It looks like Fortnite is about to get a shot of espresso. Rumors have long been swirling that leakers found evidence that Sabrina Carpenter was set to make her way to the game by way of first looks at official items. Then, as recently as Friday, Epic Games themselves fanned …
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Since launching in 2016, Overwatch has led a charge for the hero shooter as a genre. Several imitators have cropped up over the years, all attempting to claim their stake, but some exceptions aside, almost all of them have failed. A huge part of its success stems from its consistent …
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Demons move in waves over cliffs slick with rain, cultists chanting in perfect circles, pentagrams glowing beneath their feet. Small medieval villages are demolished in the wake of hell’s minions pouring forth from their dimension and into the next. But where there are demons, there is the Doom Slayer — …
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It’s been a big news week for Nintendo fans, but it just got bigger. One day after revealing their own mobile news app called “Nintendo Today!,” the Japanese developer has dropped a bombshell, announcing a release date for their next big movie — a live-action adaptation of their classic franchise …
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Last December, Chinese-based publisher NetEase Games released Marvel Rivals, a multiplayer shooter featuring a huge roster of iconic (and some lesser-known) heroes from the comic monolith. Brilliantly, Rivals’ gameplay mimics a once-dominant, now-struggling hero shooter known as Overwatch, and the Marvel multiplayer game immediately shot to the top of Steam …
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Anyone who works in the video game industry is familiar with the annual Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, California. Held in the Moscone Center every year since 2004 (and in San Jose before that), GDC, as it’s commonly known, brings thousands of game developers, community managers, marketing mavens, voice …
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20 years ago, God of War arrived with a bloody quest for revenge against the Greek pantheon. Taking cues from foundational action-adventure games like the Onimusha and Devil May Cry series in the years prior, it introduced the world to one of PlayStation’s most iconic characters: the ultimate 2000s-era edgelord, …
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In eight years the Nintendo Switch has become one of the most popular video game systems of all time, kickstarting a new generation of handheld consoles that includes the likes of PC-based Asus ROG Ally and Sony’s streaming device, the PlayStation Portal. As the third best-selling console of all time, …
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No studio makes games like Monolith Soft. That’s not hyperbole — literally no other RPGs blend humanism and sci-fi with philosophy, reflections on grief, and religious commentary the way Tetsuya Takahashi and his writers have for the last 30 years. Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition is a remaster of the …
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The Assassin’s Creed series tells the ongoing fight between the Templars and the Assassins. The former is an organization trying to usher in the New World Order by seizing political power, while the latter is a hidden peacekeeping organization protecting humanity. The series uses different historical settings to tell standalone …
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