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While it may seem like forever sinceMicrosoftannounced it was acquiring Activision Blizzard in a mammoth deal worth $68.7 billion, it’s not been so easy to get the merger approved. This is a good thing as such enormous deals should be properly looked at considering how much impact such a merger will have on the games industry. After all, Activision Blizzard is the home of huge shooter series Call of Duty, the perenially popular Warcraft, as well as King, the mobile specialist that mints money with Candy Crush....

The cultists and monsters inResident Evil 4 Remakeare controlled by the parasitic Plagas. There are many different mutations for the bugs and their hosts, each with terrifying powers. If the stars had anything to do with the Plagas' transformations, what kind of monster would your zodiac sign become? Related:Games To Play If You Like Resident Evil 4 Remake The creatures that Leon fights throughout the game are as unique as the signs....

Quick Links Final Fantasy 14is currently one of the most successful MMORPGs around: both critically and commercially, Final Fantasy 14 has achieved landmark successes since the release of its revised version, A Realm Reborn, in 2014. Since this time, Final Fantasy 14 has received four expansion packs, each more critically successful than the last. The game looks set to continue at least another 10 years into the future, thanks to a firm foundation of excellent content and a development team that has shown a great deal of care in preserving the game’s legacy....

Will Wright is best known for creatingThe Sims, and therefore much of his life prior to the year 2000 has been forgotten or is ignored. Sure, you might reference SimCity and hardcore fans might cite SimAnt as a niche favourite (yes, that’s real), but before he started designing video games, Wright was a keen architect and engineer. These passions led him to BattleBots, the US version of robot-fighting game show Robot Wars, which his creation was subsequently banned from....

Wo Long: Fallen Dynastyhas an incredibly in-depth character creator - you can modify bangs, individual sections of hair, length, and more, on top of a robust face sculpting system that includes details such as scars and marks. So, it’s no surprise that players are alreadymaking characters and celebrities in excruciating detail. This has been going on since last weekend thanks to the demo, as plenty have been jumping in just to spend hours seeing how far they can push it....

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdomis now less than a month away. It’s not easy creating a sequel to a game that changed the standard for open world games, but if there’s one company that can do it, it’s Nintendo. Based on what we’ve seen in the trailers, Tears of the Kingdom will feature the same map as Breath of the Wild, but a lot has changed in Hyrule....

If you want to see a movie filled with realistic fight scenes, don’t pick John Wick 4. While the entire series is grounded in some sense of reality – there aren’t any triple-backflip-corkscrew-flying-kicks or catching bullets in midair – it’s a far cry from the realism similar action films like James Bond aim for. Sure, 007 may have a laser watch and x-ray specs, but if someone shoots him, he tends to get hurt....

When you have a world as big asElden Ring’s, you’re going to need enemies to fill it. And while the Lands Between contain the usual suspects, ranging from human-like enemies to traditional fantasy creatures – albeit with From Software’s usual flare–Elden Ring is also populated with what would be relatively normal creatures in the real world. Related:Elden Ring: Best Great Hammers In the Lands Between, however, they are instead monstrous beasts that will kill you in the game and then haunt your nightmares for weeks....

Digimon World: Next Orderis a spiritual successor to the original Digimon World,bringing pet simulator gameplayback to the series, while also significantly upping the ante with new features, graphics, and trainable Digimon– you’ve even been given a second partner to raise and bond with to further pack the game with entertaining content. Related:Digimon World: Next Order: Things We Wish We Knew Before Starting But like any fictional world, Digimon has many inconsistencies that’ll make you double-take, questioning what the developers were thinking while designing the game....

Deceive Inc is a multiplayer game that combines the hero shooter genre with unique weapons, hilarious gadgets, and loads of deception. Whether you hop into a solo match or choose to extract the briefcase with a team of three players, you must utilize your spy’s abilities to eliminate the enemy and secure your objective. Related:Multiplayer Games With The Highest Player Count The numerous amount of spies, also known as agents, in the game come equipped with a signature weapon, passive, and ability that can gather information or save your life during combat....

There are many things you can do in video games that you can’t do in real life, such as fly, produce electricity from your body, or fight gods. But many games still attempt to be like real life in some ways. For instance, several titles allow you to get drunk. This is, of course, a very common practice in the real world, depending on where you live. RELATED:The Best Minigames In Open World Games It isn’t quite the same in a virtual setting....

For a series with over 16 mainline entries and innumerable spin-offs, eachFinal Fantasygame finds a way to be distinct from everything else. The series is pretty loose on what actually defines a game outside of scant themes and naming conventions. One thing that ties the games together is the characters. RELATED:The Most Heartbreaking Moments In Final Fantasy, Ranked Those characters always find a way to be different across games, be it turning an enemy into an ally, or a joke enemy into a recurring cameo....

The Anti-Defamation League has awardedFortnitean F rank in combatting antisemitism on the platform, the lowest score of all the games and services it researched. This puts it belowCall of DutyandLeague of Legends, as the ADL says Fortnite failed to combat reports of holocaust denial in every department.Call of Duty didn’t fare much better.Activision Blizzardwas given a D- for its efforts, coming under fire for not having an explicit policy against holocaust denial, and failing to address the complaints of average users in a timely manner....