Gaming

At the very outset of World of Warcraft’s Midnight expansion, we are summoned by an actual prayer to aid in repelling recurring big bad Xal’atath’s invasion of the elven kingdom of Quel’Thalas. And while I’m all for starting out in medias res, this feels like a particularly hamfisted and contextless way to begin a story. It’s almost disorienting at first, and I…

Death Stranding 2 isn’t even a year old, but the PC version is already on the way in just a couple of weeks. When it launched on PS5, it was one of the most beautiful games on the platform, and while that would usually mean it’s kind of hard to run on PC, the system requirements are forgiving. Unlike some recent PC launches, Sony released different quality standards for its minimum…

Upheaval at Ubisoft continues today with the departure of veteran creative director Clint Hocking, in the middle of development on the company’s next major Assassin’s Creed blockbuster. Hocking’s exit from Ubisoft, first reported today by VGC, was reportedly revealed to staff this week by the Assassin’s Creed brand’s freshly-installed new leadership team. Hocking had…

Call of Duty publisher Activision has issued a rare, if brief, comment to seemingly deny a claim it planned to launch a standalone Zombies game. Earlier this week, Call of Duty leaker TheGhostofHope stated on social media that Activision was prepping two separate Call of Duty games for the launch of Microsoft’s next-gen Xbox console (currently expected to launch in 2027 at the earliest).