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Although the Saints Row franchise was, at one point, trying its best to keep pace with Grand Theft Auto, it has found a new identity as of late. Rather than follow down the same path as its competitors, Saints Row took a wide left turn somewhere between entries number 2 and 3 and has come out all the better because of it. Saints Row chose to fully embrace its goofy side and now, in some respects, has become a more exciting franchise than GTA ever was....

Sine Mora is a shoot ’em up co-developed by Digital Reality and Grasshopper Manufacture. Grasshopper was in charge of concept art and sound design, while the actual story, gameplay, 3D modelling, and general coding was done by Digital Reality. This team effort between a less well-known developer and the all-star cast over at Grasshopper is decidedly weird. It contains one of the most complex and terrifying storylines of most any video game on the market, possibly only rivaled by other Grasshopper games like Killer7....

He’s climbing in your windows, he’s snatching your people up: Sam Fisher is back and he’s tooling up for Splinter Cell: Blacklist, the latest installment in the popular stealth action series. This time around, the threat is a mysterious terrorist organization called the Engineers, who have vowed to commit a series of escalating attacks (“The Blacklist”) in order to achieve their ultimate goal of bringing death to America. Along with Fisher’s transformation from the average man about town into a hardened Fourth Echelon solider that is shown in this trailer, Splinter Cell: Blacklist also brings a change behind the scenes, as long-standing voice actor Michael Ironside has handed the reins over to young whippersnapper Eric Johnson, who was more physically capable of handling the movement required for the new performance capture technology being implemented by Ubisoft in the game....

In Star Wars: The Old Republic, as in many BioWare RPGs, there will be many a tough choice to be made. Among those tough choices is the decision of which character class to role through your adventure in a galaxy far, far away. To help influence gamers one way or another, a new The Old Republic trailer has been released that focuses on two of what are sure to be the more popular classes: the jedi knight and the bounty hunter....

Dungeons & Dragons allows players to choose from several unique classes with their own distinct abilities when creating a character. Not only do these classes provide characters with distinct flavors, but they tend to dictate their strengths, whether it be in physical combat, offensive spellcasting, or utility. As much as some players may love to build melee-focused characters that can deal absurd amounts of damage when up close and personal, other people may prefer keeping themselves out of harm’s way, fighting from afar....

Breath of the Wild instantly became one of the most beloved titles in The Legend of Zelda franchise. Though players found the exploration and shrines to be a lot of fun, the story lacked compared to games such as Ocarina of Time and Twilight Princess. Earlier this year, Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity was announced, which would reveal a lot of the events from Breath of the Wild’s lore. Now that the game is out, players find it to be even better than expected....

Season 2 of Call of Duty: Blacks Ops Cold War just released, with an all-new Battle Pass, new maps, weapons, and more. But one of the biggest aspects of Season 2 that so many fans were looking forward to was the Outbreak Mode for Zombies. And, now that we’ve had a few days to test it, we can safely say Outbreak is great! It’s a completely new step for Zombies, even if the three “maps” in it are all relatively easy....

Sony’s latest console release brings the return of one of their cutest console mascots as well. After a lukewarm reception both critically and commercially for the franchise’s previous entry, LittleBigPlanet 3, the series went on hiatus. Sumo Digital, the creators of the LittleBigPlanet franchise, went back to the drawing board for Sackboy, searching for a way to reinvent the character that players would enjoy. In 2020, fans of the franchise were elated to see Sackboy return to the limelight....

The Nintendo Switch has been out for three years now and between the hybrid design of the console and the exclusive games that are released on Nintendo’s flagship product, the Switch is quite possibly the best console to use for parties when groups of friends get together and want to play a game. Xbox usurped the crown from Nintendo in the glory days of Halo and LAN parties, but Nintendo wrestled the top spot back with the Wii, and the Nintendo Switch is the next iteration in a long line of party-friendly gaming consoles....

As space fantasy, Star Wars is the perfect setting for the medium of video games. There have been some fantastic Star Wars games made over the decades. Some of the most beloved characters in Star Wars only appear in the games, and some from the games which were released decades ago. While many of these characters are known and loved by older fans, new or younger fans may never have heard of them....

Pokémon, previously referred to as “Pocket Monsters,” are fascinating creatures that we have grown to love because of their unique shapes and sizes, and loveable habits. The Pokémon anime does a wonderful job of showing the facets of Pokémon, but as complex creatures, it is difficult for an animated series to capture their entirety. The new Generation VII Rotom Pokédex is a tool that shows what Pokémon you’ve caught, can make phone calls, and work as a map, sort of like an iPhone or Android device....

The Sims is a franchise that has been going on since the release of the first game in February of 2000. The franchise is celebrating twenty years of Simish and wacky player antics, and fans couldn’t be any happier. With Sims 5 in development and The Sims 4 still getting regular updates, the series is very much alive. In fact, players from all over the world, both casual and not, seem to have fallen in love with the charming game....

Seventeen years. That’s how long the Call of Duty franchise has been around. Normally, other game franchises would only have at most 17 games or even a lot fewer, but Call of Duty has strength in numbers. There is nearly three dozen Call of Duty games out now—that’s an average of two Call of Duty games per year since its inception. The downside is that not all Call of Duty games are worth the players’ time....

Like blockbuster movies, if a video game makes a heap of money, no matter the reception, they’ll make another one. Just look at Star Wars: Battlefront 2 or Call of Duty—franchises that will never fail because they make so much cash. And it’s the same with Nintendo; their staple franchises exclusive to their own hardware are perhaps their only lifeline in the brutal industry of gaming. Most of the time Nintendo hits gold; their recurrent series like Mario and The Legend of Zelda are usually supremely popular and equally acclaimed at the same time....

Satisfying machinery and magnificent marvels of engineering Prelude FLNG - the largest gas platform This is the world’s largest natural gas platform, constructed of more than 260,000 tonnes of steel and measuring 488 metres in length and 74 metres wide. Le Tourneau L-2350 - the biggest earthmover This is, according to the Guinness World Records, the biggest earthmover ever built. Crawler-transporter The Crawler-transporter is essentially a massive mobile platform that is used for transporting NASA’s rocketships....

Ever since the release of Battlefield 3, various glitches, exploits, and annoying bugs that have plagued the game. With these glitches comes the requisite cheaters as well, with hundreds of gamers taking advantage of some of the holes in the game. DICE promised gamers that a client-side fix was in the pipeline that would address many of the issues being raised by legitimate gamers, and they have followed through on that promise with the first patch for Battlefield 3....

Seminal shooter sequel Battlefield 4 is very nearly upon us. Boasting a wealth of in-game improvements, multiplayer add-ons, and customizable kit, DICE’s dog of war may lack for some of the canine bite of direct competitor Call of Duty, but rest assured, this pooch-less FPS fully intends to run the yard. Scheduled to deploy later this month, Battlefield 4’s intel division appears to have sprung an early leak, releasing details on all 42 of the game’s highly-collectible achievement goals online....

There are few developers who can consistently ignite the imaginations of their fan base like Valve. Over the years, an almost inconceivable amount of time has been spent tweaking the games they have created, by players whose hearts and minds have been captured by legendary franchises such as Half-Life and Portal. A few hugely popular Half-Life mods have already been taken in by Valve and turned into fully-featured, stand-alone games. Now, another fan-made modification is ready to make waves, taking players back to resonance cascade that started everything – and doing it right....

Since its launch, Destiny has proven to be a marathon, not a sprint. With every new challenge, raid, or strike players have been faced with, their unwavering dedication has led to some truly impressive feats, whether they be evidence of just how precise Guardians can be - or how bluntly devastating. As days have turned into weeks, those same players have shown that the content supplied by Bungie alone isn’t quite enough to satisfy....

Dragon Age: Inquisition is one incredible game, and certainly feels like one of BioWare’s largest games (in terms of world size, at least) to date. Ask a handful of people that have put a decent amount of time into the fantasy RPG, however, and a few will probably respond with similar issues they have with the game: the run speed leaves a little to be desired; the areas feel large, but ultimately disconnected; and there’s nowhere to store items to free up inventory space....