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November 23 marks the last day of the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Season 6 Battle Pass. With the recent release of a new CoD title, there may be speculation that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’s days are numbered. The game, by longtime Call of Duty developer Infinity Ward, serves as a soft reboot to its Modern Warfare series. Although the title has been generally praised over the past year, the most recent Call of Duty: Modern Warfare update is a disappointment to fans....

The Mortal Kombat games are known for their excessive violence and gore. This was one of the ways that series creators Ed Boon and John Tobias sought to distinguish the franchise from the Street Fighter series. But its depictions of lifelike fighters getting beaten to a pulp and ripped apart would lead to a call for censorship from concerned parents, which in turn gave rise to the ESRB. Its 1995 film adaptation on the other hand had been released with a PG-13 rating....

At the end of May, NetherRealm Studios announced that Nightwolf, Sindel, and Spawn would all be joining Shang Tsung as Mortal Kombat 11 DLC characters. Since this announcement, fans have been waiting for a closer look at these post-launch additions to the Mortal Kombat 11 character list, and now they have one in the form of a teaser trailer for Nightwolf. While brief, the new Nightwolf trailer is the first video footage that players have seen of this confirmed Mortal Kombat 11 DLC character, and it is certain to be welcomed by those that are most excited for him to join the MK11 roster....

Since its release back in April of this year, Mortal Kombat X has provided players with countless hours of bloody beatdowns and flagrant fatalities. In fact, NetherRealm Studios has rewarded the dedicated fans that own the Kombat Pack—that is, the Season Pass for Mortal Kombat X expansion packs and DLC—with tons of content, such as a covey of additional costumes, as well as the inclusion of the seemingly immortal Jason Voorhees....

Design Moto G100 finishes: Iridescent Sky or Iridescent Ocean Moto G200 finishes: Glacier Green or Stellar Blue Both models: Side-mounted fingerprint scanner Both: Water-repellent (G200: IPX2 rated) Display Moto G100: 6.7-inch LCD, 90Hz refresh rate, 1080 x 2520 resolution Moto G200: 6.7-inch OLED, 144Hz refresh rate, 1080 x 2400 resolution Hardware Both models: 5000mAh battery (G100: 20W charging; G200: 30W charging) Moto G100: Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 platform, 8GB RAM (LPDDR5) Moto G200: Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 platform, 8GB RAM (LPDDR5) Both: ‘Ready For’ dock compatible Both: 5G connectivity Cameras Moto G100 quad cameras: 64MP main, 16MP wide-angle, 2MP depth, ToF sensor Moto G200 triple cameras: 108MP main, 13MP wide-angle, 2MP depth Moto G100: Dual punch-hole front cameras to corner Moto G200: Single punch-hole camera to centre Conclusion Moto G100 (launch price): €479 / £449 Moto G200: €449 / £TBC

2020 was a relatively quiet year for movies, with many big releases pushed back into 2021 in order to minimize the impact of the pandemic on box office takings. While this may have made for a somewhat mediocre twelve months though, it does mean that we’re now in for one hell of a year when it comes to big-budget blockbusters. Some of the movies coming out in 2021 have been in development for quite some time, which will have hopefully allowed the people working on them to tweak and tailor them as required....

PS4 system architect lead Mark Cerny gave a press conference on March 18th regarding the technical specifications of Sony’s upcoming next-gen console. While he threw out a ton of technical jargon and offered up a hearty dose of charts, graphs, and numbers only those in the know would truly grasp, it stands as a rare moment of transparency for Sony, which, unlike their direct rivals in Microsoft’s Xbox team, tends to prefer to keep things under wraps for quite a while....

While the community appears to be generally split over the success of the current Destiny 2 seasonal event known as the Guardian Games, one bright spot has emerged from all of the medal and bounty gathering. The exotic machine gun Heir Apparent is fairly easy to earn and has proven to be a beast at dealing with enemies in both PvE and PvP. Based on the weapon a Cabal Colossus uses against players, this exotic is a high damage Gatling gun the comes complete with the spinning up mechanic....

Those worried that Destiny 2: Forsaken’s new Gambit mode was going to require pre-formed fireteams to enter need not. Developer Bungie has confirmed that Gambit will be a matchmade activity, so anyone from solo players to full groups can enter into the playlist. One of the lead developers at Bungie behind the Gambit game mode, Lars Bakken, made the clarification on Twitter: That’s good news as it ensures that anyone who plays Destiny 2: Forsaken can dive into the new mode....

The Spike Video Game Awards are only a few short days away - and the teases keep coming. Along with reveals for Transformers: Fall of Cyberton, Metal Gear Solid: Rising, new BioWare and Tony Hawk games, as well as a fresh installment in the Alan Wake series, Gears of War developer, Epic Games, is expected to announce an all-new IP at the show. While some fans were holding-out hope that the Epic VGA announcement would unveil a Gears of War spin-off or a sequel to the fan-favorite XBLA title, Shadow Complex, it sounds as though whatever the developer is ready to announce - it’s going to be an entirely new game experience....

Animal Crossing: New Horizons continues to inspire adorable fashion in and outside of its stylish island world as Gelato Pique announced they’re bringing another cute collection to villagers this year. Back in October, BlackMilk Clothing also released a line featuring plenty of Animal Crossing’s favorite neighbors, while Gelato Pique will focus on a mostly Nook-themed lineup of sleepwear available for pre-order on November 18. Animal Crossing: New Horizons has continued to take 2020 by storm, and the adoration for Nintendo’s charming social simulator often extends beyond just checking in on your Nintendo Switch....

When it comes to Pokemon players, I’m pretty much as casual as they come. I cut my teeth on Pokemon Red when it released in 1998 on my yellow Game Boy Pocket, watched each episode’s premiere when the anime made its way to North America, and invested way too much time, energy, into the original set of the Pokemon Trading Card Game. After that, though, the franchise kind of fizzled out for me, for whatever reason....

The new Stories from the Outlands video showcases how Blisk got Rampart into the Apex Games. Season 6 of Apex Legends arrives next week and with it comes a brand new character. Rampart is shaping up to be Apex Legends’ Bastion thanks to her terrifying, high-capacity machine gun and pop-up shield ultimate ability. At least, that’s what we’re assuming based on previous datamines and the latest Stories from the Outlands video....

Story-driven indie studio Fullbright has revealed its next project Open Roads. It will be starring Booksmart’s Kaitlyn Dever and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes’ Keri Russell. A mother and her daughter are on a search for a hidden fortune and are on a road trip that will change their life forever. It will seemingly focus on the struggling relationship between Dever and Russell’s characters. It’s great that they have Hollywood talent to work on a project like this....

Nielsen is the unassuming name behind one of the most important companies in media. Responsible for ranking viewership of TV and Streaming, the organization is the the premier source for all statistics related to who’s watching what, where, and for how long. The numbers put out by Nielsen become the foundation for billions of dollars of advertising negotiations every year. Now the company wants to start getting some new data on advertising in the hopes of measuring targeted ads even more effectively....

No Man’s Sky is still steadily receiving updates to the game years and years after it’s launch. Some players may not know, but a lot has changed, especially since many original players quit No Man’s Sky following the barren state of its launch. Recently, No Man’s Sky received another update focusing on the horror elements of space, titled Desolation. Now, the full patch notes for the Desolation have been released and there are quite a few changes....

Developer Hello Games deploys patch 1.13 for No Man’s Sky, which fixes several bugs and gameplay issues as well as improving the game’s space battles. Hello Games has announced a new patch for No Man’s Sky, which resolves a number of issues with the game as well as adding several new features, the most important of which is an improvement to the size and scale of space battles. As reported by Gamespot, patch 1....

So, with One Piece’s Wano Arc still continuing after passing a thousand chapters, it seemed like an apt time to talk about some of the more complex elements of it. Wano, like Whole Cake Island and Dressrosa, is a pretty chaotic arc, but that’s pretty typical for the Straw Hats. The place is obviously themed after ancient Japan, which is similar to a lot of other anime settings or even video games like Ghost of Tsushima....

The entire entertainment industry is in the midst of a restructuring, experimenting with new distribution models as consumers and markets diversify, but none are quite as complex as the video game marketplace. At present, trying to explain exactly how and and where games can be purchased, sold, or simply accessed means speaking in a language that is altogether foreign to the uninitiated. Phrases like “1st party marketplaces”, “digital download clients”, “microtransactions” and more recently, “early access,” “pre-alphas”, “alphas” and “betas” have all become commonplace in today’s gaming vocabulary....

Each campaign in Othercide will test your tactical abilities across five eras, each one containing seven days of missions. If you hope to make it to the end, knowing how each mission works, which to pick, what challenges are in store, and what possible rewards you stand to gain is key. With four different mission types to choose from, and completing at least one required to progress each day, you’ll have your work cut out for you no matter what....