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Overwatch 2 is in a rough spot as Blizzard prepares for one of its biggest content drops yet next month. After a collection of bad news since its October 2022 launch, including the gutting of PvE content and charging $15 for story missions, Overwatch 2’s engagement and money investment has declined—despite the promise of more content on the horizon. The …

Season 1 of Diablo 4 is here, and if you’re choosing to create a new character in the Seasonal Realm, you will have access to a flurry of fresh content. In addition to a new questline, unique items, and legendary Aspects, you can find Malignant Hearts, which are essentially a new form of Aspects. Malignant Hearts can only be inserted …

Diablo 4 players who have chosen to go down the Sorcerer path have been having a rough go of it for a while now. Sorcerers are meant to be glass cannons, with low survivability but incredibly high damage output. That’s always been the risk-reward involved in playing a Sorcerer/magic user in Diablo, but Diablo 4 has made their survivability much …

New firmware updates are now available for PS5 and PS4 consoles, and according to the patch notes, these new patches add more–surprise!–system stability to both consoles. “This system software update improves system performance,” the very brief 10.70 (PS4) and 23.01-07.60.00 (PS5) update notes read. Sony’s last major update for the PS5 was back in March, when Discord integration, VRR support …

As a work of epic fantasy, I expected Final Fantasy XVI to dazzle me visually—especially on my expensive PlayStation 5. But while select scenes do delight visually, they are sadly infrequent. For whatever reason, about halfway through Square Enix’s latest mega-budget RPG the game decides that it’s mostly going to drown you in drab, overcast skies, the amount of which …

Elden Ring may be well over a year old at this point, but that doesn’t mean we’ve forgotten about one of our favourite characters from the game. But what if you don’t have to go into the game to hang out with them? Well, collectible maker Youtooz has partnered with Bandai Namco to create a range of plushies based on …

Gundam Evolution shuts down this November just a year after launch. Bandai Namco said the free-to-play 6v6 shooter will end on November 29, 2023, making it unplayable. Gundam Evolution launched on PC in September 2022, then on console in November last year. In a note to players, executive producer Kazuya Maruyama said the announcement was made “with great sadness”, and …

Boneloaf – the developer behind multiplayer brawler Gang Beasts – is looking to move onto its next game in the near future. According to marketing and communications manager Connor Clarke at Develop 2023, the studio is considering a return to its original project: Grim Beasts. “Funnily enough, Gang Beasts was always the second game in a trilogy,” states Clarke, sitting …

Blizzard will address the backlash to Diablo 4’s latest patch in a livestream set for this Friday, July 21. Game director Joe Shely, associate game director Joseph Piepiora, and associate director of community Adam Fletcher host the Campfire Chat livestream on July 21 at 11am PDT. Diablo 4’s long-awaited pre-Season 1 patch, 1.1.0, sparked vociferous complaints from the game’s community, …

We’ve seen Kirby take on many shapes and sizes over the past decade or so, especially with the release of Kirby and the Forgotten Land. The latest mainline game saw Kirby inhaling – and becoming – cars, traffic cones, and much more. So, it shouldn’t come as much surprise that there’s a Kirby Otamatone in existence, too. Now, this particular …