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Summary Sly 2: Band of Thieves, Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves, andJak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy are being added to thePlayStation PlusClassics Catalogue on December 10. As one myself, I can say that the Sly Cooper fanbase is one of PlayStation’smost starving alongside Ape Escape, Jak and Daxter, and LittleBigPlanet. Ignoring the fact that PlayStation has atonof series under its belt that it refuses to use, Sly Cooper fans have at least been thrown a lifeline recently with the addition of the first game to the PlayStation Store....

Summary A few days ago, a Steam user was banned from theStalker 2forums after highlighting that the PC requirements appear to be inaccurate. The Steam user in question,Redditor RTcore, pointed out that community manager Mol1t said to “achieve similar performance on the specificed PC characteristics, you should use TSR upscale technology”. Essentially, if the chart says your graphics card can hit 60fps at 1080p on medium settings, it can only do so withDLSS/FSR, which is actually a lower resolution that has been upscaled....

Star Wars: The Phantom Menacewas a media juggernaut when it launched in 1999. It was a very bad film, to be sure, but you couldn’t move for the amount of video games, plastic toys, soft drinks, and other pieces of merchandise that flooded the market before and after its release. George Lucas knew exactly what he was working with, and even if the prequel never stuck the landing in terms of quality, the desire for all things Star Wars was unlikely to wane....

Arabian Nights is the very first proper expansion forMagic: The Gathering(as Alpha, Beta, and Unlimited were largely the same card lists). Released in 1993, Arabian Nights was inspired by One Thousand and One Nights, taking various characters and locations from the folktales. Arabian Nights is a very small set, consisting of only 78 total cards. Many of the cards in Arabian Nights are a part of the Reserved List, a select handful of cards that are never going to be reprinted....

Quick Links Smite 2has some of the most flexibility when it comes to team composition of any MOBA out there. Any character can be selected to play in any role; that might not go particularly well with characters that aren’t good fits, but it does mean you’re able to experiment with them quite a lot. There is no hard and fast rule when it comes to team composition, but there are certain things that are going to be helpful in more scenarios than others....

Summary The Sims 4Werewolves Game Pack is one of the better game packs Electronic Arts has released. The pack comes with the werewolf occult, a new world with a pretty good story, and some pretty good create-a-sim and build items which add countless hours of fun and experimenting with our new fuzzy Sims. While the pack itself is very good, there could always be more or less of something. Luckily, quite a few talented Simmers have kindly released mods to give us a little more content or fix a few frustrations....

What a year for gaming it’s been. And what a year for thegaming over at TheGamer it’s been. You button mashers and thumbstick flickers visited TheGamer a whole bunch this year, and we love you for it. To show our appreciation, we’ve decided tojoin in on the trendthat only works for Spotify andmaybe Letterboxdand yet every other app in your life decides to do by bringing you the biggest stats of the year....

I expected this year’sThe Game Awardsto be predictable. I was so sure, in fact, that I wrote an entire articlepredicting what we would and wouldn’t see. I knew that 2024’s show was rumoured to pack a punch, but also figured we’d be seeing a lot of games that we already knew were coming. Boy, was I wrong. Nobody Predicted The Game Awards’ Announcements I was so wrong, in fact, that nearly none of the games I said we’d likely see showed up....

My Hero Academiais all about heroes and villains. With such a comic book plot to it, it’s easy to forget that some villains haveextremely good quirksthat were never used at their full capacity. Villains like Twice have a well-established plot, perhaps even as beloved as heroes like Hawks, but they’restill arguably underrated, especially because their abilities are often overshadowed by the likes of Tomura Shigaraki, Dabi, or All For One....

Finding a Pokemon in thePokemon TCGwho doesn’t have at least one expensive card is difficult, but Primeape parades its most valuable cards without much fanfare due to their affordability. After all, when was the last time you met someone who couldn’t live another moment without the latest and greatest Primeape card? Probably never. Unfortunately, if you’re one of the few waiting for a triumphant moment for Primeape, your wait will continue, as even this Pokemon’s top card fails to break the $20 plateau....

The average game these days likes to hold your hand by forcing you to complete in-depth tutorials and helping you out along the way.Ravenswatchis not one of those games. There is an in-game manual that has a bit of information, but you mostly have to figure out what to do on your own. This would be fine if the game were easy. Yet, it’s very challenging, and the game puts you under constant time pressure, which makes things even worse....

The Diablo series is rich in world-building and knowledge. While the history of many games is riddled with wars, the exploitation of heroes with immoral influence, and nations' rise and fall,Diablo 4takes significant steps toward integrating the full scope of its narrative. Even though much is expected from Diablo 4, it only addresses some things while still focusing on its core story. As a result, there are a few unanswered questions after the end of the series....

Summary As great as it is to have romance options in a video game, there’s something special about seeing an established couple in the game itself that exists regardless of the player’s input. Sure, we all want to choose who we smooch, but when two characters organically come together on their own? Magic. You’ve got your Tidus and Yuna, Nate and Elena, and any other number of classic love stories between two very similar and very straight people....