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BlizzConline is ongoing and Diablo 4 is a primary focus of this year’s event. Yesterday during the BlizzCon keynote the new Rogue class was revealed, but that wasn’t the full extent of Blizzard’s planned reveals. Now Blizzard has also released an extended look at many of Diablo 4’s open-world features in a new video. The video breaks down a variety of open-world functionality, including PvP zones and events, as well as mount use in the open world and mount collection....

When Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy announced the future of the Star Wars live-action TV universe on Disney+, she named several new series spinning out of The Mandalorian. A series called Ahsoka would pick up where the Jedi’s cameo in season 2 of Mando left off, as she continued her search for Grand Admiral Thrawn. The Book of Boba Fett would follow the further adventures of the franchise’s foremost bounty hunter and the assassin Fennec Shand (Ming-Na Wen)....

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is Ubisoft’s latest installment in the long-running Assassin’s Creed series, and many fans are calling it one of the series’ best entries to date. Plenty of earlier reviews for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla praised the game very highly, complimenting the new direction the series is continuing following Odyssey. Valhalla has been pulling in acclaim from gamers all over the world, but one bit of praise recently came from a source that some might not expect....

The hybrid first-person shooter and real-time strategy game Disintegration, brain child of Halo co-creator Marcus Lehto under new studio V1 Interactive, officially launched on June 16. Disintegration was met with middling reviews and sits at a 62 on Metacritic as of this writing, but there are plans in place to address community feedback for issues like match queue times. To try and bolster that community presence, V1 Interactive is offering a free trial of the game this upcoming weekend across all platforms....

Biomutant was one of May’s most hotly anticipated games. Previews and gameplay footage all looked promising, screenshots of the world looked incredible, and after almost four years of development, expectations were high. Not Cyberpunk 2077-levels of high, but y’know, reasonably high. Then Biomutant released to mostly tepid reviews, and I couldn’t for the life of me figure out why. There was some fair criticism–for example, our own review noted that Biomutant’s melee combat failed to live up to the trailers....

Doom 2016 was generally lauded as one of the best FPS titles to release this decade. It reminded players and critics alike why first-person shooters were fun in the first place: adrenaline-fueled gameplay that holds no punches. Unfortunately, that praise did not extend to the game’s multiplayer component. That is why id Software has replaced 2016’s Call of Duty and Doom hybrid with Battlemode. Battlemode pits a duo of demons against a player Slayer, encouraging both to outsmart each other with clever tactics....

BioWare is relying on the success of Dragon Age 4 to overcome some recent disappointments the studio has suffered, despite being one of the most acclaimed developers in the RPG genre. Between Mass Effect: Andromeda and Anthem, BioWare has lost some of their reputation for reliability over the last few years, making Dragon Age one of their most important IPs to maintain after the relative success of Inquisition. Inquisition had flaws, however, that Dragon Age 4 needs to learn from....

The people behind Dragon Ball FighterZ might be giving another anime the hardcore fighting game treatment. A recent tweet by a third party site polled fans about what anime they would like to see get the same handling, and FighterZ developer Arc System Works responded to say that it was watching. What exactly this means is a mystery. But at the very least, we know that FighterZ might not be the only game of its kind....

Rangers remain one of the most versatile classes in Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition (D&D 5e). For prospective Rangers, the right build can help them find any target’s weakness and eliminate them in just a few turns. All of these perks come from various abilities and spells that Rangers learn throughout the campaign. Rangers gain access to their Spellcasting abilities as early as level two. Moreover, they also learn more class features as they level up....

[HTML1] E3 2015 is in full swing, giving gamers a great look at many new and upcoming titles. While a few games were spoiled or revealed earlier this year, the press conferences still had a lot of great surprises and announcements for fans of games. Ubisoft had a busy E3 press conference yesterday, not only showing off content from upcoming titles like Rainbow Six Siege and The Division, but also managing to surprise attendees with new announcements for games like For Honor and Ghost Recon Wildlands....

June has been a busy month for game releases. A lot has been stirring up the gaming industry, from E3 2020’s cancellation to the chaos surrounding the Summer Games Fest. Naturally, people want to know which titles have come out ahead in the race to entice players, and one sure fire way to tell is to see which publishers’ games made it to the top of Steam’s Top Releases last month....

With the release of Elite Dangerous: Odyssey drawing closer, we were given the opportunity to ask art director Jonathan Bottone and principal designer Gareth Hughes about the new features, combat mechanics and planets - as well as discovering a little more about the series’ history and influences. Elite Dangerous’ Origins Elite Dangerous, in its current form, has been around since 2014, but the Elite series actually traces its roots all the way back to 1984....

Wednesday morning Epic Games announced Unreal Engine 5 with a new demo showcasing the engine’s largest feature additions. Behind the reveal of Unreal Engine 5, however, Epic made a potentially major secondary announcement. Epic Online Services, the core online services behind Fortnite, is being launched as a free product available to all game developers. To understand precisely what Epic Online Services will provide, it’s best to consider the strength of Fortnite’s current online services....

There was a lot of information revealed about the upcoming Shadowlands expansion for World of Warcraft by Executive Producer John Hight and Game Director Ion Hazzikostas this afternoon in the livestream of the developer update. For starters, it appears that the launch of Shadowlands is much closer than most expected, now confirmed to release this fall. Until now, the commitment had been to release in 2020, so a release in late December was often considered the most logical time frame considering the complications of the ongoing global pandemic....

When Evolve was released by 2K Games and Turtle Rock Studios earlier this year, there was a lot of hype and interest surrounding its gameplay. Unlike most competitive multiplayer games, which put an equal amount of players on each side, Evolve goes against the status quo, pitting a team of four human players against one player who controls a hulking, supernatural beast. The player controlling the monster doesn’t necessarily have a huge advantage either, as the monster will have to eat in order to ’evolve’ to gain new abilities and become even more lethal....

2018’s Assassin’s Creed Odyssey has been lacking DLC content for some time now. However, this has changed recently, with the addition of an Ezio costume to Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. According to Destructoid, version 1.5.3 of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey has brought with it a number of small improvements and a piece of DLC that every Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. In specific, a costume of the protagonist of Assassin’s Creed II, Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, and Assassin’s Creed Revelations, Ezio Auditore da Firenze, is now available to sport in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey....

If you believe that Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus VR for $2 billion wasn’t a good idea for the future of virtual reality gaming, you’re not alone. Celebrity developer Markus ‘Notch’ Persson of Minecraft had announced soon after the deal was made that he was no longer going to work with Oculus VR because of Facebook’s involvement. While many other fans of the VR tech are furious about the sale, with many of them wanting a refund on their Kickstarter donations, the deal will make more sense in a year or so....

Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout developer Mediatonic will be opening a new UK studio in Leamington Spa, which will be headed by the company’s vice president of art, Phil Warner. The studio is reportedly planning on recruiting staff across a “wide range of disciplines.” Mediatonic, which has studios in London, Brighton, Guildford, and Madrid, says the newest site will be an “important complement” to their brand that will support Fall Guys’ ongoing development....

The world of Fallout: New Vegas can be very unforgiving if one is not prepared. In a region teeming with super mutants, radioactive zombies, and giant roaches, players need to be prepared for just about anything outside of the vault. That same unforgiving nature persists even more in the Hardcore Mode. Fallout: New Vegas’s Hardcore Mode adds many new features and challenges that players will face. In Hardcore Mode, players will have to make sure they don’t dehydrate, starve, or even suffer from the effects of sleep deprivation, along with everything else they have to maintain....

For the gaming fans among us who have been holed up inside of their underground vaults for the past few weeks, Bethesda officially showed off Fallout 4 during its first-ever E3 2015 press conference. While many fans of the post-apocalyptic RPG series would simply be content with any news regarding the upcoming sequel, the Maryland-based developer decided to include mobile gamers in the bleak, nuclear fun as well, by announcing the free-to-play Fallout Shelter for iOS devices....