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Chinese megacorp Tencent is reportedly “resetting its mergers and acquisitions (M&A) strategy” by focussing on “buying majority stakes mainly in overseas gaming companies”. According to Reuters, Tencent traditionally acquired minority stakes and was content with being a “passive financial investor”, but it is now “aggressively seeking to own majority or even controlling stakes in overseas targets”, chiefly in the “core gaming sector”. Metaverse assets are also reportedly of interest to Tencent....

It’s a very rare occasion anymore that I get a chance to cover one of my favorite games, Terraria. Many know the game as one of the essential crafting and exploration games on PC. It has an incredibly addictive progression system, a huge variety of weapons, and a ton of bosses to try them out on. Terraria also has a very committed player base on Steam. Yesterday, The PC Gaming Show released the line-up of developers and publishers who are taking part in the event this year during E3....

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Upgrading your router is one of the best ways to improve the speed and performance of your Wi-Fi network. However, a new router does not come cheap and you can easily part with hundreds of dollars for a new router with the most recent versions of Wi-Fi. © Aquarius Studio/Shutterstock.com If spending big is not an option for you, the good news is that there have never been more low-cost router options!...

When playing the Lost and Found mission in The Ascent, you might have come across a rather frustrating bug that does not let you play the mission smoothly. This bug can make the entire gameplay experience slow and uninteresting, leaving you feeling rather annoyed. In this article, we will show you how to fix it. How to Fix The Ascent Lost and Found Bug? Players of The Ascent on Reddit have reported that once they find the luggage and gone to the corp sector in the Lost and Found mission, they have not found anybody standing there....

The roll out of Call of Duty: Vanguard Season One saw the launch of Warzone Pacific. Ever since, players have been leveling up and experimenting the new weapons that arrived to the battle royale with the integration. The AS44 may not be the best assault rifle class in the game at long range in Warzone Pacific. However, a close-range build will transform the gun into one that can compete with submachine guns....

The Crew 2 launched back in late June, but the folks over at Ubisoft’s Ivory Tower development studio are still hard at work tweaking the game and adding new content. It has recently been announced that details for an upcoming patch and the July ‘Vehicle Drop’ will be revealed during an upcoming official livestream. This livestream will be hosted on the official The Crew Twitch channel and will take place on July 24, 2018 @6PPM CEST (12PM Eastern)....

The Division 2 servers recently had some downtime and Title Update 8 so that Massive Entertainment could launch the highly anticipated Warlords of New York expansion when it was ready. The Division 2’s Warlords of New York expansion is set to launch at midnight for console players, though those on PC should already have access. Unfortunately, errors are keeping The Division 2 players from accessing the game. Massive is aware of the problems that are currently impacting The Division 2 players, though it’s unclear just how many are currently unable to access the game....

Last week, The Game Awards set new livestream records by reaching an impressive 7.5 million concurrent viewers across all platforms. On top of that, the total livestreams for the show tallied up to 45.2 million, a whopping 73% increase from last year’s 26.2 million. Considering Fortnite’s insanely popular Black Hole event peaked at 7 million concurrent viewers, and the Fortnite World Cup peaked at 2.3 million concurrent viewers, The Game Awards’ 2019 numbers are no small feat....

In Episode 5 of Playground Games’ Forza Horizon 5 livestream, the full map of the upcoming open-world racer was revealed. The new map of Mexico is the largest and most diverse that the series has had yet — 50%/1.5 times larger than Horizon 4‘s rendition of the UK. The full view of the map shows that it attempts to cover a decent scope of the real country, right down to featuring both the Pacific coast to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east....

In Hollywood today, everything is about intellectual property. The IP your studio or streaming service owns can be what determines how many eyeballs and dollars you ultimately receive. Apparently mainstream audiences can’t be bothered with a knowledge gap, they have to come into a film with preconceptions about a property to engage with it. That means studios are gobbling up the rights to comic books, video games, toys, and anything else that has name brand recognition....

The Lord Of The Rings is the granddaddy of modern fantasy. Sure, there were earlier fantasy works that had inspired LOTR itself, like The Legends of King Arthur and Greek Mythology. But no other story set in the fantasy genre grabbed the public’s consciousness and brought the genre into the mainstream the way J.R.R. Tolkien’s saga of Middle Earth did. Almost every successful present-day fantasy author has acknowledged the influence of Tolkien’s writing on their own work, from George R....

Magic The Gathering is the trading card game that started them all, drawing inspiration from games like D&D. Players use spell, artifact, and creature cards to battle one another. Strategizing is encouraged as there are many different ways to create a deck and win a match. Most of the cards are aligned with one of five colors that have their own strengths, weaknesses, and specialties. A strong player is one who figures out which cards work best for them, and the cards on this list could work for anyone....

The MP7 is one of the underrated weapons to build in Call of Duty: Warzone. Players tend to opt for the more mainstream Mac-10 and MP5, but the MP7 is well worth trying. Even if it doesn’t have the best time to kill available, its upsides help it overcome that flaw. Of all the submachine guns in Warzone, the MP7 has the longest effective range. If skilled enough, it is possible to consistently down enemies well in excess of 100 meters....

How do you follow dingy Victorian action horror The Order: 1886? With a zany competitive multiplayer game called De-formers. De-formers from Ready at Dawn and publishing partner GameTrust – GameStop’s new publishing label – will be launching soon on PS4, Xbox One and PC, and tasks players with taking their “Form” and rolling it around an arena to knock other players out of the game. “We’ve always taken a different path from what people expect,” Ru Weerasuriya, chief creative officer and president of Ready at Dawn told GamesBeat....

Sony is continuing its drip-feed of information regarding the PlayStation 5, as the upcoming console finally has its own website. Sony has revealed tidbits about the PlayStation 5 over the past six months, including details about the controller for the system, but there is still a great deal we don’t know about the console. Microsoft has been revealing a lot of information about the Xbox Series X, yet Sony seems content to let the fans stew amidst numerous leaks and speculative forum posts....

Based on the comic book character by Bed Edlund (who also created and produces the show), The Tick season one starred the invulnerable amnesiac super as he made grand speeches about destiny while wearing his trademark goofy blue costume. The show followed The Tick, Arthur, and a colourful array of superheroes in an equally colourful world accustomed to dealing with superheroes. Alan Tudyk even voiced a talking boat who was seemingly in love with one of the central characters....

The following contains spoilers for The Twilight Zone season 2 episode 1. The first episode in The Twilight Zone season 2 feels right at home with the classic installments from the original black-and-white series. A frustrated guy named Phil (Jimmi Simpson) falls in love with a voice in his head. He’s not crazy, it is a real person, and through the accidental miracle of telepathy, a woman named Annie (Gillian Jacobs) seems to fall for him, too....

The Witcher is an extremely popular series of games based on an extremely popular series of books, and it has recently added “extremely popular Netflix series” to its lengthy list of accomplishments as a franchise. While Geralt doesn’t talk a ton in the games, he still talks more than a lot of video game protagonists. When Henry Cavill was announced to be the White Wolf & Butcher of Blaviken, some fans and audiences were hesitant after his role as Superman in the ill-received DCU films....

The Witcher 3 is one of the most story-heavy video games released in recent times, interweaving dozens of quests beautifully together throughout this multi-act adventure. Due to the sheer amount of decisions you can make in this game, it would make sense for there to be dozens of endings. This isn’t true, however, as the main endings players receive are based on critical decisions made with Ciri, arguably the most important character in the franchise....