Super Smash Bros. Ultimatealready has a crazy lineup of fighters from across all kinds of games and all types of properties. Today during the Nintendo Direct, Kazuya Mishima ofTekkenfame was announced as the next DLC fighter.Super Smash Bros. Ultimatehas now brought together representatives from three of the biggest names in fighting games alongside the other notable characters. Crossover games are nothing new, butSmash Bros. Ultimatehas brought together a list of what’s truly fighting game royalty....

The Game Awards 2021 filled its runtime with a lot of reveals, including severalgames featured during the pre-show. Among the titles that were announced at the Game Awards was Telltale Games’The Expanse. The series has been running on Amazon Prime for the past several years, exploring a near-future science-fiction narrative where many of the struggles and inequities that plague Earth today directly affect humanity’s efforts in the colonization of the solar system....

Summary FromSoftware has no shortage of renowned strengths, but its vast collection of tough-as-nails bosses is by far one of the studio’s most iconic traits. FromDark SoulstoBloodborneto evenArmored Core, FromSoftware has proven time and time again that it knows how to make excellent boss fights, and that’s especially evident inElden Ring. WhileElden Ring’s open-world bossesmay have been a tad repetitive due to reused assets and movesets, the game’s main story bosses are generally some of the best FromSoftware has ever created, both in terms of their visual design and gameplay....

Torchlight 3opens up by forcing players into a conflict they can’t fully understand, simply being told to immediately fight, kill, and run errands that ultimately don’t make much sense. This shock eventually wears down, opening players' eyes to a beautiful game world, some unique class designs, and a solid dungeon crawler, but it must be said that the shock never fully goes away. This is mostly due toTorchlight 3’s attempts to reconcile a lot of moving parts that, while delivering a mostly fun and workable experience, can feel like excess....

Riot has suspended professionalValorantplayer Sinatraa for failing to cooperate with the ongoing sexual assault investigation. According to Riot, Sinatraa failed to provide key evidence for the investigation and made “false statements,” leaving the matter up in the air. Earlier this year, Sinatraa’s former girlfriend Cleo “cle0h” Hernandez, publiclyaccused Sinatraa of sexual assaulton Twitter by sharing a lengthy Google Doc. This document contained both paragraphs of personal experiences as well as screenshots and audio clips claiming to be proof that she was abused by Sinatraa....

Throughout many games, players will often find themselves in the company of a rag-tag band of adventurers, dedicated to completing the mission whatever the cost. These followers, A.I.-controlled assistants with their own weapons, abilities, and behavior, can serve as a welcome aid in particularly tough battles that may require more than what the player alone can give. Although they are often fully customizable, companions' own equipment can outclass other tools or skills in terms of looks or power, and in a lot of cases, may not even be obtainable for personal use by the player....

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is the most powerful and profitable media franchise in all of modern history, comfortably encompassing most of the biggest films of all time. The sheer scale of the production makes every difficult moment or perceived failure a matter of discussion for the entire movie-going public. She-Hulk: Attorney At Lawhas finally dropped its first trailer, and with it came a torrent of public interest in the first on-screen appearance of the MCU’s take on the character....

The new monster-hunting action adventure from Electronic Arts and Omega Force,Wild Hearts, seems to be running poorly on Microsoft’s Xbox Series X and S consoles, according to some of the game’s early adopters. While seeing Series S consoles struggle with cutting-edge titles isn’t necessarily out of the ordinary, this game’s performance issues are seemingly worse than most would’ve anticipated.A veritableMonster Huntercompetitor,Wild Heartswas announced out of the blue as the first major collaboration between EA and Koei Tecmo, with Omega Force heading its development....

A medieval setting could be the shot in the arm that theAssassin’s Creedfranchise needs. The series has lost the plot, going from fighting for freedom against all odds in its early iterations to protagonists that literally appoint tyrants to rule. RELATED:Most Dangerous Pandora’s Boxes In Games Think back to a time when feudal lords ruled over serfs with an unjust hand. They claimed to be divinely sent, only to do the bidding of evil....

Jason Blum started Blumhouse Productions in 2000 and the company has put out some of the most impressive horror movies that fans have seen. The first big movie was 2007’sParanormal Activityand other stand-outs includeInsidious(2011),Sinister(2012),Hush(2016),Get Out(2017), andThe Invisible Man(2020). Chances are, if horror fans are looking at the year’s big releases, most of them are going to come from Blumhouse. 2022 will be a great year for horror and there are four scary movies set to release in the upcoming months that fans are sure to enjoy, from a remake of a classic Stephen King story to a film written and directed by (and starring) B....

AnAnimal Crossing: New Horizonsplayer was taken aback by the discovery of a character’s portrait in a thrift store near them. The player said that they stumbled upon a “familiar face” and were wondering who would leave this randomAnimal Crossing-themed giftthere. Whitney is one of the many wolf charactersinAnimal Crossing: New Horizons, she’s known as a snooty villager who can be quite arrogant and rude toward other villagers. She always wears classy-like clothing and will often make comments about everyone’s sense of fashion....

Summary While fans of Obsidian Entertainment’sPillars of Eternityseries may be looking forward to playingAvowedas a variety of races from its shared universe, that will regrettably not be possible, as the developer has confirmedAvowedplayers can only create either a Human or an Elf character. This is largely due to the fact that the player character comes from the Aedyr Empire, which primarily consists of Humans and Elves. Lore aside, however, this is an unfortunate downside toAvowed’s character creation, especially considering the number of playable races made available in thePillars of Eternityseries....

Summary Battlefield: Hardlinewas a cool concept that didn’t enjoy a lot of praise. It took a break from the strictly militaristic roots of the franchise for a more “cops and robbers” inspired take on the core gameplay fans know and love. But the public wasn’t ready for it and the title stalled out, especially with the stiff competition in the FPS genre at the time. Today,Battlefield: Hardlineis mostly remembered as a curiosity: a footnote in the series but not much else....