The Battle for Azeroth update, called Rise of Azshara, will feature a variety of new features including a semi-rework of the Azerite system. Rise of Azshara’s dungeon is The Mechagon Megadungeon. Patch 8.2 will also include a raid called Azshara’s Eternal Palace. Azshara’s Eternal Palace will feature eight bosses with Queen Azshara herself as the ultimate challenge. This new dungeon and raid will be released two to three weeks after the initial launch of the Rise of Azshara patch.

Details on Disney Plus, Disney’s long-awaited standalone streaming service, are finally here. How does this fair for Netflix, the service that revolutionized the streaming landscape and stands in the most direct competition to Disney Plus? Films from 2019 and beyond will appear exclusively on Disney Plus, alongside new original series and the entire Disney motion picture library. Still, Iger has indicated that Disney Plus isn’t poised to replace Netflix or any other major streaming service. In T

All 19 tables of Zen Studios’ Star Wars Pinball are coming to Nintendo Switch, with a vertical play mode that takes advantage of the Switch screen’s dimensions when held sideways. In addition to being sold through the Nintendo eShop, Star Wars Pinball will also get a physical edition release, a first ever for a Zen pinball suite. Star Wars Pinball will launch for Switch on Sept. 13, 2019, the studio/publisher announced today in advance of this weekend’s Star Wars Celebration. Adaptations of TV’s

We’re getting a new look at the most infamous moment in fighting game history, after new footage showing “Moment 37” — a fight between legendary players Daigo Umehara and Justin Wong at Evo 2004 — was uploaded on Wednesday. Evo Moment 37 is famous for its display of technical prowess. In it, Umehara and Wong were battling in Street Fighter 3: Third Strike. On Wednesday, new footage of that moment from the Evo 2004 tournament was uploaded to YouTube, offering an alternate angle of the full match.

If you own a high-end gaming keyboard, then you know the special hell that is navigating the software that comes with one. But one enterprising YouTuber has finally cracked the code, and all it took was using a piece of software originally designed by the National Security Agency. So, CarterSande went and downloaded some software from the NSA and got to work. Originally designed to tear apart malware for forensic investigation, the software essentially untangles data that was meant to be underst

In the 10 hours I’ve sunk into Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain, I’ve thought a great deal about Wood and what differentiated him above his contemporaries in the world of late-night sci-fi cinema. The new franchise entry, Iron Rain, is technically a spinoff, though it fits within the basic outline of every EDF game. (Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon made a similarly misguided pitch in 2011.) These complaints might seem silly to people familiar with, but not totally smitten by, other Earth De

Hellboy hit in the same year as Spider-Man 2, while Hellboy 2: The Golden Army shared a summer with The Dark Knight. Hellboy is trying to do too much and say too much, but none of it is really what the movie needs. The plot of Hellboy is predominantly lifted from Hellboy: The Wild Hunt, in which the Arthurian-era witch Nimue rises to conquer humankind with an unstoppable fairy army. Much of Hellboy seems just left of center, as if Marshall played a game of telephone with the source material. 201

The game follows a young girl named Izzy, her journal, and the fantasy world she creates on its pages. Izzy’s words follow along, however, narrating the journey of her main character, the details of the world. In the fantasy world, words directly affect the environment. When I return to the journal pages, Izzy learns that her beloved grandmother is in the hospital. Izzy’s words turn on her and she is unable to properly process what her grandmother’s stroke means.

Starting April 16, Bungie will debut a new event named The Revelry to celebrate spring in the Tower. During the Destiny 2 event, players will earn a Reveler’s Tonic. The Revelry also brings the long awaited Arbalest Exotic Kinetic linear fusion rifle, a first-time combination in Destiny 2. Players will earn Arbalest by returning Reveler’s Essence to Eva and completing Revelry triumphs. The new Revelry event starts next week, April 16, and runs for two weeks, ending May 7.

Having finished Fallout: New Vegas twice, I can attest to the bereft feeling that comes after completing its excellent main story arc. New Vegas, revered by the Fallout cognoscenti, now has a proper end-game mod, in which the world goes on after the all-out fight at Hoover Dam. “This is only a small selection mind you, but it’s just a demonstration on how much love I’ve poured into this mod. I’ve played New Vegas for years and loved it ever since, so I thought it only appropriate that the game h

According to Warner Bros., everyone who catches Detective Pikachu during its opening weekend will get a two-pack of Pokémon trading cards while supplies last. Each booster pack will include one randomly selected card from the Pokémon Trading Card Game’s new expansion featuring the photorealistic versions of your favorite ‘mons. The other card is guaranteed to be a limited-edition Detective Pikachu variant, featuring the (fuzzy!) The new trading card brings an extra blast of nostalgia for millenn

Now, more than four years after launch, the team at Frontier Developments is hoping to make it a bit easier for new players. An update scheduled for later this month will create a zone specifically for beginners and automate some of the game’s most complex flight mechanics. According to community manager Will Flanagan, these beginners only areas will be off limits to more advanced players. In Elite, players are often tasked with maneuvering out of the “mail slot” as its called of massive orbitin

As previously noted by Sony, the option to change your PSN name comes with a few caveats. Other games that don’t work fully with PSN online ID change feature include Bloodborne, Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End, Grand Theft Auto 5, The Last of Us, NBA 2K19, and Warframe. A full list of games tested to support or have issues with PSN name changes is available at the PlayStation website. Sony is charging $9.99 to change a PSN ID beyond that initial change (PlayStation Plus subscribers will pay $4.99). U

Microsoft is going all in this spring with a selection of high-profile titles for Xbox Game Pass subscribers. First on the list is Prey, the critically acclaimed first-person shooter that ranked among Polygon’s top 10 games of the 2017. Then, on April 18, Xbox Game Pass subscribers will get access to Monster Hunter: World. Also on April 18, Microsoft is adding The Walking Dead: A New Frontier, the penultimate season of Telltale’s episodic adventure game. Xbox Game Pass is a subscription service

The latest patch for Fortnite is here and despite fan outcry it doesn’t revert the health on elimination changes that Epic made in patch v8.20. As of patch v8.30 players will be able to bring back fallen squadmates by grabbing their Reboot Card, which drops after they die. Back in patch v8.20, Epic notified players that a Baller nerf was on its way and set to arrive in patch v8.30. For a look at everything that’s changing in Fortnite patch v8.30 you can see the full patch notes below. Server Rep

Fallout 76’s Patch 8, which brings a new chunk of content that is part of the Wild Appalachia expansion, is out today. There’s a new questline focused around Calvin van Lowe, a brother who was lost in the pursuit of the mysterious Sheepsquatch. The Sheepsquatch is a West Virginia legend, and we can likely expect him to be as rude as the other beasties roaming Appalachia. The Lying Lowe questline can be started by finding and reading a “Sheepsquatch Ate My Brother” poster, which is located in tra

The next event to hit Pokémon Go will be an “Eggstravaganza,” adding baby Pokémon back to the 2 kilometer egg pool. The event notice says, “Pokémon like Pichu, Smoochum, and Magby” will be included in the two kilometer egg pool and that there will be double candy rewarded from egg hatches. Incubators will also hatch eggs twice as fast and Lucky Eggs will last twice as long during the event. The egg pool is also going to change, though details on what else gets shifted beyond the baby Pokémon is

But 2019 is quickly becoming stuffed with intriguing and great looking games about birds, ranging from cute birds to deadly birds to birds that are unapologetic assholes. While Polygon already has a comprehensive list of 2019’s most anticipated games, here’s a more segmented look at just the bird games out now and still to come. SkatebirdGlass Bottom Games’ Skatebird poses the question: What if Tony Hawk were actually a bird (and not a hawk, but, like, a finch)? Untitled Goose GameFor a zero-chi

Electronic Arts and Respawn Entertainment will unveil their new Star Wars action-adventure game, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, at Star Wars Celebration this Saturday, April 13. The reveal will be livestreamed on EA’s Star Wars Twitch channel at 1:30 p.m. CDT, according to a tweet from the official Star Wars Twitter account. That tease also includes a warning: “Don’t stand out.”That phrase likely ties into the story of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order which follows a Jedi student, known as a Padawan,