Diablo 3's Season 22 is set to arrive this November 20th alongside a bunch of new items
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[Update]: Diablo 3's Season 27 patch has introduced an awesome array of new and ridiculously strong powers!
If you're looking for an excuse to take Diablo 3 for another spin, you'll be happy to hear the next season is just around the corner. Patch 2.6.10 will bring in a brand new batch of items and balance changes tomorrow, while Season 22 itself will follow shortly afterwards, on November 20th.
Instead of the irritating storms that marked its predecessor, Season 22 will make it so activating any Shrine or Pylon will spawn a shadow clone of your class. The clone will stick around for a full minute and will scale with your power, so I'm expecting to see absolutely ridiculous levels of destruction while it's active.
Deep Rock Galactic devs have revealed what sort of goodies are coming in early 2021
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[Update]: Deep Rock Galactic Update 33 has added fancy new biomes, enemies and spruced up missions.
Much like the space Dwarves themselves, the Deep Rock Galactic devs sure are an industrious bunch. After only just releasing a massive new update that brought in fun new mission types and plenty of cosmetics, Ghost Ship Games have already returned to announce their content plans for early 2021.
As you can probably guess from that statement alone, this does mean that Update 33 will not be releasing this year as previously planned. On the positive side, there will be a fancy holiday event to keep us all occupied, as well as a "few cool surprises" along the way.
Aerial combat and exploration game The Falconeer is launching this November 10th
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[Update]: Interestingly enough, a second exploration-focused game where you get to fly around with the help of a bird of prey has been released this same week - The Pathless!
If you're in the mood for soaring across the stormy skies atop a giant warbird, you might want to keep an eye on The Falconeer. As you might expect given the premise, The Falconeer is all about exploring the world, squaring off against a variety of mythical beasts in aerial dogfights, and naturally, upgrading and improving your mighty falcon with new abilities and tricks.
Since The Falconeer is one of those games where the atmosphere is half of the experience, allow me to stop babbling and instead show you one of the recent trailers. Have a gander, it'll give you a pretty good idea of what to expect from The Falconeer:
Ori and the Will of the Wisps PC update has brought in a variety of fixes and improvements
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In order to prepare for the upcoming Xbox Series X launch, Ori and the Will of the Wisps devs have cooked up a whole bunch of fixes and improvements. While the changes have been designed specifically with the Xbox Series X in mind, the good news is that the PC will be able to benefit from many of them as well!
So if you've been putting off your Ori and the Will of the Wisps playthrough, this would be the perfect time to jump in. Not only has the PC update just brought in a variety of settings to help improve the visual and audio quality, but the entire game has received a brand new layer of polish, including things like bug fixes and stability improvements.
BioWare is working on a new Mass Effect game and Remastering the original trilogy
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[Update]: Mass Effect Legendary Edition has now been unleashed without too many technical issues or bugs!
After the disappointingly mediocre Mass Effect: Andromeda, I honestly didn't expect to hear anything from the series for at least five or so years. As such, I am both surprised and delighted to announce that not only is BioWare working on a brand new Mass Effect game, but that they are remastering the original trilogy as well!
As for the new Mass Effect game, the only thing I can tell you right now is that it'll be the "next chapter" for the Mass Effect universe and that it currently has some of BioWare's most veteran devs working on it. For the actual details, or even simply the name of the game, we'll most likely have to wait a couple of years.
Dungeon Keeper inspired Dungeons 3 is entirely free to grab until November 12th
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As you might guess from the name alone, Dungeons 3 is a faithful homage to the original Dungeon Keeper, as well as pretty solid strategy game in its own right. It's all about creating your very own dread fortress, populating it with an assortment of monsters and traps, and then crushing the hopes and dreams of anyone even remotely heroic that dares to waltz in.
If that sounds like something you would love to mess around with, you'll be happy to hear that Dungeons 3 is entirely free to grab over at the Epic Games Store. The only catch, as always, is that the giveaway is timed, so you'll need to snatch yourself a copy before November 12th. As long as you do that, you'll be able to play Dungeons 3 whenever you want and for however long you want.
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered has now arrived for both PC and consoles
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If you're a fan of the 2010 Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit and wish to explore a slightly improved version of it, you'll be happy to hear that Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered has now landed onto PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4. A Nintendo Switch version is also on the way, though that one will be arriving next week, on November 13th.
As for the actual improvements, I'm afraid there aren't that many. You can expect to see new achievements, cosmetics, an updated photo mode and gallery, some minor quality of life fixes and visual improvements, as well as every single DLC already bundled in.