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Borderlands 3 developers are looking at ways to allow players to skip cutscenes in the game. Admittedly, cutscenes are sometimes necessary. They allow for deeper immersion into a game’s story and, on occasion, give your tired fingers a much-needed break. Having the option to skip them, however, is pretty great. With Gearbox dropping a patch plus hotfixes on Thursday, the team is letting fans in on their plans for future fixes....

Glen Schofield has confirmed that upcoming horror The Callisto Protocol has severed its ties to publisher stablemate PUBG Battlegrounds. Back in December of 2020, developer Striking Distance revealed the curious info in an interview that the two games were related. Schofield said at the time that he had brought the game’s story to publisher Krafton at the time the two companies started working together. He then, he said, threaded PUBG‘s world into that same story....

The Cycle Frontier is a first-person shooter game created keeping a cross-genre PvPvE combination in mind. It involves elements of player versus player and player versus environment on the vast lands of Fortuna III. While in the Bright Sands vast lands, loots and resources are spread around including those behind locked doors. Although Key Cards open these locations, if you are wondering which one to hit, this guide has all you need....

Bandai Namco has released a teaser trailer for the third game in Supermassive’s ongoing The Dark Pictures Anthology horror game series, with the latest entry House of Ashes set for release later this year. The story this time around takes place in Iraq around 2003. A military unit accompanied by Rachel King (played by Ashley Tisdale) is orderd to investigate a suspected underground chemical weapons facility in the Zegros Mountains, but as the unit arrives they’re not only ambushed by a local patrol, but a series of tremors sends both squads into the ruins of a buried Sumerian temple....

Obols are a new type of collectible currency in The Devil in Me. These coins have historical significance. The Greeks and Romans placed them in the mouths of the dead, believing that their souls will need to provide payment to the ferryman Charon. And it’s quite fitting considering that this series is all about death and murder. Here’s our The Devil in Me guide to help you with the fastest ways to farm Obols so you can unlock Dioramas and get the I Like Money achievement....

Ubisoft’s The Division 2 is going back to New York. Specifically, it’s going to Lower Manhattan. Warlords of New York will see players go on the hunt for Aaron Keener and rogue agents under his command. Players can expect to head back to New York on March 3, 2020. New campaign: Warlords of New York The big reason for returning to New York is a biological attack. (Wait, didn’t that happen already?...

The Division’s Xbox One beta has been delayed to early 2016, Ubisoft has announced. It had previously been due to begin this month. To make up for it, a closed alpha test offering access to a slice of the game will instead be available to select players for four days starting this Wednesday, December 9. To get in you’ll need to have pre-ordered the Xbox One version or take your chance by signing up to the alpha waiting list....

The Dungeon of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet of Chaos, a turn-based tactical RPG from Artefacts Studio and Dear Villagers, releases tomorrow via Steam. Truth be told, I was a little bit apprehensive when Andrew Farrell initially asked me to review it. After all, I’m Filipino and I’ll probably have a hard time pronouncing the name of the dungeon itself. Still, as I continued onward with the review, I did find a lot to like about the game....

Forza Motorsport 7 has been racing along quite nicely since it launched all the way back in 2017. Its development team at Turn 10 Studios has been working hard to continuously provide a steady stream of new content and improvements. Now, one aspect of the game’s support is coming to an end: the final addition to the Car Pass DLC. The ‘Forza Car Pass’ is a DLC pack that gives customers access to all the new paid vehicles for one flat fee....

Publisher Team17 & developer Super Awesome Hyper Dimensional Mega Team (yes, really) have announced The Knight Witch, coming later this year. The game combines a magical deckbuilding game, a Metroidvania and a bullet-hell shoot-em-up. You’ll be exploring the underground city of Dungeonidas, under siege by a mysterious threat. You’re Rayne, a young hero and the Knight Witch in-training in question who’s venturing into the city to save those she loves....

Key Points: Microsoft’s attempt to compete with Apple’s iPod was the Zune. Perhaps the main reason Zune failed was because it was technologically behind the iPod by a few years. Today, the MP3 player has pretty much become obsolete as a stand alone device. For those who don’t remember, it’s hard to truly describe just how massive the MP3 craze was in the 2000s. Spawned by the enormous success of the iPod, so many different tech companies were desperate to create their own version of Apple’s highly profitable music player....

Funcom seems to have gotten into the alternate reality marketing game for it’s upcoming title The Secret World, and I think they mean it when they say: “Dark Days are Coming”. The fan-site www.crygaia.com has turned to static, and the sounds similar to spy radio number stations (you may remember something similar in Lost). The tradition of alternate reality games has been a long and exciting one. Be it the TV series Lost, or Dexter, movies like Cloverfield, or video games like BioShock 2, companies have been immersing fans into the mysterious world of ARG’s for years....

You never miss Sherlock Holmes on screen for long these days. In just the last decade we had BBC’s Sherlock, CBS’ Elementary, Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock: Holmes a Game of Shadows, and Bill Condon’s Mr. Holmes, in which Ian McKellen played an aged version of the sleuth. With such a familiar character, it’s no surprise that revisionist takes are in vogue at the moment, and certainly, there are precedents in film and TV....

During a recent earnings call, EA CEO Andrew Wilson was asked if the studio has any plans on releasing a new online version of the franchise. Wilson’s response was surprisingly enthusiastic and informative. “Great question on The Sims,” says Wilson. “As we think about The Sims – again, I reference the motivations of why we play the games – inspiration, escape, social interaction, creation, self-improvement, competition. Typically what The Sims has done is really focus on fulfilling the motivations and inspiration, escape, creation, self-improvement and not necessarily focus as much as on social interaction and competition....

There have been a particularly large number of great games released in 2022. From Elden Ring to Bayonetta 3 to Persona 5 to the remake of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, there’s no shortage of immersive and exciting games to choose from this year. However, sometimes you just can’t beat the feeling of returning to an old favorite from a past year. © Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock.com 2015 is a year full of titles like this....

CD Project Red has found a way to raise the bar for RPGs across the genre. Superb writing, world-building, and interesting progression systems are the cornerstones of The Witcher 3. Those ingredients would make any RPG an instant classic, but the polish and unique story make this game one of the best video games ever. That isn’t to say there aren’t issues with The Witcher 3, however. Combat imbalances and general annoying systems harm this game on occasion....

The first Stronghold game was released… basically back in the Middle Ages, if we count it in video game years. Stronghold: Crusader followed almost immediately. Then: silence. There were really no good Stronghold games after those two. They went 3D, they went after mythology, and… they failed. Will transporting the game to Asia with Stronghold: Warlords pay off? As Stronghold is going east, the unit roster will draw inspiration from various periods of Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese and Mongol histories....

Right now the biggest cheerleader for implementing pay-to-play Call of Duty multiplayer, besides Activision, is Wedbush Securities. One of their analysts, Micheal Pachter, has recently ripped into Activision saying that they are betraying their shareholders by not charging for the multiplayer portion of their record-breaking CoD games. In Wedbush’s eyes, by only charging players the $60 purchase price Activision is ignoring a large potential revenue stream that could be used to increase their profits and in turn increase the value of their stock....

Nintendo has announced that vegetable-chucking platformer Super Mario Bros. 2 is joining Switch Online on February 13. Most people know the story behind Mario Bros. 2 by now, but for the record, it’s not the Japanese version of the game you’ll be playing. It’s the US and European version, based on Doki Doki Panic. The one released in Japan is what we know over here as Super Mario Bros. The Lost Levels, and it’s tough as nails....

Google Play has just announced its end of year awards for the most downloaded items on Android via its blog, and Super Mario Run has come top of the pile for games downloaded to smartphones in 2017. After managing 78 million downloads on iOS as of January after launching a month prior on December 2016, the Nintendo runner didn’t see an Android release until March of this year, yet has been downloaded 50 million times on Android, beating out its nearest rival Bubble Witch Saga 3, which managed 10 million....