Tower of God fans in Korea have been enjoying a mobile game based on the webtoon since April, but the game will soon be available for more players. During GameSpot Swipe, developer Ngel Games announced that Tower of God: Great Journey is headed to North America and Europe in Winter 2022 and will be available on both iOS and Android platforms.

The announcement comes with a new trailer for the game, showing off some gameplay for the side-scrolling RPG, while also highlighting the many Tower of God characters that make an appearance.

Great Journey is a role-playing game with gacha mechanics, where one of your primary goals is to gather new heroes to your party. You can play with four heroes on your team at a time as you explore different side-scrolling areas. Great Journey is a retelling of Tower of God’s story from the beginning, and its animated style captures the look and feel of the webtoon. There’s a big focus on cool character moments, and the story unfolds through a series of static moments and short cutscenes.

From a gameplay standpoint, Great Journey gives you some RPG management to do, without bogging you down in the specifics. Characters level up as a group, so you don’t have to micromanage their advancement, but you will want to set up things like your party formation and pay attention to elemental affinities to succeed in battle.

What we don’t know yet about Tower of God: Great Journey is its exact release date; the trailer only provides a window for when North American and European players can give it a go. Preregistration for the game opens in October, however, to help you get ahold of it as soon as possible.

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Many World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Classic realms are currently plagued by server login queues of up to six hours or more during peak playtimes, and according to Blizzard, the situation is only going to get worse.

In a detailed forum post explaining the server queue situation and what can be done about it, Blizzard states outright that while they are working on solutions (before later stating there is no technology or hardware solution to the problem), the real answer to the game’s current server woes is for players to take advantage of the free server transfers currently being offered to those most affected. The situation will likely only get worse in the weeks ahead, Blizzard notes, as the majority of the game’s new Wrath of the Lich King content won’t officially arrive until September 26. Considering Wrath of the Lich King is considered one of the game’s best and most popular expansions, even more players will no doubt to return to the game in the weeks ahead, making queues even longer.

How did Blizzard and players find themselves in this situation? By Blizzard’s own admission, the company didn’t want to take a “heavy-handed” approach and prevent new or transferring players from playing on the game’s most heavily populated “mega-realms” over the last year, as doing so could potentially restrict players and break up friend groups looking to play together.

“However, the situation on these realms is completely untenable, and even if we can eliminate queues in the short term, this is going to continue to be a problem when new content releases as long as mega-realms exist,” Blizzard writes. “As a result, we’ve made the choice to effectively close US and EU mega-realms to new and additional incoming players indefinitely.”

Some players have asked for more server “layers” on highly populated realms to help reduce the queue, but as Blizzard explains in the forum post, adding more layers on mega-realms is not a fix. Layers, which are Blizzard’s solution to having a large number of WoW Classic players in a single area, create new copies of the game world in order to spread players out and to prevent “degradation of the entire service/game world.”

But that won’t fix the server queue problem. The issue at hand is that the servers themselves can not handle any more players without having them “degrade or fail on multiple levels,” as layers don’t expand the server’s maximum player capacity.

“So put as plainly as possible, we cannot increase capacity any more without inviting additional and likely cascading failures to the service,” Blizzard writes.

Blizzard spends the rest of the forum post attempting to encourage players on highly populated realms affected by long server queues to transfer to new realms, in the process trying to dispel some myths about server population. Due to the lack of cross-server features in WoW Classic, many players feel pressured to play on higher-population realms in order to receive a positive experience, as more players means more people to do dungeons or raids with, for example. As Blizzard notes, however, WoW Classic player populations on most servers are many times greater than when Wrath of the Lich King originally launched in 2008, and that if everyone waiting in queues transferred to new servers, they would likely fill up those servers as well.

“These realms are not queueing now (many have never queued), have healthy and robust economies, and enjoy hundreds of groups forming for dungeons and raids per day,” Blizzard writes. “These realms would be full to bursting based on realm caps that we had in place even as recently as 2014 in modern WoW. The narrative that these huge mega-realms are the only ‘viable’ place to play is just untrue, and we want to do everything we can to drive home the absolute fact that these are great places to play.”

Blizzard will be keeping a close eye on the servers players are transferring to in order to ensure that they don’t reach the point where they need login queues, and may lock servers or restrict transfers “with little to no warning” to prevent future mega-realm situations.

The game’s server woes come in the wake of the Wrath of the Lich King Classic pre-patch, which added the new Death Knight class, class talent revamps, and a Scourge invasion event that will continue to escalate leading up to the full release of the expansion on September 26.

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We’re nearly at the end of the week, but that’s no reason for us to start slacking off when it comes to our Wordle guides. We’re back for another edition, this time on September 8 for puzzle #446. After an arduous week of answers so far, today’s is a breath of fresh air. It’s a word that everyone has heard of and will know how to spell. However, if you want to give yourself an advantage before you even start, check out our list of recommended starting words.

Once you’re past the starting word, you might find yourself struggling to come up with guesses. If you’ve fallen into this boat, then you’ve come to the right place. We’ll be listing two hints below that should help most players come up with the answer to today’s Wordle. Although, if those hints aren’t enough, we will also spell out the full answer further down in this guide.

Today’s Wordle Answer – September 8, 2022

We’ll kick things off with two hints that directly relate to today’s Wordle, but shouldn’t give away the answer immediately.

Hint 1: In the upcoming Hogwarts Legacy game, players will spend a chunk of their time learning spells and how to harness their magic in this type of environment.Hint 2: This word only has one vowel and one repeating consonant. The vowel is not at the beginning or end of the word.

If you weren’t able to guess the answer from our hints, then fear not, as we have the full answer right here. The full answer to the September 6 Wordle is… “class.” The repeating “s” might have tripped some players up, but the word itself wasn’t too difficult. Hopefully, though, every player was able to continue their streak today. Check back tomorrow for another edition of our Wordle guides.

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I’m a little worried about A Plague Tale: Requiem’s stealth, but its narrative and characterization still have lots of potential.

I loved A Plague Tale: Innocence. Despite its straightforward moment-to-moment gameplay, it ended up being one of my favorite games of 2019 thanks to the fantastic art direction, wonderful performances, and gripping story. While I am very curious to see where the story goes in Requiem, the gameplay–faults and all–feels a little too familiar. Most of these issues were easy to overlook back in 2019 when it seemed like Asobo Studio was punching well above its weight. Now, however, these same issues are harder to forgive.

Requiem takes place shortly after the first game and is set in 14th century France during the Bubonic Plague, at the outset of the Hundred Years’ War. Although both games are set in a realistic depiction of France, the story often flirts with gothic supernatural elements. This is easily one of the coolest things about Innocence and Requiem, and what sets it apart from most third-person adventure games. The world is so wonderfully detailed and everything has a macabre sheen to it.

Like in the original, you play as Amicia, a young girl tasked with escorting her younger brother Hugo through a plague-stricken world infested with rats and occupied by hostile soldiers. Along with Amicia’s trusty sling, Requiem introduces a crossbow. As you’d expect, the crossbow is much deadlier than Amicia’s sling, however, bolts for it are hard to come by. This means that, like Innocence, most encounters demand a stealthier approach. You can throw objects to attract enemy attention, squeeze under tight spaces to hide from view, and track an enemy’s movements with a vision mode called Ratsense. Yes, Ratsense.

The first few enemy encounters in the preview I played were not great. After Amicia gets chased out of a lovely little pilgrim encampment, she stumbles into some ruins and soldiers quickly close in on her. These first few areas are cramped and filled with dead ends, making it far too easy for Amicia to get trapped. If Amicia gets caught by a soldier, he knocks her on the ground, Hugo helps her back up, and the soldier conveniently waits for a second to give you a chance to react. From here, Amicia can stun the soldier with a counter, kill the soldier with a single-use knife, or run. If Amicia fails to react, the guard will kill her.

It’s nice having more options in combat than in the previous game, but the first few areas don’t really support them. There weren’t many avenues of approach and when I did get spotted and tried to run, I’d get cornered by guards. Even if I did counter or kill a guard, there usually wasn’t enough room to get past the rest of the soldiers. This meant that pure stealth was really my only option. I quickly realized that if I got caught, it was best to just restart the encounter.

I don’t mind stealth games–in fact I love Metal Gear Solid and I’m a diehard Splinter Cell fan–but being sneaky isn’t what makes those games fun. It’s how you can poke and prod at the simulation, allowing you to get past enemies in creative ways. In these early encounters, I felt like my best bet was to throw pots into conveniently placed armor bins to draw an enemy’s attention. This distraction-based approach to stealth wasn’t great in the first game, and it doesn’t seem to have evolved all that much here.

Thankfully, options did open up a bit more as I progressed. Once Amicia and Hugo made it through the caverns, they ended up in an open canyon. There was grass to hide in and cliffs to clamber up, creating more room to maneuver. Using Hugo’s Ratsense and careful timing, I managed to slip by most of the enemies. I say most because I found my way onto a ridge and hid behind a bush to wait for a guard to pass. However, the guard spotted me right through the bush and rushed me. I tried to hop down from the ridge, but an invisible wall stopped me in my tracks. The guard cornered Amicia and killed her. That inconsistency with the AI, combined with the arbitrary restriction of the invisible wall, robbed the conflict of any tension and concluded with a cheap death.

New to A Plague Tale: Requiem is the ability to directly control a mischief of rats and turn any enemy who dares to venture away from an open flame into a snack. It adds a nice wrinkle to combat that lets you quickly dispatch enemies if there’s a rat horde nearby. Apart from a few tutorialized encounters, Hugo can only control the rats for a limited amount of time, so you’ll need to plan your route carefully. These segments felt a lot more dynamic. One in particular took place in an open air bath house that spilled out into a field. There was plenty of room to maneuver, and systematically picking off enemies with the rats to clear a path for Amicia and Hugo added a much-needed layer of strategy to the combat.

The second half of the preview followed Amicia, Hugo, and a gruff soldier named Arno as they searched for a boat. The first part of this chapter mainly consisted of puzzles as the trio navigated through a rat-infested cave system. The puzzles weren’t complicated, but they did offer a welcome change of pace from the combat. Using Amicia’s sling and specialized ammo, you needed to carefully light a path through the cave so the party could safely pass through. I’m curious to see how these puzzles evolve as Amicia’s arsenal expands.

Combat issues aside, what I am really looking forward to in Requiem is the narrative. This preview consisted of two chapters that took place roughly in the middle of the game, so it was tough to follow along with the plot. That said, the acting seemed just as strong as it was in the first game. Hugo’s voice actor in particular stood out. Despite all the horrific stuff he’s seen, there was still an innocent charm to him that offers a reprieve from the harsh world.

I ran into quite a few bugs during my preview, but bugs are to be expected when it comes to pre-release builds. The game is incomplete and typically developers use that final stretch of development to squash remaining glitches. However, A Plague Tale: Requiem is out in just over a month and I had numerous progress-halting bugs that forced me to reload encounters and restart entire sections.

In one instance, Arno asked me to light his shield on fire in order to get through an area overrun with rats. Unfortunately Arno refused to brandish his shield so I couldn’t light it. In another situation, I simply couldn’t crouch. I checked the key bindings, and swapped from mouse and keyboard to a controller to no avail. Reloading the save didn’t fix the issue so ultimately I restarted the section.

While Asobo Studio does have some time to iron out these issues, it’s worth keeping an eye on the bug situation as we approach the game’s release date. I hope these issues are exclusive to me and my setup, but in my experience, that’s not usually the case.

Overall, I am cautiously optimistic for Requiem. I am very excited to see where Asobo takes the story and its memorable cast of characters, even if the combat does end up falling flat for me.

A Plague Tale: Requiem comes to PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series S and X on October 13. Be sure to keep an eye out for our review in the coming weeks.

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It may not come as too much of a surprise, given that the Witcher 4 was announced as the start of “a new saga,” but CD Projekt Red has confirmed that it is indeed “thinking about” more games for the series, Eurogamer reports.

The new information came out in CD Projekt’s latest earnings report, when CEO Adam Kiciński was asked about the use of the word “saga” in the early marketing for Witcher 4. “Like the first saga was three games… we are in pre-production of the first game from the second Witcher saga,” Kiciński explained, adding that the studio is “thinking about more than one game.”

The Witcher 4 isn’t likely to release any time soon, with the latest news on the game suggesting it’s only just entering pre-production this year. We still don’t have much information on what the game will be about, and whether it will feature returning characters or a new cast. The only hint comes in the form of the first promo image’s lynx medallion, suggesting the new saga will feature a whole new school of witchers.

While we won’t see a brand-new Witcher game for a while, CD Projekt is still working on the next-gen re-release of The Witcher 3, which is still slated to release at the end of this year. The studio also recently announced Cyberpunk 2077 expansion Phantom Liberty, which will release next year.

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