Posts

I can’t believe it either: The KFC console is a real thing. Styled as the KFConsole, this piece of kit is powered by Intel and includes a proper built-in chicken warmer, which doesn’t sound very hygienic at all. The news comes from a member of Intel’s PR department, Mark Walton, who unveiled the new chicken-warming console on Twitter. It may be absurd, but it’s supposedly a Real Thing. Walton also tweeted out a link to a statement with more details about the KFConsole....

This The Magicians review contains spoilers. After the tragic events of last week’s episode of The Magicians, it’s apparent that many of the characters have some growing up to do albeit in ways viewers might not expect. Remarkably, the conflict doesn’t seem all that lessened by the defeat of the Beast, and that’s a credit to the burgeoning complexity of the situation in Fillory. While Julia’s story arc continues admirably on its way with the pursuit of Reynard, the awakenings of everyone else were a refreshing course change, even if some of them went in directions we wish they hadn’t....

The Mako was mentioned several times during a Mass Effect: Legendary Edition preview event I attended a few weeks ago. It seems that BioWare received quite a lot of feedback (see: flak) from fans about the original Mass Effect game’s space rover, designed for traversing rough terrain on alien planets with different atmospheres and gravity. I’m here to tell you that, actually, the Mako was fine. I’ve been playing the first Mass Effect on Game Pass all week and I’m really enjoying the driving sections....

The second season of The Mandalorian has already amassed a solid cast of actors playing familiar roles, but it appears the production is not yet done. Film and TV actor Timothy Olyphant has joined the Disney Plus Star Wars series in an unannounced role. Although The Mandalorian Season 2 has already wrapped filming, Disney continues to announce new castings at a regular clip. Presumably these actors were already brought onboard and filmed their scenes, and now Disney is starting to build excitement for the season by making these announcements one by one....

There was a lot to chew on during the Minecraft Live event. There were new biomes introduced, new plants, new mobs, and of course, new redstone. What nobody expected, though (including Mojang) was that the Minecraft 1.17 update would introduce wireless redstone. The Minecraft Live event was all about the Caves and Cliffs update, which will change the way that you experience the underground forever. There are huge caverns with massive lakes and lush underground oases....

Often considered one of the best Star Wars game of all time, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic holds a special place in the hearts of fans all over the world. While its sequel Knights of the Old Republic 2 - The Sith Lords was slightly less acclaimed, it also holds a place among the upper-echelon of Star Wars’ video game adaptations. After the original game was ported to mobile, it seems Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 - The Sith Lords will officially be following suit, as Aspyr Media announced a mobile port will be available on December 18....

Disney has announced that its next animated Star Wars show will be called Star Wars: The Bad Batch, and it will revolve around the group of clones by the same name. Dave Filoni, the supervising director of both Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and Star Wars: Rebels, will return to helm the new show. The Bad Batch was a group of clone troopers born with beneficial defects that gave them abilities, skills, and attributes that put them a cut above the rest of their peers....

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed and its 2010 sequel famously had plenty of input from series creator George Lucas, offering up some of the most extreme depictions of force powers that the galaxy far, far away has ever seen. However, it’s now been revealed that its protagonist almost made his way into the new canon. When Disney bought the Star Wars property in 2012, the company quickly decided to remove most of the expanded universe from the canon in order to create a clean slate for the future....

With less than a week until Sunset Overdrive hits store shelves, the marketing teams at Microsoft and Insomniac Games have put their promotional tour into…overdrive. Just this week, the folks behind the whacky open world Xbox One exclusive have detailed several of the game’s key features, principal among them weapons and customization, and released a launch trailer to boot. Eager gamers can check out the launch trailer above to see just what type of zany experience Sunset Overdrive tries to deliver....

The Super Mario franchise is full of a colorful cast of characters that are extremely unique and sometimes wacky. Some of the enemies in the series are very weird in both design and attack methods and Mario doesn’t want to go near any of these peculiar foes. The Mario brothers are looking at you Boo! This list will showcase 10 of the strangest enemies in the mushroom kingdom and players will understand just how weird the Mario world can be....

As a primarily narrative-focused game, the puzzles in Tell Me Why generally don’t impose a large enough hurdle that your progress is halted for more than a minute or two. In chapter two, however, there is one puzzle that is a bit more difficult than any of the others the game will throw at you, and you won’t be able to progress without solving it. This puzzle involves figuring out how to fix the fuse box to restore power to the house and garage, and even with the clues and hints the game gives you, can be a major roadblock....

For seasoned players of Terraria, one of the best things to come out of the Journey’s End update, released on May 16, 2020, was the introduction of a harder game mode beyond Expert called Master Mode. In this new mode, players can expect a range of new items, armor, accessories, and enemies. With stronger enemies and tougher consequences, like some debuffs lasting 2.5 times as long and the player losing all coins upon death, this new game mode should not be underestimated....

Finally, Final Fantasy VII Remake is in fans’ hands after innumerable years of anticipation. Despite the game only covering a fraction of the source material’s story, it comes packed with enough content to justify a $60 purchase. During the adventure through Midgar, Cloud and the party fight numerous monsters, most of whom are creative redesigns of the fiends fought more then twenty years ago on the PlayStation. The following list will detail the 10 most powerful of these....

If there was one aspect of Breath of the Wild that many long time Zelda fans found hard to grapple with, it was the lack of enemy diversity in the latest title. While there were many variations on common enemy types, these were usually simple palette swaps that amounted to the Bokoblin or Moblin dealing more damage and having a larger health bar rather than being a different monster. That being said, Breath of the Wild does have quite a few enemies in its roster, though many players won’t notice this due to how hard some of these enemies are to find in Hyrule....

There are many Daedric artifacts in Skyrim and the majority of them are weapons. Daedric weapons come in all different types, including swords, staves, maces, and any other kind of weapon a player can imagine. Daedric weapons are among the strongest in the game because they were created by the Daedric Princes of Tamriel. Although there aren’t too many Daedric weapons in Skyrim, there are definitely enough to give the Dragonborn a good selection regardless of what weapon of choice they wield....

Valorant is a team-based first-person shooter and the latest game trying to be an eSports mainstay for players. Developed by Riot Games, the guys responsible for the monstrously popular League of Legends, it has similar ambitions. It already has over 3 million players, and has racked up over 500 million hours viewed on Twitch. So, it’s had an exemplary launch. But just how good is Valorant? As a 5v5 tactical shooter, the game is trying to go after Counter Strike: Global Offensive’s crown, which is no easy feat....

Despite its rocky launch out of early access, DayZ has come along in leaps and bounds with continuous updates refining its once clunky controls and awkward combat with a slicker, more fast-paced style. New maps, as well as weapons, have been added and old familiar locations have been tweaked and given a facelift over the years. The modding community in that time has also been incredibly busy with tons of creative and unique mods being released that add new elements to the game with base building, deeper realistic survival mechanics, additional zombie varieties, and plenty more....

With just one day to go before Tom Clancy’s The Division is finally released, Ubisoft reveals the full list of achievements and trophies for their highly-anticipated shooter. After a number of massively successful beta tests and numerous teaser trailers, Tom Clancy’s The Division is just one day from finally launching. While gamers have sampled a decent amount of The Division and its impressive game world, no one is entirely sure just how big the game really is....

Some days, it’s hard to be a Ryan Murphy fan. The minute American Horror Story comes up, people have a knee-jerk reaction. It’s either love or hate, no in-between. And that’s been going on for a decade now. But there must be some grotesque alchemy behind this lifespan. Many horror TV series have never quite achieved the liftoff and cultural imprint that AHS has. In 2011, when the first season premiered, the only horror-themed TV show on a major network was The Walking Dead....

Earlier this week, Bethesda Game Studios boss Todd Howard stated that The Elder Scrolls 6 is currently still in the “design phase.” At face value, there’s nothing too unusual about this. Video games, particularly blockbusters in the vein of The Elder Scrolls and Fallout, go through lengthy pre-production and concepting periods prior to entering full scale development - there’s no point in programming a game when you have no idea what you’re supposed to be coding or animating, right?...