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With around 7 million subscribers as of March 2015, Blizzard’s World of Warcraft remains the biggest MMO around, and the bar by which success in the genre is measured. Beginning with the popular real-time strategy games that preceded the MMO incarnation, millions of players have been adventuring across the realms of Azeroth for over 20 years, and its rich mythology has been expanded even further via tie-in novels, comics, and other pop culture....

Things are not looking good for 2K Games’ forthcoming first person shooter XCOM. After looking somewhat appealing at E3 2011, the title began a slow decline that included the announcement of an official reboot of the XCOM property — the game fans had been clamoring for the whole time — and a delay into 2013. Needless to say, 2K Games was going to have to go back to the drawing board if they were going to turn all of these negatives into a positive....

The Halo series offers dozens of unforgettable story and action moments for every player brave enough to take up the mantle of the Master Chief. Many players adore the series for the therapeutic feeling they get when taking their anger out on grunts, brutes, elites, and more. Though these swathes of enemies covering a battlefield is what Halo is known for, their boss battles can be equally thrilling. Halo games come in many different shapes and sizes to feature bosses in with the mainline games pitting Chief against his worst rivals....

Ever since the 1970s, the Star Wars universe has provided countless stories for fans to further explore the galaxies far, far away. Between movies, books, television series’, and video games, Star Wars makes for a great universe in which to tell enthralling and emotional stories (with the added coolness of lightsabers and the Force). While the video game world is less of a focal point for Star Wars, it has provided some incredible hits over the years....

Beloved by seemingly all who begin their journey from Kaer Morhen to find the beloved daughter and slay endless monsters on their way, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is a masterpiece of a game and a classic for all time. CD Projekt Red spent such valuable time and effort crafting a game of this magnitude that has touched millions of players hearts time and again. With such a game so large, though, there had to be some questions, and especially regarding the storyline which was based on the Witcher books, players felt some stories were left unfinished and unjustified....

Gamefreak. Makers of Pokémon. A titan of the gaming industry since 1996. Their first game Pocket Monsters: Blue Version released in Japan in ‘96 and featured over 150 completely unique monster designs. And as time went on and the series of games became increasingly more popular, the amount of content increased as well. The Pokémon franchise is one built on its pure quantity of content. That’s not to say that they don’t also have quality designs....

With titles like Bayonetta and Vanquish, Platinum Games firmly established itself as a Japanese developer with a certain flair for combining outlandish stories with frenetic combat. Its most recent effort, Anarchy Reigns, works on a similar level but ups the stakes considerably — offering a button-mashing brawler in both a single player and multiplayer environment. As early on as the start screen, Anarchy Reigns establishes itself as well within Platinum’s wheelhouse with its uniquely designed characters complete with outlandish, and sometimes borderline offensive, personalities....

First-person shooters have become the norm in an industry that’s hungry for something fresh and new, but Bungie is aiming to innovate the all too familiar genre in a big way with Destiny. One way that the developer and publisher Activision plan on doing this is by intricately weaving multiplayer into the core gameplay, and while that’s an interesting prospect the game will also feature a standard competitive multiplayer mode that falls in line with other shooters....

In just a few short hours, Destiny developer Bungie is expected to let fans in on their plans for the future. Unfortunately for Bungie many of their bigger surprises, specifically those to do with their next Destiny expansion’s new content, has been leaked ahead of time. So, now the Destiny expansion, rumored to be called The Taken King, is all but a formality. Still Destiny fans are eager to see how Bungie is improving on their core game, and enticing players to come back....

Rumors of a console release for the upcoming Diablo 3 have been circling for well over a year now, with no shortage of compelling evidence leading audiences to believe that the Xbox 360 and PS3 were part of Blizzard’s release plan. During a press conference today at Gamescom 2011, the project’s lead designer explained the steps the developer is taking to make a console release as good as possible. It may not be an outright confirmation that Blizzard will absolutely, positively be bringing Diablo 3 to home consoles as well as the PC next year, but it is the strongest evidence to date....

Halo 4 was one of the standout titles of E3 2012, and that’s not a surprise to anyone who has been following the game since it was revealed at last year’s E3. The title’s graphics may very well be some of the best found on the Xbox 360, and the hands-on time we had with Halo 4’s multiplayer made us antsy for more. While gamers everywhere anxiously await more new information on the impending sci-fi blockbuster, we can’t help but want to look over the concept art that helped set the stage for the fourth appearance of the iconic Master Chief....

The last Halo game on the Xbox 360 is set to arrive in mere weeks, and 343 Industries is looking to make the adventure a memorable one. Not just because it bears the name of Halo 4, but because it marks the first in a new direction for the Halo saga, continuing on for the foreseeable future. To do that, the Master Chief will need to live up to title of ‘Reclaimer,’ and unearth as many of the mysteries of the Forerunners as possible....

Fan excitement over the reveal of Cyborg and Nightwing as playable fighters in Injustice: Gods Among Us is likely still at a high, and thankfully the new gameplay video released of the pair in action show those feelings are justified. With unique fighting styles and a great variety of attacks, the characters really do look promising for the game as a whole. Just yesterday screenshots of Nightwing and Cyborg’s new character designs made their way online ahead of an official announcement....

The PC is often touted as the best platform to play games on when compared to the Xbox One and PS4, and this is generally true. Games on the PC usually run better, look better, and have the added benefit of mod support. Console games, while not looking particularly bad, don’t have many of the same perks, and typically the visuals don’t stack up when put side by side with their PC counterparts....

Names of nine different Cyberpunk 2077 DLC packs appear to have been discovered, and they suggest big things are headed the game’s way in the future. The path back from what was a disastrous release for Cyberpunk 2077 is going to be a long one but at this point, developer CDPR is three months down that path. The first patches have been rolled out, the latest of which fixes more than 500 of the game’s bugs....

Although the game doesn’t hit store shelves until August, achievements for Saints Row 4 have already made their way online. Unsurprisingly, the achievement titles are filled with plenty of in-jokes, and a few clues as to where the story might go. Needless to say, those spoiler-phobes out there should turn back now. Overall, the achievement selection is pretty standard, with some devoted to single player campaign progress and others focused on players performing a task a certain number of times....

The holiday period is coming to a close and with that, the Habbo developers are back from their break. However, the #SaveHabbo movement has been active during their hiatus and has planned a 72-hour walkout as a statement against the changes made in the Unity port as well as the various issues in the lead-up. Plenty of members of the community have pledged to take part in this walkout with a gigantic document being shared that has various signatures from heads of agencies, fan sites, hosts, and builders, etc....

When a game’s trailer opens with a huge Chinese cleaver entering the frame, you know things are about to get ugly. That they are, and giant cleavers are only the beginning. Sleeping Dogs is the game in question, and its new trailer is ostensibly designed to get potential players up to speed on the gameplay possibilities it will offer this August. Along the way, viewers are treated to one scene of brutally horrific violence after another....

Sometimes, it can be fun to look back on what’s already been accomplished. If you’re a big name gaming franchise that’s been around for more than a few years, it’s nice to take a look back at how far you’ve come and how you’ve changed over the years. Sonic The Hedgehog is just such a franchise, and with its 20th anniversary being celebrated with a new game, Sonic Generations, Sega have decided to do just that by releasing a new trailer that looks back on the Sonic franchise as a whole....

No one in their right mind would accuse Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning of being short on content. The game’s world is vast, and packed with more quests than the average player will ever complete. Nonetheless, the teams at 38 Studios and Big Huge Games are intent on increasing the game’s already intimidating size even further. To that end, the first Kindgoms of Amalur: Reckoning DLC, titled The Legend of Dead Kel, will be released March 20, 2012, on Xbox Live, PSN, Steam and Origin....