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Sonic is back! The 20th anniversary of everyone’s favorite blue hedgehog will be celebrated next month when Sonic Generations is released! Spanning the past two decades of Sonic’s game catalog, Generations will cater to fans new and old. Now, get a glimpse of the action in this brand new trailer. The release date for Sonic Generations was was revealed last month, earlier this week we showed you a trailer revealing levels from the Dreamcast era, and now SEGA is excited to release the much anticipated Sonic Generations Modern Era Trailer, which reveals three new levels inspired by iconic stages from modern Sonic titles....

2010’s Splinter Cell: Conviction brought Sam Fisher a long way from his mid-aughties hedey of silence, shadows, and frequent no-kill/no-detection missions. Just as Sam’s government superspy status was stripped away, so, too, was the imperative of invisibility, those ever-present tracks to be hidden at all costs. But stealth has always been a staple of Ubisoft’s legendary franchise, and for Splinter Cell: Blacklist, fans have been eager to see how the team in Toronto is re-incorporating the style back into gameplay....

[HTML1] Remember when everyone was doing the twist and thought rock ’n’ roll was the tops? Well Zombies are now the hottest dance, and surviving in a post-apocalyptic environment is the new rock ’n’ roll. All the cool kids are doing it and it’s showing no signs of disappearing - and no platform is exempt from this undead takeover. Not even the Xbox One which, will soon be getting a polished up re-release of a Xbox 360 favorite with State of Decay: Year One Survival Edition....

The Walking Dead franchise has seemingly reached the pinnacle of success. Its live-action TV series on AMC is wildly popular as fans eagerly await its third season and the 100th issue of the comic book that started it all is the best selling indie comic book of the century. Thanks to TellTale Games, it’s also a popular episodic video game series whose creators want to see expand into future seasons....

Obviously not everyone is tired of the zombie genre. For the week of April 30th, TellTale Games’ The Walking Dead climbed to the top of the Xbox Live Arcade Most Played list. The point-and-click adventure title based loosely on the comic series appears to be a hit for both fans of the series and those interested in a zombie game with a storyline. It goes without saying that the next episode of The Walking Dead has to fill up some big shoes to sell comparatively well to its predecessor, considering the absurdly successful games it managed to top....

A bit of bittersweet news has arrived today for fans of Telltale Games’ most recent comic book adaptation, The Wolf Among Us. After a four-month wait between the first and second chapters of the episodic series, based on Bill Willingham’s “Fables” graphic novel, the developers promised that such a delay wouldn’t become a regular occurrence. But with Episode 2 having released in the first week of February, fans are understandably getting impatient....

Though once a rising star in game development with coveted connections to publishers like Nintendo, Konami and Microsoft, Denis Dyack’s studio Silicon Knights entered a downward spiral after releasing 2008’s heavily hyped Too Human to disappointing sales and reviews. Save for 2011’s near-insufferable X:Men Destiny, the Ontario-based studio has been eerily dormant over the last several years, only cropping up in the headlines when a court defeat nixed its rights to Epic’s Unreal Engine 3 this May, and when a report surfaced in October claiming that it had shriveled to an employee size of less than five....

Microsoft had a shaky start to this generation with a less than stellar Xbox One reveal. The misinformation followed the company through the whole generation, though the company did a lot to salvage the console. With the Xbox Series X, the company is looking to get off on the right foot, and fans are excited to get their hands on the new hardware. The Series X is shaping up to be one sick beast, as evidenced by several capabilities which the Xbox One simply cannot hope to accomplish....

Game companies are taking the health of their fans more seriously than ever before. Companies like Nintendo have made plans to improve the quality of life of players and when companies make games dangerous to the health of consumers players have stood up to demand better. Games aren’t just good for mental health, they can also help keep people psychically fit! The gamification of fitness has helped countless people get in shape and created an entire market for excellent fitness games....

With more awards than could fit in a single cabinet acquired across a career that spans over half a century, it’s fair to say that Martin Scorsese is one of the most revered and prolific filmmakers working today. He started out as part of the “New Hollywood” movement of the ‘70s, but unlike a lot of his contemporaries, Scorsese has managed to continually adapt his directorial style to remain relevant in an ever-changing moviegoing landscape....

Fire-type Pokemon are very likely the most popular of the elemental families in the entire Pokemon series. They represent intense power and strength alongside all kinds of creatures from the animal kingdom. These can often be the strongest Pokemon in the game with classics like Charizard and Moltres still being powerhouses to this very day. Quite ironically, Fire-types are also the victims of more weaknesses than many other Pokemon in the series....

Some games, such as ones in the Call of Duty series, have been getting remastered in recent years. This has caused fans of certain series to wish their favorite games would get remastered at some point. Instead of a remaster, some players might prefer to see a game series rebooted. These properties can range from older games of the ’90s to newer titles that have become forgotten, be it by their publishers or the general audience....

With Crash Bandicoot 4 being one of the biggest game releases of October, a lot of its success is owed to the furry creature’s renaissance of the past few years. 2017 saw the remake of the original three Naughty Dog games and the following year came the remake of the beloved kart racer, Crash Team Racing, so Crash 4 has a lot of momentum behind it. As the game resets the timeline and pretends all of the middling follow-ups to the original trilogy don’t exist, the game still plays on the idea of multiple dimensions and going forwards and backwards in time....

Feathers, playboy magazines, pigeons - these are all collectibles that gamers have the joy to haunt down. They drive completionists crazy and some are easier than others. Sometimes the game gives no aid in finding them and sometimes they make no sense in the larger context of the game. The game may be a masterpiece but the collectibles can be infuriating. There are so many annoying collectibles throughout gaming history. Part of the annoyance is equated to the chore not being worth the reward....

The first Pokémon movie first came out in 1998 in its native Japan, with an English release the following year. There are a total of 21 Pokémon movies that have released since then, with a 22nd – a CG remake of the first film – coming out soon. Of all these films, only a certain number of them are part of the original series as it relates to the anime. These are movies that the earliest Pokémon fans enjoyed at the start of the Pokémania craze....

Resident Evil debuted in 1996 and quickly became a legend. The fact that the series is still going strong today is a testament to its quality. Before Resident Evil, however, there was Sweet Home on the NES in 1989. This game is known by fewer people, but is integral to the history of the classic survival horror franchise. The facts below shed light on the game, its development, and how it is connected to Resident Evil....

2020 has been a great year for tabletop gaming and the same can be said for Repos Production’s civilization building card game 7 Wonders, which is celebrating its tenth birthday this year. Bring out the party supplies! To celebrate the ten year anniversary, publisher Repos Productions have unveiled a new second edition of 7 Wonders. From what we know so far, the rules have remained unchanged save for some clarifications and general housekeeping, but the new edition will feature an all-new logo and artwork throughout the game....

The retro handheld Evercade is getting even more classic games this fall with a collection of old school Intellivision titles. Three of the 12 have been announced by Evercade. This collection will be the first of two coming from the classic gaming company. The second 12-pack set will be releasing sometime in 2022. The three games of the 12 we know that are in the collection so far are Night Stalker, Astrosmash, and Frog Bog....

Among games that have survived the longest, Minecraft definitely carries a crown of its own. The classic builder and survival sandbox game seems to only be in the process of reaching its peak, as it continues to introduce incredible updates with each version of the game. With the latest Nether updates coming up for 1.16, there’s a ton for fans to expect out of Minecraft, and what better way to get hyped about the game again than watch other people play?...

At Microsoft’s E3 Press Conference, DICE announced Second Assault, a forthcoming DLC pack for Battlefield 4. Although details regarding Second Assault were, at the time, slim we did know the DLC map pack was a timed exclusive on the Xbox One. Now, as revealed by DICE earlier this week, we know that Second Assault will feature four fan-favorite maps from Battlefield 3, recreated using Frostbite 3. DICE has yet to reveal which four Battlefield 3 maps might make an appearance in Second Assault, but they have provided a few clues....