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If you’re like me, you probably have at least one treasured memory of being allowed to play an edutainment game at school under the guise of learning. What a blast, getting to play video games at school! For me, it was a floppy disk with a bizarre Pac-Man clone where you had to answer maths questions every time you ran into an enemy or obstacle. I’m sure for others it might be unforgiving classic Oregon Trail or globetrotting trivia quiz Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?

The upcoming year on television is full of exciting new shows to jump into, whether it’s The 3 Body Problem, Shōgun, The Veil, or Manhunt. But once you get into all the returning shows, the 2024 lineup gets daunting. Sure you can start House of the Dragon, Silo, or Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power with just one season of homework to catch up, and shows like True Detective: Night Countryand Orphan Black: Echoes you can jump into with no previous knowledge of the series — but what happens when a show’s going into its fourth or fifth season. How do you know if the commitment is worthwhile?

Pokemon Concierge closed out a busy year for Pokemon when it hit Netflix at the end of 2023, and unsurprisingly, it's proved pretty popular. Its four episodes only amount to about an hour's worth of time at the Pokemon Resort, and fans have already made it clear they want more. No word yet on whether that'll happen, but there is a silver lining. Pokemon Concierge is getting official merch, including a Psyduck eyemask and a Horsea watering can.

We’re less than a month away from Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, where Ichiban Kasuga has traveled from Japan to Hawaii in search of his birth mother. Previewers had a chance to share their impressions of the game, and the biggest highlight was the size and quality of the game.

The Yakuza / Like a Dragon series has had a wealth of side games, ranging from small side ventures to massive undertakings. Many people have fond memories of managing a rising business or running a cabaret club in previous entries. But Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is going somewhere new with Dondoko Island.

Niantic, the development team behind Pokemon Go, has had a difficult 2023 following the announcement they would be capping the number of Remote Raids players could do per day. A new test seems to be aiming to fix Raid access, but players want the removal of the nerf, not a break from it.

Grand Theft Auto games have always had memorable protagonists. Be it GTA Vice City's Thomas "Tommy" Vercetti, GTA San Andreas' Carl "CJ" Johnson, or GTA 5's Michael, Trevor, and Franklin, all have become iconic for playing a big role in one of the most gaming franchises of all time. As such, high hopes are pinned on GTA 6, Rockstar's next big game, and the sequel to 2013's GTA 5. The first GTA 6 trailer has already premiered, giving us a glimpse into the world of GTA 6, its setting, as well as the two protagonists. Yes, there will be two playable protagonists this time around! But who are they?

’Tis the season for a million Christmas movies, new and old. Whether you’re taking a chance on something new, like The Holdovers or Candy Cane Lane, or revisiting a classic, likeIt’s a Wonderful Life or Elf, there are so many options, but most Christmas movies seem to fall into two categories: the silly ones and the serious ones.

In Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, you have two different icons that you can take pictures: your profile picture and your trainer icon. The first is displayed on your Trainer Card, and the Trainer Icon is what you see during multiplayer gameplay.

World of Warcraft: Dragonflight’s major hub in the Dragon Isles is a city called Valdrakken. While most city hubs are relatively compact, Valdrakken is massive and filled with various useful things to find, such as the target dummy locations.

Intel's next-gen discrete & integrated GPUs based on the Battlemage & Celestial architecture for products like Panther Lake & Nova Lake have received HWiNFO support.

isn't exactly a cozy home decorating game, yet there are several different apartments that V can call home over the course of their time in the game. V begins with one default apartment but has many options open up to them, including one that is part of the DLC deep in the heart of Dogtown. Each of these possible living quarters varies drastically in location, comfort, style, and cost, including a few that are free, particularly those related to romantic relationships with NPCs.

Special plants called Tarsyu Saplings in are scattered in various locations of the gorgeous open world, with every flower giving your character powerful Skill Points. Gaining Points allows you to improve not just your combat prowess but also your ability to craft items and ride your Ikran. Finding each Tarsyu Sapling will let your Na'vi blossom into someone truly connected to Pandora.

Inkay is one of the many Pokemon making Pokemon Scarlet & Violet’s The Indigo Disk, and you’ll have the opportunity to add it to your collection. Inkay does have an evolution, and it will become Malamar, but the way you go about this is very specific.

Phasmophobia’s Holiday Event 2023 has arrived, and with it, you’ll have a chance to create a unique weapon to use against the invading snowmen. The way you can create the device is by locating the Mysterious Parts scattered throughout Sunny Meadows.

There are multiple villagers you can unlock and add to your LEGO Fortnite world as you begin to work through the world. One of these villagers is Peely, but he won’t join every village he comes across; they need to be special.

The Brite Bomber is a helpful guide when you first arrive in LEGO Fortnite, giving you small tips and tricks to make your journey easier as you begin your initial steps in this LEGO world. However, Brite Bomber does disappear at some point, and her location is a mystery.

More than a year after the launch of the latest Pokemon games, trainers will soon be able to embark on the final chapter of their Scarlet & Violet journeys. The Indigo Disk, part two of The Hidden Treasure Of Area Zero DLC, launches this week, and Pokemon wants to celebrate the addition that will be at the center of it. Terapagos, a brand new Pokemon being introduced via The Indigo Disk, will have not one, but two plushes by the time the additional content drops.

 The European Union reached a preliminary deal that would limit how the advanced ChatGPT model could operate, in what's seen as a key part of the world's first comprehensive artificial intelligence regulation.

We’re coming up for air from our coverage of The Game Awards to loop our readers in on some of the best deals happening this weekend. If you’re looking to experience some of the winners from the 2023 Game Awards for yourself, you can find discounts on a variety of titles on Steam. Some other highlights you might want to check out include a sitewide sale on Blu-Rays from The Criterion Collection, and the Xbox Series X matching its Black Friday price on Walmart and Amazon.

Frostpine is one of the late-game resources you’ll need to track down while playing LEGO Fortnite. You’ll need to track it down to finish many of your final crafting projects, and it will only appear in a specific region of your world.

Iron is one of the more difficult resources for you to find while playing LEGO Fortnite. You’ll spend a good amount of time trying to track it down, but it should be in a reasonably reliable place, giving you the chance to unlock Iron Bars.

You will find several creatures while exploring LEGO Fortnite, and these enemies have the chance to drop helpful resources that you can use back at your village. The Blaster is one of these monsters that you can find, and it has a good chance to drop Blast Cores from it.

You can find multiple resources while exploring LEGO Fortnite, and Heavy Wool is one of the rare options that you can find while you’re out in the world. There’s a specific way you can get it, and it’s an incredibly rare drop.

Obsidian is one of the more challenging resources that you need to hunt down while playing LEGO Fortnite. You will need to explore a specific location if you want to track it down, and you will need to bring upgraded gear to harvest it.

You’ll have the chance to enhance your tools and weapons while playing LEGO Fortnite, enchanting them to grant them bonuses. These bonuses will make them even stronger and give them a longer lifespan, so you can use them even more while away from your village.

Flexwood and Flexwood Rods are some of the more challenging resources that you’ll have to find while playing LEGO Fortnite. The place you have to go to find these resources can be difficult, but you also need to make sure to upgrade your tools.

Here’s a career progression you probably haven’t encountered before: actor to game studio founder. But that’s just the path that Abubakar Salim has taken. The 30-year-old British actor is best known in gaming circles as Bayek from Assassin’s Creed Origins (he has also appeared in Raised by Wolves and Napoleon, and will be in the second season of House of the Dragon). And now he has founded Surgent Studios to make a game that’s extremely personal to him.

Dead by Daylight's ghastly universe is slowly spinning open with the brand-new interactive horror game The Casting of Frank Stone, developers Behaviour Interactive and Until Dawn creators Supermassive Games revealed in a trailer at The Game Awards 2023.

We’ll get to explore Dead by Daylight‘s world once more through The Casting of Frank Stone, a new title by Behaviour Interactive in partnership with Supermassive Games.

Earlier this year, Supermassive Games, the team behind The Quarry, The Dark Pictures Anthology, and Until Dawn, announced it was collaborating with Behaviour Interactive to create a single-player game set in the latter's Dead by Daylight universe. After teasing an appearance at The Game Awards 2023 yesterday online, the teams have officially revealed The Casting of Frank Stone. It hits PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC sometime in 2024.

Supermassive Games and Behaviour Interactive are teaming up to produce the next big thing in narrative-driven interactive horror with their upcoming collaboration titled, set in the universe. The single-player narrative horror game was officially revealed at The Game Awards 2023 on December 7, 2023, and looks to be a promising project created by two of the biggest names in horror gaming.

Supermassive Games have dropped the first trailer for The Casting of Frank Stone, their single player Dead by Daylight spin-off, a collaboration with original developer Behavior Interactive that was announced earlier this year. The new horror game combines Until Dawn’s branching storyline approach with Dead by Daylight’s supporting fiction of a malevolent Entity, trapping people in fog-bound pocket dimensions with legendary killers, so as to feast on their fear.

Back in May, Behaviour Interactive teased a new singleplayer horror game set in the Dead by Daylight universe being developed by Supermassive Games, the studio behind Until Dawn, The Dark Pictures Anthology, and The Quarry. Tonight at The Game Awards, that game was formally unveiled as The Casting of Frank Stone, a narrative-focused game that promises «an unprecedented look at the wider world of Dead by Daylight.»

There are multiple mysteries and locations for you to explore in LEGO Fortnite. One of the stranger mysteries is the rift islands you can find floating in your LEGO world and what you’re supposed to do when you find them.

Hey there, fellow adventurers! Exciting news is sweeping Southeast Asia as “OCTOPATH TRAVELER: Champions of the Continent” makes a surprise early landing! Fans couldn’t be more thrilled as the Octopath Traveler (SEA) version drops a fantastic ten days ahead of schedule. 

After you complete the Act 4 mission in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Zombies, it’s time to hunt down several secret items hidden throughout the game. One of these items is the Gold Pills and the way you get it can be a little tricky.

For Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’s Zombies mode, Season 1 brings with it a handful of secret items that you have to find. These secret items are connected to the Act 4 mission, and one of them is known as the Gold Dog Collar.

Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.'s Google have been forced by foreign governments to provide users' data from notifications they get on their devices, according to a US lawmaker, drawing attention to a new privacy concern. 

The arrival of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’s Season 1 for Zombies brings with it a handful of secrets you’ll need to track down. One of these secrets concerns players trying to figure out a Gold Camera, an item players are trying to figure out how to get.

Developer Starbreeze has announced a new game, codenamed Project Baxter, a cooperative multiplayer game presumably in the style of its PAYDAY series. Further, Starbreeze has managed to snag the official Dungeons & Dragons branding. However, we don't expect the studio to treat the RPG setting as reverently as Larian recently did with Baldur's Gate 3.

Once again, it’s time for Geoff Keighley to bestow his blessings on the best games of the year before retreating to Valhalla to feast and slumber. To celebrate the occasion, Steam is currently offering discounts on a selection of winners from the past nine years of The Game Awards.

There’s something awfully impressive about the fact that Fallout 76 is still kicking, five years after its infamous release. In fact, it’s just received a major new DLC; one that takes the Vault dwellers to the Jersey Shore, of all places. Enter Fallout 76: Atlantic City – Boardwalk Paradise.

The churn of Netflix content makes it almost inevitable that occasionally disparate movies and TV shows will share similar titles. It’s decidedly less typical for two different films bearing the exact same title to arrive on the service at roughly the same time. But that happened in late 2023: One movie called Leo arrived on the service on Nov. 21, followed by another movie called Leo just a week later.

A few days ago, we reported on a potential roster leak for Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League. Today one of those character names was directly confirmed.

You’re going to need to track down several fish while exploring Disney Dreamlight Valley, which you can use in recipes, gift to your villagers, or sell them off. A unique creature you’ll want to hunt down is the Sea Snail.

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Whether 2023 is one of the best years for video games is up for debate. But it is certainly one of the best years for Christmas video games, thanks to a surprising number of festive, holiday-themed releases. That includes a video game sequel to Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, starring Ebenezer Scrooge and made in the Metroidvania style.

Out of all the careers, life paths, and pursuits available to you in , you will need to live the life of a gambler if you want to earn the High Roller Ribbon. That means spending most of your life, and its earnings, at the casino. So, if you're hoping to add this ribbon to your collection of achievements in, you better be ready to risk it all.

When joining a game of Fortnite, the experience is usually smooth, and you can jump right into it with friends. I have, however, encountered a queue when I try to join the game as we come up to The Big Bang Event.

Experis Game Solution workers who do quality assurance testing on games like Forza Motorsport and Halo Infinite voted Thursday to unionize.

If you hope to complete this week's challenge, the Slice & Dice Challenge, you must be prepared to get your hands dirty. That's because, for this challenge, you will need to obtain some weapons and perform some very hostile actions with them. As a result, some people may find the Slice & Dice weekly challenge unsettling. However, to reap those sweet rewards, you must do whatever it takes.

Gather round, cozy farm sim players, we've got a mashup I've not seen yet. Echoes of the Plum Grove is a colony farm sim that its publisher Freedom Games is calling part Paper Mario, Stardew Valley, The Sims, and even Oregon Trail. And yeah, I do actually see all the ingredients in there. Plum Grove turned up to the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted in a montage of other upcoming Freedom Games releases scheduled for next year, and it has a demo on at the moment too.

The Pokemon Go Timeless Travels season has arrived, and players can look forward to tracking down to find Pokemon for the Hisui region. Alongside a new season, there’s a brand new battle league, with several move changes that can shake things up.

Developer Don’t Nod’s supernaturally-infused episodic adventure title Life is Strange has surpassed 20 million lifetime players since its launch in January 2015.

American Truck Simulator rumbles ever-onward, and developer SCS Software has announced it'll be making its next stop, this time in the state of Kansas — the destination of its newest paid expansion — next Thursday, 30th November. Plus, its substantial 1.49 update — which adds a dynamic night sky, the moon, HDR skyboxes, and more — is out now.

Whenever a new movie prequel is announced, even the core audience that loved the original work sometimes responds with a resounding ugh. Who can blame anyone for dismissing out of hand the marketing formulation that gave us 2007’s Hannibal Rising, 1979’s Butch and Sundance: The Early Days, or 2004’s Exorcist: The Beginning? Prequels tell stories where the end has been predetermined, often without beloved key actors, prompting unflattering comparisons to inimitable classics. (Like what happened with the Star Wars prequel movies.)

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.

There are multiple characters you can unlock as you progress through Risk of Rain Returns. Many of these characters are listed on the main roster screen, but there is a hidden one you can unlock called the Robomando.

Druvis III is a beautiful, aristocratic main DPS in whose build focuses on her unique Petrify status. When she casts her Ultimate, Silence In The Woods, or her debuff Incantation, Wind Into The Woods, at two stars or more, Druvis III infects her targets with Petrify, preventing them from acting until the status wears off or until they take Reality DMG.

The Providence Trials are a featured added to Risk of Rain Returns, giving you the opportunity to expand the abilities of each character. The Providence Trials come with set requirements, and you will need to rise to the challenge of completing them to unlock these skills.

There are several characters for you to unlock that you can use in Risk of Rain Returns. Each character comes with a unique set of skills, with the Pilot being brand new to the Risk of Rain franchise.

Leywise is one of the handful of NPCs you can meet in Remnant 2’s The Awakened King DLC, and he previously worked as the One True King’s scribe. You can get multiple rewards from Leywise, but you need to track down items to offer him in return.

Remnant 2 is about tracking down the many weapons you can unlock for your characters and finding the correct build that fits your playstyle. With The Awakened King DLC, there are several new weapons for you to track down and add to your arsenal.

The Awakened King expansion has arrived in Remnant 2, and you’ll have a chance to pit yourself against the resurrected One True King. Before you can challenge him and the madness surrounding him, you’ll need to ensure you’ve properly started The Awakened King DLC.

Remnant 2’s The Awakened King DLC allows you to fight against the One True King of Losomn. While exploring this new area, there’s a chance for you to unlock the Ritualist Archetype, a new class to add to your arsenal.

Not everything will work properly in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. There are a handful of issues that you will likely encounter when you jump online with your friends, and a frustrating one is finding your XP Tokens are locked.

Keeping your teammates and friends alive in Modern Warfare 3 Zombies is crucial to completing objectives and getting the most rewards. A good way to help out your friends is to revive them, bringing them back into the fight after they’ve gone down.

Insomniac Games' for PlayStation 5 is filled with Easter eggs and character guest appearances. Part of the series' allure has always been finding these secrets and interacting with fan-favorite characters. Now, with Miles Morales being a main character in the series and not simply a spin-off or guest himself, Insomniac has a big job for any upcoming DLC to continue to expand the cast of characters.

There are several items and rewards you can earn as you make your way through Risk of Rain Returns. These items become available and unlock as you work through the game, such as the Mu Construct, which requires you to complete the Pre Alpha Challenge.

Rumors have raged around for nearly a decade, but the wait is almost over. news is coming soon, with the first trailer as little as a month away at the time of writing. But anticipatory players have obsessed over every possible aspect of this game since almost immediately after came out in 2013, despite knowing next to nothing about it. This first trailer has many eyes on it, and a lot of expectations to deal with already.

Another set of Slone Audio Logs has been hidden away on the Fortnite OG map. You’ll be able to find these audio recordings scattered throughout the map, and they’re going to be different locations from the ones you discover during the first week of the season.

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Alolan Raichu is available to catch in Pokemon Go, but how do players get it? It’s not as easy as it sounds, as Alolan Raichu can only be acquired through certain special means in Pokemon Go.

After many long years, The Legend of Zelda fans finally have confirmation that Nintendo is in the early development stages of creating a live-action movie. The news was confirmed through an official Nintendo post.

Some very unofficial Hogwarts Legacy Switch gameplay has leaked, and everyone's wondering what sort of Dark Magic is being used to make it look so good.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 fans are eager to jump back into the chunky multiplayer game that Sledgehammer has created. One of the significant highlights is the return of Zombies Mastery Camos, and fans couldn’t be happier about their quality.

Modern Warfare 3 will be another huge entry to the Call of Duty series, giving players new weapons and cosmetics to unlock. A huge question flaring up in the Modern Warfare 3 community is if players can expect to use the weapon camos they unlocked in Modern Warfare 2.

After almost two years in early access spanning 53 updates, sociable retro sci-fi FPS The Anacrusis has a 1.0 release date - 5th December 2023. The word "anacrusis" refers to a set of syllables that precede the first metrical foot in a line of poetry - an intriguing moniker for a game that is essentially Valve's Left 4 Dead, but set in a 1970s-styled high tech facility reminiscent of No One Lives Forever. I'll be honest, I haven't been keeping up with The Anacrusis, and assumed that it was one of those top-drawer philosophical puzzlers. Come on, there isn't even a pun in the title!

Not everything is lost forever after Dead by Daylight has sealed away, and the return of the Stranger Things Chapter has fans jumping for joy. We don’t know if it’s for a limited time, but starting on November 6, 2023, Dead by Daylight fans can grab the Stranger Things Chapter.