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You know the Wham! song, but here are some fun facts about their smash hit Christmas track “Last Christmas.” “Over the course of his illustrious career, George Michael gave the world many gifts. One that keeps on giving is ‘Last Christmas,’ the 1984 holiday classic by Wham!, Michael’s pop duo with Andrew Ridgeley. ‘Last Christmas’ is such a uniquely beloved song that it inspired a 2019 film of the same name, and an internet game that people play each holiday season—but that’s just a small part of the ‘Last Christmas’ story....

Fortnite has been a game to incorporate a huge variety of outfits and aesthetic customization options, from those inspired by popular film franchises to direct references to different Fortnite streamers. In terms of the latter, it had been leaked that Fortnite players would be getting access to a costume based on streamer Kathleen “Loserfruit” Belsten. However, it turns out that the release of the Loserfruit Icon series skin is being pushed to a later date....

Rockstar Games’ stealth survival horror series Manhunt is iconic. 2003’s Manhunt and its 2007 sequel Manhunt 2 are two of the most controversial video games of all time, but they are also beloved by fans who desperately want the developer to make a new one. Fans who have spent the last decade hoping and crossing their fingers for a new Manhunt game may be in luck. It has come to light that Take-Two Interactive, Rockstar Games’ parent company, has renewed the Manhunt trademark....

The Mass Effect series is all about making difficult decisions that affect your morality. If you do honorable deeds, your Paragon points increase, whereas negative actions improve your Renegade score. The second entry in the series added an extra element with interrupts. These are either good or bad actions you can trigger in the middle of cutscenes. Many of them greatly affect how a quest plays out. You can’t do them whenever you want, though; you have to wait for a prompt....

Something I was incredibly worried about upon starting Mass Effect 3 was how BioWare would handle the sheer scale of the Reapers, living up to the overbearing expectations it had built up across the trilogy thus far. These intergalactic terrors preyed on organic life in a way that was truly unprecedented, and it would have been so easy to fumble and dissapoint, but BioWare absolutely nailed it. Mass Effect 3 begins on Earth, which has garnered somewhat of a mythical reputation throughout the series....

MediEvil has received an ESRB rating of T for Teen, and it’s not hard to see why. Classic PlayStation 1 action-adventure game MediEvil is getting the Spyro treatment. That’s right, the game is being remade with modern graphics, sounds, and enhancements to its camera controls. It’ll also get some new content which we’re still waiting for more info on, but the latest ESRB rating might be a sign of things to come....

A staple of the classic series, E Tanks were introduced in Mega Man 2 and quickly became the Blue Bomber’s go-to method of healing. With very few exceptions, every game in the mainline Mega Man series from that point on featured E Tanks in some capacity. After all, with enemies irregularly dropping health pellets, players needed some way to control their Life Bar at any given moment. Fully recovering all of Mega Man’s health when used, E Tanks make getting through the classic series all the more manageable....

Xbox marketing manager Aaron Greenberg claims that Microsoft doesn’t need Crackdown 3 to release in 2016, as it has many other games set to launch this holiday season. One of the biggest Microsoft exclusive games on the horizon is Crackdown 3, the third game in the open world action series where players control superpowered agents. However, it was announced earlier this year that Crackdown 3 was delayed from its original release window of summer 2016 to some time in 2017....

Sitting on the couch, owners of a Microsoft Kinect may be worried that the peripheral may be monitoring your every word and movement - in a grand plan to make Skynet and Terminators a reality. Although seemingly set in science fiction, Microsoft thinks the possibility of Kinect-integration with advertisers, to allow voice and gesture functionality, is not only a good idea, but also the future. The program, titled “Nuads,” will essentially respond to what a person is watching on the Xbox, allowing the viewer to do things like set reminders for shows, give details for where a restaurant is located, and even push the information to a Windows mobile phone....

After Adam Orth caused an Internet kerfuffle last night with his defense of always-online devices — seemingly outing that the next Xbox would support such a feature — Microsoft is in major damage control mode. Specifically, the Xbox manufacturer is referring to the condescending tone Orth took when addressing his Twitter follows. His use of “#dealwithit” and an Obama meme with the same idea suggested that Orth was in a position of power and he could say whatever he wanted without any repercussions....

As expected, Middle-earth: Shadow of War was a big focus for Microsoft at its E3 2017 press conference this year. The multi-platform title was given a lengthy stage demo towards the end of the press conference running off of the Xbox One X, giving players a much better look at some of the gameplay – including the completely revamped and enhanced nemesis system. The lengthy on stage demo showcased the newly updated nemesis system, quickly cutting between different unique orc encounters, with each one revealing how they got into the position they’re currently in....

In case no one got the memo, announcements for the collector’s editions of video games that aren’t even on the market yet are in vogue this summer. In fact, with each press release regarding the matter, it seems as if game developers are trying to one-up each other in an effort to rope fans in with the most over-the-top contrivances imaginable. For instance, highly anticipated titles such as the cyberpunk-themed Deus Ex: Mankind Divided allowed fans to vote on what items they wanted to see in the upcoming collector’s kit—including a full-scale replica of Adam Jensen’s combat rifle—while Fallout 4 is set to sell limited editions with a real-life working Pip-Boy....

It appears that the games industry is about to enter a renaissance of movie and TV adaptations of popular franchises, with Detective Pikachu hopefully breaking the curse of bad on-screen adaptations of gaming’s favorite icons. Many more things are on the way too, with a Just Cause movie now being adapted by John Wick writer Derek Kolstad. Kolstad is a talented writer, with the John Wick franchise serving as a testament to his abilities to tell a gripping story with unique set pieces....

Coming later this year, players will assume the role of two kiwi birds in the upcoming cooperative game KeyWe. However, it won’t be as simple as running the post office; varying weather conditions and wacky factors like paranormal activity will add challenges to the game. KeyWe is in the same vein as cooperative games like Overcooked and Moving Out. One player each will control the kiwi birds, Jeff and Debra, two new hires at the post office....

Koei Tecmo, known for its Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors game series, has announced that it has filed charges through the Kanagawa Prefectural Police Department against an unnamed modder who made and sold an unauthorized DVD containing material from a variety of company titles, including Dead or Alive Xtreme: Venus Vacation. In the DVD, the modder made alterations to the original source material like removing characters’ clothing. The DVD was eventually sold on an auction site....

When the Xbox One launched in November 2013, anticipation was relatively high for Microsoft’s current-gen console. Sure, a lot of the excitement had dissipated after Microsoft went back and forth over used games and always-online connections, but few could deny the high profile franchises in the company’s library. Chief among those franchises is Halo, which is preparing its first Xbox One title for release later this October. Well, technically Halo: The Master Chief Collection was the first Xbox One release in the series, but most gamers would probably forget that compendium even existed....

First off, here’s what we know for sure. The series is set during the Second Age of Arda (Tolkien’s imaginary world, which we tend to call “Middle-earth”, but technically that only covers the main continent, which is meant to be a very early version of our Earth anyway. But I digress). The Second Age starts with the founding of the Elf capital Lindon and the Grey Havens (the port the Elves sail away from at the end of The Return of the King) and ends with the battle seen at the opening of Peter Jackson’s The Fellowship of the Ring, in which the Last Alliance of Men and Elves defeat Sauron, and Aragorn’s ancestor Isildur takes the One Ring....

A woman lying in a medical treatment facility. A son and daughter giggle as they head downstairs to open Christmas presents. A flying car breaks through the clouds to reveal a futuristic metropolis. A 218-year-old woman walks through a post-apocalyptic wasteland. And a robot that literally eats dog poop. All that and more are set to arrive with Love Death + Robots Volume 2 on May 14. That’s all according to the new trailer that Netflix just dropped, which confirms that season 2 of Love Death + Robots will be the same sort of animated anthology as the first season....

Ready to hang up your apron and get a little regal? Well then, you’re in luck! Nintendo has officially announced that Mario Kart Tour’s next event will be the Peach Tour (June 16-30), celebrating Princess Peach and the Mushroom Kingdom. Announced on Mario Kart Tour’s official Twitter account this past weekend, the currently-running Cooking Tour will be replaced with the Peach Tour, which will kick off on June 16 at 11 PM Pacific Standard Time....

Black Widow went from being a fairly obscure Marvel character to being one of the most recognizable superheroes in the world, thanks to The Avengers. While the first female Avenger in the comics was Wasp, she wouldn’t make an appearance until much later in the Marvel Cinematic Universe canon. She was one of the founding members of the team in the movies and has since become a huge name in the Marvel canon....