Tyler Colp

Tyler has covered videogames and PC hardware for 15 years. He regularly spends time playing and reporting on games like Diablo 4, Elden Ring, Overwatch 2, and Final Fantasy 14. While his specialty is in action RPGs and MMOs, he's driven to cover all sorts of games whether they're broken, beautiful, or bizarre.

Latest articles by Tyler Colp

Pro World of Warcraft player disconnects mid-fight because he forgot to renew his subscription before Midnight's world first race: 'I actually bought a WoW token, I forgot to use it'

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news There are certainly better times for this to happen.

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A screencap of the Hades 2 console release trailer. Main character Melinoe glares toward the viewer with her green and red eyes.
Hades 2 trailer teases a new steamy scene that will be added with 'bonus content and quality-of-life improvements' in an update next month

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news That's a lot more of Heracles than we've ever seen.

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Infamous World of Warcraft guild exploits its way to a world first in new Midnight raid until Blizzard says its instant 300 million damage doesn't count

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news This isn't even the first time they've done this.

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Popular Skyrim mod returns after 9 years with a major update and a full source code release to keep it relevant 'for many years to come'

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news SkyUI 6 incorporates several of the mods people have been using in the interim.

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A $5 Wikipedia-like mystery game consumed me for 2 straight hours as I dug for clues about a little town and its big weird tree

By Tyler Colp Published

rabbit hole Lost Wiki: Kozlovka has a disturbing story told through database entries and classified documents.

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A screenshot of Hollow Knight Silksong where main character Hornet takes a swipe at The Last Judge, one of the action game's bosses. A bug-like creature stands on two legs wearing bronze armor. She towers over Hornet as the heroine swings at her legs with her needle weapon.
Silksong player tracks down a secret version of its act 1 boss and immediately discovers why Team Cherry probably cut it

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news Hornet is too short for one of the new attacks to even hit her.

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Diablo 4 game director believes it's 'normal' for most action RPGs to undergo major reworks: 'Friction points that we could never imagine suddenly rear their heads over the course of 10,000 hours'

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news The game's paragon system is on the list of things to change.

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World of Warcraft players go back to work on a year-old mystery after one of them accidentally unlocks the 10th orb in a puzzle hidden in the new Midnight expansion

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news Players suspected their job wasn't finished and now they finally know there's more to find.

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Dealing trillions of damage in Diablo 4 isn't a problem worth worrying about as long as 'there's something that makes it meaningful', game director says: 'I know a lot of it is from fear'

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news The expansion will try to give players something to do with all that power next month.

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Overwatch director says addressing the 5v5 versus 6v6 debates late 'cost us trust': 'We should have listened sooner'

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news Aaron Keller reflected on Overwatch 2's live service development during a recent talk at GDC.

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Former Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan's favorite hero is Reinhardt, and reveals his charge was inspired by Left 4 Dead 2: 'It's what separates a great Rein from a sh*tty one'

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news Kaplan says he prefers simple hero designs above all.

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WoW's questing system was inspired by a playtest that didn't work out as planned, because the testers didn't play MMOs and had no idea what they were supposed to do: 'I ran out of quests right away!'

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news "And we're like, wait a second, you just expect to have quests keep going?"

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Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred's new crafting system will bring back season 11's sanctification and gives bad loot the potential to be legendary

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news One man's trash is another man's legendary item.

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Blizzard nerfed this WoW item, but players found an even better loophole that allowed them to travel across the planet every 2 minutes

By Tyler Colp Published

news A magical, misbehaving key indeed.

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Blizzard wants Diablo 4's outrageous damage numbers to mean something again in Lord of Hatred, so it's letting you crank the difficulty up to near-impossible levels: 'It's going to be really f*cking hard'

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news Finally, something to use those big numbers on.

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A decades-old Diablo 2 easter egg has suddenly become relevant again as players hunt for the best loot in Reign of the Warlock

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news Blizzard has finally given players a reason to find this secret event.

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Diablo 4 will let you transform into its most fearsome demon, the Butcher, in an experimental mini season before Lord of Hatred drops

By Tyler Colp Published

news The Season of Slaughter is also bringing back killstreaks from Diablo 3.

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Blizzard is giving away access to paladins for free at the start of Diablo 4's next season

By Tyler Colp Published

news A chance to try the new class before the expansion arrives next month.

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Casting demons like they were spells with Diablo 4's warlock rules, but now I'm dying to see how Lord of Hatred will transform the other classes

By Tyler Colp Published

shining hex-ample All I could do is dream about what's possible with the new expanded skill trees.

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An in-game screenshot of World of Warcraft: Midnight's Murder Row dungeon. An undead NPC wearing a purple hood named Cravitz Lorent stands next to several framed paintings.
A 9,999,999 gold painting in World of Warcraft: Midnight sent secret finders on a hunt for the ultimate discount and one thrifty player finally figured it out

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news Players will do anything for housing decor.

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World of Warcraft Paladin character
World of Warcraft: Midnight player proves that you only need a single button and a clever build to heal your dungeon party

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news It might not be the most optimal option, but it's impressive that it works at all.

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World of Warcraft: Midnight players found an empty campsite that references 2019's planet-hopping puzzler Outer Wilds

By Tyler Colp Published

news You can almost hear the theme song playing when you look at it.

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A screencap of a male elf from the World of Warcraft: Midnight cinematic. The face of the man looks toward the viewer with bright glowing eyes and a stoic look.
'Sorry I can't hear you over the roar of the Sunwell': World of Warcraft players beg Blizzard to turn the volume down on the giant crackling beam in the sky

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news Were the elves trying to warn us when they told us to remember the Sunwell?

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World of Warcraft: Midnight's lead composer feels 'very lucky and happy that we're not using generative AI'

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news The MMO's music continues to be made by humans.

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World of Warcraft players are once again slaying hundreds of frogs, this time to skin their hides before Blizzard catches them

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news Frog farming is back.

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