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Summary Twilight and Marvel are the same. I already know some people are going to hate this comparison. After all, what could be more egregious to MCU fanboys than comparing their favourite IP mega-franchise to one of the biggest cultural phenomena to possess teenage girls en masse in the 2010s? But the more I think about it, the more it makes sense. My colleague Ben Sledge wrote about howMarvel fans have turned on Taika Waititi for saying he did Thor Ragnarok for the money, and in my head, I was asking: why?...

This time of year is great for picking up a bargain or two. Retailers will have stock left over from the holidays that they’ll want to get rid of, plus they’ll want people to keep spending even though this is a time of year when most people usually try to save their money. Finding the very best bargains can be tough though, and many will be gone before you even know they were there....

Quick Links The Sims 4Discover University pack comes with some great new careers for your Sims to explore, and a fun new education system to help your Sim get ahead in life. If you’ve ever dreamed of passing the bar exam and helping your fellow man out with some legal trouble, you can now live vicariously through your Sims. The Discover University pack introduces the Law Career to your game and lets your Sims tackle the legal system head-on....

Nintendocan be pretty secretive when it comes to its future plans, a lot more than most other companies in the industry. It supposedly has a brand-new system launching at some point in 2024, but we barely know anything about it besides it’sreportedly been shown off behind close doors to a number of developers. In fact, Nintendo is so secretive that it sometimes doesn’t even let its own developers know about consoles currently in production....

The third and finalFinal Fantasy 14Fan Festival will take place in Japan this weekend. We’re about to get a deluge of exciting new information about the upcoming Dawntrail expansion, as well as a lot more FOMO from not being there in person. For most of us, we’ll be eagerly waiting for the news to get posted online as it gets announced in Japan, and I can’t help but wonder already what sort of details Square Enix will spill....

Summary In celebration ofOne Piece’s 1,000th chapter, fans were asked to send in their votes of who their favorite character is, andthe results were tallied in the One Piece Worldwide Top 100 Poll published by the manga’s publisher, Shueisha. Most of the time, whenever a series holds a popularity poll, fans overwhelm the results with meme picks, but the One Piece list is accurate in how much fans love these characters....

Overwatchis finally getting a non-binary hero, with the recently revealed Venture confirmed to use they/them pronouns. They will be a new damage hero, expanding the queer cast even further after other recent additions such as Lifeweaver and Baptiste. This gives theOverwatch 2roster a hero for every part of the LGBTQ+ acronym, as they are the first confirmed trans character. We don’t have many more details on Venture yet, but their design is going down incredibly well with the fanbase....

Quick Links The story ofPokemon Scarlet & Violetextends past the border of Paldea into new and interesting lands. The land of Kitakami may be far-off from Paldea itself, but it has its own rich history. Its myths involve an ogre that dons magical masks, a Bloodmoon Beast that lurks the Timeless Woods, and loyal heroes that had bravely defended Kitakami. But, there is one Pokemon that stays out of sight, pulling the strings behind some of these myths like a puppeteer....

Sonic the Hedgehoghas had a busy couple of years.Sonic Frontierskicked off the next generation of Sonic games,Sonic Superstarslaunched last month, andthe poor hedgehog was even murderedearlier this year.Segahas been working withRobloxquite a bit too, bringing the blue blur and some of his closest friends to the incredibly popular game. If you are a Sonic-loving Roblox player, then you’ll be able to flaunt it in an all new way thanks to an offer currently running onAmazon....

We’re just days away from getting our first trailer forGrand Theft Auto 6, afterRockstar teased a reveal for a gamethat couldn’t be anything but the long-awaited sequel. It wasn’t clear at first how much info the reveal trailer would give us, but now, we can confidently assume that it’s going to be huge, asRockstardeletes all of its Instagram posts in preparation. Right now, the only post on the Rockstar account is the GTA 6 tease that dropped yesterday, simply telling us that “Trailer 1” will go live on Tuesday at 9am ET....

Starfieldwas one of the best-performing games onSteamthis year, alongsideBaldur’s Gate 3,Destiny 2,Sons of the Forest, and more. This is despite its mixed reception among general players, so much so that the game hasslipped into “mostly negative” reviews on Steam. This achievement is made all the more impressive considering Starfield was also available onGame Passfor both Xbox and PC from launch, meaning many players wouldn’t have had to purchase it at all....

Tekken 8has been out a few days now, and the general feeling across the fighting game community is that it absolutely slaps. Not only does it feel great to play andhas great customization options, but it alsohas a wacky and wild storythat feels like a true celebration of the series and a reward for longtime players that have stuck it out all these years. It’s a celebration that’s worth celebrating, and that’s exactly what legendary UK rap artists D Double E And Fumez The Engineer have done on their latest track....

As with any of the Elder Scrolls games,Skyrimhas plenty of weaponry, armor, and overall items that you can equip your character with. No matter what sort of dragonborn you want to play as, even if it isn’t the stealth archer, you will have plenty of choices in the way of equipment. Of this equipment available to you, some of the rarer sort can be given to you by the Daedric princes....