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Creative Assembly is celebrating their 30th anniversary with a rather hefty free DLC for Total War: Warhammer. The birthday update will bring with it a variety of balance changes and tweaks, as well as 30 new Regiments of Renown - powerful and unique units for the Beastmen, Bretonnia, Chaos Warriors, Norsca, and Wood Elves factions.
Since each one comes with slightly altered art, as well as new abilities, I would recommend you check out the recently posted trailer to find out more. It unfortunately doesn't go into too much detail, but it should give you a pretty good idea of what to expect. Have a look:
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While it took a little while for the modding scene to develop, the original Dark Souls is currently no stranger to graphical overhaul mods. If you are so inclined you can transform your character into Shovel Knight, the Doom guy, Guts from Berserk, and now also Blooborne's iconic hunter.
All of the changes are purely cosmetic, but if you feel like bringing a bit of BLoodborne's charm into Dark Souls you now have the ability to do just that. But enough blabber from me, here's what it looks like in-game:
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[Update]: Shovel Knight devs are working on a new 8-bit action-adventure - Mina the Hollower!
Shovel Knight's latest campaign "Specter of Torment" brought with it a whole bunch of new content, the most impressive of which was the ability to play as one of the previous bosses - Specter Knight! As you might imagine, the developers couldn't simply give you control over a boss and call it a day - they had to redesign him from the ground up.
It is exactly this process, from a simple idea to an actual character you can play, that the latest developer blog covers in rather enthralling detail. So if you're interested in peeking behind the curtains of game development and figuring out what exactly the developers planned, what they struggled with, and how they solved those problems, then I would highly recommend you give the article read as its quite captivating!
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The original Secret World was simultaneously one of the most intriguing and disappointing MMOs I've ever played. On one hand it managed to create actually compelling stories and zones filled to the brim with atmosphere, but on the other hand its combat was so generic and tedious that I'm genuinely impressed it ever saw release. A real shame since the concept truly was great, yet the execution sorely lacking.
This is where the newly remastered Secret World Legends comes into play. As you might expect it retains all of the excellent storytelling and exploration from the original, while also heavily working combat mechanics, progressions, some of the dated visuals, and pretty much all of the problems players ended up encountering throughout their journey. You can get a quick glimpse at what all of this looks like in-game through one of the most recent trailers. Have a gander:
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Telltale recently announced brand new seasons for The Walking Dead, Batman, and The Wolf Among Us adventure game series, and in order to celebrate they've basically been having non-stop sales for a couple of weeks now. There was recently a sale on Steam, the first episode of Game of Thrones has become entirely free, and there is even a massive Humble Bundle filled to the brim with modern Telltale games (24 hours remaining as of time of writing).
If you've somehow managed to miss all of these sales, worry not as GOG is currently offering most of Telltale's modern catalog at a sizable discount. So if you ever wanted to play some of Telltale's classics such as The Walking Dead, Tales from the Borderlands, The Wolf Among Us, or Sam & Max, now would be a really good time to do so.
Grand Theft Space is a GTA 5 mod that lets you explore the galaxy and engage in interstellar warfare
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If you're sick and tired of being confined to a single city, or even a single planet, you might be interested to hear that GTA 5 will soon be getting a mod that lets you explore the galaxy itself. In true GTA 5 fashion the Grand Theft Space mod will have a variety of story missions to undertake, numerous locations to explore and pillage, as well as a whole bunch of hostile aliens to obliterate and humiliate.
Explaining all of this through words alone is not exactly the easiest of tasks, so allow me to share with you the recently posted trailer, courtesy of Duggy on Youtube. Have a look, its quite... something:
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[Update]: The second Guild Wars 2 expansion Path of Fire has now been announced. You can learn more by heading over here.
Thanks to a variety of leaks it has been known for a very long time now that Guild Wars 2 developers are hard at work on the second expansion, though the actual details are still unknown due to all of the wildly differing rumors. While today's announcement of an announcement doesn't bring with it any concrete information, it does feature the date on which all of that will be revealed!
Tomorrow, on August 1st, ArenaNet will be holding an official reveal for Guild Wars 2's second expansion on Twitch, YouTube, and Facebook. You can expect the stream to start at 9am PDT / 2am UTC, though don't be surprised if it ends up being slightly delayed as is tradition with these sort of announcements.
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[Update #2]: Skull and Bones has been delayed yet again, though this time we have an actual release date - March 9th, 2023!
[Update]: Skull & Bones has been delayed for the fourth consecutive year, this time around until 2022-23.
After the success of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag it became obvious that there is considerable interested in a fully-fledged pirate game. As such, it really shouldn't come as much of a surprise to hear that there are now two multiplayer pirate adventures just beyond the horizon: the cartoony and stylized Sea of Thieves, and the much more serious Skull & Bones from Ubisoft themselves.
If you're wondering how exactly Skull & Bones improves upon the foundation set by Black Flag, and more importantly of all, how its actually going to play, you'll find your answers in the official "What You Need to Know" video. The whole thing is fairly long, but it does a rather good job of explaining what Skull & Bones is all about, so I'd recommend having a look despite its length:
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Escape from Tarkov is an atmospheric online shooter with RPG and survival elements, as well as a fully fledged story campaign set in open-ended levels. If all of that sounds to you like one hell of an undertaking, you would be absolutely right, but apparently Escape from Tarkov has managed to achieve most of its planned features given that it has just recently transitioned into a Closed Beta state.
In order to get into the Closed Beta you will need to purchase one of the early access packages, after which you will receive your key in one of the upcoming waves, no later than the end of next week. But first things first, here's what exactly the current state of Escape from Tarkov looks like, and more importantly, what it plays like:
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As you've most likely heard, Telltale's Game of Thrones series is a bit of a mixed bag. On one hand its well written and surprisingly accurate to the GoT world, while on the other hand your choices barely matter and the entire ending is decided in the final 30 minutes. In many ways its more of an interactive movie than an actual game, far more than what you might've encountered in Telltale's previous work.
Given the controversy and wildly conflicting reviews its not exactly easy to drop €28 on it and hope for the best, which is why I'm glad to say that the very first episode is now free to try out. So if you ever wanted to see what Telltale's Game of Thrones series is all about, you now have a chance to do just that!