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Valve’s hit 2009 multiplayer survival horror game Left 4 Dead 2 came back into prominence last week thanks to the release of a free official update called Left 4 Dead 2: The Last Stand that was created entirely by fans. The game has accrued a large catalog of community-made content through mods over the years, and one replaces the classic zombie game’s common infected with the characters from modern multiplayer hit Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout....

The Left 4 Dead wiki was invaded recently by a strange character known as Purple Francis, a character who does not appear anywhere in the game. While some fans saw the humorous side to the creation of Purple Francis, others worked quickly to remove his nonsensical entries from the game’s lore. All traces of the ambiguous character may have been removed from the Left 4 Dead wiki, but Purple Francis lives on in an exclusive mod....

As Legends of Runeterra is currently in an open beta, players should expect to see changes aimed at balancing cards and archetypes, and the release of patch 0.9.2 is by far one of the largest and most aggressive set of reworks we have seen so far. The Shadow Isles is seeing its fair share of these changes, and Fearsome units will continue to remain on the watchlist for future changes....

Our quick take Lenovo Yoga Book C930 - 3.0 / 5 Design Dual screen design: LCD and E Ink panels Windows 10 only (no Android this time) Double-knock to open feature Integrated fingerprint reader 2x USB-C (one for charging) SIM tray for 4G/LTE mobile Dolby Atmos integration 9.9mm thick chassis Keyboard and Trackpad E Ink panel offers haptic, audible and visual feedback AI (artificial intelligence) typing learns your style Up to 160 different keyboard types and configs No paper pad included like original model Drawing and sketching Stylus included for drawing Nowhere to stow in body Displays Main screen: 10....

Wait for a second, how many more South Park movies are in development? “MTV Entertainment Studios has unveiled an expansive, $900 million deal with South Park co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, which includes extending the adult animated series on Comedy Central through its 30th season. Not to mention, Paramount+ will receive a whopping 14 South Park movies, with the first two out this fall. Boy, do these animators have their work cut out for them....

Our first full-length trailer at Paramount+’s Halo series gives us a good look at the live-action adaptation of the iconic video game series. “Since the original Halo released in 2001, Microsoft has been trying for a long time to get Bungie and 343 Industries’ sci-fi shooter into live-action beyond excellent commercials and web series tie-ins. After several aborted attempts at making a movie, Halo is now finally a TV show for Paramount+ (with some speed bumps along the way) that winds back the clock to the days when Master Chief’s life and the Human/Covenant War was much simpler....

In total, the extended editions of the three Lord of the Rings movies clock in at 11 hours and 42 minutes. The books on which they are based feature a combined total of just 1,241 pages (excluding appendices). That works out at just shy of 34 seconds of screen time per page. With this in mind, one would be forgiven for thinking that the movies cover absolutely everything from the books....

This article contains spoilers for the Lucifer season 5 finale. During the final episode of Lucifer season 5, “A Chance at a Happy Ending”, Michael (Tom Ellis) arrives at Lux with an offer for Lucifer (also Tom Ellis). The loss of Dan Espinoza (Kevin Alejandro) still fresh in his mind, Lucifer lashes out at Michael when he suggests that Lucifer could get his old job back as the Hell’s king, but having assembled the Flaming Sword and with the angels on his side, it appears that Michael will be victorious in his efforts to rule Heaven....

Wizards of the Coast has suspended all involvement with Magic: The Gathering freelance artist Jason Felix, after the artist’s Crux of Fate illustration was accused of plagiarizing a piece of fan art. The original artist has also released a video comparing the two, which has most of the Magic community convinced. Crux of Fate is an element card from the new Strixhaven: School of Mages set, and the illustration of the elder dragon Nicol Bolas is the design being scrutinized....

An interview posted by Nintendo takes a look at the development of Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit, showing off a prototype RC car while discussing challenges the team faced during its creation. The team confronting these challenges is Velan Studios, created just four years ago in 2016. The first thing it had to figure out was how to get an RC car to control like a traditional Mario Kart game. Without that core element, the team was afraid the title would fall short of expectations....

The arrival of Disney+ series Hawkeye will have Marvel Cinematic Universe archer Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner) dealing with the implications of his post-Snap international vigilante spree as Ronin, which made him enemies among the world’s conventional criminals. Yet, rather than hit up one (or all) of his super-powered Avengers contacts, he instead relies solely on the help of an upstart fangirl and would-be arrow-apprentice in Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld). This leads to a rather obvious question, which Marvel’s Kevin Feige now addresses....

Tony Stark has worn quite a few different armors as the armored Avenger known as Iron Man over the years, both in the comics and on the big screen, as the brilliant inventor is continually reinventing his and his teammate’s costumes with advanced technology, which features heavily into Square Enix’s Marvel’s Avengers. The members of the Avengers have a number of outfits available in the game, with the team even receiving advanced versions of their own costumes created by Stark....

The Mass Effect universe is a deep and complex one, tackling themes varying widely from the ethical boundaries of science to forging one’s own destiny and more. Some of these themes are explored with characters such as Urdnot Grunt and Tali’Zorah, while the philosophical debate about artificial intelligence heavily involves the character EDI. EDI seems to be the stock “robot friend” at first, but like Lieutenant-Commander Data, EDI is more than an android....

Mass Effect: Legendary Edition was announced on N7 Day, realizing the hopes of fans who has been holding out for a remaster of the original trilogy since shortly after Mass Effect 3 first released in 2012. It remains unclear, however, just how much BioWare will be willing to change in the new version of the games and which areas will be focused on for improvement. There will be plenty of aspects of the original game that many fans will not want BioWare to change, even controversial aspects like the Paragon-Renegade morality system or the ending of Mass Effect 3....

One year ago the story of Commander Shepard, savior of the galaxy (or is he/she?), came to a conclusion. It may not have been the conclusion many fans wanted from the series, but the community and media have begun to move on as timed passes. Moving away from the negative that is the disappointing end of the story wrapped around a great game, one thing BioWare did do well, against all odds, was introduce a platform for Mass Effect 3 multiplayer that could evolve along with the community....

Bioware’s Mass Effect trilogy established Commander Shepard as an iconic protagonist and a valiant hero, but according to new data, Shepard is also a prolific murderer. In Mass Effect, players can approach the game in many different ways. You can be either a heroic Paragon who tries to avoid unnecessary bloodshed, or you can be a ruthless Renegade who eliminates enemies both during the fights and in dialogue and cutscenes. A group of Redditors decides to find out how many living creatures Shepard could kill in total....

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds’ next big update, Patch 12, will be arriving on live servers on PC soon. The patch will go live Thursday after four hours of maintenance that will start at 7:00 p.m. on May 2. The update will also reset the leaderboards and the new season will begin when maintenance ends. The patch is among the game’s biggest updates, bringing a weapon balance overhaul and map selection to PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds....

Thought that trailer from last year was a joke? Not at all. Aaron Greenberg, General Manager of Xbox Games Marketing, re-confirmed that the Xbox Series X fridge is a thing, as the Xbox twitter account wins the Twitter Marketing poll for best tweet. There were 15 competitors in this battle of brand twitter, but none could best the Xbox Series X fridge. In second place was the Skittles account, with Wendys and Doritos among the several runner ups....

After a slight delay, the gates of Mordor have once again opened, letting players finally declare war against Sauron. Middle-earth: Shadow of War picks up where the previous game left off with Talion seeking to bring the battle to Sauron by building an army and conquering Mordor. Monolith has taken the extra time to really flesh out the well-received Nemesis System this time around, adding more diverse orcs to build out an army and giving them even more unique attributes....

“Learn how to combat a pandemic, one block at a time,” is the pitch for a brand new map made for Minecraft. Blockdown is a free to download and play custom map for Minecraft intended to be informative regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. The developer describes Blockdown as a conversation starter, as it’s “increasingly pivotal” to start positive conversations around COVID-19 and the efforts necessary to keep everyone safe and healthy....