MTG Arena is giving away free Premier Drafts entries and delaying Jumpstart: Historic Horizons
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[Update]: After a few delays, MTG Arena's Historic Horizons expansion has now been unleashed!
If you were hoping to get your hands on some of the 372 new-to-Arena cards this August 12th, I'm afraid I have some bad news to deliver. According to the latest developer update, Jumpstart: Historic Horizons has been delayed until August 26th, which also means that the free two-color "New Player Experience" decks have been pushed back as well.
While that certainly does suck, you'll be happy to hear that the time should go by extremely quickly as Wizards of the Coast is planning to run a variety of events until Historic Horizons' launch, as well as give away some freebies as a little consolation prize. And yes, the plural there was intentional! Your first entry into the upcoming Amonkhet Remastered (August 10-15), Kaladesh Remastered (August 15-20) and Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths (August 20–26) Premier Drafts will be entirely free of charge, and you will indeed get to keep all of the card, gem and pack rewards!
Highly atmospheric stealth-adventure A Plague Tale: Innocence is free to grab until August 12
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If you're in the mood for something a little bit out of the ordinary, you'll be happy to hear that the highly atmospheric stealth-adventure A Plague Tale: Innocence is currently free to grab. Simply head on over to the Epic Games Store, go through the 'purchasing' process, and you'll be good to go after a bit of a download.
As always, you'll want to grab yourself a copy sooner rather than later since it won't remain free for long. To be more specific, you have until August 12, 2021 to add A Plague Tale: Innocence to your account for free, after which you'll be able to play it whenever you want and for however long you want.
Overwatch's August update has beefed up Genji, Soldier 76, Roadhog and Moira
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[Update]: Overwatch is changing McCree's name due to the recent sexual harassment accusations.
While the Overwatch team has been releasing frequent balance changes over the past year or so, there are still numerous heroes that struggle to be relevant in higher tier matches. So in order to sort this out, as well as hopefully make the meta a little bit more diverse, Blizzard has now released a brand new balance update.
Moira, Roadhog and Doomfist have received straight up buffs to their abilities, while Soldier 76, Genji and Wrecking Ball have gone through a bit of a rebalance. Here are the details:
Apex Legends' Season 10 has arrived alongside a new Legend, World's Edge changes, and ranked Arenas
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[Update]: Apex Legends' September update has beefed up Rampart and added a new Rampart themed map location.
[Update]: Respawn has finally begun nerfing the all-powerful Seer!
If you were hoping that the Season 10 update will greatly shake up Apex Legends, I bring both good and bad news. The good news is that the new Rampage LMG is an incredibly fun weapon to use, while the World's Edge changes have thrown everything into chaos so things are feeling quite fresh again. Combine this with the various balance changes and weapon swaps, as well as the introduction of ranked Arenas, and you've got yourself the beginnings of a pretty solid season.
Unfortunately, there is one big problem - the new Legend Seer. Not only does Seer have superb tracking capabilities, but his main ability has so many added extras tacked on to it that he pretty much dominates any engagement he's in. And since this bit of trivia has spread across the Apex Legends community like a wildfire, there are now multiple Seers constantly firing off scans in every direction, much to the chagrin of everyone with still-working eardrums.
MTG Arena has revealed the full list of cards coming with the Jumpstart: Historic Horizons expansion
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[Update #2]: After a few delays, the Historic Horizons expansion has now been unleashed!
[Update]: MTG Arena is giving away free Premier Drafts entries and delaying Jumpstart: Historic Horizons.
It has only been a short while since Strixhaven's Mystical Archives shook the Historic format to its foundations, and already we're getting a brand new infusion of powerful cards to play around with. Instead of a proper set, however, the upcoming Historic expansion will be delivered through the Jumpstart format.
Jumpstart: Historic Horizons will be launching onto MTG Arena this August 12th, bringing with it 782 unique cards to collect, 372 of which will be entirely new to MTG Arena. More interestingly, 31 of those cards will be entirely new to Magic and designed exclusively with online play in mind!
Amazon's New World MMO has been delayed yet again, this time until late September
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[Update]: New World devs have announced their plans for major updates throughout 2022.
After suffering delay after delay after delay, Amazon's New World MMO finally entered Closed Beta back in July and was all set to fully launch on August 31, 2021. However, it would appear that old habits are hard to drop, and so Amazon has now decided to push back New World's release once last time.
Thankfully, it's not all bad news given that this delay is a fairly small one. As such, you'll be able to dive into New World about a month later than planned, on September 28, 2021. The reason, as you might expect, is that the developers need a bit more time to parse through all of the beta feedback and implement some much needed changes.
World War Z's very first expansion Aftermath is launching on September 21, 2021 for PC and consoles
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[Update #2]: World War Z is adding Horde Mode XL with an utterly absurd number of zombies to fight.
[Update]: Aftermath has now shambled onto PC and consoles, though not without some technical trouble.
If you're itching for some sort of excuse to whip out the ol' chainsaw and go to town on a massive horde of zombies, you'll be happy to hear that the co-op focused World War Z is soon getting a brand new expansion. Once Aftermath arrives on September 21, 2022 it'll bring with it three new campaigns set in Rome, Vatican City and Kamchatka, greatly improved melee combat and a first-person mode option, as well as whole host of new toys to torment the undead with.
First things first, allow me to share with you the recently posted and developer guided gameplay overview trailer. It should give you a pretty good idea of just what all of this looks like in action. Have a gander: