A forever game is one in where players make tangible progress, find new experiences, and face new challenges all without ever actually finishing the game.

World of Warcraft Classic Hardcore’s Self-Found mode goes live today, February 29 at 3PM pacific time, and gives Hardcore players a new challenge to overcome if they choose to -- players can’t trade items with other players through any means (including mailing items between characters) or use the Auction House, so players need to be self-sufficient and reliant when it comes to creating their own items.

Diablo 4 Season 3 will be bringing back six popular Vampiric Powers from Season 2, the fan-favorite Season of Blood, as new legendary affixes.

Lately pretty much every morning has felt like waking up with a mind flayer tadpole, so I figured I’d embrace it. It’s the Queue. I’m kind of splitting my time between Faerun and Sanctuary lately — yes, I’m that one guy who likes Diablo 4 pretty much just as much as when it launched — and I won’t lie, there’s some cognitive dissonance.

Luckily, I tend to do Dark Urge origins and those are a fair bit more… shall we say sanguine? It makes it easier to leap between them when I go from giant barbarian soaked in blood to giant barbarian soaked in blood, I guess.

The Last Epoch launched last week after five years of early access, and it's an ARPG that, like almost every ARPG in existence, is clearly heavily influenced by Diablo 2.

World of Warcraft's graphics have come a long way since the early days of the game.

World of Warcraft Classic Hardcore realms are receiving their first, optional difficulty modifier on February 29 when Self-Found mode goes live at 3PM pacific time.

Tomorrow is February 29 aka Leap Day. It feels like it should be notable in some way, but it really isn’t (unless you were born that day). Heck, “Leap” feels wrong too — it’s more of a Padding Day to keep the calendar aligned with the seasons. Maybe if February 29 was the norm and every four years we skipped it we could use the term Leap Year, but it’s honestly more a step back than a jump forward.

Julius Caesar is given credit for implementing Leap Day and frankly he does deserve it even if the math behind it wasn’t his own. What a lot of people don’t know is that 46 BC was actually 445 days to get the calendar fixed first — the Romans were off by almost three months in their festival timing before this was done. Forget being born on February 29 — can you imagine being born on one of those extra days? You’d never celebrate your birthday again!

In any case February gets an extra day this year so be sure to spend it with your loved ones.

Join us this week as we discuss Calia Menethil’s dilemma about her role in the future of Lordaeron, the difference between Wild Gods, Titan Watchers, and Titans in WoW, and who would make a better fixer in Cyberpunk 2077, Joe “I just hope everyone had a good time” Perez or Matt “I don’t play well with others” Rossi.

World of Warcraft Classic Hardcore realms new difficulty mode, Self-Found, on is now live for players seeking an extra, unconventional challenge!