Warhammer 40,000: Darktide’s Upcoming Talent Trees Explained in New Dev Post

The latest trailer for Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader emphasizes choice and consequence, highlighting its equivalent of alignment—the conviction system. «While exploring you will be met with a great number of hard decisions,» the trailer says. «Do you try to save the population of a dying world? Or burn it all with the intent of containing heresy?»

Netmarble, the South Korean company behind Seven Deadly Sins: Grand Cross and Ni no Kuni: Cross Worlds has announced a new update for Tower of God: New World, including new characters, story content, and more.

In the latest 10.2 PTR build, 3 mounts (Spectral Gryphon, Spectral Wind Rider, and Zhevra) previously only obtainable from Recruit-a-Friend or Scroll of Resurrection are now listed as Trading Post items with associated Trader's Tender costs. It's still unknown when exactly these mounts will be available on the Trading Post, but players will now have another avenue of collecting these mounts if they missed their initial promotion.

EVE Online's next expansion, Havoc, launches next month, and the team at CCP Games is pulling the veil back on one of its major features, explaining how working with New Eden's pirate factions will work.

Blizzard has posted a roundup of this week's blue posts and developer discussions, including Dragonflight Patch 10.2: Guardians of the Dream PTR updates, the release of Icecrown Citadel in Classic Wrath, and the newly revealed digital BlizzCon Collection!

The PlayStation Access controller is en route to release on December 6, and Sony has shared some details about its development in a new blog post that you can check out through here. According to the blog, each aspect of the controller is designed to be highly accessible – even down to the packaging which can be opened with one hand.

Games Workshop reprinted the original edition of Warhammer 40,000 for the tabletop wargame's 30th anniversary back in 2017, but only made it available at Warhammer World in Nottingham. If you weren't able to pop over to the Midlands to secure a copy for yourself, you're about to get another chance.

Blizzard has posted a roundup of this week's Dragonflight blue posts and developer discussions, including Patch 10.2: Guardians of the Dream PTR class balancing updates, Season 3 trinket adjustments, over 136,000 exploitative account closures in Classic WoW, and another round of BlizzCon tickets on sale right now!

The meat and potatoes of Warhammer 40,000: Darktide have always been solid. It’s a blast to delve into the Hive City of Tertium as a psyker, veteran, zealot, or ogryn. The game’s combat is brutal, visceral, and deeply satisfying; the soundtrack is an absolute banger and I love the chats between each character class. But the game struggled to maintain post-launch momentum due to the systems outside of each match, like weapons upgrades, character progression, and late-game variety.

Publisher Paradox Interactive and developer The Chinese Room have published a new dev diary for upcoming game Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2. Written by senior narrative designer and writer Sarah Longthorne, the post focuses on the game’s narrative atmosphere and themes.

The major update for Warhammer 40,000: Darktide that, among other things, brings a major overhaul to the game’s classes, is out now on PC. Alongside the release of the update, the game’s Xbox Series X/S version has also been released.

In August, Warhammer 40,000: Darktide developer Fatshark gave me an early look at an update that the studio didn't think players were expecting: a complete change to the leveling system, adding RPG-style skill trees unique to each class. That update went live today, replacing the old, much simpler progression system with a more flexible array of abilities and bonuses. The patch also includes a list of balance changes so long it had to be split across two posts on the Darktide forums.