Steven Messner
With over 7 years of experience with in-depth feature reporting, Steven's mission is to chronicle the fascinating ways that games intersect our lives. Whether it's colossal in-game wars in an MMO, or long-haul truckers who turn to games to protect them from the loneliness of the open road, Steven tries to unearth PC gaming's greatest untold stories. His love of PC gaming started extremely early. Without money to spend, he spent an entire day watching the progress bar on a 25mb download of the Heroes of Might and Magic 2 demo that he then played for at least a hundred hours. It was a good demo.
Latest articles by Steven Messner
Every time Genshin Impact releases a new character it makes at least $12 million in a single day
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News Genshin Impact is the fastest game to reach $1 billion in revenue, and its characters are why.
World of Warcraft's $25 server transfer fee is infuriatingly overpriced
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$$$ Faction imbalances and outdated server infrastructure make the cost to change servers a hard pill to swallow.
Two World of Warcraft players kill a boss with 1.8 million HP that's supposed to take 40 people
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News All it took was a warrior, a priest, 57 minutes, and a hell of a lot of mana potions.
It's wild how many great updates Genshin Impact has gotten already
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No brakes This is how you do live service games.
Warframe completely overhauls its contentious space combat
By Steven Messner published
News More missions, less complexity, and a quicker grind should make flying the Railjack a lot more fun.
After Genshin Impact 1.5 update leaks, MiHoYo is threatening to crack down
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news Dataminers got access to a developer build and have been spilling all sorts of juicy details.
Assassin's Creed Valhalla players can finally change how their armor looks, but many are unhappy with how it works
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News Changing armor appearance costs 50 silver, which is a frustrating tax on a feature that used to be free in previous Assassin's Creed games.
Check out these super realistic fan-made 3D renders of World of Warcraft's coolest city
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news Using Unreal Engine, Aleksandr Timoshenko reimagines Thunder Bluff as a bleak but beautiful place to live.
The coolest EVE Online locations you should visit at least once
By Steven Messner published
Travel guide Forget betrayal and murder, being an EVE Online tourist is just as much fun.
Valheim players are industrializing the slaughter of its most hated monsters
By Steven Messner published
News If you want an endless supply of wood and greydwarf eyes, look no further.
Why game developers hate doors
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Doors On Twitter, game developers are commiserating together over one of the most surprisingly difficult features to implement in games.
World of Warcraft's much-anticipated patch arrives tomorrow, improves Mythic+ dungeon gear
By Steven Messner published
News Patch 9.0.5 introduces a bunch of new fixes and brings back Valor points so players can gear up easier.
CohhCarnage spent 140 hours building an epic Valheim base, here's what he learned
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Cohh on Homes We asked Twitch streamer CohhCarnage to share his architectural wisdom so we can all be Valheim base-building pros.
Anthem's remaining diehard fans mourn its death
By Steven Messner published
Javelin Down In the wake of BioWare's failed shooter being cancelled, Anthem's remaining players are commiserating and reflecting on what went wrong.
World of Warcraft's community is grappling with allegations of widespread racism in its top-end raiding guilds
By Steven Messner published
Report A gallery of leaked chat logs show raiders belonging to top North American guilds using racial slurs and making hateful comments.
Behold, the greatest World of Warcraft cosplay ever
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News During BlizzCon 2021, Hartigan Cosplay debuted a stunning recreation of Bolvar Fordragon, complete with smoldering body embers.
Konami is making a Frogger game show for people really good at crossing busy streets
By Steven Messner published
news You can apply to be a contestant on the obstacle course show, which will be filmed in Australia.
It sucks that World of Warcraft's next big update feels so far off
By Steven Messner published
Patience, young one Chains of Domination looks great, but its reveal at BlizzCon 2021 makes it obvious we're in for a long wait.
Great moments in PC gaming: When Sekiro's sword combat clicks
By Steven Messner published
Study the blade It's a hard block life.
World of Warcraft might one day let Alliance and Horde players raid and do dungeons together
By Steven Messner published
News Game director Ion Hazzikostas said addressing the population imbalance between Horde and Alliance is a top priority, and no option is off the table.
World of Warcraft's roguelike dungeon is being overhauled so that failing to beat it won't ruin your night
By Steven Messner published
News Game director Ion Hazzikostas says the team is working on a better system that'll reward you even if you lose a run.
WoW's director talks about its endgame loot problem: 'Raiders, we hear you'
By Steven Messner published
News Game director Ion Hazzikostas says the team is hard at work on a new system for raid gear.
Will WoW Classic eventually add Wrath of the Lich King servers?
By Steven Messner published
News We talk to Blizzard about the future of WoW Classic.
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