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Taking on the horrors of a nuclear wasteland might be a scary thought for the Sole Survivor, but luckily they won’t need to venture out alone into the Commonwealth. Found across multiple locations and quests, they can request a companion to join them on their adventures. Companions play an important role in Fallout 4. For one, they can be developed a relationship with the Sole Survivor to unlock bonuses and additional quests....

Imagine how utterly fantastic and terrifying it would be to play through Silent Hill in first-person. Well, if you have Fallout 4, you no longer have to imagine that, thanks to the Whispering Hills mod. Whispering Hills Episode 1 was recently released, updating the mod with a new questline featuring the new town of Whispering Hills, and accompanied by a new creepy trailer. The Whispering Hills update is a major update to the mod, bringing it up to version 4....

As revealed at last month’s Star Wars Celebration in Southern California, DICE and Electronic Arts’ Star Wars: Battlefront revival will have many of the features that made the original two games so popular: large scale Rebel-vs-Empire battles, levels ripped straight from the original trilogy (and a couple of new locations, too), and lots and lots of bots. Know what it doesn’t have? Space battles. That may not sound like a big deal, but the omission of space combat has fans up in arms, and with good reason: Star Wars Battlefront II featured space battles, and some players consider them one of the best parts of the game....

A year after Anthem was released, BioWare revealed that it was working on a major Anthem overhaul that would re-design the core gameplay loop, add better loot, and improve progression. Seeing how some live-service titles, such as No Man’s Sky, recovered after a soft reboot, Anthem players saw a glimmer of hope in BioWare’s statement. After a long silence, BioWare and EA finally revealed that they are cancelling all things Anthem, with development focusing on upcoming entries in the Dragon Age and Mass Effect series....

Update 5/29: Sony has confirmed the PlayStation 5 game reveal event for Thursday, June 4, not Wednesday, June 3. Original story follows. Earlier this year, the release dates for Doom Eternal and Animal Crossing: New Horizons fell on the same day. It was considered a major day for gaming, and it’s safe to say both games lived up to expectations and then some. Doom Eternal earned high praise from critics, and Animal Crossing: New Horizons became a bonafide cultural phenomenon, really being the perfect game for the current age of isolation and social distancing....

With the PlayStation 5 now officially launched, now may be the perfect time for Sony to resurrect some of its older IPs, with plenty of older franchises that have gone untouched for many years. Some PlayStation exclusives have actually began to make a return in recent years, including Medievil, Crash Bandicoot, and Spyro the Dragon. But there’s one PlayStation franchise that hasn’t been seen in two console generations and nearly an entire decade: Sly Cooper, which first premiered in 2002, hasn’t appeared since Sanzuru Games’ Thieves in Time for the PlayStation 3 and PS Vita....

Say what you will about Zack Snyder’s Justice League, but the director’s streaming superhero redux managed to branch the DC Extended Universe movies off into its own tangential timeline, which has since been dubbed the “SnyderVerse” by the fandom that now passionately hashtags for its restoration in the studio’s main continuity. While recent revelations about Snyder’s rough relationship with Warner make this restoration unlikely, the director isn’t entirely shutting the door on such a notion....

Harry Potter Wizards Unite, Niantic’s pseudo-unexpected followup to 2016’s augmented reality smash hit Pokémon Go, debuted on the 21st of June. Though the launch was somewhat muddled, the game is still apparently on track to make around $10 million within the first month. The Harry Potter franchise is said to be worth nearly $25 billion, and the new mobile title is just one example of the multimedia license’s continued pop-culture prominence....

Yes, World of Warcraft: Shadowlands will add controller support, but that doesn’t mean it’ll turn into a console game like Diablo 3. Shadowlands, the upcoming World of Warcraft expansion, promises to add a lot of stuff to the world’s most successful MMORPG. Besides the brand new end-game content, there will be new areas to explore, new offline progression via the mobile app, Legendary Runecrafting, and the complete removal of fees associated with swapping genders....

The reveal that G4, the video-game focused channel, is making a return shocked the world. After all, G4 ended all production in 2014. But instead of being skeptical about G4’s opportunities in 2020, it seems many are very excited about the possibility. In fact, many G4 fans online are asking for their favorite video game personalities to be hired as hosts, and no one is getting more attention than WWE wrestler and host of the Up Up Down Down YouTube channel Austin Watson, AKA XavierWoods, AKA Austin Creed....

Xbox Game Pass subscribers might have something to look forward to very soon. The official Twitter just announced a “pretty cool game” could be coming to the Game Pass in the near future. The Xbox Game Pass is a video game subscription service for Xbox One users, allowing users to pay a monthly or yearly fee in exchange for access to a game catalog. The Xbox Game Pass service offers subscribers a variety of indies, triple-A titles, and Microsoft exclusives....

It might have taken days of conflicting statements from Microsoft and decibels of outspoken wariness from gamers, but a concrete image finally appears to be solidifying regarding the Xbox One’s policy on charging fees for the playing of used games. It appears that GameStop can breath a sigh of relief. According to a new report from Polygon, the Xbox One will not require an extraneous monetary fee in order to play games purchased secondhand....

Regardless of how victorious players were in XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Firaxis Games continued down a canon storyline with XCOM 2 that assumed players had ultimately lost the fight against the technologically superior alien invaders. This more or less sets the tone for the new War of the Chosen expansion: there are some fights you just can’t win, and the impressively deep expansion pack for XCOM 2 piles on the signature pain that strategy fans have come to embrace in almost masochistic fashion....

Mario + Rabbids may have been the turn-based game to get the most attention at the big E3 press conferences, but it wasn’t the only title representing the genre. Firaxis Games revealed a massive new XCOM 2 expansion, War of the Chosen, which is so large that it almost became XCOM 3. War of the Chosen is an incredibly ambitious expansion that goes far beyond just adding a few new maps and skins to the existing game....

There are many dogs in Final Fantasy VII Remake and you can’t pet any of them. Final Fantasy VII Remake is a great game. It serves up a giant heaping dish of nostalgia with a bunch of new stuff thrown in too. If you’ve never experienced Final Fantasy VII, then Remake is the way to experience it. But FFVII Remake is not perfect. It’s lacking a feature that many modern games have, and its a feature that Square Enix is likely kicking themselves for forgetting....

Ys Net, the makers of Shenmue III, are going to “assess the situation” with respect to their recently announced exclusive release on the Epic Games Store. Last week at E3, Shenmue III provided us a release date, a new trailer, opened pre-orders, and the tentative system requirements if you plan to play the game on PC. They also announced that rather than release on Steam as originally planned, Shenmue III would head to the Epic Games Store as an exclusive title....

For wrestling fans, Yuke’s is one of the most iconic game developers ever. The Japanese studio has been making wrestling games since 1995, working with major wrestling promotions including New Japan Pro-WRestling, Shin Nippon Pro Wrestling, and WWF/WWE, as well as the mixed martial arts promotion UFC more recently. Now, this past week, Yuke’s confirmed it was now working with All Elite Wrestling, leading some to question whether there’s contentious feelings or a rivalry with the WWE....

How and when to introduce your children to gaming is a question often asked by parents, especially those who do not play games themselves. Many are worried about lengthy exposure to screens, as well as potential video game addiction. While these are valid concerns, gaming also has huge benefits for your child, as long as it’s properly monitored and controlled. So how can you make sure you get the balance right?...

How to create, setup and use an iCloud email account What is iCloud Drive? How much is iCloud storage? 50GB: $0.99 US/£0.79 UK 200GB: $2.99 US/£2.49 UK 2TB: $9.99 US/£6.99 UK How to set up iCloud Drive System requirements Turn on iCloud Drive Go to SettingsTap on your name at the top.Tap iCloud.Scroll down and turn on iCloud Drive.You can find your iCloud Drive files in the Files app. Mac Go to Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Apple ID....

What Does Cloudwashing Mean? Cloudwashing is a pejorative term for a supposedly cloud-based solution that does not use any true cloud features at all. The implication behind the term is that a company is trying to pass off existing non-cloud products as “cloud computing.” Companies believed to be cloudwashing are allegedly inflating their portfolio of cloud products on their financial statements. Techopedia Explains Cloudwashing People who use the word “cloudwashing” believe that many enterprise companies are artificially inflating the number of cloud products because cloud computing has become the latest buzzword....