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While the box office performance of 2019’s Terminator: Dark Fate resulted in the franchise getting lowered into a proverbial vat of lava as it flashed a thumb-up, it seems that plans exist for a seventh entry, which would have followed up on the wantonly retconned storyline—indirectly, anyway. Mackenzie Davis, who starred in Dark Fate (Terminator 6, if you will,) as cybernetically-enhanced human Grace, divulged a rather intriguing tidbit on the Happy Sad Confused podcast about the inevitably fruitless plans for a follow-up film....

Trading card games (TCGs) have been around and popular for quite some time. These games are deeply strategic, turn-based games that test the player’s ability to adapt and react. Many of them suffer from issues of power creep or an oppressive meta game, but casual players still find them enjoyable. So, of course, it makes sense that these titles would find their way into the digital format. Digital TCGs aren’t anything new, but with the advent of online gaming have been more and more popular....

Pokémon from the Hoenn region are usually regarded as some of the best in design that the series has seen in its almost two-decade-old lifespan. Generation 3 added many new dynamics to the franchise, most notably designs that strayed from the original two generations in appearance and abilities. With so many creative Pokémon, there we’re eventually going to be some designs that ended up looking or acting in very weird ways....

2017 has been a bit of a mixed year for gaming. While there have been some soaring highs with astonishing new games that have made a huge impact, there have also been some tremendously upsetting lows. Some of 2017’s new releases broke hearts with their business models, while others just weren’t what fans were expecting. Here are the top five most disappointing games of 2017. 5 Mass Effect: Andromeda After Mass Effect: Andromeda was delayed from holiday 2016 to March 2017 fans had hoped that the delay would give developer BioWare enough time to make it perfect....

On July 24th, Adam Sandler’s Pixels is hitting the big screen. While not explicitly based on any one game, Pixels is bringing iconic gaming characters such as Pac-Man and Donkey Kong to the silver screen in the format of a goofy, typical Adam Sandler summer blockbuster film. Pixels will no doubt find an audience, which will consist of gamers, lapsed gamers that recognize characters like Pac-Man from their childhood, and the casual moviegoers that flock to every Adam Sandler film without fail....

On Sept. 28, 1985 the world got a glimpse of what could have been a very different Batman animated series. The fourth episode of that year’s incarnation of Hanna-Barbera’s long running Super Friends animated series (Super Powers: Galactic Guardians) is “The Fear.” Unlike previous episodes, it wasn’t focused on the Justice League and their ongoing battle against cosmic forces of evil, but instead was firmly grounded in Gotham City and a battle between Batman and the Scarecrow....

In 1968, The Beatles, the biggest band in the material world, went searching for lesser-known alternatives in the spiritual one. Directed by Ajoy Bose and co-directed by Pete Compton, The Beatles and India is more than just a travelog of the band’s famous trip to Rishikesh, India to study transcendental meditation under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The documentary shows how Indian music helped refine the group’s sound and how the country embraced the band as cultural ambassadors with deep roots which continue to this day....

The Witcher 3 transpires in a world that hums with life. Roads are frequently traversed by traders who facilitate Novigrad’s functional supply lines, while animals in the wild have their own ecosystem that endures whether you engage with it or not. Just killed a nekker? Better leg it - wolves will catch a whiff of coagulated blood any second now, and they’ll be more than happy to add some fresh meat to their dinner plate....

Some year, eh? We’re often poetic about TV around these parts. It’s no secret that we like to sing its praises as a powerful, restorative, and maybe sometimes therapeutic medium. But during a dangerous, confusing year, delving into the many ways that TV “kept us sane” or whatever feels reductive. What we can say, however, is this: TV was around this year. And that’s no small feat as not every other medium was so lucky....

This article contains spoilers for The Boys Season 2 finale. The Boys’ demented and thrilling second season opened up a can of Vought International worms by introducing Aya Cash’s fascist Stormfront, and revealing the company’s ties to Nazi experiments during WWII. In Season 3, we’ll dig deeper into the disturbing history of Vought with the introduction of Jensen Ackles’ Soldier Boy and his former team, Payback, who The Boys’ showrunner Eric Kripke notes were “The Seven before The Seven”....

Of the announcements made at The Game Awards, one has struck a chord with horror fans, especially those who were disappointed when EA liquidated Visceral Games and axed the future of the Dead Space series. So, with Dead Space Co-Creator Glen Schofield’s Striking Distance studios announcing The Callisto Protocol, it looks like the developer might have found somewhere to reincorporate some older ideas. Fans have only been shown a short trailer of The Callisto Protocol so far, as is often the case with an announcement trailer, but the new game gives off some serious Dead Space vibes....

The Animal Crossing franchise has been host to all manner of animal villagers, each one wonderfully unique and varied. Now with over 380 animals confirmed to be available to join your island in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, it’s hard to pick a favorite. Even just looking at the dog villagers themselves, there are handfuls of contenders for the best of the bunch, so today we’re taking a look at the cutest pooches in the game....

The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim boasts not one but two large pantheons of gods, the eight divines and the Daedra, and the Daedric pantheon comes with a series of quests for players to complete. Even better, those quests yield and special Daedric artifacts as rewards. The Daedric Princes represent the most powerful of the Daedra in existence, and are therefore sometimes worshipped as gods by mortals. There are seventeen Daedric Princes in total, and sixteen artifacts up for grabs throughout Skyrim and its many quests; as such, here’s a handy guide for every artifact available to find (and how to get it) in The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim....

It’s no secret that Pokemon has managed to capture the hearts and imagination of multiple generations worth of kids and adults. As if the real games (like Pokemon Sword and Shield) weren’t enough, the latest Pokemon craze has fans using the Pokemon Fusion website to randomly generate a unique mash-up starter. For those unfamiliar with Pokemon Fusion, it’s a website that allows users to mash up two of the original Red/Blue Pokedex creatures to form a new, unique Pokemon....

The Rat King is a fearsome foe that players will encounter during the Ground Zero section of The Last of Us 2’s second Seattle Day 2 chapter. Indeed, this monstrosity is ready to tear Abby limb from limb, and some players may find it quite challenging to take it down. For those fans that may be struggling with the Rat King in TLoU2, this guide is here to provide some recommendations....

Monsters in The Legend of Zelda franchise are some of the more recognizable enemies in video games, even when they sometimes get a complete makeover between titles. Simple annoyances like the Octoroks, Bokoblins and the infamous flock of chickens have made their way into nearly every title in the series, but one that made a triumphant return in Breath of the Wild was the terrifying Lynel These massive beasts with the legs of a horse, body of a man, and head of a lion are made right out of a Hylian’s worst nightmare and are capable of tearing any unprepared hero limb from limb if they are unprepared....

It’s hard to have a discussion about the ethos of open-world video game designing without mentioning the absolute brilliance of The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild. The game’s release in 2017 was widely anticipated for a bevy of reasons, with one of the main questions surrounding this title being how they would escape the trappings of the usual open-world design that had become commonplace in AAA gaming at that point....

A new Mandalorian LTM will land in Fortnite today via the 15.30 update where the bounty hunter will track down and eliminate the player with the most credits. Fortnite’s 15.30 update goes live today and with it comes a brand new LTM all about The Mandalorian. Players of the Mando’s Bounty LTM will have three lives and have been tasked with using them wisely. Eliminating other players will earn you galactic credits, and there will also be players marked with a bounty puck....

What is a boss fight? In a sense, it is the culmination of all of the player’s hard work. Hours of determination have brought them to this point—wouldn’t it be terrible if that all meant nothing? Wouldn’t it be disappointing to see that the boss that they have been working so hard to reach is nothing more than a pushover? Too many games have reached this point. Players fight battle after battle to reach that final boss....

It’s hard to believe, but the Pokémon animated series is still going after all these years. With the current season, its twenty-third, the show’s become known as Pokémon Journeys internationally, with Netflix picking up the American broadcast rights. The newest episode, which will first air on October 9th on TV Tokyo in Japan, is picking up some hype ahead of its American translation by teasing a debut for the fan-favorite generation 1 legendary Mewtwo....