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During the very height of late-nineties Pokémania, I had just started at high school. This was when the TCG bug took a firm grip on my hindquarters and never let go. As with most schools, mine tried the age-old tactic of banning Pokémon cards. The only real effect this had was to bring about a roaring trade in black market booster packs. Pupils would surreptitiously reach into their pockets and show off their holo Hitmonchan cards, like they were shady tradespeople who were smuggling whole turkeys around Britain during the dark days of rationing....

The Ghost-type in Pokemon has a lot of interesting properties. It has two immunities and is also super-effective against itself, which isn’t something most other types can claim. Most would probably agree that it could use a bit of help, and it works best when paired with another type. Dual-typed ghosts in the franchise like Gengar, Blacephalon, and Dragapult can attest to that. That said, how well does it work on its own?...

In the 1930s, editor and social critic H. L. Mencken wrote, “All government, of course, is against liberty.” Mencken also wrote, “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” Given the results of the recent presidential election, you can grab pretty much anything Mencken wrote 80 years ago, and it would still seem curiously apt today, maybe even more than it did then....

Taking place several decades in the future, though designed with a charmingly retro aesthetic, Fallout is a series of games each set in a post-apocalyptic world ravaged by a nuclear holocaust. The U.S. government foresaw this catastrophe and funded a project to build a series of fallout shelters called Vaults. However, instead of acting as a safe habitation for survivors, the Vaults became sites for bizarre and disturbing experiments on its inhabitants....

The Division Community Developer, Hamish Bode, reveals that once the upcoming patch for update 1.3 arrives, certain weapons will be impacted once they drop in game. It was a busy E3 2016 for Ubisoft as the company revealed a good chunk of its upcoming lineup within the next year including games like the revamped Watch_Dogs 2, and showing off a lot of new gameplay from Ghost Recon: Wildlands and For Honor as well....

In the vast world of The Elder Scrolls and its pages upon pages of lore, the Daedra and the Daedric Princes are among the most interesting individuals to learn about. Not only are they powerful beings with a moral code that seems unfathomable to us mere mortals, but they can also get very involved with the events of a game. Whether they are sending you on quests and rewarding you with artifacts or simply being the Big Bad of the day, there is always something new to learn about this collection of odd deities and their minions....

This article contains spoilers for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier episode 5. Both WandaVision and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier had big cameos in store during their fifth episodes, but unlike WandaVision’s Evan Peters reveal, which ultimately proved to be no more important to the MCU than a boner joke, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’s surprise introduction of Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine will have much more of an impact on the future of the MCU – and we may see her again very soon after the series ends....

Dina is a newly introduced character to The Last of Us series. She comes as a great addition, no matter what your opinion might be of the game. Dina’s character, visually portrayed by Cascina Caradonna, adds an evolvement to Ellie’s character that viewers undoubtedly liked to see. She is an iconic character to the series, having saved the day a handful of times. Almost all scenes of Dina include Ellie but she is definitely not lacking in importance....

The Last of Us TV show’s first season will be made up of ten episodes. Each episode will be about an hour long. The TV adaptation of The Last of Us might be in its early days, but the hype surrounding it has very much begun. Filming has started and more of the cast and crew continue to be revealed. Last week Dumbo’s Nico Parker was confirmed to be playing the role of Joel’s daughter, Sarah....

The Persona series is filled with many interesting and iconic character designs with Persona 5 being no exception. With the Phantom Thieves having their very unique outfits while inside the metaverse, they are absolutely perfect for many different cosplayers. Since the release of Persona 5, the cosplay community has taken to bringing many different characters from it to life. With the release of Persona 5 Royal, Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight, and the upcoming western release of Persona 5 Strikers, the amount of cosplayers have only increased....

Between the many delays and lack of communication from its developers, it tends to feel like Star Citizen will never actually leave early access. Whether that will ever happen is a question for the ages, but in the meantime, Cloud Imperium Games has released the next big update for its overly-ambitious space sim. Today, CIG announced the launch of the Alpha 3.10: Flight & Fight update, which adds a sizable amount of new content funded by Star Citizen’s crazy amount of crowdfunding....

Following a leak earlier this month that detailed update data found on Nintendo’s servers, it was all but confirmed that Star Wars: Republic Commando would be coming to Nintendo Switch. Today, Aspyr Media made the port official, announcing that the cult-classic Star Wars shooter would be returning for both the Switch and PlayStation 4. The title will debut on April 6 and can already be pre-ordered on the Nintendo Switch via Aspyr’s website....

C-3PO is one of the most widely recognized characters in Star Wars history. First appearing in the original Star Wars in 1977 (which was later retitled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope), he’s actually the first character to speak any dialogue in the entire saga. He’s widely recognized as the polite, bumbling protocol droid who’s fluent in over six million forms of communication. However, this piece of art asks the question: what if C-3PO had a dark side?...

EA’s Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order was a success both financially and through the game’s main narrative. Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order focused on a big question that has been asked since the inception of the Star Wars franchise: what happened to the Jedi during the reign of the Empire? It is easy to say that many of them were lost during the execution of Order 66, but other installments in the Star Wars franchise have shown fans otherwise....

When Star Wars first hit movie theater screens back in 1977, it was unlike anything people had seen before. The sheer spectacle of an epic hero’s journey taking place in a galaxy far, far away immediately embedded itself in the world of pop culture forever. Over 40 years later, there are nine films in the mainline story, along with two spinoff movies that fill in gaps in the overall story’s past....

In the age of multiplayer games, it’s almost impossible to play a game online and not encounter another player who shouts or send obscene messages. To combat this, oftentimes ruinous experience for players, companies like Xbox have elected to add profanity/offensive message filters to its systems. Now according to a blog post, Steam looks to be the next game company to add a customizable version of this profanity filter. These profanity filters aren’t infallible, unfortunately....

Producer Koichi Sugiyama reveals that Capcom originally intended to create photorealistic visuals and characters for Street Fighter 5 rather than the stylized look it has now. The Street Fighter series has always been known for its bright colors, flashy characters, and solid mechanics. While Street Fighter IV added in anime-esque 3D models as if they had been brushed in ink, Capcom decided to take the look and feel in an entirely new direction for the fifth iteration....

Nintendo’s Super Mario 35 pits 35 players against each other, charging through levels of the 1985 classic, Super Mario Bros. The original game featured 32 levels spread across eight worlds, though when booting up Super Mario 35, you will notice that you do not have immediate access to all of them. At the start of each match, all players in the lobby will select a level that they have unlocked, which will be thrown into the level pool for that round....

Team USA finally announced its roster for the 2019 Overwatch World Cup, and it’s a solid team of fresh faces and experienced veterans. All 12 players on the roster play in the Overwatch League, and they are hoping to carry that professional experience into the World Cup. Team USA has all the tools needed to advance far into the tournament this year. Main tank, Muma, and off-tank, Space, make their return on this year’s team, as well as FCTFCTN, coming back for the first time since the 2017 Overwatch World Cup....

Developer DONTNOD’s upcoming emotional title Tell Me Why will be releasing in just a little over one month and a trailer was revealed during the Xbox Games Showcase livestream event. Tell Me Why will follow in the footsteps of past heartwrenching and bold narratives featured in DONTNOD games like the Life is Strange series. Life is Strange 2 was home to a risk-taking story following two Mexican-American brothers as they face systematic racism and attempt to cross the border into Mexico....