Highly challenging action-platformer Blasphemous has now arrived for PC and consoles
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After an immensely successful Kickstarter campaign and a fair few years in development, the highly challenging action-platformer Blasphemous has now finally made its way to both PC and consoles. It brings with it a wide-open world filled with enemies to beat up and bosses to endlessly die against, a combat system that's all about dodging blows and striking when the time is right, and as you might imagine from the name alone, plenty of gore and twisted imagery.
You can get a pretty good idea of what all of this looks like in gameplay terms, as well as what sort of atmosphere Blasphemous is going for, through the recently posted launch trailer. Have a gander, it's certainly a unique one:
Oldschool cRPG Neverwinter Nights has received a brand new expansion - Tyrants of the Moonsea
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Back in March of 2018 Beamdog released a remastered version of Neverwinter Nights, featuring a variety of small but certainly welcome improvements. The Enhanced Edition's release date was also marked by the arrival of three new DLC campaigns: Pirates of the Sword Coast, Infinite Dungeons and Wyvren Crown of Cormyr. The quality between them differed greatly, but even so, they were a pretty fun way of getting a few more hours out of Neverwinter Nights once you were done with the main storyline.
However, if you're looking for something a bit more meaty, you might be interested to hear that Beamdog and Ossian Studios have now released a chunky new expansion - Tyrants of the Moonsea. It brings with it around twenty hours of gameplay and story, a large new world to explore, five trusty new companions as well as five new monsters to use them against, and naturally, a whole bunch of new loot to hoard.
Slay the Spire's fourth character "The Watcher" is now playable in the Steam beta
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After a couple of little teasers, Slay the Spire's fourth playable character has now made its way to the Open Beta. Simply head on over to your Steam library, right click Slay the Spire and go into properties, and from there all you need to do is change to the beta branch in order to see just what The Watcher has to offer.
As you might imagine given The Defect and its abilities, The Watcher is quite a unique and interesting character, and one that will likely take you a fair bit of time to properly figure out. She's all about planning ahead and carefully moving between different stances, with the two basic ones being Calm and Wrath. The first one allows her to build up energy, while the second one gives her double damage but also makes her take double damage in return. Using these stances well is going to be rather tricky, but there is some serious potential behind them!
Total War: Warhammer 2 is soon getting the mighty Gor-Rok as a free Legendary Lord
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[Update]: The Hunter & The Beast, as well as its accompanying free update, have now arrived in force!
Total War: Warhammer 2 will be getting The Hunter & The Beast DLC this September 11th, which will bring with it a whole host of new toys to play around with for both the Empire and Lizardmen. Expect to see two new Legendary Lords, a variety of new units, new regiments of renown, as well as new campaign mechanics for both factions.
Besides the paid DLC, September 11th will also mark the arrival of a massive free update. The Empire will be getting its long-awaited rework and will now actually be able to summon the Elector Counts, while the Lizardmen will get an extremely powerful (and free) new Legendary lord - Gor-Rok, the Great White Lizard.
The Surge 2 devs have now released 13 minutes of pure gameplay footage
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Action-RPG The Surge 2 is set to arrive this September 24th for both PC and consoles. You can expect to see a whole bunch of Dark Souls inspired action, a much wider and interesting world to explore when compared to its predecessor, as well as plenty of weapons and customization options to help you tear murder-bots and other monstrosities limb from limb.
Since words alone aren't really good enough when it comes to describing an action-RPG, I'm happy to say that the developers have now released 13 minutes of pure gameplay. So if you're wondering just what The Surge 2 has to offer, you'll find your answers right below:
Apex Legends' Wraith themed Voidwalker event has arrived with a redesigned area and new cosmetics
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After an extremely slow and barren Season 1, it would appear that Respawn has come better prepared for Season 2. Just last month we've had an Octane themed event alongside a bunch of new cosmetics, and already we're getting the same sort of treatment, just with a bit of a Wraith flair to it.
Much like the Octane event, the Voidwalker update has redesigned an area to highlight some of Wraith's story, as well as to make a previously boring part of the map just a little bit more exciting. And thankfully, the new rework has managed to do just that by adding some lovely in-door areas to fight in, as well as a giant portal to fling yourself through!
World of Warcraft: Classic devs have addressed player concerns about Layering
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[Update]: Blizzard is now getting ready to entirely remove the layering system.
In order to avoid having half-empty servers later on, as well as to combat the initially massive influx of players, Blizzard implemented a layering system for World of Warcraft: Classic. Essentially, it's like having mini-servers within each server.
While the layering system has done its job admirably by making WoW Classic actually playable during its launch week, there have been a couple of problems as well. Most notably, some players have been using layering to search for rare monsters and loot, potentially doubling or even tripling the amount of items they'd normally be able to farm.