The next big Sonic the Hedgehog game will focus on open-world exploration
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[Update #2]: Sonic Frontiers has now arrived onto PC and consoles alongside some highly divisive reviews.
[Update]: Sonic Origins is coming this July 2022 with four remastered classics and plenty of bonus content.
In stark contrast to the rest of the series, the recently announced Sonic Frontiers will focus on open-world gameplay and exploration. As is tradition you'll still be doing basic platforming, collecting rings, beating up hordes of enemies and smashing head-first into walls at high speed, just with a lot more freedom in how you tackle things than before.
There is sadly no lengthy gameplay preview available just yet, but you can get a decent idea of what the Sonic team is trying to go for through the original announcement trailer. Have a little peek:
Monster Hunter Rise is heading to PC via Steam next week, on January 12th
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[Update]: My review of Monster Hunter Rise (PC) has now been released, and I'm very happy to say that it's a great port for a compelling yet somewhat unambitious Monster Hunter game.
After a few months of teasers, the PC version of Monster Hunter Rise is now nearly upon us. Once it arrives on January 12th it'll bring with it support for 4K resolutions, high-res textures, uncapped framerates, ultrawide support, as well as a whole assortment of customization options.
Best of all, unlike Monster Hunter: World which took an incredibly long time to reach parity with the console version, Monster Hunter Rise will launch with the vast majority of post-launch content already present and accounted for! You won't have to wait all that long for the rest to arrive either, as Capcom is expecting Monster Hunter Rise to achieve full parity between the two versions by the end of February 2022!
H.R. Giger inspired first-person horror game Scorn is set to arrive in October 2022
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[Update]: Scorn has now finally arrived, though I'm afraid it has done so alongside some rather harsh criticism.
After spending quite a few years in development, the H.R. Giger inspired horror-adventure Scorn is now slowly getting ready for prime time. You can expect to see it arrive for PC and Xbox in October 2022, most likely around Halloween as that tends to be the best time to get people excited to try a brand new horror game.
Since atmosphere is by far the most important thing for these types of game, allow me to stop yapping and instead share with you one of the lengthier gameplay previews. It's a bit unpolished and outdated at this point since it's over a year old, but it should still give you a pretty good impression of just what Scorn is trying to achieve. Have a gander:
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!