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[Update #2]: All of MTG Arena's upcoming Explorer Anthology 2 and Alchemy: The Brother's War cards have now been revealed.
[Update]: MTG Arena's The Brothers' War expansion has now arrived with a ton of new and retro artifacts in tow.
Once it arrives this November 15th, MTG Arena's latest Standard expansion The Brothers' War will bring with it a whole host of new cards to play around with. Given that the entire set is focused around the great war between Urza and Mishra, it should come as little surprise to hear that the vast majority of the cards will be either artifacts or spells that work around them in some way.
When it comes to the set mechanics, there will be four major ones to keep an eye out out for. Here's a brief rundown of what each one of them does:
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[Update]: Apex Legends' Spellbound update is bringing back Control, buffing the Sentinel and adding a bunch of new cosmetics.
A brand new Apex Legends season has just arrived, and as is tradition, it has brought with it a whole bunch of new toys to play around with. First and foremost, Season 15 - Eclipse has added a brand new Legend by the name of Catalyst. She is capable of manipulating ferrofluids in order to create environmental hazards, seal off doors and even erect a massive wall of goop that can split the battlefield in half and blind anyone foolish enough to try to push through it.
Since a picture is worth a thousand words, allow me to share with you Catalyst's character trailer. It should clue you in quite quickly on just what Catalyst and her abilities are all about. Have a peek:
The co-op focused and remarkably entertaining hack & slash Vermintide 2 is free to grab until Monday
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[Update #2]: Vermintide 2 is celebrating its Fifth Anniversary with a free weekend, triple experience and festive map.
[Update]: In celebration of the series' seventh anniversary, Vermintide 2 has just added a frigid new map - Trail of Treachery.
The Vermintide series is currently celebrating its seventh anniversary, and in order to get as many people in on the festivities as possible, Fatshark has now decided to give away Vermintide 2! Simply head on over to Steam, click on that giant green "Add to Account" button, and you'll be ready to slice and dice through hordes of ratmen in no time.
Speaking of which, you should probably not dawdle as the giveaway will be ending soon, on November 7th. The good news is that once you have Vermintide 2 on your Steam account, it'll be yours to keep forever and you'll be able to play it whenever you want and for however long you want.
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[Update #2]: Blizzard has now detailed Ramattra's every ability and his stance-shifting mechanics.
[Update]: Overwatch 2's first balance update has arrived with nerfs to Zarya, Genji, Sombra, as well as Junkrat for some reason.
If you bought into the recent wave of rumors stating that the next Overwatch 2 hero will be the giant Mauga first introduced in Baptiste's short story, I'm afraid you've been duped. It's not all that bad, however, as the freshly unveiled Ramattra is quite an interesting character as well!
Ramattra is the the leader of Null Sector, the Omnic extremist group working towards "creating a better world." He was first introduced back in 2019 as a part of the Storm Rising event's finale, though besides his incredibly brief conversation with Doomfist this is the first time we've actually learned something concrete about him and his ideology.
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Unlike Subnautica that mostly focused on exploration and atmosphere, Unknown Worlds Entertainment's freshly released and miniature-based tactics game Moonbreaker is all about the strategic battles. However, if the players don't have access to all of the game pieces because they're locked behind progression and monetization systems, exploring all of those different strategies and playstyles becomes very tricky.
Needless to say, this is a serious problem for a game that's currently in Early Access precisely because the developers require a lot of player input and data in order to get everything polished up and ready to go for the big launch. So in order to correct this issue and to make sure everything goes by smoothly, the Moonbreaker team has now completely removed any and all monetization!
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[Update #2]: The heavily exploration focused Dragonflight expansion has now arrived, and so far it's looking quite good!
[Update]: Second phase of World of Warcraft's Dragonflight pre-patch has now arrived with the new Dracthyr Evoker race/class combo.
In order to set the stage for the upcoming Dragonflight expansion, the World of Warcraft team has now unleashed the first part of the massive pre-patch. Phase 1 of the update brings with it a heavily overhauled talent tree that's focused around giving players a ton of interesting choices to experiment with, as well as the ability to play as a Rogue, Mage or Priest regardless of race and faction.
The user interface has also been redesigned from the ground up and now comes with rather handy tools to help you customize it from top to bottom without the need for addons. Add to that a bunch of quality of life improvements, a new rated PvP mode along with a couple of new accessibility features, and you've got yourself the beginnings of a pretty solid update!
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[Update]: Following in the footsteps of Uncharted and Spider-Man: Miles Morales, the comprehensive remake of the original The Last of Us is will be launching onto PC on March 3rd, 2023.
It took a while for us to get to this point, but thankfully it looks like most of PlayStation's big games are now making their way over to PC. The latest in this line is the Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection which has just recently launched onto PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store.
In order to dispel any confusion, it's important to mention that the Legacy of Thieves Collection only contains the remastered versions of the last two games: Uncharted 4: A Thief's End and its standalone expansion Uncharted: The Lost Legacy. So while the whole series is sadly not playable on PC, there's still a fair bit of content to blaze through in the Legacy of Thieves Collection.
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[Update #2]: Patch 7.32e has now arrived with Muerta and surprisingly small batch of balance changes.
[Update]: Second part of Dota 2's Battle Pass has arrived with a wolf Persona for Crystal Maiden and a new Diretide PvP event.
In order to make the finale of The International 2022 even more memorable, Valve has decided to take this opportunity to unveil a brand new hero! While the exact details are basically nonexistent, the freshly announced Muerta will be a dual-wielding gunslinger that seems to exist on the border between life and death.
What Muerta looks like in action, that you can get a little sneak peek at through the teaser trailer below. Have a gander, it's quite a stylish look:
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In a bit of a bizarre announcement, Frontier Developments recently revealed that after the next update the F1 Manager 2022 team will be moving onto other projects. This sort of thing would be perfectly understandable for an older game with a sequel right around the corner, but F1 Manager 2022 had only just launched a mere two months ago!
“This next update for F1 Manager 2022 will be the last significant update that addresses player-reported feedback, or suggested changes and additions,” explains the developer update. “Any potential updates following this would be minor patches that do not noticeably affect gameplay. To ensure upcoming F1 Manager projects realise their potential and meet the expectations of both our team and our community, the development team’s focus must move fully onto projects beyond F1 Manager 2022, after this upcoming update.”
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[Update #2]: Overwatch 2's first balance update has arrived with nerfs to Zarya, Genji, Sombra, as well as Junkrat for some reason.
[Update]: Overwatch 2's next tank hero will be Ramattra - the mysterious Omnic leader of Null Sector.
As you can very easily tell by browsing the most played heroes in the Top 500 leaderboard, Overwatch 2 currently has a bit of a balance problem. Thankfully, Blizzard is well aware of this and has already announced plans to fix some of these issues.
Unfortunately, it's not all good news. For whatever reason, the Overwatch 2 team has decided to not release the big balance update today, but rather in three weeks! As such, if you're looking to rid yourself of the endless swarm of Zaryas and Genjis, I'm afraid you'll have to wait until November 15th.