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A couple of weeks ago, a Twitter account for fictional character Tom Olsen appeared online. Olsen was portrayed as an employee working at Big Shell, a facility that’s featured as the main setting in the 2001 gameMetal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. The account gained significantly more attention when the officialMetal GearTwitter account interacted with it, fueling speculation that it could be part of a viral marketing campaign for aMetal Gear Solid 2remaster or some other kind ofMetal Gear Solidproject....

With only a few days to go until Christmas, Konami and Digital Eclipse released the first major update toTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection. The news came just four months after the release ofThe Cowabunga Collection, which contained 13Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesgames that were originally released from 1989 to 1994 for arcade machines and consoles such as the Game Boy and the SNES. The Cowabunga Collectionwas released on August 30 on multiple platforms, shortly after the release ofTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge....

Near the beginning of the second chapter inTrek to Yomi, players will gain the ability to stun their enemies and perform finishers upon them. These combat techniques can prove to be quite powerful, especially when fighting armored foes, and fans should put some effort toward learning how to use them. For those players that may be uncertain about how to stun enemies and do finishers inTrek to Yomi, this guide is here to offer some clarity....

TheTwitchplatform is not a perfect ecosystem, by any means. While a lot of attention is spent onTwitchstreamers, particularly regarding streamers' relationship with Twitch itself, Twitch users also struggle with a variety of problems. Whether it’s dealing with inappropriate content from a streamer, harassment, or appealing an unfair ban from Twitch, users have struggled with the platform and often feel voiceless in their criticism. Twitch is working to respond, however, with reworks of two key user-facing features – reporting and appeals....

By now, crossovers between popularTwitchstreamers aren’t out of the ordinary. However, the most recent collaboration comes in the form of the cosplay of competitiveCS:GOplayer Jaryd ‘Summit1G’ Lazar byWoW Classicstreamer Esfandtv, with the two bearing a resemblance to each other that is nearly inexplicable. The two streamers are otherwise on opposite ends of the Twitch content spectrum, although recently, Lazar has been dedicating his streams to the NoPixel roleplay server. Afterhis disinterest in the OfflineTV Rust server, the FPS streamer has enjoyed the events and features of theGTAserver, as well as what’s to come over the weeks....

Twitchterms of service aren’t always the easiest to understand or consistently enforced. For example,Hasan Piker’s ban in Decembertriggered heated discourse over whether the word “cracker” constitutes a slur or hate speech. The platform also has a reputation for cracking down harder on some content creators than others. Still, certain streamers seem to attract bans more often than others. Twitchstreamer Lisa “STPeach” Vannatta is one such example, attracting multiple bans over her career....

Retro games can get easily buried by all the new big-name and indie releases that seem to be coming out weekly. It is almost too easy to forget about the video games that built the features and concepts that so many of the new games utilize. Thankfully, even the oldest video games can find a home in the libraries ofSteam. RELATED:The Best Retro-Inspired FPS Games Ranked, According To Metacritic Steam might not have every single retro classic, but they certainly have some of the greatest and most essential old-school games to ever grace player’s systems over the years....

Toward the end of April, EA and DICE published a new blog post announcing that its vision forStar Wars: Battlefront 2had been realized in full and that thenext update would be the game’s last. While the 2015 reboot ofBattlefront stuck to content based on the original trilogy of films and released as a multiplayer-only product, its sequel promised an original single-player campaign from the perspective of the Empire and multiplayer content spanning all threeStar Warstrilogies....

Just like in the comics and filmWonder Womanswept in on Christmas Day to save ailing theaters in North America from their dire situation. Overall reception forWonder Woman 1984was positive at first and the box office reflected some people were eager to watch the movie in a theater, rather than on HBO Max. All that prompted Warner Bros. Pictures chairman Toby Emmerich to confirm there would indeed be aWonder Woman 3to close out the trilogy and, of course, that both Patty Jenkins and Gal Gadot would come back for that entry....

Summary World of Warcraft Classicis adding new reputation rewards to the supply network factions added in Season of Discovery. This is being done in response to the recent change that made eachWorld of Warcraftclass’ unique Rune easier to get via the Azeroth Commerce Authority and the Durotar Supply and Logistics factions. One of the new major features ofWorld of Warcraft ClassicSeason of Discovery are Runes, powerful abilities and passives that dramatically change how each class plays....

World of Warcraftis allowing players to craft the highly-coveted Tier 3 armor sets in Patch 10.1.5, but not everyone is happy about the change. The original Naxxramas was the culmination of the Plaguelands storyline, and the final frontier for vanilla raiders to overcome. ThisiconicWorld of Warcraftraidwas remastered forWrath of the Lich Kingto serve as the Tier 7 instance, and due to the way Blizzard’s content philosophy worked at the time, it meant the old version had to go....

Many gaming storefronts have sales regularly, but it’s often limited to a select few items. However, companies decide to have massive sales with deep discounts for events and seasonal changes throughout the year. This includes Halloween, Christmas, Black Friday, and other important dates, along with longer promotions for the various seasons.Xboxis no different, and Microsoft is hosting a huge sale to mark the Summer of 2022. Called the Ultimate Game Sale, Xbox is offering discounts of up to 80-90% on a ton of games, including some recent titles released earlier this year....

Zack Snyder confirmed that he’s finishing a “gray edition” of his highly-anticipated version ofJustice League. This comes after a black-and-white trailer ofZack Synder’s Justice Leaguewas released this past weekend. TheMan of SteelandBatman v Superman: Dawn of Justicedirector stated on Vero that the new edition is entitled,Justice League: Justice Is Gray,and will be entirely black and white. Snyder teased the upcoming film by posting a black and white clip of Steppenwolf (Ciarán Hinds) battling the Amazonians....