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LawBreakers is a fast-paced arena shooter with an extremely casual relationship with physics and common sense. What this means in gameplay terms is that LawBreakers has some unique movement mechanics that allow you to zip around the battlefield at high speeds, as well as a variety of weapons to splatter other people as they attempt to do the same to you.
If this sounds like something you might enjoy, you should definitely check out the final Open Beta that will be starting up tomorrow. To be more specific, the Open Beta will begin this Friday at 7am PT / 10am ET / 4pm CEST / 12 AEST and end at the same time on Monday, July 31st. As you can plainly see the beta will not be up for a very long period of time, so if you're going to be diving in make sure to pre-load on Steam before the whole thing even begins.
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There are many races in the Warhammer universe that revel in death and destruction, but none are as twisted and as cruel as the Dark Elves. Unsurprisingly, their monstrous entourage shares exactly the same 'qualities', though perhaps with even more brutality thrown into the mix for good measure.
Out of all these beasts the War Hydra is perhaps the most popular one, and as such Creative Assembly has just released a brief teaser video to showcase what exactly its capable of. So if you're interested in seeing some High Elves get torn to shreds, you'll find the video right below. Have a look:
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While the Overwatch team seems to be stumbling through the dark in search of ways to make Roadhog both balanced and enjoyable, the newly announced Junkrat buffs are exactly the opposite. Not only will these new changes make him a better and more viable hero outside of the lower ranks, but they will also raise his skill-ceiling and enjoyment factor by a considerable margin as well!
The details are still incredibly vague, but according to Principal Designer Geoff Goodman Junkrat might be getting 2 charges on his Concussion Mine, and yes, this will allow him to triple jump to ridiculous heights! Chances are the Concussion Mine damage will need to be nerfed in order to compensate for this, but that is a small price to pay for greatly increased mobility and more consistent damage. It might not sound impressive right now, but when you're being harassed by a pesky Genji or Tracer that extra Concussion Mine is going to be exactly the sort of thing you need to either secure a kill or just blast away like Team Rocket!
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Deep Silver Volition is currently preparing for the release of their latest open-world action game Agents of Mayhem, and in order to get people excited they have partnered up with Humble to create a Saints Row themed Humble Bundle. However, while the bundle may bear the Saints Row name, it actually features a variety of rather interesting games!
You can obviously find all of the Saints Row games in the bundle, but there's also Homefront, Risen 3, Mighty No. 9, Killer is Dead, and so forth. You can find all of the details, including the tier at which each game appears, right below. Here's the full list:
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If you've been playing Overwatch for any length of time you've most likely encountered people who are just sitting at spawn in competitive, walling off teammates with Mei, and just being a completely disruptive nuisance in general. Like most people you've probably tried reporting them in the hope that Blizzard will sort them out, but unfortunately the report system was almost entirely meaningless and without any sort of bite... until now!
According to a recent update by Community Manager Lylirra the Overwatch Reporting & Penalty system has been greatly improved and is now going to dish out rightful punishment for any abusive behavior, harassment, in-game spam, intentional inactivity and griefing! The whole post is short but sweet, so here it is:
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CDPR announced a couple of weeks ago that the Gwent Open Beta will soon be bolstered with 20 new cards. While we still don't know when exactly the cards will come, CDPR did just release a little bit of a teaser in the form of not only new cards, but also some of the upcoming balance changes.
Since all of this was revealed in preparation for tomorrow's Chinajoy event all of the card text is in Chinese, but thankfully jockeyjoestar on Reddit did a rough translation. So if you're interested in seeing all of the new artwork you should head over to the Reddit thread, but if you're just looking for the card effects and balance changes you'll find the full list down below. Have a gander:
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Fortnite is an "action building game" that combines numerous elements from a wide variety of genres. You need to scavenge for materials and weapons as if you were playing an open-world survival game, you need to craft traps and fortifications in order to survive waves of monsters as if you were playing a tower defense game, and you also need to carve your path through hordes upon hordes of monsters in order to solve quests, as if you're playing some sort of run & gun shooter.
Its definitely a strange combination, but from what I've seen so far it manages to be surprisingly compelling. So if you're interested in seeing what Fortnite is all about, allow me to share with you the recently posted gameplay trailer. Its not very long, but it should get the point across quite nicely. Have a look:
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Instead of a standard pre-order bonus Total War: Warhammer 2 will be giving everyone who purchases the game before or within the first week of launch the newly revealed Norsca faction. More importantly, you won't have to wait until Total War: Warhammer 2 finally arrives in order to play as the savage northerners - they will be coming to the original Total War: Warhammer on August 10th!
If you're interested in seeing what sort of beasts and creatures demonic vikings like to bring with them on raids, you should check out the recently posted gameplay teaser down below. Its not very long, but it will give you a pretty damn good idea of what sort of playstyle Norsca is aiming for. Have a look:
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If you're looking for a game that's essentially a Michael Bay movie you can participate in, the overabundance of explosions and poor writing included, then you might want to check out Just Cause 3. Its completely free to try out for the next two days, so if you're interested simply head over to Steam and click on that shiny green "Play Game" button.
While you're there you might also want to check out the Just Cause 3: Multiplayer mod. It unfortunately doesn't feature any NPCs, but at least it gives you the rare chance to see what happens when 100+ people have jets and rocket launchers on hand at all times.
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Last month's Horizon Lunar Colony Update brought with it some amazing buffs to McCree and Reaper, but also a Roadhog nerf so devastating it practically deleted him from the game. After Roadhog plummeted to 40% winrate and less than 1% pickrate in competitive Blizzard finally announced that they are working on some defensive buffs for poor ol' piggy, buffs that will soon be hitting the PTR!
The exact numbers still haven't been decided, but according to Principal Designer Geoff Goodman Roadhog will soon have 50% damage reduction while using his Take a Breather heal, and he'll also be able to move around at full speed while inhaling! Here's the full post if you're interested in some of the details behind this change: