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Nothing’s worse that having your fun journey through a lighthearted and whimsical adventure hit a brick wall, thanks to a frustrating puzzle. Although Paper Mario: The Origami King does incorporate puzzles into its combat, they are only used to vary the difficulty of encounters. The puzzles we’re talking about are those that stop you dead in your tracks until you find a way to solve them. In this case, we’re specifically pointing a finger at the water puzzles found in the Water Vellumental Shrine....

As the holiday season nears, gamers are looking forward to a lot of gaming announcements coming in the next week or so. Nintendo may be having some big reveals in September, Final Fantasy 14 will be premiering The Rising event, and Path of Exile just announced some exciting news for next week. Developer Grinding Gear Games has had several updates already this year, including the Harvest Garden update and the massive rebalancing of 50 items in Path of Exile....

When it comes to Monster Hunter World there are two core gameplay loops. One is hunting monsters and the other is customizing your build(s) to suit a variety of situations. However, developing a variety of builds is going to cost players, both in terms of monster parts and money. While the monster part collecting is fairly straightforward if players consult their hunting guide, the getting money part is not as easy....

There’s no doubt that the action role-playing game Monster Hunter World is a major hit worldwide, especially considering the fact that the title was just recently reported to have set a sizeable new sales record for Capcom. Now, in order to better service fans of the game, the publisher and developer has put out the patch notes of a newly available update, and has provided a date for a highly anticipated Horizon: Zero Dawn crossover quest for PlayStation 4....

Warner Bros. and producer James Wan’s Mortal Kombat reboot had a very good weekend. Despite opening simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max—thereby allowing any North American fan to potentially watch the movie at home—the video game adaptation overperformed and blew past expectations when it grossed $23.3 million in three days. That’s well above lowball estimates on Friday, which were pegging the movie at closer to $18 or $19 million based on opening day attendance....

Earlier this year, it came to light that Warner Bros. has a new Mortal Kombat movie in development, and it is being produced by Aquaman director James Wan. Since then, a release date for the new Mortal Kombat movie has been revealed, but further details have been somewhat scarce. That said, a new piece of information about the film has just come out, as the actor that will portray the iconic Sub-Zero is now confirmed....

If you want one of Nvidia’s new RTX 3080 graphics cards, you’re pretty much out of luck. Everyone’s inventory sold out pretty much immediately when the new GeForce GPU was released in September, and stores have been having enormous trouble keeping it in stock since then. It’s so bad that even Nvidia’s CEO thinks that supply shortages will remain at least into 2021. The issue here is that demand is far outstripping the available supply....

Since Microsoft decided to keep controllers mostly the same for the Xbox One to Xbox Series X|S transition, you’ve got a lot of choices. You can use the old Xbone controllers, get new wireless controllers with a fancy share button, look for a premium Elite controller, or save some money with PowerA. A newer option comes courtesy of Nacon: the RIG Pro Compact Controller. Coming in at $49.90, the Pro Compact costs a little less than the official wireless Xbox controller, while still offering more than the controllers you’d find on sale at WalMart....

Naughty Dog founder Jason Rubin credits the studio’s partnership with Sony as part of its success, suggesting The Last of Us and Uncharted might not have been made otherwise. Naughty Dog is a studio with such a vibrant sense of identity that it can be easy to forget it is owned by Sony. Naughty Dog made the decision to sell the studio to Sony more than a decade ago after the working relationship between the two entities had been strengthened by the production of titles such as Crash Bandicoot and Jak and Daxter....

The 2019-20 NBA season was cut short, which was a bummer considering fans were anticipating an all-time great NBA Finals matchup between LeBron James and Giannis Antetokounmpo. With that, as well as the untimely passing of Los Angeles Lakers’ superstar Kobe Bryant, fans are wondering what NBA 2K will look like and how it will respond to the canceled season as well as the passing of one of the game’s all-time greats....

VC is a premium currency in NBA 2K21 that players can spend in a variety of different game modes on various cosmetics, attributes, and more. While fans can use real world money to purchase this VC, it can also be earned through standard gameplay, and this may leave some NBA 2K21 players wondering about the absolute fastest ways to get VC. It is with that in mind that this guide is being written, and indeed fans will find a very effective method for farming VC in what follows....

Netflix already has a movie about the GameStop versus Wall Street saga planned. No, not the one MGM bought the rights to, a completely different movie. It might feel like longer considering what has happened in such a short space of time, but the GameStop versus Wall Street saga has only been raging on for a little over a week. Clearly, the only people who work faster than the redditors who started this whole thing are the good people of Netflix....

As the coronavirus continues to sweep through the world, more and more people are staying home and tuning into the TV, or in many cases, streaming services like Netflix. The virus has also impacted the production of shows, leading to delays and possibly to cancellation, as may have been the case with Messiah. It is not only live action shows that are feeling the burn, of course, as all personnel and artists necessary for shows both live action and animated are forced to stay at home and take precautions to stay healthy....

Just because Netflix viewers don’t live in a world where it’s acceptable to strip to the waist, smear ourself in blood and send a spear whistling through the neck of our enemy, doesn’t mean that we don’t want to watch other people doing it. We very much do. Brutal historical TV drama is a holiday from our small lives. Olden-days mud and guts are an antidote to hours spent worrying about whether we offended Justin in accounts with that ....

Hollywood has been particularly affected by the coronavirus, with multiple films experience delays. Production of Matt Reeve’s upcoming The Batman, featuring Robert Pattinson as Batman, is on hold. However, that doesn’t mean that news about the film has ground to a halt. Recently, Reeves opened up about the halted production, and how that’s allowed the director to reconsider the tone of the film. Before production was halted, The Batman had only shot about 25% of what it needed....

One of the most frustrating things in a video game is clearly being able to see that there’s a secret area you can access but not knowing exactly how you’re supposed to get there. While New Pokémon Snap is filled with such instances, few of the game’s secret areas have proven to be as elusive and tantalizing as the waterfall in Founja Jungle. As a waterfall in a video game, you just know that there has to be something good behind it....

New World breaks from some MMORPG character-building traditions in fascinating ways, but like pretty much every other RPG ever made, the game ultimately relies on stats and attributes to help determine the effectiveness of your created character. That being said, it’s not immediately clear exactly how New World‘s attributes actually work. While the game tries to simplify the system through icons and basic explanations, you’re not alone if you initially feel overwhelmed by the possibilities and specifics....

Before we dive into some of the bug fixes, though, here are the patch notes for a few of the more sweeping “general” updates… General New World 1.0.1 Patch Updates We’ve implemented the groundwork for the character server transfer, and you may see elements of that work in the in-game store. We’re continuing to work on this feature, and will have more information on how the system works later this week when we release server transfers....

This news should come as no surprise to those who have followed the game closely, which has supposedly been targeted for a 2014 release window for next-generation platforms. Along with with the next Mass Effect game and Battlefield 4, the next-gen Dragon Age will utilize the brand new Frostbite 3 engine, which would make it a great tool to demonstrate the graphical prowess of both the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One....

By the time you read this the next generation of console will have officially begun. Today marks the official release of the Xbox Series X and Series S. The PS5 is also due to launch in just two days in many parts of the world. Those lucky enough to have landed a pre-order will be diving straight into the likes of Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Astro’s Playroom, and everything Xbox Game Pass has to offer, which now includes EA Play....