Bethesda has finally announced Rage 2 alongside a completely over-the-top gameplay trailer
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After being accidentally leaked and then teased for quite a while now, Bethesda has finally come out with an official announcement for Rage 2. As you might expect given the original Rage, it's going to be a first-person shooter set in the dystopian future, though what you might not expect is that Rage 2 is going to be all about fast-paced, colorful and completely over-the-top action. In many ways it feels like a sequel to Bulletstorm than Rage, but you certainly won't hear me complain about that!
Since trying to explain all of this through words alone is a bit of a wasted effort, allow me to share with you the recently posted gameplay trailer. It's fairly brief, but it'll give you a pretty darn good idea of what to expect from Rage 2. Have a look, the video is quite something:
Vermintide 2 is getting a massive patch this week, with cosmetics and mod support coming soon after
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[Update]: Patch 1.0.8 has now arrived to the live servers. You can find out more by heading over here.
While Vermintide 2 is a highly enjoyable game, and one that I'm still playing to this very day, it is also riddled with so many bugs its sometimes difficult to appreciate all of the good parts. With that in mind, I am very glad to say that Vermintide 2's massive bugfixing patch 1.0.8 will be leaving the test servers and fully releasing at some point this week, most likely on Thursday.
There are far too many details to cover in brief, so if you're interested in the full patch notes you should head on over to Steam. What I will highlight, however, is that every single map has been reworked in order to prevent enemies from attacking through terrain - a change that should go a long way towards making Vermintide 2's harder difficulties a lot more fair and a lot less frustrating! The only downside is that this massive update is truly massive, by which I mean it's around 20GB in size, so do be prepared for a bit of a wait once the patch actually goes live.
The action-RPG Little Witch Academia: Chamber of Time has now arrived for PC and PS4
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After being available in the East for quite a few months now, the action-RPG Little Witch Academia: Chamber of Time has finally made its way to the West via PC and PS4 as well. While it is quite clearly made for fans of the show, it is worth mentioning that Chamber of Time has its own self-contained storyline and detailed character introductions, so you should be able to play it even if you're not super-familiar with the show.
Since a lot of Chamber of Time's strengths rely on exactly this connection to the show and its characters, allow me to showcase that by sharing with you the recently posted launch trailer. It'll give you a pretty good idea of how closely Chamber of Time emulates the show, as well as what the actual gameplay is all about. Have a look:
Overwatch's Anniversary update is coming on May 22nd alongside all of the event skins released so far
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[Update #2]: The Anniversary update has now arrived. You can learn more over here.
[Update]: All 11 of the upcoming Anniversary skins have now been leaked. You can check them out over here.
Overwatch's second anniversary is fast approaching, and so it shouldn't come as much of a surprise to hear that the second annual Anniversary update will be coming soon as well, on May 22nd to be specific. What might come as a bit of a surprise, however, is that the Anniversary update will bring with it all of the past seasonal items and brawls! So if you ever wanted to try out Lucioball, or just grab some cosmetics you missed during the previous months, this update will have you covered.
As far as new content is concerned, there will be 8 new Legendary skins, 3 new Epic skins, 3 new dance emotes (Doomfist, Moira, Brigitte), as well as 36 miscellaneous items to collect. If the previous event is any indicator, the full list of cosmetics is going to be announced throughout this week, but so far I can only tell you that one one them is going to be Pirate Junkrat. I can only hope Blizzard will continue with the costume theme and also introduce the Swordsman Genji skin teased in the Halloween comic, because that thing is pretty darn sweet!
Total War: Thrones of Britannia Review - Two steps forward, one step back
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Thrones of Britannia is the very first of the newly announced Total War Saga spin-off series, and it really shows. It has some great ideas and it even fleshes out many of the systems found in previous Total War games, but due to it being the first of its kind a lot of those systems are currently either unfocused or too easy to ignore. Yet despite all of that, Thrones of Britannia still remains a fairly enjoyable experience, and one that future Total War games will be taking a lot of inspiration from.
So if you're interested in finding out what Thrones of Britannia does right, as well as where it stumbles and falls flat on its face, allow me to share my thoughts after playing through a couple of campaigns on various difficulty levels.
The Flame in the Flood, a rogue-lite survival game, is free on Humble Bundle for the next 24 hours
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If you have a bit of free time and the will try out something new, you might be interested to hear that the rogue-lite survival game The Flame in the Flood is free for the next 24 hours. Simply head on over to Humble Bundle, go through the 'purchasing' process, activate your key, and The Flame in the Flood will be yours to keep for good.
As for whether its any good or not to actually play, however, I would go with a tentative yes. The difficulty curve is incredibly steep at the very beginning and you're probably going to die over and over again, but once you climb over that initial difficulty hump The Flame in the Flood becomes a lot more interesting, and ironically, a lot more relaxing as well. So if you don't mind losing a couple of 'runs' before you finally figure out what you're doing, I think it's well worth giving The Flame in the Flood a try - it's completely free after all!
Hearthstone's most recent update has sped up Shudderwock's animations and rebalanced arena once again
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While Shudderwock is by no means an overpowered card, it's overly-long animations are often a complete waste of time. As such, I am very glad to say that Hearthstone's latest update has now not only doubled the speed of Shudderwock's Battlecry animation, but doubled the speed of Lifedrinker's Battlecry animation as well! While this will prevent you from going for a sandwich every time someone plays Shudderwock, it will at least make the card a lot more fun to play against for those that might not be hungry at the moment.
On a similar note, Blizzard has now implemented a variety of changes to Arena in order to improve class balance. Unfortunately, they've done so in the classic Blizzard fashion, by which I mean they've given us absolutely no information or statistics to work with. The only thing I can tell you for certain is that Paladin's absurd winrate will be going down, though by how much and due to which changes I'm afraid I don't know.