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For the past few months, League of Legends players have seen multiple teasers about the next champion, Seraphine. From actual social media accounts to covering K/DA’s POP/STARS, Riot Games was clearly trying a new approach in promotions leading up to her debut. With the recent confirmation that Seraphine’s release will tie into K/DA’s comeback event in several weeks, the community still didn’t know much about the actual Starry-Eyed Songstress, until now....

The latest trailer for LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens confirms that the film’s cast will do voice-work for the game, including Harrison Ford and Daisy Ridley. As if a Star Wars property could ever pass up a marketing opportunity… Happy May 4, everybody, and may the force be with you. Surprisingly, today’s Star Wars hype doesn’t all come by way of Disney. Instead it’s LEGO and WB jumping at the chance to show off more LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens....

The report also noted that users had logged 13.3 million complaints in 2020, nearly 0.75 complaints for every 1,000 hours of content watched on Twitch. As a result, the company took 1.99 million actions, including warnings, temporary suspensions and indefinite suspensions, meaning less than 15% of all reports were addressed. The most frequently reported offense was “Viewbotting, Spam, and Other Community” violations. Approximately 6.6 million reports were filed in the category last year and 1....

Our quick take Lexus UX 250h - 4.0 / 5 Eye-catching design A smooth-driving hybrid Tech lacks, er, UX… To recap While this small-scale Japanese SUV is comfortable, eye-catching and well-equipped for the money, the on-board tech is tricky to use - ironic given the ‘UX’ namesake - so it’s hard to recommend buying it over a German rival like the Audi Q3. Once the Lexus tech suite is next-gen, however, this’ll be a great little SUV option if you’re looking for an easy-to-drive and comfortable hybrid....

Deck Nine has released the launch trailer for its hotly anticipated episodic adventure Life is Strange: Before the Storm. Rather than following up on its well-loved predecessor, this three-episode series is a prequel set three years ahead of the original game. As such, we get to see some of the characters from Life is Strange before the events that would change them forever. At the beginning of the clip, we see protagonist Chloe Price complain about the departure of both her father and her best friend, setting a somewhat bleak tone for the start of the game....

When it comes to video games, there aren’t any real handbooks or rules about how to properly enjoy or play them as a whole. Half of the appeal of video games is that they can be enjoyed any way the player decides to; however, there are some tips and useful advice that can help the player find the narrative or experience that the developers intended. In the case of the horror-platformer, Little Nightmares 2, there are definitely a few things new players should keep in mind to get the most out of their playthrough....

Disney and Lucasfilm’s The Mandalorian introduced a new spaceship named the Razor Crest to the Star Wars lore. Now, Hasbro’s Haslab has unveiled a brand new video that provides a detailed first look at its fully painted model of the Razor Crest. Hasbro’s Razor Crest model was developed as part of Haslab’s latest crowdfunding campaign, which required 6,000 fans to back the project by November 9th. By the end of September, the campaign already reached its minimum backing goal and has since garnered the support of 15,532 backers in total....

Loop Hero, the endless auto-battler published by Devolver Digital and developed by Four Quarters, released one week ago today at the time of writing. During that short time, it has quickly established itself as more than noteworthy, smashing expectations on Steam in seemingly every category. Now that the game’s been out for a full week, it’s become clear that it has passed yet another major sales milestone, with over half a million units sold already....

This post contains potential spoilers for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Namor the Sub-Mariner sits at the foot of Castle Doom, an exorbitant spread set before him. Despite the luxury he experiences as a guest of Latverian ruler Victor Von Doom, Namor lacks his usual arrogance. After all, Namor comes to Dr. Doom with the knowledge that he failed, that his previous alliances with both the Illuminati and their villainous counterpart the Cabal have reached their end....

37 PS4 games that every player should own Our quick take The best upcoming PS4 games to look forward to, 2019 and beyond Marvel’s Spider-Man PS4 - 4.5 / 5 Superhero storyline Biting the Big Apple Slinging it with Spidey For the fans Bossing the big bad guys To recap The long-awaited open world Spider-Man game is here and doesn’t disappoint. Its open world version of New York City is vibrant, both graphically and in-game terms, while combat and simply swinging around both feel intuitive and natural....

Since Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige announced in 2019 that they were planning to introduce the Fantastic Four into the MCU in some way, fans have been eagerly waiting to hear how they would make their appearance. Finally, in December 2020, Feige announced that the company was working on a feature film about the Fantastic Four, directed by Jon Watts. More information is yet to come, but fans have been speculating, theorizing, and fan-casting....

You will soon be able to build some high-rise homes for your Meeples in this new strategic tower-building tabletop game - Meeple Towers - from designer Aaron Holland. WizKids has just announced that this abstract 3D building game is available now online and in game stores across North America. What is a Meeple, you ask? Why, they’re a type of people of course. It’s the name frequently given to the little (usually wooden) humanoid figures which often represent one’s character in board games....

The Elder Scrolls has an interesting relationship with babies and it’s all thanks to an unusual contest/promotion Bethesda thought of at the beginning of the year. If one loving couple could birth a child on Skyrim’s release date of 11-11-11 and name said child Dovahkiin (“Dragonborn” in dragon tongue), that family would win every release from Bethesda (old and new) for life, along with a few other surprise gifts. It was more of a joke that earned some fun publicity but of course, someone did it....

The Metal Gear Solid movie has been in the works for years now, but besides Jordan Vogt-Roberts serving as the director, there hasn’t been much news about what fans can expect from the film. Now that’s changed, as the Metal Gear Solid movie has cast its Solid Snake. According to a report by Deadline, Oscar Isaac will play Solid Snake in the Metal Gear Solid film adaptation. According to Deadline, a production start date for the Metal Gear Solid movie has yet to be decided, but now that Isaac is attached to star, it should become a higher priority for Sony Pictures moving forward....

In just a few years, eSports has gone from an obscure profession for a handful of gamers to a worldwide sensation. Thanks to PC games like League of Legends, Starcraft 2 and Dota 2, eSports continues to grow in popularity, with sponsorships and prize money reaching into the millions of dollars. In an effort to capitalize on the growing eSports trend, 343 Industries announced in November that they would be conducting a Halo Championship Series in conjunction with the release of the Halo Master Chief Collection....

Xbox Live, Microsoft’s iconic online gaming service, recently had a rebrand after almost 20 years with the same name. The newly-christened “Xbox network” is eliciting mixed feelings among the fanbase, but Microsoft has been quick to assure users that the change is primarily a descriptive one, and that it didn’t signify any radical change to the service itself. Shortly after the name “Xbox network” started appearing on beta testers’ dashboards, a Microsoft spokesperson confirmed the change, saying that “the update from ‘Xbox Live’ to ‘Xbox network’ is intended to distinguish the underlying service from Xbox Live Gold memberships....

Microsoft Flight Simulator is coming to Xbox Series X|S on July 27 and will be included with Xbox Game Pass. The news dropped during the Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase, which also teased an upcoming Top Gun expansion. While Microsoft Flight Simulator will arrive on consoles next month, the free Top Gun Maverick expansion won’t launch until later this fall on November 19. The new content will likely coincide with the upcoming Top Gun movie, although we’ll have to wait a bit longer to learn what exactly is included in the expansion....

Microsoft has published a new account activity policy, which becomes effective on August 30th, 2019. It outlines the different circumstances in which they can close your account, due to inactivity. Microsoft accounts are used to access many different services. These services include Skype, Outlook, OneDrive, and Xbox Live. If players don’t want to risk any of your data associated with these services being lost, then it’s worth making sure they don’t fall under the new inactivity rules....

While starting off innocently enough, loot boxes have quickly become a divisive game mechanic for many players. It can be argued that Overwatch really pushed the idea of loot boxes into the mainstream as players were rewarded another box stuff with in-game content for levelling up their account. Unfortunately, other games quickly followed suit and things quickly spiralled out of control. After receiving a lot of flak from its community after announcing the inclusion of loot boxes to its predominantly single-player campaign, Middle-earth: Shadow of War is finally making a pretty big change to its in-game store....

Villages have been a part of the Minecraft universe since its beta days and they’ve evolved quite a bit since their addition. At first, these civilizations were home to brainless villagers and a limited source of materials such as farm food and items in a blacksmith’s chest. Since then, villages have evolved to include new styles per biome, a lot more chests, and even enemies that villagers have to deal with called Illagers....