The latest Kingdom Come: Deliverance trailer offers a look at the rather lovely open-world
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance is a medieval open-world RPG that aims to be as realistic and faithful to the era as possible. In order to achieve this rather lofty goal you obviously need colorful and realistic environments, and if the most recent trailer is any indication the developers are definitely on the right path!
The video itself is not very long, and it mostly serves as a teaser for things to come, but it does offer a pretty damn good idea of what sort of style the developers are going for. To be perfectly honest the visuals appear heavily inspired by The Witcher 3, and I don't mean that in a negative way given that its one of the rare few AAA games that is both gorgeous and colorful at the same time. But enough rambling from me, here's the video:
RuneScape's quest-focused expansion Menaphos: The Golden City has now arrived
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If you've somehow done everything there is to do in RuneScape, a feat that most likely took you the better part of the decade, you'll be glad to hear that a brand new expansion has just released. Menaphos: The Golden City brings with it four new massive story quests, procedurally-generated city quests, a new Slayer Dungeon and an increased level cap of 120 for the Slayer skill, as well as a maze-like Shifting Tombs area to explore for treasures and potential secrets.
All of this is primarily geared towards mid and high-level players, but there are also some benefits for newcomers as well. Once you complete the three-part questline that takes you across the desert sands into the city itself you will be able to enjoy a 5% buff on all skill training, take part in city quests to boost your experience even further, and use Menaphos as a jumping-off point for the rest of RuneScape's world. Most importantly of all, after 12 years of teasing and waiting you'll finally be able to find out what lies behind the close doors of Menaphos!
The next Heroes of the Storm character will be Malthael - Diablo 3's Aspect of Death
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After a couple of Overwatch characters it would appear that Heroes of the Storm developers are now once again looking towards the Diablo universe for inspiration. As such, I am very glad to say that the highly popular and much-requested Malthael, the Aspect of Death from Diablo 3's Reaper of Souls expansion, will be the next character joining the Heroes of the Storm roster!
Unsurprisingly he will be a melee assassin that's all about draining the souls of his enemies in order to empower and heal himself. If you're wondering what this might look like in gameplay terms, here's the recently posted character spotlight video:
Rocket League's 2nd Anniversary Update will introduce a new arena and a bunch of new cosmetics
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While it might seem like it has been around forever, Rocket League will be celebrating its second anniversary on July 7th. In order to get everyone in on the festivities Psyonix will be releasing a rather hefty update filled with a whole bunch of new cosmetics.
To be more specific, the July 7th update will bring with it a brand new arena by the name of Champions Field, new customization options for goal explosions, new trails and engine sounds, new trophies and achievements, and the introduction of Rocket League Radio featuring Monstercat and 18 new songs. The 2nd Anniversary Update will also bring with it the start of Competitive Season 5, two new import cars, Season 4 completion awards, and the list goes on. The update might not offer much in terms of gameplay, but if car customization is your thing then you're going to have plenty of new toys to play with!
Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, and TES IV: Oblivion are now available DRM-free on GOG
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If you hate the very concept of DRM but love open-world RPGs you're in luck as GOG has just updated its store with some Bethesda classics. As you can probably deduce from the title alone, the three newly added games are Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition, and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition.
Besides being fully DRM-free the games are currently on a 50% discount which brings their price to €9,50 each. Since each and every single one of them offers hundreds of hours of entertainment I would definitely recommend you grab whichever game interests you the most because this really is an awesome deal, DRM or not!
Shadowverse developers have announced the next 104-card expansion: Wonderland Dreams
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Shadowverse is currently celebrating its first birthday with a whole bunch of free goodies. From now until June 14th all daily missions will award double gold, which means you can easily get 3+ card packs each day. And if that wasn't generous enough, the developers will also be giving away 40 card packs spread across all four card sets from June 13th to June 27th! In other words, if you decide to start Shadowverse in the next few weeks chances are you're going to have enough cards to create whatever sort of deck you might enjoy.
In order to add further fuel onto the fire Shadowverse devs have now also announced a brand new expansion: Wonderland Dreams. The details are still incredibly light, but what I can tell you is that Shadowverse's 5th card set will feature 104 new cards to mess around with, many of which will be powerful Neutral options in order to enhance the deck building process for all classes.
The latest Vanquish update has fixed most of the FPS related bugs and glitches
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The PC version of Vanquish launched without many issues, but since it was never designed with uncapped FPS in mind it exhibited some very strange behavior at high FPS. Most notably, players on powerful PCs found themselves taking much more damage than was expected, while also suffering from drastically reduced health regeneration.
In order to combat these problems the developers released a beta patch a couple of days ago, though due to it being a public holiday they weren't able to test it thoroughly. Now, a few days later, the fully tested update has finally arrived, and it would appear that most of the problems have been corrected! The patch notes are fairly small, so here they are in their entirety: