All of MTG Arena's upcoming Innistrad: Crimson Vow expansion cards have now been revealed
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[Update]: The vampire-infested Innistrad: Crimson Vow has now been unleashed!
I hope you're in the mood for a bit of a shakeup, because MTG Arena's Innistrad: Crimson Vow expansion is set to launch this November 11th. Crimson Vow will bring with it an assortment of vampires and werewolves to toy around with, as well as a variety of zombies, spirits and other nightmarish aberrations to really round out the whole horror atmosphere.
When it comes to the actual gameplay mechanics, Crimson Vow will follow in Midnight Hunt's footsteps and will heavily focus on sacrificing creatures and artifacts, transforming between two states, and bringing things back out of the graveyard for extra value. Here's a brief rundown of the six main mechanics:
Final Fantasy XIV's much anticipated Endwalker expansion has been delayed until December 7th
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[Update]: At long last, the Endwalker expansion has now been unleashed in full!
In a bit of a sudden announcement, Final Fantasy XIV developers have just revealed that the much anticipated Endwalker expansion has been delayed. Instead of launching on November 23rd as previously stated, Endwalker will now be arriving on December 7th, with the early access phase starting on December 3rd.
Similarly, the two previously scheduled patches have also been pushed back. As such, Patch 6.01 will be launching on December 21st alongside the Pandaemonium raid, while Patch 6.05 will release on January 4th and bring with it Savage difficulty for Pandaemonium, as well as new gear to collect.
Total War: Warhammer 3 will be landing on February 17, 2022 alongside the corpulent Ogre Kingdoms
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[Update]: Total War: Warhammer 3's newest preview shows off the Ogre Kingdoms in-game and up close.
In an announcement that I'm sure won't come as much of a surprise to many of you, Total War: Warhammer 3 devs have now finally revealed what the early adopter faction will be - Ogre Kingdoms. So if you're in the mood for snacking, fighting and snacking on the people you fight, simply grab Total War: Warhammer 3 within a week of its release and you'll get the Ogre Kingdoms as a nice little bonus.
Speaking of which, Creative Assembly has also taken this opportunity to reveal that Total War: Warhammer 3 will be launching on February 17, 2022 via Steam, Epic Games Store and the Microsoft Store. There will be no differences between the three versions, but since each one tracks DLC independently, it's in your best interest to just stick with whatever one you started with.
World of Warcraft: Shadowlands' quality-of-life focused Update 9.1.5 has now arrived
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[Update #2]: World of Warcraft will finally be adding cross-faction dungeons, raids and rated PvP in Update 8.2.5!
[Update]: Blizzard will be showing off the next big Shadowlands update on November 11th.
While it doesn't offer much in terms of new content, World of Warcraft: Shadowlands' freshly launched Update 9.1.5 does bring with it some much needed and often requested quality-of-life changes and tweaks. You can now freely swap between Covenants, explore new customization options for Allied Races, solo Island expeditions, level alts through Torghast, and the list goes on for a while.
Most importantly of all, this update has also reworked Legion's Mage Tower singleplayer challenges. So once Legion Timewalking rolls around in early December you'll be able to challenge all of the old bosses in order to collect an assortment of new class-based armors, a fel-colored version of Guardian Druid's 'werebear' form, as well as a new Spellbook mount if you manage to conquer all of the different encounters.
Deep Rock Galactic's Season 1 update has added a massive amount of free new content
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[Update #2]: Deep Rock Galactic's Season 3 - Plaguefall update has added fancy new grenades, enemy variants and mission objectives.
[Update]: Deep Rock Galactic's chunky Season 2 update is bringing in new weapons, enemies and fancy beards on April 28th, 2022.
It has taken quite a while to get here, but Deep Rock Galactic's Season 1 update has now finally arrived and it's glorious! It brings with it a free Season Pass style system filled with challenges to complete and cosmetics to unlock, an assortment of new weapons and upgrades to toy around with, a new mission and many new events, and the list goes on for a while.
Rather than babble on, allow me to share with you the recently posted developer preview. It'll give you a pretty good idea of just what Season 1 brings to the table and how it all looks like in action:
Total War: Warhammer 2's final major update has greatly improved cavalry charges
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As a part of the July update, Total War: Warhammer 2 devs did a massive rebalance of how big monsters and cavalry interact with infantry. While the theory behind the changes was sound, the end result unfortunately ended up being a bit of a disaster with even high tier heavy cavalry units getting annihilated while charging any even remotely competent infantry unit.
In order to fix this glaring issue, as well as make cavalry better than they have ever been, Creative Assembly has now released Total War: Warhammer 2's final major update - Patch 1.12.1. To put it simply, cavalry should now have the upper hand when charging distracted or moving infantry, while infantry should have the edge while being braced and facing the enemy charge directly, just as it should be.
Blizzard has just pushed back the release of both Overwatch 2 and Diablo 4
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[Update #2]: Diablo 4 will be launching on June 6th, 2023 with five classes: Barbarian, Druid, Necromancer, Rogue and Sorceress.
[Update]: Diablo 4's December preview offers a closer look at the itemization, progression and visual effects.
Given the recently announced World of Warcraft Community Council and its focus on getting player feedback directly to the developers, I figured this might just be a week where all Blizzard related news would be positive for once. Unfortunately, that didn't exactly last long as it's only Tuesday and already I have some bad news to deliver.
According to the Activision Blizzard Q3 2021 earnings call, both Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2 have been pushed back. No exact release date has been given, but the overall tone of the announcement seems to indicate that neither game will likely be launching in 2022.