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This The Flash review contains spoilers. The Flash Season 6 Episode 6 “I love Mortal Kombat.” While “Kiss Kiss Breach Breach” took The Flash into similarly genre-bending, hardboiled territory with a minimum of costumed action (or even its main character), it was fairly consistent from start to finish. It didn’t always work, but it had a clear mission statement from the outset and mostly stuck to it. “License to Elongate” on the other hand…does not....

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. No abbesses were harpooned in the making of episode eight. There were no big bloody battles, squares formed or shield walls raised. The conflict in this instalment was all theological, drawn from The Last Kingdom’s fundamental clash between Christianity and Paganism....

The Legend of Zelda franchise has been around for over thirty years, with over a dozen iterations. Each entry comes jam-packed with little tricks that you are not taught as part of the tutorial. Little glitches, both useful and useless, make their way into every game. The series never stops giving. You may think you already know them all. That you have every single last one of them, squirreled away in that little treasure chest of knowledge that is your brain....

The Midnight Club, the latest series by acclaimed horror creative Mike Flanagan, offers viewers an emotional yet fascinating look at what it’s like to face one’s own mortality and what that means for a person’s beliefs. Yet, does this mean that this is a show worthy of your time? Let’s explore so that you can make that decision for yourself. The Midnight Club, a series based on author Christopher Pike’s novel by the same name, is about a group of eight young adults who are all terminally ill and living at a hospice....

Whether you are looking to run the latest PC game on ultra-high graphics settings or you just want to hit that ideal FPS, you’re going to need a stellar PC gaming rig. No matter what kind of game you want to run, however, getting the right setup is a continuous struggle for gamers of all kinds. And that’s because there are just so many gaming PCs on the market. That’s also why we’ve put together a fine selection of some of the best and most powerful gaming PCs available on the market right now....

The Pokémon Company’s latest earnings report for this fiscal year shows that the company has had its second most lucrative year in history (via Nintendo Life). Game Freak will be giving an update about The Isle of Armor, Sword & Shield’s first DLC, today. Last month, the developer gave away Mystery Gifts to “prepare players” for the next adventure, and it offered a number of Galarian Pokémon plus Poké Balls and evolution items....

As you’d probably gathered, Blizzcon took place over the weekend, and between the reveals of new Overwatch stuff, WoW stuff and Starcraft 2 going free-to-play, there were a number of panels giving fans an insight into Blizzard’s games. One lootbox-themed panel, however, went hilariously off plan. As reported by PCGamesN, the panel was called ‘Overwatch Presents: What’s in the Lootbox?’ and was themed around a literal giant lootbox that was set to be opened on stage....

“I’ve always enjoyed movies that are a little difficult to speak about right after, and you go, I want to process this a little bit,” Joker director Todd Phillips tells reporters after a September screening. “I always find those to be particularly rewarding in a way. It’s not like that was a specific goal but…I always enjoy movies where you can’t necessarily distill it down to a one line thing.”...

EA has announced it’s making the base game of The Sims 4 free to play on all formats from this October. The announcement came in advance of a special Behind The Sims Summit stream, scheduled for the same day as the free to play launch, October 18. As part of the move, EA say their team is “more dedicated than ever to developing new and meaningful The Sims 4 experiences for our players and we will continue to develop and release packs, kits and Sims Delivery Express drops into the foreseeable future....

Publisher Team 17 has announced that survival game The Survivalists is getting a bunch of new features in its Expeditions Update landing on consoles from today. Among the update’s new features include the addition of Trinkets. Each player character has 4 trinket slots into which they can be slotted and can infer bonuses such as burning damage, increased tool damage, shields and much more. Each trinket has 4 tier slots, so that they can be upgraded to suit your playstyle and there’s more than 40 to choose from....

“It’s not an easy watch,” says Annabel Scholey of her latest role in BBC One’s The Salisbury Poisonings. “It’s harrowing but it’s an important story to tell.” The three-part drama airing on consecutive nights from Sunday the 14th of June depicts the aftermath of the 2018 assassination attempt on Russians Sergei and Yulia Skripal in the English city of Salisbury. “You’d expect spies and the political side of things,” says Scholey, “but this is a different angle....

Nintendo and Illumination have announced a delay to their upcoming animated Super Mario Bros movie, originally expected this Holiday. In a tweet posted to Nintendo’s US and Japanese accounts, Shigeru Miyamoto himself apologised to fans while breaking the news. “After consulting with Chris-san, my partner at Illumination on the Super Mario Bros. film, we decided to move the global release to Spring 2023 – April 28 in Japan and April 7 in North America....

The Valve Index was announced earlier this year, advancing the design and quality of Valve’s virtual reality efforts. As June 2019 rolled around, the VR headset was released. You could purchase select items or simply let the Benjamins fly, purchasing the complete bundle for $999.00 USD. You might be as surprised as I was to find that the bundles had completely sold through their initial run. Today, Valve announced that its upscale entry into VR is now back in stock....

The Walking Dead as a brand has already spread from comics to a whole load of other mediums. Fans previously pummelled walkers aplenty in Telltale’s series of games, so why is this famous zombie-stuffed franchise returning to the realm of interactive entertainment now? When Den of Geek attended a preview event for The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners, an upcoming VR game set in a flooded New Orleans, this is the first thing we asked....

This Walking Dead article contains spoilers. The 12th episode of The Walking Dead season 10, titled “Walk With Us,” opens with a riveting and apocalyptic battle sequence that ends way too quickly. It’s a five-minute scene in which everything in the settlement is on fire, including the mansion at its center. Fast cuts of Daryl, Carol, Ezekiel, Rosita, Aaron, Yumiko, Eugene, Lydia, and more fighting off the walker horde with archaic weapons drive the scene toward its inevitable conclusion –the Hilltop won’t survive this Whisperer assault....

Streets of Rage 4 is launching on PC, Xbox One, PS4 and Nintendo Switch, Dotemu and Lizardcube have announced. Also announced was new playable character Cherry Hunter — the daughter of the original Streets of Rage’s Adam Hunter and the niece of Streets of Rage 2’s Skate. On the PlayStation Blog, Dotemu communications manager Jessica Richard said that Cherry is ‘a self-defense expert, trained by her father and Axel, and while she may not be the buffest character on the roster, she’s definitely one of the fastest....

A new video for Super Mario Maker has revealed that the game will support more than 50 amiibo figures, which can be inserted into the game creator by touching the Wii U GamePad. In addition, Nintendo has confirmed that users will be able to create new sound effects. Compatible with more than 50 amiibo – Many amiibo are compatible with Super Mario Maker, including classic figures like Link, Wii Fit Trainer and Kirby....

Rogue Games and Silkworm have unveiled Super Mega Zero, a retro-themed mash of genres coming to Switch and PC at the end of the month. The setup sees Miss Undefined kidnapped by the villainous Kill Screen. That means it’s up to you as the literally-named Zero to save her. Cue a frantic race across hundreds of levels that mix platforming, puzzling and shoot-em-up gameplay. Each level is handcrafted, and promises frantic, fast paced action....

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate director Masahiro Sakurai has revealed to Famitsu magazine (via Siliconera) that the epic crossover fighting game has gone gold. This basically means that development is complete and the game is now at the manufacturing process, so we shouldn’t expect any delays between now and its planned release in early December. Sakurai-san also touched briefly on the decision to eschew trophies from Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, something which he says ‘was decided early on’ and that they ‘required a lot more work than what people might think....

Nintendo went full-on deep dive into the new Super Smash Bros. game for the Switch today during its E3 presentation, confirming Super Smash Bros. Ultimate will have every fighter ever released in the series. No, they’re not joking. It’s the biggest gaming crossover ever, so you’ve got everyone from Mario, Fox, Pikachu, to the likes of Ryu, Sonic the Hedgehog, Solid Snake, and even Cloud from Final Fantasy VII. When you add all that up, you’re getting over 60 fighters....