It had to be tremendously disappointing for YouTuber Wudijo when he came within a hair’s breadth of soloing Diablo 4 world boss Ashava the Pestilent during the March beta, but fell short at the last minute. He’s probably feeling better now, though, because he managed to get the job done during the Server Slam playtest that ran this past weekend.
There wasn’t any real question that Wudijo could do the job: He missed the solo kill in March not because he got his ass kicked, but because someone jumped in at the last minute to steal the kill. (Not just once, but twice, if you can believe it.)
But the lower level cap in the Server Slam beta—the maximum achievable character level was 20 rather than 25, as it had been in the earlier betas—and reduced legendary ite…
Read moreThe next Dragon Age game is no longer called Dreadwolf: Bioware announced today that, to better “capture what this game is all about,” it has changed the title to Dragon Age: The Veilguard.
The change, BioWare general manager Gary McKay explained in a blog post, was made to take the focus off of the villainous Dread Wolf, who’s been at the center of what little we’ve seen of the game so far, and put it instead on the player and his trusty crew of NPCs.
“Each of the seven unique characters that make up your companions will have deep and compelling storylines where the decisions you make will impact your relationships with them—as well as their lives,” McKay wrote. “You’ll unite this team of unforgettable heroes as you take on a terrifying new threat unleashed on t…
Read moreIn the wake of the medical emergency suffered by Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin last week, Electronic Arts said it will remove the CPR touchdown celebration from Madden NFL 23 in a future update.
The NFL is famous for its touchdown celebrations, which over the years have grown from spiking the ball to emphasize that yes indeed, points were scored, to elaborately choreographed dances that wouldn’t be out of place during mating season on the Galapagos Islands. There’s a whole Wikipedia entry dedicated to the practice, which is officially frowned on by the league but widely liked by fans.
The CPR celebration, which according to Polygon has been in Madden NFL for the past three years, is pretty straightforward as these things go. One member of the scoring team lies on the gra…
Read moreRather than going off on a tangent about how good Painkiller is (it’s really good), I will open by simply saying that Witchfire, the new shooter from The Astronauts—founded in 2012 by the co-founders of People Can Fly—is really good too, but also very different: Studio co-founder and creative director Adrian Chmielarz said in 2023 that Witchfire is “much closer to Souls” than straight-up shooters like Doom, and having played it a good bit myself, I can say that’s absolutely correct.
Witchfire has been in early access on the Epic Games Store since September 2023, and today it got its first major update, which adds a pile of new content and aims to address a couple of the biggest complaints about the game, difficulty scaling and “Calamities.”
Without getti…
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