January 23 has now come and gone in China, and that means Blizzard games including World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, Diablo 3, and Overwatch have been shut down in the country, with no return currently in sight.
The shutdown isn’t a surprise: It was first announced in November 2022, when Blizzard and Chinese publisher NetEase were unable to reach a renewal agreement on their partnership, an…
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Read moreD.O.R.F. is shaping up to be the Command & Conquer spiritual successor I’ve been dreaming of. It’s impressive how well grainy, isometric sprites replicate the look and vibe of those golden age real-time strategy games.
Many spiritual successors get the aesthetics of a period right. Still, the latest D.O.R.F. trailer, released in the PC Gaming Show, reveals dev…
Read moreThe meteoric rise of Jimmy Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, is one-of-a-kind in Youtube’s history. Donaldson has a rare talent for grabbing attention, and has built his following and reputation on a series of stunts that range from the sublime to the ridiculous: He was most recently in the news for using his money to cure 1,000 peoples’ blindness, an act one could either interpret as …
Read moreLogan Paul is one of the biggest influencers in the world, and a one-man brand whose tentacles touch everything from wrestling to podcasts to sugar water. He and fellow influencer KSI have recently scored a major mainstream hit with their endorsement of an energy drink called Prime, but this success has overshadowed one of the dodgier elements of Paul’s recent past: a crypto-based videogame tha…
Read moreBaldur’s Gate 3’s dungeon master was almost as vindictive as the DM I had who cackled every time I failed a perception check and fell into a spike pit. This is according to the voice of Baldur’s Gate 3’s narrator and dungeon master, Amelia Tyler. “The direction I was given was Scar from the Lion King,” Tyler said in an interview with TheGamer. “Like, ‘I’m enjoying watching you fuck up. This is …
Read moreI’ve definitely always thought of League of Legends as a young person’s game: Between the fast twitch esports focus, meta Kpop tie-ins, and overtures to streaming and influencer culture, I was all too happy to act my age and hang up my Jayce: The Defender of Tomorrow hammer a full ten years ago.
But it turns out those who kept playing League also kept getting older, because time works the…
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Persona 4 is, for reasons almost entirely to do with the legendary Endurance Run, a profoundly important game to me. So important that when its whizzbang Golden version finally got its PC release back in 2020, I put a hundred hours into it in the blink of an eye.
But something felt a little off, and now I know what it was. Turns out, Persona 4 Golden had some distinct visual diff…
Read moreBill Gates, co-founder and former CEO of Microsoft and now one of the world’s leading philanthropists, has announced the upcoming publication of a memoir focusing on his early years. Naturally titled Source Code, Gates tells the story of his childhood up to “my decision to leave college and start Microsoft with Paul Allen.”
“I’ve been in the public eye since my early twenties…
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