Total War: Warhammer 3 preview offer a closer look at Grand Cathay's units and heroes
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[Update #2]: It has finally happened! Creative Assembly has now unveiled the full scope of Total War: Warhammer 3's siege rework!
[Update]: Creative Assembly has now detailed the lore and function behind each unit in the Cathay army.
Instead of launching in late 2021 as originally announced, Total War: Warhammer 3 will be landing onto PC in early 2022 due to the team needing a bit more time to polish everything up. So in order to keep everyone engaged, as well as to help time pass just a little bit quicker, Creative Assembly has been releasing weekly updates detailing some of the characters and units we'll get to play around with.
While the past few updates were purely text based and story focused, today's preview more than makes up for it by offering a close-up look at some of the Cathay units in action. Have a gander, and make sure to keep your eyes open for some Tzeentch teasers as well:
Blizzard is adding fresh and greatly enhanced World of Warcraft: Classic servers on October 5th
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[Update #2]: Blizzard has detailed the changes coming with World of Warcraft Classic's Season of Mastery servers.
[Update]: After a successful beta, World of Warcraft Classic's fresh servers are coming this November 16 with the Season of Mastery.
While you can technically play World of Warcraft: Classic these days on the special forever-Classic servers, it's unfortunately a rather depressing experience. Not only is there a very small amount of players to group up with as you journey towards level 60, but the ones that are there are already heavily entrenched so you're pretty much doomed to forever play catch-up as a new player.
Thankfully, according to the latest announcement from Blizzard, that whole mess will soon be a thing of the past! On October 5th as a part of the "Season of Mastery" Blizzard will launch a whole bunch of fresh World of Warcraft: Classic servers into Open Beta testing, all of which will arrive alongside some interesting tweaks to make the whole experience a bit more exciting for everyone involved.
Time-manipulating arena shooter Lemnis Gate has now landed onto PC and consoles
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I hope you're in the mood for something completely different, because the freshly released Lemnis Gate is no average arena shooter. Instead of having standard PvP duels with clear winners and losers, every Lemnis Gate match consists of five alternating turns set within a 25 second time loop!
The way it all works is deceptively simple. You have 25 seconds to do your actions, be they shooting an enemy in the face or setting up traps, after which the opponents get to take their own turn. Once everyone is done the next 25-second round will begin and you'll have to deal with all of the chaos both teams caused beforehand.
Guild Wars 2's Shadow of the Mad King Halloween event is coming this October 5th
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Now that the End of Dragons expansion preview event has come and gone, Guild Wars 2 is starting to get ready for an old favorite - the Shadow of the Mad King Halloween festival. Once it arrives this October 5th, the Shadow of the Mad King festival will bring with it a whole assortment of cosmetics to collect, the always-busy Mad King's Labyrinth to plunder for goodies, as well as plenty of spooky decorations to help set the Halloween mood.
As an additional little bonus, Shadow of the Mad King will launch alongside a weeklong bonus event. From October 5 to October 12 you'll earn more experience and rewards in the vast majority of content, while simply leveling a character to level 10 will give you a Bloodbound weapon that will scale up in power alongside you.
Overwatch update has just added a gorgeous new deathmatch map - Malevento
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[Update]: Overwatch's annual Halloween Terror event is bringing in spooky, scary skins on October 12, 2021.
After spending a good few weeks on the test servers, Overwatch's newest deathmatch map Malevento has now finally arrived. Much like its predecessor Kanezaka, Malevento brings with it some downright gorgeous scenery, interesting setpieces to play around on, and naturally, plenty of opportunities to duke it out with your fellow players while waiting on those endless DPS queues.
As for how all of this looks like in actual gameplay, that you can find out through the recently posted trailer. Have a look, it really is a lovely map:
Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro have opened up a new PC and console gaming division
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[Update #2]: The Dark Alliance studio is being expanded in order to work on a AAA Dungeons & Dragons RPG developed on Unreal Engine 5.
[Update]: 2004 console hack & slash RPG Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II has now made its way to PC.
Even though their two recent games ended up being disappointing, to the point that Magic: Legends shut down before it even truly launched, Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast have now opened up a brand new gaming division. The freshly formed New Raleigh-Durham Studio will focus on developing AAA games for both PC and consoles based on Hasbro's various properties.
These franchises include some you might expect like Transformers and G.I. Joe, as well as some that are a little bit more niche like Micronauts and even Ouija. How in the world you would make a compelling game out of Ouija, I have absolutely no idea, but the good news is that the studio will start off fairly simple by creating an action-adventure set within the G.I. Joe universe.
Legion TD 2, a standalone sequel to the popular Warcraft 3 mod, is launching this October 1st
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After spending a fair few years in development, Legion TD 2 - the standalone sequel to the popular Warcraft 3 custom game - is now finally ready for its full release. You can expect to see it land onto Steam on October 1, 2021.
Much like the original, Legion TD 2 will task you with defending yourself from the seemingly endless hordes of enemies through the use of 8 unique factions, 100 different units, and a whole assortment of upgrades and spells. You'll be able to do all of this in either the campaign mode that supports both singleplayer and co-op, the various play vs AI modes, or in the traditional 2v2 and 4v4 multiplayer battles.