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If you're in the mood for an oldschool, isometric and turn-based RPG, today's your lucky day as Wasteland 2 is currently entirely free to grab. Simply head on over to GOG, log into your account or create a new one, and you'll be roaming the titular wasteland in no time.
The free giveaway will only last for another ~36 hours, so do make sure to grab yourself a copy before it goes away. Speaking of which, you don't have to worry about beating it within two days, or even installing it within that period. Simply add a copy to your account and you'll be able to play Wasteland 2 whenever you want and for however long you want.
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[Update]: Conan Exiles' Isle of Siptah expansion has added a large, demon-infested new world to explore.
If you were to look through the forums of any survival game, chances are you'd see quite a few requests for mounts or vehicles. This is partly because having an awesome-looking mount and companion is always fun, and partly because constantly jogging halfway across the world tends to get a bit tedious after a while.
As such, I'm sure many of you will be glad to hear that Conan Exiles has now finally added mounts. Naturally, since it's a survival game you will need to first tame and train a horse yourself, as well as create a saddle for it because not even half-naked barbarians are crazy enough to deal with all the chafing that would come from riding without one!
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If you've been spending most of your time in Hearthstone's Battlegrounds mode and you're now itching for something a bit different, you might be glad to hear that a brand new expansion has just arrived. The aptly named Descent of Dragons expansion brings with it an assortment of cards that synergize with dragons to create powerful effects, sidequest cards that give you small objectives to complete throughout the match for fairly major rewards, and most importantly, special invoke cards that greatly power up the newly added Galakrond legendaries!
Don't worry about having to collect all of the legendaries in order to experience the new mechanics, however, as all five Galakrond variants will be granted to you for free just by logging in! You'll still need a whole bunch of new cards in order to make Galakrond decks function as expected, but even so it's a pretty neat gift and a solid starting point for a brand new build.
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[Update]: It took a while, but the enhanced version of the Final Fantasy VII Remake has now landed onto PC!
Even though there have been times where its future appeared to be less than bright, Final Fantasy VII's remake is now shaping up to be a rather faithful recreation of the original classic. The good news doesn't end there, however, as Square Enix has just confirmed that Final Fantasy VII is merely a timed exclusive for the PlayStation 4!
According to the newly revealed box, Final Fantasy VII will only be exclusively available on the PlayStation 4 until March 3, 2021. So while none of the other platforms have been announced just yet, I think it's safe to say the PC version will be coming at some point in 2021, possibly even in March itself!
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[Update]: Blackwing Lair, level 50 class quests, and a whole bunch of other content are coming to World of Warcraft: Classic this February 12th!
If you're sick and tired of the rampant ganking and city-camping that has been happening ever since the recent PvP update, you'll be glad to hear that this sort of nonsense is now finally behind us. The reason? Blizzard has just released the PvP battlegrounds!
Right now only Alterac Valley and Warsong Gulch are active, though the two of them should be more than enough to provide you with plenty of eager targets and ways to gain those all-important honor points. In order to join the battlegrounds you'll need to be at least level 10, after which you'll be able to queue for them by either visiting Battlemasters in one of the capital cities, or by walking directly to the entrance of the battleground itself.
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[Update]: Vermintide 2's Season 2 update has now arrived alongside a brand new map and a much better way of acquiring new cosmetics.
Fatshark has recently announced that Vermitnide 2 will be getting a whole bunch of new content throughout Season 2. You can expect to see three remastered Vermintide 1 maps, Lohner’s Emporium of Wonders as a way to acquire a variety of cosmetics, plenty of improvements to the recently added Weave system, and naturally, a whole bunch of bug fixes and general improvements.
If that sounds like something you would love to mess around with, you'll be glad to hear that Season 2 will be heading into open beta on December 16th! The beta will bring with it Old Haunts as the first of the three free maps, Lohner's Emporium, as well as the numerous improvements to the Weaves, including the ability to 'Quick Play' them which should greatly decrease queue times.
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[Update #2]: Resident Evil 3 and its companion Resident Evil 3 Resistance have been released, though sadly they don't seem to have lived up to the high standards set by Resident Evil 2.
[Update]: Resident Evil 3's newest trailer is all about the big boy himself - Nemesis!
As I've hopefully made clear throughout my review, the Resident Evil 2 remake might not be a completely faithful recreation of the original classic, but it definitely manages to reach the same heights and often even surpass them. In other words, it shouldn't come as much of a surprise to hear that Capcom has now announced the Resident Evil 3 remake is on its way!
What might come as quite a shock is that Resident Evil 3 will be coming to us not even halfway through 2020, on April 3rd! I'd imagine this is because Resident Evil 3 shares both the engine and gameplay mechanics with its predecessor, but even so, that's quite an impressive achievement on Capcom's side.
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[Update #2:] Blizzard has now released another balance update aimed at reducing the power of defensive compositions and promoting more variety among DPS and support heroes.
[Update]: As is tradition, Blizzard is giving away 5 Winter Wonderland loot boxes as a small gift for the holidays.
If you're sick and tired of shooting into shields, today's your lucky day as Overwatch has just received a massive balance update. Shields have been nerfed across the board so you'll no longer be able to hold a position and simply sit there, but in order to compensate for this nerf the tanks have also received some nice survivability buffs to help promote more aggressive playstyles.
You can read the full patch notes over at the official website, and I would highly recommend you do so as these changes will certainly have a massive impact on your games. What exactly the meta will look like once things finally stabilize, only time will tell, but so far I've seen just about every single composition run with good success. A rather lovely Christmas gift from the Overwatch team!
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[Update]: Monster Hunter: World - Iceborne has now arrived, though not without a couple of nasty issues that will need to be resolved over the coming weeks.
Monster Hunter: World's Iceborne expansion is set to arrive this January for PC, bringing with it a whole host of new challenges to face. In order to ensure the players are well and truly ready for them, as well as to guarantee their gear will be up to scratch, Capcom has now released some rather powerful catch-up gear.
New players will be able to start with the Defender α immediately, while returning players will be able to buy it from the Armory at 300z per piece, which is pretty much nothing in the grand scheme of things. On the other hand, everyone will need to forge their own Defender weapons at the Smithy, though this will once again be incredibly cheap as it'll only require one piece of Iron Ore.
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After Bioshock Infinite and the dissolution of its developer Irrational Games, the Bioshock series seemed to have come to a natural end. But, as is often the case, popular series tend not to lie dormant for all too long.
As such, it likely won't come as too much of a surprise to hear that 2K has now announced a brand new Bioshock game. The details are few and far between, but what I can tell you is that the new game will be developed by the freshly-founded Cloud Chamber studio which will have offices in both the San Francisco Bay Area and Montréal, Québec.