As promised at the start of Rainbow Six Siege Year 7, Emerald Plains, the first new map added to the game in three years, is finally here. It adds a little bit of Hitman energy and vigor to this long-lived tactical shooter.
Why do we enjoy superhero stories? This question kept nagging me while I read through an early preview of the Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game. Is it an aspirational fondness? Do we study their fictional lives so that we might better model our own on their exploits? Or is it instead a devotional kind of admiration for a more perfect humanity? The new playtest document spends more than 120 pages scaffolding rules and minutiae for a system that ultimately feels like a third option: Reading comics in order to choose the best action figures for a display case. The game’s characters feel static, unmoving and sterile, and the game too heavily focuses on fan service and gimmicks.
Xiaomi has presented a new electric mop under the MiJia brand.
World of Warcraft: Dragonflight is the next expansion for the popular MMO, and the new cinematic gives us a look at where we’re heading, and who we’ll be dealing with. The cinematic is narrated by the Alexstrasza of the red Dragonflight, and it begins 10,000 years ago. After the Sundering’s global disaster, the Dragon Aspects had sealed the Dragon Isles and promised to return once the healing was complete.
World of Warcraft: Dragonflight will finally take players to the long-awaited Dragon Isles. Here, they’ll meet up with a recently-awakened species called the Dracthyr — dragon people who can transform into humans at will. The Dracthyr will be a new cross-faction player and transformable race. They are currently second to the Alliance’s Worgen, Pandaren and Pandaren. The Dracthyr, however, are more distinctive than either the Pandas or the Worgen. They’re also intrinsically connected to the Evoker class.
The Motorola Edge+ (aka Edge 30 Pro) launched in the US last month and is available in Europe and India as well, but we’re still waiting for the vanilla model. It is expected to launch soon, and the most recent leak shows the European price.
World of Warcraft Classic made it to Northrend, with its Wrath of the Lich King expansion. Blizzard Entertainment announced Classic‘s second expansions on Tuesday, during a livestream where it also revealed World of Warcraft‘s next live expansion: Dragonflight. Wrath of the Lich King is set to arrive in Classic sometime in 2022.
A mass evacuation took place at Boston's Logan International Airport after a suspicious object was found in an X-ray machine, but it turned out to be just an old PlayStation. Police said the damage to the console caused an "anomaly".
Azeroth and its heroes are taking to the skies in World of Warcraft’s latest expansion, Dragonflight. Blizzard announced World of Warcraft: Dragonflight on Tuesday, during a livestream that included a preview of the expansion.
A new Star Wars game is in development at Skydance New Media, the interactive studio founded in 2019 by game director Amy Hennig, Lucasfilm Games and Skydance announced Tuesday. It’s a return to the Star Wars franchise for Hennig, who had previously worked with the franchise at EA’s Visceral Games on an ambitious (but ultimately canceled) project set in a galaxy far, far away.
Samsung has announced a new version of the Galaxy Z Flip 3 foldable smartphone.
Microsoft has already published a list of permutations in the Game Pass, so we share it with you:
Florida resident Ramiro Alanis spent more than 700 hours watching a new film about the adventures of Peter Parker, as a result of which he got into the Guinness Book of Records.
Anonymous continues to forge Russia. A couple of hours ago, we wrote that hackers hacked into a company that is engaged in geo-prospecting for Gazprom. Now there is information that they managed to hack Main Directorate for the Arrangement of Troops and Civil Engineering (GUOV and GS).
Sega is reportedly developing “big-budget” reboots of its Crazy Taxi and Jet Set Radio franchises, according to Bloomberg, as the company seeks to create a global hit. The projects are reportedly components of Sega’s so-called Super Game Initiative, a plan that parent company Sega Sammy unveiled in 2021.
