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The Resident Evil series is synonymous with survival horror in video games. While the games have always given players a tense, downright terrifying experience, they’ve yet to really strike a chord with audiences with their movie adaptations. This is mostly due to the fact that while the games are focused on atmosphere, deliberate pacing, and actual horror, the movies are focused entirely on watching Mila Jovovich killing monsters in over-the-top action sequences....

Microsoft has finally shown off gameplay for now-delayed Halo Infinite in a short demo displayed during an Xbox Games Showcase this past month. In it, gamers gleaned a few tantalizing hints at the upcoming potential story threads, which seem to feature protagonist Master Chief fighting against enemy faction The Banished, all while traveling across a partially destroyed Halo ring several years after Halo 5: Guardians. This of course, has sparked all sorts of speculation about what happened during the time-skip, how this fits into the overall canon, and who or what might show up over the course of the experience....

Yet another new game was recently announced for Steam Early Access. The Hand of Merlin is a game developed by Room-C Games and Croteam in which you recruit heroes in order to fight against otherworldly evils. In addition, this is another game in which the narrative choices you make actual matter for the outcome. You will search for lost fragments of your soul throughout the game while undergoing unique encounters that are mixed with a flavor of sci-fi horror....

For those of us who grew up with Pong and the Atari 2600, video games seem like they have been around for a long time. But in the grand scheme they are still a new and emerging artistic medium. Compared to film, games are children, and compared to music, visual art, and literature, video games are mere infants (a bunch of cells even). While games do have new things to offer—like the ability to blow things up in amazing virtual worlds, and super annoying F2P monetization strategies—they share the same basic function and purpose of all art forms before them: to tell a meaningful story....

This article contains The Rock spoilers Michael Bay has made a career out of big, explosive, action movies. That’s sort of his brand. His 1996 film The Rock fully fits that category, but it is somehow more than the sum of its bullets and bravado. Even amid the carnage, the film never loses sight of the human stake, something that sadly can’t be said for most of his other films....

Just like the holster that is available for Ellie’s larger weapons - such as the rifle, bow, and shotgun - a smaller holster is available to her for making handgun selections much less cumbersome and easier to manage - especially during the moments of the game that require a quick weapon switch rather than reloading. You just have to know where to look. During Ellie’s journey to the hospital to confront Nora, she will be forced to make her way through a park in which she witnesses the hanging and disembowelment of a WLF member by the cult-like group known as the Scars....

After years in development and months of delays, Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us Part II has been officially released for the PS4. Despite being praised by fans and reviewers alike, it seems that the game has been getting review bombed over on Metacritic for its alleged political and social-driven themes. As of the time of the writing, The Last of Us Part II has a user-review score of 3.3 with over eight thousand negative reviews....

While players are exploring Capitol Hill during The Last of Us 2’s Seattle Day 1 chapter, they will come across the Wellwisher Thrift Store and Donation Center. In the backroom of this thrift store is a safe, and indeed fans will need a code if they want to get it open. Providing the requisite TLoU2 thrift store safe code, as well as details on where it is found, is the exact purpose of this guide, and all of the information that players need can be found below....

One of the nice surprises at Sony’s Paris Games Week press conference was a new trailer for The Last of Us: Part 2. While many fans were excited to see more footage of the highly anticipated game, others were outraged at the extreme level of violence shown in the trailer. Over the past couple of weeks, numerous outlets have stepped forward decrying the trailer for its brutality, but some fans may still not quite understand why there’s so much controversy....

It’s been a couple of years since the official announcement of The Last of Us: Part 2, the sequel to Naughty Dog’s critically acclaimed PlayStation exclusive, and the developers have very much kept the details of the game close to their chests. Very little official information has been revealed, with quite a few of what we do know coming from rumors and leaks (including The Last of Us 2 release date) and the newest piece is no exception - the first game’s weapon upgrade system will be coming back....

Despite being released over six years ago, the remastered version of the first The Last of Us game has received a new update. The key change provided in the patch seems to make a drastic improvement to load times within The Last of Us Remastered, an adjustment that should benefit all players of the beloved Naughty Dog game. The seemingly out of nowhere update likely has something to do with The Last of Us Remastered’s inclusion in the PS Plus Collection for PS5....

This The Little Things analysis contains spoilers. Read our spoiler-free review here. The Little Things can be seen as a tainted police procedural with its murky ambiguity and troubling ending. But it’s also the story of a man for whom the allure of a charismatic serial killer goes too far. After all, serial killers make up less than one percent of homicides but they average a double-digit percentage of Hollywood crime films, and probably a majority of prison fan mail....

One thing that players immediately latched onto when Square Enix first revealed the cover art for Kingdom Hearts 3 was the inclusion of a strange little creature that many fans might not have even recognized. This was the addition of the little Darkling, that implied that Kingdom Hearts’ Keyblade War would have a larger impact on what was being primed for the final game in the series than it ever had before....

A backer for the KickStarter funded space sim, Star Citizen, has been refunded his entire donation after a lengthy dispute with developer Cloud Emperium. KickStarter funded games haven’t had the best track record with fulfilling all of the promises that the developer makes about their game. The recent report of the declining popularity of KickStarter games confirms what backers for Mighty No. 9 and Godus found out the hard way; investing in a videogame KickStarter is a risky investment....

This Star Trek: Discovery review contains spoilers. Star Trek: Discovery Episode 14 As much fun as the Mirrorverse was, it never felt like the story Discovery set out to tell. Now that the show is back in the Prime universe, the show is back to exploring what kind of Federation this alliance of species aims to be. It’s never been better in this second half of the season than in “The War Without, The War Within,” an episode that sees our heroes not shooting at something with the purpose of harming it, but shooting at something with the purpose of giving it life....

Protocol droids are some of the most put-upon characters in the Star Wars universe. When considering the treatment C-3PO went through alone (constant insults and critical damage), it’s a miracle that the long-suffering droids have not staged their own (well-mannered) revolution. However, when one Star Wars Battlefront 2 player decided to provoke one of the peaceful characters, he learned that his bumbling opponent was a lot more violent than it let on....

The recent history of Star Wars is littered with cancelled video game titles. Disney took control of the franchise after a buyout of LucasArts, and the right to create games based on the sci-fi property was passed on to EA. As such, a number of titles already on the precipice met a seemingly inevitable fate. One of the most mourned of these was Star Wars 1313. The Boba Fett-focused title was finally cancelled after months of speculation when Disney let the trademark expire, leaving nothing more than some location concept art....

Electronic Arts confirms that Emperor Palpatine and Princess Leia will be amongst the cast of playable hero and villain characters in Star Wars Battlefront. With the release of Star Wars Battlefront just around the corner on November 17, 2015, many players were chomping at the bit to get official details on the cast of beloved characters that will be playable at launch. Now, Electronic Arts has given a little more information surrounding the heroes and villains on show....

Gamers and game developers are gearing up for a packed holiday season, with many titles set to compete for gamers’ attention and money. One of those games is Star Wars Battlefront, which made a huge splash at this year’s E3 conference with some exciting gameplay and announcements. Naturally, gamers have been clamoring for additional details about Star Wars Battlefront and continue to spam EA, DICE, PlayStation, and Xbox executives with questions and requests on social media....

One of Disney’s first moves after purchasing Lucasfilm and the Star Wars franchise was to officially axe the extended universe, which contained a wide array of books, comics, and alternate stories that took place within and beyond the scope of the original movies. By the time Disney came around it had become a mess to keep track of. So when they finalized the acquisition, Disney declared the whole thing non-canon and moved forward, but according to some authors, they also took the opportunity to start ignoring royalty payments....