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Although many games do their best job to hand-hold gamers, making sure they never get lost along the way, the Dark Souls series throws players into the pool headfirst. It’s an approach that some find inordinately frustrating, while others absolutely love it. However, with very few games as challenging as Dark Souls around, the wait for its sequel, Dark Souls II, has been excruciating. But the wait just got a little more bearable, as Namco Bandai has finally announced a PS3 and Xbox 360 release date for the title....

Dead Island might not have ended up being the emotionally moving experience that the initial trailer for the game set it up to be, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t a fun zombie-killing romp. With a pretty unique set of RPG elements, and a weapon crafting system a la Dead Rising, Dead Island was a passable summer release that delivered a decent amount of entertainment. Just announced today, is a new piece of DLC, one that was initially set to release in September, which will now be hitting on the 22nd of this month....

Many Destiny players made their voices heard regarding the difficulty of finding fellow Guardians to join their fireteams for the weekly events and raids, resorting to outside resources such as Reddit and DestinyLFG.net. In the most recent patch, in addition to a few long overdue bug fixes, Bungie brought matchmaking to the Weekly Heroic Strike. As there’s always two sides to every situation, there’s no shortage of high level players grumbling about the inability to solo the Weekly Heroic Strike post-patch....

A few games that launched in November suffered from numerous bugs and glitches, to the point where certain aspects were rendered unplayable. Among those games, however, was Dragon Age: Inquisition, which received relatively little attention about it’s own issues. This could be due to the fact that DA:I’s problems didn’t impact the core game, and most of the talk revolved around audio issues, stuttering, or whatever it’s called when one character says a line, then simply stares at you for a couple of minutes; as if they said something amazing, and now they’re waiting for your comeback....

If Lionhead Studios and Microsoft could have their way with it, one would imagine that the Fable franchise would have an entry releasing every year. In service of that goal Microsoft has announced yet another spin-off of the Fable franchise, not Fable: The Journey or any of the mobile games Lionhead has released, that skews a bit younger than any of the games before it. Titled Fable: Heroes, this Xbox Live Arcade title allows groups of up to four to get together and compete with each other in some competitive hack and slash adventuring....

An integral part of the multiplayer experience of many games these days is the ability to craft your own gameplay scenarios, create modes, or even manufacture a complete game. While some titles are able to pull off the feature to stunning effect, others struggle to understand what tool sets players are ready and willing to work with. Hitman: Absolution, the forthcoming sequel from IO Interactive, is doing it right. With their new mode called Contracts, players will be able to craft their own Hitman: Absolution levels, complete with pre-determined weapons, targets, and rules....

For casual gamers, the awkwardly titled Injustice: Gods Among Us isn’t likely to bring to mind a DC superhero (and super villain) brawler in the style (and from the developers) of Mortal Kombat. That said, following the pre-E3 Injustice trailer, we had a chance to go hands-on with the title in Los Angeles to have a look at the gameplay in person - and walked away mostly intrigued. For those who couldn’t attend E3, NetherRealm Studios leading man, Ed Boon (co-creator of Mortal Kombat) recently visited the EVO 2012 World Championships at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas to showoff various Injustice gameplay aspects - including destructible and interactive environments, super power vs....

Long before THQ finally went bankrupt, and ended up auctioning off all of its properties to a variety of homes, the studio was in some dire financial straits. Sure, some of its properties were still doing well, like UFC and Saints Row, but the vast majority of THQ’s slate struggled with gamers. As a result, many projects at THQ ended up never making it to release, having been cancelled well before they were ready for a public unveiling....

Telltale Games is no newcomer to the world of point and click adventure games, but recent years have brought them to the forefront of mainstream game development. With The Walking Dead establishing the company’s new approach to adapting properties based on story and player choice, their success became clear when Tales From The Borderlands was announced, bringing Telltale’s storytelling skills to the universe of Gearbox Software’s Borderlands. The studio showed off the game’s introduction at E3 2014, and no surprise: it’s a perfect fit....

Luz Noceda, the lead character of The Owl House on the Disney Channel, has been officially confirmed to be bisexual by the series’s creator, following the events of its last two episodes. This marks the first time that a Disney show has featured a bisexual character as its lead. This was revealed during the August 8th episode of The Owl House, “Enchanting Grom Fright,” where the audience (but not Luz) discovered that Luz’s friend Amity has feelings for her....

Oops, Steam has inadvertently revealed the release date for episode 1 of The Walking Dead: Season Two. While developer Telltale Games started teasing the follow-up’s release, confirming it would hit sometime this month, they were not yet ready to give a firm date. And now it looks like Steam has gone and done it for them. If the Steam listing is correct, The Walking Dead: Season Two’s first episode will hit various digital storefronts on Tuesday December 17th....

Do you enjoy bar fights? Murder mysteries? Hairy men with short tempers? Short men with hairy tempers? If the answer to any of these questions is “yes,” then you should be already playing Telltale Games’ The Wolf Among Us, a series about choice and consequence based on the Fables comics by Bill Willingham. Telltale has come under fire in the past for overly long waits in between the release of installments in its episodic game series, but it now looks like the studio has figured out a schedule where new episodes of The Wolf Among Us and The Walking Dead are released approximately every two months, meaning that there’s one new episode of each series every few weeks....

[UPDATE: Respawn Entertainment’s Vince Zampella confirmed an Xbox One and a PC beta are on the way.] New generation launches are certainly exciting, but inevitably they succumb to a few empty months after publishers front-load their launches. The PlayStation 4 and Xbox One arrivals are no different. The market is currently in a post-launch lull when it comes to new releases although there is a second wave of exciting games on the horizon....

Activision and High Moon Studios are giving gamers’ childhoods a serious kick in the pants with their recently unveiled pre-order bonuses for Transformers: Fall of Cybertron. Anyone who purchases the highly anticipated War for Cybertron follow-up from GameStop will net themselves a G1 Optimus Prime skin, and two weapons inspired by G1 Shockwave and Megatron. As expected, this G1 version of Optimus features the iconic red and blue Peterbilt truck, not the more alien-looking truck that has been all over the trailers....

In 1982 Disney released the original Tron movie which starred Jeff Bridges as Kevin Flynn, a computer programmer trapped inside a piece of software. Due to fan demand, Disney released a sequel called Tron: Legacy that followed up with Flynn’s son Sam, who finds himself trapped in the digital world while trying to rescue his dad. Upon release, many critics felt that Tron: Legacy was good but that its plot was buried under gorgeous neon CGI and a catchy electronic soundtrack by Daft Punk....

For more than a year now gamers have been anxiously anticipating the launch of Watch Dogs, Ubisoft’s near-future open world title. At one point, the title was the must-have launch game for PS4 and Xbox One, but unfortunately a delay into 2014 dashed any of those hopes. In some ways, the delay also deflated some gamers’ enthusiasm for Watch Dogs heading into its May release, but now that the title is out, gamers can finally decide for themselves whether Ubisoft’s latest is worth the hype....

Genshin Impact is full of secret locations and areas that can be a bit of a challenge to glide to. If you’re playing alone you may run into some trouble but if you and three friends just happen to have Chongyun, then there’s apparently nothing in Teyvat you can’t reach. Or that at least appears to be the case thanks to one Redditor. Chongyun is Genshin Impact’s sword-wielding Cryo user. As a four-star character, he’s well regarded for his abilities to freeze enemies and the water to make paths to previously unreachable locations....

People spent a lot of times indoors in 2020. More time indoors means more time to game and spending that extra cash on upgrading the space you frequent the most. Some people have upgraded their PC setups this past year while others have finally took up the task of creating one straight from scratch. Jealousy may not get you anywhere, but maybe envy will make you finally get up and do what you’ve always wanted to: Have an epic gaming setup....

With gaming becoming more and more advanced over the years, the expectation of having a good presentation over the years has gone up with it. The same can be said about voice acting in video games, which used to be a rarity in games before the 1990s, which can now make or break a game based on performance. Since voice acting has become so prevalent in games, developers are going to want to track down the best in the business to bring out the best in their characters....

When one hears the title “Breath of the Wild” what images come to mind? Do players see sweeping landscapes of perhaps the most beautiful version of Hyrule ever rendered? Do they have the urge to climb the summit of Death Mountain, plunge into the deep waters of Lake Hylia, or lose themselves in the shade of Korok Forest? The beauty and openness of BotW were so well-received by the gaming community that other developers definitely noticed, sometimes not for the best....