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[Update #2]: MTG Arena is soon adding a bunch of Modern Horizons 1 and 2 cards, alongside 31 brand new ones.
[Update]: MTG Arena is temporarily banning The Book of Exalted Deeds in the Standard 2022 mode.
After a few rounds of teasers, MTG Arena has now finally unleashed the Dungeons & Dragons themed Adventures in the Forgotten Realms set. The new expansion brings with it 261 cards spread across all rarities, many of which are focused around dungeons, dragons, and unsurprisingly, rolling a whole bunch of d20s!
Much like the previous sets, the expansion has launched alongside Premier and Traditional Draft, as well as both normal and Traditional Sealed! So whether you're a fan of best-of-one or best-of-three formats, you should be covered. As for the always-popular Quick Draft, that one will be coming in two weeks.
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Quite a few years have gone by since King of Fighters XIV first launched, so if you're itching to finally get your hands on the sequel, I have both good and bad news to deliver. The good news is that King of Fighters XV will be launching simultaneously across all platforms: PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox Series X|S, Windows 10, Steam and the Epic Games Store.
The one bit of bad news, however, is that we're going to have to wait for quite a while in order to get our hands on it. While the exact release date has not been announced just yet, you can expect to see King of Fighters XV at some point in early 2022.
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[Update]: The Thrillseekers event has now arrived, and outside of some initial server problems, things are looking pretty good for Apex Legends.
The Genesis event has not even run its course, and already Respawn has announced a brand new update! Much like its predecessor, this upcoming Thrillseekers event will bring with it a variety of cosmetics in both paid and free flavors, as well as a brand new arena map to toy around with!
However, instead of simply reusing a popular location like Skull Town and calling it a day, the new Overflow map is almost entirely new despite being set in the lava region of World's Edge. Expect to see powerful high ground positions, multiple tunnel-like lanes to run around in, some massive slopes to help you juke your opponents, and as the name would suggest, plenty of lava!
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[Update]: Total War: Warhammer 2's final and ridiculously huge The Hammers & Herdstones update has now landed, and it's quite an impressive one!
Instead of letting Total War: Warhammer 2 languish while they work on Total War: Warhammer 3, Creative Assembly has decided to say farewell with a mighty bang by releasing one last super-massive update. As such, on July 14th we'll not only be getting The Silence & The Fury DLC with plenty of toys for the Beastmen and Lizardmen, but a rather chunky free update as well!
This free update will bring with it the long-awaited Beastmen rework, the Great Brey Shaman as a generic lord for the Beastmen, Ogre mercenaries that can be hired by every faction, as well as the highly temperamental Thorek Ironbrow as a new Legendary Lord for the Dwarfs. That alone would make this the most impressive update Total War: Warhammer 2 has had in a while, but Creative Assembly has gone a step further and also reworked the Dwarf faction for the second time in the game's history!
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[Update]: Sadly, it looks like the culmination of Patch 9.1 storyline is a complete and utter mess.
Patch 9.1 - Chains of Domination arrived last week, bringing with it a much-needed influx of new content. It added Korthia as a new end-game zone to explore, a variety of changes and improvements to the rogue-like Torghast, the beginning of a new story campaign, and naturally, a whole host of new cosmetics and mounts to collect.
While all of that is certainly a nice little addition, today's server resets have brought with it something far more exciting! The Sanctum of Domination raid has opened its doors on both Normal and Heroic difficulty, while the Tazavesh, the Veiled Market megadungeon has added some fun new challenges for even the more casual side of the playerbase.
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[Update]: The Adventures in the Forgotten Realms expansion has now arrived with 261 cards in tow!
Before each Standard rotation Magic: The Gathering tends to release a Core Set as a way to reprint highly useful cards without the designers being constrained by any one plane or storyline. However, this time around the usual Core Set will be getting replaced by a fully fledged Dungeons & Dragons themed expansion - Adventures in the Forgotten Realms.
As the name alone might imply, this expansion will bring with it dungeons as a brand new mechanic, as well as a plethora of powerful dragons to toy around with. There will also be dice rolls, references to numerous Dungeons & Dragons spells and abilities, equipment and enchantments themed after the various classes, as well as a couple of god-like beings to spice things up.
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[Update #2]: A year after launch, Ys IX: Monstrum Nox has just unleashed a surprise PC performance patch.
[Update]: As a part of the January 2022 update, Ys IX: Monstrum Nox has added a co-op mode on PC!
After spending a good chunk of time on the PlayStation 4, Ys IX: Monstrum Nox has now finally made its way over to both PC and Switch. I'm also happy to say that, unlike Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana's nearly unplayable launch, this initial version of Ys IX is already looking remarkably well polished and optimized on PC!
And speaking of looking, you can get a pretty good idea of just what Ys IX: Monstrum Nox is trying to do through the recently posted launch trailer. Have a gander:
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[Update #2]: Total War: Warhammer 2's final and ridiculously huge The Hammers & Herdstones update has now landed, and it's quite an impressive one!
[Update]: Creative Assembly has now also revealed the surprisingly chunky Dwarf rework!
Out of all the factions in the current version of Total War: Warhammer 2, the Beastmen are by far the most miserable to play. Even if you can overcome the fact that literally everyone hates you and build up a solid army, actually wiping out your enemies is still a rather nightmarish process. Since the AI loves nothing more than to resettle all of the ruins you leave in your wake, pretty much every single Beastmen campaign eventually turns into a Warhammer themed whack-a-mole where the only prize is your inevitable loss of sanity.
Thankfully, all of this nonsense will soon be coming to an end. Once The Silence & The Fury DLC arrives this July 14th we'll not only get a whole bunch of new Beastmen monsters to play around with, but also the long-awaited rework that will land as a part of the accompanying free update!
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[Update]: Doom Eternal's Update 6.66 has added Horde Mode, new Master levels and Battlemode 2.0.
In a bit of a departure from the usual FPS game modes, Doom Eternal wanted to add the Invasion Mode as a post-launch update. This Dark Souls inspired mode would have you invade a random player's campaign and possess a powered-up version of one the demons, after which the two of you would have a brief but highly explosive duel, with the victor getting some nifty prizes out of the whole ordeal.
However, as with many other things, the pandemic has thrown a wrench into those plans. This, combined with the community's interest in the Invasion Mode waning with time, has convinced id Software to stop working on it and instead focus on a totally new single-player horde mode.
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Mortal Kombat 11 has had a pretty good run since it released back in 2019, but sadly all good things must come to an end. In an extremely brief update NetherRealm Studios have now announced that they're officially done with development on Mortal Kombat 11.
"NetherRealm is now focusing on its next project and after more than two years of supporting Mortal Kombat 11, DLC for the game, including characters, has come to an end," reads the entirety of the announcement.