Planetside 2 has added a bunch of new content to the robot mercenary faction (NSO)
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[Update]: The massive Escalation update has now arrived alongside Fleet Carriers, Outfit improvements, and a whole bunch of other changes.
A little while ago Planetside 2 added Nanite System Operatives - player-controlled robotic mercenaries whose task is to balance out the factions. While certainly a neat idea, the one big downside is that NSO classes can only use neutral weapons and vehicles, which makes for a bit of a samey experience after a while.
In order to correct this, as well as introduce even more fun things to mess around with, the latest Planetside 2 update has now added a bunch of new toys for the NSO faction. First and foremost, we have a brand new class - the Defector. It's essentially a grenade launcher wielding variant of the MAX unit with far more mobility than usual, though it pays for this boon with noticeably reduced damage resistance. So if you decide to pilot one, make sure to mind your positioning or you're going to be in for a one-way trip to the respawn area!
Multiplayer focused 2D action game TowerFall Ascension is free to grab until 5pm on December 21st
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The Epic Games Store has recently started its massive winter sale, as well as a rather nifty holiday event. Basically, every single day until January 1st, a brand new game will be completely and utterly free to grab.
Yesterday the game in question was the RTS/puzzle hybrid Into The Breach, while today we're looking at TowerFall Ascension - a 2D fighter with a focus on local multiplayer. If that sounds like something you'd be into, simply head on over to TowerFall Ascension's store page, log into your account or create a new one, and you'll be blasting apart pixelated monstrosities in no time.
The Walking Dead : Saints & Sinners is an upcoming VR survival and zombie-smashing game
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[Update]: Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners has now released in full, and I'm happy to say it has turned out quite good!
After a couple of disastrous big budget games, it appears like The Walking Dead series has now slowly moved over to VR. Raw Data developers have announced a little while ago that they're working on a zombie-slaying VR game called The Walking Dead: Onslaught, and now Skydance Interactive have unveiled their own take on the formula called The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners.
As you would expect, Saints & Sinners will have you roam the desolate streets in search of much-needed supplies, slice and dice through hordes of zombies in VR with both melee and ranged weapons, as well as make friends or enemies with the various survivors you'll encounter along the way. The details are few and far between, but according to the brief description a playthrough should take you around fifteen hours, which would indicate that Saints & Sinners will be a bit more in-depth than the usual VR zombie game.
Steam's absolutely massive Winter Sale has now arrived with quite a few deep discounts in tow
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If you've finally managed to make a bit of headway with your gaming backlog, I'm afraid it's time to nullify all of that progress and add a few more great games onto the piles. In other words, Steam's absolutely massive Winter Sale has now arrived, and with it a whole assortment of games have gone on rather steep discounts.
Since there is basically no way to give you a brief overview of every quality game on sale, allow me to share a couple of stand-out deals, mostly from games I've been playing religiously throughout 2019. Here's my small list:
Battle for Azeroth's possibly final major update Visions of N’Zoth is coming this January 14th
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[Update]: Blizzard has now released a lengthy preview of everything coming in with Patch 8.3!
It is the time of year where World of Warcraft players get to be both incredibly happy and sad at the same time. Happy because there is an absolutely gigantic update on the horizon that will likely keep them occupied for quite a while, and sad because this is likely to be the last major patch before the next expansion is ready to release.
But regardless of where you fall on that spectrum, I'm sure you'll be interested to hear that Patch 8.3 "Visions of N’Zoth" will be coming to World of Warcraft on January 14th! It'll bring with it a brand new take on map-wide Assaults, a new Horrific Vision game mode that offers plenty of challenges for both solo players and groups, as well as two new Allied Races - Vulpera (Horde) and Mechagnomes (Alliance).
The Epic Games Store is giving away a new game each day, starting with Into The Breach
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[Update]: The second day of the event has arrived, and with it a brand new free game. This time around it's the multiplayer-focused 2D action game TowerFall Ascension.
The Epic Games Store is currently running a rather hefty winter sale, and in order to get as many people to check it out as possible, they have also started an equally massive giveaway. From today until January 1st, each new day will bring with it a brand new and entirely free game to grab!
Things have started off on a seriously high note as today's freebie is Into The Breach - an excellent strategy/puzzle game from the developers behind FTL. In order to grab it, all you need to do is head on over to its store page, log into your account or create a new one, and simply claim your copy.
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?