Blizzard quietly had World of Warcraft players test run The War Within's biggest new feature last year: underground zones
Blizzard quietly had World of Warcraft Dragonflight players test run an upcoming The War Within feature without telling them.
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NYT Mini Crossword today: puzzle answers for Wednesday, April 17
Love crossword puzzles but don’t have all day to sit and solve a full-sized puzzle in your daily newspaper? That’s what The Mini is for!
Intel will have spent over $160,000,000,000 on new fabs, assembly, packaging, testing and R&D facilities by 2030
It won't have escaped your notice that Intel has been in the news a lot recently, either talking about its race to be at the cutting edge of chip manufacturing, getting billions of dollars from the US administration, or having a few issues with its high-end CPUs running the latest games. It's certainly been very busy, though, building all kinds of new facilities for making processors, as well as expanding its research laboratories. In a brief report on its 10 largest construction projects, Intel shared that the total cost of all the current investments will be over $160 billion by the time it's all finished.
Wild Dragon's Dogma 2 mod reworks more than 600 New Game Plus battles, putting your "mastery" of the RPG to the test
A highly ambitious Dragon's Dogma 2 mod is attempting to make the RPG far more challenging on New Game Plus mode.
Anticipated indie Soulslike fears competition as Hades 2 test approaches and Silksong fans crawl from the woodwork: "It better just be us vs Stellar Blade as god intended"
Aggro Crab, the indie developer behind the colorful Soulslike Another Crab's Treasure, has expressed its fears that it may face sudden competition around its release thanks to Hades 2 and Hollow Knight: Silksong.
It took almost 10 years, but REDkit modding tools are finally coming to The Witcher 3 and a test version on Steam is live now
Back in 2015, CD Projekt released MODKit for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, a mod tool that «enables [the] Witcher community to modify several aspects of the game to their own liking.» As we noted at the time, however, it's not the mod tool: That'd be REDkit, a far more powerful piece of software that lets users create entirely new things in the game, rather than simply changing up what's already there.
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's most painfully boring minigame was originally twice as tedious, but at the last minute Square decided "it might be stressful"
Square Enix tried really hard to make Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's mako vacuuming minigame more enjoyable than the painfully tedious practice in masochism that it is by all measures. In fact, it was originally a lot worse.
XDefiant is finally getting closer: a stress test starts on Friday and will run all weekend long
The XDefiant server stress test Ubisoft announced earlier this month will take place this weekend, beginning at 10 am PT/1 pm ET on April 19 and running until the same time on April 21.