HiRez has dropped a new warrior into Season 2 of Smite. Bellona, Roman Goddess of War is here, and her kit is one to be reckoned with. I’ll show you her abilities and how to use them. As usual, I’m going against bots in Arena to ensure that I get ample opportunity to talk you through the ins and outs of this newest god.

Leonard Nimoy, the actor best known for playing Mr. Spock in the ubiquitous Star Trek series, passed away today at the age of 83.

The New York Times has a full obituary for Nimoy, who was taken to the hospital earlier this week after suffering chest pains

The code of the latest Hearthstone has been unpicked by the people at Hearthpwn, and the findings have been quite interesting because they seem to hint at further expansions and what their content could be.

A string of code within the patch points towards what could be a Blackrock Mountain expansion and its presale. There’s very little to go on though, so it’s unsure if this is a final thing or if Blizzard are still going to make tweaks to have something else happen.

New cardbacks have also been determined from the datamine, although no images have been found. The information is as follows (with ‘brm’ believed to stand for Blackrock Mountain):

If you’ve been on the Internet at all in this last year, you’ve probably at least heard of the term “net neutrality”. It’s been an on-going issue for a while now, with people on one side demanding rules be introduced to stop ISPs in America from controlling net traffic as they see fit, while the ISPs have been trying to stop legislation by appealing to the side of the argument that the Internet is a free area and shouldn’t be regulated.

Today the issue was finally brought to a vote by the Federal Communications Commission and the vote was 3-2 in favour of the rules to be introduced to stop ISPs introducing a ‘fast lane’ to those sites that pay by throttling the download speeds of other sites. If you’re a content creator online, this is very good news and exactly what most people who spend a lot of time online for their entertainment were hoping for.

The Internet is now to be considered a utility in the same way as telephones, and so the ISPs are now to be regulated to be sure that they’re not unfairly favouring or cutting off anyone. The ISPs and the Republican Party were opposed to this saying that such a move would cause higher payment rates for Internet users as well as strangling innovation and investment, favouring a law instead that would forbid ISPs from deliberately blocking or slowing down specific content.

While it’s a victory today, there’s always a chance the ISPs could take the decision to court to attempt to get it thrown out. Celebrate but don’t think that it’s properly over, not until its confirmed that everyone will let this decision stand.

When Resident Evil: Revelations 2 was advertised on the Steam page, players saw that amongst the features being listed was offline co-op – a rarity nowadays in the days of online multiplayer. So imagine the disappointment when the first episode went live and this feature was missing.

Yesterday Capcom said about the omission: “The decision to prioritize a single local screen was made to ensure a stable user experience across a variety of different PC settings and devices. Raid mode will support online co-op shortly after launch when a free patch is available for players to download which adds this feature, but the main campaign on PC will only be available to play in single local screen.”

This made it sound as if offline co-op would never be a feature in the game, and understandably some people weren’t exactly happy about it. Now however Capcom have released a further statement, and while it’s vague it seems that they’ve decided to give the feature some thought.

“We apologize to our Resident Evil Revelations 2 PC players who purchased the game and expected to have local co-op as a feature. The feature wasn’t intended for this version and that caveat was mistakenly omitted from the product description on the Steam page earlier, and then included as soon as we were made aware. This was an unintentional error and again, we apologize for the confusion this may have caused.

“We are currently looking into the matter and potential solutions and we hope to have new information to share very soon, so please stay tuned. Thank you for your patience and understanding.”

So if you were hoping for local co-op stay tuned, it might happen yet.