Northgard studio's Dune: Spice Wars strategy game has now launched from Early Access alongside mixed reviews
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After spending a little over a year in Early Access, Northgard studio Shiro Games' real-time strategy Dune: Spice Wars has now finally been unleashed alongside a sizable update. Version 1.0 brings with it House Ecaz as a brand new faction, numerous mechanical reworks, the often-requested ability to scale the UI, and naturally, a whole bunch of bug fixes and balance tweaks to help tie everything together.
What all of this looks like in action, as well as what Dune: Spice Wars is even trying to do, that you can check out through the freshly posted launch trailer. Have a gander, it's a fairly short one:
Owlcat Games' massive CRPG Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader is coming to PC on December 7, 2023
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If smashing through Baldur's Gate 3 has only gotten you hungrier for more large-scale RPGs, you'll be happy to hear that Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader, a CRPG from the Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous and Kingmaker team, now has a proper release date. Best of all, it's actually quite soon! You can expect to see Rogue Trader land onto PC this December 7, 2023, while the Xbox and PlayStation versions are likely to follow after a short delay.
Besides the release date, the Owlcat Games team has also shared a brand new trailer showing off what Rogue Trader is all about, some of the companions, as well as some of the drastic choices you might make throughout your campaign. Have a peek:
MTG Arena devs have shared the Format Popularity Stats and their Plans for the Future
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[Update #2]: It took a while, but MTG Arena has finally added the ability to favorite card styles!
[Update]: MTG Arena's mini-expansion Alchemy: Eldraine is launching on October 10 with 30 brand new cards.
With the Wilds of Eldraine expansion now live and the end of the year quickly approaching, the MTG Arena team has decided to do a short rundown of everything they've achieved over the past few years, as well as what waits ahead. As a part of this, they have also revealed the overall popularity of the 'main' formats: Standard, Historic, Explorer, Alchemy and Brawl.
Given that Standard is... well, standard it should come as little surprise to hear that it's at the top of the pile, though it does seem to be losing a bit of its lead as Historic is slowly gaining more and more ground. Brawl and Alchemy are next in line as both seem to hover around the 15% mark, which makes sense given that they're both mostly casual-focused formats, meanwhile the hyper-competitive and thus more niche Explorer is slowly making its way towards 7-8%. Long story short, things are looking quite good for all of them!
Slay the Princess, a horror-adventure starring a definitely-not-an-eldritch-monstrosity princess, is coming this October
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[Update]: Slay the Princess has now arrived, and I'm pleased to say it's looking quite good!
Following in the footsteps of games like The Stanley Parable, Slay the Princess is a comedy/horror adventure where you simply have to slay the princess in order to save the world. Naturally, things don't remain very simple for very long as the story quickly spirals into a myriad of different directions, time loops and utterly bizarre series of events.
Trying to talk about all of this through words alone is basically impossible, so instead allow me to share with you the recently posted trailer. It should give you a pretty good idea of what Slay the Princess looks like and what it's trying to achieve. Have a gander:
1995 action-platformer Gargoyles is getting a remastered version on October 19th
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If you're in the mood for a bit of nostalgia, and you don't mind feeling ancient, you might be interested to hear that the 1995 Sega Genesis action-platformer Gargoyles is getting a remastered version. The aptly named Gargoyles Remastered will be landing onto PC (via Steam and GOG), PlayStation, Xbox and Switch on October 19th.
As you would expect, Gargoyles Remastered will come with enhanced visuals, animations and sound. There's also going to be a couple of optional modern features in there as well - things like achievements, the ability to rewind time, the option to swap between the old and new versions on the fly, "and more".
Dota 2's Patch 7.34c has arrived to fix some of the recent balance mishaps
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[Update #2]: Dota 2's Patch 7.34d has now arrived with some last-minute balance changes before The International.
[Update]: Dota 2's International 2023 update has added a cosmetics-free Battle Pass alongside a Profile rework.
With the massive The International 2023 tournament fast approaching, Valve has recently started releasing more and more updates for Dota 2 in order to get as many heroes competitively viable as possible. While they've done a pretty good job with most of them, the updates have unsurprisingly created a couple of monsters as well.
So in order to sort out these issues, as well as squeeze in a few more buffs, Valve has now unleashed Patch 7.34c. As you might expect, the highlights include some major nerfs to both Gyrocopter and Nature's Prophet - two heroes that feel like they've been either picked or banned in just about every game over the past few weeks.
Bethesda's space exploration game Starfield has now arrived alongside a massive amount of praise
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After a brief early access period that saw the game's hype levels go through the stratosphere, Bethesda's space exploration RPG Starfield has now finally been released in full. As you might expect from that description alone, Starfield is all about wandering from planet to planet collecting resources, annoying NPCs with endless questions, fine-tuning your ship and crew, and naturally, blowing apart anything not vaguely friend-shaped!
What all of this looks like in action, that you can check out through one of the gameplay trailers below. Have a gander, it's quite a pretty one: