Apex Legends' Season 15 update has arrived with the ferrofluid-manipulating Catalyst and sizable Broken Moon map
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[Update]: Apex Legends' Spellbound update is bringing back Control, buffing the Sentinel and adding a bunch of new cosmetics.
A brand new Apex Legends season has just arrived, and as is tradition, it has brought with it a whole bunch of new toys to play around with. First and foremost, Season 15 - Eclipse has added a brand new Legend by the name of Catalyst. She is capable of manipulating ferrofluids in order to create environmental hazards, seal off doors and even erect a massive wall of goop that can split the battlefield in half and blind anyone foolish enough to try to push through it.
Since a picture is worth a thousand words, allow me to share with you Catalyst's character trailer. It should clue you in quite quickly on just what Catalyst and her abilities are all about. Have a peek:
The co-op focused and remarkably entertaining hack & slash Vermintide 2 is free to grab until Monday
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[Update #2]: Vermintide 2 is celebrating its Fifth Anniversary with a free weekend, triple experience and festive map.
[Update]: In celebration of the series' seventh anniversary, Vermintide 2 has just added a frigid new map - Trail of Treachery.
The Vermintide series is currently celebrating its seventh anniversary, and in order to get as many people in on the festivities as possible, Fatshark has now decided to give away Vermintide 2! Simply head on over to Steam, click on that giant green "Add to Account" button, and you'll be ready to slice and dice through hordes of ratmen in no time.
Speaking of which, you should probably not dawdle as the giveaway will be ending soon, on November 7th. The good news is that once you have Vermintide 2 on your Steam account, it'll be yours to keep forever and you'll be able to play it whenever you want and for however long you want.
Overwatch 2's next tank hero will be Ramattra - the mysterious Omnic leader of Null Sector
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[Update #2]: Blizzard has now detailed Ramattra's every ability and his stance-shifting mechanics.
[Update]: Overwatch 2's first balance update has arrived with nerfs to Zarya, Genji, Sombra, as well as Junkrat for some reason.
If you bought into the recent wave of rumors stating that the next Overwatch 2 hero will be the giant Mauga first introduced in Baptiste's short story, I'm afraid you've been duped. It's not all that bad, however, as the freshly unveiled Ramattra is quite an interesting character as well!
Ramattra is the the leader of Null Sector, the Omnic extremist group working towards "creating a better world." He was first introduced back in 2019 as a part of the Storm Rising event's finale, though besides his incredibly brief conversation with Doomfist this is the first time we've actually learned something concrete about him and his ideology.
Dwarf Fortress is coming to Steam on December 6th with enhanced visuals, UI and a detailed tutorial
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[Update]: Dwarf Fortress' new and improved version has now landed onto Steam, and I'm happy to say that it has done so alongside overwhelmingly positive reviews!.
After a fair bit of time in development, Dwarf Fortress' much-anticipated Steam port has now finally been pinned for a December 6th launch. Rather than be a simple copy of the free version, the Steam port will bring with it an assortment of quality-of-life features and improvements to make the process of learning and playing Dwarf Fortress a lot less overwhelming, especially for new players.
These features include a set of stylish visuals to better help represent what's happening in the world, an overhauled UI focused around usability and readability, Steam Workshop support to make modding easier, as well as a bunch of quality-of-life improvements and additions to help smooth out any rough edges. Most importantly, at least as far as pure beginners are concerned, the Steam version of Dwarf Fortress will also come with a comprehensive tutorial that will (hopefully) instill you with all the knowledge you need to set off on your own.
Rain World's first expansion Downpour is arriving on January 19th, 2023 - six years after launch!
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[Update]: Rain World's Downpour expansion has now arrived, and so far it's looking quite good!
We've had to wait quite a few months since the original announcement, but the Videocult team has now finally revealed that Rain World's very first expansion will be launching onto PC on January 19th, 2023 - nearly six years after its first appearance! Consoles will also be getting the Downpour expansion, though sadly no exact release date has been announced for them just yet.
In terms of content, Downpour will bring with it ten expansive new regions to explore, over a thousand new rooms to carefully navigate, as well as five unique slugcats with their own storylines, abilities and gameplay styles. And just in case you're in the mood for something a bit trickier, Downpour will also add a Challenge Mode where you can test your slugcatting skills in a variety of different and undoubtedly devious scenarios.
Subnautica studio's miniature-based tactics game Moonbreaker has removed all of its monetization
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Unlike Subnautica that mostly focused on exploration and atmosphere, Unknown Worlds Entertainment's freshly released and miniature-based tactics game Moonbreaker is all about the strategic battles. However, if the players don't have access to all of the game pieces because they're locked behind progression and monetization systems, exploring all of those different strategies and playstyles becomes very tricky.
Needless to say, this is a serious problem for a game that's currently in Early Access precisely because the developers require a lot of player input and data in order to get everything polished up and ready to go for the big launch. So in order to correct this issue and to make sure everything goes by smoothly, the Moonbreaker team has now completely removed any and all monetization!
World of Warcraft: Dragonflight's pre-patch has arrived with revamped talent trees, new UI and additional class/race combos
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[Update #2]: The heavily exploration focused Dragonflight expansion has now arrived, and so far it's looking quite good!
[Update]: Second phase of World of Warcraft's Dragonflight pre-patch has now arrived with the new Dracthyr Evoker race/class combo.
In order to set the stage for the upcoming Dragonflight expansion, the World of Warcraft team has now unleashed the first part of the massive pre-patch. Phase 1 of the update brings with it a heavily overhauled talent tree that's focused around giving players a ton of interesting choices to experiment with, as well as the ability to play as a Rogue, Mage or Priest regardless of race and faction.
The user interface has also been redesigned from the ground up and now comes with rather handy tools to help you customize it from top to bottom without the need for addons. Add to that a bunch of quality of life improvements, a new rated PvP mode along with a couple of new accessibility features, and you've got yourself the beginnings of a pretty solid update!