World of Warcraft's Shadowlands expansion will be launching for real this November 23rd
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[Update #2]: The Shadowlands expansion has now gone live without any notable problems!
[Update]: World of Warcraft will soon start issuing bans for multiboxing and automated gameplay.
After seeing the beta plagued with far too many bugs and random problems, Blizzard chose to delay World of Warcraft's Shadowlands expansion in order to give the team enough time to get everything polished up and ready to go. With that in mind, you'll be happy to hear that they appear to be nearly finished as the Shadowlands expansion will be officially launching at 3pm PST on November 23, or 12am CET on November 24 for us in Europe.
"Since we first told you about our decision to delay, we’ve used the time to further polish the expansion and shore up the endgame, including overhauling the combat and rewards in the Maw, and reworking the Covenant systems to make your choice more immediately impactful and have clearer long-term goals," reads the brief update. "Now the team is in a great position to get things the rest of the way to the finish line before November 23—and as always, we’re committed to working with you to improve the game for as long as you’re out there playing it."
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice update has added mighty new challenges and fancy new outfits to unlock
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Quite a long time has gone by since Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice first launched, but I'm happy to say that FromSoftware has now returned with a major new update in tow! The update brings with it new challenges, unlockable outfits, as well as a brand new way to interact with your fellow players.
First things first, the update has added the Reflection of Strength, which allows you to use any of the Sculptor’s Idols to rematch defeated bosses. Besides the sheer pleasure of stomping over bosses that previously gave you trouble, the Reflection of Strength is going to be extremely helpful for those attempting to beat the second newly added challenge - the Gauntlet of Strength.
Steam's massive Halloween 2020 sale has now been unleashed and will run until November 2
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[Update]: Steam's massive Autumn sale has now arrived alongside The Steam Awards nominations.
If you're in the mood for some spooky games, or at least ones that deal with somewhat mature themes, today is your lucky day as Steam's Halloween 2020 sale has just begun! While there is unfortunately no fun little mini-game to participate in like some of the previous sales, the sheer amount of discounted games make the whole thing well worth checking out regardless.
The only catch is that the sale will be short-lived. In order words, you only have until 10am PST on November 2nd to pick up whatever games tickle your fancy, as that is when the Halloween 2020 sale will be floating away to realms unknown.
Overwatch update has greatly buffed McCree and Baptiste, as well as nerfed Widowmaker
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[Update]: Overwatch next experimental update has brought in a bunch of awesome quality-of-life changes.
After going through a brief round of testing, the most recent experimental update has now made its way to the live servers. As such, for the very first time in Overwatch's history, Blizzard has adjusted a hero's health in increments of 25 in order to better reflect their role!
Heroes like McCree and Brigitte have received an additional 25 health as they're mostly in the thick of combat, while Widowmaker has gone down to 175 health in order to give flankers a better chance to take her down before she grapples away to safety. Here's the full list of changes:
In order to avoid Cyberpunk 2077, Path of Exile's next big update has been pushed back until January
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[Update #2]: Path of Exile's newest Echoes of the Atlas expansion has greatly beefed up the endgame.
[Update]: It seems that Path of Exile is not alone here. Everspace 2 has now been delayed in order to avoid Cyberpunk 2077 as well!
In an announcement that I'm sure came as a massive surprise to everyone, CDPR delayed Cyberpunk 2077 yet again. Instead of launching in November as previously planned, the ridiculously ambitious RPG will be arriving on December 10th, which is just one day before Path of Exile's major update was to supposed to arrive.
So in an effort to avoid potential disaster by competing with one of the most anticipated games of the year, Path of Exile studio Grinding Gear Games have now decided to announce a delay of their own. As such, Path of Exile's Update 3.13 and the accompanying leagues will be launching at some point in January.
Grounded's next update is revamping the Pond and adding deadly Koi Fish
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[Update #2]: After two years in Early Access, Grounded will be launching in full on September 27th, 2022.
[Update]: Update 0.4 has now gone live, and as expected, it's a pretty good one!
While Grounded's updates might not sound all that bombastic due to how mundane all of the new stuff really is, they are still remarkably fun to experience once miniaturized. Last time around Obsidian greatly expanded the hedge and added ziplines, while the next update will almost entirely focus on the pond and the areas surrounding it.
You can expect to see aggressive koi fish that would love to make a snack out of you, and just in case you thought the world just doesn't have enough spiders to chase you around, a brand new diving bell spider as well! On the positive side, there will also be tadpoles and the always-peculiar water boatmen insects, both of which will rather chill out and mind their own business than nibble on your face.
Valorant has pulled back the recent Update 1.11 due to massive technical issues
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[Update]: Valorant's Update 1.11 has returned, though this time around without the gamebreaking bugs.
The most recent Update 1.11 for Valorant added a brand new Agent by the name of Skye, as well as a whole bunch of bug fixes, balance tweaks and quality of life improvements. Unfortunately, the update also brought with it a surprisingly large amount of bugs.
Some of these were humorous, like Omen's smoke filling your entire screen with Sage's texture files, while others were downright game-breaking and made heroes like Viper and Brimstone almost useless. Given the impact and sheer number of problems, Riot has now decided to pull the entire patch back.