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.
Apex Legends' Season 11 has arrived with Ash, new Storm Point map, and C.A.R. SMG
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[Update #2]: The Dark Depths update is bringing in a lush new Arena map and a bunch of free cosmetics on January 11, 2022.
[Update]: Apex Legends' newest animated short offers a closer look at Bangalore's bloody backstory.
After a whole bunch of teasers and previews, Apex Legends' Season 11 "Escape" has now finally arrived. Season 11 brings with it Titanfall 2's antagonist Ash as a brand new Legend, the highly versatile C.A.R. SMG that accepts both heavy and light ammo, a spider-infested tropical map by the name of Storm Point, as well as a whole bunch of cosmetics to collect.
What all of this looks like in actual gameplay, that you can find out through two of the recently posted trailers. The first one is all about Ash, while the second one offers a closer look at the Storm Point map. Have a peek:
Blizzard is setting up the World of Warcraft Community Council to help gather concrete feedback
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[Update #2]: It took a while, but the Community Council forums have now gone live.
[Update]: Shadowlands' quality-of-life focused Update 9.1.5 has now arrived onto the live servers.
Over the past two expansions World of Warcraft has had quite a few misses when it comes to its gameplay mechanics and endgame systems, and that's putting it gently. So in order to hopefully avoid these kinds of problems in the future, Blizzard is now setting up the World of Warcraft Community Council as a way of getting concrete feedback.
The WoW Community Council will essentially consist of a rotating roster of players that will be able to directly talk to the development team about every aspect of gameplay, from endgame raiding to something as casual as collecting transmog gear. Most importantly of all, these conversations will be entirely public and available for everyone to see, which should in theory give the WoW team an easy way to explain their decisions and the goal behind them.
MTG Arena's Innistrad: Crimson Vow expansion is set to launch on November 11th
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[Update #2]: The vampire-infested Innistrad: Crimson Vow has now been unleashed!
[Update]: All of MTG Arena's Innistrad: Crimson Vow expansion cards have now been revealed.
Only a short while has gone by since the Innistrad: Midnight Hunt expansion, and already MTG Arena is getting ready for a brand new influx of cards. The vampire wedding themed Innistrad: Crimson Vow will be launching onto MTG Arena and MTGO on November 11th, bringing with it a whole assortment of vampires, werewolves, zombies, and other nightmarish horrors.
When it comes to the mechanics, it should come as little surprise to hear that they are once again themed around sacrifice, resurrection and transformation. There are six main ones that are worth keeping an eye out for, so allow me to share with you a brief description of what each of them is about:
Doom Eternal's Update 6.66 has added Horde Mode, new Master levels and Battlemode 2.0
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If you're looking for an excuse to dive back into Doom Eternal, you might want to check out the freshly launched Update 6.66 as it's quite the meaty one. Not only has it added a Horde Mode with a wide assortment of challenges to overcome, but it has also overhauled Battlemode, added two new Master levels, brought in new cosmetics, added a new multiplayer arena, and the list goes on for a while.
The way the Horde mode works is fairly simple. You'll start each run with all perks, runes and mods already upgraded, though you'll only have a Combat Shotgun at your disposal. As you slaughter your way through hordes of enemies you'll receive other weapons and acquire a whole bunch of points that can be used to either brag on the leaderboards or to unlock some fancy new cosmetics. And once you've proven your mastery over the demonic hordes, you can increase the difficulty and go for even greater conquests.