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Team Liquid, a multi-regional professional esports organization based in the Netherlands, has extended its merchandising collaboration with Marvel Entertainment through 2022. Since launching its partnership in 2019, Team Liquid and Marvel have released several superhero lines inspired by Captain America, Spider-Man, and Black Widow, which are worn by team players during competitions. Founded in 2000 by Victor “Nazgul” Goossens, Team Liquid has grown dramatically in the past two decades. In 2017, the organization’s European Dota 2 team won The International, which included one of the largest prize pools for any esports tournament in history....

Our introduction to Teardown was very impressive. We were told that developers Tuxedo Labs had built an entirely new engine for the game. Of course, they want to see what the engine can do, which is why the game will be in early access for, “at least a year”. For the early access phase, you will have the ability to play one chapter of the campaign, with 20 missions and five different environments....

Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass is the most successful attempt at a “Netflix for games” subscription model, offering over 100 games to download and play for the PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. For a small monthly fee, Game Pass can provide a ridiculous amount of value, variety, and entertainment. However, much like Netflix itself, the contracts for the games Microsoft does not own are subject to expiration. For every couple games added to Xbox Game Pass, another is removed....

Like many of you, I started playing Monster Hunter Rise over the weekend, and like a smaller (but still substantial) subsection of you, it was my first real foray into Monster Hunter. I had dabbled in World, but after its brilliant character creator, it just never really clicked with me and I dwindled the hours away mostly talking to the cats and admiring the food rather than actually hunting monsters in the world....

Ask any comic book fan, and they’ll tell you a huge pet-peeve is storylines being interrupted by crossover events. Some of the most acclaimed comic book runs – Chris Claremont’s Uncanny X-Men, Frank Miller’s Daredevil, even Al Ewing’s current Immortal Hulk – mostly operate on self-contained mythologies with minimal intrusions from the broader Marvel universe. Yet every so often some company-wide event will interrupt such focused writing with mandatory changes and tie-ins....

In the course of his nearly 50-year career on the screen, the late Sean Connery portrayed many famous characters, both fictional and non-fictional. Among those were, of course, Ian Fleming’s suave spy James Bond in seven films; Daniel Druvot in 1975’s The Man Who Would Be King; King Arthur in 1995’s First Knight, Robin Hood in 1976’s Robin and Marian; Dr. Henry Jones Sr. in 1989’s Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and many more....

Without a doubt, Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is an outstanding sequel with a promising future. Even though this past year has not been all clear sailing after a lackluster release of the expansion Winds of Magic in late 2019, developer Fatshark has made great strides in reorienting the future direction of their game, and there is a lot to look forward too. Why Winds Of Magic Underwhelmed Winds of Magic only really brought one new map to the table and increased difficulty for a greater challenge, but without an increase in reward....

Well, we now know why Luke Shaw didn’t start at left back for England yesterday - he was busy starring in the new Guardians of the Galaxy trailer. I didn’t watch the Square Enix showcase live, my brain having already melted from other E3 coverage, and so my first introduction to the game was a screenshot of Peter Quill where he looks unmistakably like the Manchester United defender. After the unmitigated disaster of Marvel’s Avengers, I didn’t have much hope for Guardians - once I got around to watching the full trailer though, I was pleasantly surprised....

Despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic shutting down large gatherings and entertainment productions, there are still discussions being held for after things open up, such as Tom Cruise talking with NASA and SpaceX about shooting a film in space. Another film apparently ready to go into production “as soon as it is possible” is Netflix’s Bright 2 starring Will Smith and Joel Edgerton. The sequel to David Ayer’s 2017 modern-day fantasy movie may be directed by Louis Leterrier according to Deadline, the same filmmaker behind 2008’s The Incredible Hulk, 2010’s Clash of the Titans, and 10 episodes of Netflix’s The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance....

Ellie is finally a young woman in The Last of Us Part II and many fans have taken the opportunity to create incredible cosplays depicting her. They focus on her many talents and attributes as they seek to combine both her signature look and personality into their design. The outcomes are truly incredible as it really brings this character to life. The various cosplayers each offer something different as they add their own spin to this character....

The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt is a fantastical monster-hunting epic, set on a continent filled with violence, horror, and war. Life is hard for everyone as they’re subjected to the brutalities of life amongst monsters and powerful men. Like in the books, despite the chaos and pain, Geralt manages to find a few moments of peace, usually comprised of small, happy moments. These wholesome moments involve his closest friends and family, and give the witcher a much needed break from his average day....

The world isn’t fair. That’s the message of Shane Black’s happily unkempt The Nice Guys, both onscreen and off. In a better timeline, we’d be on our third or fourth go-round with Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe as undeservedly smug private eyes. Alas, despite some of us seeing The Nice Guys for the comedic masterpiece that it was in 2016—back when we noted that it’s “so confident it borders on arrogance”—few others did, and the movie crashed and burned at the box office....

Google Stadia hasn’t conquered the gaming industry in quite the way that Google hoped it would, but it’s still going somewhat strong. It recently gave the excellent Little Nightmares 2 out to all its pro users free of charge. And it looks like even more new games will be coming to the cloud gaming service very soon. Stadia will be welcoming 9 games that will be added to the list near the end of this month and throughout March and April....

Standing as the highest-earning video game crowdfunding project of all time, Star Citizen has had a surprisingly bumpy road to release since the start of its campaign back in 2012. Despite raising hundreds of millions of dollars, the developer behind the game has struggled to make its dream a reality, with the scale of the game shifting and concerning reports about Cloud Imperium Games burning through its funding hitting the internet....

The following article contains spoilers for Season 2 Episode 2 of Star Trek: Picard. If the season 2 premiere of Star Trek: Picard was getting all the new pieces in place then the second episode was tossing them all out of an airlock and seeing who survives. Picard and the rest of the cast are transported to an alternate timeline that seems to be the work of Q. There they find a world that’s far more human centric, with Picard as an evil leader....

Star Wars Battlefront is one of the most highly anticipated games of 2015. The multiplayer-focused shooter is currently set to release this November, and both fans of the iconic science fiction franchise and of video games in general are excited to see what developer DICE has in store. Promising an experience that is set to be noticeably different from the developer’s Battlefield franchise, both DICE and publisher EA are hoping that the title will live up to an expected 9-10 million units sold....

In all manners of storytelling, naming conventions matter. Star Wars is a prime example of this, as Skywalker means traveling through the skies (space) for young Anakin. Luke and Rey have simple, unassuming names to better reflect their benign nature and projective relationship with the audience, especially while talking to aliens whose names may seem odd. The same goes for Cal Kestis, keeping this simple naming convention even in a video game like Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order....

It is hard to believe that Starcraft II launched ten years ago, and updates are still rolling out to keep the game fresh and engaging for players. To celebrate the anniversary, patch 5.0 brings several changes to gameplay, and most importantly, a new Prestige system that will offer players a new way to play their Commanders in co-op. The new system will allow players to progress through levels 1-15 up to three additional times per commander, and each time a Prestige is activated, a unique Prestige Talent is unlocked....

Ever since the finale of the Arkham series of games left fans craving more DC superheroes from Rocksteady Studios, rumors and speculations have run rampant on the internet over the next direction Rocksteady’s DC universe of games would take, and a recent announcement has finally revealed that the next game will feature the Suicide Squad. This comes as a bit of a blow to fans who were hoping that rumors of an open-world Superman game similar to Arkham Knight were true, as the character has notoriously bad games, but there are still a lot of reasons to get excited for the upcoming debut of Rocksteady’s Suicide Squad, even if some fans are still longing for a Superman announcement....

Another year of Summer Games Done Quick has passed, and another record has been broken. This year the event raised over $2.1 million with the proceeds going to Doctors Without Borders. This is the highest amount SGDQ has raised to date. The event ran from Sunday-to-Sunday last week, and featured over 100 games being played as quickly as possible. Some were run through normally, while others were played using certain conditions like achieving 100% completion or racing against other players....