Developer 4A Games have released a patch that grants players control over the field of view in Metro: Last Light. The patch also fixes a few problems the game has been experiencing when played on AMD hardware. It’s ready for you to uncover on Steam whenever you're ready to brave the tunnels.
This Friday on April 18th will see one of Hawkens biggest updates go live, adding its first support mech, the Technician. If that’s not enough, then you’ve also got the new Front Line map, new cosmetics, a ton of balance tweaks, an overhauled radar minimap and the Service Award achievement system.
Without further ado, lets get stuck into this one shall we?
The patch notes for the 0.6 update to massively multiplayer FPS Firefall clock in at an astonishing 7,337 words, enough words to drown a small rodent, enough words to reach from here to the moon, depending on font size, enough words to feed a family of sentences for a month. The girth of these notes should give you some sense of the scale of the changes Red 5 have made to their game's progression systems, which have been ceremoniously overhauled. That's progress, after all.
Patch 1.2 has just hit SimCity, with it applying fixes to common crashes. While the game suffers from serious server strain, EA have also disabled some ‘non-critical gameplay elements’ such as leaderboards, achievements and region filters. One of the most peculiar changes is that to the speed the game can be played. The highest setting known as Cheetah Speed is now only as fast as Llama Speed, presumably to reduce further server load.
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It’s a good day to be a WvW’er over in Guild Wars 2, as Habib Loew confirms that the next patch will banish the “culling phenomenon” from the world of Tyria for good. Also in are a new ranks and achievements especially for WvW which unlock new WvW abilities. Habib also promised that they’re not done with WvW, with plenty more planned for future patches to come.
The latest Dota 2 patch introduces Team Matchmaking, allowing teams of five to search for other teams for a more competitive game. Alongside the matchmaking tech, Valve have also developed a team rating system that calculates how your team performs as a whole; arguably more important that individual statistics. The last addition to the matchmaking system is the ability to search for specific languages to try and make communicating with your teammates easier. 
Planetside 2 has just been updated with a vast patch that’s altering and improving practically every aspect of the game. Every soldier will see significant changes to their weapons, vehicles, classes and their UI.
This weeks update brings significant changes to Dota 2. For starters, the update has vastly improved loading times of both the game and matches. Some users have reported decreases in loading by as much as 50%. Valve have also added the first HUD skins, which can only be found in certain chests. The biggest mystery however is the newly discovered “Elder Titan” hero, its purpose still unknown.
The latest Dota 2 patch has added a new hero: Jah’rakal the Troll Warlord. He’s an agility carry boasting a swift attack speed, who can quickly switch between ranged and melee to dish out his punishment. 
Is it in its guns? Oh no that's just bullets. Is it in its maps? Oh no that's just vaguely neo-Aztec architecture, I think. (Shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot) oh if you wanna know what makes the latest ShootMania update so nice, it's in its grappling hooks. Yes, the second phase of Nadeo's eSports shooter has proper grappling hooks, and I've got Cher stuck in my head.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 has been patched o'er the weekend, remedying a slew of niggles with Treyarch's record-breaking online guns-and-shouts game. The PC edition of the patch follows the release of the same patch on consoles weeks ago, which addressed issues as far reaching as weapon balancing, zombie modes and ghost perks. You want some patch notes? We got your patch notes.
It’s patch day in Dota 2 land: for the first time in a few weeks, Valve have treated us to a new hero. 
If you're a World of Warcraft player, Greg Street is Important. He's the 'lead systems designer' of WoW: the person responsible for maintain some semblance of balance across all of WoW's classes and subclasses. That makes him the go-to man for WoW players to complain about their/someone else's class/spec being over/underpowered. 
The update includes a Beginner's Playlist, which is a primer for new players, and Halloween themed weapons and skins, available for a limited time only. While the patch does add rudimentary support for clans, allowing you to form a posse and give yourself a custom logo, the development team won't introduce many features until January 16th, "when players will be able to challenge other Clans in either ranked or unranked Clan matches." 
Responding to a twitter query about extra levels or even a level editor, the Hotline Miami account today tweeted that "more will come." Some fans of the twitchy bludgeoning and blasting have already finished the game and are keen for more, more, more. More blood. More guns. More baseball bats. Just one more level. Just one more fragile little skull to cave in. Is that really so much to ask for? I can stop any time.
DICE hate minimaps. Regular sized maps they can deal with, sure. And oversized maps they can abide, under protest. But miniature, or 'mini', maps they simply will not allow. Tomorrow's Battlefield 3 server update will introduce an option to remove the game's enemy highlighting minimap from Hardcore mode, as well as "balancing tweaks" to Armored Kill's gunship, exploit fixes and more.
If your experience of Torchlight 2 was marred by the occasional spelling error, or the banner at the start of Act 4 not displaying properly, then you'll be glad to know that the new patch fixes these and many other mini issues. Oh go on then, it also optimises the particle effects and tweaks the look of the game's wardrobe.
With the International over, Valve are back into the swing of things and adding heroes left and right to Dota 2. Or, adding one hero many times. Meepo is coming to Dota 2, and he’s multiplying. Because that’s what he does.
Update: Valve have changed the way the pause timer works so that it is still 30 seconds before the opposing team can unpause if a player disconnects, which removes most problems with reducing the timer.
Even though they’ve put hero releasing on hold until after the International (in three weeks!), there’s still plenty going on behind the scenes in Dota 2. Today’s patch brings the ability to swap heroes with another player, so long as you do it before the first bell that signifies creeps spawning. 
Now that Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has lifted up its balaclava and puckered it's pre-order lips, news of a whopper of an incoming beta patch has landed. The update is due to arrive before August 14th, and incorporates a veritable payload of changes and tweaks. The full patchnotes can be found here. It includes Mac support, changes in bot difficulty, eight new player models, new animations, new UI elements, new voice overs and weapon tweaks. It's a hefty patch indeed, and likely the final one of its kind before the game reaches its release date of August 24.
