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A fired Ubisoft PR director is the latest executive to leave the company in the ongoing sexual harassment investigation that has rocked the French publisher. Stone Chin, former PR director at Ubisoft, has been fired. The news comes from Chin’s own Twitter account where he released a statement explaining what happened. The allegations stem from an incident in 2012, “made by a woman with whom, eight years ago, I spent an evening of consensual intimacy that stopped short of full sexual intercourse....

Ubisoft has given fans the first glimpse into the newest entry in the Prince of Persia franchise, Prince of Persia: The Dagger of Time. After a few months of silence Ubisoft Düsseldorf, a German developer within Ubisoft released screenshots of the upcoming entry on Twitter While rumors of a new console entry are circling the internet, Ubisoft has begun releasing details regarding Prince of Persia: The Dagger Of Time. Announced as a VR experience, the game involves a minimum of two players (with a maximum of 4) teaming up to find a way out of the Fortress of Time....

The UK’s inquiry into whether loot boxes in video games constitute gambling took another step forward today, as the UK Minister for Digital and the Creative Industries dismissed the comparison of loot boxes to gambling. Speaking before the UK Parliament’s Commons committee, Minister and Conservative MP Margot James contested, “the assumption that loot boxes are gambling.” James did, however, share concerns that loot boxes could be a gateway to gambling....

Welcome to 2021. It’ll feel pretty much the same as 2020 for the first few weeks, but it won’t take long for gaming to shake off the doldrums of last year in favor of exciting new titles that take advantage of the latest-gen consoles’ new technology. Just before the turn of the new year, Unreal put out their sizzle reel for December 2020 that features a whole bunch of games coming up in 2021....

Any kid of the 90s will tell you how inundated platforms like the NES and Sega Genesis were with low-quality movie tie-in games. From Lethal Weapon to Robocop, no property was off-limits for publishers with more cash than common sense. There is probably a laundry list of licensed games that didn’t get released, though, as more games are canceled and quietly forgotten than gamers will ever discover. Thankfully, history hasn’t left the Days of Thunder NES game behind....

The closed-beta for VALORANT is here and with it comes a variety of powerful agents players can utilize to overcome their opponents. There are ten agents in the game so far, each with a variety of unique abilities, and one of the best around is Breach. Breach is stacked with a handful of powerful abilities effective against crowd control, controlling areas and initiating fights. Like the other agents in VALORANT, Breach has four abilities to utilize; two basic abilities players can purchase at the beginning of each round, a signature ability available each round and an ultimate ability players charge throughout the match by securing kills, collecting Ultimate Orbs and defusing the spike....

When players think of successful video game companies, names like Nintendo and Epic Games come to mind. But no one can discount Valve, the owner of Steam and, arguably, one of the most successful video game companies today. With this year’s Steam Summer Sale wrapping up, it’s important to catalog everything in Valve’s pedigree. Even before Steam, Valve had created several successful games. Half-Life was and is one of the most important titles in video game history, and both Team Fortress 2 and CS:GO are still played today....

Vampires in Vampire: The Masquerade descend from powerful bloodlines that have unique abilities, called Disciplines. Moreover, these Disciplines give Vampires of the TTRPG a unique edge - a way to come at the top against even the most powerful of Kindred. Additionally, Bloodlines 2 appears to use Disciplines in a similar fashion. Thankfully, the open-world nature of the game becomes a perfect setting for players to maximize the gifts their Vampires possess....

Since it first launched in 2013, the free-to-play shooter Warframe has steadily expanded the number of platforms it’s available on, and that’s not stopping anytime soon. Not only is Warframe getting PS5 and Xbox Series X ports, it now looks like it may be getting a mobile version as well. Leyou Technologies Holdings Limited, the parent company of Warframe developer Digital Extremes, recently released its latest annual report. Much of the 210-page report details how the game has fared in the past year and what the plans are for its future, and a statement from Leyou chairman Xu Yiran suggests that a mobile version is being considered....

This Warrior review contains spoilers. Warrior Season 2 Episode 4 The title of this episode comes from Sophie’s (Celine Buckens) date. Spencer (Russell Crous) comes from the upper class and he’s trying to court Sophie in an upper-class way, but she’s is having none of that. She brings him to the Banshee to slam some drinks, and coyly asks him about his athleticism. Spencer says he plays rugby and Sophie feigns being impressed by the roughness of the sport, egging him to say, “If you don’t see blood, you didn’t come to play....

A new batch of Call of Duty: Warzone leaks have hinted at what might be coming in future updates for the game. The first batch of leaks has revealed that eight new vehicles will be heading to Warzone soon. Warzone leaker ZestyCODLeaks has found traces of eight new vehicles in the game’s files, with the code “enter” and “drive” attached to them, meaning that they can be used by the player....

In this day and age, it seems that the majority of RPGs now involve the use of skill trees. The player has the freedom to decide which skills they want to upgrade and which abilities they want to unlock. However, this is certainly done better in some games than in others, and sometimes skill trees can be vastly disappointing and empty. In this article, I’ll explore some of the arguments for what goes into designing a good skill tree....

What Does Closed User Group (CUG) Mean? A closed user group (CUG) is a group configuration that limits access beyond the defined set of group members. This type of setup can be useful in digital and telecommunications service designs. Techopedia Explains Closed User Group (CUG) Although CUG may be used to refer to an exclusive service that is deliberately closed to benefit its members, most definitions of it involve restrictions that are put on the members themselves....

This review of The Orville: New Horizons contains spoilers. The Orville: New Horizons Season 3 Episode 7 Creator and showrunner Seth MacFarlane is seizing every opportunity with the third season of The Orville. This Hulu streaming renaissance has already proved itself to be the show’s most mature, poignant, and character-driven season to date. One needs to look no further than the title of this episode to see one of its central messages....

New movie Capone is set in the twilight years of America’s most infamous mobster. The slashes across his cheek which gave him his nickname “Scarface” are still there, but the movie is more concerned with deeper wounds. In spite of the Tommy gun and the Cotton Club from Hell scenes, Josh Trank’s Al Capone biopic is a tearjerker, not a gangster movie. Capone is 47 and his mind is rotting from the dementia caused by years of untreated syphilis....

This Lord of the Rings article contains spoilers for The Rings of Power. In the first season of The Rings of Power, Adar was introduced as the leader of the Orcs operating in the Southlands, and is responsible for the death and destruction that force humans out of the Southlands, as well as the eventual creation of Mordor. We also learn Adar was one of the first Elves to be corrupted by Morgoth, and that he actually attempted to kill Sauron in the First Age....

Is it just me, or is the small penis in Cyberpunk 2077 way too big? That was a rhetorical question - of course it’s too big. That’s is why everyone’s talking about it. If you fancy a V with a massive hammer, you’re in luck — but if you were planning on rolling a V with a tiny bird, you’re probably going to be disappointed. Cyberpunk wiener customization is limited to two styles — cut or uncut — and three sizes....

The following contains spoilers for The Thing. Critically mauled on release and largely overlooked in cinemas, John Carpenter’s The Thing has only grown in stature since 1982. What were once condemned as deficiencies – its graphic gore and violence, icy tone and low-key characterization – are now generally regarded as positives. Its simple story about a group of scientists and misfits who encounter a shape-shifting alien in their Antarctic outpost, The Thing has aged remarkably well for a 35-year-old film: Rob Bottin’s practical effects are still extraordinarily imaginative, and fans still debate the finer points of its action today....

Many Pokemon designs are classic and memorable, and most are beloved by the mainstream. But with almost a thousand Pokemon currently known, not every design is going to be a fan-favorite home run. The Pokemon world has its fair share of just outright uglies. Some Pokemon are ugly to the point of being unsettling while others would qualify in the “uncanny valley” rank. Whatever version of creepy or off-putting these Pokemon are, one thing they have in common is that they are ugly....

The “Ladies of the Woods” quest is one of the most exciting and memorable adventures that players can go on in The Witcher 3. It is part of the main questline, which only adds to how fascinating it is, and players will always learn something new about it even while replaying it. However, there is a lot of peculiar magic and weird occurrences within this quest that made very little sense....