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Hearthstone's One Night In Kharazan adventure Moroes artwork

While not without its controversies, Hearthstone's One Night In Kharazan adventure has finally arrived with a dozen new cards, 4 bosses, and a whole bunch of new and interesting mechanics. Its a bit premature, I'm fully aware of that, but from playing the first wing alone I am confident in saying that this might just be the best adventure Hearthstone has seen to date. The boss fights are just that good!

If you know absolutely nothing about One Night in Kharazan and wish to learn more through the medium of disco music, here's the relatively recent announcement trailer:

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Gregor Eisenhorn from the Eisenhorn: Xenos game

While I have never actually played the Warhammer 40,000 tabletop game I did read the majority of the books, and out of all the various authors that took a crack at the grim darkness of the 41st millennium I consider Dan Abnett my favorite. From the very moment I picked up his Eisenhorn trilogy I knew I was in for a treat as he has a real knack for portraying sympathetic, flawed characters stuck in situations far beyond their grasp.

With that in mind, you can only begin to imagine how excited I was when I heard that Eisenhorn: Xenos, the first book in the series, would be getting the video game treatment. Not only is it an RPG set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, something I've been waiting for decades now, but its also based on a story by one of my favorite authors! How could this possibly go wrong?

Unfortunately, the answer to that question is far lengthier than I could have ever anticipated. Pretty much every aspect of gameplay, from storytelling to combat, is suffering from a number of annoying issues, all of which combine together to create a thoroughly mediocre game. To make you understand what exactly is wrong with Eisenhorn: Xenos we need to go through all of its elements, one by one, starting with the most important factor - the story.

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Northgard screenshot showcasing a giant sword

Shiro Games, the developers behind the Evoland series, have recently announced their brand new project, a Viking-themed strategy game called Northgard. Throughout Northgard players will be expected to explore and conquer new lands, establish self-sustaining settlements, befriend or wage war against the rather colorful locals, and achieve ultimate victory through a variety of means (conquest, trading, culture, lore, etc.).

Since all of this is a bit too much to explain in words alone, here's the recently posted trailer to give you a better idea of what Northgard is all about:

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Screenshot from the upcoming Gwent: The Witcher Card Game

Gwent was originally designed as a simple minigame for The Witcher 3, but due to circumstances no one could have predicted it became immensely popular, so much so that CDPR decided to create a standalone game out of it.

While Gwent: The Witcher Card Game is still under heavy development, CDPR announced back at E3 that they would be holding a closed beta in September in order to iron out all of the kinks and hopefully bring Gwent into some sort of a balanced state before the open beta. Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on your perspective, the Gwent team has decided to postpone the closed beta to October 25th in order to add an extra bit of polish before they hand it off to the community. Here's the brief announcement message:

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Dead Rising 1 screenshot for the PC version

With Dead Rising 1, Dead Rising 2 and Dead Rising 2: Off the Record all coming over to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on September 13th, it makes perfect sense that the PC will also be getting Dead Rising 1 in order to complete the series.

As noted on the recently updated Steam page, Dead Rising 1 will arrive on PC with a brand new save system that supports five save slots, native controller support, resolution settings that extend to 4K and beyond, uncapped frame rate and support for 144Hz monitors, customizable keybinds (something that's a rarity these days), and finally, Russian localization. 

Since finding a high quality trailer of Dead Rising 1 is nearly impossible these days, here's the recent Anniversary Announcement Trailer that features bits of gameplay from the updated version of Dead Rising 1:

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Space Engineers screenshot of a planet

With No Man's Sky now released on the PS4, Humble Bundle has decided to capitalize on the three day wait PC gamers have to endure by offering up 7 survival and exploration themed games to pass the time.

While this is a genre I'm not a fan of, mostly because all of the actually interesting games seem to be forever stuck in Early Access, I can at the very least say that Space Engineers is one of the most unique and creative games I've played in recent years. In other words, if you do decide to grab the Humble "Survive This" Bundle, make sure to go for the second tier ($5) as Space Engineers alone is well worth your time, provided you're into that sort of gameplay. 

Here's one of the trailers to hopefully give you an idea of what Space Engineers is all about:

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Shadwen's official artwork

Shadwen is a relatively recent stealth game from Frozenbyte, the developers behind the Trine series, and while I would love to tell you its an astonishingly good sneak-a-thon, the unfortunate truth is that Shadwen is rather unpolished, even for an indie game. However, out of all the complaints I outlined in my review, it was the level design that impacted my enjoyment the most given that each level was a linear series of arenas, and as such incredibly easy to exploit.

Thankfully, it does appear that Frozenbyte has taken these sort of complaints to heart as they have just released 14 completely re-worked levels for free, as well as a whole bunch of bug fixes and improvements to the game's otherwise basic AI. Best of all, the difficulty curve has been increased and a whole bunch of new hidden treasure scattered across the maps, so there is now going to be an actual incentive to go outside the beaten path and explore every nook and cranny.

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