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Street Fighter 5 has had a challenging year due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The fighting game is highly reliant on its year-round Capcom Pro Tour (CPT) esports schedule to keep excitement and player engagement high. The pandemic shut down most of those CPT events, hurting Street Fighter 5 while it was already in its waning years. However, Capcom hasn’t given up on Street Fighter yet, as evidenced by the company revealing the upcoming CPT 2021 Premier Pass and its included DLC....

Hands. They’re what keeps us apart from the rest of the animals. That and our opposable thumbs. We can do a lot with our hands, from building rockets to brain surgery, but perhaps the greatest pleasure our hands can provide is using them to play video games. (Although we should point out that you certainly don’t need hands to play video games.) Our hands never evolved to interface with the many different styles of the controller, so our ability to play is always hampered by our biology....

The Super Smash Bros. series became one of the biggest crossover series in video games. Countless games release every year, there’s no doubt the high bar that developer Sora Ltd. has to top with each new entry. Having to find a way to make each newcomer work with a unique moveset presents a serious challenge. Who sits the best of the best of the 12 guest characters (Plus echo variants!) that have made their way to Nintendo’s platforming brawler?...

The Last of Us paints a grim picture of the future. A zombie apocalypse sits at the heart of it, but there’s more to it than that. I know Druckmann doesn’t call them zombies, but if they walk like zombies, quack like zombies, and eat human flesh like zombies, I’m not going to call them ‘Infected’ or ‘Cordyceps Monsters’, am I? Regardless, the depth of darkness the apocalypse holds in Naughty Dog’s blockbuster goes way beyond zombies, and it wasn’t until watching Sweet Tooth on Netflix that I was able to put my finger on exactly what my issue was with it....

When the world first met Ted Lasso, he was half the man he is today…maybe even a quarter (incidentally, what the fish-out-of-water American football coach thought UK ‘soccer’ matches were played in instead of halves). The character originated in a 2013 TV ad commissioned to mark NBC Sports’ acquisition of the US broadcast rights to English Premier League games. Titled ‘An American Coach in London’, it was a five-minute comedy sketch created as a showcase for the peculiarities of the English sport for US fans, and as a riff on the clumsy yank abroad stereotype....

Terraria is now in its final iteration — the 1.4 Journey’s End update — and we can create the ultimate tier list of the best weapons available in Pre-Hardmode. Forget your wobbly copper shortsword or wooden yoyo; Terraria is packed full of awesome gear that will help you defeat bosses and reach Hardmode. Cover everything you need to know about the best weapons to pick up during your Pre-Hardmode adventures. We’ll include some tips and tricks on how to take down the various bosses, and what you should prepare yourself with as you defeat the Wall of Flesh....

Tharsis is a turn-based strategy game where players roll dice to help a surviving squad of four astronauts as they try and repair a highly damaged spaceship. The crew is rapidly approaching Mars, and a mysterious signal provides an eerie backstory as players approach the planet. If the player can survive ten turns, they’ll get to see one of the game’s endings, but it will quickly become apparent how much of a challenge just surviving to see the end of Tharsis truly is....

This THE 100 review contains spoilers The 100 Season 7 Episode 15 For the second time in as many episodes, Octavia responded to Clarke with sedate, stoic grief when something more like shrieking in horror and despair would have been appropriate. Watching the two women repeatedly bond over their adopted daughters in the latter half of this season was a nice evolution in their relationship. But it’s hard to square one of those conversations with what happened just moments later, when Clarke decided shooting her daughter in the head was the only option and Octavia’s only counter was essentially, “No, let me....

The inXile Entertainment game Wasteland 3 will be releasing at the end of August, and the studio showed off a trailer at the Future Games Show this week. Before it became known for the Wasteland series, inXile started its life developing 2004’s The Bard’s Tale, which was remastered in 2017. That version of the ARPG, the “Remastered and Resnarkled” edition, is now available on Xbox One, Game Pass, and Nintendo Switch....

After years of fans trying to will it into existence, the planets finally aligned and Electronic Arts announced Skate 4. Developers Cuz Parry and Deran Chung confirmed that the Skate franchise is back at the tail end of the EA Play Live 2020 Press Conference. For EA, this was an admission that the company has been listening to the fans, even if it hasn’t moved as quickly as most would have liked....

Once upon a time, super-fans of specific games would scope out conventions or camp out for limited releases of brand-exclusive content. Whether it be a game with limited edition content, a figure only released to a certain store, or a console that was purchasable only to those at a launch event, many fans would try every angle to get their hands on it first. While that still happens, fans no longer have to journey forth into the physical realm to get feed their insatiable hunger for brand or game exclusive content, like special Pokemon distributions....

The Book of Boba Fett picks up the threads of the bounty hunter’s untold adventures in the years after Return of the Jedi, paving a new, unexpected path for the fan-favorite rogue. While most Star Wars fans expected the Mandalorian gunslinger to once again embrace a life of crime, no one could have predicted Boba’s big career change from bounty hunter to Tatooine’s newest crime lord. But this is actually a Boba Fett story decades in the making....

In episode 6 of The Boys Season 2, ‘The Bloody Doors Off’, we got a few answers to some of our lingering questions, and our first proper introduction to Cindy, the supe with a unique power – one that frightens other supes. Ess Hödlmoser, who plays Cindy on the show, has been instrumental to The Boys in more ways than one, as they were also the assistant stunt coordinator on Season 2....

The team behind the ever-popular Castle Crashers is hard at work on a brand new game called Pit People, and one editor went hands-on with the hilarious turn-based title. The Behemoth isn’t a household name, which is a shame considering that the studio has produced one of the more popular downloadable games in recent memory with Castle Crashers. The four-player hack-and-slash title resonated with fans as a result of its couch co-op and zany humor, and those are key elements that the team is hoping to carry over with its latest game, Pit People....

Like most open world games, the world of Washington, D.C. in The Division 2 is filled with secrets and easter eggs for fans to discover. Over a month since the game’s release, and The Division 2 fans are still finding new easter eggs in the game, with the latest one being a nod to Insomniac’s Spider-Man PS4 game. In the Spider-Man PS4 exclusive game, Spider-Man leaves his backpacks with collectible items hidden around New York City....

A new video goes over the 8 player raid rumors from The Division and discusses a potential end game multi-group raid which takes players to Rikers Island. The Division is only a few days away from its open beta, but many are still speculating about what the full game will feature. Though the open beta itself will contain a few new features and missions, one of the hot button topics about The Division is still up in the air: does the game contain multi-group raids?...

The Elder Scrolls 6 has some seriously huge shoes to fill. Skyrim sold 20 million copies between 2011 and 2014 and has continued to sell well on Steam nearly ten years after its release. Not only that, but no first-person RPG has achieved the same critical success as Skyrim since its release, leaving the previous game one of few reference points for developing the next game. However, as is so often the case with the Elder Scrolls series, the modding community comes to the rescue....

Oblivion content is finally coming to The Elder Scrolls Online with the Blackwood expansion, which launches on June 1 for PC and June 8 for consoles. This guide will cover everything you need to do before Blackwood releases, including how to start the Gates Of Oblivion Prologue quests and which DLC links into this upcoming expansion. How To Start The Gates Of Oblivion Prologue Quests The Gates Of Oblivion storyline has already kicked off with two free prologue quests that everybody can access....

For fans of Sam Raimi’s iconic horror franchise, the 2020 Game Awards were especially exciting thanks to the announcement of the upcoming Evil Dead: The Game. Owners of multiple different consoles will be able to play it in 2021, including Microsoft and Sony’s two most recent consoles, the Nintendo Switch, and the PC. Since that fateful announcement, fans of the show and movies have been speculating how the game can tie into the Evil Dead franchise as a whole....

Epic Games Store’s next free game will be sci-fi puzzler The Fall, developed by Over The Moon. The 100% discount will be available from March 18 until March 25. The Fall replaces Surviving Mars, which will be discounted until March 18 at 11:00am. “Acclaimed story, engaging puzzles, tense action. You are ARID, the AI onboard a mark-7 combat suit,” reads The Fall’s description on the Epic Games Store. “The human pilot encased within the suit is unconscious....