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Twitch, it’s time for you all to lawyer up. The fight for copyrights has finally come to the streaming platform. Copyright holders have declared war on Twitch. For years, they were content to license music, sound effects, and more to game developers, secure in the knowledge that those copyrighted materials would only ever be viewed by the owners of those games in the comfort of their own living room. Streaming platforms, and especially Twitch, changed the equation forever....

There’s a whole country waiting to be climbed, explored, and viking’d, but I’m sitting here rolling dice. Many who pick up Assassin’s Creed Valhalla are feeling the same way as they get sucked into Orlog, the combat dice mini-game. The game is easy to understand, and yet has the opportunity for increasing layers of strategy. As a tabletop gaming enthusiast, let me just say this: Ubisoft, you would make bank if you sold a real-life version of Orlog....

There was a lot for Assassin’s Creed fans to be excited about this week at E3, as Unity took the stage in multiple presentations with gameplay footage and cinematic trailers that were both equally stunning. The next installment in the blockbuster stealth action franchise will incorporate a new four-player co-op mode that gives players a chance to have a social experience while working through an Assassin’s Creed narrative like never before....

PC gaming has become Ubisoft’s main avenue for sales, according to the company’s published financial statistics for the first quarter of the fiscal year. The publishers reported having surpassed their targets for the period, thanks to its focus on “the PC opportunity” and its aim to have PC overtake consoles in terms of game purchases was exceedingly successful. The likes of Rainbow Six Siege and Assassin’s Creed Odyssey are said to be the main reason Ubisoft was able to smash its targets....

The fifth and so far final boss of Valheim is Yagluth, who can be summoned in the Plains biomes. This gigantic half of a skeleton certainly makes for a difficult feat despite not having any legs and having to drag himself around on his hands. Yagluth aside, the plains are dangerous within themselves, harboring tons of mobs which you’ll need to take on in order to collect all the materials for the offering at the altar....

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 recently had its first confirmation of a next-gen release with the Xbox Series X. Now the sequel to the cult hit RPG can add another next-gen platform to the list. Confirmed by the recently released trailer via the Official Paradox YouTube account, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 will also be releasing on the PlayStation 5 as shown by the logo at the end of the trailer....

Volcanoids - the steampunk survival drilling title from developer Volcanoid - has been available since January of last year in Steam’s Early Access program, and it’s clear that the developers are hard at work to give players everything they may want in a volcano-drilling survival adventure. This week, a new update was added to the game, bringing with it the ability for players to join up in crews of two to four people for co-op scavenging, base-building, and drilling action....

In a first for the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), Wandavision was filmed with a live studio audience. In an effort to recreate the look of a 50’s sitcom a la I Love Lucy, the series was shot in black and white with lenses and lighting from the period to truly capture that vintage glow. Even the crew dressed up as if they were back in the 50’s. In a cover feature for Entertainment Weekly, leads Paul Bettany and Elisabeth Olson talked about the effort made to make the first episode of the upcoming Disney+ series Wandavision as period accurate as possible....

Which loadout should you be using in Call of Duty: Warzone? Here are our best loadouts in Season 5. Warzone is constantly getting patches and updates that make tweaks to the game, big and small, that keep the game interesting. It also can turn great weapons into ones that are just decent, and terrible ones into accidental killing machines. But, even if you stay on top of the gun meta and know which guns still hold the top spots, how you build them into your loadout can turn that great gun into an overpowered monster....

A Warzone streamer gathered together 150 players to create the biggest explosion in the history of Verdansk and proceeded to crash the server. Teamwork in Warzone is a wonderful thing. However, getting your squadmates to work as a cohesive unit can be difficult, especially if you have been paired with strangers. MarleyThirteen managed to do the unthinkable by getting an entire Warzone lobby to band together in the name of a common cause....

The current season of the Overwatch League has been a strange one for the Washington Justice due to numerous changes to the team made partway into the season. Last week, General Manager Bawlynn and assistant coach Bani were the latest to depart from the Justice. This was announced in a sudden Tweet implying that that their release wasn’t mutual. The latest change to the Justice, however, was not a loss, but a contract extension: JJANU, originally signed to a two-week contract, has become a long term member of the Washington squad....

This hamster traverses the Kanto region and defeats Team Rocket a lot faster than we ever could. YouTube channel The Hamster Maze Adventure is pretty much exactly what it says on the tin. Its creators put together fun and elaborate mazes for a hamster to try and figure out, with a little helping hand along the way in some cases. The latest addition to its collection takes the form of Pokemon’s Kanto region, and it took more than a month to create....

Warning: contains The Rising spoilers. The Rising is filled with all the twists and turns viewers have come to expect from a murder mystery drama. Adapted from Belgian crime thriller Beau Séjour, The Rising is set in small town in the British countryside, with sweeping landscapes and a thriving motocross community. The extra supernatural twist in this particular mystery is that its central character Neve Kelly (Clara Rugaard) is dead from the start, but for some reason remains on earth....

This The Shannara Chronicles review contains spoilers. Shannara Chronicles Season 2 Episode 1 Rejoice all you teenagers looking for exciting background noise to zone out to while scrolling through your newsfeeds: The Chronicles of Sha-nay-nay is back! The big question right now is – is it better than ever, or is it “meh”-er than ever? Because let’s be real: it’d be hard to top what this show had accomplished in its first year....

In May of 2010, fans of action-adventure and third-person shooter games were given a rare treat; the ability to be a cattle-rustling, train robbing, cowboy in an immersive Western environment. As John Martson, a former outlaw, gamers were tasked with hunting down three members of his former gang in exchange for the government releasing his wife and son. Traveling through a version of the United States during the decline of the American frontier, gamers could engage in gunfights, play cards in a saloon, all the while having their morality levels fluctuate depending on their actions....

Werewolves are arguable one of the most popular supernatural creatures around, with their inclusion in most fantasy-based worlds being almost a given at this point. However, while this might imply that including werewolves in a world is cliche, the fact of the matter is that authors who put some work into the lore and justification behind the existence of these creatures in their fantasy landscape can give these run-of-the-mill creatures some much-needed depth and make them interesting in the process....

Dandelion (also known as Jaskier) is proof that fans might just as easily fall in love with a supporting character. Every hero needs a best friend, ever a hero as gloomy and grumpy as Geralt of Rivia sometimes is. Dandelion is that best friend - but so much more. His role in the Andrzej Sapkowski The Witcher books is somewhat small but still notable. Dandelion has a talent for getting in trouble but he also stands by his friends’ side whenever they need him....

A fan of From Software’s action-RPG franchise, Dark Souls, creates an incredibly hilarious music video for the game featuring a-ha’s cheerful song “Take On Me.” Thanks to the advent of the Internet, a lot of gamers have been able to express themselves creatively to the world and other fans of the medium by drawing inspiration from some of their favorite titles, franchises, and pop culture properties even beyond the realm of video games....

We’ve already seen the surface of Mars in a plethora of video games and other pop culture mediums. In real life, robots are beginning to explore the uncharted planet, but colonization can now be in our capable hands by playing Pyramid Games’ new open-world survival Occupy Mars: The Game. With a release date soon to be announced, Occupy Mars is currently available as an Early Access demo on Steam. While interested space enthusiasts get a grip of the mechanics of the sandbox game, the developer has confirmed that the team will continue to implement additional modding features before the game is ready for full release....

Fresh after being announced at Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest, Borderlands spin-off Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands showed off enemies in the game during the Gearbox Showcase. Based on the Borderlands 2 DLC Tiny Tina’s Assault on Dragon Keep, it uses a Dungeons & Dragons style tabletop game to guide players through a fantasy world. The game is not a Borderlands sequel, but is its own thing with its own continuity. However, since it takes place in the Borderlands world and features Tiny Tina herself, don’t be surprised if some other characters pop up too....