Overwatch 2 devs have detailed the Battle Pass, hero unlocks, and their plans for future updates
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[Update #2]: My Overwatch 2 review is now out, and to put it simply it's a terrible sequel, though thankfully a terrific game!
[Update]: Blizzard has now detailed the fox themed support Kiriko's abilities, playstyle and lore. Additionally, the Overwatch 2 team has also unveiled all of the new balance changes coming with the October 4th launch.
Unlike the original, Overwatch 2 will be a free-to-play game. As such, the monetization is going to be a bit different than before. So instead of digging for them through loot boxes, most skins will be available for purchase through the in-game store.
Additionally, there will be a genre-standard Battle Pass that comes in both free and paid flavors. The free track will offer a variety of minor cosmetics like name cards, sprays, charms and victory poses, along with a couple epic skins to help spice things up. Most importantly, level 55 on the free Battle Pass will also give you access to the newest hero, in this case the fox themed support Kiriko.
Overwatch 2 has unveiled its very first support hero - the wall-climbing, fox themed healer Kiriko
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[Update #2]: My Overwatch 2 review is now out, and to put it simply it's a terrible sequel, though thankfully a terrific game!
[Update]: The Overwatch 2 team has now detailed the fox themed support Kiriko's abilities, playstyle and lore, as well as announced all of the balance changes coming in with the launch update.
In an announcement that shouldn't come as too much of a surprise given that it was accidentally leaked a little while ago, the Overwatch 2 team has now unveiled the very first new support hero - Kiriko. As you might expect from the teasers in the original game, the freshly revealed Kiriko is a wall-climbing, kunai-wielding healer accompanied by a spirit fox.
What she looks like in action, as well as what her abilities are all about, that you can check out through the gameplay trailer below:
Beaver themed city-builder Timberborn has just added mecha-beavers, terraforming and more
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It's been exactly one year since the Beaver themed city-builder Timberborn launched into Steam Early Access, and in order to celebrate this anniversary the developers have just unleashed a massive update. The star attraction are the new golems - mechanized super-beavers that excel at just about every task you give them, though such performance does come at a cost as you need to both produce them and continue to keep them powered up.
You'll definitely want to have them around as golems are the only workers capable of terraforming terrain. As the name might imply, this handy feature allows you to excavate dirt or put up new land blocks in order to completely reshape the original map to better suit your needs.
World of Warcraft Classic is giving players a fancy new dragon mount for simply playing Death Knights
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[Update #2]: Wrath of the Lich King Classic, the very peak of the original WoW era, has now been unleashed.
[Update]: It looks like the rumors were true - World of Warcraft: Dragonflight will be launching on November 28th, 2022!
Wrath of the Lich King Classic's pre-patch has recently arrived, bringing with it a variety of nostalgic events like the zombie plague and the scourge invasion to mess around with. More importantly, the pre-patch has given players the ability to level up their Death Knights so they're instantly ready to venture into Northrend as soon as Wrath of the Lich King Classic's doors open on September 26th.
As a little bonus, and as a way to draw in 'retail' era players, Blizzard has announced that anyone who completes the Death Knight starting experience in WoW Classic will be granted a Frostbrood Proto-Wyrm to use in Shadowlands and the upcoming Dragonflight expansion. Just to reiterate, this means that the fancy new dragon will not be available in Wrath of the Lich King Classic as it simply wasn't a part of it originally.
Tower of Nightmares, Guild Wars 2's long-lost Season 1 episode, has now been reborn
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[Update]: Guild Wars 2's October 4th update will empower old specializations and rebalance classes for PvP.
After an entire decade of absence, the Guild Wars 2 team has recently started remastering and re-releasing the original Living World Season 1 episodes. Today this courtesy has been extended to the Tower of Nightmares episode that will have you look into the reports of strange creatures and objects appearing beneath the lake's surface.
What exactly this entails, as well as what sort of atmosphere Tower of Nightmares is going for, that you can check out through the launch trailer below. Have a gander:
Cities: Skylines' Plazas & Promenades DLC has finally brought in pedestrian-friendly streets and cities
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[Update]: After eight years of updates, city-building sim Cities: Skylines will be getting an ambitious sequel in 2023.
Despite releasing many expansions and even more updates, Cities: Skylines never figured out a way to let players create cities without having everything centered around cars. It didn't matter if you were fleshing out a historical city center or even a small community in the middle of nowhere - everything, always had to be surrounded by roads and cars.
Thankfully, with the freshly released Plazas & Promenades DLC that is no longer the case. With the expansion you can now create pedestrian-only streets, designate pedestrian areas and special policies for those areas, as well as further customize your city with an assortment of new objects and district specializations that allow you to dictate the types of buildings that are going to be constructed.
XCOM studio's turn-based RPG Marvel's Midnight Suns is launching this December for PC and consoles
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[Update]: After a few rounds of delays, Marvel's Midnight Suns has now landed onto PC and consoles.
After talking about a whole assortment of delays over the past few months, I'm pleased to say that today I have a completely opposite story! Instead of revealing that their turn-based RPG Marvel's Midnight Suns is going through another setback, XCOM studio Firaxis has now come out to announce that they will be launching in 2022 after all!
"We are happy to confirm that the PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S versions of Marvel's Midnight Suns will release on Dec 2 2022," reads the brief update. "Xbox One and PS4 will follow later in 2023."