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Summary 2024 was an interesting year forNintendo. As the company prepares to launch the Switch’s successor, the number of new titles developed for the current console has slowed down significantly. While there were still solid games throughout the year, none of them felt as monumental as Tears of the Kingdom or Super Mario Bros. Wonder. Despite the slower release schedule, Nintendo was still able to put out more than a few surprises to help the Switch maintain its momentum....

Summary The Sonic games have deliveredsome excellent storiesthroughout the decades, butSonic X Shadow Generationsset a new standard for the series. Writer Ian Flynn (known for his work on the Sonic comics) rewrote the script for the Blue Blur’s campaign and created an entirely new story starring Shadow. Both narratives are love letters to the series, and with them comes plenty of memorable dialogue. The writing in Sonic X Shadow Generations is top-notch, providing chuckle-worthy quips, heart-wrenching goodbyes, and many references to previous games....

Quick Links While you start with access to just four of them, there are eight playable characters inRavenswatch. One of those you start with access to it Scarlet, and she’s one of the best you can choose for a variety of reasons. She’s also one of the easiest to get to grips with quickly. While she’s got powerful attacks and a variety of ways to approach all enemy types, you’ll be surprised by how she works depending on how far you are into the 18 minutes you get in each chapter....

Quick Links Sera is a Rogue companion inDragon Age: Inquisition, and you can recruit her to your cause fairly early on in the game. As with every companion in Inquisition, Sera has her own unique skill tree, and it helps to separate her from the otherRogues, like Coleand Varric. Sera’s unique skill tree is the Tempest tree, and can provide her with a wide variety of buffs that can slot into more or lessany Rogue build you can imagine....

Summary Just three months after revealing Borderlands 4 at Gamescom Opening Night Live, Randy Pitchford and the team at Gearbox Software have returned with the looter shooter’s first full-length trailer.After previously teasing the existence of a trailer on social media, Pitchford took the stage during Thursday night’sThe Game Awardspresentation to deliver a two-minute-long look at the first trueBorderlandsgame since 2019’sBorderlands 3. Of note is the fact that there was indeed gameplay in this trailer, with multiple sequences of bombastic gunplay showcased....

Summary Video game budgets are one of the most closely guarded secrets in the games industry. For some reason, a lot of big studios really don’t want you to know how much it takes to make certain games, and the only way we actually find out is via various leaksor poorly redacted court documents. Looking at youSony. That’s how we found outThe Last of Us Part 2andHorizon Forbidden Westcost a little over $200 million to make, a figure which seemed preposterous at the time....

Summary Following its launch,Call of Duty: Black Ops 6introduced a bunch of paid skins for operators and weapons. Then, as part of the game’s first season,they added more. It’s safe to assume that going forward, there are plenty more in the works. These skins have, as is so often the case, divided the Call of Duty community. While a large percentage of players have purchased them to jazz up their gameplay, others have not taken to them so kindly, with some going as far as saying they’d paynot to see them in the game....

In the previous chapters ofChicken Police: Into The Hive, Sonny and Marty witnessed Frank’s death. Before dying, he said some strange things, but the duo got entangled in another case before investigating further. After reviewing threats to famous actor Lupus, they attendedEl Wuff’s screening to protect him. There, they met the king and his mysterious new advisor, Lady Kayla. At the screening’s end, Sonny learns Lupus’s body double has been killed and finds a note in the old insect language near the body....

Destiny 2is celebrating the end of 2024 with The Dawning, a holiday event where Guardians turn the remains of their foes into delicious treats for their favorite characters. Spreading the holiday cheer will grant Gifts in Return, which you may then focus into exclusive event weapons and cosmetics. This year, six weapons are up for grabs from Eva Levante, including the new Mistral Lift Linear Fusion Rifle. Most Dawning weapons from previous years are also back, this time with significantly better perk pools for both PvE and PvP....

Summary Alistair’s backstory isn’t a particularly cheery one. After spending some time with him inDragon Age: Origins, he’ll eventually tell you that he’s the son of a king and a servant. His mother died during childbirth, and he was instead raised by the king’s brother-in-law. Except, that’s not true at all.Alistair’s mother was actually an elven Grey Warden, Fiona, and this was kept from him because she felt he would have a better life if no one knew he was elf-blooded....

Summary David Gaider, the former lead writer of theDragon Ageseries, is doing daily character breakdowns over on BlueSky. These give us some insight into how the series was written, and the reason behind some of the narrative decisions that were made. Today, Gaider is focussing onZevran, one of the rogue companions fromDragon Age: Origins. As part of this, Gaider shares some insight into how queer romances were approached in the 2000s, and how much this has changed in the years since Origins was written....

Dragon Age: The Veilguardisn’t the game I expected it to be. I’m not aBioWaresicko like so many of my colleagues at TheGamer, although I will always have an undying love for the OGMass Effecttrilogy. Over the years I’ve tried to play Dragon Age again and again, only to bounce off it every single time. Very little about its world, characters, or depiction of fantasy interested me, and so I watched it receive critical and commercial acclaim from a distance instead....

Spoiler warning for Dragon Age: The Veilguard Summary BioWaregames are perhaps best remembered for the decisions they force you to make. Whether it’sMass Effect 2’s suicide mission or who gets left in the Fade inDragon Age: Inquisition, many of these decisions revolve around saving and sacrificing our companions. Dragon Age: The Veilguardis no different. In the final act, there are numerous ways to bump off every member of the gang - and even Rook themself....