Sideshow has just published a first-look video of the upcoming launch of the ‘Sam’ Sixth Scale Figure for Death Stranding 2 from Hot Toys. It’s a gorgeous thing that features deep detail, scores of accessories, interchangeable elements, and even eyeballs that move. The problem is, it also contains…
WARDOGS, the ambitious first-person shooter from Bulkhead, has managed to decimate expectations (including those from the studio itself) and climb over 400,000 concurrent players on Steam. The game was released in early access on Thursday and quickly started running up the charts, but there’s not…
Diablo. That’s right, folks – the Biggest Bad™ himself, Diablo, is set to surface in Diablo 4 next week when the game’s fifteenth season, dubbed ‘Season of Hell’s Legacy’, comes to the game. It has been a long time coming, and on September 15, the ultimate arch-evil himself will appear for all to…
XBOX CEO Asha Sharma says “clarity is kindness” as she confronts declining revenue, weak Game Pass growth, and broad strategic changes. The problems facing XBOX aren’t new. Since taking over as CEO of Microsoft’s gaming wing earlier this year, Sharma has been open and blunt about her goals and…
DC ComicsAs much as pop culture loves to depict Batman as an edgy, hard-boiled lone wolf who lives in perpetual isolation, Batman and Robin have been an inseparable pairing pretty much since the Dark Knight debuted. The original Robin, orphaned circus performer Dick Grayson, made his first…
Diablo is returning: At BlizzCon today, Blizzard announced that Diablo 5 will be set a century after Diablo 4 in a Sanctuary that has succumbed to the Lord of Terror, Diablo himself. That's not until 2029, though. In the meantime, Blizzard will continue the story of Diablo 4 with seasons, but no…
A Star Wars open-world game is now free for some. The Star Wars game in question is specifically an open-world action-adventure game from 2024, and it’s one that divided many at the time. And it’s one that costs $70, so the chance to get it for free is particularly noteworthy. That said, those…
During today’s BlizzCon spectacle, Blizzard finally lifted the lid on WoW Forever, responding to months of rumors and hopes concerning ‘World of Warcraft Classic Plus’, the long-anticipated big-ticket item on the wishlists of many players. You don’t have long to wait before WoW Forever launches,…
If you're a bit stunned to hear that there's a new single-player story campaign for Warcraft 3 in 2026 – 23 years after its last expansion, The Frozen Throne – then you can imagine how I felt when Forsaken Kingdom fell into my hands ahead of its surprise announcement and immediate release today.…
Blizzard has teased another new Overwatch Hero after revealing Doctrine just moments ago. Just as fans of the long-running hero shooter took to social media to celebrate the reveal of Overwatch's new vampire-themed Support Hero, Blizzard snuck in another surprise with a post on its social media…
BlizzCon 2026 came with a lot of surprises, but few were as big as the Diablo 5 reveal – and we're about to learn even more. Yes, in case you missed it, Blizzard Entertainment is working on Diablo 5. The fifth entry in its massively popular dungeon-crawler video game series is set to bring players…
Blizzard Entertainment has partnered with Netflix. The first product of that partnership will be an animated adaptation of Diablo. Johanna Faries, Blizzard’s president, announced the partnership at the start of BlizzCon 2026. Although no official footage or release date was shown, Faries said this…
Drawing inspiration from the darkest corners of your minds, this new take on a Ouija Board has landed on Steam, and as you roll in a D&D-like fashion to beat a seemingly harmless Gamemaster, it promises to have your skeleton jumping out of your skin. If you thought that your squad has exhausted…
The rumored game known to World of Warcraft fans as "Classic Plus" is real, and it has a proper name now—World of Warcraft: Forever is a new branch of the MMO that once again resets the clock to 2004, the year WoW first launched. But unlike WoW: Classic, the goal of WoW: Forever isn't just to take…
Blizzard ended its BlizzCon 2026 Opening Ceremony with the announcement of World of Warcraft Forever. This “Classic Plus” MMO is developed by the World of Warcraft Classic team, and is set during the first year of World of Warcraft. It features three new zones, several overhauled existing zones,…
As one of the foundational franchises behind Blizzard’s enduring success in the gaming industry, it’s no surprise that Warcraft is still going strong. Whether fans want to keep pushing their limits in World of Warcraft, revisit the good old days of that game’s earliest versions with World of…
As was revealed in today's Blizzcon opening ceremony, Overwatch's newest hero is on the way: Doctrine, a vampire with a cyborg arm and mechanical bats. He was debuted via a story trailer that reveals a connection to Doomfist, the game's resident punch man. Breakout | Doctrine Hero Trailer |…
For the first time since its Frozen Throne expansion in 2003, Warcraft 3 is getting a new campaign. Or got one, more accurately: Blizzard just announced at BlizzCon that it's dropping the expansion today. Warcraft III Reforged: Forsaken Kingdom | Launch Trailer - YouTube Watch On In a pre-brief…
Blizzard has shadow-dropped a brand new campaign for its real-time strategy game Warcraft 3. Forsaken Kingdom is a two-part prologue for the 24-year-old RTS, which can be bought standalone. It goes live today, September 12, following the BlizzCon 2026 Opening Ceremony. The surprise announcement is…
At today's Blizzcon opening ceremony, it was announced that Hearthstone will receive a third post-launch class—the game's first since the Death Knight released in 2022. It's none other than the Monk, a class with origins you can trace all the way back to Warcraft 3's pandaren brewmaster. Monk…
The next chapter in the Diablo story has been revealed. At BlizzCon 2026, it was announced that Diablo 5 would arrive in spring 2029. Blizzard also shared some plot details. The hook of this forthcoming game is that Sanctuary has fallen. The heroes are gone, and Diablo has taken Sanctuary. Blizzard…
The biggest surprise of BlizzCon might be Diablo 5, which Blizzard announced will release in spring 2029, six years after the 2023 launch of Diablo 4. The sequel will take place about a century after the events of Diablo 4. Sanctuary is no longer on the verge of apocalypse in Diablo 5: It's been…
Diablo fans have been eating well in 2026. The long-running franchise saw new expansions for Diablo 4 that carried on the narratives centered around the Lords of Hatred, along with the enduring popularity of Diablo Immortal. Old-school fans even got a perfectly tuned blast from the past courtesy of…
Diablo 5, a brand-new mainline entry in Blizzard’s long-running action RPG series, was announced today at BlizzCon 2026. A short teaser during today's BlizzCon’s opening ceremony shows the return of the Lord of Terror, one century after the events of Diablo 4. The Diablo development team also…