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You may have heard of Activision Blizzard. You know, they release Call of Duty, that little shooter series. They also do Warcraft, Candy Crush, and have made headlines for questionable working environments, to put it very lightly. Oh and it’s also been valued at nearly $70 billion as Microsoft try to buy it outright. But amongst all that, Activision Blizzard also make games. Even completely new games no one’s ever heard of before....

Sega’s purchase ofAngry Birdsdeveloper Rovio last month seems to be all about helping Sega break into the wider mobile gaming market. According to a Sega executive, the plan is to hand Rovio Sega’s IP and let them make mobile games for the global mobile market. This all comes out of a press conference where Sega and Rovio’s leadership explained the acquisition. Sega president of consumer games and transmedia Shuji Utsumi (viaNME) said Rovio was brought on board to help resolve “challenges” Sega has with mobile gaming....

This article contains spoilers for Hi-Fi Rush. Going intoHi-Fi RushI expected a fun rhythm action game that looked like a lost Dreamcast classic with the aesthetic of a Saturday morning cartoon. I didnotexpect the most pointed skewering of crunch culture I can recall seeing in a triple-A game. But I got that, too. The game sets up Vandelay Technologies, a massive corporation, as the villain, so a little critique of capitalism isn’t shocking....

It was a sad day when Sega announced the closure of all its Akihabara arcades in Tokyo. The arcades were eithersold to Genda to be rebranded as GiGO arcadesor they wereclosed down for goodto be sold as retail space. A tragic end to an institution. But it seems at least one other Japanese gaming brand will take up the mantle Sega was forced to put down during the pandemic.Bandai Namcohas announced it will re-open Sega Akihabara Arcade building no....

Some of the enemies inOne Piece Odysseyare bonkers. Each of the enemy designs is bold and brilliant, coming from the mind of the One Piece Manga creator, Eiichiro Oda. They range from cute, to terrifying; tiny to gigantic. You’ll meet hundreds of these funny little bad guys from the start of your odyssey to the end. RELATED:One Piece Odyssey: Islands We Wish We Could VisitAs with many JRPGs, the enemies come in multiple variants, with different colours, designs, and outfits....

With only a little more than a month to go until it hits cinemas, the hype train forThe Super Mario Bros. Movieis starting to pick up speed. Four of its lead actors appeared on The Kelly Clarkson Show this week, including Jack Black dressed asBowser. However, someone seems to have forgotten to check just how tight and revealing the Bowser outfit was as it needed to be censored in post-production.Chris Pratt, Charlie Day, and Keegan Michael Key, who play Mario, Luigi, and Toad respectively, are shown sitting on the couch ready to be interviewed....

Quick Links Often considered one of the more formidable player-versus-player (PvP) classes inWorld of Warcraft, Warlock has more than a few tricks up its sleeve. Despite its status as a seemingly squishy spellcaster, these demonic masters can do anything from damage reduction, to crowd control, to topping the damage charts. Related:World Of Warcraft: Dragonflight - Arcane Mage PvP Guide One of the specializations that performs exceedingly well is Demonology Warlock. While they may not deal high damage numbers themselves, they swamp the battlefield with overwhelming amounts of demons at their command, often disorienting the enemy before destroying them completely....

Introduced in the third expansion forWorld of Warcraft, Wrath of the Lich King, feasts have given both the Cooking and Fishing professions a huge boost in relevance, even into the endgame. Feasts place an item that the party or raid can interact with for some out-of-combat healing and more importantly, a substantial buff to their stats. Related:Dragonflight - The Most Useful Profession Specializations For Endgame But how would they taste? We might not be able to partake directly, but we can examine how the most powerful feast in each expansion looks and what ingredients go into them to rank each by their (theoretical) tastiness....

Have you ever played a remake of a classic game and thought, “This looks exactly like the original,” only to later realise that the original doesn’t look quite as good as you thought? We’ve all gone through that at some point, especially since Resident Evil 2 set the benchmark for what a remake actually is. The nostalgia for the original makes it look and feel much better than it actually was – mostly because, for the time, it was....

ChatGPT is a fascinating new technological development. An artificial intelligence that can understand context, intent, and even imagination, ChatGPTcan power your next D&D sessionorhelp create an AI-written sitcom about nothing. It’s not perfect, andpeople have found ways to get around its moderation programming, but ChatGPT is undeniably a massive leap forward for chatbot AI. And pretty soon, you’ll be able to play around with ChatGPT inDiscord. Today, Discord has announced ChatGPT will be integrated into servers across its platforms “soon....

After much speculation,MTG Arenahas confirmed it will include Emrakul, The Promised End in itsMarch 21 launch of Shadows Over Innistrad Remastered. It’s a wild card that lets you control your opponent’s next turn, and fans have long wondered if it could be implemented into Arena given its ability and the development needed to make it work, but Axv has pulled it off.In a cryptic tweet with distorted text saying “Shall we play”, MTG Arena showed a game in which a player had used Emrakul, The Promised End, to take over their opponent, signified by a glowing purple vignette effect....

Every video game is getting a movie or TV show these days, so it’s no surprise thatFortnitehas its own ideas for an adaptation. Whether this would mean a story based on the comics or something loosely centred around the battle royale mode isn’t clear, but Epic Games CCO Donald Mustard knows exactly what it would look like. “To me, I wanna do stuff that always just feels authentic and is a great story,” Mustard toldColliderwhen asked if Fortnite will follow in the footsteps of theSuper Mario Bros....

Quick Links Fortnitehit the spot when they added the Augments in the game. The Augments give the player a certain advantage to progress through the match, but the great thing comes when every player gets an Augment, so every player has a set of skills that any other player will have in the match. Related:Fortnite: Complete Beginner Tips And Tricks Chapter 4 Season 1 worked as the introduction, and in Chapter 4 Season 2 the Augments are very polished; Fortnite got rid of the most useless and overpowered ones, and now the feature is really balanced....