The original Titanfall has now finally (and rather suddenly) landed onto Steam
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After years of Origin exclusivity on PC, EA has recently started moving the vast majority of their games onto Steam. This includes primarily singleplayer games like Dragon Age and Mass Effect, as well as more multiplayer focused ones like Apex Legends and Star Wars: The Old Republic.
With the whole process now nearing its conclusion, I'm very happy to say that the final piece of Respawn Entertainment's catalog has now finally transitioned to Steam! Naturally, I'm talking about the highly ambitious and fast-paced shooter Titanfall!
World of Warcraft's massive Shadowlands expansion has now gone live without any notable problems
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[Update]: My Shadowlands review is now live, and I'm happy to say things are looking pretty good for WoW!
The Shadowlands expansion was originally supposed to arrive on October 27th, but due to the closed beta being in a bit of a rough state, Blizzard opted to postpone it until late November. As it turns out, that was an incredibly wise decision given that World of Warcraft: Shadowlands has now been unleashed without any sort of major problems.
Naturally, some of the high population servers are having lengthy queue times, but the actual gameplay is looking perfectly smooth. Throughout the four to five hours I've spent so far I've only encountered a single notable bug, one that made my character unable to attack enemies because they were still stunned from a previous cutscene. A quick relog fixed that issue immediately and it never came back afterwards, so if you were holding off in order for the launch craziness to subside, I'd say Shadowlands is already looking stable enough to dive in!
Immersive space sim Elite: Dangerous is entirely free to grab for another day
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If you're looking for something interesting to help pass the time before Cyberpunk 2077 comes along, you might be happy to hear that the space sim Elite: Dangerous is currently free to grab. Simply head on over to the Epic Games Store, snag yourself a copy, and you'll be good to go after a brief download.
As the title would suggest, the only catch is the time limit. The giveaway will only be around for another day, so if Elite: Dangerous looks like it might be up your alley, you should definitely go get yourself a copy sooner rather than later, just to play it safe.
Hearthstone's Madness at the Darkmoon Faire expansion has landed alongside a few problems
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[Update]: Hearthstone's Voyage to the Sunken City expansion is bringing in some truly gigantic creatures.
Unlike the previous few expansions that just added more of the same, Hearthstone's Madness at the Darkmoon Faire has decided to really shake things up. Besides the usual batch of new cards and mechanics, Madness at the Darkmoon Faire has brought in the brand new Duels game mode that is a remarkably fun cross between Dungeon Run and Constructed Play, as well as massively overhauled progression and achievement systems.
As for the cards themselves, the most exciting addition is the new Corrupt keyword. Corrupt essentially supercharges the card in question whenever you play a card with a higher mana cost, which as you might imagine, makes for some rather interesting decision-making throughout the match as you constantly have to weight current and future benefits. What exactly these Corrupt cards even do, however, that you can check out through the card list.
Total War: Warhammer 2's The Twisted & The Twilight DLC is bringing in goodies for Wood Elves and Skaven
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[Update #2]: Creative Assembly have now revealed the full patch notes for The Twisted & The Twilight update.
[Update]: The latest preview is all about the gigantic Wood Elf rework!
After being teased time and time again, Total War: Warhammer 2's Wood Elf focused DLC has now finally been revealed. The Twisted & The Twilight will bring with it two new Legendary Lords, Throt the Unclean for Skaven and Naestra & Arahan for Wood Elves, a bunch of new units and heroes to toy around with, unique mechanics for each faction, and an absolute ton of changes to the Wood Elves as a whole.
The latter part will be arriving alongside a free update, most of which will be focused around getting the Wood Elf campaign onto the level of the other Total War: Warhammer 2 races. As such, you can expect to see a variety of new settlements for the Wood Elves to occupy, a significantly less restrictive Amber mechanic, a more involved tech tree, plenty of quality of life changes and improvements, and most importantly of all, the ability to teleport around through the use of World Roots!
Apex Legends has fixed the horribly grindy Weekly Challenges and given everyone 10 free Levels
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[Update]: Apex Legends' festive Holo-Day Bash event is launching this December 1st alongside the Winter Express mode.
Despite Apex Legends' Season 7 update being one of the biggest the game has ever seen, all of the positive changes and additions were quickly overshadowed by the Battle Pass and just how much it sucked. And I'm not exaggerating there either, because not only did the initial version of the Battle Pass require nearly three times the effort to complete daily challenges, but the challenges themselves were far more tedious than before.
After seeing the nearly endless waves of complaints, Respawn thankfully decided to fix everything up and make the Battle Pass more like the previous ones. As such, they quickly reverted the daily challenges to their Season 6 equivalent while keeping the star rewards the same, which on its own was already a massive boon.
Overwatch has unleashed the Symmetra Challenge and a bunch of awesome quality of life changes
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[Update]: Overwatch is adding the Priority Pass system to help with lengthy queue times.
Only a few days have gone by since the Experimental Mode closed down, and already Blizzard has brought in the awesome set of quality of life improvements. Ana's biotic grenade will now pass through full-health allies, Hanzo's storm arrows can be manually canceled, while Mei and Symmetra can destroy their wall and teleporter even while dead. The only omission is the Pharah change that allowed her to use her fuel to propel herself downwards, though that will most likely still arrive once Blizzard sorts out all of the bugs.
What might come as a bit of a surprise is that instead of continuing the recent Tracer comic, Blizzard has released a short story about two rather unlikely characters - Symmetra and Zenyatta! So if you're like me and you were waiting for years to get a little bit more lore about the Omnic monk, you might want to head on over to the Blizzard website and give the new story a look.