World of Warcraft: Forever’s beta was hit by a name ban controversy that led a developer to speak out, but they received threats of doxxing and violence aimed at them and their loved ones, eventually deciding to delete their account on Twitter. The World of Warcraft: Forever beta launched just…

My first campaign in Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists, the new game from King of Dragon Pass creator David Dunham, went surprisingly smoothly. The queen of the Eternal City hired me to recover two princes, slain by their uncle, from the nether realm. Despite being challenged by mercenaries, giant spiders…

A 27-year-old Grand Theft Auto game has received a dramatic graphical overhaul, with a new fan-made project adding full path tracing and modern lighting to GTA 2. The 1999 release predates the series’ transition into 3D open worlds, retaining the top-down perspective that defined Rockstar’s earliest Grand Theft Auto games.…

Blizzard’s latest Diablo 5 update has shed new light on the future of Diablo 4, once and for all. There has been some concern about how Blizzard will handle its previous game when Diablo 5 releases, and Blizzard has finally revealed its plans for 2029 and beyond. Diablo 5 was…

HBO’s prestige adaptation of Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us is wading into its third, and potentially final, season. Splitting the second game between seasons, how the show juggles the expanding and, uh, contrasting set of core characters will require more finesse than cross-media productions usually receive. In one promising…

The Nintendo Switch 2 is well into its second year on shelves, but it still doesn’t have a new 3D Super Mario game to call its own. While some players have started to grow impatient, the lack of a new tentpole Mario adventure may actually be a good thing for…