Ion Hazzikostas, game director of World Of Warcraft, outlined the changes in a detailed blog post. It sounds like it’s not a simple change, however. “There have been two decades’ worth of code and content crafted with the assumption that parties can only have players of a single faction, and while we want to make this feature available as soon as possible, the extent of the change means that it couldn’t be ready in time for the upcoming Eternity’s End content update....

Here’s the Chaos skin coming to the Tier VIII Amagi for Arthas Roqthar the Cold : And here’s Justinian Lyons XIII with its Imperium counterpart: Pre-sales on small bits like flags and patches will start on May 27th, then all of the cosmetic stuff will launch in full in June. The console version, World Of Warships: Legends is also getting a Warhammering. “We are very excited to collaborate with such an iconic brand that gathers an incredibly passionate audience, some of them coming from our own ranks,” executive producer Philip Molodkovets said in today’s announcement....

Yesterday’s reel of trailers and developer interviews was just the first in a series of monthly video events that Xbox have planned for the rest of the year which they’re calling “Xbox 20/20.” Xbox originally announced the event saying that the May edition would focus on “a first look at next-gen gameplay, trailers and sneak peeks.” They specifically touted Valhalla as a big-name participant in the showcase. Since we were already up to our ears in trailers and sneak peeks of Valhalla, I suppose folks were hoping to see more of viking protagonist Eivor sneaking and slashing in a less trailer-y context....

Get the XPG SX8200 Pro 2TB for £117 w/ code TND-10 (vs £152 at CCL) Unlike most other budget SSDs, the SX8200 Pro distinguishes itself with the use of more expensive TLC flash memory and the inclusion of a DRAM cache, two elements that are often sacrificed to hit lower prices per gigabyte. That means sustained performance is significantly better, making the drive more appropriate for content creation or other intensive workloads....

You may well be intimately familiar with Nox - there’s a community that still keeps it working on modern machines, and creates mods for it. (The same exists for Daikatana, so let’s not take this as a mark of quality.) Clearly it’s an embarrassing gap in my knowledge, which I could have filed alongside other deeply awkward spaces such as “I’ve never played a Hitman game.” But after wrestling with it to get it working (disappointingly, GOG is selling a version that doesn’t run out-of-the-box on Windows 10), I feel like Nox is a game I would really have valued on its 2000 release....

Open-source Flash Player emulator Ruffle has supported older versions of the Flash programming language, ActionScript, for a while but was unable to play stuff games made in ActionScript 3. Ruffle is a nice emulator because websites can embed it, meaning folks can just click on a link and start playing. Some other Flash emulators require installing a browser plugin. Now, Ruffle is finally introducing partial AS3 support, which will hopefully make many more ’newer’ Flash games and things easy to see again....

“New extreme exploits have appeared allowing cheaters to remotely add/remove/modify your stats and permanently corrupt your account aka ban/delete,” tweeted Tez2. “Avoid playing without a firewall rule or playing at all!” GTA Online players on the game’s subreddit began to call for a mass reporting of the exploits to Rockstar over the weekend. A glance at Rockstar’s Support site shows that players are following through with that call. “The exploit is partial remote code execution,” Tez2 claimed in another tweet....

You play as Amelia, a young, bold journalist returning to London to cover the grand re-opening of the Circus Electrique. A metaphorical spanner gets lobbed into the works, however, as the ceremony is interrupted with news that London’s citizens have started attacking each other (more than your average fisticuffs to get on the tube). Oddly, this doesn’t seem to have affected Amelia and your motley circus troupe, who venture out into London’s dangerous streets to find answers....

“This device is going to get the same treatment that Steam customers are used to in bringing new features to it well after launch,” Coomer tells me. “Launch is just the beginning of what we see as bringing features to customers on this device. So there’s a sort of inherent futureproofing that Valve tries to operate with all the time, where customers can expect new functionality and features to arrive on the device during the whole course of its life....

“Progress at your own pace and enjoy catching fish, planting and watering trees, and settling animals on the islands,” explain Coldwild Games. “After you have completed the main plotline, you are welcome to stay and build your garden any way you want to.” Before we even talk about fishing, just look at the animals—the regular sized ones and the giant ones. The massive fish spirit is hard to miss, of course, but I’ve spotted some little kiwis near the end of the launch trailer here, and capybaras too....

A physical edition of Stardew Valley for PC has been teased for a little while now, but the official announcement came last night via developer Eric Barone and Fangamer. This new physical version has Standard Edition and Collector’s Edition flavours to choose from, and the latter comes with a whole bunch of stuff. If you’re willing to pay the extra $35, you’ll get, amongst other things, a special box with art by Kari Fry (the artist who illustrated the often out of stock Stardew Valley Guidebook), a little comic called Junimo’s Day Out, and a chonky standee made from birch and cherry wood....

Vertigo the game follows author Ed Miller as he grapples with a debilitating case of vertigo–a condition that leaves him unable to stand as the world appears to spin around him–and paralyzing guilt over the death of his daughter and her mother, Faye, after their car falls off a bridge into a ravine below. With Ed bed ridden, it’s up to Dr. Julia Lomas, psychologist and psychiatrist, and Sheriff Nick Reyes to unravel the mystery of what really happened, and whether Faye and his daughter even exist....

The good news, though, is that most of them are still going, and I’ve rounded up the best of them right here below. So, if you’re in the market for a new something or other, then make sure you get it today, because these prices won’t be here tomorrow. SSDs: There are also some good SSD deals still happening on the new Samsung 870 Evo, too. This is Samsung’s new replacement for the 860 Evo, and it’s just as fast as its predecessor....

This is Amnesia’s first sortie into open-world exploration, and Frictional say you’ll have to keep a close watch for an “ever-present threat” lurking around the bunker’s corners. You’ll play as a French soldier with amnesia – natch – who has only a noisy dynamo torch, and a revolver loaded with a single bullet, to rely on. I’m a bit cautious about this one, because the appalling reality of daily life for soldiers in the trenches of the war could easily impinge on the supernatural horror that The Bunker’s aiming for....

Our buds at Eurogamer report that the five-year-old build of Dead Island 2 allegedly surfaced out of internet trashcan 4Chan. The outlet has since verified that the copy is legit, a claim reinforced by EA Dice game designer (and former Yager employee) Jan David Hassel on Twitter. As Hassel alludes, this build of Dead Island 2 is sourced from shortly before Yager ceased work on the game in 2015. The devs parted ways with publishers Deep Silver later that year, who handed development over to Sumo Digital....

Now, Annapurna don’t directly name Covid-19 in yesterday’s delay announcement. But considering its role in pretty much every other game release this year, I wouldn’t be shocked if the devs of each delayed title needed the extra adjustment period to wrap up their games. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings so it’s almost December and the end of the year we’re looking at 2021 now as they all get closer to getting ready!...

I played a bit of Apex last night and jumped into the first game mode on offer, Gold Rush Duos. Nothing can describe the joy of seeing every single gun emitting that lovely golden glow, even knowing everyone else has got a gold gun, it’s just quite nice not to have to scramble around to find attachments. The Grand Soirée is also introducing its own sort of battle pass thing called the Event Prize Track....

How about that wrecking ball, eh? I think we just got our first look at Maggie’s ultimate ability. This ability won’t come as a total surprise to some, after a leak from “Biast12” on Twitter gave us a brief description of the Wrecking Ball ability as “a wad of debris that disorients targets and makes you move faster in its wake”. Perhaps that movement speed boost is the fiery effect we see around Maggie a few times in the trailer....

Learn about each different type of Apex Legends Gear in this Armor and Gear guide. We’ll also cover the unique effects of each piece of Gold Gear below. On this page: Apex Legends Armor and Gear Apex Legends Starter Kits Gold Gear: All Legendary Gear effects Evo Shields Helmets Knockdown Shields Backpacks Apex Legends Armor and Gear Armor and Gear is enormously important in Apex Legends. There are four types of gear that you can find in a match:...

First up, Fight Night will place a giant boxing ring on the Olympus map. Players who jump into the ring will have their weapons and abilities disabled, so the only way to deal with enemies inside is to punch and kick for your life. Players outside of the boxing ring won’t be able to shoot in either, so once you’re in there the only threats are your opponents’ fists (or feet)....