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Meeting someone in person that you’ve only ever talked to online is a surreal experience. When we talk to people on the internet, they tend to exist in this space where we ascribe them certain features and characteristics that aren’t really based on anything. We hear a voice, maybe see a few photos, and our brains fill in a billion blanks so that the voice we hear isn’t just some detached sound filtered through thousands of miles of cables. We compensate for what we don’t know about them.
Former Wonder Woman actress Lynda Carter has a unique spot in Fallout 4, not as a typical voice actress but as a musician. If you didn’t know it already, Carter has a Grammy award winning band. Not only will their music be spotlighted in-game, but Carter will also play the role of Magnolia, a singer in the town of Goodneighbor.
With the next big game update less than a week away, the Final Fantasy XIV team wants to give players a look at some of the amazing shinies that will drop for defeating Minstrel’s Ballad: Thordan’s Reign.
Blade & Soul fans will want to check out the class of the week now that the Kung Fu Master sits in the spotlight. The week kicks off with a video to show the KFM in action and will continue with an in-depth look at skills and tips.
Blizzard’s first week of preliminary matches for the world championships for World of Warcraft, Starcraft II, Hearthstone and Heroes of the Storm have been completed with teams now heading for Blizzcon this weekend. To get players ready, Blizzard has released the official tournament sites with times of the events and the teams that are participating.
Lord of the Rings Online was recently updated with a large new update called The Siege of Minas Tirith. Siege includes three new zones (Pelennor Fields, Talath Anor and the White City), a pair of new "epic battles" (Defense of Minas Tirith, Hammer of the Underworld), and seventy quests and deeds for players at level 100+.
Guild Wars 2 Game Director Colin Johanson has penned a new letter on the official site that lays out some of the details about forthcoming work on the game now that Heart of Thorns has launched.
PC & Mac Elder Scrolls Online players can now head into the ancestral home of the Orcs thanks to the release of the Orsinium DLC. XBox One players will be able to join in on November 17th and PlayStation 4 players on November 18th.
The majority of the CD Projekt Red team has moved on from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt to Cyberpunk 2077 according to a new interview at GamesRadar.com. A decent-sized team still works on Witcher, but the majority of the studio is now focused on full production of Cyberpunk 2077 that was announced in 2012.
The Warcraft movie Twitter has posted notice that the first official trailer for the film set for release in June 2016 will be shown globally on Friday, November 6th. To celebrate the announcement a new movie poster was also released.