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Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End director Neil Druckmann discusses the game’s recent delay, saying that waiting an additional two weeks will be beneficial for everyone. After Naughty Dog and Sony announced yesterday that Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End will have its release date delayed again, many fans were understandably disappointed, but the title’s director, Neil Druckmann, took to his official Twitter account to assure folks that the wait will be “worth it in the end”....

Terraforming can be a long and daunting process in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Especially when some players want to do everything they can to get the island of their dreams, they can easily spend hours, days, and even months designing their island to perfection. However, even with the “freedom” that terraforming promises players, there are still a number of restrictions and limitations that can halt your decorating dreams - such as the annoying inability to plant trees if they’re too close to a cliff edge....

Valheim is a difficult and sometimes brutal co-op survival game where players need to prove themselves worthy of entering Valhalla. If they hope to stay alive long enough, players will need to find all manner of resources, with flint being an essential early game item. Flint will allow players to build upgraded axes, knives, spears, arrows, and important tools later in the game, like the Chopping Block and Tanning Rack....

More changes will be coming to VALORANT’s competitive matchmaking in order to combat annoying smurf accounts, a Riot producer confirmed on Reddit earlier this week. According to game producer Sara “npcSara” Dadafshar, these changes will be coming in the “next patch.” The issue was brought up on a post regarding an increase in smurf accounts. A recent VALORANT update made it so players could only queue up together for competitive matches if they stood within three ranks of each other, down from the previous six-rank rule....

Artifact is coming back by going into Beta 2.0. It has been over a year since Artifact last received an update. Famously Valve’s biggest mistake, the Washington-based company decided to go completely back to the drawing board rather than try to incrementally change Artifact into something that players might want to actually play. And now, Valve thinks they might have something worth trying out. It’s called Artifact Beta 2.0, and just like the original game, it’s releasing in Steam Early Access first....

While Valve has, for quite some time, been known as a developer that knows they are in possession of a very treasured franchise, but keeps it from the public, they are actually changing their tune with DotA 2. Initially, Valve’s plan was to, while the game remained in beta, continue to introduce the iconic heroes into the world until the game was on par with the first DotA in terms of the amount of heroes available, but they thought that plan was “dumb....

The closeout to 2020, an already troubled year underpinned by the coronavirus pandemic and political strife, was marked by Cyberpunk 2077’s disastrous launch. One of the most highly anticipated games of all time, fans were promised a living city built to be explored, with the only restrictions being the rules players imposed on themselves through roleplaying. What they got was not that. Instead, Cyberpunk 2077 launched as a technical disaster, with countless fans reconciling that even under all those issues, it was still a regular RPG with a few new ideas....

Blue Manchu’s rogue-like first-person shooter Void Bastards has been the subject of a handful of platform leaks the last few months after a PEGI rating for PlayStation 4 let the world know that ports would be coming soon. The digital distributor Humble Bundle officially revealed Thursday that the game will be coming to PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch on May 7. A few months after the PEGI rating came out, the United States-based ESRB let it slip that a Switch port was on the way while giving the game an ‘M’ rating....

This Walker review contains spoilers. Walker Episode 3 Walker’s “Duke” takes too long to get to the point of the episode, aka that his undercover flame is in town. That leaves us believing that Walker is just being overdramatic for about 10 minutes before the realization hits that he’s doing it to protect his family. All of it is to protect his family. And the fact that no one trusts him is infuriating but realistic at the same time....

Call of Duty: Warzone can be a tricky game to win; however, it becomes an even more difficult mission when the player hot drops into a populated area. Hot dropping is fun both because it will allow the player to get a lot of kills quickly, and it also gives the player a lot of extra practice with aggressive enemies. There are some things that players should know before attempting to jump headfirst into a large area with many other players because otherwise, certain death will be inevitable....

Although some might contend that birds don’t even exist – they certainly do in Call of Duty: Warzone, and they’ll give away your position. Infinity Ward’s battle royale is often a game of information. If you spot your opponents before they spot you, that is half the battle. Warzone’s time-to-kill is very short on average compared to games such as Apex Legends and Fortnite, so stealth, awareness, and first-looks are key....

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! E3 2014 officially begins tomorrow when the trade show floors open up to members of the video game industry and media but today is the day the big press conferences and hence, the big announcements, beginning with Microsoft’s Xbox Media Briefing. Microsoft has been reshaping the future of the Xbox One console in response to sales numbers, the competition and feedback from the industry, surprising everyone a few weeks ago by unveiling an Xbox One console that doesn’t ship with Kinect....

Those lucky enough to have grown up during the turn of the millennium may remember a silly little film called The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D, directed by Robert Rodriguez, who also directed the slightly more popular Spy Kids films. The film, and its title, were definitely a product of their time, but was popular with kids for its silly plot, cheesy CGI, and surprisingly heartfelt moments. In one of the surprising twists of 2020 however, Sharkboy and Lavagirl are back in an official sequel titled We Can Be Heroes....

This Riverdale review contains spoilers. Riverdale Season 5 Episode 13 Nearly every episode title of Riverdale references a major pop culture work, usually a film, and the latest installment, “Reservoir Dogs,” is no exception. Given the fact that this hour features nods to everything from Saving Private Ryan (thanks to Archie’s hilariously anachronistic war flashbacks) to Coyote Ugly and Jesus Christ Superstar, it feels like a bit of a deliberate mislead to give the ep the same moniker as Quentin Tarantino’s breakthrough hit....

What Does Autonomous Things Mean? The term “autonomous things” is being used more and more in the technology world to talk about phenomena powered by the latest advancements in artificial intelligence and machine learning. Autonomous things are things that work autonomously without human guidance or direct intervention. Techopedia Explains Autonomous Things The emergence of autonomous things marks a key landmark in technological progress. Early examples include autonomous drones and self-driving vehicles....

It’s hard to believe that it was over a year and a half ago when Ubisoft unveiled Rainbow Six Patriots at the 2011 Spike VGAs with an intense concept gameplay video. It was pitched as concept footage but in reality, it was a fully working demo Ubisoft had. So with Ghost Recon: Future Soldier having put one Tom Clancy series back in the spotlight, and new Clancy IP The Division earning a lot of buzz this E3, where is Rainbow Six and is there any truth to the rumors of it being canned?...

The man behind the official Sonic the Hedgehog Twitter account announced that he is stepping down after five iconic years. While new Sonic game announcements have been delayed because of COVID-19, fans have kept themselves entertained by looking at the account’s ridiculous but often hilarious posts. In a post on Twitter today, Aaron Webber, the man in charge of the Sonic the Hedgehog Twitter account, confirmed that he is moving to a new role at Sega and would no longer be tweeting for the popular blue character....

Pokemon TCG has always been one of the major card game powers, and it’s still expanding. A Pokemon board game addition to the card game was released to get more players interested, and that’s nothing compared to what The Pokemon Company is trying next. Like many other physical tabletop games, Pokemon TCG has suffered due to COVID-19 preventing players from meeting up physically. To counteract this, The Pokemon Company has been using online play to supplement sales of the physical cards....

This The Time Traveler’s Wife review contains spoilers. The Time Traveler’s Wife Episode 4 Episode 4 of The Time Traveler’s Wife finally fills in key aspects of Henry and Clare’s backstory. We meet Clare’s college friends and Henry’s mysterious ex-girlfriend who play fairly large roles in the novel story. This episode also manages to show that Henry and Clare have some self-awareness that their dynamic is problematic. Henry’s ability to have more than one version of himself in a place at a time makes traditional dating couple habits like meeting your girlfriends’ friends more complicated....

After a short period of uncertainty due to Telltale Games’ sudden closure, The Walking Dead: The Final Season has now found a new home under the wing of Robert Kirkman’s Skybound Games. While Telltale was able to release the first two parts of the game’s final chapter earlier this year, the remaining episodes will now be released by Skybound in partnership with Epic Games, exclusively to the Epic Store for the PC....