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[Update]: Thanks to a partnership between Bethesda and GOG, the entire Dishonored series and the first two modern Wolfenstein games are now available DRM-free.
If you're a fan of sneaky-stabby games, but just aren't sure if Dishonored 2 is something you will enjoy, I am glad to say that I bring some good news! According to Bethesda's most recent announcement Dishonored 2 will be getting a free trial on all platforms starting from April 6th.
You will be able to play through the first three missions of the campaign as either Emily or Corvo, and with absolutely no time limits it should be more than enough to give you a good idea of what Dishonored 2 is all about. And best of all, one of the missions you'll be able to play is actually pretty damn awesome, so don't worry about this just being some sort of tutorial nonsense.
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After being available on PlayStation VR for quite a while now, Batman: Arkham VR is finally coming to the PC as well. You will be able to grab it on both the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive starting from April 25th, though it doesn't appear the PC version will be getting any exclusive features or improvements.
If you're wondering what stepping into the batsuit might look like in first person you'll find the recently posted teaser trailer down below. There's unfortunately very little long-form footage in the trailer, but it should still give you a good idea of what to expect from a visual standpoint. But enough babbling from me, here's the video:
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[Update]: Syberia: The World Before, the final game in the series Benoît Sokal worked on himself, is coming to PC on March 18th, 2022.
Syberia 3 is an upcoming story-focused 3D adventure game set in a deep and mysterious universe. It is coming more than thirteen years after its predecessor Syberia 2, but worry not as it will tell a completely different tale than the previous two games. Prior knowledge is definitely going to be helpful, but it will not be mandatory in your enjoyment of the story.
And speaking of which, if you're interested in seeing what Syberia 3 has to offer in terms of lore and storytelling you'll find the recently posted trailer down below. There are some potentially minor spoilers in there, but unless you really want to have a pure playthrough I think you'll be just fine. Here's the video:
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A mere two weeks have passed since Orisa arrived to Overwatch, and already the developers are cooking up some sort of new event. The details are still a bit shaky, but according to the official Twitter account there is going to be something big happening on April 11th, and it appears to be related to skins!
And before you ask, no, this will not be an Easter themed event. Blizzard has stated numerous times now that they won't be covering every major holiday, and they specifically pointed towards Valentine's Day and Easter as the ones they will be skipping for sure. What's more interesting than that, however, is the reason why. Instead of doing silly skins related to real-life holiday, their plan this year is to introduce numerous lore-based events with their own themed skins. So could April 11th be one such event?
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April Fools' has now come and gone, and with it a whole bunch of ridiculous 'reveals' and announcements. It is amidst all of that madness that SEGA sneakily released a rather bizarre little game on Steam - an oldshool 2D run n' gun called 8-Bit Bayonetta. The game itself is completely unremarkable, and I'd even go as far as to call it downright boring, but for an April Fools' gag I suppose its a solid effort. The only issue is that PC players never actually got to play Bayonetta, so why release this little homage on Steam alone?
Well, as it turns out, by combining the achievement names you can get a link that points towards a very special page on SEGA's website. Instead of a silly little joke as you would expect, the website actually features a picture of Bayonetta's boot along with a countdown that currently has 9 days remaining! Obviously there is no official word about any of this as of yet, but given how a similar countdown for Total War: Warhammer (2) resulted in a massive announcement, I think its safe to assume we're finally going to be getting Bayonetta on the PC.
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For those of you that might not be aware, Fallout Shelter is a surprisingly popular mobile base-building game that puts you in the shoes of a Vault-Tec Overseer and gives you a variety of tools to create a paradise for your fellow vault dwellers. It has been available on PC for quite a while now, but only from the Bethesda website which obviously lowered its visibility quite significantly.
As you can probably guess from the title, however, Fallout Shelter is now finally available on Steam as well. So if you're a fan of the Fallout unvierse and you're looking to burn a couple of hours you'll find the free download link over at Steam.
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After two weeks of teasers and slow card-by-card reveals Blizzard has finally decided we have been teased enough. During a recent (and surprisingly short) Twitch stream the developers have revealed every single coming in with the Journey to Un'Goro expansion. And let's just say that some of these cards are so polarizing they're either going to dominate the meta, or end up being completely useless despite effects such as "take another turn after this one".
While I would love to link to an official source showcasing all of the cards, I'm afraid Blizzard is being incredibly lazy with their Facebook page as its currently well over a week out of date. Thankfully, the folks over at Hearthpwn have not only gathered all of the cards, but have also sorted them out by class for easy viewing. So if you're looking to get a good overview of what exactly Journey to Un'Goro is bringing to the table, I'd recommend heading over there.
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I'm unfortunately a bit late with this announcement, but if you ever wanted to give Titanfall 2's multiplayer a shot you now have a chance to do just that. Until Monday (April 3rd) you will be able to experience the entirety of the multiplayer mode for free, as well as the Training Gauntlet and the singleplayer mission "The Beacon". Once the free weekend event goes away you will no longer be able to play the multiplayer, but you will still be able to mess around in the Training Gauntlet and The Beacon.
Besides the free weekend the most recent update has also brought in a brand new map by the name of Colony, a new versatile assault rifle, and an execution move that seems greatly inspired by Mortal Kombat's Scorpion. If you're interested in seeing what this looks like in gameplay terms, here's the recently posted preview trailer:
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[Update]: The Binding of Isaac's gigantic Repentance expansion is set to launch in late 2020.
The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+ arrived on January 3rd with ~100 new items, a final chapter along with a new boss, new challenges to undertake, and a variety of other features. Unfortunately for the folks over at Nicalis the extremely well-made community expansion The Binding of Isaac: Antibirth arrived ahead of Afterbirth+ and completely overshadowed it in both content and quality.
However, while Antibirth might have a bigger set of features Afterbirth+ brought with it perhaps the biggest addition Isaac has ever seen - official mod support! As of right now the Isaac Workshop sports thousands of fan made items, characters, balance changes, cosmetics, and the list goes on. While having that many mods available for download is a great thing indeed, its also a bit of a hassle to sort through all of them in order to find the truly excellent ones.
The developers were seemingly well aware of this little problem as they have recently unleashed an update that not only added a couple of official items into the game, but also a whole bunch of fan made ones as well! You can find the full list of items, as well as what they do, over at the official website.
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If you recently had a sinking feeling that your efforts as Mercy were just not appreciated enough by the rating system, I'm afraid your concerns were entirely justified. According to Jeff Kaplan there was an issue causing Mercy's contributions to have a much lower effect on her Skill Rating reward at the end of a competitive match. This bug only applied to games you won, however, so unless you played only Mercy for the past few weeks chances are it didn't cause you much harm.
Either way, you'll be glad to hear that the bug has now been fixed, and that the developers are still investigating to make sure the whole thing is now well and truly gone. Given how the entire complaint-train suddenly stopped I have a feeling they have managed to do so successfully.