Steam Sale Recommendations (December 24-25)
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I'm somewhat late with today's installment given the usual craziness that happens around Christmas. But now that everyone is properly comatose from obscene amounts of cake I have a bit of time to go over some really good Steam Deals.
There are no daily deals in this Winter Sale so no matter when you end up reading this, as long as its before January 4, the discounts will still be in effect. With that said, let's start:
Grim Dawn Is Now Content Complete And Preparing For February Release
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Grim Dawn is an ARPG that has been in development for many years now, before Path of Exile or Diablo 3 were even specs on the horizon. It started off as a small pet project by a couple of old Titan Quest developers but after its Kickstarter campaign and Early Access release the scope and development speed increased rapidly.
And now, after all these years of waiting Grim Dawn is fully content complete after its latest update brought in the finale, tons of new legendary items, a new roguelike dungeon and much more.
Starcraft 2 Event Brings Hourly Tournaments And Double Experience
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Starcraft 2: Legacy of the Void might have a really cliche story but on the gameplay front it brought in a lot of improvements such as automated tournaments, co-op game modes, nifty cosmetic rewards and a whole bunch more.
So if you were ever interested in improving yourself in SC2 or just wanted to try out some co-op with a friend now would be the time because there is a double experience event going on as well as hourly tournaments that will allow you to test your mettle at any point in the day.
Triad Wars - A Sleeping Dogs Spinoff Game - Is Shutting Down Next Month
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Sleeping Dogs was by all accounts a very good game, an open world GTA "clone" that had an interesting narrative, some great brawler combat and a giant map to explore, all the fun stuff. So I wasn't surprised when I heard it would be getting a spin-off game but for some reason that spin-off, Triad Wars, ended up being a "not really multiplayer" multiplayer game set in a small chunk of the Sleeping Dogs world.
Despite the game being a disappointment for Sleeping Dogs fans its still a sad thing to see the Triad Wars team announce that they will be closing down the game next month, on January 20th.
Final Fantasy VI Mod Removes Blurry Filter
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A lot of Final Fantasy games have recently been ported, or announced, for the PC and most of them look like faithful adaptations of the original games. The Final Fantasy VI port is sadly not one of those games, instead it comes with completely re-done graphics that somehow manage to look worse than those found in the SNES version.
The most annoying thing of all was the smoothing filter that was applied to everything making the whole game a blurry mess. Thankfully, a modder by the name of Nyxo has managed to remove the filter and bring the game's graphics slightly closer to the original ones.
Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition Is Now Available On Mac, Linux And SteamOS
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The PC version of the enhanced edition has been out for a while now and it is a massive improvement over the base game, especially in terms of storytelling which was on the bad side of cheesy when Original Sin first launched.
And now the upgraded version has arrived to Mac, Linux and SteamOS along with numerous performance improvements that will be added to the PC version as well. RPG fans rejoice!
The Witness System Requirements Announced | Release Date Set For January
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The Witness is the brainchild of Braid creator Jonathan Blow and while no extended gameplay videos are available its supposedly a very sophisticated puzzle game with systems that slowly build upon themselves to create more and more complex puzzles.
And despite the release date looming ever closer the system requirements are some of the biggest pieces of news that the Witness team released in recent time. Here's what type of a rig you will need: