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Summary Even if you’ve never watched SnapCube’s Real-Time Fandub of Sonic Adventure 2, you’ve definitely heard one of the many, many jokes it’s spawned. Whether it’s Eggman missing his wife, urinating on the moon, or having his intimate photos leaked onto Twitter dot com, so many lines from this redub have a life of their own now. However, some fans have come to resent this. It’s all come to a head now thatSonic the Hedgehog 3is in cinemas, adaptingSonic Adventure 2’s story....

Summary Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobylcould be banned in Russia, according to a government official. The official denies that this is solely due to developer GSC Game World’s support for Ukraine. As spotted byVGC, State Duma member Anton Gorelkin is quoted by multiple Russian news outlets as saying that the game has “every chance” of being banned in Russia if it’s decided that it “justifies terrorism”. Gorelkin also raises the possibility of Stalker 2 engaging in “incitement of ethnic hatred” and “extremism”....

Summary One ofStar Wars Outlaws’biggest annoyances among fans is finally getting patched. Indeed, players will soon be able to climb and traverse while carrying a weapon. That fix is one of several outlined byUbisofton Monday. In an official blog post, Ubisoft revealed that Outlaws is set to receive its Title Update 1.4 on November 21. The update will bring several highly-requested features to the game, including the aforementioned ability to carry a weapon while climbing....

Summary There are some very silly alternative formats out there in the world ofMagic: The Gathering. One of the most punishing ones is Judge Tower. More of a mental game than a paper one, the goal of Judge Tower is to score points against your opponents by tracking their rules knowledge. If you see someone forgetting a step, trigger, ability, or play they should have made, you call them out and score a point....

Quick Links Warframe’s1999 update is here, bringing with it a new Warframe to earn and a handful of weapons to chase. Cyte-09 strikes from the shadows with his signature Neutralizer, an exalted sniper rifle that ricochets between targets when you land headshots. Pair that with his cloaking ability, and you become the galaxy’s deadliest sniper. Cyte can deal some absurd damage in the right hands, and he’s surprisingly easy to play once you understand how his abilities work....

When you go into the world ofGenshin Impact, the first character you get to play as is the Traveler. Regardless of if you choose Aether or Lumine, they’re your first experience of how it feels to be in Teyvat. To keep the Traveler from being obsolete, Hoyoverse releases new kits for each element whenever a nation comes out! Unfortunately, as you get more characters, Teyvat’s supposed main character takes a backseat to characters that just perform better....

Summary Stompy is one of the many deck archetypes that exist withinMagic: The Gathering. A Stompy deck is one that wants to play as many creatures as possible as quickly as possible to win as soon as you may. This is done by curving into large creatures and ones that can ensure a lot of damage can be done before your opponent can mount a defence. It is most commonly associated with green, but exists in all colors....

If you wanted ultimate gaming hipster points in the early 90s, then you wouldn’t be the kid in the neighborhood who owned a Super Nintendo or Sega Genesis, but the kid with the TurboGrafx-16. Known as the PC Engine outside of America, this nifty 16-bit system from NEC and Hudson Soft carved out its own special niche in the market. The original console along with the Turbografx-CD add-on allowed for some of the most daring and creatively charged games of the era to flourish on hardware determined to look forward....

Throughout your journey as aMonster Hunter, you will find several settlements where you can relax, rest, and prepare for the next hunt. Villages are your home away from home and are filled with stations to accept quests, forge armor and weapons, eat a delicious meal, and interact with the local NPCs. ​​​​​​​ The villages represent a major half of the monster hunter experience. This is where all your setup takes place, building up armor andweapons to useand even managing items you harvested while in the locale....

Summary Seven years ago, Bethesda dropped a bombshell at E3 — the first-everElder Scrolls 6teaser. We were only shown a sweeping CGI shot of a vague, nondescript mountain range, which was basically Bethesda’s way of saying, ‘The game is happening, we promise.’ But even that was enough to send the community into a frenzy. Many tried to identify the few landmarks dotted along the vast fields, matching the terrain as best they could to Tamriel’s map....

Summary Half-Life 2works like this. You pop the gnome in the jalopy, you drive the jalopy, the gnome falls out. You pop the gnome in the jalopy, you drive the jalopy, the gnome falls out. You pop the gnome in the jalopy, you drive the jalopy, the gnome falls out. Two hours of excruciating torture, watching Alyx’s befuddled face as you stop mid-helicopter chase to grab a garden ornament over and over and over....

There are plenty of famous families throughout the timeline inThe Simsuniverse, and one of them that’s recently returned after a length absence is the Specter family. Debuting in The Sims 2 and returning in The Sims 4: Life & Death expansion, Olive Specter has quite a past if you dig for it. With a sizable family graveyard near the property each time they appear in the series, a history with the Grim Reaper, and Nervous Subject seeming to have undergone a name change in recent lore, too, here’s what you need to know about the Specter family history....

Summary The Prime Video anthology seriesSecret Levelis all about celebrating video games of all genres and notoriety. That means you should expect spectacular VFX, animation, and set pieces with enough polish that they could be used in an actual game. However, that also means the storytelling and writing should be big winners as well, and they clearly are. Secret Level episodes sample a range of games from Armored Core to New World, Sifu, D&D, and Warhammer 40K, and these animated shorts do an excellent job of capturing the essence of these games, even with extremely limited dialogue and storytelling....