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Rich in art, culture, greed and corruption, Renaissance-era Italy serves as the backdrop for Assassin’s Creed 2, the follow-up to the best-selling debut title in the Assassin’s Creed series. Gain a deeper understanding of the secretive Assassin Order as you follow a new hero, the charming and free-spirited Ezio Auditore de Firenze. When de Firenze’s family is betrayed, the young nobleman steals away to the canals of Venice, where he learns the ways and weapons of the assassins. Experience an epic storyline of loyalty and revenge as your hero challenges Italy’s most powerful families and completes his transformation to master assassin.

Bonus Maps
Download Assassin’s Creed 2 Deluxe Edition for PC to enjoy three special bonus maps that feature some of Italy’s most prestigious and beautiful monuments from the Renaissance era. Explore the Palazzo Medici, the expansive Florentine palace that housed the famous Medici family. Search for secret treasures amid the soaring architecture of the Santa Maria Dei Frari, a grand basilica located in Venice. Check out Venice’s historical Arsenal Shipyard and its famed main gate, the Porta Magna, to continue your hunt for hidden bounties. Guide Ezio through each playable map as you complete their respective missions and discover valuable treasures.

Echo is an evolutionary robot created by Dr. Mina Liao and programmed with a rapidly adapting artificial intelligence, versatile enough to fill multiple battlefield combat roles. Having joined up with the Overwatch team to defend Paris against the Null Sector incursion, Echo is seeing action as a full-fledged member of Overwatch for the first time. Echo fires three shots (Tri-Shot) at once, in a triangle pattern. Echo fires a volley of Sticky Bombs that detonates after a delay. Echo uses Flight to surge forward quickly, then can fly freely to avoid danger or maneuver to a more strategic location. Using Focusing Beam, Echo channels a beam for a few seconds, dealing very high damage to targets with less than half health, including barriers. With Duplicate, Echo targets an enemy hero and clones them, gaining all of their abilities and potentially changing a team fight in an instant.

Set in a sinister, slowly decomposing land where humanity has been driven to corruption, aligning with dark forces for survival, players must traverse gorgeous diorama-like levels in an attempt to bring back the age of light - before the world crumbles away entirely beneath their feet.

In the beta demo, players will experience a number of the procedurally-generated opening stages of the game and take control of Mathos, the Knight - one of the five classes which will be available when the game launches in May.

Players will fight for their lives in an upgraded Swamps of Corsus and experience a new rogue-like game mode with Survival Mode. In the new mode, players will start their journey with just a pistol and some scrap. Those brave enough to take on this intense permadeath challenge will travel randomly through corrupted World Stones to different biomes seeking epic new rewards, all the while fighting to survive against insanely difficult bosses and enemies. Players that delve into the expanded Swamps of Corsus biome will find new story content, such as quests and events, a vast arsenal of powerful gear to collect – including weapons, armor, mods, and traits – along with plenty of tough enemies to take down.

Originally released to critical acclaim on iOS and Android, Pirates Outlaws is a roguelike card game where you build your deck and develop combos as you become the most notorious pirate to sail the seven seas. Choose from one of many playable heroes, with a range of different abilities, as you scour the seas to improve your deck from amongst 500+ cards and 150 relics while engaging in turn-based battles with all foes that stand in your way.

This PC release of Pirates Outlaws removes micro-transactions and features a fully completed Arena with decks and enemies from all six chapters - doubling the content available in the Early Access version. A new buccaneer has arrived to take up the chase! The new hero “Doctor”, with his ability to rise from the dead, will be available for players to conquer the high seas with. Another new addition is a tutorial to help recent recruits to better understand the mechanics of the game. All hands hoy! All loot and additions from the entire six chapters, including the most recent Fabled and Eastern Seas updates, will also be included.

Ship Graveyard Simulator gives the player an opportunity to visit the largest ship graveyard in the world. A dozen kilometers of beach filled with wrecks. Hundreds of ships wrecked on the coast. Thousands of tons of steel. You can choose the most valuable ship and start the adventure. You can play as one of the workers during the most dangerous work in the world. Cut, hit, weld! Dismantle the whole ship and sell the obtained parts and upgrade your equipment.

Noah’s Ark is one of the few Bible stories most people recognize. Now, you can play a realistic simulator game inspired by those stories from Genesis. Check if you can proceed with this challenge of the biggest flood ever.

Built according to the dimensions given in the Bible the biggest wooden ship ever from the scratch and prepare for the hard work. Use all resources around and prepare to be blown away by the massive dimensions of the biblical Ark

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Five years after the events of XCOM 2, humanity has driven back the Overlords and reclaimed Earth. Now humans and former alien soldiers work and live together as they strive to forge a civilization of cooperation and coexistence.

City 31, the setting for XCOM: Chimera Squad, has become a model of peace in the post-invasion world; however, not all who dwell here support interspecies alliance. Enter Chimera Squad, an elite force of human and alien agents who must work together to identify and thwart the hidden threats that seek to upend this fragile peace in City 31.

People are returning to West Virginia in Fallout 76: Wastelanders. Two opposing factions are fighting for the upper hand as the secrets of West Virginia are revealed, and you will be the one to tip the scales. The Settlers have come to find a new home, and the Raiders have come to exploit them. Your choices will have lasting effects on the world and the lives of these newcomers. Embark on a new questline, forge alliances with the competing factions, and uncover the truth of what's hidden in the mountains.

Mark your calendars, the Minecraft with RTX Beta for Windows 10 launches in just two days, on April 16th, 2020! Minecraft with RTX brings fully path-traced rendering, physically-based materials, and NVIDIA DLSS 2.0 to Minecraft, delivering bleeding-edge visual fidelity and realism that can be experienced on all GeForce RTX GPUs.

This beta will launch with 6 RTX Creator Worlds, downloadable for free from the in-game Minecraft Marketplace, that demonstrate the full capabilities of Minecraft with RTX’s new technology.

One of the first heavy RNG components that players faced was the initial board setup. “The Flop”, as it used to be called, would randomly deploy the first set of heroes and lane creeps. Let’s take an in-depth look at how deployment has changed.

Board Layout
The board still has 3 lanes, but each lane is exactly 5 slots. The slots also have a fixed position, so adding units on either end of the lane doesn’t shift the positions of any units. There are some rules for deploying on top of units if the lane gets too full or if there’s just something in your way, which you’ll find at the end of this post.

A new mode is available for Warzone that limits the weapons to snipers and shotguns and changes up the strategies required to win – Scopes and Scatter Guns Trios. Grab your merry band of three in this twist on Battle Royale that brings you into new ranges of play. Will you get up close and pack a devasting punch with a shotgun? Or decide to deal death at distance with a sniper? Make your choice or do a mix of both, just try to outlast the enemy and the collapse in this Battle Royale variant to claim victory.

FINAL FANTASY XIV continues to grow with the latest patch bringing a wealth of new quests and challenges for adventurers to overcome. The Free Login Campaign provides the perfect opportunity to jump straight back into the action!

Offering up to eight days of playtime, this is the longest Free Login Campaign we have ever held. If you or any of your friends are currently taking a break, you won't want to miss out on this limited-time event!

Let's harvest straw now: Creative Mesh released the Straw Harvest addon in cooperation with GIANTS Software for Farming Simulator 19. The developers of the expansion which focusses on the pellet industry, realised Straw Harvest for the latest entry of the series after receiving much praise for the initial release for Farming Simulator 17. It's now available for free on the official Modhub on PC and Mac, following soon on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

What to expect from the addon? Straw Harvest is all about entering the pellet industry. Of course, Creative Mesh gives you the required machines, tools and other ressources. Such as a versatile industry hall for storage and processing. Also included is the worlds first mobile pellet havester - the KRONE Premos 5000 and two balers, the KRONE BiGPack 1290 HDP II and Comprima V180xc as well as other tools and machinery.

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