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Our quick take Twisted Metal - 4.0 / 5 Twisted what? Carnage This is a good thing because the combat in Twisted Metal takes place incredibly quickly. Your car, no matter how big, is capable of stopping on a penny and can turn itself around on a sixpence. It also appears to be able to carry hundreds of missiles and bullets and switch between them on the fly. Once you have nailed the controls and playing technique, then most of the game is spent tearing around flinging every possible piece of weaponry you can imagine at opponents....

Ubisoft may have had some missteps in the past with their Assassin’s Creed series, but they put everything they had into the franchise’s next-gen debut, and didn’t disappoint. But even as Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag enjoys a second wind on the Xbox One and PS4, fans can’t help but wonder if they’ve seen everything that improved hardware can bring to the established formula. According to the game’s lead gameplay designer, that’s far from the truth....

Players looking to get their hands on either the PS5 or the Xbox Series X have found this task easier said than done. Retailers around the globe have steadily attempted to restock their inventory of both consoles since their respective launches, however, sites like Walmart continue to crash with such an inflated amount of traffic. Now it seems that UK retailer CEX has an alternate plan to restock, rather than waiting on Microsoft to send it more Xbox Series X’s: buying them directly from players at an increased rate....

Chie, our kung-fu enthusiast heroine from Persona 4 Golden, would need music to keep working out and we’ve curated a list that would keep her and perhaps you motivated. To lead us on the right path, we contacted the person who knows Chie inside and out: her voice actor, Erin Fitzgerald. She said that the soundtrack to the 1980 kung-fu movie Hot, Cool, and Vicious would fit well with her character....

The following contains spoilers for the first two episodes of Marvel’s WandaVision. After a much-needed (though certainly unplanned) year off, the Marvel Cinematic Universe made its grand return this week with the silly and surreal WandaVision, starring one of the most endearing couples in superhero cinema. The sitcom-styled adventures of Elizabeth Olsen’s Scarlet Witch and Paul Bettany’s Vision may appear like harmless homage at first, but as its pilot nears its end, it becomes clear something dark and absurd lies underneath the artifice....

Warzone chests are no longer guaranteed to contain money and, as is becoming the norm with any change to the game, players aren’t happy. Warzone might have attracted 50 million players in its first month, but that doesn’t mean its developers are doing everything right. Infinity Ward seems reluctant to add something players want without removing something they like about the game at the same time. Whether that be replacing Trios with Quads, or getting rid of Bounties in favor of Most Wanted contracts....

Watch Dogs: Legion wouldn’t be a triple-A open world game if it didn’t have any pre order and DLC items, and especially not one published by Ubisoft. Thankfully the bonuses have been toned down so you don’t need a dedicated spreadsheet to know what you’re getting, but at the same time there are differences in what DLC items you are entitled to and how to access them. You won’t be able to get them all right off the bat, which might leave you wondering when or where you will actually get them....

World of Warcraft is no stranger to parodies, having been parodied in countless YouTube videos, songs, and even by South Park in the hilarious “Make Love, Not Warcraft Episode” from season 10. This time, the hit animated comedy series, Family Guy, who often jokes around with other video games, series, and movies, has taken a shot at World of Warcraft. A snippet from Season 16 Episode 10 of Family Guy shows how Peter, Cleveland, and Joe come up with an elaborate plan to escape a tight situation that they are in....

Even though he’s among the most influential contemporary genre filmmakers, John Carpenter’s relationship with movie critics and production studios has always been rocky. After Halloween’s success in 1978, Carpenter became a hot commodity, but the director was far from interested in helming normal blockbusters with predictable plots. Instead, Carpenter made a series of paranoid and cynical cross-genre features that revel in atmospherics and slow-building tension. Mainstream audiences desirous of bloody slashers, innocuous fantasies, or mindless action flicks didn’t respond well to these features, nor did critics - who found Carpenter’s tone too apocalyptic and anti-authoritarian....

When it comes to character creation, Dungeons & Dragons provides a dizzying array of options to pick from. For some, especially newcomers, the sheer amount of choice can be overwhelming; however, understanding what fits the player’s personality can play a huge role. So to help figure out what race is right for your next character, look to the stars. Just like in the real world, the human race in D&D is hugely varied, and can’t be distilled to represent any particular sign....

The second and final DLC for The Outer Worlds is launching next week on March 17. Dubbed Murder on Eridanos, the expansion is a mystery cloaked in the sci-fi capitalist spectacle, and the crux of it all is that you can fail, and you can even convict yourself. “The core of Murder on Eridanos is to solve a crime,” Game Director Megan Starks opens, “and murder is just the beginning of what you will find....

Science fiction is always full of technology far more advanced than anything remotely possible today, but not every sci-fi adventure is all LEDs and chrome. Post-apocalyptic adventures like Fallout introduce a rustbucket aesthetic to the world, forcing survivors to scrounge up parts and cobble together machines and weapons to survive. Players in an environment like Fallout often have to use rusty improvised weapons as much as they use advanced and fantastical devices....

This The Queen’s Gambit review contains no spoilers. Did you know that a chess game can run so long that it gets adjourned? The player whose turn it is records their next move in a sealed envelope so that when both opponents next sit down, refreshed, they can proceed as if play has been unbroken. That is just one of the intricacies of chess revealed to the layman viewer in Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit, starring Anya Taylor-Joy as fictional chess prodigy Beth Harmon....

Actors can feel the crushing gravity of expectations when playing real-life figures, even if they’re playing astronauts. For the cast and creatives behind The Right Stuff, shooting the TV adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s iconic novel about the Mercury 7 and birth of NASA took on added historical significance during the summer of 2019, with July 20th marking the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the moon. The series from National Geographic, which begins streaming on Disney+ on Oct....

It’s not often that a TV drama series gets to celebrate its 100th episode, especially when the show in question has lost some momentum in the past few years. Fortunately, The Walking Dead doesn’t lose sight of this major milestone or of its past mistakes in its stylish season 8 premiere, which feels like a return to form for the show. It’s intense, action-packed, and heart-warming in all of the right places....

“I think your grandpa might be a Ninja,” a frightened child warns the younger half of a warring faction in the new The War with Grandpa trailer. Robert De Niro, who survived the Vietnam War in The Deer Hunter, mob wars in Goodfellas and The Godfather Part II, and battled Sugar Ray Robinson in Raging Bull, is taking off his fiercest enemy yet. And may finally be outmatched in this conflict of pranks in the family movie....

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (and the franchise as a whole) has a lot of magic users in it. There are people who channel Chaos to do a myriad of both wonderful and horrible things, and one of the most interesting groups of mages in the franchise is the Lodge of Sorceresses. Every Sorceress in this group in wildly different in their looks, personality, and preferred magic, so it seemed like a perfect bunch of people to compare to the Chinese Zodiacs....

Although The Witcher season 2 will abandon the multiple timelines that may have confused viewers throughout the first season, it sounds as if flashbacks will certainly play a big part in the story. According to showrunner, Lauren Schmidt Hissrich, the Netflix series’ second season will have a large focus on Geralt’s origins, giving us a further backstory and understanding of how the witcher eventually became the legendary white wolf. Hissrich stated that the most important part of The Witcher for her is telling the story of Geralt, Yennefer, and Ciri coming together as a family....

In the unpredictable & cruel world of outlaws, women, and children often face the worst consequence, but that’s not the case for these fellers. The notorious Van der Linde Gang is a group of criminals, free-thinkers, and believers with a price on their heads. Led by their charismatic leader Dutch, the gang prospered in their glory days, but only to find themselves in an endless war against the authority, gang rivals, and the government....

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