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The barbarian tiefling Karlach is one of the more fiery (pun intended) origin characters in . Despite the illithid tadpole in her head, Karlach has another immediate threat to her life: the mechanical heart placed in her chest. Though players can find some temporary relief for her rapidly-heating heart, the only way to stop Karlach from overheating is if she returns to Avernus. Karlach will immediately dismiss this idea, accepting that she’s living on borrowed time.

Death Stranding 2's filming and recording is now complete, but the sequel is now in an "adjustment phase" that will take about a year to complete.

Death Stranding 2 has entered an adjustment phase that will last for roughly one year, according to creator Hideo Kojima.

As the Formula 1 circus heads to Imola this weekend, there’s a mixture of excitement and sombre remembrance. Are Red Bull on the back foot again? Will Ferrari and Mercedes’ upgrade packages slingshot them to the front? And was McLaren’s win last time out a flash in the pan or can they keep fighting for the top step?

Cataclysm Classic brings with it tabards for nearly every Faction on launch, allowing players to earn Reputation with a chosen Faction in every Level 85 Dungeon they complete. With a choice in leveling zones and the tabards that come with them, players can target certain Reputations based on the rewards they want to receive before Raids release.

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is firmly rooted in the rules of fifth edition, but it also diverges from its source material in a lot of key regards. Not every concept that works for tabletop would be as effective in video game form, so choosing what's essential and what would just generate its own problems is an essential part of translation. Some cut rules and concepts just wouldn't have had much place in the game, but there's a select variety that would have the potential to completely break

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Kai Cenat, the popular Twitch streamer who once accidentally incited a riot in New York with a giveaway event, has officially finished Elden Ring after a more than 160 hour marathon.

It may have taken 167 hours and more than 1,700 deaths, but Kai Cenat has finally managed to beat Elden Ring and put an end to his marathon Twitch stream.

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Indonesian indie game studio Piknelsia was in the middle of development on its rhythm-based visual novel Afterlove EP when it received the devastating news: Mohammad Fahmi, the studio’s founder and creative director, had died. “When it happened, I remember our character artist, Soyatu, called me around 2 AM in the morning and said, ‘Is Fahmi joking about death again? This time it’s not funny, please tell me that this is not true!’” Afterlove EP game producer Ivor Dwitomo told Polygon.

Elden Ring players already know they're in for it when DLC Shadow of the Erdtree drops next month, on the 21st of June, on PS5 and PS4. Developer Fromsoftware has been cooking, going by what we've seen so far, and now the sadistic studio is teasing an enemy ripped straight from our most persistent Bloodborne nightmares.

Wowhead’s Death Trap Grenade Rogue Endgame Build Guide is now live! Season 4’s rework of Grenade skills transforms what was once only a conceptual Rogue build into one that can cut through endgame content with ease. Death Trap Grenade Rogue Endgame Build Guide

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Season 1 War Within Tier Sets from Nerub'ar Palace have received in-game items and are all available in Wowhead's Dressing Room! Click on the difficulty links to preview them on your own character. Which is your favorite set? Nerub'ar Palace Raid Overview

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Battle for Azeroth introduced us to the Zandalari Empire, bringing new culture, lore, and Loa into the history of Trolls in World of Warcraft. Over the course of the expansion, players were introduced to powerful Loa such as Gonk, Pa'ku, and Bwonsamdi — and one particularly powerful Loa, Rezan, held a prominent place in the story of the expansion as the Loa of Kings. But what does being the Loa of Kings mean, and who currently holds the title? The Troll Heritage Armor questline has shed some light on this situation, but to fully understand the confusion shrouding the Loa, players would need to dig into the Shadows Rising novel.

As players complete the Troll Heritage Armor questline, their focus is squarely on the Darkspear tribe and the Loa they worship. While the Darkspear declare new additions and returning Loa to their Pantheon through the quest, many of these Loa are either foreign to players or entirely new, so we've decided to dig into the lore that we can find on these powerful spirits.

Blizzard has released the notes for this week's Alpha build, including many class changes and the Totemic Hero Tree.

Here are the datamined spell changes for build 54675, which include the Totemic Shaman spells and extensive class tuning.

Blizzard has posted Death Knight updates in the War Within, noting that the goal is to reduce build friction.

The City of Threads is the seat of the Kaheti nerubian empire. After progressing through the Azj-Kahet storyline, you will gain access to part of the city and gain access to new side questlines, including reencountering a friend we made in Dragonflight. We did their questline!

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Blizzard revealed nearly all the Hero Talent Trees with the launch of the War Within Alpha and subsequent builds. Our Affliction Warlock guide writer, Kalamazi, offers an early review of the Soul Harvester Hero Talents that may seem passive at first look but offers some relatively in-depth interactions that may change gameplay heading into the new expansion.

Today, we are looking at the DPS balance on Amirdrassil the Dream's Hope during the week of May 7th. For this analysis, we will use data provided by Warcraft Logs Raid statistics for Dragonflight Season 4. Mythic Amirdrassil the Dream's Hope Statistics Page

Blizzard has released a blog post unveiling Cata Classic zones, dungeons, and the release date of PvP Season 9! Players will be able to begin the new season starting May 28. Cataclysm Classic also features a delayed Raid Opening launch, which will take place on May 30th instead of directly on launch.

Players who are able to adventure themselves in Azj-Kahet on the War Within Alpha may have noticed shadecasters scattered through the zone — Communicators that broadcast orders from their superiors. Some shadecasters are very old, and give us insight to an event of the past.

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No new expansion is complete without professions — and The War Within is bringing some new twists to our favorites! We've taken a look at Cooking on the Alpha, and while not everything has been implemented yet, we've gotten a sneak peek at some fun new recipes to cook for you and your friends. One particularly interesting mechanic to note is the introduction of Hearty Meals — these meals are unlike any previous food we've seen before, because they seem to be linked to your Warband and can persist through death. Any meal can be a Hearty Meal — we've found Hearty variants in our datamining for everything from Hearty Roasted Mycobloom to Hearty Feast of the Midnight Masquerade. Take a look at some of the recipes and placeholders we've datamined so far below. While some recipes seem to be working, others clearly need more time in the oven — we'll have updates soon with more information!

If you're a Troll looking to complete your Heritage Armor questline, you may want to consider which character you do it on — there's a cosmetic that is only being awarded to Hunters, Death Knights, and Warriors. Players completing the questline to find the lost Loa of the Darkspear noticed that, while some classes were being awarded Loa's Blade-Blessing, a Two-Handed Sword cosmetic, others were not receiving the blade. While other Heritage Armor questlines, such as the chain for Night Elves, rewarded weapons like the Duskrune Glaive regardless of class ability to use them, the Troll questline does not — and many players may not even know they're missing an item because of it. Thankfully, there's at least a workaround for those who are looking to collect this appearance.

is an enormous game in terms of just how much there is to do, but it's no surprise that some content got left on the cutting room floor during development. The setting of the game opens up a terrifying number of possibilities, and including every interesting idea would bloat both the game and its development cycle to a completely unsustainable degree. The balance found in the finished product feels just right in most regards, but some concepts that didn't make it in would have added tantalizing possibilities.

Kai Cenat is currently trying to beat Elden Ring in one long Twitch stream, but it's not exactly going smoothly as he's already been driven to tears due to the game's infamous difficulty.

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Cataclysm shakes up players' ability to bring their allies back to life. More classes can battle ress, and hybrid classes can resurrect their whole group or raid with a single spell cast.

From the very start of Fallout: New Vegas, the titular city is dangled in front of you. However, while you look close enough to Vegas on the world map, heading there right away will only result in your death. Instead, you're expected to take the long way around - and one fan has worked out exactly how long that road is.

The Fallout TV series introduces a trio of new, interconnected vaults - 31, 32, and 33. We find out by the end of the show that 31 holds a bunch of pre-war Vault-Tec employees in cryostasis and that the other two shelters are breeding pools for when they awaken.

is filled with different collectibles, currency, and other miscellaneous resources to gather across the Underworld. Ashes are the most valuable, as this is the main currency used to purchase Arcana Cards. Thankfully, Ashes are plentiful in Erebus and beyond, but you may want to know how to acquire and spend this resource.

is an epic story in the most literal sense of the world but those who find the fate of Arthur Morgan a little too depressing are in luck because a happier fate can now await the outlaw. It's arguably one of the most tragic deaths in the video game medium as Arthur, forced to reconcile with his nature following his tuberculosis diagnosis, ultimately attempts to right all his wrongs by sacrificing himself to save the rest of the gang. It's a beautiful moment, but that doesn't mean his story has to end there.

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The Troll Heritage Armor questline is now available on live servers in Patch 10.2.7. We've played through to get the low down on what is going on with the Darkspear trolls and earn the Heritage of the Darkspear transmog sets along with a few other goodies.

We’re in the dead middle of May and on the cusp of several huge releases to the usher in the summer season. If you’re looking for a trio of blood-chilling, adrenaline-pumping, and heart-racing thrillers to tide you over until this year’s summer blockbusters, you’ve come to the right place.

As part of the Riders of the Apocalypse Hero Talents, Death Knights can summon The Four Horsemen to aid them and these elite heralds of death have received new Mawsworn Chargers that they'll ride into combat. The War Within Hero Talents Overview

Throughout its three acts, throws an overwhelming number of choices at the party, all while they try to focus on saving Faerûn. While some might seem small at first, they can have a large impact on a playthrough later down the road. Some other decisions might not directly affect the party but will have negative consequences for other characters or even the world.

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Blizzard has posted the new development notes for Alpha 4 of The War Within, including the addition of Stormbringer Shaman for testing!

Blizzard has shared additional developer commentary explaining some of the new Death Knight changes in this week's Alpha build for The War Within, focused on the core class and Unholy trees!

Here are the spell changes for Build 54605. This build includes many Death Knight Changes and a Destruction Warlock revamp.

Blizzard revealed nearly all the Hero Talent Trees including 6 new ones with the launch of the War Within Alpha. Our Shadow Priest guide writer, Ellipsis, offers an early review of the Voidweaver Hero Talents offer a spectacular theme and strong gameplay but with tight timings that may need some additional iteration.

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Arkane Austin is officially no more, and Studio Director Harvey Smith, who has worked at Arkane for over sixteen years, shared all his emotions in a long and heartfelt thread on Twitter/X. Over the course of his 30-plus-year-long career in the industry, Smith was a lead designer at Ion Storm on Deus Ex, a director on Deus Ex: Invisible War, and a designer on Thief: Deadly Shadows. After a brief stint at Midway, he joined Arkane to be a creative director, designer, and writer on the first Dishonored.

Hades 2's final boss battle has an unexpected easter egg that stops you from pausing the game, with an incantation even becoming available later that stops a certain big bad from messing with you.

Despite being hugely allergic to horses - my eyes once swelled up so severely at a local fair my wife had to guide me home - I continue to be absolutely spellbound by the animals. I’ve been rewatching The Lord of the Rings this week and I’ve been genuinely gripped by watching professionally trained horses galloping across the vistas of New Zealand, rearing up against tennis balls representing CGI orcs and charging down the incredibly steep slope next to Helm’s Deep. Not to mention my love of just riding endlessly in a direction on horseback in Red Dead Redemption 2 and Assassin's Creed Odyssey (helped by Kassandra's wonderful command of "Phobos!" to summon her mount).

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Star Trek’s future is a secular one. Franchise creator Gene Roddenberry was an avowed atheist, and the series and its spin-offs have routinely criticized organized religion as manipulative, illogical, and detrimental to the evolution of a society. Individual members of the human race may have an undefined spirituality, a curiosity about the afterlife, or a sense of wonder at the unknown or unknowable, but specific religious beliefs are typically reserved for alien cultures.

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Fitting right in line with the new more magical and “witchy” tone of Hades 2, Arcana Cards have been introduced as a new upgrade system to further customize your runs.

Patch 10.2.7 introduces World of Warcraft Remix, an event where we'll revisit Mists of Pandaria. Unlike Plunderstorm, Pandamonium has some lore behind it, explaining why we're investigating the past.

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Today, we are looking at the DPS balance on Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible during the week of April 30th. For this analysis, we will use data provided by Warcraft Logs Raid statistics for Dragonflight Season 4. Mythic Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible Statistics Page

Blizzard has released another round of hotfixes for Cataclysm Classic, including a fix for Blood Death Knights being hit by critical melee attacks and several Warlock abilities!

Gen V’s second season is changing significantly after the tragic death of star Chance Perdomo.

Blizzard has posted upcoming Dragonflight Class tuning which includes a nerf to Vengeance DH's utility and a buff to Balance Druid's tier set!

There are a few constants in this chaotic life: death, taxes, and Magic The Gathering’s Black Lotus card selling for increasingly absurd sums of money.

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In today's Developer Livestream, Blizzard explained how the Armor stat currently works in Season 3, as well as the changes developers are making for Season 4. The thinking behind this change is to balance out how players are experiencing defensives in top-end play and reduce the mystery involved in one-shot deaths players experience. Diablo 4 Season 4 Developer Livestream Summary

Fans are asking “” after various shocking about her began circulating online. Addison Rae rose to fame and popularity thanks to her viral posts about dancing and her recent venture into the music and film industries. As such, she is likely to have many fans following her for updates about her personal and professional lives.

Blizzard has updated their «Known Issues» list for Cataclysm Classic. These issues include Death Knight's Blood Presence and Frost Presence not working as intended, Heroic Burning Crusade dungeons deactivated, and the PvP Resilience stat not working.

Paradox Interactive and The Chinese Room are back with a new Vampire: the Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 Clan Highlight, this time focused on the Banu Haqim.

Another weekend is upon us, and you’re probably looking for some games to kill time with over the course of it. We’re in a bit of a lull right now ahead of a flurry of releases starting next week, so it’s a great time to dip back into the Xbox Game Pass catalog and check out some games that you may have missed. There are three games in particular that I think you should check out this weekend if you’re looking for something to play.

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Star Wars is an absolutely massive franchise, spanning hundreds of projects ranging from movies and video games to comics and short novels. It can be difficult to fit all of those projects into one established canon, which is why older titles such as the beloved Star Wars FPS Republic Commando can fall by the wayside a little bit.

Here are the datamined class changes for The War Within Build #3 including the new hero talent trees!

The Cataclysm Classic Pre-Patch is live! As many players are leveling up their alts and preparing their characters for Cataclysm's official launch on May 20th, we decided to consult our Class Guides to detail which Professions best suit each Class Specialization! Cataclysm Classic Pre-Patch Overview Guide New Race and Class Combinations — Cataclysm Classic

The Shattering of Azeroth has been live for over 24 hours, and Blizzard has received many reports of bugs in Cataclysm Classic.

Cyberpunk 2077 has a bunch of things that are trying to turn you into giblets, and CD Projekt Red added even more in Phantom Liberty. Over the past seven months, developer CD Projekt Red has been tracking exactly which enemies have been dishing out the most hurt to players through the course of the expansion, posting the top three killers to the Cyberpunk 2077 Twitter account.

Che Lingo, the U.K.-based rapper and musician, is an avid anime enthusiast. In addition to collaborating with Crunchyroll on its fall 2023 anime trailer, Che Lingo also composed and performed several songs for Jujutsu Kaisen’s first season.

With Cataclysm Classic Pre-Patch now live, we've put together a list of all of our Cataclysm Classic Leveling Guides! From Blood Death Knight to Protection Warrior Leveling and everything in between, we've got tips, tricks, & strategies to help you reach max level efficiently ahead of Cataclysm's launch on May 20th! Cataclysm Classic Leveling Guide Overview Cataclysm Classic Pre-Patch Overview Guide Which is more efficient, questing or dungeons? Does grinding experience from mobs still hold up? What about group versus solo experience? All these questions and more are covered in our comprehensive guide — including which zones to level in at different levels, how Professions play a role in the leveling process, and best leveling practices to get you to max level in no time.

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During yesterday's official live stream, Blizzard revealed that the much anticipated Season 4 of Diablo IV will be released on May 14 across all platforms. Titled Loot Reborn, the new season makes major changes to how players can obtain and improve equipment. So far, the community's feedback on the Public Test Realm has been very positive.