Choo-Choo Charles, a survival horror game starring a demonic train, is launching this December 9th
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[Update]: Choo-Choo Charles has now arrived, and as you would expect it's really short, a bit janky, yet also quite fascinating.
Despite the name making it sound like one of those Thomas the Tank Engine Skyrim mods, Choo-Choo Charles is a surprisingly serious survival-horror game about trying to escape, outmaneuver and eventually destroy a demonic train. In order to do so you'll have to frequently leave the safety of your cabin to search for resources and bizarre artifacts, carefully drive your train and plan your routes in order to avoid the evil glare of Charles, take further risks to help the locals in exchange for new weaponry, and slowly but surely upgrade your own train to the point where you can attempt to challenge the forces of darkness directly.
If this kind of insanity sounds like it's right up your alley, you'll be happy to hear that you won't have to wait all that long in order to dive in. According to the latest developer update, Choo-Choo Charles will be launching onto PC via Steam on December 9th, 2022!
Total War: Warhammer 3's Update 2.2 will beef up the AI and reduce the number of settlement battles
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[Update #2]: Total War: Warhammer 3 has made the Immortal Empires combined campaign map free for all owners!
[Update]: I'm pleased to say that everything has gone according to plan and so Update 2.2 has now been unleashed!
As a part of Update 2.0 in August Total War: Warhammer 3 added an absurd amount of new content, improvements and balance changes to play around with. This includes things like the unified Immortal Empires campaign map, a brand new DLC featuring four powerful Chaos champions, the long-awaited arrival of blood & gore effects, a full rework of the Warriors of Chaos faction, a ton of tweaks to a whole bunch of older factions and legendary lords, and the list goes on for a while.
Unsurprisingly, given the sheer scope of the changes, some of the new additions have launched alongside quite a few problems. For example, the AI is currently far too passive and weak to truly challenge the players, even on the hardest difficulty settings. So in order to fix this and similarly annoying problems, Creative Assembly is currently aiming to release Update 2.2 on October 18th!
Boneworks' successor Bonelab has now arrived with plenty of VR, physics-based action
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Just like its predecessor Boneworks, the freshly released Bonelab is a VR, physics-based action game that mostly serves as a wacky sandbox for you to mess around with. As such, one of the things you can do in Bonelab is import a custom avatar to play as, with your characters' stats reshaping themselves to match your new form! This means you can be an extremely small and nimble character that exclusively punches people in the shins, or an absolute monstrosity that more than compensates for its slow speed with sheer damage.
What all of this nonsense looks like in game, that you can get a pretty good idea of through the launch trailer below. Have a peek:
Overwatch 2's surprisingly lengthy animated 'short' is all about Kiriko and what motivates her
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[Update #2]: Overwatch 2's October 13th update has fixed a bug that caused players to rank far lower than they deserve!
[Update]: As a small apology for the post-launch problems, Overwatch 2 is giving away a Legendary skin and planning double XP weekends
After what feels like an eternity of waiting, Overwatch 2 has now finally arrived as a free-to-play game. The sequel brings with it a brand new game mode alongside a variety of new maps, a new monetization system based around a Battle Pass and in-game store combo, as well as three new heroes to play around with: Sojourn, Junker Queen and Kiriko.
If you're wondering what the latter is all about, as well as what motivates her to fight, you'll find the answers you seek through the surprisingly lengthy animated 'short' below. Have a gander, it's a rather gorgeous one:
Guild Wars 2's October update has buffed up old elite specializations and rebalanced classes for PvP
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[Update #2]: The Guild Wars 2 team has now revealed the full update roadmap for Fall and Winter 2022.
[Update]: Guild Wars 2's highly popular Shadow of the Mad King event is returning on October 18th.
With the August update Guild Wars 2 unleashed a whole assortment of changes aimed at equalizing the damage potential between power (direct damage) and condition (damage over time) builds. Additionally, this update sprinkled a variety of buffs onto the old elite specializations like the Reaper, Daredevil and Scrapper to help them fit better with the more modern ones.
The recently launched October update has continued these efforts by removing most of the mechanical weaknesses built into some of the elite specializations. They were originally meant as a balancing tool to prevent the elite specializations from dominating the basic classes, but these days the average power level has advanced so far that the weaknesses mostly serve to keep interesting builds from becoming relevance. So in most cases these weaknesses have now been removed, and if necessary the affected specializations will be rebalanced in different ways later on.
Crash Bandicoot 4 is coming to Steam on October 18th, while a new game seems to be in development
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[Update]: It looks like the teaser was correct! Crash Bandicoot 4 has now made its way onto Steam, right on cue.
In a bit of a bizarre move, Activision recently sent a Crash Bandicoot themed pizza box to Youtuber Canadian Guy Eh. While the box unfortunately didn't contain any pizza, it did bring with it an important announcement - Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time will be launching onto Steam on October 18th.
That's not all, however, as the box also came with a brief teaser hinting at a major reveal scheduled for December 8th: "Hungry for more? Try out our new Wumpa Pizza for $12.08!" No further information has been given just yet, but I can only imagine it's going to be a brand new Crash Bandicoot game as building up hype for any other announcement doesn't make much sense. Then again, all of this comes from receipt for an imaginary pizza, so what do I really know.
Subnautica studio's miniature-based tactics game Moonbreaker has now landed into Early Access
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[Update]: With its very first major update, Moonbreaker has removed all of its monetization!
After spending quite a few years deep underwater, Subnautica studio Unknown Worlds Entertainment have now decided to do something a little bit different with Moonbreaker. So instead of an exploration game, Moonbreaker is a character-focused and turn-based strategy heavily influenced by tabletop tactics games.
The most unique thing about Moonbreaker is that all of your characters are adorable little miniatures in action poses that you can, in true tabletop fashion, painstakingly paint in order to have them look exactly as awesome (or as awful) as you want. How exactly this works, as well as what Moonbreaker looks like in terms of gameplay, that you can check out through the trailer below: