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.
Pokemon inspired MMO TemTem is coming to Steam Early Access in January, 2020
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[Update #2]: After two years in Early Access, Temtem will finally be launching onto PC and consoles in September 2022.
[Update]: Temtem has now landed onto Steam Early Access.
Despite the Pokemon games being an absolutely gigantic success, the series has unfortunately never evolved past its original form. So even though the TV show is all about a group of trainers roaming the world and discovering strange new Pokemon, the games themselves are a surprisingly solitary experience. A real shame since the all of the Pokemon games seem like they would be an absolutely perfect fit for co-op.
This is where TemTem comes in as on the surface it appears to be exactly that: a creature collecting and battling RPG with a heavy focus on player-to-player interactions and even co-op! If you're like me that might sound a bit too good to be true, so allow me to share with you the recently posted gameplay trailer:
Total War: Warhammer 2's next update will improve end-turn times by well over 60%
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[Update]: The Shadow & The Blade DLC and its accompanying update have now arrived, and so far they have been quite amazing!
The Shadow & The Blade DLC will be coming to Total War: Warhammer 2 this December 12th with Malus Darkblade and Deathmaster Snikch in tow. However, as exciting as the DLC may be, it is the accompanying free update that will have the biggest impact on Total War: Warhammer 2 as a whole.
After spending months optimizing the code, Creative Assembly has managed to speed up end-turn times by well over sixty percent. Naturally, the amount of time you save each turn will greatly depend on the power of your CPU, but from all of the previews we've seen so far, the difference has been absolutely staggering! Best of all, this has been achieved without any shortcuts or sacrifices, so the whole campaign experience will remain pretty much exactly the same... just a lot faster.
Gwent's Merchants of Ofir expansion has now brought in more than 70 new cards
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When Gwent first released things were looking a bit shaky as the balance was all over the place and CDPR still unsure about the direction they wanted to take the gameplay in. Luckily, instead of folding like so many card games before it, Gwent has overcome these initial hurdles and now settled into a rather nice position, both in terms of balance and content updates.
And what better way to continue that trend than with a brand new expansion, which is where the freshly revealed Merchants of Ofir comes into play! Here's a brief teaser showing what to expect: