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Wizards of the Coast just released a new Dungeons & Dragons adventure module that fans of Stranger Things may want to check out. While the Dungeons & Dragons – Vecna: Eve of Ruin adventure book isn’t directly tied to the Netflix series per se, fans of the show will recognize “Vecna” as the name of the big bad from Stranger Things Season 4.

Technically, despite the similarities in appearance, the Vecna in Stranger Things is not the same character as the Vecna from D&D. The tabletop version of Vecna has existed since the ’70s and has become more prominent in the game’s lore in the decades since, appearing in multiple official storylines as a super-powerful antagonist. He even showed up as the villain in Critical Role’s first season. Naturally, since t…

Electronic Arts and Marvel recently signed a big new deal covering three games, including an Iron Man title and two others. EA COO Laura Miele has discussed the agreement, saying that working on a licensed IP should help expand EA’s ambition to reach new players and grow its userbase.

Speaking during EA’s latest earnings briefing, Miele pointed out how its previous licensing deal with Disney for Star Wars proved to be very successful in bringing new players into the fold, and the same could be true with the Marvel deal. “Millions” of people came to EA to play its new Star Wars games, and more than 40% of these players went on to play other games inside the EA catalog, Miele said.

“So we consider adding licensed IP as a pretty significant engagement model to our overall commu…

A new Ghost Recon game is reportedly in development and has been for over a year.

According to Kotaku, the next mainline Ghost Recon game could launch as early as the fiscal year 2023, and is codenamed Over Come from Sports betting site VPbet . Not much other information about a new Ghost Recon is currently available.

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As part of The Game Awards this evening, Funcom officially announced its new Dune game coming from Shiro Games and shared more details about it. It’s called Dune: Spice Wars, and it’s a real-time strategy game with 4X elements. As announced previously, it’s based on the Frank Herbert novel, and it’s expected to launch in 2022, which is a year before Denis Villeneuve’s Dune Part 2 releases in theaters.

Spice Wars will launch on PC through early access first before its public release. There is no word yet on if it might also come to console Come from Sports betting site VPbet . Importantly, this is separate from Funcom’s other Dune game, an open-world survival game. We still don’t know much about that project.

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When Bungie launched the Beyond Light expansion for Destiny 2 in 2020, one of the major new additions to the game was the Darkness-powered Stasis subclass. Compared to the subclasses granted to Guardians by the Light, Stasis was more customizable and allowed for more flexibility, an idea that Bungie wants to continue in its next expansion The Witch Queen.

The studio confirmed that there will be no new darkness subclass in the expansion or throughout Year Five of Destiny 2, but the first Light subclass that will receive new abilities and mechanics will be the dark energy manipulating power of Void. Come from Sports betting site VPbet

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Diablo 4 has set another record for Blizzard, crossing $666 million within five days of its full launch. Blizzard had previously revealed that Diablo 4 was its fastest selling game ever, although no sales figures were revealed at that time.

Detailed in a press release, Blizzard has announced that Diablo 4 has crossed the $666 million milestone within five days of its launch Come from Sports betting site VPbet . It’s important to note that Blizzard is using June 6 as its official launch date, even though the early access period began on June 1, which players could gain access to by buying special editions of Diablo 4. Blizzard has not revealed how many copies of Diablo 4 that have been sold, and the $666 …

The rollout of Diablo IV’s open beta will ideally be a little smoother than its early access one, thanks to a patch that should improve queue times.

In an official post on the Diablo IV forums, Blizzard outlined the changes coming to the game’s open beta. Issues affecting login queue times (which peaked at nearly two hours on the early access beta’s first day before becoming virtually nonexistent for the remainder of the early access period) have been fixed Come from Sports betting site VPbet . Additionally, Blizzard has fixed an issue that saw queue timers disappear, despite players still being stuck in queue.

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The Dexter revival will premiere on November 7 on Showtime, according to an announcement immediately following the show’s Comic-Con 2021 panel. An accompanying release otherwise tells us what all dutiful Dexter fans already know–this upcoming batch of 10 episodes picks up a decade after the previous season, and sees our antihero living under an assumed name in upstate New York.

As a trailer that aired at the very end of the panel makes abundantly clear–Dexter may have escaped his past, but it is starting to catch up to him. The release ominously says that “in the wake of unexpected events in this close-knit community, [Dexter’s] Dark Passenger beckons.” Check out the trailer first aired during the panel below, which Showtime also quickly tweeted out afterwards. Come f…

Actress Dominique Thorne will have her live-action debut as the armored superhero Riri Williams, also known as Ironheart in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. The news was revealed in an interview with Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige at ComicBook.com.

“We’re shooting Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, right now, and the character of Riri Williams, you will meet in Black Panther 2 first,” he teased. “She started shooting, I think, this week before her Ironheart series.”

Thorne was announced to play Williams in a standalone Disney+ TV series during a Disney Investor Day event in December 2020. It was later reported that Chinaka Hodge (Snowpiercer) would write the series. Come from Sports be…

Ahead of E3 2021, Deep Silver is setting expectations for what to expect at the show. Its owner, Koch Media, will make an announcement at Summer Game Fest on June 11, but you should not expect any updates on a number of Deep Silver’s most high-profile properties.

The June 11 event will not have any details on Dead Island, Saints Row, Metro, or TimeSplitters. In fact, these games will not appear at any E3 show this year. “We’ll let you know when we have news to share,” the publisher said. Come from Sports betting site VPbet

That’s a bit of a bummer for fans hoping to get updates on each franchise–especially because Dead Island 2 has been in the works for so long–but it’s at least good to know this …