Overwatch 2's likely final Season 2 update has now nerfed Roadhog, Sojourn, Kiriko and Orisa
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[Update #2]: Overwatch 2's Season 3 update won't add a new hero, but rather a new Control map - Antarctic Peninsula.
[Update]: Overwatch 2 will be fixing many of the frustrating aspects of Competitive Play in Seasons 3 and 4.
In order to help Season 2 end on a bit of a high note, Blizzard has now unleashed a small yet highly important balance update. This one doesn't feature any buffs whatsoever, but rather an assortment of nerfs to four of the most powerful heroes in the game: Roadhog, Orisa, Sojourn and Kiriko.
Rather than babble on, allow me to share with you the brief patch notes, along with Blizzard's reasoning for some of the major changes. Have a gander:
Desperados 3 and Shadow Tactics studio's next game Shadow Gambit is a fun mixture of pirates, magic, stealth and strategy
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After getting a taste for the supernatural with Desperados 3, it seems like Mimimi Games have decided to go all in on the craziness with their next project. A good thing too, because the freshly announced Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew looks like a really fun mixture of pirates, magic, stealth and strategy!
Much like the previous games, Shadow Gambit will task you with infiltrating heavily guarded fortresses, sneaking behind enemy lines in order to place traps or create diversions, and picking off unsuspecting guards in order to give you more wiggle room. Once all of your characters are in position, you can then use your mystical skills and supernaturally enhanced abilities to surgically take out your opponents before they even realize something is amiss.
Steam's Base Builder Fest has now arrived to show off everything from simulators to city-builders and even survival games
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[Update #2]: Steam's sizable Summer Sale 2023 has now arrived and will stick around all the way until July 13th.
[Update]: Steam has now launched the Puzzle Fest celebrating all flavors of brain-busting games.
Continuing with the recent trend of showcasing fun and interesting gameplay concepts, Steam has now launched the Base Builder Fest. As you might imagine from the name alone, this festival encompasses all sorts of different games - everything from the survival orientated Subnautica and Valheim to the city or colony management sims like Cities Skylines and Rimworld.
So if you ever wanted to take a dip into the wide world of base-building games, this would be a pretty good time to do so as the vast majority of the Base Builder Fest participants are currently on sale. Better yet, a fair few of them also have free demos available, so you can give them a proper try before deciding whether they're truly worth your time and money.
Dead Cells' next major expansion will be a rather ambitious crossover with Castlevania
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[Update]: After five years of quality updates, Dead Cells is soon getting its final one with Patch 35.
After multiple updates that have added items and cosmetics from games like Terraria, Slay the Spire and Risk of Rain, it's safe to say that Dead Cells is no stranger to crossovers. However, with the upcoming Return to Castlevania expansion, the Dead Cells team is looking to take things to a whole new level!
Once it arrives in the next few months, the Return to Castlevania expansion will bring with it Dracula's majestic castle represented through two new biomes, along with a whole assortment of new monsters lifted straight from the classic games. You can also expect to see fourteen new weapons themed after Castlevania classics like the throwing axe and holy water, three boss fights against fan-favorite characters like Death and Dracula, and even a brand new storyline that will have you accompany Richter Belmont and Alucard on their quest to slay Dracula!
Endless Dungeon, a hybrid between an action-roguelike and a tower defense game, is set to arrive this May 18th
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After successfully combining an action-roguelike with tower defense elements in Dungeon of the Endless, Amplitude Studios are now looking to give the concept another crack with the upcoming Endless Dungeon. Once it arrives this May 18th for PC and consoles, Endless Dungeon will task you (and potentially a couple of friends) with escaping a sprawling and procedurally generated space station.
You'll be accompanied by a handy yet extremely vulnerable crystal bot, which is where the tower defense elements come into play. When the enemies start swarming you from every direction, all eager to take a nibble at your precious robotic companion, you'll need to rely on your assortment of turrets, traps and high-powered weaponry to keep you all alive. And you'll definitely want to stay breathing (if your character even can) as that's how you get to all of the fancy loot scattered throughout the misused rooms of the space station!
Remastered version of Persona 3 Portable has now made its way onto PC and consoles
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If you've developed a newfound appreciation for the Persona series now that it's actually available on PC, you'll be happy to hear that one of the older games, Persona 3 Portable, has just been remastered! The new version of Persona 3 Portable brings with it HD visuals and smoother gameplay for both PC and consoles, along with always-handy quality of life features like difficulty selection and the ability to quick save.
What some of this looks like in action, that you can get a bit of a peek at through the launch trailer below. Have a gander:
Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2 has added rollback netcode in order to improve online multiplayer
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It doesn't matter if we're talking about first-person shooters or fighting games, too much latency can very easily ruin the whole experience. After all, getting kicked in the face despite perfectly blocking an enemy's attack is never a fun thing to go through, and especially not if it happens multiple times in a match!
With that in mind, I'm very happy to say that thanks to a recent update Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2 will be having a lot fewer of these issues from here on out. The reason, as you might expect, it the introduction of rollback netcode.