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Parody is easy; any Average Joe can imitate the Christian Bale Batman voice for a cheap laugh. You need to bring something else to it, something decidedly unique to make it standout. That’s where South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker excel. South Park is steadily the best place for satire on television because the writers take aim at a specific news story, TV show, trend, or movie, and then push it to some extremely bizarre place that is completely unexpected....

Life can be hard for lone wolf-types in The Division. Here’s Game Rant’s guide on how to make things a bit easier for solo players attempting the Hard Mode Incursion. The Division’s Falcon Lost Incursion has been making headlines for all the wrong reasons lately. Unfortunately, that negative press has taken away from the fact that it can still be a challenging and entertaining multiplayer experience when players don’t choose to abuse the many exploits that have been discovered since the gameplay mode’s debut....

Ubisoft Massive states that a patch set for April 21st will fix all exploits from The Division’s Falcon Lost incursion, supposedly ending the exploit drama once and for all. Ever since the news broke that The Division would be getting its own form of raids (called incursions), gamers around the world went wild as information about the game’s first incursion, Falcon Lost, finally started to trickle out. As seems to the norm for The Division, however, the feature introduced several glitches into the mix when it finally released, and many players exploited these developmental short-sights to make the mission much easier than it was intended to be....

The holiday season has arrived and Epic Games is getting into the festive spirit with a charitable collection of free games set to be doled out like an advent calendar throughout the month, starting December 17. For 15 days, there will be a free game ready to redeem. The best part? When nabbed, it’s yours forever to keep. Epic already has Obsidian’s Pillars of Eternity and Tyranny up for grabs right now, and they’re not even part of the 15-day giveaway....

In a new interview with IGN, Geoff Keighley, the host and producer of The Game Awards, has confirmed that this year’s event will take place in an all-digital format on December 10. Some had speculated that the annual award show would be postponed due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, but Keighley laid those claims to rest. “We’re definitely doing it. A lot of people are [asking], ‘Are you delaying it? The Oscars are being postponed, are you postponing The Game Awards?...

The third week of September has come to an end, and it brought some huge revelations regarding the next generation of consoles. Those invested in the PS5 and Xbox Series S/X shouldn’t forget that awesome games are still being released every day for the current crop of systems. TheGamer has been playing and dissecting each of the major new titles as they have been released. These are our reviews of some of the biggest releases of September 2020, including an incredible descent into the Underworld, a complex journey through time and space, a fantasy take on the XCOM genre, and a battle against the imposters among us....

The most anticipated game of 2020 has not disappointed on the sales front. The Last of Us Part II may sit in controversy, but its successful launch week just broke Japan’s first-party PS4 games sales that stands as an impressive accolade in the western markets. After becoming the fastest selling PS4 game and biggest launch for any boxed game in the UK, TLoU2 is setting impressive sales scores all over the world....

The Lord of The Rings: Gollum is one of the more intriguing upcoming games. Licensed video games can be hit or miss. The Batman: Arkham games, for example, were bonafide success stories while E.T. on the Atari is considered perhaps the worst video game ever. When The Lord of The Rings: Gollum was first revealed last year, the gaming community and lovers of the J.R.R epic were collectively interested, and now more details on the game have emerged....

One of the things that makes Grand Theft Auto V so fun and engaging are the characters. Even more than the realistic beachfront scenes and the chaotic streets of Los Santos, the hot-headedness of Trevor and the criminal savvy of Michael stand out. Their character traits are what helps the narrative of this game to truly stand-out. Today, it’s time to see where the characters of Grand Theft Auto V fall on the MBTI® spectrum....

The Medium is Bloober Team’s newest psychological horror title. It may not be the scariest game in recent years, but The Medium offers a compelling story that, once completely uncovered, will send shivers down your spine. The game’s narrative and hidden plot elements are arguably its strongest suits. Many will get a fairly decent picture of the game’s overall story after finishing the game, but there are also a couple of lore elements and storylines that are hidden to the players....

The Medium developer Bloober Team teases one of the game’s “super secret” features. Bloober Team showed fans a new trailer for horror game The Medium yesterday at the Xbox Series X gameplay reveal event. Speaking to Eurogamer, The Medium’s lead designer Wojciech Piejko was asked why it has taken Bloober Team so long to show the game again after it was first announced for PS3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii U in 2012....

This article contains The Menu spoilers. Are you with us or with them? It’s an exceedingly simple question. Reductive, one might say. And yet, the inability to answer this query produces most of the anxiety and tension in what is a fang-toothed laceration of class, capitalism, and the pretenses of foodie culture. In other words, it’s a key ingredient to the new bleakly funny thriller, The Menu. The horror/satire hybrid is directed by Game of Thrones and Succession veteran Mark Mylod, and is written by Seth Reiss and Will Tracy, who between them have writing credits in Succession, The New Yorker, and The Onion....

This article contains Star Trek: Lower Decks spoilers. Because it happens in 2380, Star Trek: Lower Decks is, in theory, a direct sequel to ‘90s era of the franchise. But, spiritually, it sometimes feels like more of a sequel to the first animated Trek series, the 1973 show Star Trek: The Animated Series. So far, Lower Decks has brought back one very obscure shape-shifting alien from that show (the Vendosian in Episode 2) and made references to at least one other, specifically the plant-based aliens the Phylosians in Episode 5....

The Next Generation crew is finally reuniting for Star Trek: Picard season 3, and it’s as much a welcome return for a whole lineup of memorable Starfleet characters as it is an ambitious sendoff for the beloved captain of the Enterprise. Joining Sir Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard on next year’s galactic adventure are Jonathan Frakes as William Riker, LeVar Burton as Geordi LaForge, Michael Dorn as a pacifist Worf, Gates McFadden as Dr....

This article contains Star Trek: Strange New Worlds spoilers. Although Strange New Worlds doesn’t require a casual viewer to know anything about Star Trek, it certainly doesn’t hurt. Especially with the latest episode, the utterly hilarious episode, “Spock Amok.” Right away, even in the title, the episode is referencing the famous Original Series banger, “Amok Time.” You don’t need to have seen “Amok Time” to dig this episode, and frankly, the references to that classic episode are just the tip of the Vulcan Lirpa....

Press was treated to a proper first look at Star Trek: Strange New Worlds in the form of a clip, presumably from the first episode. While the sneak peek featured most of the series’ main ensemble, including Anson Mount’s Captain Pike, Rebecca Romijn’s Number One, Ethan Peck’s Spock, Jess Bush’s Nurse Chapel, Melissa Navia’s Erica Ortegas, and Bruce Horak’s Hemmer, it was Celia Rose Gooding’s Cadet Nyota Uhura who was front and center, giving us new insight into this beloved Original Series character....

It’s 1964, a couple of years since President John F. Kennedy announced that the USA was going to land on the moon. It was also the year that saw ground-breaking science fiction anthology series The Twilight Zone come to an end. The series had become a household name by telling self-contained, high concept stories written by leaders in the genre. Not just the endlessly talented Rod Serling, but names like Charles Beaumont, Richard Matheson, and Ray Bradbury....

The Star Wars prequels, in a brief summary, told the stories of Anakin Skywalker’s descent into the dark side, the fall of the Jedi Order, and the rise of the Sith throughout the Galactic Republic, leading to the Empire in the Original Trilogy. While they were not as critically acclaimed as the original trilogy, nowadays the Star Wars prequels have become classics in their own way. One way the prequels fell noticeably short, though, was in their lack of development....

Over sixteen years since the release of the second game, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 3 is reportedly in development at an unknown studio. LucasFilm Games is reportedly handing over the coveted IP to an all-new team without the involvement of the original developer BioWare or EA, the publisher which has held the exclusive rights to the Star Wars game for almost eight years. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 3 can learn a key lesson from the first planet in the original game, Taris....

DICE, the developers of Star Wars Battlefront 2, have been steadily releasing new content for the game since it came out in November of 2017. So far, the developer has added more story content, as well as content based on the recent Star Wars: The Last Jedi film. Dennis Brannvall, the design director for Star Wars Battlefront 2, went on Twitter to talk about possible content being added to the game’s Arcade Mode....