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Much to the delight of all Warhammer 40k fans out there, Relic has posted a brand new teaser video to the official Dawn of War Youtube channel.
While its unfortunately one of those "announcement of an announcement" type of situations, the good news is that we will be getting more information tomorrow, May 3rd at 7am PST / 3pm GMT. Here's the video itself, in all of its completely static glory:
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In celebration of a rather mediocre joke that somehow became immensely popular EA will be offering a free trial for Star Wars Battlefront starting on Star Wars Day, May the fourth (be with you).
If you already own Star Wars Battlefront there's no need to worry about being left out as everyone who logs in on May 4 will receive a free bundle of 4,444 credits, as well as access to a brand new Hutt Contract that gives you the option to purchase bounties and acquire further rewards.
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While I usually don't like to spread panic by sending out warnings like this one, I've managed to encounter two cheaters in the last few days that have attempted to get me softbanned by either having me loot obscene amounts of hacked gear, or by simply 'donating' me a few million souls.
The issue seems to be fairly wide spread, as this Reddit post showcases the very same tricks I've already seen, but also a couple of different ones such as the cheaters having the ability to essentially make you 'use' a homeward bone just by touching you once. So what should you do to protect yourself against the couple of douchebags that seem to take pleasure in tormenting fellow players?
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Quantum Break, much like the majority of recent Windows 10 ports, released in a rather sorry state with plenty of bugs, annoying performance issues, constantly active film grain, and worst of all, surprisingly muddy graphics due to the game's engine essentially upscaling from 720p into 1080p.
Thankfully, with the most recent Update 1.7 the majority of these issues have finally been resolved, and from what I can gather on various forums Quantum Break is now a perfectly playable PC port... if you have the necessary hardware to run it given that disabling the game's upscaling comes with a significant hit to performance.
With that said, here are the full patch notes for Update 1.7:
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It was known for quite a while now that Dark Souls 3 would mark the end of the Dark Souls franchise and that FromSoftware are already working on a brand new game, though it was and still remains unknown if its going to be a new IP, or a resurrection of one of their older series.
The reason I'm bringing this up now is because a recruitment video got 'leaked' on Youtube recently, and it quite clearly shows that FromSoftware's new game is coming in 2017 to PC, Xbox One, PS4, and most interestingly, PlayStation VR! Here's the video, and you will find the relevant information near the end:
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Long War Studios, creators of the much acclaimed Long War mod for XCOM: Enemy Unknown, have joined forces with Firaxis once again in an effort to create 5 new mods for XCOM 2, none of which appear to be a Long War equivalent, much to my disappointment.
The first of the five planned mods has released today for free, and it features a bunch of new options with which you can tweak your playthrough, things such as messing around with the damage variation of weapons, squad size, soldier stats, and so forth. Beyond that you can look forward to new aliens, perks, and naturally, a whole bunch of new weapons to toy around with.
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In a rather brilliant marketing move the team behind Total War: Warhammer has announced a Dota 2 competition that challenges the talented community hat-makers with the creation of 'Warhammer Fantasy Battles' themed goodies.
The best entries will be bundled in a treasure chest that will become available for purchase on September 1st, with a special (and free) version of the chest going out to everyone who pre-purchases Total War: Warhammer on Steam. This special version will contain visually-unique and pre-order exclusive variants of Warhammer themed items, or in other words, plenty of new hats to brag with.
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Blizzard's official comment on the whole Nostalrius/legacy server issue was rather disappointing, especially since their best-case solution involved taking pretty much the same problems people are complaining about, and then stretching them out in a halfhearted effort of emulating how things worked in vanilla.
There is a dash of hope, however, as Blizzard has agreed to meet with the Nostalrius team, as we've recently learned from Mark Kern - the ex vanilla WoW Team Lead who personally printed out the entire 200,000+ signatures petition and sent it to Mike Morhaime, CEO of Blizzard, and his former boss. As with all things these days, the announcement came in the form of a brief tweet:
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[Update]: Unfortunately, Duelyst will be closing down its doors on February 27, 2020.
Ever since Magic the Gathering devoured all of my lunch money so many years ago I've been in love with collectible card games, mostly because they represent the purest form of competition, just two people striving to achieve victory through strategy, treachery, and the slightest touch of luck.
While Duelyst might not be a pure card game given that it heavily features turn-based strategy elements, it still embodies all of the same principles and gameplay ideas that make collectible card games the incredibly attractive plague upon ones wallet, and I mean that in a nice way. But enough of me yammering, here's a gameplay trailer so you can get a glimpse of what Duelyst is all about:
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Only a month has passed since the last big Prison Architect update, and the developers are already back with a brand new patch for everyone to enjoy, this time around focusing on performance improvements, weather and seasons, and some important quality of life changes.
If you're interested in seeing all of the changes in action and explained by the developers themselves you will find the video below, but if you're not up for watching two guys goof around for 40 minutes (which you definitely should) I'll also include a brief summary: