The turn-based Yakuza: Like a Dragon is set to launch next week, on November 10th
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[Update]: Yakuza: Like a Dragon has now been unleashed, and I'm happy to say it's pretty good!
While the Yakuza series has changed a fair bit over the years, the upcoming Yakuza: Like a Dragon is truly breaking the mold by taking things in a completely new direction. Instead of the usual brawler combat system, Yakuza: Like a Dragon will be using a JRPG inspired turn-based combat system with plenty of ridiculous combos.
The emphasis there is absolutely on the ridiculous, as you'll quickly see through one of the action-focused trailer down below. Have a gander, it's certainly a sight to behold:
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 update is adding new challenges, cosmetics and replay tours
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In an update that is set to arrive on November 6th, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 will be getting a whole assortment of quality of life improvements, alongside a couple of new cosmetics. First and foremost, you will now be able to replay the Tours mode with individual skaters. All of the goals and medals will also reset, thus allowing you to complete them again in order to collect stat points, or simply because they're fun to mess around with.
If you're up for even greater challenges, then you'll be happy to hear that Vicarious Visions is adding exactly that - 100 new challenges spread across 10 new challenge sets. All of these challenges will come with plenty of additional experience and cash, which combined with the newly revamped leveling system, should allow you to reach Level 100 much easier and have a lot more cash to spend at the in-game skate shop.
Worms Rumble, the arena-based 32 player madhouse, is set to launch this December 1st
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[Update]: Worms Rumble has now landed onto PC and PlayStation alongside pretty solid reviews.
Unlike the previous Worms games, the upcoming Worms Rumble will forgo its strategy roots and focus on intense 32-player, real-time action with plenty of different weapons and customization options to help spice things up. And if that wasn't unusual enough, Worms Rumble will also have its very own Battle Royale variant!
Since I'm sure many of you are wondering what all of this madness looks like in actual gameplay, allow me to share with you the recently posted trailer. It should give you a pretty good idea of just what Worms Rumble is trying to accomplish:
Apex Legends has now landed onto Steam alongside the massive Season 7 update
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[Update #2]: Apex Legends has fixed the horribly grindy Weekly Challenges and given everyone 10 free Levels.
[Update]: Apex Legends is bringing in massive and positive changes to the controversial Battle Pass.
The freshly launched Season 7 update really is an enormous one, potentially the biggest Apex Legends has seen so far. It brings with it the floating city of Olympus as a new map, the very first transport vehicle called the Trident, as well as Horizon, a remarkably fun gravity-bending new legend. And as an additional little bonus, Apex Legends has now made its way to Steam!
You can also expect to see the very first iteration of a guild/club system, an assortment of balance changes and quality of life tweaks, a fresh ranked season to participate in, and naturally, a brand new Battle Pass filled to the brim with fancy cosmetics. Unfortunately, it's that Battle Pass that has somewhat soured the otherwise excellent update.
Kerbal Space Program 2 has been delayed yet again, this time until 2022
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[Update]: Kerbal Space Program 2 has now landed into Early Access, though sadly in a rather rough state.
It certainly wouldn't be 2020 if there wasn't a brand new delay to talk about every couple of days. This time around it's Kerbal Space Program 2, which despite already being delayed multiple times, has now been pushed back all the way to 2022.
"We knew we were taking on an immense technical and creative challenge when we started this project," reads the brief update." We’re creating a reliable foundation on which players and modders alike can build for another decade or more. That involves solving problems that have never been solved before, and that takes time."
World of Warcraft is free to check out for returning players until November 8th
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[Update]: World of Warcraft hotfix has sorted out some of the major balance issues with the pre-patch.
With World of Warcraft's Shadowlands expansion launching this November 23rd, Battle for Azeroth's days are now slowly coming to an end. So if you would like to give it a try before it goes away, or simply say hello to your old characters, you'll be happy to hear that Blizzard is currently running a free weekend.
Basically, if you've previously played World of Warcraft, you can now log in and roam the world without the need for a subscription. The catch, as you might expect, is that this offer is time-limited. As such, you only have until 11:59pm PST on November 8 to play for free, after which you'll need a subscription.
SpellForce 3's standalone Fallen God expansion has brought in the highly aggressive Troll tribes
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If you're itching for a bit of RTS action, you might want to check out SpellForce 3's newly launched and standalone Fallen God expansion. The chunky new campaign is centered around the nomadic and highly aggressive Trolls, and it offers a whole bunch of choices that will greatly impact your characters and their abilities, all of which will eventually feed into a variety of different endings.
What all of this looks like in actual gameplay, as well as just how fast Trolls can smash things down, that you can find out through the freshly posted launch trailer. Have a little peek: