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Despite a tough month of sales for Gears of War: Judgment, Baird and the rest of his crew are soldiering on into their next batch of downloadable content. After Maxim’s surprise free map pack, Gears of War: Judgment is finally set to get an official DLC package titled Call To Arms, which is coming out later this month for both VIP Season Pass and regular gamers alike. Featuring three new multiplayer maps (including the return of Gears of War 3’s Blood Drive, in a less-damaged state), Call To Arms will give Judgment’s limited map offerings a much-needed boost....

Thatgamecompany’s Journey is about to come full circle. After reviews, like our own, praising it as “joyous exploration of what games can accomplish and convey”; sales establishing it as the fastest-selling PSN title of all time (surpassing Infamous: Festival of Blood); and early subliminal nominations to many a year-in-review award contest; the developer is ready to roll out a collector’s edition for its PS3 adventure. Releasing on the PlayStation Network on August 28 in one $30 package, the Journey Collector’s Edition might be eponymously named after thatgamecompany’s third, and most acclaimed production, but the full-sized package offers way more than the title suggests....

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is causing quite the stir within the gaming community. Already receiving highly positive reviews before its release tomorrow, the teams over at 38 Games and Big Huge Games should be very proud of themselves. What exactly is contributing to the success of KoA? Lead combat designer, Joe Quadara, says it’s the blending of so many game genres together that Amalur has essentially become its own hybrid....

When EA Sports proclaimed that this year’s iteration of its long running franchise, Madden 13, would feature substantial improvements on the defensive side of the ball it left us a bit confused. While defense is definitely one area where Madden 12 was lacking, it was in the presentation and the offensive animations that things became really problematic. Luckily both those elements of Madden are getting an overhaul for Madden 13, with a brand new CBS-inspired presentation, and tons of new animation improvements....

Haven’t played MechWarrior in over a decade? Eager to try out a combat game that doesn’t involve fast-moving infantry with AK-74s? Next week you’ll finally get your chance with MechWarrior Online. Veteran PC gamers rejoice! The long-awaited reboot of the MechWarrior franchise is nearly here and to see what all the fuss is about, you’ll be able to step into a BattleMech next week and see what Piranha Games has been working on for the last few years....

It’s been an interesting last few weeks for Metal Gear Solid fans, who watched the series prolific creator, Hideo Kojima, systematically distance himself from publisher Konami Entertainment. At first, it seemed like part of some hoax, what with April Fools coming right around the corner, but once Kojima’s name started disappearing from websites and product listings it became clear this was no joke. As a result, many fans are now more reticent about the forthcoming Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain – a game that up until now looked to be a huge seller for 2015....

Announced originally as a co-op RPG back in 2010, Cryptic Studios delayed Neverwinter (after the title moved publishers from Atari to Perfect World) from its planned 2011 release date to 2013 to develop it into a free-to-play fantasy MMORPG. Neverwinter is a standalone game, unrelated to BioWare and Obsidian Entertainment’s Neverwinter Nights 1 & 2, respectively, but it does embrace the same setting of the Forgotten Realms city of Neverwinter, and is based on the Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition rules set....

The release of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was a commercial and critical success for developer Bethesda, but hasn’t been without a few technical hiccups. So when the first patch for the massive game was released, many expected it to be fixing random glitches and other issues. However, it looks like the patch does far less than that. After installing the update, players found that Skyrim could no longer be played without Steam, and the amount of RAM available was completely throttled....

Sniper Elite 3 is a game unsure of its aims. On the one hand its sniping, as one might expect, is pretty great, especially for those gamers who like a little arcade-y violence in their WW2 fiction. But everything else packaged around the sniping is poorly executed — to the point some might call it off-putting. Watching Nazi skeletons explode from precise sniper shots can only get a game so far; it’s making the entire game, not just the sniping, enjoyable that seems to be the main struggle with Sniper Elite 3....

Back in September of 2019, Netflix officially renewed Stranger Things for a fourth season. It even made a spoiler-filled teaser for the season as part of its public announcement. Despite all of this, however, the streaming service didn’t mention when exactly Season 4 would premiere. And it still hasn’t, yet the recent quarterly letters that Netflix sent to its investors may shed some light on when fans can expect Stranger Things to return....

Video game movies aren’t even a punchline any more. At this point, it’s simply an accepted fact that the majority of them aren’t very good. Sure, there might be exceptions; Resident Evil has had an improbably successful run at the box office, although those films have little to do with the games they’re based on, and Raúl Juliá steals the show as M. Bison in Street Fighter. However, both of those films trade solid storytelling for low-budget, campy charm, and they’re considered among the “best” of their ilk....

Fans of old school strategy games were somewhat disappointed last year, and for good reason. The RTS classic XCOM would be making many dreams come true by returning to modern consoles, but only in the form of a re-imagined shooter. Firaxis Games managed to play the role of hero last week when they announced that XCOM: Enemy Unknown wouldn’t just be providing another entry in the suddenly revived series, but that it would be much closer to the real-time-strategy roots that fans had hoped for....

Toby Fox could barely have imagined the phenomenon he had on his hands when he completed Undertale. This one-man passion project is one of the snarkiest, most unique and unmissable RPGs of recent years, chock-full of fascinating hidden details and secrets that would put a lot of AAA RPGs to shame. This Steam Greenlight masterpiece has inspired a lot of designers in the genre since its release and took huge cues from other titles in return....

Everybody has at least one game in their life that changed the way they think about gaming forever. (Heck, sometimes it changes the way they think about the WORLD forever.) Gaming has been home to some of the greatest stories ever told, and home to some of the greatest entertainment experiences ever made. Whether you like to jump into games to experience life through another’s eyes, or just want to sit back and forget about the stress of the world, gaming has something for you....

Microsoft recently introduced something called Cloud Gaming in September 2020, and it allows you to play games on your Android phone or tablet. All it requires is for you to subscribe to the Game Pass Ultimate and a controller of some kind. However, there are some games that have Cloud Touch Control Support enabled which means a controller is not needed to play. It will surprise you how many popular titles are part of this program, but do remember that the app is still in beta....

The first season of Batwoman mostly focused on the struggles between Kate Kane and her twin sister Beth, better-known as Alice. Several other significant villains had an impact on the plot, but Alice was the main antagonist. Now that the second season of the show is airing, it could change many great things. For one, it could bring some iconic DC villains into the story. Most of them will be familiar even to the casual movie-goer, but some of them might be a surprise....

Before Windows ’95 started the change to a GUI-only operating system, playing games on PCs meant dealing with DOS. Games from this era were much like games of today but required much more configuration and fine-tuning to play properly. PC gamers today don’t have to bother with problems common to the DOS era—like boot disks. For the young people reading this, boot disks were floppy disks that bypassed programs like Windows to free enough extended memory to run a game....

It’s been out for two years but has just received a massive boost in popularity — Among Us is taking the gaming world by storm, charting in Steam’s top ten best-sellers. So there’s definitely a niche for whodunit cooperative mystery solving. That’s no shock, given the slew of board games that have catered to this market for decades now, but while less are on offer these days, there are still plenty of virtual games that bring people together to oust the liar among us....

Over the past 25 years, the Pokemon series has dramatically expanded its roster of Pokemon. The first generation of games included 151, but, as of the latest releases, that number has risen to a staggering 898. These Pokemon are separated into 18 unique types and it’s this which typically dictates the moves and attacks that a Pokemon is capable of learning. Sometimes, however, certain Pokemon are given access to moves that are outside of their elemental typing which can provide their trainers with a competitive edge....

It’s been a few weeks since Cyberpunk 2077 was released, and the only thing we can say is that it has been a full-on emotional rollercoaster. This game has certainly given the gaming community something to talk about, from being placed on a pedestal to thousands asking for refunds to been pulled out of major digital stores. Despite all, Cyberpunk is still a fantastic open-world RPG many have enjoyed, thanks to its dark world and deep story....