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BlizzCon attendees and Virtual Ticket holders will be able to try out World of Warcraft: Classic thanks to a demo that is being created especially for the convention. In a new blog post on the WoW site, developers expand on what players can expect, what is “new” given the foundation of Classic on the modern code base, and more.
Spellbreak is a new “battle royale RPG featuring epic magic combat”, a nice departure from the run and gun of most other BR games. Players combine a variety of spells that can upend an opponent while making agile leaps in the air to avoid damage.
NVIDIA kicked off their newest Turing generation of cards with the RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti. Gamers have had to wait some time for the RTX 2070, and naturally, we have as well. How will this card fare? This is our review of Asus ROG Strix GeForce RTX 2070 OC Edition.
Even though we are all having a great time in Destiny 2: Forsaken and talk about it daily, none of us trust Bungie to keep moving forward without ripping the game out from under us and to make Destiny 3.
Epic Games has posted a new blog on the Fortnite site to let fans know that the free-to-play launch of the Save the World portion of the game will not be happening in 2018. The original plan for Save the World was to launch as a F2P title this year, but it seems it will be early next year at the earliest. The delay is in order to to provide more time for the team to “get this right” and to improve a number of systems and features.
It’s a common misconception that the best games are built by developers. Sure, great games need incredible talent, but the truly exceptional titles, the ones that stand the test of time, are born of their community. While Activision finishes squeezing the last vestiges of loyalty from those willing to suffer Destiny 2, a seemingly plucky British upstart continues to cultivate an unusual level of loyalty from its players. I am, of course, talking about Runescape.
Well, it IS October, you know, and what says that more than pumpkin spice and the arrival of in-game Halloween celebrations? The PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds team has sent out a new video to showcase the holiday-themed skins that players will be able to trot out to “haunt” the battlefield over the coming days.
World War 3 entered early access last Friday with the game’s server infrastructure falling first victim. While EA began on Friday, players reported an inability to connect to servers that day, though many were able to on Saturday after a flurry of patches stabilized servers somewhat, though still leaving many out of combat. The Farm 51 has only stated that there are “connectivity issues” but that it is working to squash bugs and get things stabilized for the majority of players.
Bethesda has been ramping up information about Fallout 76 over the past week or two as the B.E.T.A. is getting ready to kick off. In a pair of Twitter posts on the game’s account, fans are reminded about a pair of old “friends” that will also be present in FO76: The Enclave and The Brotherhood of Steel. Also introduced is a group of Appalachian doomsday “preppers”, they are called the Free States and the Responders, a group made up of fire, police & medical personnel.
Things are moving fast these days with the World of Warcraft team. It has been confirmed that Brian Holinka has returned to the WoW team as the new Lead Combat Designer. Eagle eyed users saw a post on Holinka’s LinkedIn page and he later confirmed via Twitter that he has indeed returned to WoW. You may recall that Holinka was the Lead PvP Developer from 2012 to 2017. For the past year, he has been at work “on an unannounced project”.