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Developer Techland releases a new video to promote Dying Light’s The Following DLC, showing how the concept of zombies has evolved throughout the years. Be it with recent films like Maggie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, television shows like Fear the Walking Dead, books such as Pride & Prejudice & Zombies, and video games including Call of Duty: Black Ops 3’s Zombies mode as well as Left 4 Dead, it’s safe to say that the pop culture landscape is practically littered with the undead....

One of the final big press conferences for E3 2019 came from the legendary publishers at Nintendo. The company behind iconic video game characters like Mario, Luigi and Zelda brought a fantastic roster of new games to the conference this year, some that are new franchises to explore, and others bringing the beloved games fans have come to expect back to life once more. From haunted mansions and the Olympics to Marvel heroes and rich fantasy realms that make their way from large consoles to the massively popular Nintendo Switch console, here are the 10 best games shown by Nintendo....

The recent performances of Jedi: Fallen Order and Anthem have led Electronic Arts to remove live service elements from the publisher’s upcoming Dragon Age game. This news comes from a Bloomberg article by Jason Schreier who has revealed that planned multiplayer components have been removed. Instead, the next Dragon Age game will be a more traditional single-player RPG, something that the developer BioWare is much more familiar with. The game was rumored to be another live-service title, similar to that of BioWare’s previous game Anthem....

The Soulsborne community has a long and proud history of modding FromSoftware games. That tradition really started with the PC port of the original Dark Souls, which featured everything from mods that fixed Blighttown’s infamous lag to mods that inserted guns into the game. While Elden Ring has already enjoyed quite a few noteworthy mods (with more on the way), one of the game’s most compelling community creations features the return of some of Bloodborne‘s best features....

Elden Ring fans are torturing themselves over when an official update from From Software will next arrive. Each event that passes without word of Elden Ring’s development seems to add to their despair. Yet the dark times may be ending soon, if a recent report is to be believed. Elden Ring may be showcased at an upcoming unannounced event. Even better, that event appears to be currently planned for March....

Game Rant has been playing the Elder Scrolls: Legends closed beta and despite what it looks like at first, the game is much more than just another Hearthstone clone. Gamers interested in slinging some digital cardboard certainly have no shortage of options. Hearthstone dominates the market, but Magic: The Gathering Online, SolForge, and Witcher 3’s Gwent are just a few of the other card games competing for the niche market. Bethesda is preparing to join the CGC war with Elder Scrolls: Legends and Game Rant has been playing the closed beta....

If you’ve got Xbox Game Pass, you’re getting Elder Scrolls 6 and Starfield at no extra cost. This news comes out of an interview with Bethesda’s Todd Howard from earlier this month, conducted by GamesIndustry.biz’s James Batchelor. In this interview, during which Howard also talked about how procedural generation will shape Bethesda’s upcoming titles, the director confirmed that both upcoming RPGs would be coming to Game Pass at release. There aren’t many more details at present, such as whether or not Bethesda titles will be Xbox exclusives, but just this confirmation alone is huge news....

You’ve likely heard of game designers “digitizing” places and objects to use in video games, right? That’s called photogrammetry, and it’s basically using 2D images to create a 3D object in a virtual space. Photogrammetry is a lot more complicated than just putting polaroids into a scanner and then having a 3D model pop out, but that’s the general idea. Capturing Reality, makers of RealityCapture software, are market leaders in the business of photogrammetry....

The immediate flaw in any attempt to stack the ten extant Harlan Coben TV thrillers in order of greatness is that none of them are exactly great. Nearly all of them though, are compulsive viewing and will pull you through a bucking and twisting story at the speed of a beagle on the scent of a nearby sausage. They’re packed with incident and revelations, and are generally performed by a charismatic cast so big that you’ll never quite meet them all, let alone tire of their company....

Lots of news has come from E3 over the past few days, including a lot of Kingdom Hearts 3 announcements. This week, Square Enix showed off several new trailers and confirmed a few more worlds that fans will get to see when they embark on Sora’s journey in January. Here are all the worlds that have been confirmed for Kingdom Hearts 3 so far. Olympus Coliseum Following the end of Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance and Kingdom Hearts 0....

Mediatonic’s Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout has been a huge success story. It hosted a number of largely-enjoyed beta tests, and partnered with Sony to become one of the free PlayStation Plus titles offered throughout August. As a result, Fall Guys became Devolver Digital’s biggest Steam launch ever, and it was downloaded 1.5 million times on PS4 in its first day, resulting in some of those players coming up with custom costume designs....

It’s been announced that the mid-season update for Fall Guys Season 4 is launching tomorrow, bringing with it two new rounds. Revealed by the Fall Guys Twitter account, Season 4.5 will introduce rounds called The Slimescraper, another race to the finish line round similar to the infamous Slime Climb, and Button Bashers, where you’ll be battling it out with another bean to progress to the next round. Both rounds will enter the randomly selected pool of rounds when the Season 4....

The world is in pretty bad shape in the Fallout universe. People eke out an existence the best they can amidst the shattered remains of the United States. Everything revolves around survival and some individuals prove better at it than others. Thus, many of these hardy NPCs can be spotted across multiple titles. It’s worth noting that all of the games set between Fallout 2 and Fallout 4 take place within the same forty-six year period....

One musically-inclined Fallout 4 fan recreates the main theme for the most recent entry in Bethesda’s post-apocalyptic franchise within the game itself. After utilizing the ability to customize a settlement in Fallout 4, YouTuber Linky Link decided to go the extra mile and rig a set of powered speakers to play a synthesized version of the action-RPG’s main theme within Fallout 4 itself. Although the recreated composition is a buzzing, low-resolution version that’s reminiscent of the tunes found in gaming’s 8-bit era, the melody is no less stirring, especially when it reaches its climactic end....

Bethesda’s latest title, Fallout 76, has only been available for less than a week, players have already begun to access end game content by using nuclear weapons. Intended to be a complicated and lengthy process, fans have quickly managed to get their hands on the nuclear launch codes which leave a major impact on playable zones. A group of players recently were able to launch three nukes at once and managed to capture the destruction and devastation....

There are eight different permanent companions in Fallout: New Vegas for players to choose from. However, each of them has unique skills and combat abilities that are exclusive to them. Each follower also has their own backstory, and most of them have a quest that The Courier can complete. There are many different types of builds that players can create in Fallout: New Vegas, and each of them will have The Courier leveling up specific stats and using a different type of weapon....

A series of billboards have gone up around San Diego Comic Con as part of a fan movement to convince Warner Bros to release the Director’s Cut of Justice League. The billboards and bus stop signs scattered around the San Diego Convention Center demand the “real” 3 1/2 hour cut of the film. The movement was started by a group of fans who were dissatisfied with the 2017 theatrical release of the film....

There aren’t many franchises that have impacted the modern FPS genre as much as Ubisoft’s Far Cry franchise. Originally developed by Crytek as a showcase of the CryEngine, Ubisoft would go on to acquire the rights to the IP and create many successful titles. It is thanks to Far Cry that open-world FPS titles and skill tree systems are so popular. Far Cry 3 popularized the open-ended exploration and RPG-lite systems that seem commonplace in today’s landscape....

After The Dawning seasonal event wrapped up early in January, many fans were wondering what else was left for Destiny. With a less than secret sequel planned for later this year, Bungie was keeping things close to their chest, as the developer typically liked to do. Thankfully, after months of waiting, the last live event for Destiny known as Age of Triumph has finally been revealed. With a week long reveal planned, fans are eagerly anticipating what’s in store for the game when the update arrives later this month....

No pockets? No problem! Well, at least not if you’re an NPC in Cyberpunk looking for somewhere to keep your phone. Three weeks into the life cycle of Cyberpunk and it might feel as if every corner of Night City has been discovered. However, new elements of the game are being found with each passing day, both good and bad. Well, mainly bad. The press for Cyberpunk thus far hasn’t exactly been stellar....