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Jackbox Games are among the greatest party games to have ever been made. With the possible release of the seventh Jackbox Party Pack, now is a good time for gamers who haven’t touched the franchise, to get in on the action. While these games are largely intended to be played with friends in person, many of them can be played online by streaming the gameplay and playing remotely. The first six packs have 25 unique games, with some having multiple iterations across titles....

A Grand Theft Auto 5 fan mashes up Rockstar Games’ open world title and Star Wars in one of the best ways possible, by pitting Trevor versus Michael in a lightsaber duel. As if it needed to be said, Star Wars is more than likely the most well-known pop culture phenomenon mankind has ever encountered. Bearing that in mind, it makes sense that a fan has now created a mashup of the seminal sci-fi series with Grand Theft Auto 5, the most recent entry in arguably one of the video game world’s most popular and recognizable franchises of all time....

Rockstar Games officially announces the release date for its forthcoming Bikers update in Grand Theft Auto 5, and puts out brand new screenshots for the DLC. As many Grand Theft Auto 5 fans can attest, ever since the open world crime title’s release over three years ago, Rockstar Games has been keeping the game flush with free post-launch content such as its racing expansion known as Cunning Stunts and the action-driven DLC dubbed Further Adventures in Finance and Felony....

Grand Theft Auto 5’s most popular mod tool, OpenIV, has officially returned to availability after several weeks down due to a Take-Two cease and desist letter. This hopefully marks the end of the controversy, which went so far as getting Rockstar Games itself involved. All parties, at this point, seem to agree that OpenIV meets the requirements necessary for a “third party project” to remain legal. Whether or not that agreement continues forward remains to be seen....

UPDATE 3/18: The servers for both GTA Online and Red Dead Online are back up, as is the Rockstar Social Club. Original story follows. On March 18, the servers for both GTA Online and Red Dead Online went down for unknown reasons. Rockstar Games acknowledged the outage on its official support page, with the issues impacting the games on all platforms. Additionally, Rockstar has confirmed that its Social Club services are also down....

Rockstar Games will shutting down the online components of its two most popular games, Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption 2, as a response to the ongoing protests in the US. In a tweet earlier today, Rockstar Games announced that the servers for both Grand Theft Auto Online and Red Dead Online will be going down for two hours, from 2:00-4:00 p.m. ET. This is being done to “honor the legacy of George Floyd”, whose death sparked protests against police violence....

Half-Life fans are a creative bunch, creating wonders that vary from fully-fledged expansions like Echoes and Entropy Zero to re-imaginings like Black Mesa and the upcoming Blue Shift remake, to designing and bringing to life actual props and figures. That’s what Deeper Down creator Jim Partridge has shared, his brand new Dog figurine. It’s no wonder that the community is such an expressive collection of talented individuals when the series seemingly died out after Episode 3 dwindled into mythic legend and became a meme....

With a little over two months left before would-be Spartans can suit up for the UNSC once more in the brand new Halo 5: Guardians, fans of the series are undoubtedly trigger happy, and ready to jump into the action sooner rather than later. As is usual with the FPS franchise, Microsoft is using Halo 5: Guardians as the bedrock title for its current console, the Xbox One, and they are hoping to reap some sweet holiday sales because of it....

This article contains spoilers for Halo Infinite. Halo Infinite‘s story may rely on nostalgia at times, but the game’s mysterious ending will almost certainly leave you wondering what is next for this franchise. While recent rumors strongly suggest that Halo Infinite will utilize a live service model (meaning that future Halo Infinite chapters will come in the form of DLC updates rather than entirely new games), pretty much everyone agrees that Microsoft and developer 343 Industries are very interested in continuing Infinite‘s story in one way or another....

In the latest blog post, 343 Industries reveals the official Achievement list for Halo Wars 2, and answers fan questions including whether or not a map editor is included. After almost eight years, Microsoft is now only a week away before early access begins for Halo Wars 2, the latest entry in its real time strategy series. Even being so close to release, new details are still coming out about the title, such as the recently revealed Blitz mode, which completely remixes the traditional RTS formula with faster gameplay and the use of card packs instead of bases....

A new unannounced Halo project is in the works, but it does not seem to be a Halo Wars title. There are many fans of the Halo real-time strategy spin-off, and the series could still exist in the future, but for now, 343 Industries has confirmed that it is not working on a new Halo Wars game. A few days ago, some 343 Industries job postings appeared online for what seems to be an unannounced Halo game, but the developer quickly denied the idea of that being the Halo RTS....

With Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery celebrating its 2 year anniversary, it’s safe to say that there are many players who were once invested in the game and have since moved on. This inevitably happens with all video games over time, especially ones that require such a significant time investment as Hogwarts Mystery. Considering this, some fans that used to play Hogwarts Mystery may be shocked to learn that the game recently killed off a major character....

Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery has been met with a great deal of criticism since its launch, with many detractors pointing out how the gameplay experience revolves almost entirely around its microtransactions. Despite these criticisms, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery has proven itself to be a successful mobile venture, and it seems as though dedicated fans have played it quite a bit since launch. According to a new infographic released on the official Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery Facebook page, 225 million spells have been cast in the game since launch....

“The police don’t believe in monsters,” we learned in Ed Woods’ 1955 B-movie horror favorite Bride of the Monster. But Full Moon Features does, and they know where to find them. On Friday, July 31, the channel and app dropped seven cult classics to their new 20-film series Haunted Hollywood. Every Friday for 13 weeks, they will add a new scary flick. Some of these films are frightening in their content, others for the stories behind the film....

The last seven episodes of Supernatural are planned to air from October 8th, which will bring the series to a close after 15 seasons. The series’ production was forced to halt in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which put the show on hiatus after its March 23rd episode, but filming was able to resume in Vancouver in early June. The co-stars of the show, Jensen Ackles, Jared Padalecki, and Misha Collins, did a Zoom “meet and greet” on August 11th with Senator Cory Booker and Senate candidate for Texas M....

Ari Aster, director of 2018’s thriller Hereditary and 2019’s Midsommar, has recently revealed that his next film will be a “nightmare comedy” that will be approximately four hours long. In an interview with UC Santa Barbara’s Associated Students Program Board, the director discussed upcoming film projects and shared that he had just completed the draft of a movie intended for viewers over 17 that will be particularly long. Hereditary, which follows the struggles of the Graham family as they experience a series of haunting and tragic occurrences after the death of their grandmother, runs close to the standard film length of two hours....

Nintendo has had an incredible year in 2017. Hard to believe since 2016 was so poor. Despite their successes this year there are some drawbacks to their phenomenal games. I’ve done a lot of research into comics by this point and I feel pretty confident in my selections. Most of the topics I’ve chosen to cover up to now focus in on single games, or series. So far I’ve tackled Final Fantasy, Pokémon, Mario, Fallout, and Call of Duty....

Despite launching in the second half of January, Hitman 3 became the second most downloaded game on the PlayStation Store last month. The assassin was topped by Black Ops Cold War in North America and FIFA 21 in Europe. Beyond Hitman 3, January was light on blockbuster releases. Accordingly, the PlayStation Store charts are topped by titles that launched around the 2020 holiday season. Several underdogs even make an appearance, such as Temtem, Gang Beasts, and Jump Force....

Frictional Games has brought nightmares to life since its founding in 2006. The creators of multiple horror-laden titles, such as SOMA, Frictional Games is an independent studio based in Sweden. The studio is well-known and beloved for its ability to strike fear into those who play its titles. The studio notably doubted itself after the commercial release and success of Amnesia: The Dark Descent. They enlisted the help of development studio The Chinese Room to develop Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs, which struggled to achieve the same level of abject horror from the original title....

There are some things we just automatically associate with Christmas. Tinsel, Christmas trees, crackers with bad jokes in, fairy lights. There are also stories we keep coming back to at this time of year. Scrooge and his ghosts, George Bailey seeing what the world would be like if he’d never been born, and yes, John McClane single-handedly foiling a terrorist attack that is actually an elaborate heist. But one thing you probably don’t associate with Christmas is hordes of the shambling undead attempting to batter your door down and feast on your brains....