Overwatch's upcoming Last Chance event will give you one last shot at spending your Credits
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[Update]: The Last Chance event has now arrived, so if there's any skin that you'd like to grab, this would be the time to do so.
Once Overwatch 2 arrives this October, all of your in-game credits from the original will be transferred over. However, while you will still be able to use these credits to purchase some of the fancier cosmetics, you'll most likely have to wait for their associated events to cycle back in order to unlock them, which in the case of the Summer Games skins could be an entire year!
So if there is any sort of skin, voice line or animation you're itching to grab, you'll be happy to hear that Blizzard will be launching the Last Chance event this September 13th. As the name might imply, this event will open up the vaults and allow you to purchase any time-gated cosmetic from any of the seasonal updates.
Thanks to Update 3.0, Anno 2070 will preserve its online functionality after Ubisoft servers shut down
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Once October 1st, 2022 rolls around, Ubisoft will be shutting down online functionality for a whole bunch of their older games, and this also includes Anno 2070. While mostly a singleplayer game, Anno 2070 has a couple of fun onlines features like World Events and Council Elections that can significantly shake up the status quo, so having all of that go away would've been a devastating blow.
Thankfully, that won't be happening as the Anno 2070 devs have now returned to the game for one last patch! The freshly released Update 3.0 has decoupled Anno 2070 from the Ubisoft servers, and in doing so ensured its online functionality will remain active for many years to come. Best of all, the update has also ported Anno 2070 to 64bit, which should make the whole online system a fair bit smoother than before.
MultiVersus Update 1.02 has added Gizmo from Gremlins and overhauled character hitboxes
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[Update #2]: A mere few weeks later MultiVersus Update 1.04 has added Stripe from Gremlins alongside the Halloween event.
[Update]: MultiVersus Patch 1.03 has added Rick Sanchez and doubled exp requirements for early character levels
As a part of the August Update 1.01 the MultiVersus team added Morty as a brand new character and revealed that Rick will be coming in the near future, after which we'd most likely be getting Black Adam and Stripe. So you can imagine my surprise when neither of the three characters were released with today's Update 1.02, but instead we got good ol' Gizmo from Gremlins!
What exactly Gizmo has to offer on the battlefield, as well as how adorable he is in action, that you can find out through the freshly posted gameplay trailer. Have a gander:
Total War: Warhammer 3's Update 2.1 has greatly enhanced the modding tools and fixed many bugs
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[Update #2]: Total War: Warhammer 3's Update 2.3 has added new landmarks, tied AI behavior to difficulty, and rebalanced most factions.
[Update]: Total War: Warhammer 3's Update 2.2 will beef up the AI and reduce the number of settlement battles.
As a part of the absurdly gigantic Update 2.0, Total War: Warhammer 3 has added the Immortal Empires combined campaign map, spruced up many of the long-forgotten Total War: Warhammer 2 lords, finally added the missing blood & gore effects, and even reworked the Warriors of Chaos faction from the ground up. Add to that the first-post launch DLC, a variety of quality-of-life improvements and balance changes, and you've got yourself the biggest update the Total War: Warhammer series has ever seen.
Naturally, as you would imagine given the sheer scope of the changes, Update 2.0 has also brought with it a fair few bugs, balance issues and general nuisances. So in order to sort these problems out, as well as to pave the way for a much bigger patch in October, Creative Assembly has now unleashed Update 2.1.
Amber City is a charming new puzzle-adventure from the team behind Flood of Light
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Amber City, much like its predecessor Flood of Light, is a hand-drawn adventure that will task you with using lights to solve puzzles in order to restore a slumbering city back to its former glory. A simple enough premise, but things do get complicated fairly quickly as not only is there time travel involved, but also potentially hostile robots along with different colors of light that, unsurprisingly, each do their own unique thing.
Since trying to explain a puzzle game through words alone is a bit of a pointless venture, allow me to share with you the recently posted launch trailer. It's not exactly lengthy, but it should clue you in quite quickly about what kind of gameplay style Amber City is going for. Have a gander:
After two years in Early Access, Pokemon-inspired MMO Temtem has now been unleashed
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Temtem, much like the Pokemon series from which it draws a great deal of inspiration, is a monster collecting and battling RPG with a bit of exploration thrown in to help keep things interesting. However, unlike Pokemon games that are mostly a singleplayer experience, Temtem is an MMO and as such focuses heavily on player-to-player interactions like trading, adventuring and dueling.
After spending around two years in Early Access, Temtem has now finally been released in full. The launch version brings with it a brand new endgame area with a variety of new activities and challenges to mess around with, the very first season alongside an assortment of balance changes, as well as the all too familiar Battle Pass that comes in both paid and free flavors.
Overwatch 2's new characters will be locked behind the free track of the Battle Pass
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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]: Overwatch 2 has now unveiled its very first support hero - the wall-climbing, fox themed healer Kiriko. The Blizzard team has also taken this opportunity to detail Overwatch 2's Battle Pass, hero unlock system, as well as their plans for future updates.
While the full announcement has not gone out just yet, it looks like Overwatch 2 will be locking new characters behind the free version of its Battle Pass. This information first appeared to us thanks to a recent update to the Overwatch 2: Watchpoint Pack which stated that "as a Season One Premium Battle Pass owner you will automatically receive access to Overwatch's latest hero Kiriko!"
The text has since then been replaced with a much more generic description, most likely because it accidentally spoiled the name of the next hero. However, in a brief comment on Reddit, Overwatch's Commercial Leader Jon Spector did confirm that new heroes will indeed be unlocked through the Battle Pass: "We'll be sharing all details ahead of launch, but want to confirm now that new Overwatch 2 heroes will be available on the free track of the Battle Pass."