Overwatch update has brought in a new Control map set in Busan, as well as some excellent bug fixes
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After spending a bit of time on the PTR, the brand new Control map set in Busan (South Korea) has now finally made its way to the live servers. You can check it out in both Quick Play and the Arcade, though it won't be available in Competitive Play for another two weeks - a rather wise decision given that the third phase of the map contains some of the most complex pathways Overwatch has ever seen.
So if you're curious about what the new Busan map looks like, as well as what sort of map design I'm talking about, you should check out the teaser trailer down below. Have a look, it's a fairly brief video:
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 trailer shows off the brand new Blackout Battle Royale mode in action
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Given the immense popularity of Fortnite and PUBG, I'm sure it won't come as much of a surprise to hear that Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 will feature a Battle Royale mode as well. The newly revealed Blackout mode will give you a chance to fight through classic Black Ops maps and annihilate your fellow players on foot, as well as in air, land and sea vehicles. Long story short, it will be a Battle Royale mode with a Call of Duty twist, exactly as you would expect.
If you're wondering what all of this looks like in gameplay terms, however, allow me to share with you the recently posted trailer. It'll give you a pretty darn good idea of what exactly Blackout Battle Royale has to offer. Have a gander:
The Surge will be getting a Western themed DLC this October - The Good, the Bad, and the Augmented
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I have to hand it to Deck13, their post-launch support for The Surge has been pretty darn good. It received a rather sizable new area to explore through A Walk in the Park DLC back in December, a bunch of new weapons and bosses through two different recent content updates, and soon it will even be getting a Western themed expansion - The Good, the Bad, and the Augmented.
The new expansion will give you a chance to fight through progressively more devious test chambers, all of which appear to have been torn straight from a twisted wild west TV show. The more modifiers you add to each encounter, the trickier the battles will be, but the bigger the rewards you will be able to claim at the very end. And naturally, you will also have a chance to square off against brand new bosses at the finale of each stage, bosses that come equipped with 30 unique new weapons, armors and implants that can be 'borrowed' for your own use.
Overkill's The Walking Dead co-op FPS will be having a PC Closed Beta this October 9th
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After being delayed time and time again, Overkill's The Walking Dead co-op FPS has now finally been pinned for a November 6th release date on PC, while the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions will arrive in February of 2019. If you would like to give it a try ahead of schedule, as well as provide some feedback to the developers themselves, you might be interested to hear that the PC Closed Beta will begin on October 9th.
Right now the only way to guarantee access is to pre-order the game itself, though the Deluxe Edition does also come with three extra keys you can share with friends. Whether you will be able to access the Closed Beta without pre-ordering, that I'm not sure about, but whatever happens you should still be able to get a pretty good idea of just what Overkill's The Walking Dead is all about, and whether it's any good or not.
The Light Keeps Us Safe is a new stealth and survival game set in a world where the Sun has died out
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The Signal from Tolva and Sir, You Are Being Hunted devs have now decided to continue their crusade against robot-kind with The Light Keeps Us Safe - a newly announced stealth and survival game set in a world where the Sun has died out, leaving the world shrouded in darkness and infested by creepy robots. As you might expect, you'll have to use your trusty light to avoid pursuit, dismantle traps, or simply distract the killer robots for long enough to sneak through their numerous checkpoints.
Trying to explain all of this through words alone is a bit of a pointless venture given how much of it relies on atmosphere, so allow me to instead share with you the recently posted gameplay teaser. It's a fairly brief video, but it should clue you in quite nicely. Have a peek:
Square Enix are now remastering the somewhat controversial JRPG The Last Remnant
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The Last Remnant was a rather creative JRPG that attempted to bring in a whole bunch of new gameplay systems and ideas into an often formulaic genre, and for the most part it managed to do so quite successfully. The parts where it failed, however, it failed in quite a spectacular fashion.
Most notably, you could completely ruin your entire playthrough by making some bad decisions early in the game, and the more you attempted to grind in order to correct those mistakes, the more messed up your playthrough would become. So if you didn't know what you were doing, like I didn't, your playthrough would most likely hit a hard wall at around 20 hours in. A rather massive flaw, I'm sure you'll agree, but the gameplay was still enjoyable enough that I gladly dived right back in to try again.
Shadow of the Tomb Raider's launch trailer has arrived ahead of its September 14th release date
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider is set to arrive later this week, on September 14th, for both PC and consoles. It'll bring with it a much more badass version of Lara, as well as move the action from some fairly nondescript locations into quite literally the Mayan apocalypse, with all of the lush jungles, ancient temples and human sacrifices you might expect.
If you're wondering what all of this looks like in-game, as well as where the story itself is heading, you should check out the newly released launch trailer down below. Have a gander, it's a surprisingly well-done trailer: