The cute and colorful Slime Rancher 2 has now landed into Steam Early Access
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Much like the original, Slime Rancher 2 is an open world exploration game that will task you with uncovering and raising a whole assortment of cute and colorful slimes. Along the way you'll be able to research ancient technologies, mess around with new types of resources, build new gadgets to help you move around and wrangle bigger and meaner slimes, and naturally, expand your conservatory so you can properly house your growing army.
Since all of this sounds like complete and utter nonsense on paper, allow me to share with you the launch trailer. It should give you a pretty good idea of just what Slime Rancher 2 is trying to do and how adorable the little slimes truly are. Have a gander:
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2's Open Beta has now launched and will run until September 26th
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If you're eager to dive into Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 before its October 28th launch, or if you're simply curious if it's even your type of shooter, you'll be happy to hear that the Open Beta is now live on PC and consoles. Unfortunately, there is a little bit of a catch.
As of right now the Modern Warfare 2 beta is still in Early Access, which means that only those that have pre-ordered the game are able to get in. However, this will not be the case for very long as the beta will become accessible to absolutely everyone on September 24th.
Stellaris' Toxoids Species Pack has added noble knights, poisonous baths and bad breath
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Instead of messing around with complex gameplay systems like vassalization and diplomacy, Stellaris' newest Toxoids DLC has gone for a more focused approach. As the name might suggest, the Toxoids Species Pack brings with it a bunch of new origins, civics and cosmetic options to mess around with, all centered around themes of rapid growth at the cost of both personal and environmental sacrifices.
Here's a brief trailer for one of the new origins, Knights of the Toxic God, as it showcases both the atmosphere behind the Toxoids DLC as well as some of the new toys you'll be able to play around with. Have a gander:
Overwatch 2 devs have announced all of the balance changes coming in with the October 4th launch
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While it isn't planning to drastically change the core gameplay, Overwatch 2 still represents a significant departure from the original's design philosophy. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the simple fact that Overwatch 2's matches will be 5v5, with each team having access to only one super-powerful tank.
Combine this with some of the new and reworked heroes, as well as the addition of passive abilities for each of the three archetypes, and it becomes blindingly obvious that Overwatch's heroes can't be transplanted into Overwatch 2 without some major balance tweaks. Many of these potential issues have already been sorted out thanks to the two recent beta tests, but as it tradition, some have managed to slip through the cracks.
After many months of teasers, Terraria's Labor of Love update will be launching on September 28th
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[Update #2]: Terraria's likely final update "Labor of Love" has now arrived with a bunch of improvements.
[Update]: Terraria and Core Keeper are doing a small crossover to celebrate the upcoming Labor of Love update.
Continuing on with their streak of 'this is totally, definitely, absolutely the final update,' the Terraria team is now getting ready to release the chunky and quality-of-life focused Labor of Love patch. If everything goes according to plan, you can expect to see the Labor of Love update land onto all platforms on September 28th, 2022!
The Labor of Love update will bring with it a couple of new challenges to overcome, a whole assortment of new items and furniture to mess around with, and even a couple of adorable new pets. As the name might suggest, there's also going to be a bunch of quality-of-life improvements, balance tweaks and bug fixes to help round everything out.
Vampire Survivors has increased its price tag in preparation for the big Version 1.0 launch
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After adding a massive array of new characters, weapons and maps to mess around with, Vampire Survivors is now finally getting ready to leave Early Access. As a part of this process, and in order to better represent the sheer amount of content on offer, the Vampire Survivors team has now increased the game's price tag.
Don't worry, however, as Vampire Survivors is still going to be dirt cheap. Instead of $3 as it was all throughout Early Access, Vampire Survivors will now set you back a grand total of $5. Either way, it's still well worth it.
Overwatch 2 devs have now detailed the fox-themed support Kiriko's abilities, playstyle and lore
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[Update]: Blizzard has now detailed all of the balance changes arriving alongside Overwatch 2.
As a part of the recent spree of announcements Blizzard has detailed Overwatch 2's Battle Pass, the hero unlock system, as well as their plans for future updates. The most exciting part of all of this was the new hero reveal which, as some of you may have guessed from ancient teasers, ended up being the fox-themed support Kiriko.
After leaving us for a full week to speculate on just what her abilities are all about, Blizzard has now finally decided to spill the beans. So if you're curious about what Kiriko and her fox companion are capable of, allow me to share with you the full rundown of her abilities: