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Bethesda announces a major change in the works for The Elder Scrolls Online, with the MMORPG allowing free movement across the entire game world for all players. Although another member of The Elder Scrolls family will have been causing the most conversation in the wake of Bethesda’s E3 2016 presentation, in the form of the official announcement of the Skyrim special edition relaunch for PS4 and Xbox One, the company also revealed some new features coming to The Elder Scrolls Online....

EA Hasbro has released screenshots of Monopoly, Battleship, and Connect 4, another volley of board game apps soon to be launched into the App Store. EA has taken these big name boardgames and turned them into visually pleasing video games for your Apple handheld but there have been a few complaints about the current EA Hasbro games so you may want to look before you leap into these purchases. App Store reviews suggest WiFi functionality seems to be either left out or working poorly for most of the current EA Hasbro releases....

Despite an astoundingly accurate Super Bowl 49 prediction, Madden NFL 16’s simualtion is routed in Super Bowl 50. Nobody could have simulated Von Miller’s performance. EA’s annual Madden NFL Super Bowl simulation proved its quality last year by correctly predicting that the New England Patriots would defeat the Seattle Seahawks 28-34. Yet even the over 30-year veteran franchise couldn’t have predicted the MVP performance of the Denver Broncos’ defense and particularly linebacker Von Miller, much to the Carolina Panthers’ dismay....

We’ve all heard of the historically accurate settings that dwell within Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed franchise. Equipped with its own Discovery Tour, titles such as Assassin’s Creed Origins really hone in on the historical experience, and its representation of Ptolemaic Egypt is being used to teach history in a new Twitch series. Egyptologist Dr. Chris Naunton was joined by Southampton University PhD student Gemma Renshaw and associate professor of history at Missouri University of Science and Technology Dr....

Elden Ring was first announced at E3 two years ago, and the wait for gameplay footage is finally over. Since E3 2019, every new gaming event, expo, or showcase has brought new expectation and hype from the Elden Ring fanbase, only for those hopes to be dashed. Today, their prayers were answered. The gameplay footage showed off lots of combat and magic, with sword fights, clashes with dragons, and one character being impaled on a long blade....

Elden Ring may be the biggest video game release of the year and it’s only February. This collaboration between celebrated studio FromSoftware and acclaimed novelist George R. R. Martin brings a whole new fantasy world full of dangers and punishing boss fights for Dark Souls, Bloodborne, and Sekiro fans to explore. This time around, players will explore the Lands Between, a mystical realm ruled by demigods who have been corrupted by the Great Runes, shards of the titular Elden Ring, which bestows ultimate power on its wearer....

You need to know how to travel between neighborhoods in Empire of Sin as you meet with other Bosses and acquire more rackets for your portfolio. However, the game isn’t entirely clear on how you go about doing this besides the fact that you need to use a taxi. Obviously, a taxi is meant to transport you from one place to another, but the lack of instruction leaves players scratching their heads....

Endeavour Series 8 Episode 1 Review: ‘Striker’ Warning: this Endeavour review contains spoilers. It’s 1971, and Oxford’s finest are, as ever, dealing with all of humanity’s worst impulses. Endeavour Morse (Shaun Evans) wakes up late from a hangover, leaving DI Thursday (Roger Allam) waiting in vain for his usual morning lift to work from his Detective Sergeant. It’s not behaviour we’d expect from our Morse…except, of course, it is, when you think about it....

The Epic Games Store is finally fulfilling one of its users’ most dire wishes and is beginning to add mod support to its games. At the moment, the initiative is still in its beta phase and only one game is making use of it, but Epic Games promises that there will be more to come in the near future. As the Epic Games Store attempts to find its footing and gain users, its lack of mod support has been one of the major things driving people away from it....

Founded in 2007, 343 Industries has adopted the responsibility of developing new entries in the iconic Halo series. The American company first took the reigns from Bungie with 2011’s Halo: Combat Evolved and has released multiple games since, including two mainline games Halo 4 and Halo 5: Guardians. Before releasing Combat Evolved, 343 Industries dabbled in a few other Halo related ventures. These included Halo Legends, a collection of short animated films, as well as the Defiant and Anniversary map packs for Halo: Reach....

The 3D platformer genre was at one time as big as the first-person genre is today. There were countless games in the genre all trying to be the next Super Mario 64 or Banjo Kazooie. Most were centered around exploring a 3-dimensional world while collecting various trinkets all with a story that would feel right at home on a Saturday morning cartoon. While the genre is essentially dead at this point, there are still some games being released that follow the structure set in fifth and sixth generations with games like A Hat in Time and Yooka-Laylee....

Nintendo has made dozens upon dozens of games featuring their iconic superstar and mascot throughout the years. With the Switch being out since 2017, there are a lot of Mario titles available to fans, no matter what type of game they are looking for. Not only are there brand new installments of the franchises Mario has appeared in, such as Mario Party and Paper Mario, but there are also older classics that have been ported to the console, like Super Mario 64 and Mario Bros....

8 Prison Dog: That’s A Good Boy Fans of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride and movies will remember this dog and his ring of keys. The Prison Dog is a staple of the Pirates franchise and he typically sits outside of a cell full of pirates trying to lure it over with a bone. Prison Dog appears in several tall tale missions in A Pirate’s Life and is also available as a pet for purchase at the Pirate Emporium....

Fable is back and prettier than ever, yet while shown in all of its glory at the tail end of the Xbox Games Showcase, very little - if anything - is known about the forthcoming title. It will be making its debut on both the Xbox Series X and PC, bringing along with it a slew of interesting surprises that will excite long-time fans and draw even more newcomers into its fantastical realms....

Ever since it was revealed via a complicated online scavenger hunt, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War has been the subject of a lot of speculation. Now, less than a week away from its launch date, many potential buyers are putting in a lot of research about whether the latest Black Ops game is worth their money. Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is carrying a historical theme that has been intriguing many fans, namely the titular conflict in the last century between the US and what was then called the USSR post-World War II....

The fighting game community knows that the annual Evo tournament and the Street Fighter franchise go together like peanut butter and jelly. For years, the biggest fighting genre tournament event in gaming has concluded with the Street Fighter portion and the winner of that section is unofficially considered the winner of the whole event by most circles. Evo is changing things up this time around though and handing off the featured card to the Nintendo brawler, Super Smash Bros....

Every time Namco Bandai announces a new Soul Calibur, people understandably become excited. While most of the anticipation is built up because of the series’ phenomenal gameplay, weapon-based combat and the well-endowed Ivy, even more excitement is generated for the special guest characters that have appeared in nearly every game in the series to date. Soul Calibur 5 appears to be following suit, if a leaked screenshot featuring Assassin’s Creed protagonist Ezio Auditore is as legitimate as it does indeed appear....

Before Fallout 4’s official announcement during Bethesda’s first-ever E3 2015 press conference, speculation for the game’s release window was abound, as fans and industry insiders presumed that the latest entry in the popular post-apocalyptic franchise would be coming in 2016. However, once it became known that Fallout 4’s official launch date is set for this November, many were utterly surprised, and quite frankly, their excited, yet nonplussed reactions weren’t without good reason....

Bethesda reveals that Fallout 4’s new gun combat has largely been inspired by Destiny, Bungie’s somewhat polarizing RPG/first-person shooter hybrid game. As we saw at E3, Fallout 4 looks to be bringing significantly improved combat to the franchise by revamping the VATS system, and by offering tighter gunplay. It’s easy to be impressed by the snippets of Fallout 4 combat we’ve seen so far, but some fans may be surprised at what title actually inspired the shooting mechanics seen in the game....

Fallout 4 voice actor Courtenay Taylor answers questions about her experience recording the voice of the main protagonist, including the emotional toll some of the scenes took on her. Fallout 4 introduced a voiced protagonist to the series for the first time ever in an effort to provide more emotional depth to scenes. In a plot where a parent is on the hunt for their missing child, it’s a move that made sense, and Fallout 4 eventually went gold with over 13,000 lines of dialogue recorded for the main character....