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It is exceptionally difficult to make a satisfying ending to a video game. There are often such personal affairs where a player’s own actions so heavily affect their experience, that it’s tough to please everybody with a game’s conclusion. However, when a game does stick the landing with its ending, it often elevates a work from great to genre-defining. Likewise, when an otherwise good game botches its ending, it leaves players with the sense that they may have wasted dozens of hours of their time....

Remember when you were a kid and you missed out on games because you simply couldn’t afford to keep up? Borrowing and renting were a big part of my life and I’m sure a lot of you could say the same as well. Otherwise you had wait for big occasions like holidays and birthdays. Being a kid gamer was rough. That was back in the 90s when video games were still blooming....

We are always looking for the next best show that we can sit down on our couch and just binge watch until there are no episodes left. To be honest, it can be a bit of a guilty pleasure, but we often times find ourselves bored with the typical shows that you see on TV these days. Let’s be honest, things like Keeping Up With The Kardashians and Say Yes To The Dress are the last things that we want to indulge in....

Key Points: Anbernic makes very niche devices that appeal to an audience who really loves the idea of retro gaming on a small screen and on the go.Adding games to any of the Anbernic consoles is usually pretty straightforward by connecting the device or a microSD card to a computer and dragging and dropping the ROM files into the appropriate folder. Anbernic does a great job of improving their devices every year but, for now, the RG552P is the best Anbernic handheld gaming device available and one of the best retro gaming devices period....

The following contains spoilers for Suzanne Collins’ The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Read our spoiler-free review here. At first glance, Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes features only one character from the original trilogy: Coriolanus Snow, 64 years before he will be the villainous President of Panem and Katniss Everdeen’s nemesis. However, while the book takes place several generations before Katniss’ story, it includes the blueprints for all corners of Collins’ post-apocalyptic world: how the Hunger Games evolve and who has a say in shaping them; the first stirrings of unrest in District 12; and even an explanation for how the series’ most iconic song came to be....

Forever Entertainment has confirmed it’s bringing lightgun shooter The House of the Dead Remake to non-Switch consoles next week. The remake first arrived for the Nintendo Switch earlier this month. However, the game will now also be heading to the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PC and Google Stadia from April 28. The game gives the classic 1996 Sega lightgun shooter a modern day overhaul graphically, of course. You can also expect re-recorded audio and revamped controls while keeping ‘true to the original’ gameplay from developer MegaPixel Studio....

The Last of Us released in 2013 to universal acclaim, with critics touting the game as a masterclass in tying the emotional narrative together with tight gameplay. What most people don’t know is that The Last of Us also shipped with a multiplayer mode called ‘Factions.’ The multiplayer mode carries the stealth and scarce ammo from the singleplayer experience to make every encounter in the multiplayer mode as tense and stressful....

The Mortuary Assistant is the latest video game to be getting the silver screen treatment. The indie horror - which has been a huge hit since it launched at the beginning of August - was reportedly plucked for an adaptation before the full game released earlier this month. Director Jeremiah Kipp says the film will be a “companion piece” to the game, and Kipp hopes to “retain the minimalist setting in and around the mortuary, the fascination with the process of embalming, and the nerve-shredding terror of the gameplay”....

Nvidia is the undisputed king when it comes to graphics technology. From gaming to content development, to cloud computing and deep learning, Nvidia has a dominant foothold in nearly every industry in tech. © DANIEL CONSTANTE/Shutterstock.com But all GPUs are not built the same. While gaming GPUs have come a long way there are still a lot of clear advantages to the workstation Quadro lineup. While it might seem like blasphemy to discuss GeForce and Quadro cards in the same article, we think it is worth tackling....

Sony has released a trailer for the European launch of the new PlayStation Plus, and, as we have come to expect over the years, it’s bonkers. The trailer is entitled “Mr. Malcolm,” and it follows a sharply dressed gentleman in a suit. He begins eating a meal in a restaurant. Then he buys a steak from a butcher’s shop. Then he gets home, and we realise that they meat is not for him....

I know we all have an ordered list of ‘Quentin Tarantino Films I’d Most Like to See Made Into a Game’, and if you put Reservoir Dogs at the top of yours it’s time to celebrate. Reservoir Dogs: Bloody Days has a new trailer and release date of May 18. This isn’t actually a game where you play through the plot of the film or anything, though, it’s a top down strategy-ish shooter....

In the upcoming space RPG The Outer Worlds, players will have the freedom to choose how they approach each scenario. They can play as a pacifist, or they can kill every character they meet. Obsidian, the studio behind The Outer Worlds, has a history of putting player choice at the center of their games. It rose from the ashes of Interplay, the company that developed the original Fallout titles. Obsidian has made a lot of narratively rich games since then, including the well-lauded Fallout: New Vegas....

Developer Red Barrels is working on a new Outlast game called The Outlast Trials. It’s not quite what you’re expecting, either. “Whilst not a direct sequel to the other critically acclaimed Outlast titles in the series, The Outlast Trials will be set in the same thrilling universe: more precisely, right in the middle of the Cold War era,” Red Barrels said of the new sequel in a press release. “The Outlast Trials will allow players to face the horrors of the trials by themselves or cooperate with up to 3 other test subjects....

It’s another weekly reset in Destiny 2: Beyond Light, and we’re looking at new activities for Guardians to complete now that the Prophecy dungeon and the Iron Banner are back. Here’s our guide to help you out. Note: For more information, check out our Destiny 2: Beyond Light guides and features hub. Destiny 2: Beyond Light – The return of the Iron Banner and the Prophecy dungeon If you’re keen on grabbing more pinnacle rewards to level-up your characters in Destiny 2: Beyond Light, then the Prophecy dungeon and the Iron Banner have you covered....

This The Simpsons review contains spoilers. The Simpsons: Season 30 Episode 22 The Simpsons, season 30, episode 22, “Woo-Hoo Dunnit?,” is the best episode of the season. The Simpsons thrive on parody. It’s one of those things which never get old. And The Simpsons know old. Besides Grandpa and Montgomery Burns, the show itself is thirty years old. Gunsmoke never got that old, probably because gunsmoking shortens lives. A film or TV parody limits the possibilities to a specific film, with the reference falling mainly within shorter parameters....

Imagine getting a phone call from a guy called Gary Gygax in America and he’s reading a newsletter you wrote for a games business you’re running out of a messy flat in London, and he likes it so much he wants to send you a copy of a new game he’s working on called Dungeons & Dragons. You end up loving the game and he likes what you’re about, so he grants you exclusive rights to introduce Dungeons & Dragons to the UK, and to Europe, and to sell it there for three years....

Today is a pretty big day for fans of the popular doujin franchise Touhou Project, as we get announcements and a release. First of all, we get the reveal of The Touhou Empires, a real-time strategy game developed by Neetpia and published by Phoenixx that will launch on PC via Steam at some point in 2022 including an English localization. Below you can watch a trailer and read an official description....

Triss seems like a sweet, caring girl, and many even remark that she is the most truthful sorceress out there. Of course, with all the other evils magic users in The Witcher’s universe have partaken in, like large scale murder and killing sacred gardens, it’s not hard for Triss to look innocent. In truth, Triss has many flaws that may not make her the best friend or lover you can choose....

Depending on if we’re talking about the Ciri from the Netflix series or the Witcher games by CD Projekt Red, we could have some widely varying results here. The Ciri of the television show is still pretty young, and hasn’t gone through all of her training with Geralt at Kaer Morhen yet, but luckily we aren’t talking about that Ciri. The Ciri of the games, specifically The Witcher 3 is certifiably powerful, and maybe even pretty much a part of the “Magical Girl” anime trope?...

There are a few quests in the Witcher 3: Wild Hunt that are of vital importance, even if they are only side quests and not part of the main quest log. Ensuring you know what you’re getting yourself into beforehand will help you check all the boxes for completion and prevent you from missing things that you can’t access later down the line. Additionally, the choices you make in particular quests can influence the outcome of the war and what happens to the state of the world....