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There haven’t been too many details on the 3DS port of Tales of the Abyss since it was announced, but in a new issue of Famitsu, the game from Namco Bandai was featured - revealing some interesting facts. Tales of the Abyss takes places on the world of Auldrant, which is composed of a special type of energy called Fonons. One of these Fonons can be used to read the future, and after a prominent religious figure uses that ability to bestow a prophecy among the world’s inhabitants, it eventually envelopes all of the main characters of the game....

The free-to-play Apex Legends has many things going for it and has attracted a massive following that has enabled the game to rival Fortnite and PUBG in terms of popularity. But unfortunately, this epic game has some major problems with crashing. Since it launched on February 4 players have been plagued by a stream of technical issues resulting in crashes before and during gameplay. It’s been a source of frustration for many players and Respawn Entertainment and Electronic Arts have been struggling to resolve the issues....

Diving back into World Of Warcraft Classic has been an interesting ride for many players. It turns out that the nostalgia for the early days of WoW were seen through very thick rose-colored glasses and there were lots of quirks and issues players forgot about from those times. A quick browse of the Not A Bug list will show that players are having to be reminded of what were once standard features....

When it comes to disappointments, the Xbox is the console king. Save your fanboy outcry – because it would do you no good when you see the grim fate that has met once beloved franchises like Halo, Gears of War and Crackdown – all of which have noticeably worsened over the years. It gets even worse when you go back to those once revolutionary games and face the bitter reality that they no longer hold up....

Sports video games are among some of the most immersive genres in the industry. For the fans who are less athletically inclined, these games allow us to feel as though we really are athletes on the big field. Hockey is one of these sports that rests on the long lists of athletics that have been turned into a successful list of games. We saw the origin of hockey based video games with Ice Hockey, released in 1981 for the Atari 2600....

Some tropes never get old, but a lot of characters, mechanics, and stories die from overuse and changing social standards. All media develop over time; video games in particular have changed throughout the 21st century thanks to their recent origins and growing popularity. With both critics and the public giving more attention to games, companies have had to remove unsatisfying tropes in order to please their growing audience. The tropes on this list were either applauded or tolerated during the 2000s but are unacceptable in today’s society....

When Final Fantasy VII entered development, it represented the biggest technological leap for the series to date. The PlayStation offered Squaresoft the technology to make a game that used 3D graphics, as well as the inclusion of FMVs and high-quality audio due to the CD-ROMs that the games would use. The move away from Nintendo and their strict content policies also allowed Square to tell more adult stories than what they had been allowed to tell in the past....

Behind several anime protagonists are senseis who helped them reach greater heights. Either through detailed instruction or leading by example, these mentors acted as an exemplar their pupils could learn how to be the best from. Some of these overpowered instructors were undeniably better than others though, which is why they’ve made our list of the 20 best anime senseis that we’d want to train with. All Might (My Hero Academia) Best Anime Senseis Don’t let the sunken eyes and monstrous build fool you; All Might is easily one of the most caring anime senseis to ever grace the screen....

Star Wars has been around since 1977 with the release of a little film you might have heard of, called Star Wars. It was an immediate success upon release, pulling in an estimated $1.5 million its opening weekend in the US, going on to earn over $775 million in its lifetime worldwide. It kick-started the boom in science fiction throughout the late 70’s and early 80’s, and created one of the biggest media empires in the world overnight....

When Pokémon GO was first released back in July 2016, it quickly became a global sensation. Everyone and their mother got hooked on the thrill of trying to catch ’em all in the real world – not just in a fictional region of the Pokémon world. People would walk kilometers to hatch their eggs, spend hours looking for rare Pokémon, and even trespass into people’s gardens in the hope of finding the ‘Mon of their dreams....

A franchise three decades in the making, time has not been particularly kind to Castlevania’s legacy. Where the series once basked in the glow of yearly releases, Konami has kept a steady hand on their IP in recent years, relegating it to Pachinko parlors at best. We haven’t seen a new game in the series since Lords of Shadows 2. That said, 2017 marked a new era for the franchise. Thanks to the animated series finally finding a home on Netflix, interest in the series has been the highest it’s been since Symphony of the Night came out in 1997....

Tis’ the season of pumpkins, overpriced costumes, and Fortnite Patch v6.00! With the new patch in full swing, I have compiled a list of 30 Things We Wish We Knew Before Playing Competitive Fortnite. It’s a hefty list, but hopefully, I manage to offer you some new insight into the way too serious world of try-hard Fortnite players. I’m doing this because I care about you, okay? As a more casual/social player myself, I had to get some help from the pros....

In a recent patch note update for Halo: Reach on PC, 343 Industries has assured fans that the rest of the Halo: Master Chief Collection will come to PC in 2020. For those unaware, Reach launched earlier this month as the first in an effort to finally properly port the series to Windows PCs. Many had been clamoring for the series for years and Microsoft was finally ready to deliver....

Steam is one of PC’s biggest storefronts, as thousands of users log in every day looking to play a variety of titles or to get the best deals on today’s latest hits. The storefront also does a lot for its community, as it allows up-and-coming talent to showcase their titles, with some very promising content hitting Steam. That said, Steam has also been the subject of exploits and bugs regarding the process of publishing titles, and it’s never been clearer than Laptop gaming’s MEGAJUMP....

Loop Hero is Devolver Digital’s next game and it is coming out very soon. To mark the occasion, a new gameplay trailer came out today to coincide with the announcement of the Loop Hero’s release date. For those unfamiliar with the project, Loop Hero is an old school adventure game developed by Four Quarters, which is a small four man team based out of Russia. Four Quarters has developed only one other game, which is a puzzle game titled Please Don’t Touch Anything....

The ever outspoken Josef Fares, director of the marvellous A Way Out has said that people’s obsession with game length is missplaced in a recent interview. Speaking with VG247, Fares said that the playthrough rate on PS4 for A Way Out was “around 52%” which is a pretty high number, and Fares made the comparison if the same thing were to happen in the cinema, saying “Imagine someone like James Cameron going, ‘Oh, only 50% of the people walked out of the cinema, wow, that’s great!...

There’s a certain art involved in making a good soccer game. With a sport so beloved around the world, adapting it to video game standards can be extremely tricky. The finesse, the subtleties, and the technicalities of the sport have to be replicated down to a T. One mistake and it’s all over. Sadly for the games on this list, they don’t just slip up in one area but a plethora of them....

It’s no secret that most gamers, while they do enjoy their games to a degree, think that the Activision-owned developer Treyarch’s Call of Duty games aren’t as good as the ones developed by Infinity Ward. Treyarch knows that and they’re fairly confident that Call of Duty: Black Ops will exceed consumer expectations and deliver an even better experience than the one Modern Warfare 2 gave. Treyarch’s Josh Olin explains: I actually enjoyed World at War very much and I think Treyarch is very capable of stepping up to the plate, despite all of the adversity it’s facing as an underdog developer to one of the most popular game franchises in recent times....

Since it was first announced at Gamescom 2017, Age of Empires 4 has been setting the internet ablaze with cheers, jeers, and speculations from fans and developers alike, with everyone waiting for the gameplay footage that has been promised to us for November. The original Age of Empires, released in October of 1997, became an instant classic to the RTS genre, with its marked improvements in resource gathering and realism. The game has spawned a number of sequels and expansions, culminating in this fourth installment, which has yet to establish a release date but will hopefully do so later this year....

This All American review contains spoilers. All American Season 2, Episode 4 Welp. Just when you think things might actually be going well for Spencer (Daniel Ezra) and his father, Corey (Chad L. Coleman), he does that thing again and leaves. We were all rooting for you, Corey. We really were. In “They Reminisce Over You,” we learn that everything is not as it seems and I’m already mad that we are going to have to witness Spencer getting hurt again....