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The latest update in Animal Crossing: New Horizons added swimming to the game. Swimming allows players to dive into the ocean and collect sea creatures that they can exchange for new furniture. However, players are upset about the swimming mechanics in the game. The swimming is too slow, unfun, and some players think it’s a half-baked mechanic. Swimming in Animal Crossing does not function well. Once players obtain and equip a wetsuit, they have to press A to jump into the ocean....

Animal Crossing players are having a lot of fun with new custom fireworks designs. The second wave of Animal Crossing’s summer update just happened last week, bringing with it a host of new features including dream islands and the ability to backup your island. It also brought a festive new weekly event as well: a fireworks display to celebrate the summer. We just had our first fireworks display yesterday at 7 PM local time, and it will be repeated every Sunday for the rest of August....

On the surface, Animal Crossing appears to be just another open-world social simulation and collecting game. It features cute characters, adorable surroundings, and quaint customization options. Players move into a rural village and enter a new life of collecting, planting, and socializing, while making sure to collect enough bells to pay their mortgage and buy supplies from the store, both of which are provided by Tom Nook, a Tanuki who is also the town’s leading estate agent and businessman....

As Anthem hopefuls dive into the open demo and full release of BioWare’s latest action RPG, they will likely be checking out the various combos that can be performed in the game. Whether playing solo or with a group, knowing which moves combine with others to put out the most damage possible is essential to the success or failure of many an Anthem player. Now, thanks to Redditor FireDragon04, there is an infographic highlighting how to prime and detonate moves in Anthem....

As Anthem gets closer and closer to release, fans are pouring over all the developer commentary and videos to get the best understanding of BioWare’s highly anticipated title possible leading up to launch. One of the biggest features of the game are the four Javelin exosuits that players can wear while exploring the world. Carpeggio on Reddit went through every bit of information available for the Javelins and created a handy table breaking down the various damage types available to each suit....

Apex Legends’ first season of content, Wild Frontier, was just a wee bit of a letdown in terms of fun. Highlights include the Apex Elite queue, a few cool skins, and of course, Octane. But all in all, it felt pretty lackluster when it comes to content. Outside of the new Legend, nothing really shook up the core gameplay, and the Battle Pass was bloated with obvious filler material. Luckily, Battle Charge, Apex’s second season, seems to be pretty squarely aimed at addressing those shortcomings....

Apex Legends is more than a year old, yet one aspect that’s been problematic since the game’s genesis still continues to be an issue in the game: toxic random squadmates. Like many team games, players who join the game without full teams will find themselves placed with random players. For the most part, randoms won’t cause problems. They either won’t talk, or they’ll call out suggestions to help guide the game and support weaker players in gunfights....

Apex Legends is set to launch Season 1 on March 19, introducing the battle royale’s first premium Battle Pass. The Battle Pass will cost players no more than $10 in Apex Legends’ in-game currency, Apex Coins, and will offer players a 100-level experience track of rewards including weapon skins, stat trackers, voice intros, and more. Perhaps the Battle Pass’ most valuable reward, however, is its allotment of Apex Coins. Apex Coin is Apex Legends’ premium currency, costing roughly $10 per 1000 Apex Coins....

This past Thursday, publisher EA hosted its EA Play 2020 event online. A big part of EA’s showing was what was coming in the future for Apex Legends, including that the game will be coming to Switch and Steam and will feature cross-play. In a recent interview following those announcements with the game’s creative director, Chad Grenier, he was asked about the ongoing discussion about the game’s use of skill-based matchmaking (SBMM)....

Our quick take Apple iPhone XR - 4.5 / 5 Should you buy the iPhone XR in 2022? Bright colour design stands out Six colour options: white, black, blue, yellow, coral and (Product) Red Dimensions: 150.9 x 75.7 x 8.3mm All glass and aluminium design Single-lens camera on rear IP67 rated Apple iPhone XR vs iPhone 8 vs iPhone 8 Plus: What’s the difference? A bigger LCD display 6.1-inch LCD display, 1792 x 828 resolution (326ppi ‘Liquid Retina’) True Tone and Haptic Touch (not 3D Touch) Performance A12 Bionic processor Same power as iPhone XS and XS Max 64GB, 128GB and 256GB models (no 512GB option) The single rear camera still delivers 12-megapixel f/1....

It turns out Arkane has pulled the wool over everyone’s eyes as they actually teased their new shooter Redfall over a year ago in some key art. Arkane Studios released a neat piece of art for the studio’s 20th anniversary showing headshots of multiple different characters from Arkane games such as Dishonored, Prey, and the upcoming Deathloop. What we didn’t know at the time is that Arkane was cheekily hiding a small nod to their latest announcement Redfall almost a year before the game was actually announced....

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is the twelfth major entry to the highly successful and immensely popular franchise. Like many Assassin’s Creed games before it, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla does its best to be as historically accurate as possible, and for the most part, it does its job very well. Ubisoft doesn’t take historical accuracy lightly, and while there are a few things about the game many considers inaccurate, this is mostly only done for artistic liberty....

Strange Adventures in Infinite Space was originally released back in 2002. Now, 18 years later, it’s been updated to version 1.6.1 and re-released for free. The free and updated version of Strange Adventures in Infinite Space (SAIS) is available on itchio for Windows, macOS, and Linux, and runs pretty smoothly on those platforms. According to the SAIS announcement post, developer Digital Eel is responsible for the new version and free release....

The Pokémon franchise is one of the most popular and successful franchise in the world and it has grown considerably since the first games, Red, Blue and Yellow, came out back in 1996 (yup, 22 years ago. Feeling old yet?). It sure came a long way since the first generation of Pokémon. I remember a time when I knew the names of all the Pokémon and could recite them in order....

Take-Two and its gaming label 2K Games are currently in the midst of their financial reporting conference call, which includes plans for the next year. 2K’s fiscal year 2020, which runs from April 2019 through March 2020, is confirmed to feature currently announced games like The Outer Worlds from Obsidian and Ancestors: The Humankind Legacy from Patrice Désilets but it will also include an unannounced AAA release. It has been known for some time that 2K had another non-Private Division game in development that had yet to be revealed, so today’s update merely confirms that the project hasn’t been delayed and remains on-track for a 2020 launch....

I can distinctly remember the first time I sat down and watched Dragon Ball Z. It was at my cousin’s and he was watching the episode where Vegeta smokes Dodoria. Commercials never did the show justice. It always looked dumb to me, but after this episode I wanted more. Oddly enough a few episodes later the show rebooted on Toonami as they ran out of “new” episodes. They did that a lot with anime, but Inuyasha and Dragon Ball Z were two of their worst examples....

4A Games has announced that its next game in the Metro series will offer both single player and multiplayer options. The Ukrainian-Maltese game developer based in Sliema, Malta, first introduced Metro 2033, a first-person shooter created for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 gaming platforms, in March 2010. Since then, the series has added two sequels — Metro: Last Light and Metro Exodus — and remastered its first two entries in 2014....

Ghost-type Pokemon have been around since the very first installment of the Pokemon series: Red and Blue. While the existence of ghost Pokemon is an accepted part of the Pokemon universe, they’re not the only ghosts present in Pokemon games. Developer Game Freak has also been putting human ghosts into the games for as long as the series has existed. While the appearance of these ghosts is rarely explained, they add a spooky side to an otherwise kid-friendly game series....

When it comes to life sims, the two biggest franchises around are surely Animal Crossing and The Sims. Nintendo’s effort places us in the shoes of a human avatar who makes a home in a town (or on an island) populated by anthropomorphic animals, while The Sims sees the player indirectly controlling their little human playthings by guiding them from task to task. Genre fans have probably spent a good deal of time with both series, though their approaches are drastically different....

The Last of Us Part II is here, and within the game’s first week of release there have definitely been some split opinions. While some people love the game and others not so much, there’s no doubt the game is selling very well and is being played. But if you still haven’t managed to get your hands on a copy, what are some things you need to to know before diving in?...