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World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Classic has just been confirmed to be in development at BlizzConline 2021. The announcement has given many fans hope that subsequent expansions could be given their own servers as well, allowing players to enjoy their favorite by-gone eras of WoW. World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Classic could be the last version of the game that will work well with Blizzard’s current Classic content model, however. The next expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, poses some huge challenges for WoW Classic’s content release model, and could be one of the long-running MMO’s biggest hurdles to date....

On the latest official Xbox podcast, Director of Program Management Jason Ronald teased “exciting” new features coming to Xbox Series X|S in the coming months and years, adding that what has been released up until now is “just the beginning.” “We’re also partnering really closely with key game developers from all across the industry to really take full advantage of all the next-gen capabilities that we put in the Xbox Series S and Series X....

Xbox head Phil Spencer states that the upcoming Xbox Scorpio will need to be paired with a 4K television for users to get the full impact of the console’s power. Although Microsoft did showcase a number of games during its E3 2016 presentation, the company seemed to also have a large focus on new hardware. The Xbox One S, a more streamlined version of the current model with a little bit more processing bite in a small body, was announced, along with a price point of $299....

Google Pixel and Pixel XL tips and tricks: Getting to grips with Google’s phone Pixel 32GB - free @ £45.00/month for unltd mins/ texts, 7GB of data, free Daydream VR headset and 10 BAFTA winning movies from the Google Play Store Pixel XL 32GB: free @ 50.99/month for unltd mins/texts, 7GB of data, free Daydream VR headset and 10 BAFTA winning movies from the Google Play Store Google Pixel XL vs Pixel: Which should you choose?...

Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ winter update has brought many new features to fans for the holiday season. With Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year plans sorted, Nintendo has also added the option to visit a random Dream Island – including the company’s own. The Japanese titan shared its in-game Dream Address via our favorite Resident Service dog, Isabelle, on the Animal Crossing Twitter account. Instructions were given to lay down on any bed in your house, select “Search by Dream Address” and input “6382-1459-4417” when prompted by Luna....

When the Snyder Cut shared its first trailer, you might remember seeing an infamous scene where Joker says, “We live in a society”. Despite not actually appearing in the film, Zack Snyder has finally shared the clip for all to see on Twitter. In the black-and-white clip from the “Justice is Grey” version of the film, Batman tells Joker about Harley Quinn’s dying wish to kill the clown, to which Joker responds with the deleted line....

There has been an update on the development of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, as the voice work for the game is now recorded. A sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild was announced during the Nintendo Direct event held during E3 2019. Since then, we have heard nothing about the game. To date, we still don’t know the title of the game, nor its release date....

What Does Social Media Manager Mean? A social media manager is a professional who maintains social media content and platforms for an employer. A social media manager is generally involved in the process of generating, curating, editing, posting and managing a “life cycle” for social media posts and content. Techopedia Explains Social Media Manager In an age where social media is so much a part of e-commerce, the social media manager’s job has become somewhat sharply defined....

What Does Cloud-Native Architecture Mean? Cloud-native architecture is an architecture or system that has been built specifically to run in the cloud. Cloud-native architectures have the benefit of more flexibility over legacy systems that were built to run on a particular hardware infrastructure, and may be difficult to migrate to the cloud later. Techopedia Explains Cloud-Native Architecture Cloud-native architecture makes use of the cloud philosophy of distributed systems. It is not built on physical servers residing on a particular enterprise site, because it is deployed in the cloud, and often through multi-cloud implementations, so that one part of the system may be on one vendor’s servers, and another part may be on some other vendor’s servers....

What Does Google Stalking Mean? “Google stalking” is a term for looking up in-depth information on someone using the Google search engine on the Internet. Because Google is the predominant search engine that most Web surfers use, Google stalking has come synonymous with getting basic online research on a person, or on any other kind of topic or subject. Techopedia Explains Google Stalking One of the tricky points about Google stalking is the ethics involved....

What Does Hope This Helps (HTH) Mean? The phrase “hope this helps,” abbreviated HTH, is common in Internet and digital messaging slang. This particular phrase is often used in workplace situations as people interact and try to solve problems. Techopedia Explains Hope This Helps (HTH) In a general sense, this abbreviation gets used as part of the human migration to short messaging platforms and other systems, where it may be more time consuming to type out the words than it is to use an abbreviation....

What Does Narrow Artificial Intelligence (Narrow AI) Mean? Narrow artificial intelligence (narrow AI) is a specific type of artificial intelligence in which a learning algorithm is designed to perform a single task, and any knowledge gained from performing that task will not automatically be applied to other tasks. Techopedia Explains Narrow Artificial Intelligence (Narrow AI) Narrow AI supports many commercial applications, including recommendation engines. As learning algorithms become deeper, the applications of narrow AI are also becoming more layered....

May the wind be at our backs! Although that nautical seafaring line sounds like something Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) might have said to the crew of the USS Enterprise 1701-D, the truth is, that line comes from Admiral James T. Kirk (William Shatner) in Star Trek III: The Search For Spock. And now, as Picard season 3 comes to us at warp speed, it seems that The Next Generation crew is getting their own version of the classic series movies....

For many years, George R.R. Martin made it a point to look up Ryan Condal whenever the fantasy author was in Los Angeles. Often that meant on the weekends Martin was in town to pick up another Emmy for the latest season of Game of Thrones, he’d also squeeze in a beer, a coffee, or just a fond hello with the fellow genre writer. The pair had been friendly ever since Condal “stalked” Martin in his hometown of Santa Fe—in truth, Condal had invited him to dinner while shooting a pilot nearby—and through the years, they liked to exchange notes and trade barbs....

Overwatch’s Jeff Kaplan takes to the Battle.net forums to let players know that replay and spectator systems are being worked on but are not top priorities right now. Blizzard is working on adding replays and a full spectator mode to Overwatch at some point in the future, but players shouldn’t hold their breath waiting for the features. That’s the message Overwatch game director Jeff Kaplan shared with fans in a forum post on Thursday....

Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan reveals why it took so long for Blizzard to add capture the flag to the game, citing challenges with imbalance due to character movement. Overwatch players have been ecstatic about the Year the Rooster event that Blizzard recently added to its popular shooter. The Chinese New Year-themed special event adds numerous festival skins to the game, as well as a capture-the-flag game mode called “Capture the Rooster”....

Marvel’s Spider-Man is an award-winning title that turned the PlayStation 4 into a must-buy console for many fans of truly great superhero video games. Against all odds, lightning even struck twice with its spin-off sequel, Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales. In another universe, however, those games may have been associated with Xbox. Mind you, that’s not us trying to add to Marvel’s ever-growing Spider-Verse; it’s an event that almost happened in this reality....

A now-removed PlayStation Blog post suggests that the ambitious No Man’s Sky will cost $60 at launch, and even points to the game releasing as soon as tomorrow. For sci-fi gaming enthusiasts, the wait for the incredibly ambitious No Man’s Sky has been tough. Promising a vast universe that would take billions of years in real time to explore, No Man’s Sky has caught the attention of gamers everywhere, as well as the mainstream media....

With legendaries soon to be transmoggable in the World of WarCraft expansion, Shadowlands, now is the time to collect some fan favorites. Transmog is a system in the game that allows players to make their equipped armor appear differently, using other items they’ve collected. Before the age of transmog, many players found themselves in a mish-mash of armor designs that didn’t often look pleasing. Especially in The Burning Crusade, many pieces of armor came with random neon colors that just didn’t mesh well with other armors....

One announcement at The Game Awards 2018 was made rather nonchalantly, slipped in between larger announcements and made into a casual conversation with Xbox’s Phil Spencer. The Xbox head revealed that Winter of Arcade, the annual holiday period where several major indie games are released on Xbox, is returning. 2018’s Winter of Arcade is looking to be one worth remembering, made all the better because several of the games will be made available as part of the Xbox Game Pass subscription....