There will be a total of five free games available to Twitch Prime members for the month of August. Users can look forward to picking up Antihero, Death Squared, Jotun, SteamWorld Dig and a Wizardry bundle. The featured titles will be available for members to add to their Twitch games libraries until August 31st. Antihero is a digital board game where players take on the role of an up-and-coming thief in a Victorian town....
Scream 5 has wrapped filming. The announcement came via Twitter from original Scream writer Kevin Williamson, the godfather of the ’90s teen slasher era (he also wrote I Know What You Did Last Summer) and exec producer on the new Scream movie. Along with the production wrap announcement, Williamson also officially revealed what the title of Scream 5 would be. No, not 5cream, as the internet would have it, but just, simply, Scream....
Last week, Apple finally admitted that it purposefully slows down older iPhones with software updates. Even though Apple claims this is ultimately to the benefit of the consumer as it makes iPhones last longer than they would otherwise, some consumers are understandably upset about this and are pursuing legal action against the company. Since Apple’s revelation that it purposefully slows down older iPhones, numerous lawsuits have been filed against the tech giant....
2021 is over two weeks old at this point, but there haven’t been many new game releases. Outside of the Scott Pilgrim vs. The World re-release, gamers don’t have many 2021 games to play just yet, and so are likely looking back on 2020 games to take up their time. And now that 2020 has come to a close, gamers can take a look at lists of the highest-rated games that were released last year when deciding what game they should play next....
The Grand Theft Auto world can be a super dark place at times. After all, these titles showcase some of the worst and most heinous crimes. They actively encourage you to steal, kill, deal drugs, and descend ever deeper into the seedy underpants of the criminal world. This isn’t Barney The Dinosaur’s Cutesy Adventure, that’s for darn tooting. Rockstar’s seminal series has been controversial right from the off, of course. The team, not content with that, try to up the ante with each new game, culminating in the character of Trevor....
Hitman 3 released recently to a great critical and commercial response. A finale to the World of Assassination trilogy, which started in 2016 with Hitman, Hitman 3 arguably has the best collection of levels in the series. The game has already recouped all of its development costs within a week of release, which has likely delighted everyone involved. IO Interactive has since revealed its plans regarding the future of the game via a DLC roadmap, further setting the game apart from the ones that came before....
Hogwarts Legacy is just around the corner now, with its release still pegged on 10 February 2022 for new-gen consoles and PC players. As part of the ramping up toward its release, Warner Bros and Portkey Games have just taken the wraps off some of the voice talent that will be guiding you through the world of 1800s Hogwarts. In particular, one big name leaps out - Simon Pegg will be voicing Hogwarts’ headmaster in the game, Phineas Nigellus Black - a name that will be extremely familiar to big fans of the Harry Potter books....
Rainbow Six Siege is a game that has experienced atypical growth in its now almost-three-year lifespan. Instead of launching with a huge amount of players that dwindled as time progressed, it started with humble numbers and has continued to grow ever since. 2018 has seen its highest ever concurrent player count, and things are showing no signs of slowing down. It’s clear that free-play days, tiered pricing schemes, and regular content additions to Rainbow Six Siege have all contributed to its sustained growth, but another factor can’t be overlooked: eSports....
All in the Family is roundly considered a touchstone for television achievement now, but when it debuted 50 years ago, even the network carrying it hoped it would fizzle quickly and unnoticed. CBS put an army of operators at phone lines expecting a barrage of complaints from offended middle Americans demanding its cancellation. Those calls didn’t come. What came was a deluge of support from people hoping this mid-season replacement was a permanent addition to the network’s lineup....
Since the inception of competitive games, there have always been cheaters. There’s no getting around it, even in the hyper-connected society we have today; cheaters will always find a way to game the system. Nowadays, cheating is prevalent in every competitive gaming community, whether it’s League of Legends or Counter Strike: Global Offensive. In the case of shooters, two games have struggled with varying degrees of cheating problems: Destiny 2 and Valorant....
No matter how popular Iron Man and Black Panther were, the MCU really came together for most casual viewers when the primary villain took center stage. After years of cameos and hints, Thanos the Mad Titan fully emerged in Avengers: Infinity War, giving the previous decade of movies renewed focus and purpose. Although we know that Jonathan Majors’s Kang the Conqueror will be the overall bad guy in Marvel’s Phases 4 through 6, aka The Multiverse Saga, he’s very much in the nascent stages....
Apex Legends has been enjoyed by plenty of players and the game has benefitted from frequent updates. The battle royale genre is crowded but Apex Legends has managed to stand out with a unique setting and ever-expanding character roster. The latest update enables players to tweak their playing style through a key addition to the map. Many players may have already noticed the inclusion of Charge Towers and be grasping how to best use them....
I was taught from an early age that colors were used as identifiers. Whether that be for when to press the brake at a traffic light or what emotion to feel, colors were everywhere and they defined different things. I especially noticed and realized the symbolic nature of color as I studied film throughout college. We had whole lectures on the importance of color. What it represented. What each hue meant....
The Fortnite servers have come back up from the weekly maintenance and the new Infinity Gauntlet limited time mode is live. While Epic Games had previously teased the crossover event with an image, we now know exactly how the mode works and it’s actually quite cool. The basics of Infinity Gauntlet are fairly simple. The titular glove will land somewhere on the map via a meteor strike. Any player is free to pick up the Infinity Gauntlet and doing so will turn that player into Thanos....
There’s an eerie similarity in the release dates between Shrek and Halo. How is it that Bungie managed to coordinate a major Halo release with every Shrek film? Bizarre, uncanny, it’s got to be more than a coincidence. And Reddit - being Reddit - has drawn lines to connect the dots, highlighting how the Spartan and Ogre are connected. Bungie released its first Halo game, Halo: Combat Evolved, in 2001, and that happened to be the same year when the DreamWorks animation film Shrek was released....
Instead of just releasing one next-generation console, this time around, Microsoft will have two next-gen machines available for consumers. One is the Xbox Series X, an ultra-powerful machine that claims to be the most powerful video game console on the market. The other is the Xbox Series S, which is considerably weaker than its Xbox Series X counterpart, but also comes with a much lower price tag. And as it so happens, the Xbox Series S, not the Series X, could be Microsoft’s ticket to making a big comeback next generation....
This article is presented by NVIDIA. Ray tracing is a feature so graphically revolutionary that NVIDIA named a whole series of GPUs after it. And after a big impact in the desktop gaming PC space, NVIDIA next turned to laptops. RTX 20 series laptops brought a whole new world of power to PC gamers who no longer had to choose between portability and power. Now NVIDIA has brought its Ampere architecture powered GeForce RTX 30 Laptop GPUs to the masses, and the results are as impressive as you’d expect from technology which the company describes as its “biggest generational leap ever....
This Star Trek: Discovery article contains major spoilers for the Season 3 finale. Starfleet doesn’t always seek out new life and new civilizations; sometimes, it accidentally creates it. Fans of Star Trek: The Next Generation can easily quote from various Picard monologues in the classic episode “The Measure of a Man,” but what about the Voyager episode “Author, Author?” Just like Data had to prove his sentience in TNG, the holographic Doctor fought for his rights to express himself when he released his holographic pseudo-memoir, Photons Be Free!...
Do you want to download even more Call of Duty? Well, if you’re on a console with 500GB of hard drive space - or less - then you probably do not wish to download any more Call of Duty, judging by Activision’s comments. But if you are someone with a big hard drive, a fancy console, and a 4K television, then why not enjoy the highest-tier textures that you possibly can, right?...
Digital distribution platform GOG is giving away free copies of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt to players who already own the game on any other platform, including consoles. Players can only claim the copy through GOG Galaxy 2.0 until June 23rd, so those who are looking to go cross-platform, or simply hoping to pick up a DRM free edition of The Witcher 3, should act quickly. Players can easily claim their free copy by downloading the GOG Galaxy 2....
