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Outriders is an action co-op RPG that just came out on multiple platforms on April 1st. The game itself was lauded for its fun gameplay and excellent shooter-looter mechanics. However, it was also criticized for its terrible server performance. Regardless, a lot of players still ultimately enjoyed the game. It is the gameplay that matters, after all. Interestingly, the gameplay of Outriders has been compared by many with another shooter game by the name of Gears of War....

Climbing in Overwatch is a tough job, and there’s one known rank in particular where most players tend to get stuck: Platinum. According to lead designer Jeff Kaplan, this is the second-biggest rank in terms of the number of players. It’s a diverse rank, and players tend to have a wide variety of small problems that they should focus on fixing. While there’s no set answer for every player, there are a few general things that anyone in Platinum can try to achieve in this season....

Overwatch’s Archives event returned on March 12th, with the inclusion of brand new challenge missions for the previous PvE campaigns from last years’ Archive events. Two challenge missions will be released for each week of the event with the first two available from the start being Challenge Missions for Overwatch Uprising. These missions have been added instead of a brand new PvE campaign featuring new lore for the world of Overwatch, but that doesn’t mean that these new missions don’t provide engaging and challenging content....

Skins are an incredibly important part of a long-running franchise like Overwatch, and keeping up with new designs for over thirty characters can be a real chore! This list will help you sort out the basic from the brilliant. Echo is Overwatch’s 32nd playable character and was released in April of 2020. Originally underrated by players, Echo has spent the last year living up to her legend as one of the hidden gems of the original Overwatch lineup (and the last of the heroes to be released for Overwatch before Overwatch 2 launches!...

Overwatch is currently celebrating the holiday season with its Winter Wonderland event, which gives fans the chance to unlock a number of new skins as well as compete in limited time game modes like Mei’s Snowball Offensive and Yeti Hunt. Game director Jeff Kaplan has taken the celebrations to a weird place, appearing in a bizarre Twitch stream that has left fans scratching their heads. In the stream, Overwatch game director Jeff Kaplan sits in front of a fireplace for a little over nine hours....

Heroes of the Storm just launched its major 2.0 update and is holding a new Overwatch-themed event where players can unlock new Genji and D.Va skins. The Heroes of the Storm 2.0 update focuses mainly on revamping the game’s meta progression and monetization systems. Blizzard’s new focus is clearly much more on gaining new players as well as retaining them. Adopting Overwatch’s Loot Box system, now in the form of Loot Chests, is one of them....

Set for a release on July 17, the reviews are in for Paper Mario: The Origami King. The game has been generally well-received by critics and is said to be a return to form for the series though it doesn’t quite reach the levels of the much-acclaimed Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. IGN - 7/10 “The Origami King is a truly likeable game despite the shallowness of its new spin on gameplay....

Monster Hunter Rise brings with it almost a dozen new monsters to hunt and capture. In this installment of the franchise, the new monsters all follow a common theme; they are all based on Japanese yokai. Each of the Monsters’ designs resembles ghosts and spirits from Japanese folklore. Let’s take a look at the series’ newest monsters, what they’re weak against, and the armor you can craft with their carcasses....

Rumors have been swirling for some time that Capcom was preparing to release a new Monster Hunter game for the Nintendo Switch. And during the latest Nintendo Direct Mini: Partner Showcase presentation, it turned out those rumors were true. Capcom has officially announced Monster Hunter Rise as a Nintendo Switch exclusive game. The Monster Hunter Rise trailer showcased advanced movement techniques for the Monster Hunter franchise, with players able to speed across the world on the back of a dog, which was also able to climb up walls....

During PAX East 2020, Capcom announced that Raging Brachydios and Furious Rajang would be coming to Monster Hunter World: Iceborne later this month on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The two variant monsters are returning veterans of the long-running series for the 2019 expansion to Monster Hunter World that its publisher Capcom says has officially shipped 5 million units globally. The announcement of Monster Hunter World: Iceborne’s sales figure milestone was made in a press release Friday that also said the franchise of action role-playing games has cumulatively sold over 62 million units since its first release on the PlayStation 2 in 2004....

Our quick take Moto Edge 30 Ultra initial Design 161.8 x 73.5 x 8.4 mm - 198.5g Curved glass front and back IP52 water/dust resistance Interstellar Black, Starlight White colours Display and software 6.67-inch pOLED display FullHD+ resolution - 144Hz refresh rates HDR10+ support - 10 bit/1 billion colours Android 12 + 3 major software updates promised Hardware and performance Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 processor 12GB RAM - 256GB storage 4610mAh battery - 125W wired charging - 50W wireless Camera specs 200MP f/1....

July’s free games with PlayStation Plus has something for fans of basketball and fans of long-suffering tomb raiders. Sony announced that the Playstation 4’s two monthly freebies will be NBA2K20 and Rise Of The Tomb Raider, two titles that feature a lot of sweating and painful grunting. NBA2K20 is the latest basketball game available from 2K games right now. Sports fans have been without hoops for quite some time due to COVID-19, so giving PlayStation Plus subscribers the chance to jump on the court as their favorite player seems like a kind gesture from Sony....

Back in the days of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, the Need for Speed franchise had just come off one its best entries to date and was sitting firmly at the top of its game as a leader in the industry. Just like Call of Duty, FIFA, and the battle royale genre, there was a time when racing games were guaranteed hits with games like Forza, Burnout Paradise, Project Gotham Racing, and Midnight Club all proving incredibly popular....

This Resident Evil article contains spoilers. Netflix’s take on Resident Evil is unlike any other adaptation of the long-running game series. Not just in its change of format but in its approach to blending the franchise’s zombie-ridden world with a semi real-world setting in which everyday conversations run the gamut from Covid-19 to Dua Lipa. It’s a strange cocktail of a show that can be patchy and imbalanced at times, and yet oddly fun, irreverent, and surprising as well....

The way that our world is headed, with natural disasters, global warming and political big shots at constant loggerheads, would it be that hard to imagine everything we know crumbling before our eyes? Netflix’s new sci-fi drama Tribes of Europa focuses on three siblings that set out to change the course of the world after a global disaster that happened 45 years prior to 2074, when the series is set....

The realm of Shounen (‘for boys’ in Japanese) anime is a loaded field filled with some historically popular anime like One Piece and Naruto among others calling it home. Give credit to The Seven Deadly Sins for carving out its own space in this competitive genre as Netflix just released a teaser trailer for the upcoming season. The Seven Deadly Sins was one of the first anime licensed by Netflix way back in 2015 and now enters its fifth season....

Earlier today, a store update finally confirmed the release date for Destiny 2’s first Year 2 DLC add-on, Black Armory. Most had been speculating that the DLC would release in December, specifically the 4th, but this store page made it official. However, it also offered some new details about the DLC and confirmed a few presumptions. The store page for the Destiny 2 Annual Pass reveals that Black Armory will offer players a variety of weapons to earn along with some new activities....

Video game developer Arkane Studios releases gameplay footage for Dishonored 2 that features protagonist Emily Kaldwin fighting clockwork soldier enemies. Several days ago, fans of Dishonored 2 were able to get a look at a Low Chaos playthrough of the Clockwork Mansion featuring one of the game’s two main characters Emily Kaldwin, as she primarily stuck to the shadows with a stealth-driven strategy. Now, the developers at Arkane Studios have decided to unleash even more gameplay from the forthcoming title, with today’s footage focused on even more ways for Dishonored 2’s heroine to tackle the mission....

There are few more iconic antagonists than DC Comics’ Joker; so much so that Batman’s nemesis has appeared in all manner of media, including NetherRealm Studios’ Mortal Kombat 11. His standalone 2019 film Joker became a huge hit, even netting Joaquin Phoenix an Oscar for Best Actor, and if fans are interested they can really prove their love for the movie with a $1,299 Blitzway statue. The statue, made in collaboration with Prime 1 Studio, is a 1/3 scale rendition of Phoenix’s Joker standing on the iconic staircase from Joker....

Calling Cards are a vital part of every player’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare identity. Each player selects one based on their personality. The Calling Card is the last thing the enemy players in Modern Warfare before they respawn, making it an important decision. With every new bundle release, update, and small patch it seems that new Calling Cards are added to the game. When players looked closely at the “Pro Pack: Rush Down” bundle they noticed something odd about the calling card....