Join us as we discuss how the new features coming with Diablo 4 Season 5 don’t make a compelling argument to play it on a Seasonal realm over an Eternal realm, the bad luck protection with WoW’s Midsummer Fire Festival rare drops, and when we think The War Within prematch will drop this summer.

With the recent, huge flurry of information released about Dungeons and Dragons 2024, it can be hard to take everything in.

This July the World of Warcraft Trading Post has new treasures geared for people who want to dive into the deep blue sea.

Back in November 2022, talks broke down between Blizzard and their publishing partner in China, Netease, leading to all of Blizzard's active services being suspended in the country as of January 2023.

This weekend Guild Wars 2 is beta testing the upcoming Janthir Wilds expansion, focusing on the new spear weapon type (now available for land-based combat) and its abilities across all professions.

I mean, I’ve played every Diablo game. I’ve played Grim Dawn, Wolcen, and Path of Exile. I’ve played Cyberpunk 2077 and I’ve literally used a gun that fires explosive grenades to slaughter an entire gang from up close. My character in Baldur’s Gate 3 is literally an amnesiac murder hobo who spends most of her game time completely covered in blood. Other people’s. That I have liberated from their bodies with big, pointy things. I’ve torn people’s limbs off, thrown people’s heads, flown away as the entire planet Taris was bombarded from orbit and millions died.

 

It's Steam Summer Sale time again!

Weapon Mastery is a new class feature in the 2024 Player's Handbook for Dungeons & Dragons that gives Simple and Martial weapons specific properties that can used in combat by martial classes.

“Hello, Peter.”

…I mean, there’s a chance that’s your name — at least a few of you are probably called Peter. But even if it isn’t, that’s okay: my character here is not Doctor Octopus either, he was just modeled after him.

So let’s model this column around answering some questions!

From Shadow Priest artifact weapon to retconned manipulator of Azeroth’s history to the Old God-adjacent big bad of The War Within, we discuss what we know about the void entity known as Xal’atath.