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Quiz minigames in video games aren’t always all that fun. Most of the time, they require additional research, and it isn’t always obvious where to start. When it comes to the requests in Soul Hackers 2 that require taking a quiz, we have you covered.. Here are all the answers to the Academics Wanted requests in Soul Hackers 2. There are three of these Academica Wanted requests in Soul Hackers 2 to complete that come at different parts of the story....

“About 100 or more” titles are already in development for Sony’s virtual reality headset PlayStation VR, CEO Kaz Hirai has revealed, with more than 200 developers having signed up to the platform holder’s VR development program. Speaking to the BBC, Hirai explained that the number of developers signed up to the device “is a testament to the kind of support that we’re getting from the content creation community on PlayStation VR”....

So, you invested a little bit of time following the teaser promo that Ubisoft set up for Assassin’s Creed Revelations and you felt like there wasn’t very much payoff, even if there was a ton of speculation about what may be in store for the next game. Today that may change. The latest issue of Game Informer is now in the hands of readers, and there are plenty of details for fans of the series to get excited about....

Chillingo reports that their record breaking iPhone game, Cut The Rope, has now sold over three million units worldwide. The game’s developer, ZeptoLab, said of the news: “We thank all of the amazing fans who have shared the joyful fun Cut the Rope offers with friends and family to make it a phenomenal success.” For those that haven’t played the game, Cut the Rope involves swiping your finger across the touchscreen to cut a rope holding candy....

NCSoft and ArenaNet held an event during PAX East at a neighboring hotel to show off their newest work of titles, including Guild Wars 2. Their upcoming MMO is one of our most anticipated titles for 2011, so we naturally checked it out to provide more evidence to back the game’s anticipation. The stations for Guild Wars 2 were set up nicely on beefy Alienware PCs, accented with Razer headsets, keyboards and mice....

For those who were doubting that Media Molecule’s follow-up to their first game LittleBigPlanet would fail to achieve the mass success that they had initially hoped for, you may want to hold off on criticism. After a record-setting launch last week, the developer has announced that LittleBigPlanet 2 is already enjoying more concurrent users than the first title ever achieved. What does this mean for the game? This could be just the beginning of never-before-seen levels of community creation and content....

Mass Effect is no longer a Microsoft exclusive. No, that previous sentence was not a typo but simply a statement of fact. With the release of Mass Effect 3, the highly anticipated conclusion to the trilogy, BioWare and Electronic Arts are making the game available to the widest audience yet with a concurrent release on the Xbox 360, PC, and now the PS3. Over the past weekend, during the Spike Video Game Awards, the first trailer for Mass Effect 3 was released to much fanfare and some naysaying....

The past few months have been an exercise in patience for Red Dead Online players. A new year and a pandemic has come since the game’s previous content update, Moonshiners. As a sign of protest, players started sending in the clowns, dressing their characters up in goofy costumes and makeup in demand for more content. Silly as it is, it worked. Rockstar is bringing major updates to Red Dead Online and GTA Online starting next week....

“Something special” is coming to Forza Motorsport 6 later this week, Turn 10 has teased. There’s no hint at what the surprise could be, though, besides the fact that it isn’t linked to the game’s next DLC car pack, which releases tomorrow, or details on the latest content update. “[This] week promises to be an exciting one”, Forza’s community manager Brian Ekberg wrote in a new blog post. “In addition to the release of the latest DLC car pack for Forza Motorsport 6, we’ll have the details on the next Forza 6 content update, both of which will be arriving on Tuesday....

While Prison Architect is already a deep and intricate simulation game on its own, it does benefit from having some incredible mods out there. Every aspect of building and maintaining a prison has been tweaked, modified, and replaced by a dedicated fanbase who want to put their own twist or improvement on the gameplay. If you’re looking to shake things up with the base game or there’s a particular feature that’s always been annoying then mods are the way to go....

A 3D Metroidvania title heavily inspired by the twisting, labyrinthine level design of games like Dark Souls and The Surge, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is unlike any proceeding title based on the property. Focusing on exploration and encouraging players to backtrack and return to previous areas one their powers have grown, it’s the sort of experience that could take multiple playthroughs to truly appreciate. EA and Respawn have stated that Jedi Fallen Order won’t be receiving any significant post-launch content, and that may be because there are some hidden DLC-sized areas already available in the game....

With revolutionary developments such as the popularization of 3D games, the ’90s is possibly the most impactful gaming decade. Upgraded gameplay mechanics made ’90s games easier to beat, as well as more mainstream, than ’80s games. Even so, there are many examples of ’90s games that are too hard. Impossible to beat for the average gamer, these games have steep learning curves and inconceivably difficult levels. Whether it’s boss fights or an onslaught of enemies, by the end of this listicle, you’ll learn why these games stood out....

The Final Fantasy franchise by Square/Enix is often regarded as the standard-bearer of the JRPG genre. The brand has been incredibly influential, especially with introducing players to the genre. Over the years, the Final Fantasy series has consistently set itself apart from the competition – and the gap in quality is only increasing. The goal of this list is to explore the ten things that the Final Fantasy games do to set them apart....

The predicted future of mankind in video games is either a technological utopia or a smoking crater depending on the games you play. Many games take place so far in the future that it’s still possible their realities could come to pass, for good or bad. There have been a number of futures predicted in video games that never came to pass. Whether it’s a viral outbreak that kills most of mankind, alien invasions, or major world wars, here are the events predicted in video games that didn’t happen....

Breath of the Wild is a massive game with so many things to find that I doubt we’ve seen everything in that world. From the moment you start the game, you know you’re in for hours of playtime. There is so much to see and so much to do within Hyrule that the end is almost never in sight. The game has been out for two months now, so if you haven’t gotten the game yet, prepare to whisk your life away....

The first time I came across the nascent modification to Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos that would eventually become the template for all MOBAs to come I was in my first year of college. Warcraft III hit my dorm like a bomb, and I know more than one student who dropped out to pursue a life of gaming (much to their parent’s chagrin). Then Defence of the Ancients came out, and it was like that bomb never went off at all and was merely biding its time to truly cause mayhem....

Babylon 5 Babylon 5 is a modest TV science fiction classic from the ’90s. The show, which creator J. Michael Straczynski described as a “novel for television,” took place in a distant future in which Earth has unified under one government and has made contact with other spacefaring alien species. Watch Babylon 5 Battlestar Galactica With the popularity of Westworld and Humans, and well, real life, AI dramas are currently where it’s at....

Anyone who has ever created a digital short, drafted an essay, or whipped up an article will know the grueling process that is editing. Everything must be broken down, analyzed, and cut down in order to save time and money. Everything we create needs to undergo this lengthy and unforgiving process at one point or another, as things need to get trimmed and cleaned up in order to create a worthwhile final product....

The 2000’s gave us so much as gamers. We watched as the sixth and seventh generation of consoles took the world by storm. People went from buying discs to buying access codes and the age of information gave us new ways to connect and share our views on gaming. Gaming still goes from strength-to-strength, more so now than ever before, like a metaphorical technological snowball, getting bigger and bigger, better and better....

Halo Infinite‘s free-to-play multiplayer mode got a surprise beta launch only two days ago. So far, the word on the street is that it’s fun as hell — but earning ranks is a slog. The Halo Infinite Battle Pass has caused a lot of concerns over its grindy progression, and 343 Industries has responded. The 343 team is going to look into the Battle Pass and gauge fan feedback. Brian Jarrard, the community director for 343, said “the team is looking at Battle Pass progression and gathering data from yesterday’s sessions and we’ll share updates as we have them....