Total War: Troy's Amazons DLC is charging in on September 24th and will be free for two weeks
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[Update]: Total War: Troy's Amazons DLC has now landed, and it's about as fun as you'd expect.
While this shouldn't come as too much of a surprise given how many times Creative Assembly has said the DLC will be coming in September, Total War: Troy's Amazons DLC has now been pinned for a September 24th release date. More importantly, the Amazons will be entirely free to grab for two weeks after launch!
In order to secure yourself a copy you'll need to create a Total War Access account and link it to your Epic Games Store account. While you're doing that, you might want to also grab a bunch of free content for the other Total War games, especially Total War: Warhammer 2 given that there's quite a few free DLCs squirreled away in there.
World of Warcraft's Shadowlands animated shorts are here to introduce the four Covenants
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[Update #2]: The Shadowlands expansion will be launching for real this November 23rd!
[Update]: Blizzard has now detailed what's coming with the Shadowlands pre-patch.
Once World of Warcraft's Shadowlands expansion launches this October 27th, players will be able to ally themselves with one of four Covenants: the Kyrian of Bastion, the Necrolords of Maldraxxus, the Venthyr of Revendreth and the Night Fae of Ardenweald. Each of the Covenants will feature their own storyline and will offer players new abilities, talent-like effects, and naturally, fancy cosmetics.
So in order to help you figure out just where each of the Covenants stand, as well as what sort of trouble they'll need a bit of help with, Blizzard has now released four animated shorts highlighting just that. Have a gander, starting with my favorite - Revendreth:
Amnesia: Rebirth, sequel to the classic horror game, is launching this October 20th
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[Update #2]: Amnesia: Rebirth's lengthy preview offers plenty of great atmosphere and a glimpse at the monster.
[Update]: Frictional Games have released the full source code for the original two Amnesia games!
I sure hope you're in the mood for some good ol' fashioned psychological horror, because Amnesia: Rebirth has now finally received a release date! In other words, you can expect to see it arrive this October 20th for Steam, GOG, Epic Game Store and PlayStation 4.
As for what exactly it looks like in action, that you can find out through the freshly posted teaser trailer. Before you dive in, I will say that it features a brief glimpse at one of the monsters, so if you want to go in completely spoiler-free, you might want to avert your eyes for the time being. If not, here's the video:
Watch Dogs 2 and Football Manager 2020 are entirely free to grab for a full week
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If you've somehow managed to miss the previous two giveaways for Watch Dogs 2, yet you're still interested in giving it a try, you'll be happy to hear that the third one has now arrived! The good news doesn't end there, however, as Football Manager 2020 and the rather charming adventure game Stick It To The Man are also entirely free to grab!
To snag yourself a copy all you need to do is head on over to the Epic Games Store, log into your account or create a new one, and then add each game to your library. That's pretty much it. The only catch is that this giveaway will last until September 24th, so you might want to get yourself a copy before you forget about the whole thing.
Conan Exiles' Isle of Siptah expansion has added a large, demon-infested new world to explore
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[Update]: Conan Exiles' huge Update 3.0 has added corrupted magic, revamped perks and brought in a Battle Pass.
If you've delved through all of its dungeons and explored even its furthest corners, you might be interested to hear that Conan Exiles has now greatly expanded its world through the newly launched Isle of Siptah expansion. Siptah brings with it a large new island to explore, an assortment of demonic monstrosities to test your steel again, a whole bunch of new dungeons to strip for valuables, new building sets, and even a chunky new Rhino mount to ride around on.
You can get a pretty good idea of what all of this madness looks like in gameplay terms through the recently posted launch trailer. Have a gander, it's not a very long one:
Fall Guys' mid-season update has remixed the levels and added Easy Anti-Cheat
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[Update]: Fall Guys' major Season 2 update has brought in plenty of medieval mayhem!
If there is one thing that makes a round of Fall Guys turn into an absolute nightmare, it would be the presence of cheaters. Just knowing that nothing you do, and no matter how hard you try, will ever get you closer the glorious crown at the end tends to get a bit demoralizing when it happens over and over again in a single night!
Thankfully, the Fall Guys team has now implemented Easy Anti-Cheat in order to hopefully prevent most of the cheaters from making a mess. There will always be some around because the arms race between cheaters and anti-cheat software is never-ending, but even so, this should greatly improve the quality of the matches.
World of Warcraft has expanded and extended the double reputation event until October
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In order to give Battle for Azeroth a proper sendoff, Blizzard has recently added both a double experience and reputation event. The popularity of the former was guaranteed from the start, but it would appear that the reputation event was also a huge success given that Blizzard has now chosen to extend it all the way until the end of September!
Best of all, they have now expanded it to include the two most recent Patch 8.3 factions: Uldum Accord and Rajani! While I wouldn't recommend farming reputation with them in order to get their fancy Essences given that Shadowlands launches in October, this would still be a pretty good time to pick up some of the cosmetics you may have missed.