Skulls for the Skull Throne 2021 has arrived with a ton of new content and sales for Warhammer games
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[Update]: Creative Assembly has revealed the full scope of the upcoming Beastmen vs Lizardmen DLC, and it's quite an impressive menagerie!
If you consider yourself a fan of Warhammer games, regardless of the shape they might take, you'll be happy to hear that Steam's somewhat-annual Skulls for the Skull Throne event has now returned! The Skulls event brings with it massive discounts on a wide array of Warhammer games, an assortment of new content for many of them, as well as a couple of exciting new announcements to spice things up even further!
Great games like Mechanicus or Battlefleet Gothic Armada 2 are currently a quarter of the usual price, Vermintide 2's new DLC has added the Sister of the Thorn as a spell-weaving career for Kerillian, while Total War: Warhammer 2 has unveiled The Silence & The Fury - an upcoming DLC pitting the Lizardmen led by Oxyotl against the Beastmen led by the Brass Bull himself, Taurox. Needless to say, there's a lot of fun stuff to check out!
Post-apocalyptic Kung-Fu RPG Biomutant has now arrived alongside a fairly mixed reception
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[Update]: Biomutant's Patch 1.5 has improved the loot, increased the level cap, and fixed a bunch of crashes.
After being teased for nearly five years at this point, the stylish and post-apocalyptic Kung-Fu RPG Biomutant has now finally arrived. It brings with it a colorful world to explore, an assortment of mutations that you can acquire in order to drastically change your appearance and abilities, and as is tradition, plenty of combat, crafting and conversations to keep you occupied along the way.
You can get a pretty good idea of what all of this looks like in action through two of the recent trailers. The first is the fairly standard launch trailer, while the second one is a developer-guided overview of Biomutant's world and themes. Have a gander:
Total War: Warhammer 2's penultimate DLC will pit the Beastmen against Lizardmen
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[Update #2]: Creative Assembly has revealed the full scope of the upcoming Beastmen vs Lizardmen DLC, and it's quite an impressive menagerie!
[Update]: Creative Assembly have begun teasing a new and mysterious free DLC that will accompany The Silence & The Fury.
It may have taken what feels like an eternity, but the long-neglected Beastmen will soon be getting the improvements they desperately need. So mark July 14th on your calendars as that's when the Beastmen led by Taurox will square off against the Lizardmen led by Oxyolt in Total War: Warhammer 2's penultimate DLC The Silence & The Fury!
The exact details are currently still few and far between, but you can expect to see two new factions with their own unique campaign mechanics and gameplay flavor, a variety of new units and heroes to toy around with, and if the recent Wood Elf DLC is any judge, a massive rework of the Beastmen faction as a whole.
As for what exactly the two Legendary Lords will look like in-game, that you can find out through the freshly posted teaser trailer. Have a peek:
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.