Apex Legends' Dark Depths update is bringing in a lush new Arena map and a bunch of free cosmetics
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[Update #2]: Apex Legends' Season 12 - Defiance is launching on February 8, 2022 with the new Legend Mad Maggie.
[Update]: Right on time, the Dark Depths event has now gone live!
If you're looking for something to help pass the time before Apex Legends' Season 12 arrives in early February, you'll be pleased to hear that Respawn has just announced a brand new event - Dark Depths. Once it arrives this January 11th, Dark Depths will bring with it a lush new Arena map by the name of Habitat, as well as a whole assortment of new cosmetics to collect.
First things first, allow me to share with you the brief teaser trailer. It should give you a nice little peek at the Habitat arena, as well as show what some of the new items are all about. Have a look:
Death Stranding Director's Cut will be heading over to PC in Spring 2022
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[Update]: The greatly improved Death Stranding Director's Cut has now landed onto PC as a $10 upgrade
In an announcement that really shouldn't come as too much of a surprise, 505 Games have revealed that the new and improved Death Stranding Director's Cut will indeed be arriving onto PC as well. The exact release date has not been confirmed just yet, though you can expect to see it launch simultaneously for Steam and the Epic Games Store in Spring 2022.
As for the actual improvements, the Director's Cut will bring with it a variety of new equipment to play around with, everything from the cargo catapult to the buddy bot, as well as smoother controls and better melee combat. You can also expect to see new missions and storylines, along with UI improvements and various fixes.
Overwatch update has added bouncing arrows for Hanzo and a mid-air roll for Cassidy
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[Update #2]: Overwatch's Year of the Tiger event has now arrived, though sadly with even less content than usual.
[Update]: Microsoft has acquired Activision Blizzard for nearly 69 billion dollars.
As a part of December's highly experimental balance test, Blizzard toyed around with a variety of new mechanics and concepts. Some of those tweaks seem to have gone over incredibly well with both the community and Blizzard's own testers, because the freshly released update has just added a bunch of them to the live version of Overwatch!
Cassidy (formerly McCree) can now roll in the air, Hanzo's Storm Arrows ricochet once upon impact, while Moira's fade allows her to super-jump! Here's a quick rundown of all the new changes and additions:
Apex Legends' newest animated short offers a closer look at Bangalore's bloody backstory
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[Update #2]: Apex Legends' Season 12 - Defiance is launching on February 8, 2022 with the new Legend Mad Maggie.
[Update]: The Dark Depths update is bringing in a lush new Arena map and a bunch of free cosmetics on January 11, 2022.
In order to help pass the time before the big Season 12 update arrives at some point in February, Apex Legends devs have now unleashed a brand new animated short. Unlike some of the previous ones, the freshly released Stories from the Outlands: Gridiron is not here to tease new content, but rather to give us a bit of an insight into Bangalore's history.
So if you're interested in learning some more Banga-lore that's thankfully not 10 minutes of her overexplaining basic concepts to people, allow me to share with you the cinematic short. It's quite an interesting one!
Valve has officially revealed all of The Steam Awards winners for 2021
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With the great winter sale and the last round of voting finally concluded, Valve has now officially revealed the 2021 Steam Award winners! You can find the full list, all neatly sorted by category, over at the Steam Awards website.
Despite being a purely community-driven affair and thus liable to become a popularity contest, I'm very happy to say that this year's winners have been well chosen! Nioh 2 got recognized as a difficult but highly enjoyable game, the heavily co-op focused It Takes Two rightly secured the Better With Friends category, while the Labor of Love award went to Terraria and its never-ending stream of quality updates.
It took a while, but Dying Light 2 will finally be launching on February 4, 2022
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[Update #2]: Techland has now also revealed their plans for Dying Light 2's post-launch updates and DLC.
[Update]: My review for Dying Light 2 is now up, and I'm happy to say that it's a somewhat misguided yet still highly entertaining bandit-kicking simulator!
After going through a bunch of development trouble and numerous delays, Dying Light 2 is now nearly upon us. So if you're in the mood for parkouring your way through the zombie apocalypse, mark February 4, 2022 on your calendar as that's when Dying Light 2 will be wall-jumping onto PC and consoles.
As for what exactly you can expect to see in terms of gameplay and tone, that you can find out through two of the recent trailers. The first is the fancy cinematic showing off what sort of atmosphere Dying Light 2 is going for, while the second one is a lengthy gameplay preview. Have a gander:
After years of requests, Project Zomboid devs are now working on adding NPCs
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[Update #2]: Project Zomboid's Build 42 update is aiming to massively expand the world map.
[Update]: Project Zomboid's Update 41.73 has added scores of small but highly welcome changes.
Despite only just releasing the massive Build 41 update that brought with it online multiplayer, improved visuals and a boatload of gameplay changes, Project Zomboid devs are already setting their sights on the next big feature. As you might guess from the title, it will be the long-awaited addition of NPCs!
While the work on NPCs has already begun, it's important to temper your expectations as the full implementation of the NPC system will require quite a few major updates to complete. In other words, once the NPCs arrive alongside Build 43 they will likely still be unpolished and a bit rudimentary. The good news is that the subsequent major updates will all be focused around them, so the system should get fleshed out sooner rather than later.