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I had a lot of one-hour appointments at Gamescom, but none of them had time escaping from me quite like my 60 minutes with Petit Planet. It's Hoyoverse's attempt to tap into the Animal Crossing demographic, and by that I mean the developer has essentially taken Nintendo's cosy life sim and shot...

The Blood of Dawnwalker's out now—which means that players are getting introduced to its slightly more experimental take on RPG time. For the uninitiated, protagonist Coen has about 30 days and nights to save his family, the ticking clock of which is tracked in the UI. Completing quests...

World of Warcraft patch 12.1.5 is already on the horizon, and will be launching on the PTR soon. Minor x.5 and x.7 patches used to be relatively lightweight, but recently they’ve had a surprising amount of content: patch 12.1.5 will add a new story chapter, a single-boss raid, Labryinth...

The Midnight Season 2 Race to World First is over, and Team Liquid claimed victory for the fifth raid tier in a row. Mythic Ula’tek has been defeated by Liquid, with Echo coming in a very close second in a dramatic final day of the race. When Liquid started their day, Echo already had a...

Witcher-flavoured vampire RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker has received its first post-launch patch, with developers Rebel Wolves dipping their fangs into a modest neckful of problems with blocked quest progression and general controller behaviour on PC. They've also taught a blacksmith a new recipe...

A flurry of reports point to Marvel secretly mounting a new live-action Disney+ series, potentially featuring characters from the Young Avengers or New Mutants. Last month, Murphy's Multiverse spotted that a fresh Marvel production company, Veil Productions, had been set up for a TV project...

Once in a while, something comes along that recalibrates your expectations and also sort of ruins your enjoyment of what was once impressive. The Xgimi Titan Noir Max does just that. It makes mainstream projectors look positively pedestrian. That's not to say it's perfect. There are a few...

Last week, France and Saudi Arabia made the surprise announcement that the Paris region of France will be getting a Dragon Ball theme park. This sparked varied reactions across the internet, with many comments in Japanese expressing concern regarding licensing rights and the lack of Japanese...

The mayor of Miami-Dade, Florida has been pitching Rockstar Games about transforming parts of the county into recreations of areas from Grand Theft Auto 6, in the face of complaints from law enforcement and members of the judiciary. GTA 6 is itself inspired by Miami, so yes, this is one of those...

Nvidia has just announced that it intends to acquire Hugging Face, the biggest open platform dedicated to developing machine-learning applications. Considering Nvidia has been all-in on AI for the past few years—to the point that I barely remember the last time the company even mentioned gaming...

I’m trying to improve my perspective on the latest WoW patch, and looking for the positive side of cursed snake island. There has to be something good about this place, something to appreciate. I found this pleasant waterfall, which might be a nice place to sit with a picnic blanket. I don’t see...

Every week the Epic Games Store gives away a game or two for free. This week, they’re giving us a heartwrenching indie scifi game for free. Alone With You Release Date: February 14, 2017 Game Type: Adventure, Visual Novel POV: 3rd person, sidescroller, visual novel Party: Single Player DLC...

The Trading Post outlet vendors make another return to World of Warcraft this September, setting up at a new location in Silvermoon City and at their old location at the Forgegrounds in Dornogal, and will sell a bunch of items from previous Trading Post inventories, including armor, weapons...

The second week of the Race to World First is complete, and our top three guilds have fought their way to the last boss. All that’s left between them and the glory of victory is an ancient snake goddess. The road to her was not as long as it could’ve been. As the guilds came... Image source...

Only one force on Azeroth can stop Malygos and his Dark Flight in Hearthstone’s The Power of Magic Tavern Brawl: the Magical Guardians! Do they have a short wise-cracking pilot and engineer? No, but they do have Sparkle Guardian Nemsy. Do they have a giant tree that says one line over and over...

Trust me, we’ll come back to this. Image source: Blizzard Watch Related coverage Lore Watch Podcast: Xal’atath’s true goals, and more light reading What are your first impressions of Midnight’s Curse of Ula’tek update? How to watch BlizzCon 2026, with full convention schedule Game: World...

This week’s Lore Watch kicks off with a question based on a datamined spoiler which will be revealed as we come to toward the end of patch 12.1, as we finally uncover the goal Xal’atath has been working toward since before she was besties with a nameless Shadow Priest (Mitch). As usual, her...

Last week at gamescom, we got a bit of a surprise in the form of a full-length trailer for Exodus. To those unfamiliar, Exodus is an upcoming sci-fi action shooter that may look a lot like Mass Effect with the serial numbers filed off, and for good reason! But more on that in a sec.... Image...

It isn’t often that my now-teenage daughter gives me something but when she does it’s usually a cold. Her immune system tends to be ironclad, and mine is also similarly strong, so when the littler one brings something home, eh, it’s a headcold or whatever. But when my daughter brings something...

Player Housing enthusiasts were particularly excited for WoW patch 12.1, which would add the ability to move your home’s entrance, allowing you to build basements or simply change your layout without starting over. However when the patch launched, the feature was disabled due to a fairly serious...