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World of Warcraft interior housing

World of Warcraft takes home decorating in MMOs like Final Fantasy 14 and adds the freedom of The Sims 4 building to it, letting you "resize and rotate stuff" using 3D software made to look more "WoW-like"

By Jordan Gerblick published

News World of Warcraft's in-depth home decorator originally looked "too much like a software," so Blizzard "changed the art to feel like magic"

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World of Warcraft house

World of Warcraft design lead says the upcoming housing feature is a "challenge" for performance and accessibility because it's not "anything like existing zones and the kinds of content that we've had before"

By Jordan Gerblick published

News Blizzard wants to make WoW housing both deep and accessible

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World of Warcraft housing

World of Warcraft ends 21-year drought and adds housing with MMO's new Midnight expansion – but Blizzard has a good reason it took so long: "We couldn't just check off a box and do the minimum"

By Anna Koselke published

News "We get one shot at this to impress people"

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A close up of a man holding a gun during the reveal for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7.

If you're wondering how Call of Duty's Black Ops 7 trailer is going down, the top comment on YouTube by some way is "this actually made me pre-order Battlefield 6"

By Issy van der Velde published

news People are not impressed

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A robot standing in a green room during the trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 dev doesn't care about former Blizzard president calling the series "lazy" or saying it'll get "boot stomped" by Battlefield 6: "You just don't worry about it, right?"

By Issy van der Velde published

News "Let's all have fun"

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A woman with tattoos looking up during the trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7.

As Battlefield 6 keeps skins grounded, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 goes the other way by carrying over all of Black Ops 6's goofy skins as devs are still "figuring out" how to keep everyone happy

By Issy van der Velde published

News Is it possible to please all players?

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Key art for Diablo 4, Season 4 - Loot Reborn.

Former Gears of War boss becomes former Diablo boss as Rod Fergusson leaves Microsoft a third time, "sword in hand," after 5 years overseeing the ARPG series: "I'm proud of what we've built"

By Dustin Bailey published

News I look forward to seeing what Fergusson accomplishes at the next studio to be inevitably acquired by Xbox

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Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6

"This is a monumental moment": Weeks after Microsoft laid off 9,000, Call of Duty devs vote to ratify union contract guaranteeing raises as the publisher pushes AI

By Ashley Bardhan published

News "It feels like we've been sprinting a marathon"

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Avowed screenshot Xbox Series X

Xbox Game Studios list: Every studio Microsoft owns and what they are developing

By Josh West last updated

Guide With the Activision Blizzard deal done and plenty of new games on the horizon, here's an updated look at every first-party Xbox Series X exclusive in development

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Diablo 4 season 8 art

Blizzard reverses course, says Diablo 4 season 8 will nerf "wildly overpowered" builds "in the first week or so" because waiting until midseason "was a really big disrespect to players' time"

By Jordan Gerblick published

news "We're changing our philosophy on balance a little bit"

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