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BioWare Has No Plans for Dragon Age: The Veilguard DLC as It Turns Its Attention to Mass Effect 5

BioWare currently has no plans for downloadable Dragon Age: The Veilguard expansions, seemingly scuttling any hopes for DLC on the order of fan-favorite releases like Trespasser or Awakening . Instead, Rolling Stone reports that BioWare's "full attention has shifted entirely to the next Mass Effect" now that Dragon Age is officially out in the wild. While BioWare didn't offer any follow-up details in Rolling Stone's report, IGN understands that the studio plans to support The Veilguard with quality-of-life improvements and a handful of smaller content updates. We have reached out to EA for more details. BioWare's decision not to release a DLC expansion may come as a surprise given its history with Mass Effect, Dragon Age, and Baldur's Gate 2. DLC episodes like Mass Effect 2's Lair of the Shadowbroker, the Dragon Age 2 prequel Leliana's Song, and the aforementioned Trespasser include some of BioWare's best-loved stories, offering a deeper

Fortnite Announces Music-Inspired OG Chapter 2 'Remix' Season with spots from Snoop Dogg, Eminem, and More

Fortnite announced today that it is rolling out a new OG Battle Royale season , called Chapter 2 Remix, in partnership with Snoop Dogg, Ice Spice, Eminem, and, posthumously, Juice WLRD. In each week of November, Fortnite will have a waterfall rollout of new map locations "revamped" by the artists, culminating in a finale event. Week 1 will have Snoop Dogg's touch, remixing the point of interest formerly known as The Agency as The Dogg Pound. It will also bring back the boogie bomb that triggers "Drop It Like It's Hot." Week 2 will reveal Eminem's takeover of The Grotto as Spaghetti Grotto (a play on his Mom's Spaghetti restaurant in Detroit) with a "Rap God" machine gun that spits out lyrics to the 2013 song. Week 3 drops Ice Spice's Y2K, New York-inspired Shark Island. Finally, Week 4 will pay homage to Juice WLRD, who died from a seizure in 2021 at just 21 years old. Epic says it worked closely with his mother, estate, and labe

Monster Hunter Wilds Players Have Run Into Some Wildly Low-Poly Monsters, and Now They're Posting Their Favorites

Capcom officially unleashed the Monster Hunter Wilds beta test for everyone on Thursday, and some players are finding that its creatures are a bit…flat. The Monster Hunter series is known for many things, but its history of delivering creative, detailed monsters is easily one of its biggest draws. While the franchise’s next major entry, Wilds, will surely be no different when it launches early next year, those who hopped into its pre-release beta yesterday are finding that its monsters don’t look quite as they expected. Specifically, many creatures currently sport low-poly models that make them look like they just hopped straight of a PS1 game. Wilds beta seems to be struggling with its polygons Here's a thread of any comically low-poly #MHWilds images I come across that are too funny to ignore🧵: Feel free to drop your own low-poly encounters Starting off with a low poly Seikret pic.twitter.com/ilbAUb7cet — TeaCommonShark (@khitwins) November 1, 2024 It's unclear

Black Ops 6’s Coolest Mission Shows It’s Time Call of Duty Left Modern Warfare Behind

Warning: Full spoilers for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6’s campaign follow. The 2020s have not been kind to Call of Duty’s single-player campaigns. Black Ops Cold War was squeezed thin by the COVID pandemic. Vanguard was a rote, forgettable trip back to the war that started it all. Modern Warfare 2 was a hollow cover of the series’ greatest hits, while its 2023 sequel is largely considered the worst COD campaign ever made. Though chaotic development cycles inflicted by publisher Activision certainly haven’t helped, the past few years have highlighted that Call of Duty’s tried-and-tested approach is wearing thin. In 2007, the sniper battles of All Ghillied Up and all-in pushes of War Pig were pure adrenaline. Today, their modern equivalents feel increasingly like warmed-up leftovers. Thank goodness, then, for this year’s Black Ops 6 and its reinvigorating campaign. Every one of its missions points to an interesting future for Call of Duty single-player, be that its opportunity-base