Bring up any other sandbox game made in the years since Shadow of Mordor was released, and conversation generally shifts towards “man wouldn’t it be cool if it had its own Nemesis System?”. In an industry where inspiration is obvious, doing just that is about to get a whole lot more challenging as Warner Bros. has patented the idea.
PlayStation Plus for November is officially kicking off with its first PlayStation 5 game. Everyone’s been talking about Bugsnax ever since that game debuted with a delightfully weird trailer and a catchy tune by the band Kero Kero Bonito, and if you were scared that the delightfully odd-looking experience would be buried underneath higher-profile releases, good news!
Activision Blizzard and Electronic Arts might be interested in purchasing Warner Bros. Interactive if its parent company makes the sale official, but they'd be facing some stiff green competition from Microsoft along the way.
If you’ve been actively avoiding Shadow of War as a statement to those darn microtransactions, then here’s some good news for you: All of those pesky payment pokes are gone, plus the game is rolling out the obligatory complete edition of all of its content.
Almost 300 days later, Shadow of War is now a drastically different gold after its latest patch, which saw the game’s secondary premium currency and hand-rubbing Orc pulled from the base game.
Fans weren’t happy with the egregious storefront that allowed players to purchase better Orcs for their army in Shadow of War, putting many a potential player off of an otherwise fantastic game and its interesting extra downloadable content. Good news then, as Monolith and Warner Bros. Interactive have finally heard the call and made the announcement official: Shadow of War is dropping its microtransactions.
Now is the perfect time to finish a game or two, to tackle that one title that everyone has been raving about. So let us know below what you’re going to be playing when you’re on vacation.
While Shadow of War may have concluded Talion’s story, the game ain’t over yet. Designed to keep players around for the long run with fortress siege events that focuses on you strengthening your own army of Orcs (with effort or loot boxes), Shadow of War has a few new modes arriving in the next couple of weeks.
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A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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