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As any fool knows, the age of girlies bulk-buying silver wire and making their own crystal jewellery at home is over, but EA always arrives precisely when it means to. This weekend saw the release of the Crystal Creations Stuff Pack, a DLC for The Sims 4 that takes the ability to find crystals (already in the game) and straps on your Sims making them into semi-precious, semi-magic jewellery that can be charged up by the moon. What I find more interesting is that this launched with some official IRL Sims plumbob jewellery that you can buy and wear around your own precious, swan-like neck.

Being sci-fi shooters that launched on rival platforms, it was inevitable that Helldivers 2 would find itself compared to Halo Infinite. Even more so when Helldivers 2 proved to be a huge, surprise success, a far cry from Halo Infinite's disappointing launch, hardly improved by its ongoing support.

A Star Wars fan explains why some people dislike The Clone Wars series, citing concerns about alterations to the previously established Star Wars canon.

Star Trek hosts several complex and well-loved characters with interesting moral positions. However, one fan believes that Odo from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine might have gotten off too easy in public discourse.

True Detective season 4 just ended, and while many fans have made their dislike of it loud and clear online, others have started pointing out significant flaws they noticed earlier in the series. One season in particular is receiving all the heat.

Although rumors regarding a successor console to the Nintendo Switchhave become more common as the Switch presumably nears the end of its lifespan, the latest potential leaks indicate that a prospective Switch 2 launch could be significantly later than fans might expect or want. Released in 2017, the Switch has been a massive success for Nintendo, and a strong recovery from its less successful predecessor, the Wii U. As the Switch approaches the start of its eighth year as Nintendo's main console, however, expectations are growing for the rumored release of the company's next major gaming device.

February 15 should be a big day for Xbox fans, but whether it's an exciting event might come down to more of a person-to-person basis. Xbox has recently been the center of swirling rumors and reported leaks, all centering around a purported big shift in Microsoft's approach to the gaming industry. For anyone invested in the ecosystem, the kind of uncertainty generated by widespread speculation and unconfirmed news can be a bit nerve-wracking, which is why the clarification that an official Microsoft response could be particularly welcome.

Star Trek: Picard has never quite landed smoothly with major Star Trek fans, with many voicing their dislike online. Now that the series is finished after season 3, fans aren’t straying away from their original opinions. They’re doubling down on them and using season 3 to justify it further.

Palworld revealed its early access roadmap yesterday, confirming that PvP is in the works. But there's a hitch. As players on the game's subreddit pointed out, there's already an item in the files that has "a low chance of success" at capturing another person's Pal. That means that when PvP arrives, battles could "devolve into stealing Pals back and forth".

Fntastic has claimed that The Day Before was the victim of a “hate campaign” carried out by “certain bloggers” who profited from being deceptive.

You might have thought the The Day Before's sorry saga had ended last year when developer Fntastic, amid claims of misleading marketing and Overwhelmingly Negative Steam reviews, yanked the game from sale and promptly shut its doors just four days into its early access launch. But no, the studio has now reemerged with a lengthy statement blaming the whole thing on a «hate campaign» orchestrated by «certain bloggers».

Fntastic, the folks behind the debilitating 'open world zombie MMO' The Day Before, have released a statement to combat "misinformation" about its development and catastrophic release. They claim certain "bloggers" made huge money by creating "false content" about the game, and that its closure is thanks largely to a hate campaign that inflicted "significant damage". Bizarrely, they also believe they "implemented everything shown in the trailers". Riiight.

Fntastic, the allegedly shut down developer of The Day Before, has claimed its controversial and catastrophic game suffered from a hate campaign in a bizarre statement published online.

Yakuza fans really aren't happy that xQc was chosen to show off Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth before its launch, with many pointing out his lack of interest and familiarity with the series.

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 Super has officially landed thanks to a trio of CES graphics card announcements, and I’m pleasantly surprised. Not only are we also getting RTX 4070 and RTX 4070 Ti Super variants with more oomph, but the new range costs less than the original line-up. That’s great news for anyone that’s been holding off, and it’s a step in the right direction for the scene in terms of pricing and specs.

Update: Infestation '88 has been officially renamed Infestation: Origins following blowblack over its references to Neo-Nazi ideology. In a statement to IGN, Nightmare Forge Games reiterated that the original name was meant to reflect the year "1988," adding, "Unfortunately, at the time of its announcement, we were unaware of any additional meanings the number '88' has. Through feedback from the community, we learned it did, and therefore made this name change ASAP."

It should come as no surprise that Zack Snyder is up for making a Fortnite movie, if anyone is shopping around for a director. It would be a licence to print money. It could be a complete stinker and it would still probably be the most watched movie of all time. If Epic's interested, I'd also be down for making one. I need the cash. 

Crap. It’s already December. Mercifully, I haven’t heard much Christmas music in the stores I deign to visit, but that probably now ends. The holidays are bearing down on us like a sugar-infused child.

The 28-year-old stand-up comedian,, has found himself amidst controversy after his latest special, “.” But what is the story behind it, and why is Rife’s latest comedy special being bombarded with so much? Here’s all you need to know.

Ubisoft has responded to reports that they seem to have added pop-up ads to their games, that work while you are in the middle of playing a game.

Invincible fans really aren't happy about one of Omni-Man's interactions with Sindel in Mortal Kombat 1 where he says that he's going to turn her, Mileena, and Kitana into his "pets".

Call of Duty fans who have got their hands on Modern Warfare 3's campaign mode early all seem to unanimously hate the new open mission design, with some even saying that it feels like Warzone's DMZ with cutscenes.

After more than a decade of unprecedented growth, the audience for tabletop games keeps getting more diverse. So too is the subject matter of popular games, which increasingly include environmental and even social themes. But absent a few notable exceptions, historical games — that is, games inspired by real-world historical events — have lagged somewhat behind, with designers seemingly satisfied to simulate the same conflicts over and over and over again in miniature. In 2021, a blue-ribbon panel of industry experts decided to do what they could to change that. As a result, the Zenobia Award was born.

A former Bethesda veteran says that all decisions at the studio “run through” director Todd Howard.

In The Sims 4, your Sims will do all sorts of bizarre and occasionally infuriating things when left to their own devices. Fans of the game share the most annoying autonomous habits of their characters in The Sims 4.

Remember back in the day when you could set it up so that your tweets automatically posted to Facebook? Facebook killed that functionality with an API crackdown in 2018, but it's revisiting the idea in a bid to drum up interest in its Twitter alternative, Threads. And a lot of people hate it.

AI's a thorny subject, to say the least. The big issue with technology is that it advances in waves. There'll be a very long time where it feels like nothing's changing much at all, and then suddenly we're all saddled with something new to irreversibly change our lives.

Immersive sims like Dishonored or System Shock can be very fulfilling, but they are also oddly stressful. After all, the flipside of the genre mantra of solving problems through imaginative application of the tools is that when you achieve a boring solution, that's all your fault. Did you miss the final jump while trying for a complex, third-storey infiltration in Deathloop, resulting in a sadly non-immersive firefight in the courtyard below? Did you fail to combo those magical abilities and terrain variables as the developers hoped - nay, dreamed you would, forcing you to rely on ye olde cover-shoot tactics to reach the checkpoint? Shame on you! Don't you know how much imsims cost to develop? Go back to Open-Ended Systems School and retake that course in The Power of Choice. Also, consider playing Mosa Lina instead.

Ubuntu has pulled its latest desktop release, 23.10, after discovering that its Ukrainian translations included hate speech.

Less than 24 hours since its release, Overwatch 2's latest season has ignited angry Reddit threads and TikTok comments from fans who are unhappy with the value of its paid hero skins.

Fortnite just rolled out its Halloween 2023 update. Included is the biggest UI overhaul in four years - it swaps the rectangular boxes for ones with curved edges, moves lobby options to the left, and places a focus on the Discover tab so players can more easily find Creator islands. However, the changes are not going down well with the community.

Resident Evil 4 Remake's take on Separate Ways is a hit with fans, giving us a reason to return to what is likely to be a serious Game of the Year contender. However, as we come back for the DLC, a debate has reignited among the fanbase - and it's all over yellow ladders. Is the level design just too hand-hold-y?

There's a lot of discrimination going on in , but one playable race gets the worst of it. The Forgotten Realms' complicated politics cause many NPCs to dislike, distrust, or outright fear characters of other races. Shadowheart scorns githyanki, especially Lae'zel. Showing any kind of sympathy with Lae'zel can hurt the chances of romancing Shadowheart in . The xenophobic druids of Emerald Grove believe that the tiefling refugees who camp around their home invite trouble. The Society of Brilliance assumes githyanki are inferior, and Lady Esther wants one of their eggs so she can prove it. And just about everyone hates goblins.

For a while now, Five Nights at Freddy's fans have been raging at the movie's depiction of the iconic animatronics, specifically the color of their eyes. Back when the first ever trailer for the movie started leaking all over social media, fans were immediately upset with the glowing red eyes, calling them "goofy" despite them belonging to a giant robot teddy bear. While not a shared opinion amongst fans, they were hated enough to cause a bit of a stink.

It has become a regular occurrence for FPS gamers to go against overpowered weapons and abilities in a live-action title. However, as developers add additional content to games, the fragile balance of intended designs seems to suffer.

Dale and Jesse are here, so you know what means; more Resident Evil chat! The boys and Matt P have played the Ada Wong DLC, Separate Ways for Resident Evil 4 and have tons of thoughts. We also chat about Mortal Kombat 1's story mode, Netflix's latest Korean game show, The Devil's Plan and we dive into all your feedback about the theme for The Endless Search in what we've dubbed THE GREAT DEBATE.

For a while now, Pokemon fans have been begging Game Freak to go back to the good old days and give them a rival along the lines of Gary Oak or Silver that they can truly hate with a passion. Over the past few generations, Game Freak has opted to give us friendly rivals that are awestruck by your skill in battle rather than irritated at how much better you are than them. Bede is the only exception, though he feels like more like a villain than a proper rival.

Unexpected Studios has announced that their co-op furniture building game KallaX will release on PC September 18, 2023.

The social media platform X owned by billionaire Elon Musk, has again made the headlines for the wrong reasons - this time for not taking corrective action against hateful posts present on the app. Experts revealed about 300 hate speech posts that violated the company's content policy, but X took no action against them. It was reported that X had previously sued the organization called Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) for sharing misinformation.

NBA 2K24 launched last week, and players have already made it the second-worst-rated Steam game of all time.

Ermac was finally unveiled in July earlier this year as part of Mortal Kombat 1's first DLC, to a resounding 'meh' from fans, with many asking him to please mask up. Now, the in-game design has leaked, and the sentiment is pretty much the same.

Love hurts — just ask The Wheel of Timeprotagonist Rand al’Thor (Josha Stradowski). In season 1 of the Prime Video fantasy series, Rand effectively walked out on his childhood crush, Egwene al’Vere (Madeleine Madden), after finally owning up to his destiny as the prophesized world savior/destroyer, the Dragon Reborn. The former sheep herder’s love life only gets worse in season 2, after he seeks solace in a rebound fling with Selene (Natasha O’Keeffe): an entrancing innkeeper who shows her true — and decidedly terrifying — colors in season 2’s fourth episode, “Daughter of the Night.”

This year's Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will make use of Modulate's ToxMod AI to help moderate voice chat in multiplayer, Activision have revealed. The system won't detect offences in real time, nor will it be able to kick you from games for effing and blinding. It just submits reports of bad behaviour, with Activision staff making the final call on enforcement actions, which might involve reviewing recordings to work out the context of an outburst.

A new Shop rotation has occurred, which means new cosmetics! The father of Necromancy is Rathma, the son of Lilith — so what better way to honor his mother than this set? While we don't know for certain when thess packages will rotate out of stock, what we do know is that the shop refreshes happen daily at approximately 10 am PDT, so stay tuned — we may have new cosmetic options soon! Premium Currency in Diablo 4

In the post-pandemic workplace, virtual meetings are unavoidable and plentiful. If you're frequently double-booked (or tend to zone out), Google Meet has some new AI-powered solutions to help keep you on task.

There's a new number one movie on Netflix in the US – and it's a pandemic-era psychological thriller you may not have even heard of.

I have been using Pokémon Sleep for a week. I detest playing it, but I feel physically better than I have in months, so I guess this is my life now.

After all of Twitter’s self-inflicted wounds over the last nine months, the remaining employees at the service that is now rebranding itself to “X” can console themselves with this data point: People still hate Facebook a little more. 

A couple of months after the last trailer, we now have another look at the upcoming Silent Hill: Ascension. Shown exclusively to San Diego Comic-Con attendees, this latest trailer serves to hammer home the overall tone of the upcoming interactive narrative game. But despite being the first Silent Hill game in over a decade, fans aren't impressed, with the new trailer leaving them more concerned than hyped.

Cities Skylines 2 seasons are confirmed, meaning the city-building game will transition organically from summer to winter, something we’ve been hoping to see since CS1 first launched. Paradox and Colossal Order also confirm that one of the most aggravating Cities Skylines features, the dreaded death wave, is being removed, and offers some more details on Cities Skylines 2 roads. Combined with the revamped CS2 economy and landfill building mechanics that we’ve seen already, this is just another reason to get hyped for the Cities Skylines 2 release date.