World of Warcraft devs have announced their plans to fix the rather unpopular Azerite Armor
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World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth has arrived about a month ago, bringing with it a variety of new zones to explore, storylines to experience, and naturally, loot to acquire. While the first two have so far been met with a decent amount of success, the new gearing system has been a bit of a contentious topic, as I've noted in my review. Long story short, the Azerite Armor was supposed to be a replacement for legendary items, raids sets and Artifact Weapon talents, yet it is currently so boring and uninteresting that it has failed to be a worthy successor to even one of those systems, let alone all three.
While the whole concept behind Azerite Armor is unlikely to change, I am glad to say that Blizzard has now announced some major tweaks for it. The goal, as you might imagine, is to make Azerite Armor more readily available for all sorts of players, as well as to make each trait more desirable and impactful. You'll find the full developer update over at the official forums, but here's the most important part:
Monster Hunter: World's Autumn Harvest Fest has now arrived on PC, while Kulve Taroth will come in early November
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The Autumn Harvest Fest event has now made its way to the PC version of Monster Hunter: World, bringing with it a spookier Gathering Hub, a variety of new cosmetics to collect through in-game quests, as well as deep discounts on various vendor services. Perhaps most importantly of all, at least for any of you with an interest in Greatswords, this update has arrived alongside the quest for the Wyvern Ignition - a rocket powered Greatsword that not only looks badass, but is also one of the most powerful weapons in the game!
While the new items are certainly fun to mess around with, it is worth mentioning that this is a fairly small update in the grand scheme of things. It'll give you a couple of hours of enjoyment, but once the quests run out you probably won't even notice the event is still going on. There is hope on the horizon, however, as according to a recent developer update the PC version will be getting a more substantial update in early November.
Total War: Warhammer 2's next DLC is bringing zombie pirates, crazed vampires and even a gigantic sea dragon
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In an announcement that might come as a bit of a surprise, Creative Assembly has revealed that Total War: Warhammer 2's next DLC will not feature the Dogs or War, Araby or Albion as many have speculated, but rather the Pirates of the Vampire Coast! As you might imagine from that name alone, the Vampire Coast factions will come with a wide assortment of zombie pirates and monstrous sea creatures, as well as apparently giant crabs and even sentient, transformer-like ships!
Since there is absolutely no way words alone will ever do the Vampire Coast factions justice, allow me to share with you the recently posted and rather awesome trailer. Have a look, it really is a treat to watch, especially when the cannon barrage syncs up with the music:
Overwatch devs have begun teasing some of the major cosmetics from the upcoming Halloween Terror event
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[Update #3]: I've now also added a teaser for Pharah's Enchanted Armor skin, McCree's Undead skin, as well as Wrecking Ball's genuinely amazing Jack-o-lantern skin. You'll find them down below, along with all of the other newly revealed cosmetics.
Overwatch's Halloween Terror event is set to arrive this October 9th, bringing with it the Junkenstein's Revenge PvE mode, a whole assortment of new and old cosmetics, as well as spookier versions of some of the current maps. If you were hoping for something completely out of the ordinary, I'm afraid I'll have to disappoint you as Blizzard is keeping this event fairly light, though there will be a brand new boss in Junkenstein's Revenge, as well as a newly reskinned map to keep us occupied.
As for the cosmetics themselves, Blizzard has now finally started releasing brief teasers for them, all of which you will find right below. The quality of the images and videos is unfortunately a bit low as Twitter has compressed them heavily, but it should still be enough to give you a general idea of what to expect from each skin. Once more cosmetics are revealed I'll make sure to update the list, but for now, have a look at what's coming with this year's Halloween Terror:
GOG are celebrating their 10th anniversary with a Shadow Warrior 2 giveaway
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GOG, formerly known as Good Old Games, are currently celebrating a rather impressive milestone that is undoubtedly going to make some of you feel very, very old - their 10th anniversary! And in order to get everyone into the festive spirit, GOG are also currently giving away the co-op focused shooter Shadow Warrior 2 for free.
The only catch is that I am unfortunately a bit late with this announcement, meaning that the whole promotion is set to end in a mere 15 hours. So if you're even remotely curious, head on over to GOG and grab yourself a copy. Once you claim it you'll be able to play Shadow Warrior 2 whenever you want, so don't worry about having to install it right now or anything like that.
Vermintide 2 devs will soon be implementing a way to craft specific Veteran (Red) items
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As I've mentioned throughout my review, Vermintide 2 is an immensely enjoyable game that is unfortunately being held back by an overly grindy and ridiculously random loot system. If you're wondering just how grindy we're talking about, let's just say that I've played Vermintide 2 for hundreds of hours and I still don't have any of my favorite cosmetics, namely Kerillian's red dual daggers and Shade's skull mask.
While the cosmetic hats still remain about as rare as pure gold, I am very happy to announce that Fatshark will soon be implementing a way to craft specific veteran/red items. No details have been given just yet, but after the most recent update the option to salvage red items has been disabled, indicating that they are working on some sort of 'red dust' system to complement the already existing crafting methods.
Darksiders 3 trailer shows off Fury's face-smashing and hammer-wielding Force Hollow transformation
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After quite a long and arduous wait, the Darksiders series will finally be returning this November 27th for PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4. As you're probably well aware at this point, Darksiders 3 will have us follow Fury on her quest to reunite the Horsemen once more, all the while beating down all sorts of monsters, demons and angels that might foolishly stand in her way.
While your primary means of doing so will be with the business end of a giant whip, there will also be numerous transformations that grand you unique powers and weapons to toy around with. One of these transformation is the rather ominously named Force Hollow, which not only gives Fury magnetic powers, but also a gigantic hammer to smash enemies into tiny little pieces!