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GTA Online and Red Dead Online are finally getting into the holiday spirit, as both games are now offering several winter-themed events. From snowy skies to exclusive rewards, there’s a lot to dig into throughout the rest of December. GTA Online may have just released The Cayo Perico Heist, but there’s a lot more to look forward to in the coming week. Holiday-inspired content will be available throughout the streets of Los Santos until December 30, giving you a chance to earn various seasonal gifts....

Clash Royale, the popular multiplayer mobile game from Supercell, continues to receive robust post-launch support. The latest example is Clash Royale’s major upcoming update, Clan Wars 2. In a new video, Supercell goes over some of the new features to be added in Clan Wars 2, such as Duels, Clan War Leagues, and, for the first time ever, PvE content. PvE combat is part of the all-new Clan Wars 2 boat battle feature....

During today’s New Game Plus Expo, developer Suda51, best known for the No More Heroes series, announced that his classic mystery visual novels, The Silver Case and its sequel The 25th Ward: The Silver Case, will be coming to the West at last in their combined form. The Silver Case 2425, which contains both games, will see an English release for the Nintendo Switch this summer. This combined title first debuted in Japan for the PlayStation 4 in 2018 before releasing for the Switch in February of this year....

Although many film franchises have managed to excel in the video game space, few can boast as many notable entries as Star Wars. With the likes of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, the original Battlefront games, and Knights of the Old Republic all garnering strong followings from the series’ fans, it’s clear the blockbuster franchise has a long video game history filled with interesting takes on the property’s lore and characters....

Fans eager to learn more about Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War were treated to a short teaser trailer at the end of last week, but it took only a short while for China to ban it due to a brief clip from the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. As CBR reports, the teaser featured only footage from real events that occurred during the Cold War, a post-World War II period that stretched between 1947 and 1991....

On its own, Call of Duty: Warzone is a fantastic new game mode and a unique take on the battle royale genre, but its cross-progression system is one of the things it does best and has nothing to do with gameplay at all, at least not directly. Players who enjoy both Modern Warfare and Warzone are in for a real treat, as playing the newest mode will provide direct benefits to the game they already love....

Command & Conquer Remastered Collection came out last June as a lovingly crafted ode to a classic game franchise. Made by Petroglyph Games, a studio made up of former Westwood Studios developers who worked on original games, Command & Conquer Remastered includes both the original Command & Conquer and Red Alert as well as all their respective expansions. But besides getting everything in one nuke-filled package, you also get a completely remade game with new assets, a revamped UI, a map editor, and even mod support (EA even released the game’s source code so modders can have at it)....

The video games industry has been having one of its best years yet. Records have been broken left and right for the best-selling game, fastest-selling game, most concurrent players, and more. Now, thanks to a report by Venture beat, we know that console sales have also been higher than they’ve been since 2011. The data comes from the NPD, which tracks sales of consoles and games for the industry overall. The company also mentioned that Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War had cracked the top 20 best-selling games in US history after just three months of being on shelves....

Ever since the release of Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, rumors soon swirled about the possible remaster of another classic game, Crash Team Racing. The speculations were eventually confirmed to be true when Activision announced that the beloved racing game would soon be given a makeover for the Nintendo Switch, PS4, and Xbox One. After Crash Team Racing’s official reveal at the Game Awards last year, some fans of the original title waited patiently for Activision to showcase what the title look like on a modern game engine....

Few gaming franchises of this generation have proved to be as influential and successful as the unstoppable Grand Theft Auto series of titles. What started off as an overhead retro romp became a graphical showcase and technical masterclass in the video game sphere–not to mention having some of funniest and most engrossing parts of dialogue ever to be featured in a video game. It’s an open-world game that allows the player to journey through it as they wish, but during that journey, many players have also spotted several bugs, glitches, mistakes and other inaccuracies in the six games that have been released from the series so far....

Following the lead of its other West Coast brethren, Crunchyroll Expo (CRX) announced it will be holding a virtual convention in September after COVID-19 forced the in-person version into cancellation. The virtual version of CRX will take place from Sept. 4-6 and feature everything you’d expect from an anime convention: panels with special guests, a cosplay contest and a virtual artists alley. Virtual CRX comes on the heels of the other West Coast conventions FanimeCon (held May 22 -25) and AnimeExpo (July 2-4) that ended up holding virtual versions of their conventions....

When something comes along that is childhood-defining it’s the little things that bring back the unforgettable moments. That’s Naruto for many who grew up with it and when Crunchyroll released a video compilation of every single ending theme from the original series it hit like a time-space jutsu from the show. The music compilation about Naruto, the anime about ninjas with magic powers, showed every single closing song and animation from the original series....

Resident Evil Village is a game about Ethan Winters and his quest to rescue his kidnapped daughter, But the vast majority of RE Village’s marketing has been centered around Lady Dimitrescu. And it’s not hard to see why: she’s tall, glamorous, sexy, tall, motherly, deadly, tall, and very tall. God, she’s a tall, tall lady. Lady Dimitrescu is so popular that she’s already been turned into a towel and a sock puppet, but now thanks to this recently unearthed voice line, you can turn her into a notification alert too....

If the classic Grand Theft Auto 2 ever had a head-on collision with the cyberpunk genre, the explosion would probably result in Glitchpunk, the new video game recently announced by developer Dark Lord and publisher Daedalic Entertainment. The top-down dystopian action game is currently scheduled to careen into Steam Early Access sometime in the first half of this year. With its cyberpunk theme and the look and feel of old-school GTA 2, Glitchpunk will let you “shoot, brawl, drive, steal and sneak yourself through a neon-soaked world full of gangs and cults, forging cooperations along the way,” according to the press release....

Talented and passionate mod authors have brought up the quality of nearly all games they touch. This can range from offering outlandish gameplay like Halo’s Cursed mod or finishing a game the way the developers couldn’t as with Knights of the Old Republic 2’s restored content mod. As with any passionate community, the Dark Souls fanbase has created plenty of amazing mods that enhance the already legendary series. It is thanks to modders that Dark Souls’ non-remastered PC version is even playable....

For the most part, the DCEU has been a mixed bag at best. DC Comics and their attempt at replicating Marvel’s success with a shared live-action movie universe missed the mark with some disappointing entries both critically and financially. Thankfully, they are finding much better luck in the world of animation. There are plenty of DC animated films available out there, most of which were met with better reviews than the live-action counterparts....

I hear you, I get it - Dead by Daylight isn’t adding Lady Dimitrescu as its next killer, and that’s a tragedy for video games. As a fellow tall lady, I, too, wanted to be chased by the giant woman in heels, but it’s not happening. I’ve made my peace with it, and honestly, the more I think about it, Dead by Daylight sourcing some of the classics is a much better choice....

Hideo Kojima and Mads Mikkelsen have grown close while working on Death Stranding, with the two going on an afternoon trip during Mikkelsen’s trip to Kojima Productions’ studio. Hideo Kojima is one of the biggest names in the gaming industry, with directorial, writing, designing, and/or producing credits in nearly all the Metal Gear series games. The game-creating super force is also the director of Kojima Productions, and was once the Vice President of developer/publisher Konami Digital Entertainment....

When a publisher acquires a franchise for several million dollars, they are making an investment not just in the series’ present but also its future. Such is the case with Deep Silver and the Metro 2033 franchise. While Metro: Last Light was waist-deep in development when Deep Silver acquired the franchise, the publisher has its own ideas for how the franchise should continue. But most importantly, they think the franchise should continue....

The people who want to move to digital-only games during the next console generation might want to start saving up for an external SSD, as the file sizes for Demon’s Souls and Spider-Man: Miles Morales on PS5 have been revealed, and they take up a lot of the space on the base drive. The question of file size has become a topic of frustration among gamers during the current generation. File sizes have ballooned on the PS4 and Xbox One, with some major releases taking up a massive chunk of the internal space on the system....