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Mario Kart Tour’s Halloween Tour goes live around the world today. Here are the changes and additions players can expect to see. Nintendo’s foray into the mobile world over the past few years has been met with a variety of responses. Mario’s mobile appearances tend to be packed to the gills with gacha rates and microtransactions. The complaints off the back of that may make it seem like Nintendo’s mobile success has been minimal....

Marvel’s Avengers is seemingly making progress on the long path toward rebuilding, as a recent War Table teaser promised news on the Hawkeye DLC and the game’s next-gen versions. While this upcoming stream will be exciting for fans of the game and could encourage those who have not yet played Marvel’s Avengers to pick it up on the new consoles, it looks like there could be one major problem with the Hawkeye expansion....

Like a lump of flesh that’s been carved off to be grafted back on with a cybernetic enhancement later, the Deus Ex series is on ice. Square Enix made the decision to cut the series - originally planned as a trilogy, as evident by Mankind Divided’s cliffhanger ending - in favour of Marvel’s Avengers. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided was an expensive project and it didn’t quite hit the sales targets the publisher hoped for....

BioWare releases three new Mass Effect: Andromeda character kits providing high resolution screenshots for a few of the companion characters like PeeBee and Cora Harper. It’s been a long road for Mass Effect Andromeda, though the latest entry in the popular series is quickly and finally approaching its release date next month. Even still, there’s a lot of details that are not yet known about the upcoming RPG including the multiplayer component and many of possible companion characters players can come across....

EA unveils a stunning behind-the-scenes video of Mass Effect: Andromeda during its E3 2016 presentation, teasing the prospect of new alien races and varied locales. Without a doubt, one of the biggest prospects of EA’s E3 2016 presentation was the chance to see more of the highly anticipated Mass Effect: Andromeda. Thankfully, developer BioWare was on hand to deliver an exciting behind-the-scenes video, showing off some intriguing snippets from the upcoming space-faring RPG....

The Mass Effect Remastered Trilogy is rumored to be set for a reveal on this year’s N7 Day, AKA November 7, if not sooner in October. Fans will likely have strong opinions about what should or should not be changed in the game, with purists insisting that the remaster be a purely graphical upgrade while other fans will be hoping that a remaster could make changes to things as big as Mass Effect 3’s controversial ending....

N7 Day 2020 is right around the corner, and hopefully with it, some confirmation that the Mass Effect Remastered Trilogy is more than an idea just being passed around in social circles. The latest rumors indicate that the Mass Effect Remastered Trilogy may have received some delay, going from a 2020 release to a 2021 release. As long as it’s legit, many will likely be happy, but November 7 will likely be a determining factor in how much stock these rumors hold....

Over the last few months, Microsoft has been criticized for its lack of Xbox One exclusives. While the company does have several major exclusives this year, including the recently released pirate game Sea of Thieves, the delay of Crackdown 3 into 2018 and the cancellation of new IP Scalebound raised concerns among fans. Many Xbox One players have asked what other big titles the company has in the pipeline. Today, fans noticed a job posting from Microsoft that seemed to suggest that the company is building up its in-house game development projects....

Microsoft Flight Simulator takes off on Xbox for Windows 10 and Steam, with both platforms featuring an achievement that will require players to accumulate 1,000 hours of flight time to unlock. Better get grinding now! 14 years after the launch of the historic Flight Simulator X, Microsoft Flight Simulator takes to the skies and features one of the most time consuming achievements that Xbox or Steam have ever seen. The game is available on both the Microsoft Store and the Steam Store for $60, though users of Game Pass for PC are in luck, as the game will be free to download with the service....

Corporate Vice President of Marketing for Xbox, Mike Nichols, shares new statistics and record-setting numbers for Microsoft’s E3 2016 press conference. It has been a busy month for Microsoft’s Xbox division as the team recently revealed a wealth of upcoming content for the first time during the annual E3 event in Los Angeles. In addition to revealing new gameplay demos for some of its biggest titles arriving later this year, new hardware was also revealed for the first time alongside new feature enhancements, and even the ability for players to create and purchase completely customized controllers for the Xbox One....

The Nether is one of the three main dimensions in Minecraft, and for the longest time has remained pretty much untouched by the developers. Now, however, fans have a lot to look forward to as the much anticipated 1.16 Nether update brings some major changes to the most hostile dimension in the game. For those still somewhat new to Minecraft, entering the Nether is a big challenge and something worth preparing for properly....

Among the many reasons why Minecraft is still so popular these days is its variety of game modes. Despite being primarily a survival sandbox game, the game offers so much more for players to do, and a multitude of different goals and objectives they can set for themselves. It’s that freedom in particular that players always love coming back to. Depending on each player’s preferences, they’ll go for a different game mode or gameplay experience....

Minecraft is now the fifth best-selling boxed Switch game in the UK, and it’s showing no signs of slowing down. Minecraft lifetime sales have to be seen to be believed. It is the best-selling game of all time, shifting more than 200 million units since it was first released. That’s a full 60 million more than GTA 5. While Minecraft’s success on Nintendo Switch isn’t something that is often noticed, according to GamesIndustry....

The Suicide Squad director James Gunn and actor John Cena are reuniting for a spinoff series titled Peacemaker. HBO Max announced it has given the project a straight-to-series order, less than a year before The Suicide Squad is scheduled to debut in theaters. The series will explore the origins of Cena’s Peacemaker, a master of weapons who believes in bringing peace at any cost, no matter how many people have to be killed in the process....

Joseph-Gordon Levitt recently appeared on the internet talk show Hot Ones to promote his upcoming movie Power. Celebrities like Brie Larson have appeared on Hot Ones to talk about a wide range of topics, from video games to lifestyle choices. While Joseph-Gordon Levitt is most known for his roles in Hollywood movies, he gave hefty praise to the video game industry while on Hot Ones. Around halfway through the show, Joseph-Gordon Levitt says that he believes video games will be the future of storytelling....

A new lawsuit filed against Nintendo has accused the company of intentionally designing Switch joy-cons so that they break and need to be replaced. The Nintendo Switch’s joy-con drift issue is one that has plagued the console since it launched. While that hasn’t appeared to affect its sales, more than three years on, it really doesn’t look good for Nintendo. What’s more, the Switch Lite hit the market in 2019 and appears to suffer the same fate in some cases, suggesting that Nintendo hasn’t done much, if anything, to try and fix the problem....

Kingdom Hearts is one of the most popular, yet convoluted franchises in gaming, and with it are some great characters. Fans probably already know Cloud, Squall, and Neku from Square Enix’s properties, as well as the loveable cast from Disney’s iconic films. There are also a lot of original characters in the series, including Sora, the main character. Sora is a keyblade wielder from Destiny Islands. After separating from his friends and ending up in a world full of Final Fantasy characters, he teams up with Donald and Goofy to find them....

In Kingdom Hearts 3, one of the most time-consuming challenges players will come across is finding all of the Lucky Emblems hidden throughout the game worlds. Olympus, the Hercules-themed world, has its own set of Lucky Emblems for players to find, and they are some of the most well-hidden in the entire game. To collect Lucky Emblems in Kingdom Hearts 3, players have to take pictures of the emblems, which come in the form of Mickey Mouse logos....

Prior to the release of Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, there was some speculation that Rivet might be transgender. This was owed to her tail, and the fact that Ratchet lore says cisgender female lombaxes do not have tails. When I spoke to the game’s director, Mike Daly, I asked point blank if Rivet was indeed trans - and it turned out the design team simply were not aware of this rather niche bit of lore....

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