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World of Warcraft game director responds to Classic queue complaints
https://www.pcgamer.com/world-of-warcraft-game-director-responds-to-queue-complaints/
In response to a player asking why Blizzard didn't have more servers in place to avoid these long queues, game director Ion Hazzikostas explained the developer's approach and why it can be better to have too few realms than too many.

Mega Man Zero/ZX Legacy Collection is coming to Steam in January
https://www.pcgamer.com/mega-man-zerozx-legacy-collection-is-coming-to-steam-in-january/
Mega Man Zero/ZX Legacy Collection is a collection of six games from two separate series and "a ton of bonus content" that's headed to PC (and other platforms, if that's your thing) early next year. Taking place 600 years after the Mega Man X games, the Mega Man Zero series—four games in all—"sets the stage for the revival of the legendary Reploid Zero as he joins human scientist Ciel and Resistance forces in their fight for a better future."

The Bard's Tale 4: Director's Cut adds a new dungeon, difficulties, and 'thousands' of fixes
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-bards-tale-4-directors-cut-adds-a-new-dungeon-difficulties-and-thousands-of-fixes/
"Bard's Tale 4 was good at launch" is a hill I will happily die on, but not everyone had a smooth-sailing experience with it out of the gate, and even I have to admit that there were some rough spots. The Bard's Tale 4: Director's Cut, released today, aims to address those shortcomings with new features, a "massive balance pass," and new content including more powerful bosses, Dwarven weapons, and the Royal Necropolis of Haernhold.

Watch a Sandworm smash a weird wooden land crawler in a new Last Oasis trailer
https://www.pcgamer.com/watch-a-sandworm-smash-a-weird-wooden-land-crawler-in-a-new-last-oasis-trailer/
Last Oasis is a survival MMO in which players construct weird, walking land-yacht machines and use them to fight over the last hospitable chunk of land on Earth. The specifics are tricky—the Earth has stopped spinning and the Moon disappeared for some reason—but it looks very cool, and the promise of a dynamic map that's always in flux is intriguing, if maybe a little worryingly ambitious.

Population Zero, a story-driven sci-fi MMO, begins beta testing in September
https://www.pcgamer.com/population-zero-a-story-driven-sci-fi-mmo-begins-beta-testing-in-september/
Population Zero is an upcoming sci-fi MMO set on an alien world called Kepler, where thousands of stranded colonists struggle to survive while they try to figure out what went wrong with their ship—and what they're doing to do next. It's been in development since late 2018, and today developer Enplex Games opened signups for a closed beta test that's coming in September.

Gamestop conference leak may have confirmed that Crypto is coming to Apex Legends
https://www.pcgamer.com/gamestop-conference-leak-may-have-confirmed-that-crypto-is-coming-to-apex-legends/
There's been a lot of speculation about whether the next character coming to Apex Legends will be the mysterious hacker named Crypto—the man purportedly responsible for the smashed-up state of things in Apex's latest season. Based on a leak out of a Gamestop leadership conference in Nashville, Tennessee, it looks like the rumors might be true.
>> think-man has made a thread about this leak.

Bloodlines 2's demo gets added info from creative director
https://www.pcgamer.com/bloodlines-2s-demo-gets-added-info-from-creative-director/
In a video posted by Paradox Interactive this morning, Hardsuit Labs creative director Ka'ai Cluney goes over the pre-alpha Bloodlines 2 gameplay demo build shown at E3 and Gamescom 2019, providing more insight into the world of the game. We've gotten a good amount of detail in the past, but this new commentary-filled demo has plenty of new specifics to, ahem, sink our teeth into.

The Alder's Blood demo feels like Bloodborne's sneaky turn-based cousin
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-alders-blood-demo-feels-like-bloodbornes-sneaky-turn-based-cousin/
Hunting werewolves is dangerous business in Alder's Blood. For starters, they're flupping enormous fangorious man-dogs, which is bad enough. Second, they've got a great sense of smell, which isn't so great when your cadre of monster hunters (who look like they've just walked straight out of Bloodborne) haven't bathed in weeks. Stealth is order of the day here, giving this squad tactics game a very different feel from its peers.