It doesn’t seem that long since Whispers of the Old Gods was gracing our Hearthstone decks with its weird and wonderful corruption, nor climbing the levels of One Night at Karazhan. However, we now have some ideas about what the next expansion could be, and it looks to be based around Gadgetzan.

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— Hearthstone (@PlayHearthstone) October 24, 2016

Given that Gadgetzan is a neutral outpost in the game of WoW where you can often see goblins and gnomes and all that comes with them expect more of the types of cards we got with Goblins vs. Gnomes a few years ago, whcih is good because after it was retired from Standard I’d hoped that Blizzard would rebuild up the number of useable Mechs again eventually.

Ideas for what could be on those cards can be guessed at by the small disclaimer text around the image of the tweet above too: “The word “safe” is not meant to constitute a binding agreement and does not imply safety, security, protection, preservation, peace of mind, confidence, reliability, dependability or trustworthiness. Mayor Noggenfogger is not responsible for any accidents, surgeries, thoughtsteals, mind visions, hellfires, vanishes, whirlwinds, revenges, lightbombs, elemental destructions, excavated evils, consecrations, holy novas, flamestrikes, demonwraths, starfalls, shadowflames, swipes, explosive traps, arcane explosions, ???, DOOM!s, lightning storms, blizzards, twisting nethers and other Acts of Old Gods, magical mayhem or disfigurement that may ensue.”

Of course, Blizzcon is right around the corner so expect to see this expansion make its first appearance there. Can’t wait.

So, Civ VI has finally launched and like every major release there’s going to be some teething issues at first. In Civ’s case, it’s the mysterious case of the missing team multiplayer.

A lot of people on Reddit have been chatting about this seeming oversight, but a little investigation into the game has revealed that actually, the feature is in the game, just turned off. The code’s in place and everything, it just seems to be disabled for the moment, and an advistory is in place that suggests that the team pulldowns will be disabled “until day 0 patch” of the game. Only said patch doesn’t seem to have actually unlocked it for players.

However, these same Reddit users have managed to find out that you can switch it on manually and that team multiplayer will function as normally (seemingly) if you change just one line in the StagingRoom.lua file that is saved in your Civilization VI folder on your PC. Of course, given that this is a manual change you’re making, it’s a given that you do so at your own risk.

If you are interested though, check out this topic on the Civ sub-Reddit, which also contains a bunch of other tips and tricks for getting past other early Civ VI niggles

The team behind Forza Horizons 3 has recently gone on a bit of a purge, weeding out a whole bunch of accounts that had been found to be using hacks to up the amount of in-game currency they had on hand. Unfortunately, judging by comments it does seem that a few accounts that were innocent of this were caught in the crossfire. Oops.

Various threads about wrongful bans have been appearing on Reddit, and a few even went to Polygon to break the story of wrongful banning from the server. These aren’t technically permanent bans, although they’re thirty YEARS long so they might as well be. Keep in mind that as well as FH3 being a new game right now, these bans also apply to the Xbox version because the two are now tied together thanks to Microsoft’s bid to link PC and their console together now. So you can see why a wrongful ban would cause quite a bit of anger.

As for how these people innocent got caught up in it? Well, the word from developers Turn-10 is that they were banning those who were hacking the game files in an attempt to get ahead financially in the game, especially because the game’s economy is tied to microtransactions. However, as one wrongfully banned player has mentioned that they had been into the game’s files, but only to get the game to run at 60FPS. So it’s very likely that the ban has been targeting games that the system has detected has had its files touched in some way.

Appeals can be sent by players who feel they were banned wrongfully to the e-mail address forzafb@microsoft.com, and all will be investigated and those found to have not broken any rules should have their bans lifted and access restored to the accounts.

Speaking to Polygon about the bans, Microsoft said: “Last week, we performed a ban of a small group of Forza Horizon 3 players on Windows 10 PCs suspected of using software such as the ‘Forza Horizon 3 trainer’ to hack their profiles and affect their game saves. We use bans to maintain the integrity of our in-game economy and to preserve gameplay balance for everyone.”

Rockstar has announced Red Dead Redemption 2 and revealed that it will release Autumn 2017 for PS4 and Xbox One.

“Developed by the creators of Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption, Red Dead Redemption 2 is an epic tale of life in America’s unforgiving heartland. The game’s vast and atmospheric world will also provide the foundation for a brand new online multiplayer experience.”

“With Red Dead Redemption 2, the team is working hard to push forward our vision for interactive entertainment in a truly living world,” said Sam Houser, Founder of Rockstar Games. “We hope to deliver players an epic experience that builds upon everything we’ve learned making games.”

Yes, as seen above, the game will include a brand new online multiplayer experience. It may be a while to wait, but we will be getting a new trailer this Thursday at 4pm, and we’ll bring you more info, as soon as we have it!

So, remember the rumours flying around about David Brevik possibly being connected with the mysterious new Diablo project? About how it was all unconfirmed but the signs looked confusing but promising?

Yeah, bad news. It’s confirmed now. Confirmed that Brevik isn’t involved.

There has been a lot of speculation (and hope), but I’m not working on the Diablo franchise currently or in the near future#sorry#muchlove

— David Brevik (@davidbrevik) October 17, 2016

This of course doesn’t mean that the mysterious Diablo-related project is dead, only that Brevik isn’t currently working on it nor will he be for the near future. There is still that Game Director listing from months ago to consider.

And Blizzcon is just around the corner. Regardless of who is involved with it, I bet you’re all awaiting the news to be revealed at Blizzard’s big event aren’t you? I know Lone certainly is.

We’ll just have to wait until that first weekend of November to see and talk about it.