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One of my favourite things aboutThe Game Awardsthis year was the range of trailers. It certainly wasn’t the speeches, which were unfortunately rushed through or skipped entirely. Even though the GOTY noms were all triple-A titles, they each looked and played very differently, a reminder that even as the industry becomes more obsessed with photorealism and safe edges, games have tremendous power to be unique. The trailers underlined that, and a standout in this regard wasBig Walk....

Are you tired of seeing your players with the same starting gear every game? Luckily, Dungeon Masters can call the shots.Dungeons & Dragonshas an absurd number of magic items at its disposal, and that’s not even mentioning how you can create your own, from weapons to armor, rings, or miscellaneous objects. Theoretically, players don’t start with any of them, but nothing stops you from handing out magical items right out the gate or at least placing some of these items in the first dungeon, so they can prepare themselves properly....

After more than a year since rollback netcode was promised to be coming toDragon Ball FighterZ, it looks like the game is just about ready for the long-awaited update… kind of. Although rollback netcode is pretty much a necessity for mainstream fighting games nowadays, that hasn’t always been the case. One of the biggest and most popular games in the genre thatdidn’tlaunch with rollback netcode is Arc System Works' Dragon Ball FighterZ, which, despite being regarded as one of the best Dragon Ball games of all time, has some notoriously shoddy online play....

Ganath Haros is the final region you will visit in the base version of the game, and it’s the last region you will get to explore in theBeyond the Dawnexpansion ofTales of Ariseas well, bringing everything full circle for the final send-off of our beloved party members. With this being the final region you gain access to in the expansion, you can expect a decent amount of Sub-Quests to go along with it, giving you six total to seek out and complete....

Tales of Arise: Beyond the Dawnintroduces many new stories and adventures for our beloved cast of goofballs from the base game tackle, letting us revisit each region to see what has changed in the past year everyone has been away. As such, you will often run into many of the civilians of these regions who have a problem only you’re able to solve, opening the door to many Sub-Quests you should tackle to obtain rewards and sometimes even rare items....

Quick Links The Finalsis a free-to-play first-person shooter that allows you to compete alongside your teammates in a virtual arena against other teams in an epic game show. An awesome feature of this game is that you can customize your characters and weapons, as well as enjoy a variety of emotes, stickers, and more. The battle pass is one way for players to unlock various customization options. As you play the game, you can level up the battle pass and unlock different rewards per level....

Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealthembraces the cinematic features of the medium while telling a story in a way only a video game could. The often comedic and touching side stories disarm you and make the serious,tragic story beatsall the more impactful. If you are looking for movies similar to the 2023 game, look no further than the list below. Some of them are movies based around the Yakuza criminal organizations, while others are more thematically linked, dealing with questions of redemption or having a deep sense of justice....

‘Tis the season for elaborate, fairly expensiveMarvelLegosets, or at least that’s how it feels.Amazon slashed the price of Marvel’s Daily Bugle Lego setfor Black Friday, and it was that very same weekendthe 5,000-piece, $500 Avengers Tower went on sale. Now it seems another, perhaps not quite as intimidating Marvel Lego set is on the way, but probably not quite in time for the holidays. A Spider-Man vs. Sandman set that lets you recreate the final battle from No Way Home using toy bricks....

Josh Hutcherson, who playsFive Nights at Freddy’slead security guard Mike Schmidt, has confirmed that a sequel is in the works. “I know they’re in the process right now of nailing down the story,” Hutcherson toldVariety. “They want to get going as soon as possible. Obviously, the fans are amazing and die-hard. For me to be a part of it was so cool and phenomenal. I’m dying to get back on set....

With December 25 only a week away, you’re probably thinking the window in which you could pick up an advent calendar for 2023 has long since slammed shut. You couldn’t be more wrong. Now is the best time to grab an advent calendar for a couple of reasons. One, because you can open up a bunch of doors as soon as it arrives, and two, they’re available for much less than they were a month ago....

God of War Ragnarok’srecently announcedfree Valhalla DLCis finally here, giving us a new roguelike mode to dive into that acts as an epilogue for Kratos' journey. While there are plenty of cool story surprises along the way, which we won’t get into here to avoid spoiling things for you, many God of War fans are reveling in the added challenge that the mode has brought with it. In fact, it’s so tough that the DLC’s director, Mihir Sheth, has claimed that it includes an endgame challenge so difficult that nobody on the development team at Santa Monica has managed to overcome it....

It’s hard to let go. We like the old and the familiar. It’s whyStar Warskeepsbringing back Luke Skywalker, and why theMCUisconsidering bringing back Iron Man. But while the peanut gallerycheers at the undead Luke resurrected by AI, there’sa general sense of stagnationto everything Star Wars does these days, caused primarily by handing the reins over to overgrown fanboys who think of making movies as an especially elaborate way of playing with action figures....

Alleged gameplay footage ofGTA 6and details about its map have been shared on TikTok, giving us a brief look at a version of Vice City that lines up with what was seen in last year’s leaks. As the internet is more than aware of by now,we’re just a few short days away from the long-awaited reveal of Grand Theft Auto 6. You’d think that with such little time before the official unveiling that nothing could get in the way of it, but one leaker has proven that wrong by leaking alleged footage of the game and providing some details about its map....