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Yet another talented New Horizons player has transformed his entire island to be just like Melemele island from Pokémon Sun & Moon. Now that Animal Crossing: New Horizons has been out for a few weeks, we’re starting to see players embark on some truly astounding endeavors. We’ve already seen one player transform their island into Hyrule from Link to the Past, while another player recreated Pallet Town on their New Horizons island....

The 2D Survival Crafter Terraria has made it past an impressive milestone in sales as it approaches the tenth anniversary of its release. In addition, Terraria has also secured the title of the best game on Steam, going by user reviews. The milestone of 35 million sales across all platforms was announced by Re-Logic, Terraria’s developer. After nearly a decade on the market, Terraria has accrued 17.2 million sales on PC, 8....

In case you thought you’d already finished every possible quest there is to finish in Skyrim, we have some good news for you: there’s more. With how big the open world is and with so many different places to travel to and see, it’s very easy to miss out on cool quests to do in-between becoming the fabled Dragonborn or the new leader of the Companions, or even deciding the outcome of the civil war....

Since bursting onto the scene at the tender age of thirteen, Natalie Portman has appeared in more than 60 movies as well as a number of television shows. In the process, she’s also graduated from Harvard, picked up countless awards, and has become one of the most recognizable and revered actresses in all of Hollywood. It all makes for an incredibly impressive résumé, especially for someone who is still to celebrate their 40th birthday....

The Big Adventure Event begins today on Steam, offering discounts on more than 80 games, dozens of new demos to explore, and exclusive developer commentary. The event is now live and will run until January 25. Steam’s latest festival can be accessed directly through its dedicated central hub on the Steam app or official website. It’s presented by Hitcents – a popular indie game publisher – and many of its best-selling games will be on sale during The Big Adventure....

Recent years have seen the release of some of the best games in the Dragon Ball franchise to date, with Dragon Ball Xenoverse and FighterZ coming out as some of the strongest contenders in the series. However, while the Xenoverse series had a strong opening, with two games releasing over two years, some fans have found it strange that Bandai Namco never moved forward with a Dragon Ball Xenoverse 3....

The latest patch releases from Tom Clancy’s The Division have had a positive effect on its player numbers, successfully drawing players back to the post-apocalyptic shooter. It’s difficult to pinpoint exactly what soured gamers on The Division after it launched earlier this year. The Division’s initial release period was filled with positivity as gamers praised the open-world gameplay and combat, but conversation about the game quickly became negative when it came to The Division’s end-game content, which many considered shallow and unfulfilling....

It’s fair to say that everyone possesses a varied set of motivations in life. These motivations tend to influence the decision-making process when confronted with a dilemma. The manifold inhabitants of Cyrodiil in The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion are no exception when it comes to realizing some sort of agenda. Whether they are personal, professional, or both, not everyone is upfront about what they want. Some desire wealth, while others scheme to attain extraordinary levels of power....

What’s that damn game all these kids have been on about? Fortnite? It’s apparently pretty popular. Have you heard of it? Well it seems like a lot of people have, and a lot of people are playing it. So much so, that developer Epic Games made enough money to start its own digital video game distribution service to rival Steam. But that’s not stopping it from finding even more ways to capitalize on the ubiquitous success of its most prized asset....

With the game dropping last weekend, fans have finally got their hands on The Last of Us 2 after years of waiting. However, while critics gave the game absolutely glowing reviews, the fanbase has been split down the middle, with some thinking its a challenging and emotional epic while others are adamant that it takes the original’s narrative down the wrong path. Perhaps the most controversial aspect of the game has been a particularly bold creative decision regarding the previous game’s main protagonist, Joel Miller....

Sony has quite a few must-play exclusives coming to the PS4 in the next few years, but The Last of Us 2 is likely at the top of that exciting list for most players. The game’s first teasers sparked debate, controversy, and conspiracy theories; and Naughty Dog is sure to deliver another heart-wrenching, intimate story set at the end of the world. Speaking of the end of the world, The Last of Us 2’s director, Neil Druckmann, recently discussed some inspiration for the sequel on a panel at DICE Summit 2018....

Nintendo ended its E3 2019 Nintendo Direct with a bombshell announcement. It announced that The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2 is in active development for the Nintendo Switch. The trailer for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2 shows Link and Zelda exploring a mysterious cavern filled with dangers. It ends with a zombified creature turning its attention to them, leaving fans of the franchise with a lot more questions than answers....

The 1990s was a decade packed full of brilliant action movies but few, if any, reached the delirious heights of 1997’s Face/Off. Built around an absurd yet ingenious premise involving a cop switching faces with a comatosed master criminal in order to find and defuse a bomb, only for said bad guy to then awaken and return the favor, it featured a director and pair of A-list stars at the peak of their career powers....

A select few games out there have had an impact quite like the one that Guitar Hero had during its prime. Chances are that if someone was a gamer and has a console in the 2000s, then they had to have played the hit music game from Activision at some point. With so many songs making up the soundtracks in the franchise, some are inevitably harder than others. These songs were so hard that it pained many a player’s fingers to the point that they might as well have been bleeding....

The ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu once said, “Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.” This advice is seriously worth considering when making any moves in Total War: Three Kingdoms, and if it were as easy as Sun Tzu made it sound, then even the hardest difficulty setting would seem like child’s play. Battles are the best part of any RTS, but when it comes to grand strategy franchises like Total War, each and every move should be pondered with the utmost consideration....

This Star Trek: Discovery review contains spoilers for the mid-season finale. Star Trek: Discovery Episode 9 In many ways, this early stretch of Star Trek: Discovery episodes has reminded me of the beginning of Agents of SHIELD‘s run. Like SHIELD, Discovery is a show shoehorned somewhat awkwardly into a much larger fictional universe. Like SHIELD, Discovery‘s introduction has shown narrative potential, but has been wildly uneven, perhaps a side effect of a show that is treading narrative water until a big plot twist that sends it into warp drive....

This Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi review contains spoilers. Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi Episode 5 Where is the bar when it comes to Star Wars television? Obi-Wan Kenobi episode 5 wants to evoke the energy (and bigger budget) of the movies, slotting into both the Prequel and Original Trilogies with no-holds-barred aplomb, but it can’t quite pull off the visuals. It’s a pity that Obi-Wan Kenobi hasn’t established enough of an identity to keep me from missing the much more cinematic The Mandalorian....

New Star Wars releases, whether on the big screen or on TV, have long commanded the attention of a huge audience who want to know what’s next for the galaxy far, far away. But there are hints that the audience may be dwindling ever so slightly, at least when it comes to the latest series currently airing on Disney+. While ratings metrics are not an exact science in the age of streaming, especially when streamers themselves decline to share official viewership numbers, there are a few telling statistics that show Andor hasn’t quite found as big an audience as its predecessors....

A recent analyst report reveals that Electronic Art’s Star Wars Battlefront has sold approximately 12 million copies since its release in November. Michael Pachter, an analyst at Wedbush Securities, believes that Star Wars Battlefront has generated close to $660 million USD in earnings to compliment the 12 million copies sold worldwide. The game is believed to have sold 6 million copies during November and another 6 million in December, a nice spread for a game that has, at times, struggled to live up to the immeasurable hype surrounding the rejuvenated Star Wars franchise....

When it first launched in late 2017, EA and DICE’s Star Wars: Battlefront II was a much-maligned, microtransaction filled disappointment. Nearly three years on, thanks to the tireless work of the developers who took player feedback to heart and consistently pumped out new maps, skins, characters, and game modes, Battlefront II will be remembered as one of the best Star Wars games fans have played in years. Now that we’ve downloaded our last gigabytes of planned content with The Battle on Scarif and DICE begins to move on to their next project, it’s worth noting the features we all wanted in Battlefront II, but will sadly never get....