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While their gameplay has changed with every iteration, the Devil May Cry games have always had one thing in common: stylish yet brutally difficulty combat. If that sounds like the sort of thing you would love to try out, you'll be glad to hear that the Devil May Cry HD Collection has now arrived on both PC and consoles.
It is not a brand new remaster, however, but rather a slightly spruced up port of the 2012 HD Collection. In other words, you can expect support for higher resolutions in the new version, as well as better textures and character models, and an in-game compendium full of artwork and soundtracks from each game. A relatively simple upgrade, but if the Steam reviews are to be believed, a pretty darn good one regardless.
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If you would like to extend your Assassin's Creed Origins playthrough with a variety of new action-packed missions, you might be interested to hear that The Curse of the Pharahos DLC is set to arrive later today. It'll bring with it a brand new zone to explore, a variety of quests filled with colorful characters, and perhaps most importantly, some rather interesting enemies to fight against. As you can probably guess from the title alone, I'm talking about mummies, giant scorpions and extremely angry pharaohs that are capable of wielding powerful magic against you!
You can get a good peek at what all of this looks like in-game through the recently posted launch trailer. If you're only in it for the action, however, just skip to the later half of the video as that's where all of the truly bizarre stuff starts popping up. Have a gander:
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Instead of releasing another Battle Pass as was expected, Valve has now unveiled a brand new subscription service - Dota Plus. For $4 the Dota Plus service offers the ability to collect cosmetics by either leveling your heroes, completing challenges, or purchasing them with Shards you earn after each match. These cosmetic items will consist of equipment sets, hero-specific chat wheel emotes, taunts, as well as a variety of other exclusive effects.
More interestingly, however, the Dota Plus subscription will also bring with it a rather comprehensive in-game assistant that will track your progress in real-time and offer suggestions based on your exact scenario. In other words, it will give you item suggestions based on which lane you're playing and who you're fighting against, ability suggestions designed to best counter your opponent, and even hero suggestions in order to help round out your team in the best way possible.
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The co-op focused Warhammer: Vermintide 2 arrived onto Steam this March 8th, and already it has become a massive success. Not only has it blitzed past the original's record for concurrent players within a single day, but it has also managed to sell more than 500,000 copies on PC alone in less than a week! For an indie game that really didn't do much marketing, that is about as impressive as it gets.
“We are proud and happy that gamers worldwide have taken Warhammer: Vermintide 2 to their hearts.” says Martin Wahlund, CEO Fatshark. “500,000 games sold was a milestone that we had, but not less than a week after release.”
Chances are that Vermintide 2 will achieve even bigger milestones in the future as it is set to arrive on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One at some point later this year. I certainly hope so because Vermintide 2, despite all of its flaws, is a highly enjoyable game with a highly affordable €28 price tag.
Hearthstone's The Witchwood expansion will bring 135 new cards as well as 3 new and exciting effects
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After being teased during the recent reveal of the Year of the Raven, Blizzard has now finally announced Hearthstone's next expansion - The Witchwood. You can expect to see 135 new cards, some of which will have new and powerful effects that trigger at the very start of the game, as well as a Monster Hunt game mode as an addition/replacement for Kobolds & Catacombs' Dungeon Run.
You can get a sneak peak at some of the new cards and mechanics through the recently posted announcement video. It's fairly lengthy so I can understand if you don't feel like watching the whole thing, but I would highly suggest you at least check out the very beginning as that is where the cinematic trailer resides. Here's the video, as well as a few of the more interesting new cards:
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Before you start screaming and running away because I'm going to talk about yet another open-world zombie survival game, it is worth mentioning that State of Decay 2 does things quite differently from the rest of the genre. Instead of playing as one overpowered character that only needs to worry about occasionally snacking on sandwiches that magically appear in cupboards, in State of Decay 2 you will essentially be playing as an entire community, with all of the benefits and vulnerabilities that come with such an arrangement.
Each of your survivors is their own person with a mixture of skills, attitudes and interests that determine what they can do, what they want to do, and how far they're willing to go in order to do it. More importantly, each of the survivors can get hurt and tired, so in order to truly prosper you will need to find a way to make the most out of what you have, even if that sometimes means taking massive risks and potentially losing some of your people. It is a concept that worked great in the original State of Decay, so here's to hoping it'll work even better in the sequel!
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After the extremely well-received Pillars of Eternity, Obsidian returned to crowdfunding in late January of last year in order to secure funds for Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire. The fans loved the idea so much they not only contributed enough to reach the initial goal, but kept going until the Fig campaign ended with Pillars of Eternity 2 securing $4,407,598 in funding - 400% of the original target!
A fair bit of time has passed since then, and I am now delighted to say that Pillars of Eternity 2 is just about ready to launch! To be more specific, it will be coming to Windows, Linux and Mac on April 3rd. As for the console versions, not details have been given just yet, but you can expect Pillars of Eternity 2 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch at some point towards the end of 2018.
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[Update]: Overprime is a third-person MOBA heavily based on Epic's long-canceled Paragon.
While Fortnite is growing at an absolutely ridiculous rate, Epic's previous game Paragon has not been as fortunate. It launched as an extremely solid proof of concept, but despite being in Early Access since March of 2016 it has still not managed to live up to its potential. As such, it sadly won't come as much of a surprise to hear that Epic will be shutting down Paragon on April 26th.
The official reason, as you might expect, is the inability for Paragon to support itself given the constantly decreasing playerbase. After all, a MOBA game needs a really good matchmaking system in order to make it fun for everyone, and that is not exactly possible when there is only a small portion of the playerbase left. Here's the full, albeit somewhat small quote from the developers:
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After a brief foray into space and World War 2, it would appear that Call of Duty is returning to what it knows best with Black Ops 4 - slightly futuristic but still fairly grounded action. As expected given the previously announced three-year schedule, this year's Call of Duty is being developed by Treyarch, the studio behind the whole Black Ops series.
While I would love to tell you more, I'm afraid Activision hasn't shared any actual details about the gameplay or story. As for the latter, I can only hope it's going to be better than what Black Ops 3 had to offer since I found it to be so disappointing I can barely even remember it at this point. Not exactly a major complaint given that barely anyone plays Call of Duty games for the story, but it's still something I would like to see addressed in Black Ops 4 regardless.
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Warhammer: Vermintide 2 arrived on PC merely two days ago, and already the developers have detailed their plans for the future! As promised during the lead-up to launch, one of the first major updates will bring with it the much-needed dedicated servers. So if you're sick and tired of watching hosts kick their entire party mid-mission, or just getting hit by enemies you clearly dodged due to high ping, you'll have to wait for a little while but salvation is definitely on its way.
If you're itching for even more content, however, you'll be glad to hear that Fatshark has announced that they are putting the finishing touches on mod support. I'm not exactly sure what you'll be able to tweak with the new tools, but if they are anything like the original Vermintide's it's safe to say that you'll be able to create and join matches that almost feel like an entirely different game. Whatever the case may be, the addition of mod support is going to be quite an exciting one!