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[Update #2]: My Overwatch 2 review is now out, and to put it simply it's a terrible sequel, though thankfully a terrific game!
[Update]: The Overwatch 2 team has now detailed the fox themed support Kiriko's abilities, playstyle and lore, as well as announced all of the balance changes coming in with the launch update.
In an announcement that shouldn't come as too much of a surprise given that it was accidentally leaked a little while ago, the Overwatch 2 team has now unveiled the very first new support hero - Kiriko. As you might expect from the teasers in the original game, the freshly revealed Kiriko is a wall-climbing, kunai-wielding healer accompanied by a spirit fox.
What she looks like in action, as well as what her abilities are all about, that you can check out through the gameplay trailer below:
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[Update #2]: Wrath of the Lich King Classic, the very peak of the original WoW era, has now been unleashed.
[Update]: It looks like the rumors were true - World of Warcraft: Dragonflight will be launching on November 28th, 2022!
Wrath of the Lich King Classic's pre-patch has recently arrived, bringing with it a variety of nostalgic events like the zombie plague and the scourge invasion to mess around with. More importantly, the pre-patch has given players the ability to level up their Death Knights so they're instantly ready to venture into Northrend as soon as Wrath of the Lich King Classic's doors open on September 26th.
As a little bonus, and as a way to draw in 'retail' era players, Blizzard has announced that anyone who completes the Death Knight starting experience in WoW Classic will be granted a Frostbrood Proto-Wyrm to use in Shadowlands and the upcoming Dragonflight expansion. Just to reiterate, this means that the fancy new dragon will not be available in Wrath of the Lich King Classic as it simply wasn't a part of it originally.
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[Update]: Guild Wars 2's October 4th update will empower old specializations and rebalance classes for PvP.
After an entire decade of absence, the Guild Wars 2 team has recently started remastering and re-releasing the original Living World Season 1 episodes. Today this courtesy has been extended to the Tower of Nightmares episode that will have you look into the reports of strange creatures and objects appearing beneath the lake's surface.
What exactly this entails, as well as what sort of atmosphere Tower of Nightmares is going for, that you can check out through the launch trailer below. Have a gander:
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[Update]: After eight years of updates, city-building sim Cities: Skylines will be getting an ambitious sequel in 2023.
Despite releasing many expansions and even more updates, Cities: Skylines never figured out a way to let players create cities without having everything centered around cars. It didn't matter if you were fleshing out a historical city center or even a small community in the middle of nowhere - everything, always had to be surrounded by roads and cars.
Thankfully, with the freshly released Plazas & Promenades DLC that is no longer the case. With the expansion you can now create pedestrian-only streets, designate pedestrian areas and special policies for those areas, as well as further customize your city with an assortment of new objects and district specializations that allow you to dictate the types of buildings that are going to be constructed.
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[Update]: After a few rounds of delays, Marvel's Midnight Suns has now landed onto PC and consoles.
After talking about a whole assortment of delays over the past few months, I'm pleased to say that today I have a completely opposite story! Instead of revealing that their turn-based RPG Marvel's Midnight Suns is going through another setback, XCOM studio Firaxis has now come out to announce that they will be launching in 2022 after all!
"We are happy to confirm that the PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S versions of Marvel's Midnight Suns will release on Dec 2 2022," reads the brief update. "Xbox One and PS4 will follow later in 2023."
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Much like its two predecessors, the freshly released Voice of Cards: The Beasts of Burden is a traditional swords & sorcery JRPG where literally everything is done through the medium of cards. And when I say literally everything, I'm really not joking.
The world map you can explore is made entirely out of cards, your party is represented through cards, your conversations and decisions are handled by selecting a response from a couple of cards, and naturally, you can fight enemies by flinging your cards at their cards. Yet despite all of this, Voice of Cards: The Beasts of Burden is not a card-based game similar to something like Slay the Spire, but rather a proper JRPG with a bit of a unique and minimalistic aesthetic.
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[Update]: Overwatch 2 has now unveiled its very first support hero - the wall-climbing, fox themed healer Kiriko. The Blizzard team has also taken this opportunity to detail Overwatch 2's Battle Pass, hero unlock system, as well as their plans for future updates.
If there's any sort of skin, voice line or animation that you'd like to grab for use in Overwatch 2, this would be the perfect time to do so as Blizzard has just unleashed the Last Chance event. As the name might imply, the Last Chance event has opened up the vaults and given players the opportunity to unlock any of the various seasonal cosmetics with in-game credits.
You don't have to spend everything if you don't want to, however, as once Overwatch 2 arrives on October 4th all of your current credits will be transferred over. That said, I would still advise spending everything as it's unlikely the Overwatch 2 will give players a chance to bypass the new progression system and unlock a bunch of new stuff with stockpiles of old credits. Similarly, it's unlikely that Overwatch 2 will let you unlock seasonal cosmetics without the accompanying event being active, so if you don't get things right now you might have to wait an entire year for another chance.
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In a bit of a strange move given that both DLCs are fairly middling in terms of quality, Paradox has now permanently doubled the price of the Fate of Iberia and Northern Lords expansions. Furthermore, all Flavor Pack DLCs moving forward will feature the same €13 price tag in order to "to reflect the overall value of this kind of content."
This doesn't mean that all future DLCs will be getting more expensive, however, as noted by the freshly released Friends & Foes expansion that is currently only €5. That said, Friends & Foes is a remarkably small DLC, so if you're looking for something a bit more substantial I'm afraid you're still going to have to go for the more expensive expansions.
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[Update]: Prison Architect's Undead DLC has added the living dead, bounty hunters and numerous traps.
Continuing with their seemingly never-ending quest to expand the scope of the game, the Prison Architect team has just unleashed the Free for Life update. Inmates are now affected by the passage of time and will not only grow older visually, but will also change in terms of demeanor and interests. Similarly, your guards will now be able to gain promotions, and with them increased stats and special perks.
The Free for Life has also added a couple of new options and tweaks to make the prison design process go by easier and faster. Expect to see things like coordinates and grids to help you align your plans, the ability to save rooms in order to quickly clone them later down the line, as well as special utility menus for Electrical, Water and Wiring.
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[Update]: The sad saga has now come to an end - Babylon's Fall has shut down its doors for good.
Back in March PlatinumGames and Square Enix unleashed the co-op focused action RPG Babylon's Fall onto PC and PlayStation. While the concept and lore were certainly intriguing, pretty much everything else was unfortunately a bit of a mess.
Even though it cost €70 at launch, Babylon's Fall's UI design was seemingly untested and annoying to navigate, the visuals were extremely dated, while the cash shop was constantly getting pushed onto players. Most damning of all, the combination of these factors created a co-op game with barely any players in it, which kind of defeats the whole point.