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  • The Elder Scrolls: Legends, Bethesda Softworks’ foray into the card-battler genre, is effectively closed. That also means the card set promised in The Elder Scrolls: Legends’ April development roadmap has been canceled, too. Legends’ online and single-player modes are still playable and Bethesda will support online play with monthly rewards and in-game events, Van Hoose said. The Elder Scrolls: Legends’ most recent expansion, “Jaws of Oblivion,” launched in September 2018. As a make-good to play
    The Elder Scrolls: Legends has been shut down

  • Where all games are limited by what developers program, this game uses OpenAI to create infinitely generated worlds that are only limited by your imagination. AI Dungeon 2 gives you a few different settings and roles that you can adopt, but from there, it pretty much lets you run wild. Yes, this is a sequel to a game that used deep learning to generate its text, but in that iteration, the game gave you specific actions to choose from. AI Dungeon 2 was made possible by the support of David Wingat
    You can do nearly anything you want in this incredible AI-powered game

  • Black Friday has come and gone, but Amazon is keeping the holiday sales rolling with an up-to 50 percent off board games sale. The sale includes dozens of strategy games, including everything from card games to traditional board games to role-playing game miniatures. Among the sale titles is Wasteland Express Deliver Service, a post-apocalyptic board game about making deliveries. Pathfinder’s second edition succeeds at refining the game’s complicated combat system into something a little more ma
    Amazon is having a one-day sale on strategy board games, some as much as 65% off

  • Guy “Dr Disrespect” Beahm has always put a ridiculous amount of production work into his streams. From cutaways to fake car chases, to mid-match music videos, the Dr Disrespect persona Beahm has created is all about putting on a show for viewers. As part of this new deal, which was initially announced by The Hollywood Reporter, Beahm and Skybound will develop a scripted narrative television series based on the Dr Disrespect character. Before he started streaming, Beahm worked at Sledgehammer gam
    Dr. Disrespect teaming with Skybound Entertainment for potential TV show

  • Destiny 2 offers two currencies for the in-game store: Silver, bought with real money, and Bright Dust, earned by playing the game. Players can only use their Bright Dust to purchase items on a weekly shop rotation, while most Silver items are available all season long. According to a new blog post from Bungie, only 50% of new Eververse items went on sale for Bright Dust during the Season of the Undying — Destiny 2’s fall season. Moreover, players didn’t have any idea which items the studio woul
    Destiny 2 players can buy more cosmetics without real money in Season of Dawn

  • Pokémon Go’s Evolution Event started today and now is the best time to grab any evolution items, like Sinnoh and Unova Stones. ET, special Field Research Tasks that reward evolution items will be able to be grabbed from PokéStops. Onix, Eevee, Roselia, and Burmy will also spawn more frequently in the wild and Lickitung, Scyther, Togetic, and Ralts will be featured in raids. To make the most of this event, grab as many Roselia, Ralts, Scyther, and Togetic as you can. Pokémon Go Evolution Event 20
    Pokémon Go Evolution Event 2019 guide: field research and rewards

  • Each of these threads has garnered hundreds of comments from seemingly enthusiastic fans clamoring for prints of new artwork. The idea of the meme is to test how bots use social media to swipe designs from artists to sell on companies’ own marketplaces, and to apply pressure to their businesses using outside forces. This has become a well-known fact among the art community on Twitter, and this new meme puts the theory to the test. But now these artists are fighting back against this system and u
    Artists are provoking Nintendo and Disney to sue bots that steal artwork

  • The same description could apply to Mati Diop’s debut feature Atlantics, which uses the ocean to bind its stories together. Atlantics arrived on Netflix after picking up the Grand Prix at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Souleiman sets sail for Europe with his fellow workers in search of better employment, without saying a word to Ada. Atlantics feels so earnest in part due to the grace with which Sane and Traoré (both first-timers) handle their changing characters. But these jarring elements r
    Netflix's Atlantics is as mesmerizing as the ocean

  • Twenty-five years ago, PlayStation played an instrumental part in making 3D graphics the industry norm for video games. 3D graphics. PlayStation brought aboard the vast majority of third-party developers and helped usher in the first era of 3D video game consoles. This was helped in no small part by games on the PlayStation, such as innovative and influential 3D games like Metal Gear Solid, Crash Bandicoot, Final Fantasy 7, and Resident Evil. “We could make 3D games never seen before,” Yamada sa
    How PlayStation democratized 3D video games

  • The last big content update for GTA Online introduced the Diamond Casino, a new zone where players can gamble, purchase a luxurious penthouse, and accept new missions from a new cast of characters. Rockstar has announced a follow-up is coming to the Diamond Casino: a new heist coming in December. Heists in GTA Online are a set of lucrative missions that are tougher than your average job, but have a payout to match. There will also be a very handy Master Control Terminal, allowing players to mana
    GTA Online gets a brand-new casino heist and arcade business

  • Riot Games will release new games that are part of the League of Legends universe but created by third-party developers under a new label called Riot Forge. Riot Forge will publish single-player games that expand the League of Legends lore “in different genres on various platforms,” with the help of other game developers. Riot itself is moving beyond the core League of Legends game experience with card game Legends of Runeterra, a fighting game, and a role-playing game, but it sounds like Riot F
    Riot's letting other studios make League of Legends games

  • Starting on Dec. 12, people who don’t own Fallout 76 will be able to play the game for free until Dec. 16. For those that do own Fallout 76, they’ll soon be able to score double XP and a chance to score some holiday-themed loot, both Christmas-y stuff and Halloween stuff. Next weekend’s free trial for Fallout 76 will arrive shortly after Update 16 for the online multiplayer Fallout game. Fallout 76 will get into the holiday spirit starting Dec. 12 with Holiday Scorched enemies, who will wear San
    Fallout 76 is getting a free weekend and a Halloween do-over in December

  • Cult-hit show Letterkenny is getting its eighth season, and it looks wild. The trailer shows the entire Letterkenny gang partying it up for “Day Beer Day,” presumably an event where everyone drinks beer during the day, only to be interrupted by Wayne. Katy, Wayne’s younger sister, is notably missing from the Day Beer Day party, and it just might be her. Letterkenny just got its seventh season in October, but we’re still thrilled to be getting another season so soon. Season eight will air Dec. 27
    Letterkenny season 8 joins Hulu on Dec. 27

  • Google Stadia hasn’t had the smoothest launch, and the stream of avoidable mistakes keeps coming from Google’s new gaming platform. On Dec. 5, THQ Nordic and Airship Syndicate launched Darksiders Genesis on Google Stadia and strangely, the Stadia version costs $10 more than the version on PC. But Stadia doesn’t offer any kind of Pro discount for Darksiders Genesis. On Stadia, Genesis costs $39.99, but if you pre-ordered the game on Steam, you only had to pay $25.50 — nearly $15 dollars off the S
    The new Darksiders costs an extra $10 on Google Stadia

  • Nintendo Switch Online subscribers will get six more classic games from the NES and Super NES era next week, including Star Fox 2, the canceled Star Fox sequel that made its official debut on the Super NES Classic Edition in 2017. Also coming to Nintendo Switch Online are SNES games Super Punch-Out! !, Breath of Fire 2, and Kirby Super Star; as well as NES games Chrystalis and Journey to Silius. The addition of those titles will bring the number of classic NES and SNES games playable through Nin
    Star Fox 2, Super Punch-Out!! coming to Nintendo Switch Online in December

  • On Dec. 9, developer CD Projekt Red is shutting off support for Gwent: The Witcher Card Game on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. CD Projekt Red said both console versions will remain “operational” with limited functionality until June 9. CD Projekt Red said it will continue to support the PC and mobile versions of Gwent — the most popular platforms for the game, according to the developer. On Dec. 9, console players will be able to begin transferring their account data — ornaments, Meteorite Powder f
    The Witcher card game is shutting down on PS4, Xbox One

  • Xbox Game Pass subscribers will get the current edition of eFootball PES 2020 this month, as well as the return of Tom Clancy’s The Division next week. The Division, which dropped out of Xbox Game Pass in March to make way for Ubisoft Montreal’s sequel, launched in 2016. The Division and PES 2020 are joined by Halo: Reach for both Xbox One and Windows PC. Overcooked 2 also joins the Xbox Game Pass library on Dec. 12. Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, which combines Xbox Live Gold with access to the Xbox
    Halo: Reach, The Division, and PES 2020 highlight Xbox Game Pass in December

  • Pokémon Go will have its first Evolution Event starting on Dec. 5 at 4 p.m. The event will feature Pokémon like Onix, Eevee, Roselia, and Burmy spawning more frequently in the wild and in raids. There will also be event Field Research that rewards evolution items, which is arguably the most important thing to happen during this event. Burmy will also be spawning in the wild Shiny for the first time. If you can’t notice the difference in Shiny forms of the Burmy and Wormadam, their bug bodies are
    Pokémon Go is getting an evolution-themed event, featuring Shiny Burmy

  • Disney’s high-concept Star Wars hotel finally has an opening day. According to the official blog, Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser will open at Walt Disney World some time in 2021 with a two-day cruise-like itinerary. Galactic Starcruiser is being built literally across the street from Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, the new 14-acre land in Orlando, Florida. During their stay, guests will be ferried to and from the planet Batuu’s Black Spire Outpost — thematically, the setting for Disney’s Star Wars la
    Disney's Star Wars land hotel opens in 2021, here's how it works

  • Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 is getting a permadeath hardcore mode with its next update on Dec. 10. It’s also getting a holiday-themed weapon and apparel items, so players can run around in Santa hats and lob snow projectiles at one another. “Taking these enemies down will drop a new, exclusive weapon that shoots … snowballs.” More importantly, The Division 2’s next title update, 6.1, will offer a new Hardcore Mode of play where death is permanent. “Play in co-op for a better chance to reach endg
    Tom Clancy's The Division 2 gets a permadeath mode next week and ... snowballs?

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