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The Assassin’s Creed franchise has done a wonderful job of uniquely telling alternate historical stories through the platform of video games. When the franchise burst onto the scene in 2007 with the original title, the game took place in the Holy Lands during the Third Crusade. Now Assassin’s Creed Ragnorak looks to turn the page toward Norse history, which lends itself to countless opportunities for interesting storytelling. With some of the rumors that have swirled around, fans have been able to pinpoint where Ragnarok may take place....

Final Fantasy VII Remake is set to be one of the biggest PlayStation 4 exclusives of the year, but fans are already wondering about the future of the game, as it’s not going to remain on Sony’s main system for long. It seems almost a given that the Final Fantasy VII Remake series will move to the next generation of systems in the future, but what about the consoles that are out now?...

Thanos is back in the new Wizkids game Marvel Dice Masters: Avengers Infinity Gauntlet. Can you beat him and his cronies, or will you be snapped out of existence? Dice Masters is a collectible dice building game by creators Mike Elliot and Eric M. Lang and is owned by Wizkids. It is a dice building game where teams of characters are assembled and face off against each other over a series of turns....

With just over a month until World of Warcraft: Shadowlands releases, the time left to finish some Battle for Azeroth achievements being removed continues shrinking by the day. Players on the road to the ‘Mad World’ feat of strength should already have beaten the Horrific Vision of Orgrimmar. However, the other half of this challenge involves triumphing over a similarly twisted Stormwind solo. The Horrific Vision of Stormwind is another one of N’Zoth’s dreams made reality where Alleria Windrunner has taken over the city with her void powers....

After years of wishing for a re-release of World of Warcraft, players got what they asked for with the upcoming World of Warcraft Classic. The original game without expansions is being remastered with improvements, and in some areas, the game is regressing into something we never asked for. Hopefully, by the time World of Warcraft Classic is ready to release, Blizzard will have worked out all the bugs and only removed the content that is needed....

Not too long ago, an industry analyst projected console sales for the Xbox One, putting the current generation console’s figures at roughly the halfway point to Sony’s nearly 100 million systems sold with the PS4. That said, the Microsoft system still has a bevy of gamers engaged with the hardware, and the company has now decided to give them a heads up about which titles they should expect from the Games with Gold program for February 2019....

The Xbox Series X and Series S are both fully backward compatible with nigh-on every game that runs on Xbox One, and that means they can equally play Xbox 360 and original Xbox games too. That’s a huge incentive for gamers who choose Xbox. Not only do they get the latest Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S games to play, they can dip from a big library of compatible titles stretching back to the start of the 2000s....

Voice chat has been a large part of the Xbox’s identity since the original console. While games like Halo put in place the console’s stigma of being online focused, additions like voice chat cemented it. That isn’t to the detriment of the console either. Microsoft has always crafted great online experiences and their influence has now standardized online console features for the industry. Online multiplayer is a key component of most AAA console games and that is partly thanks to Microsoft’s online initiatives from the get-go....

We’re just days away from the launch of the Xbox Series X and Series S consoles, and along with it Yakuza: Like A Dragon, one of the few new launch titles for the console. And while everything seems to be going smoothly here in North America, something has gone seriously wrong over in Japan. Yakuza: Like A Dragon is already available in Japan for the PlayStation 4. Released as “Ryū ga Gotoku 7: Hikari to Yami no Yukue” (translated as “Like A Dragon 7: Whereabouts of Light and Darkness”), the game released way back in January to rave reviews....

What Does Fear-Driven Development (FDD) Mean? Fear-driven development (FDD) is a term coined in IT to talk about problems with software development where companies might be so afraid of making mistakes that they restrict or control processes in harmful and inefficient ways. It is also used to talk about situations where company leadership might drive development teams through fear, which can also have a corrosive effect on the overall software development process....

What is DLSS? Nvidia’s AI-powered graphics tech explained See more PC Gaming coverage in association with Nvidia GeForce RTX What is ray tracing? Reflections, shadow lighting and immersive visuals Textured area lights Ray-traced area light shadows Ray-traced reflections Ray-traced ambient occlusion Cinematic depth of field (DOF) Nvidia GameWorks ray tracing denoising Best graphics cards: Get a GPU to power you to gaming bliss What hardware do you need? GeForce GTX 1660 Ti GeForce GTX 1660 Nvidia Titan Xp (2017) Nvidia Titan X (2016) GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GeForce GTX 1080 GeForce GTX 1070 Ti GeForce GTX 1070 GeForce GTX 1060 6GB Current games that support ray tracing Battlefield 2042 Cyberpunk 2077 90 awesome screenshots that show the visual pleasures of Cyberpunk 2077 Fortnite Minecraft RTX MechWarrior 5 Shadow of the Tomb Raider Shadow of the Tomb Raider review: Stealthy finale for Lara Croft trilogy Metro Exodus Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Control Wolfenstein: Youngblood Ghostrunner Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Watch Dogs: Legion World of Warcraft: Shadowlands Ready or Not Dying Light 2 Future games with ray tracing support Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 A Plague Tale: Requiem

What Does Wetware Mean? Wetware refers to any hardware or software systems with a biological component, or biological systems that function like software and hardware. Different types of wetware are important in STEM disciplines like bioengineering, artificial intelligence and genetic research. Techopedia Explains Wetware One of the best examples of wetware is the human body and central nervous system. Scientists may talk about wetware as describing the bioelectric and biochemical properties of the central nervous system....

There is nothing but Suicide Squad spoilers all the way through. So, there’s kind of a happy ending to the Suicide Squad movie, right? Diablo gets his redemption, Deadshot gets time with his daughter, Harley gets to spend quality time with her beloved Mister J, and to hear some critics tell it, the fact that the movie ends at all is a happiness in itself (we mostly liked it, though). The Squad will live to fight another day, and ARGUS will continue to meddle in superhuman affairs via their own, kinda shady methods....

As one of the best-selling games of all time, The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim has been ported to every console possible. After starting on the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 back in 2011, the game has branched out to the following generation of consoles including the Nintendo Switch thanks to the remastered Special Edition of the game that released in 2016. Next year will be Skyrim’s 10th anniversary, so as a widely popular game, some fans are expecting huge plans from Bethesda for its celebration, possibly including game releases to commemorate it....

History’s The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch features ongoing investigations into one of the country’s most mysterious locales. The titular ranch allegedly experiences paranormal activity regularly from UFOs and cattle mutilations to incarnate voices and poltergeists…and sometimes several at the same time. Strange occurrences on the ranch have been the focus of several scientific investigations, including from a secretive program housed in the Pentagon. What is not as well known is that some investigators claim the paranormal phenomena follow them home....

The co-op Viking survival game Valheim has seemingly come out of nowhere, absolutely taking Twitch by storm. While the survival genre has had games do this in the past, those days are fewer and farther between, where that honor generally goes to the battle royale genre. What is it exactly about Valheim that’s creating such a craze? There’s no doubting that, despite the game being in early access, it’s a very good game with a lot of content, and more polish than the early access tag is used to....

Whatever it takes, Degrassi always makes it through. It’s been announced that a new version of the beloved teen drama is headed to streamer HBO Max in 2023. The series has been off the air since 2017, after four seasons of Degrassi: Next Class on Netflix, but paraphrasing a Degrassi classic song, “everybody wants Degrassi and they’ll never give up.”Details about the new series are scant at the moment, though we do know the show is being helmed by Lara Azzopardi and Julia Cohen, writers who’ve worked on such shows as The Bold Type, Riverdale, and A Million Little Things, but most importantly they previously wrote an episode Degrassi: The Next Generation....

If you’ve been keeping an eye on the Steam best-seller charts or video game social media over the last few weeks, then you’ve almost certainly heard the name “Valheim.” Described by developer Iron Gate AB as “A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by Viking culture,” Valheim has quickly become one of the talked about (and played) PC games in the world. Elements of the survival title will instantly be familiar to fans of games like Rust and 7 Days to Die, but merely comparing Valheim to other popular PC survival titles doesn’t exactly capture what has helped Valheim sell over 2 million copies before it’s even left Early Access....

Whether it was Nintendo vs. Sega, Sony vs. Microsoft, or Neo Geo vs TurboGrafx-16, there’s been some form of console war waging for decades now. A seemingly never-ending battle of video game companies competing for the right to place their machines underneath our TVs. Even now as we head toward the next generation of consoles, both the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 are still trying to lure us all in with promises of exclusive games, fancy new controllers, and heaps of teraflops....

Mages in Warcraft’s Azeroth wield the mightiest of Arcane Magics. Thanks to their studies and training in the mystic arts, Mages can do all sorts of wonders. Essentially, beginner Mages can summon food and water, or even polymorph people into sheep. However, the most powerful of Mages can summon Elementals and even unleash mighty fireballs towards foes. As such, Mages also serve as one of the best damage classes in Blizzard’s World of Warcraft....