WoW- The War Within will tell its main story via delves and dungeons ‘when it makes sense’, giving me hope for an escape from 2 decades of raid-centric storytelling-
I’ve always wanted to love the setting of World of Warcraft—but its storytelling, gnarled up in confusing timelines, optional quests, raid cutscenes, and books,has always kept me at arm’s length. Despite that, I’ve always been rooting for it to get better. That’s mostly out of nostalgia, sure, but I also have a love for the mechanics of stories, and I like to cheer for an underdog.
Dragonflight, when I’ve dipped my toes in, hasn’t fired on all cylinders in the way I was quietly hoping, although it was definitely an improvement over what came before. But a sore spot remains: Because of how WoW is structured, almost every climactic moment in its story has had to exist in a goddamn raid.
Sure, there are questlines with their real-time cutscenes—but developers have l…
AMD will launch a new ‘mainstream’ GPU by the end of June and it’s almost certainly the 7600 XT-
AMD’s head honcho Lisa Su has confirmed what we really already knew. There’s a new mainstream Radeon RX 7000 GPU coming and it will be here by the end of June.
“We’re on track to expand our RDNA 3 GPU portfolio with the launch of new mainstream Radeon 7000 series GPUs this quarter,” Su said.
Sadly, Su didn’t go into any further details in her comments, which came in AMD’s quarterly earnings call with the usual roll call of bankers and financial analysts. However, “mainstream” in this context typically implies fairly low-end hardware. Put another way, we wouldn’t expect Su to refer to something like a Radeon RX 7800 XT or 7700 XT as “mainstream”.
At the same time, there have been numerous rumours of a May 25 launch date for the RX 7600 XT, which certainly aligns with bo…