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Blizzard has shared an update for upcoming class tuning, which will be implemented after this upcoming week's maintenance. The changes are for Druids, Shamans, Paladins, and Mage's Conjure Water Rank 5.

Blizzard has implemented a hotfix for Season of Discovery, addressing an issue with Charge and some new positional problems that appeared in the latest update.

AMD's upcoming RDNA 4 GPUs have witnessed rapid developments at Linux as Team Red pushes out new IP blocks targeted toward bringing enhanced support.

Embracer has laid off 8 percent of its workforce as its restructuring programme reaches «mature stages».

Embracer have released their interim financial results for Q3, October-December 2023, in which they share details of the conglomerate's on-going efforts to "restructure" and reduce their massive debts, to the tune of hundreds of layoffs over the past year.

This morning, the Embracer Group released its Q3 fiscal year 2023/2024 financial report. The company managed to deliver slightly above expectations thanks to non-core game divisions like Asmodee, Middle-earth Enterprises, and mobile, while the PC and console segment was down 9% due to a lighter release schedule.

Time manipulation is almost always cool in games, especially when it’s tied into puzzle design or combat. Lysfanga is the latest game to utilise this mechanic, this time in a Hades-esque isometic hack and slash format, though it quickly distances itself from that resemblance. Rather than the frenetic and fast-paced gameplay of Supergiant’s smash hit, Lysfanga requires a more strategic approach, featuring levels that escalate in complexity as the game develops.

Sony’s latest financial report saw the company revising expected PlayStation 5 sales downward for the coming year, with Sony Group President Hiroki Totoki saying that they “do not plan to release any new major existing franchise titles next fiscal year.”

Blizzard has released hotfixes for Season of Discovery Realms, addressing issues related to the Blood Moon event, several Gnomeregan bosses, and various class tweaks.

It’s Valentine’s Day, and just in case that comes as a surprise, we’re here to help. Even if you won’t get them in time for Valentine’s Day, building any of Lego’s floral bouquets is the ideal way to spend an afternoon with your Valentine. These arrangements look amazing, are always fresh, and are even made from recycled plants. Each stem can even be “trimmed” to provide the perfect fit for any vase.

After 7 years, a bug which causes some Trash Mobs to be removed in Darkheart Thicket Mythic+ has finally been fixed.

Greetings, Adventurers!

Sony’s latest financial report saw the company revising expected PlayStation 5 sales downward for the coming year, with Sony Group President Hiroki Totoki saying that they “do not plan to release any new major existing franchise titles next fiscal year.”

Dragon's Dogma 2, the second entry in the series launching in a little over a month on PC and consoles, will release with an uncapped framerate.

Staff at three of Ubisoft's French studios are striking today over compensation.

Sony says it expects PlayStation 5 hardware sales to “gradually decline” during its next fiscal year, which runs from April to March 2025, and confirmed it plans to release “no major franchise titles” during this 12-month period.

With the sun setting on Dragonflight and The War Within on the horizon, our Balance Druid Writer, Tettles, offers a retrospective highlighting Balance's journey in Dragonflight and shares their hopes for the spec's next evolution with a War Within Wishlist.

With each new Hearthstone year comes an update to the free Core Set that all players have access to. This year, Hearthstone’s 10th year, brings an exciting Core Set refresh designed to celebrate Hearthstone’s history and future with iconic old favorites and a few new friends! The new Core Set goes live when the Year of the Pegasus begins, but it’s just one of the many things we’re doing to celebrate throughout the year. This blog goes over all our Core Set updates, but you can learn more about all the other new year and anniversary festivities in our dedicated Year of the Pegasus blog. 

With the sun setting on Dragonflight and The War Within on the horizon, our Outlaw Rogue Writer, JustGuy, offers a retrospective highlighting Outlaw's journey in Dragonflight and shares their hopes for the spec's next evolution with a War Within Wishlist.

Arrowhead has released a new update for the PC version of Helldivers 2.

Later this week, NFL’s broadcast cameras will be focused on Taylor Swift, while they capture each and every reaction the singer has to boyfriend Travis Kelce’s action on the field. Oh, and a football game will be taking place, too – an important one, the Super Bowl. In order to get you in the mood, EA Sports is adding Madden NFL 24 to the EA Play vault on PS5 and PS4 from 8th February, 2024.

One of the more heartbreaking revelations of Naughty Dog's recently released Grounded II: Making the Last of Us Part II documentary was the extent to which unwell The Last of Us fans took their grievances. The worst of it, according to Abby actor Laura Bailey, was «real hardcore death threats», some of which were even directed at Bailey's newborn child.

Blizzard has shared a list of incoming adjustments coming for Season of Discovery. The main incoming adjustments will be a nerf to Starsurge and a Blood Moon Event change to give 30% health to players during the event.

The next instalment in D3 Publisher's insane Earth Defense Force series, Earth Defense Force 6, has been hit with a delay here in the West. Previously, the madcap shooter was locked in for the 14th March, but now it's targeting a somewhat vague summer 2024 launch. A bit of a shame, seeing as the game's been out in Japan since 2022!

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Starnaut is a new roguelike bullet hell from a developer behind Devil May Cry and Okami - and it enters early access this week.

After more than 1,000 attempts, an Elden Ring streamer has beaten the game without taking a single hit and using a randomizer mod to change every enemy.

NVIDIA is prepping a new entry-level and small form factor workstation GPU, the RTX 2000 Ada, & most likely feature a sub-75W TDP.

Target is offering an excellent promotion that allows you to save 50% on a massive selection of games, movies, and other awesome stuff when you purchase another participating item of equal or greater value through Feb. 14. We’ve highlighted some of our favorite items below, but just in case Target doesn’t have what you’re looking for, we’ve also found some excellent bundles for fans of Mega Man, Cyberpunk, and other associated nerdery.

Blizzard has pushed a hotfix for Season of Discovery, fixing an issue regarding the Blood Moon PvP event. This fix will make players who recently resurrected be worth nothing for other players for 1 minute.

I'm ending a week packed with Steam Next Fest demos on a high note with Gatekeeper, a top-down bullet hell roguelike clearly inspired by Risk of Rain. Pick a character, drop into a medley of environments, and shoot dudes while hoovering up items until the number stops getting bigger. It's a familiar formula with a new perspective, and while there are some mechanical and artistic similarities to Risk of Rain and its sequel, Gatekeeper feels like it's found its own identity.

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.

Jagex, the game developer and publisher headquartered in Cambridge known mostly for RuneScape, is once again changing ownership. The company has been the target of several private investment groups in the past few years, starting with Insight Venture Partners (2012-2016), then Hongtou (2016-2020), Macarthur Fortune Holding (2020-2021), and The Carlyle Group since 2021.

Season of Discovery Phase 2 has arrived. Adventurers can level from 25 to 40, earn up to 31 additional talent points, take on the challenge of Gnomeregan as a new raid dungeon, discover new runes and abilities, and more!

A common complaint from players in Diablo 4 has centered around the elusive, exclusive Uber Unique items. These rare items, such as and, are easily some of the most powerful in the game — and the most desired for their build-completing properties. The downside, however, is that they were nearly impossible to find, even after targeted farming of them was introduced. Now, Blizzard has revealed that patch 1.3.2 will allow players to guarantee a craft of any Uber Unique of their choosing. Blizzard released patch notes today revealing Uber Unique Crafting, providing a way for players will bad luck to gain the Uber Unique they want — for a price.

Prepare for a massive drop of new content with the arrival of Season 2 for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III and Call of Duty: Warzone. Introducing new maps, modes, weapons, a new Zombies story mission, the return of Fortune’s Keep, Resurgence Ranked Play, and more, there’s plenty to challenge players across all modes.

The Walt Disney Company has announced it's acquiring a $1.5bn USD stake in Epic Games as it launches a multi-year partnership to create an «expansive and open games and entertainment universe connected to Fortnite».

Defense Derby, the mobile tower defense game by KRAFTON Studios, has announced that the new character Florea will join the game’s roster. Alongside her arrival comes the Derby Brawl – Florea Mirror Match game mode which will run until February 12th at 4 PM PT.

Phase 2 is now live globally on Season of Discovery and here is a collection of all class changes that were implemented for Phase 2 launch. While there hasn't been any official Patch Notes published, this can shed some light on class changes for those interested. Good luck in Phase 2! Phase 2 Overview Wowhead Talent Calculator

Beneath the cathedral of Tristram, past the catacombs and deep caves, a Prime Evil grows in strength. Terror grips the townsfolk. They pray for someone to descend into the darkness, avenge their fallen friends, save Tristram, and destroy their demonic malefactor. Will you answer the call?

The kingdom of Stormwind lies in ruins. The greatest strategists of the Alliance and the Horde race towards a terrifying clash as war continues to rage across Azeroth. It’s up to you to defend this world and its people…or crush these pitiful weaklings and claim their realm for the Horde!

Assassin's Creed Codename Red — which takes the long-running series to feudal Japan — will launch before Ubisoft's next financial year ends in March 2025, CEO Yves Guillemot has confirmed, with the publisher's open-world Star Wars Outlaws still targeting a release in 2024.

Phase 2 is now live in Season of Discovery! We've prepared a Phase 2 Overview to help you navigate all the new features coming in the next phase, we've also updated our Talent Calculator with the latest datamined Runes! Have fun! Phase 2 Overview Wowhead Talent Calculator Wowhead could also use your help with the database! Please consider downloading the Wowhead Client and uploading your player data to help our database be as accurate as possible. Help Wowhead's Database

Take-Two Interactive has an interesting response to gamers upset with what the company does with the in-game currency they buy. In an ongoing dispute over whether money is essentially stolen when a game’s servers shut down, Take-Two characterized in-game virtual currency as “fictions created by game publishers.”

Blizzard has revealed the new Hero Talents for Priest, Hunter, Mage and Druid which includes the Priest Tree *tripling* down on a Power Infusion-like spell!

Blizzard has posted hotfixes for today which includes a reduction to the Artisan's Consortium donation to 50k gold for the Support Your Local Artisans achievement as well as other Bug fixes and more!

AMD's next-gen Kraken Point APUs are reportedly going to feature a combination of Zen 5 and Zen 5C cores alongside the RDNA 3.5 GPU core.

Over the last year, artificial intelligence (AI) space has been humming with activity and new innovations. Revelations have been coming at a fast and furious pace and the latest one is by Meta Platforms chief Mark Zuckerberg. While every tech giant is bringing new AI tools and experimenting with large Language Models (LMMs), Meta has been developing its own AI capabilities without really looking to steal the spotlight away from the likes of OpenAI, Google or for that matter Microsoft. Now, in the latest announcement, Zuckerberg revealed Meta's AI efforts being directed towards bringing advanced and easily accessible technologies for users to benefit from. Highlighting Meta's upcoming plans to expand its AI efforts, he said the company will be exploring the capabilities of artificial general intelligence (AGI) and probably, and the technology will probably be open-sourced. The AI race is all about creating technology that can be super-intelligent on its own.  

Target has some great deals on a variety of video games to kick off the new year, including $20 off the newly released Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora Special Edition for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. Additionally, you can save on recent titles such as Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Gran Turismo 7, and Sonic Superstars. Check out the deals below for more information.

The cutting-edge 3nm process developed by TSMC only had Apple as the sole customer, but with just a couple of days remaining for 2024 to start, the Taiwanese foundry is expected to secure more orders for the second iteration of its advanced node dubbed ‘N3E.’ This will allow the manufacturer to ramp up production, with the latest report stating that the company’s operational capacity is said to jump to 80 percent in the second half of 2024.

Festivities are in full swing across the world as we enter Christmas Eve, but fascinating stories from the world of artificial intelligence keep emerging. In the UK, Historic England, which is an executive non-departmental public body, is taking the help of AI to fight graffiti art vandals who deface historic churches, castles, and monasteries. In other news, as many as 30000 employees can lose their jobs in a massive Google layoff exercise, as per reports. This and more in today's AI roundup. Let us take a closer look.

World of Warcraft: Dragonflight’s major hub in the Dragon Isles is a city called Valdrakken. While most city hubs are relatively compact, Valdrakken is massive and filled with various useful things to find, such as the target dummy locations.

US retailer Target has cut the Xbox Series X price to $349.99 for today only.

If you’ve been shopping around for an Xbox Series X this holiday season, but missed some of the more notable discounts on the Microsoft console, you’re in luck. Microsoft recently announced via Twitter that the standard version of the Xbox Series X will be available for just $399.99 throughout the holiday season (was $499.99).

If you’re looking to add some books to your nerd-centric sundry, or you’re shopping for some last-minute gifts for the holidays, you’ll want to check out the collection of literature currently on sale at Amazon and Target. Some of our favorite books from the past year and some personal selections are discounted by 20% or more, including The Lord of the Rings Illustrated Edition,The Mysteries, Dungeons & Dragons Art & Arcana, and many more.

UK games firm Frontier Developments has announced that it has cut its revenue target by as much as 25 per cent following the newly-released Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin failing to meet expectations.

There are already plenty of excellent board game deals to check out during Cyber Monday, but you won’t want to miss this spectacular deal at Target. For the remainder of Cyber Monday, you can get a third board game for free when you purchase a pair of other titles of equal or greater value. While this sale includes plenty of epic tabletop games like Twilight Imperium Fourth Edition and Mice & Mystics, it also features more casual titles like Ticket to Ride and Wingspan.

The Holiday season has officially kicked off, which, of course, means retailers are slapping enticing deals on products across a wide range of categories. If you’ve been waiting to nab a PS5 at a reduced price, a new deal being offered by Target will let you do just that.

US retailer Target has cut the PlayStation 5 price to $350 for Black Friday.

Are you looking to get a PlayStation 5 in the US? There’s a huge deal coming up right now that you simply cannot miss.

Dungeons & Dragons is preparing to hurl itself into another decade with a revised 5th edition ruleset, and they’re making room in retailer warehouses with a Black Friday sale. And while it may have started early, this one still has plenty of deals to deliver through the holiday.

Target is hosting one of the best promotions we’ve seen yet during Black Friday — and that’s saying something, given how good these early Black Friday deals are. Through Nov. 25, virtually all books, movies, and music in the retailer’s catalog are buy two, get one free. Just add three items to your cart, and the least expensive item is free. The only exceptions are pre-order items and new releases that came out this week.

US retailer Target has released a preview of its Black Friday 2023 sale.

India's space agency, ISRO, is making significant strides with its Aditya-L1 mission, aimed at advancing our understanding of the Sun. Equipped with seven cutting-edge instruments, the spacecraft is not only observing the Sun from a distance but also measuring high-energy particles emitted as it travels. This data is crucial for monitoring space weather and gaining insights into dynamic solar processes, still shrouded in mystery.

Black Friday may still be a few weeks off, but retailers like Amazon and Target are eager to let you get a head start on your holiday shopping for video games, board games, and books. Regardless of where you decide to shop, the only rule applies is that when you purchase three eligible items, one of the items of equal or lesser value will be free. This promotion includes dozens of products, but we’ve hand-picked a few highlights for you to check out.

Target is running a ‘3 for the price of 2’ promotion on a range of products including video games.

The Baldur’s Gate 3 Xbox release is still on schedule to take place before the end of 2023, Larian boss Swen Vincke has said in a quick update on game’s development progress.

The Baldur’s Gate 3 Xbox release is still on schedule to take place before the end of 2023, Larian boss Swen Vincke has said in a quick update on game’s development progress.

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The Drop is an Elusive Target mission in Hitman World of Assassination where Agent 47 needs to head to the club in Berlin to kill Alexios Laskaris, played by famous DJ Dimitri Vegas. The entire location has been reworked though, making Silent Assassin runs so much harder.

Cities: Skylines 2 released last night and a record number of players for the series played the game on Steam — albeit to a mixed response.

In a recent Reddit AMA, the team behind Cities: Skylines 2, fielded a host of questions from the gaming community. Amongst all of its responses was a comment by Colossal Order's Chief Technical Officer, saying that the game was made with a performance target of 30 fps. Why? Because the developers don't believe there would be a long-term benefit in pushing it up to 60.

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The CEO of Microsoft Satya Nadella's compensation no longer features a target that ties it to Xbox Game Pass.

It might seem a little strange on the surface that the video game world has a somewhat close relationship with mini fridges. So many people said the Series X looked like one that Xbox went ahead and made some mini fridges that look exactly like its newest console. There's another branch of the Microsoft gaming tree that has its own mini fridge too, Minecraft, and it's now available at Target.

Cities Skylines 2 PC performance does not meet the targets and benchmarks that publisher Paradox expected, but the game will be released on schedule anyway, with improvements set to follow in the “coming months” after launch. Cities Skylines 2 mods will also have a “basic framework” on release, that, again, will be iterated on throughout CS2’s post-launch lifetime.

Though new features like target dummies won't be there for Season 2's launch, players won't have to wait long.

Instagram is getting another new feature. The platform is testing a feature for Stories which are the vertical, full-screen photos and videos that disappear after 24 hours. With this new feature, users will be able to share posts with customizable smaller audience lists outside of Close Friends. This new feature is currently in testing mode, meaning it has not been rolled out anywhere, but the announcement means that deployment should not take too long.

The Hitman series soon turns 25 years old, but Agent 47’s unwrinkled face doesn’t carry the “what am I doing with my life?” stress that normally accompanies such a birthday. Developer IO Interactive is instead celebrating with both new and returning events coming to the stealth infiltration mega package that is Hitman: World Of Assassination.

Funko has released more than 13,000 Pop! figures so rather than trying to collect them all, which would be almost impossible, you need to pick a lane or two and stick it to. Whether that be focusing on Pops from a particular series like Pokemon or DC, or maybe sticking to a particular type like the special edition flocked figures. If you're thinking of starting a Funko Pop! selection from scratch, you may want to consider the new Retro Reimagined collection.