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Chromie, World of Warcraft’s bronze dragon Chronormu in female gnome form, has officially been revealed as transgender in a new book, Folk and Fairy Tales of Azeroth.

A short story centered on Chromie’s origins is featured prominently in the collection of various tales from across WoW lore, which some fans have received ahead of the book’s official May 25 release date. The story’s narrator begins by referring to Chromie as he/him, but once Chromie undergoes a right of passage known as the Visage Ceremony, the character is referred to as she/her in both her gnome and dragon forms.

WoW narrative lead Steve Danuser jumped on Twitter to clarify fan questions about Chromie’s pronouns.

While many fans have long been speculated that Chromie was trans or gender-fluid, it’s nice to see Blizzard make it official and flesh out the character’s backstory after all these years.

Chromie isn’t the first trans character in the WoW universe, but she is certainly the most prominent. She first appeared in vanilla WoW as a quest-giving NPC inside a deserted inn within the Western Plaguelands. Since then she’s regularly been involved in any WoW storyline involving time travel, and was recently more heavily incorporated into the game as the NPC who allows players to access older expansions in the leveling revamp that happened prior to the release of the game’s latest expansion, Shadowlands. She can also be seen in the announcement trailer for WoW Classic, where she boldly states “someone once said you can’t go home again, but they lacked vision–and a temporal discombobulator.” Chromie is playable in Blizzard’s mostly abandoned MOBA, Heroes of the Storm, as well.

WoW players are currently in wait mode, as players of Shadowlands are still awaiting the expansion’s first major content patch, Chains of Domination, while WoW Classic players get ready to step through the Dark Portal with the arrival of The Burning Crusade Classic on June 1.

Mass Effect: Legendary Edition project director Mac Walters has confirmed that Mass Effect 3’s multiplayer could be added to the collection in the future if the demand is great enough.

In an interview with CNET, Walters said that he would never “say no” to Mass Effect 3’s multiplayer making a return after its omission in the Legendary Edition.

“I would never say no to that — we want to see what kind of reception the Legendary Edition gets and what the demand for the multiplayer is,” Walters said. “And then we’ll ask ourselves if we have the resources and time to bring it up to the quality level we and fans want.”

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In our interview with Walters prior to release, he mentioned that the decision to leave Mass Effect 3’s multiplayer out of the Legendary Edition came to to “knowing where to draw the line.”

“It obviously had a lot of challenges,” Walters explained. “Everything from what you do with crossplay, because that’s kind of an expectation now; what you do with people who are still playing multiplayer now — how do you honor that, how do you bring them in, can we somehow bridge that gap? And of course these aren’t insurmountable challenges, there are things that we can do to fix that problem and get multiplayer in there.

“But when you look at the amount of effort that it was going to take to do that, it was easily commensurate if not greater than uplifting all of Mass Effect 1, and I think our focus was on the single-player experience.”

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Mass Effect 3’s multiplayer was a co-op experience that allowed players to team up to take on Reapers, Cerberus, Geth, and Collector forces. Progress in the mode also earned that player rewards in the Galaxy at War system that influences the outcome of Mass Effect 3’s story.

FYI: Galaxy at War has been rebalanced in Mass Effect: Legendary Edition in light of multiplayer and the companion app being available.

For more on Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, check out every important choice and consequence you can make in the three games, where our review of the collection is, and our guide to all the possible romances in the space adventure.

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While cheating has been a huge problem in Call of Duty: Warzone, co-developer Raven Software has revealed that it has officially banned over 500,000 “malicious accounts” since the battle royale was released last year.

Raven shared the news on Twitter, confirming that its latest banwave of 30,000 accounts has brought the total of banned accounts to over half a million.

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This is another step in the efforts by the teams behind Call of Duty to curb this cheating epidemic. Last month, the team shared an update as to how it was planning on combating these cheaters, including issuing bans seven days a week, tackling the commercial market of cheat providers and resellers, and stopping cheaters from moving to alternate accounts.

Raven has also continued to fix exploits discovered in Warzone, including a map exploit in Verdansk ’84, one that had a Mini Gun spawning from Supply Boxes, and one that allowed players to use the Gas Mask indefinitely.

For more on Call of Duty: Warzone, check out where it ranks on our list of the 10 best battle royales, why Warzone’s map will never return to its original form, and more about Season 3’s Verdansk ’84.

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The Season of the Splicer has officially arrived in Destiny 2 (although the game is down for emergency maintenance), bringing with it a new slate of Seasonal Challenges. First introduced in the game’s last season, these challenges replace weekly bounties for Bright Dust and other rewards, giving you objectives to meet throughout the season. What’s nice about Seasonal Challenges, however, is that they persist all the way through the Season of the Splicer. While new challenges are released each week, you’ll have until the end of the season to complete them all–and earn big rewards of Bright Dust and experience points for your trouble.

Here’s a rundown of how the Seasonal Challenge system works and what challenges you’ll face each week throughout the season’s run. The Season of the Splicer is set to end on August 24.

How Seasonal Challenges Work

For most of its run, Destiny 2’s various activities vendors–Zavala, Shaxx, and the Drifter–carried weekly bounties that incentivized playing all three activities each week. Those bounties handed out Bright Dust if you participated in them, but if you didn’t, you missed out on earning Destiny 2’s premium in-game currency. Seasonal Challenges fix that; they’re challenges that are dolled out weekly, but which you can complete any time during the season.

You’ll find Seasonal Challenges on the Quests tab in the Director. Each week, a new slate of challenges is released, so you can pop in and see what their requirements are as you go. Completing challenges is a great way to earn experience points and power up your Seasonal Artifact, allowing you to raise your character’s level over the gear Power cap for the season. Many of the challenges also reward you with consumables and Bright Dust, which you can then spend in the Eververse Store on various cosmetic items.

Week 1

• Hello, World
  • Speak to the Splicer Servitor and complete Path of the Splicer I, then kill powerful Cabal enemies anywhere in the solar system. You get bonus progress if you defeat Cabal in the seasonal Override activity.
• Maximum Override
  • Complete 5 Override missions and deposit Data Spikes as a team. Bonus progress is awarded for wearing Season of the Splicer armor during the activity.
• Ethereal Splicer
  • Gather Ether from playing various activities, including Public Events, Strikes, Gambit, and the Crucible.
• Sidearm Splicer
  • Defeat opponents in Override with a sidearm, with bonus progress for precision blows.
• Icebound
  • Complete 10 bounties, and finish patrols, Public Events, and Lost Sectors on Europa.
• Challenger’s Aspirations
  • Complete three weekly Playlist challenges for Crucible, Gambit, or Strikes.
• Close Calibration
  • Calibrate close-range weapons on Europa (SMGs, swords, shotguns, and sidearms). You’ll get bonus progress for rapidly defeating enemies.
• Drifter’s Chosen
  • Earn 250 points in Gambit matches by banking motes, defeating blockers, and defeating enemy Guardians.
• Sacred Scorcher
  • Defeat enemy Guardians in the Team Scorched mode in the Crucible. Bonus progress is rewarded for fully charged detonations, which you can get by holding down the fire button for your Scorch cannon until it charges all the way before releasing it to fire.
• Vex Deletion Protocol
  • Defeat 5 Vex bosses in Strikes.

Seasonal

• Master Of All
  • Complete 75 seasonal challenges.