Ubisoft's open-world racing game The Crew 2 has now arrived on PC and consoles
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The Crew 2 is an open-world racing game where you can explore a scaled-down recreation of the United States with a variety of vehicles such as cars, airplanes, boats, and so forth. If that sounds like the type of racing game you'd love to mess around with, you might be interested to hear that The Crew 2 has now arrived on both PC and consoles.
Since trying to explain racing games through words alone is a bit of a futile task, allow me to share with you one of the recent developer streams. The video is fairly lengthy, but if you just skip around you should get a pretty good idea of what The Crew 2 is really all about. Here's the video:
Slay the Spire update has added the long awaited-third game mode - Custom Mode
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Slay the Spire has recently been on a roll as far as quality updates are concerned. In early June Mega Crit Games added the Defect as a highly entertaining new character, the Endless mode is still being actively worked on in beta, and now they have also introduced the long-awaited third game mode - Custom Mode.
As you might imagine from the name alone, the Custom Mode allows you to tweak a variety of modifiers in order to create and share your own unique challenges. So if you're like me and you have a couple of Daily Climbs you absolutely loved going through, you now have the ability to not only recreate them, but also improve them!
The PC remaster of Ys: Memories of Celceta has been pinned for a July 25th release date
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Unless it encounters some massive issues like the recent Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana, XSEED Games' PC remaster of Ys: Memories of Celceta will be coming this July 25th. Once it arrives you can expect to see support for a variety of resolutions, an unlocked frame rate, fully customizable controls, a brand new Boss Rush game mode, as well as a whole bunch of bug fixes and improvements.
If you're wondering what all of this looks like in gameplay terms, allow me to share with you the recently posted trailer. It's not the lengthiest video around, but it should give you a pretty good idea of what Ys: Memories of Celceta is all about. Have a look:
Mothergunship is an upcoming bullet-hell FPS that gives you a chance to craft whatever monstrous gun you want
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Mothergunship is an upcoming indie, bullet-hell FPS with a strong focus on customization, namely the ability to craft whatever monstrosity of a gun you can possibly imagine. You can create a shotgun that fires lighting out of twelve barrels, a weapon that spews spiky balls in every direction, or just a rocket launcher so packed full of explosives that no reasonable person would ever come close to it.
Since trying to explain all of this through words alone is never going to do the system justice, allow me to share with you the recently posted trailer. It'll give you a pretty darn good idea of just how silly Mothergunship can get. Have a gander:
Ubisoft has announced a new batch of updates and challenges for the extreme winter sports game Steep
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Steep is Ubisoft's extreme winter sports game that allows you to ski, glide, snowboard, or just faceplant your way across a variety of rather lovely vistas. It's a little bit out of place given the currently scorching summer heat, but who knows, maybe the sight of snow will help some of you cool off!
And what better way to do so than with a whole bunch of free updates, updates that will be arriving on a regular schedule all the way until September 29th. From what I can figure out the main reward behind the newly introduced challenges will be entirely cosmetic in nature, so don't worry if you end up missing out on some of the events as you'll still have plenty of chances to get the fancy new outfit.
Season 11 of Overwatch Competitive Play has now begun, though the exciting changes are still to come
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To say that Season 10 of Overwatch Competitive Play has been a disappointment would be an extreme understatement. A whole bunch of heroes suddenly found themselves non-viable due to the rise of double sniper lineups, dive pretty much evaporated outside of the Overwatch League, and worst of all, the same 6-7 heroes kept appearing in every match.
While none of this has changed just yet, I am very glad to say that the newly launched Season 11 will soon bring with it some massive changes. First of all, once the Symmetra rework goes live in Competitive Play I think we're going to see a drastic shift in the meta due to the mobility she provides. Close quarters heroes like Reaper might just find themselves on the top of the food chain, while the combination of Symmetra and Orisa could enable some aggressive Bastion lineups. How exactly all of this will play out in actual gameplay, I'm afraid I have no idea, but it's certainly going to be interesting!
Baldur's Gate 2: Enhanced Edition patch has fixed more than 500 bugs and introduced new localizations
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[Update]: After remastering many classic RPGs, Beamdog has now launched a dungeon crawler of their own - Mythforce.
While Baldur's Gate 2: Enhanced Edition is a greatly improved version of the original, and one that actually runs well on modern systems, it unfortunately launched with a whole bunch of bugs of its own. To their credit, Beamdog quickly released numerous updates to correct these issues and has continued to support the Enhanced Edition to this very day, nearly five years after its original release.
This is where the newly released Update 2.5 comes into play as it offers "over 500 fixes and features", as well as new localization and voice acting. Simplified Chinese, Korean, Russian and Polish are the newly supported languages, while the German, Italian and Polish versions have received brand new voice acting. What exactly is the quality of this new localization, I'm afraid I have no idea, but it's always good to see new languages added to the list, even if the translation ends up needing some more work later.