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Video games are uniquely suited among mediums to bring science fiction worlds to life. Being a genre based in ideas and world-building, the immersion offered by games has been used by creators to craft intriguing and iconic sci-fi stories. Big ideas like humanity’s relationship with technology, the ethics of augmentation, and the morality of actions in extreme environments can be made more intimate and personal through putting the player in the driver’s seat....

The Nintendo Switch is a pretty successful console. It has outsold its predecessor, the Wii U, by selling over 32 million units to date. The console was made as a hybrid, merging both stationary and handheld functionalities. Its successor, the Nintendo Switch Lite, is a newer, smaller version of the Switch. Unlike its older sibling, it isn’t a hybrid; it’s made as a handheld console, but with a lot more power than other handhelds like the 3DS....

Most of you will know that Fortnite is not all about shooting people, far from it. You can now add clay pigeon shooting to the long list of other activities. If you think that Fortnite is simply about 100 players landing on a map and killing each other until only one of them remains well, you’d be wrong. There are different modes to play, various challenges to complete, and even an array of other activities dotted around the map....

The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) is focused on reducing inflation, slashing prices on prescription drugs, and funding domestic energy production and clean energy solutions in the U.S.According to the latest estimates, about 70% of the 72 EVs previously eligible for up to $7,500 in tax credit rebates will now lose that Clean Vehicle Credit post-signing. Anyone who has made a down payment or a non-refundable deposit of more than five percent of the vehicle’s price before the law was signed can still get the EV tax credit....

Key Points Sega Genesis is a game console released in 1988. Sega Genesis had dozens of sports games to play, including those with 3D and realistic audio.Madden NFL 45 and WWF Royal Rumble are examples of popular sports games by Sega Genesis. Sega Genesis is one of the memorable gaming consoles of the 1990s. Over its 5-year lifespan, this console introduced dozens of sports titles, including FIFA, Madden, NHL, and NBA Live....

This past week The Behemoth, developers of Alien Hominid and the recently announced BattleBlock Theater, hinted at the price for the PSN version of their wildly popular XBLA game Castle Crashers. The Mayor of Behemothtown, Kelly Revak, stated on their developers blog “the price will be as close as we can get it to $15. Maybe $14.99. Maybe $15.01. Somewhere right around there.” This might come as good news to some, as it indicates the Behemoth is close to releasing the game on the PlayStation Network....

Minor spoilers for Blair Witch and major spoilers for The Blair Witch Project. The scariest part of The Blair Witch Project was never the titular witch. While the 1999 classic was marketed with the hype of maybe, just maybe getting to see a glimpse of what was terrorizing its protagonists, that hype was ultimately for naught. The only thing viewers ever got a good glimpse of was an intimate look at the inside of Heather Donahue’s nostrils....

We’ve been seeing a trend starting for a while now of developers adding supplemental content for a game on the widely used Facebook. This year has given us Facebook apps for Red Dead Redemption, Crackdown 2, and gamers even had the opportunity to gain more XP in Gears of War via the social network. Ubisoft plans to join this growing group as they’ve just announced supplemental Facebook material for their upcoming Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood....

Being a story driven franchise, Assassin’s Creed has had to rely heavily on the development of its characters to make its world both believable and interesting. We already know that both Ezio and Altair will be making appearances in Assassin’s Creed Revelations, but there hasn’t been a lot of information regarding which characters are going to be making returns and what new faces we’re going to see in the game until now....

This The Deuce review contains spoilers The Deuce Season 2 Episode 1 While David Simon and George Pelecanos’s previous television efforts have been some of the most important work ever committed to the medium, they weren’t necessarily happy, rip-roaring good times. The Wire charted the degradation of America through one crumbling city and all its failing institutions. Sure, the characters were charming, lived-in creatures and it was pleasant to get to know them but the scythe of capitalistic doom that hung over them made The Wire a dour, sometimes difficult watch....

Fashion isn’t typically a topic I show any interest in, but so long as it has anything to do with Guild Wars 2 I am game. ArenaNet released a new blog on their website today discussing design and fashion in their upcoming MMO. If you spent any time with the original Guild Wars then you can understand just how important this area is to ArenaNet. I think it’s safe to say that we can expect above and beyond that in Guild Wars 2....

Nvidia develops and distributes GPUs for gaming, cryptocurrency mining, professional software, and artificial intelligence chips used in vehicles and machinery.Tesla vehicles operate on electric energy and incorporate artificial intelligence to provide enhanced driver assistance to help users navigate busy roads.Tencent is the world’s largest video game vendor, with most of its games incorporating deterministic AI techniques that contribute to their games’ seamless play. When someone mentions artificial intelligence (AI), the first thing that probably crosses your mind is robots with human features....

As The Last Kingdom is now a Netflix-only deal, we’re reviewing the new series an episode a day. Please keep spoilers for future episodes out of the comments. Destiny is all! This review contains spoilers. Never tell Uhtred of Bebbanburg that he’s surrounded and there’s no way out. You may as well try telling the sun it’s not allowed to rise. Just as sure as the sun will come up, Uhtred will devise an escape plan, and you’ll be left weeping in the ashes of your once-fat-and-peaceful village....

There’s another new Spider-Man: Miles Morales gameplay video for us to look at, this time focusing on Miles’ stealth and combat abilities in the game. Once again coming as part of US publication Game Informer’s week of reveals, the footage shows that—on top of many of the abilities Peter Parker had in the previous game—Miles also has the ability to turn invisible, giving him the added weapon of surprise when clearing out a room of foes....

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild will not launch in March alongside the Nintendo Switch, sources have revealed to Nintendo insider Emily Rogers. The info has also been independently confirmed by Eurogamer sources close to Nintendo. Rogers says that localisation for the game will continue until the end of the year, which will be followed by a four to six month period of testing. Only then will the game be ready for launch, indicating we won’t see it until some point in the latter half of 2017....

This The Magicians review contains spoilers. The Magicians Season 4 Episode 11 It’s somehow comforting that The Magicians can settle into its pattern of revealing unexpected similarities between its disparate storylines, reassuring fans that it knows exactly what it’s doing even when it leaves certain threads dangling. “The 4-1-1” started connecting the dots between the Monster, the Library, and perhaps even Fillory’s dilemma in this second-to-last episode of the season and combined it with a great trip down memory lane for Alice and Quentin....

As part of its PUBG Labs event program, developer Krafton has introduced a new game mode called Zombie Survival. This squad-based mode shares similarities with the popular Call of Duty Zombies horde mode. Your team will have to navigate 10 different waves of zombies, with each wave lasting three minutes. There is a 20-second interval between each wave in which dead teammates automatically revive. Each wave can be cleared before three minutes pass if every zombie is killed....

As Bethesda promised, its proprietary launcher is shutting down and the games found on it are making their way to Steam. The company has begun to migrate its Fallout 76 players over to Steam starting today. And as of yesterday, some of its best classic games have made the jump. Namely, two of the original games in The Elder Scrolls saga, Arena and Daggerfall, are available now on Steam, along with Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory....

Ever since the Pokémon series made its way to the Switch, fans have criticized the major installments for their slew of technical shortcomings. Game Freak, the series’ main developer, has spent most of its history creating games for handheld systems, and its recent Switch outings demonstrate that the transition to HD game development hasn’t always been smooth. Now that Pokémon Scarlet and Violet have finally dropped, it seems that the issues associated with this transition have become worse than ever....

The Pokémon Company has pledged its support to Ukraine in the wake of the country’s ongoing conflict with Russia. The company placed its focus on the children & families effected by recent events. “The growing crisis in Ukraine and Eastern Europe, which continues to cause the displacement of families and threaten the safety of children, is heartbreaking.” “The Pokémon Company International is making an immediate donation of $200,000 USD to our partners at GlobalGiving to provide humanitarian relief....