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Quick Links While mostPrince of Persiagames in the past have been relatively short and linear adventures,Prince of Persia: The Lost Crownchanges all of that by being a Metroidvania that’s packed full of secrets for the player to uncover. Although most of these secrets are easily found as long as you explore the map and leave no stone unturned, there are a few locations and items in the game that are incredibly hard to discover if you don’t know where to look....

Controller design has been key to a corresponding console’s success - and how fondly we remember it in the years that follow - for decades. Many of us reminisce about our favorites, some of which have been tweaked and replaced multiple times over. This current generation has been pretty great for bringing some of those controllers from the past into the present though, whether officially or through a third party, and now Hyperkin has announced plans to remakeXbox’s Controller S for modern consoles....

If the ending of Spider-Man 2 didn’t make it clear enough, narrative director Ben Arfmannconfirmed in an interviewthat Miles Morales will be Insomniac’s “main” Spider-Man going forward. ‘Fans’ have been debating this decision, with a very vocal group expressing their outrage that the SJWs at Insomniac would sidelinethePeter Parker for a woke Spider-Man, or whatever. Look, I don’t want to get pulled into a debate with people who don’t like a video game character based on the color of his skin....

Summary Love Lies Bleeding is everything I’ve ever wanted in a film, at least from what I can see in its first trailer. It has the excellent Kristen Stewart with a mullet, a queer (and extremely jacked!) bodybuilder played by Katy O’Brian, dead bodies, plenty of secrets, and a delicious touch of surreality and abstraction. It’s also directed by Rose Glass, who debuted with the harrowing, skilfully made Saint Maud in 2019 – that film’s terrifying last smash cut still haunts me....

With the holidays behind us and six weeks left until the release of Into the Inklands at local game stores, Disney Lorcana news is starting to trickle in at a decent rate. This week, we got a handful of new card reveals, some updates about the new Into the Inkwell products, and some interesting insights from Lorcana designer Steve Warner that have big implications for the future of the game. Here’s everything you missed this week in Disney Lorcana news....

We’ve known it’s been coming for a whileafter images of its packaging appeared online, but now we know when it will be here, how much it will cost, and have been given a better look at the set and what it includes. I am, of course, talking about the Avengers Tower Lego set. The store page for the elaborate set has now gone live, revealing the toy brick version of Avengers Tower will be available to buy from June 15, 2025....

Yakuzaand the Like a Dragon series has, for the most part, always been incredibly welcoming and inclusive, featuring loads of side quests with positive views on a range of sexualities and backgrounds. Longtime series protagonist Kazuma Kiryu isconsidered a staunch ally, always keen to lift up the marginalized and downtrodden, but we’ve yet to get any LGBTQ+ representation of note when it comes to protagonists. So far, the only two characters we have with even the slightest inkling of being LGBTQ+ are Jun Oda and Yoshitaka Mine, both of whom never really express their true feelings towards their bosses, Tetsu Tachibana and Daigo Dojima, in any meaningful way....

2024’s Super Bowl is set and we are now less than two weeks away from the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers clashing in the biggest game of the season. If you’re not sure where you’ll be watching the big game or you’ll be hosting a Super Bowl party, now is the time to start making plans. If you think it’s going to be a game to remember, or you’re a fan of either team participating, you may also want to check out some of the Super Bowl-themed collectibles Mattel has revealed to mark the occasion....

Details surroundingNintendo’snext piece of hardware have been few and far between, with only rumors, leaks, and the opinions of industry analysts to go off right now. We know that Nintendo probably won’t rock the boat too much due to the overwhelming success of theSwitch, and industry analysts have predicted that the console willmost likely be an “iteration” rather than a drastic change in design. Now renowned independent consultancy firm Omdia has dropped another potential bombshell, as industry analyst Hiroshi Hayase has claimed that the Nintendo Switch successor will launch later in 2024 with an 8-inch LCD screen (thanksBloomberg)....

No Man’s Skywas never a failure. The indie gem was first unveiled in 2013 and quickly grew into one of the most anticipated titles in the medium. But a neverending universe ripe with an endless stream of planets was too good to be true, an unfortunate reality that dawned on us with the release of each new trailer. Hello Games’ Sean Murray was brought on stage at the Sony E3 press conference for a number of years to showcase this procedural darling, but it was never clear, beyond the uncompromising scope, exactly what we’d do in the game itself....

Omni-Manhas four Brutalities inMortal Kombat 1- The Thinker, where he pummels enemies with his fist until their skull shatters; Behind You!, where he spins their head around; Coming Through, where he dashes through them and they explode into a miasma of guts and gore; You Got Boned!, in which he grabs them by the foot and smashes them against the ground until their head explodes, and The Klassic, a decapitating uppercut....

Summary Pokemon Conciergewas released onNetflixearlier this week, and the reception to the show has been nothing but unbridled praise and joy. Many are loving it for its relaxing vibes and stop-motion aesthetic, and the only criticism that people seem to have is that there isn’t enough of it. Pokemon Concierge isn’t like most Netflix shows, in that it’s a four-episode one-off series that isn’t getting any more seasons and never planned to....

By the time you reach your second quest inPersona 5 Tactica, you’ll likely think you’ve got a handle on things, but this optional challenge is here to shake things up and test your knowledge. Here, you need to get Erina across the board to the end goal – but the caveat is that you only have one turn to do it. String together careful One More attacks and use your teammates to kick enemies from Cover so Erina can hit them and continue to move forward....