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Anyone who wants to appreciate the graphical prowess of a current generation console, this is the video for you. One fan took one of the sharpest games ever made, The Last of Us, and gave it the PlayStation 1 treatment. Watch as Joel and Ellie become amorphous, jagged shapes with mush-faces. It’s a low-grade walk down memory lane. What makes the video interesting is that it accurately captures the style and look of what The Last of Us would actually look like on the original PlayStation....

The Last of Us Part 2‘s upcoming patch will add a new difficulty mode to the game as well as a punishing Permadeath option. The Grounded difficulty option is actually a returning feature from the previous game. While the full details of this new version haven’t been explained quite yet, it sounds like the basic premise remains the same. That is to say that Grounded will remove many of the game’s HUD elements and reduce the effectiveness of the game’s “listen” ability....

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time has firmly established itself as one of the all-time favorite games in the Nintendo Universe. With its release on N64 came the introduction of a 3D Zelda, and the world has never been the same. Sure, compared to Breath of the Wild, the animation and graphics of Ocarina are nothing to write home about. However, when it was released back in November of 1998, it was a literal game-changer....

The Matrix and John Wick star Keanu Reeves celebrates his 56th birthday today, September 2nd, 2020. The occasion was marked by well-wishes from fans and many of the companies that worked with Reeves over the course of his career. Born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1964, Reeves and his mother moved around the world after his father abandoned his family when Reeves was three years old. In the early ’70s, Reeves and his mother moved to Toronto, Canada, where he grew up before moving to Los Angeles in his early 20s....

Google Stadia is looking to break new ground in the video game industry with its streaming service. Stadia’s plans are ambitious and look to provide instant game streaming to users at 4K resolution and 60 frames per second. Understandably, streaming at such a high quality will be very demanding on one’s Internet, with some estimates reporting that Stadia will use 1TB of data in 110 hours in 1080p resolution. With millions of Internet users in the United States subjected to data caps that can be just 250GB or even lower per month in some cases, it seems like Internet Service Providers (ISPs) could be a major obstacle for Stadia’s success....

The Star Trek franchise has over fifty years of rich worlds, interesting characters and intricate backstories at its disposition. To get there, some of the world’s best sci-fi writers put their minds together to create magic. To fill that many hours of television, they also had to throw a lot of things at the wall to see what would stick. Some of these background stories would eventually evolve into fully-fleshed characters, such as Miles O’Brien....

This Star Trek: Discovery article contains spoilers for Season 3, Episode 11. Of all the episodes in Discovery Season 3, the episode “Su’Kal,” easily had the fewest overt callbacks to the nostalgic past of Trekkie lore. Then again, after you bust-out the Mirror Universe and a reference to the most famous episode in Star Trek history, it’s hard to top that with even deeper cuts. That said, there were some surprising connections to The Wrath of Khan, the history of Starfleet, and even a little wave to Soji’s favorite way of getting around the galaxy....

Mild spoilers ahead for the Star Trek: Prodigy premiere, “Lost and Found.” The creators of Star Trek: Prodigy cannot promise Tribbles. They’re not saying you won’t see Tribbles, but they can’t promise them, either. The new series — which just debuted on Paramount+ — is the first Star Trek series explicitly aimed at children. But the creators, Kevin and Dan Hageman know that even the big kids in the Trek audience are curious about what to expect for this new series....

Liam Neeson said in a recent interview that he’s eager to return to the role of Qui-Gon Jinn in Star Wars’ upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi limited series on Disney Plus, but added that Lucasfilm has yet to give him a call about it. The Obi-Wan series presents the perfect opportunity for Qui-Gon’s return because it could help to bridge the gap between Episodes III and IV, and the two characters have unfinished business....

Star Wars: The Old Republic has landed on Steam. The iconic Star Wars MMORPG developed by BioWare and LucasArts is now available free-to-play through Valve’s flagship distribution service. Until now, EA titles were available near-exclusively through Origin, via EA Access, or on physical copies. On Sunday, June 19th, EA announced a partnership with Valve to make its best games available through its PC platform. The core game is now available free to play to all Steam users, and the Sith and Jedi bundles are available for about $25 each....

As one of the most anticipated games of this year, it’s no secret that Star Wars Battlefront has a ton of people eagerly awaiting the opportunity to play it. While the game has been met with excitement, it has also been received with equal amounts of skepticism, but the team developing the title at DICE has faith that those already down on the product will change their tune after some hands-on time with it....

Spearhead Games’ Stories: The Path of Destinies is a fascinating jaunt through a more mature fairy tale setting that blends serviceable gameplay with remarkable wit. It has been a notably strong 2016 for indie games with a penchant for telling off-beat stories thus far. Salt & Sanctuary managed to mimic Dark Souls favorably in keeping dialogue sparse and enemies plentiful, while Furi’s story of moral consequences in a neon-infused prison world was supplemented by increasingly fun boss fights....

While Harvest Moon and Story of Season fans await the release of One World for the Nintendo Switch, most will be excited to learn about an old classic Harvest Moon that’s coming to PC. Friends of Mineral Town is coming back and this time on Steam. The Story of Seasons series, also known as Harvest Moon, has delivered numerous fan favorite entries over the years. The first game was released back in 1996 in Japan, and there have been more than 30 titles, related titles, and spin-offs in the series, including the Doraemon: Story of Seasons that’s coming to PS4....

Stranger Things Season 3 is coming to Netflix. The show has become a certified pop culture phenomenon that has elevated itself and the aggregate of the streaming giant’s original content lineup into the stratosphere. Plenty of cast announcements have been made, and the new season will be here soon. For the latest, scroll down to the poster section to check out spectacular stuff revealed in the latest teaser poster. Stranger Things Season 3 Release Date It’s official!...

First, you skydive off the top of a mountain. Then, you nab the gold and make a quick getaway by stealing some transportation while the law chases after you, fired projectiles whizzing inches from your head. No, I’m not describing the latest Grand Theft Auto game. I’m actually talking about the greatest simulation game to ever grace the small screen: Skyrim. While living out your dream of a high fantasy heist is certainly an option for those that set foot in Tamriel, it’s hardly the only thing you can get up to....

The SXSW Film Festival is returning to its in-person roots with a vengeance next month. After several years of going virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic, SXSW will be the year’s first major festival and conference event to return its focus to live festivities when it launches from March 11 to March 20. And with Wednesday’s reveal of its full film line-up, what a significant return that will be. Previously, SXSW already announced the intriguing Everything Everywhere All at Once will be the opening night film....

Though it hasn’t exactly been a banner couple of years for publisher THQ, no one thinks that the company will be disappearing off the face of the earth anytime soon; no one except for Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick. Speaking at an MIT Business in Gaming conference, Zelnick spoke candidly about the floundering publisher, and even dished some dirt on his own company, and concluded his comparison with a claim that THQ will not be around in six months time....

Remember thinking you’ve reached the end of a Christmas stocking, and then discovering an additional lump of festive fun stuffed right in the toe? Such joy. Thanks to Channel 4, that’s the case with this year’s Taskmaster, which has announced a one-off Christmas Special episode for 2020. There’s no air date confirmed for the festive episode as yet, but seeing as the currently airing series 10 finale arrives on Thursday the 17th of December, it’ll be after that....

Ever since the release of the harrowing first season of The Walking Dead, indie studio Telltale Games has received widespread praise from critics and gamers alike - eradicating bad memories of their take on Jurassic Park - with many people eagerly awaiting Telltale’s future releases. The Walking Dead kicked off its second season last week with an excellent first episode, and the studio has also released the first episode of The Wolf Among Us, a new episodic game based on Bill Willingham’s “Fables” comic books....

Skyrim is a cultural monolith that looms large over the vast majority of games surrounding it. Whether you’ve played through the most recent entry in the Elder Scrolls series - and by most recent, I mean it launched ten years ago (yes, that makes my old bones rumble too) - you’re surely aware of its existence. On one hand, this is probably because it’s been ported to everything short of a microwave since 2011....