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One of the coolest crossovers ever, MariO (a hybrid of Portal and Super Mario Bros.), will be giving gamers a chance at online multiplayer madness. Surely, Aperture Laboratories never expected anything like this to happen. The game already features a 4-player co-op mode, but this six-person multiplayer online feature is brand new and the developers are testing it out now. The first video of the gameplay has appeared online and it is absolutely chaotic....

It’s hard not to think of Super Meat Boy when reflecting on indie games throughout the year. Indie titles have been more popular than ever and it’s easy to forget that their modern renaissance owes quite a lot to all the games that graced Xbox Live Arcade back in the 2010s. While a number of important indie games launched on Xbox Live Arcade, Super Meat Boy reset a precedent for higher difficulty curves that called back to a long gone era of gaming....

The series of sexual misconduct and assault allegations sweeping the video game industry has just hit the Super Smash Bros. eSports community. Players and popular personalities in the community are stepping forward with their own stories of misconduct. This article has explicit references to topics such as sexual assault and grooming, so reader discretion is advised. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate player Troy “Puppeh” Wells posted a Twitlonger in which he describes prominent Smash caster Cinnamon “Cinnpie” Dunson making inappropriate advances towards him that led into an unwanted sexual relationship....

One of the biggest reveals for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, which first premiered at Nintendo’s E3 2018 conference, was that every single playable character in the franchise was returning. This extensive list sees several returning playable Pokemon such as Mewtwo, Lucario, and Greninja, but it was also revealed that several new Pokemon, contained within the in-game Pokeballs, would be coming to the series as well. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate definitely had a powerful presence during the event, with two of the Pokemon revealed to be Solgaleo, the mascot of Pokemon Sun, and Bewear, also from the latest generation of Pokemon....

Min Min is an unconventional character in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Just like her appearance in Arms, Min Min focuses on her long-ranged punches that can stretch forward for half the stage. Within Smash she is a tricky fighter to master, but these tips and tricks can help you noodle your way up to the top. General Strategy Min Min is a keep-away character. She has some short-range moves like her down and up smashes, but that is not her forte....

Nintendo, along with being one of the big 3 in gaming, is home to some of the world’s most beloved characters. Their IP is so valuable it’s afforded them the ability to make their amusement park filled with all of the stuff their fans love about the worlds they create. From Super Mario to The Legend of Zelda, Nintendo has a legacy in gaming unrivaled by almost anyone else. Over the last 5 years though, how have they fared critically?...

With Nintendo’s blockbuster crossover fighting series Super Smash Bros proving to be a hit with gamers, allowing dream tag team matches and showdowns to be made a reality, Sony wanted to have a similar smash success of its own with 2012’s PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale. While a decent enough brawler in its own right, a number of flaws and lack of polish kept it far behind the competition Nintendo’s own fighting game series had established itself as, remaining the defending champion of the brawler genre....

Destiny’s latest Update 2.5.0 makes many changes across the game in both PvE and PvP, changing economies, adding vendors and items, and fixing some bugs. Alongside Destiny’s new live event for December called The Dawning, the game has received the latest Update 2.5.0. Previewed last week with changes including automatically decrypting Uncommon engrams into materials and a buff to Skeleton Key drops, Destiny’s developer Bungie has revealed all the changes coming in 2....

The Elder Scrolls 6 is currently in development, but Bethesda has yet to reveal much about it. The setting, the story, and even the time period its set in is completely up to speculation. It will be years before Bethesda reveals anything about The Elder Scrolls 6, but that hasn’t stopped fans from creating theories. The announcement trailer that was shown 2 years ago is all anyone has to go off of for speculation....

Everyone sees themselves in the oppressed Belters of The Expanse, from liberal champions of the poor to elite-hating blue collar conservatives. On social media, fans proudly declare, “We are beltalowda!” using the collective pronoun in the Belter creole language to show their solidarity with their fellow downtrodden. But with Marco’s more extreme faction taking charge in season 5, how do the writers reconcile audience sympathy with the devastating terrorist actions on display?...

This Lord of the Rings review contains spoilers for The Rings of Power. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Episode 5 Over the course of five episodes, it’s become clear what The Rings of Power’s strengths and weaknesses are. One of those weaknesses so far has been the politicking side of things – the show is at its best when it’s depicting huge, dramatic moments of battle or adventure, and at its weakest when examining the various power plays and conflicts between characters....

It’s been a very long wait, but the time has almost come. Din Djarin and Grogu will return in The Mandalorian season 3 after an almost three-year hiatus that saw Lucasfilm premiere other Disney+ live-action series. But now that The Book of Boba Fett and Obi-Wan Kenobi have come and gone, and Andor is set to bow this fall, it’s finally time for the return of this TV juggernaut, arguably the flagship of Star Wars programming in this post-Skywalker Saga era....

Bloober Team’s latest title and the newest Xbox exclusive, The Medium spends the majority of its seven to eight-hour story diving deep into the history of not only its main cast but also the history of Niwa Resort and many real-world events that occurred between the 1940s and 1990s. While many details of the main characters are presented openly to the player, there are several aspects that can fly under the radar....

With the release of both the Xbox Series X/S and the PS5, there were a number of launch titles making the rounds towards the end of 2020. While the PlayStation 5 got a fairly robust selection of titles, Microsoft has just one larger launch game in The Medium. The Bloober Team’s newest project has had enough financial success that some are wondering just how long it will be a console exclusive....

The Meg 2 is a thing. Three years after the release of the original The Meg, which swallowed up an astonishing $530 million worldwide at the box office, director Ben Wheatley — fresh off his eerie new horror film In The Earth — is deep in pre-production on a sequel to the 2018 thriller that pitted puny humans against a couple of oversized prehistoric sharks. “I’m storyboarding at the moment on Meg 2,” Wheatley says when we catch up with him for the release of In The Earth....

This Star Wars: The Mandalorian article contains spoilers. Star Wars is well-known for including fun cameos in its movies and TV series, whether it’s James Bond actor Daniel Craig and Star Trek star Simon Pegg in The Force Awakens or Mark Hamill sneakily appearing in The Mandalorian. As fun as it is to watch new Star Wars stories, it’s almost as fun to try to catch the blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameos throughout....

Rogue One may have been the end of Cassian Andor’s story, but it won’t be the last time we see Diego Luna in Star Wars. A new, 12-episode Disney+ series called Andor will give us Cassian’s origin story. Set five years before the events of Rogue One, the show will explore what the Rebellion’s foremost secret agent was up to before he ever joined the Rebel Alliance. According to showrunner Tony Gilroy, who also helmed reshoots on Rogue One, the story will be split into two seasons, with the second going into production this fall....

Although many fans were disappointed with 2015’s Star Wars Battlefront, it seems like EA may be turning things around with the sequel thanks to lots of new features, including a single-player campaign mode. To get players hooked on the game and coming back for more, it looks like Star Wars Battlefront 2 will be borrowing a familiar system made popular by Overwatch. Thanks to an extended look at alpha gameplay from BattlefrontUpdates, fans can now get a closer look at the loot crate system in Battlefront 2....

In the 1.5 update, one of Stardew Valley’s most mysterious figures makes another appearance. After unlocking the Walnut Room on Ginger Island, players once again meet Mr. Qi—and big surprise, he has more challenges to test their greatness. Once the player completes one of Mr. Qi’s new “Qi Challenges,” he will reward them with Qi Gems that they can redeem for highly useful items. All of these quests can be repeated for an indefinite number of Qi Gems....

As noted in an article on PC Gamer, Valve’s upcoming Steam Deck portable PC may have a problem when it comes to some of the most popular games around. Due to being a Linux-based system, titles such as Apex Legends, Destiny, PUBG, and Rainbow Six Siege will not be playable on the device out of the box. Since Linux is incompatible with certain anti-cheat implementations featured in these games, SteamOS’ Proton compatibility layer simply cannot get past the anti-cheat check required to boot each title....