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It was a foregone conclusion that one of the most successful videogame franchises in the world would have a big opening day, but now it seems that it will have one of the biggest opening nights as well. GameStop has announced that 4,400 of the company’s 6,500 stores will be hosting midnight launch events for the release of Call of Duty: Black Ops this Tuesday. In what may be the just the first of many records broken with the release of Activision and Treyarch’s newest FPS, Black Ops will give GameStop the largest midnight launch in the Texas-based company’s history....

Co-op adventuring was introduced in Fable II and Lionhead Studios won’t be forfeiting its use for the very soon to be released Fable III. This time out Fable fans will be able to play as their own heroes in a friend’s world, rather than having play as a cohort. Dogs can come along, too. Players will be able to adventure together, battle monsters together, and complete quests together. Alternately, one person can run off and be heroic while the other one slaves away at a blacksmith job....

Modern Warfare 2 Season 1 has been out for a month and players everywhere are busy exploring the game’s new offerings. Plenty of details regarding the current season have already been announced, such as the new operators included and a new Spec Ops mission that’s been added. READ MORE: Unsure how to view your stats in MW2? We go over how to do so here. Another equally important facet of the game that its players want to know more of are the maps that will be included throughout the season....

The Japanese RPG often gets accused of following the same tired tropes for decades since the likes of Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, and Ys popularized the genre in the 1980s. The heroes can either be plucky happy-go-lucky naive adventurers/treasure hunters or brooding teenage archetypes. Even though these protagonists have time to grow on the players, the villains often carry the story. This is the same in any medium where the story follows a similar path....

Microsoft seem to be the only company that are interested in backwards compatibility. As it’s important for gaming history, as well as offering players more choices, we respect them for doing this. Whether they may lose money or not, they’re committed to allowing people to play whatever they want on their consoles. Below is the list of games that Microsoft need to make Xbox One backward compatible. People will be very surprised to find out some of these!...

Sul Sul! If you are an avid Sims fan, you can probably recognize more than a few phrases that your simulated friends use. Even if you feel that you are a Simlish expert and can speak Simlish fluently, there is quite possibly a few things about the made up gibberish language that might just surprise you. Stick around and scroll down to discover 10 facts about Simlish that most people don’t know!...

Every day we see bold advancements in the realm of pre-ordering. It’d be nice to see bold advancements in making games better moving at the same pace, but what can you do eh? Today, 11 bit studios (Anomaly Warzone Earth) have announced a new game. OR HAVE THEY? No, they have, they’re just not telling anyone anything about it. But you can still pre-order it at 50% off. The mystery game is due between March and June this year....

From time to time all of us dabble in some competitive play modes in our favorite games. Sadly, few of us will ever reach that dream job of playing video games for a living. However, as an industry, it is still pretty new and it is actually pretty hard to pay the bills playing games competitively. For famous teams who win big, there are just not enough tournaments around in order to keep food on the table all year long....

It’s been an interesting last five years for Microsoft and the Xbox One console; after reigning as champion the last generation with their Xbox 360, the company utterly tossed away most of its audience’s goodwill with the announcement of the Xbox One. The always online option felt for many to be anti-consumer and pro-MS’ wallets. It didn’t help that most of these announcements were made by an ultra smug Don Mattrick (yeah, he got the boot soon after)....

Creating a good boss battle for a developer is a high mountain to climb in-and-of-itself; hitting the perfect level of fairness and challenge, keeping it fresh while enjoyably familiar, and having players utilizing all skills and experience they’ve accumulated to that point is only just a sum of the equation. But what if a handful of programmers toiled away and made a great boss battle, but then decided to tuck it under the carpet as a hidden easter egg in the game?...

If you didn’t end up selling your childhood toys at a yard sale somewhere along the way in the early 00s, then chances are you still have a few more rolling around in the bottom of your closet at your parent’s house, am I right? Amongst all the things we do here at TheGamer, one of them creating odes to the 90s and all the kids who were graced with the honor of being a true 90s kid....

If you are searching for 5 letter words AU in the middle for today’s Wordle, we’ve got you covered. Go through this list and narrow down your next guess to reach the answer of the day as soon as possible. 5 Letter Words with AU in the Middle (Wordle Clue) Since you have already discovered the letters A and U, here are the five letter words that you can attempt next....

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania has released its second official trailer, giving MCU fans a better look at one of the film’s villains, Kang the Conqueror. However, he’s not the only character that the trailer focuses on, as there is also a heavy emphasis on the Lang and Pym-van Dyne family, amongst other exciting details. So, without further ado, these are six details you might have missed in the new Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania trailer....

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past episodic comic published inside Nintendo Power magazine in 1992 is to be reprinted as a single graphic novel, Viz Media has announced. The new publication will hit shelves on May 15. The comic series ran for 12 issues and was illustrated by the late Shotaro Ishinomori, an artist best known his Cyborg 009 series and his work under Astro Boy creator Osamu Tezuka....

UPDATE 14/4/22: Killtheth, the Twitter user who gained access to Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp on their Switch Lite despite Nintendo officially delaying its release, has now had her order cancelled. Nintendo will be providing Killtheth with a refund for her purchase (although she is yet to receive it). Following her original posts sharing pictures from her copy of Advance Wars 1+2 Re-Boot Camp, Killtheth shared this update on her blog:...

With E3 finally in full swing, expect a slew of new games to come hurtling toward your face like if you were the last opponent in a dodge ball match. After the Fall is the latest virtual reality shooter by the team that brought us Arizona Sunshine in 2016. After the Fall takes some heavy cues from its predecessor, putting guns in your hand and zombies in your scopes. But while this is your basic zombie shoot-em-up, After the Fall throws you and up to four friends into the frozen wasteland of an alternate Los Angeles....

The popular 1988 cyberpunk anime film Akira (based on a manga of the same name) depicted a post-apocalyptic 2019 rife with biker gangs, political turmoil, and teenagers with psychic abilities. Though 2019 has come and gone without this vision of the future coming to fruition, frequenters of The Hidden Palace celebrated Christmas by getting to see a previously unreleased prototype for an Akira adaptation being developed for the SEGA Mega Drive (or Genesis in North America) in the early 90s....

MSI vs. Alienware: Four Must-Know Facts Alienware is a line of laptops and desktop computers made by Dell, while Micro-Star International (MSI) is an information technology corporation headquartered in Taiwan. Alienware gaming laptops are often designed with TN displays, while MSI gaming laptops normally have IPS displays.MSI gaming computers have the best battery life which can last up to 6 hours on a single charge, Unlike Alienware’s battery life which lasts for 3 hours on a single charge....

The holiday cheer is everywhere, even in GTA Online’s Los Santos. Players will be able to hunt down various snowmen in the city this month and gain prizes, including a pretty goofy-looking snowman costume to show off. Here’s a rundown of all the snowman locations in GTA 5 Online. Where to Find All Snowmen in GTA 5 Online There are a total of 25 snowmen to be found in GTA Online, and thanks to the folks over at GTALens, here are a few map screenshots to show you exactly where to find them:...

Rocksteady’s Batman: Arkham Asylum released during a time when licensed video games were still fairly prominent in the market, more often than not resulting in mediocre cash-grabs tie-ins for upcoming pop-culture and animated films. Not only did the Batman: Arkham series prove that fantastic games can be made using licensed properties, it spawned four mainline games, four portable spin-off games for PS Vita and Mobile, Batman: Arkham VR game for PSVR, tie-in comic books, and much more....