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For those of you that might not be familiar with the genre, Chris Avellone has had a hand in just about every popular RPG in the past two decades: Fallout New Vegas, Fallout 2, Planescape Torment, Tides of Numenera, Icewind Dale, Knights of the Old Republic 2, Neverwinter Nights 2, and even Divinity: Original Sin 2. With that in mind, I hope you can now understand just how intriguing it is to hear that Chris Avellone might be teasing some sort of Fallout game!
All of this began last week when Avellone posted a fairly innocent image (pictured above) celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Fallout series. What really gave rise to the rampant rumors was Avellone's post a few days later - a hand-drawn image of him hugging the Vault Boy alongside the "I missed you so much" quote. There isn't much else to it, but if you're interested you'll find the drawing right below:
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Star Wars Battlefront 2 will be coming to PC and consoles this November 17th, bringing with it a much larger variety of content than its predecessor. There will be a singleplayer campaign with an actual story to follow, a lot more maps to explore and demolish, a whole bunch of new weapons and vehicles spread across the various Star Wars time periods, a space-based combat mode with its own mechanics and special vehicles, and naturally, a new batch of heroes and villains to toy around with.
If all of this sounds like something you would love to check out, but you don't feel like spending €60 for the chance, you might be glad to hear that the Open Beta has now begun. The Open Beta will only last for until October 9th, so make sure to grab it from Origin as soon as possible. Its not a lot of time, but it should be enough to give you a good idea of what Battlefront 2 is all about, and whether its something you would even enjoy playing.
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Arc System Works, the developers behind the BlazBlue and Guilty Gear series, have seemingly decided to take the fighting game scene by storm. During E3 2017 they announced Dragon Ball FighterZ, a 2.5D fighting game that so far looks to be pretty damn awesome, and then shortly afterwards the massive crossover game BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle featuring the cast of Persona 4 Arena, UNIEL, BlazBlue, and Rooster Teeth's RWBY!
If you're wondering what sort of characters you can expect from Cross Tag Battle, or what the gameplay is even going to be all about, you'll find the answer you seek in the recently posted gameplay video. Its a little bit lengthier than your usual gameplay trailer, but well worth giving a glance, if for no other reason than the visual style. Have a look:
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The Humble Monthly Bundle is a $12 subscription service that instantly gives you access to one game (or in this case three), and then a whole bunch more once the next month rolls over. Last month the featured game was Rise of the Tomb Raider, while this time around you have a combination of Quake Champions, The Elder Scrolls: Legends and The Elder Scrolls Online.
Besides the game itself, Quake Champions also comes with 50 Shards, 100 Platinum, 2000 Favor, as well as the Ranger and BJ champions. The Elder Scrolls Online on the other hand is offering an extra 750 Crowns, as well as 15 free days of the ESO Plus subscription. The last and slightly less impressive The Elder Scrolls: Legends bonus pack brings with it 2 Skyrim Card Packs, 1 Event Ticket, 100 Gold, and 100 Soul Gems. That's a lot of stuff!
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Overwatch's second annual Halloween Terror event is set to begin on October 10th, bringing with it a whole bunch of new cosmetics and an updated version of the Doctor Junkenstein event. And as is tradition with pretty much every single major Overwatch update, a lot of the upcoming cosmetics have now ended up being accidentally leaked.
So if you're interested in seeing what the future will hold for Symmetra (pictured above), Zenyatta, Mei and Reaper, you'll find the images right below, courtesy of PfeiferWolf on Reddit who managed to get the screenshots in the first place. I'm afraid the images are not exactly amazing in terms of quality, but they'll do just fine as a small little preview of the Halloween event. Have a look:
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[Update]: Six years after its big reveal, Psychonauts 2 has now finally been unleashed onto PC and consoles!
After raising an absolutely ridiculous $3.8 million through their Fig crowdfunding campaign Double Fine started the long and arduous process of bringing the much-anticipated Psychonauts 2 to life. While we're still nowhere near the final release date, you might be glad to hear that Double Fine has now successfully managed to create a playable build of the game! Its obviously unfinished and unpolished, but its still a massive achievement as a lot of the gameplay elements are now actually functional.
So if you're interested in some very early pre-alpha 'gameplay' you'll find the recently posted developer diary right below. I would highly recommend you give it a look, if only for the ability to peer behind the curtains of game development in order to see what exactly goes into the creation of a single game. Anyway, here's the video:
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With the release date of Assassin's Creed: Origins just around the corner, Ubisoft has now finally revealed the minimum and recommended PC system configurations. More importantly, Ubisoft took things a step further by also releasing a detailed list of PC-specific features and settings, their impact, and whether or not you can disable them.
There are far too many minute details for me to cover without boring most of you, so if you're interested in all of the PC specific settings I would recommend you head over to the Ubisoft website. If you're only interested in the PC system requirements, however, I'll post the full list down below. Have a look:
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After what feels like an eternity of being strung around with empty promises Blizzard has finally done the unimaginable: added an "appear offline" option to their Battle.net client! So if you ever wanted to play World of Warcraft at ungodly hours of the night without being judged by your fellow sleepless friends, you now have the option to do just that.
Besides the new "appear offline" option, the latest Beta client has also brought with it a new social tab, the ability to form groups with common interests, as well as profiles and avatars to customize the whole experience. Groups and profiles are currently only available in the North American beta client, but everything else is fully online world-wide, so feel free to give it a look and offer Blizzard some much-needed feedback.
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Warframe's upcoming Plains of Eidolon expansion will introduce the very first open-world zone, the aforementioned Plains of Eidolon. You can expect to see the usual batch of enemies such as the Grineer, but also a whole bunch new and absolutely enormous alien creatures known as the Eidolons. In order to take them down you will need to group up with your fellow players as they will present quite a challenge, but if organized play is not your thing there will also be bounties to collect, new items to craft, and quests to solve.
Besides all of the open-world content, the Plains of Eidolon expansion will also bring with it new weapons, cosmetics, crafting recipes, improvements to the Focus talent tree, as well as a brand new glass-based Warframe by the name of Gara, though she will be coming slightly after release. If you're wondering what all of this content might look like in-game, wonder no more as the developers have recently posted a lengthy gameplay preview. Have a look:
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Abandon Ship is a singleplayer strategy/adventure game most similar in tone to FTL. You'll have to take command of a single ship and its crew in order to explore the high seas, do a variety of story quests, deal with random events that might just bring you to the brink of death, and naturally, fight against pirates and giant monstrosities that would love nothing more than to chomp on your ship.
While the previous trailer mostly focused on the combat, today's video is all about exploration and the risks that come with it. So if you're interested in seeing what sort of locations Abandon Ship will allow you to rummage through, you'll find the gameplay preview right below. Have a look, its quite an interesting video: