Summer Fun, these colorful appearances and fun rainbow beach chair should be a welcome addition to Pride Month, also held in June.

Here are the datamined class changes for Patch 10.2.7!

The Mario Kart 8 Deluxe bundle edition is the definitive way to experience the essential kart racer, as you’ll get the base game and all of its post-launch Booster Course Pack racers and tracks in a single package. Normally available for $84.98, this bundle is currently on sale for just $64.98 at Amazon and Walmart. That’s just $5 more than what you’d normally pay for the base game.

Celebrated indie studio thatgamecompany’s most recent title, Sky: Children of the Light, has debuted in early access on Steam. To mark the occasion of its chill, free-to-play MMO coming to PC, it’s knocking 85% off the cost of its masterpiece, Journey. It’s normally $14.99, but this Steam Deck verified game costs just $2.24 through April 17.

We finally know what the Slay the Spire studio has been working on: it's Slay the Spire 2, baby, and oh boy, it looks good.

Electronic Arts just raised the price of its EA Play subscription service. The standard EA Play tier increased from $5 per month to $6 per month, while the annual fee rose to $40 from $30. These updated prices also impact premium EA Play Pro subscriptions, which allows access to the publisher’s games as soon as they launch. This tier now costs $17 per month, an increase from $15, and $120 each year, an increase from $100.

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A new $80 Call of Duty item has been blasted by fans of the shooter franchise.

Helldivers 2 is an absolute gaming giant right now, with consistent updates for the live-service shooter, and plenty to be excited about for the future, there's never been a better time to pick up the game and join the fight to spread managed democracy! If you're looking for the best deal on the game for PS5 in the UK, we've saved you some time and found it for you.

April 11’s answer will cause many players some confusion, as the solution is a very odd word that one would barely use. On top of the word's complexity, the answer contains three vowels, making it even harder for almost every player. Since the answer is a very rare word, we do not recommend using random guesses and instead recommend relying on hints and starting words that will give you some advantage.

Garena Free Fire MAX Redeem Codes for April 10: Weapons in Garena Free Fire MAX are considered essential to players' chances of winning. There are several types of weapons available in the battle royale game, from launchers, machine guns, and sub-machine guns to Gatling guns and healing pistols. To personalize these items, the developers of Garena Free Fire MAX introduce weapon skins from time to time, which not only give the weapon a cosmetic tweak but can also boost some of its capabilities. So, if you wish to get your hands on similar items, then check out the new M1887 Ring event in Garena Free Fire MAX.

Microsoft has announced its plans to discontinue support for Windows 10 by October 14, 2025, but will offer Extended Security Updates (ESU) for those who wish to continue using the older operating system. The ESU subscription will come at a price, with users required to pay $61 for the first year, doubling to $122 for the second year, and increasing to $244 in the third year. This fee applies to both individual users and businesses, with each Windows 10 device needing its own ESU licence.

Garena Free Fire Redeem Codes for April 10: Ramadan has almost come to an end but Free Fire is not missing any chance to provide players with exclusive events to celebrate the joyous festival. So far, the game has announced several Ramadan-themed events which provided players with new outfits, characters, bundles, gun skins, and more. Now, a new event has been announced to celebrate the Eid. The Ramadan Gold Royale event has been made available, which means you can grab exciting rewards. Check the event details.