Hearthstone beta: next test season delayed until further notice
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft developer Blizzard Entertainment has delayed the game’s second beta test season to ensure the smoothest transition and quality possible.
Battlefield 4 Premium: double XP event kicks off today, times inside
Battlefield 4 developer DICE has confirmed that its next double XP Premium event will take place today, following a slight delay out of December.
Twitch personality has home raided following DDoS prank, posts video explanation – report
DERP, the hacker group behind DDoS attacks on Steam, Origin, Battle.net and League of Legends has apparently pranked YouTube personality and prominent Twitch streamer PhantomL0rd, faking a hostage situation at his address and getting his home raided in the process.
Nvidia hosting CES livestream this weekend, details inside
Nvidia is hosting a livestream at CES this weekend, that will focus on its Tegra mobile tech, gaming hardware and more.
Dragon Age: Inquisition dev discusses Mass Effect 3 plot comparisons, strategy & more
Dragon Age: Inquisition might sounds like a fantasy take on Mass Effect 3 – what with trying to rally all the world’s warring factions to take down a single threat and all that – but BioWare producer Cameron Lee has explained why it’s not all that similar, along with insight into the game’s morality, classes and much more.
Dragon Age: Inquisition keep-building mechanic revealed
Dragon Age: Inquisition will include a keep-building mechanic that sees players capturing and maintaining strongholds across the world to unlock new quests. The system has been detailed in a new preview today.
Next Car Game Early Access sales doubled over Christmas
Bugbear has announced Next Car Game has “reached and topped” the developer’s original campaign funding goal in just a week after the availability of Early Access through pre-orders.
Motion sickness isn't a problem in Eve Valkyrie, say CCP: "It works out super nicely"
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CCP CEO Hilmar Pétursson lives and works in Iceland. Eve Valkyrie, his studio’s latest project, is in the works in Newcastle. That doesn’t necessarily make him the best person to tell you about the day-to-day twists and turns of development - but he is distant enough to judge the effects of its 3D virtual reality for nausea. And he’s confident that the dogfighting spectacular won’t need to be bundled with a wastepaper basket on release.
StarCraft II 2014 Ladder Season 1 offers an updated map pool and a change of identity
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Find yourself spoilt for choice in New Year’s resolutions? Sometimes it can be easier to start again in a new town with a new handle. As of today, you’ll be able to change your StarCraft II character name for free, shedding your old reputation like you won’t last year’s weight.
12:01am PST this afternoon brings more than that, though: an updated map pool featuring five new competitive battlegrounds. Which, of course, means five old favourites must be taken away.
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