Turning World of Warcraft into a Dungeons & Dragons campaign has never been hard.
Anyone who has run a tabletop session knows the trick. Swap out a few names, drop the party somewhere in Azeroth, call the big bad a Lich King or a Dragon Aspect, and you're more or less there. The two games have been trading ideas for decades. Orcs, elves, dwarves, dragons, dungeons with bosses at the end of them: the DNA overlaps so heavily that a straight reskin would probably get the job done for most groups.
That's exactly why the newest previews of the official World of Warcraft book for Dungeons & Dragons are worth a look. They suggest the people behind it weren't content with the easy route.
Season 5 of the hero shooter launched today, October 6, and it leans hard into undead territory. There's a vampire support hero, a volcanic prison map, a resurrection-themed event and, in a twist that fits the mood, a batch of old battle passes brought back from the dead. Spooky skins are in the mix too, but they're almost the least interesting part of this update.
Here's what's arriving and why some of it matters more than it first appears.
Doctrine: A Support Who Drains as Much as He Heals
The headline act is Doctrine, the newest support hero. His whole kit is built on his vampiric nature, which lets him manipulate the life force of both teams at once.
The Endministrator is not well. That's the headline of Arknights: Endfield's next chapter, and it's the thread Gryphline is pulling on as the free-to-play action RPG heads into its October 15 update.
The publisher laid out the details during a new Special Program broadcast today. The last update was more of a side trip, a smaller adventure that stepped away from the main plot. This one doesn't. It drags players straight back into the core storyline and puts the Endmin's deteriorating health front and center.
A trip to Yuanyuan Manor
The person stepping in to help is Si, a Feranmut Proxy who has offered to treat the Endmin. There's a catch, of course: the treatment can't happen just anywhere. Si wants to bring the Endmin to Yuanyuan Manor, a location that sits inside a realm she built herself using her painting abilities.
Borderlands Online was never supposed to come back.
The shooter MMO launched only in China and was shut down in 2015, before it had any real chance to find its feet. For most of the world, it was a footnote, a strange branch of the Borderlands family tree that few Western players ever saw running. Now, thanks to one persistent modder, you can not only play it but read it too. Borderlands Online is live again, it has been translated into English, and anyone can jump in right now.
A Year of Digging Through a Dead Game
The man behind the project goes by EpicNNG, and this isn't the first time his name has come up. Last year, he put out a public call for help to get the long-dead game working again. A couple of months later, he pulled it off, sort of. The game ran, but only in a barebones state. It was proof that the thing could be resurrected, not something most people would want to spend an evening in.
Broken Ranks has never been a game that dominates the news cycle. The grimdark, turn-based MMORPG from Polish studio Whitemoon Games has mostly gone about its business quietly, updating and carrying on while bigger names soak up the attention. This week, though, it has some news worth noticing, especially for anyone who'd rather play away from a desk.
Broken Ranks is coming to Android devices on Wednesday, October 21st.
A Trailer, a Pre-Registration Page, and One Shared Account
The announcement arrived with a trailer, as these things usually do. More practically, pre-registration is now open on Google Play, so players who sign up can jump in as soon as the game goes live.
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