Rainbow Six Siege preview shows off the two upcoming Operatives: Warden and Nøkk
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If you're looking for something to help spice up your gameplay, you might be interested to hear that Ubisoft will soon be introducing two new Operators to Rainbow Six Siege: the defender Warden and the attacker Nøkk. The upcoming update will also greatly rework the Kafe Dostoyevsky map, all in an effort to make it more balanced and exciting to play on.
In terms of abilities, Warden will bring with him a sharp dress sense and high-tech glasses that allow him to become immune to flashes and to see through smoke. A fairly simple kit, but as we all know, being able to see things tends to be pretty useful!
RAGE 2 developers have announced their plans for the upcoming free and paid content updates
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After a whole host of teasers and previews, RAGE 2 made its way to PC and consoles last week. While the initial response wasn't exactly amazing, there is a chance for things to turn around as the developers have now announced their plans for the upcoming free and paid content updates.
The first of these additions has already arrived in the form of weekly community challenges. Simply take part in the weekly event by contributing towards the shared objective, and once the whole thing has been completed you'll get a fancy new skin for your troubles. Personally, I'd prefer it if you had to do each of the challenges yourself as that makes things a bit more tricky, but I certainly won't complain about having more cosmetics to mess around with.
System Shock inspired roguelike FPS Void Bastards is set to arrive this May 29th
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Void Bastards is an upcoming roguelike-styled shooter that will have you constantly make difficult decisions as you move across the star map in search of salvation. You'll need to pick where and how you'll fight, which enemies to avoid and which ones to try and brute force your way through, which supplies to carry with you and which ones to leave behind, and naturally, which one of your fellow crew members will get the honor of being sacrificed for the greater good!
For those of you wondering what this pile of features might look like in gameplay terms, as well as what sort of atmosphere Void Bastards is going for, allow me to share with you the original announcement trailer. It should give you a pretty good idea of what to expect. Have a peek:
Stellaris' Ancient Relics story pack will allow you to uncover the remnants of long-dead civilizations
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If you're itching for even more Stellaris content, you might be interested to hear that Paradox has now announced a brand new story pack - Stellaris: Ancient Relics. The Ancient Relics expansion will allow you to delve the ruins of mysterious civilizations in pursuit of knowledge and technology, discover what exactly made the two extremely powerful precursor civilizations go extinct, as well as explore a variety of now-dead Relic Worlds.
There isn't much concrete information currently available as Paradox tends to only show their hand when the release date is nearly upon us, but here's the brief description and teaser trailer that came with the announcement. They should hopefully give you a better idea of just what Ancient Relics is trying to focus on. Have a look:
Final Fantasy VII's latest preview shows off some truly impressive visuals
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After being announced quite a few years ago alongside massive fanfare, Final Fantasy VII's remake and any news surrounding it simply vanished into the ether. Given the lack of any sort of information, as well as the switch towards internal development, it shouldn't come as much of a surprise to hear that there were a fair few rumors saying that Final Fantasy VII is stuck in development hell, or has even been outright canceled!
Thankfully, this has turned out to be false as Square Enix has revealed a rather beautiful trailer during the recent PlayStation event. So if you're curious, here's what the current version of Final Fantasy VII's remake looks like:
Overwatch's Workshop modding tools will be coming alongside the Anniversary update this week
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Out of all the new features Overwatch has introduced over the years, the upcoming Workshop modding tools are by far the most impressive. The Workshop tools might not have the ability to create custom maps, but tweaking pretty much everything else seems to be on the table. They've only been in beta for a couple of weeks now, and already people have created comprehensive training courses, racing maps, new game modes, and everything in between.
With that in mind, I am very happy to announce that the Workshop tools will be officially launched this May 21st alongside the Anniversary update. In other words, not only will Overwatch get a whole bunch of Blizzard-created game modes this week, it will also get an avalanche of custom games created by the players themselves!
Ubisoft appears to be working on a brand new Splinter Cell game
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It has been quite a few years since the last Splinter Cell game, so you can imagine how excited people got when an accidental leak last year showed that Ubisoft is working on a brand new one. Ubisoft naturally denied the rumors, but the topic came up again earlier last week as Julian Gerighty, Ubisoft's Creative Director, quite bluntly stated that he is working on a new Splinter Cell game.
Once again Ubisoft came out to squash any rumors by saying that Julian was simply joking, but to be perfectly honest, I'm not exactly sure I believe that. A Creative Director is surely clever enough to understand that teasing a much-anticipated game right before E3 is just asking for trouble. Besides, a joke is supposed to be funny!