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Nintendo’s successor to the über popular Wii is scheduled to release later this year, and we still have no idea what games will be available when the system releases. A list of alleged Wii U launch games has been revealed, but that has yet to be confirmed by Nintendo or any of the third-party supporters. Electronic Arts recently stepped up and detailed a few of the games they’ll be bringing to the Wii U at launch, and the biggest one of them all is Mass Effect 3....

It’s been a rough four years for Max Payne. Following the horrific events chronicled in the 2001 and 2003 installments of the game series, the down on his luck detective had to endure a terrible feature film adaptation in 2008, starring Mark Wahlberg, as well as a string of delays for the character’s return to the prime time in Max Payne 3. Max Payne 3 was supposed to arrive in 2009 (with a number of “gritty” changes to the titular character) but was subsequently delayed, reports even suggested the game had been cancelled - though Rockstar Games maintains the title is still in development, releasing new screenshots of Payne here and there to tide fans over....

Polish developer Jutsu Games has finally released a medieval GTA called Rustler in Early Access on Steam. The game was funded on Kickstarter just in two weeks in 2020, and since then the team has worked hard to bring players a sense of being a thug in a crazy open-world with many cheeky activities and even more pop-culture references. Rustler is the GTA2-style open-world action game with a top-down perspective. The project aims to fulfill players’ desires to cause chaos not only in modern settings, as plenty of games suggest, but in medieval times too....

It’s Christmas day, and one of the most-wanted products this holiday season was Sony’s PlayStation 5 console. Many expected to wake up this morning to find a PlayStation 5 under their tree, but sadly, it looks like that wasn’t the case for a lot of people. “No PS5” is currently one of the top trends on Twitter, with nearly 15,000 people tweeting so far about how they did not get a PlayStation 5 console this Christmas....

As one of Activision’s most popular franchises, Skylanders has set itself up as the premiere title in the toys-to-life genre. Since the series kickstarted the popularity of scannable action figures, it’s no surprise that the property has gone on to receive an installment every single year. As fans could have guessed by this obvious trend, that will once again be the case in 2015. After several leaks confirmed the main premise behind the game, Activision has officially revealed that Skylanders SuperChargers will be arriving on a number of platforms later this September – with the major twist being that it will support a medley of vehicles....

Ever since South Park began airing back in 1997, it has pushed boundaries beyond our wildest Imaginationland. Downloadable titles aside, console gamers have not witnessed a full scale South Park game since the year 2000. Now, after capturing multiple Emmy and Tony awards, Trey Parker and Matt Stone are ready to invade the video game industry once more and win our hearts with South Park: The Stick of Truth. Players finally got a good look at the game in action during a hands-off preview at Comic-Con....

Completionists who took on Doom Eternal can’t help but laugh when someone claims that the game only takes about thirteen hours to beat. Maybe that’s how long it takes to complete the story. However, conquering every aspect of the game takes easily double that time for curious minds who aren’t satisfied until that 100% completion achievement pops up on the screen. Does The Ancient Gods Part One reward or punish gamers that can’t rest until every last stone has been unturned?...

Shortly after Naughty Dog and Sony confirmed Uncharted Creative Director Amy Hennig was no longer with the company we speculated she would not just land on her feet but would make a huge splash with her next appointment. However, we never could have imagined Hennig would end up leading Visceral Games’ next-gen Star Wars project. For gamers it was a dream pairing: one of the greatest writers currently working in video games and one of the biggest properties in the world....

Animal Crossing: New Horizons has been around for over a year now, and in that time it, has introduced players to numerous characters. Some characters are villagers that live on the players’ island or have chosen to move there after some persuasion. Other characters are visitors that arrive spontaneously, two of these being Gulliver and Gullivarrr. The two seagull characters arrive on the players’ shoreline unconscious and requiring assistance in getting back to their ship....

Fear is a universal emotion. Regardless of someone’s culture, they likely can appreciate a touch of horror, even if only on a primal level. While there is definitely a difference between Japanese and American horror, there is a reason the former tends to be popular with the latter’s audiences. Along with films like “The Ring” getting American versions, Japan is also responsible for some of the biggest horror gaming franchises of all time....

The road to Doom Eternal was long and mysterious. The wait was further extended when it was delayed close to its November release until March. After much patience, the game is finally in fans’ hands, and most are pleased with the result. While the trailers heavily prepared fans for the Doom Slayer’s journey through Earth, Hell, and lands far beyond, several surprises were still in store for them upon playing. While some of the entries below are hinted at in the promotional materials, only the full title revealed the full extent of their use in the story and gameplay....

Minecraft Dungeons has very many innovative and new mechanics for players to experience; however, there are also some that unfortunately didn’t make it into the final version of the game. Some of these include essential mechanics such as trading, and the lack of them makes the game seem unpolished and rather barren. Minecraft Dungeons is innovative in so many ways, so the fact that it didn’t add these ideas into the game makes it seem like the developers don’t know what the dungeon crawler fan base needs....

Fans of the Devil May Cry games are no strangers to tongue-in-cheek humor. This franchise has a unique balance of action, comedy, romance, and drama which immerses many gamers into the setting and also generates empathy for the characters. Sometimes, however, things can get ridiculous. Fans have no qualms about perpetuating the funnier aspects of the game across the internet. Memes born from such a process have somehow not only stood the test of time, but have become relevant once more due to Devil May Cry 5’s release and popularity....

Remaining relevant in an industry that is forever changing is perhaps the ultimate challenge for a video game franchise. Not only must designers adapt to the advancements in hardware, they must also contend with the everchanging demands of gamers. Many series come and go with the seasons, but a select few have evolved to meet this challenge. With a combined shelf-life of 384 years and around 500 titles between them, these ten video game series are great examples of what’s required to create a video game legacy....

The fourth generation of video game consoles wasn’t so great in the west. Video games hadn’t caught on as much as they would eventually, so many games that were produced in Japan, stayed there. Japanese game developers feared that their games wouldn’t appeal to gamers in the west so they decided to just keep them in the land of the rising sun rather than spending money on localization. There were over 900 games released on the Sega Genesis, known as the Mega Drive in Japan and Europe, with only over 700 being brought overseas....

Building on the good work done by its predecessor, the Xbox Series X (and, by extension, the Xbox Series S) will not only be backwards compatible with the Xbox One’s library but the console will also run plenty of Xbox 360 titles and a few from Microsoft’s original system. At the moment, the Xbox One and Series X|S are compatible with 39 titles from the original console, which is better than nothing but hardly an impressive amount....

Although PlayStation 4 has been killing it with its exclusives as of late, Xbox One has a better user interface and multitasking capabilities. As a media device, Xbox One is superior, but ultimately, a vast library of exclusives put PlayStation 4 on the road map to success. The Xbox One X is the most powerful console of its generation. With extraordinary hardware, Xbox could play PlayStation games with superior performance. We know that Xbox has the capabilities, so what’s preventing PlayStation exclusives from coming to Xbox One?...

Pokemon games have so many different creatures these days that it’s a little hard to keep track of all of them, so imagine how hard it must be to come up with all of these Pokemon designs. It doesn’t come as a surprise that everyday objects or animals are the sources from where Pokemon designers draw inspiration from. However, there are peculiar Pokemon whose design comes from something you don’t see every day, terrifying myths and legends....

Each year brings with it its own batch of horror gaming experiences, and 2020 was no different. 2020 saw sequels to some of the video game industry’s most well-established horror franchises, and it also saw some brand new IP make big waves. VR horror games in particular were impressive in 2020, showcasing how virtual reality technology can enhance horror gaming experiences and in many cases, be much scarier than their traditional counterparts....

Produced by Keen Software House, Space Engineers is a remarkable sandbox game that allows player to build incredible things in space, asteroids, moons, and on various planets. In survival mode players are challenged to mine the materials they need to build while avoiding various threats while creative mode allows players to create some truly impressive things. Whether you’re manually mining resources in survival or using a creator program to do something remarkable, here are some impressive blueprints to get the creative juices flowing and show you what this game can do....