World of Warcraft, in a huge move for a 20-year old MMO, has just announced plans to slowly, but surely, phase out its combat add-ons in favour of building that functionality into the main game. The sky's not falling just yet, mind, and these plans aren't set in stone, but there's a possible future in which your WeakAuras and such will no longer work.That doesn't mean Blizzard's taking the axe...

Cut a quick and clear path straight to the best part of Wordle (winning) with a click. That's all it takes to reveal today's answer now you're here. Or if you're not in a rush, or simply curious to see how you'll do, our general tips as well as our May 1 (1412) clue can guide your guesswork without rushing you directly to another win.ANGER isn't the answer to today's...

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney is still far from getting everything he originally wanted from his war over iOS app store payments, but he just won a huge victory as a US court has bodied Apple for violating a 2021 injunction, going so far as to refer the iPhone maker's behavior to criminal prosecutors.When Epic started its war with Apple, it wanted to use its own payment processing system in...

Need to knowWhat is it? A minimalist gun-and-jump platformer that asks, "Are a bad enough dude to arrest Satan?"Expect to pay: $10Developer: DeadToast EntertainmentPublisher: Devolver DigitalReviewed on: Windows 11, Intel Core i9, 32GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 4060Multiplayer? NoLink: Official site Shotgun Cop Man is a throwback to an earlier age of indie games, before the phrase roguelike deckbuilder had occurred to anyone, an age when 2D puzzle-platformers with a single...

Rusty Lake is celebrating 10 years of creepy weirdness with a free new game, The Mr. Rabbit Magic Show, along with an appropriately weird short film and announcement of a brand new premium game called Servant of the Lake.I've been a fan of the Rusty Lake series since Rusty Lake Hotel, a deliciously bizarre puzzle adventure about a group of sharply dressed animals at a swanky dinner party. More strangeness...

We got our first up-close look at Borderlands 4 during today's State of Play showcase, and to the untrained eye—which is to say, my eye—yes, this is definitely a Borderlands game. But Gearbox revealed one thing about the upcoming shooter that I found quite interesting: You're not going to see as many legendary items in the new game as you might expect.It's a bit counter-intuitive, isn't it? We all want...

Just three years after its launch—and only two years after arriving on Steam, after a year as an Epic Store exclusive—the groovy multiplayer horror game Evil Dead: The Game is being removed from sale. Why? Rather like the famed incantation that enables safe handling of the Necronomicon, we're not so sure about that.Evil Dead: The Game first disappeared without warning from the Epic Games Store and the PlayStation Store. I...

As the games industry marches towards ever-higher game prices and $80 Mario Karts, you'd be hard pressed to find a better deal than getting a pile of games that'll only cost you around 22 cents each. Over at Itch.io, you can pick up the Crips for eSims for Gaza Bundle, which'll get you 74 indie games for less than 20 bucks—all the proceeds of which will go to a good...

World of Warcraft senior game director Ion Hazzikostas dropped a bomb in a Blizzard broadcast today, one that many suspected would someday hit: At an undetermined point in the future, WoW will stop allowing add-ons to read combat events or auras.Currently, WoW's most popular mods, including all damage meters, boss encounter information systems such as Deadly Boss Mods or Bigwigs, and almost all WeakAuras (mini-mods made using the WeakAura framework)...

Outrage on a Reddit forum is hardly a novel concept. Outrage at AI is likewise not exactly a major newsflash. But in a new twist, the latest unrest is a direct result of Redditors being subject to an AI-powered experiment without their knowledge (via New Scientist).Reportedly, researchers from the University of Zurich have been secretly using the site for an AI-powered experiment in persuasion. Members of r/ChangeMyView, a subreddit that...