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It's nearly time to save Azeroth again, as Warcraft III: Reforged launches in just a few hours https://ift.tt/2taz61a

After being delayed last year, Blizzard’s remastering of the 2002 RTS Warcraft III: Reforged will finally see its release today at 11pm GMT (which is also 6pm EST and 3pm PST, as well as a bunch of other timezones if none of these are relevant for you).

Announced back in 2018, Warcraft III: Reforged is a completely rebuilt version of the original game, bringing new visuals to all the heroes, environments and buildings, as well as remastered maps and an improved UI.

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GTA Online and Red Dead Online are giving away free cash and guns https://ift.tt/37BFIo5

Across the next fortnight, GTA Online players can claim $2,000,000 of crimecash for free just for logging in, while Red Dead Online players can scoop a free Bounty Hunter license as well as some free guns and ammo. Rockstar announced the freebies today while crowing about “another record-breaking holiday season” for both multiplayer modes, spaffing all sorts of claims against the digiwall. For example: December 2019 was GTA Online’s “largest month ever in terms of player numbers,” which is pretty impressive considering how old it is. But mostly I’m here for the free stuff.

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Kentucky Route Zero's fifth and final act has arrived https://ift.tt/2GuzRoH

Act V of Kentucky Route Zero has finally launched, ending a journey that many in the RPS treehouse have come to love. If you haven’t played the adventure game before, now is the perfect time to jump into Cardboard Computer’s mysterious trip through a secret highway below Kentucky – but don’t take my word for it, because almost everyone at RPS has had great things to say about this weird and wonderful game.

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Wot I Think – Might & Magic: Chess Royale https://ift.tt/36vMb2x

Developer: Ubisoft Publisher: Ubisoft

Release: January 30th On: Windows From: Ubisoft store Price: Free to play

I’m used to autobattlers giving me a headache. They’re a swirl of intense decision-making – puzzle boxes you’ve got to pry open and reassemble, while your opponents do the same thing. My first dozen hours with Teamfight Tactics and Dota Underlords were painful, but rewarding. I remember hacking away at an edifice of shifting understanding, slowly mastering the nuances of gold and wizard management. It was difficult. Fiddly as preparing a tartiflette.

Might & Magic: Chess Royale, by comparison, is the jacket potato of autobattlers. Rounds are quick, simple and tasty – but it won’t be long before you tire of them.

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Unity's latest tech demo is a pretty sci-fantasy short film https://ift.tt/2tOrodv

The folks behind Unity are showing their game engine off at its very fanciest in a new short film, created using the newest version. The Heretic, as it’s named, is the short adventure of a man and his technocrow going off to face a god. Some near-future urban fantasy vibes right here. Very fancy indeed. Come watch!

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Warhammer Underworlds: Online seems OK, I guess https://ift.tt/37CiFtw

Warhammer Underworlds: Online is an adaptation of the tabletop game that its publisher Games Workshop calls a “tactical arena combat game”. That’s a fair summary, but I’m struggling to come up something more detailed that isn’t kind of negative. I’m finding it hard, to be brutally honest, to care about it much one way or the other.

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Dying Light: Bad Blood is now free if you own the original game https://ift.tt/2uGLwhq

Dying Light‘s battle royale spin-off, Bad Blood, is now available for free to anyone who owns the original game. Whether you play the original on PC, PS4 or Xbox One, you can claim a free Steam code for Bad Blood right now. This isn’t limited to current owners though, if you pick up Dying Light on any platform in the future you’ll be eligible for a free copy of Bad Blood too.

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Temtem carries on a proud Pokémon tradition by having a hot professor https://ift.tt/36yN9v9

Temtem is an early access game in which you trap and tame small creatures in magical cards, battle them against other tamers, and try to tame every variety of Temtem on the strange archipelago where you live. If this sounds like it’s all a synonym for Pokémon that’s because it is: Temtem is Pokémon on PC. Except, well, there are loads of Autochess games and Battle Royale games, so fantasy dogfights can be a larger genre than one series, right?

Although, that being said, Temtem does hit an awful lot of familiar beats, especially at the start. You wake up – today is a special day! Today you get to become a Temtem tamer! You run down the stairs, excited to finally leave home. You run into your “friend” Max, who is already committing to his role as your rival by being a hateful tool. And… who’s that? Who else is here on your special day?

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Bethesda repatriate Fallout 76 theft victims through in-game clone meetups https://ift.tt/2tNpABt

Last month, hackers stole Fallout 76 items from player inventories while they were inside the game, literally pinching the shirts from their backs. Bethesda’s solution has been to create clones of affected players with their pre-theft inventories intact. If victims want to keep the gear they’ve gained since the hack and not switch to a month-old backup, Bethesda are offering an unusual experience: they’ll log in as your clone and meet you in-game to hand it all back, face-to-cloneface.

Fallout 76: the gift that keeps on giving.

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Legends of Runeterra guide – beta end date, Runeterra tips https://ift.tt/30XZMyC

You may have seen your favourite streamer play Legends of Runeterra, or perhaps you’ve heard of it through our preview. Maybe you’re a fan of everything that Riot Games has produced so far and want to see their new game, which is available right now in open beta. Naturally you are now curious as to what Legends of Runeterra is and want to learn how you can play Riot’s new collectable card game (CCG).

We’ve got the steps you need to take to get into the beta, and once you do, this is also the right place for tips. We’ll teach you how to play the game, point out where things are different between other CCGs, and provide some Legends of Runeterra tips.

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Frog Fractions is getting a Game Of The Decade edition https://ift.tt/37FqIpu

As far as I’m aware, you don’t actually need to know any maths to play Frog Fractions. Twinbeard’s edutainment game spoof is very much not what it seems, and later this year you’ll be able to play a standalone remastered version in a new Game of the Decade edition.

The game was released back in 2012 as a free browser game where you play as a frog eating bugs and protecting fruit. And that’s it. Nothing else weird happens at all, and you should not open this article if you want to play Frog Fractions blind.

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Best gaming headset 2020: top wired and wireless headsets for PC https://ift.tt/2t8csqa

If you regularly play games online, then one of the easiest ways to chat with your mates and get a great audio experience is to get yourself a gaming headset. There are plenty to choose from, too, so to help you find the best gaming headset for you and your money, I’ve rounded up the very best headsets for gaming you can buy today, helping you sort the symphonic wheat from the aural chaff.

You’ll find a range of gaming headsets on this list, including our pick for the best budget gaming headset all the way up to what we think is the best wireless gaming headset. To earn a place on our list, a headset not only needs to sound fantastic, but it also has to be super comfortable and have an excellent microphone. After all, what’s the point of having a microphone at all if your mates can’t hear you speak very well when you’re playing online? If your PC is in need of an audio boost, here are the best headsets you can buy today.

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I am proud of my ugly, humble creation in Space Engineers https://ift.tt/2O59jie

For reasons, Space Engineers got its hooks into me last week. I had plans to fly around in space exploring, salvaging, and maybe pirating some rich jerks. But I started on a Mars-y orange planet (I am assured that Mars is not actually red, just its atmosphere), and had to get to space first. Well, first I had to figure out how the game worked, which was needlessly difficult, but whinge moan complain, that’s not what I’m here to talk about. I’m here to talk about what I built.

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Have You Played… Theme Park World? https://ift.tt/36A11oE

Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time.

Also known as Theme Park 2, also know as Sim Theme Park. This game consumed my prepubescent years. That Theme Park World hasn’t received a gussy up and polish to sell on Steam or GOG is a genuine surprise to me, because it’s a smashing little management sim. I mean, it’s a Bullfrog game, so you know what to expect.

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Metro Exodus' second expansion is coming in February https://ift.tt/2RT7UfI

The Russian post-apocalypse game Metro Exodus has announced a date for its second DLC coming in February. Like the first DLC, Sam’s Story ditches the main game’s protagonist in favor of a new set of eyes. It will follow the story of a US Marine trying to make his way back to the states from the Moscow embassy where he was stationed before the nukes started a’flying.

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Respawn just bait and switched the next Apex Legends character https://ift.tt/38NauL8

For each new season of of Apex Legends, it seems like players always come to the party with leaks and datamines in hand, already having unearthed half the details about whatever Respawn are about to announce. So far this season is different, sort of. Despite a red herring, it looks like the leakers may have been right after all, based on the animated in-world video released by Respawn today.

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Monster Hunter: World Iceborne patch addresses CPU use and crashes https://ift.tt/2RvvHTH

At launch, the big, snowy expansion to giant creature game Monster Hunter: World had more than its fair share of problems. Some players had their MHW save files deleted. Others experienced drastic performance problems. Save some issues for the rest of the class, Iceborne. Two weeks ago, Capcom notified players of a planned patch to fix these problems. That patch is out now, they say.

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