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[Update]: After a successful beta, the cavalry changes have are now live!
As a part of its final major update Total War: Warhammer 2 added whole bunch of new content, quality of life improvements, and naturally, much-needed balance changes. While the vast majority of that ended up serving as an amazing sendoff to an amazing game, sadly one small tweak to how charge attacks worked ended up making every single cavalry unit nearly worthless.
To put it fairly simply, even the heaviest cavalry charging into much weaker infantry that's charging them back would suffer horrific losses in the ensuing melee. This is due to the fact that every single entity within a unit deals their full attack damage upon connecting with the enemy, which given the large difference in numbers between cavalry and infantry will usually result in the cavalry losing a massive amount of health right after the initial charge.
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[Update]: Deathloop has now arrived and, outside of some early performance problems, it seems to be getting a pretty positive reception.
After being delayed over and over again, Arkane's time-bending shooter Deathloop now finally seems like it's ready to be unleashed. So unless something goes horribly awry in the next few days, you can expect to see it arrive this September 14th for PC and PlayStation 5.
If you're curious what sort of PC you'll need in order to even run it, as well as what sort of hardware will get you the best looking visuals, you'll also be happy to hear that Bethesda and Arkane have now detailed the PC specs and advanced settings. You'll find the minimum, recommended and ultra 4K requirements below:
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[Update]: Back 4 Blood has now landed onto PC and consoles, and so far it's looking pretty solid.
After a rather revealing Open Beta, the Left 4 Dead inspired Back 4 Blood is now slowly getting ready for its full release. You can expect to see the zombie hordes arrive on October 12, 2021 for PC, PlayStation and Xbox.
If you haven't played the beta and you're now wondering just what Back 4 Blood is all about, as well as how closely it follows the Left 4 Dead formula, you can find your answers in one of the recent trailers. Have a peek:
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[Update]: Total War Troy's next DLC expansion is adding two new factions led by Rhesus and Memnon.
It may have taken quite a while, but Total War: Troy's Epic Games Store exclusivity has come to an end and so Troy has now made its way over to Steam as well. More importantly, it has done so alongside the release of a long awaited new expansion - Mythos!
As the name would suggest, the Mythos expansion brings with it a whole assortment of mythological monsters and themed units to play around with, thus fixing one of the biggest complaints many have had with Troy since the very beginning. Besides the monstrous menagerie, Mythos has also updated the world map with a variety of references to classic literature and legends, as well as added army-wide abilities granted by the gods themselves.
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[Update #2]: Innistrad: Midnight Hunt has now landed alongside the yearly Standard set rotation.
[Update]: All of Innistrad: Midnight Hunt's expansion cards have now been revealed.
It has only been a little while since Jumpstart: Historic Horizons brought in a ton of cards to MTG Arena, and already a brand new set is inching closer. Innistrad: Midnight Hunt will be arriving onto MTG Arena on September 16th alongside a whole assortment of zombies, werewolves and spirits, while the physical version will be launching a week later, on September 24th.
As you would expect from an Innistrad set, the mechanics this time around are all about transformations and graveyard interaction. So not only are we getting werewolves that transform between two forms based on the time of day, but we're also getting flashback-style mechanics for both creatures and instants/sorceries.
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[Update]: Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous' Enhanced Edition has landed with new quests and improvements.
If you're in the mood for some good ol' fashioned adventuring, and you're not afraid of reading vast quantities of dialog, you might be interested to hear that Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous has now arrived onto PC. Much like its predecessor, Wrath of the Righteous brings with it an absurd amount of character customization options, a gigantic world to explore, a whole assortment of choices to make, and perhaps most importantly, some rather interesting companions to chat up in between all of the looting.
You can read my full thoughts on Wrath of the Righteous in a review I did a few days ago, but long story short, it really is an excellent homage to classic CRPGs. The only real issue I have with it is the overabundance of bugs, something that has plagued the original as well. So if you can forgive some technical issues, or just wait a couple of weeks for the devs to patch them up, I'd say Wrath of the Righteous is well worth checking out.
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[Update]: After lengthy delays, Metal Slug Tactics will finally be launching on November 5th, 2024!
In an interesting departure from its run'n'gun action roots, the next Metal Slug game will be a turn-based tactics one! The aptly named Metal Slug Tactics will feature the same sort of charming visuals as the rest of the series, though this time around they will be in service of turn-based combat, RPG-like progression for each of the unique brothers-in-arms, as well as some roguelike elements which are there just to spice things up a bit.
You can get a pretty good idea of what all of this looks like in action through the recently posted gameplay trailer. It's not a very long one, though it is at least a rather pretty one! Have a gander:
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[Update]: After an extended round of testing, Malevento has now been unleashed onto the live servers!
In an announcement that has sadly become far too rare, Blizzard has just unveiled brand new content for Overwatch! The content in question is a new deathmatch map called Malevento, and as you can see in the brief teaser over at Twitter, it's once again going to be a rather beautiful one!
The good news doesn't end there, however, as Malevento is currently playable on the PTR. If you would like to join in on the fun, as well as help the Overwatch team with some much needed feedback, simply change your PC client's region to PTR and you'll be ready to go after a brief download.
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[Update]: After a fair bit of testing, Shadowlands' quality-of-life focused Update 9.1.5 has now arrived onto the live servers.
If you've been paying attention to World of Warcraft's little corner of the Internet over the past few months you've most likely noticed that the playerbase is getting increasingly more upset with Blizzard. While there are many reasons for this, most of them can be summed up with Blizzard stubbornly refusing to fix problems that have been pointed out to them since the early days of Shadowlands' beta.
Nowhere is this more apparent than with the Covenant system - an idea that sounds great in theory, yet is a bit of a nightmare in practice. Instead of choosing Covenants based on their personal alignment and cosmetic preferences, most players ended up being 'forced' into very specific ones due to them being significantly more powerful than the rest. Combine this with the option to swap being incredibly punishing and essentially resetting your progress to zero, and you've got yourself a system that is almost guaranteed to leave a good chunk of the playerbase disappointed.
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[Update]: Aiko's Choice will be arriving for Windows and Linux on December 6, 2021.
Even though it arrived pretty much out of nowhere, Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun quickly solidified itself as one of my favorite games from 2016. There was just something incredibly alluring about its mixture of stealth and strategy, especially when executing elaborate plans that could topple an entire enemy base in a couple of frantic seconds!
So you can imagine my surprise when Mimimi Games announced, 5 years after the release of the original, that they now are working on a standalone expansion - Aiko's Choice. The expansion will bring with it three lengthy missions set in brand new environments, three shorter 'interlude' missions, a highly specialized team of characters to tackle every problem with, and naturally, plenty of different ways to solve each obstacle.