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The Marvel’s Avengers team has released a new update for the game ahead of its September 4 release date which targets some of the more prevalent technical issues players have encountered so far in the beta. A large number of the updates included in this patch focus on the PC version of Marvel’s Avengers, which some players have noted felt particularly impacted by various bugs and glitches. For instance, the patch is designed to address “severe stutters/lag and irregular performance” that PC players have experienced and also implements “a variety of fixes for crashes seen during the beta....

Capcom has revealed several new characters joining the Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite roster at San Diego Comic Con today. Four new characters were revealed during the event, each a returning favorite from Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3. The four announced today, shown in video form to an SDCC audience live, are Spider-Man, Haggar, Nemesis, and Frank West. That brings the total Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite toster total up to 27 playable characters....

While fans still have a few days to wait until the release of Mass Effect: Andromeda, EA Access members are already diving into BioWare’s highly anticipated sequel. Some are checking out the multiplayer, which is a riff on the mode offered in ME3, while others are seeing what fun secrets are hidden in the single player campaign. And if one of the more recent discoveries is any indication, Mass Effect: Andromeda may be packed full of neat Easter Eggs....

Mass Effect 3 is often seen as the weakest entry in Bioware’s space opera trilogy, despite being an RPG classic in its own right thanks to its excellent firefights and wonderful character moments that see all of your decisions culminate in a series of epic crescendos. I’m still working my way through it as part of the Legendary Edition and I’m loving almost every moment, my recent playthroughs of the previous two games only further cementing a fondness for Commander Shepard and his crew....

Well, it seems whatever was keeping news on the upcoming Thief reboot under wraps has ceased, as new details are arriving en masse. Hot on the heels of a video looking behind the scenes at developer Eidos Montreal comes the first community video from the studio itself. To talk about Thief means first talking about…the thief, known to gamers around the world as simply ‘Garrett.’ Bringing such a cult antihero to life is no small task, and with their re-imagined stealth adventure, Eidos turned to a brand new actor....

Over the past few years, Microsoft has busily been acquiring first-party studios and solidifying its status as a leader in the video game software space. What gamers perhaps did not expect was for Microsoft to turn its sights to the realm of esports as well. Yet an announcement on the website smash.gg has revealed that Microsoft recently acquired the platform, which facilitates the organization of esports tournaments. Smash.gg originally came about in 2015, when a group of esports fans decided to make a space where gamers could easily organize Super Smash Bros....

While some could go their entire lifetime without ever hearing the satisfying chime of earning an achievement, there is a large portion of gamers who live for every addition to their Gamerscore, and for those types of gamers we have some great news. Starting very soon Microsoft will be allowing developers of Xbox Live Arcade titles the opportunity to offer 400 Gamerscore points rather than the traditional 200. Typically your retail title — not counting DLC — would offer 1000 Gamerscore for completion of various different objective from beating a game like Mass Effect 3 on its hardest difficult, or something just pressing start....

Minecraft is the critically acclaimed gaming franchise that allows players to build and craft in how they see fit. All of this is thanks to the player avatar, which allows them to interact with the world in the first place. Although the character avatar is customizable, its unique starting appearance allows them to be immortalized into actual characters like Steve or Alex. Nonetheless, there are some interesting facts both incredibly obvious and not so obvious that would be essential for those wanting to know the avatar....

It is without a doubt that ever since its release in 2009, Minecraft has soared in popularity and quickly made its way as an iconic title in the video game industry. Although Minecraft’s popularity continues to increase over the years, new data suggests that the game now has 600 million active players, and 400 million of those are coming from China alone. This new report was revealed by Daniel Ahmad, a senior analyst at Niko Partners, covering the video game industry in Asia....

Ahead of the NFL Draft later this week, an endzone dance popularized by rookie wide receiver Justin Jefferson is getting the Fortnite treatment. On April 28, you’ll be able to purchase the “Get Griddy” Emote, along with the Justin Jefferson Locker Bundle – making him the first NFL player to receive a Fortnite Locker Bundle. Jefferson’s Locker Bundle comes with six unique in-game items, including Jefferson’s new Get Griddy Emote. Here’s a full list of what you’ll unlock when you pick up the new bundle:...

E3 is wrapping up as we speak, and the big question is of course, who won? What games were the biggest hits, what company had the most impressive showing, and who stands to rake in the most money? It was an eventful year, and while there weren’t a ton of surprises, we did find out a lot more about the games that we’re anticipating the most. While many of them aren’t due to come out until next year, we can figure out what game was the biggest hit of E3 by looking at preorder sales, and seeing what game drove people to put their money down early....

Animal Crossing: New Horizons has been the go-to title for promotional crossovers, so it should come as no surprise that yet another company is taking advantage of the game’s popularity. This time around it’s Kelley Blue Book that’s joining in on the fun, but it’s also using this as a way to raise funds for the American Rivers non-profit organization. KBB.com HQ – the catchy name given to the village – will generate awareness for the annual “Best Buy Awards list of best value-per-dollar cars,” helping inform your car-buying decision and saving you money....

This article contains major Knives Out spoilers. You can find the spoiler-free review here. Walking into Knives Out, a delightful murder mystery as fun as it is clever, you’d be forgiven for thinking the “it” in the “whodunnit” framework refers to the apparent murder at the center of the film’s promotional material. Sure, Harlan Thrombey’s (Christopher Plummer) death the night of his 85th birthday party drives the plot, but that’s not the “it” director and writer Rian Johnson is most interested in dissecting....

The gamer community was definitively shocked when Kojima went his seperate ways from Konami. While Konami was quick to announce that the Metal Gear Solid series would continue with or without Kojima, his departure led to Silent Hills being cancelled before it ever got off the ground. The bad blood between the two has continued, with Kojima’s name being removed from Metal Gear Solid 5’s box art, despite the fact that he continued to work on the project with Konami....

The Legend Of Zelda is some of the most important video game franchises to have ever been released in Nintendo’s catalogue. With so many adventures to tell through the journey of Link, fans were able to experience games that truly stand on their own. This has a lot to do with how different each game is. While many of them focus on the saving of land that is in turmoil, the inner layers of each game have something new that really makes one stand apart from another....

Nintendo officially confirms that the new Legend of Zelda game has been delayed until 2017, when it will launch simultaneously for both the Wii U and the NX. Bad news for anyone hoping to make a return to Hyrule in 2016 — the new Legend of Zelda game has been delayed, and won’t release until next year. As has been speculated for some time, the game is now set to launch simultaneously on both the Wii U and the Nintendo NX....

Any description of Bloodborne, be it the look of the game, its mechanics, or even its core systems, will likely include the qualifier “like Dark Souls and Demon Souls” somewhere within its text. That isn’t a knock against the PS4 exclusive from From Software, who have a rabid fan base and a definite style, but it’s an easy shorthand between writer and audience. It lets them know what they are getting upfront, and assures them that the qualities they enjoyed from past Souls games are well preserved here....

In 1986, humble Japanese developer Konami released Castlevania, a Hammer horror-esque action platformer that would define the genre and stand as a pinnacle of early 8-bit gaming. Though Nintendo allowed for no shortage of quality first-party NES releases, it’s safe to say that games like Castlevania helped the console to achieve such broad appeal. Seminal and undoubtedly iconic, the classic Castlevania formula would be expanded upon throughout the late 80s and early 90s, eventually culminating in the fantastic PlayStation title Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and helping to foster the burgeoning Metroidvania genre....

The creator of Squid Game doesn’t think Los Angeles Lakers star Lebron James should be criticizing artist pieces. “Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-Hyuk has had his profile raised to an almost unimaginable degree over the last month or so. A 50-year-old writer and director who spent years trying to get his hyper-violent satire of capitalism off the ground, Hwang is now the creator of one of the biggest shows on the planet....

The Signal, one of the best alien abduction movies out there, is available to stream on Netflix. “How do you tell a new alien story? You can’t approach it from a horror movie perspective, that’s been done to death. A story where the aliens from classic sci-fi stories are real? That’s been done too. It’s hard to find a new angle on such a well-trodden and beloved genre without it feeling tropey....