The surprisingly massive Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga will be launching on April 5th, 2022
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[Update]: Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga has now arrived, and so far things are looking quite good.
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga was originally supposed to launch in early 2021, but was unfortunately delayed time and time again due to the pandemic messing everything up. Thankfully, the long wait will soon be over as TT Games have now come out to announce a concrete release date - April 5, 2022!
Once it arrives, The Skywalker Saga will be quite possibly the biggest Lego game ever as it'll combine the storylines from all nine mainline Star Wars movies into a single adventure! Just to put things into perspective, there will be over 300 playable characters, over 100 vehicles to accidentally crash into walls, as well as 23 different planets to explore.
Total War: Warhammer 3's final faction will be Chaos Undivided led by your very own Daemon Prince
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[Update #2]: Creative Assembly has now detailed the rather massive changes to Chaos corruption.
[Update]: Total War: Warhammer 3's newest and rather lengthy gameplay preview shows off the Chaos Undivided faction in action!
While this might not come as a massive surprise given the recent leak, Total War: Warhammer 3 devs have now come out to announce the final launch faction - Chaos Undivided led by a Daemon Prince of your own creation. To put it simply, by doing a variety of tasks to honor the four Chaos gods you'll be given Daemonic Glory, which can then be used to acquire thematic new body parts and weapons, as well as unlock new god-themed units to play around with!
Rather than babble on, allow me to share with you two of the recently posted trailers. They'll give you an excellent overview of just what this Chaos Undivided faction has to offer, as well as how awesome it truly is. Have a look, starting with the cinematic trailer and ending with the more in-depth preview:
Monster Hunter Rise PC Review - A great port for a compelling yet unambitious Monster Hunter game
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Monster Hunter Rise continues the proud tradition of poking oversized monsters with ramshackle things vaguely resembling weapons while accompanied only by household pets. It might drastically reduce your life expectancy, but you can't deny that it sounds like a remarkably fun way to spend the evening!
So if you're curious just what Monster Hunter Rise has to offer and how it differs from the excellent Monster Hunter: World, as well as what the freshly released PC port is like, allow me to share my thoughts after a rather eventful playthrough.
It looks like Shadow Warrior 3 will be launching this March 1st, 2022 for PC and consoles
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[Update #2]: Shadow Warrior 3's pre-launch preview shows off wacky enemies, bad jokes and loads of colorful explosions!
[Update]: It's official, Shadow Warrior 3 will be launching on March 1, 2022!
Shadow Warrior 3 was originally supposed to be released at some point in 2021, but due to the team needing a bit more time to "sharpen its blades" it ended up getting pushed back to early 2022. While nothing has been officially announced since then, the freshly updated pre-order bundle on the Microsoft Store now lists the new release date as March 1, 2022!
Before you start making any sort of plans, it's worth mentioning that this could simply be a placeholder date. I personally doubt it as it's a bit too close to offer the Microsoft Store much leeway to work with, but it's still a possibility and so I would recommend against getting to attached to this specific date.
Microsoft has acquired Activision Blizzard for nearly 69 billion dollars
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[Update #2]: It looks like Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard won't be going through after all.
[Update]: Blizzard has announced a new survival game set in a completely original universe.
In what is quite possibly the biggest acquisition in the gaming world, Microsoft has just purchased Activision Blizzard, all of their studios and IPs for a whopping ~69 billion dollars. In other words, Microsoft now has access to Call of Duty, Warcraft, Diablo, Overwatch, Spyro, Hearthstone, Crash Bandicoot, StarCraft, Candy Crush, and a whole bunch more.
"Until this transaction closes, Activision Blizzard and Microsoft Gaming will continue to operate independently," reads the announcement from Phil Spencer. "Once the deal is complete, the Activision Blizzard business will report to me as CEO, Microsoft Gaming."
After nearly two years in Early Access, the political strategy game Democracy 4 has now fully launched
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Democracy 4, as you might imagine from the name alone, is a political simulator and strategy game about running a country... or rather, desperately trying to run a country while everything collapses around you! In order to bring your vision of the future to life you'll need to carefully handle an assortment of complicated topics, work on passing unpopular laws without losing too much support from your voters, wrangle with the ever-annoying opposition, and most importantly, do whatever you can to stay in power or else it will all go to waste!
How all of this madness translates into actual gameplay, that you can find out through the freshly posted launch trailer. Have a peek, it's a fairly short one:
Overprime is a third-person MOBA heavily based on Epic's long-canceled Paragon
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Given Paragon's constantly dwindling playerbase and the meteoric rise of Fortnite, Epic eventually decided to shut down their ambitious MOBA on April 26, 2018. In the process they did something a bit unexpected - they released all of Paragon's assets onto the Unreal Marketplace for absolutely no cost!
This is where the upcoming Overprime comes into play, as by using Paragon's elements as a base the Netmarble team is aiming to create a new and improved third-person MOBA. Rather than babble on, allow me to share with you one of the gameplay trailers. It's a little bit outdated at this point, but it should give you a pretty good idea of just what the team is trying to do with Overprime. Have a look: