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TheLord of the Rings: Return to Moriais anexciting survival gameset in the Fourth Age of Middle-Earth. In the game, players are summoned to the Misty Mountainsby Gimliwith the mission of reclaiming the Dwarven homeland of Moria. As the game proceeds, players can craft, mine, and collect various valuable materials. Like most video games nowadays,LOTR: Return to Moriaalso allows players to customize their characters. Players do get the option to customize dwarves at the start of the game, but of course, their aesthetic preferences may evolve over time....

Every gamer knows that music can turn any run of the mill level into an epic fight for survival and glory. There are plenty of famous musical tracks from video games fromSuper Smash Bros. toWorld of Warcraft’sInvincible. Here are some of the most memorablemusical moments in gaming. These moments span the breadth of music’s use in gaming, from interactive songs to battle soundtracks. Together, they show some of the most interesting ways music can be used in video games....

One of the major criticisms that often gets lobbied against Marvel movies is that all of the movies feel the same. The complaint is that all of the MCU movies follow a very similar structure and have stories that don’t feel particularly unique. Many fans disagree with this take, either citing the fact that most action movies - and a lot of other narratives -follow these structures because it’s just a common way to tell a story, or stating that they don’t actually think the movies have similar stories at all....

The original DS version ofThe World Ends With Youmay be one of the most ambitious handheld games ever created. Featuring a battle system that capitalized upon the promise of the touch screen in spades as well as the system’s second screen, no other game has wrung out as much excellence from the Nintendo DS in quite the same way. Its battles are frenetic and like nothing else once a player finds their preferred loadout of abilities and difficulty settings and the story is one of the most engaging that Square Enix has ever released....

Of all the games that havewon multiple Game of the Year awards,Untitled Goose Gameis definitely one of the most unusual. In a medium with countless shooters, platformers, and open-world games, players have found something refreshing about a game where all one does is run around as a goose and harass people. And now they can run around and harass people with a friend, because the game now has co-op. Sometimes, the best way to spice something up is to just add more of it, which must have been developer House House’s thinking when itadded two-player co-op toUntitled Goose Gamein a free updatethis week....

BioWare surprised players in the final days of 2022 when it was announced thatStar Wars: The Old Republicwould finally be upgrading to a 64-bit client. 11 years have passed after BioWare launched theStar WarsMMORPG, which is practically an eternity when it comes to gaming hardware. For long-running games like MMORPGs, major upgrades are a necessity in order to catch up with new technology standards. AlthoughStar Wars: The Old Republictransitioning to 64-bit codemay not be an incredibly flashy announcement, the move profoundly influences the game’s future possibilities in terms of performance, development, graphics, and even game mechanics....

2021 marksResident Evil’s25th anniversary, which remains one of Capcom’s most important video game franchises. Since its launch in 1996,Resident Evilhas pioneered the survival horror genre, spawning numerous games, comics, books, and a live-action movie franchise. Although Capcom has always been consistent in releasingResident Evilcontent in the past, this year would be different now thatseveral new projects have been confirmed since 2020. Now, fans interested in seeing what’s in store for theResident Evilfranchise in 2021, here are all the confirmed projects scheduled to release this year....

For the most part,Super Mario RPGplays things by the book when it comes to the way that party members level up, although there is one big difference when compared tomore modern JRPGs. Every time a party member’s level increases, players will be able to choose a bonus item to raise certain stats, thus allowing them to build each character for a specific role within the party. Choosing the hammer will increase a character’s Attack and Defense stats, while selecting the mushroom will increase their HP....

Horizon Forbidden Westseems to be the next must-have PlayStation exclusive, thanks to a handful of stunning trailers and the recent State of Play demo showcase.Guerrilla Games recently confirmedthat the action RPG is nearly done with development and will be ready for a holiday 2021 release on PS5 and PS4. DuringHorizon Forbidden West’s State of Play unveiling last month, it was action picks up 6 months after the first game. It’s an easy enough detail to overlook, but forHorizonspecifically, there’s quite a few movings in the world that this time jump is a big deal....

In the years since the hero shooterOverwatchwas released, players have witnessed all kinds of hilarious events occurring as a result of glitches and bizarre programming decisions. Some of those weird happenings are more spectacular - and lethal - than others. Recently, an absurdOverwatchbug led to one D.Va player accidentally launching herself out of the Eichenwalde map entirely. The Eichenwalde map was released duringOverwatch’s 2017 Halloween Terror eventand takes the brawl to an abandoned castle town located deep in the Black Forest....

Though the Christmas period may be over, there’s still plenty of winter-themed fun for players to have inAnimal Crossing: New Horizons. Since the inclusion ofthe Winter Update in November 2020, which added new NPCs, snow effects to the map and more, players have been able to enjoy the fun of the colder season without actually having to step outside into the cold. Animal Crossing: New Horizonsis a game that encourages creativity, with players being able to customize their islands however they see fit....

If playerssave Counselor Florrick’s life in Act 1ofBaldur’s Gate 3, she’ll appear again in Act 2 looking for Grand Duke Ravenguard. Players can’t help her directly at this point, but they can cross paths with her a third time during Act 3. Much like in Act 1, Florrick is in dire need of the players' help. There are several ways players can come to discover Florrick’s location. First, the party can speak to Duke Ravenguard and pass a few skill checks to learn that she’s in Wyrm’s Rock Prison, just below the fortress....

Battlefield 2042has been out for almost a week, technicallynearly two weeks considering anyone who pre-ordered the Gold or Ultimate Edition got early access to the game from November 12th, and its release has been rather turbulent. While it received mostly positive or average reviews from critics, the player-base has been far more brutal. At the time of writing,user reviews on Steam are overwhelmingly negative, with common complaints being certain gameplay changes and a lack of content....