Overwatch's June update has brought in small but noticable nerfs to McCree, Zarya, Baptiste and Echo
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[Update #2]: Overwatch will be adding Ashe’s Deadlock Challenge on June 22, 2021.
[Update]: Overwatch will soon be adding cross-play between PC and consoles.
Even though they are currently in the process of redesigning the PvP modes from the ground up for Overwatch 2, I'm happy to say Blizzard has not forgotten about the original Overwatch. In fact, they have just issued a small balance update that's mostly here to tone down some of the overperforming heroes like McCree and Baptiste, as well as to give a slight nudge forward to Reaper and Moira.
You can check out the exact changes, as well as the developer commentary for each one, in brief list down below. Have a gander, it's quite an interesting bunch of tweaks:
Vermintide 2 has added a magic-focused career for Kerillian - Sister of the Thorn
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[Update #2]: Vermintide 2's December DLC has added the Warrior Priest career alongside a bunch of weapons.
[Update]: Vermintide 2 Halloween update has beefed up bosses and added new cosmetics to hunt.
Now that the highly entertaining Grail Knight and Outcast Engineer careers have finally settled in, it's Kerillian's time to get some new toys to play around with. Much like its predecessors, the freshly added Sister of the Thorn career takes things in a completely different direction by giving Kerillian access to both offensive and supportive magic!
What this means in gameplay terms is that the Sister of the Thorn brings with it a unique talent tree, a variety of passive and active abilities, plenty of new voice lines, as well as two new 'ranged' weapons - the Briar Javelin and the Deepwood Staff. You can get a little sneak peek at what they look like through the recently posted trailer. Have a gander:
MTG Arena's Historic Anthology 5 has brought in a bunch of exciting graveyard shenanigans
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[Update #2]: After a dominating performance, MTG Arena is now banning Time Warp!
[Update]: MTG Arena has brought back the highly popular Jumpstart and Cube formats for June 2021.
Only a short bit of time has gone by since the Strixhaven set launched, and already MTG Arena has added a bunch of exciting new cards to play around with. The freshly unearthed Historic Anthology 5 brings with it the always popular Phyrexian Preators, commands from Dragons of Tarkir, as well as some much needed disruption in the form of Stifle and Relic of Progenitus. You can find the full list of cards over at the MTG website.
Needless to say, the theme this time around is mostly focused on graveyard shenanigans. Sure, you could play a fair game of Magic and simply cast the highly expensive Preators as a late-game finisher, or you could do the much more fun strategy of reanimating them from your graveyard and making your opponent explode before turn 5! But what you do, be prepared to deal with graveyard-hating cards like Relic of Progenitus as they are currently all over the Historic ladder!
Overwatch 2's PvP mode will be 5v5 with only one tank per team
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[Update #2]: Overwatch 2 will be showing off the Sombra and Bastion reworks on September 25, 2021.
[Update]: Overwatch will soon be adding cross-play between PC and consoles.
Throughout all of Overwatch Blizzard has struggled with not only balancing tanks, but also incentivizing players to actually pick them. Even after multiple reworks and changes to the very core of the game itself, tanks still remain highly unpopular. And to make matters worse, you can't have matches without two tanks, which means that the queue times are constantly increasing despite Blizzard's best efforts.
With all of that in mind, it should come as little surprise to hear that Blizzard has opted to go with the nuclear option for Overwatch 2. As announced in the recent developer steam, Overwatch 2 will be dropping one tank per team and making the matches a 5v5 affair.
After much anticipation, World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Classic will be launching later today
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[Update #2]: The team is adding fresh and greatly enhanced World of Warcraft: Classic servers on October 5, 2021!
[Update]: Blizzard are looking to introduce same-faction battlegrounds to help with Burning Crusade Classic's PvP population imbalance.
Only two weeks have gone by since the pre-expansion patch arrived, and already Blizzard is preparing to flick the switch and unleash the full version of Burning Crusade Classic. Best of all, unlike the original launch many years ago, Burning Crusade Classic will be releasing worldwide at the same time - 3pm PDT on June 1st / 12am CEST on June 2nd / 8am AEST on June 2nd!
You can expect to see a brand 'new' world to explore, plenty of dungeons and raids to delve into, a variety of reputations to farm in order to gain some rather powerful rewards and fancy cosmetics, the very first flying mounts to unlock, and perhaps most importantly for the competitively inclined among you, the organized Arena PvP mode to sink insane amount of hours into. Should be pretty fun!
PlayStation 4 survival-horror Days Gone has now made its way over to PC
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Following in the footsteps of Horizon Zero Dawn, the previously PlayStation 4 exclusive survival-horror Days Gone has now made its way to PC. Perhaps most importantly, Days Gone has done so without the numerous technical problems that plagued the PC version of Horizon Zero Dawn for months and months!
When it comes to the gameplay and visuals, however, you can get a pretty good idea of what Days Gone has to offer through the recently posted launch trailer. Have a little peek:
Paradox has slowly begun fixing Europa Universalis IV's nearly unplayable Leviathan expansion
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To put it quite bluntly, Europa Universalis IV's Leviathan is probably the worst expansion Paradox has ever released. Not only are the gameplay elements half-baked, but the whole thing is so riddled with technical problems that even playing it can be a massive struggle.
Thankfully, Paradox has recently responded to these complaints and vowed to continue working on Leviathan (and Europa Universalis IV in general) until all of the major bugs have been squared away. As a part of this effort Paradox has now released Update 1.31.3, and while it doesn't fix all of Leviathan's problems, it's definitely a step in the right direction.