Strafe Left: The Formative Years #20

Blizzard acquire Spellbreak studio to focus on World Of Warcraft expansions

Proletariat have announced they will shutter their magical battle royale early in 2023

Dead By Daylight devs are plotting to end the game’s grind, permanently

Overhauls to the progression system should cut grind by “roughly 75%”

Hell Is Us wants to make its action-adventuring even more "old school" than Elden Ring

It's a big no to map markers

Devs behind Steam wishlist hit The Day Before defend use of unpaid volunteers

They have over 100 full-time, paid "volunteers", but 40 unpaid "supporters" working on it

Today's Wordle answer (Thursday 30 June)

Hints and the answer to today's Wordle word

Is 16TB enough hard drive for you? This refurb is down to $200

That's 1.2¢ per gigabyte.

Get a Kingston Fury Renegade 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD for £110

A super-fast NVMe drive with an integrated heatsink.

What's better: boss battles as skill checks, or secrets behind waterfalls?

Intrinsic reward vs. extrinsic reward

Street Fighter 6's modern control scheme is an absolute game-changer

Finally, a way in

Extraneum is a bit Doom, a tiny bit System Shock, and a huge bit fun

Bring your slaughter to work day

Starfield's big reveal helped suppress my inner skeptic

Can't take me anywhere

Fear my tiny undead minions in Necrosmith

Necrosmith was actually the name of the scientist