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The energetic Tom Holland has been busy juggling the press of two mammoth franchises recently. Alongside the third Spider-Man feature receiving its official title, Holland has also been campaigning his live-action Uncharted adaptation, which he believes is not just for fans of the game. Sharing his thoughts with Den of Geek via Zoom, Holland agreed that viewers are often not interested in a video game film, especially if they’re not a fan of the source material, stating “why would you watch the film?...

Video games, like any medium of popularity and note, have a rich and vibrant history that deserves to be preserved and admired. It should come as little surprise that for every facet of this rich history, people exist who make a concerted and determined effort to display it for both knowledge and appreciation. One such person, has undertaken this task on a surprising, yet fascinating part of video games many would not have considered; user interface....

It looks like PS5’s massive footprint is impacting players in more ways than expected, as GAME earlier today announced shipment delays due to “the size of the product.” GAME, one of UK’s most popular video game retailers, has issued a statement to customers who have pre-ordered PS5, informing them of the delays. It’s a lengthy apology, but it all boils down to this: “Due to the volume of PlayStation 5’s in the UK market and the size of the product, the launch has led to UK wide delivery challenges for all Retailers and Couriers....

Riot Games has relesaed a brand new update to Valorant with multiple patch fixes. While there are a bunch of tweaks incoming with Patch 2.01, it is Valorant heroes and maps that are seeing the big changes. As a live service game, the developers are going to be consistently updating elements to enhance the experience. In this case, it looks like updates are coming swiftly as the Valorant Twitter suggests fans may not have expected one so soon....

Despite releasing almost eight years ago, Counter Strike: Global Operations (CS:GO) continues to attract millions of players every month, and remains an esports fan favorite. Speculation has been brewing for many years that the multiplayer first-person shooter will be upgraded to the newer Source 2 engine in order to improve the dated graphics and allow for better gameplay mechanics. However, a new statement from a long-time Valve fan, with a reliable reputation for leaks and information, reveals that the update “is not happening....

The Steam Controller is dead and has been for a while, but the law can sometimes take a while to catch up to current events. A trial just started on Tuesday that pits Valve against Ironburg Inventions, the patent and intellectual property side of SCUF Gaming International LLC. SCUF, if you recall, is the maker of high-end custom game controllers and headphones, and they’re also the guys who officially invented the rear-side paddles you see on their controllers....

It was three months ago that Valve introduced a new virtual reality headset called Index, and that’s a number that will feel agonizingly familiar to Valve fans: when it comes to threes, the company’s intellectual properties seem to stall after the second game is released. Before the likes of Left For Dead and Portal was the Half-Life series, and fans have been clamoring for a third iteration to that franchise for just about 15 years now....

Ellie is a troubled character from her experiences of loss, but throughout The Last of Us Part 2, we found out how important music is to her through Joel. Let’s dive into what music she would enjoy listening to while growing up in Jackson. SPOILERS FOR THE LAST OF US PART 2. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! She loves to play these songs We know of at least three songs that definitely stand out to her as she learned how to play them on the guitar....

If you see nuclear missiles flying over Verdansk and hurtling towards you, don’t panic. They might look and sound scary but they won’t hurt you. At least not yet. Warzone season three is fast approaching and with it will come the biggest changes to the game to date. Verdansk is slowly being overrun with zombies. Despite players’ best efforts, it will eventually reach a point when the only way to rid the map of the undead is by nuking it into oblivion....

Director Tony Scott’s feature film adaptation of author A. J. Quinnell’s Man of Fire premiered in theaters in 2004 with Denzel Washington as John W. Creasy. In a behind-the-scenes video, Scott and the director of photography Paul Cameron provided insight into how they shot the kidnapping scene that launches the main storyline of the 20th Century Fox film. A former CIA operative and Force Recon Marine officer, Washington’s Creasy reluctantly takes a bodyguard position on the advice of an old friend who realizes Creasy needs to feel useful....

Ubisoft’s CEO says pre-orders for Watch Dogs 2 have not lived up to the company’s expectations, implying that more gamers may be taking a wait and see approach with their games. Watch Dogs was one of 2014’s most hyped releases, with plenty of Ubisoft fans hungry for a new IP. It drew initial comparisons to Grand Theft Auto but with some innovative features courtesy of the game’s hacking-based gameplay and online connectivity....

Another portal has opened in Fortnite, and it seems as if a Xenomorph from Alien will emerge from it very soon. Fortnite season four was all about Marvel. Fortnite season five has been about pretty much every franchise that isn’t Marvel. Next on the list is Alien. A new portal has opened up on the map today, and Alien fans are convinced it looks like a location from the Alien franchise....

Khajiit—possibly The Elder Scrolls franchise’s most recognizable fantasy race alongside the Argonians. Who doesn’t love a cool bipedal cat? As it turns out, actual cats. Tyler and Rachel, a married gaming duo whose shared Twitter can be found at @PrimaryPlaythru, posted a video of one of their cats reacting to a Khajiit character on their TV screen. Their poor pet, Lucky, was not pleased to see some other weird cat in his house....

What Does Competitive Network Mean? A competitive network is typically a type of unsupervised machine learning, using the principle of competitive learning to provide results. Through specific mathematical and network modeling, competitive networks achieve various goals in input recognition and processing. Techopedia Explains Competitive Network Key to the design of competitive networks is the idea of excitatory and inhibitive influences on an artificial neuron. Experts talk about lateral inhibition and feedback connections through which laterally placed nodes may inhibit others....

Justin E. Bell announced on Twitter that he is leaving Obsidian Entertainment after 11 years of employment. He worked as the sound designer on Fallout: New Vegas while he was the composer for The Outer Worlds and Pillars of Eternity. He said, “Big announcement. Today is my last day with Obsidian. Thank you for these 11 years. I’ll always be grateful for everything! So, what’s next? Stay tuned friends. I can’t wait to tell you more....

Granted, Plaguehounds aren’t the friendliest of canine companions, but many of us just love dogs that much. Who doesn’t? Now, there are many trends in gaming today that some in the industry find deeply troubling. There are too darn many Fire Emblem characters in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, for one thing. Microtransactions are also running rife (Activision made more than $1 billion solely from them in just three months this year)....

While many will associate the Xbox brand with popular video game mascots like Halo’s Master Chief, Microsoft also has a long history of working with celebrities - namely Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. The former wrestler helped Bill Gates unveil the original Xbox console in 2001, and would go on to help with other endeavors such as donating Xbox Series X consoles to children’s hospitals. Johnson is now teasing a brand-new collaboration with Xbox and ZOA Energy - the energy drink brand he created that was announced on January 11, 2021....

Without a doubt, my favorite mobile games of all time are the four The Room games. These escape room-style games are packed with interconnected 3d puzzle boxes that are as fun to look at as they are to solve. The Room VR: A Dark Matter is an uncompromising new addition to the series and the first exclusive to VR. Playing it feels like stepping through the screen to solve these elaborate puzzle boxes with your own two hands....

The new Star Wars trilogy didn’t please everyone. It wasn’t necessarily hated either, but for every step forward that it tried to take for the franchise as a whole, it also seemed to take two steps back. One of the most prominent examples of this is with the character choices made throughout these three films. Disney managed to introduce some truly awesome characters into the series, but then ended up muddling the execution when it came to their actual stories and individual growth....

Geralt Of Rivia if officially heading over to the Nintendo Switch later this year with The Witcher 3 Complete Edition. The title has been rumored for weeks to be making its way onto the portable console before E3 even began, but few considered it technically possible because of the demands the game would put on the hardware. It is no understatement to say that porting the game to the Switch is a massive undertaking, and yet, developer CD Projekt Red has pulled it off....