Totally Accurate Battle Simulator is heading onto Game Pass and the Xbox One this December 20th
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Totally Accurate Battle Simulator is one of those games I judged completely wrong. When I first saw its goofy animations and extremely simplistic visuals, I immediately wrote it off as yet another in a long line of terrible, terrible simulator games that constantly infest the Steam storefront.
Luckily for me, I did eventually give it a try, at which point I realized that it's a genuinely fun game to mess around with and one with a pretty darn active development team behind it. TABS might look downright goofy, but it features a ton of different characters and unique interactions, and smashing wildly different things together is always an entertaining time! After all, how often do you get to pelt the grim reaper with cannon balls while raptors nibble on his shins?
Riot has opened up their own publishing platform to help expand the League of Legends universe
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[Update]: Riot Games are working on an MMO set in the League of Legends universe!
Instead of keeping all game development in-house and under tight control, Riot Games have announced that they plan to partner up with developers both big and small in order to expand the League of Legends universe. In order to achieve this, as well as ensure the new games are properly funded, Riot have now also opened up their own publishing platform - Riot Forge.
"We’re a player and developer-focused publisher," reads the official announcement. "Our mission is to bring awesome new League of Legends games to players by partnering with experienced and talented developers from around the world."
Dota Underlords update has sped up the early game and added a new titular Underlord - Jull
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[Update]: Dota Underlords' next titular Underlord is the small but scrappy Enno.
While Valve's willingness to experiment with Dota Underlords is certainly commendable, sometimes all that tinkering results in quite a few problems. Most notably, the last few major patches have greatly increased the average match length, to the point that they sometimes even exceeded actual Dota 2 matches, which isn't exactly ideal for a game that bills itself as being easy to pick up and play.
As such, I'm very happy to say that the newest update has now greatly sped up the early game, and thus also significantly reduced the overall match time. Unit health has been lowered across the board, players now start with a higher unit cap and more gold, while creep rounds have been removed entirely in order to get everyone smashing into each other as soon as possible.
Total War: Three Kingdoms is getting a massive new DLC - Mandate of Heaven
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[Update]: Mandate of Heaven has now arrived in full, and so far it seems to be a pretty solid piece of DLC.
These are pretty exciting times for the Total War series. Total War: Warhammer 2 has recently received the The Shadow & The Blade DLC alongside truly impressive end-turn timer reductions for the Mortal Empires campaign, while Total War: Three Kingdoms is now slated to get a massive and feature-rich new DLC - Mandate of Heaven.
The Mandate of Heaven campaign begins in 182 CE just before the Yellow Turban rebellion and features over 40 new combat units to mess around with, six new playable warlords with unique mechanics, as well as origin stories for many of the characters that play pivotal roles in the main campaign. Speaking of which, you'll be able to seamlessly transition from your Mandate of Heaven campaign to the main one, with many of the most important events adjusting themselves based on what you've accomplished.
Overcooked! 2 has added a whole bunch of free and festive new content
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[Update]: Overcooked! 2's free Sun's Out, Buns Out update has added brand new levels and adorable canine chefs
While Overcooked! 2 already has a pretty good chunk of content to explore, I'm happy to say that the developers have decided to spice things up even further by adding a whole bunch more into the mix. The freshly added and holiday themed update brings with it five festive new levels, two new chefs in the form of Reindeer Chef and Present Head Chef, a variety of decorated enemies for the Horde Mode, and naturally, five delicious new recipes to ruin over and over again!
Best of all, the five newly added levels are inspired by the various DLC packs: one is based on Campfire Cook Off, two on Night of the Hangry Horde and two on the recently released Carnival of Chaos. So even if you don't own any of DLCs, you'll still get a pretty nice variety of locations and challenges to toy around with, all wrapped up in a bit of holiday cheer.
Planet Zoo's very first expansion, the Arctic Pack, has now arrived
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If you're looking for even more unique animals to research and raise, or if you're just eager to add a bit of extra chaos to your messed up Battle Royale arena, you might be interested to hear that Planet Zoo's very first DLC has now arrived. The Arctic Pack brings with it four new animals (Polar Bear, Reindeer, Arctic Wolf and Dall Sheep), over 200 new scenery pieces to toy around with, as well as two brand new scenarios set in Norway and Mexico.
Here's a brief teaser trailer showing off the adorable new animals, as well as some of the really impressive new parks you'll be able to create. Have a gander:
Blizzard has finally announced that Warcraft 3: Reforged will be coming in late January, 2020
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[Update]: Warcraft 3: Reforged has now finally been released, and it's unfortunately a bit of a mixed bag.
For those of you that were planning to actually follow through with your New Year's resolution instead of simply lazing around, I'm afraid I bring a bit of bad news. Blizzard has just announced that Warcraft 3: Reforged, a remastered version of one of the best RTS games around, will be releasing world-wide on January 28, 2020!
Warcraft 3: Reforged will bring with it remastered versions of both the Reign of Chaos and The Frozen Throne campaigns, improved visuals and voice acting, greatly rebalanced online play, a variety of upgrades to the matchmaking and social features, and perhaps most importantly of all, a massively enhanced World Editor tool!