As people are more active in venturing into the PC gaming market with their laptops or computers, Valve have reaped the rewards. Indie and smaller games, often less taxing on hardware, are a staple part of the industry now, and Steam has always been keen to give them the outlet they need.
Well played by them, because they’ve now got more constant users than some countries have people.
Ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention. I’ve just been handed an urgent and horrifying news story. I need all of you, to stop what you’re doing and listen.
STEAM SAAAAALES.
Lead System Designer Greg “Ghostcrawler” Street has announced that he’s leaving Blizzard Entertainment to pursue a “great opportunity for something new and exciting.” Mages around the world are supposedly in contact with their lawyers.
For any WoW players out there, how did you feel about Ghostcrawler? Is his leaving a sign of good things to come, or a signal of a sinking ship?
If there’s one place where swearing can be considered part of the status quo, it’s in online games. Anybody who has played anything from Call of Duty to Planetside with their voice chat enabled has experienced high-pitched jibes about their sexual preferences towards various creatures of the animal kingdom on more than one occasion.
Microsoft may be content to let this slide, but not with footage on the Upload Store.
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The football management genre is massive in the United Kingdom (and also Germany, as I understand), and when the subject is brought up, your mind will likely shoot to the similarly named Football Manager series. It should do, because EA’s attempt to dent the market has been running for 12 years, and is yet to offer a supreme alternative in what can’t even be considered a two-horse race.
EA have now conceded that point, and FIFA Manager will be bowing out gracefully after it’s latest installment.
Lots of games have experienced some unfortunate launches (SimCity, anybody?), and unfortunately DICE’s FPS behemoth Battlefield 4 didn’t manage to make a clean break.
Never fear, however, as the developers are hoping to make Christmas come early.
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The gear players receive in World of Warcraft has undergone change after change over the past few expansions. Hit and expertise have changed functions and values, Spirit became an option for caster damage classes, Mastery gave us more diversity in gear, and much more.
Enough is enough, say Blizzard.
As well as all the visuals revealed at Blizzcon 2013, the developers have also had a great amount of information to deliver about the sound and music in World of Warcraft. Some of it might seem incidental, but some of it is quite exciting.
Here’s what they’ve revealed.
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We’re back to the World of Warcraft updates now, with several class changes provided for the journey from level 90 to level 100 in the Warlords of Draenor expansion.
These are the Warlock and Warrior changes that have been earmarked so far.
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