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Throughout the years, video games have become an increasingly common pastime around the world, with more people turning to them for entertainment than ever before. This year, especially, has driven up engagement with video games, with millions of people forced to remain home during the coronavirus pandemic. This has, at least in part, driven record earnings in the games industry, and according to a new report, a record percentage of people playing video games in the United States....

In the early days of video games, easily accessible game guides didn’t exist. Nintendo Power, one of the earliest video game strategy guide publications, was published monthly. Most strategy guides were simply word-of-mouth. Your friends came over and everyone would take turns failing on the same level over and over again. Back then, there was no hand-holding and no tutorials. Video games in those days felt impossibly hard–your job was to figure out how to beat them....

Winstrike Team has come under fire recently for allegedly violating multiple contractual obligations over the past year, including missed payment deadlines for the players and teams they manage. In an open letter addressed to the esports organization, forZe esports, Virtus.pro (VP), Gambit Esports, and HellRaisers accused Winstrike Team of lacking professionalism and refusing to submit payments in a timely manner. VP claimed that in a deal where a player was transferred from their management to Winstrike, Winstrike was supposed to submit a payment to VP within the following month....

Voltage Entertainment USA, a company best known for their LGBT+ inclusive series of of otome games, has recently fired all 21 of the freelance writers in contract with them after they attempted to unionize. What’s more, they’ve released a rather callous public statement about the event, deriding the striking freelancers several times in the official statement for declining individual negotiation with the company and stating that the writers’ claims of being paid below the industry standard were false....

Necramechs are a recently-added mechanic in Warframe. Rather than play as a space ninja with crazy space powers, Tenno can get behind the controls of a terrifying Warhammer 40K-inspired mecha that’s armed to the teeth with guns, rockets, and now a sword and shield. The first Necramech arrived with the initial Heart of Deimos open-world expansion, and the second one named Bonewidow arrived with the Arcana update. Now, thanks to an interview with our very own Cian Maher, we’re finding out that Digital Extremes has plans to add even more Necramechs in the future....

Warhammer 40,000 9th Edition is just around the corner and boy are we excited! Games Workshop has been dropping sneak peeks over the last few weeks and one of those was the free edition of the core rules they provide. The core rules are not a full rule book, but instead, describe the essential mechanics that take place in a game of Warhammer 40K. The release of the new rules came at somewhat of a surprise to many, but it has given us a chance to take a look at how the 9th edition changes will affect our game....

When playing Call of Duty: Warzone, opening any chest which reveals a killstreak tool can provide the edge needed to capture that ever-elusive victory. When enemies are clustered up in a great vantage point, a great way to alleviate that pressure is to call in the Cluster Strike killstreak reward. First, a successful drop-in is key. Unlike the regular Call of Duty multiplayer, players do not earn kill streaks within Warzone....

Wasteland 3 sees the Arizona Rangers leave their home behind on a desperate mission into the nuclear winter of Colorado, where right from the get-go, players are thrust into a game filled with important decisions, fights for survival, and a variety of tactical scenarios. With a strong backing from its Kickstarter, inXile Entertainment manages to deliver perhaps the best game in the franchise. The overarching structure of the game is straightforward: in order to get help for Arizona, players are tasked with working with a questionable authoritarian figure in capturing his three children....

It’s been a bit since the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 consoles launched, which means we’ve had plenty of time to compare the two consoles to see which one is better in terms of performance. So far, there’s no clear winner, and the contest doesn’t get any clearer when comparing the next-gen consoles using Watch Dogs Legion. In Digital Foundry’s latest comparison video, they found that both the Xbox Series X and PS5 looked and played almost identically....

Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Earthblood draws ever closer to its release on February 4, and now PC gamers can get a look at the minimum and recommended requirements for running the game. The game’s developer, Nacon, has revealed the official PC requirements for Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Earthblood and the good news is that the requirements won’t have fans scrambling to upgrade parts. Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Earthblood is an action-RPG based on the tabletop RPG of the same name and will see players exploring the World of Darkness as Cahal, a man with shapeshifting powers....

BioWare has recently shared its first inside look at what players can expect to see when the 2.0 update comes to Anthem, but while BioWare’s upcoming 2.0 edition will be taking new approaches to major game mechanics, the developer shouldn’t lose sight of the initial positives that drew players to the game in the first place. If there really was nothing worth saving in Anthem, then BioWare would have simply dropped the title entirely and wouldn’t be putting the extra effort into trying to revive the rapidly dying game....

What Does All The Wares Mean? The phrase “all the wares,” though obscure and sparsely documented, is something that is used in today’s IT slang. It is an evolution of the term “wares” to describe different kinds of software. “All the wares” refers to a wide spectrum of software products with collective access. Techopedia Explains All The Wares As the world of software engineering has grown over the past few decades, the term “wares” was used in many ways to talk about different types of software....

The Outer Worlds is a fitting spiritual successor to Fallout: New Vegas, the lovely open-world RPG released in 2010. Both games were made by Obsidian, after all. With The Outer Worlds coming to Switch soon, now is as good to look up the best strategies if you haven’t played it already, or if you’re looking to jump back in. The opening area of the game, Emerald Vale, serves as a great place to stretch your legs....

The Sims franchise has never known occult creatures like it did with The Sims 3: Supernatural expansion pack. Released in 2012, this expansion added witches (or wizards), werewolves, fairies, and zombies to The Sims 3, allowing players who loved more outlandish Sims stories to howl at the moon (so to speak) with tons of new gameplay opportunities. While The Sims 4 has already seen the return of witches and wizards thanks to the Realm of Magic game pack, the game is still missing two beloved occults that should return again....

The subject came up when Copeland spoke with Den of Geek last year about Under the Volcano. Gracie Otto’s documentary is about Beatles producer George Martin’s Air Studios Montserrat, where Synchronicity sessions ultimately troubled the Police’s future. Copeland calls “Trouble Again,” the song he wrote and recorded with Derek Holt for Star Wars: Droids, “extremely obscure,” and says he was “not even aware that that was released anywhere.” It’s true, the opening credit sequence for the 1985 cartoon, which itself feels like a relic of the past, features only a minute of Copeland’s song, which has become a cult favorite among both Star Wars and obscure rock music fans....

Stardew Valley is a farming simulation role-playing game that is reminiscent of games from the MS-DOS era. The graphics are simplistic, but it excels with rich color, vibrant surroundings, and more detail than we would expect from an indie game. Whether you are a new player or an experienced person who wants a change, these mods are some of the most beneficial to have. Mods can drastically change a game for the better or worse....

This article contains spoilers for The White Lotus season 2 episode 3. Films and television shows create characters who represent ideal illusions of sex symbols, people we crave to be with but have no chance to meet so we can actualize our dreams. The ironic thing about TV crushes is that there are over 7 billion humans on this planet, yet we think the people behind the screen have something that others don’t....

Special Blue Mutagens are helpful to magically inclined players in The Witcher 3. Each Special Blue Mutagen will provide a +5% to Sign Intensity. They will also provide an additional +5% for every blue ability they’re attached to for a max bonus of +20%. For players wanting that appealing +20% Sign intensity bonus it’s recommended to farm various monsters to obtain these Mutagens. There are a few monsters in the world, some far more challenging than others to take down and some being a great source of limitless Mutagens....

The hole left in the hearts of the world’s Game of Thrones fans might soon be filled by The Witcher, as the showrunner is promising that any sex or violence in the show will be integral to the plot. The Witcher TV series is based on the fantasy novels of the same name by Andrzej Sapkowski, though the series is perhaps more known for the video game adaptations of the same novels that were developed by CD Projekt Red....

The Yakuza Remastered Collection is now available for download on Xbox Game Pass, whether you’re on PC or the flagship Microsoft console itself: that’s rad. Yakuza’s remastered trilogy features games 3, 4, and 5, but you can also download them separately if you don’t want all three eating up your hard drive space. The remastered trilogy brought the already remade games up to current-gen, PS4, and Xbox One, with the appeal being the uncapped 60FPS and higher resolution of 1080p....