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At the end of February, Blizzard revealed 8 new Hero Talent Trees in a sneak peek at the new system coming with the The War Within expansion. Our Retribution Paladin guide writer, Bolas, offers an early review of the Templar Paladin Hero Talents highlighting the exceptional theme of raining hammers from the sky but raising tuning concerns about Templar and Herald of the Sun.

At the end of February, Blizzard revealed 8 new Hero Talent Trees in a sneak peek at the new system coming with the The War Within expansion. Our Outlaw Rogue guide writer, JustGuy, offers an early review of the Trickster Rogue Hero Talents continuing to address controversial decision to repurpose the defensive Feint for damage while not landing on a clear class fantasy.

Arrowhead Game Studios has released a new Helldivers 2 patch that reduces the number of heavily armored targets that spawn on higher difficulties.

Ravensburger has lifted the lid on its previously announced ‘expandalone’ expansion to Star Wars Villainous, bringing two of the series’ most iconic baddies to the game for the first time.

If you were planning on buying the new iPhone SE 4 when it comes out, using it for a short while and then selling it quickly, you might be headed for some disappointment. A new report suggests that the iPhone SE 4 value may depreciate faster than other flagship iPhones like iPhone 14, iPhone 15 and others. Although most Apple devices tend to hold their value for years, often fetching higher prices in the used market than their competitors, this revelation might come as a disappointment for those who change their iPhones quickly, especially the SE models.

Arrowhead has released a fresh update for Helldivers 2, with patch 1.000.102 targeting the rate at which heavy enemies are spawned to help reduce the reliance on the ‘leg meta’ for dealing with Terminid Chargers.

At the end of February, Blizzard revealed 8 new Hero Talent Trees in a sneak peek at the new system coming with the The War Within expansion. Our Devastation Evoker guide writer, Preheat, offers an early review of the Scalecommander Evoker Hero Talents highlighting the straightforward tree with interesting talent interactions. With some small adjustments to the baseline talent trees and a bit more utility, Scalecommander could be a powerhouse.

At the end of February, Blizzard revealed 8 new Hero Talent Trees in a sneak peek at the new system coming with the The War Within expansion. Our Arms Warrior guide writer, Archimtiros, offers an early review of the Colossus Warrior Hero Talents addressing how the new Demolish ability offers the potential for significant damage at the cost of interrupting the rotation and restricting movement. Can the gambit pay off in a mostly passive tree?

When it comes to the best spells in the Harry Potter universe, few are as devastating as Avada Kedavra. The unforgivable curse instantly kills its target, making it unbelievably powerful in most combat situations – and in Hogwarts Legacy, it's possible to unlock this overpowered attack. You won't be able to add it to your arsenal right away, but with a bit of legwork, you can be casting the unforgivable curse and dominating the battlefield.

Blizzard has pushed some extra hotfixes with the weekly reset, changing Living Flame for mages and buffing Steady Shot for Hunters. These changes buff ranged Hunters and slightly reduce the possible burst done by Living Flame for mages without changing their total damage for longer fights.

Arrowhead has released a fresh update for Helldivers 2, with patch 1.000.102 targeting the rate at which heavy enemies are spawned to help reduce the reliance on the ‘leg meta’ for dealing with Terminid Chargers.

If you’re one of the Helldivers 2 players who’ve been struggling to take on the game’s powerful Terminids — specifically, Chargers and Bile Titans — you’re in luck. Arrowhead Game Studios published a patch on Tuesday that tweaks the spawn rates of those two bugs. Crucially, Arrowhead said it hasn’t changed the overall difficulty: There will be fewer of these heavily armored enemies, but other bugs will show up “in greater numbers,” according to the patch notes.

Helldivers 2's latest patch reduces the spawn rate for two of the most irritating bugs in the game: Chargers and Bile Titans. The update means that we should encounter fewer of them in higher difficulties after players complained there were too many in a single map.

Nvidia has found itself on the receiving end of a class action lawsuit alleging copyright infringement by its artificial intelligence platform NeMo. The litigation poses an obstacle to Nvidia fully realizing its AI ambitions that have propelled its stock to unprecedented heights.

Intel Lunar Lake CPUs will reportedly offer a major boost in multi-threaded performance with their new P-Core & E-Core architecture.

Elon Musk's X plans to launch a television app for Amazon and Samsung smart televisions next week, Fortune reported, citing an unidentified person working at the social media company.

This past week, Blizzard revealed 8 new Hero Talent Trees in a sneak peek at the new system coming with the The War Within expansion. Our Protection Paladin guide writer, Lincoln, offers an early review of the Templar Paladin Hero Talents applauding the interactive gameplay hooks and minimal filler but raises concerns about how Templar could restrict the talent choices in the baseline trees without adjustments.

Blizzard has posted upcoming PvP Class tuning which includes Havoc DH nerfs!

This past week, Blizzard revealed 8 new Hero Talent Trees in a sneak peek at the new system coming with the The War Within expansion. Our Warlock guide writer, Kalamazi, offers an early review of the Diabolist Warlock Hero Talents for Destruction which despite its heavier Demonology feel still has a lot of firepower baked in for Destruction.

Last month, we highlighted Not Even Close, a new community tool designed to help players plan survivability cooldowns in higher level Mythic+ content. Today, we're showcasing a similar have a similar tool with the Effective Health weak aura by Heartline! Unlike the web-based tool, the Effective Health weak aura works in-game and in real time, displaying the player's current effective health against Physical and Magical attacks, alongside their expected health after deadly Mythic+ dungeon attacks land. Seen on the left, the weak aura show the players Physical and Magical effective health, with Excavating Blast reducing them to 79% health remaining. Naturally, each of these tools has its own pros and cons.

Final Fantasy 14 Dawntrail's new lifestyle content has more in common with the Ishgard Restoration Project (collective grinding) than one might expect. 

The LLVM 18.1 release has seen new support for Intel's next-gen Panther Lake client & Clearwater Forest server CPUs.

Pokémon Go Fest will head to the Spanish capital of Madrid for this year's big European event, developer Niantic has announced.

It’s been a dramatic 24 hours for Helldivers 2 players after the game’s first balance patch set the cat among the pigeons with its nerf to the best loadout.

This past week, Blizzard revealed 8 new Hero Talent Trees in a sneak peek at the new system coming with the The War Within expansion. Our Subtlety Rogue guide writer, fuu1, offers an early review of the Trickster Rogue Hero Talents for Subtlety addressing the controversial decision to repurpose the defensive Feint for damage while still not delivering on the deceptive class fantasy.

This past week, Blizzard revealed 8 new Hero Talent Trees in a sneak peek at the new system coming with the The War Within expansion. Our Restoration Druid guide writer, Voulk, offers an early review of the Wildstalker Druid Hero Talents for Restoration questioning why Rejuvenation is rarely mentioned in either Hero Talent Tree. Wildstalker does have a lot of potential but will largely depend on tuning and accessibility of the feral bonuses despite being primarily passive bonuses.

With the first Cataclysm beta build, Blizzard has added new strings to support the new systems added with Cataclysm, Reforging, Transmogrification, and Void Storage.

Today, it's time to pay not that much to score quite a heck of a lot, thanks to Humble Bundle. The tastiest component in said package has got to be Nioh 2, top action-RPG and spiritual predecessor of the imminently forthcoming Rise of the Ronin. The latter keeps all the samurai action, strips out the supernatural enemies (plus giant enemy crabs), and adds in a backpack glider not unlike the Bat-tastic one from the Arkham series. Pretty good formula so far, no?

This past week, Blizzard revealed 8 new Hero Talent Trees in a sneak peek at the new system coming with the The War Within expansion. Our Protection Warrior guide writer, Nomeratur, offers an early review of the Colossus Warrior Hero Talents for Protection addressing a lot of the interesting talent interactions but falls a bit short delivering on the fantasy of a tank that not only knows how to take a hit and keep going but also how to strategically use their strikes to dismantle their enemies.

Bandai Namco and Reflector Entertainment dropped a new trailer for their third person narrative action adventure game Unknown 9: Awakening. The game is coming out this summer.

This past week, Blizzard revealed 8 new Hero Talent Trees in a sneak peek at the new system coming with the The War Within expansion. Our Augmentation Evoker guide writer, Jereico, offers an early review of the Scalecommander Evoker Hero Talents for Augmentation where players harness the powers of the black dragonflight to become commanders of the earth and sky. While Scalecommander comes with a strong fantasy, there are some concerns that perhaps the value of this tree might be more valuable for Devastation.

Helldivers 2's first big balance patch is out today, and it's bringing adjustments to the two most overpowered and commonly used weapons in the entire game.

Hades 2 is targeting an early access release between April and June and can be enjoyed without playing the original roguelike game.

What exactly can Xbox Series X/S and PS5 owners expect from Dragon’s Dogma 2 in terms of performance? It’s been an open question, with answers being surprisingly hard to come by – at first, we heard it might be targeting 30fps, but analysis of footage seemed to indicate that wasn’t necessarily the case. Capcom stepped in to say the game would have an “uncapped” framerate, which… didn’t exactly clear things up.

This past week, Blizzard revealed 8 new Hero Talent Trees in a sneak peek at the new system coming with the The War Within expansion. Our Retribution Paladin guide writer, Bolas, offers an early review of the Herald of the Sun Paladin Hero Talents for Retribution addressing why Sunspots could be a cool addition to Retribution but may need finesse in how they spawn as well as some additional support from the baseline talent trees.

Blizzard has clarified some questions regarding Colossus Warrior noting that the Demolish ability is a 2 second rooted channel. In addition, the class tree will allow Warriors to easily take Storm Bolt and Shockwave!

Blizzard has posted hotfixes for March 5th which includes fixes for a number of issues in Mythic+ Dungeons.

For an event still in its infancy, Taipei-based indie expo G-EIGHT immediately appears accomplished far beyond its years. Its sophomore effort – conducted on the Taipei Expo Park on a sunny weekend in early December – was bustling with enthusiastic attendees, all eager to test drive the latest efforts from local Taiwanese developers, spanning established names like Red Candle through to up-and-coming student projects from freshly minted graduates.

The much-teased and oft-leaked Nothing Phone (2a) is now officially official, just under a week after it made its limited debut at the company’s MWC after party. Nothing’s third phone is the first that goes directly after the mid-tier/budget space, with a starting price of $349.

NVIDIA has banned the use of CUDA libraries on other platforms like AMD & Intel, as the firm adds a new warning with CUDA's EULA.

Materia is the backbone of spell casting and stat improvement in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, adding tons of customizability and strategy to your characters’ loadouts. Adding even another layer to the process, though, is link slots on your weapons and armor. These slots are merged together to allow you to combine the effects of two types of materia for a variety of unique and powerful outcomes. Here are our choices for some of the best materia to link together.

How much would you spend to be able to smell the things you can see on your screen? If your answer was a sensible “absolutely nothing”, you’re about $150 off. That’s exactly what GameScent is offering. And no, we don’t know why.

In a recent turn of events, Info Edge (India) Ltd announced that its prominent mobile applications including Naukri.com Job Search App, Naukri Recruiter, Naukrigulf Job Search App, 99acres and Shiksha have been removed from the Google Play Store. This action follows Google's crackdown on apps in India, targeting those embroiled in a dispute over service fee payments.

The original The Strangers movie is quietly one of the creepiest movies of the 2000s. So when the trilogy of new movies in the series was announced late last year, it was fair to be a little skeptical. But the new trailer for The Strangers: Chapter 1 was released on Friday and it already looks creepier than the original, so there might be a whole lot more scares left in this franchise.

Pokémon, Warcraft and Sea of Thieves have joined in with this week's Glasgow Willy Wonka Experience memes.

Greetings, Adventurers!

Intel has made some "serious" strides in the semiconductor industry, announcing its bleeding-edge 10A "1nm process" & revealing plans.

Arknights is rolling out a new story event, Operation Lucent Arrowhead. Team Arknights just dropped a new promotional video for the event, which will feature characters from Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege. It’s set to drop in China first, so it’s likely to make its way to the global version soon.

If you’re into esports then you’ll no doubt have heard of Lee Sang-Hyeok, better known as Faker. He’s known for playing the ever popular League of Legends, and has been hailed as the best player in the world — he is to League what Michael Jordan is to basketball.

We've updated our PvE Tier Lists for Phase 2 and Gnomeregan recently, utilizing data thanks to Warcraft Logs. We'll also be updating these regularly as the meta shifts over time! These Tier Lists will rank all Tank, Healer, and DPS specializations in Gnomeregan on the basis of their single target damage, AOE damage, tank healing, raid healing, mitigation, avoidance, as well as any raid contribution in the form of raid buffs and enemy debuffs, external cooldowns, and raid utility. You can view all our Tier lists below -- Tank PvE Tier List Healer PvE Tier List DPS PvE Tier List

A ransomware group claims to have hacked Epic Games and stolen nearly 200 GB of data.

Samsung may not have much success with its 3nm GAA process, but it intends to make amends with its next-generation 2nm technology, which is said to enter mass production next year. To gain an edge against its foundry rival TSMC, a new report states that the Korean giant is introducing Backside Power Supply (BSPDN) technology, which aims to offer several benefits, which we will discuss here.

Blizzard has implemented the Class Tuning that was previously announced last week and implemented additional changes, adjusting High-Yield Radiation Bomb, as well as adjusting the armor on bosses inside Gnomeregan.

The War Within expansion introduces Hero Talents as a new update to World of Warcraft classes. They are an evergreen form of character progression for each class specialization that introduces new powers and class fantasies. Feedback is critical to us as a part of creating an impactful and fun addition to the game, so we are sharing our goals for Hero Talents with the community to get first impressions of them and learn how well we’re meeting those goals.

Blizzard has posted 8 new Hero Talent Trees revealing the first Rogue and Warlock Hero Talent Trees and all the remaining Paladin trees!

A few hours ago, NVIDIA updated the RTX Remix toolkit with several quality-of-life features that had been requested by the modding community:

Over a decade later, Skyrim players are still pushing Bethesda's iconic RPG to its limits. Tamriel's latest absurd accomplishment comes from Pawelos4, who claims to have reached level 1,337 on "the ultimate Skyrim character," who has apparently done everything that can feasibly be done. And they uploaded a stonking 11 hours of sped up footage to prove it. 

Nintendo is currently set to launch its under-wraps Switch 2 console in March 2025 — but this could be delayed further, a new report has cautioned.

Nintendo’s next game console is targeting a launch in March 2025.

A hot new update for Helldivers 2 has dropped just in time for the weekend, and it’s a big one. Helldivers 2 update 1.000.12 is all about raising the server cap to allow for more concurrent players, hopefully putting the ‘Servers at capacity.’ errors and waiting queues to bed over the next few days.

Blizzard will be implementing more class tuning during the upcoming weekly maintenance, including tweaking Druid healing spells, Rogue's Redirect, and multiple Shaman changes. This comes hot on the tail of recent hotfixes to several classes.

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Intel will be using two different Alchemist "Xe-LPG" iGPU architectures for its upcoming Arrow Lake-S Desktop & Arrow Lake-H Mobile line of CPUs.

Apple’s iMessage is one of the most popular communications services in the world, with more than one billion users interacting with each other through various regions. However, that also makes it a paramount target against security threats, and even though quantum computers are several years away from materializing any kind of virtual offense, Apple likely wants to be ready before an event like this occurs. This is why the security layer of iMessage has been upgraded to post-quantum cryptography, and it will be available in iOS 17.4, iPadOS 17.4, macOS 14.4, and watchOS 10.4.

Red XIII is among the most unique playable characters in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. While most of the cast is clearly offense-oriented, even long-range characters like Barret and Aerith, the wolf-like talking beast is meant to be played as a defensive character that comes with a surprising amount of depth. As such, he is not exactly straightforward to play, as you need to pay attention to a few things to make him show his true potential.

Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has raised the game’s server cap to a whopping 700,000 concurrent users as it braces itself for another weekend of massive player numbers.

A hot new update for Helldivers 2 has dropped just in time for the weekend, and it’s a big one. Helldivers 2 update 1.000.12 is all about raising the server cap to allow for more concurrent players, hopefully putting the ‘Servers at capacity.’ errors and waiting queues to bed over the next few days.

Cheat codes have somewhat become a thing of the past in modern gaming, with mods coming in to take their place. Most Bethesda games, such as Starfield and Fallout 4, enjoy plenty of mod support, but also have plenty of ways you can tweak the game using some old-fashioned cheats and console commands. Even as big as Fallout 4 is, it has shown its age at this point, so why not try out a few cheats to keep things exciting in the wasteland? Here are all the cheats and console commands you can use, and how to activate them.

Until the sterling evaluations of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth dropped earlier today, the best-reviewed game of 2024 was Balatro - a deck-building poker roguelike that seemed to take over Steam Next Fest.

Consolidating the entire new Hitman trilogy into one comprehensive package, Hitman 3 (or Hitman: World of Assassination, as it is now known) is essentially the ultimate envisioning of the franchise. It’s not done yet, either, with the upcoming Season of the Undying introducing even more content to the package.

Patch 28.6.2, launching today, includes the following changes to Standard and Battlegrounds.

A Chinese tech security firm was able to breach foreign governments, infiltrate social media accounts and hack personal computers, a massive data leak analysed by experts this week revealed.

Blizzard has implemented hotfixes for various class tuning, adjusting Mage, Rogue, Shaman, and Warlock. Additionally, Blizzard has increased the experience from Elite Quests and Dungeon Quests, which should help many players finish leveling up to level 40!

Hundreds of thousands of players are fighting to spread democracy in Helldivers 2, but the fight against arachnids and robots isn't going as smoothly as it could. A meta is forming, as some weapons simply aren't up to the task.

Even though the number of Pokemon created has now reached four figures, fewer than 50 of them have had the honor of being turned into Funko Pops. Grookey and Aipom are among some of the latest Pokemon to get the Funko Pop! treatment. Clearly those Pops have been pretty popular as Funko has already revealed Aipom and Grookey are getting flocked versions, and pre-orders for the Grass-type starter's new figure are already live.

Arrowhead Game Studios has released the first patch of the week for Helldivers 2, once again looking to patch up some crashes and improve the game’s embattled servers to help with Quickplay matchmaking, capacity and more. As always, though, the game servers are totally filled, with the now familiar “Severs at capacity. Please try again later.” error.

An international law enforcement operation led by Britain's National Crime Agency and the FBI has arrested and indicted members of the Lockbit ransomware gang, in an unprecedented police operation that has struck one of the world's most notorious cybercrime gangs.

Blizzard has implemented hotfixes for Class Tuning, as well as Gnomeregan Salvage and Gnomeregan Grime-Encrusted Salvage. This includes some changes that weren't listed in the previous Class Tuning articles.

Arrowhead Game Studios has released the first patch of the week for Helldivers 2, once again looking to patch up some crashes and improve the game’s embattled servers to help with Quickplay matchmaking, capacity and more. As always, though, the game servers are totally filled, with the now familiar “Severs at capacity. Please try again later.” error.

Sony recently announced that the PS5 has sold 54.8 million units worldwide, and while that’s quite an impressive number for a console that’s only just entered the fourth year of its lifecycle, it has missed the company’s internal sales target by quite a bit. Sony has, as such, revised its forecast for total PS5 units shipped during FY 2023/24 (which ends on March 31) from 25 million down to 21 million, and the company is now feeling the immediate repercussions of that.