Total War: Warhammer 2 devs have released a campaign preview for the new Queen & Crone DLC
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[Update] The patch is now live. You can find the full patch notes, as well as more about the accompanying "The Queen and the Crone" DLC over here.
Total War: Warhammer 2's Queen and the Crone DLC will be coming on May 31st, bringing with it a whole bunch of new content to play around with. You'll find a brief rundown of the accompanying patch and its changes over here, but as far as the DLC itself is concerned, you can expect to see two new Legendary Lords with unique campaign mechanics, a new Hero for the High Elves and a Lord for the Dark Elves, as well as a whole host of new units and Regiments of Renown.
Since trying to showcase all of this through words alone tends to be a bit difficult, Creative Assembly has now released a rather lengthy campaign preview showing off the Queen & Crone DLC in action. There are unfortunately no battles on display, but you should still get a pretty good idea of what to expect. Have a gander:
The Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy will be coming to new platforms a bit sooner than expected
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It's fairly common for games to get delayed, especially when we're talking about massive, multi-platform projects. What doesn't happen even remotely as often, however, is that a game's release date gets pushed forward, yet this is exactly what's currently happening with the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy.
According to a recent developer update, the N. Sane Trilogy will be coming to PC, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch nearly two weeks early, or on July 10th to be specific. A relatively minor shift in the grand scheme of things, but it's always good to see projects go so smoothly the developers are fully confident in releasing them early. What the end result is going to be like, I have no idea, but I must admit I'm looking towards the PC version with even more enthusiasm now.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 has been officially announced and pinned for 2021
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[Update]: Stalker 2: Heart of Chernobyl has been pushed back seven months, all the way to December 8, 2022.
Stalker 2 was originally revealed all the way back in 2010, but unfortunately it didn't get far in development before the whole project and the studio behind it fell apart. GSC Game World eventually came back, but nothing ever rose out of Stalker 2's ashes.
With that in mind, I am quite happy to announce that Stalker 2 is now officially in development once more! We're most likely going to have to wait until 2021 for it to actually release, but at the very least we now know that the cult classic series is not going to simply fade away.
All 11 of the Overwatch Anniversary 2018 skins have now been leaked
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[Update]: The Anniversary update has now arrived. You can learn more over here.
Overwatch's second anniversary update is set to arrive this May 22nd, bringing with it an absolute ton of cosmetics to collect and brawls to undertake. Not only will it feature a variety of new skins and voice lines, but all of the previous seasonal items and brawls will be making a reappearance as well. So if you've missed any of the previous events, or if you didn't have enough currency to purchase the skin you wanted, you will soon have another chance at it!
As far as the new skins are concerned, Blizzard was planning to reveal most of them during half-time breaks in the Overwatch League, but unfortunately for them all of the skins have now ended up being leaked through Reddit. So if you don't mind a little bit of a spoiler, allow me to show you what sort of cosmetics the upcoming anniversary update will bring to the table. The quality isn't exactly the greatest, but you should still be able to get the general idea behind each skin. Have a gander:
Shadow of War is completely free to try out on Steam until Monday
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As you're probably well aware at this point, Shadow of War is a rather well made game that's unfortunately mired by some of the most ridiculous microtransactions around. Thankfully, those microtransactions will soon be entirely removed, and the grind they totally didn't cause will end up being lessened as well. It may have taken quite a while, but Shadow of War will soon become the sequel Shadow of Mordor truly deserved.
So if you would like to give Shadow of War a try and see if its even the sort of game you'd like to play with or without microtransactions, you might interested to hear that it's currently completely free to try out on Steam. I'm unfortunately a bit late with this announcement so you only have about 20 hours to go, but that should be plenty of time to make up your mind about Shadow of War.
Vermintide 2 hotfix has now greatly buffed the Shade and restored the Executioner Greatsword
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Vermintide 2's most recent and rather massive Update 1.0.8 brought with it a variety of bug fixes, balance changes, performance improvements, as well as tweaks to map geometry in order to prevent enemies from shooting through terrain. While all of that was and still is pretty darn good, the update unfortunately also brought with it some absolutely crushing nerfs to Kerillian's Shade career and Kruber's Executioner Greatsword.
With that last part in mind, I am very glad to announce that those changes were apparently a result of a bug, and as such have now been reverted! Not only that, but the Shade's somewhat lacking Dual Daggers have now been buffed even further, thus making them into the ultimate boss-killing weapon. They're still fairly mediocre against hordes, but at least now they have a considerable upside that might convince you to take them over the Dual Swords or Glaive.
Vampyr's system requirements and recommended specs have now been revealed
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For those of you that might not be aware, Vampyr is an upcoming vampire themed RPG from Dontnod, the studio behind Life is Strange and the ironically rarely remembered Remember Me. It is set to arrive this June 5th, bringing with it a complex story about a doctor that's trying to prevent a plague from sweeping through London, all the while wrestling with his vampiric curse that forces him to feed on those he's sworn to protect.
If this sounds like the type of RPG you would like to dive into, allow me to share with you the recently posted system requirements and recommended specs. All of these were originally posted on the Nvidia website so don't expect to find any AMD GPUs listed out, but I'm sure you'll be able to figure out where your GPU stands in comparison. And with that said, here's the list, as well as what sort of performance and quality you can expect to see with each combination: