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This article contains The Falcon and the Winter Soldier spoilers and potential spoilers for the wider MCU. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier episode 3 might end up being remembered as the turning point of the series. A slow burn first episode led to some bigger revelations in the second one, but the third episode of the Marvel series is a bona fide sequel to one of the biggest MCU movies of all time in Captain America: Civil War....

This article contains The Flash spoilers. It’s not an exaggeration to say that The Flash has never done the greatest job explaining what the Speed Force is, how it works or how Barry Allen is meant to relate to it. The show has alternately depicted it as a sentient collective, a wellspring of power, a physical location in which various people – including Barry – could be imprisoned for extended lengths of time, an existential test, and a bond that links all speedsters together....

The nominees for The Game Awards 2021 have finally been revealed, which means that it’s also finally time to talk about the biggest video game award show of the year’s most notable snubs and surprises. In all seriousness, trying to make a shortlist of the best games of the year is a difficult and often thankless task that becomes even more thankless and difficult when you happen to be responsible for the biggest awards show in a particular medium....

Gears of War 3 is right around the corner and Epic Games has opted to put up the entire timeline for the universe for players to know exactly when events are transpiring and how they impacted different events down the line. For some, knowing things like dates in mythology might be viewed as incredibly nerdy, but there’s nothing wrong with being interested in some facts and trivia. It’s not like you’re going to use it as a pick-up line, right?...

The following article contains major Star Trek: Picard spoilers. After the timeline changing events of last week, Star Trek: Picard kicks off this episode with the team desperately trying to escape the altered future. After they time travel to 2024, Elnor dies and the crew sets out to try and find the “Watcher” Q informed Picard about. We spoke with several members of the cast and the executive producer to get all kinds of insights into the making of this episode....

It’s E3 time again! The time of year when every game journalist literally goes mad with excitement and anxiety as the biggest publishers, and game developers roll out a smorgasbord of delectable digital delights. EA has just recently put on their annual EA Play event, an early E3 presentation that showcases the best that EA has to offer. One of those games just so happens to be the sequel to 2013’s big E3 announcement, Star Wars: Battlefront II....

Electronic Arts and Motive Studios have revealed our first look at a mission in Star Wars: Squadrons, the new space combat game set in the galaxy far, far away. The gameplay footage sees the New Republic and Imperial pilots preparing for a dogfight over Hosnian Prime, the planet that was destroyed in The Force Awakens. We get brief cameos from Wedge Antilles and Rae Sloane, too. Watch the footage below:...

Starting today, November 13, Star Wars Battlefront fans can go hands-on with DICE’s and Electronic Arts’ sci-fi shooter four days ahead of its release at Walmart. Today, Walmart announced that this weekend, over 3000 of its stores in the United States will be holding myriad Star Wars Battlefront celebrations in anticipation of the game’s launch next Tuesday, and will allow fans to play the final version of the action title. The retailer’s chains are expected to have tons of Star Wars Battlefront-themed decorations and displays peppered throughout each outlet, including adornments featuring the Rebel Alliance, Galactic Empire, as well as the the action game’s playable Milennium Falcon....

There are seemingly countless secrets, mysteries, and things to discover in the world of the massively-successful Stardew Valley. Many of these things are hidden in plain sight, while others will stay hidden to anyone unless they specifically seek them out. Some secrets are helpful or profitable, and some are just for fun. Keep your eyes peeled as you explore Pelican Town and the other areas in the valley, and you may find something you never knew existed....

Developer Sneaky Bastards and publisher Humble Games have announced that stealth game Wildfire will launch on PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch on December 3. The 2D platformer first appeared back in May on PC via Steam and the Humble Store, and received favorable reviews. Sneaky Bastard’s Kickstarter for the project surpassed its goal of AU$10,000, raking in just over double that amount. It was dubbed on Metacritic as “one of the brightest indies of the year,” and was praised for its charm and impressive level designs....

Steam has been breaking records all year thanks to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, so it comes as no surprise that the PC platform breaks yet another one just before we say goodbye to 2020. Games analyst Daniel Ahmad brought us some interesting figures over on Twitter that shows just how much of an impact the pandemic has had on gamers’ holiday plans. Whereas 2019 saw 15.8 million concurrent users on Steam on Christmas Day, 2020 saw that number jump by over 7 million to a total concurrent user count of 23....

Steam is, by far, the largest digital distribution platform for PC gamers, with it having 75% of the market space per estimations in 2013. Now, it seems that Steam has issued a warning to several game developers concerning sexual content, threatening to remove the games if not censored before a specified deadline. Notably, however, this warning has only been issued to developers who make visual novel-type games or anime-style games....

This Stranger Things article contains spoilers. For all of its dream demons and trans-dimensional government plots, Stranger Things does feature one completely realistic story element. In the six years since the first season premiered on Netflix, we have watched the four main boys grow up and grow apart. Fissures between the primary friend group were already present in the series’ third season, as Mike, Dustin, and Lucas all had girlfriends that consumed their time more than the Dungeons & Dragons they loved to play....

Those looking to take up the Saikyo Arts in Street Fighter V will need to wait a bit as it seems like Dan has gotten lost on his travels. In an update on the official Street Fighter Twitter account today, SFV producer Shuhei Matsumoto confirmed that the upcoming DLC season for Capcom’s latest fighter has been pushed back a bit due to COVID-19. Dan is still on track for February 2021, however, so it’s not all gloom and doom....

Subnautica and its sequel, Below Zero, have taken the survival genre of video games and added a unique twist. Players must survive almost solely underwater (and on an alien planet, too). Survival mechanics include rationing oxygen, dealing with dangerous fauna, and finding enough resources to survive, but that’s not all. There’s one more thing players will have to contend with on planet 4546b: temperature. Or rather, players must contend with heat as not even the oceans are immune from deadly temperatures....

On November 10, 2022, the great Kevin Conroy passed away. According to a Warner Bros. Discovery press release, the cause of death was intestinal cancer. Since most fans didn’t know Conroy even was battling cancer prior to his death, this news understandably came as a shock. At the time of his passing, Conroy’s most recent voice acting credit for his most famous character, Batman, was for the Super Smash Bros.-like fighting game, MultiVersus....

After Suicide Squad 2 failed to find momentum under director Gavin O’Connor and writer Todd Stashwick, the studio brought in Guardians of the Galaxy writer/director James Gunn to breathe new life into Suicide Squad 2. The sequel to the 2016 film is now known as The Suicide Squad, which would seem to indicate that they’re looking to distance themselves a little from the first film. Understandable, as despite it’s nearly $750 million global box office haul, it wasn’t particularly beloved by critics, and appeared to be the victim of some hasty editing to counter the Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice backlash....

While the Summer Game Fest festivities will continue, the event’s marquee presentation certainly featured enough trailers, reveals, and announcements to help fill the void E3 2022’s cancellation left on the calendar. Summer Game Fest 2022 may have lacked the kind of heavy-hitting announcements we typically expect from the biggest summer showcases, but the event still featured quite a few announcements worth celebrating. Besides, it’s hard to complain about a show that featured games like The Last of Us, Marvel’s Midnight Suns, Gotham Knights, and Cuphead when the industry is still dealing with Covid-19-related delays and hardware shortages....

This SUPERGIRL article contains spoilers for Season 6, Episode 8, “Welcome Back, Kara!” Supergirl Season 6 Episode 8 Supergirl is back! But it’s not all ice cream cones and pizza parties just yet. She’s finally reunited with her sister and her team, and she got that long-awaited hug with Lena – without whom she would still be in the Phantom Zone, as she pointed out. But from the first time we see Kara in this episode under the sun lamps, it’s clear that the events of the first half of the season will stay with her for a while....

Although it took a while for Rockstar Games to finally admit it, they eventually confirmed yearlong rumors that Grand Theft Auto 5 was coming to next-gen consoles and PC. Moreover, they promised that the ports would hit within the calendar year, likely during the fall season. However, Rockstar had to break their promise to PC gamers and ended up delaying that port of the game until January 2015. It was a move that, while not entirely unsurprising was met with considerable disappoint by PC gamers....