It’s been an eventful year, to say the least. Video games offer a pleasant distraction from real-world woes, especially this year, but 2020 also had its fair share of controversies where the video game industry is concerned. While it wasn’t all bad news, there certainly was some turbulence as the world adjusted to stay-at-home orders and remote work, though video games offered a respite from that. The future does look bright, too....
The Book of Boba Fetthas come a long way in its seven-episode season. Just before the finale debuted on Disney Plus, the streamer released a new poster featuring nearly all the majorStar Warscharacters who have appeared on the show since it premiered. Prior to the release ofThe Book of Boba Fettfinale,Star Warsfans had several questions about where the story was headed. While the poster didn’t answer those questions, most fans did note that it was one worthy of standing next to those fortheStar Warsfilms....
Summary Plenty of gameplay changes came with the rebranding of the franchise, but one thing remains clear: fast players are as dominant as ever. A good pace rating seems to be more important than the overall rating more often than not. Almost everyone is looking to add one of the fastest players inEA FC 24to their team. It might seem like a cliché at this point, but they truly are overpowered....
Summary The Finals' community is divided over whether aim assist has a place in competitive shooters. Some PC players are plugging controllers in and enabling a certain Steam setting to get even more powerful aim assist than console players. Aim assist has been a staple of console shooters for decades now, and many would say that it’s necessary for an intuitive experience while using a controller. This feature was largely a non-issue for many years, until recently, when crossplay between PC players and console players became the norm in most games....
Nintendo’sAnimal Crossing: New Horizonshas been lauded for the creative freedom it offers through new additions like DIY crafting and outdoor decorating, as well as expansions to ideas like creating and sharing patterns. There has been a whole cottage industry of players who arerecreating designs based on animeor other video games, and now the Getty Museum is getting in on the fun. The world-famous Getty Museum, housed in Los Angeles, California, has made it possible forAnimal Crossing: New Horizonsplayers to turn anything in the museum’s open-access collection into a QR code that can be downloaded through the Nintendo Switch Online app....
Summary Once one of the fiercest competitors in the FPS market,Battlefieldhas fallen from grace somewhat over the last few years, fumbling the bag withBattlefield V’s pre-release marketing and post-launch support, and doing the same withBattlefield 2042’s unnecessary live-service approach. ButBattlefieldisn’t down for the count just yet. Over the course of the last few years,Battlefield 2042has slowly become the game it should have always been. While its bevy of new maps, weapons, and returning features doesn’t quite make up for the state of the game on its 2021 launch, it does ignite a spark of hope that theBattlefieldseries could be better....
There’s no doubt that a plethora of gamers are eagerly anticipating the release of Obsidian Entertainment’s first-person RPGThe Outer Worlds, but despite a potentialrelease date leak, there’s still no telling exactly when the title will become available. UntilThe Outer Worldsofficially drops, though, it’s safe to say that the developer will continue to eke out information about the forthcoming game, with Obsidian recently teasing it will contain a survival mode of sorts....
PopularTwitchstreamers are known to gamble in front of a live audience, including personalities that gamble with large sums of money like Adin Ross, Trainwrecks, and xQc. Long-timeTwitchstreamer Mitch Jones is one content creator who has come clean about spending nearly $50,000 on gambling in just one week. RELATED:Streamer xQc Explains Why He Thinks Twitch Won’t Ban Gambling Streams According to Jones, he gave his final $5,000 to his manager for safekeeping under the pretext that they wouldn’t return the money because of the addiction to gambling that Jones had formedlike Twitch streamer xQc....
Xaku is an underrated frame that often gets overshadowed by the others. InWarframe, every character is unique, and each at leastfills a niche role in the game. The Xaku frame is neither a he nor she. It is a frame assembled by the fallen frames of Gaze, Accuse, and Deny.After a buff a few months ago, Xaku is now one ofthe better frames to usein the game. RELATED:Warframe: How To Find & Defeat The Wolf Of Saturn Six...
The Thingis a 1982 film directed by John Carpenter and written by Bill Lancaster, based on a novella from 1938 titledWho Goes There?If there is anything audience members remember about the film, it’s the special effects that were done so well (for the time) that they repulsed and disgusted audiences. Although it was met with initial criticism and lack of interest, onceThe Thingwas released to home video it began to find its audience and gain a cult following—forever immortalized as one of the greatest sci-fi horror films ever made....
Sonic the Hedgehogwill hit theaters with a much more preferable Sonic design on Valentine’s Day, 2020. Produced by Paramount and directed by Jeff Fowler,Sonic the Hedgehogwill follow a long lineage of video game movie adaptations. Whether or not the producers of this movie want it to be a part of that lineage is a different story as video game movies have been notoriously bad for as long as they have been around....
Microsoft is making some big plays with Xbox Series X this year, though not just necessarily with the console itself. While the technical specs of the Series X shows the console has some very capable hardware, the changes to theXboxecosystem are what’s most important. Game Pass is the most prominent change in recent years, with Microsoft fundamentally shifting the way gaming fans play games. Now with the new console, Xbox Game Pass is becoming a focal point of the Xbox ecosystem....
Summary CD Projekt Red has some enticingly ambitious plans forThe Witcherfranchise, with multiple games in the pipeline, including a brand-new full-scale AAA trilogy. One of its side projects,Codename Sirius,will dabble in multiplayer, and while details are scant and ambiguous for the upcoming title, there is an easy option for the studio to create different factions for players to choose in its shared world via the varying Witcher Schools inThe Witcher....
