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Back in the days of old, you used to have to be much more strategic when playing first-person shooters. Gone are the days when you’re down to your final few hit points in games like Half Life. No more sitting in a room about to be swarmed with enemies, where you must strategize a way to take them out within seconds because one shot is going to put you down. I can still remember when health packs and first aid kits used to be an integral part of the first-person shooter experience....

Before a player dives deep into World of Warcraft’s Shadowlands expansion, they may want to establish the professions that they will use while working their way toward the new level cap. In some cases, doing that will require a trip to a new profession trainer, though some fans may not be clear on exactly where to find these NPCs in the Shadowlands. For those players that are looking for a Shadowlands Herbalism Trainer in particular, this guide is here to help....

In a press release discussing its financial gains for last year, developer Team17 has revealed that Worms Rumble will be making the jump over to Xbox Series X, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch sometime in 2021. That’s maybe not the most concrete of release dates, but it confirms you won’t need to have a PC or Sony platform to enjoy the game in the future. In a press release, CEO Debbie Bestwick said, “I am delighted that our Teamsters and the wider Team17 family have pulled together, in what has been a challenging 12 months for many....

Since its 2004 release, World of Warcraft has been all about finding the best gear to finish the game’s hardest raids and best the enemy faction in PvP. Now, thanks to a discovery from a player named Rextroy, it seems as if there was a way to one-shot your opponents without using any gear at all. This is all thanks to a big change that Blizzard made in the game’s Battle For Azeroth expansion in an effort to give players a fighting chance at PvP without collecting the game’s best gear....

Whatever one’s opinion of wrestling may be, there’s no denying the popularity of the WWE – and this holds true for the company’s lineup of licensed video games. Every year a brand new title in the series is released by publisher 2K Games with the hopes of once again capturing the attention and hard-earned dollars of dedicated wrestling aficionados, or at least that held true for everyone but Nintendo fans who’ve been left without an official WWE game for five years now....

The Undertaker describing how he would go about defeating a Fall Guy isn’t a crossover we ever expected to hear but hey, it’s 2020, apparently, anything can happen. WWE 2K released its latest offering a little over a week ago in the form of WWE 2K Battlegrounds. Although not a groundbreaking next chapter in its pro wrestling video game journey, it hasn’t received the backlash that WWE 2K20 was hit with, so that’s a start....

Our quick take Xbox One Elite Controller - 5.0 / 5 Xbox One Elite Controller review: Better in every way Xbox One Elite Controller review: Customisable controls Xbox One Elite Controller review: App adjustments To recap It might be £120, which will be considered steep for a console game controller, but that is a small price to pay for perfection. And after all, serious PC gamers are willing to pay hundreds for mice and keyboards....

After almost a year of waiting, fans can finally look forward to the release of Yakuza: Like a Dragon’s localization next week as the game launches on PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. With the title set to launch on November 10th and pre-loading live on multiple platforms, the embargo has now lifted for reviews of Sega’s newest turn-based RPG, indicating to new and returning fans what to expect from Yakuza: Like a Dragon....

In Yu-Gi-Oh!, there are lots of different archetypes to appeal to different players. Not only do the archetypes give players the option to create a kind of “theme” with their decks, but using multiple cards in the same archetype is usually a good way to get use some good effects with cards that work together. One archetype that’s been popular among Yu-Gi-Oh fans is the Amorphage archetype, with mainly consists of Pendulum monsters that are named after the Seven Deadly Sins....

After years of reports calling it everything from a finished film to a pipe dream, the fabled “Snyder Cut” of Justice League is finally getting released this March, thanks to HBO Max. It is scheduled to drop on the Warner Bros. streaming platform in March under the title Zack Snyder’s Justice League, first as a four-part miniseries and later as a very long movie. With Zack Snyder finally seeing his version of Justice League released, one might assume that the director is planning to restore the DC Extended Universe he established before directors like Patty Jenkins and James Wan brought a lighter tone to the franchise....

A new mod for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild mashes together the kingdom of Hyrule with the galaxy’s greatest bounty hunter, Samus Aran. Breath of the Wild is no stranger to mods. Even all the way back when the game was released in 2017, players were able to mod in things like Luigi as a playable character instead of Link. There have been plenty more mods since then, perhaps most famously one that lets players play as Zelda instead of Link....

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is one of the most popular games on the Nintendo Switch and was improved upon by a notable DLC called The Master Trials. It adds several things to Breath of the Wild like The Trial of the Sword, Hero’s Path Mode, and the more difficult Master Mode. This final mode is not for the faint of heart as it increases the difficulty of the game by altering some of its mechanics....

What Does Artificial Neuron Mean? An artificial neuron is a digital construct that seeks to simulate the behavior of a biological neuron in the brain. Artificial neurons are typically used to make up an artificial neural network – these technologies are modeled after human brain activity. Techopedia Explains Artificial Neuron Essentially, an artificial neuron is composed of a set of weighted inputs, along with a transformation function and an activation function....

What Does BLU Acceleration Mean? BLU Acceleration is a term for a group of IBM technologies that apply to big data sets. These include in-memory processing, CPU management tools and triage tools for data sets. Techopedia Explains BLU Acceleration The name BLU comes from IBM’s Big Blue project. Elements of BLU Acceleration are put into various Windows, Linux and Unix operating systems. Earlier versions of these technologies were aimed at processing business intelligence....

While waiting for the release of a brand new hero, Echo, or even Overwatch 2, the original Overwatch experience might start to feel a bit stale. The arcade is a great place to go to during those boring times, but the best way to make a game feel brand new and challenging again is to just learn a new hero. Choosing one’s main is a tricky process. Naturally, everyone gravitates towards a hero that speaks to them on a deeper level....

Wolfenstein: Youngblood, the stand-alone spin-off to MachineGames’ Wolfenstein trilogy, is out now and it’s… not what a lot of fans were expecting. Not only is it co-op only, Youngblood has forsaken it’s linear roots to offer a mission based, semi-open world experience. On top of that, there are RPG and crafting elements that further blur genre lines and make the game difficult to accurately describe. Picking and choosing the best mechanics from different genres to make a unique game isn’t at all a bad thing, of course....

The internet has given birth to a whole new type of video game reviews: Let’s Play videos. And while not all of these videos are meant to be reviews of games, viewers often take them as such, deciding whether or not to buy a game based on how their favorite YouTuber responds to a game while playing it. “YouTube bait” refers to the trend of games that are aiming at getting picked up by popular YouTubers for exposure....