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Hopefully, the Star Wars Episode I Racer for the Nintendo Switch will have motion controls. The original, released in 1999, was probably the best thing to come out of Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace. It was released to critical acclaim and went on to become an incredibly successful title with over 3 million units sold. Star Wars Episode I Racer expanded on the movie’s pod racing scene. The game featured all of the competitors from the movie in their signature vehicles....

The fabled day has arrived, and the final episode of the Walking Dead Final Season is available now. Thanks should be given to Skybound Games for finishing Clementine’s story after the unfortunate closure of Telltale Games, as this episode honors the investment of longtime players. Picking up right where Episode 3 left off, The Walking Dead Episode 4 players find themselves thrust into the action and dealing with the outcomes of their choices....

Earlier today, the WandaVision cast gathered together with Marvel podcast host and entertainment personality Angélique Roché to hold a virtual launch party. The event began with a fast montage of some of the most legendary scenes from the Marvel Cinematic Universe; beginning with a clip from Marvel Studios’ first movie Iron Man and ended with Tony Stark’s iconic snap. The montage changed its pace, switching to show a brief cinematic history of the show’s titular characters Wanda Maximoff and Vision....

For the past month, developer Epic Games has been slowly peeling back the layers on their upcoming survival shooter Fortnite. These most recent details couldn’t have come at a better time either, as many were questioning whether Fortnite had either been cancelled or had taken a serious back seat to Unreal Engine 4 development. Nevertheless, Epic Games’ promotional plan is seemingly right where they want it to be, and each new week brings more and more Fortnite details....

A daily challenge popping up for some players in Warzone suggests that the unwanted Most Wanted contracts are set to make a return. Three months since Warzone’s release, and Infinity Ward’s take on the battle royale genre is still going strong. More than 60 million players are awaiting the arrival of Call of Duty Season 4. The new season could mean all sorts of things for Warzone, including an in-game event that leads to a drastic map change....

It would appear that Todd Howard has been hiding some serious voice acting talent from us, the rascal. Luckily for you, you can now experience it first-hand thanks to a secret Easter Egg you can uncover in The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion. Note that the Easter Egg does involve a bit of dabbling with the game’s console command, so isn’t technically a canon thing. Either way, it’s a hoot which is worth pursuing whether or not we were actually meant to....

Today, Respawn Entertainment and Electronic Arts have revealed when the next piece of free DLC known as A Glitch in the Frontier is coming to Titanfall 2, and fans of the first-person mech-shooter should expect to receive it on April 25, 2017. Not only did the developer and publisher of the game reveal when the add-on will drop, but also the companies decided to release a brand new trailer for fans to get a feel of what the expansion will contain....

Annapurna Interactive has published many different indie games that have become favorites in the libraries of countless gamers. All of these games have teams of extremely talented developers behind them that ensure that players get great experiences. All of the games published by Annapurna Interactive have pretty favorable reviews on Metacritic, but which ones are the best? In this list, the critic scores for each game have been averaged across all the platforms that they appear on....

There are many consoles that have touched the hearts of gamers in a special way, and the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (faithfully known by fans as the SNES) is one of the systems that ushered video games into an era of mainstream popularity and cemented the legacy of Nintendo’s iron grip on the medium. Games like Donkey Kong Country, Mario Kart, and F-Zero are all part of the console’s legendary plethora of titles that had players all over the globe spending hours in front of their square televisions....

“The harvest moon cloaked the expansive Ozark wilderness with an odd milky glow. The steps of the search party crunched the dead leaves beneath their feet, creating a dull roar in the still night.” Takes long drag of cigarette, stares out the window searchingly, a sad saxophone swells Sorry, I was just doing a little light roleplaying as True Detective writer and creator Nic Pizzolatto. To get into character, I went outside and starred into the eye of a dead raccoon I found in the street while pounding cans of Lone Star....

Twitch and Crunchyroll, the anime streaming service, have joined forces to offer Twitch Prime members one free month of Crunchyroll Premium. Crunchyroll offers a massive anime library in both English subtitled and dubbed formats. While the majority of the shows can be watched for free, signing up for the premium subscription service removes advertisements completely and gives users access to simulcast shows on the same day they air in Japan....

Update: Ubisoft has now confirmed the story that the overall future of Assassin’s Creed includes an important upcoming, early-in-development project codenamed Assassin’s Creed Infinity. The project will be led by Marc-Alexis Côté, who has been promoted to executive producer of Assassin’s Creed. Côté was creative director of Assassin’s Creed Syndicate and senior producer on Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. Brand director Étienne Allonier will also lead the project, which will include multiple Ubisoft studios....

Last month, veteran video game developer Michel Ancel announced his retirement from the industry, which had fans worried about the state of Beyond Good and Evil 2. Immediately after the announcement, Ubisoft reassured fans that Ancel’s retirement won’t hurt the game’s development, which is in a playable state, according to the studio. Now, Ubisoft released an update saying that Beyond Good and Evil 2 is progressing nicely. During the company’s latest earnings report, CEO Yves Guillemot reassured fans by saying that Ubisoft is happy with the development of Beyond Good and Evil 2, and a gameplay preview is expected to release in 2021....

Ubisoft’s Rabbids are getting their own 4D theater attraction which is coming to an amusement park near you. Nothing can stop Rabbids, not even Nintendo. The best they could do was team up with the onslaught of little white minion-bunnies as they continue on to world domination. Although it should be noted that Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle is an extremely well-received game that features a Rabbid in drag as Princess Peach....

Gamers are no strangers to bugs and glitches in games, but most players find them understandable unless it becomes a regular occurrence. In Riot Games’ Valorant, it seems that every new update introduces a new kind of bug, and Riot has even had to roll back entire patches before due to technical instability. The newest bug affects Valorant’s newest agent, Astra, and could be game-ruining for players. Introduced with Episode 2, Act 2, Astra is Valorant’s 15th agent....

Valorant added some new characters for players to use in the past month. However, despite the rising popularity of the new character Reyna, there has been a lot of frustration around Reyna’s somewhat overpowered toolkit. Many Valorant players feel that Reyna is overpowered, considering how easy she easy to use. Reyna is not just a character with a powerful ultimate, but powerful abilities as well, that have virtually no drawbacks, or at the least minimal risks, and make picking her a no brainer....

This year has, for better or for worse, been quite an impactful year for most people and industries, with the video game industry being no exception. Valve especially has had an interesting year, with the launch of Half-Life: Alyx being the company’s first major release since Dota 2. Though, Gabe Newell, Valve’s current president, is now doing something that accurately reflects and embodies the craziness of 2020. Gabe Newell has been making quite a few moves as of late....

It seems that for Geralt of Riva, the work of monster-slaying is never done. One of the select few games coming to next-gen without a hint of skepticism among fans, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is shaping up to be developer CD Projekt Red’s masterpiece. The titular ‘Wild Hunt’ looks to be one gripping and appropriately mysterious enemy, but for many gamers, it’s the game’s next-gen potential that most excites....

As gamers prepare for the jump into next-gen, their needs as far as hardware grow. What was once suitable in terms of monitors, for example, has changed. ViewSonic has a new 27-inch monitor model, the XG270QC, that can deliver crisp visuals at a high resolution and frame rate, regardless of if users are on console or PC. The ViewSonic XG270QC is a 1440p monitor that supports 165Hz refresh rate. While not the 4K resolution that most console games boast, 1440p is the high-res standard for PC gaming....

This Vikings review contains spoilers. Vikings Season 4 Episode 16 Rarely does a television show lose its main character and do anything more than tread water before being pulled down into the morass of has beens and never weres. Not only has Vikings clearly managed to avoid that seemingly inevitable track, but Michael Hirst deftly points his series in a different, yet still recognizable direction. In its first post-Ragnar episode, “Crossings” convincingly dispels any concerns fans might have for the series’ viability moving forward as viewers now take on the show’s new course....