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Fifteen years ago, World of Warcraft was rocked by an unexpected event known as Corrupted Blood. The boss of the Zul’Gurub raid instance, Hakkar the Soulflayer, had a debuff he could apply to nearby players that caused damage every few seconds. The debuff was designed to kill players quickly enough that anyone without healer support

By Emily Gera, Sunday, 15 March 2020 21:52 GMT Yes, Xbox Live is down. Xbox Live has been experiencing issues since roughly 5pm ET today, with many homebound gamers taking to Twitter to air their grievances. Microsoft is currently investigating the situation, tweeting from its official Xbox support account: “We understand some users may be

By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 14 March 2020 19:22 GMT Reporters Without Borders has created an area in Minecraft in which to publish censored articles. The in-game area provides a safe space in which to publish articles that have been censored in a reporter’s country of origin. Minecraft users can visit The Uncensored Library which is

By Elizabeth Henges, Friday, 13 March 2020 22:43 GMT Looking for some diversity in your gaming? The Humble Female Protagonist sale offers great deals on some video games starring women. Sometimes you just want to step into the shoes of someone different. Humble’s Female Protagonist Sale is all about the ladies, and you can save

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Modern system power management is anything but simple. Modern CPUs (or APUs in AMD’s parlance) have complex sensor networks and power management schemes that take temperature reads from multiple points inside the system, including its skin temperature. A recent investigation

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. It may have wowed the world with its “Whale” demo a few years ago, but after raising over $2B and selling an estimated 6,000 headsets in the first six months after launch, Magic Leap may have met its Snake River

By Stephany Nunneley, Thursday, 12 March 2020 19:31 GMT Trials of Osiris returns tomorrow, and to get you excited, Bungie has released a trailer for it. The long-awaited Trials of Osiris returns and will go live in Destiny 2 tomorrow, March 13. Trials is a 3v3 weekend-only competitive mode and tasks you with winning as

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Playing high-end desktop VR games currently requires some serious PC hardware, but that may not be the case for much longer. Cloud gaming service Shadow has announced a “VR Exploration Program,” which we think is a fancy way of saying

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The 2016 reboot of Doom did better than most reboots, garnering almost universal praise from reviewers and players alike. The sequel, Doom Eternal, is hitting consoles and PC later this month with more character upgrades, new multiplayer modes, and improved

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The E3 game show — formally expected to be held from June 9-11, 2020 — has been canceled. The show drew some 66,000 thousand people to LA last year, including yours truly, but the show’s future had been on the

By Stephany Nunneley, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 19:39 GMT New DLC is coming to Two Point Hospital on PC and it will take you off the grid. The new expansion Off the Grid will be made available on Steam for Two Point Hospital March 18. With it comes three new regions and you will be

By Stephany Nunneley, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 19:57 GMT Destiny 2: Season of the Worthy kicked off today, and along with new content comes changes. Going by the patch notes released for Destiny 2: Season of the Worthy, plenty of changes are coming to weapons and subclasses with the update, which isn’t unexpected. We already

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Electronic Arts has done plenty of things to draw the ire of gamers over the years, but remastering the original 1990s Command & Conquer games hopefully won’t be one of them. Some of the original developers got together in 2018

By Emily Gera, Monday, 9 March 2020 21:46 GMT “Vote Bernie.” Instead of an acceptance speech, the first prize winner of Mortal Kombat Final Kombat 2020 used their short time at the mic to encourage viewers to vote for Bernie Sanders. Tourney champ Dominique “SonicFox” McLean, who wore blue fursuit head and a transgender pride

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Nvidia has been working on its cloud gaming service for years — the free “GRID” test was one of the selling points of the Shield Portable Android handheld back in 2013. The service was eventually rebranded as GeForce Now and

Mortal Kombat 11 developer NetherRealm has cancelled both live audience and Last Chance Qualifier events for this year’s Final Kombat competition due to rising coronavirus concerns. Both events were originally scheduled to take place in Chicago this weekend before NetherRealm pulled the plug on late Friday. At the moment only tournament finalists and staff will

By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 7 March 2020 19:09 GMT Overwatch competitive Season 21 kicked off earlier this week, and with it came Hero Pools. Overwatch Season 21 has started, and with it is the implementation of Hero Pools. As previously detailed, Blizzard will disable a few heroes from Competitive Play for a given week, and

By Stephany Nunneley, Friday, 6 March 2020 20:53 GMT Looks like Apex Legends developers had a bit of fun at the expense of data miners. Data miners thought they had the next character for Apex Legends figured out earlier this year, but it turns out, Forge was a misdirect created by Respawn Entertainment. According to

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. AMD made several GPU-themed announcements at its Analyst Day today. While we’ll have coverage of the wider event, we wanted to focus specifically on the GPU announcements the company has made. AMD announced a pair of new architectures: CDNA and

It was recently announced that there should be a Valve Index restock just in time for Half-Life Alyx, which launches later this month.The Valve Index VR headset sold a remarkable 103,000 units after the announcement of Half-Life Alyx, but catastrophe soon struck. Valve’s production schedule for the pricey headset was thrown completely off of its

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. When Google launched Stadia last year, it tried to put a brave face on a deeply uncertain debut. The Stadia launch was barebones, even for what was a relatively barebones service. Five months after launch, things haven’t improved much, with

By Stephany Nunneley, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 19:54 GMT Spend the first weekend of March playing Rainbow Six Siege for nada. Starting March 5, you will be able to play Rainbow Six Siege for free until March 8. This covers PS4, Xbox One, and PC through the Epic Games Store and Steam. The free weekend

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Doom Eternal has taken a bit longer to materialize than we’d hoped it would, but developer id says the new game engine is a major leap forward. The new shooter will have more effects and crisper textures, and you’ll be

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Ever since Final Fantasy VII Remake was announced, fan enthusiasm and interest have run high. We’ve seen teasers and leaks for the game — impressive trailers and an entire suite of leaked demo music — but there’s always been the

With just three weeks to go until launch, a batch of brand new Half-Life Alyx gameplay videos have surfaced online, featuring hostile drones, terrifying Headcrabs, and, of course, loads of pew-pew bang-bang guns.Three videos were recently posted over on the official Valve YouTube channel, simply named Half-Life Alyx gameplay videos 1, 2, and 3. You

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. A few weeks back, we discussed ongoing reports of a new black screen bug that was hitting AMD GPU owners. While there were scattered reports going back some time, the situation appeared to have gotten worse with the release of

In somewhat of a strange move, EA recently forced two professional FIFA players to settle their match with a good old-fashioned game of rock, paper, scissors. The person who had their rock smothered in hand paper, pro FIFA player Shaun Galea, recently shared his nightmare story on Twitter. I cannot believe it !! @EASPORTSFIFA @EAFIFADirect

By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 29 February 2020 20:00 GMT If you’re having trouble with the Mount Tenno stage in the Nioh 2 demo, the producer has some tips for you. The Nioh 2 Last Chance demo is currently available on PS4 until March 1, and producer Fumihiko Yasuda has some tips to help you survive

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Back in the day, we all used to get our games on discs to install with an old-fashioned optical drive. The move to digital downloads offered some clear convenience advantages, but there are also more restrictions without that physical copy.

By Stephany Nunneley, Friday, 28 February 2020 19:44 GMT Kim Bodnia will star as Vesemir in The Witcher Netflix series. Kim Bodina will be joining the cast of Season Two as Vesemir. News of the casting was announced today for The Witcher Netflix series. Rumor previously had Mark Hamill pegged as a possibility, well, the