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We all want a Knights of the Old Republic remake. EA so far hasn’t listened to the Change.org petition that was made a few months ago, or if they have, then they haven’t said anything about it. There’s still plenty of time to sign the petition, by the way. It’s not like this is a Kickstarter or anything. But as we wait for EA to dig out that Star Wars license for the umpteenth time to give gamers what they really really want, we’ve got Aspyr to thank for at least porting Knights of the Old Republic II to mobile....

Two new items added to Fortnite this week allow players to avoid taking fall damage, and yes, the Deadpool skin has finally arrived. Although a big week for Fortnite even without the Deadpool additions, it’s hard to look past the anti-hero finally breaking free from his bathroom office. Completing week seven of the Deadpool challenges allows players to transform into the Marvel menace. The Yacht has also been decked out in more Deadpool regalia than you can shake a stick at....

12 Minutes is one of the most intriguing video game prospects in recent memory. 12 Minutes is played from a top-down perspective in one single house. A husband and wife are trapped in a 12-minute cycle, and it’s up to the player to determine what is going on and even control the narrative. The initial trailer and announcement of 12 Minutes at E3 2019 opened eyes and dropped jaws. The game looks chilling, powerful, and unlike anything that most players have experienced before....

Tyson Hesse, renowned by the Sonic the Hedgehog fanbase for animating the opening and ending sequences for Sonic Mania, has confirmed that he is not involved with the Sonic animated series that is being produced for Netflix. In response to fans’ questions regarding his involvement with the show, which is being produced by WildBrain and Man of Action, Hesse wrote in a post Friday on the Sonic Retro fan forums, where he goes by Boxer Hockey (referring to the Sonic webcomics he created before Mania) that he has been aware of the new Sonic animated series being in the works, but he hasn’t been able to contribute anything to the show’s production....

French stock market regulators accuse multiple Ubisoft executives of insider trading, after selling stock in the weeks leading up to the announcement of a delay to Watch Dogs. News regarding new video game software and hardware can have a tremendous effect of the stocks of companies, as Nintendo recently found through the highs of Pokemon GO and the lows of the Switch announcement. Perhaps more than anything, the announcement of a delay to a high-profile project is never good news for a game developer or publisher....

The University of California Berkeley campus had a virtual commencement ceremony hosted entirely in Minecraft. As with every other major educational institution in America (and many beyond America), UC Berkeley’s graduation was canceled. The students still graduated, but that momentous day where everyone piles into California Memorial Stadium to grab their degrees and throw their hats into the air–that was canceled. We’re pretty sure you already know why. However, UC Berkeley had a backup plan....

StoneAge World is a new turn-based MMORPG where you ride and fight dinosaurs in a cutesy cartoon world. The StoneAge series, Korean dev Netmarbles pet-collecting RPG franchise, has actually been around for 20 years. It’s amassed over 200 million players, but they’ve been mostly in Asia. StoneAge World, the upcoming mobile MMORPG, is their first worldwide title that you can actually pre-register to play in North America. Coming for both Android and iOS, StoneAge World puts you in control of a cartoon cave person who tames prehistoric critters to defend the land from techno-dinosaurs....

Boston Uprising’s Overwatch Contenders academy team, Uprising Academy, look to make waves moving forward in North America Contenders after adding former Toronto Defiant player Jin-ui “im37” Hong to the roster heading into week three of Contenders. The former OWL player recently enjoyed a stint with Light Gaming, a Chinese Contenders team, before joining Uprising Academy. Uprising Academy have had a disastrous start to their 2020 Contenders season, not even making it through trials throughout the first two weeks of the season....

About a month ago, Focus Home Interactive and Dontnod Entertainment began a making-of series for the forthcoming action role-playing game, Vampyr, with the companies offering fans a peek behind the curtain that afforded some insights into the title’s development process. Now, the publisher and developer have released the final episode of the mini web series that officially confirms the forthcoming game’s release date as June 5, 2018. As seen below in episode 4 of the Dontnod Presents Vampyr series, the developer explains why video games are so much more unique when compared to other mediums used for storytelling, with the company detailing how it approaches narrative craft....

Symbolically, the moon has been associated with madness, hence the terms luna-cy and luna-tic, and so it is in the traditional tarot deck. However, the Moon major arcana also represents fantasy, creativity, inspiration, and dreams. Persona 5’s confidant for the arcana, Yuuki Mishima, is beholden to many of these qualities and given to day dreaming. While Mishima never quite becomes a full-blown lunatic, his head quickly clouds over with ambition and fantasy after becoming the Phantom Thieves’ self-appointed PR specialist....

Our quick take Volvo V60 Plug-in Hybrid - 4.0 / 5 Power hybrid semantics Mode dilemmas Plug-in baby Tangled cables Your mileage may vary It’s all about the experience V is for versatile? To recap Volvo’s first production plug-in hybrid is a triumph of integration - proving easy to make the most of and giving you the best of both worlds in terms of power and (potential) economy. A truly enjoyable experience, only the dented boot space, lack of rapid-charge capability and comparative cost spoil the picture....

Flying under the radar this week, Games Workshop has made a couple of interesting announcements for their tabletop war game, Warhammer 40K. A summary of the errata and updates follows. Space Marine Designers Note This codex overrides Psychic Awakening (p32-39) Heavy Intercessor Squad, Wargear Options (p141) Primaris Apothecary (p145) Assault Squad, Wargear Options (p164) Points Values, Chapter Command (p202) Points Values, Assault Squad (p204) Necron Ancient Machineries (p69) Territorial Imperative (p71) Weapon Enhancements, Gauss Weapons, Metallophagic Decouplers (p76) C’tan Shard of the Deceiver, Grand Illusion (p98) The Silent Ling, Voice of the Triarch (p110) As noted above, the new Space Marine Codex and rules take preference over previous publications, including the previous editions Psychic Awakening campaign that ushered in Indomitus....

Our quick take WarioWare Get it Together! - 4.0 / 5 Co-op craziness Top Nintendo Switch games: Best Switch games every gamer must own Best upcoming Nintendo Switch games to look forward to Wanna tell you a story Mode-us operandi To recap The Nintendo WarioWare series has been going for 18 years and this latest outing harks back to the earlier, fun-filled titles. Get it Together adds couch co-op to the fun, even throughout the story mode, while offering multiple unlockable characters with different abilities to play as is a masterstroke....

Cheating in Call of Duty: Warzone has been a topic of conversation for fans since the game’s debut. From questions of skill-based matchmaking to aim botting to players that run rampant across several game modes, the one thing that many fans don’t have is proof. One Warzone fan believes that by simply implementing a Replay System into the game, the community can help bring down cheaters and improve their skill level....

Anyone who’s been near an internet connection in the past few months has probably run across the trailer for Kung Fury, an enthusiastically insane Kickstarter film paying glorious, over-the-top homage to ’80s martial arts action movies, buddy-cop flicks, bad movie hacking sequences, classic video games, VHS tracking issues, vikings, dinosaurs, and the joy of watching Adolf Hitler get punched in the balls. Now the full half-hour Kung Fury short film has hit YouTube, and it lives up to every ridiculous bit of promise shown by the earlier trailer....

A livestream video for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare’s forthcoming Zombies in Spaceland surfaces online, displaying more than 20 minutes of gameplay for the mode. Now that Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare fans are almost assuredly setting aside storage space on their respective platforms and pre-loading the first-person shooter’s rather large file sizes, many of those gamers are surely champing at the bit and ready to try out all that the forthcoming title has to offer....

With the Arkham games essentially being done, Batman fans have been keeping their fingers crossed for a while that there will be another entry in the Dark Knight’s long lineage of video games. Now, it looks as if another title starring the Caped Crusader could eventually be making its way into the marketplace in the near future–that is, if a recent post from an employee at WB Games Montreal is actually teasing as much....

Marvel’s What If…? series has a lot of potential. That’s kind of its thing, it’s all about what might have happened had different characters been in different places at different times. We see Peggy Carter taking up the mantle of Captain Carter, for example, where the main MCU continuity has Captain America. We also see Killmonger rescuing Tony Stark, the iconic Marvel Zombies, and the Guardians of the Galaxy during the Battle of New York....

In video games, handguns serve as nice little alternatives to larger guns. They’re usually easier to handle while still having a fair amount of versatility in most situations. The Outer Worlds certainly has a nice assortment of handguns to use. Which ones are the best though? Well, that’s what we’re about to find out. Note that Mk 2, Ultra, and other upgraded variants of standard weapons in the game are essentially the same as those standard variants....

This article contains spoilers for Vikings. Vikings brought to life the sagas of Ragnar Lothbrook and his progeny. The series’ sweeping, twisting, end-of-empire narrative – blending history with legend, fact with fiction, blood with water, war with peace – chronicled the fate of the Viking people as they fought to understand the world and their place within it, which was diminishing even as it seemed their horizons were broadening. Netflix’s new sequel series, Vikings: Valhalla, set a hundred or so years later, reminds us that the story didn’t end with Ragnar....