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Hot on the heels of the recently released Rock Band 3, Harmonix and MTV Games have just released Rock Band Reloaded, a comparable Rock Band experience for iOS. If just the thought of Rock Band on your Apple mobile device isn’t cause for excitement, here’s a quick blurb on what the game is all about: “Rock Band Reloaded is the experience fans have been waiting for, innovating on the popular franchise and bringing the entire band onto the iPad and iPhone for the first time....

As any actor will tell you, typecasting can be a real pain. When you play a particular role super, super well, you don’t only become famous for it: you’re often defined by it. This is the kind of thing that can stall or even outright end a career. In the gaming world, developers can fall victim to the same thing. The folks at Game Freak are best known, of course, for the Pokémon series....

The Order: 1886 may have already earned praise for its impressive visuals, but there are games in development for this generation of consoles that are going to look “so much better” than Ready At Dawn’s debut PS4 title, the developer has said. “I know that there’s games coming out that are going to be so much better than the ones that we make even, visually,” CEO Ru Weerasuriya told VideoGamer.com at an event held in London last week....

With blockbuster games like Black Ops, and Halo: Reach, it’s easy to assume that these kind of titles are representative of the industry at large. Serious gamers know that this is far from the truth, and is largely to blame for the perception that videogames embrace violence. To see how wrong the assumption is, one only has to look at the massive success that was Xbox Live’s Summer of Arcade. It’s recently been announced that Xbox Live will be seeing another slew of independent games released with the upcoming Indie Games Winter Uprising running the first week of December....

When taking on the role of DM it is easy to become overloaded as a campaign progresses and players gain new class abilities, spells, and magic items. In light of this it is important for a DM not to give a character, or the party as a whole, an ability that will unbalance the game. Players can take the most simple of abilities and exploit them to gain an advantage that the DM never intended the party to have....

Star Wars: The Clone Wars isn’t the first animated series set in the galaxy far, far away but it’s certainly one of the franchise’s most important. The show, which ran on Cartoon Network from 2008 to 2013 and then on Netflix in 2014, expands the stories of the Prequel era as well as the lore of the universe as whole, bringing back fan-favorite characters like Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker while also introducing us to Ahsoka Tano, perhaps the most popular animated Star Wars characters to date....

Platformers may not be the oldest video games type, but it has been around for a long time. In fact, it was in the middle of many revolutions within the industry, from Super Mario Bros. selling the original NES almost singlehandedly, to Sonic taking it to the next gear, to Mario coming back again to showcase the 3D revolution. It’s a storied genre, but it has taken a backseat to shooters, open worlds, and other trendy games....

At the time, with three generations of games and 251 creatures to get your hands on, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon welcomed you into their imaginative world. Though as expansive as the universe was, the first entry allowed only 16 choices from the beginning, leaving Steel, Rock, Dragon, and other types in the dust. It’s a travesty for players of the more multifaceted variety. If you’re excited as we are about Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX, then you’ll be interested to see which of your favorite pocket monsters can’t be played from the start of the game… and why we wish they were....

The gaming world is full of titles that seek to make a name for themselves by being bizarre and weird. Most fall into the trap of simply being gross, unusual, or awkward without delivering on the core necessities of being a game or attracting positive critical or player reception. Every once in a while, though, a strange or quirky game will rise through the ranks to make it onto the steam charts alongside more traditional titles....

Back in 2013, NetherRealm Studios blessed the gaming world with Injustice: Gods Among Us. The DC Universe-based fighting game was a well-received riot for comic and gaming fans alike. Heroes like Batman, Green Arrow, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, and more, faced off against an array of villains and counterparts in a quest to stop a tyrannical Superman from enslaving an alternate universe. It sounds incredibly convoluted in design, but Injustice featured one of the most entertaining storylines to ever grace a fighting game....

Nightdive Studios, the team that breathed new life into games like Turok, Turok 2, and Forsaken, is taking on another classic shooter. Blood, the somewhat scary and…gory shooter made back in 1997 by developer Monolith is getting the remaster treatment for a release on Steam. Blood has a special place in my heart. I have fond memories of pitchforking hoards of zombies and undead canines during my journey through dilapidated towns and castles....

There is something inherently fascinating and entertaining about a spooky urban legend, especially one that is shrouded in mystery. Perhaps it stems from our innate nature to find thrills in being scared, like going on that particularly intimidating roller coaster ride or sitting through a heart-pounding thriller movie. Maybe it’s the forbidden or mysterious nature of these tales, beckoning a curiosity based on our desire to explore and unearth cryptic secrets they might contain....

It really does feel odd to think that it’s already been 4 years since The Sims 4 was released. It seems like only yesterday I was marveling at how much amazing new stuff was included in The Sims 3! Unfortunately, when the newest installment of the franchise was released, people started complaining about the opposite: there were a lot of things missing from the game. While it’s hard to tell if some of these features were considered during the development of the game and then cut, it’s obvious that a lot of things that were in previous games were deleted from The Sims 4....

It’s happened to everyone at some point. You’re playing through a great game and having the time of your life when suddenly, something goes horribly awry. Maybe your save data disappears, or you fall through the world, or an in-game event that’s supposed to happen never triggers. Suddenly, your fun has been halted by a game-breaking bug, turning the good time you were just having into a total nightmare. Sadly, game testing and quality assurance can only go so far....

It is a brand new day, and that means another Wordle puzzle to challenge your mastery of the English language. As the game is designed so that random words do not make the cut, it is important to know just what words you can use to narrow down the field when it comes to the right answer. In this helpful guide, we will go through all the 5-letter words with S as the fourth letter to get you started and keep your streak going....

If you ever played the original Halo trilogy, then there is a good chance that you wet your pants in fear at least once, and it was more than likely thanks to the parasitic enemies known as The Flood. Seriously, these alien lifeforms are the stuff nightmares are made of. In fact, they are so terrifying, one group of fans are actually making an entire horror game about them titled Branching Sickness....

Developer Glee-Cheese Studio and publisher Digerati have put release dates on their upcoming rhythm game A Musical Story. The game takes place in the memory of one Gabriel, as he relieves his musical journey through the 1970s. You’ll be rekindling his memories through a series of 26 tracks inspired by the era. Each song links to a specific memory, with you tapping buttons to “feel” the music. Play all of them perfectly, and you’ll even unlock a hidden chapter....

Since launch, Call of Duty: Warzone has seen its fair share of bugs and glitches. From players being able to get inside of walls to the broken ghost perk, fans have seen a range of them ruin games. However, not all bugs are as game breaking and detrimental to your experience. A new Warzone bug is changing the victory cutscene when you and your squad win your match. Usually, winning a match means you are greeted with a reel of the names of players who were in the same game as you....

Although I have limited experience with city builders, I nonetheless ended up enjoying developer The Wandering Band’s Airborne Kingdom back in 2020. It offered quite the distinct take on the genre, as it saw players constructing a floating city capable of navigating a sprawling open map to gather resources. The ways in which the game challenged my proficiency with resource management led to a fair degree of stress, but it also contributed to a palpable sense of satisfaction whenever I got my city to run without any major hitches....

There is a 98-mile stretch of road on Nevada State Route 375, starting were it crosses U.S. 93, called the Extraterrestrial Highway. It is the closest public street to Area 51. There have been multiple reports of strange goings on in the skies over it, as well as in the tourist shops who have embraced their geographic legacy. Alien Highway, the upcoming series on Travel Channel, will wait until its eighth episode to try and pick up a hitchhiking alien who escaped from the facility....