World of Warcraft: Classic's Alterac Valley and Warsong Gulch battlegrounds are now live
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[Update]: Blackwing Lair, level 50 class quests, and a whole bunch of other content are coming to World of Warcraft: Classic this February 12th!
If you're sick and tired of the rampant ganking and city-camping that has been happening ever since the recent PvP update, you'll be glad to hear that this sort of nonsense is now finally behind us. The reason? Blizzard has just released the PvP battlegrounds!
Right now only Alterac Valley and Warsong Gulch are active, though the two of them should be more than enough to provide you with plenty of eager targets and ways to gain those all-important honor points. In order to join the battlegrounds you'll need to be at least level 10, after which you'll be able to queue for them by either visiting Battlemasters in one of the capital cities, or by walking directly to the entrance of the battleground itself.
Co-op focused shooter GTFO has now made its way to Steam Early Access
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[Update]: After a rather eventful Early Access stay, GTFO has now been fully released.
GTFO is a hardcore, co-op focused shooter that's all about exploring a gigantic underground complex and blasting your way through hordes upon hordes of twisted monstrosities. With limited supplies and specialized weapons, teamwork is not only highly useful, but pretty much mandatory if you intend to survive for long.
Since there's only so much you can explain through words alone, allow me to share with you one of the recent overview trailers. It'll give you a pretty good idea of just what I mean when I call GTFO hardcore, as well as what the actual gameplay is all about. Have a peek:
Vermintide 2's massive Season 2 update will be going into open beta next week
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[Update]: Vermintide 2's Season 2 update has now arrived alongside a brand new map and a much better way of acquiring new cosmetics.
Fatshark has recently announced that Vermitnide 2 will be getting a whole bunch of new content throughout Season 2. You can expect to see three remastered Vermintide 1 maps, Lohner’s Emporium of Wonders as a way to acquire a variety of cosmetics, plenty of improvements to the recently added Weave system, and naturally, a whole bunch of bug fixes and general improvements.
If that sounds like something you would love to mess around with, you'll be glad to hear that Season 2 will be heading into open beta on December 16th! The beta will bring with it Old Haunts as the first of the three free maps, Lohner's Emporium, as well as the numerous improvements to the Weaves, including the ability to 'Quick Play' them which should greatly decrease queue times.
Resident Evil 3 remaster has been announced alongside a stunning trailer
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[Update #2]: Resident Evil 3 and its companion Resident Evil 3 Resistance have been released, though sadly they don't seem to have lived up to the high standards set by Resident Evil 2.
[Update]: Resident Evil 3's newest trailer is all about the big boy himself - Nemesis!
As I've hopefully made clear throughout my review, the Resident Evil 2 remake might not be a completely faithful recreation of the original classic, but it definitely manages to reach the same heights and often even surpass them. In other words, it shouldn't come as much of a surprise to hear that Capcom has now announced the Resident Evil 3 remake is on its way!
What might come as quite a shock is that Resident Evil 3 will be coming to us not even halfway through 2020, on April 3rd! I'd imagine this is because Resident Evil 3 shares both the engine and gameplay mechanics with its predecessor, but even so, that's quite an impressive achievement on Capcom's side.
Overwatch's Winter Wonderland event has now arrived alongside massive balance changes
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[Update #2:] Blizzard has now released another balance update aimed at reducing the power of defensive compositions and promoting more variety among DPS and support heroes.
[Update]: As is tradition, Blizzard is giving away 5 Winter Wonderland loot boxes as a small gift for the holidays.
If you're sick and tired of shooting into shields, today's your lucky day as Overwatch has just received a massive balance update. Shields have been nerfed across the board so you'll no longer be able to hold a position and simply sit there, but in order to compensate for this nerf the tanks have also received some nice survivability buffs to help promote more aggressive playstyles.
You can read the full patch notes over at the official website, and I would highly recommend you do so as these changes will certainly have a massive impact on your games. What exactly the meta will look like once things finally stabilize, only time will tell, but so far I've seen just about every single composition run with good success. A rather lovely Christmas gift from the Overwatch team!
Monster Hunter: World has added catch-up gear to help players power up for the Iceborne expansion
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[Update]: Monster Hunter: World - Iceborne has now arrived, though not without a couple of nasty issues that will need to be resolved over the coming weeks.
Monster Hunter: World's Iceborne expansion is set to arrive this January for PC, bringing with it a whole host of new challenges to face. In order to ensure the players are well and truly ready for them, as well as to guarantee their gear will be up to scratch, Capcom has now released some rather powerful catch-up gear.
New players will be able to start with the Defender α immediately, while returning players will be able to buy it from the Armory at 300z per piece, which is pretty much nothing in the grand scheme of things. On the other hand, everyone will need to forge their own Defender weapons at the Smithy, though this will once again be incredibly cheap as it'll only require one piece of Iron Ore.
2K has announced a new Bioshock game developed by the freshly-formed Cloud Chamber studio
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After Bioshock Infinite and the dissolution of its developer Irrational Games, the Bioshock series seemed to have come to a natural end. But, as is often the case, popular series tend not to lie dormant for all too long.
As such, it likely won't come as too much of a surprise to hear that 2K has now announced a brand new Bioshock game. The details are few and far between, but what I can tell you is that the new game will be developed by the freshly-founded Cloud Chamber studio which will have offices in both the San Francisco Bay Area and Montréal, Québec.