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It’s been a roller coaster ride these past few weeks for the upcoming action sequel, Middle-earth: Shadow of War. Last month, fans were unhappy to learn that a loot box and microtransaction system would be available in the game. While everything can be earned by playing the game, developer Monolith has unveiled a special DLC character based on a deceased member and promised that the majority of proceeds will go directly to the family....

The need to constantly tend to your crops and animals in Minecraft is one of the more tedious parts of the game, requiring you to regularly step away from your other tasks to harvest, plant, breed, and slaughter in order to not starve to death. Wouldn’t it be so nice to be able to stave off starvation without the need to constantly stay on top of your farming and animals? Well, you can, and it is in fact very simple....

Go back in time to a land of dinosaurs in the new Jurassic World DLC for Minecraft. This seems a little oddly timed, given that the new Jurassic Park film isn’t due out until next June (assuming there’s still a film industry by that point), but Minecraft just got a brand new DLC that pays homage to Michael Crichton’s great dinosaur caper and the amusement park that just can’t stay closed despite the attendees getting eaten all the ding-dang time....

If you’re a fan of both Monster Hunter and Dungeons & Dragons, chances are you’ve thought about how they could intersect. In particular, the challenging long-form battles of Monster Hunter could spice up D&D combat. D&D’s Theros setting does experiment with multi-stage boss battles using Mythic Monsters, but imagine fighting tough beasts that change up their strategies and can be harvested to make custom armor. A new third-party product called Heliana’s Guide To Monster Hunting will make this a reality....

Whenever a major video game is given a release date, the most excited and die-hard of fans will try and book time off work to enjoy it on day one. In this instance, that game is Monster Hunter Rise, the latest entry in the popular Capcom series which is set to launch as a Nintendo Switch exclusive in only a few days (anyone who’s particularly eager can already pre-load it in preparation)....

At the ground level, console gaming fans are fighting over themselves about the PS4 and the Xbox One, buoyed by frame-rate comparisons and predictions from analysts about the consoles’ sales levels, but in the larger scheme of things, platform makers are trying to hold their own against the far mightier beast of PC. Stocked with a more accessible backend, PC gaming allows for a plethora of titles with the many varying genres allowing niche titles like Gone Home, Papers, Please and Goat Simulator to be regarded in equal contention as big budget blockbusters like Titanfall and Call of Duty....

Despite its previous delay, patch 1.3 has officially gone live for Kingdom Come: Deliverance on PC and consoles. The realistic action role-playing game developed by Warhorse Studios has been a commercial success, although it has received lukewarm reviews and has been plagued by bugs. Nevertheless, its developer has continued to improve the game, and this latest patch fixes one of its most controversial issues: its save system. Previously, its players only had two ways to save the game: finding a bed or drinking a liquor known as Savior Schnapps....

The story of Kingdom Hearts being born of a chance encounter in an elevator with a game designer and a Disney representative is certainly one of the more unique origin stories for a beloved franchise. The blending of whimsical storytelling and world building has made for a joining point for all the best of both sides of the collaboration to come together and make Kingdom Hearts something special, with its soundtrack being no exception....

Square Enix Japan released three new Kingdom Hearts trailers today in a mashup video. One of the teasers happened to be for Kingdom Hearts Dark Road, and it ended by revealing the game’s release date. Square Enix delayed KH: Dark Road when it brought back the game’s announcements from hiatus. Said hiatus happened because the developer was trying to salvage Dark Road’s spring release window. It seems to have managed to pull this off somewhat, as the official release date is only two days after spring’s end....

Esports organization North have revealed that they have reached an agreement to part ways with Markus “⁠Kjaerbye⁠” Kjærbye effective immediately. The 22-year old CS:GO Rifler has been out of commission since May for medical reasons. In their statement, North stated that both partiess had agreed to the move and worked to allow Kjaerbye to move on to this next goal. Kjaerbye appears to be much better now following his medical issues....

As a part of League of Legend’s new Galaxies Event, a few champions got new skins. Demacia’s Lux, however, was lucky enough to receive two new skins, along with a brand new story. While the new skins are beautiful, fans are less than happy about the favoritism and decision to give Lux two skins, which are admittedly very similar to one another. The skins, Cosmic Lux and Dark Cosmic Lux, play into Lux’s story, her position on the Cosmic Court, and her fight to fend off the darkness that exists in her heart or give into it....

LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is filled with enough content to ensure that most gamers and Star Wars fans will be able to return to the title for weeks and months to come. After all, the game adapts all nine major Star Wars films (not including Rogue One or Solo) and features a galaxy’s worth of unlockable characters and vehicles. But what happens when someone wants to alter the gameplay loop or make an already comedic game even wackier?...

If you love the relaxing, escapist vibes of Animal Crossing: New Horizons, you’ll love Nintendo’s new camping game Cozy Grove. “It was just over a year ago, right at the start of the global pandemic we’re all still living through, that our collective obsession with Animal Crossing: New Horizons consumed us… A year later, Cozy Grove feels like the natural spiritual successor to ACNH, based on where we are now vs....

In lieu of the Matrix Resurrections trailer, you should revisit the Wachowskis’s absolutely bonkers (but fun) Speed Racer movie. “Flesh-and-blood actors have many physical limitations, which means that adapting cartoons for the big screen in a live-action format runs the risk of diminishing their zaniness and elasticity. John Goodman’s career offers two different examples of how a cartoon adaptation can succeed or fail.” Read more at Inverse Drew Barrymore’s Ever After is the perfect modern adaptation of Cinderella....

New Pokemon mobile game Magikarp Jump releases worldwide on iOS and Android. Magikarp Jump had a soft launch in Italy on iOS last week, with fans eager to put together strong rosters of the famous splashing character. As the official description points out, Magikarp is “the weakest Pokemon ever” and is known for being “pathetically weak, unreliable and generally useless.” All it can do is “flop around and splash.” While this seems a bit harsh, Magikarp’s weakness is what makes the character so endearing and it’s why so many Pokemon fans will surely take interest in Magikarp Jump now that the mobile game is available across the globe for iOS and Android users....

In the upcoming War Table for Marvel’s Avengers, players will finally get information on the next-gen versions of the game alongside an update on Hawkeye’s DLC. While learning about how Clint Barton plays will likely be the most exciting bit of the War Table for many players, players will likely be caught off guard by the villain he is fighting. Though he looks like a version of The Hulk, Maestro’s backstory is incredibly interesting....

This article contains WANDAVISION Episode 2 spoilers, and potential spoilers for future episodes, the wider MCU, and Marvel Comics. We have a spoiler free review here. NOTE: This is our reference guide for WandaVision episode 2! If you’re looking for episode 1, click here instead. And you thought this show couldn’t get weirder? WandaVision episode 2 moved its sitcom-flavor a few years into the (still black and white) future, introduced a few new characters, and started leaning a little harder into the MCU than we saw in the first episode....

Mass Effect 5 has the chance to revive interest in the series after the disappointing reception of Mass Effect: Andromeda. However, the next game has some big challenges ahead, and some big decisions to make if it’s going to overcome them. The original Mass Effect trilogy was set in the Milky Way galaxy, and after the ending of Mass Effect 3 and the huge implications that came with it, Andromeda was set in the Andromeda Galaxy to give its story space to breathe....

On the back of the wonderful news that was the Mass Effect trilogy’s well-deserved remaster, BioWare also gave an astounding announcement: Mass Effect would receive another entry in the series. This was welcome news for nearly every fan of Mass Effect, regardless of their opinion on Mass Effect: Andromeda. The announcement was given in the form of a teaser that gave very little information, except for little audio clips here and there over passing scenes of a certain beautiful galaxy, and the reveal of a character players know well....

pcpcIf you’ve played through the Mass Effect trilogy, you’ll be keenly familiar with the long-winded ballet of circumnavigating the Council’s bullshit. Evidence mounts but it’s never enough while scheming backstabbers play politics with the will and wellbeing of the people beneath their game of climb-the-ladder. It’s tough to get to that infamous endpoint and want to do anything other than consign them to die and give the position of power to Captain Anderson, which feels oddly reminiscent of Captain America’s own dilemma in the MCU....