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After the paid Skyrim mods fiasco I didn't expect Valve would be back so soon with a new implementation, nor that it would be a genuinely good one.
Valve's latest answer to the age old problem of how to support custom game developers is the Custom Game Pass, an in-game purchasable item that grants you additional content or features in select custom games within Dota 2. Here's how it works:
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If you're interested in playing a complex and morally ambiguous race then look elsewhere as the Vampire Counts are as mustache-twirling evil as it gets. Even pronouncing their name really quickly leads to an insult!
What they do have, however, is countless hordes of undead, extremely large shoulder pads, zombie dragons, and an amazingly well done in-engine trailer. Have a look, its 3 full minutes of the best kind of cheesiness:
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Blizzard's classic games team only just appeared this week but they've already garnered a huge amount of respect from the community, first by patching Diablo 2 glitches and compatibility issues, and now by doing the same thing for Warcraft 3.
Today's update, titled simply as Patch 1.27a, brings with it improved compatibility for modern systems, a crash fix, and a preview of things to come. Here are the patch notes and what exactly Blizzard is planning to do with Warcraft 3 in the future:
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[Update]: After nearly seven years in development, the System Shock Remake will finally be launching in March 2023!
The original System Shock 1 released over 20 years ago, and if you would attempt to play it today that fact would become apparent very quickly as the gameplay has not aged well.
However, the first gameplay footage from the upcoming System Shock 1 Remaster tells a completely different story. Not only does it look good, but it also seems to be far less clunky as well. Have a look, and I do hope you like jump-cuts:
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Telltale's The Walking Dead: Michonne is a three-part mini series that follows the immensely popular Michonne during her untold journey between comic issues #126 and #139 where she left, and subsequently rejoined her friends.
The first episode launched last month, and as promised, the second one is coming near the end of March. In order to refresh your memory before Episode 2 launches Telltale prepared a video showcasing all of the major choices you could've made in Episode 1: In Too Deep. Have a look, and if you haven't guessed already, there will be spoilers here:
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After years of being adamant against cross-platform play, despite the fact that their main competitors were doing it, Microsoft has finally announced that they will be adding native cross-platform support to their Xbox One and Windows 10 games.
Right after Microsoft's statement, Psyonix came out and confirmed that Rocket League will support PC and Xbox One cross-network play in the near future. Here's the message from Microsoft and a bit of exciting foreshadowing:
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[Update]: Oddworld: Soulstorm has now hopped onto PC and PlayStation.
The classic Oddworld platformer series returned from the dead last year with the well received Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty, a modern remake of the original Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee.
Given the success of New 'n' Tasty its not surprising that Oddworld: Soulstorm has been announced today, but what is uprising is that its not going to be a remake of Abe's Exodus, a sequel to Abe's Oddysee, but rather a brand new game with a much darker and sinister plot.
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Blizzard has been on a rampage recently. First they've announced updates for Warcraft 3 & Diablo 2 after years of absence, and now Hearthstone has received a rather massive patch as well.
Today's Hearthstone patch brings with it extra deck slots, Lady Liadrin as the alternate Paladin hero, a new deck suggestion feature and a couple of other fixes. Here are the full patch notes and a short overview of the main feature:
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Automatron is the first in a series of expansions planned for Fallout 4 that brings with it murderous robots, a new story chapter, and most importantly, the ability to create your very own robotic abomination by combining various pieces of scrap.
It will be out on March 22nd, and in order to give you an idea of what sort of madness you can get up to with your new robot companion Bethesda has released a teaser trailer. Have a look, it has robots with eye lasers!
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Unreal Tournament, despite being in early alpha, is shaping up to be a worthy successor to Unreal Tournament 2004 which is by no means an easy task.
It still has a long way to go until proper release, but the developers are hard at work when it comes to adding new toys to play around with as well as maps to use them on. The newly added map (DM-Chill) brings the carnage to a Nordic fortress set high in the icy mountains, have a look: