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Two million levels have been uploaded in Super Mario Maker 2. The hit sequel to the 2015 game released a little under two weeks ago, and shows no signs of slowing down. Super Mario Maker 2 is an ambitious game. It grants players all the tools necessary to make amazing Mario-themed levels. From Banzai Bills to the Cat suit, the possibilities are endless. Just like the first game, Super Mario Maker 2 is something of a social phenomenon....

Graphene battery vs. lithium battery ElecJet Apollo Ultra’s notable features and benefits: Faster Charging: Thanks to graphene technology, Apollo Ultra can charge at 100W of power within 27 minutes, whereas most other power banks take hours. Quick Charge: If you’re in a hurry, you get enough power for several hours by charging your smartphone for only 7 minutes. Dual Charge: With Apollo Ultra you can charge two devices at once (USB-C and USB 3....

Square Enix Montreal is introducing a completely new Hitman story to mobile devices when Hitman Sniper Assassins releases later this year. This time, however, it won’t star Agent 47. It will have new playable assassins to choose from, and if the trailer is anything to go by, it will likely have three-player co-op. “Project Hitman Sniper Assassins will be an evolutionary leap forward for the genre, and we can’t wait for players to share our excitement when they get their hands on it in the coming months,” said Dominic Allair, the executive producer at Square Enix Montreal....

Firewatch’s Cissy Jones chats with Game Rant about her character Delilah, crossword puzzles, and two years of recording sessions that went into Campo Santo’s debut game. Firewatch is a game that is all about character, so obviously recruiting top tier voice talent was a major concern for Campo Santo. The game is all about firewatch volunteer Henry’s summer in the woods and his walkie-talkie conversations with his boss, Delilah, are the game’s driving force....

Microsoft coined the phrase “It’s good to play together” as part of an Xbox Live promotion. This motto still holds since players are more connected than ever before. Games are backwards compatible, cross-platform, and may contain cooperative (co-op) gameplay. Arguably, the best games have a combination of each. Playing video games is not an anti-social activity like the stereotype suggests. One can chat with players all over the world while playing cooperative video games....

Role-playing games are an interesting genre, as they often contain a mix of other genres within them such as adventure, fantasy, and horror. There’s often something for everyone, but what can be welcomed by some players and not others though is the horror aspects that can appear in these titles. Even the most seemingly innocent games like The Legend of Zelda franchise can have a disturbing moment or scary character. Indeed, RPGs can have terrifying moments!...

Last week brought us a healthy mix of industry shakeups, bizarre history lessons, and of course, Cyberpunk 2077 headaches. Fans of Diablo and KOTOR will be delighted to learn that the classic franchises are (supposedly) getting some new installments. Meanwhile, Euro Truck Sim fans will be confused to learn that the developer is making public statements about vaccines. We still have no idea why. Without further ado, here are the biggest stories of the week....

It looks like we’ll have to wait just a little while longer to see Huey, Riley, and the rest of the Woodcrest gang once more. The anticipated release of The Boondocks reboot on HBO Max has been delayed to 2022. The bio on the official Boondocks Instagram page, spotted by Okayplayer, has revealed that the date for the reboot to premiere on HBO Max has been rescheduled to 2022 after the series was originally announced for Fall 2020....

Disney’s Villainous compiles the a huge assortment of the company’s infamous villains into one board game, allowing players to work towards completing villainous objectives rather than trying to save the day. This experience has been a lot of fun for many players, but as Disney’s media empire grows, fans want to see more and more representation within the game as well. Recently, the developers of the game, Ravensburger, branched out and created a Marvel’s Villainous box, a standalone expansion with five brand new villains to play all from Marvel comics and MCU movies....

The first trailer for the upcoming Cats movie has been released, and the internet’s reaction is predictably negative. We all remember the commotion that was caused by the Sonic The Hedgehog movie trailer that came out just a few months ago. That trailer was almost universally reviled by both longtime Sonic fans, and pretty much anyone who owned a pair of eyes. From his weirdly toned legs to his human teeth, his design was so hated that the entire movie needed to delayed so they could overhaul his look....

Ubisoft issues a revised statement regarding daily active user totals following the release of the game changing update 1.4 for Tom Clancy’s The Division. The lifespan of Tom Clancy’s The Division has been a fascinating tale since it launched last March. The game was initially met with positivity from critics and fans alike, smashing records and reaching huge player numbers. Even with a number of content updates and first expansion, the game fell off track a bit due to a number of issues, something the developer worked on for months to fix....

With the Survival expansion launching today for Tom Clancy’s The Division on Xbox One and PC, Ubisoft releases the full list of changes arriving in update 1.5. After going under the radar for a of couple months, Tom Clancy’s The Division received a much needed shot in the arm four weeks ago with the arrival of update 1.4. The update not only fixed a number of issues and bugs that had been hurting the overall experience, it also introduced a ton of game changing features like improving the time to kill ratio, reworked gear sets, and world tiers which change the global enemy difficulty levels to better align with the player....

The Empty Man, a supernatural horror film, has become a surprise straggler in a shrunken pandemic-era lineup of films still actually headed to theaters… and it’s coming sooner rather than later, as evidenced by 20th Century Studios’ release of the trailer. James Badge Dale headlines the horror flick, which adapts The Empty Man comic book series from Boom! Studios (for which Fox is a stakeholder,) created by esteemed writer Cullen Bunn with art by Vanesa R....

At first it seemed that GOG was on a mission to ensure only that old PC games were lovingly curated and kept updated to be played on modern hardware, but now it looks like they’ve expanded their scope. Not only are they re-releasing and updating old PC games, but they’ve even decided to branch out into old console games. Case in point, this latest collaboration with Konami. GOG has just announced that they’ll be re-releasing several Konami classics for PC, including the original Metal Gear, both Metal Gear Solid 1 and 2, and the Konami Collector’s Series: Castlevania & Contra....

Halo Infinite is undoubtedly one of the most hotly anticipated titles in Microsoft’s Xbox Series X lineup. Unfortunately, the delay that hit Halo Infinite in August means that players won’t be playing the game at launch, or even for the remainder of 2020. However, one star arose from all the news surrounding Master Chief’s latest escapade, and it wasn’t anyone hardcore fans of Halo were expecting. Craig the Brute became a meme sensation during the Halo Infinite’s first gameplay reveal, and has since become embraced by the development team who now have had Craig t-shirts made....

This The Last Kingdom review contains spoilers. The Last Kingdom Season 3 Episode 1 And we’re back in business. The Last Kingdom season 3 opener wastes no time chucking us into the action and onto the battlefield. All the hits are played: Uhtred and Alfred disagree over military strategy. A Dane screams “I want every Saxon dead by nightfall!” A Saxon screams “SHIEEEELD WAAAALLL!” A witch slices up a pile of priests....

The Last of Us Part 2 forces players to fight to survive in a post-apocalyptic world, and the game doesn’t go easy on players. However, the game also gives players ways to the strengthen themselves in different aspects through means such as Training Manual skill trees as they progress through the story. The upgrades in The Last of Us 2 can help in different ways as Ellie makes her way through the game’s campaign....

In March 2020, a television adaptation of Naughty Dog’s acclaimed game The Last of Us was revealed to be in the planning stages at HBO. Expected to cover the events of this game and perhaps also some elements of its 2020 sequel, the TV series is set to have Neil Druckmann, the writer and co-director of the original 2013 game, as one of its co-showrunners; the show was clearly set to have high fidelity to the source material....

This review of The Leftovers contains spoilers. You can find a spoiler-free review here. The Leftovers Season 3 Episode 1 How fitting is it that The Leftovers would premiere its third and final season on Easter Sunday? For a show meditating on what it means to have faith and exploring what leads people to belief, I can’t imagine that it’s a coincidence, especially now that the series features something of a Messiah figure....

The success of recent non-movie Star Wars media like The Mandalorian on Disney+ has led many fans of the franchise to hope that studios like BioWare might get another shot at creating story-driven Star Wars games like Knights of the Old Republic. However, The Mandalorian also builds a lot of hype for a game which has nothing to do with Star Wars at all: Far Cry 6. Far Cry is a series known for its central bad guys, a trend that started with Michael Mando’s iconic portrayal of Vaas in Far Cry 3....