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Valve president Gabe Newell has hinted Steam games will be coming to console before the end of 2021. When most people think of PC gaming, and where to go to buy PC games, they think of Steam. Steam is the platform’s flagship storefront and earlier this year boasted an eye-watering 120 million active users. It makes all the sense in the world that other platforms would want that sort of reach at their disposal, and according to Valve CEO Gabe Newell, that might well happen very soon....

The SAG-AFTRA union officially goes on strike against several gaming publishers, meaning many games currently in production are in jeopardy of delays until the strike’s resolution. Not long after the final round of negotiations between the SAG-AFTRA union and several game publishers failed to produce anything significant, the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists has officially gone on strike in protest of how gaming publishers are handling voice acting contracts and performances as a whole....

Measuring your K/D, or kill-death ratio, has been a way of evaluating player skill in Call of Duty for years now, and that’s certainly true with Warzone. While getting better at the game will more than likely help you slowly increase that ratio, there’s actually a pretty simple trick that will do so as well. It might sound a bit silly, but sitting in the plane until you’re kicked out at the edge of the map is a sound strategy for raising one’s K/D....

If that weren’t an awesome enough concept, there’s a rival assassin in the mix, too, except her job is to stop the other assassin from killing his targets. This rival assassin is also stuck in a time loop, making for what appears to be some interesting shenanigans throughout the game, including Deathloop’s multiplayer where another player can play as the rival assassin. These assassins are going to be getting very familiar with one another, if these trailers are anything to go by....

Going into a demo of Marvel’s Avengers at E3 2019, there was a singular focus: to find out what the gameplay actually looks like. While the Marvel’s Avengers reveal trailer gives quick glimpses at what appears to be gameplay, nothing is specifically called out and many questions were left unanswered. Crystal Dynamics’ presentation hoped to answer those questions and by and large, it did. The demo itself focuses on the same Golden Gate bridge level seen in the reveal trailer, only featuring brief sequences of each Avenger fighting broken up by a little traversal and a few quicktime events here and there....

What Does Citizen Data Scientist Mean? A citizen data scientist is a role that analyzes data and creates data and business models for their companies with the help of big data tools and technologies. Citizen data scientists do not necessarily need to be data science or business intelligence experts. This role is given to employees in an organization who can use the big data tools and technology to create data models....

When you give an MMO a name like Star Wars: The Old Republic, the fiction and memory tied to the space opera tends to overwhelm any other influences. But what can’t be overlooked by fans and MMO players is the studio behind the new project, and the dedication to story and decision-making that BioWare has shown. In the launch trailer for The Old Republic, the developers of the game explain everything a player needs to know before starting their own Star Wars adventure, and why each and every one will be just as important....

This article contains nothing but The Punisher season 2 spoilers. Chances are that this season of The Punisher is going to be the penultimate Marvel Netflix show, with only Jessica Jones Season 3 left on the slate. With that in mind, you’re probably wondering: what happens at the end of The Punisher Season 2? Where does it leave everyone? Well, read on for our explanation of The Punisher season 2 ending…...

Xbox co-creator Ed Fries explains in an interview how Microsoft founder Bill Gates nearly shut down the original Xbox project entirely due to it not using Windows. Microsoft has had a hold on the gaming market for a long time, simultaneously offering PC gamers a platform to play their games on and offering the Xbox line of consoles. While the Xbox is now a household name, it almost didn’t happen at all, and ultimately a single person is responsible for getting Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates to green-light the Xbox console gamers know today....

Assorted comic book facsimiles of New York City may be protected by the tireless vigilance of Superman, Spider-Man, or Batman, but it took Troma Entertainment to give New Jersey a long-overdue superhero all its own, and one it richly deserved. In the annals of radically independent and hilariously low-budget American filmmaking, few franchises have achieved either the longevity or the mythical status of Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz’s The Toxic Avenger, the film that cemented Troma’s style and aesthetic, and which introduced an icon who remains as intertwined with Troma’s identity as Godzilla is with Toho’s....

This article contains The Umbrella Academy spoilers. There’s no denying that The Umbrella Academy season 2 provided plenty of closure for the immediate dangers of Vanya’s explosive power, which was at the center of both apocalypses in the first two seasons. However, even though the Hargreeves siblings are no longer displaced in time, there’s plenty of conflict left to resolve. The Umbrella Academy season 3 won’t return for awhile, but we can take some educated guesses as to where things might be headed....

In a recent statement from the ESRB explaining Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla’s ‘M for Mature’ rating, we learned that “magic mushrooms” exist within the upcoming game. Based on that, and some historical Viking evidence, there’s a chance that these shrooms might even have an impact on in-game combat. The ESRB explained that Valhalla’s main character “consumes mushrooms” and “inhales mushroom-based fumes”, which then leads to the screen becoming distorted and changing colors, alluding to some sort of psychological effect....

Introducing DefendTheHouse, a YouTube channel that’s dedicated itself to busting video game myths for some of the world’s most popular games. And it doesn’t get much more popular than Call of Duty’s free-to-play battle royale mode, Warzone. Their most recent Mythbusters Volume 19 video asked and answered several questions from Warzone players, including whether or not you can down a chopper using the ballistic knife (you can, it just takes a lot of knives), if you can assassinate a henchman for the ’80s Action Hero Event (negative on that one), and what happens to your loadout marker if it strikes a trophy system (it looks like the loadout marker blows up, but it actually just goes back into your inventory)....

Announced back in 2017, Biomutant captured the hearts of the gaming community by showing us a glimpse of a unique open-world RPG full of bizarrely mutated monsters. News has been scarce on the ground since its announcement, with only a couple of short gameplay trailers from developers Experiment 101, but now you can finally look forward to a release date for the game on May 25, 2021. Biomutant was allegedly supposed to launch at the end of last year, but Covid-19 has likely made development much trickier, pushing the game’s release into 2021....

“It’s four people sitting at a table, having a conversation about what it’s like to be a superhero, and it was amazing,” teases Holland. “The other day we watched the scene, my brother and I, and our jaws were on the floor.” Additionally, the table scene participants confirmed by Holland could narrow the possibilities of the fourth person in terms of familial closeness to Peter. This would eliminate the possibility of it being Benedict Cumberbatch’s catastrophe-weaving Sorcerer Supreme, Doctor Strange....

This isn’t all that surprising, given the massive success that Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2 has been for Activision. The game sold over a million units in under two weeks and received universal acclaim from critics and players alike. Our own Sam Watanuki called THPS 1 + 2 “not just a must-play title for skateboarding fans” but “an essential title for gaming in general." I don’t think there’s any higher praise for a video game than that....

For any PlayStation 4 owners who are looking for a new racing game in the vein of 2019’s Crash Team Racing and other high-octane titles, Touhou is bringing its 2019 racer Gensou Skydrift to the Sony console in March 2021. The release will feature two new stages when it comes to PS4, but it will lose cross-platform multiplayer functionality that is present in Switch and PC versions of the game....

The Last of Us voice actor Troy Baker has spoken out about the actor he wants to see play Joel in HBO’s upcoming production that will be based on the game. Speaking to Collider, Baker gave his opinion on how Hollywood veteran Josh Brolin would be a “knockout choice” to fill the role that’s currently not been cast. Collider recently interviewed Troy Baker as part of the Collider Games Podcast and the team was able to ask the actor who he would like to see fill the role of Joel....

Twitch is ramping up its efforts to prevent the use of ad-blockers on its site by claiming that the extensions are impacting site performance, though it appears to be little more than another step in the never-ending escalation in the war of online advertisements. In a recent update, users who use ad-blocking extensions are being frequently hit with a pop-up window informing them of the impact to site performance caused by such tools....

Twitch streamer PaladinAmber has become a viral sensation after coming up with an inventive way to deal with harassment and those who leave inappropriate requests in chat. Streamers are no strangers to harassment and handling raunchy remarks when they stream, but PaladinAmber’s shutdowns have been called “hilarious” by Twitch viewers. Clips of PaladinAmber’s creative shutdowns have racked up millions of views online, with one clip, of the streamer answering a question about her relationship status, really proving popular....