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[Update #2]: Monster Hunter: World has now arrived on PC, and so far it seems pretty darn good!
[Update]: The PC system requirements have now also been detailed. You can check them out over here.
Monster Hunter: World arrived on consoles all the way back in January, while the PC version was postponed until "some point in autumn" in order to ensure it's more than just a simple port. Quite a few months have past since then, and I am very glad to say that we now finally have Monster Hunter: World's PC release date - August 9th!
All of the bonus features and PC-exclusive options have not been announced just yet, but what I can tell you is that all of the post-launch content and "special collaborations" will be coming to the PC version for free. The only catch is that they'll be arriving shortly after launch, but as long as the port itself is good I don't think many people will complain.
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World of Warcraft's Battle for Azeroth expansion is set to launch on August 14th, so in order to get everyone up to speed Blizzard will be releasing the much-anticipated pre-expansion Patch 8.0 next week. To be more specific, Patch 8.0 will be coming this July 17th alongside new PvP talents and the War Mode, cross-realm Communities that function like more focused guilds, a gigantic stat-squish that will make your damage and health a lot easier to comprehend, and the list goes on.
There are far too many changes to cover in detail, but if you're interested in a brief summary of the major features you'll find the official "Survival Guide" right below. It's brief and to the point, so I'd highly recommend you check it out:
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Darksiders 3 has been officially announced back in May of 2017, after which we received pretty much nothing in terms of new information. Thankfully, the long silence has now been broken as the developers have announced that Darksiders 3 will be released on November 27th for PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4!
Better yet, the devs have partnered up with IGN to release a rather lengthy gameplay preview. So if you're interested in seeing what Fury has to offer on the battlefield, you'll find the video right below. Have a gander:
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Overwatch devs have recently held a charity focused event where players could purchase the rather fancy Pink Mercy skin for $15, all of which would go straight to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Besides the skin itself, Blizzard also offered a variety of Pink Mercy themed merchandise and clothes, as well as organized numerous Twitch streams with notable community members in order to raise money for charity.
As you're probably well aware from the title alone, all that effort was more than worth it given that the event has officially raised over 12.7 million USD in support of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation! A truly momentous achievement given that the whole event was fairly short.
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Code Vein is Bandai Namco's Dark Souls inspired action-RPG that's focused around tactical melee combat, meaning it's all about dodging and blocking, careful timing, as well as punishing enemies whenever they make a mistake. It was supposed to release this September 28th for PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4, but according to the latest announcement its launch has been postponed.
"Based on all the feedback we have received over the last few months, we have decided to push back the release into 2019," reads the brief update. "We want to refine the gameplay even more and further exceed your expectations upon full release."
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If you've completed everything the latest Long Live the Lich update has to offer and you're now looking for some fresh new gameplay, you might be interested (or terrified) to hear that the latest balance update has brought in a whole bunch of changes, including some rather heavy nerfs. Most notably, it is the Elementalists, Mesmers and Necromancers that have been hit the hardest, with the Elementalist changes being by far the most impactful.
While I won't list out all of the specific tweaks, it is the nerf to Lava Font that I find the most peculiar. Instead of tweaking the Staff and making the Elementalist playstyle just a bit more interesting, the devs have decided to reduce Lava Font's overall damage by around 40%. I'm not much of a stats guy so I won't pretend to know how this is going to impact Elementalists as a whole, but due to this and some of the other changes I really don't see Staff Elementalists sticking around for very long. A real shame given how the build was one of the very few that remained intact since the very beginning of Guild Wars 2.
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After being announced only back in April, the remastered version of the destruction-focused shooter Red Faction Guerrilla has now arrived for both PC and consoles. As you might expect from any modern remaster, the new version brings with it heavily reworked graphics, improved shadow rendering and lighting, new shaders and postprocessing options, and naturally, support for all sorts of wide-screen resolutions.
If you're just wondering what all of this looks like in-game, wonder no more as the devs have released a short but explosive gameplay trailer. Have a gander, it should give you a decent idea of what to expect:
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Two weeks ago Overwatch received a rather significant update, one that has so far been an enormous boon to the competitive scene. Horizon Lunar Colony got reworked and is now a lot less attacker-friendly, there is a new Looking For Group system to help you find friends to play with, the Endorsement system has made people a lot friendlier and more talkative, and the long-forgotten Symmetra has received a gigantic rework!
In order to give players enough time to get used to her, as well as sniff out any potentially game-breaking issues, the newly reworked Symmetra did not immediately appear in the Competitive Play mode. Thankfully, Blizzard has opted to not repeat the same mistake they've done with Brigitte and hold Symmetra at bay for months on end, and so they've now fully unleashed her into Competitive Play - merely two weeks after her rework landed on the live servers!
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While I encountered very few bugs while I was working on my Pillars of Eternity 2 review, during my second and more recent playthrough I ended up running into a variety of issues. Most notably, trying to side-step some of the key story points and simply going to the end of the quest would occasionally result in some highly inaccurate dialogue and rather strange NPC behavior.
With that in mind, I am very glad to say that the most recent update has corrected many of these issues. There are far too many of them to simply list out, so if you're interested in all of the details you should head over here. The quest changes do contain quite a few spoilers, for obvious reasons, so I would recommend avoiding that section until you're done with your playthrough.
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If you've only recently bought Vermintide 2, or if you still have a couple of characters you haven't leveled up to 30 just yet, you might be interested to hear that the Sonnstill celebration event has now begun. Besides giving you a chance to acquire a couple of in-game loot boxes (the non-paid kind) and a cosmetic portrait, the update has also introduced a double EXP weekend, perfect for getting your characters leveled up and ready for Legend difficulty.
While the list of changes isn't exactly massive, there are two important ones I feel the need to highlight. The first one is that the Charm trait "Concoction" now actually gives all buffs to your allies once you drink a potion, rather than only some of them. Given that the previously missing effect is the one that boosts your damage, I think this buff should go a long towards making Concoction a much more interesting choice.