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Despite receiving significant backlash from viewers for not showing off enough state of the art gameplay, Microsoft’s recent Inside Xbox did bring a lot of brand new games to the attention of fans looking forward at the Xbox Series X’s launch lineup. These included a stunning science fiction first-person shooter titled Bright Memory: Infinite, an atmospheric creepy horror title called Scorn, and a brand new trailer for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla....

I don’t remember the first time I heard someone joke about Mario getting high in Super Mario Bros. by eating all the mushrooms he finds, but it certainly feels like that joke is old as Super Mario Bros. itself. If you hear that joke when you’re 12 or 22, you’ll likely treat it like some kind of incredible revelation that changes the way you look at the Super Mario Bros. franchise....

Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin offers a more traditional RPG experience than the mainline series, allowing players to hatch and raise monstie buddies to fight alongside them in battle, as well as offering a stronger focus on the storyline than the other titles tend to. With all your adventuring, you’ll be wanting to ensure your hard work doesn’t go to waste. There are three save files available in the game, and an additional autosave file....

The Last of Us: Part II is full of trophies for players to collect. There are some that require finishing story moments, finding collectibles, and even participating in tasks that aren’t necessary for the overall plot. So as you’re striving for that Platinum Trophy, here’s how to unlock all the hidden and some of the more obscure trophies in The Last of Us: Part II. So Great and Small To earn this trophy, you’ll need to collect an artifact reminiscent of one of Naughty Dog’s other classic characters....

With the release of the long-awaited sequel, Last of Us Part 2 fans are finally able to sink their teeth into this fantastic game. Among the multitude of collectibles, fans can expect from Last of Us Part 2, it might be overwhelming for new players to find the right materials necessary for weapon upgrades. Fear not, crafting weapons is much simpler than one would expect. There are plenty of items like spare parts and gears which can be used to upgrade weapons with attachments that help give it a better scope or more stability....

After releasing a closed beta that caught the gaming world’s attention, Ubisoft’s first-person battle royale Hyper Scape launched a PC open beta yesterday during the Ubisoft Forward livestream. Console gamers have not been left behind, as following the live stream, Hyper Scape’s official Twitter account announced that it will be coming to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One sometime this summer. Though some may be concerned that the longer lead-time on PC will be detrimental for a game that has a running Battle Pass to unlock items, much like the Battle Pass in Epic Games’ Fortnite and other battle royales such as Call of Duty: Warzone, the developers have laid out a solution to even the playing field....

I never intended on buying Persona 5 Royal. I’d already played Atlus’ original effort from 2017, and forking over a small fortune for what looked like a car that had been rinsed through a 15-minute car wash felt a bit like buying a spare calendar in December. A bit different, sure, but I’d already committed to using the first one and gotten just about everything I needed out of it....

Today, the video game developer NetherRealm Studios took to the official Injustice 2 forums to announce that its forthcoming fighting title is going to contain a microtransaction system once it goes live. While many fans may be quick to cry foul about the company’s decision to add a microtransaction system to Injustice 2, NetherRealm Studios and the game’s publisher Warner Bros. Interactive have stressed that it will not operate on a “pay to win” structure....

Since Injustice 2’s launch last week, the NetherRealm Studios fighting game has been given a plethora of positive reviews for its engrossing story mode, fluid and intuitive combat mechanics, as well as its extensive roster of heroes and villains from the DC Universe. Speaking of the lattermost gameplay element, the developer is far from finished adding new characters, as the game’s creative director Ed Boon recently reminded fans of Red Hood’s inclusion by way of a fresh screenshot....

Shortly after the cancellation of E3 earlier this year, reports came out indicated WB Games would have been showing the world two big games: the next Batman Arkham game, which seems more likely to be Batman: Gotham Knights every day, and the Harry Potter RPG. Ever since then, rumors and reports have painted a pretty future for the publisher with the two aforementioned games, a new Suicide Squad game, but only ever briefly has Injustice 3 been mentioned....

Instagram has announced three new features that it says will help people take control of how much time they spend on the social network. Instagram’s new features include the ability to set times when the app will not send notifications as well as making it easier for people to control the kinds of content that they would rather not see. A new parental control option means that parents can also see their teen’s Instagram settings....

It’s safe to say that Steam is the PC’s most popular online game platform. There are thousands of games that can be purchased and downloaded on Steam, and there are fans out there with massive libraries they’ve collected. However, it’s unlikely that anyone out there has purchased every single game, but if someone wanted to, it would cost over half a million dollars. Someone has calculated the cost of the entire Steam library, and it comes out to a whopping $556,286....

It Takes Two, the newest game from Hazelight Studios and director Josef Fares, is exactly the kind of evolution one would expect from such an ambitious development team. It Takes Two builds on the core co-op experience of both A Way Out and Fares first game, Brother: A Tale of Two Sons, but delivers surprisingly addicting 3D platforming. While the previous two games were fascinating cinematic experiences, It Takes Two embraces the video game medium and delivers a style of co-op platforming so unique that I imagine even Nintendo will sit up and take notice when the game comes out later this month....

A Fortnite leak has revealed that Black Manta, Aquaman’s arch-nemesis, is coming to the game at some point in the next two weeks. There was once a time when Fortnite players thought the game’s crossover with the superhero world would be a one-time thing. Not only has that proven not to be the case, but Epic has established relationships with both Marvel and DC. Deadpool, Batman, Thanos, and Harley Quinn have all appeared on the island....

Regular Game Rant readers and Screen Rant Underground listeners will know that us ranters are huge fans of dinosaurs. But not dinosaurs in the traditional sense: dinosaurs utilized in wholly anachronistic ways. Think Dino Riders. So, when word dropped that Battlefield 4, or even Battlefield 3, might have included dinosaurs in a future DLC pack we were appropriately excited. Unfortunately, that possibility never came to pass, and we were left disappointed....

Microsoft continues to search for solutions in order to fix the frame rate issues plaguing the backward compatible version of Grand Theft Auto 4 for Xbox One. Without a doubt, Microsoft’s decision to incorporate a backward compatibility feature for the Xbox One has become one of the most popular features for the system in recent memory, but even when some of what are considered to be the top games from the last console generation get ported onto the platform, there may not be much to be done about certain technical issues that crop up from the transition....

Our quick take GravaStar Sirius Pro - 4.0 / 5 Design Integrated bottle opener 6 dynamic RGB lights IPX5 waterproofing Sound quality Bluetooth 5.2 Environmental Noise Cancelling Knowles Balanced Armatures Features 4-hour battery life (16-hours with the charging case) USB-C charging App-free experience To recap While the wild cyberpunk aesthetic is certainly the main draw for these earbuds, the audio fidelity and functionality are impressive in their own right. You can find earbuds with superior features and specs in this price range, but none come anywhere close to offering the flair and personality of the Sirius Pro....

GTA 5 Online has been around for years now and there are still a bunch of glaring problems that need to be fixed within the game. Some of these fixes would be easy for Rockstar to fix and some of them would require vast development capabilities however regardless they all deserve a mention because they are all important problems that need to be addressed. This list will feature the 10 most important fixes that need to be done for GTA 5 Online and hopefully show fans what the game could be like if they were fixed....

This year’s E3 is over and it’s probably fair to say the event was a mixed bag. Many are peeved that the almost-week-long slate of showcases didn’t feature more blockbuster announcements, but between what Xbox, Nintendo, and a couple of other major studios had to say, there is certainly plenty to look forward to. For Square Enix, whose presentation bore the brunt of a big chunk of E3 criticism this year, the highlight was the reveal of its Guardians of the Galaxy game....

In 490 BC, a messenger named Pheidippides ran from Marathon to Athens to report Greece’s victory over the invading armies of Persia, and was immortalized when a race of approximately the same distance was named in honor of his achievement. But this is not the most taxing or egregious physical exercise to have originated in Greece — that accolade goes to Hades’ central premise of having Zagreus belligerently battle his way through the unforgiving realms of the Underworld, where death is not the end of life, but rather a sure route back to a cruel, painful, and grueling new beginning....