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The following THE FLASH article contains spoilers through Season 7, Episode 17. The Flash Season 7 Episode 17 Look, as much as it hurts my heart to admit it, The Flash Season 7 has frequently been a bumpy ride. Its storylines have run the gamut from the truly dreadful (anything involving the Forces of Nature) to the nonsensical (the inexplicable Joe West and Kristen Kramer team-up), with a few dollops of brilliance (splitting Frost and Caitlin, the brief return of Sue Dearbon) sprinkled throughout....

The Fastest Man Alive is speeding towards the end of his adventures on The CW. The Flash season 9 will mark the conclusion of the long-running Arrow spinoff, which first aired in 2014. The final season will consist of 13 episodes meant to wrap up the story of Grant Gustin’s Barry Allen and his extended family of heroes. True to the nature of the expansive superhero universe in which The Flash takes place, the final run of episodes will also provide an opportunity for The CW to bring back characters from the show’s past....

Released in 2018, The Forest is an open-world survival game with a smidgen of horror thrown in for good measure. You are a parent whose plane crashed on a mysterious island, and your son is missing. While finding your son is a plotline that you can finish, the game is pretty open to you doing whatever you please, be that building, exploring, and fighting cannibals who attack at night. The game is especially fun to play with friends and family, as it is open to up to eight players....

Halo, as a classic franchise, is in something of a unique position for video game properties. It was both a smash hit, big enough to be known even to those who don’t play video games, yet released just late enough to have missed its opportunity to be a Hollywood film. Franchises and mascots of the Playstation generation and earlier had a wave of film adaptations, and even games like Postal could make the silver screen....

Peter Jackon is the man behind bringing Tolkien’s books to the big screen in what is arguably some of the best books to movie adaptations ever made. Of course, with any adaptation, there are changes made due to time constraints, generally with lots of content being cut, but Jackson did the complete opposite and afforded The Hobbit three separate films, meaning he could add a lot more content in. Jackson also took the liberty of making some changes to the characters, portraying them differently in the films than they are in the book....

A game that took the Adventure/Survival genre by storm, The Last Of Us and the sequel have gone down as the one of the most popular games in recent times. With fans really getting invested in the story with excellent mechanics to help it along the way. For a game that’s been out for so long, this game still has many tricks and details that remain hidden to the casual player....

Earlier this year, fans anticipating Naughty Dog’s upcoming third-person action blockbuster The Last of Us 2 were thrown into panic when major spoilers for the game’s narrative leaked online in the form of story treatments and, most damning of all, cutscenes taken from the game itself. All of this while the PlayStation 4 exclusive had been delayed indefinitely due to COVID-19 effecting its development. Now, just over one week on from its new June 19th release date, the game’s director, Neil Druckmann, has implied that some of the spoilers circulating online may be falsified....

It’s often the smallest details in gaming that takes fans from enjoying a certain game or series, to falling completely in love with the developers and their best titles. This has been the case for long running series like Pokemon and Final Fantasy, as well as indie darlings like Undertale, and most certainly appears in Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us Part 2. Tiny details, littered throughout the world, are what builds the atmosphere of The Last of Us Part 2, making areas like Jackson and Seattle feel real and lived in....

The Legend of Zelda is a genre-defining series that has managed to stay current for over 30 years. An open world, RPG with a thrill for discovery, Zelda has always been at the forefront of gaming, and Ocarina of Time is, perhaps, its best and most popular iteration. Largely described as one of the best games of all time, Ocarina established the foundations of 3D open-world adventures, a satisfying lock-on targeting combat system and many other innovative facets that many titles today still manage to steal from....

I’ve waxed poetic about my love for The Lord of the Rings before, so I’ll spare you the mandatory opening paragraph on childhood, tattoos, and first editions of Tolkien that burned a meteoric hole in my pocket. Instead, let me just say this: Gollum is more than a worthy protagonist, and Daedalic’s simultaneous separation and integration of his shared psyche with Smeagol looks like a stroke of utter genius. Last week, I saw about 20 minutes of Gollum gameplay at Daedalic Digital 2021....

Star Trek has always been a trendsetter for both television and cultural milestones, breaking new ground in all sorts of areas. Just recently, one of the IP’s more recent projects, Star Trek: Discovery, is making new strides yet again, changing how television is made. With the completion of Season 3, Star Trek: Discovery has become the first show to have its post production handled entirely by artists working from home....

This Star Trek: Strange New Worlds review contains spoilers. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Episode 4 Another week has passed, and another knockout episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is officially in the books. At the risk of sounding like an effusive fangirl—which let’s face it, I think I might be at this point—is there anything this show can’t do? Hopeful adventure? Check. In-depth character exploration? Check. And now, a high octane, tension-filled horror fest, that manages to reinvent a classic Star Trek: The Original Series villain as something truly menacing and monstrous while allowing almost every one of our favorites a moment of true, genuine bravery in the face of their fears....

After years of speculation, Lucasfilm Games is reportedly collaborating with an unknown studio to develop Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 3. This comes shortly after reports of an open-world Star Wars title in development at Ubisoft Massive saw EA lose its exclusive grip on the franchise’s games, with neither EA nor BioWare reportedly involved in developing the third game in the RPG saga. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 3 has an uphill battle ahead as a result....

Recently, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order fans noticed that there was a hidden skill tree in the background of Cal’s meditation menus. Many see this as a positive thing, a branch in which fans will achieve in the sequel that potentially shows Cal rise from Jedi Knight to Jedi Master. Alternatively, and perhaps more speculatively, this hidden skill tree could instead be hinting at the powers of the Dark Side....

This article contains only light spoilers for Stranger Things season 4. Stranger Things season 4 is a notable batch of episodes for Netflix’s epic sci-fi/horror series in just about every respect. It’s the longest season, with nearly each episode running over the 70-minute mark. It’s the biggest season, filled with budget-busting spectacle and awe. Most importantly, however, season 4 is also the wettest season of Stranger Things … that is if the closed captioning is to be believed....

Super Bomberman R Online now has a release date, and Stadia players will be the first to get access to it. Next Tuesday marks the launch of the upcoming battle royale title, which is making some changes to the basic formula of Super Bomberman R in order to help it be better suited to the battle royale genre. Though Super Bomberman R has been around for a while now, Super Bomberman R Online is something completely different and exclusive to Stadia....

When you think of Superman, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Is it the cape? The tights? The ability to “leap tall buildings in a single bound?” Whatever Superman’s most recognizable trait, it’s probably the way the character makes you feel that stays with you. The premise that someone so powerful would choose to use that power solely for good is an optimistic one. Despite being one of the most powerful figures in the DC Universe, it’s Superman’s capacity to inspire hope that is his defining characteristic....

Virtual reality tends to lend itself well to games based on swinging swords around, as titles like Beat Saber and Blade and Sorcery have shown. Another example of this is Swords of Gargantua, which will soon be available to more players than ever before when it debuts on PlayStation VR in a few weeks. Swords of Gargantua has been available for the Oculus Rift, Oculus Quest, and HTC Vive since it first came out last year, and today developer Thirdverse (formerly known as Yomuneco) confirmed that it will be adding PSVR to that list on December 8....

It’s looking increasingly like the $70 price tag for next-generation games will become the norm. Spotted on 2K’s NBA 2K21, the CEO of Take-Two (parent company to 2K) Strauss Zelnick recently stated that he believes Take-Two’s games can justify a higher upfront cost because of the “quality of the experience.” Speaking with GamesIndustry.biz, Zelnick said, “There hasn’t been a price increase for frontline titles for a really long time, despite the fact that it costs a great deal more to make those titles....

Back when TellTale Games showed the game off at Comic-Con, and even after they announced a release date for the first episode, there were still a lot of lingering questions regarding their adaptation of The Walking Dead. Chief among those concerns, or the element that we were most curious to see, was the gameplay. TellTale has always been a studio focused on interactive storytelling rather than visceral gameplay mechanics, most recently illustrated by Jurassic Park: The Game, but The Walking Dead property has always been a product that delivers both bloody action and intense character moments....