Rumors

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Discord is rumored to be in negotiations for a potential $10 billion sale to Microsoft

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Remember when Discord servers weren't basically the foundation of every single video game community online? Those were good times. It also meant that people...
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New test strings hint that The Burning Crusade Classic may be arriving as soon as May 18

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The machinery behind the scenes at Blizzard is moving fast on the classic version of the first World of Warcraft expansion, The Burning Crusade, and there's...
If you look to your left, you will see a sad person.

Leaked internal email suggests that The Burning Crusade Classic will be in beta testing this month

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If you can't wait to go through the Dark Portal in WoW Classic, you can take heart that you may not be waiting all that...
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Blizzard puts out new job calls for unannounced multiplayer projects

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We're back with another bit of pondering and theorycrafting spawned by game dev job postings. This time we're looking at Blizzard's careers site, which...

Guild Wars 2 artist’s portfolio shows apparent artwork of ArenaNet’s UE4 and mobile game projects

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ArenaNet is the studio that makes Guild Wars 2, but readers will also know that the company's had more than a few other game...

Blizzard is definitely working on a Warcraft mobile game, studio artist says

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2020's deficiencies have continued to spill into 2021, so we'll let it slide if you've forgotten that just two and a half weeks ago,...

Dungeons and Dragons Online’s mysterious ‘2’ image raises sequel speculation

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Bill, strange things are afoot at the Circle K. As Dungeons and Dragons Online gets ready to kick off its 15th anniversary this week,...

Genshin Impact will reportedly get a crossover promotion with KFC in China

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KFC has its fingers in a lot of weird things, whether it's visual novels, gaming PC creation, or attempts to hawk its product via...

World of Warcraft’s BlizzConline press kit leaks confirm patch 9.1 and Burning Crusade Classic

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Well, that'd be a whoops from Blizzard: It turns out that World of Warcraft's press kits for the reveals at BlizzConline 2021 have been...
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Rumor: Blizzard may be testing Diablo IV and Diablo Immortal soon

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By tomorrow evening's BlizzConline keynote address, we'll have a lot better idea what Blizzard has in store for its various properties. Until then, we're...
Keanu, why.

CDPR denies alleged anonymous dev’s account of Cyberpunk 2077 mismanagement and cut content

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If you've been following the ongoing drama surrounding CD Projekt Red and Cyberpunk 2077, you've probably seen or at least seen references to a...
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Rumor: The Burning Crusade expansion is arriving to WoW Classic in early May, beta in mid-February

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Got your grains of salt at the ready? Tinfoil tricorns fashionably formed and atop your heads? Very good, then let's hop into the rumor...

Mysterious letters and coins tease the Elder Scrolls Online’s Oblivion chapter

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This morning, mysterious parcels began to show up within The Elder Scrolls Online community hinting at details of the next major chapter release, which...
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Would you watch a TV show based on The Elder Scrolls franchise?

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We already knew that the Fallout franchise was supposedly getting a full show treatment, but wholly unsubstantiated rumors this week suggest that Netflix might...
Really studying the heck out of a skull.

World of Warcraft: Classic is surveying players about rolling out The Burning Crusade

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The rumors about The Burning Crusade coming to World of Warcraft: Classic were at once rather obvious and also seem all but certain at this point....
Ahem.

Rumor: Nexon’s Final Fantasy XI mobile remake has been cancelled

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It looks as if the sun has finally set on the never-materialized mobile remake of Final Fantasy XI, as Korean site MTN is reporting that...

We’re years away from an open beta for Amazon’s new Lord of the Rings MMO

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How far away is the next Lord of the Rings MMORPG? Years, fam, so get comfy where you are. The news comes via Wccftech, which...
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WoW Factor: A wild theory for World of Warcraft’s Shadowlands

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I don't have quite as much as I would have expected to say about Shadowlands so close to its launch. Part of that is, of...
Who taught you math?!

Activision-Blizzard lays off more support staff, this time in the Asia-Pacific region

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(This piece has been updated with Blizzard's confirmation and an updated headcount of those affected.) UK publication MCV/Develop is reporting today that the global redundancies...
No screenshots yet, obviously.

The folks working on Raph Koster’s Playable Worlds MMO provide clues into what it’ll be

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If like many hardcore MMORPG players you're keeping half an eye on the very early MMO development at Playable Worlds, the studio Raph Koster...