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Things are heating up in the Race to World First! Throughout the race, Dratnos & Tettles will be providing Daily Recaps of the events of each day — today's video focuses on Fyrakk's tuning, how Private Auras are being used in the fight, and more.Looking for livestreams, guilds to watch, and analytics to dive into? Check out the Wowhead RWF Coverage Article for the latest lists of streamers, raid coverage, and boss guies. Fyrakk is under attack! In today's RWF Recap, Dratnos and Tettles go over the fight's Mythic differences! If you want to read some more about these changes, check out these first looks at Fyrakk's first phase and intermission: Liquid on Fyrakk: First Look at Phase 1 Liquid on Fyrakk: First Look at First Intermission The fight's tuning looks quite formidable, with both Echo and Liquid struggling to even consistently get out of Phase 1, though Liquid has made it substantially deeper into Phase 2 as of the time of the video's recording, while also having several more raid hours in their day while Echo have already gone to bed. It's likely Echo will wake up to Liquid being quite far ahead, but with the difficulty of Tindral, it's possible this race will continue for several more days and potentially even threaten to enter the third reset (a topic which will be covered tomorrow if the possibility increases!) Private Auras on Fyrakk are another topic of discussion in today's video, as they once again appear in the intermission, causing the guilds to program Macros to communicate with WeakAuras which then accomplish the same thing that they'd do if the mechanics weren't Private Auras. Dratnos and Tettles' position on this remains unchanged from Smolderon — they applaud the effort to get rid of mechanics being handled entirely by WeakAuras, but are skeptical that Private Auras are the solution, especially with the current Macro solutions that most players don't seem to enjoy using.

Grand Theft Auto 5 actor Ned Luke, who fans will know as the voice behind protagonist Michael De Santa, appears to have been swatted during a recent livestream, though no law enforcement was seen in the stream itself. Luke regulalrly streams himself playing through GTA 5 and GTA Online on his personal YouTube Channel, as one of his more recent streams had to be cut short due to a swatting attempt.

The Amirdrassil Race to World First is in its second week — and we're seeing Fyrakk progression! Throughout the race, Dratnos & Tettles will be providing Daily Recaps of the events of each day — today's video focuses on Echo defeating Tindral Sageswift and reaching Fyrakk, predictions on the RWF winners, and more.Looking for livestreams, guilds to watch, and analytics to dive into? Check out the Wowhead RWF Coverage Article for the latest lists of streamers, raid coverage, and boss guies. Echo have finally killed Tindral Sageswift, ending their day after Dratnos and Tettles would normally record their recap video and forcing it to be cut a little shorter than usual! This means we'll be featuring full discussion of Fyrakk's Mythic changes on tomorrow's video, with today's focusing instead on the dynamics of the race. Liquid were able to smash through their reclear and engage Tindral, encountering a nasty set of overlaps at the end of the fight but powering through after several deep pulls that they were able to string together. Echo, on the other hand, needed a bit more time at the end of their day to put all the pieces together. After Liquid's Tindral, they still had some gas in the tank for some off-stream Fyrakk, while Echo had no need or desire to do the same since by the time Tindral was down, Liquid was already streaming Fyrakk. Dratnos has updated his prediction back to 70/30 in favor of Liquid this tier, though he notes that with Liquid's stream, Echo may be able to catch back up tomorrow and, with good play, potentially even overtake by the end of the raid day or the start of the next one. How much opportunity they'll have to convert that into a win will depend on how many pulls Fyrakk's final phases take, plus whether or not there's a Mythic-only phase (if there isn't, Dragonflight will be the first expansion to not have one in the modern era).

The Amirdrassil Race to World First has begun its second week! Throughout the race, Dratnos & Tettles will be providing Daily Recaps of the events of each day — today's video focuses on the weekly reset, Fyrakk on the horizon, and more.Looking for livestreams, guilds to watch, and analytics to dive into? Check out the Wowhead RWF Coverage Article for the latest lists of streamers, raid coverage, and boss guies. Today's RWF Recap video focuses on the weekly reset, which has hit Liquid already and will hit Echo once they wake up in a few hours! Liquid have made short work of their reclear and have gotten back to Tindral, with Echo and other RWF guilds expected to also face low resistance from the first 7 bosses on reclear due to their increased item level and the fact that the most difficult among those fights, Smolderon, is massively easier for guilds that have already killed it once they get more gear and can now kill again on a much less clean pull. Tindral, on the other hand, will not be trivialized by an extra reset of gear — though it will be easier than it was last reset! Primarily, this will be because of extra Stamina (which is maybe cancelled out by the removal of Vantus Runes), and extra damage on the roots allowing them to be broken faster and lowering the difficulty of some of the worst mechanical overlaps. This is certainly something but the primary pain points of the fight will remain brutally difficult, and we may well see Tindral crest the 500 pull count and join a very small set of end bosses in that tier. Fyrakk remains a huge question mark, with behind the scenes tuning landing to several abilities over the past week. We'll have to see what it looks like once the guilds actually reach it, but the numbers on some of the abilities are definitely daunting and may even mean we could see the race enter a 3rd reset if guilds can't get to Fyrakk early in this reset to get that progression started!

League of Legends Worlds is a prestigious yearly tournament that wrapped up its 2023 run recently. The victors, T1 from Korea, took home $445,000 along with the gold. In a sad twist of fate—one that belongs in some Greek tragedy—a member of the winning team still didn't get what he wanted.

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The Amirdrassil Race to World First has reached the end of its first week! Throughout the race, Dratnos & Tettles will be providing Daily Recaps of the events of each day — today's video focuses on Tindral Sageswift's continued longevity, penultimate boss comparisons, and more.Looking for livestreams, guilds to watch, and analytics to dive into? Check out the Wowhead RWF Coverage Article for the latest lists of streamers, raid coverage, and boss guies. Tindral Sageswift remains alive and well, cementing this race as a 2 reset affair! In today's RWF Recap, Dratnos and Tettles discuss the incredible difficulty of this boss and compare it to previous bosses of similar difficulty like Halondrus, as well as other penultimate bosses like Stone Legion Generals, Rygelon, and Fallen Avatar. Fallen Avatar holds the crown for pull counts in the modern era, but Tindral is hot on its heels and with a hundred or so more pulls could take the record. Further nerfs to the boss could of course interfere with that, but Dratnos and Tettles expect that those nerfs won't come until after Liquid and Echo have killed the boss. Though Tindral is certainly a difficulty outlier, it's unclear if that's a bad thing, as the majority of the players fighting the boss are having a good time. Bosses that are brutally difficult and unfun, like Stone Legion Generals, are certainly a problem, but when they're hard AND fun it's great! The difficulty, of course, needs to be carefully tweaked over the coming months to ensure that it's killable for the guilds reaching it later, to avoid the problems of the first few months of Seplucher which killed several guilds. The reset is now looming! Soon, RWF raiders will have to make sure they've completed their chores, like filling out their M+ Great Vault rows with +20s if possible, and completing the Campaign to earn another Enchanted Wyrm's Dreaming Crest for the Spark of Dreams that unlocks on the reset. Echo have also been pulling their sleep schedule backwards to enable the 5am start on Wednesday.

Over the weekend, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was suddenly ousted from his position and has since jumped over to Microsoft. His abrupt leave from the generative AI company was the start to a tumultuous series of events that throws the future of OpenAI into question. 

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 will double weapon, player, and battle pass XP for all users from Wednesday, November 22 through Monday, November 27. Better still, this XP boost doesn't require the series' usual brand of gamer snack promo code, sparing gamer stomachs everywhere. 

Skull and Bones’ release window was confirmed yet again from an official, if somewhat uncertain source.

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The Amirdrassil Race to World First is nearing the end of its first week! Throughout the race, Dratnos & Tettles will be providing Daily Recaps of the events of each day — today's video focuses on Tindral Sageswift, encounter design, nerfs, and more.Looking for livestreams, guilds to watch, and analytics to dive into? Check out the Wowhead RWF Coverage Article for the latest lists of streamers, raid coverage, and boss guies. In today's RWF recap video, Dratnos and Tettles cover the last 24 hours which have mostly revolved around Tindral Sageswift. Echo joined Liquid on the boss early in their raid day, quickly dispatching Smolderon to remain competitive and making very quick progress through the first phase of T-Swift. Echo made some good use of Prophetic Stonescales, which they farmed last patch on M0, on 5 of their DPS players to see deeper into the fight, plus they had the benefit of Liquid's progress to look at. Tindral has proven to be an incredibly difficult boss on Mythic, due to new mechanics, Mythic changes that prevent the Heroic strategies from working, and the boss casting so many abilities back to back. The fight, however, was very well received by the RWF players, who praised its design and, from both Liquid and Echo, asked for it to not receive any nerfs. Blizzard has nerfed the fight though, taking 20% of the bosses' health off and also nerfing the Seeds (but only in P3). Dratnos and Tettles agree that this change is well aimed to shave difficulty off the fight while not invalidating progress that has already been made or tipping the scales in the race, though they empathize with the players who hoped to see it unchanged until it was killed. As we look forward to the second reset, the biggest mystery still is Fyrakk — will we see the boss tomorrow? Will it be tuned as hard or harder than Tindral? We can't wait to find out!

The Amirdrassil Race to World First has officially begun! Throughout the race, Dratnos & Tettles will be providing Daily Recaps of the events of each day — today's video focuses on the death of Mythic Smolderon, technical difficulties during the race, the raid comps of the top rated guilds, and more.Looking for livestreams, guilds to watch, and analytics to dive into? Check out the Wowhead RWF Coverage Article for the latest lists of streamers, raid coverage, and boss guies. Today's Daily Recap video starts off with Smolderon's demise at the hands of <Liquid>, who took the boss down after 57 pulls of brutal progression. This kill, at the end of their raid night, allowed them to get started on some off stream Tindral experimentation which is always a very valuable bonus in the Race to World First, and sets them up as the frontrunners going into the final two bosses, though of course there could still be hundreds of pulls packed into those last two bosses! Tindral has turned out to be quite the challenging encounter, with its intensity buffed massively from PTR causing it to spam abilities and leading to nasty overlaps pretty much every few seconds. Liquid are making some slow progress through the start of the fight, though they were hindered briefly by a bug that required them to soft reset the instance, during which time they got some M+ done. Echo also ran into some technical difficulties after a frustrating progression plateau, reaching 5% on Smolderon before having a run of bad pulls that ended early in the fight, followed by their Holy Paladin disconnecting. They will need to kill that boss very quickly at the start of their next raid day to stay competitive in the race! Dratnos and Tettles finish off by covering the comps used by guilds so far this tier, which you can check out at Dratnos' tweet:

After years and years of waiting, fans are about to get their deepest look yet at the Dragon’s Dogma sequel. 

The Amirdrassil Race to World First has officially begun! Throughout the race, Dratnos & Tettles will be providing Daily Recaps of the events of each day — today's video focuses on the official swap to Mythic by the top guilds, Private Auras and its interactions with WeakAuras, the speed of the first six bosses falling, and more.Looking for livestreams, guilds to watch, and analytics to dive into? Check out the Wowhead RWF Coverage Article for the latest lists of streamers, raid coverage, and boss guies. The Race to World First has moved to Mythic difficulty, with both Liquid and Echo entering the raid after several days of splits! Following in the footsteps of <Instant Dollars>, Liquid made very short work of the first 6 bosses before reaching the enrage on Smolderon at 30% and breaking for Mythic Plus due to a bug on the encounter that would hinder further progress. Smolderon's Mythic mechanic also features the Private Auras technology, which in theory prevents guilds from using WeakAuras to automatically assign the four targets an order to soak their orbs. Unfortunately, in practice, the guilds are instead using a macro which then communicates with a WeakAura to accomplish the same thing with slightly more annoyance. Future guilds to fight this boss will almost all do the same, with varying speed of getting all 20 players to be properly set up, in a similar way to Mythic Echo of Neltharion. Dratnos and Tettles aren't thrilled with this state of affairs and hope that Blizzard will either find a way to combat this workaround or instead back off of turning mechanics like this into Private Auras. Finally, Dratnos and Tettles highlight some takes from Jet and Tagzz, urging people to remember the past a little more and not be too alarmed by the first 6 bosses falling so quickly — it's a normal thing for many raids, but we often forget about it by the time the next RWF rolls around!

Capcom is finally ready to reveal Dragon’s Dogma 2 to the world.

Long, long-awaited sequel Dragon’s Dogma 2 is showing off new gameplay in a 15-minute livestream later this month.

Capcom has announced a Dragon’s Dogma 2 showcase for later this month.

The Amirdrassil Race to World First has officially begun! Throughout the race, Dratnos & Tettles will be providing Daily Recaps of the events of each day — today's video focuses on the defeat of the first four bosses in Mythic difficulty, when the top 3 guilds may enter mythic, and more.Looking for livestreams, guilds to watch, and analytics to dive into? Check out the Wowhead RWF Coverage Article for the latest lists of streamers, raid coverage, and boss guies. Today's Daily Recap video is hopefully the final one before the top Race to World First guilds enter mythic! Dratnos and Tettles begin by discussing the four bosses that have fallen on Mythic Difficulty, with <Instant Dollars> leading the way and smashing through them in impressively low pull counts. Over the next few days it'll be exciting to see how long they can hold onto the lead and if they'll be able to improve on their impressive World 7th from last tier! Liquid appear to be moving towards Mythic soon, as they near the end of their third day of progression and seem to have mostly finished up with splits, though Mythic Plus remains a valuable use of time that they're currently choosing to focus on. Echo still have a few heroic splits and a bunch of heroic Fyrakks to take care of when their third day begins, but they too may be able to enter Mythic by the end of that day. Splits remain a pain point in the Race to World First overall, with Echo's Rogerbrown posting about how he's made it a goal to get Blizzard to take action to get rid of them during the next expansion. Basically everyone agrees splits suck, but actually finding a solution that removes them without worse downsides for either the Race, everyone else, or both!

Over the past year or so, Maxis has slowly revealed more details on The Sims 5, which is currently called Project Rene. One of these details has been that it'll have multiplayer, although the team hasn't quite hinted at what this might look like until recently.

The Amirdrassil Race to World First has officially begun! Throughout the race, Dratnos & Tettles will be providing Daily Recaps of the events of each day -today's video focuses on the very start of this tier's race.Looking for livestreams, guilds to watch, and analytics to dive into? Check out the Wowhead RWF Coverage Article for the latest lists of streamers, raid coverage, and boss guies. Today's RWF Recap video covers the exciting events of the start of the race — splits, of course! All RWF guilds began with splits, mostly focusing on clearing Normal first on all of their characters before graduating to heroic, where bosses like Nymue and Smolderon began to cause wipes for guilds making use of community helpers to get extra gear. Whether the extra time spent with these helpers to get more loot is worthwhile remains to be seen, but Dratnos thinks it probably is still very worthwhile due to the amount of ilvl that the guilds need to acquire. Mythic Gnarlroot has also fallen to <Blue Shoe> and <Honolulu>, with more guilds likely to begin killing it as they finish their work in the lower difficulties. The boss seems tuned to be a good bridge between the later heroic bosses and the mythic difficulty, but much remains unknown about how quickly the difficulty curve ramps up afterwards. Dratnos and Tettles also cover the controversy around Dream Wardens renown exploits, including characters in RWF guilds that were rolled back and had the rewards removed from their inventories. Dratnos thinks this is a fair and proportionate punishment and hopes that Blizzard will work to establish a consistent pattern of enforcement that makes it very predictable which types of exploits will be actioned and which will be allowed.

The race to world first in Amirdrassil has begun, with Blizzard highlighting the top contenders and organizations covering the event! For more info on other major guilds competing, including stream links and event details, check out our own Race to World First Livestreams and Raid Coverage while we watch to see who claims World First! Race to World First Livestreams and Raid Coverage

EA is going all in for the Formula 1 Las Vegas Grand Prix, ramping up for what is sure to be one of the most over-the-top weekends of the F1 calendar. They’ll be hosting a livestream to start the weekend, they’ve got Charles Leclerc to do a track guide video, and they’re making F1 23 free to play through the Las Vegas Grand Prix weekend!

In a livestream that took place on November 14, Battlestate Games announced that vaulting is now in playtesting and will be implemented into Escape from Tarkov in the future. No specific date was provided as to when players can expect this feature to roll out, but the accompanying in-game clips showcased as part of the announcement suggest it could be sooner than we think. 

The multiplayer FPS Escape from Tarkov went into alpha testing in 2016, and moved into beta—which is still ongoing—a year later. And now, six years after that, developer Battlestate Games is working on a new feature that has the community a-tingle with excitement: vaulting.

Amazon announced another cluster of layoffs this week along with plans to discontinue the Crown channel, a flashy Amazon-run Twitch channel that featured television-like programming. Amazon will also shutter its Game Growth group, which helped creators in the gaming world market themselves.

Twitch viewership held steady in Q3 2023 according to StreamElement’s latest State of the Stream report. Total hours watched grew less than 1% to 5.15 billion in Q3 2023 compared to Q2’s 5.14 billion total.

EA is going all in for the Formula 1 Las Vegas Grand Prix, ramping up for what is sure to be one of the most over-the-top weekends of the F1 calendar. They’ll be hosting a livestream to start the weekend, they’ve got Charles Leclerc to do a track guide video, and they’re making F1 23 free to play through the Las Vegas Grand Prix weekend!

Last Wednesday, Bethesda Game Studios released a beta branch for the upcoming Starfield update. The main addition of the update is NVIDIA DLSS (Super Resolution, Frame Generation, and DLAA), though there are also other CPU/GPU optimizations, brightness sliders, and various bug fixes.

The Amirdrassil Race to World First begins today, with several guilds hosting events and live streaming their progress to take down Fyrakk the Blazing! Who are you rooting for to become the next World Champions of Dragonflight? The World First Aberrus victors of Team Liquid stand as the front runners, with Method and Echo hot on their heels, though several well established guilds from around the world will be vying for world rankings. Wowhead is officially partnering with Team Liquid to assist with raid graphics and character models, though we're here to highlight everyone and keep track of all the community achievements! We've put together a list of the top guild and community hosted events, coverage, casters, charity fundraisers, and more.

 Look no further than China's biggest livestreamer for a snapshot of the country's flagging consumption outlook. 

At 10am CT (4pm GMT), Rooster Teeth will start its annual 24-hour stream to raise money for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals in partnership with Extra Life. During that time, there will be several game shows to tune into, such as Whose Spot, The Spice is Right, Stinky Dragon, a live-action Operation game, and Scaredy-Cat Hour.

I chatted to Amelia Tyler earlier this week. In case you're unfamiliar, Tyler's the voice of Baldur's Gate 3's narrator, but she's also a huge nerd and a seasoned roleplayer. While we talked about her favourite voice lines—as well as playing the Dark Urge's inner monologue—the conversation inevitably shifted towards pen & paper.

In recent years, as Twitch fended off territorial incursions from YouTube, the livestreaming service did whatever it could to hang on to top performers: signing them to exorbitant, exclusive contracts, offering them favorable cuts of subscription revenue and even handing out free tickets to the Super Bowl. Now under mounting pressure from its owner Amazon.com Inc. to cut costs, the company's new chief executive officer is testing out a less expensive way of strengthening its bond with the creative community — a cross-country, listening tour.  

Noice has raised $21 million to revolutionize social gaming with a combination of livestreaming and multiplayer gaming in one platform.

It's the most wonderful time of the year: the time when the games industry puts on its best evening wear and Troy Baker takes the stage to tell us which videogames are set to win after millions of public votes have been totted up.

The Game Awards is next month, and based on the latest announcement from Rockstar Games, it could feature the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6. Nevertheless, even with other likely World Premieres, the awards are also worth watching, especially with nominees to be revealed on November 13th at 9 AM PT.

It’s that time of year again! The nominations reveal for The Game Awards, happening on December 7, will occur on Monday, November 13, with tickets available now.

The long-running video review series Zero Punctuation is seemingly ending following a mass exodus of staff from the publication The Escapist.

New features are in store for the next entry in the Shiren the Wanderer series, and some will be of particular interest to streamers. 

Twitch rival Kick, backed by co-founders of the Stake gambling platform, has spent a lot of money on streamers in 2023. The biggest deal by far was a reported $100 million contract for Canadian megastar xQc in January, but it recently signed up FaZe Clan co-owner and popular Call of Duty streamer Nick «Nickmercs» Kolcheff for an eight-figure sum.

Staying connected is an important part of being a gamer in an era of livestreaming, multiplayer co-op, and active gaming-focused social media. Because of this, app support for consoles like PlayStation are critical for many players.

Sex speedrunning is back in Baldur's Gate 3, thanks to Larian. 

Overwatch 2 fans had to rely on someone live-tweeting the commentary of a World Cup game as Blizzcon took over the livestream. 

Blizzcon is in full swing here on Day 2! We're about to kick off the Diablo 4 Campfire Chat Livestream, so let's stay a while and listen — read below for our breakdown of this livestream! Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred Expansion Announcement Blizzcon Opening Ceremony Diablo 4 Catch Up Blog Not everyone has the luxury of taking time out of their day to listen, though — and that's where Wowhead has you covered! We're liveblogging critical updates and summaries in this article during the stream, so settle in, refresh often, and read on to learn more about the future of Diablo 4!

Blizzcon is in full swing here on Day 2! We're about to kick off the Overwatch 2 What's Next Livestream, so let's get locked and loaded — read below for our breakdown of this livestream! Blizzcon Overwatch 2 Deep Dive Liveblog Mauga is Overwatch 2's Newest Hero Not everyone has the luxury of taking time out of their day to listen, though — and that's where Wowhead has you covered! We're liveblogging critical updates and summaries in this article during the stream, so settle in, refresh often, and read on to learn more about the future of Overwatch 2!

Blizzcon has officially begun! We're about to kick off the Warcraft Rumblings Livestream, so get ready to, well, rumble — read below for our breakdown of this livestream! Blizzcon 2023 Opening Ceremony Liveblog World of Warcraft: The War Within Preorders Live Now Not everyone has the luxury of taking time out of their day to listen, though — and that's where Wowhead has you covered! We're liveblogging critical updates and summaries in this article during the stream, so settle in, refresh often, and read on to learn more about the future of Warcraft Rumble!

Blizzcon has officially begun! We're about to kick off the Hearthstone What's Next Livestream, so shuffle your decks — read below for our breakdown of this livestream! Not everyone has the luxury of taking time out of their day to listen, though — and that's where Wowhead has you covered! We're liveblogging critical updates and summaries in this article during the stream, so settle in, refresh often, and read on to learn more about the future of Hearthstone! «Showdown in the Badlands» Releases November 14 Hearthstone Announces Catch-Up Packs New Game Mode «Battlegrounds Duo» Coming Early Next Year

BlizzCon has officially begun! We're about to kick off the first of two Overwatch 2 Livestreams, this one focused on a Deep Dive — read below for our breakdown of this livestream! Not everyone has the luxury of taking time out of their day to listen, though — and that's where Wowhead has you covered! We're liveblogging critical updates and summaries in this article during the stream, so settle in, refresh often, and read on to learn more about the future of Overwatch 2! BlizzCon 2023 Opening Ceremony Summary BlizzCon 2023 Broadcast Schedule

With Version 4.2, you will be able to obtain Freminet for free in , provided they follow the correct set of steps leading up to the unlocking stage. Freminet was first introduced when Fontaine was added to the game, with Version 4.0, and has been available ever since. Nevertheless, obtaining characters is mostly locked behind the gacha system, so not everyone has acquired the young diver. While Freminet is not among the best characters in , having him distributed for free is a great boon.

December 10 will be the 30th anniversary of the groundbreaking FPS Doom, and to mark the big day two of the driving forces behind the game, John Carmack and John Romero, will be taking part in a livestreamed discussion moderated by videogame historian David Craddock about one of the most influential videogames of all time.

The Honkai Star Rail 1.5 livestream is due to commence shortly! Personally, I’ve been looking forward to 1.5 for quite a while now, so I’m excited to see what they announce today.

The Genshin Impact 4.2 livestream begins soon! But what can we expect from the exciting event? We know that new characters will be announced, both 5-star and 4-star (possibly).

The Genshin Impact 4.2 livestream lays out what to expect as the Traveler continues their  journey through the watery region of Fontaine, but it's also a great chance to grab the latest livestream codes. With the Hydro Archon herself, Furina, arriving in the 4.2 update, having a few extra Primogems definitely won't hurt in terms of pulling her for your team.

Meta has announced new creator tools that can help content creators on Facebook engage with their audience in a better way. In June, the platform introduced a redesigned Reels editor, new Inspiration Hub and Templates Hub that made it easier to create reels with ideas, and inspirations presented to the content creator. It also introduced a Professional mode, including a daily checklist module with tips to help creators grow their audience. Now, Meta has announced new ways that content creators can engage audiences better with their reels. Let us take a closer look.

The Cozy Quest Steam Festival will run from November 16 to 20, and it will feature a curated selection of cozy games along with plenty of sales, developer interviews, and livestreams.

Blizzard Entertainment is holding an in-person BlizzCon for the first time in four years this weekend. But fans of Warcraft, Diablo, and Overwatch who can’t make it to Anaheim for BlizzCon 2023 on Nov. 3-4 can watch the festivities online for free.

Former WoW Lead Systems Designer and Executive Producer at Riot Games Greg Street has officially revealed Fantastic Pixel Castle, his new game studio working on an epic AAA fantasy MMORPG codenamed Ghost! While still very early in development, the studio will be hosting a livestream Q&A on November 8th at 2 pm EST to discuss their game pitch and development philosophy on Twitch.tv/FantasticPixelCastle. Better known to many players by his Blizzard handle Ghostcrawler, announced his intent to form a new entirely remote working games development studio last April. He quickly recruited other talented developers from his past studios, including longtime Blizzard PvP and Lead Combat Designer Brian Holinka.

Streaming online is one of the most enticing hobbies around. It doesn’t take a whole lot to get started, so long as you have a solid internet connection for livestreaming and a few relatively inexpensive gadgets, like a webcam and, depending on the kind of content you want to make, perhaps a capture card as well. However, you’ll need a lot more than the basics to take your streams and on-camera shows to the next level. If you want your livestreams to boast great video and audio quality for viewers, we’ve gathered 12 products that can elevate your streaming setup.

According to an announcement from Twitch, the Twitch app on Nintendo Switch will be delisted on January 31, 2024, with support for the app to end Monday, November 6.

Twitch updated its rules for when streamers who have violated Community Guidelines can appeal, with a way for even perma-banned streamers to get reinstated on the platform. On Oct. 31, the livestreaming platform published an update and shared it via the official Twitch Support account on X (formerly known as Twitter), saying that the appeals process “shouldn’t be a mystery.”

Though we'd known for some time that Disney Dreamlight Valley had plans to incorporate multiplayer in its cozy social sim, Gameloft has been quite tight-lipped on the details—until now. In its digital showcase today, Dreamlight Valley unveiled all sorts of updates coming to the game over the next year: a first game expansion, lots more free realms and villagers, and those long-awaited multiplayer details. And, as promised in the original 2023 roadmap, multiplayer is landing before the end of this year.

Silent Hill: Ascension premiered last night, and I don't think I've ever seen the long-suffering Silent Hill fandom look quite this miserable before.

Silent Hill: Ascension aired its first episode yesterday, but players are lambasting the game for its monetisation options and overwhelming UI.

Just in case that headline gave you psychological whiplash, let me try to explain. Nothing, Forever is an AI-generated Seinfeldlike (originally a direct parody, but those days are long-gone) that runs forever. Its earlier incarnation was banned from Twitch after it made a transphobic joke, after which it returned with a new cast of characters who were… less peppy than their counterparts.

Twitter was transformed into X earlier this year, and while the change was essentially a logo, name, and domain shift, company owner Elon Musk has much grander plans for his platform. From a simple messaging platform, in his own words, Musk wants to turn X into an ‘everything app', similar to China's WeChat, where people can do a bunch of different things outside of typical social media activities on the app itself. This can include even checking your bank account balance, applying for a job, watching a live stream, shopping for clothes, and even finding a date. Even if it sounds ridiculous, Musk is pretty serious about it and mentioned it all during the company's first all-hands employee meeting.

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 has secured several accolades, including praise for its stellar soundtrack. To celebrate the game’s music, Playstation Music Studios and their partners are hosting a live listening party with special guests from the team that developed Marvel’s Spider-Man 2.

During the Season of Blood Developer Livestream, the team confirmed that the endgame boss Uber Duriel would have a reasonable chance of dropping Uber Unique items. However, since these Uber Uniqes are so rare, and Duriel requires several materials to summon, the team stated that Uber Uniques dropped by Duriel would be guaranteed to be perfect rolls. Diablo 4 Boss Guides Patch 1.2.1 Now Available When Season 2 began, players started to notice that while the stats of Uber Uniques were perfectly rolled, the Effects were still rolling in their previous ranges.

As 2023 draws to a close, it’s time once again for the Thankmas charity event, this year once again benefiting World Central Kitchen. Originally begun by Sean “Jacksepticeye” McLoughlin, the event raises funds for a single organization over the course of several days in December. McLoughlin will hold a live event on December 2 in Los Angeles.

Many elements go into making a great video game. It’s not enough to have incredible visuals and gameplay. You need to have music that can make a gamer feel everything that’s being shown on stage. Over the course of gaming history, all sorts of incredible musical scores have been composed to help elevate titles from one level to another. Insomniac Games isn’t above that, and for their now three games with Spider-Man, they’ve made sure that each title has something special musically, with Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 being the latest example of that. And now, the team at Insomniac and Sony want you to hear every beat this Thursday.

By Ash Parrish, a reporter who has covered the business, culture, and communities of video games for seven years. Previously, she worked at Kotaku.

The Nikke 1st Anniversary celebrations are just around the corner! I can’t believe it’s nearly been a year since the game first launched. The game certainly isn’t for everyone, but if you can look past the blatant lewdness, there’s a fantastic storyline hidden in there.

As spotted by GameRant, a Nintendo patent application published last week details a new handheld reminiscent of the company's DS and 3DS systems, but with a third screen and the ability to physically separate the unit into two devices.

Mouse house life sim Disney Dreamlight Valley has been in early access since it launched last year, with the plan being that it would ditch the fee and become free-to-play upon its full release.

The fiery basin of the Burning Hells crackles and sparks in yearning—BlizzCon 2023 will soon be upon us! On November 3–4 in-person attendees can meet their favorite content creators, get a Hell’s Ink flash tattoo, receive a signature from members of the development team and more. For those tuning in from home, we’ll be broadcasting a special Diablo IV Campfire Chat live from the BlizzCon show floor and multiple Diablo-partnered content creators will be livestreaming, which can also be viewed in person by attendees.

Global Community Development Director Adam Fletcher announced that Diablo 4's «mid-season» Patch 1.2.1 is going live before BlizzCon next week! Replying to a tweet byr/Diablo moderator Menagese, Adam Fletcher confirmed that Patch 1.2.1 will be released before next week's Blizzcon, which will also include patch notes prior to release: Diablo 4 Patch 1.2.1 Preview Target Dummies To Be Added With Patch 1.2.1 During their Campfire Chat developer livestream two weeks ago, Blizzard announced a mid-season patch that was slated for a late October release. So far, we know about two features being introduced to Diablo 4 with Patch 1.2.1: first, Target Dummies will be added in a private local instance in Kyovashad available to all players.

Gameloft has announced that Disney Dreamlight Valley will no longer be switching to a free-to-play model when it leaves early access on December 5.

Critical Role—a mega-popular Dungeons & Dragons game that's spawned its own official campaign settings and animated series—is doing another run of its «choose their adventure» charity one-shots. The Critical Role Foundation has partnered with Red Nose Day and Comic Relief US to run a one-shot with a twist: donate, and you'll be able to vote on how the adventure'll go. 

For those who find Destiny 2‘s Shader preview system needlessly obtuse and confusing,, there is good news on the horizon. Bungie is, according to the latest information, bound to rework how Shaders work with 2024’s The Final Shape DLC.

We did the podcast live this week immediately following Xbox's Partner Preview livestream, and we spent the entire episode being pleasantly surprised by both the things Microsoft promised would be there (like Alan Wake 2, Ark: Survival Ascended, and Dungeons of Hinterberg), and the things that were surprises (like Metal Gear solid Delta, Still Wakes the Deep, and The Finals). Plus, we give some constructive criticism on Xbox's latest presentation format.