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Despite 2020 being a mess of a year, Nintendo managed to make the world a happier place with the release of Animal Crossing: New Horizons for the Nintendo Switch. The game has sold extremely well and has served as a great entry point into the Animal Crossing franchise for millions of new players. The game is a relaxing and comforting experience that features a host of wonderful characters, and it secretly pays homage to both the Animal Crossing series itself, and Nintendo, in a variety of ways....

On July 3rd, the first of two planned summer updates was added to Animal Crossing: New Horizons. The biggest change introduced in the newly-added patch is the ability to swim in the ocean surrounding your island. This significantly increases the overall area of players’ game worlds that can be explored, and includes an entirely new kind of undersea creature with its own tab in the Critterpedia app. However, before any of the new content can be accessed, players will have to obtain a wet suit, which must be worn before the ocean can be entered in the first place....

Traveling to an exotic island might be out of your budget, but Nintendo has you covered with a no-expenses paid trip to a new locale. It’ll cost some Bells to build your new getaway, but most Animal Crossing fans are used to the Nook tax by now. There’s a lot to do on Animal Crossing: New Horizon’s island, so we’re going to show you how to make Bells fast and get to the good stuff....

Apex Legends is one of the more popular battle royale games that you can play, but some Reddit users have formulated some pretty unpopular opinions about it. They stray from the norm as they point out features of the game that most players actually enjoy. Many are left scratching their heads as to why they feel this way and often come to the conclusion that something must be wrong with them....

Apex Legends just celebrated its two-year anniversary, and since the moment the game launched, Apex Legends has been one of the best battle royale games on the market. However, it seems as if Respawn Entertainment is toying around with the idea of expanding on the game in interesting new ways, which may include outside of the battle royale genre. Season 8 of Apex Legends just kicked off a few days ago, so quite a few devs at Respawn took to Reddit for an Ask Me Anything in which fans could get some questions answered about the update, the state of the game, the future, and more....

A recent leak suggest that one of the next big Apex Legends events will have a Caustic theme. Apex Legends dataminer Biast12 reveals details tying into the new season, suggesting what it may include for players. Respawn Entertainment is consistently updating its popular free-to-play battle royale with new content. Now that Season 8 of Apex Legends has started, fans are digging in and unearthing future content. Part of this involves Caustic, one of the main playable characters from the original release....

Which Apple MacBook is best for you? MacBook, MacBook Air or MacBook Pro? MacBook Pro 2018 vs MacBook Pro 2017: What’s the difference? Best laptop: All the top notebooks, 2-in-1s and ultraportables to buy today Our quick take Apple MacBook Pro with Touch Bar - 4.0 / 5 Design & Connections No USB, SD card, or HDMI sockets 4x Thunderbolt 3 ports (USB-C) 14.9mm thick, 1.3kg weight Keyboard & Trackpad New keyboard design Display, Performance & Battery Life 13....

Regardless of whether players choose to control Kassandra or Alexios during Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, they’ll have problems with the Cult of Kosmos. This villainous group is responsible for breaking the protagonist’s family apart. In retaliation, players can hunt down every single member to wipe them from the face of the earth. However, they don’t particularly make their identities known to the world. So, players need to find clues to track them down....

Eivor is not just an assassin, but he is also a treasure hunter in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. There are treasure maps scattered across England and Norway and each one contains an image or riddle that correlates with the map of a region in some way. Sometimes it provides quite a challenge, but you will be rewarded with either a tattoo or cosmetic scheme for your longship. You will have to use all of your skills to retrieve the loot, and it is well worth it to acquire these extra cosmetics....

With hype for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla growing, fans are beginning to wonder which of the many remaining mysteries surrounding the Assassins might be answered. As it turns out, Valhalla’s time period and setting has interesting implications, not only for the game’s Viking aesthetic, but for the aspects of the Assassin Brotherhood that it might reveal. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla takes place several hundred years after Origins, and a couple hundred years before the original Assassin’s Creed....

What’s that Shigeru Miyamoto quote again? “A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad.” That quote has been meme’d to death, but its sentiment still rings true. A delay usually helps the developers achieve a certain quality without succumbing to crunch. That was the case with Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which missed the 2019 holiday in order to ensure that crunch didn’t happen. This ended up boosting the game’s sales in the end, as its March 2020 release date made it the “game we need right now” as COIVD-19 quarantines began....

The video gaming industry is a vast trade. From different companies like video game publishers, developers, hardware creators, marketers, and much more, many establishments saturate the gaming industry. The big contenders that come to mind today are Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony, while studios like EA, Ubisoft, and Activision also ring bells. These companies dominate the market and continue to thrive in today’s competitive video game market. Aside from home consoles, other forms of gaming have struck popularity....

After beating the aliens in XCOM: Enemy Unknown, fans didn’t know where the developers would take the story. Surprise: humans actually lost, and now the Commander and crew operate as splinter cells to fight the alien scourge. This unexpected retcon worked and made taking down Advent in XCOM 2 feel incredible. With the addition of the DLC War of The Chosen, the game saw renewed interest, and, realistically, operated as a totally different game with new classes, new challenges, and cameos from many actors from Star Trek: The Next Generation....

The turn-based combat systems in Japanese RPGs (JRPGs) are one of the oldest and most traditional means of performing combat in the genre. For many critics and gamers, the system has become antiquated over the years in favor of more action-orientated combat systems like the ones seen in the Final Fantasy VII Remake. However, being traditional doesn’t mean that the system doesn’t stand the test of time or has to become a stagnant experience....

God of War is exactly what fans needed in the video game industry. This year has been off to a moderately good start, but this game has set the fandom in motion. What better way to start off the summer than with a throwback to a significant Playstation mascot that brought hack-and-slash to the masses? However, while we are used to seeing Kratos sarcastically insult enemies as he slashes them with his Blades of Chaos, this time the antihero is a father looking to fulfill his dead wife’s last wish....

Console gaming is a special thing; the feeling of having a new system is something no one can ever forget. For each system we get, there’s always new technology to explore with new mechanics that make our games more interesting. Some are mobile, some you can only play at home, but we love them either way. There’s something about console gaming that you simply can’t get with a PC, including the fact that they don’t require nearly as much maintenance as computers do....

The old way of making a movie was to make sure that a video game that cost approximately $12.50 to develop was always released alongside it. These games were generally considered shovelware, but the trend was a successful one that went on for years. Nowadays, there aren’t many tie-in games. With the number of classics that Disney releases to theaters every year, that’s quite a shame. They have a ton of properties that would work great in video game form....

Assassin’s Creed Origins takes players to Ancient Egypt during the reign of Cleopatra. Because of the time period, the trophy list for the game has the player complete tasks that were common for the setting. Trophies for this game can range from completing all location objectives to assassinating a number of enemies without being spotted. While some players may enjoy hunting trophies in easier titles, Assassin’s Creed Origins will offer a nice balance of easy and hard trophies....

Fresh from his latest video game outing, Keanu Reeves has a few big years ahead of him. Not only will he be reprising his role as Neo in the fourth Matrix movie at the end of next year, but he’s also slated to appear in two more John Wick movies. To say that he has a busy schedule would be something of an understatement. While he’s played some fairly big roles over the years, it’s perhaps these two characters that have defined his career....

Created by the equally acclaimed and eccentric Yoko Toro, the Nier series achieved critical and commercial success with Nier: Automata. This title was developed along with PlatinumGames and combined with Toro’s unique writing style and script it is now considered to be one of the greatest action RPGs of a generation. Thanks to the success of Nier: Automata, Toro and the studio Toylogic have remastered its predecessor Nier: Replicant to more critical acclaim....