Warframe is celebrating its 7-year Anniversary with a whole bunch of in-game goodies
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While it's hard to believe it's already been so long, Warframe is currently celebrating its 7-year anniversary! In order to get everyone in on the fun, the developers are now giving away a whole bunch of in-game goodies throughout the entirety of March!
First of all, you can get the new and rather fancy Dex Raksaka armor set by simply logging in. If you're willing to put in a little bit more effort, however, each of the four weeks will bring with it new Alerts that offer rewards from previous anniversary celebrations. Here's what you can expect to see:
Strategy game Offworld Trading Company and roguelike GoNNER are free to grab until March 12th
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If you're in the mood for trying something new, you might be interested to hear that both the economy-based strategy game Offworld Trading Company and the roguelike action-platformer GoNNER are currently free to grab. Simply head on over to the Epic Games Store, create or log into your account, and you'll be able to play them in no time at all.
However, there is a bit of a time-limit when it comes to grabbing the games themselves. As such, you only have until March 12th to add both games to your account, after which you'll be able to play them whenever you want.
Total War: Warhammer 2 "Proving Grounds" update is looking to drastically change the campaign balance and difficulty
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If you're playing on the harder difficulty settings, Total War: Warhammer 2 offers a bit of a strange experience. You are heavily limited on how many armies you can field due to increasing costs, while the AI is able to spew out nearly endless waves of elite troops. As such, your only real recourse is to forgo basic units entirely and make all of your armies as elite and deadly as humanly possible.
Obviously, this isn't exactly ideal as campaigns quickly tend to become very samey, which is why Creative Assembly have now released the experimental Proving Grounds update into beta testing. To put it simply, the Proving Grounds update drastically changes everything from campaign balance to unit recruitment and difficulty, all in an effort to spice up the campaign experience as a whole.
Planetside 2's Escalation update is bringing in gigantic, player-controlled fleet carriers
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[Update]: The Escalation update has now arrived alongside Fleet Carriers, Outfit improvements, and a whole bunch of other changes.
If there is one thing that separates Planetside 2 from all of the other shooters, it would be the sheer scale of its battles. During a particularly active night, it's not uncommon to see over a hundred players from all three factions fighting it out on foot, in mech suits, vehicles and even airships. However, despite this being Planetside 2's most unique and exciting feature, the game does a surprisingly poor job of pushing players into these absolutely massive battles.
In order to correct this, as well as spice up the gameplay even further, Planetside 2 will be adding gigantic, player-controlled fleet carriers as a part of the upcoming Escalation update. These floating battle-stations will require a significant investment to field, and each empire can only have one active at any given time, but wherever they appear they will most certainly change the tide of battle.
Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary has now arrived for Halo: The Master Chief Collection on PC
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[Update]: Halo 2: Anniversary is coming to PC this May 12th!
Halo: The Master Chief Collection made its way to PC a little while ago, though unfortunately it ended up being a bit lacking in content. What I mean by this is that the launch version only contained Halo: Reach, while the rest of the series is slated to arrive one by one throughout 2020.
While the exact release dates for each game haven't been given just yet, I am happy to say that Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary has now been added to the collection. The PC version brings with it support for 4K resolutions, a whole bunch of graphics options to tweak, support for both keyboard/mouse and gamepad controls, updated textures and shadows, and the list goes on.
Ubisoft's PvP-focused sports game Roller Champions is heading into Alpha testing this March 11th
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One of the most common complaints for Ubisoft tends to be about how similar all of their games feel - criticism they seem to have taken to heart as the upcoming Roller Champions is certainly quite different. To put it simply, Roller Champions is a PvP-focused sports game where two teams of three roller skaters compete to score as many goals as possible, all the while smashing into each other. It's a bit similar to Rocket League in concept, though the actual gameplay doesn't follow the same sort of formula.
Since trying to explain these types of games through words alone is mostly a pointless task, allow me to share with you two of the recent trailers. The first is a cinematic one that highlights the general premise behind Roller Champions, while the second one shows off a bit of the gameplay. Have a look:
Black Mesa, the astonishing fan-made recreation of Half-Life, has now finally been released
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After fourteen years in development, the fan-made recreation of Half-Life has now finally been released in full. So to say that Black Mesa has been a monumentally impressive project would be quite an understatement, especially considering how the developers have slowly improved (or at least tried to) nearly every single aspect of the original Half-Life!
If you're wondering just what all of this work has gone into, as well as what the launch version of Black Mesa looks like, you should check out the newly released trailer. Have a gander, it's quite a pretty one: