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The early days of VR madness are thankfully behind us, and from today onward anyone that orders an HTC Vive will have their unit shipped within 2-3 business days of purchase.
Furthermore, you'll soon be able to grab yourself a Vive from various Microsoft Stores, GameStop, and Micro Center locations across North America. For those of you that have pre-ordered your unit from any of these stores I also have some exciting news - they will begin fulfilling orders this week.
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Grim Dawn is a customization-focused ARPG modeled after genre classics such as Titan Quest and Diablo 2. After many, many years in development it had finally opened its doors to the world on February 25, but thankfully its first big content update has been much more timely.
The creatively named Update 1.0.0.4 brings with it a whole bunch of new lore, 5 bosses, a new dungeon, 3 new "Monster Infrequents", as well as 7 new Unique items. Along with this you can expect to see changes to the modding tools, general rebalancing, itemization fixes, and... a foot surgery for the male character in order to shrink down on boot sizes.
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After almost a year of rumors Square Enix has officially confirmed the existence of a Final Fantasy 12 remaster: The Zodiac Age. Its set to arrive at some point in 2017 for the PS4, but given that the PC currently hosts the majority of Final Fantasy games I think its safe to assume its going to be ported over as well.
The Zodiac Age will bring with it remastered visuals, true 7.1 surround sound and a remastered soundtrack, a trial mode of some sorts, improved performance and loading times, autosaving, and the Zodiac leveling system. If you're wondering what the new music and graphics look like, here's the recently posted trailer:
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[Update]: After a remarkably long wait, the Homeworld series is getting a brand new sequel in late 2022.
After being teased for a couple of weeks now Update 2.0 has finally arrived to the Homeworld Remastered Collection. Rather than simply offer balance changes, Update 2.0 instead brings a complete redesign of numerous systems, as well as large improvements to the modding tools and ship AI.
Ship combat behavior has been greatly improved (especially when it comes to how they line-up in formations), weapons will now use actual balistics (when applicable), and to top it all off, the entire game has been rebalanced in both singleplayer and multiplayer. Bear in mind, however, that due to the sweeping changes brought in with Update 2.0 your mission progress will not carry over, so if you're in the middle of a campaign mission you're unfortunately going to have to restart it.
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Yooka-Laylee is an upcoming 3D platformer/collect-a-thon from the creative talent behind one of my favorite platformers - Banjo-Kazooie. Even though the name might give you an impression that the entire game is a practical joke, it has already managed to garner £2,000,000 from Kickstarter and the early gameplay videos seem to be incredibly promising.
It was originally slated to arrive by October 2016, but as you might imagine given the scope of the project there have been some delays, and the new release date is now scheduled for the first quarter of 2017. All of this was announced through the recently posted E3 2016 gameplay trailer, which you can find right below alongside a brief explanation from the Playtonic team:
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Jay Wilson, Diablo 3's former game director and decade-long veteran at Blizzard, has announced that he is officially leaving both the company, and the gaming industry in general next week.
As noted on Twitter, he's not leaving Blizzard due to any issues within the company, but rather because he wants to focus on his original passion, writing. Here's the full quote:
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Skywind, as you might imagine from the name, is an unofficial community mod that aims to recreate the entirety of TES: Morrowind within the much superior (and prettier) Skyrim engine. While I would usually express some serious doubt about the mod ever coming to fruition, the team behind it has put in a colossal amount of effort and the results speak for themselves.
If you don't believe me, check out the recently posted "Prevelance" trailer that showcases the team's progress with Skywind so far. There's giant mushrooms, well designed pieces of armor, strange Elven architecture, and most impressively, entire cities built from scratch.
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With E3 2016 just around the corner Telltale has decided to reveal a few tidbits of information in order to drum up excitement for their big presentation.
As noted by Job J Stauffer over at Twitter the new Batman adventure game series will arrive this summer, while the long awaited third season for The Walking Dead will premiere in fall.
"BATMAN - The Telltale Series' will premiere this summer @TheWalkingDead's 3rd season will premiere this fall #E32016 begins in 1 week ;)"
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After Konami made the boneheaded decision to cancel PT, or rather an actually terrifying sequel to Silent Hill, it left many people with an incurable itch for all things horror. This is where Allison Road came into play, and by offering a deeply disturbing survival horror experience it had managed to garner a rather impressive following, especially considering how early in development it was.
Unfortunately, ever since the canceled Kickstarter and subsequent deal with Team17 the news about Allison Road slowed down to a trickle, and eventually faded out completely. While we don't know what exactly happened, the sad truth is that the lack of news is due to Allison Road being canceled, as noted by the official Twitter account:
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If you're an avid CS:GO player you've most likely heard of FMPONE, but for those of you that haven't - he's an extremely talented map maker that has managed to get quite a few of his creations to become an official part of CS:GO. Maps such as Cache (one of my favorites), Season, and as you might guess from the title, Santorini.
While playing these maps is certainly enjoyable, have you ever wondered what exactly it takes for a CS:GO map to transform from a featureless heap of rubble into a competitive battleground? If so, wonder no more as FMPONE has decided to detail his progress with a rather lovely timelapse video. Check it out: