The next event for Tetris 99 is a crossover with the Splatoon series that will allow players the chance to win a special Splatoon 2-themed stage, which is part of the fifth official Grand Prix event for the game. The Tetris x Splatoon event is a crossover event that is promoting the final Splat Fest in Splatoon 2, which itself marks two years worth of events and content updates for that game....
The recent Xbox Games Showcase provided a first glimpse at a number of highly anticipated games. Halo fans finally got to see first gameplay footage for Halo Infinite and Microsoft proved it hadn’t forgotten about Fable by announcing a brand new title. But, surprisingly, it appears that STALKER 2 was what stole the show. As it stands the announcement trailer for STALKER 2 has more views on YouTube compared to the videos for Halo Infinite and Fable, despite not really showing anything aside from some creepy environments....
This Star Wars: Andor article contains spoilers. A new chapter in Cassian’s journey to the Rebel Alliance begins in “Aldhani.” After escaping the Pre-Mor agents on Ferrix, Cassian agrees to join one of Luthen’s Rebel operations on the titular planet. The mission is simple: steal the payroll of an Imperial facility. But to do it, Cassian and his new associates will have to sneak past an entire garrison of Imperial soldiers....
It’s the autumn of 1978, and Star Wars mania is still riding high. Less than a year after the first film became a pop cultural phenomenon, there’s already speculation about what might happen in its sequel – and at a store in California, actor David Prowse stokes the excitement among fans even further. As a bustling crowd forms to get autographs or take photographs, Prowse, the six-foot-five actor who plays the evil Darth Vader, delivers an exciting morsel of information....
After a stunning cinematic trailer earlier this week, EA revealed tons of information about the upcoming flight simulator game Star Wars: Squadrons during today’s livestream. EA Play Live premiered today, an E3-style showcase of Electronic Art’s upcoming games and events. As promised, we got our first look at some gameplay footage of Star Wars: Squadrons as well as confirmations that the game will include some highly requested features, namely: crossplay and VR support....
Stardew Valley and Hitman 2 are free this weekend for Xbox Live Gold members. This deal lasts until June 29th. While gold members will get access to the full Stardew Valley experience, there are only a couple of levels available for Hitman 2. Players will have access to the New Zealand and Miami locations in Hitman 2. Both games are on sale during this free weekend. Hitman 2 is 75% off and can be purchased at $25....
Fighting games cannot subsist on colorful characters alone. Every fighter needs a few special moves to act as a calling card and set themselves apart from the rest of the roster. While Street Fighter is full of such special moves, the Hadōken and Shōryūken are really the two Street Fighter abilities that have entered the upper echelons of pop culture. It’s hard to find someone who doesn’t know about, or has at least seen, a Hadōken or Shōryūken....
We are quickly reaching a period in time when most adults have a basic understanding of gaming, if not remaining gamers for life. However, we have not fully reached that point, as evidenced by the US Surgeon General’s comparison of the Covid vaccine to the Xbox Series X|S, and game cartridges. It can be easy to forget (especially if you’re the kind of person who would be reading this article) that not everyone is up-to-date on what’s happening in the world of gaming....
The Sword & Shield Expansion Pass promised to add many new features that would keep players engaged long after they had completed their Pokédex and become the Pokémon League Champion. One of the new surprise features that came with the Isle of Armor DLC was the Cram-o-Matic, a strange device shaped like the newly introduced Cramorant that takes a player’s unwanted items and turns them into something new. Because the number of items available in-game, as well as the fact that recipes aren’t saved after they have been made, there are many aspects of the Cram-o-Matic that could go unnoticed if players don’t use a particular combination....
A mysterious countdown has seemingly revealed System Shock 3, a new instalment in the legendary FPS franchise being developed by some of the team behind the highly praised second game. 1999 saw the release of System Shock 2, a groundbreaking FPS that is today largely overlooked in favour of its spiritual successor, BioShock. However, there’s good news for fans of the original game, as it seems that a sequel is in the works at Otherside Entertainment....
The China Film Administration (CFA) has approved Christopher Nolan’s latest blockbuster Tenet for a theatrical release with a release date expected to be announced soon. The Chinese release will be promoted with posters swapping the original tagline of ‘Time Runs Out’ with a call for audiences to return to cinemas that translates to ‘Make Every Second Count, Invade the Theaters.’ Despite finally getting a theatrical release date after a troubled schedule due to the COVID-19 pandemic closing cinemas, Tenet fell foul of CFA guidelines for cinema releases due to its lengthy running time....
While Top Spin 4 remains as many players’ choice for the best tennis video game, my personal experience with the genre remains limited to the titles released on the Sega Dreamcast, which included Virtua Tennis and Tennis 2K2. I never had the chance to check out the original Tennis World Tour when it released in 2018, but was intrigued by what the sequel had to offer after attending a preview event for the game....
Anyone who volunteers to be the Dungeon Master for a Dungeons & Dragons campaign is in for a lot of work. Before a session even starts, the DM is researching lore, drawing maps, and balancing combat encounters. Then, when it comes time to actually play, they have to put on a show. This often means switching to different voices, or at least speaking more loudly and clearly in one’s normal voice....
Day One: Garry’s Incident is an open-world survival game created by Wild Game Studios and recently released through Steam Greenlight, the indie development platform that introduced gamers to titles like the harrowing bureaucracy simulator Papers, Please and the utterly fantastic HD remake of The Stanley Parable. There have been some really great games brought to the table by Steam Greenlight, but they can’t all be winners and Day One: Garry’s Incident was decidedly on the non-winner pile....
The hardest thing about board games is you need other people to play with you. Well, in real life, anyway. But that’s the beauty of digital board games. Steam has a great gallery of digital board games you can play all by yourself! Sometimes you’re in the mood to play a game of Monopoly, Catan, Chess, or even Clue, but you can’t because no one is available to come over....
Although free-to-play games are nothing new in the world of gaming, the PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch generation has seen the rise of many more than have been previously available to gamers in the past. While the majority of these are mediocre at best, there are still a handful of games that have broken out and become not only some of the best free games but the best games of the generation as a whole....
After being pushed back quite a few months, Watch Dogs: Legion has finally released to the masses. The game relies on its ability to recruit any and all NPCs that the player can see throughout a not-so-distant future version of London. Despite the lack of a central main character, Ubisoft still miraculously put together a solid story that’s mixed with good gameplay. However, all giant open-world games come with loads of technical problems and gameplay choices that may not be great....
Forza Horizon 4, released on the Xbox One series of consoles and PC in fall of 2018, is both a technical marvel and a densely packed racing game. Its open-world nature lends it to a variety of events and races in road racing, street racing, dirt racing, cross country, and drag racing. And like all good racing games, players are out competing for that coveted world record on each individual track, whether it be the blink-and-you-miss-it drag races or the mega races unlocked through making it on the podium in every other race....
From the Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse to Everything Everywhere All at Once, viewers are fascinated by the multiverse. When the mirror breaks and possibilities spin off into space, who will you be? What do other versions of yourself and your world say about the real world? Science fiction and fantasy books have a long history of multiverses. The subgenre of “portal fantasy” requires universes next door, often approached with almost worshipful solemnity rather than Everything Everywhere‘s soft, absurdist humor....
If there was a golden age of serial fiction, it might have been the era when Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Mark Twain were publishing their stories-in-installments in print periodicals, with their readers desperately waiting for the next part of the tale. But if that’s true, right now might just be the platinum age of serial fiction. The digital medium is perfect for publishing stories as episodes, and modern readers who are used to receiving stories in an episodic format, thanks to television, may appreciate the medium in a more nuanced way than their historical predecessors....
