IO Interactive Opens New Barcelona Studio to Help With Hitman, Bond, and a New IP

IO Interactive, the studio behind the Hitman series and the upcoming James Bond game, is opening a new studio in Barcelona. The studio is the third branch of the developer, joining the Copenhagen and Malmö teams, and will work on the Hitman series, the James Bond project, and a third, unannounced game in a new…

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Gotch’s Bible and Other Terrifying Concepts: Karl Gotch’s Workout Reviewed

I’m lucky that my current job allows me to work from home. There are challenges to living alone, to working remotely, but in the scheme of things, I’m very lucky. I have yet to meet my co-workers in person (I got the position right as Chicago’s shelter in place order…

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Why Women Athletes Have Earned The Right To Be Mad Online

Every week in her Good Form column, Natalie Weiner explores the ways in which the sports world’s structural inequalities and injustices illuminate those outside it — and the ways in which they’re inextricably connected. You can read previous columns here. Asking athletes about things besides their play has historically been…

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Square Enix Unambiguously Denies Reports it’s Being Bought Out

Last night, Bloomberg Japan reported that multiple potential buyers were hovering around Square Enix, publisher of franchises such as Final Fantasy, Life is Strange, and more recently Outriders, looking at a possible acquisition. The report sparked discussions online of whether or not it could be one of the console manufacturers, as…

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I’m Gonna Take So Many Pics of My Space Boyfriend in Mass Effect: Legendary Edition’s Photo Mode

Mass Effect: Legendary Edition is just under a month away, and while we’ve seen a look at the gameplay changes Bioware is bringing to the remasters, as well as the visual update, Bioware kind of just casually made another announcement: the collection will have a photo mode. Project Director Mac…

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Mass Effect 2 DLC Order Guide – What Order to Play Everything In

It’s been nearly ten years since the original release of Mass Effect 3 and even longer since the first two games in the trilogy came out. As a result you may find yourself wondering which order you’re supposed to play the DLC. In this guide, we’ll run down each of the…

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Call of the Tempestarii Is a Smart, Cinematic Blend of Warframe Old & New

For a game set across space, Warframe has a love-hate relationship with taking players to the stars. Especially when it’s tied to desirable new content, like farming the newly released Sevagoth blueprints. Fully space-based combat like Archwing missions — which placed players in jetpacks to swat enemy ships in the…

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Just Singin’ Them Post-War Blues: AEW Dynamite Recap and Review

Chris Jericho might have bragged about running NXT off of Wednesday nights, but we know that was just posturing, as most of us know AEW was slotted midweek to begin with so they wouldn’t be perennially preempted by NBA games. But you know, “We Won the War” is good for…

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Ubisoft Confirms an E3 Presentation

Ubisoft hasn’t had what I’d call a particularly great last two years. After disappointing sales for Ghost Recon: Breakpoint and The Division 2, the company delayed its entire portfolio including games coming relatively soon. To compound that, multiple exposés about the publisher’s toxic work culture steeped in sexual harassment popped up, which…

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Otherside Picnic is a Passable Anime Based on a Great Horror Novel

Few winter anime announcements made me more excited than Otherside Picnic, an action horror series about two college-aged women — Sorawo, a loner who studies urban legends; and Toriko, a survivalist looking for her missing mentor — who hunt cryptids in a strange cosmic horror otherworld and eventually fall in love.…

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Sea of Thieves Renown Guide – How to Earn Renown in Season Two

Season 2 of Sea of Thieves has arrived, so don your peg legs, sharpen those swords, and get ready to plunder some treasure. Similar to last season, players can unlock 100 tiers of rewards via the battle pass system. These rewards include everything from ship cosmetics, new outfits, weapons, and…

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Oh Right, Danganronpa V3 Still Hasn’t Come to Mobile Devices Yet

Nearly a year ago to the day, Spike Chunsoft announced it was bringing Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, and Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony to mobile devices as part of the visual novel series’ 10th anniversary. While the first two murder mystery games made it safely to phones and tablets within…

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