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Over the last few years, Fortnite has played host to a swathe of musicians, from rappers like Eminem to pop stars like Ariana Grande and the rockers of Weezer. These artists, as well as the likes of Marshmello and Travis Scott, have appeared either in the game’s soundtrack or as hosts of virtual concerts; in what could easily turn into a Black Mirror episode should theiravatars abruptly decide they want out.

I've been watching this year's ostensible "major" news developments - the launch of a Fallout TV show, the impending release of Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree, to pick a couple - with a sense of zealous disapproval and weary resignation as to the hubris of human beings. Do these brazen publishers and developers not know that this, the year 2024, is the Year of Shadow the Hedgehog?

After shutting down The Crew's servers at the end of March, Ubisoft has reportedly started removing the open-world racer from owners' libraries and revoking their user license.

It’s April Fools’ Day, but this post is no joke: There is a lot of new TV to watch this week. In a lot of ways it’s a showdown of tense situations — “tense,” here, being used to cover things like Tom Ripley (Andrew Scott, in the new adaptation) trying to con his way into high society, American Horror Story: Delicate’s Anna (Emma Roberts) attempting to figure what’s a real haunting and what’s in her head, Mark (Steven Yeun) trying to live up to the title of Invincible while he protects his family, or Larry David (Larry David) just trying to make it through the end of Curb Your Enthusiasm alive.

Prime Video has tapped Shogun director Jonathan van Tulleken to helm the first two episodes of Blade Runner 2099.

YouTuber Ross Scott, AKA Accursed Farms, is considering starting a class-action lawsuit over the shutdown ofThe Crew — Ubisoft’s 2014 online-only racing game, which is planned to shut down at the end of March.

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, the newly titled next video game starring everyone’s favourite whip-wielding archaeologist, is set in the year 1937. But where does that place it in the grander Indy timeline? Well, we know it’s set in-between the Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Last Crusade, the first and third films in the original trilogy respectively. But it’s a little more complicated than just that, with other films and games coming both before and after Dr Jones’ latest adventure. Let’s take a quick look at his story so far, the artifacts he’s already discovered, and the relationships he’s forged (and broken).

Noah Hawley says his Alien prequel series will ignore the backstory provided by Alien: Covenant and Prometheus.

Ever since the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution began, Microsoft has been on a mission to incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) into its suite of products such as Microsoft 365, Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Office, and Windows. As part of its efforts to create an AI-assisted future, the tech giant in recent months has unveiled a vast range of products and services that leverage the power of AI, including Bing Chat, Microsoft's very own AI chatbot. All these AI services have been brought under one brand - Microsoft Copilot. Now, the Redmond-based tech giant has launched Copilot Pro, opening up the AI assistant to consumers, as well as making it available to smaller companies without any minimum purchase restrictions.

The rumour mill is churning once again. This time it's surrounding the return of Travis Scott in Fortnite, following his long absence away from the game for legal reasons.

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Sam Esmail’s ended abruptly and confusingly for some and many people are scratching their heads trying to understand the ending. Here is Leave the World Behind’s .

Good people of the superhero comics community, I’ve kept quiet for 23-and-a-half months and I can remain silent no longer. It’s been almost two years since The Great Gatsby entered the public domain and yet — despite being absurdly overqualified for the job — Jay Gatsby is still not a Batman villain.

Popcannibal has announced simulation game sequel Kind Words 2 (lofi city pop) for PC (Steam). It will launch in 2024.

Larian Studios has added the mythical Golden D20 to Baldur’s Gate 3, but how do you unlock it? It involves one of the hardest runs possible, so be ready to master the game if you want the gold.

By now most people know the secret behind Scott Pilgrim Takes Off: Scott Pilgrim — well, he takes off. He’s gone, for most of the narrative, leaving the players as we know them to pick up the pieces and figure out what happened to him. What happens to them in his absence is usually a total flip of what we’ve come to expect: Think Gideon introducing Lucas to the slowburn anime he’s been watching for a while (or maybe just a few days).

Director Ridley Scott and actor Joaquin Phoenix reunite for the first time since their work in the iconic 2000 film Gladiator. Twenty-three years later, they are back with another historical epic,. Phoenix portrays Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French, during his rise to power and his tumultuous relationship with Joséphine (Vanessa Kirby). Scott’s grand cinematic spectacle demands the colossal canvas of the big screen. Although this movie has a few issues with its pacing and screenplay, and it’s far from Scott or Phoenix’s best work, Napoleon leaves a lasting impression.

Battle royale shooter-turned-virtual music festival Fortnite is amping up its next musical collaboration - and this time, it’s bringing rapper Eminem back to the world of the video games for the first time in years.

There’s a conversation that crops up around Scott Pilgrim — the dude, the comic, and the movie named after him — far too often to go unaddressed: Scott Pilgrim is dating a high schooler.

Were you expecting a 1:1 remake of the Scott Pilgrim graphic novel with Scott Pilgrim Takes Off? Not only does the Netflix animated series veer wildly away from the source material, its first episode has a mind-blowing twist that has already broken the internet.

You can practically picture the pitch of the Scott Pilgrim Takes Off anime as an Archive of Our Own summary: What if Scott Pilgrim disappears before his fight with Ramona Flowers’ first Evil Ex? What if Ramona has to go Sherlock Mode for the missing Scott and unearths a grander conspiracy to sabotage her future with Scott?

Music has always been an integral part of Scott Pilgrim. There are the in-universe bands – Sex Bob-omb, The Clash at Demonhead, The Katayanagi Twins – and the (often banger) songs they play, and Scott Pilgrim vs. the Worldadded a lot of moody and groovy music to the mix to help complement the hyper-stylized approach Edgar Wright took to the adaptation.

Baldur’s Gate 3 players will sometimes find items that grant Arcane Acuity, but what does it actually do? As the name suggests, it aids the power of spellcasters in battle through various means.

Scott Pilgrim isn’t getting any older. That’s really his problem, when you get right down to it. In 2010, the year the character made his big-screen debut in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, he was a youthful but dissipated 22 years old — a typical product of millennial slacker culture, energized out of his torpor through his quest to win the heart of his dream girl, Ramona Flowers. That quest, and the self-discovery that resulted from it, turned Scott Pilgrim (both the character hailing from Bryan Lee O’Malley’s early-2000s graphic novels and the Edgar Wright-directed adaptation thereof) into a touchstone for a whole generation of semi-sensitive young men who came of age in the early 2000s. For them — for us — Scott was the quintessential Nice Guy: quasi-living proof that the sensitive, needy, guitar-strumming mediocrities among us could inherit, if not the Earth, then at least a girl with really good taste in CDs.

Super Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai has discussed how the Brawl leaks changed the series’ approach to storytelling. This was due to outlets uploading videos of the game before it launched.

The latest patch for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on Nintendo Switch has nerfed the Item Bagging strategy. This is a trick used by players to game the system and gain an unfair advantage over other competitors.

Valve has announced the Steam Deck OLED, which is launching in North America on November 16. The Steam Deck OLED has an improved screen, a better battery, and can download games faster.

One Pokemon fan has immortalized the most infamous battle in the series with a tattoo. Those who have been fans since the olden days will instantly know which fight this is.

The Glory Society posted an announcement on Twitter today stating that they have decided to “suspend operations” and that “this is the end of the development of Revenant Hill.”

The Pokemon Company has announced that Pokemon Scarlet & Violet will receive physical editions that include the DLC, just in time for The Indigo Disk’s release date. This means Gen 9 will have a definite edition.

Square Enix revealed that Final Fantasy VII Rebirth won’t start players back at level 1. Still, they won’t have all of their powers & gear from FF7 Remake either.

Super Mario Bros. Wonder fans are now comparing the quality of Mario’s new voice actor with his old one. This is due to Kevin Afghani taking over the Mario role from Charles Martinet in Super Mario Bros. Wonder.

The Dawntrail expansion for Final Fantasy XIV will feature an FFXI crossover as part of the “Echoes of Vana’diel” Alliance Raid series. Echoes of Vana’diel is one of the most exciting additions to Dawntrail, bringing back classic heroes and villains from FF11.

Square Enix has announced that Final Fantasy XIV will feature a Final Fantasy XVI crossover in the run-up to the Dawntrail expansion. This event will bring familiar monsters and loot from FF16 into FFXIV, including a fight with Ifrit and mounts based on Torgal.

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 is set on the bustling streets of New York City, and the game’s Senior Audio Designer has revealed how those sounds were recorded. This method involves a studio, a group of actors, and a mixture of pacing and mumbling in order to properly capture the essence of the city.

Anyone wanting to own a tiny Elephant Mario will be in luck in 2024, as Super Mario Bros. Wonder plushies are on the way. This release window is currently only set for Japan, but international fans will almost certainly be able to purchase their own Proboscidea-style Mario in the future.

Cobblestone is an easy resource to find in most of the gameplay modes in Minecraft, but there are times when it can be difficult to farm, which is why you need an easy Cobblestone generator to produce resources for your world. The swiftest way to find Cobblestone is to go digging with a pickaxe, but you can build a generator for the substance in your home base with ease.

Super Mario Bros. Wonder was once planned to feature live commentary, with one of the voices being a Tsundere character. Unfortunately, Nintendo cut this concept from the final version of the game, so you’ll never know whether the Talking Flowers like you or not.

The developers of Super Mario Bros. Wonder have revealed that the game once featured an inflation-themed power-up, but it was cut during development. This would have been tied to Super Mario Bros. Wonder’s new elephant transformation, which makes characters bigger and stronger and lets them fire water from their trunk.

The new voice actor behind Mario and Luigi in Super Mario Bros. Wonder has finally been revealed, and they are relatively unknown in the video game space. This marks the first new voice actor for Mario in the video game world since the mid-90s, as another performer had the role locked down for decades.

Pokemon trading card game fans are expressing their love for some of the new cards revealed for the Ancient Roar & Future Flash sets, featuring full art of the Iron Valiant and Roaring Moon Pokemon. Like the games they originated from, these Pokemon represent the far future and ancient past of the Pokemon world.

Nintendo has subtly proven that it knows its audience as a new advert for Super Mario Bros. Wonder has exploded in popularity on social media due to how it addresses what Bowser is into. It could also be a very subtle reference to the Bowsette phenomenon from years back, which is something Nintendo has never properly addressed.

One of the mysteries of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has been answered, as Nintendo has finally explained why the Guardians have vanished from Hyrule. The answer probably won’t be that satisfying to longtime fans, but at least the developers have acknowledged why they were cut from the game.

The next iteration of the PlayStation 5 is on its way, as Sony has announced two new PS5 models for the 2023 holiday season. While these consoles won’t be beefier in terms of specs, they will take up a lot less space in your living room, as they’re designed to be much smaller than the current PS5 models.

Big franchises can have bizarre merchandise, and the Final Fantasy series is no exception, with FFXIV-themed nail clippers being reissued in Japan. This means that you, too, can have the same personal hygiene standards as the Warrior of Light, who always goes into battle with the nicest manicure in Eorzea.

Ahead of the release of his new epic Napoleon, director Ridley Scott sits down with Total Film to discuss his past, present, and future projects, including the long-awaited follow-up to his 2000s smash hit Gladiator. The sequel stars Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal, Barry Keoghan, and Denzel Washington, whose role has been left unclear, until now.

Pokemon fusions might be famous, but one fan is halfway through merging all of Gen 1 into a single, monstrous Pokemon. Much like the creators of Mewtwo in the Pokemon anime, this fan creation might become the strongest Pokemon ever created, should it ever achieve its final form.

Netflix’s new animated adaptation of the Scott Pilgrim comics is coming this November, and with it will come some alterations to previous versions of Scott’s story. That includes a cheeky tweak to Scott’s crush Ramona Flowers, who now works for Netflix, according to a new clip from the series released Wednesday.

Final Fantasy VII: Ever Crisis will reach a much wider audience than it has now, as the game is coming to Steam in the future, with full cross-save support for the existing mobile versions. There’s a bigger audience on PC because that’s where the established Final Fantasy audience is, along with consoles, and not on mobile phones.

There's some big news in the world of graphics cards today. Scott Herkelman, the head of AMD's Radeon GPU business, has announced he will leave the company by the end of 2023. Herkelman has served as the senior VP and general manager of the Graphics Business Unit at AMD since 2016.

The latest patch for Baldur’s Gate 3 has implemented a much-requested feature, as you can now change your appearance, pronouns, and body type after character creation with the aid of a Magic Mirror. However, there are some limitations to these changes, and some things cannot be altered, even with the power of magic.

Baldur’s Gate 3 has been hiding a risque secret at the start of the game since launch, which has only just come to light. Considering the game’s content and age rating, those who have played Baldur’s Gate 3 likely aren’t too surprised that it has a secret like this.

The developers of Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth have revealed the point at which the game ends, which is where the most iconic moment in the series happens. There are some concerns regarding this proposed endpoint, as there is still a lot of game left to cover, yet there are only supposed to be three games in the Remake series, so a lot is being thrust onto the third and final game.

A new trailer for Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth has confirmed that a popular fan theory is correct, relating to the ending of FF7 Remake and the new content in the Intergrade update. Fans have been left with more questions than answers, however, especially as it relates to the future of the game.

The Teal Mask DLC for Pokemon Scarlet & Violet was released roughly a year after the launch of the base game, but does that mean you need to have finished the story first, or can you jump into the new content from a fresh save? The reason could be an issue due to the levels of the enemy trainers and Wild Pokemon, as no amount of wanting to be the very best like no one ever was is going to help your level 5 Quaxly when it faces a level 60 Chansey.

Unity executives sold thousands of shares in the weeks leading up to last night's hugely controversial announcement it will soon charge developers when one of their games is downloaded.

The Teal Mask DLC for Pokemon Scarlet & Violet involves a trip to a brand-new school filled with new adventures. While many are likely excited to jump into a new Paldean storyline, some fans of Gen 9 may not be totally finished with the base game. Thankfully, this won’t be impacting access to The Teal Mask.

A familiar voice is returning to the Forgotten Realms, as Jennifer English, the voice of Shadowheart in Baldur’s Gate 3, has started streaming a playthrough on Twitch. In the end, the bulk of the session went the way most did at the start of Baldur’s Gate 3, as most of it was spent in the character creator.

American Vampire and Night of the Ghoul co-creator (not to mention ace Batman writer) Scott Snyder is returning to horror once more this November with Canary, a new limited series published by Dark Horse.

Things can get heated in combat in Baldur’s Gate 3, and the AoE and targeting system in the game has resulted in many players missing their mark when excited, as it’s easy to misclick and select the wrong target. This isn’t a problem in most games, but the fact that the battlefield itself is such a potent weapon in Baldur’s Gate 3 means that accidents are bound to happen.

The warrior classes of Dungeons & Dragons 5E can welcome some new additions to their ranks, as the latest Unearthed Arcana playtest document has introduced the Brawler subclass for Fighters and the Path of the World Tree subclass for Barbarians. These subclasses are currently being tested for inclusion in the next iteration of D&D, which is set to launch in 2024.

One of the rarest achievements in Baldur’s Gate 3 involves playing the worst build possible, as you must create the truest Jack of all trades character and become the master of none. Luckily, players have found a way to unlock this achievement through other means, though it requires a little planning.

Baldur’s Gate 3 is filled with Easter Eggs and tiny references to the greater Dungeons & Dragons 5E lore, which also extends to the game’s EULA, as fans have discovered a nod to the Warlock in the legal document. This makes sense, considering how Warlock’s are often bound by rules from their Patron, so they’re the perfect class to include in an EULA.

The director of Baldur’s Gate 3 has explained why the popular Dispel Magic spell from Dungeons & Dragons 5E was cut from the game after efforts to include it. This is despite other spells with lots of uses, like Speak with Dead, being fully implemented into Baldur’s Gate 3, with a lot of care put into the player being able to use it in obscure ways.

After news of Volition's closing, Saints Row fans are mourning their beloved franchise as well as the 2022 game's second major patch.

The first major patch for Baldur’s Gate 3 has gone live, bringing numerous fixes to the game, including some alterations to the kissing scenes. Many of these fixes are badly needed, as Baldur’s Gate 3 shipped with a number of issues, some of them only minor annoyances, while some can derail a run if you’re not regularly saving.

Excitebike 64 is the next big release coming to Nintendo Switch Online +  Expansion Pack, via the Nintendo 64 app.

The Xbox fans of the world won’t have to wait much longer to play Baldur’s Gate 3, as Larian Studios has confirmed that the game will launch on Xbox Series X/S in 2023. This announcement follows uncertainty about the game’s future on Xbox platforms, even though it’s already on PC and will be coming to PS5 soon.

Director Antoine Fuqua says he sees as an unofficial sequel to Man on Fire.

Those who have been inspired to start a Dungeons & Dragons campaign after playing Baldur’s Gate 3 can now use the city as the location for their story for no extra cost, as the Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer is now available for free on D&D Beyond. This supplement fleshes out the city, giving you a helpful framework for planning out an adventure there.

Baldur’s Gate 3’s developer, Larian Studios, has revealed a secret to speaking with unwilling corpses after you have killed them. This will help you make the most of the Speak with Dead spell, allowing you to extract information about enemies after killing them.

In a surprise move, two beloved HBO shows are heading on over to Netflix – and you can binge them in just a few weeks’ time.

Baldur’s Gate 3 players have discovered a book with chants that will be all too familiar to Dungeons & Dragons fans, as it has prayers to the Goddess of Luck, begging her not to let them roll any 1s. This is because the specter of Natural 1 hangs over Baldur’s Gate 3, with even the most innocuous roll potentially ending in disaster.

The next Dungeons & Dragons 5E campaign will feature an expanded version of its most famous adventure, as Lost Mine of Phandelver is being remastered as part of the upcoming Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk. The Lost Mine of Phandelver, part of the campaign, will consist of the first third of the new campaign, as players face new foes in Phandalin.

The Pokemon Company has revealed Poltchageist, a brand-new tea-themed Pokemon unrelated to the other tea-themed Pokemon introduced in Sword & Shield. This is because Polchageist is based on Matcha Tea, unlike Sinistea, which is inspired by the teas enjoyed in the United Kingdom, as the Galar region is based on there.

A Baldur’s Gate 3 fan has shown their appreciation for the game by blowing up a significant portion of it. It seems that developer Larian Studios is a fan of solving problems with explosives, as the company’s official Twitter account shared the vid, giving the whole world ideas about solving problems with barrels full of magical dynamite.

Fans will soon be able to enter the world of survival horror once again, as pre-orders have opened for Resident Evil: The Board Game. This game will allow you to recreate the events of the original entry in the Resident Evil series as the S.T.A.R.S team ventures into the Spencer Mansion and face the undead horde within.

A large content update & round of bug fixes are coming to Baldur’s Gate 3, as a new patch is in development that will add requested features and address glitches that have been reported to the developer Larian Studios. While Baldur’s Gate 3 is very much playable in its retail form, there are still many issues that need addressing with the game.

Baldur’s Gate 3 players are asking the developers for a preview option when using clothing dye, as they’re resorting to savescumming to see what items look like before committing to a choice. After all, this is a fantasy game, and you don’t want to save the world in mismatched colors.

Baldur’s Gate 3 is a massive game with countless choices over its lengthy runtime, so you better believe you’ll be saving a lot. Luckily, there is a Quick Save function that will save you from having to mess around with the menus, which will get annoying every time you reload a missed 90% attack roll.