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The entire staff of indie game publisher (and site favorite) Annapurna Interactive has resigned.

I have a headcanon that intrepid explorer Brann Bronzebeard is also by necessity a polyglot. He is the first one to make contact with all these new races and factions we meet, so he quite painstakingly tries to preserve things like their place names and such so that the Champion can have a touchstone. Unfortunately, Brann isn’t so great with punctuation or sometimes even the precise spellings, so sometimes the maps and names will change over time. It’s kind of his YOLO nature that it’s important to just get it down first, and edit later if it’s important.

Anyway, just in case you’re having a time removing the apostrophe from Nerub-ar Palace (yes, it is now officially Nerub-ar Palace), you too can feel free to blame Brann.

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Blizzard has been great about laying out the timing of their upcoming releases lately, so it's not surprising that, ahead of World of Warcraft's launch of The War Within expansion, we already have a start date for season 1: September 10, though, as this is a global release, for certain time zones, this will be September 11.

The Diablo 4 patch 2.0 PTR is taking place September 4-11, before the launch of 2.0 on live servers with the Vessel of Hatred release on October 8.

Whenever we get close to those seasonal lines I start getting antsy to get over the line, already. It was windy and overcast and just below 70 degrees this morning, so it’s definitely time to bundle up for fall, right? Please?

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Once again, Cory earworms me even though I’m not even familiar with the song he chose for me. I have my own personal musical idiolect, and it’s not as quirky or as serious as you might want it to be.

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Every new season of Hearthstone Battlegrounds brings us a ton of new hero skins, and the beach-themed season 8 is no exception -- but as much as we applaud the imagination, some of these skins are a little bit unbelievable.

You know how sometimes there’s so much going on and it’s kind of overwhelming because there’s just so much that you kinda wind up needing to lie down even though it just makes everything worse? Yeah, that. And then, gamescom or whatever.

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With The War Within's release date rapidly closing in on us, the World of Warcraft team has been pushing little teasers and images and rundowns to pique our collective appetite for the upcoming expansion, and Alleria: Light and Shadow may be the pinnacle.

Overwatch 2 is blasting off into season 12 -- New Frontiers -- on August 20, with a preview video showcasing what we can expect, especially astronaut-themed support hero Juno.