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If you’re deep into High Rank and upgrading a few precious weapons, then you might find yourself in need of the Omniplegia Sac in Monster Hunter Rise. This simple item is surprisingly rare, only found in one location, and can be tough to acquire if you don’t know what to aim for. Luckily, this is where we come through, of course. In this guide we’re breaking down exactly how you can acquire Omniplegia Sac for yourself, and farm as many as you need for your future weapon and armour projects....

Anticipation for Monster Hunter World’s next crossover event with Final Fantasy 14 Online may be growing, but players shouldn’t lose sight of what’s going on in the game right now. The game’s Summer Twilight Festival is now live and has brought with it plenty for monster hunting fans to do and collect while they wait. As with most Monster Hunter World events, the Summer Twilight Festival has plenty of content on offer....

Twitter has seen a large spike in tweets about gaming and esports in 2020, especially when compared to last year. In 2019, Twitter stated that over 1.2 billion tweets were about gaming, while in 2020, over a billion tweets have been made already. Around the world, Animal Crossing has been the most often tweeted game, and this should come as no surprise following the release of New Horizons earlier in the year....

This My Hero Academia review contains spoilers. My Hero Academia Season 5 Episode 15 “In…case…of failure…more…manpower.” My Hero Academia makes the heroes of its universe its priority, but right from the anime’s earliest moments it’s also been fascinated with the natural conflict and resentment that exists between the heroes and the villains that threaten society. The League of Villains and other malevolent organizations have always lurked in the shadows, so whenever these enemies are absent for a lengthy span of time there’s probable cause to worry that an attack is right around the corner....

The NBA 2K21 news just keeps on coming. Recently, the cover athlete for the current-gen NBA 2K21 was revealed, that being superstar Trailblazer Damian Lillard. And along with that exciting piece of information, the developers also revealed via Twitter and TikTok a sneak peek at some of the music that is on the way for the basketball simulator. The soundtrack for NBA 2K21 has always been important to fans. Music and basketball go hand-in-hand, as the popularity of the sport and the NBA as a league seemed to coincide with the rise of hip-hop as a genre....

Netflix is clamping down on account sharing and has detailed some of the measures it will use to prevent it. It has had a real problem with account sharing (AKA password sharing) in the past, with families and friends accessing the same Netflix subscription even when they don’t live in the same building. At the end of 2022, it estimated that more than 100 million households participate in account sharing globally....

When you’re developing a sequel to a critically-acclaimed game, there’s a choice one has to make: Do you follow in the same footsteps as the first, giving the fans more of the same because it worked - or do you attempt to do something different, trying to make the system better, while running the risk of making it worse? Credit is due at Rocksteady for going for the latter, as they could have easily made Batman: Arkham City the same as Arkham Asylum, and it would probably still have sold incredibly well....

As it currently stands, The Epic Games Store offers some of the most valuable free titles in the gaming space, rivaling the likes of PlayStation Plus and Xbox Games with Gold. Offering the likes of Grand Theft Auto 5, A Total War Saga: Troy, Watch Dogs 2, and the entire Batman: Arkham trilogy, the site is currently looked on by many as a haven for gamers on a budget, with no subscription fee required to start downloading some huge titles....

It’s been nearly a decade since players last walked the forests and fields of Albion. In that time, players got their hopes up that the multiplayer Fable spinoff, Fable Legends, would be able to satiate their hunger until they got the next installation of their favorite magical RPG. When fans heard that it was cancelled after four years of development in March 2016, so were their hopes of getting to play any new Fable....

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker closed out Disney’s new Star Wars trilogy at the end of last year, and featured a gay kiss between two characters that was promoted as an example of positive representation on the silver screen. Eight months later, The New Mutants is hitting theaters for the first time as well, and its director has some choice words for that particular Star Wars moment. Josh Boone, the director of The New Mutants, referred to the scene as “the most embarrassing” example he could think of when it comes to queer representation....

For decades, gamers have often been stereotyped as being anti-social, overweight, having no ambition, and living in their mothers’ basements while playing video games all day. A recent study by Alienware and Dell Gaming has found that gamers are, in fact, the exact opposite of the negative stereotypes associated with them, and that today’s gamers break these negative stereotypes. Alienware and Dell Gaming surveyed gamers in 11 countries and found that firstly, today’s average gamer is not a teenager living with their parents, but that the average gamer has a job and a family, and is often an active member in the community....

Professional gamer Tyler Blevins, better known as Ninja, has an astounding 16.5 million followers on Twitch, 14.4 million on Instagram, 6.5 million on Twitter, and 24 million subscribers on YouTube. The 29-year-old, who is known for his Fortnite skills, has said he makes $500,000 a month from streaming. In a recent interview with the New York Times, Blevins, who discussed everything from Mark Zuckerberg to online trolls, stated that he’s ready to move on to new ventures....

Although it was expected to be a hit, Hello Games’ No Man’s Sky continues to surpass expectations with a release that is among the PS4’s best launches ever. When No Man’s Sky first arrived on the scene at E3 2014, players were immediately intrigued by the game’s promise of space exploration, interstellar combat, and planet exploration. As Hello Games’ founder Sean Murray continued to explain just how the No Man’s Sky universe was built, expectations for the title began to soar alongside the growing concern that the relatively small studio would not be able to deliver on the hype media coverage and gamer excitement had generated for nearly two years....

A mysterious new entry in the rebooted Star Trek film franchise may be on hold over at Paramount Pictures, but its appointed writer and director, Noah Hawley, is still thinking about his approach, even as its status remains uncertain. Intriguingly, Hawley hints at a more classic-minded theme for his hibernating project, citing immortal 1982 offering Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan as a major source of inspiration—just not in a way one might typically think....

While many gamers are hotly anticipating the battle between the next-generation PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X consoles, it appears that the biggest battle in the world of gaming right now is coming from the PC graphics card market. Specifically the growing hype around the battle between Nvidia, and their upcoming GeForce RTX 30 series, and AMD with their upcoming Navi 2X series. The latest in a string of rumors suggests that gamers wanting sky-high frame rates may not have long to wait, as Nvidia’s flagship cards may be launching in less than a couple of months....

Those in the market for both a new graphics card and a copy of Death Stranding may be interested in Nvidia’s latest RTX promotion. Anyone that nabs themselves one of the listed GPUs or pre-built PCs with said GPUs before July 29, 2020, will be eligible to receive a free Steam copy of director Hideo Kojima’s weird motion capped “masterpiece.” The cards eligible are: RTX 2080 Ti RTX 2080 SUPER RTX 2080 RTX 2070 SUPER RTX 2070 RTX 2060 SUPER RTX 2060 That’s basically the entire RTX lineup....

In this day and age it seems like there is no greater video game risk than launching an MMO. While many do find success in one form or another (free-to-play or subscription), there are even more MMOs that fail right out of the gate. Still, there is a strong belief that with the right concept and the right business model — and maybe the right company behind it — that an MMO can concede....

After the terrible news of Oculus VR co-founder Andrew Scott Reisse dying at the young age of 33 unexpectedly as a result of a cop car chase at the top of the month, the team behind the most advanced video game VR headset system has a lot to be proud of. Thanks to the successful $2.4 million Kickstarter last August, the team behind the Oculus Rift was at E3 2013 happily seeing the new hotness as part of multiple demos, including the mindblowing EVE-VR concept by CCP Games....

Aksys Games has been on a roll with otome releases and just recently brought another Code Realize title to the west earlier this year. With no signs of slowing down, Aksys Games announced this morning that Idea Factory titles Olympia Soirée, Dairoku: Ayakashimori, and Variable Barricade will join their library on Nintendo Switch in 2021. The Nintendo Switch has become a home to some of Japan’s sleeper hits in recent years....

So, most normal summer activities are canceled this year—or at least they should be—but Fleming Tech Camps is here to save summer camp and get kids learning through the wonders of the internet. Fleming Tech Camps have been around for the last 18 summers, and offer online summer camp programs that focus on game design and digital art. The camps utilize popular online community platforms and video games, like Minecraft, Twitch, and YouTube to help kids learn and create....