Darksiders: Warmastered Edition is now available on consoles, the PC version is coming next week
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After being slightly delayed back in October, the new and improved Darksiders: Warmastered Edition is now available on the PS4 and Xbox One. As for the PC version, its slated to arrive next week, or to be more specific - November 29.
If you're interested in seeing what improvements THQ Nordic has managed to make in terms of graphics and effects, here's the recently posted trailer showcasing mostly console footage. As before, the trailer with PC gameplay will most likely arrive at some point next week, but even so, this one should give you a general idea of what to expect from the remastered Darksiders. Have a look:
Daedalic's Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun now has a free demo on Steam and GOG
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Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun is a "hardcore tactical stealth game set in Japan around the Edo period", in which you'll need to control five loyal servants of the Shogun as they go out and ensure nationwide peace. What this means in reality is that you will need to go around the entirety of Japan and stab, slice, or explode people the Shogun doesn't like, all through the use of stealth and subterfuge as your motley crew is grossly outnumbered.
While I'm not sure whether I'm correct in my assumption or not, Shadow Tactics greatly reminds me of the old Commandos games, and that is a name I didn't expect to see when I woke up this morning. Have a look at one of the relatively recent developer-guided gameplay previews, you'll see what I mean:
Path of Exile's next big content update 'Breach' is set to arrive in two weeks
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While Diablo 3 languishes due to a lack of support from Blizzard, Path of Exile is moving forward at an increasingly rapid pace. It has only been a couple of days since the last patch that brought with it massive performance improvements and new skills to toy around with, and already there is an even bigger patch on the horizon!
The aptly named Breach update brings with it two new leagues, each offering a fresh start and a brand new economy, as well as a variety of new events centered around... you guessed it, breaches! These portals into the shadow realm will spew forth a variety of monsters, and should you manage to not only beat them, but also destroy their overlord within his very domain, you will have a chance to grab a whole host of shiny new items. If you're a bit confused as to how all of this will work, here's a brief trailer to clue you in:
The beta version of Dishonored 2's performance-orientated Update 1.2 is now available on Steam
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As is tradition with most AAA games these days, Dishonored 2 released on the PC with a whole host of bugs and issues. To Arkane Studios' credit, however, they responded rather quickly by releasing a small beta update in order to correct some of the more egregious issues. While it certainly helped, especially for AMD users, this wasn't the 'big' patch that was supposed to fix most of the problems.
That honor belongs to Update 1.2 which just recently landed on the Dishonored 2 beta client on Steam. It brought with it numerous performance and optimization improvements, a couple of fixes for the dreaded framerate stuttering, the squashing of many alt-tab related bugs, as well as a variety of other changes. If you're interested in the full list I would suggest you head over here, but for now allow me to just show you the highlights:
Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls is coming to the PC in Q2 2017
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Despite being absolutely insane the Danganronpa series has managed to settle in quite nicely among the PC crowd, so much so that the original now stands at a 97% approval on Steam - not the easiest of feats to accomplish. Given the reception so far it really shouldn't surprise you to hear there are even more Danganronpa games heading over to the PC in the near future.
This time around its Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls, and even though the name might lead you to believe its the same brand of madness, in reality it is more of a spin-off game. Unlike the visual novel style of gameplay from the previous games, Ultra Despair Girls is more of a third-person action adventure with horror elements. Perhaps it would be for the best if you just saw the trailer, rather than watch me desperately try to explain the unexplainable:
An upcoming Dishonored 2 update will add a New Game + mode and customizable difficulty settings
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When it comes to stealth games, the good ones anyway, there are always a wide variety of strategies for each and every mission. Some players (me included) like to sneak in undetected and leave nothing more than a couple of guards with headaches in their wake, others prefer to instead set the entire building on fire and dispatch all of the guards with ruthless efficiency, and others yet prefer to carefully thread the line between sneakyness and stabbyness.
Trying to create a game that equally balances out each of those playstyles is nearly impossible, because what one side might find fun and engaging the other side will see as a living nightmare. The only real way to make this work is to allow the players a way to create their very own difficulty settings, which just so happens to be exactly what Dishonored 2 devs are planning to do!
Here's a short gameplay preview of Star Citizen's FPS module 'Star Marine' coming in with Alpha 2.6
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While I'm still not sure whether Star Citizen is the brain child of a genius or a madman, there is no denying that its scope is absolutely massive. The final version is supposedly going to feature interplanetary exploration, a massive and fully realized universe, trading, various crafting professions, traditional space-sim combat, and even a dash of FPS combat to spice all of that up. And that's just all of the things the developers are talking about right now, who knows what they're going to cook up in the future!
But rather than focus on what might happen when Star Citizen finally releases, let's instead focus on what's coming with the upcoming Alpha version 2.6 - FPS combat! And in order to give you a taste of what is to come the developers released a brief gameplay preview showcasing all of that 'Star Marine' action. Have a look: