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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate isn’t the ultimate cross-over game anymore. That title has been passed on to Rivals of Aether: the only platformer fighter that lets you play as Super Mario, Ronald Mcdonald, and President Obama. Credit where credit is due, Smash Ultimate is an incredible cross-over game. The 74 playable characters come from 39 different video game universes. If you include all of the cameos, items, costumes, and spirits, Smash Ultimate represents 190 different series....

Audiovisual production company Orichalcum Pictures has announced a December 8, 2020 release date for Ryte - The Eye of Atlantis, its VR adventure to the fabled city of Atlantis. The game is the studio’s very first video game, a co-production with VR Connection, and is being released for Steam VR and Oculus. Ryte - The Eye of Atlantis is inspired and influenced by the superb Myst video game series, and by ancient Grecian culture and architecture....

During its E3 2017 press conference yesterday, EA revealed the first Need for Speed Payback gameplay footage. Fans immediately began to compare the game to EA’s discontinued racing franchise, Burnout. It seems like fans aren’t the only ones who though that the slow-motion crashes in the Need for Speed Payback trailer are just like Burnout. The game is available to play as part of the EA PLAY E3 event and in the video below, a developer of the game slips up and accidentally refers to the Need for Speed crashes as ’takedowns,’ which is the term used for crashes in Burnout....

Everyone needs a little catharsis, especially in 2020. Apparently, Netflix agrees, as shown by their upcoming unique comedy event Death to 2020. Showcasing “expert” commentary on what some call “the worst year ever,” this special brings together an all-star cast to really give 2020 a piece of their minds. Netflix just released a trailer for Death to 2020 and it looks to frame this year of everything and nothing with commentary from fictional professionals, each giving their educated takes on real footage and events that happened throughout the year....

This piece contains spoilers for Netflix’s Lupin Part 2. Netflix’s Lupin ended Part 1 on the ultimate fannish moment, with Officer Youssef Guedira (Soufiane Guerrab) addressing Assane Diop (Omar Sy) as “Arsène Lupin?”—and then picked up Part 2 with Assane responding in turn, identifying his new ally Guedira as “Ganimard,” the name of Lupin’s archnemesis. Throughout the latter five episodes of George Kay’s (Killing Eve) French crime drama, the gentleman thief and the police officer replicate their literary heroes’ dynamic—shifting between rivals on opposite sides of the law to something approaching friendship—while evolving the relationship beyond Maurice Leblanc’s original characters....

As the year presses on and major releases near their launch dates, it’s refreshing to know that there are still a number of strong titles from smaller developers slated for the coming months. One of the most exciting of which is Ronimo Games’ upcoming title Awesomenauts. Sporting a unique take on the MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) genre, a cast of colorful and unique characters as well as a style reminiscent of 80’s cartoons, gamers should keep their eyes on this title....

EA promised that we’d hear more about Medal of Honor: Warfighter during GDC, and boy did they deliver. New story details have been released - as well as confirmation that the game uses the Frostbite 2 Engine. Unlike older titles in the series, Medal of Honor: Warfighter will take place during a fictional conflict, as the game’s famous Tier 1 Operators will have to stop the global circulation of an explosive known as PETN....

The latest mod for Bethesda’s popular Fallout 4 allows gamers to play as the main characters from Konami’s Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. Since its release in November, Fallout 4 has become a modders haven for all things weird, funny, and awesome. One of the latest mods takes inspiration from 2015’s Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain and sees the arrival of Big Boss and a number of his fellow major characters into Fallout 4’s Boston Commonwealth....

Marvel fans have been hungry for new info and looks at the upcoming Marvel’s Avengers game from developer Crystal Dynamics and publisher Square Enix, as there is n. And while these two newly released screenshots might not seem like much, they do appear to reveal an Avenger that yes yet to be revealed. Marvel’s Avengers was originally supposed to release last month on May 15, but was delayed to September 4 to ensure that Crystal Dynamics was able, “to deliver the ultimate Avengers gaming experience....

Sonic Team head Takashi Iizuka confirms earlier reports that a new Sonic the Hedgehog game is in development, and reveals that it will launch at some point in 2017. For over a decade now, things haven’t exactly been great for the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. None of the iconic blue hedgehog’s games have earned the same acclaim as his older titles, and there have been many that have been outright panned by critics....

With the surprise announcement and launch of Apex Legends, developer Respawn Entertainment has generated a lot of buzz, but it seems the developer is set to get even more people talking. As some may know, the studio is also currently working on a new Star Wars project entitled Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. And by all indications, gamers should be hearing something more about this mysterious title soon. During the EA Q3 2019 Earnings Conference Call, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order was discussed by both Andrew Wilson (CEO) and Blake Jorgensen (COO, CFO)....

EA Sports’ modern titles might not be worth a damn, but there was an era when the company was putting out consistently good sports titles on consoles. That happens to be almost 30 years ago on the Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo, where EA was a powerhouse to be reckoned with. Likely as a way to drum up interest in NHL 21, EA has released NHL 94 Rewind to entice fans to buy the latest game....

Ninjala announced the start of its first community event, dubbed the Ippon Matsuri, earlier this morning. The game developers quickly followed up with the release of Dev Diary #7, which announced an August 26 start date for Season 2, and introduced players to an upcoming new weapon class and stage. The first event to hit Ninjala will be the Ippon Matsuri (Festival). From July 21, 10:00 PM - July 27, 1:59 AM, students of the World Ninja Association will celebrate the 1st Ippon Festival by trying to score as many Ippon as possible in their matches....

The Nintendo Switch, far more than any other gaming platform, has become uniquely intertwined with the current global quarantine. This is due to a confluence of factors — the console’s portability, its library of child-friendly games, and the social media phenomena surrounding Animal Crossing: New Horizons. While it hasn’t been making waves the same way as Animal Crossing, Nintendo’s latest in an ongoing line of peripheral-based exercise games, Ring Fit Adventure, has been running out of stock just about as quickly as Switch consoles themselves....

With the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, it’s unclear how exactly the impending launch of Microsoft’s Xbox Series X might be affected going forward. While the company has announced an Inside Xbox stream coming tomorrow at 2 pm PT, Xbox Wire Editor in Chief Will Tuttle confirmed that there will be no “new details to share” about the next-generation console. In his post to Xbox Wire this morning, Tuttle said the first 2020 episode of Inside Xbox will focus on news for Grounded, Gears Tactics, Sea of Thieves, and the Xbox Game Pass....

Minecraft developer Notch, or Markus Persson as he is less commonly known, is not one to shy away from voicing his opinions on Twitter, but typically its in an effort to praise another developer, like Double Fine’s Tim Schafer, not to stir the pot. However, the Twitter back and forth that took place between Notch and OMGPOP CEO Dan Porter was about standing up for the little guy, OMGPOP’s former employee Shay Pierce....

Observer is a 2017 horror game that shook up the genre, but still struggled with broad appeal. The Rutger Hauer-voiced sci-fi title tasked players with hacking the minds of murder victims, slowly unraveling a mind-bending story clue by clue. While at its heart Observer is an adventure game, it also features several stealth sequences that give it more of a traditional horror atmosphere. Now, Bloober Team is announcing that’s going to bring Observer to a new generation....

Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, Jim Brown, and Muhammad Ali walk into a motel room. No really, this isn’t a put-on. It’s an event that actually happened (more or less) on the night that Ali won the heavyweight championship of the world in 1964, and right before he changed his name from Cassius Clay. Now what these four historic figures at the intersection of Black male celebrity and wider American pop culture said to each other that evening is unknown… but it makes the mind wander; it also makes for a hell of a good story in One Night in Miami....

Everyone is binging something nowadays, so why not monetize it while slowly drifting out of sanity? This Halloween, one lucky horror fan in the U.S. will have the opportunity to spend 24 hours watching a nonstop stream of frightening films with a $1,000 reward waiting for them at the end. The interesting folks over at CableTV.com and HighSpeedInternet.com are looking for applicants to take on a dream/nightmare job for one night....

It’s never happened before in the previous 92 years. Not since the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences began handing out little gold men has more than one woman been nominated in the Best Director category. So judging by that unfortunate precedent alone, the Oscars 2021nominations provided more good news than bad, even with a reliable list of snubs this year. Indeed, the most remarkable moment was when Chloé Zhao and Emerald Fennell were both nominated for Best Director due to their work on Nomadland and Promising Young Woman, respectively....