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Yesterday, Sony revealed it will not be attending E3 2019, which marks the first time the gaming giant has missed the event in its 24-year history. Rumors and speculation have been circulating as to why, with many thinking the PlayStation 5 may somehow be involved in its 2020 return. Still, this hasn’t prevented gaming brand Xbox from taking a lighthearted jab at its competitor. To be clear, this isn’t the first time the two companies have taken shots at each other....

Fans that have been playing Sega’s popular Yakuza series over the years are certainly no strangers to depictions of crime. Indeed, many players have been following Kazuma Kiryu’s forays in criminality since 2005. That said, real world criminal activity is something different entirely, and a recent report indicates that an actor from Yakuza 6: The Song of Life has found himself in some trouble due to an apparently accidental connection to organized crime....

The PlayStation 4’s latest update comes bearing a cool, new feature, with iOS users being handed the luxury of playing PS4 games via their iPhones or iPads using Remote Play. Version 6.50, a 442 MB mandatory download, makes it so that Remote Play is no longer just available to the PS Vita, Sony Experia, PC and Mac. Users will need to download the PS4 Remote Play app from the Apple App Store, however....

The Zelda series loves to reuse its staple characters, items, and locations, typically because what isn’t broken doesn’t need to be fixed. Many of the iconic locales in Hyrule are so perfect for what the series needs that they’ve popped up in several games in different capacities. One of the most famous and beloved areas in any game is the Lost Woods — a mazelike forest filled with creatures, magic, and confusing paths....

What Does Accelerated Mobile Page (AMP) Mean? Accelerated Mobile Page (AMP) is an initiative to create attractive web pages that load quickly on mobile devices, originally developed by Google. It consists of a modified version of HTML called AMP HTML, a JavaScript library, AMP JS, and a caching library, Google AMP Cache. The project is open source. Techopedia Explains Accelerated Mobile Page (AMP) The Accelerated Mobile Page open-source project is an attempt to solve the problem of slow-loading mobile pages....

Playstation’s Indie Day has revealed a release date for Armature Studio’s upcoming Where the Heart Leads. The surreal narrative adventure game focuses on the power of choice as players journey through one man’s past. The game will launch on PS4 and PS5 via backwards compatibility on July 13, 2021. The upcoming title, supported by the PlayStation Indies initiative, will unfold a rich narrative tapestry of realistic and detailed writing and beautiful watercolor-esque artwork....

Fortnite’s Deadpool event is nearing its end with Week 7’s challenges, and players are ever closer to finally unlocking Deadpool as a playable character. Find Deadpool’s 2 Pistols, one of this week’s challenges, has been giving some players trouble, but is actually quite a simple task if one knows where to look. This challenge, paired alongside the final challenge to enter a phone booth or port-a-potty, is the second to last task players must complete before unlocking Deadpool in Fortnite....

The Nintendo Switch has proven hugely successful since its introduction in 2017. Worldwide sales topped 111 million just five years later and the Japanese gaming giant seems to have found its feet again. There’s just one problem: which of the three Switch consoles should you buy? The standard Nintendo Switch was joined by the handheld-only Switch Lite in 2019, with the upgraded model - Switch OLED - now officially in the wild, too....

Dwayne Johnson is finally joining the DCEU with Black Adam. The movie’s trailers (not to mention the movie itself) showcase a brutally action-packed epic, the character isn’t one of DC’s most well known, despite having been around for over 75 years. Black Adam is truly the most complex (and violent) character to spring from the Shazam mythos and has been the center of some of DC’s best tales of the past 20 years....

What Does John McCarthy Mean? John McCarthy was a computer and cognitive scientist most notable for his great contributions in the field of artificial intelligence, where he is considered as one of the founders. He also coined the term “artificial intelligence” and developed Lisp, one of the earliest programming languages, which is favored for use in AI research. He received the Turing Award for his contributions in AI, the Kyoto Prize and the United States National Medal of Science, among many other honors and accolades....

Everything we’ve seen of the Demon’s Souls remake so far suggests it could be the best PS5 launch game, and one of the best games of 2020, but it’s what we haven’t seen of the remake that is worrying some long-time fans. A modder named Lance McDonald has been combing through leaked files related to the upcoming Demon’s Soul remake and recently revealed that it appears the upcoming remake will not restore Demon’s Souls infamous Sixth Archstone or add any new content related to it....

One of the notable differences between book and novel in director Denis Villeneuve’s upcoming film version of Frank Herbert’s Dune — for those who have read the 1965 sci-fi classic — is that the character of Dr. Liet-Kynes is a man in the novel but a woman in the movie, where she is played by British actress Sharon Duncan Brewster. Dr. Kynes, in the story, is an inhabitant of the world known as Arrakis and its official Imperial Planetologist, with the goal of studying the arid, harsh planet and possibly one day terraforming it for a more temperate climate....

This week saw Sony confirm that God of War 2 and Gran Turismo 7 will be joining Horizon Forbidden West as cross-generation titles. If you aren’t familiar with the lingo, this means that all three games will be launching across both PS4 and PS5. I can conjure up a number of reasons as to why this direction has been taken, although many of them become irrelevant when you consider that such a move will ultimately allow for more players to enjoy these games once they are eventually released into the wild....

Respawn Entertainment’s Apex Legends has taken the gaming universe by storm since its almost out-of-the-blue launch in early February. Few had confidence in the project, given its trend-following nature and association with Electronic Arts, but the new battle royale contender has proven many wrong and served as both a multiplayer mainstay and a Twitch titan. That said, this is EA we’re talking about, and players are beginning to take issue with the game’s microtransaction system....

The PlayStation 5 game reveal event was originally scheduled to take place on Thursday, June 4. However, out of respect for the Black Lives Matter protests that are happening all over the world, Sony ultimately made the decision to delay the event indefinitely. No new PS5 game reveal event date has been announced, but that hasn’t stopped rumors from swirling about what exactly the event may entail. Sony has teased that the new date for the PS5 game reveal event will come soon, but industry insiders and leakers may have revealed some of its surprises early....

We’ve all run around Skyrim completely naked at some point or another (some of us have even downloaded mods to be even more naked than the game allows). But usually, the NPCs of Skyrim aren’t all that impressed with what the Dovahkin has to offer—some are downright fearful of all that beautiful heroic muscle, while others just demand that you cover-up. If you’re tired of hearing Adrianne Avenicci ask you to put your shirt on, then we’ve got the mod for you....

Writer Rhianna Pratchett, known for video games including the Tomb Raider reboot and the Overlord series, returns to an early staple of role-playing gaming with Fighting Fantasy. Pratchett’s book, Crystal of Storms, takes players into a fantasy police procedural on a floating island. She’s one of only two guest writers for the franchise, and the first woman to put her stamp on it. With a strong career of her own and the legacy of her father Terry’s Discworld series, her quirky take on the fantasy procedural is part of Scholastic’s revitalization of Fighting Fantasy....

Another week, another World of Warcraft animated short describes the horrible things that are happening on WoW’s afterlife. This time, we get natural with Ardenweald. Welcome to Ardenweald, the afterlife of the Night Fae Covenant. Things are normally pretty peaceful in this sacred grove at the foot of the great tree, but all is not well in this hallowed forest. The latest Afterlives short showcases what happens to poor Ursoc after he was so carelessly murdered by World of Warcraft’s adventurers....

With the right planning and strategy, an experienced World of Warcraft player can hit level 50 in World of Warcraft in around 15 hours, or maybe even 10 if they really know what they’re doing. It has taken Reddit user TheSlapperfish considerably longer to achieve the feat with his Goblin character, Nobb, although there’s a good reason for that: he has yet to leave the starting area. To say the Redditor’s journey to level 50 has been an arduous one would be an understatement....

The past 18 months have not been the best of times for Microsoft’s Xbox One. Before launch, the console caught flack for its ‘always on’ policy and its focus on all media (rather than just gaming) and the troubles continued for a while. The price remained one of the most controversial aspects of the Xbox One as it retailed for $100 higher than the PS4 due to the mandatory Kinect add-on, a policy that wasn’t reversed until June....