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The Xbox 360’s Zune Marketplace is often marketed by Microsoft as the go-to place for all of your television and movie needs, but lately it’s been a last resort option for anyone who already enjoys Netflix and Hulu on the system. Microsoft has allegedly gotten sick of sitting back while these third parties take a chunk out of their profit, and they plan to strike back by offering their own video streaming option via the Zune Marketplace....

Darksiders and Darksiders 2 Creative Director Joe Madureira has announced his departure from developer Vigil Games. In addition to serving as CD on the company’s only retail releases, Madureira (or Joe Mad, as he liked to be called) also co-founded Vigil Games back in 2005. While Madureira wouldn’t say what endeavors he hopes to pursue post-Vigil, he did tease more details about his “next big thing” are right around the corner....

Virtual Battlegrounds, developed by VR game studio CyberDream, starts Season Two with a decent update to the game. This update adds new content, and upgrades different visual and gameplay elements in this battle royale shooter. Virtual Battlegrounds, which released in April 2020, plays like many of the other battle royale games on the market. Players land on an island, and fight amongst 24 other players in order to be the last one standing....

During my time with TheGamer, I’ve been lucky enough to have the opportunity to check out various headphones from recognizable gaming brands such as Razer, which has pulled me into a world of greater appreciation for high-end audio quality while gaming. So, of course, I jumped at the chance to check out an all-new brand that was in the pre-production phase of its first consumer headphones. VZR - a company co-founded by former Lead Audio Engineer for Apple, Vic Tiscareno, and film and game industry veteran, Michel Henein - has officially revealed its VZR Model One....

The Warhammer 40k universe is full of different factions and species for players to enjoy in either its tabletop incarnation or through its many different video game adaptations. One of the newer races to be added to the game is the somewhat more futuristic Tau Empire. The Tau isn’t the most popular faction in the game, maybe due to their aesthetic, but they still deserve some love and attention. This is why we are are going to go over some things that any fan of the Warhammer 40k world should know about the Tau....

The mother of all Call of Duty data mining leaks has revealed that, in addition to everything else, Warzone is getting a night mode in an upcoming update. Finally, we can all be like Bravo six and “go dark” to take out our enemies. Data miners have been hard at work in the Modern Warfare code mines to bring us all of this sweet, sweet information. So far, we have learned that the Black Ops game will be released on November 13, there will be a beta, and that Cold War is a direct sequel to Black Ops 1....

The anticipated Watch Dogs: Legion has brought many surprises since its reveal concerning gameplay, and now technology for PC gamers. In September, Ubisoft revealed the PC requirements for Watch Dogs: Legion to gamers looking to buy the upcoming game. Now the developer has revealed more information on specific details for the game’s ability to use Ray-Tracing. Watch Dogs: Legion will require a number of systems requirements to push its visuals to the limit on PC....

Watch Dogs Legion is the latest big game to enthrall fans with its stunning graphics and attention to detail, and now one fan has noticed yet another impressive feature. The game supports ray tracing, a lighting technique used to create more realistic environments, and found the perfect location in game to show off just how much of an effect it has. Ray tracing isn’t new by any means, but it is steadily becoming a more common feature....

The Game Awards 2015 is just about to go live. 10 premieres are planned to be shown, so here’s a list of the five already teased and speculation on the remaining five. Under half an hour remains until 2015’s The Game Awards goes live. The nominees have been selected, the votes have been tallied, and all that remains is for the cameras to turn on. Will Mark Hamill win for his final Joker performance?...

A nerfed Battlefield Hardline Easter Egg, a Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare DLC players can get right now, and a Star Citizen in-game feature reveal. What do these things all have in common? They’re all a part of this week’s Game Rant Video Game Round-Up! Each weekend in our Video Game Round-Up, we spotlight a few stories that didn’t make the front page during the week. Here are all the stories from this week’s Round-Up:...

Star Wars fans received some exciting information this week from EA and DICE. The publisher and developer announced that Star Wars Battlefront will be released on November 17th for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. They also shared some details about the game at this week’s Star Wars Celebration and based on the information provided, it sounds like the new Battlefront will be similar to the previous Battlefront games, but with a few additions thanks to the Frostbite 3 engine....

What are Memoji? How to set up Memoji and share them Open Apple’s Messages app. Open a chat. Tap the App Store icon next to the text field in a conversation thread. Tap the Memoji (character with heart eyes) icon from the selection of App Store apps. Tap on the “+” and select ‘Get Started’. Tap ‘New Memoji’ to open the Memoji builder. While looking at your iPhone, adjust your Memoji preferences like skin and hair colour, hairstyle, eye shape, lip shape etc....

What Does True Positives Mean? True positives as results in machine learning classification problems involve outputs where a test observes a positive, where a positive was also predicted. This is part of the classical confusion matrix that engineers use as a model for discussing a classifying algorithm. Techopedia Explains True Positives For example, a classifying algorithm might be asked to identify cats and dogs in a set of initial test data....

This The Expanse article includes MAJOR spoilers for the ending of Season 5, Episode 10. Much like Marco Inaros, The Expanse Season 5 finale writers used a bit of misdirect to distract from the fact that, while (most of) the crew of the Rocinante were finally reunited and Acting Secretary General Chrisjen Avasarala was gathering her team in preparation for war, the culmination of Marco’s deal with a rogue Martian fleet was coming to a head....

This article contains spoilers for Marvel’s What If…? episode 7. With a couple exceptions (the Captain Carter and Dr. Strange episodes, to be specific), Marvel’s What If…? series has had a fairly consistent system to its endings. They would end the story on one note and then tack on a cliffhanger scene that would subvert it. T’Challa as Star-Lord ends on a happy note? Well, Peter Quill and Ego might bring the end of the universe....

This review contains spoilers. “Punish me” said Mark to that hospital corridor statue of Christ – the challenge of a man who believed he had the untouchable power of a god. He’d already got away with one murder and looked to be getting away with two more. Curse lifted. Obstacles removed. Bring on the champagne and the dancing girls. He clearly hadn’t reckoned on being part of the Sarah Phelps-Agatha Christie universe, a place where scheming murderous toffs get the rope, or locked in a bunker, or condemned to a looping purgatory nightmare in which they’re stalked by a 1950s doo-wop hit and a giant turnip king....

The rarest Pokemon card in the world will and has fetched a lot of money at auction, but is actually pretty boring. Pokemon took the world by storm during the latter half of the 1990s and that wave of momentum has continued ever since. Pokemon took and continues to take many forms as it invaded our lives via video games, TV shows, movies, and toys. However, the Pokemon product that hit fans’ wallets hardest, or parents’ wallets in a lot of cases, was its trading cards....

At this point, the quips involving Final Fantasy’s very un-final nature have been done to death. Yet, there certainly seems to be an element of truth to this tongue-in-cheek notion. For decades, Final Fantasy has been a gaming phenom – going from a last-ditch project by Square Enix to one of the most renowned, grandiose RPG series ever. Given the tremendous success of the franchise, it’s no surprise that the Japanese studio would continue to capitalize on the branding, churning out countless mainline and spin-off games over the years....

There are plenty of different monsters that Geralt can discover across the landscape the player is presented with in The Witcher 3. Most of them are derived from various mythological belief systems from across the world, with a few of them coming from fairytales and folklore. While the monsters are one of the main draws of the game outside of the stellar plotlines and legitimately interesting quests, some of them don’t quite make sense when considered in the context of the game or in comparison to their usual depictions in media....

Former Chief Xbox Officer Robbie Bach reveals that Microsoft was once considering a handheld Xbox console, as well as explaining why the project never saw development. Microsoft has found a huge amount of success in the home console market through the Xbox line, going toe to toe with other big hitters such as Nintendo and Sony. However, unlike its two competitors, Microsoft never entered the handheld gaming race. However, it turns out that the company has actually considered this move numerous times during its time in gaming....