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Resident Evil Village left a sour aftertaste in my mouth that refused to dissipate. There are parts of it I love, but it is a modern, triple-A game that didn’t even do the bare minimum with accessibility, lacking even a FOV slider. For a new title, that’s unacceptable. Hopefully, Capcom takes the feedback and learns from it, improving with its next title. With Mass Effect, I was at least hoping for a FOV slider, but here I am again with egg on my face....

Resident Evil Village isn’t going to be an easy game, but you don’t have to tackle its challenges all alone. Capcom recently pulled back the curtain on a new NPC – The Duke – who will sell various recipes for crafting and weapon customization, making your journey a little less painful. Capcom’s Resident Evil Showcase brought us a wealth of new info regarding Resident Evil Village, but one of the most intriguing announcements was The Duke....

Phil Spencer, head of gaming and entertainment at Microsoft, says the company will soon begin sharing their plans for the Xbox One, Windows 10, and more. Just a few months after celebrating the console’s tenth anniversary, Phil Spencer has announced the Xbox 360 will halt production, officially ending its cycle. After spending some time speaking on the console’s achievements and informing current users on how platform support will continue going forward, he ended with a promise to share more on the company’s gaming future:...

Remember the days when Minecraft consisted of only four or five animal mobs? Since its early days over a decade ago, the classic simulation game has expanded its roster of creatures by quite a large margin. Now, it would be hard to go a large stretch of time walking on the surface without finding one. Each animal in the game provides their own purpose. This could range from becoming your faithful companion to dropping a specific resource....

Though Minecraft seems like a simple game on the surface, there is a ton of intricacy for those willing to dig deeper and find it. One example of this is the game’s potions, which offer a huge variety of benefits and can even hinder enemies in unique ways. Of all of these, the Splash Potion of Weakness has the most uses. Making potions in Minecraft is nothing new, but despite this many players haven’t bothered to venture into this territory....

Mojang Studios’ spin-off title Minecraft Dungeons has been continually releasing updates since it launched in May 2020, and today Minecraft Dungeons received its largest expansion yet: Flames of the Nether. This DLC includes six new missions set in the hellish alternate dimension with new mobs to kill and loot to collect. However, it also comes alongside a free update that includes Xbox Series X/S enhancements among other things. Minecraft Dungeons can now run at 4K resolution and 120 FPS on Xbox Series X, or 1440p and 60 FPS on Xbox Series S, according to the Version 1....

People have been playing games for millennia - Chess, Mahjong, Go, and Backgammon are absolute classics and remain popular to this day. But, the problem with all of these - and other board games such as Risk and Monopoly - is the time it takes to set them up. Some games, like Catan, are relatively complicated for newbies to build, so that can be off-putting. This is where minigames come in....

Director James Gunn talked about the freedom he was given during the production of The Suicide Squad. Gunn admitted that he had a free hand to such an extent that he could do whatever he wanted with any character from the movie. Despite Gunn’s The Suicide Squad having no connection to the previous entry and being considered a soft reboot, some characters returned from David Ayer’s film. Slipknot and El Diablo both didn’t survive the 2016 movie, and things may be even more deadly this time....

There is no single aspect of game development that is the most important to focus on in order to make a successful title, with the quality of a product like Kingdom Hearts representing the combined effort of multiple factors. One of the game’s best examples of this is the way that the original game opens by steadily ramping the action up until players encounter the Guard Armor boss fight, the first real boss encounter of Kingdom Hearts....

A very controversial title in gaming is the Kingdom Hearts series. It is generally played due to the participation of Disney Characters, but original characters from this franchise can also be very interesting. That is the case for Aqua, a selfless, loveable character that goes through a sad story in Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep. Aqua’s goal was to save her best friends, and she went through a lot trying to do so....

Kingdom Hearts Dark Road will introduce several new characters into the series lore. The game released the names of these individuals earlier on in the month but didn’t provide any details on who they were, not in English anyway. Japan received these new Dark Road character profiles before others, so they’ve been out in Japanese for a while. As of today, however, the official Kingdom Hearts Dark Road Twitter account has gone ahead and released translated versions for the international crowd unfamiliar with the language....

There are few things League of Legends players value more than their skin collection, and as funny as that sounds, it’s pretty understandable. Breaking free from the flavor of Demacia and Nocturne can give your champion far more personality, and the quality of new skins has increased massively over each season. Unfortunately, there are a couple of League of Legends characters that have been left behind, receiving very little support since their release....

When it comes to incredibly important Nintendo franchises. One should not look any further than some of the penultimate franchises like Super Mario Bros. and Legend Of Zelda. The latter in particular is incredibly beloved for its fantastical setting and unique characters. However, one of the most interesting and confusing elements of the franchise is the timeline. Something that wasn’t firmly established until 2011 through the Hyrule Historia. Through this plenty of elements that don’t appear in one game might appear in another....

This DC’s Legends of Tomorrow review contains spoilers. Legends of Tomorrow Season 7 Episode 10 I feel like I saw set photos of Matt Letscher showing up in “The Fixed Point” before I saw the episode, but because both my brain is mush from the last two years of low-grade background stress AND because DC’s Legends of Tomorrow has a long tradition of having the same actors play different characters, it never really registered for me what might be going down....

Lego Mario is already among the most successful Lego sets of all time, with the company calling it one of its best “themed launches” ever. Things are only going to get better for the set in August, when Lego Luigi joins the fray and adds cooperative adventures to the mix. The Luigi Starter Course begins shipping on August 1, and it’s more than a simple palette swap of the iconic Mario kit from last year....

Another breakout star from Euphoria has joined the Sony Spider-Man universe, this time with Sydney Sweeney. Has the studio found their Spider-Gwen or Black Cat? “Deadline shared yesterday that Euphoria actress Sydney Sweeney would be joining Dakota Johnson in Sony Pictures’ Madame Web, but there’s no word yet as to which character in the Spider-Man universe she will be. In the comics, Madame Web has been depicted as an elderly woman named Cassandra Webb, with clairvoyant and precognitive mutant abilities that she uses to ‘help’ Spider-Man....

Players discover a glitch in Madden NFL 17 that causes missed field goals caught by the other team to be considered a touchdown, and one that makes passing impossible. A common problem with annual release franchises is that the games tend to suffer from more glitches and technical issues than titles that spent more time in the oven. This is perhaps especially apparent in sports titles, like the Madden NFL games from EA Tiburon, which usually have their fair share of glitches....

As with multiple other popular gaming franchises, the Madden games and other EA Sports franchises are regularly expected to receive annual entries. Fortunately, for these entries, they generally have a few differences and enough appeal that the series never really lose momentum. In fact, they contain so much appeal that Madden NFL was one of Twitter’s most talked about games of 2018. With such a high degree of popularity, it may not come as a huge surprise that Madden NFL 20 is slated to release later this year in August....

Some things just go together: Peanut butter and jelly. Song and dance. Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy. That last classic combo has been long established in DC Comics canon. While casual fans may think of Harley Quinn and Joker as the ultimate duo, any dedicated consumer of pop culture knows that Harley’s true love is actually Pamela Isley, aka Poison Ivy. The two have often been an item—either platonic, romantic, or something in-between—in the comic book universe, but have also seen some seriously romantic storytelling in HBO Max’s Harley Quinn animated TV show....

Thanks to Square Enix and Crystal Dynamics’ Marvel’s Avengers, players finally have another superhero game to enjoy. Moreover, instead of controlling just one character, this title allows them to control the most famous members of the Avengers! As such, players can fight some of Marvel’s villains as the Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. Moreover, they also get to enjoy an entertaining action-adventure title with an interesting narrative, courtesy of the devs. However, fans may also want to try out other superhero games, especially if they loved Marvel’s Avengers....