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Dota 2, Valve’s ‘sequel’ to the popular Warcraft III community mod Defense of the Ancients, has been officially confirmed for release as free-to-play. Valve, who reached a settlement with Blizzard in early May over possible trademark infringements, will also open a Dota Store, wherein players can acquire player-created or Valve-created in-game items. Initially announced in the fall of 2010, Dota 2 is currently in beta and marching for a late 2012 release....

Bad news for those waiting to get their hands on the third installment in the Vampire: The Masquerade series. Developer Big Bad Wolf Studio and publisher Nacon have announced that the game, titled Vampire: The Masquerade - Swansong, will not make its previously announced release date of 2021. Instead, the game will debut for both previous and current-gen consoles in February of 2022. However, it is not all bad news. Along with the news of the delay, Big Bad Wolf Studio released a brand-new trailer for the game that introduces a new character called Galeb....

For over thirty years, The Simpsons has entertained television viewers as one of the most celebrated and successful animated shows in history. In July 2007, Vans collaborated with the sitcom for the long-awaited Simpsons Movie. Now, the American skate brand and The Simpsons are re-teaming for a new line of products that will be available starting August 7, 2020. “For over 30 years, The Simpsons television show has been a part of pop culture, providing hilarious insight into suburban family life....

This Evil review contains spoilers. Evil Season 3 Episode 1 Evil’s season 3 opener, “The Demon of Death,” faces the same problem which hung over the second season: a cliff-hanging, game-changing event occurs, and the characters have to deal with the consequences. Last season started in the aftermath of a killing; this one picks up the pieces of broken vows. Or were they? Dr. Kristen Bouchard (Katja Herbers), who is married, confessed she got away with murder to the newly ordained priest, Father David Acosta (Mike Colter)....

While Microsoft has been on a tear with all of its recent acquisitions and new studios, Sony studio news has remained relatively quiet for the past few months. Obviously, Microsoft and Xbox are making big plays of extending the console’s first-party offering, but PlayStation seems to be playing its cards close to the chest. Several of the huge, upcoming games for the PS5 are sequels of franchises that either started brand new or saw new life on the PS4....

This The Orville review contains spoilers. The Orville Season 1 Episode 5 While the latest episode of The Orville entitled “Pria” benefited from featuring the talents of the incomparable Charlize Theron, a clunky romance plot interfered with what was otherwise a series of enjoyable interactions between secondary characters. Practical jokes, adventures in engineering, innovative special effects, and even a bit of time travel (this writer’s weakness) provided wonderful moments for viewers to enjoy, but whenever Captain Mercer is the weak spot of the show, as he is all too often, it taints even the best of episodes....

Imagine you grow a lemon tree. It towers over your garden. It’s beautiful. You love it. Now imagine your friend comes over and burns it to the ground. You don’t stand for terrorism. You need to make a statement, so you grow a second lemon tree. It’s just as beautiful and twice as big as the first. It’s a beast. Now imagine the same friend comes over and burns this tree down, too....

As the very first stuff pack for The Sims 4, Luxury Party Stuff feels quite lacking compared to its later counterparts. However, it was trying to fill in a very specific gap that the base game had, party and formal wear. With the base game choices being so limited it’s natural that players would seek alternatives and this pack hopes to provide. The focus is mainly on create a sim items and contains jewelry, clothing, shoes, hairstyles, and makeup options to get your sims ready for any event from a red carpet to a rave....

The Sims 4 finally announced the theme of its newest stuff pack and it seems pretty spooky—for a Sims game, anyway. The Sims 4: Paranormal Stuff trailer showcases some new gameplay details along with Create-a-Sim items and colorful new Build/Buy mode items, seemingly curated from last year’s proposed “Happy Haunts” pack. The community voted for Nifty Knitting instead, but players responded well to the possibility of a supernatural or paranormal pack....

Disney and Lucasfilms’ Star Wars Andor series will focus on Diego Luna’s eponymous rebel spy before the events of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. However, Alan Tudyk recently revealed that he is not expected to reprise his role as Cassian Andor’s droid companion K-2SO in the Disney Plus series, at least not initially. Directed by Gareth Edwards from a script co-written by Tony Gilroy, Rogue One chronicles the exploits of the rebel spies who stole the plans to the Galactic Empire’s Death Star prior to the events of the first Star Wars film....

My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way has made a name for himself in the comic book industry with The Umbrella Academy. An Eisner-award winning comic book, The Umbrella Academy has since been adapted into a hit Netflix series, which just recently premiered its second season to critical acclaim. With so much hype surrounding The Umbrella Academy, Studio71 Games has decided to strike while the iron is hot, teaming up with Dark Horse Comics to produce The Umbrella Academy Card Game....

The most recent installment in The Witcher franchise was filled to the brim with exciting and wild stories like no other. The main quests were enough to satisfy any player’s craving to fight monsters, nurture relationships, and defeat the Wild Hunt. While following the main game is very fun, exploring the abundance of side quests is key when playing The Witcher 3. There are so many hidden adventures waiting for Geralt to find, from saving friends from serial killers to heartwrenching deaths to exploring fairy tale worlds....

Werewolves in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt are classified as “Cursed Ones” under the monster identification umbrella. Individuals from both human and nonhuman races can be afflicted with lycanthropy, which warps them into horrid beasts when the moon is full, though these people don’t remember their actions while in beast form. When someone transforms, they lose the rational side of themselves, letting the primal nature of a creature in hungry agony take over....

Browsing on consoles has always felt sticky and uncomfortable, like sleeping with a jar of peanut butter. Nevertheless, IE and Xbox One aim to change that with a huge list of new features targeted to help users navigate through the World Wide Web. Can IE — a browser that struggles to support HTML 5, has a lack of add-ins and no track filtering — work on Microsoft’s next-gen console? Firstly, if you’re not a fan of this tablet screen faze technology is suck in; you’re not going to like the layout....

July is here, and summer is now officially in full swing. It’s a slower week for indie titles this week due to the Steam Sale. However, the indie gaming scene also has plenty of reasons for you to stay inside this week to help you beat the heat… potentially for the entire long weekend. Here are our picks for this week in indie games, June 27 - July 3. Zombies Ate My Neighbors and Ghoul Patrol - June 29 (PC, PS4, XB1, Switch) Snag a bit of nostalgia with the release of Zombies Ate My Neighbors and Ghoul Patrol – classics from the 16-bit gaming era....

We’ve known that THQ’s fate was in serious question ever since the first grumblings of financial trouble surfaced, and today, the other shoe has fallen. The scheduled auctioning-off of THQ’s studios and properties has been completed, and as was expected, the individual bids from rival publishers outmatched the lump sum proposal from Clearlake Capital. What this means is new publishers for most of the studio’s properties, and that employees not claimed will be working their last days with THQ....

One of the biggest surprises at E3 2017 came during Microsoft’s press conference when Xbox boss Phil Spencer announced backward compatibility for games from the original console was coming to Xbox One. The announcement came with the revelation that when played on Xbox One, original Xbox games will run better, giving added value to one’s collection of OG Xbox games. For those wondering which original Xbox games they will be able to play with improved performance on Xbox One, Microsoft has so far only revealed two games that will be a part of the service....

Epic Games are rolling out a free co-op game as the penultimate title in its giveaway with Torchlight 2, a Diablo-like dungeon crawler that can support up to six players. So, convince your friends to download it and you’ve got yourself the perfect Friday night lockdown game. Get it today within the 24-hour window and its yours to keep forever on the Epic Games Store. If you weren’t a fan of Diablo 3, but you adored the 2nd game, then Torchlight 2 will be right up your alley....

An AI developed by graduate students at the Israel Institute of Technology is garnering attention after having defeated an ’expert player’ at Mortal Kombat. Artificial intelligence in the modern era has reached such impressive heights that developers are searching for opportunities to test their software’s chops. The mechanical structure of games lends itself perfectly to this, particularly board games. But after Google’s DeepMind AI AlphaGO challenged and defeated professional player Lee Sedol at Go, a game which many described as beyond any AI’s potential, a question grew – where is AI’s next challenge?...

It has been half a decade ago ever since Sony revealed that it is adapting Naughty Dog’s popular video game franchise, Uncharted to the big screen. Since then, the upcoming film found itself trapped in development having gone through multiple directors and cast members. Now, it appears that Sony is more than committed to bringing the film to theaters after finally revealing its release date. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Sony has set the release date of the Uncharted film for December 18, 2020, coinciding with the release of Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story, and the sequel to Paramount’s Coming to America....