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The Xbox Series X/S released yesterday, giving users the opportunity to check out all of the new console’s features. Many users chose to show off features like Quick Resume or graphic capabilities of launch titles, while other users chose to explore the physical features. The Xbox Series X’s unique design allows air to flow through the bottom of the console and rise through the top vents. When the console’s fans kick on, one Reddit user found that the Xbox Series X may have levitation abilities....

The internet is a very complex network that is remarkably hard (read: impossible) to control. Companies, especially those with copyrighted material, have tried to create legislation to stop the exchanging of their content in the past, all to no avail. Although in the last year, preventative measures have been put into place to crackdown on copyright infringement. In the UK for instance, many internet providers now block access to all major torrenting sites and more recently, YouTube has caused a stir in the gaming community for its aggressive stance on copyrighted material facilitated by its new Content ID system....

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild was a game that redefined what Zelda games are. Its open-world style brought a new way to play the game. Did you ever think that maybe it wasn’t that good? Like the breath all but disappeared from your lungs while you played it? That’s because some of the choices Nintendo made have frustrated players and ruined the linear style the Zelda franchise has followed....

This article is sponsored by St. Martin’s Press. Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick is the fun and fast-paced second book in the Zoey Ashe series by David Wong, writer of the John Dies at the End series. It picks up a year after the events in the first book, 2015’s Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits, and follows Zoey Ashe and her Ashe Security team as the protagonist continues to adjust to her immense wealth and power....

What Does Shared Call Appearance (SCA) Mean? Shared call appearance (SCA) is a feature of VoIP systems that allows various devices to share one identifying line number, and lets users merge functionality for multiple devices. With shared call appearance, users can direct a telecom company to put the same line extension on a mobile device, a desktop phone or various other multiple devices. Techopedia Explains Shared Call Appearance (SCA) Part of the value of shared call appearance is to allow for a more consistent user experience for inbound callers....

I will not entertain the thought that New Pokemon Snap won’t receive DLC support. While I admit that its mechanics and gameplay loop are basic, and the story might as well not exist, it is easily the most fun I’ve had playing a game this year. With only around a quarter of Pokemon included in its roster, there’s lots of room for more too, and with Sword & Shield paving the way, an expansion of sorts seems inevitable....

With a brand new The Sims 4 expansion pack, Eco Lifestyle, on the way, there’s at least some change of pace coming for the franchise after a few months of silence. While it’s unlikely that the new expansion will fundamentally improve the state of the game, there are still other ways to make The Sims 4 interesting again. Challenges are one of the best things to do when the game starts to turn stale or boring, and the community has come up with hundreds of them....

This article contains spoilers for Zack Snyder’s Justice League. There’s a whole lot going on at the end of Zack Snyder’s Justice League. For fans of Zack Snyder who were always on board with his unique vision for the DC Universe, the movie is a four hour feast, a celebration, and a vindication…but it ends with a tease for a Justice League 2 that promises to be even more intense and weighty than the director’s existing DCEU trilogy that began with Man of Steel....

It’s unbelievable how dirty Sony has done the Resistance franchise. Once heralded as a system seller on the PS3, Resistance has been all but forgotten in the ten years since the release of Resistance 3. Now, with the PS3 and PSP digital stores shutting down for good, the series will be all but gone to everything except retro collectors. In an era of near-constant remakes and remaster, I have to wonder....

The white mage job in the Final Fantasy series features an iconic design that has appeared in different games, but it turns out that fans have been picturing it wrong the whole time, at least according to one of the designers who worked on Final Fantasy III. The white mage was one of the six original jobs that the player could choose at the beginning of Final Fantasy, along with the black mage, fighter, monk, red mage, and thief....

Fans eagerly anticipating the release of upcoming X-COM-like game Phoenix Point have turned on the developers after the announcement the game would be an Epic Store exclusive. Snapshot Games was founded in 2013 by Julian Gallop, creator of the X-COM franchise, and David Kaye. Back in April 2014, the studio launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund its first title, Chaos Reborn. The campaign was a success, generating over $210,000. Chaos Reborn, an update of a 1985 title by Gallop, was in Early Access on Steam within 6 months, and fully released within a year....

Off the back of the huge success of I Am Legend back in 2007, Warner Bros was keen to develop either a prequel or a sequel to the film. Will Smith headlined the movie of course, that was directed by Francis Lawrence. In particular, there was a leaning towards a follow-up set before the first movie, that would have seen Smith’s character trying to lead survivors of the event that’s all but wiped out humanity to Washington....

With the PS5 on the horizon and a purported overhaul of PS Plus likely accompanying it shortly thereafter, it’s pretty clear why PS Plus games have been going so big. The past few months have been some of the best games in the service’s history, at least everything after May’s PS Plus games. Arguably, though, the biggest has been Fall Guys. PS Plus made Fall Guys free on launch day, with the game quickly breaking records for PS Plus....

Even in a throwback, Star Trek needs to boldly go. After twenty episodes of adventuring around the galaxy with a crew of mostly new faces, the third and final season of Star Trek: Picard finally brings the titular Starfleet officer back to his erstwhile crew. But rather than completely retread the beloved Star Trek: The Next Generation, Picard will find new ways for the heroes to explore the galaxy. Most surprisingly, the series will take place not on a newer version of the U....

One of the worst traps for an annual game franchise to fall into is to simply have the same game mechanics in each new title without adding anything particularly new, taking an attitude of, ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.’ With games like Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, which can take 80 hours to fully complete, the idea of doing the same thing again in the next installment sounds a bit dull....

Epic Games surprised everyone recently by revealing that the Kingdom Hearts series is finally coming to PC on March 30…as an Epic Store exclusive. In case you haven’t been following the PC gaming scene over the last few years, you should know that the subject of Epic Store exclusives has always been contentious. From those who simply don’t like the Epic Games Store to those who worry that such exclusives hurt the “open” nature of the PC gaming scene, Epic’s aggressive pursuit of exclusives has left some wondering if it’s better to wait to buy these games when they’re available on other marketplaces such as Steam....

After debuting in September 1990, NBC’s The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air entertained viewers for six seasons and launched Will Smith into superstardom before concluding in May 1996. Now, Smith and wife Jada Pinkett Smith are producing a reboot of the series titled Bel-Air based on the popular fan film of the same name by Morgan Cooper. Written and directed by Cooper, Bel-Air debuted on YouTube in 2019 and reinterpreted the original sitcom as a dark and serious drama that brought the story into modern-day life....

Wolfenstein: Youngblood is a stand-alone spin-off to the MachineGames Wolfenstein trilogy that serves as a stop-gap between Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus and the untitled Wolfenstein III. Youngblood is a departure from the traditional Wolfenstein experience in a number of ways that may cause it to appeal to a different audience than those who enjoyed the linearity of past titles. While the game does offer a handful of thrills for two-player mayhem, a litany of bugs ranging from annoying to game-breaking nearly prevented this reviewer from even seeing it through until the end....

The World Health Organization (WHO) has made what could wind up being a landmark decision when it comes to gaming. After months of consideration, “Gaming Disorder” has officially been declared an illness. One hundred and ninety-four members of the WHO at the 72nd World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland to determine whether or not Gaming Disorder should be included in the 11th revision of the International Statistical Classification Of Diseases and Related Health Problems (otherwise known as the ICD-11)....

World of Warcraft game director Ion Hazzikostas confirms that players will finish off the Legion expansion by taking the fight directly to the demon-infested planet of Argus. At this weekend’s BlizzCon, World of Warcraft game director Ion Hazzikostas gave fans of the 12-year-old MMO an extended preview of what kind of content they can expect Blizzard to deliver in 2017 for the game’s Legion expansion pack. Hazzikostas went over Patch 7....