World of Warcraft: Shadowlands is removing special requirements for flying in old expansions
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[Update #2]: Blizzard is now making it significantly easier to acquire Corrupted Gear.
[Update]: World of Warcraft's Shadowlands expansion has been pinned for a Q4, 2020 release date.
If you're a brand new World of Warcraft player, or even a veteran returning after a long hiatus, acquiring the ability to fly in Warlords of Draenor and Legion content is an incredibly tedious process. Not only do you need to do a lot of grinding in completely outdated zones, but the whole process takes a considerable amount of time - far longer than it would take you to simply level through each expansion with multiple characters without flying at all.
Thankfully, this won't be a problem for much longer as Blizzard is aiming to sort this nonsense out with World of Warcraft: Shadowlands. So once the expansion arrives, all you'll need to do in order to fly through Draenor and the Broken Isles will be to learn a cheap skill from the flying trainer at level 30.
XCOM inspired Gears Tactics is coming to PC and Xbox One early next week
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[Update]: Gears Tactics has now landed onto PC and Xbox One, and while it's good, it's pretty darn expensive right now.
If you're a fan of XCOM, April is looking to be a pretty darn good month. First the action-packed spin-off XCOM: Chimera Squad will be landing on April 23rd, and then on April 28th, Gears Tactics will be joining the fray on PC and Xbox One with its very own take on turn-based action.
As you might expect given its inspiration, Gears Tactics will be all about leading teams of highly customizable soldiers against overwhelming numbers of enemies. You'll need to upgrade their skills and outfit them with better equipment as they advance through the ranks, help them fight against massive bosses that defy usual strategies, and naturally, get slightly depressed when your favorites inevitably die to a stray bullet.
Artifact devs have detailed what's changing with the core mechanics and progression system
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[Update]: The Artifact 2.0 rework is now heading into Closed Beta!
After being incredibly silent about the fate of Artifact for over a year, Valve recently came out to say that they are not only in the process of reworking Artifact from the ground up, but that they will be keeping the community involved throughout the entire process. And given the amount of developer updates released so far, they really weren't joking!
The latest update, as you would imagine from the title alone, is all about the various mechanical changes coming with Artifact 2.0. I unfortunately can't tell you much about them as I haven't invested enough time in the original Artifact to have something solid to compare them to, but what I can say is that the new progression system seems downright lovely, especially when you contrast it with the current and extremely expensive one.
Elder Scrolls Online is offering subscription benefits for free to all players for a limited time
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In order to encourage players to stay at home, as well as check out some of the content they may not yet have access to, Elder Scrolls Online has now unleashed a free trial for its paid subscription. As such, all of the benefits of ESO Plus membership and its accompanying DLC packs are entirely free to mess around with until April 27th.
For those of you curious about what exactly the subscription even has to offer, you'll find the full list of features and bonus content in the list right below. Have a look:
World of Warcraft has doubled reputation gains for Legion and Battle for Azeroth factions
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[Update #2]: Blizzard is now making it significantly easier to acquire Corrupted Gear.
[Update]: World of Warcraft: Shadowlands will be removing the reputation requirements for flying in Warlords of Draenor and Legion content.
Blizzard has recently extended the 100% experience bonus for all players, so if you ever wanted to level a brand new character in World of Warcraft, this would be the ideal time to do so. To further help this process along, as well as make unlocking Allied Races on the opposite faction much more manageable, Blizzard has now also introduced a double reputation event.
This new event will run from April 20 through May 18, and will grant you double the usual amount of reputation for most Legion and Battle for Azeroth factions. Unfortunately, Battle for Azeroth's newest and probably most relevant factions, Rajani and the Uldum Accord, are both excluded from this event given that they are directly related to player power, especially in PvP.
PC version of Death Stranding has been delayed until July due to the ongoing pandemic
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[Update #2]: After some delays, Death Stranding has now finally made its way to PC.
[Update]: Kojima Productions have now announced the minimum and recommended PC specs for Death Stranding.
Death Stranding was originally supposed to make its way to PC this June 2nd, but unfortunately that is no longer going to be the case. According to the newest Twitter announcement, Death Stranding has now been delayed until July 14th in order to give the team enough time to adjust to their new situation.
"Following the temporary closure of KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS, we have had to delay the PC launch of DEATH STRANDING to July 14, 2020, to allow more development time amidst the current work-from-home orders in place," reads the brief update. "Thank you all for your patience and continued support!"
Terraria's final and downright gigantic Journey's End expansion is coming this May 16
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[Update]: The day has finally come - Terraria's biggest and most ambitious expansion is going live today!
For such a cheap game with absolutely no microtransactions, it's genuinely impressive to see just how many massive updates Terraria has received over the years. Alas, all good things most come to an end, and so Terraria's crowning update Journey's End will be launching onto PC this May 16th.
However, Terraria will not be going out with a whimper, as the Journey's End expansion is absolutely massive in scope! It'll bring with it 800 new items to find or craft, a ton of new enemies and bosses to overcome, an overhauled world generation system, an all-new difficulty mode, new and enhanced weather effects, and the list goes on for a very long time. More importantly, Journey's End will also add the most impactful and gameplay-relevant feature of them all - the ability to play golf!