Project Zomboid devs are working on adding highly realistic fire and fire spreading mechanics
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[Update #2]: Project Zomboid's Update 42 will rework crafting and greatly expand Engineering/Electrical skills.
[Update]: Project Zomboid devs have now outlined everything they're hoping to add with Update 42.
If you've ever used a Molotov cocktail or a pipe bomb in Project Zomboid, or simply watched your own house go up in flames due to a faulty generator, you've probably noticed that the fire system isn't exactly polished. Fire not only spreads in a weirdly slow fashion and seems to engulf objects that would in reality be fireproof, but it only ever does anything if you're nearby. So if you would set a building on fire, leave for six months and come back, you would find that the blazing inferno was patiently waiting for you exactly as you left it.
Two years ago the Project Zomboid team set to work on greatly improving fire and making it far more realistic, though the importance of the big multiplayer focused Update 41 forced them to redirect their efforts to more pressing matters. Now that things are less hectic, work on the fire system has been reignited!
H.R. Giger inspired first-person horror game Scorn has now arrived alongside some harsh criticism
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After quite a few years in development, the H.R. Giger inspired horror-adventure Scorn has now finally been unleashed onto PC and Xbox. As you would expect from that description alone, Scorn is all about wandering through disturbingly fleshy landscapes, solving a variety of bizarre puzzles, as well as facing off against an assortment of mutated monstrosities with highly limited ammo and resources.
What all of this looks like in action, as well as what kind of atmosphere Scorn is going for, that you can find out through the freshly posted launch trailer. Have a gander:
Guild Wars 2 devs have now revealed the full update roadmap for Fall and Winter 2022
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[Update #2]: Guild Wars 2's late November update rebalanced many underperforming classes with endgame PvE and PvP in mind.
[Update]: Guild Wars 2's Halloween flavored Shadow of the Mad King festival has now arrived.
In an effort to keep the community in the loop about future content updates and major additions, the Guild Wars 2 team has now announced the Fall & Winter 2022 roadmap. The first item on the list is the return of the highly popular and Halloween themed event Shadow of the Mad King. Expect to see an assortment of spooky cosmetics and decorations to mess around with, the Mad King's Labyrinth to endlessly farm for candy-shaped goodies, a devious jumping puzzle to conquer, as well as a couple of fun races to help spice things up a bit.
Then, on November 8th, Guild Wars 2 will bring with it the remastered version of the long-lost final episode of Living World Season 1 - Battle for Lion's Arch. This will be a permanent addition to the game, and one that is free for all players. Best of all, the episode will also come with a brand new Strike Mission to undertake: Old Lion's Court!
Despite recent statements to the contrary, Overwatch 2 is nerfing Sombra, Genji, Zarya and D.Va
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[Update #2]: Overwatch 2 is officially nerfing Genji, Zarya, Sombra, D.Va and Kiriko... but only in three weeks, on November 15th!
[Update]: Overwatch 2's Halloween Terror update has now arrived alongside a brand new co-op mission and sadly only three new legendary skins.
As a part of the recent developer update Blizzard announced that they are happy with how all of the heroes are performing and that they have no current plans for any changes outside of nerfing Zarya in Total Mayhem. Furthermore, they revealed that their goal is to release balance updates at the start of each season, seemingly implying that we'll only be getting one massive balance patch every two months.
With that in mind, you can imagine my surprise when Overwatch 2's Game Director Aaron Keller just went onto Twitter to say that not only will they be releasing a mid-season balance update, but that they will also be nerfing a few of the overperforming heroes! While the mixed messaging is a bit annoying given that Blizzard has vowed to be better about communication with the sequel, I'm still happy about this development as only having one balance update per season would've been utter madness for a rapidly evolving game like Overwatch 2.
The Case of the Golden Idol is a charming and Return of the Obra Dinn inspired detective game
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If you're in the mood for a remarkably charming yet oddly bizarre game, you might want to give the freshly released The Case of the Golden Idol a chance. To put it simply, it's a Return of the Obra Dinn inspired detective game that will task you with unraveling the mystery behind a bunch of murders spanning 40 years, all of which are somehow connected.
In order to accomplish this you'll have to carefully recreate each scene of death with the evidence at hand, find which seemingly unimportant clues are a part of a much greater conspiracy, and with a bit of luck, bring the killers to justice. What all of this looks like in action, however, that you can get a pretty good idea of through the launch trailer below. Have a gander:
RimWorld's Biotech expansion is adding children, player-controlled mechanoids and gene editing
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[Update]: The Biotech expansion has now arrived, and I'm happy to say that things are looking quite good so far!
A fair bit of time has gone by since the previous Ideology expansion, but the RimWorld team has now returned with the announcement of a massive new expansion - Biotech. As the name might imply, the upcoming Biotech expansion will bring with it gene editing technology that lets you collect and implant an assortment of alien genes in order to create a wide variety of super-human or super-monstrous colonists.
With the Biotech expansion colonists will also be able to become pregnant and give birth - both naturally and via technological means. Depending on how well you treat your new additions, as well as much effort you put into their education, you will be able to give them numerous traits and passions to help shape their adult life and make them a valuable member of the colony. Or if you don't particularly care what they are capable of and you just need cheap workers and soldiers, you can simply use the always-handy growth vats to pump them out by the dozens!
The completely rebuilt Dead Space remake will be landing onto PC and consoles on January 27, 2023.
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[Update #2]: Pre-orders of the upcoming Dead Space remake will come with a copy of the excellent Dead Space 2.
[Update]: The Callisto Protocol, a heavily Dead Space inspired survival-horror, has now landed onto PC and consoles.
After a whole bunch of tiny teasers and tech previews, Motive Studio have now finally given us a proper look at the comprehensive Dead Space remake. The new version has been rebuilt from the ground up in order to offer higher fidelity visuals, enhanced audio, as well as a bunch of gameplay improvements. That said, don't worry about things changing too much as the remake seems to have gone to great lengths to stay true to the original game's vision and style.
How all of this translates into actual gameplay, that you can check out through the recently posted preview. Have a gander, it's quite a pretty one: