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The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is set to once again make the television landscape into its kingdom. However, it will do so in a tonally-divergent fashion from the classic 1990-1996 sitcom. The reboot will be based on the 2019 viral short, Bel-Air (which you can view below), by Morgan Cooper. The short was a parody trailer that put a contemporary dramatic twist on the intended comedic premise of the original sitcom, and famously gained the attention of star Will Smith, who referred to it as “an idea that’s brilliant....

Back in 2012, when the first Mass Effect trilogy bundle dropped, I struggled with prioritizing which DLC to buy and when to play it. Mass Effect is loaded with plenty of additional content that can be a little hard to parse - some of which had no business being DLC to begin with, but I digress. While some of them are beloved for their own special reasons, like the Citadel DLC, they aren’t really critical to the Mass Effect universe at large....

Apex Legends’ heirloom weapons are the rarest commodity in the game, and can cost a pretty penny too. While these special melee weapons don’t offer any gameplay advantages, they are the flashiest and coolest way for someone to show their love for their favorite Legend. And even though Fuse might be the newest Legend, he might be getting his heirloom sooner than anyone thinks, and we might even already know what it is....

Winter has come and gone for hit HBO series Game of Thrones, but—in a dilemma unique to the dynamic of adaptations—the literary source material on which it was based, George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire novels, famously remains incomplete. The situation, now a decade old from the release of the 2011 fifth book, A Dance with Dragons, has become a meme-inspiring legend, centered on what is now the most-publicized case of writer’s block in contemporary literary history....

TellTale Games released 5 brand new screenshots for Game of Thrones Episode 5 yesterday, but purposefully kept quiet on an official release date, despite many gamers’ hopes it might follow. This period of quietness didn’t even last a full day, however, as the studio has now released both the official release date and an admittedly foreboding trailer for the penultimate episode of Game of Thrones. Entitled ‘A Nest of Vipers’, the Dornish-sounding name feels very out of place for an episode that seems to take place everywhere except Dorne itself....

Animal Crossing: New Horizons recently got its second Summer Update which, amongst other things, introduced weekly fireworks displays to the game. It seems these displays leave quite the impression both on a grand scale as well as on a little tiny scale, as evident in this small detail players have noticed in the game. Pointed out by a New Horizons player on Twitter, when fireworks are going off outside your house while you’re inside it – you’ll notice that they actually light up the inside of said house....

Earlier this week, former Borderlands developer Gearbox Software unveiled their next big project, Battleborn. The debut included some early screenshots/box art for the game, a brief video, and some general details about the gameplay. But, before Gearbox could even say more about the game, many had already labeled Battleborn a first person MOBA, or multiplayer online battle arena game. Think League of Legends or Dota 2. However, as it turns out, Gearbox Software isn’t so keen on the MOBA classification for Battleborn; in fact, they don’t consider the game to be a MOBA at all....

Last month saw one of the busiest release schedules in video gaming to date and despite the amount of high profile releases this fall, Gears of War 3, a game that came out with a head start in September, is still making headlines. Much of that is thanks to monthly releases of pre-planned DLC, the ongoing Twelve Days of Gearsmas holiday promotion, and it being a game of the year contender....

MuHoYo’s latest Genshin Impact special event not only introduces the upcoming update Version 2.0 “The Immovable God and the Eternal Euthymia,” set to launch on July 21, 2021, but also offers a glimpse into the development process of the game. Viewers are treated to some of Genshin’s beautiful music, an insight into the design process, and given a huge amount of information about the update, which includes three new playable characters - Kamisato Ayaka, Yoimaya, and Sayu, as well as the region of Inazuma....

As one might imagine, there tends to be some overlap between Genshin Impact fans and anime-loving communities. The MMORPG, heavily influenced by Breath of the Wild and countless other RPGs, features a spectrum of anime-adjacent characters for gamers to team up and adventure with. Needless to say, fans of the game have quickly begun ranking the Genshin Impact characters in a variety of ways too. Some prefer utility and power, but others are simply in it for the aesthetics, which is understandable given characters like Klee....

For everyone who would like to play Ghost Recon Breakpoint in a different way than the way it was released, there’s an update called Ghost Experience to take care of that. The launch also coincides with the release of Episode 2, as well as a number of other major additions to the game, ranging from new stories, to new classes, to PVP updates. Ghost Experience completely removes tiered loot and gear levels from the game, instead adding other options....

After a last-minute delay, publisher All In Games has confirmed that Ghostrunner will be sliding over to the Nintendo Switch on November 10, 2020. Packing all of the same stylish combat and acrobatic feats as its more powerful brethren, Ghostrunner is certainly a quality game that should make for a solid title to play on the go. We don’t have any specifics of how the Switch version will look or run, but it’s safe to assume it will be locked to 30 fps....

The hauntings are just beginning at CBS. Last week the network announced that new series Ghosts would be scaring up laughs for a second season. Not that it would have a reason to exorcize the show considering the freshman hit has become the most-watched broadcast TV comedy for the season with an average of 8.216 million total viewers. Adapted by Joe Port and Joe Wiseman from the British series of the same name, Ghosts revolves around young couple Sam and Jay, played by Rose McIver and Utkarsh Ambudkar, who inherit an old estate with designs on opening it as a bed-and-breakfast, only to find they are roomies with a haunted mansion worth of specters....

This Gotham review contains spoilers. Gotham Season 5 Episode 11 As we begin the penultimate episode of Gotham, let us take a moment to appreciate the surprising changes the final story has sprung on us. When we first saw Bane, I’m sure most of us assumed he would soon be hitting a Roderick Strong worthy backbreaker (NXT!NXT!) on Bruce Wayne, but no, instead of Bane breaking the Bat, Bane broke the Butler....

Edge has partnered with the developers of Assassin’s Creed Unity to produce limited edition cans of Edge® Shave Gel, which can be used to unlock one of three unique items in game. Assassin’’s Creed Unity is the first game in the series to introduce four player co-op and you’ll want to customize your warrior with the following: Edge Sensitive Skin Shave Gel unlocks the Spanish Cub Hilt Rapier, the Edge Extra Moisturizing Shave Gel unlocks the Prussian Waistcoat and the Edge Ultra-Sensitive Shave Gel unlocks the Leipzig Regiment Hood....

It’s official, after years of sparse updates and rumors, the Final Fantasy 11 Reboot has been cancelled. The mobile game, a venture between Square Enix and Nexon, did not meet the quality standards either company expected, as confirmed by a Gematsu translation via Gamebiz.jp. In the translation from Gematsu, Nexon and Square Enix agreed that “the game did not meet the quality standards expected by fans of the Final Fantasy series from a creative perspective....

Final Fantasy 14 usually has an event for just about every holiday planned by Square Enix, including one for the winter season this year. However, the game’s community is full of lovely folks and wonderful creative types that want to spread a little holiday cheer of their own, including four Free Companies that hosted their own visit with Santa in the game’s bustling city-state of Limsa Lominsa. This year, Eorzeans can participate in the Square Enix organized event, the Starlight Celebration....

Square Enix held a special Final Fantasy XV livestream today to commemorate the game’s upcoming second anniversary. While most gamers were no doubt expecting nothing but good news, Square Enix revealed that the majority of the game’s DLC has been canceled, and director Hajime Tabata has quit. Earlier this year, Square Enix revealed that Final Fantasy XV would receive at least four story DLC in 2019. As of today, Episodes Aranea, Lunafreya, and Noctis have all been scrapped and will not see a release....

Final Fantasy 15’s Hajime Tabata dashes the hopes of fans who were hoping a PC port of the upcoming RPG would be in development and completed shortly after its console launch. Recent footage of Final Fantasy 15 has left fans with very little to complain about outside of the game’s delay until late November. Square Enix’s long-awaited successor to the Final Fantasy lineage has been impressing diehard fans and convincing usually disinterested parties to give Final Fantasy 15 a shot, an impressive feat given the usually chasmic divide the video game community experiences when a Final Fantasy title releases....

About a couple of months ago, Square Enix held the closed beta for Final Fantasy 15’s online multiplayer expansion known as Comrades, which allowed players to customize avatars with various clothing and weapons to then form a team with up to three other players and engage in quests. Now, the publisher and developer has announced exactly when the co-op multiplayer mode will make its way to the role-playing game, with the company proclaiming that the expansion will be available to play on October 31, 2017....