The first major update for The First Descendant is here, and it adds two new playable characters, including one that looks to have definitely taken some inspiration from Blizzard’s popular hero shooter, Overwatch. Her name is Luna, a music-blasting DJ Descendant who blasts sound waves at foes and can support …

World of Warcraft: The War Within’s big pre-patch event is live now, and it’s intended as a way to quickly gear up characters or even level up new ones ahead of the MMO’s new expansion on August 26. However, as players quickly realized, the new Radiant Echoes event isn’t good …

Indie developer The Behemoth outlined its plans for the future in a recent livestream, and it includes major updates to games like Castle Crashers and BattleBlock Theater, as well as work on a new game that will soon be in the prototype phase. Castle Crashers, the side-scrolling beat-em’-up originally released …

Activision is shining some light on how it approaches skill-based matchmaking in Call of Duty multiplayer, and in a detailed blog post, the developers of the popular FPS series reveal that the sometimes-controversial practice is still used for a fairly simple reason–fewer players quit under a skill-based system than they …

Zombie survival game 7 Days to Die is officially out of early access after 12 years of development with its 1.0 update, a milestone that comes with a new price tag and new, current-generation console versions that will require owners of the game’s old, last-generation console version to re-buy the …

World of Warcraft’s next expansion, The War Within, is right around the corner, and it’s looking to build on the success of Blizzard’s back-to-basics approach for 2022’s Dragonflight. That means a focus on evergreen features that will persist for years to come in The War Within, the first chapter in …

Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred is coming in October, and players now have reason to believe there will be major changes to the game’s max level, Paragon system, and even the amount of damage players deal come the release of the game’s first expansion. Blizzard recently gave players an in-depth …

Diablo 4 launched with only returning classes from past entries to choose from, all instantly familiar to fans of fantasy RPGs: Barbarian, Rogue, Sorcerer, Necromancer, and Druid. One class that was notably missing was a Paladin-type–some kind of holy warrior to dole out divine punishment to demons and evildoers in …

Recent changes to World of Warcraft’s Classic Era servers are being reverted “immediately,” Blizzard has announced, after the developer apologized for failing to discuss “shortsighted” quality-of-life updates to the old-school version of Blizzard’s long-running MMORPG. The update, released last week, was originally designed for WoW Classic’s more experimental Season of …

Amazon Games is bringing free-to-play Korean MMORPG Throne and Liberty to the West in September, and we now know all the ways the publisher is changing the game’s business model to better fit the expectations of western players. In a recent blog post on the Throne and Liberty website, Amazon …