You have two more days to grab Quake Champions, The Elder Scrolls Online, and The Elder Scrolls: Legends for $12 via Humble Monthly
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The Humble Monthly Bundle is a $12 subscription service that instantly gives you access to one game (or in this case three), and then a whole bunch more when the next month rolls over. Last time around the featured game was just Rise of the Tomb Raider, while this time you have a combination of Quake Champions, The Elder Scrolls: Legends, and The Elder Scrolls Online.
Besides the game itself, Quake Champions also comes with 50 Shards, 100 Platinum, 2000 favor, as well as the Ranger and BJ champions. The Elder Scrolls Online brings with it an extra 750 Crowns, as well as 15 free days of the ESO Plus subscription. The last and slightly less impressive The Elder Scrolls: Legends bonus pack offers 2 Skyrim Card Packs, 1 Event Ticket, 100 Gold, and 100 Soul Gems. To be perfectly honest I have absolutely no idea how valuable any of these special currencies really are, but that does seem to be a lot of stuff for $12, so if you're interested in any of these games I'd say its well worth springing for.
Overwatch devs are nerfing Mercy, buffing Ana, and looking into reworking Hanzo
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If you're sick and tired of Mercy being in every single game, Arcade or Competitive, you'll be glad to hear that Blizzard has announced some much-needed nerfs. According to the latest PTR patch Mercy's Resurrect will now take 1.75 seconds to complete, during which she will be slowed down by 75%. Knocking her back, stunning, hacking, or killing will result in the Resurrect failing and the ability going on cooldown. In other words, you will have to protect the Mercy or Resurrect is just going to result in another person dying!
As for Ana, you'll also be glad to hear that her damage is going up to 70! This might not sound like much, but that 10 damage increase gives her the ability to kill 200 HP heroes in three hits, and most importantly of all, it allows her to singlehandedly kill most sleeping targets. I'm not sure how much this is going to improve Ana's lacking winrate, but its certainly a step in the right direction, and one that I am very happy with.
Gwent's latest update has added new cards and a Halloween themed PvE event
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After a myriad of teasers and 'leaks', Gwent's Halloween update has now finally arrived. There's 21 new cards to collect, both neutral and faction-specific, a variety of balance changes intended to increase the power level of struggling archetypes, and best of all, a singleplayer PvE event that rewards a new border and voiced avatar.
There are simply too many changes to cover in brief, so if you're interested in all of the details you should visit the official patch notes. What I will comment on is that Harpy and Restore can be scrapped for full value, so if you aren't planning to use them right away I would suggest dismantling them. You can always craft them later if you so desire, and at the same cost, so there really no reason to keep them around.
The Metroidvania brawler Guacamelee! 2 has been announced at Paris Games Week 2017
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The original Guacamelee! is a highly enjoyable Mexican-themed brawler with more than a fair share of Metroidvania elements. Its all about wondering through a giant world, collecting new powers which you can use in combat and for exploration, dashing and jumping across any obstacles you might encounter, stringing together massive combos in order to exploit an enemy's weakness, and other fun stuff like that.
With all of that in mind, I hope you can now understand just how happy I am to say that Guacamelee! 2 has just been announced at Paris Games Week 2017! You can get a brief look at what Guacamelee! 2 has to offer via the recently posted teaser trailer. Have a gander:
Total War: Warhammer 2 devs have released a video highlighting the most over-the-top kill animations
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Total War: Warhammer 2 has recently been updated with the Mortal Empires campaign. In short, its a combination of the maps from Total War: Warhammer 1 and 2, as well as all of the Legendary Lords and the factions they lead. The end result, as you might imagine, is an absolutely gigantic world full of unique races to befriend and eventually mow down on the field of battle.
In order to show off just what kind of carnage you can unleash upon the world, Total War: Warhammer 2 devs have now released a brief trailer highlighting the 10 most interesting, over-the-top, or just plain ol' funny kill animations. Have a look, its quite the spectacle:
Dota 2's Dueling Fates update is bringing in two new heroes and an absolute ton of balance changes
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After an extremely lengthy period of no content or sizable balance changes, Valve has now finally revealed Dota 2's upcoming Dueling Fates update. It brings with it two brand new heroes to mess around with, an absolute ton of balance changes to items, heroes and talents, a variety of new items and the removal of Iron Talon and Poor Man's Shield, a couple of hero reworks, mechanics changes, and the list goes on for quite a while.
I would love to go into more details and give you a brief summary of what exactly is being changed, but I'm afraid that's simply not possible. The patch notes are so long it took me around 30 minutes to actually read and internalize all of it, so to even attempt to summarize such a thing is a foolhardy venture. So if you're looking to go in-depth and learn everything there is to know about the Dueling Fates update, make sure to visit the official website as Valve has gone all-out on the patch notes.
Destiny 2's first expansion "Curse of Osiris" is set to arrive in early December
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If you've already managed to finish everything Destiny 2 has to offer, a sentence I hear quite frequently these days, you might be glad to hear that the first expansion is coming relatively soon. As announced during the currently ongoing Paris Games Week 2017 convention, Destiny 2: Curse of Osiris will be coming on December 5th, though I'm not sure if this also includes the PC version.
Curse of Osiris will give players the ability to extend their journey with new story missions and adventures set in a brand new region on Mercury. And if that wasn't enough, there will also be time-traveling shenanigans as we attempt to avert a "dark future and rebuild the ties between the legendary Warlock and his greatest student - Ikora Rey." You can get a brief glimpse at all of this new content via the recently posted reveal trailer. have a look: