Evil Genius 2 has been pushed back to 2021, with no concrete release date set just yet
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[Update #2]: Evil Genius 2 and its megalomaniacal schemes will be arriving this March 30, 2021.
[Update]: Evil Genius 2's newest preview shows off Red Ivan's take on world domination.
If you were hoping for Evil Genius 2 to release at some point during this holiday season, I'm afraid I bring some bad news. Due to the pandemic slowing everything down, Rebellion has decided to push the release date of Evil Genius 2 back to 2021 in order to ensure it launches in as polished of a state as possible.
"We want to deliver a sequel that will do justice to the franchise and be loved and played by the Evil Genius community for years to come, just like the original," reads the brief update. "And while we know many of you will be disappointed to wait a little longer, launching next year affords us the time to do precisely that."
Microsoft Flight Simulator has recently landed onto Steam, the Windows Store and Game Pass
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[Update]: Microsoft Flight Simulator's first major update will be further fleshing out Japan.
If you're in the mood for exploring the entire world from the comfort of your own living room, you might be interested to hear that the Microsoft Flight Simulator has recently landed onto Steam, the Windows Store and Game Pass. Best of all, the initial version already features support for TrackIR, while full VR support will be launching at some point later this year!
All of that is secondary to the actual gameplay, however, so if you're curious what the Microsoft Flight Simulator even has to offer, that you can find out through two of the in-game previews. Have a gander, they're pretty much exactly what you would expect:
World of Warcraft's Shadowlands expansion has been pinned for an October 2020 release date
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[Update]: The Shadowlands expansion has been delayed until late 2020, while the pre-patch is coming on October 13, 2020.
After spending a fair bit of time in alpha and beta testing, World of Warcraft's Shadowlands expansion will soon be unleashed in full. According to the latest announcement, Shadowlands will be launching at 4pm PDT on October 26th, or for those of us in Europe, at 12am on October 27th.
In terms of content, Shadowlands will bring with it five massive new zones to explore, four Covenants that each offer unique abilities and cosmetics, as well as Torghast, Tower of the Damned - an infinitely replayable and ever-changing dungeon that serves as a sort of fast-paced roguelike mode. You can also expect to see a revamp of the leveling experience, a variety of new dungeons and raids, balance changes and class reworks, and the list goes on for a while.
Fall Guys Season 2 is bringing in a bunch of medieval-themed maps and cosmetics
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[Update #2]: Fall Guys' major Season 2 update has brought in plenty of medieval mayhem!
[Update]: Fall Guys' mid-season update has remixed the levels and added Easy Anti-Cheat!
While Fall Guys is a remarkably entertaining game, it does have one major flaw - the game modes can get very repetitive, very quickly. The maps themselves don't change, so once you've gone through them all a couple of times, there's very little that can catch you off guard. And given that Fall Guys is all about the chaotic action, having everyone be experts on each challenge isn't exactly ideal.
In order to fix this and add some much needed variety, the Fall Guys team has just announced a whole bunch of new content! Expect to see an assortment of medieval-themed maps, plenty of heavily armored cosmetics, new and wacky emotes, and naturally, a healthy dose of raw chaos.
Totally Accurate Battle Simulator's Legacy Faction update has added a bunch of wacky units
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[Update]: Totally Accurate Battle Simulator has just launched from Early Access with multiplayer and new factions!
In a bit of a stark contrast to the previous few patches that added highly thematic factions and units, the new Legacy Faction update has gone all out on the craziness. As such, the new faction sports not only obviously overcompensating spearmen and explosive barrel-riding maniacs, but also a modern tank - because why not!
As for what exactly all of this nonsense looks like in glorious combat, that you can find out through the recently posted teaser trailer. Have a gander, it's about as delightfully wacky as you would expect:
Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time has just landed onto PC and consoles
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Quite a few years have gone by since the series concluded, but Samurai Jack is now back once again to do battle against the evil forces of Aku! As you might imagine, this involves exploring a variety of locations spanning both time and space, meeting a bunch of fan-favorite characters from the show, and naturally, slicing and dicing all sorts of baddies along the way.
What exactly this might look like in gameplay terms, that you can find out through one of the somewhat recent trailers. Have a peek, it's a rather short one:
Overwatch devs are finally taking a serious look at reversing the rampant power creep
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[Update]: The experimental update has been a success, and as such the whole thing has now gone live!
Regardless of what sort of game we're talking about, as long as the developers are actively working on balancing it, there will always be power creep. The weakest heroes will get buffed up, a new meta will become established which will then create a new batch of highly underpowered heroes, so then they will get buffed up, and so the cycle goes.
While this isn't too big of a problem initially, over time it can become a massive hindrance to the game's overall balance as the increased power levels leave very little room for fine-tuning. Because of this, heroes will frequently hop between being ridiculously overpowered and pretty much unusable, something we've seen happen in Overwatch time and time again over the past year or so.