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GameStop stock refuses to settle down, as its value has more than doubled in the past hour. Trading started at around $45 per share this morning, but is now sitting at just over $90 – a near-perfect replica of what happened at the end of January. Trading was halted in the last hour before markets closed, as the stock’s volatility once again set off alarms. The surge in valuation follows an announcement earlier this week that GameStop CFO, Jim Bell, is leaving the company....

It’s a pretty well-known fact that Awakening was very nearly the last game in the Fire Emblem series. Knowing this, the creators filled it to the brim with loving references to those that came before. Many of these references are easy to spot — for example, weapons named after prior characters, such as Leif’s blade, are fairly obvious. But Awakening also features a much more subtle callback to the previous 12 games in the series — the birthdays of every single child unit....

There’s a great little Easter egg in Half-Life 2 (and again in Half-Life 2: Episode 2) which any nostalgic fan of the series will love. Somehow this little adage to the first game slipped past me despite the fact that I’ve played every Half-Life game about 700 times, give or take another hundred. On two separate occasions, just off the beaten path, you’ll find the faceplate of an old HEV charger - the kind that are scattered throughout Black Mesa in the first Half-Life game....

Genshin Impact players will start their adventure in Mondstadt, the city of wind. In their time here, they’ll meet the Anemo archon, Barbatos, and the Traveler will gain access to Anemo powers themselves. These are just two examples of Anemo characters in the game, but the other ones that are available are also very powerful. In large part this is due to Anemo’s swirl reaction being so useful, and the great utility that characters with this element tend to bring to the table....

Genshin Impact has taken the world by storm, and for good reason. It’s a compelling riff on the Breath of the Wild formula, a fairly nuanced role-playing experience, and an undeniably addictive gacha game. But as with any and all media, regardless of how much we like it, it’s important to question the intent of its creation. Today, veteran journalist and translator Kazuma Hashimoto revealed on Twitter that Genshin Impact has some fairly egregious censorship in its global chat....

Developer miHoYo has garnered immense praise for its free-to-play alternative to Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Genshin Impact. And despite the two hits’ myriad similarities, miHoYo’s title stands apart from its Zelda counterpart by existing as a mostly free experience, funded by optional in-game microtransactions (or Wishes, in this case). Fans of the anime-style open world RPG are well aware of its system of microtransactions, namely because it’s the primary way to obtain new characters and valuable weapons....

In a tweet spotted by GamesRadar, a prominent leaker in the community stated that cross-platform saving will be coming to version Genshim Impact 2.0. As it stands, you can only share your save files between PC, iOS, and Android, letting you jump into the same game state regardless of those three platforms. However, PlayStation is currently separate, meaning that the same cannot be done for those on Sony’s platform. If this rumor pans out, then that’ll finally change....

When it comes to movie characters, few are as well-respected on the internet as Shrek. While it’s unclear what exactly made DreamWorks’ favorite ogre become such an renowned character online, most of us have learned to accept it. Many jokes have been developed with the vicious ogre, the most memorable being the famous “Shrek is love. Shrek is life.” Due to how the internet has embraced Shrek and his various films, the characters has slowly increased in popularity since the days where his movie came out....

The sci-fi genre is a popular one, with action FPS shooters and RPGs with story-rich backgrounds and characters being some of the more popular titles out there. The use of fantasy creates worlds where players are transported to fight demons, aliens, and anything else that developers could think of to keep them on their toes. With each game listed below, there are sci-fi or futuristic elements, where humanity is usually in peril and in need of a hero to save them....

The technical wizards over at Slipgate Ironworks have somehow managed to get Ghostrunner, the upcoming sci-fi first-person platformer game, running on Nintendo Switch. As such, a version for Nintendo’s portable will be releasing alongside the already announced PC, PS4, and Xbox One versions on October 27, 2020. That’s awesome for anyone that wants to take this game on the go. Revealed at the Tokyo Game Show today, a playable version of the game will be shown off on TGS’s digital expo floor....

Star Wars toy manufacturer Hasbro has reportedly canceled the Cara Dune action figure after Mandalorian actress Gina Carano was fired from the Disney + series. Last week a Lucasfilm spokesperson confirmed that Carano would not be returning to the Galaxy Far, Far away due to her “abhorrent and unacceptable” social media posts. Gina Carano had come under fire after comparing being a Republican in the modern day to being Jewish during the Holocaust, which led to the hashtag #FireGinaCarano on Twitter....

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The three mainline Final Fantasy games for PS1 are considered something of an unofficial trilogy, capped off by Final Fantasy IX– also Square’s final release for the platform. It was definitely an “end of an era” type of game, not just for that generation but also in the way it looked back at the earlier FF games in tone and visual style. FFIX was a critical and commercial success, but given that it came to North America a month after the PlayStation 2, it got lost a bit in all the hype of Sony’s new baby....

If there was any doubt that Battlefield 3 would be bringing all the tools required to unseat Call of Duty as the reigning king of online multiplayer, the latest release should take care of that. Thanks to the German website for Battlefield 3, the first screen captures of the game’s online Battlelog systems have been released. Take a look now to see the kind of social interactions the new community will allow, and how many influences have been taken from popular social outlets....

Black Ops Cold War Zombies is getting a big mid-season update on May 20, and it will apparently introduce fishing to the game’s Outbreak mode. As spotted by ModernWarzone, the Zombies patch notes details some of the things coming to the game in the new update. Amongst these notes is a peculiar one saying, “Fishing (!!)”. No other details are given in the patch notes like why you’d want to fish, but it’s confirmed that it’ll be coming to the game’s Outbreak mode....

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Players of Ubisoft’s new fighting game, For Honor, are staging a mass protest against the game’s microtransactions. Following outrage earlier this week when it was revealed that it costs over $700 to unlock everything in the game, players are urging each other not to spend money on the in-game payments in order to send a message to Ubisoft. On the game’s subreddit, one frustrated fan says that although they love playing the game, Ubisoft just wants “more for the game than what it’s worth....

When Epic Games introduced the hidden banner/hidden battle star rotation to Fortnite in season 6, it was a bit of a shock for everyone, which is why it made our list of the biggest changes to come to the battle royale game in 2018. For those not in the know, players who complete every challenge in a week are able to find a hidden battle star every week since season 4 until season 6 week 2....

A new Fortnite leak shows off some major upcoming map changes potentially coming in Season 5. In a tweet by prominent Fortnite leaker Mang0e, there looks to be a variation of the Colossal Coliseum point of interest. As a Battle Royale that is consistently updating, fans are always looking out for leaks that reveal events or changes Epic Games could add. Put in the game for Season 5, Colossal Coliseum is one of the newer points of interest available for players....

Forza Street is a racing game developed by Electric Square that’s similar to that of Gran Turismo. It allows players to build and collect all kinds of iconic muscle and sports cars to keep in their garage as trophies or use to partake in fast, fluid, cinematic-style street races. The game has been on Windows 10 for almost two years now, but Xbox recently announced that it’d finally release it on mobile devices in only a few months....