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If you ever thought that Saints Row IV just doesn't have enough ridiculously over the top weaponry, you'll be pleased to hear that Volition has just added Steam Workshop support! In other words, the ability to create, share, and download custom weapons, clothing, scripts and cheats, and a whole variety of other gameplay changes. The Saints Row IV Workshop only just launched so there isn't much available right now, but someone has already taken the time to make a flamethrower guitar... because why the hell not!
On the other hand, if you prefer to create rather than to simply use what others have built, you can find a basic guide and all of the necessary tools by heading over here. Do bear in mind that learning all of this is going to take you a little while, but should you manage to do it, the sky itself will be the limit!
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If you were waiting patiently for Total War: Warhammer to finally make its way to Linux, I am glad to announce that your long vigil is now over. Through an update that came out a short while ago Total War: Warhammer has become fully available on Linux via Steam, so choose your faction and dive in!
However, if you've been waiting for so long that you've completely forgotten what Total War: Warhammer even is, Creative Assembly has prepared a rather handy video for just this occasion. Its not incredibly detailed, but if you're looking for a general overview its pretty damn good. Have a look:
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With Black Friday just around the corner, Steam has decided to throw their rather large hat into the ring and compete with pretty much everyone else for your undivided attention in the only way they know how - with deep discounts on a ton of games! "And how many games fit in a ton?" you may ask, to which the answer is apparently a whopping 13,203... and growing!
So if you feel like picking up a couple of new games at significantly discounted prices, head on over to Steam and prepare to lose a good couple of hours. And for those of you that have no idea what's even worth grabbing, allow me to give you a brief list of games that I would snap up if I didn't already own all of them. Here's the list:
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It has only been a week since Sombra arrived to Overwatch, and already we're getting a brand new hero by the name of Symmetra! Now, some of you might argue that she was already in the game, but given that I hadn't seen her once in the past ~100 hours leads me to believe that was all an elaborate hoax by Blizzard.
If you're interested in an extremely detailed overview of Symmetra and the current state of Overwatch by none other than Jeff Kaplan himself, check out the video embedded right below. On the other hand, if you don't have 10 minutes to spare and are just looking for the short version, I'll also add the rather brief hero overview and patch notes. Have a look:
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It has only been a little over a week since the last sale ended, and already GOG is back with yet another batch of discounts. This time around the special occasion is Black Friday, everyone's favorite excuse to act like a total maniac, but unlike GOG's previous sales this one is a bit smaller in scope.
So if you're up for restocking your backlog with some rather solid games, head over to GOG, but do keep in mind that the Black Friday Sale will only last for five days, until November 27. As an added little bonus, if you connect your GOG and Steam accounts together with the aptly named GOG Connect, you will also be able to claim a free copy of Limbo. And for those among you that aren't sure what's worth picking up, allow me to list out a couple of the better deals:
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After being slightly delayed back in October, the new and improved Darksiders: Warmastered Edition is now available on the PS4 and Xbox One. As for the PC version, its slated to arrive next week, or to be more specific - November 29.
If you're interested in seeing what improvements THQ Nordic has managed to make in terms of graphics and effects, here's the recently posted trailer showcasing mostly console footage. As before, the trailer with PC gameplay will most likely arrive at some point next week, but even so, this one should give you a general idea of what to expect from the remastered Darksiders. Have a look:
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While Diablo 3 languishes due to a lack of support from Blizzard, Path of Exile is moving forward at an increasingly rapid pace. It has only been a couple of days since the last patch that brought with it massive performance improvements and new skills to toy around with, and already there is an even bigger patch on the horizon!
The aptly named Breach update brings with it two new leagues, each offering a fresh start and a brand new economy, as well as a variety of new events centered around... you guessed it, breaches! These portals into the shadow realm will spew forth a variety of monsters, and should you manage to not only beat them, but also destroy their overlord within his very domain, you will have a chance to grab a whole host of shiny new items. If you're a bit confused as to how all of this will work, here's a brief trailer to clue you in:
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As is tradition with most AAA games these days, Dishonored 2 released on the PC with a whole host of bugs and issues. To Arkane Studios' credit, however, they responded rather quickly by releasing a small beta update in order to correct some of the more egregious issues. While it certainly helped, especially for AMD users, this wasn't the 'big' patch that was supposed to fix most of the problems.
That honor belongs to Update 1.2 which just recently landed on the Dishonored 2 beta client on Steam. It brought with it numerous performance and optimization improvements, a couple of fixes for the dreaded framerate stuttering, the squashing of many alt-tab related bugs, as well as a variety of other changes. If you're interested in the full list I would suggest you head over here, but for now allow me to just show you the highlights:
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Despite being absolutely insane the Danganronpa series has managed to settle in quite nicely among the PC crowd, so much so that the original now stands at a 97% approval on Steam - not the easiest of feats to accomplish. Given the reception so far it really shouldn't surprise you to hear there are even more Danganronpa games heading over to the PC in the near future.
This time around its Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls, and even though the name might lead you to believe its the same brand of madness, in reality it is more of a spin-off game. Unlike the visual novel style of gameplay from the previous games, Ultra Despair Girls is more of a third-person action adventure with horror elements. Perhaps it would be for the best if you just saw the trailer, rather than watch me desperately try to explain the unexplainable:
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When it comes to stealth games, the good ones anyway, there are always a wide variety of strategies for each and every mission. Some players (me included) like to sneak in undetected and leave nothing more than a couple of guards with headaches in their wake, others prefer to instead set the entire building on fire and dispatch all of the guards with ruthless efficiency, and others yet prefer to carefully thread the line between sneakyness and stabbyness.
Trying to create a game that equally balances out each of those playstyles is nearly impossible, because what one side might find fun and engaging the other side will see as a living nightmare. The only real way to make this work is to allow the players a way to create their very own difficulty settings, which just so happens to be exactly what Dishonored 2 devs are planning to do!