Dwarf Fortress devs have revealed the upcoming mouse-driven UI improvements
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[Update #2]: Dwarf Fortress' new and improved version has now landed onto Steam, and I'm happy to say that it has done so alongside overwhelmingly positive reviews!.
[Update]: Dwarf Fortress devs have revealed their roadmap and plans for the upcoming Steam release.
While Dwarf Fortress is a brilliant game with a genuinely stunning amount of depth, its archaic UI and rather bland art style can make it nearly impenetrable to new players. If you're starting out you pretty much need to play it alongside a step-by-step guide, and even then, figuring out how to navigate all of the menus is a rather herculean task.
As such, I'm very happy to say that the upcoming Steam version will not only have actual visuals that clearly represent what's happening on screen, but also a much more clean and usable UI! Best of all, the freshly reworked UI will have mouse support, so the days of having to memorize a myriad of hotkeys in order to quickly advance through menus are now finally coming to an end!
Hearthstone's next Battlegrounds update will remove both Arcane Cannon and Gentle Megasaur
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[Update]: Hearthstone's next expansion is improving the rewards, adding a new mode and plenty of new cards.
If you've recently been playing Hearthstone Battlegrounds, chances are you're well aware of just how powerful Arcane Cannon is. It doesn't matter what kind of build you have or what your goal is, simply stick a cannon in there and your first 6-7 turns will be instantly better. And if that wasn't bad enough, the Arcane Cannon is also incredibly random, making it so matches can often come down to pure chance over any sort of strategy.
In order to correct this, Blizzard is now looking to completely removed Arcane Cannon from the Battlegrounds mode. A bit of a drastic move to be sure, but given how problematic Arcane Cannon has been since the very beginning, I do believe it is the correct one as Arcane Cannon simply doesn't fit the Battlegrounds gameplay style.
Apex Legends' newest Season 6 preview is all about Rampart and her abilities
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[Update]: Apex Legends' Season 6 has now finally arrived alongside Rampart, a new energy SMG, and item crafting!
This August 18th Apex Legends' Season 6 will be making its way to PC and consoles alongside a bunch of new content. There'll be a brand new energy SMG called Volt, a new Battle Pass filled with cosmetics to collect, the option to craft your own gear by gathering materials throughout the map, and most excitingly, a heavy-weapons focused Legend by the name of Rampart.
So if you're curious about what Rampart has to offer, as well as what her abilities are all about, you can find the answers you seek in the recently posted preview. Have a peek, it's a rather fun one:
Dead By Daylight has added full cross-play between PC and consoles
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In an extremely positive move for everyone involved, the asymmetrical multiplayer game Dead By Daylight has now introduced cross-play between PC and consoles. In other words, regardless of what platform you play on (Steam, Microsoft Store, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 or Nintendo Switch), you'll now have access to the exact same pool of players!
This will hopefully make matchmaking a lot more accurate and thus improve the quality of each game, as well as drastically cut down on queue times given the influx of additional players. So even if you don't particularly care about playing with people from other platforms, this update should still be a net positive for you.
Vermintide 2 update has arrived with buffs to pretty much all of the weak weapons and playstyles
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[Update #2]: Vermintide 2's rogue-lite Chaos Wastes expansion is launching on April 20, and it's entirely free!
[Update]: Vermintide 2's Patch 3.2 has brought in some long-requested quality of life improvements
After going through a rather extended testing period, Vermintide 2's Big Balance Beta has now finally come to an end. While the Huntsman rework has been postponed in order to ensure it fits in a bit better, the rest of the changes have been deemed successful and already implemented into the main game!
Overpowered weapons like Kruber's Executioner Sword or Kerillian's Dual Daggers have received relatively minor nerfs, while a whole host of previously underpowered weapons have undergone some drastic improvements. For example, after years of being completely and utterly irrelevant, Kerillian's one-handed and two-handed swords are now actually usable and can be carried even into the hardest content out there!
The Souls-inspired shooter Remnant: From the Ashes is free to grab for four more days
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[Update]: Remnant II has now been unleashed, and so far it's looking quite good!
While Remnant: From the Ashes is by no means a clone of Dark Souls, it does borrow a lot of elements from it. You have a very limited amount of healing potions that refill only when you use checkpoints, enemies deal a lot of damage and it's fairly easy to die if you're not paying attention, while winning battles is just as much about timing and positioning as it is about raw aggression. The biggest difference, however, is that in Remnant you can choose to simply shoot the enemy in the face instead of trying to duel them in melee combat!
If all of that sounds like something you would love to sink your teeth into, you'll be happy to hear that Remnant is free to grab until August 20th. Simply head on over to the Epic Games Store, grab yourself a copy, and you'll be able to dive in whenever you want.
After nearly a decade in development, Factorio has now finally been released
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[Update]: Factorio devs have started working on a sizable expansion pack!
Factorio has been in Early Access for quite a while now, during which the developers have released update after update, constantly expanding and polishing up the various bits of content. Because of this, Factorio has felt like a genuinely finished game for at least a few years at this point.
However, the developers were never happy with its various small flaws, and so they opted to put in even more effort into getting Factorio polished up to a mirror sheen. Thankfully, all that hard work has definitely paid off as Factorio's version 1.0 is downright brilliant, as evidenced by even the fickle Steam reviews giving it a 99% positive rating!