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When it was announced that a ton of older generation Pokémon wouldn’t be coming back in Sword & Shield, fans were distraught. Not only would the entire competitive scene be changing, but fan-favorites and even personal faves might be at risk of being cut. Termed “Dexit,” this cut to the roster has been one of the biggest controversies in gaming history. Luckily, Game Freak has re-added about a hundred of these missing Pokémon in the Isle of Armor DLC Expansion....

Like Batman or Superman, Jack Ryan is a character that has seen several on-screen iterations played by a variety of actors. Unlike these superhero figures though, Jack Ryan isn’t rich and doesn’t have powers of any kind – really he’s just a regular dude. Created by prolific writer Tom Clancy, Jack Ryan is a man from a middle-class background who uses his military experience and education in history and economics to save the U....

Grand Theft Auto is a name that’s become pretty common, and one doesn’t exactly need to be a gamer to know what the series is all about. For people who don’t really engage in gaming, Grand Theft Auto will probably elicit a mental image of a grown-up game chalked full of unspeakable activities. It paints a rather unflattering picture of the entire game — which is something Rockstar has very much intended....

The developers at Rockstar Games put an Easter egg into Grand Theft Auto 5 that references the Teen Wolf movie from the 1980s starring Michael J. Fox. From its Festive Surprises to the recently added Power Play mode of which stretches the bounds of realism, there’s no question that Grand Theft Auto 5 has had its fair share of eccentric oddities crop up in the title since its release almost three years ago....

One Grand Theft Auto 5 fan puts together a mod that allows players to take on the main narrative of Rockstar Games’ open world with their friends in co-op story mode. Thanks to modder Guadmaz’s Grand Theft Auto 5 Multiplayer Co-op 0.6 PC mod, fans can now take on the single-player campaign and complete missions with multiple players at their side. Since the new and unofficial Grand Theft Auto 5 cooperative story mod doesn’t tinker with the features of the game’s Online component, players who run the script shouldn’t have to worry about being banned from the multiplayer mode, as many of the title’s PC mod users have been banned in the past....

Grand Theft Auto Online has added to the longevity of the already successful Grand Theft Auto 5. The online version of the game allows players to interact with one another as well as take part in events and challenges. GTA Online has had plenty of updates to keep players intrigued, but a recent change adds a practical element to the game and enables players to protect their valuable cars. There are plenty of expensive cars in Grand Theft Auto Online and naturally, players want to protect their assets which are accumulated through challenges and real money....

Rockstar Games announces the Import/Export expansion for Grand Theft Auto Online, which brings a focus to the organized mass theft of high-end automobiles. Rockstar Games has announced the next expansion for Grand Theft Auto Online, and it’s one that will certainly make fans of movies like Gone In 60 Seconds happy. The latest expansion will simply be called the Import/Export update, and the Grand Theft Auto Online expansion will have players stealing a high quantity of luxurious and exotic cars....

This article contains spoilers for Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio. Guillermo del Toro still vividly recalls the first time he saw Walt Disney’s classic animated film, Pinocchio, as a child. That 1940 Disney movie, only the second feature-length effort from the company, is likely darker than most adults remember. And on more than a few occasions it even reaches toward the nightmarish imagery of Carlo Collodi’s 1883 novel, The Adventures of Pinocchio....

Games Workshop has given us a sneek peek at a new unit for their aerial combat game Aeronautica Imperialis, with a massive Mega Bommer set to unleash chaos. Games Workshop is known for its tabletop wargames Warhammer 40,000 and Age of Sigmar, but they’re a studio of many talents. They have a long-standing history with standalone boxed games, dating back to the 1980s with hits Blood Bowl, Space Hulk, and HeroQuest....

When Erik Wolpaw, a writer for some of Valve’s most popular and successful games, left the company in 2017 many viewed it as the end of hope for future continuations of franchises like Half-Life and Portal. Wolpaw was just the latest in a slew of departures that included Jay Pinkerton, Chet Faliszek, and the legendary Marc Laidlaw, but now, just over a year later, he is apparently back. Over the past week, a screenshot of an email to Gabe Newell has made the rounds in which the Valve owner says, “He’s back,” in response to a question asking whether Erik Wolpaw had returned to Valve....

For some time now, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery players have been wondering who the Dark Wizard is in the game. The Dark Wizard, for the uninitiated, was an unknown wizard in a red cloak who attacked the player character in the Courtyard area, but recent story content has finally revealed his identity. Anyone curious as to who the Dark Wizard is can keep reading, but anyone else will want to be wary of spoilers....

Video games have always been my favourite medium to experience stories. Not books, not films, not anything else - video games are head and shoulders above the competition because of their interactivity. By placing you within the story and making you an active participant, they create a bond between you and the narrative that other mediums come close to but never fully realise. Hellblade: Seuna’s Sacrifice perfectly encapsulates the way video games can tell stories in ways other media could only dream of....

Believe the hype: Hereditary — which rattled jaded audiences earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival — is an instant horror classic, a terrifying chronicle of the destruction of a family that also serves as an outstanding feature debut for writer/director Ari Aster. Like other assured filmmakers who work in the genre, Aster understands that horror works best as metaphor, and that the story and characters must function successfully on their own if the supernatural trappings are removed from the plot....

Chaired by Anita Hill, the Hollywood Commission for Eliminating Harassment and Advancing Equality in the Workplace was formed in 2017 with the aim of ending sexual harassment and bias in the entertainment industry. Now, the Commission has outlined Hollywood’s “entrenched and endemic issue” with bullying in its third report in the past two weeks. Based on a survey of 9,630 people who self-identified as current, former, or aspiring workers in the entertainment industry, the latest report emphasizes that Hollywood’s problem with bullying is “exacerbated by the industry’s power imbalances....

With Horizon Forbidden West well and truly into development, players have been wondering what new dangers are in store for Aloy in the sequel. Guerrilla Games plans to expand the roster of machines in the next installment and has slowly been teasing the new creatures to the public. The original Horizon Zero Dawn was made famous for its apocalyptic future in which dinosaur and animal-like machines roam the Earth. The Horizon Forbidden West reveal trailer from the PS5 Future of Gaming event showed a number of familiar and new machines that Aloy will be facing in the upcoming sequel....

This House of the Dragon review contains spoilers. House of the Dragon Episode 4 Sex plays a big role in George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire world (as it does in our own). Not only does the act, you know, feel good, but procreation is kind of a big deal in a political landscape dominated by inherited dynasties. So while Game of Thrones certainly reveled in spicing up the fantasy genre with nudity and violence, both elements at least felt natural to the story that the show wanted to tell....

This House of the Dragon review contains spoilers. House of the Dragon Episode 6 “The Princess and the Queen” is effectively a second pilot episode for House of the Dragon. The installment flashes further forward into the future than ever before and ages its characters up so severely that they may as well be entirely different people. And that’s not even to mention the nearly dozen actually new characters that the episode does introduce in the form of Queen Alicent, Princess Rhaenyra, and Prince Daemon’s respective broods of children....

This article contains spoilers for House of the Dragon episode 9. What would a normal day in King’s Landing be like if a building wasn’t been blown up or a dragon wasn’t crashing a coronation? We imagine it would be pretty boring. Thankfully, it was business as usual in House of the Dragon season one’s penultimate episode, as “The Green Council” saw Aegon II Targaryen (Tom Glynn-Carney) crowned as king of the Seven Kingdoms....

Whether they know him best from his work on the intense Breaking Bad or the goofy Mr. Show, audiences everywhere are sure to be taken for a ride when they see Bob Odenkirk take on the role of a bona fide John Wick-style action hero in Nobody. Now, a short behind-the-scenes promotional video gives potential viewers a taste of what to expect and shows how Odenkirk went from a writer on Saturday Night Live to a Liam Neeson-Esque action dad in the upcoming Universal Pictures action flick....

There were few series more influential to the creation of Dungeons & Dragons than The Lord of the Rings. The idea of the canny halfling rogue was created by J.R.R. Tolkien, which is why it’s so easy to create Frodo Baggins in D&D. Frodo is the hero of The Lord of the Rings novels. His cousin Bilbo had brought home a powerful magic ring after his own adventures in The Hobbit, and it turned out to be the mythical One Ring....