Overwatch's D.Va will soon be available as an announcer for Starcraft 2
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According to D.Va's lore she is a competitive Starcraft player with quite a few victories to her name, so it shouldn't come as much of a surprise to hear that she will be making her way into Starcraft 2. What might come as a surprise, however, is that she will be arriving as one of the seven announcers releasing with Patch 3.7!
So if you feel like your Starcraft 2 experience can only be improved by having a teenage Korean girl shout at you, then head over to the Blizzard website and check out what D.Va has to say. My favorite line so far is the Zerg #2 one: "You have a new Queen, shooooow me those skills!"
Rockstar has officially announced Red Dead Redemption 2, release date is set for fall 2017
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After years of silence about their future projects Rockstar recently started tweeting out some rather cryptic, albeit quite exciting images. Much like the one you can see above, they were all red and obviously western themed, but at no point did Rockstart actually confirm what game they were from.
As you would expect from the Internet as a whole, wild theories and unconfirmed rumors quickly started to spread. The most interesting of which pointed towards a supposed leak from a couple of months ago as proof that this new game isn't Red Dead Redemption 2, but rather some sort of a prequel. The reality of the situation, however, is much simpler.
In a brand new tweet that came out just 30 minutes ago, Rockstar quite nonchalantly announced Red Dead Redemption 2. The full trailer, along with more details, will be released on October 20th, but until then here's pretty much everything there is to know about Red Dead Redemption 2:
Hearthstone's Heroic Tavern Brawl is introducing the long-awaited in-game tournament system
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From the very moment Hearthstone entered closed beta, a couple of years ago by this point, there was a large movement pushing for the introduction of an in-game tournament system. It didn't really matter how it was done, the only thing that mattered was giving people a chance to compete for some nifty prizes in a serious, almost-pro environment. Unfortunately, all those requests fell on deaf ears and even after multiple expansions and adventures we still don't have anything even remotely resembling a tournament system.
On the positive side, that previous statement is soon going to be a dirty, dirty lie as Blizzard has just announced the Heroic Brawl - a brand new Tavern Brawl that will offer you a chance to compete for some truly amazing prizes (which include 50 packs and 3 golden legendaries), though at a significant cost! If you're wondering how exactly all of this works, here's a brief developer video with Designers Dan Emmons and Pat Nagle (yes, the one and only Nat Pagle):
Skywind's most recent video teaser is an excellent showcase of how expansive the project has become
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For those of you that might not know, Skywind is an unofficial community mod that aims to recreate the entirety of TES: Morrowind within the much superior Skyrim engine. While these sort of projects usually fall apart the moment any actual work needs to be done, the team behind Skywind has been trucking along for a very, very long time - and the results are quite spectacular to behold!
With every subsequent update the once familiar grounds of Skyrim are becoming more and more alien, and the usually cheerful atmosphere is slowly giving way to the Morrowind's specific brand of gloom. In other words, Skywind is well on its way to actually accomplishing the task it set out to do! If you don't believe me, have a look at the recently posted October Progress Update video:
The upcoming Dark Souls 3 - Patch 1.08 will finally make poise relevant
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If you've been playing Dark Souls 3 for as long as I have, which is to say too bloody much, you're most likely well aware that poise is nearly useless. It doesn't matter if you're wearing the heaviest armor in the game and are attempting to swing a giant piece of rock tied to a stick - the moment a half naked hollow touches you with his fists your gigantic mace swing will be interrupted, and your character will recoil in pain.
Thankfully, the upcoming Patch 1.08 is not only rebalancing many of the spells and abilities, but is also greatly improving the efficiency of poise for heavy armor and weapons. There are unfortunately no exact numbers to share just yet, but we're currently at a point where literally any improvement is a meaningful one, so bring it on! As for the update itself, here are the full patch notes:
Total War: Warhammer's The King & The Warlord DLC is coming later this week
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Total War: Warhammer's previous DLCs brought with them massive units and monstrous infantry, so its about time the little guys got a bit love as well. Though I wouldn't actually go and call them little in front of their face... let's just say it wouldn't end well. As you can probably expect, I am talking about the revenge-driven Dwarfs and the practically insane Goblins.
So if you're a fan of either the Dwarfs or the Greenskins you'll be glad to hear that Total War: Warhammer's second Lords Pack 'The King & The Warlord' brings with it two new Legendary Lords along with their own specific quests and items, a whole bunch of new units and unit variations, battle maps, and even a couple of new Lord types. What exactly these new units look like in action, you can find out by checking out the recent gameplay trailer:
Rockstar has recently begun teasing some sort of Red Dead Redemption announcement
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[Update]: Red Dead Redemption 2 has been officially announced!
Three years have passed since GTA V first appeared, and ever since then Rockstar has been completely silent about their future projects. While the silent treatment is still ongoing, the Rockstart Twitter account just recently started posting some rather intriguing images.
What exactly these images are, Rockstar didn't explain, but I think its fairly safe to assume that they are teasing some sort of Red Dead Redemption announcement. Why else would they be entirely red and quite obviously western themed?