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The Smurfs are set to make their own tiny village on Nickelodeon, which is launching a new animated series centered on the iconic minuscule cerulean humanoids. Nickelodeon is teaming with The Smurfs‘ worldwide licensors, LAFIG Belgium and IMPS, to conjure a revival CG-animated series, which is being eyed for a U.S. debut on the cable channel for sometime in 2021, after which it will premiere on Nickelodeon’s channels internationally. The series will follow all-new exploits of classic characters like Papa Smurf, Smurfette, Brainy, Clumsy and more, brandishing themes centered on humor, heart and high-stakes action....

The relaunch of Q-Games’ The Tomorrow Children will see the removal of its former free-to-play model. Originally releasing on the PlayStation 4 in 2016, The Tomorrow Children had a pretty rocky start. Unable to fully realise its potential as a free-to-play town-building, Soviet Union-themed, sandbox game, Sony shut down its servers a little over a year after its launch. However, having regained the rights to the IP at the end of 2021, developer Q-Games set about relaunching The Tomorrow Children, thus giving the game a second chance....

The Witcher games by CD Projekt Red are some of the best to come out this millennium (so far), and their protagonist, Geralt of Rivia, is the stoic and steadfast witcher at its helm. With three games under his belt, we’ve seen a lot of Geralt as he recovered his memories, contended with sorceresses and conspiracies, and battled against the Wild Hunt to save his surrogate daughter Ciri. However, Geralt of Rivia has a lot more to his story than what is revealed in the video games....

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate for Switch is not a basic update of the Wii U Smash Bros., but a brand new title in its own right, Nintendo has said. Speaking with USGamer at E3 this week, Nate Bihldorff, localization manager for Treehouse, confirmed that the action-packed brawler has been built from the ground-up for the Big N’s hybrid console, squashing fears that it was just an updated version of the Wii U Smash Bros....

Surgeon Simulator 2 is a hard game for me to score. The first game was practically a meme centered around a gameplay joke. You do a really complicated thing with extremely imprecise controls and wackiness ensues! That very much still applies here but in a much more game-like setting. Personally, I strongly disliked playing this game. But the controls are intended to be bad and accomplishing tasks is meant to be frustrating....

Take-Two is open to releasing HD remakes or remasters of its back catalogue of titles, but will only do so if the resulting games are exciting to consumers, Take-Two chairman and CEO Strauss Zelnick revealed during last night’s year-end earnings call. Remakes and remasters are “something that the labels will decide and talk about in due course,” said Zelnick. “Certainly, we wouldn’t rule it out, it will be largely an economic decision....

Tekken director and producer Katsuhiro Harada announced that Tekken 7 has sold five million copies since its launch in 2015 (via Destructoid). The game was originally released for arcades, and then came to PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One in 2017. This was actually the Tekken 7: Fated Retribution version that had more stages, costumes, items and characters than the first version, and its home release was a runaway success. In its launch week, it topped the Australian, Japanese, New Zealand, and UK charts....

The GameCube may have been outshone by the PS2, Xbox, and Game Boy Advance, but it’s still got some great titles that will never go out of style. With games like Super Smash Bros. Melee, Super Mario Sunshine, and The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures, you could easily have a fantastic four-player party using just the GameCube. © TheRainstep/Shutterstock.com If you’re looking to host the best video game party ever, you’ll want to check out these 10 games that are perfect for an all-night gaming marathon with friends or a quick afternoon get-together with the kids....

LG is a South Korean mobile phone company that designs and manufactures mobile phones and tablet devices. LG phones bought in the US from retailers alongside Samsung and Apple handsets.Vivo is a Chinese multinational telecommunications equipment and services company that has been one of the top-selling brands in Asian, Russian, and Middle Eastern markets for several years.Lenovo has established a global footprint in 180 countries and has risen to become one of the top global mobile firms....

Let’s get something straight right off the bat. This article is not going to be a negative dislike-fueled diatribe against the original Harry Potter movies. I love the movies. Since I was too young to read the books on my own when the franchise became a global phenomenon, the films were my ticket into the wizarding world. I have memorized the entire first two films and large portions of the rest of the series....

According to data published by the Recording Industry Association of America, 46.6 million CDs were sold in 2021, so there is still a definite need for hardware to play compact discs.The Bose Wave Music System IV stereo system combines traditional CD playback with MP3 files on CDs and CD-RW for the full gauntlet of CD capability.The Sony Stereo Boombox is a return to the late 1980s but updated with a built-in full-function CD player that can play CD-R, CD-RW, and MP3 CDs....

Ubisoft is throwing every marketing trick in the book at Assassin’s Creed Origins: you’ve got the serious trailers, the expensive headphones, the machine learning translation research. All just classic, classic moves. Most recently it’s put out a series of shorts that combine the new protagonist Bayek doing cool stuff and animated tomb paintings talking about him. It’s really weird, but I also don’t hate it. The clips have all been put together in a handy package so you can watch them all together now....

Just as cinema did before it, the video game industry has taken plenty of inspiration from the Big Apple. Many of the medium’s biggest hits take place throughout New York, from big-budget blockbusters to indie darlings. Given the sheer volume, it’s no surprise that the city never sleeps. Some provide picture-perfect representations of the city, while others choose instead to add their own creative twist. Whether driving frantically around the sprawling city streets or swinging carelessly above them though, the five boroughs serve as a sumptuous setting for the chaos and carnage that so often goes hand in hand with video games....

In a surprise reveal today, The Division Resurgence will be a new storyline of The Division series for mobile devices. The reveal trailer gives a look at a new enemy faction called the Freemen. While there’s not direct gameplay, the trailer does open with saying it is “game engine footage.” Judging by the end of the trailer, The Division Resurgence will be coming to both iOS and Android devices “soon”....

Beat-em-up The King of Fighters XV finally launches this week, which means naturally there’s a launch trailer to celebrate. The latest entry in the long running series was first announced all the way back in 2019. However, all would be very quiet until January last year when it finally resurfaced revealing its first character, Shun’ei. Fast forward one year and a whopping 37 characters later, and the fisticuff saga’s newest iteration is about to launch....

The thing about The Last Kingdom’s Danish warriors and their Saxon foes – they don’t live long. No sooner had we learned the correct spellings of Sigefrid and Erik than off to Valhalla they went, taking their tattoos, biceps and little beard bunches with them. It wasn’t only those two we lost in the second series, but also poor Halig and Clapa and Odda the Elder… That left a vacuum for series three, into which spilled the little lot below....

This The Magicians review contains spoilers. The Magicians Season 5 Episode 10 As a clearer picture starts to form of Fillory’s plight and how the Dark King’s obsession ties into it, The Magicians takes on a sense of urgency appropriate for both the end of the season and the series. Bringing in the mourning of a god also related nicely to the themes that season 5 has been exploring all along with the death of Quentin....

Games like to take us places, whether it’s space, hidden jungles or a bygone version of England. As much as I love these alternate realities of the real thing and the joys of video game tourism, increasingly they’ve made me think about the home, the place in the physical world where most, if not all, our gaming actually takes place. The home, or even just home in the wider sense, seems in many ways antithetical to the stories many games tell....

This The Orville review contains spoilers. The Orville Season 2 Episode 6 Review Hey, Orville loyalists. I’m going to have to do it again: it’s impossible to watch the latest episode of The Orville and not talk about how it references…Star Trek Battlestar Galactica! Just kidding, this is the episode of The Orville that went full-on Westworld. I’m sorry, I said Westworld, but I actually meant Ex Machina. This is The Orville’s response to Ex Machina....

This The Purge review contains spoilers. The Purge Season 2 Episode 6 Nothing like a holiday break to get away from your troubles for a little while. Big meals with family, traveling, surveillance, armed assault teams, manhunts, and neighbors trying to have you killed. Just another Thanksgiving in the New America of the NFFA. So do you think Bobby Sheridan, the pro-Purge, pro-America radio commentator who wields so much power over the lives of Americans based solely on his words and positions taken publicly, is just a radio host?...