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World of Warcraft – Lore Spoilers, Golden-Eyed Blood Elves & Raid Armor Preview Datamined

The WoWhead team has been busy datamining the latest alpha build for World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth. There is a ton of new information, much of it in the form of story spoilers. We won’t publish any of the specifics here, but anyone who is interested can learn more about how the Mag’har Orcs join the Horde, read up on the story of Teldrassil and a few interesting nuggets about a former Horde Warchief…

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ArcheAge – Taking Flight Dragon-Style, A Quick How-To Guide

The ArcheAge site has been updated with a quick look at the dragons that will be coming in the 4.5 update, Legends Return. Players will be able to fly and fight on or beside dragons of immense power once raised to an age where they become combat-ready. Players will be able to take to the skies for up to 5 minutes of true flight and can even fight from the backs of their dragons. These dragons are no pushovers either. Each comes with a number of skills that can change the face of battle.

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– The Reality of Future Games

This week at GDC we saw some of the technology that will be driving our virtual worlds in the future. The techniques on cutting edge graphics and high end hardware are so distinct, we’ll be stepping into the most realistic settings we have ever faced. EPIC Games and Nvidia both gave presentation that turned some heads in where gaming will be no more than a decade from now.

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Dauntless – Improvements Coming to the UI to Provide More Immersive Play

The Dauntless site has been updated with a new developer diary to shine the light on forthcoming changes to the UI. Most notably, developers want to create a sense of immersion where the UI plays a part rather than being seen as a separate entity. In addition, the art and design teams are working hard to keep a minimalist, yet robust UI available for both PC players and console players.

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– Intel Core i7-8700K: Our Official Review

Cores and clock speeds, base, boosts, and threads: the march of progress in the processing world continues ever on. With each passing generation, we see these advancements tick by but with Coffee Lake, Intel is defending their claim on the marketplace superiority against a reinvigorated AMD. We wanted to see for ourselves just what Intel’s latest i7-8700K has to offer. Coming from an i7-7700K, is it worth the upgrade?

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– Maelstrom is Like Battle Royale on the High Seas with PIRATES!

Yes, sure. This week has been packed with news of another pirate game, but we’d be remiss if we didn’t bring Maelstrom to your attention, particularly with today’s announcement that the pirate-themed ship-to-ship combat battle royale game on the high seas is heading to Early Access on April 11th. If you’ve been looking for just the right mix of PvP / cooperative / pirate adventure, Maelstrom just might be the one for you, matey.

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The Division – What We Want from The Division 2

The original game’s entire live service has basically been a test case for what works and what doesn’t when putting together this sort of game, so Ubisoft is in a really strong position to knock the sequel out of the park from jump. We don’t know what Ubisoft has planned just yet, but we have a couple of ideas for what we’d like to see in the sequel.