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.Represented by the playable Chen Stormstout, the Monk will get a full reveal next year. While not World of Warcraft's most popular class, it...
At BlizzCon 2026, Blizzard president Johanna Faries took to the stage to announce that a Diablo animated series is in production with Netflix.The announcement was light on details, and did not come with a trailer or release window, but Faries did note "great discussions being had" regarding adaptations of Overwatch and Warcraft. Faries also allowed that Blizzard's other properties could see similar treatments.“After decades of bringing entire universes to life...
In a Gamescom interview with GamesIndustry.biz, Saber Interactive CCO Tim Willits revealed that the company has "no real development in North America anymore," with only publishing operations continuing in the region, while game development occurs at a host of global subsidiaries."We are not afraid of any territories," Willits said. "Some publishers are afraid to work in territories they don't understand, but we're like, let's go, let's find some people that...
You've no doubt spent dozens of hours in GTA 5 doing millions of dollars of property damage with your fleet of speeding vehicles and arsenal of deadly weapons.But what if you could do something good for the city of Los Santos while still satisfying your insatiable bloodlust and appetite for destruction? For example, blowing up and running down a couple hundred Flock cameras.Thanks to the GTALPR mod (which stands for...
In a brief teaser on YouTube, Nightdive Studios acknowledged the new Thief campaign that was leaked in the recent Steam achievements fiasco. The studio confirmed its name, The Tarnished Mirror, and promised that we would learn more on November 2.The video is a bit of good natured "aw, shucks," showing a pileup of posts about the leaked campaign (including one of PC Gamer's). It ends with the remaster's new key...
Despite vocal opposition from some commissioners, the city of Miami Beach has voted in favor of a Grand Theft Auto 6 promotional campaign that will see Rockstar drop a reported $3 million on the city in exchange for what looks to be some surprisingly light-touch advertising.The vote on the proposal was streamed on September 10 on the City of Miami Beach YouTube channel, and it was close, finishing at 4-3...
It's easier than ever to make a gaming desktop feel all your own. The same is arguably much less true of gaming laptops, though Framework is one company hoping to expand the horizons of gaming-on-the-go through modular upgrades. However, sometimes even Framework has to call it quits when a design idea simply does not come together.The low-profile keyboard fiends are gathered here today to pour one out for the One...
Q27GAZD: was $369.99 now $329.99OLED gaming monitors are slowly but surely becoming more affordable, and this AOC is a good example. With a 240 Hz QD-OLED panel beaming games, movies, and dare I say even spreadsheets at your eyeballs, I reckon you'd be pleased to call this your own—although you'll need to use the DisplayPort 1.4 connection to make the most of it. Key specs: 27-inch | 1440p | 240...
The games industry's been in an (understandable) fuss lately about the prophesied death of physical media from Sony, which has announced it'll be going discless for the foreseeable future. Players are really angry because it's not exactly great if the one place you can buy your games also controls the entirety of the pricing—as Sony hypothetically would on its PlayStation consoles.Things are a little easier for us over here on...
Whether you're a Valheim veteran or playing for the first time, at some point you're going to stop and ask "Is there any way to increase the size of my inventory? And finally, as of Valheim 1.0, the answer is yes, you can!Inventory size in Valheim is famously small, with just eight hotbar slots and 24 inventory slots. Especially since worn armor takes up slots, your inventory is going to...