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We Are Not Prepared (For Illidan's Return)
"You are not prepared." - It's time. Illidan has spent ten years with the Titans as Sargeras' jailer. When we take on the Titans for their crimes against Azeroth, will he be with us, or against us?
Michael Bell
Creative Director, host of the Bellular channels.
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Microsoft Has Set Impossible Targets For Xbox
Every other week (it's felt like), Xbox leadership has changed course in a major fashion for the past few years. It really didn't make sense, insane layoffs, cancellations, plans never panning out or being reversed before their impacts could play out. Now, depressingly... it all makes sense.
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Total War(hammer) Has A Foundational Problem
Total War: Warhammer III should be the pinnacle of Creative Assembly's 25-year-old series. Instead, it's about as shambling as the undead Tomb Kings that brought the near-decade-old strategy game to its review-bombed knees... this time! Can CA recover before their big anniversary showcase?
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The Industry Fights Back Against The EU's MTX Crackdown
Before the summer, it was the Swedish horse-themed MMO that had placed egregious microtransaction practices firmly within the EU's crosshairs. As the consequences are set to ripple across the industry, industry leaders are speaking out!
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Activision Keeps Caving To Call Of Duty's Loudest Players
They said players didn't want it, that things would never go back to how they were... Despite that, Activision (scared by BF6?) have not only rolled back "Fortnite-/enshitification" of their cosmetics, but they've gone ahead and removed Skill-Based Matchmaking AND disbanding lobbies too?!
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The Boy(s) Who Built This Rocket Are Not Happy
Coming from one of the original "visionaries" behind Grand Theft Auto, MindsEye, along with its UGC toolset, 'Everywhere' was supposed to be Leslie Benzies' second coming. Instead? Its own devs considered it "one of the worst video game launches this decade," and now they're fighting back!
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All The Midnight Lore From Alpha (Major Spoilers!)
Big spoilers ahead! After a few weeks of alpha, we've collected everything - this is every bit of lore in Midnight.
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Discord Got Hacked, But It's Not (The OSA) As You'd Expect
70000 people just saw their real ID data breached by way of Discord, a company that claims to NOT hold onto that data to begin with! This is all happening before we even consider the global laws apparently begging for this to be a greater risk in future...
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Construction Stalls On The Fantastic Pixel Castle
The luck of ex-Blizzard staff (launching their own studios) continues to run out as, following our coverage of Dreamhaven & Frost Giant, we now find Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street's MMO in dire straits! Are the incumbents (in this case, Blizzard) going to continue winning by default? Looks that way...
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Elves Keep Wrecking The Place
The most dangerous thing to Azeroth isn't Xal'atath - it's elves. Everything bad in WoW leads back to them. Their whole history is creating fonts of power, beckoning demons, exploiting Azeroth and generally causing chaos.
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Battlefield 6? It's Actually A "Good" Game
Under the shadow of one of the largest leveraged buyouts in history, EA needed Battlefield 6 to NOT repeat the mistakes of prior series entries. It seems on that front, they're safe, but that doesn't mean this "good game" made it to launch without a hitch!
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Unity's Entire Post-'17 Library Of Games Are At Risk!
DOOM, Among Us, Hearthstone, and Elder Scrolls. All IP, and all with entries that were built on a fundamentally vulnerable engine... for the past eight years! There's a patch now, but what about the countless games that simply don't have anyone to fix them anymore? It's a problem.