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A technical masterpiece with a risky and ambitious story, The Last of Us 2 has brought home hundreds of awards since its release last year. While its dominant performance at The Game Awards was certainly an impressive display, the game’s latest win is perhaps its most intriguing yet. Earlier this week, Metacritic revealed that the controversial sequel had won its fan-voted Game of the Year award. While even the staunchest critics of the choices made with the game’s characters have acknowledged that The Last of Us 2 is worthy of the awards it has been given, this specific win is an interesting one....

Your The Legend of Zelda amiibo might work for Skyward Sword HD, as its store page listing mentions functionality with the toys-to-life brand. The Loftwing-eyed Nintendo Everything spotted the feature on The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD’s eShop listing. No word was given during the Nintendo Direct about any such feature, but this is likely evidence that we’ll some sort of functionality with the toys you already have. This isn’t the first time amiibo would be supported in a Zelda game....

In an attempt to emulate the success of Super Mario Maker, one intrepid video game developer creates an unofficial spin-off in the form of The Legend of Zelda Maker. Nintendo’s Super Mario Maker has proved to be hugely popular, with a large number of platforming fans becoming enchanted by the ability to create levels for their favorite plumber. What’s more, many gamers have also been left wondering how many other popular franchises could work with a Super Mario Maker-style release....

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is currently in the middle of its final Beta weekend and will be open to all players across all platforms for the next two days, no preorder required. With every new Call of Duty game, there will naturally be a few weapons that need to be re-tuned post-launch, even the Black Ops Cold War Alpha on PlayStation 4 last month had a troubling issue with the AK74u already being the best gun the game by a mile....

Several days ago, Sony hosted another PS5 event that also saw the launch of Resident Evil 8’s second trailer. It is worth remembering that Resident Evil 8 was announced at Sony’s previous PS5 event, and the debut trailer gave fans a preview of the upcoming game’s overall vibe. However, the first trailer was mostly vague, and the second one released in the latest PS5 event is no better, at least on the surface....

In terms of gaming, the Star Wars franchise has been doing very well recently. Jedi: Fallen Order was a fantastic game, and Battlefront II only got better with time until it was recently announced that content would stop for the game. On top of that, we know of multiple game projects in development and soon to be released. However, for years now, there seems to have been one game that a lot of the fandom cannot seem to get over, that the idea is just too good to ignore, and that is, of course, Knights Of The Old Republic....

Much to the disappointment of fans, DICE and Electronic Arts announce that Star Wars Battlefront will not have support for private matches on launch day. Today, the official Star Wars Battlefront Twitter account has confirmed that private matches will be non-existent on day one for the action game, but Star Wars Battlefront’s developers haven’t totally ruled out including the element in the future. Additionally, DICE made it clear that gamers can still party up with friends by using features from each platform with up to 8 players....

Toby Haynes, the director best known for the brilliant “USS Callister” episode from Black Mirror season 4, will helm the Star Wars Cassian Andor Disney+ series, taking over from Rogue One writer Tony Gilroy, who is still set to serve as showrunner. THR reports Haynes was tapped to take over directing duties due to Gilroy’s “concerns about traveling from New York to the U.K., where the series will shoot, amid the COVID-19 pandemic....

It’s one of the most famous and consequential scenes in Return of the Jedi: before Luke Skywalker heads off to face Darth Vader and the Emperor, he must first reveal a long-buried truth to Princess Leia about who she really is. The audience only learned the news several scenes before on Dagobah, that Luke and Leia are brother and sister, but how will Leia take the news? Back in the Ewok village on Endor, Luke asks Leia if she has any memory of her mother in hopes of learning something about his own....

This Star Wars Rebels review contains spoilers. Star Wars Rebels Season 4 Episode 13 “A World Between Worlds” is mind-boggling, adding so many fantastical elements without ever directly bringing back the Mortis trio. It’s a visually distinct episode and the team clearly pulled out all the stops to make it look good, and feel good — voice lines piped in from around the Star Wars saga make it a celebration of the connectedness of everything from The Force Awakens to the Prequel Trilogy....

Stardew Valley is a perfect game to allow a player to unwind and just enjoy building their farm at their own pace. But that doesn’t mean that the game is uneventful either. In fact, there are plenty of events that occur in Pelican Town over the course of a year. During the spring, players can experience two holidays, the Egg Festival and the Flower Dance. While the Egg Festival is about a competitive egg hunt, the Flower Dance is more of a bonding experience between the player and their fellow townspeople....

Among the many intriguing challenges Mr. Qi puts forth to the player after unlocking his room on Ginger Island, there is one that seems quite intimidating at first: Qi’s Hungry Challenge. This challenge requires you to reach level 100 of the Skull Cavern without eating or drinking a single thing. Those who have scoured Stardew Valley’s mines and caverns know how important keeping one’s health up is when faced with tough monsters and unpredictable pitfalls....

The practice of “cheating” in video games has been around for nearly as long as the industry itself. Many games over the years have even turned cheat codes into an integral part of the gaming experience, completely embracing the practice as a fundamental element to playing games. With the push towards online multiplayer gaming, achievements, and leaderboards, cheat codes have all but disappeared from most modern titles. While there’s nothing wrong with using cheats in single-player games, and many wish they’d have a resurgence, it’s not right to cheat in online multiplayer titles, which is a major part of why cheats have become less and less prominent in video games....

Street Fighter 5 producer Yoshinori Ono confirms that the upcoming cinematic story mode to be released in June will take most players between 1 to 2 hours to finish. After a long beta session which kicked off in the middle of last year, the highly anticipated Street Fighter 5 has finally released on PlayStation 4 and PC and players can finally battle it out online. While fans have been aware of the many modes available on day one thanks to the game’s strong marketing campaign, many have wondered if the story would finally catch up to the likes of what NetherRealm Studios has been putting out with their recent games....

Subnautica: Below Zero introduces the first-ever land vehicle in the franchise, the Snowfox. This hoverbike is used to traverse the icy wastelands of planet 4546B, ideal for skirting around angry Snow Stalkers and avoiding the ugly jaws of the Ice Worms. Like the other vehicles in Below Zero, getting the Snowfox is a bit complicated. In this guide, you’ll find out where to find the fragments needed to craft the Snowfox, how to build the Snowfox Hoverpad (where you put the Snowfox together and upgrade it later on), and how to use the Snowfox to your advantage out on the wastes....

Being one of the most important Nintendo franchises of all time, it makes sense that the Pokémon series would be well represented in the Super Smash Bros. crossover series. Over the years, Pokémon has contributed fighters, items and music to the series. Today, though, we’ll be taking a look at the eight different stages that Pokémon has contributed to the series, and determine which of them is the best of the best....

As is usually the company’s way, Nintendo have taken a different approach to E3 than their competitors in recent years. Nevertheless, it all boils down to showing off your biggest upcoming games, and for Nintendo and Switch, there’s little bigger than Super Smash Bros. Which is why the game is set to hit the show in a big way. That’s right, friends. The biggest event of the gaming calendar is almost upon us....

This Tales of the Walking Dead article contains no spoilers. The bevy of spinoffs announced in the wake of the final season of The Walking Dead has been the subject of everything from excitement to exasperation among audiences. For anyone who checked out with the death of Abraham and Glenn at the onset of season 7, it could seem that the franchise is trying to get blood from a turnip....

This article contains spoilers for Christopher Nolan’s Tenet. The Protagonist didn’t even know what it was when he first saw it. John David Washington’s lead character without a name thinks he’s looking at a bizarre “encapsulation” when he first sees a piece of the “Algorithm” in Tenet’s opening moments—which is to say he thinks it’s a nuclear weapon. Hidden inside of a backpack at an opera house under siege, what else could justify this level of violence and chaos during the movie’s confounding start?...

Today saw the official reveal of Doomfist as the next hero set to be included in Blizzard’s team-based shooter Overwatch, and while there were plenty fans of the title excited to learn about the character’s impending addition to the main game, many were disappointed to find out that he’s not being voiced by Terry Crews as had been previously speculated. Although this is the case, the Brooklyn Nine-Nine cast member and all-around class act took to Twitter to discuss the situation and thank those who had originally supported his campaign to play Doomfist....