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Continuing a major gaming trend from last year, gaming companies are keeping the solo play rules versions of traditionally multiplayer board and tabletop games in place for this year. One of those gaming companies is Warlord Games, which recently updated the solo play rules for Warlords of Erehwon, and introduced new solo play rules for Strontium Dog. Warlord Games added new solo play rules to Warlords of Erehwon in the year that shall no longer be named, by way of the Tomb Robbers of Erehwon ‘dungeon crawler’ scenario....

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Nintendo has unveiled its lineup for gamescom 2018, the annual gaming event held in Cologne, Germany. Visitors to Nintendo’s booth will be able to play Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Dragon Ball FighterZ, FIFA 19, Dark Souls Remastered, Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes, Starlink: Battle for Atlas, and Killer Queen Black. Most notable is that Super Mario Party will be available to play for the first time. Although Super Mario Party was featured on Nintendo Treehouse during E3, this will be the first time visitors can play the game hands-on....

Robert Downey Jr. will be producing Netflix’s adaptation of DC Comics’ Vertigo hero Sweet Tooth, it has been confirmed. Fans of Downey Jr.’s will likely be surprised by this announcement, as the actor played Marvel superhero Iron Man for 12 years. On Twitter, Downey Jr. confirmed he, his wife Susan, and Amanda Burrell, from their production company Team Downey, will be producing Netflix’s Sweet Tooth series. The series will be live-action and will feature eight, one-hour episodes....

Seriously, come on, guy. We totally get that there’s never an opportune time for a power outage, but the sword was probably just the teensiest smidge of an overreaction. Now, some people may tell you that video games are nothing to get too passionate about. It’s just a game, non-gamers will tell you. That’s all well and good, but the industry’s become such a behemoth these days that its influence (and opportunities to make a heckload of cash) continues to skyrocket....

Telltale Games is a developer synonymous with great game storytelling. After the huge success of its adaptation of the The Walking Dead, Telltale has gone from strength to strength. The Wolf Among Us was another critically-acclaimed venture, whilst the second series of The Walking Dead was loved by fans and reviewers alike. The developer also announced that it was working with two of the hottest intellectual properties around: Borderlands, through a spin-off game titled Tales from the Borderlands, and George R....

Unless there are certain gamers reading this who have been completely sealed off from society in underground Vaults until now, most fans are well aware that Fallout 4 is on the way. The forthcoming installment in the post-apocalyptic franchise is hands down one of the most highly anticipated titles of the year, and up to this point, everything Bethesda has shown off since its trailer reveal at E3 2015 less than three months ago suggests the sequel could be the best entry in Fallout’s history thus far....

Superheroes have seen a meteoric rise over the last ten plus years, and a lot of that is due to the success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In general, though, superheroes were never really afforded triple-A games, but rather were licensed for the creation of smaller scoped games with minuscule budgets. Between the Batman Arkham games and the recent Marvel’s Spider-Man titles, the triple-A space is now thriving with superpowered beings....

The Pokémon franchise is over twenty years old now and has grown into a behemoth. Over the years we’ve seen many games, films, and anime series come out and add to the franchise’s popularity. But it all started with the very polarizing first generation of games. While first entries in a franchise this huge are typically looked at fondly by the fan base, the first Generation of Pokémon games are pretty divisive; with some fans loving them dearly and others pointing out that they’re an inferior product two decades after their release....

Without much hesitation, it would be fair to call Marvel’s Avengers one of the most hotly anticipated superhero games of all time. The beta was the most downloaded in PSN history and the sales expectations for the final game are unsurprisingly very high with an already installed base of Marvel fans coming from the movies and the comic books. The game is made up of its single-player campaign and The Division and Destiny-like multiplayer co-op action....

When you talk about the city-building genre, it’s nearly impossible to do so without paying respect to the path forged by SimCity. Now Maxis has unveiled their reboot of the franchise, bringing unparalleled levels of simulation to the same classic formula. Of course, when we look back on just how well SimCity prepared us for the inner workings of a major urban center, we can’t help but remember all the rude awakenings we experienced when we finally traded the game world for the real thing....

Civilization fans rejoice - the latest in the series, Civilization VI is now released. Here’s a final roundup of all the best Civ VI deals on both the Deluxe and Standard Edition for launch week. If you didn’t spot the news this morning, Civilization VI pre-load is now live on Steam. Huzzah! For those that have already pre-ordered the game, you can get started on the download once you launch your Steam client....

Published long ago in 1996 on a Game Boy without color, with what would now be considered archaic graphics, the first Pokemon game was a massive critical and commercial success which led to the creation of the best media franchise on the planet, that consists of anime series, movies, and various merchandise, such as toys, trading card game, and manga. The franchise features numerous games and the most recent game in the series is Pokemon Sword and Shield published on Nintendo Switch....

No developer could have predicted that we’d be facing a pandemic in 2020 on a scale not seen in over 100 years. The coronavirus has shaken the very foundation of society to its core and has a ton of people penny pinching out of fear for their own survival. With comparatively little disposable income to go around, this recent announcement from Xaviant LLC about The Culling: Origins seems particularly gross....

Those that managed to unlock the secret ending for The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan unlocked a teaser trailer for Dark Pictures: Little Hope, and now the same has happened for the third game in Supermassive’s horror anthology series. Thanks to the secret teaser trailer, The Dark Pictures: House of Ashes has been confirmed to be the third game in the series, currently slated to launch at some point in 2021....

Google Stadia is really shaping up to be a competitor. With a streaming service that will offer numerous high-profile games, its strength in the competition could not have been more evident than in today’s initial Stadia Connect, where multiple mainstream titles like the previously-released The Division 2 and the upcoming Ghost Recon Breakpoint were announced to become available on Stadia. Today’s substantive Stadia Connect contained new information regarding Google’s entry into the gaming industry....

There are quite a few locations from the lore of Bethesda’s fantasy open-world where The Elder Scrolls 6 can take place, though the developer has continued to be tight lipped about confirming the setting. While many players have their sights set on exploring Hammerfell in the next installment, some of the other lands might open up for an exotic new land unlike anything else the other main series entries have attempted....

This The Expanse review contains spoilers. The Expanse Season 5 Episode 4 Ever since it began, The Expanse has known how to build action, which isn’t remarkable in itself for a sci-fi show. What makes this series different is that with very little exposition, it can create a sense that, as unsettled as things seem now, they’re about to get a lot messier. That’s a tricky balance to achieve since early episodes must also take the opportunity to create emotional beats before all hell breaks loose, and “Gaugamela” does just that....

Capcom showed off gameplay footage of The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles during E3 2021, giving us an extended look at the title in action ahead of its July 27 release date. Capcom’s E3 2021 keynote only ran for 30 minutes, and much of that was dedicated to Ace Attorney. Almost everyone expected The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles to make an appearance – seeing as it arrives in just a few weeks – but it was great to see Ryunosuke Naruhodo in action for the majority of the presentation....

No one I know played through The Last of Us Part 2 without mentioning the rope physics. They weren’t a particularly major part of the game, and were only used a handful of times to solve simple puzzles, but the way ropes and cables flowed through Ellie’s hands as she flung them over pipes and shimmied up - it was borderline hypnotic, and one of the most natural recreations of how ropes work we had ever seen in video games....