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L'Ukraine devient le premier pays européen à lancer Starlink Direct to Cell

1 décembre 2025 à 21:05
L'opérateur ukrainien Kyivstar vient de déployer le service Starlink Direct to Cell pour ses abonnés. Une première en Europe qui permet d'envoyer des SMS via satellite avec un smartphone 4G classique, sans équipement supplémentaire. En pleine guerre, cette technologie offre une solution de connectivité dans les zones où les réseaux terrestres sont détruits ou inaccessibles.

AliExpress Has Adult Electric Bike Deals Starting at Under $400 for Cyber Monday

1 décembre 2025 à 20:40

It's time to retire that bike of yours and upgrade to electric! For Cyber Monday, AliExpress is offering two of its most popular ebikes down to historically low prices, both well under $500. The deals below stand out for the following reasons: 1) they're a lot less expensive than buying the exact same bike off Amazon, 2) they're all shipped from a local US warehouse so you don't need to worry about tariffs or shipping delays, and 3) they're sold by reputable vendors with plenty of reviews and sales to back them up.

Amyet V9-G60 1000W Electric Bike for Less Than $400

The Amyet V9-G60 boasts a 1,000W (1,500W peak) brushless motor that can push the bike at speeds up to 32mph. The 48V 20AH (960Whr) battery can last up to 70 miles on a single charge (the actual distance is dependent on other factors like your speed, terrain, elevation, etc). Other features include a lightweight aluminum frame, Shimano components for its 7-speed transmission, dual suspension, and 20" wheels with 4" fat tires for a more comfortable ride. The bike comes 90% preassembled and includes a one-year warranty. It's also mod-friendly in case you wanted to do your own upgrades.

Luckeep X1 Lite 750W Electric Bike for $446.76

The X1 Lite's 750W (1,500W peak) brushless motor can hit a top speed of about 28mph. The 48V 15AH (720Whr) battery can last up to 50 miles on a single charge. Like the Amyet V9-G60, it also features a lightweight aluminum frame, Shimano 7-speed transmission, and 20" wheels with 4" fat tires, and is covered by a 12-month warranty. The feature that sets this bike apart is its ability to be folded in half with the wheels stacked next to each other. This design makes it much easier to fit in a smaller space. A little engineering magic is needed to make sure that the frame maintains its rigidity and so this feature isn't commonly found in entry level bikes.

Eric Song is the IGN commerce manager in charge of finding the best gaming and tech deals every day. When Eric isn't hunting for deals for other people at work, he's hunting for deals for himself during his free time.

Nouvelle fuite de données chez France Travail, 1,6 million de comptes concernés

1 décembre 2025 à 20:31
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Nouvelle fuite de données chez France Travail, 1,6 million de comptes concernés

France Travail a indiqué lundi 1er décembre avoir été victime d’un acte de cyber malveillance ayant entraîné une fuite de données personnelles. En l’occurrence, ce sont les informations relatives à environ 1,6 million de jeunes suivis par le réseau des Missions Locales (antennes dédiées à l’insertion faisant partie du service public de l’emploi) qui sont concernées, soit parce qu’ils étaient inscrits à France Travail, soit parce qu’ils s’étaient vus prescrire une formation via l’outil Ouiform opéré par France Travail.

1,6 million comptes de jeunes inscrits à la mission locale

Le jeu de données exfiltrées comprend des informations complètes d’état civil : nom et prénom, date de naissance, numéro de sécurité sociale, identifiant France Travail, adresses mail et postale et numéros de téléphone, indiquent France Travail et le réseau des Missions Locales dans un communiqué commun. « Aucun mot de passe ni aucune coordonnée bancaire n’ont été extraits », ajoutent les deux organismes.

D’après les premières investigations, c’est par l’intermédiaire du compte d’un agent d’une mission locale que l’intrusion aurait été réalisée. En tant que responsable gestion de compte (RGC) pour la mission locale, ce dernier était en mesure de traiter les demandes d’habilitation de ses collègues (et donc d’autres comptes utilisateurs, au système d’information partagé mis en place par France Travail pour faciliter la collaboration avec des organismes tiers.

France Travail et l’UNML (Union nationale des missions locales) « appellent à la vigilance »

« En utilisant les droits du compte compromis, l’attaquant a pu créer deux nouveaux comptes via le service ProConnect, donnant ensuite l’accès aux outils métier permettant la consultation des dossiers des jeunes accompagnés », décrit France Travail, qui affirme que les trois comptes concernés ont été suspendus, et assure faire son maximum pour concilier ouverture et protection des données personnelles.

Ouverture contre sécurité

« Avec l’ouverture de son système d’information aux partenaires dans le cadre de la loi pour le plein emploi, France Travail avait déjà mis en place la double authentification systématique de tous les collaborateurs de ses partenaires et rendu obligatoire une formation pour tous les RGC. L’accès au SI de France Travail est en outre conditionné à la réussite d’une évaluation à l’issue de cette formation. France Travail va désormais aller plus loin en mettant en place une sensibilisation obligatoire à renouveler tous les 6 mois pour tous les collaborateurs de nos partenaires qui conditionnera leur accès au système d’information. »

France Travail affirme par ailleurs collaborer avec la Direction interministérielle du numérique (Dinum) « pour renforcer l’identification via Proconnect et l’enrôlement des comptes de tiers par le SI France Travail ». En attendant, la prudence est donc de mise pour les jeunes en recherche d’emploi passés par la mission locale la plus proche de chez eux : le périmètre des données exposées autorise en effet des scénarios avancés de phishing ou d’usurpation d’identité.

Quatrième vol de données en deux ans

Ce nouvel incident ne redorera pas le blason d’un service public de l’emploi déjà largement terni en matière de fuites de données. France Travail avait déjà été victime d’une intrusion ayant conduit à l’exposition des informations relatives à quelque 43 millions d’inscrits début 2024, une faille béante dont la portée réelle a toutefois été relativisée par la suite.

Rappelons que le service dédié aux demandeurs d’emploi a été victime, début 2024, d’une fuite de données massive qui avait conduit à l’exposition des informations relatives à quelque 43 millions d’inscrits. La portée réelle de l’intrusion avait toutefois été relativisée par la suite. Depuis, France Travail a dû communiquer sur une fuite affectant 340 000 dossiers en juillet, survenue par l’intermédiaire d’un portail dédié à ses partenaires, puis sur un nouvel incident fin octobre, qui pourrait concerner jusqu’à 31 000 personnes.

L'Agence spatiale européenne décroche un budget record, et la France n’y est pour rien

1 décembre 2025 à 20:25
L'ESA vient d'obtenir 22,1 milliards d'euros de ses 23 États membres pour la période 2026-2028. Une hausse de 32% par rapport au budget précédent, portée par une contribution allemande spectaculaire de 5,1 milliards d'euros. L'Europe spatiale affiche ses ambitions d'autonomie et de souveraineté, mais reste encore très loin derrière les États-Unis et la Chine.

Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Memberships Are 37% Off for Cyber Monday

1 décembre 2025 à 20:20

If you're exhausted by the ever-increasing price of Xbox Game Pass, there's relief at Amazon in the form of three months of Game Pass Ultimate for just $56.99. That's $18.99 per month, or more than $10 cheaper than the Ultimate plan's usual $29.99 monthly.

Microsoft charges promotional rates first, even if a deal like this is added to existing Game Pass subscriptions, so buyers don't pay their usual rates until the three months is up. And for those who can swing it, the company lets subscribers stack deals. That $30+ savings every three months adds up – it's the difference between paying $240 vs $360 annually.

Save $30 Off Three Months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate

That stacking can not only stave off your current subscription price; it can hold off future increases, too. There's no telling how high Game Pass will go – its most recent price hike occurred in October, with Microsoft throwing in more benefits for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate in an attempt to sweeten the deal, such as monthly subscriptions to both Fortnite Crew and Ubisoft+ Classics, and a promise that subscribers will get access to more than 75 day one releases each year.

Xbox consoles haven't seen the discounts that Sony has given the PS5 during Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but there are sales on games and accessories around. For instance, Amazon and Best Buy are selling first-party Xbox Wireless Controllers on the cheap, and Walmart has dropped the price on hard copies of games like Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater and Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds.

More Xbox Cyber Monday Deals

Noah Hunter is a freelance writer and reviewer with a passion for games and technology. He co-founded Final Weapon, an outlet focused on nonsense-free Japanese gaming (in 2019) and has contributed to various publishers writing about the medium.

Apple Pay : BNP Paribas ajoute le support du réseau CB

1 décembre 2025 à 20:11

C’est au tour de BNP Paribas d’ajouter le support du réseau CB au niveau de ses cartes bancaires sur Apple Pay. Elle rejoint ainsi d’autres banques françaises qui le proposent déjà, dont La Banque Postale et le CIC. Image iGeneration Et maintenant le réseau CB pour BNP Paribas sur Apple Pay Le réseau CB (Cartes […]

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Amazon's Buy 2, Get 1 Free Board Games Sale Is the Best New Cyber Monday Deal

1 décembre 2025 à 20:09

It’s back, tabletop fans. Both Amazon and Target are running a “Buy 2, Get 1 Free” sale on board games, many of which are already individually discounted for Cyber Monday. And these deals are stackable, an elite-level deal-hunting move I always appreciate. Let’s take a look at what board games are eligible for the sale.

Buy 2, Get 1 Free at Amazon

The deals include a lot of standards that should be in most people’s game collection, like Ticket to Ride, Catan, and Azul. It’s also a great sale for parents looking to pick up family board games, as tons of classic games are on sale. Games like Scrabble, Operation, Mouse Trap, Guess Who, Twister, and the like are all represented here.

I’d especially recommend Flip 7, a simple card game that only takes a few minutes to teach newcomers, with matches that last just 15 - 20 minutes. That makes it great to whip out with a group of friends when you’re looking to kill some time. Check out our Flip 7 review for more information.

Flamecraft is an excellent strategy game with dragons (see our review here). The latest edition of Talisman brings a classic dungeon-crawler into modern times (review). And The Lord of The Rings Journeys in Middle-Earth Board Game made it on our list of the best fantasy board games.

Those are just a few of the games eligible for the Buy 2, Get 1 Free sale at Amazon. You can click through to the full sale here to see every game available. There are plenty. And remember, you can also check out the same sale at Target, where you may find a handful of different games available.

Chris Reed is a commerce editor and deals expert for IGN. He also runs IGN's board game and LEGO coverage. You can follow him on Bluesky.

The Best Black Friday LEGO Star Wars Deal Is Still Live at Amazon for Cyber Monday

1 décembre 2025 à 20:04

LEGO sets are popular this Cyber Monday, and the best LEGO Star Wars deal is the Battle Droid with STAP from the Phantom Menace. It's currently down to $89.99 on Amazon, saving you $50 off of its original price of $139.99. It's not the only LEGO Star Wars set discounted, but it's definitely the biggest bang for your buck. LEGO's Cyber Monday sale ends today, so make sure you look through what they're offering in case there's a set you've had your eye on.

LEGO Star Wars Battle Droid With STAP

This awesome 1,088-piece model is one of the most detailed buildable droid figures we've had. It stands over a foot tall when the droid is mounted on the STAP (Single Trooper Aerial Platform) and comes with a display stand and information marquee that's great for displaying with other LEGO sets or on a bookshelf. You also get a minifigure battle droid and a scaled down version of the STAP with clear support bricks to give it that floating illusion. The Battle Droid buildable figure itself can be removed from the STAP, and it's fully posable with the included brick-built blaster. At just over 1,000 pieces, this is the perfect set to lock in on while The Phantom Menace plays in the background.

We built the LEGO Battle Droid with STAP set, detailing the process with plenty of visual aids along the way.

More LEGO Star Wars and Sets Retiring Soon

If you're unfamiliar, LEGO will schedule their sets to retire after some time. Some other great LEGO Star Wars sets will soon be sunsetted, like the Droideka buildable model, which pairs perfectly with the Battle Droid and STAP set for all those prequels fans out there. The Mos Espa Podrace diorama is another great set for displaying in a home office, and the Tantive IV recreates one of the most iconic ships in the entire saga.

If you're after a LEGO set that isn't Star Wars-themed, there are dozens of other sets retiring soon to pick from (check out the full list on BrickEconomy).

Myles Obenza is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow him on Bluesky @mylesobenza.bsky.social.

Last Day To Grab 10% off Phantasmal Flames From TCGPlayer Cyber Weekend Event

1 décembre 2025 à 20:00

Phantasmal Flames has exploded in popularity from release, but the good news is larger print runs are starting to pay off with more stock floating around. We're not out of the woods yet, but prices are coming down for both sealed and single card values, so it's having the right effect on the market.

With TCGPlayer running their Cyber Weekend event until 11PM ET today, this is your last chance to knock an extra 10% off whatever you purchase on there. If you're already a TCGPlayer subscriber, that cashback percentage goes up to 16% depending on how long you've been a subscriber for. If you right up today for $8.99 per month, that flat 10% goes up to 13%, which adds up if you're stocking up.

Phantasmal Flames Booster Packs

The cheapest way to get in on Phantasmal Flames are single booster packs and blister packs. If you're collecting, i'd reccomend going for the sleeved booster packs or the blisters. It just means you'll get better chances of cards being in a gradable condition if you pull something worthwhile.

Phantasmal Flames Boxed Products

Looking to keep some Phantasmal Flames in your sealed collection? This is a great time to catch the Pokémon Cernter Exclusive Elite Trainer Box and The Mega Charizard X ex Ultra Premium Collection. With 10% knocked off, they'll run you $173.70 and $165.59 respectively, which is going to be the best price you're likely to ever find on these products.

If you're planning on ripping booster packs i'd go for the Booster Bundle that contains six boosters for $43.84 after cashback or the Booster Box for $243, which is $12 cheaper than Amazon's cheapest price right now. Just remember, this cashback offer ends today at 11PM ET, so make sure to lock in yuour order today if you're in the market.

Bulk / Case Phantasmal Flames

If you're looking at really bulking up your sealed collection or ripping a high amount of booster packs, buying a case of Phantasmal Flames product is the way forward. It's usually cheaper buying in bulk, and keeping this all sealed is extremely collectable.

For example, buying the case of six Phantasmal Flames booster boxes means you're paying $227.99 per Booster Box after cashback, which is currently a saving of $15.01 per Booster Box, or $90.06 total by comparrison.

Christian Wait is a contributing freelancer for IGN covering everything collectable and deals. Christian has over 7 years of experience in the Gaming and Tech industry with bylines at Mashable and Pocket-Tactics. Christian also makes hand-painted collectibles for Saber Miniatures. Christian is also the author of "Pokemon Ultimate Unofficial Gaming Guide by GamesWarrior". Find Christian on X @ChrisReggieWait.

La Fête des Lumières de Lyon s'offre Stranger Things et déclenche une polémique

1 décembre 2025 à 19:55
Netflix s'invite à la Fête des Lumières de Lyon du 5 au 8 décembre 2025 avec une installation immersive inspirée de Stranger Things. Un mécénat de 152 000 euros qui fait grincer des dents l'opposition municipale, dénonçant une opération commerciale à peine déguisée sous le mandat d'un maire écologiste. La polémique tombe à quelques mois des municipales.

AMD GPU Managed Memory Support Merged For The GCC 16 Compiler

1 décembre 2025 à 19:49
When it comes to AMD Radeon/Instinct GPU compiler support much of the emphasis is on the LLVM/Clang compiler stack with their official AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler back-end as well as having the AOMP downstream compiler fork and the like. But the GNU Compiler Collection "GCC" does continue allow targeting AMD GPU targeting with its "AMDGCN" back-end and using the likes of the OpenMP API. It's not too often seeing new AMD GPU activity there for GCC but merged today is now support for managed memory...

Score a 23% Discount on a 2TB Seagate Xbox Expansion Card for Cyber Monday

1 décembre 2025 à 19:43

It’s Cyber Monday, and possibly the last day to enjoy the best discounts this year. That includes deals on Xbox accessories, like Amazon's 23% discount for the Xbox-approved 2TB Seagate Storage Expansion Card, now available for just $199.99.

Seagate's 2TB Xbox Storage Expansion Card Is $75 Off

The Xbox Series X and Series S come with up to 1TB total storage, some of which is already taken up by the console's operating system. AAA titles can fill that space up fast, and the Xbox Series consoles don't have standard M.2 SSD expansion slots like the PS5. It does support external SSDs via USB, but for full-speed storage that will actually play games optimized for the Xbox Series X/S, you need one of a few approved cards that fit a specific slot on the back of the console. The Seagate Storage Expansion Card was the first of those, and is IGN’s pick for best Xbox Series X/S SSD.

That approach means Xbox storage expansion isn't often as cheap, but there's at least one nice trade-off in its ease of use. Plugging a card into the back of your console is way easier than opening it up and connecting things to the internal board – and a lot less anxiety-inducing for those who don't do that sort of thing all the time.

The Seagate Storage Expansion Card is available in three different capacities: 4TB, 2TB, and 1TB. The $379.99 4TB card is the best per-terabyte deal, but 2TB is the sweet spot, providing ample space for a healthy gaming library without costing almost as much as a new Series S.

Other Xbox Deals Worth Shopping

After you grab the Seagate Storage Expansion Card, head to our roundup of Xbox game and accessory deals. We've also highlighted a number of other gaming deals, with specific breakouts for the Sony PS5 and Nintendo Switch and Switch 2, if you're of the multiplatform pursuasion.

Best Buy Finally Drops an Xbox Series X Deal for Cyber Monday

1 décembre 2025 à 19:33

Xbox console deals may have been absent from Black Friday sales this year, but Best Buy's not letting the season of savings come to an end without a little treat for Xbox fans. The retailer is throwing in a free $100 Best Buy e-gift card with Xbox Series X purchases for Cyber Monday.

It's not a proper discount, but it's a nice salve for the burn of the console's $649.99 starting price, giving you some extra money to put toward on-sale Xbox games and accessories, or any of the other things Best Buy is discounting for Cyber Monday. The deal also applies to open-box consoles, which can net you extra savings if you happen to find one in stock near you. Alas, the deal doesn't extend to the cheaper Series S.

Buy an Xbox Series X 1TB Console, Get a Free $100 Best Buy E-Gift Card

For those unfamiliar, this Xbox Series X comes packed with 1TB of storage to hold a massive gaming library. Those games will look great when you boot them up, too, as this console can make your games shine with crisp 4K resolution and up to 120 FPS silky smooth frame rates.

Not seeing Xbox consoles pop up in Black Friday or Cyber Monday sales this year has been a big bummer, especially considering the recent price hikes. Yet just because there weren't any console deals doesn't mean the seasonal sale events have been a complete bust for Xbox fans. Our full breakdown of the best Xbox deals that are still available highlights some of our top picks at the moment. Some of these deals may not last much longer beyond today, so make sure to grab the ones that catch your eye while they're still available.

Hannah Hoolihan is a freelancer who writes with the guides and commerce teams here at IGN.

The Apple TV Cyber Monday Deal Knocks Over 50% Off Your First 6 Months, Just in Time to Check Out Pluribus

1 décembre 2025 à 19:22

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are theoretically the best times to buy just about anything, but with ongoing price hikes, I’ll be the first to admit it’s getting harder to figure out what’s an actual deal. Rest assured, there is one certainty: Right now is definitely when you’ll find the lowest prices on streaming subscriptions.

We've seen plenty of Cyber Monday streaming deals go live, but Apple TV is offering one of the best discount on an ad-free subscription. Until midnight tonight, you can grab six months of Apple TV for $5.99/month.

Save Over 50% on Six Months of Apple TV

Apple TV has always kept it simple with a single ad-free subscription plan. The Cyber Monday deal offers six months of this subscription at a rate of $5.99/month, adding up to around $36 total. Six months at the regular Apple TV pricing, now $12.99/month after a recent price hike, would add up to around $78, making this over a 50% discount.

The deal is available to both new and returning subscribers, but there are some caveats. If you have Apple TV through a third party, like your internet plan, you unfortunately will not qualify. Same deal goes for if you happen to be eligible for the three-month free trial included with most Apple purchases, which I'd argue is a better deal anyway.

Aside from the $3 increase to its subscription cost, Apple TV also recently removed the “+” from its name as part of an ongoing rebrand. Per Apple's press release, the aim is to foster a "vibrant new identity."

That doesn’t seem to mean too much of a shift in their library. The big Apple TV exclusive right now is Pluribus, a new sci-fi series from Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan that stars Rhea Seehorn. Other Apple TV staples include Severance, Silo, The Studio, and Ted Lasso. It may have a smaller library than something like Netflix, but Apple TV certainly has the juice.

When Does the Apple TV Deal End?

Apple TV states clearly on their site that the deal lasts until December 1 at 8pm PT.

More Cyber Monday Highlights So Far

On the streaming front, Crunchyroll has launched a Cyber Monday sale for the anime-inclined, while a Walmart+ deal is currently your best bet for Peacock or Paramount+. You can check out some more streaming highlights below.

Otherwise, Amazon has already launched its big sale, which happens to include plenty of Apple products. You can check out our full breakdown of Cyber Monday for more guidance through the deals chaos.

Blythe (she/her) is an SEO Coordinator at IGN who, when she isn't following streaming news, spends way too much time in character customization screens and tracking down collectibles.

The Slim MSI Inspire RTX 5070 Ti Graphics Card Drops to Well Below MSRP for Cyber Monday

1 décembre 2025 à 19:20

Woot!, which is owned by Amazon, is offering a rare Cyber Monday deal on one of the new Nvidia RTX 50 series graphics cards. The factory reconditioned MSI Inspire GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16GB graphics card drops to just $719.99 (normally $850 new). Amazon Prime members get free shipping, otherwise it's a trivial $5 delivery fee. This GPU comes with a 180-day MSI warranty as well as a 30-day Woot return policy. From past experience, these listings have extremely limited inventory, so this deal probably won't last the entirety of Cyber Monday. If you've been waiting for a discount on an RTX 50 series GPU for your upcoming PC upgrade, this is a good opportunity to pick one up at no markup.

MSI Inspire GeForce RTX 5070 Ti GPU for $719.99 (Retail $850)

Factory reconditioned with 6 month MSI warranty

The base RTX 5070 Ti graphics card retails for $749.99, so you're already saving $30 with this deal. The MSI Inspire RTX 5070 Ti is one of MSI's highest end 5070 Ti GPUs and actually retails for $849.99. It is very slim for an RTX 5070 Ti graphics card, but still provides plenty of cooling potential thanks to a beefy heatsink and triple fan combo. It's also one of the better looking GPUs with a slick gold metallic aesthetic and minimal RGB bling.

The RTX 5070 Ti GPU Is Our Best Reviewed Nvidia Blackwell GPU

It excels at 4K gaming performance at a reasonable price point

Of all the Blackwell cards released thus far, the RTX 5070 Ti offers the best value, especially if you're intending to play games at more demanding resolutions. This GPU is fully capable of running games in 4K at high framerates. It performs neck-and-neck with the RTX 4080 Super and marginalizes the RTX 5080, which is only about 10%-15% faster but costs 33% more. Like all Blackwell cards, the RTX 5070 Ti supports DLSS 4 with multi-frame generation. If you plan on using this card for AI, the RTX 5070 Ti may be a better value since it has the same amount of VRAM as the RTX 5080.

Compared to AMD, the RTX 5070 Ti is roughly comparable in raw performance to AMD's new RX 9070 XT graphics card, but the 5070 Ti has better upscaling technology and better ray tracing performance. The RX 9070 XT should be better priced at $599, but in reality you won't find any model for less than $700.

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Eric Song is the IGN commerce manager in charge of finding the best gaming and tech deals every day. When Eric isn't hunting for deals for other people at work, he's hunting for deals for himself during his free time.

We Asked World of Warcraft's Housing Team About Couples Housing, More Neighborhoods, Hidden Secrets, Decorating Contests, and More

1 décembre 2025 à 19:00

I've been annoyingly busy lately, and haven't had as much time as I would have liked to dive into World of Warcraft's housing feature, which is now live in the World of Warcraft: Midnight beta. So even though I've now had multiple tours of its features and possibilities at this point, I was blown away when I poked my head into the community and saw this:

And this:

And, holy smokes, this:

Come on. There's no way we're going to be able to make that! Well, okay, maybe no way I, a deeply mediocre interior decorator, will be able to make that.

Nevertheless, early testing for housing in WoW is proving to be quite the success. In fact, amid a lot of controversy around both add-on removal and transmog, it's nice that there's one new feature everyone's just sort of unanimously positive about.

Still, there are still plenty of questions still up in the air about how housing will work once it gets into the full game, and what its long-term future is going to be. I sat down with Jesse Kurlancheek, housing lead and principal game designer, and Joanna Giannullis, senior UX designer, to pepper them with questions specifically about housing: how will it work, what features can we expect down the line, and what the future holds. Here's our full interview below, which has been lightly edited for length and clarity:

IGN: So in the past we've sometimes seen Blizzard introduce new features and then drop them at the end of the expansion, like Pandaria's Farms, and the Garrisons in Warlordsof Draenor. Can we be reassured that housing is going to continue to be supported with new content and added to with each new expansion?

Jesse Kurlancheek: I will reassure you as much as possible that that is the case. We have a short-term, medium-term, long-term list of features and content that we want to add. We talk about what are we doing in 12.0 and 12.1 and 12.2 and beyond pretty regularly. One of the things that's most exciting about housing is that, if I ask you, "Hey, what are the three things you want most from housing?" Just rattle off, and I ask Jo[anna Giannullis] and I ask Aramis [the PR representative on the call] and I ask 10 players, I will get a dozen different answers ranging the gamut, but chances are 90, 95% of those things totally make sense in housing. It's such a wide, open field that you can't really say no to a lot of stuff, and because of that, it's really exciting to add all of these things. And you can see a through line as we talk about stuff, we want players to have this area to express themselves, to be creative, to build sort of what they want, their ideal home in Azeroth.

But then we also say, "But we want you to be amongst other players. We want you to be with your friends or Guildies. We want to give you a space that is not just yours but is ours." And then from there, where do people get excited? What sort of sparks your joy? What lights your eyes up? What do players do on day one, on month one that they want to keep doing, that they want to build on? So, we have our roadmap. We have the things that we think are really exciting. We have the things that we know players want. We know that, yeah, you want more content, you want more decor, you want more of this culture or that culture or this expansion stuff or that expansion stuff. You want to be able to have access to these types of features and we want more customization.

We want better quality of life. We want to be able to do things together that we can't right now. But then, we have things that you don't necessarily think about. When you say, oh, when we announced neighborhoods back in the spring, you'd see people sort of be like, "Oh, now that we have this sort of collaborative space, what does that mean for us?" And watching people have conversations about the what ifs with housing is very gratifying. Hopefully, that very long-winded answer reassures you that we're thinking about things as not just a single feature release, that this is a very long-running thing.

You were talking about having a space for people to hang out in. So, I log in and I go do dungeons or whatever it is I do and I play, but there's also sort of a home base that I tend to hang out in. And generally in the history of WoW, that's always been a capital city, because there's an auction house and a bank, and a bunch of other people there. And I'm wondering how you're thinking about the tension between, do I want to hang out in my house where there's no bank and no auction house, or do I want to hang out in a capital city? But if I don't hang out in a capital city, is the capital city going to be empty? How are you kind of thinking about that?

Joanna Giannullis: I think we are expecting players to sort of settle into different types. We made sure that a lot of things that you go to the capital city for, that's still where you have to go to do that. You got to go and visit your professions trainers, do your crafting orders, visit the bank, the auction house. A lot of those things are still going to be central in the city. You may still want to go there so you can see the Brutosaur parades or whatnot. There's still going to be a lot there for you. But we also wanted the neighbors to be a space where you could be more social with your friends and your Guildies because that's a little bit harder to do in those hub cities. So, we're hoping that there's a nice balance. We're also not making you choose where to put your Hearthstone, we're going to give you a hearth to your actual home so you'll be able to quickly go to either location to do the things that you need to do while you're waiting for raid or what have you.

Is there any thought to making there be practical benefits to being in the house though? I know you probably don't want to put a bank there because then everyone would just sit in there all the time, but I wonder if there's anything else? I saw this thing where tourist NPCs were coming by and taking pictures, which is really cute. I don't know, could NPCs come visit? Could there be a reason to just sit there and hang out that's practical and gameplay oriented?

Giannullis: Right now, we do have cooking stations in your house. There are a couple small things and I'm sure there's things that will happen in the future, but there are some things that you might find more enjoyable to just do in your home or your plot or your neighborhood, and there's a lot of reasons to keep returning to your neighborhood. We've got endeavors coming up with the launch Midnight and that's something that you're going to be participating in, but then those are also going to send you back out into the world. So, there should be a lot of give and take there.

Kurlancheek: We do a fairly hard line on sort of the player power aspect of stuff not coming into housing. You should never feel that, "I have to go engage in a housing loop because if I don't, I can't attune to a raid, or I won't have a 3% DPS boost or whatever." So, that sort of practical stuff is really not on the table. What you mentioned about NPCs coming by and doing cutesy, neighborly, things like that, I think is very much a part of housing. Feeling like this little part of the world that is yours and your friends is alive is important. Seeing the NPCs put the little umbrellas up when it starts raining, seeing them sort of queue up for the shops and things like that really just gives a life and a vibrancy to this place. But it's not practical, right? It's all just vibes, man.

Is there any thought to eventually doing something where two people could have possession of a house together or you could give other people permission to decorate your house? I feel like there's a budding scene of potential interior decorator professions that could spring up around this.

Kurlancheek: Yeah, one comes up a lot is, "I'm not especially creative or I'm not great with a tool set. Can my friend come over and sort of deck out my apartment or deck out my house?" Yeah, it's certainly on our radar.

Was there anything that you had to leave on the cutting room floor for this initial launch that you really wish you could have gotten in? And are you willing to say what it is?

Giannullis: So much. So much. I mean, one of the things that's known is we were able to get the outdoor rooms in for the testing, but those won't be available to players until we actually launch Midnight, just due to some technical reasons, but we were really excited to get them out. We're glad we got them out early so players could give feedback and test them and see what they like about him. But there's some things like that.

Kurlancheek: There's exterior lighting we had to disable during alpha or beta, I can't remember what, just because of the performance impacts. If everybody in your sight line put 100 lights on their lawn, that was going to cause a problem. So, we had to disable those. We're going to fix it up, get them working post-launch, post Midnight launch. Yeah, I think there've been a number of things that sort of people held near and dear to their hearts that we had to just not cut, but just be like, "That's going to wait a little bit and then we'll get to it."

In the future, there might be more to types of neighborhoods, right? We have an Alliance and a Horde neighborhood look and then there's set places in those, but are you thinking about other environments you might want to do down the line?

Kurlancheek: Yeah, I think there's, letting players make a space that they vibe with. I'm sorry, I say vibe a lot with housing.

It's very vibes-based.

Kurlancheek: It's very vibes-based. But getting players a space that they feel like they can make theirs is really important. In designing the neighborhoods, we are very intentional about trying to hit a very broad spectrum of, here are players, here are houses that are for very hermit players, that they don't want to live next to anybody. Here are houses that are in a little cute cul-de-sac, so there's 2, 3, 4 houses that a small group of friends can live in. Here's houses on the ocean, here's houses in the woods, here's houses sort of in all of these aspects. But that's not going to necessarily hit everybody's thing, and so figuring out what the large missing pieces there are is part of the early post-release sort of conversation.

Giannullis: Another thing to add to that, something that we've made an effort is going out and looking in the world, especially even in old content and finding decor or foliage, things that we could add as props and decor so that the players can make their space into what they want. So, if they've always loved a specific zone in the game, great, let's add some of those trees and some of those flowers as decor that they can buy and then put in their yard. And that's something that we're working really hard, I think, to get a variety of decor that feels like every little part of the game has its place, and you can go back to old content and get those things and then you can put them in your house.

Going back into old content and finding things, from each of you, what is the most surprising or weird or favorite thing that you found that you're like, "Oh, I have to put that in housing."

Kurlancheek: So, there's literally a spreadsheet or a form that people can fill out for, "Oh, this thing was something we should add." It's a little bit unfair being me because I can sort of nudge things a little bit harder to go in and say, "Hey, Jay," Jay's the decor lead. I'm like, "Can you add this for me? Literally just for me. I don't know if anyone else cares about it, but I would like it." And he'll be like, "Yeah, fine, that's fine."

I think the more interesting thing has been, this is a massive game, right, and seeing players pull up props that have long been forgotten about. They're like, "That was a cool prop. We should get that in." Someone posted this, it was a shark, it was a new asset. So, probably from Battle for Azeroth if I had to guess. But it was a shark that had been caught, but that was maybe still alive, I'm not quite sure. But it was a very nice, they wanted to make a fishing village on their lawn. And I was like, "That's great." And so, having people post what they're looking for is really useful for us because stuff like that shows up and we're like, "That is a great asset."

Giannullis: We also have had a lot of, this is oddly internal too. This is, everybody really wants goblin items and then trash items. Those get requested a lot. It's really fun. Yeah, people love them and one of the ones I think we added was the Johnny Trash pile. So, if you get the achievement with him back in Battle for Azeroth, and it's so funny, it's like who wants that? But as soon as you see it, you want it. You are like, "I have to have that. I don't know what for, but I know I need that." And it's so fun to see people get excited about those sort of sort of decor.

Kurlancheek: String lights. Everybody loves the string lights.

Would you ever consider making certain housing items super rare or super secretive? I'm thinking about a decoration equivalent of the Time-Lost Proto-Drake or something that's the reward at the end of a secret quest, like the Hivemind or something?

Kurlancheek: Let's see how I'm going to answer this. So, there's the catalog that shows you all the items in the game, all the decor in the game. There's a flag we can say to hide items until you've earned them. So, yeah, that.

Would you ever lock anything behind world first or make something fairly exclusive?

Kurlancheek: I think depends on your definition of fairly. So, meta achievements for expansions are pretty exclusive. And so, we have decor for meta achievements. I think where it's maybe require more conversation of stuff that's time limited. We try to generally err away from things that if, you're like, "Oh, I just need this green placard or whatever, but it was only available for some weird event or something," that kind of feels bad.

Giannullis: We've also, we talked a while back about what sort of decor would we reward for something like PvP, because we'd like to have, and this is no secret, you can get housing decor from everything in game. If there's a way you can earn something in game, we're going to let you get housing decor that way. So, we wanted to do something for PvP and it was like, okay, well if we do this and then other people that don't PvP want it, is that going to feel bad? And so, the concept of trophies came up and you can see some of that early stuff is showing up on the beta. So, I think there's been real conscious effort to make sure that if it's something that you can get from something very exclusive, it's not something that we expect everybody to want to have a ton of in their house or it's something that you can get a version of another way. But if you see that specific version, you know they did something awesome to get it. It's a balance there.

There's been real conscious effort to make sure that if it's something that's very exclusive, it's not something that we expect everybody to want to have a ton of.

When I log in on December 2nd and I have access to this feature, I'm just immediately going to have a bunch of decor already, right? Because I have achievements that exist, I have things that I have done before, so I should just have a bunch of stuff?

Kurlancheek: You will, if you've been playing hard for 5 years, 10 years, 20 years, you will potentially log into 150, 200 things that you will just get spammed with and showered with and be able to be like, "Oh yeah, I remember when I did that quest in MoP or something and it gave me whatever it gave me." And the meta achievements kick in and you start with this very eclectic mix.

I'm sure whatever I have is totally mismatched and makes no sense.

Giannullis: Well, we also start you with the starter packs, which have some more streamlined modern items. Yeah. So, you'll have a mix of some wild stuff and then some, okay, at least I have a bed and a chair. So, we're going to start you with a good mix of things, I think.

Are you looking into any eventual copy-paste functionality or the ability to save custom item combinations? I know that's something a lot of people have been asking about.

Giannullis: A lot of people have asked about that. Definitely copy-paste. Being able, once you get something just right in advanced mode, not having to do it all over again. We're definitely keeping an eye on everything that people are asking for. There's a lot of things that people want. There's a lot of things we want to do, so it's just trying to decide what's going to help players the most.

Yeah, I mean the next question is basically the same one about export strings. If people want to decorate a house, show people and then have someone else copy it if they have those items.

Kurlancheek: Yeah, I think when we talk about any feature that's sort of in housing, it's what is sort of maximally useful across that spectrum of different players. And so, when you talk about something like importing or exporting strings of stuff, that helps the interior designer type player who wants to sort of provide services. It helps the players that are not necessarily super creative, right, are not really jazzed about the mechanical side of decorating. They have a vision but don't want use the tool set.

It helps the players that they like to browse. You just sort of, I have a room for this and room for that, a room for this and a room for that. And also, I think maybe the most compelling part about it is it helps players have a sense of ownership where you might not already. So, if you're a great decorator and I'm a less good decorator, and you make your little pirate cave and like a great pirate cave, "I'm going to take that pirate cave, but I don't like that she doesn't have sharks in the water," or whatever. And then, I throw a bunch of sharks in the water. Now that's sort of mine in a way that remixing of content in general is sort of a part of the internet. Being able to do that in game is also really valuable.

How are you thinking about things like housing contests and stuff like that? I don't know. I think about Race to World First and how that's a tune-in event, and I feel like I would watch an interior decorating show.

Giannullis: The thing is we've already seen a bunch of creators pop up that are like, "I'm a housing creator, this is what I'm doing." And they're starting to run their own challenges and contests, and so that's really exciting to see. I think we're all kind of watching that to see what sort of activities the players are getting up to.

Kurlancheek: Yeah, and how we can sort of build tools to support whatever that sort of shenanigans of being, right? A Trial of Style kind of thing. What do players need to be able to do that? What sort of functionality makes sense to better enable that?

Giannullis: I remember talking about how many people you can even have in your house at a time, and it was something that we were working really hard to make sure we could get that to a good place because we know people want to have parties, they want to do all these different things and we're trying to make sure that what we're building is supporting that and can handle that.

Is there a limit to how many people can come into your house at a time?

Kurlancheek: There is, there is. We're still figuring out where the line is. We do our stress testing and throw a ton of bots into a very decorated house. What happens? In the neighborhoods, regardless of what the solution or whatever the number is there, everybody who lives in the neighborhood can come into the neighborhood. So, if there's 55 players and the max number of players is 100, say, then we reserve those 55 lots or 55 places for people that live there. So, you can always come into your house.

So I know we can decorate the exteriors of our houses. Is there any thought to stuff like, okay, my guild has our neighborhood together. We can collectively decorate the parts of the outside that are not attached to a house. Can we build a little community center?

Kurlancheek: Yes. The idea of us building together is super compelling, I think. As soon as players can build something themselves, we want to build things together. And so, what that ends up being depends on what people are trying to do or what is interesting for them. If it is just us coming together in the town square and hanging up balloons or whatever, because we're having a birthday party, what does that look like? Versus we want to build a racetrack for our mounts around the outside of a town and what does that look like? Versus we want to do prop hunts and dueling things and all of these different potential pieces of stuff. What's juicy?

It feels really wild to talk about it. It feels like we're almost discussing a completely different game than WoW, like a game within a game. I could very easily just do this all the time and then my raid team would wonder why I'm not there.

Kurlancheek: That's an actual problem, by the way, that there are people that are finding housing really compelling and be like, "I don't know if I can make it to a raid tonight. I'm busy with my house."

I don't know that that's a problem you even need to solve, but you were talking about having creators that just want to do housing. And I don't know, has that changed the team's perspective on how they approach this? Has that changed the perspective of the holistic design of the game?

Giannullis: I think we've already always started wanting to make sure that we were kind of in it for the long haul. This is a feature that we know is going to live in the game for some time to come, and we're going to be adding more to it with every, not just every patch, but in future expansions and we want to keep growing it. And so, when you say like, "Oh, well what about all these things we got?" It's like, yeah, over time, yeah, let's do it. Tell us what you want and let's see what we can do.

The idea of us building together is super compelling, I think. As soon as players can build something themselves, we want to build things together.

This is how we eventually get the dance hall. This is the way.

Kurlancheek:

Oh, dance hall is, that's a real low hanging fruit. People are going to toss that together right quick.

I'm sure they already have.

What is the biggest piece of feedback you're seeing from players right now and what do you plan to do to address it?

Kurlancheek: I'm going to reframe that to critical feedback because the biggest piece of feedback is just, "We want, give us more decor, give us more features, give us more of this, that and the other thing." I think one of the things that gets talked about most frequently is outdoor decor limits are too low. People want to be able to build more stuff outside their house. We're trying. We're going to see where things land and sort of, we want players to be as creative as they want to be. And placing restrictions on folks is never the goal in any of our sort of guiding principles.

Giannullis: I know a lot of players are giving feedback about bits and pieces of the UI and the UX for the actual act of decorating, and there's not a strong one. There's a lot of things and things that we know will help players decorate. I think we're just trying to keep all of those in mind. We're keeping accessibility in mind a lot as well. We know that there's some things that might work for one player but not another. So, we're just keeping in our eyes open to what we're seeing and trying to make sure that's all stuff that we'll be able to address in the future.

Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. Got a story tip? Send it to rvalentine@ign.com.

Here Are The Best Nintendo Switch Games Still in Stock and On Sale For Cyber Monday

1 décembre 2025 à 18:58

Black Friday has given way to Cyber Monday, extending gaming and tech deals another day - and Nintendo Switch owners could be in for a treat. That’s because of big discounts on first-party and third-party games for Nintendo's hybrid system, including a Mario and Rabbids double pack for under $15, Just Dance 2026 Edition for 50% off, and even a third off of Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds.

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Lloyd Coombes is an experienced freelancer in tech, gaming and fitness seen at Polygon, Eurogamer, Macworld, TechRadar and many more. He's a big fan of Magic: The Gathering and other collectible card games, much to his wife's dismay.

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