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The first game in the Ace Attorney series was released for the Game Boy Advance in 2001, but only in Japan. The game would be followed by two sequels in 2002 and 2004. The Ace Attorney games were a combination of the point and click adventure and visual novel genres, which made it seem unlikely that they would be released outside of Japan. The original Ace Attorney trilogy was released internationally on the Nintendo DS starting in 2005....

Curve Games and Neon Giant have announced they’re bringing cyberpunk RPG The Ascent to PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 next month. The game originally arrived on Xbox and PC back in July of last year. You play as an indentured worker in a corporate-run supertower in the grimly futuristic planet of Veles. However, when the Ascent Group is mysteriously shut down, you find your survival threatened. This is your cue to take up arms and explore the districts in your attempt to move up the world....

The Mario games stand the test of time as some of the best video games around, especially when it comes to the 3D versions of the games. Whether you’re traversing around a full world as the mushroom-cap menace himself or side-scrolling with friends, there’s an endless possibility of fun to be had. Below, we’ve ranked each of the seven 3D Mario games from worst to first. Be sure to let us know what you think of the rankings in the comments....

Choosing the right gaming monitor can be tricky. While some peripherals like mice, gamepads and keyboards are mostly matters of personal preference, some gaming monitors are just objectively better than others, offering higher resolutions, faster refresh rates or more accurate colours. Monitors can also last a long time - often five years or more - and you’ll probably use them every day, whether you’re playing games or trying to get some work done....

Fresh off the release of The Quarry, developer Supermassive Games is prepping to launch the next chapter of The Dark Pictures Anthology. The Devil in Me, the fourth game in the series, received a story trailer today along with a fall release window. As per the usual, The Devil in Me stars a group of dorks trying to survive against some unseen terror. After a TV crew receives a mysterious phone call, they go off to enjoy a pleasant tour of a massive hotel....

Details of Heartland, the upcoming free-to-play The Division spin-off, have popped up via Ubisoft’s own store. A listing for The Division Heartland is still available, with its client listed as available to download on PC “soon”. The store page also hosts various screenshots of the under-wraps shooter, and describes it as a “free-to-play survival-action multiplayer shooter set in small-town Middle America”. It promises “massive PvEvP” 45-player battles “against a group of dangerous Rogue agents, an aggressive faction known as the Vultures, while surviving a lethal virus”....

The Fairly OddParents is, appropriately, an odd show both in terms of its content and how long the program endured in the public eye. Existing in one form or another since 1998, The Fairly OddParents was a massive part of Nickelodeon’s programming in the early to mid-2000s and childhood cornerstone for anyone born in the mid to late 90s. The magical misadventures of Timmy Turner fueled by his wish-granting fairy godparents are some of the most entertaining stories created by Butch Hartman and broadcast on Nickelodeon....

After Ubisoft finally announced Beyond Good and Evil 2 at E3, a sequel to 2003’s Beyond Good and Evil which no one was entirely sure was ever going to happen, we’ve now got a first look at the game in action. Michel Ancel calls the video a mix between a technical demo of the engine they’ve developed, which they call Voyager, and some of the gameplay elements for Beyond Good And Evil 2....

Survival adventure The Flame in the Flood is heading to PS4 in January, developer Molasses Flood and publisher Curve Digital have announced. The Flame in the Flood: Complete Edition includes the original game along with a new Directors’ Commentary and a “host of gameplay enhancements”. You’ll even get a dynamic theme and two avatars for your PSN profile, too. “We’ve been chatting with the guys at Curve for ages about this, so it feels good to get this out in the open,” said lead designer Forrest Dowling....

Lisbeth Salander stands before a winged statue, leather clad, her face smeared with white paint, her expression determined and resolute. She’s the winged assassin who fights for what’s right. As her sister Camilla (Sylvia Hoeks) later describes her, she’s the woman who hurts men who hurt women. The Girl In The Spider’s Web has a powerful opening scene. Similar to the unforgettable tattooing scene in David Fincher’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, in which Rooney Mara’s Salander takes justice into her own hands for the man who assaulted her, here Claire Foy’s Salander literally strings up a corrupt and abusive businessman before seizing his financial assets and physically and financially freeing his bloodied wife....

The Iron Oath is a new offering from Curious Panda Games and Humble Games. Available now as an Early Access game, The Iron Oath lets you control a band of mercenaries as they venture forth in the land of Caelum. What follows is an adventure with some twists, as your roster is beset by many challenges. From betrayals due to greed and dragons popping up from rifts, you’ve got your work cut out for you....

Sony may have already shot down the idea that the upcoming State of Play event will offer any new details about the company’s next-gen console, but that doesn’t mean the event isn’t going to have any mic drop moments. After years of waiting to confirm an official release date for The Last of Us 2, it seems that the announcement is just days away. The big moment may have just been spoiled by a retailer listing though…...

The second DLC for Mafia III is out today, and arrives with a launch trailer. In Stones Unturned you’ll explore the bond between CIA agent Donovan and protagonist Lincoln Clay, ‘a brotherhood forged in Vietnam’. While in the game’s main story Donovan was helping Lincoln out on his quest for revenge, in this DLC the tables are turned. Lincoln helps put a stop to a mercenary army and its leader Connor Aldridge....

The Pokemon Company has been busy releasing a series of humorous commercials to market its latest game Pokemon Legends: Arceus. The newest video is a continuation of the first one, and it features the hungry baby Pokemon Munchlax in a parody of a cooking show. The commercial starts with a host talking to two contestants who have been deemed “the worst chefs in the world” and are on the show to become better cooks....

Before The Lego Movie arrived in 2014, it seemed like the general feeling about the project was, “Gee, Hollywood must be in pretty sad shape to consider making a movie about Lego blocks, and by the way, how the hell are they gonna do that anyway?” Cut to the actual appearance of the movie, a winning blend of wildly imaginative world-building, gently stated yet genuinely moving themes, visual panache and a never-ending stream of smart, hilarious pop culture in-jokes, and the naysayers — including this one — were silenced and charmed by it all....

A new addition to the action and adventure genre has entered closed beta today. Naraka: Bladepoint allows you to take on the role of a warrior. To access the closed beta, you will not be surprised to learn that you need a beta key. These can be acquired by applying on the Naraka: Bladepoint website, or on the game’s official Discord. Although the beta is focused on the North America region, you can still play the game outside of this area....

Last week, renowned indie developer Toby Fox surprised gaming audiences by announcing Deltarune Chapter 2 and then releasing it the day after. Not only that, but he also made the long-awaited second chapter completely free to obtain. Considering the first chapter came out around three years ago and was also free, this was genuinely surprising. As one might expect, Fox will have to make money off of his hard work at some point....

The PlayStation Classic was intended to be Sony’s nostalgia console, similar to what Nintendo did with its NES and SNES Classic Editions. The PlayStation Classic launched earlier this month to lukewarm reception. Demand has not been high for this console, and sales appear to be low because the system is already on sale for almost half the price. To put the PlayStation Classic’s price drop in perspective, let’s look at the NES and SNES Classic Editions....

Remember just how sad you were when the Prince of Persia Trilogy HD was announced as a European exclusive Blu-ray disc? Well go ahead and dry those eyes because Ubisoft has announced that the remastered trilogy will be coming to the PlayStation 3 in downloadable form through the PlayStation Network. In fact, if you head over to the PSN Store, you’ll find the first title in the series available right now....

Movie production company Constantin Film has announced the cast and first details of the plot of its upcoming Resident Evil live action movie reboot, and it looks like this time it’ll be sticking a lot more closely to the plot of the games than the previous series. As first reported by Deadline, a number of actors have been cast in roles that’ll be very familar to fans of the long running series, including Skins and Maze Runner star Kaya Scodelario as Claire Redfield, Hannah John-Kamen as Jill Valentine, Robbie Amell as Chris Redfield, Avan Jogia as Leon S Kennedy, Tom Hopper as Albert Wesker and Neal McDonough as William Birkin....