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Players can often miss some interesting side quests during their playthroughs of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. The game features one of the biggest in-game worlds in gaming history, so it’s easy to miss some content. The ‘Wine Wars’ is one such side quest that players can get if they have the ‘Blood and Wine’ DLC installed. It is made up of a series of smaller side quests that have players find new owners of the Belgaard Vineyard in the Toussaint region....

This week is sure to be a busy one in all facets of Hearthstone, as patch 17.2.1 is now live. Readers can click here for a summary of all the changes. So far, the meta is shifting as expected in the short term with Demon Hunter dropping slightly in power following the third round of nerfs targeting the new class. Be sure to check out the list of cards that have been nerfed, as they can be refunded for their full dust value for a limited time....

As 2020 begins to draw to a (long-overdue) close, December kicks off a fun month of indie titles that will be well worth your attention during the holidays. Here are our picks for this week in indie games, November 29 - December 5. The Tides Of Time - November 30 (PC) Unravel the mysteries of the Day of the Red Sun as you sail around a world filled with intrigue and monsters in The Tides Of Time, from developer and publisher Ohana Studio....

The entirety of Titan Quest is now available on iOS and Android, thanks to the newly released Titan Quest: Legendary Edition. This includes the base game along with all DLC content currently available for the original PC version. The game costs $19.99, although anyone who currently owns the base game can pick up individual DLC packs at a discount. Best of all, there are no microtransactions or in-game ads. Once you pay the upfront cost, you’ve got everything Titan Quest has to offer....

It seems we know more about the games that won’t be at Ubisoft’s conference than the ones that will. The long list of missing projects now includes The Division Heartland, a free-to-play title by Ubisoft, that was briefly teased in May for a 2022 release. The Division’s official Twitter page dropped the message saying that The Division teams won’t be part of the upcoming Ubisoft Forward stream which starts on June 12....

While the game only recently came out, Valheim has reached an impressive level of popularity in the gaming community, breaking away from the cluster of survival games in the market. At this current time, Valheim has more concurrent players than Grand Theft Auto 5. While this record is only on Steam, that doesn’t make it any less impressive. Part of the game’s appeal to players is the many mysteries in Valheim that players can discover for themselves....

The addition of ranked play to the closed beta of VALORANT has been positively received so far, giving players the opportunity to test out their skills against other players of similar competence. In many ways, the ranking system can most closely be compared to that used in CS:GO, though there are some key differences to keep in mind. Winning Matters Most In both VALORANT and CS:GO, players will earn and lose the most points by winning and losing their games, and that is the ultimate factor that needs to be considered....

Valve is launching SteamVR in tandem with the beginning of the HTC Vive virtual reality headsets shipping arrivals, marking the start of an new VR gaming era. The era of widespread virtual reality has begun. Oculus launched the Rift VR headset last week, but this week belongs to Valve and HTC. Today marks the start of shipping for the HTC Vive VR headset, as well as Valve’s SteamVR, opening the way for dozens of virtual reality games to go live on the Steam platform....

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 is the upcoming sequel to one of the greatest RPGs of all time: Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines. The franchise is based on a tabletop RPG - Vampire: The Masquerade - which encompasses several different lines of games, each one focusing on a different race of supernatural creatures such as ghosts and werewolves. The connection between Vampire: The Masquerade and its video games were solidified with cameos from prominent characters from the tabletop RPG....

Dontnod’s upcoming title Vampyr is a third-person action game in which the player controls a doctor who happens to become afflicted with vampirism. Originally set for a 2017 launch, Vampyr was pushed back to 2018 for further polishing. Thankfully, it doesn’t appear that the polishing is going to consist of finding ways to carve up the game for DLC purposes. In a recent interview, Cédric Lagarrigue (president of Vampyr’s publisher, Focus Home Interactive) stated that “[Vampyr] is a purely solo experience; we did not plan DLC....

Jade Raymond, general manager for Visceral Games, reveals that Visceral’s upcoming Star Wars title is ‘groundbreaking’ and that the game will tell a new Star Wars story. It’s fair to say that developer Visceral Games truly made its name in the industry through the deep dark of space. Visceral helmed the hugely successful Dead Space series, so it’s perhaps no surprise that the developer was chosen by EA to helm a brand new game in the Star Wars franchise....

Activision just added a brand new gun into Warzone, the Finn LMG. Getting your hands on this new machine gun will require you to complete a specific challenge which can be completed very easily with our help. It’s become expected for a new gun to show up at some point in the middle of a Warzone season, and for Season 5 we are being treated to the Finn LMG. This will become the seventh LMG in the game’s roster of weapons, alongside the Holger and the infamous Bruen....

[UPDATE: It appears the original source of the video is ThoseGamers.com and not All Games Beta. You can view their original beta preview at the embed above or at their site.] Horror has been an important part of video gaming at least since somebody first typed in the words, “It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.” But while there have been tons of ostensible horror games unleashed on the world over the years, the number of truly frightening game experiences still don’t number that many....

The latest trailer for Watch Dogs 2 offers a closer look at the game’s new main character, Marcus, and his hacking companions in Ubisoft’s upcoming game. Despite the initial hype at the game’s reveal, Ubisoft’s upcoming hacker-themed title, Watch Dogs 2, has been staying under the radar lately. But now, the developer has released a new video, highlighting main character Marcus as well as shedding more light on his new family at Dedsec....

Renowned video game developer Hideo Kojima sheds new light on his forthcoming game, Death Stranding, touching on gameplay, the title’s meaning, and more. It’s safe to say that ever since Death Stranding’s trailer reveal at E3 2016, fans have been equally excited and flummoxed as to what the forthcoming release from Kojima Productions could be about. Many have incorrectly speculated that it details an allegorical dig at Konami, with others have going on to share potentially accurate theories about the possibility of the main character played by Norman Reedus surviving a trip through a black hole....

This The Simpsons review contains spoilers. The Simpsons Season 33 Episode 8 The Simpsons season 33 episode 8, “Portrait of a Lackey on Fire,” is a celebration of the long-running series’ most closeted icon. For years, Waylon Smithers did time as an all-too-standard bearer of hidden identity in a workplace where labels stick with the half-lives of atomic residue. The innuendo-laden repartee with his boss, Mr. Burns, includes some of the cleverest writing of the series....

Netflix just put out a sneak peek for season 2 of its surprise superhero hit The Umbrella Academy, and it promises plenty more of the imaginative charm that audiences come for. The teaser, featuring a largely unbroken action shot through a war torn street set in 1063 and backed by Frank Sinatra’s “My Way,” appears to be the opening scene of season 2’s first episode. The teaser follows the character Number Five, who has the ability to travel through time and space, as he arrives in 1963 Dallas amid a Cold War battle between U....

This article contains spoilers for The Witcher: Blood Origin and The Witcher While The Witcher: Blood Origin did what it set out to do – show what caused the Conjunction of the Spheres – this four episode miniseries ultimately left us with more questions than answers. Between Jaskier’s (Joey Batey) involvement in the Elves’ fight, the origin of the Wild Hunt, and the start of Ciri’s Elder bloodline, there are plenty of things that we hope season 3 of The Witcher will address when the series returns next summer....

People have been locked inside for a long time now, with nothing better to do than scroll through the internet, so what better way to get people fired up than a good old hot take? The latest big brain opinion on the web is coming from Netflix’s own Twitter account, which decided to drop some spicy opinions on The Witcher in order to keep people talking about the Netflix show....

Blizzard once again shows its willingness to use the ban-hammer, as the company permanently locks out nearly 1,700 Overwatch accounts for using cheating software. There’s little doubt in anyone’s mind that Blizzard’s new first-person shooter Overwatch is one of the biggest, most popular games of the year, but the player count has just fallen by almost 1,700 as the developer once again wields the mighty ban-hammer. The Chinese branch of Blizzard Entertainment is well-known for its stance on cheating, having previously permanently banned over 1,500 players due to their use of foreign software alongside the title....