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The highly anticipated remake of 2003’s first-person action title XIII released this week, after a delay of nearly one year. Unfortunately, the game was received negatively by both players and critics pretty much across the board upon launch, due to changes from the original game that were deemed unnecessary, gameplay problems and limitations, as well as serious audio and technical issues in the XIII remake. Now the game’s developer PlayMagic and publisher Microids have released an official statement to apologize to gamers for the numerous problems they’ve encountered with the remake, and to say that player disappointment and their legitimate criticisms have been heard loud and clear by the development team....

There’s no doubt that Epic Games’ Fortnite Battle Royale is one of the most popular and successful titles in existence, with the developer having managed to garner a huge amount of revenue with the shooter ever since it launched. Be that as it may, should the free-to-play title have been designed any differently, it might not have been as lucrative as it is today. Speaking of design differences, one fan decided to try a demaking experiment in order to see what it would be like if the game were given an 8-bit treatment complete with pixelated graphics and retro music....

Some players play Magic: The Gathering to win, creating finely tuned decks that play to the meta, building around things like an infinite combo involving a god and a robot. But other players, like the popular YouTuber and content creator Merchant, have a different idea about how the game should be played. In a recent YouTube video, Merchant managed to crash Magic: The Gathering Arena not once, but twice, by creating an absurd amount of goblin tokens....

What Does Random Forest Mean? Random forest is a consensus algorithm used in supervised machine learning (ML) to solve regression and classification problems. Each random forest is comprised of multiple decision trees that work together as an ensemble to produce one prediction. Techopedia Explains Random Forest One way to describe the philosophy behind the random forest is that since the random trees have some overlap, engineers can build systems to study data redundantly with the various trees and look for trends and patterns that support a given data outcome....

As Switch owners wait for an official new Pikmin announcement, we can take solace in the fact that new secrets are still being discovered in older titles in the series. That’s right, another Totaka’s Song has cropped up, this time in Pikmin 2. Before we get into this out-of-left-field discovery from a 14-year-old Pikmin game, though, there’s an elephant in the room that we’ve got to address. If you’ve never heard the phrase Totaka’s Song before, you’re going to be wondering what all the fuss is about....

The Game Awards create some of the most cynical, but also some of the most joyous, moments in the industry. Take this year’s event for example, in which it seemed hosts Geoff Keighley and Sydnee Goodman were out to get through the show as fast as possible. Keeping things moving is part of the job, to be sure, but the brevity of the actual awards were as if by design, so they could cram in more trailers and sponsored clips....

Persona 5 Royal is chock-full of unique personalities, and you are the lucky protagonist who gets to know each and every one. Even with their uniqueness, Jungian psychology says we can still group these well-loved characters into pretty concise groups. And hey, you can fit yourself into one, too! Surely that means there’s someone in Atlus’ Tokyo you’re a lot alike, right? Ever wondered which of Jokers’ confidants you resemble closest?...

It may not be the “Direct” presentation some have been waiting for, but the newly announced Wholesome Direct is still certain to be a great event. Hosted by Wholesome Games, the Wholesome Direct is an online showcase of over 50 different indie games. It’s a lineup of cute, cozy, and heartfelt games and the Wholesome Direct will air May 26 at 10:00 am PT on Youtube. As a teaser, Wholesome Games has released a shortlist of some of the games everyone can look forward to during the show....

With Hello Games’ space exploration title No Man’s Sky finally given a release date of June 21, one Game Rant writer explains why they are looking forward to the game. It’s been a long time coming, but there have finally been some finite details revealed about the launch of No Man’s Sky. For one thing, the procedurally-generated, space travel-themed title from developer Hello Games has been given a release date, with the game set to launch on June 21 in North America, and June 24 in Europe....

Disney’s live action remake of Mulan has found itself in the middle of controversy in China ahead of its Sept. 11 release in the region due to remarks made by its lead actor Liu Yifei on social media site Weibo. Liu Yifei, also known as Crystal Liu, shared an image of Fu Guohao, a journalist working at the Chinese state newspaper the Global Times assaulted during a recent spate of pro-democracy protests commenting, “I support Hong Kong police....

While many gameplay videos for Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus have already shown that fans will have the ability to dual-wield weapons to dish out the damage against a wide array of souped-up Nazis, the developers at MachineGames have decided to explain the feature in a more in-depth manner. In order to explicate this, MachineGames Executive Producer Jerk Gustafsson, and Creative Director Jens Matthies sat down with Bethesda’s Associate Director of Global Content, Gary Steinman, to unpack how doubling the firepower in the game is more nuanced than one might think and to discuss other relevant elements of the upcoming game....

Fans of Blizzard’s Warcraft would immediately recognize the blindfolded eyes, bat wings, and dual-curved blades of Illidan Stormrage. As such, players found it quite a surprise to learn that their characters could become a Demon Hunter like Illidan himself, courtesy of the new Class of the same name as introduced in the Legion expansion. Essentially, Demon Hunters in World of Warcraft follow Illidan’s philosophy of using the Burning Legion’s own magic against their own forces....

Classic World of Warcraft has received a firm release date of August 27, 2019. Fans have been requesting this for years now, but many people who play WoW today did not experience the game in 2004 and may be in for a bit of a shock with how different the experience was in its early launch. Leveling In Classic It needs to be said straight away: leveling up will feel drastically slower that it does today for a number of reasons....

Activision Blizzard is currently under investigation following accusations of harassment, discrimination, and fostering a hostile work environment. You can read more about the investigation here. Most of us probably assumed the answer to the question “Why did Microsoft buy Activision Blizzard?” was “Money.” While that assumption isn’t strictly wrong, the specific reason why Microsoft decided to add Activision Blizzard to Xbox’s growing war chest of studios is a bit…strange. “The biggest gaming platform on the planet is mobile phones,” says Head of Xbox, Phil Spencer, in an interview with Bloomberg....

With E3 2016 just around the corner, more evidence appears that suggests Microsoft is set to make a strong move into virtual reality with the Xbox One. At this year’s E3, plenty of gamers are expecting a glut of hardware announcements alongside the gameplay footage and new project reveals that are the bread and butter of the event. Many are expecting news on updated versions of the current consoles on the market in particular, with speculation continuing to rumble over a PlayStation 4K....

Firaxis has continued their exemplary work on the XCOM franchise with the release of XCOM 2 last week, and many hardcore fans have already beaten the unforgiving title. While the game introduces plenty of brand new gameplay elements into the fold, veteran players will find many nods to the original series hidden within XCOM 2. The most notable reference to the original series came at the very end of the game, and we’d like to take a moment to speculate on what this means for the future of the XCOM franchise....

As a nice late-Halloween early-Christmas gift, we can now re-experience the brilliance of Kojima’s long-deceased masterpiece of horror P.T. in the classic Doom style. One talented and dedicated modder by the name of Andrea Gori decided to resurrect P.T. using the 3D-accelerated Doom source port - GZDoom. And in fact, all you need to play the mod yourself is GZDoom which you can download for free here for Windows, Mac, and Ubuntu....

There are an untold number of children on YouTube with active accounts who have established audiences for themselves by playing games online. However, recent YouTube policy changes may impact these users and more, as YouTube has now revealed that it will be limiting the ability for minors to utilize YouTube’s services. YouTube’s decisions here are reportedly in an effort to help protect children that can potentially be reached and exploited through YouTube livestreaming, videos, and their comments....

What is Spotify Pumped? How does Spotify Pumped work? Go to this Spotify Pumped website. Click or tap the Let’s Hiit It button. Answering the on-screen questions: Select your workout space Select your preferred music genre Select your very own Spotify celebrity coach to keep your motivation high. Sign in to your Spotify account if you have one (optional). Select “Start Workout” to begin the workout playlist. Where is Spotify Pumped available?...

What Does Theory of Computation Mean? In computer science, the theory of computation provides a sort of “unified field theory” of how computers work. It uses the elements of automatic theory, computability theory and computational complexity theory to understand the nature of computing problems and how computing operations are performed. Techopedia Explains Theory of Computation Various tools function as part of the theory of computation, including an alphabet which is defined as the finite members of a particular string possibility – and various models such as the Turing model....