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Watch Dogs: Legion, the third entry in Ubisoft’s open-world hacking series, has finally arrived. Unlike its predecessors, Watch Dogs: Legion has taken a trip across the Atlantic and is set in a near-future London. The player takes control of the hacker group DedSec, fighting against the totalitarian government and recruiting new members for the cause. Unlike previous titles, Watch Dogs: Legion has multiple playable characters. In fact, it’s possible to recruit almost anyone in London to DedSec’s cause....

Last June, Capcom revealed Resident Evil 8, the upcoming installment to the long-time survival horror franchise. At the moment, specific details about Resident Evil 8’s story are still being kept under wraps. Still, Capcom is slowly revealing tidbits of information with all the preview trailers it has revealed so far. Although no specific release date has been announced yet, Capcom confirmed that Resident Evil 8 would release sometime in 2021, so players should expect more info on the game in the coming months....

Fresh off the release of the Batman: Arkham City Game of the Year Edition and its attendant Harley Quinn’s Revenge DLC, publisher Warner Bros. Interactive is getting a jump on its E3 2012 competition by revealing new games ahead of the show. At the top of the list sits Injustice: Gods Among Us, a DC Universe fighter featuring Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman and more, developed by NetherRealm Studios of Mortal Kombat fame....

This review contains spoilers for Marvel’s What If…? episode 5. Episode 5 of Marvel’s What If…?, entitled ‘What If…Zombies!?’, is a tremendously fun half hour of television, and is also likely to be a really good time for fans of the Marvel Zombies comics. The installment is packed with laughs and shocking moments, using classic zombie tropes to keep some of the best and most underrated MCU characters on their toes while maintaining an enviable pace as it throws one wild scenario after another at them....

This The Orville review contains spoilers. The Orville Season 2 Episode 13 The latest episode of The Orville demonstrates why I like the series so much. It takes a typical science fiction trope and skillfully uses it to craft something meaningful for us to think about, in a way that is thoughtful, humorous, and relatable. We all have those past loves to reminisce about who we believe could have been the one if we hadn’t screwed it up....

Hardcore players of Battlefield 2 and Battlefield 2142 will remember the Commander role during combat. The Commander (usually the highest ranked player in the game) was able to issue orders, deploy resources like airstrikes or UAVs, and perhaps most importantly, have access to the Commander View, which offered a full view of the battlefield, including enemy locations. Battlefield 3 will not be featuring Commanders and general manager at DICE, Karl Magnus Troedsson explains why....

It’s not wedding bells which break up the old gang in Ben Affleck’s The Town, it’s witness protection. The romance in the middle of the film is only there to delineate the boundaries between heist film and crime procedural. The movie’s center is Charlestown, right across the bridge from the rest of Boston, a legend in illicit locales. The blue-collar neighborhood “produced more bank robbers and armored car thieves than anywhere else in the world,” according to the movie’s prologue....

Telltale Games reveals the season 3 premiere date for The Walking Dead: The Telltale Series - A New Frontier, as well as when players can see the game next. After months of speculation, Telltale Games has finally offered a definitive, concrete release date for the third season of The Walking Dead. As it turns out, The Walking Dead season 3, releasing under the title The Walking Dead: The Telltale Series - A New Frontier, will have its season premiere just before Christmas, on December 20th, across most modern gaming platforms....

This article contains major spoilers for The Witcher season 2. Far from resolving its many conflicts, The Witcher season 2 finale merely focused more intensely on the mystery of Ciri’s power and brought powers together to either find her or protect her. Instead of a traditional victorious ending, the final moments saw the banishment of a troublesome demon and the hardened resolve of the fractured family that surrounds the former princess of Cintra....

In 1996, the gaming world was introduced to what many consider to be the father of all 3D platforming games. Nintendo did a fantastic job in crafting Super Mario 64, which set the bar incredibly high for any 3D platformers that followed. Although “dated” by today’s standards, Super Mario 64 featured entertaining mechanics, solid controls, and excellent stage design. Its simplistic yet pleasing visuals have aged extremely well and still look great over 20 years later....

This article contains Thor: Love and Thunder spoilers. Even more than his previous outing with Thor: Ragnarok, Taika Waititi’s Thor: Love and Thunder takes the titular Space Viking beyond the previously established boundaries of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. From wandering across the stars with the Guardians of the Galaxy to coming face to face with Eternity, the embodiment of the MCU itself, Thor found his new purpose in the most unlikely of places....

Tiger King may easily be one of Netflix’s most popular creations seeing how it so deeply permeated the discourse of society. This includes the gaming sector, where one player used NBA 2K20 to faithfully recreate some of the people that were part of the Tiger King documentary. Thanks to YouTuber 2kToro, the main people of the Tiger King cast have been made as basketball players in NBA 2K20. This includes the titular Tiger King, Joe Exotic, as well as Carol Baskin, Jeff Lowe, and Doc Antle....

Fairies, Deku Scrubs, Gorons, Zoras, and Gerudos galore! We all love The Legend of Zelda at least in part for its universe full of wonder and magic. The series has always been able to make us escape reality with peculiar characters and diverse settings. After all, isn’t a video game supposed to break all boundaries and transgress all rules that keep us gamers in touch with the real world? Cue wrong answer buzzing sound WRONG....

Xbox One or PlayStation 4? Black and blue or lime green hue? That’s the big question facing gamers this Holiday Season, as both Microsoft and Sony go all out to gain their first tentative footholds in the 8th generation. With most major retailers having sold out of their pre-sale allocations months ago, the odds of locating a launch day console are now as hopelessly slim as prospective profits are fat - but, is that necessarily a bad thing?...

This article is sponsored by: To Sleep in a Sea of Stars is Christopher Paolini’s first foray into science-fiction, and the first of potentially many stories in the Fractalverse. The story follows xenobiologist Kira Navárez as a chance encounter with an ancient, alien artifact propels her into an epic space adventure across the vast expanse of the galaxy, in a fight for the fate of humanity. We talk to the author about the writing process, his sci-fi influences, favorite shared universes, and writing hopeful science fiction....

As our reviewer discovered, playing Totally Reliable Delivery Service as a solo player is not the most inspiring of ways to pass the time. It was suggested that this game is more suited to content creators, and while that may be true, there’s another audience as well, kids. For all those who, like me, are sat at home with children and/or teenagers to entertain then this physics-based chaos is about to come to the rescue....

While The Transformers are said to be “more than meets the eye,” the same can’t be said for many games based on the beloved cartoon series. It’s true that the Transformers managed to buck the trend with the critically acclaimed Transformers: War for Cybertron, the franchise has spawned its fair share of shallow, boring tie-in games. But when news leaked that Bayonetta developer PlatinumGames would be getting their hands on the 80’s mainstays to create a game entitled Transformers: Devastation, fans sat up and took notice....

Although many gamers love to jump from MMO to MMO, each title has its own ravenous fan base that stays loyal from day 1 until the servers finally shut down. Take Lord of the Rings Online, for example — a title with a solid fan base that will presumably play for as long as they can. However, while the idea of playing LOTRO into 2015 and 2016 is a believable scenario given the MMO’s popularity among fans, a post on the official Lord of the Rings Online forums called that into question earlier this week....

Twitch streamer JadeyAnh has recently encountered escalation of problems with a stalker, who has ordered food several times under her name to be delivered to her apartment and even sent the police to her residence. Streamers on Twitch and YouTube experiencing stalkers isn’t a new issue, especially not for popular or female content creators. The controversial Twitch streamer Alinity discussed an issue with people in her neighborhood recognizing her and following her around after an incident involving her cat in 2019....

With Ubisoft confirming not one but two Assassin’s Creed games for 2014, talk of franchise fatigue has once again entered the conversation. Any annual release, be it Call of Duty, Assassin’s Creed, or Madden is susceptible to claims the innovation is lacking, and today Ubisoft addressed the issue head-on. While gamers might think that Ubisoft is dead-set on their yearly Assassin’s Creed release schedule, they are actually not. In fact, as they have recently revealed, they would not think twice about delaying a future AC release is the quality was not up to snuff....