Apex Legends' Season 10 is launching on August 3 alongside a new Legend, weapon and map rework
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[Update]: Season 10 has now arrived, and unfortunately it seems like Seer is ridiculously powerful, to the point where it looks like everyone is fighting over who gets to play him.
If you've had your fill of the smaller events and are now itching for something a bit more substantial, you'll be happy to hear that Apex Legends' Season 10 update is now nearly upon us. Once the Emergence update goes live on August 3rd it'll bring with it the mysterious Seer as a new Legend, Rampart's very own Rampage LMG, a whole bunch of changes to the World's Edge map, as well as ranked Arenas!
While the exact details are still few and far between, you can get a little bit of a peek at some of the changes through the recently posted launch trailer. I'll also throw in Seer's story-focused cinematic short because it's quite a gorgeous one! Have a gander:
RimWorld's Ideology expansion and rather ambitious free Update 1.3 have now arrived
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[Update]: RimWorld's Biotech expansion is adding children, player-controlled mechanoids and gene editing.
After being suddenly announced and going through a brief round of public testing, RimWorld's second expansion Ideology has now been unleashed. As the name would suggest Ideology allows you to create your very own belief systems and then enforce them upon your colony, with this covering everything from nudist hippies to technology obsessed cannibals. There's also brand new roguelike-styled quests to spice things up, alongside new creatures, improvements, and perhaps most excitingly, a brand new ending to uncover!
You can get a pretty good idea of how all of this translates into actual gameplay, as well as how insane the whole thing can get, through the freshly posted launch trailer. Have a peek:
MTG Arena is soon adding a bunch of Modern Horizons 1 and 2 cards, alongside 31 brand new ones
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[Update #2]: MTG Arena is also permanently adding the long requested 100-card Historic Brawl game mode!
[Update]: The Jumpstart: Historic Horizons format will bring with it 372 new-to-MTGA cards!
In an announcement that was accidentally posted, and then immediately removed, Wizards of the Coast have revealed that they are bringing in Jumpstart: Historic Horizons to MTG Arena on August 12. This new Jumpstart event will bring with it hundreds of cards from Modern Horizons and Modern Horizons 2, along with 31 new-to-Magic cards specifically designed with the Historic format in mind!
Needless to say, this little leak has resulted in quite a few arguments among the MTG community, with the main sticking point being the MTG Arena exclusive cards. Personally, I'm of the opinion that MTG Arena is so different from the paper version of Magic that it's essentially its own beast, so treating it as such and releasing cards specifically designed for it makes a lot of sense.
Amazon's New World MMO has now entered Closed Beta in preparation for its August launch
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[Update #2]: New World devs have announced their plans for major updates throughout 2022.
[Update]: New World has been delayed yet again, this time until September 28, 2021.
After being delayed time and time again, it seems that Amazon's New World MMO has now finally sorted out all of its major issues and is getting ready for its full release on August 31, 2021. So in order to make sure everything goes as smoothly as possible, New World has now launched a closed beta test that will last until August 2nd.
If you would like to give it a chance for yourself, there are two ways to get into the beta. The first and most obvious one involves pre-ordering New World on either Amazon or Steam for guaranteed access, while the second one involves signing up for the beta and hoping you get lucky. That said, the random beta invites will be flying out all throughout the event, so even if you're reading this fairly late into the beta test there's still a chance you can get in.
Cris Tales, a hand-drawn homage to classic JRPGs, has now landed onto PC and consoles
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Just like many of the JRPGs from which it draws a great deal of inspiration, Cris Tales is all about wondering across the world in search of adventure, befriending and recruiting a variety of over-the-top characters, and then teaming up with them to face off against a whole host of enemies in turn-based combat. That said, things don't stay that simple for very long as Cris Tales heavily focuses on time-traveling and allows you to visit individual locations in the past, present and future!
You can get a little bit of an idea of what this looks like in actual gameplay, as well as what Cris Tales looks like in general, through the rather handy overview trailer. Have a peek:
Overwatch Summer Games 2021 has arrived with fancy new cosmetics and a remixed Lucioball
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[Update]: Overwatch's August balance patch has beefed up Genji, Soldier 76, Roadhog and Moira
While most of the development team is still working on Overwatch 2, Blizzard recently added one of the greatest features Overwatch has ever seen - cross-platform multiplayer! However, despite that being a rather monumental task, it looks like it hasn't slowed down the pace of regular updates for even a second. As such you might be surprised to hear that the annual Summer Games update has just now been unleashed, and will be running until August 10th.
Much like last year Summer Games 2021 brings with it a plethora of themed cosmetics to collect, three weekly challenges that award additional epic quality skins, as well as some rather curious updates to Lucioball. Here's what all of it looks like in action:
Valve is working on their very own, Steam-based handheld gaming PC - the Steam Deck
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[Update #2]: It's official, the Steam Deck will be launching on February 25, 2022!
[Update]: Valve has pushed back the launch of the Steam Deck to February 2022.
Given the popularity of the Nintendo Switch, and Valve's fascinating obsession with hardware development, it shouldn't come as too much of a surprise to hear that Valve is now working on their very own handheld gaming PC - the Steam Deck. As the name would suggest the Steam Deck will allow you to play all of your Steam games on the go, while still serving as a standard gaming PC while plugged in.
Judging by the technical specs it seems like the Steam Deck will be fairly a powerful device, though obviously nowhere close to an actual gaming PC. This was to be expected given that the Steam Deck ranges in price from ~420€ to ~680€ while a modern graphics card will set you back that much on its own. So if you plan on getting a Steam Deck purely to play the newest and fanciest games out there, expect to make some hefty graphical sacrifices in order to get them to run smoothly.