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As of 12 PM EDT on April 2nd, players of Bethesda’s online post-apocalyptic role-playing shooter Fallout 76 will be receiving a staggering three times as much experience as usual. The event, which lasts only until 12 PM EDT on April 6th, serves as a good opportunity for any prospective Fallout 76 wastelanders looking to speed up grinding. The XP bonus weekend was initially “announced” via a tweet on April 1st, which casually mentioned that the developer “might mess around” and triple XP rewards the following day, in what at the time seemed to be a potential April Fools joke....

There is a distinct lack of Castlevania games these days, as Konami seems to have all but abandoned the beloved vampire slaying series. When game companies aren’t producing the games they want, though, fans sometimes take matters into their own hands. This is the case with Castlevania: Simon’s Destiny, a fan-made remake of the original NES classic, but from a first-person perspective. It’s the series’ first foray into first-person, though in an unofficial capacity, and it kinda works....

February’s PlayStation Plus lineup is now available for Sony’s subscribers. PlayStation 5 players get Destruction AllStars for free this month. With exciting car combat and bombastic characters, it’s one of the most eye-catching games on the console yet. It’s been years since the destruction derby genre was prevalent in gaming. Those new to the genre may need some tips and pointers to thrive in these tense multiplayer skirmishes. One of the game’s modes, Carnado, is unlike any other demolition experience....

Taking advantage of the Game Developer’s Conference (GDC) where video game industry professionals gather in San Francisco each year for the largest industry event, Electronic Arts gathered media together in the AMC Metreon theater to unveil developer DICE’s first next-gen game, Battlefield 4. As expected, attendees witnessed the first showcase of 17 minutes of Battlefield 4 gameplay powered by the just-announced Frostbite 3 engine, but as impressions and previews have been published since, reactions indicate that EA may have partly failed to take advantage of the opportunity....

Tom Clancy’s The Division 2: Episode 1 is out now along with a big patch that adds some new gear, fixes bugs, and rebalances skills. Episode 1 is out! For those holding a Year 1 Pass, that means a couple of new assignments along with early access to all the new game content. The rest of us won’t get the full benefit of the new D.C. Outskirts: Expeditions DLC until July 30th....

This Doctor Sleep article contains spoilers. Doctor Sleep is the continuation of the haunted house nightmare first put on the page by Stephen King and brought to life on the big screen by Stanley Kubrick. As we wrote in our review, director Mike Flanagan has made an adaptation worthy of King’s novel while also paying tribute to the Kubrick movie. From Dan coping with the ghosts of his past to taking us back to the terrifying Overlook Hotel, Doctor Sleep is largely a triumph that celebrates every version of The Shining story....

Dragon Ball is no stranger to storyline abandonment. Written over the course of ten years by an author who never reread his franchise while writing it and made everything up as he went along, it’s honestly a miracle the series makes as much narrative and thematic sense as it does. In many ways, it even makes more sense than other stories in the genre that were actually planned out from start to finish....

Dungeons & Dragons has earned a reputation for some bizarre rule loopholes over the years, and the current edition of the game has a strange one involving werewolves and their inability to harm each other. Werewolves are one of the most iconic monsters in fiction, so it’s only natural that they appear as foes in Dungeons & Dragons. Lycanthropy is treated like a disease in the Dungeons & Dragons multiverse, so it’s possible for a player to become infected and need to hide when the full moon rises....

Ubisoft celebrated 10 years of Just Dance by launching Just Dance 2020 in style at E3 this week. After a short video celebrating the anniversary out came the dancers. We saw pandas, fans, sequins, balloons, an abundance of pink, and of course lots of dancing. As the title was announced the splash screen contained something we don’t see very often these days, the Wii logo. Just Dance 2020 is coming this November to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Stadia and Nintendo Wii....

As the CEO of Electronic Arts since 2007, John Riccitiello oversaw one of the most powerful, prodigious and influential companies in interactive entertainment – making him a man of similar attributes. Today Riccitiello submitted his resignation to EA’s Board of Directors, with plans to step down from his role at the end of March after 12 years of employment dating back to 1997. The news arrived in an official statement on EA’s blog written by Executive Chairman Larry Probst, who praised Riccitiello as a “great leader” and “bold decision maker” with “a big vision for online games, a passion for product quality and an enduring respect for the people who work here....

Paying a whopping $2.1 billion to acquire the developer, EA recently purchased GluMobile, the team behind titles such as Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, Diner Dash, and Disney Sorcerer’s Arena. The decision adds a new element to the publisher’s already stacked mobile gaming division, with its roster currently including studios such as PopCap Games, Chillingo, Capital Games, and Track Twenty. According to the company’s CEO, Andrew Wilson, the deal was made so that EA could capitalize on the mobile market even further than it already has....

Electronic Arts is a well-known video game publisher who has been responsible for titles and franchises such as Apex Legends, Dragon Age, and Need for Speed. But while the EA has been the focus of criticism over its monetization practices it has also been making some great strides in the community lately. Recently, Electronic Arts donated $1 million to racial injustice charities and the company is supporting another noble cause in the UK this week....

Once in a while we come up with a sweet giveaway for our readers - the last one was five copies of Tom Clancy’s The Division, and now we have something different - and even bigger! You may have heard of Loot Crate - they have tons of geek gear in a variety of categories, and they we giving away 7(!) different packages: One (1) Grand Prize Winner will receive a box from EACH (yes, ALL of these) of Loot Crate’s product lines:...

Over the course of the last six years, the Assassin’s Creed series has become one of the most popular (and most profitable) game franchises on the market. Growing from the promise (but clunky mechanics) of the original Assassin’s Creed back in 2007, Ubisoft has managed to iterate on their stealth-action format year-after-year - pulling in more and more gamers with each (now annual) entry in the series. Still, some players have become concerned about the over-arching series storyline - once a relatively straightforward (albeit mysterious) narrative about protagonist Desmond Miles and his ancestral adventures in and out of the animus machine, the trajectory of the series plot has become increasingly meandering....

Although many times the value in choosing one version over another is lost on the consumer, for the console maker exclusivity, especially in pre-order bonuses, can mean a significant advantage. So much so that publishers will pay top dollar for the right to special content, be it additional missions, new multiplayer maps, or special characters. However, exclusivity in many cases is just a temporary thing, lasting only long enough for one console to get a head start....

As far as Fable games are concerned, Fable 3 has always been a bit of an ugly duckling. On one hand, it’s difficult to follow in the footsteps of a game as universally beloved as Fable 2. On the other, it’s especially brave to look at those footsteps stretched out in front of you and say, “Actually… I reckon I’ll walk the long way home.” It’s important to say right from the get-go that I didn’t love Fable 3....

This week’s episode of Falcon and the Winter Soldier took another look at race in America, following Sam’s inability to get a bank loan and the decision from the Department of Defence to move on to another (white) Captain America, John Walker, AKA US Agent. This week, Sam is stopped by police for the crime of raising his voice, during an argument about Isaiah. Isaiah was a Black supersoldier trained by the US government, who was later put in prison and then left to rot....

If you’d told me at the beginning of lockdown that the perfect way to lift my spirits would be an online game made in the mold of TV shows like Takeshi’s Castle, Gladiators, and Total Wipeout, I wouldn’t have believed you. And yet, here I am, risking it all in the final stage of Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout, praying that a giant spinning hammer doesn’t smack me off this platform and keep me from the crown....

A new Fallout 4 modification allows gamers to craft and use a crossbow within the game, complete with customizable parts and different bolt types. If there’s one thing a little strange about the world of Fallout 4, it’s that everyone seems to have had no problem securing pre-war weaponry. The world may have been turned into a barren husk of its former self, but the denizens of the Boston Commonwealth continue to survive (and occasionally thrive) thanks to a hefty armament of laser weaponry and power suits....

Bethesda Softworks reveals that it will not be offering fans a demo version to the forthcoming entry in its popular post-apocalyptic franchise, Fallout 4. Bethesda’s Vice President of Marketing and PR, Pete Hines, recently took to his Twitter account to answer fan questions regarding Fallout 4, and in doing so, he confirmed that the studio does not have plans to release a demo for the game. Hines’ explanation for not developing a playable demonstration for Fallout 4 is due to the impossibility of “cut[ting] up the game into a small piece....