Darkest Dungeon's The Color of Madness DLC has added a new region and an Endless Quest mode
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If you're interested in getting even more playtime out of Darkest Dungeon, you might want to check out the newly released The Color of Madness DLC. While it doesn't expand upon the story in any major way, it does bring with it an Endless Quest mode, an all new faction of corrupted farmers, three new bosses, four new districts, and naturally, a whole bunch of items and quirks to toy around with.
You can get a bit of a sneak peek at what all of this looks like in-game through the recently posted trailer down below. Have a look, it's a short but interesting video:
Soulcalibur VI's PC system requirements have been revealed alongside a new gameplay trailer
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After a whole bunch of teasers, Soulcalibur VI has finally been pinned for an October 19th release date on both PC and consoles. If you're wondering whether you're going to need to upgrade your PC in preparation for its release, wonder no more as the PC system requirements have now been revealed.
They've originally been posted on Nvidia's website so I'm afraid there are no AMD GPUs to be found anywhere on the list, but I'm sure you'll be able to figure out where you stand with relative ease. But enough babbling from me, here's the full list:
Overwatch devs have addressed some of the most common misconceptions about groups, rating and matchmaking
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There is a well-entrenched belief in the Overwatch community that grouping up with anything less than a fully organized team is a recipe for disaster. Either you're going to get matched with vastly better players, or you're going to end up in games so lopsided your rating gains and losses will end up being noticeably worse than if you simply played solo. Well, if you subscribe to this sort of thinking, you'll be glad to hear that Blizzard's Scott Mercer has now come out to address exactly these kinds of misconceptions.
"The first and maybe most common misconception I want to correct is the belief that the Competitive Play system decreases your SR gains and increases your SR losses when playing in a group," reads the lengthy developer post. "The simple answer here is that there’s no SR penalty based on your group status. It doesn’t matter if you’re solo, grouped with one other person, or in a full group of six."
Steam's 2018 Summer Sale is set to begin tomorrow, on June 21st
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If you currently have a bit of free time and some extra money, and you wish to quickly change that situation, you'll be glad to hear that the massive Steam Summer Sale is just around the corner. To be more specific, it's set to begin tomorrow, on June 21st!
This information comes to us from Steam Database on Twitter, meaning that it hasn't been officially confirmed just yet. That said, last year's Summer Sale started on June 21st and we've already had multiple leaks pointing towards June 21st being the date for this year's sale as well, so I do believe that this 'rumor' is about as credible as it can possibly be.
Total War: Warhammer 2's upcoming update is adding a new Dark Elf monster (Kharibdyss) and a bunch of balance changes
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In a bit of a surprise announcement, Creative Assembly has now revealed that the Dark Elves will soon be getting the mighty Kharibdyss as a brand new unit. As you can probably guess from the image alone, the Kharibdyss is a poison-spewing monstrosity that deals a high amount of damage and spreads fear wherever it goes, though it pays for all of that power with a rather slow movement speed and a huge, arrow-baiting character model.
The Kharibdyss will only be available to owners of the most recent The Queen & The Crone DLC, though if you don't have it there's no need to worry as there are also some rather interesting balance changes coming in with the update. You'll find the full patch notes over at the official website, but what I feel is worth highlighting the most is the various and much-needed buffs to Bretonnia.
The Surge 2's very first gameplay footage already shows noticeable improvements over the original
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While The Surge launched as a bit of a buggy take on the Dark Souls gameplay formula, the developers have slowly but surely managed to improve upon it in almost every way. For example, the Walk in the Part expansion brought with it non-linear levels and much more colorful environments, while the more recent free content update added some highly enjoyable weapons and bosses to bash over the head with said weapons.
With that in mind, I am very glad to say that The Surge 2 is following in the same footsteps, as you'll see in the very first gameplay preview down below, courtesy of IGN. Have a gander, it's quite an interesting video despite The Surge 2 still being in early development:
Fallout 76 will be a multiplayer survival game where you can nuke your enemies into oblivion
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I'm sure many of you were wondering why Fallout 4 even launched with a base-building system when it was almost completely inconsequential. Well, it would appear that was only a testing ground for what is now known as Fallout 76 - a multiplayer survival game where you can build gigantic bases and have said gigantic bases nuked straight off the face of the planet by someone you may have pissed off three hours ago!
Naturally, getting a nuke isn't as easy as popping into the local thrift store. You will first need to collect a variety of codes spread across the map, codes which will then unlock the nuke and allow you to target whichever poor sap you want. As I'm sure you've already noticed, the catch here is that you will not only need a group to accomplish this, but that you will also need to invest a significant amount of resources and time into something that might just get used against you if you fail.