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EVE Online: The Crucible, CCP Games’ fifteenth expansion for the popular online game, released with a bang yesterday. The Icelandic developer shared a new trailer to get players excited for various player-requested features, hundreds of game fixes and updates. While these same players also anxiously awaiting the MMOFPS Dust 514 that will be released next spring, The Crucible update introduces a host of new goodies, from new battlecruisers to improved UI....

Rob ‘Gronk’ Gronkowski is one of the most well-known tight ends in NFL history. He is a three-time Superbowl Champion, five-time Pro Bowler, and four-time All Pro player. But not only is Gronk a masterful and powerful player in the NFL, he apparently is pretty good at golf, even ambidextrously, according to WWE’s the Miz. Game Rant recently sat down with “The Miz,” 2010 WWE champion and huge golf fan to talk about PGA TOUR 2K21....

Nintendo is currently holding a Square Enix Sale on the eShop in celebration of Japan’s Golden Week. Lasting from April 29 to May 5, the promotion includes deep discounts on plenty of titles - and that includes Balan Wonderworld. Golden Week is a week of traditional holidays in Japan that lasts the span of an entire week. There are a total four holidays, ending with Children’s Day on May 5. Many stores have special sales to celebrate, and that includes the Nintendo eShop....

Hello Games, which launched No Man’s Sky in 2016, says it’s working on a “huge, ambitious game” that will resemble the exploration-survival title. Although it was met with mixed reviews when it debuted, the game eventually found its footing with multiple major content updates. The Guildford, England-based developer released The Last Campfire last week. The puzzle video game, in which players take over a soul named Ember who must solve puzzles to help other souls find their purpose, is known as a Hello Games Short, indicating that it’s a smaller game, in the vein of the animated shorts produced by Pixar Animation....

It’s a sad day in gaming, as NintendoSoup announces that there have been exactly zero new 3DS games released in 2020. It’s something many people saw coming after the release of the Switch in 2017: now that their handheld and home console lines were combined into one, the DS line might begin to fade out as developers turned their gaze to the more powerful Switch. Even having this foresight doesn’t fully soften the blow for DS fans as the metaphorical lights begin to go out on this once-ubiquitous handheld....

In this day and age, everyone is using social media to get their message out there, ranging from restaurant chains like Wendy’s to government officials. Social media is also being leveraged by police forces all over the world, including the NYPD, which actually trains the officers posting on its social media accounts to “be funny” in order to “build trust.” This was revealed by Vice, who got its hands on the social media training presentations....

We could all use a little Bill Murray in our lives. That is a common refrain in Sofia Coppola movies, beginning with her luminous Lost in Translation and carried through to her newest film, On the Rocks. As seen in that earlier picture, life can be a cycle of tedium and small, everyday slights. Yet a breath of sardonic, twinkling chaos in the shape of a former Not Ready for Primetime Player is always intoxicating—if also sometimes numbing and distracting....

OnePlus has confirmed that it intends to announce the midrange 11R smartphone alongside the OnePlus 11 and OnePlus Buds Pro 2 on 7 February. Now MySmartPrice reports that OnePlus has confirmed that the new phone will be announced as part of the Cloud 11 event in India. The teaser shown above doesn’t really give the game away in terms of what the new phone will look like or have to offer, but it’s already expected that it will include a camera layout that is reminiscent of OnePlus phones of yesterday - specifically the OnePlus 10T and 10 Pro....

Oscar Isaac is in talks to join the Marvel screen universe as Moon Knight, according to Deadline. Isaac, who starred as Poe Dameron in the latest Star Wars trilogy for LucasFilm and Disney, will now stay with the Mouse House if he signs up to star in Marvel’s Moon Knight series, which has been announced for the Disney+ streaming service. Moon Knight, a.k.a. Marc Spector, was created by writer Doug Moench and artist Don Perlin and made his Marvel Comics debut in the August 1975 issue of Werewolf by Night....

This Outlander Season 3 premiere review contains minor spoilers. “The Battle Joined” is another impressive addition to Outlander TV show canon, especially the episode’s opening minutes, which I went into detail about here. For a show that plays so gleefully with time, the story picks back up not so long after the 18th century events of the season finale and stays tight on Jamie as he deals with the horrific aftermath of the Battle of Culloden....

Outriders developer People Can Fly has confirmed some important information ahead of the demo’s launch on February 25. This will be the first time the public will be able to play a portion of the game widely, and this demo will remain live on all storefronts well after the game’s official launch. Hopefully, the demo will be able to whet player’s appetites before Outriders’ April 1 release date. Still, there are a ton of questions about the Outriders demo....

Outriders uses a unique difficulty scaling system called World Tiers. If you’ve played other ARPG games like Diablo 3, World Tiers won’t be a completely foreign concept. World Tiers increase automatically as you progress through the campaign, strengthening the enemies and offering greater rewards. World Tier may seem like an important part of progression in Outriders, but the reality is that it has very little impact on your actual power level....

BlizzCon has finally arrived and with it some news about the long-awaited Overwatch 2. Fans of Overwatch have been waiting for more information about a new installment of the hero shooter. It has been a long time since the last piece of new information about the game was released, but Overwatch 2 game director Jeff Kaplan just promised there will be more updates from now on. Overwatch is one of the most acclaimed titles from Blizzard which became incredibly successful practically upon release and amassed about one billion dollars in revenue during its first year....

I can think of no other video game franchise that I am bigger fan of then the Konami classic Castlevania. So naturally you would expect that I would be delighted to hear that a live action feature film based on the vampire hunting videogame franchise is in the works… or so you would think. The Castlevania feature film is supposed to focus on the origin of the endless battle between the Belmont clan and the dark lord Dracula....

PAX has announced the dates for its annual conferences in 2021, with the first planned to kick off in June. The announcement has been met with a wave of people claiming that the dates are overly optimistic given the state of the coronavirus pandemic, which has continually worsened throughout the year in the United States and shows no signs of slowing down. The announcement was posted on Twitter alongside a lengthy statement regarding the pandemic....

2020 may have been a troubling year for many, but for Swedish developer Starbreeze Studios it seems to have proven a breath of fresh air. After a difficult couple of years, the studio behind Payday 2 claims to have put the worst of it behind it, and may even be looking to announce a long-awaited sequel soon. For a time, Starbreeze appeared to be in the midst of a riches-to-rags tragedy of sorts....

Capcom has been showing off new monsters in Monster Hunter Rise since its announcement back in September. Some have been confirmed via specialized introductions in trailers, while some could be spotted in the general gameplay footage used. Now, however, it looks like a screenshot of the quest list in Monster Hunter Rise has revealed the return of Barroth. The Japanese website Inside posted several screenshots showing its hunt with the new Rise monster, Bishaten....

2006’s Prey was a fairly popular new IP published by 2K Games, with a sequel, Prey 2, confirmed just a few months after release. After development began in 2009 following the purchase of IP rights by ZeniMax Media, Prey 2 was quietly abandoned for years and formally canceled in 2014 by Bethesda Softworks. However, the original title was rebooted for 2017’s Prey - but that still doesn’t leave players intrigued by what could’ve been....

Over the past few days, the rumor mill has been running rampant with talk of Microsoft’s future, both software and hardware. And, although it seemed like the really juicy rumors had already been uncovered, the latest might be the biggest of them yet. According to a senior source in Microsoft, the company does have plans to release a white Xbox One model to the public. And this new model will come at a lower price point....

It’s no secret that Mortal Kombat’s incredibly long and confusing timeline is like a daytime soap opera — if daytime soap operas included brutal fist fights ending with the victor ripping out their opponent’s heart or throat. Among the numerous villains throughout the series, Shao Kahn and Shang Tsung stand out as the two most iconic. But who is the better antagonist? The following list looks at advantages from both characters to come up with a convincing argument for both sides....