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This week in games: For Honor gets dedicated servers, Destiny 2 PC beta dates revealed

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Plus: Middle Earth: Shadow of War turns spider-Shelob into Milla Jovovich, Wolfenstein II sends a quarterback to space, Dying Light announces 10 more free DLCs, and more.
We did it—we made it through July, the most boring month of the year. I hope you all enjoyed your vacation.
This is gaming news for July 24 to 28.
Dying Light released waaay back at the beginning of 2015. A traditional singleplayer game, you might’ ve expected it to get a few pieces of DLC or maybe an expansion—and indeed it did, in February of 2016.
I wasn’ t too thrilled with our most recent Wolfenstein II demo for a variety of reasons. But it’s still maybe my most anticipated game this year, and the newly announced DLC sounds (if possible) even more interesting.
But transforming Shelob from a bulbous spider into a pale-skinned lady who looks oddly similar to Milla Jovovich? Truly bizarre.
“So basically, since we launched the game, we’ ve faced new online challenges. We saw that we had connectivity and stability problems, mostly on 4v4 modes, so it’s one of the things we’ ve looked at and worked on a lot since the game launched. And during that process, we decided to do an analysis of the whole online infrastructure we have and compare it to other existing ones. And in the end, based on all the data we gathered…we decided to do the move and to migrate to a dedicated server technology, for many, many different reasons.”
What they actually received was a flat-packed piece of cardboard from which they could assemble their own box, plus a separate (uninspired looking) manual that doesn’ t actually fit inside the box. No game inside. A disaster to the end.
Maybe someone should check the going rate for New Mexico landfills these days.

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