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Spooky new Metroidvania Shadow Labyrinth gets a great pre-order discount

Everyone loves Pac-Man. The yellow ball of joy has been a staple in videogame history since his debut in arcades back in 1980, and after decades of spin-offs, formula changes, and other bizarre twists, it’s time to take things back to basics – of course, that doesn’t mean a basic arcade game, but a Metroidvania with spooky vibes and action-packed combat, right? Well, if that intrigues you, Shadow Labyrinth has now got a great discount before launch.

While that may sound like a strange place to take the long-running series, when looking at Pac-Man’s lengthy history, it actually works quite well. Over seemingly hundreds of titles, the puck has been going from classic PC games to even taking a shot at becoming a great battle royale game, but Shadow Labryinth feels different, like a new step for the iconic character.

In my mind, Hollow Knight Silksong is one of the best Metroidvanias, but I’ve been waiting on that for over a year. So, while the Hollow Knight Silksong release date remains elusive, Shadow Labyrinth is doing a great job of scratching that itch.

In this action game, Shadow Labyrinth puts you in the role of a character lovingly called “Swordsman No. 8” as you explore a large maze (see: labyrinth) and fight plenty of monsters, as well as upgrade your abilities. Fortunately, you’re not alone in your adventure, as a floating orb called Puck (see: Pac-Man) joins your side.

Ever since I saw the announcement trailer, I’ve been enthralled by the idea of diving into this world. Call me basic, but I always love a premise of “this light-hearted thing, but dark”, and Shadow Labyrinth takes the very idea of Pac-Man and turns it into something new, yet familiar. In a wave of upcoming PC games, Shadow Labyrinth has got me waiting to dive into the halls of its terrifying maze.

If you’re ready to explore this haunting take on Pac-Man, you can grab Shadow Labyrinth for just $25.19 at Fanatical. That’s a 16% discount on the game before it launches, and cheaper than Steam itself, so you’re getting an exciting new game to experience for a great price with this deal.

While you wait for the doors to swing open on Pac-Man’s new adventure, make sure to check out the best PC games right now for something to pass the time with. Personally, I’d recommend grabbing a copy of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 to sink your teeth into, as it’s one of the best RPGs I’ve ever played.

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10/06/2025
WoW Mists of Pandaria Classic finally gets a launch date, and it’s not far off

World of Warcraft has been around for a long, long time now and, as a result, its players are likely to have different opinions on their favorite eras of the game, that timeline punctuated by the launch of expansions ranging from The Burning Crusade through to The War Within. Most agree, though, that 2012’s Mists of Pandaria marks a high point for the long-running MMO, which has made its addition to WoW Classic eagerly anticipated. Today, Blizzard has announced that it won’t be much longer before the expansion is ready to play in something close to its original form once again.

The revamped, throwback version of World of Warcraft has steadily added in each expansion present in the original MMORPG since its 2019 launch. Now, Mists of Pandaria Classic is nearly here, providing a solid opportunity to return to the expansion or play it for the first time.

As before, the expansion brings players to the previously isolated lands of Pandaria, with the new characters and plotlines the setting contains. In the lead up to its full launch, a pre-expansion patch is set to arrive, bringing with it the ability to create a Pandaren character, use the Monk hero class, and earn the Shaohao’s Sage Serpent Skyriding mount to bring into regular WoW. Players can use the Joyous Journeys experience buff until this pre-patch launches if they’re in a hurry to reach level 85 in time for Mists of Pandaria. There’s also a pet battling minigame, reworked classes and loot gathering, as well as the Theramore’s Fall world event designed to serve as a prologue for the full expansion’s storyline.

World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria Classic launches on Monday July 21, 2025. The pre-patch arrives the week of Tuesday July 1, 2025.

In the meantime, you can get more out of your time preparing for Mists of Pandaria through our guide to the best WoW addons, or find something else entirely to check out in our picks for the best free MMOs on PC.

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28/05/2025
Baldur’s Gate 3’s latest hotfix gets rid of “trippy, high-saturation graphical artefacts”, but also totally breaks everyone’s immersion by making cats actually obey people

Baldur’s Gate 3‘s Patch 8 was the game’s last big update, but it’s still getting handly little hotfixes to iron out bugs and issues. The latest, hotfix 31, takes care of plenty of stuff like that, including a pretty wacky-sounding visual glitch, but I do have to take issue with one of its tweaks to photo mode.

You can find the full notes for hotfix 31 here, and they make for refreshingly light reading compared to the great big tomes of tweaks the game’s full updates often dropped with.

The most eye-catchjing of its fixes, and the one Larian’s led with, aims to stop folks having a “kaleidoscope of colours” appear on sceen when their party switches locations. This Aurora Badrealis is apparently made up of “trippy, high-saturation graphical artefacts”, and was prone to cropping up when you teleported via a waypoint.

Aside from that Larian’s “removed some defunct dialogue that mistakenly made it into Minthara’s Speak with Dead dialogue in Patch 8”, with players reckoning this is the cut chatter Minty had about having a daughter, which never made it into the final game.

Staying with Patch 8, the new subclasses that added to the game are subject of a whole host of fixes, including one that nixes a bug that let sneak attacks be triggered on activating Dirty Trick: Sand Toss, and another which was causing Shadow Blade to lose properties like bonus damage when you lost conditions like concentration.

But enough of those, which you can read more about in the full notes. One of Larian’s two photo mode tweaks is downright scandalous. The studio’s “fixed wild-shaped boars and cats not paying proper attention to the ‘Look at Camera’ option”. Larian, cats totally ignoring you when you try to get them to look at a camera so you can take a photo of their funny little face is like 2/3 of the whole experience of owning a cat – I assume wild-shape cats are no different.

You can’t just go against nature like this in game that features all kinds of magic, goblins, and shaggable brain-eating tentacle dudes who appear in your dreams. Won’t somebody think of the immersion? What is being exposed to this going to do to our precious realism?

Do you and you cat agree with this fix? Are they looking everywhere but the screen as you hold them you to it in a vain attempt to get them to answer that question? Let us know below while all of us keep on waiting for whatever Larian’s next game is.

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14/05/2025
Long-awaited The Division 2 Battle for Brooklyn DLC finally gets a release date

The Division 2 fans have been waiting for the new Battle for Brooklyn DLC for quite some time. While there’ve been plenty of live service seasons and updates to keep players entertained, it’s been just over five years since the first story expansion landed. That’s made the setbacks and delays it experienced particularly painful, but soon, the wait comes to an end. The Division 2 Battle for Brooklyn release date has been locked in.

Battle for Brooklyn has been pushed back a couple of times now – most recently, it was booted out of Ubisoft’s Year 6 roadmap for The Division 2 and pushed into the upcoming slate for Year 7. Taking players back to some new and familiar New York streets, all with an autumnal atmosphere, the co-op game‘s new expansion has been highly anticipated. Now we know much more about it, and while crisp blue skies, cascading brown leaves, and some relatively peaceful residents may make Battle for Brooklyn seem a bit tame at first, it’s anything but.

Those living at the Bridge settlement have done a pretty good job in rebuilding after the hurricane that ravaged New York in the previous expansion. But they’re still in need of protection, and that’s where you (and some notable characters like Theo Parnell, Agent Hoskins, and Dr. Jessica Kandel) come in.

Your main opposition in Battle of Brooklyn are the Cleaners, who have managed to mass-produce a lethal weapon that some endgame grinders will recognize from the Paradise Lost Incursion mission. Now all wielding the power of the Purple Flame, they can dish out lethal, fiery attacks that also stack on a new status effect, corrosion, which gradually lowers your max armor over time. The longer you stay in battle, the less armor capacity you’ll have when it comes to replenishing it.

Smart Cover also returns from The Division 1 as a reworked skill that will let you pick from either a Precision or Fortified variant, giving different benefits to anyone positioned behind the cover points. Precision Smart Cover provides buffs to weapon handling and damage and auto-reloads your guns after swapping, while Fortified Smart Cover grants you extra armor, resistances, and stagger immunity.

In its reveal stream for Battle of Brooklyn, creative director Yannick Banchereau says that the new DLC will give fans around six to ten hours of playtime – so it’s not a monster. However, there still seems to be plenty packed in, with four new Control Points, 12 overworld activities, eight Hunter Riddles, ten bounty locations, and a new collectible bounties set. As mentioned, we now know when this heavily delayed expansion will be launching.

The Division 2 Battle for Brooklyn DLC release date has been locked in for Tuesday, May 27.

The showcase for the new DLC also shared updates on Year 7 of The Division 2, which aims to massively improve the onboarding process for new players, add more depth to the endgame loop, and further expand its seasonal content offerings.

For more, check out some of the best multiplayer games on PC right now. To plan your gaming schedule around the new expansion for The Division 2, head to our upcoming PC games guide.

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23/04/2025