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Blizzard has confirmed that Heroes of the Storm will receive no more content updates. The crossover MOBA‘s seventh anniversary was just last month, but now is not the time for celebration. After years of suffering from its declining player base, Blizzard has opted against producing new content for HoTS. In the announcing blog post, Blizzard explains that it intends to treat Heroes of the Storm similarly to other longstanding games like StarCraft....

Aliens: Fireteam Elite has finally made landfall, leaving thousands of swarming bug-like creatures straight to our PCs. The game is noticeably not a AAA title, but it still has some power to display. The Xenomorphs themselves can animate goofily and glitch in and out of existence from time to time, but this is a respectable version of the game, and I noticed few large bugs (pun not intended) and had no crashes during my time with it....

With Battlefield 3 looking better and better by the day, the resident champion Call of Duty is looking like it will have a hard time standing up to its competition. Battlefield 3’s gameplay looks amazing, and is focusing on bringing a new standard in multiplayer. While the face-off between the two franchises is known across the industry, DICE has now come out to say that they’re going to win, beacuse they’re willing to take the risks that their competitors aren’t....

For developers, every now and again it’s good to revisit your title and give it a little face-lift – tighten up areas that might be sagging a little and perhaps even tweak some things that may not have even been necessarily classified as problem areas. That’s exactly what Treyarch did with the release of a new patch for Call of Duty: Black Ops. Among other things, the patch was going to fix a lot of the connection issues that PS3 owners were experiencing when trying to go online....

While Resident Evil 4 changed the gameplay of the Resident Evil series to an entirely different beast, many fans still look back fondly at the older games. Resident Evil 2 in particular is considered to be one of the finest games in the franchise, as it and its companion piece, Resident Evil 3, told a compelling story within the walls of Raccoon City. Naturally, a combination of 4’s gameplay with 2 & 3’s story would be considered a masterpiece of gaming, and it seems as though fans may be getting that with the release of Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City....

For fans of science fiction MMOs, some good news has come your way. After avoiding the question of a solid release window for the game for the past year, Electronic Arts CFO Eric Brown recently told the audience at the Credit Suisse 2010 Technology Conference that Star Wars: The Old Republic would be arriving sometime in the company’s fiscal year of 2012. What does this mean for gamers? It may not be much, but fans can now be sure that TOR will be playable sometime after April 2011....

When it comes to Pokémon, no single generation is without its… questionable design choices here and there. Sure, one generation literally introduced a lamp, but Johto isn’t so holy either. Gold and Silver and the Johto region is considered by many to be where the inspiration for the idea to just turn this sunflower into a Pokémon was born, so let’s not start throwing stones here. Since the beginning, there have been Pokémon designs that arent quite up to par with others, and today we’ll be looking at 10 of Johto’s designs that fit that description....

City building tabletop games have increased in popularity over the last twenty years. We can probably thank the Simcity franchise for this. Most city-building games use tiles that the players arrange to their benefit, are zero-sum games, and use points accumulated throughout the game to determine the winner. The players must balance their available resources carefully as they endeavor to build the best city and earn the most points. This list will examine the best city building tabletop games available....

The 2000s introduced some of the best consoles of all time. Fast forward to today, console specs are technically better, but some games play as well today as they did when they released. Games like Shadow of the Colossus for PlayStation 3, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for Xbox 360, and Halo 2 for Xbox are a few titles that never grow stale. Just because a console has better specs, doesn’t necessarily mean that it is a superior console....

The Witcher is a rare thing: a book series that got turned into video games. The normal order goes the other way as publishers and developers get together to try to make a few bucks from people who want to read books related to their favorite games. Unfortunately, many of these books are just terrible and you spend your time wishing you were playing the game. 10 Uncharted: The Fourth Labyrinth In Uncharted, you play Nathaniel Drake, an Indiana Jones-type figure who travels the world in search of fortune and glory....

Out of all the consoles out on the market, the Xbox One has done a lot to make sure it stays on top of the game with its versatility and functionality. Many of its features have been ground-breaking, forcing other competitors to try and match its success and accessibility. Although in sales it still drags behind the all-popular PlayStation 4, Microsoft has made it clear its priority is player enjoyment and ease of use....

Minecraft released on May 17, 2009, and over ten years after its release, it continues to amaze players around the world. The future of Minecraft looks promising. Mojang and Microsoft have no plans to release a sequel, and we may not want one. Minecraft is both a creative and skill-based game that has a little something for everyone. Its procedurally generated worlds are massive and are host to some of the most mind-boggling creations....

It’s been a weird few years for Microsoft’s Xbox brand. Off to a rough start with the abysmal Xbox One announcement back in 2013, the ship has since been righted, and, with projects like Xbox Game Pass and xCloud looking to totally change the game, the future of Microsoft’s gaming division looks bright. That said, consoles, cloud gaming services, and monthly subscription models would be nothing were it not for the games, and, though they’re somewhat few and far between on the platform—particularly when it comes to exclusives—we’re here to celebrate the ten most infamously difficult titles to release on the Xbox One in 2019....

The year was 2000. Gladiator won Best Picture and Russell Crowe took home Best Actor. The first X-Men movie was released, which many point to as the genesis of modern superhero films. It was the year of Cast Away, Mission Impossible II, Meet the Parents, Charlie’s Angels, O Brother, Where Art Thou? and more. However, one film was released that year that changed the face of what cinema could be....

EA’s The Sims 4 is a life simulation game that allows players to create a character, also known as a Sim, and then control absolutely everything about their life. Players can control how they look, their personality, their voice, and even how they walk. Then, the player’s Sim is unleashed on the world. Because this is the fourth main game in The Sims franchise, there are already some things from previous games that players can look back on....

In a game like Borderlands 3, finding something that doesn’t make sense is like looking for a needle in a haystack—except the haystack is full of fake needles and you’re stuck searching for the real one. Yup, in a games like Borderlands 3, there’s plenty of things made wrong on purpose. Still, like most open-world roleplaying games (RPGs), Borderlands 3 is not devoid of design choices that don’t always blend logically with other aspects of the game....

Marvel Studios recently had an incredibly successful panel at San Diego Comic-Con, full of exciting announcements of upcoming projects. D23 is fastly approaching, with the convention lasting from Sept. 9 to Sept. 11, and Marvel Studios is confirmed to have a prominent appearance at the convention. This means that there could be some big information at D23 regarding future titles that the studio did not make at SDCC. While the San Diego Comic-Con panel did show some form of information about almost every upcoming MCU title that has been announced, there were a few notable exceptions, which will be looked at below....

Red Dead Redemption was not only one of 2010’s best selling games, it was one of the most critically acclaimed games of the year. The compelling story, detailed game mechanics, and the vast swathes of dangerous wilderness kept players invested for years after its release. The sandbox world of the wild West gave players their own version of Westworld to explore, free to capture bounties holed up in the mountains or aid revolutions south of the border to their heart’s desire....

If there was any game fandom that would be considered to have an amount of fan art that was actually worth cataloging, it would be Pokémon. And we all know why that is, people; there is no use denying that we all like to imagine the characters of the long-running franchise in different ways. Whether it be in different styles, different species, or a simple makeover of their design, there’s a lot of creativity to be found when it comes to the fan art of this fandom....

The Sims first debuted in early 2000. The game has expanded into a series of expansions, stuff packs, and a large modding community. Even though the game replicates real life, fans can’t get enough of the game’s silly animations, while aspirations, and living through their tiny customized Sims. The Sims 4 is the most recent major title to the series. The game expanded on the series, while also resolving most of the technical issues with the previous game....