Rainbow Six Siege now has client-side anti-cheat protection on the PC
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Rainbow Six Siege is by many accounts a pretty damn good game, but despite featuring anti-cheat technology from the very beginning it simply couldn't do enough to prevent the slow but steady increase in cheaters on the PC version, which as you might imagine didn't go over well with the general public.
Thankfully, after many months of work Ubisoft has finally added an extra tool to their arsenal against cheaters, a client-side anti-cheat system. While it most likely won't stop every single cheater out there, this is an important step towards ensuring that Rainbow Six Siege remains as fair as possible, a notion the development team seems to share if the announcement message is anything to go by:
Dota 2's The International 2016 tournament will support VR spectating
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This year's The International is set to be the biggest one yet, and given the quality of the teams going to it and the obscene size of the prize pool, its definitely going to be one of the most exciting tournaments in Dota history.
While you can already watch it for free through the Dota 2 client or on Twitch, Valve has decided to take things a bit further by putting in a VR spectator mode! The whole thing is currently in its early stages and as such there are plenty of little bugs and missing features, but even with all of that considered its still beyond impressive. If you're wondering what it all looks like, here's a Youtube video that manages to perfectly capture the magic of VR Dota, just skip to around 1:20 to get to the good part:
Hearthstone's next Adventure is going to be a disco party in Kharazan
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World of Warcraft's Kharazan is a somber place where the ghosts of those long-dead wander endlessly, bound there by demonic magic. The version of Kharazan arriving to Hearthstone on August 12, however, is a bit... different.
In a moment of madness, or pure brilliance depending on your perspective, the Great Magus Medivh has transformed the arcane tower of Kharazan into the ultimate celebration destination with plenty of dancing and feasting to be had by all. Perhaps it would be best if you just saw the trailer, and do try and pay attention to the lyrics, they're quite something:
World of Warcraft's latest "Harbingers" animated short follows Khadgar in his search for power
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Khadgar has been an important presence in the Warcraft universe ever since the events of Warcraft 2, but despite all of his efforts he ended up being neglected throughout the majority of World of Warcraft's storyline. He did eventually return with the Warlords of Draenor expansion, and in quite a grand fashion given that he singlehandedly saves us multiple times throughout the story, but even with all of that considered there's very little character development dedicated to poor ol' Khadgar.
Since the upcoming Legion expansion is going to feature Khadgar front and center in the fight against the Burning Legion, Blizzard has decided to finally do him a solid and release an animated short detailing his quest for knowledge, a weapon, or anything that might help with the battle ahead. Here's the video, simply titled as Harbingers - Khadgar:
This Is the Police, a gritty strategy/adventure game, has been delayed until August 2nd
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Its not uncommon for games to get delayed as various bugs and game-breaking issues can occur at any stage of testing, but This Is the Police has quite the unusual reason for why it has missed its July 28th release date... the publisher forgot to submit it for final approval from Steam!
According to the announcement, this quality assurance process will take only around 4-5 days, and as such This Is the Police has been delayed until August 2nd. Unfortunately for those of you that might have planned to buy This Is the Police via GOG, that version of the game has also been delayed in order to ensure a simultaneous launch. Here's the brief message from the publisher, EuroVideo:
Guild Wars 2's Living Story: Season 3 has arrived with a new Fractal and PvP map
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After an entire year of basically no new content outside of raids and cash shop items, ArenaNet has finally unleashed the Living Story: Season 3 upon Tyria with Episode 1 - Out of the Shadows.
There's ~2 hours of new story content to go through, a whole variety of achievements to endlessly reset instances for, a new Fractal and PvP map, as well as a whole bunch of quality of life changes and balance fixes. If you're interested in quick overview, here's the recently posted trailer, though do be warned, there are some Heart of Thorns spoilers in there:
No Man’s Sky's final "Guide to the Galaxy" video is all about surviving in a harsh universe
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No Man's Sky is a bit of a bizarre phenomena. There is an absolutely massive amount of excitement surrounding it, with plenty of people already claiming its going to be the best exploration focused game that ever existed, and yet we still have essentially no idea what the moment-to-moment gameplay is going to look like.
To hopefully clear out some of the confusion the developers have recently started posting a variety of videos as a part of the "Guide to the Galaxy" series, all with the intent to familiarize the players with No Man's Sky and its world ahead of lunch. The fourth and final video in this series was released today and its all about surviving in some of the harshest environments the universe can throw at you. Here's the video and a brief description that came along with it: