Hogwarts Legacy's lengthy preview shows off everything the open-world RPG has to offer
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[Update #2]: Hogwarts Legacy has now arrived, and I'm happy to say that it's looking quite good so far!
[Update]: Hogwarts Legacy devs have now detailed the PC system requirements and their expected performance.
The upcoming Hogwarts Legacy will be an immersive open-world RPG set within Hogwarts in the 1800s. As you might expect, most of your time there will be spent learning magic through a variety of wildly dangerous classes, exploring a whole bunch of familiar and new locations, and as is tradition, battling the forces of evil for the very fate of the world!
Rather than babble on, allow me to share with you the recently posted and extremely lengthy gameplay preview. It'll give you a pretty good idea of just what Hogwarts Legacy is about, what it's trying to achieve, as well as whether it's even your type of game or not. Have a gander:
Supermassive Games are working on a spiritual successor to Until Dawn - The Quarry
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While Supermassive Games have continued making new narrative-focused horror games after Until Dawn, none of them have ever managed to reach the same sort of heights, either due to a lack of budget or the intentionally smaller scope. However, with the freshly announced The Quarry, it looks like Supermassive Games are going back to the old formula!
As such, you can expect The Quarry to bring with it a suspenseful story about nine camp counselors being pushed from one horrific situation to another. Depending on your choices they will either end up as one of the heroes saving the day, or simply yet another in a long line of victims. Whatever the case may be, the story will continue on, which should give The Quarry a fair bit of replay value.
Marauders is an upcoming tactical FPS set in a dystopian version of the early 1990s
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Seemingly inspired by games like Escape from Tarkov, the upcoming Marauders is a tactical first-person shooter set in an alternate history version of the early 1990s where World War 1 had not only never ended, but somehow also spread to the stars. As for the actual gameplay, Marauders is all about exploring hostile ships and wrecks, looting anything that isn't nailed down particularly well, and then escaping before other players or teams can mess with you or your haul.
You can get a bit of a sneak peek at what all of this looks like in action through the freshly posted trailer. Have a gander:
Heroes of Might and Magic inspired strategy game Songs of Conquest is coming this May 10th, 2022
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[Update]: After two years in Early Access, Songs of Conquest will be launching on May 20th, 2024!
These past few weeks have been pretty good for fans of the classic Might and Magic games! Not only has Ubisoft announced they have a Might & Magic AAA project in development, but the heavily Heroes of Might and Magic inspired Songs of Conquest has now also been pinned for a May 10th, 2022 Steam Early Access launch.
As you might imagine given its inspiration, Songs of Conquest is a turn-based strategy that's all about exploring a giant map in search of treasure and resources, upgrading your home base in order to unlock new units and abilities, and then using said armies to engage in large-scale battles against your opponents. It's pretty much Heroes of Might and Magic 3 at its core, just with a couple of fun little twists to spice things up.
Overwatch 2 devs have detailed the upcoming Apex Legends inspired ping system
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[Update #2]: Overwatch 2 will be reworking classic maps to make them function with only one tank per team.
[Update]: Overwatch's Anniversary Remix event will be landing on April 5th, 2022 with stylish recolors of popular skins to help get everyone excited for the beta.
One of the best things that came out of Apex Legends has been the whole ping system. It's a simple, elegant and extremely useful way of communicating in even the most hectic of situations, so I'm very pleased to say that Blizzard will be adapting it for Overwatch 2 and its upcoming beta!
When it comes to friendly communication, the Overwatch 2 ping system will work pretty much exactly how you would expect. If you select the "Group Up" or "I need healing" options, the ping will activate on top of your hero and make it easy for your friends to help you out. On the other hand, if you select the "Attack" function it'll plop down a ping right where you were pointing with your crosshair.
Lone Fungus is an upcoming Metroidvania starring a highly acrobatic mushroom
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The upcoming Lone Fungus is a colorful Metroidvania action-adventure starring a surprisingly acrobatic mushroom on a mission to save the world. While the choice of protagonist is certainly a bit odd, the actual gameplay should be quite familiar as it's all about exploring a huge and interconnected world, unlocking new abilities and items that let you fight more effectively or venture into previously inaccessible areas, and naturally, beating up hordes of cutesy enemies along the way.
Since a Metroidvania game lives and dies by the quality of its gameplay, allow me to share with you one of the recent trailers. It should give you a pretty good idea of just what Lone Fungus is all about. Have a peek:
Apex Legends' upcoming Warriors update is adding a new Arena map and bringing back the Control mode
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[Update #2]: Apex Legends' Season 13 is adding Bangalore's brother and sprucing up the Storm Point map.
[Update]: The Warriors update has now arrived, and it has also brought with it a native version of Apex Legends for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.
As a part of the recent Season 12 - Defiance update, Apex Legends added Control as a brand new and limited-time game mode. Control is essentially 9v9 team deathmatch where you have to fight over three control points scattered across the map, and it serves as a pretty good middleground between the Battle Royale and Arena modes.
One day we'll hopefully see Control added as a proper game mode, but for the time being I'm happy to say that it will be returning as a limited-time event alongside the Warriors update on March 29th. And just to spice things up a bit, the Caustic Treatment area from Kings Canyon will also be getting converted into a Control map with a bunch of new ziplines and other mobility tools to play around with!