Dragon Age 2 turned ten years old last month and not many people made a fuss about it. Often considered the ugly dragonling in a series torn between old and new BioWare, most people look at Dragon Age 2 and say, “Ah yes, the one with the recycled maps.” While it’s true that the game’s layout is a bit samey most of the time, I don’t think it’s necessarily fair to write the whole experience off for a single offense....
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything is set to come out in a few weeks and change everything we know about building Dungeons & Dragons characters. D&D Lead Rules Designer Jeremy Crawford recently spoke about what that means from a mechanics standpoint. He went deeper into the new Custom Lineage rules that are supposed to allow players to build a character from the ground up, rather than rely on preestablished fantasy archetypes....
Although it’s subject to debate, many gaming fans would likely rank the titular protagonist of Duke Nukem as one of the best action video game characters ever thanks to his bawdy tongue-in-cheek dialogue and testosterone-soaked parody of a personality. Now, it looks as if the gaming icon might make the leap to the silver screen sometime soon, as a recent report has indicated that WWE wrestler and actor John Cena is currently in talks to star as the character in a forthcoming movie inspired by the video game series....
Last Week Tonight is back after a long hiatus, and John Oliver is already dishing out prescient advice for Animal Crossing fans. His message was bleak, as he suggested that you should keep Villagers of different species separated – otherwise you might spark the next pandemic. While much of the world remains focused on the current pandemic, Last Week Tonight looked ahead to “The Next Pandemic.” Analysts are worried that as we climb out of our current public health crisis we’ll simply jump back to our normal lives without taking proper precautions to prevent this from happening again....
Actor Johnny Depp has been asked to resign from the Fantastic Beasts movie franchise by Warner Bros after he lost his libel case with the British tabloid paper The Sun. The claim was brought after the paper had published a story labelling Depp a wife beater. Depp announced his departure from the franchise in a post on Instagram thanking fans for their support and vowing to appeal the decision writing, “The surreal judgement in the U....
It was nearly 10 years ago when Chris Pratt signed on to play animal behaviorist Owen Grady in Jurassic World, the first new movie in the Jurassic Park franchise since 2001. Looking back at it now, Pratt tells Den of Geek he couldn’t imagine that he might still be playing Grady a decade later in Jurassic World Dominion, a movie billed as the conclusion to not just the trilogy he’s starred in but also the three movies before that....
Nearly 27 years after the Bruce Timm-developed DC Animated Universe began in 1992 with Batman: The Animated Series, and 13 after it ended in 2006 with Justice League Unlimited, the so-called Timm-verse is … well, not quite back. Yet the new animated film Justice League vs. The Fatal Five is a reunion of talent, and style, but with a new class of heroes joining the iconic characters (and the actors who voiced them) for a largely satisfying adventure....
In 2000 Mission: Impossible 2 topped the box office, Gladiator triumphed at the Oscars, and the first X-Men movie ushered in a new era of superhero movies. Meanwhile in Canada, while no one was watching, a new hero was emerging. Her name was Ginger, she was a 16-year-old girl, and ok, she might have turned into a monster and killed a few people but, wow, was she a ferocious figurehead for females everywhere....
When Disney announced a decade ago its plans to release one Star Wars film a year, starting with 2015’s The Force Awakens, the studio likely didn’t factor a three-year lull after the end of Sequel Trilogy into its plans. But almost three years since the release of 2019’s The Rise of Skywalker, the state of the film franchise is up in the air. While Star Wars has continued to thrive on Disney+ during that time, it’s unclear when the saga will actually return to the big screen....
It is no secret that The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is a fan-favorite in the series. The game is still being played, streamed, and talked about some twenty years after its release and rightfully so. The Nintendo exclusive, which may make its way to Switch soon, is filled with all of the things that make an adventure game fun; expansive dungeons, dangerous enemies, tricky puzzles, and…sneaky cats? A Reddit post made by user ZeldaNAD has been making the rounds as it shows off a screenshot of King Dodongo after he is taken down by Link....
Living as a console exclusive throughout the series’ history, the Kingdom Hearts series will be surprise-releasing on PC next month. With the exception of emulation, Kingdom Hearts games spent a majority of the franchise’s lifetime being PlayStation exclusive. It wasn’t until February of last year where Xbox fans finally got to “experience the magic” of the Kingdom Hearts franchise, notwithstanding the fact that Kingdom Hearts 3 released on Xbox One beforehand....
After leaving Konami and starting his own independent studio, Hideo Kojima reveals in an interview that it is his mission in life to continue making big games. After nine months of feuding with Konami, Hideo Kojima officially announced that he and his former Kojima Productions team has gone independent and partnered with Sony to develop a brand new game. After the big announcement, Kojima continues to open up about what it’s like being independent and what direction he’d like to go in with his new studio....
The sun is beginning to set on Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ remunerative empire, now that new titles have dethroned the social simulation on Japanese game rankings chart. As per Famitsu’s chart figures for 6th-12th July, two Konami games, eBaseball Powerful Pro Baseball 2020 for Switch and PS4, are now Japan’s latest bestsellers. The sports video games were released together on July 9, and in only the first week of their release, the games became undisputed blockbusters - perched atop of Japan’s best-selling games list....
In the early days of video games, the industry was seen as a boys club, the image of those who played games and those who made them was that of a bespectacled nerdy guy. This notion that video games are a male-oriented industry has created cultures of sexism, and has led to a number of studios being called out for bad behavior. Riot Games and its male employees have been accused of assault, sexism, and a toxic work culture by female employees, and a new lawsuit alleges that this behavior goes right to the top, with CEO Nicolo Laurent in the crosshairs....
We liked Spec Ops: The Line quite a bit. However, while the campaign was a deep, enthralling experience, the multiplayer component has come to be regarded as a black mark on an otherwise great game. In fact, even The Line’s developers aren’t happy with how it turned out. Cory Davis, lead designer on Spec Ops: The Line, feels that game should have been single-player only. However, publisher 2K Games insisted on including an online component, after financial predictions said multiplayer was necessary....
Turtle Rock Studios, the developer behind the multiplayer games Left 4 Dead and Evolve releases a job listing seeking animators for a brand new title. Game developers generally try to keep upcoming titles under wraps, and are often successful until it comes time to register for a trademark or some kind of leak occurs. However, gamers often get their first hint that a new game is coming long before then when job listings appear, and Turtle Rock Studios is the latest developer to reveal the existence of a new game in this manner....
Among Us is still a phenomenon even if Jimmy Fallon didn’t do much to improve player counts. And as such, there are plenty of Among Us fans willing to get their hands on exclusive merch. Limited Run Games specializes in turning digital-only titles into loot-filled bonanzas, so the two are teaming up to provide us with a physical edition of Among Us. Frankly, we’re surprised it took Limited Run this long to get something like this out there....
Read more at Inverse After her standout performance in What If…?, Captain Carter is getting her own run in the comic books. “Peggy Carter has gone through many different titles during her tenure in the Marvel cinematic universe. From Strategic Scientific Reserve officer to undercover SHIELD agent to super serum-enhanced Captain, Carter keeps returning to the MCU in various forms. Now, thanks to the popularity of Captain Carter in Marvel’s What If…?...
Fan-favorite Vincent D’Onofrio as Kingpin might be returning in the MCU Hawkeye series on Disney+. “Hawkeye may be the butt of most Marvel jokes, but Clint Barton is about the get the last laugh. Jeremy Renner’s upcoming show, Hawkeye, will apparently do the impossible by bringing one of the most popular villains from Netflix’s Marvel shows into the studio’s cinematic universe. That’s right, Hawkeye is about to make Wilson Fisk into MCU canon....
Anime Expo’s video game announcements are ongoing at the the all-things-otaku convention, with Bandai Namco announcing the localization of Little Witch Academia: Chamber of Time. Coming to PlayStation 4 and PC via Steam in early 2018, Little Witch Academia is a 3D action RPG/beat ’em up based on the popular anime and manga, which recently launched a new series streaming exclusively on Netflix. According to Bandai Namco, Little Witch Academia: Chamber of Time will tell an original story, though it’s described as “carved” from the storyline of Studio Trigger’s anime....
