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Reçu — 17 septembre 2024 ⏭

Bethesda took one look at Diablo 4’s microtransactions and said, "hold my beer"—introducing the $1,999 Fallout 76 bundle

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17 septembre 2024 à 07:19
Fallout 76 is currently showing a $1,999 cosmetics and atoms bundle on the Xbox store, but you can save $200 with your Xbox Game Pass subscription. It's obviously a misprice, but we wonder if anyone has actually purchased it.

Fallout 76

My all-time favorite Xbox controller is on sale with a massive discount before Black Friday even has a chance to start

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17 septembre 2024 à 07:03
Amazon offers a massive 33% discount for the Razer Wolverine V2 Chroma, my favorite wired gaming controller compatible with consoles and PC.

Razer Wolverine V2 Chroma with RGB effects enabled

Reçu — 16 septembre 2024 ⏭

Overwatch 2 comes to Xbox Game Pass — but you can't play it on the cloud for one annoying reason

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16 septembre 2024 à 17:14
Overwatch 2 will be added to Xbox Game Pass on September 17, 2024. This means exclusive skins for subscribers, but unfortunately, there will be no Xbox Cloud Gaming for one easily missed reason.

Overwatch 2

Is Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 on Xbox Game Pass?

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Par : [email protected] (Brendan Lowry)
16 septembre 2024 à 15:50
Following its recent launch, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 has proven to be one of 2024's biggest games. But can you play it on Xbox Game Pass? We have the answers.

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 preview inferno swarm

Blizzard is on the edge of making World of Warcraft truly amazing for endgame solo players for the first time in 20 years — but balance has been an ongoing nightmare

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Par : [email protected] (Jez Corden)
16 septembre 2024 à 14:50
Blizzard's "Delves" in World of Warcraft have been incredibly fun and rewarding, or horribly painful and depressing, depending on which class you ask. WoW has been designed all up for group play for the past two decades, which is clearly making its new solo dungeon "Delves" a nightmare to balance.

World of Warcraft: The War Within

Diablo 4 has made $1 billion and counting for Blizzard, and a huge chunk of that comes from devilish microtransactions

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Par : [email protected] (Brendan Lowry)
16 septembre 2024 à 12:46
Thanks to new details from a Blizzard developer's LinkedIn profile, we've gotten a glimpse of how much Diablo 4 has made in revenue — and how much of it comes from microtransactions.

Diablo 4 Season 4 journey

Starfield gets a video deep dive for its upcoming 'Shattered Space' DLC expansion, "... it has backfired horribly for House Va'ruun."

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Par : [email protected] (Jez Corden)
16 septembre 2024 à 12:06
House Va'ruun takes center stage in Starfield: Shattered Space. Bethesda shared a deep look at its first DLC expansion, and how horror themes and melee combat will play a bigger role than in previous stories.

Starfield Shattered Space DLC

"When you use the model, you save enormous amounts of energy" — NVIDIA CEO says they can't do graphics anymore without AI

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Par : [email protected] (Richard Devine)
16 septembre 2024 à 06:44
NVIDIA's CEO has been talking all things AI, and there are some quotes which are particularly pertinent to PC gaming, and, surprisingly for AI, where it's more energy efficient.

Zotac GeForce RTX 4090 AMP Extreme AIRO

I've found 2 crazy storage deals for your Xbox — just in time to make room for Starfield Shattered Space

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15 septembre 2024 à 13:41
If you need more room for games on Xbox, especially with Starfield: Shattered Space imminent, I have two great deals for you.

WD Black and Seagate SSDs on Starfield Shattered Space background image

This Govee collaboration is a must-have for Evangelion fans — and for a limited time you can get $20 off

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14 septembre 2024 à 15:02
Govee has partnered with the iconic anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion to launch a special edition line of gaming lights. For a short period, Amazon has them on sale.

Govee Evangelion Gaming Light Bars

Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions improves the wizarding sport's weird rules but still feels badly imbalanced

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Par : [email protected] (Rebecca Spear)
14 septembre 2024 à 10:02
Unbroken Studios reduced how many points Seekers earn by catching the Snitch, but other aspects of Quidditch gameplay need serious fine-tuning. Our review.

Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions — Team Weasley.

Overwatch 2 crosses over with World of Warcraft, bringing new skins for characters like Reinhardt — here's when it begins

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Par : [email protected] (Samuel Tolbert)
13 septembre 2024 à 17:09
A new Overwatch 2 crossover with World of Warcraft is bringing skins for characters like Reinhardt and Widowmaker, and it's kicking off on September 17.

Overwatch 2 World of Warcraft collaboration

Reçu — 9 septembre 2024 ⏭

The new and mysterious Xbox and Activision studio 'Elsewhere Entertainment' has expanded hiring across into Sweden "to craft a franchise with an enduring legacy"

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Par : [email protected] (Jez Corden)
9 septembre 2024 à 14:52
A short while ago, Activision and Microsoft unexpectedly announced a new studio "Elsewhere Entertainment," based in Poland. Now, the studio has begun hiring across into Sweden as well, which is one of the world's leading regions for video game development.

Elsewhere Entertainment

Final Fantasy 16's Clive Rosfield will show off some of the biggest mobile games coming in 2024 and beyond later this month

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Par : [email protected] (Brendan Lowry)
9 septembre 2024 à 14:16
Later in September, Ben Starr — the voice actor behind FFXVI's Clive Rosfield — will host a brand new gaming show. Here's what you need to know.

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'World of Warcraft: The War Within' has some of the best art and story delivery we've ever seen from the MMORPG genre, but rushed key features holds it back

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Par : [email protected] (Jez Corden)
9 septembre 2024 à 13:13
World of Warcraft turns 20 years old this year, and despite that, the aging MMORPG is finding its footing again after years of controversial writing and gameplay systems. The War Within continues Dragonflight's positive upward trajectory, with some of the best story telling the genre has ever seen. But big questions remain over some of its systems, and the cadence of updates over time will be what truly determines The War Within's legacy.

World of Warcraft

Mojang's future plans for Minecraft include more frequent updates, the death of the Mob Vote, a PS5 version, and more

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Par : [email protected] (Zachary Boddy)
9 septembre 2024 à 12:35
Minecraft is one of the largest and most successful video games of all time, and Mojang Studios has detailed its future plans to keep it that way.

Minecraft's new key art.

Destiny 2 dev Bungie reveals "Apollo" and "Behemoth" Frontiers expansions on series' 10th Anniversary, and a new DLC roadmap too: "We believe it’s time for Destiny to change and evolve"

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Par : [email protected] (Brendan Lowry)
9 septembre 2024 à 11:42
10 years after the release date of the original Destiny, Destiny 2 developer Bungie has revealed a closer look at what's coming in 2025 and beyond.

Destiny 2

Fallout is officially an Emmy Award-winning TV show, but there could still be more to come

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Par : [email protected] (Richard Devine)
9 septembre 2024 à 04:39
Fallout is now officially an Emmy Award-winning show, claiming two prizes in the 2024 Creative Arts ceremony. But there are more up for grabs on September 15, including some huge categories.

Fallout TV Show Ghoul

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