Players of World of Warcraft: Forever say they have received a questionnaire gauging interest in potential character classes for the forthcoming MMO. The reported options include Tinker, Bard and Illusionist.
The player accounts suggest Blizzard is seeking feedback on possible additions, rather than announcing classes that will appear in the game. More details are expected as the story develops.
Earlier reports and follow-ups on the same developing story.
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Chinese painter and filmmaker Qiu Jiongjiong began shaping his new film during the pandemic. With the world suddenly forced to pause, he tells Variety, people felt an urgent desire to return to everyday life and to gather around a table. That idea became the starting point for “Fuxi: Four Tales of Feasting,” which is competing […]
So, in talking about the marvel that was Phoebe Bridgers’ opening night at L.A.’s Intuit Dome Friday night, which part of the show do you talk about first? Would it the emotionally riveting middle section of the show, in which Bridgers used the no-phones setting to elaborately explore, in song and in monologue, her complicated […]
It's easy to dislike Call of Duty. Aside from the annual cycle of development, marketing, and controversy that has defined the series identity for the past 22 years, the series has become an integral part of how video games prop up the military-industrial complex . Whilst some of the stories - especially 2025's Black Ops 7 - have deteriorated into the realms of science-fiction absurdity, many of the narratives you'll find in the Modern Warfare splinter of the series are more grounded in reality. When you're playing as semi-fictional UK and US troopers, taking part in illegal operations in foreign territory, wantonly executing people over differences in ideology, Call of Duty can feel gross: paper-thin propaganda designed to glorify war and reinforce lines between 'them' and 'us'. Read more
A federal judge has once again dismissed President Donald Trump’s defamation claims against the Wall Street Journal over a 2025 report by the paper that a 2003 birthday letter to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was purportedly written by Trump. Trump’s lawsuit “falls short of pleading actual malice,” wrote U.S. District Judge Darrin P. Gayles […]
An EA office building in Madrid was vandalized with the words "Save Mass Effect" just days after the company announced it had shuttered series developer BioWare.