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Carlsen suffers first defeat in Global Chess League: Alireza Firouzja beats world No. 1; American Gambits fall short of making it to finals
2+ hour ago (284+ words) Magnus Carlsen suffered his first defeat in the Global Chess League 2026. In the match played in Bengaluru on Saturday, Triveni Continental Kings' Alireza Firouzja defeated him. Despite this, Carlsen's Alpine Pipers reached the final in second place with 18 match points....
Chess coaching leads to explosion in popularity of the sport at Shakaskraal Primary
11+ hour, 28+ min ago (143+ words) Chess is booming at Shakaskraal Primary School, where a development programme has grown from 14 to 46 players in just a few months. The growth follows the North Coast Chess Club’s decision to fund a term of coaching at the school, led…...
World of Warcraft: Forever Brings Vanilla WoW Back With 1,000+ New Quests
41+ min ago (548+ words) Published on September 13, 2026 Blizzard has officially announced World of Warcraft: Forever, a new take on the original World of Warcraft experience that expands vanilla WoW with new zones, quests, dungeons, raids, and other content. Rather than following the expansion progression…...
A first look at World of Warcraft: Forever's Legacy system from BlizzCon
21+ hour, 43+ min ago (338+ words) Legacy is a new system introduced in the upcoming World of Warcraft: Forever title which is kind of a mash up of Achievements, a skill tree, and a seasonal journey. I was able to get some hands on with the…...
Warcraft III Reforged: Forsaken Kingdom - IGN
13+ hour, 16+ min ago (90+ words) Warcraft III Reforged: Forsaken Kingdom premieres a brand-new playable campaign that starts you in The Last Days of Lordaeron, where you will step foot into the origins of The Undercity before millions knew its name. Uncover the events that led…...
Distributed Locks
2+ hour, 16+ min ago (110+ words) One-liner: A distributed lock ensures that only one node in a cluster can perform a critical operation at a time — preventing race conditions across services. In a single-server world, a mutex or semaphore handles concurrency. But in distributed systems: Classic…...
Pirate Cosmic Horror TTRPG Shadows Over Port Royal Announced
2+ hour, 25+ min ago (274+ words) Norway-based tabletop publisher Two Starving Gnolls revealed their latest TTRPH adventure in the form of the pirate cosmic horror title Shadows Over Port Royal. This is an investigative horror adventure set in Jamaica during the Golden Age of Piracy, as…...
World of Warcraft: Forever is a whole new WoW game launching in November that'll live alongside Classic and Vanilla
18+ hour, 4+ min ago (216+ words) For months, World of Warcraft fans have been speculating that something is about to happen to WoW Classic. Blizzard Entertainment has now put those theories to bed and announced World of Warcraft: Forever - an all-new version of the MMORPG that…...
'We knew we had to make a big deal of being able to tell your own story within this universe' — Creative Assembly says Total War: Warhammer 40,000 player customization was a 'must-have' from the start since it's part of the 'core hobby"
4+ hour, 16+ min ago (310+ words) The studio worked with Games Workshop to bring forward many aspects of the tabletop game and hobby Total War: Warhammer 40,000 offers plenty of player customization options, which Creative Assembly has now revealed was an essential feature it wanted in the…...
First impressions of the World of Warcraft: Forever demo from the BlizzCon floor
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (269+ words) After the BlizzCon 2026 opening ceremony, I charged over to the World of Warcraft: Forever demo stations. With rumors of Classic+ swirling for what felt like eons, it was a strange feeling to actually be standing in front of a whole…...