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With almost no advance press for Star Trek: Discovery‘s airing and a whole heap of suspicious-looking production reshuffles and slippages, you could be forgiven for feeling trepidation about whether it was going to be any good or not. The happy news is that the opening episode, The Vulcan Hello, is exactly what it needed to be: a decent episode of Star Trek. Indeed, it’s comfortably the best opening episode since TNG’s Encounter At Farpoint....

This Star Wars: The Mandalorian review contains spoilers. The Mandalorian Season 2 Episode 7 Toward the end of many of Bungie’s video games, there’s a tank level. It’s a rollicking ride toward a finale, a big power fantasy all about momentum. With some exceptions for underdeveloped but effectively moving character work, “The Believer,” written and directed by Rick Famuyiwa, is mostly that: a slide toward a finale that remains mostly mysterious....

While Star Wars Battlefront (2015) had its fair share of fans, it’s generally agreed among gamers that developer DICE could have done better. No single player campaign, no co-op at launch, and a limited multiplayer scope are some of the criticisms that were raised against the first game, and its sequel, Star Wars Battlefront 2, hopes to make sure fans are satisfied. As part of the EA Play E3 2017 event, Game Rant was able to go hands-on with Star Wars Battlefront 2’s multiplayer to see just what has changed and what has not....

This article contains Stargirl spoilers. Stargirl continues to deliver some of the deepest cuts in DC Universe TV history to fans each week. Not only that, it does it with not a hint of irony about it, even when it’s presenting characters who, to modern eyes, might appear a little bit hokey if presented in their original form. The latest example of that comes with their revelation of the Seven Soldiers of Victory, a relatively obscure group of Golden Age superheroes who fought alongside the Justice Society of America back in the day....

The Manifesti are a recent addition with the Nemesis expansion and Philip K. Dick update for Stellaris. For some players, it’s an amusing addition to the game and for others they’re a major force to be reckoned with, potentially even grinding empire building to a near halt. It’s important to know what the Manifesti are and what their presence means for the player during their playthrough. If players are on the fence about whether the Manifesti should have a presence in their universe, here’s what you need to know to decide....

Stranded Deep takes place in a tropical environment, so you can expect to see fauna and flora typical for this kind of ecosystem, like Pipi Plants or tiny crabs roaming all over the place. After all, when you think about the type of fauna you’ll encounter in the Pacific Ocean, various varieties of fish are the first things to come to mind. And while you get your fair share of aquatic creatures in this game, you’ll also have to deal with flying creatures!...

Even by modern standards, Super Mario 64 is a big game. The average player will spend around 17 hours collecting stars and taking on Bowser. Hell, even if your only concern is taking down the final boss, ignoring all the extras, it will still set you back 12 hours. But of course, this isn’t the case for the speedrunning community. 25 years of practice and optimization means players can blast through the game in ways Nintendo definitely never intended....

One of the hallmarks of the System Shock series of first-person space adventure titles was the ability for players to leave a trail of gory enemy bodies in their wake. A video recently released by Nightdive Studios, developers of the upcoming System Shock remake, takes fans through the game’s dismemberment system. In the video, FX artist and lead designer of the dismemberment system, Benjamin Swinbanks, explains that the studio has custom built the new mechanics, which will give players the ability to maim enemies and even cause them to explode....

Since Tencent began in 1998, the Chinese technology company has quickly grown into one of the larger multinational conglomerate holding companies in the world of gaming. One of the ways it has grown is by acquiring developers, and Tencent is at it again. Among many purchases, Tencent is behind the biggest acquisition in gaming history; SuperCell (the team behind Clash of Clans). That purchase went for $8 billion, even more than the recent Microsoft purchase of Zenimax (Bethesda Studios)....

This holiday weekend, Christopher Nolan’s Tenet captured nearly 70 percent of the U.S. market share of movie theater tickets across the country. In normal circumstances that news would accompany a staggering box office figure—a Labor Day record-breaker to go along with the No. 1 debut. But during the current coronavirus pandemic, more than 50 percent of the market accounts for $20.2 million in box office receipts over four days. Is this the “new normal” or the first tentative step toward moviegoers slowly returning to theaters?...

Though shows like Dragon Ball Z and Sailor Moon were wildly popular in the 90s, it’s safe to say anime in general is growing in popularity in the United States in recent years at an alarming rate. From shows like Attack On Titan to My Hero Academia, plenty of kids are growing up with Japanese developed shows as their entertainment comfort food. In the realm of video games anime hasn’t had many break out hits and has struggled critically over the years....

While an intriguing story can make a game more terrifying, it doesn’t have to. Video games can rely on their enemy variety and frightening jump scares. Although jump scare games deserve a place in the industry, a video game with compelling storytelling is incomparable. Games like The Last of Us, Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, and Amnesia: The Dark Descent wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for the games of the ’90s. Horror games purposely place you inauspicious situations....

The Spring season of anime for 2021 has already started, but there are quite a few shows that still have yet to air. And, the ones that have already begun still have a good number of episodes before they’re over. It’s a long season, full of a lot of shows people have been waiting for expectedly, so let’s take a look at some of the most popular examples. Keep in mind, this ranking is based on just how wide the property’s general appeal is, the estimated quality of the show based on the reputation of the animation studio, as well as the background behind its development....

Red Dead Redemption 2 features one of the most expansive and detailed open-worlds in pretty much any of the games that exist. Spanning most of the southern areas in the United States, the map is sprawling and filled to the brim with random encounters, cities, friends and enemies, and a whole mess of rootin’ tootin’ good times. That being said, the West isn’t as simple as it seems, from the fact that it’s in the middle of a steady decline into civilization, to the occasional supernatural creatures and insane humans....

The most recent entry in the Fire Emblem series, Fire Emblem: Three Houses has been well received and praised by series newcomers and veterans alike. Due to the manner in which the player is able to teach and train each individual student according to their strengths and a player’s preference, the game features some of the most free-form and flexible gameplay the series has ever seen. While this slightly homogenizes the cast, as each character could hypothetically be made into the same class, each character still possesses their own strengths and weaknesses....

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The Day Before is an open-world MMO set in a post-apocalyptic world that has been destroyed by a deadly virus. The Day Before was revealed yesterday, is being developed by FNTASTIC, and is being published by MYTONIA. The game takes a lot of cues from Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us games in the art design and even, to some extent, the color palette. While it’s nothing to write home about, the inspirations seem to be solid, and many fans would agree that it’s fitting for The Day Before to take even more cues from its contemporaries such as The Last of Us, particularly in terms of brutality....

Massive Entertainment reveals PvP and other changes coming to The Division with Update 1.6 that will significantly change the way players engage with each other. Tom Clancy’s The Division is making a plethora of changes to its PvP gameplay with its upcoming patch, Update 1.6. Along with introducing new Dark Zone areas and Legendary missions, the update will shake up player gear, weapons, skills, and PvP balancing. In a blog post shared on The Division website, Massive Entertainment outlines the changes and additions coming to the game, which will undoubtedly cause severe changes to the way players engage with both AI enemies and each other....

After the huge success of WandaVision as the first MCU show on Disney+, all eyes are on The Falcon and the Winter Soldier to see if it can deliver another hit. Like WandaVision, the new series will highlight some Marvel characters who, up until now, have been supporting players in the movies. While the show looks to tell a buddy action story between Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes, there is another even more dysfunctional relationship that The Falcon and the Winter Soldier might be forced to address....

The following THE FLASH article contains spoilers through Season 7, Episode 15. The Flash Season 7 Episode 15 The Flash isn’t really the sort of show that does a lot of what you might call long-lead storytelling, so the fact that the show has been teasing the return of villainous speedster Godspeed for over a year is a fairly unprecedented event. Granted, “Enemy at the Gates” is maybe not the episode that all that build-up deserves, since it tells us precious little about where all the Godspeed clones are coming from or what they want....