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World of Warcraft’s divisive change to combat addons is here to stay
Almost six months after World of Warcraft’s Midnight expansion sharply restricted the combat information available to third-party add-ons, game director Ion Hazzikostas has publicly defended the change and confirmed it is here to stay. The move disabled many of the game’s most popular community tools, and remains divisive among players, but Blizzard considers it a…
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Dune 3’s new trailer teases big changes from the books
A new trailer has been released for “Dune: Part Three”, the finale of Denis Villeneuve’s film trilogy, and it again suggests the film will diverge notably from Frank Herbert’s source novels. This matters because the adaptation is being closely watched by both mainstream filmgoers and devoted book fans, and the changes hint at how Villeneuve…
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Stripped-Back Shooter Empulse Could Be The Titanfall Successor We’ve Been Waiting For
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Obsidian Entertainment Confirms New Fallout Game Led by Josh Sawyer Amid Studio Restructuring
Obsidian Entertainment has officially announced development of a new Fallout game, marking the studio’s first return to the franchise in over a decade following Fallout: New Vegas. Josh Sawyer, a lead developer at Obsidi
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Bethesda union says company HR forced staff to remove a display honoring their laid-off colleagues
The union representing workers at Bethesda, the studio behind Fallout and The Elder Scrolls, has alleged that the company’s human resources department ordered staff to take down a display honouring colleagues who had been laid off. The claim matters because it points to tensions between the unionised workforce and management over how recent job losses…
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New Fallout Game Officially Coming After 10+ Year Wait
According to a new report, Obsidian Entertainment — the studio behind the acclaimed 2010 role-playing game Fallout: New Vegas — is set to return to the Fallout franchise with a brand-new title, nearly 16 years on. Xbox has reportedly moved the studio onto the project under the direction of New Vegas director Josh Sawyer, reuniting…
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Mortal Kombat 2 director says one of the sequel’s most shocking deaths was “actually quite moving” to film: “We were all kind of like, ‘Oh, s***. What have we done?’”
The director of the upcoming film Mortal Kombat 2 has spoken about the emotional experience of shooting one of the sequel’s most shocking on-screen deaths, describing the scene as “actually quite moving” to film despite the franchise’s reputation for gory, over-the-top violence. The comments offer a glimpse into the tone of the follow-up to the…
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Microsoft, Please Don’t Ruin Minecraft
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Beloved ‘Final Fantasy’ RPG Is Permanently Shutting Down in 3 Months
A beloved RPG spin-off tied to one of gaming’s biggest franchises will disappear forever this October, taking years of content with it.
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Your Loyalty To Sony Or Xbox Means Nothing, Analyst Says