Minecraft's upcoming Caves & Cliffs update will be split into two parts
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[Update #2]: First part of Minecraft's colossal Caves & Cliffs update has now brought in some very angry goats.
After sprucing up the Nether and bringing in a whole bunch of quality-of-life features, Mojang has set their sights on improving another set of commonly visited locations - caves & cliffs. While this might sound like a simple enough ordeal, the task has ended up being so complex and involved that Mojang has now decided to split the update into two.
The first part (1.17) will release at some point this summer. In terms of content, Update 1.17 will focus primarily on adding new mobs, items and blocks. As such, you can expect to see a variety of things like goats, axolotls, crystals, spyglasses, geodes, tinted glass, copper, lightning rods, and a bunch of other fun stuff.
MTG Arena's spell-focused Strixhaven expansion has now been unleashed
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[Update #2]: Inspired by Strixhaven's Mystical Archives, MTG Arena's The Brother's War expansion will be launching on November 15th with a bunch of classic artifacts in tow.
[Update]: MTG Arena's Dungeons & Dragons inspired expansion is arriving on July 8, 2021.
After a full month of previews and teasers, MTG Arena's newest expansion Strixhaven has now finally arrived. It brings with it a whole host of new cards to play around with, almost all of which are heavily spell-focused and themed after the five magical colleges: Lorehold (Red/White), Prismari (Blue/Red), Quandrix (Green/Blue), Silverquill (Black/White), and Witherbloom (Black/Green).
If you're wondering just what these cards are like, as well as what sort of playstyle each of the colleges is going for, you can find your answers over at the Strixhaven card gallery. Wizards of the Coast has nicely sorted them out by color, so it should be fairly easy to figure out what's going on.
World of Warcraft devs have finally increased Anima rewards from World Quests
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[Update]: Shadowlands' very first major content patch will be landing at the end of June.
While Anima is not directly tied to power like Battle for Azeroth's Azerite, it still plays a major role when it comes to upgrading your Covenant hideout and purchasing an assortment of cosmetics. However, despite the costs being incredibly high across the board, getting any significant quantities of Anima has been incredibly difficult all throughout Shadowlands, even after Blizzard buffed some of the dungeon rewards.
With all of that in mind, you'll be pleased to hear that Blizzard has now finally listened and increased the amount of Anima you gain from completing world quests! However, in true World of Warcraft fashion, it's not a simple numerical buff but a whole new system to keep an eye out for.
Steam version of NieR: Automata is getting a much-needed upgrade patch
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[Update #2]: The long-awaited NieR: Automata patch will be landing on July 15, 2021!
[Update]: NieR Replicant remaster has now landed onto PC, thought not without some technical issues.
If you would hop over to the Steam page for NieR: Automata you would see a bit of a shocking sight - an overwhelmingly negative review score. One of the reasons for this is that despite the Steam version suffering from annoying bugs for four years now, neither Square Enix nor PlatinumGames have done much to fix the problems.
The second, and more currently relevant reason, is that the newly launched Xbox Game Pass version of NieR: Automata has brought with it a whole bunch of technical improvements. Unfortunately, none of the changes have made their way to Steam, which as you might imagine, hasn't exactly gone over well with people that have been eagerly awaiting some fixes for many years at this point.
Vermintide 2: Chaos Wastes Preview - The rogue-lite adventure Weaves should've been
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[Update]: The Chaos Wastes expansion has now finally arrived, and as expected, it's a pretty good one!
Once it arrives this April 20th, Vermintide 2's newest free expansion Chaos Wastes will have you brave the corrupted northlands in search of ancient and supremely powerful artifacts. Given that reality tends to take a back seat whenever the Chaos gods are involved, it should come as little surprise that these expeditions into the Chaos Wastes will have you venture across a variety of strange and surreal lands, consort with whatever benevolent gods will even listen to you, and naturally, explode thousands upon thousands upon thousands of rats and Chaos cultists.
Over the past few days I had a chance to explore pretty much everything Chaos Wastes have to offer, so if you're curious how all of this madness translates into actual gameplay, as well as how the rogue-lite Expeditions compare to the dreaded Weaves, allow me to share my thoughts now that I've managed to finally scrub the smell of charred Beastmen off my clothes.
Hearthstone has finally nerfed Paladins, Mages and the annoying Watch Posts
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[Update]: Hearthstone's Voyage to the Sunken City expansion is bringing in some truly gigantic creatures.
The Forged in the Barrens expansion arrived a little while ago, bringing with it the long-requested Classic Mode alongside a whole host of fun new cards. Unfortunately, things didn't remain entertaining for long as some of the new cards, in combination with old cards rotating, created an environment where only Paladins, Mages and Rogues could find any sort of success.
So in order to sort this whole mess out, Blizzard has now released a brand new update. Mage's Deck of Lunacy has gone up to 4 mana cost, Paladin's secret-spewing Sword of the Fallen has lost 1 durability, while the always-annoying Pen Flinger has now been changed to only target minions!
Microsoft Flight Simulator update has now fleshed out France, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg
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[Update]: The newest update has now fleshed out all of the Nordic countries!
Ever since Microsoft Flight Simulator launched the developers have slowly but surely been fleshing out the already massive world map with new monuments, airports and points of interest. The latest in this series of updates, the humbly named World Update IV, has now arrived with a whole bunch of new things to explore in France, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg.
You can expect to see far more detailed locations in Paris and Amsterdam thanks to improved aerial images and high-resolution 3D photogrammetry, three new hand-crafted airports (Megève, Nice and Rotterdam), as well as a whole host of new points of interests and minor airports sprinkled throughout the whole area.