Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous' very first expansion has now been pushed back to March
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[Update]: Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous' Inevitable Excess expansion has now arrived, though sadly alongside some harsh criticism.
If you were hoping to get your hands on Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous' Inevitable Excess expansion this week, I'm afraid I bring some bittersweet news. In order to give the team enough to time to balance and polish the high-powered DLC, Owlcat Games have now pushed back Inevitable Excess to March 3, 2022.
"After we ran a number of internal tests, we realized that the experience you would get from this new adventure was not as mythic as we wanted it to be," reads the brief announcement. "We wanted you to feel great and powerful, but also face the foes that would be tricky and challenging enough. But some of the new battle encounters we designed didn’t convey our intentions properly, and we felt like the new enemies and their mechanical features needed more balancing"
Total War: Warhammer 3 has now finally arrived, though not without some technical trouble
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[Update]: Total War: Warhammer 3 devs have detailed their plans for the upcoming improvements and bug fixes.
After a ridiculous amount of teasers and previews, Total War: Warhammer 3 has now finally arrived! It brings with it a bunch of interesting new factions to mess around with, including fan-favorites like Kislev and Grand Cathay, as well as a sizable new chunk of the world to explore, a large array of improvements and quality-of-life changes, and even the ability to build your very own daemon prince!
You can get a pretty good idea of what to expect in terms of actual gameplay through one of the recent previews. Have a gander, it's quite an informative one:
Action-roguelike Children of Morta has now added the long-requested online co-op mode
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In order to fulfill the very last checkmark left on the roadmap, the Dead Mage team has now unleashed one seemingly final update. As you might guess from the title, the freshly released Fellowship Sanctuary update brings with it one of the most frequently requested new features - online co-op!
The one bit of bad news is that online co-op is currently only available on the Steam version. Work is already underway on getting the other PC and console versions up to par, however, so while no release date has been revealed just yet, rest assured that other platforms have not been ignored.
Highly popular ARPG MMO Lost Ark has just recently landed onto Steam
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If you think that combining fast-paced ARPG gameplay with the usual MMO features sounds like a jolly ol' time, then you'll be happy to hear that the highly popular Lost Ark has now made its way over to Steam. As you might expect given its genre, Lost Ark's gameplay is all about carving your way through hundreds upon hundreds of monsters with ridiculously over-the-top abilities, all the while solving menial quests and talking about nonsense with your fellow players.
What this looks like in action, that you can get a pretty good impression of through the recently posted launch trailer. Have a peek, it's not a very long one:
Capcom has begun teasing what looks like a brand new game
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[Update #2]: Barely a month has gone by, and Capcom has already revealed another game! This time around it's not a fighting game, however, but rather Exoprimal - a team-based action game about mechs fighting dinosaurs!
[Update]: It turns out the announcement was even more exciting than I expected! As such, you can now not only look forward to Street Fighter 6, but also the greatly enhanced Capcom Fighting Collection!
In an announcement that came pretty much out of nowhere, Capcom has now unveiled a very simple countdown website. As of time of writing the countdown still has 5 days and 4 hours to go, which places the endpoint on February 21st.
As for what exactly this big announcement is going to be, nobody outside of Capcom currently knows. However, if you're willing to indulge a bit of speculation, then I do believe it's likely to be the Resident Evil 4 Remake.
World of Warcraft's Patch 9.2 - Eternity's End will be launching on February 22nd
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[Update #2]: World of Warcraft: Shadowlands' final major Update 9.2 - Eternity's End has now been unleashed!
[Update]: Blizzard has now detailed all of the changes and additions coming in with Patch 9.2!
Given how long we had to wait for Patch 9.1 - Chains of Domination, I fully expected the seemingly final content Patch 9.2 - Eternity's End to arrive with a massive delay as well. However, in a surprising announcement Blizzard has just revealed that Eternity's End will be launching with next week's server reset, on February 22nd or 23rd depending on your region.
Once it arrives, Eternity's End will bring with it Zareth Mortis as a brand new zone to explore, a chunky new raid with 11 bosses to tackle, as well as a brand new Torghast wing to toy around with. You can also expect to see a new progression system that lets you slowly unravel the language of the First Ones, the ability to equip two legendary items at once, the return of the much-beloved tier sets, and naturally, a whole host of new pets, mounts and other cosmetic items to collect.
Overwatch devs are currently experimenting with some outlandish balance changes
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[Update]: Overwatch's February 2022 update has added a Reaper themed event alongside a short story.
While the actual content updates are rapidly becoming smaller and smaller, there is at least one good thing about the Overwatch team being so preoccupied with the sequel - they are far more willing to let the community experiment with their own balance changes. The first of these ridiculously over-the-top experimental patches launched back in December, and while many of the tweaks ended up being scrapped, some of them were actually good enough that they ended up being adopted into Overwatch proper.
As such, I'm excited to say that the second major experimental update has now arrived with a whole bunch of wacky changes! Orisa has been reworked into a fast-moving duelist, Genji has received two swift strikes in exchange for a significantly weaker dragonblade, while Mercy's mass-resurrection ultimate has been brought back from the dead!