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Blizzard came out earlier this month and said that almost 10 million players found their way into the Overwatch Open Beta, and in total managed to spent around 81 million hours roaming its 12 maps. That's 8 hours spent per person!
While those are certainly some impressive numbers I would've preferred to see stats on the most popular heroes, numbers of Bastions brutally dismantled, average map times, and so forth. Well... as luck would have it now I can because Blizzard has just released a massive infographic filled with all sorts of interesting stats from the Open Beta.
Have a look, though make sure to prepare your scrolling finger as this thing is fairly large:
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Hard Reset is a cyberpunk FPS that's all about vaporizing hordes upon hordes of robotic enemies with completely over-the-top weaponry, overuse of explosions, and now with the newly added cyber-katana as well.
The remastered edition, or Hard Reset Redux as its called, brings with it visual and audio improvements, new enemies, more difficulty modes and a general re-balancing of the entire game, a new dash ability to further speed up combat, and finally, the above mentioned electrified katana.
Here's a 10 minute long gameplay video the developers released yesterday to show off all of the new and fancy features:
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Gearbox will be rolling out a whole bunch of new characters for their FPS/MOBA hybrid Battleborn over the next few months, starting with the combat-orientated support Alani.
She hails from a planet almost entirely cowered by oceans, and as such most her powers revolve around the use of water to either dish out pain onto the enemies, or to heal her fellow Battleborn. More details, and an official hero preview video will be available on the 24th, but for now, here's what we do know:
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You would think that simply knowing Overwatch launches on the 24th would be enough, but Blizzard has gone a step ahead and detailed their whole release schedule down to the very minute, a move that's most likely going to save them a whole lot of sleep as Overwatch fans have proven to be quite... restless since the Open Beta ended.
Overwatch will be launching for all platforms and regions at the same time, and if you're wondering when exactly that will be for your country I would suggest you lower your eyes to the gigantic image below, it has all of the information:
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While everyone was enjoying the relatively recent Ascendancy expansion Grinding Gear Games, the devs behind Path of Exile, have been working on a massive new content update, simply titled as Prophecy.
Prophecy and its two Challenge Leagues will be arriving to Path of Exile on June 3, and bringing with them the new prophecies system, plenty of items and spells, a deadly end-game labyrinth, balance changes, and a whole assortment of other knick-knacks.
Here's the announcement trailer for Prophecy that goes over some of these new additions:
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Fractured Space is a 5v5 team-based shooter where each player pilots a gigantic capital ship lined with a whole variety of weapons and techno-gadgets. It has had numerous free weekends since its 2014 Early Access release, but from today onward its going to be completely free-to-play.
Along with this announcement came an update that added new sector maps, ships to toy around with, crew members, missions to undertake, as well as a testing area where players can try out their ships and loadouts without the threat of being mercilessly blown up.
If you're wondering what all of this looks like in action, here's the most recent trailer:
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While I certainly have my own issues with Black Desert Online, most notably how bare-bones the PvE aspects of the game are, its still impressive that the second expansion is releasing a mere few months after the previous one.
Valencia Part 1 will be arriving to Black Desert Online on the 1st of June, and bringing with it hundreds of new quests, mounts, weather effects, armor/weapons/accessories, as well as an update to the enhancement system so that it can go to +20. While there is no official trailer for the Western version of the Valencia expansion you can check out the one released last year to get a glimpse of the things to come:
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Unravel is a cutesy yarn-based puzzle-platformer that released earlier this year, and while it didn't manage to live up to the lofty expectations people set for it after watching the E3 demo, it did end up a being a rather enjoyable game.
It would also appear it sold extremely well as EA has recently announced a partnership with Coldwood, the small studio behind Unravel, in order to work on a brand new sequel. Here's a brief quote from the announcement message:
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As you might expect given the name, Darkest Dungeon has plenty of content once you start to delve deep into the decrepit manor and its surrounding areas, but when it comes to the Hamlet, your base of operations, things are remarkably dull and uneventful.
Thankfully this is an issue that will be fixed tomorrow as Darkest Dungeon is preparing to receive the "Everything Burns" Update which brings with it Town Events, re-balancing, quality of life changes, and naturally, bug fixes. The update is already available as a beta-patch on Steam, so if you feel getting a sneak peek while still helping the developers out by catching any last-minute bugs, now would be the time to jump in.
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If you've been itching to try King's Quest, the modern reboot of the classic Sierra adventure game series, you'll now have a chance to do as the first episode of the five part series has been declared as an appetizer, and as such is completely free.
You can grab King's Quest: A Knight to Remember on Steam, and if you're interested in the other episodes you can buy them at either $10/€10 a pop, or buy the whole batch for $25, $30 if you include the epilogue chapter. Do bear in mind, however, that only the first three episodes are currently available, the rest you will just have to wait out for now.
Here's the launch trailer for A Knight to Remember, it should hopefully give you an idea of what you're getting into: