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Since Fortnite launched last summer, there have been several stories about players having their accounts hacked. From players who didn’t utilize two-factor authentication to a teen who was duped in-game into handing their account over to a hacker, it’s apparent that account stealing is a big business in the multiplayer sandbox survival shooter. This was further confirmed by a new report this week, which revealed that teenage Fortnite hackers are making thousands of dollars a week by stealing and selling these accounts....

Fortnite players have been expecting something big to happen for a while now, and it seems that it is finally coming. Players are starting to find the map’s underwater hatches opening up, and theories are running wild as they try to figure out what is going to happen tomorrow. For those that haven’t kept up with Fortnite lately, there is currently a countdown above the agency signaling that Midas’ sinister plan will unfold tomorrow....

In the United States, 2020 is undoubtedly one of the most contentious election years in recent history. Gamers, who account for one the largest voting blocks in America with more than 130 million potential voters, will be decisive in choosing the next president this November. In order to support voter registration, Gamers.Vote, a non-partisan, non-profit organization, has partnered with ReadyUp, to reach out to gamers of voting age and encourage them to exercise their rights....

GameStop is in trouble. It’s hemorrhaging cash, closing stores, and losing sales every day due to everyone buying everything online thanks to COVID. If Black Friday sales don’t help perk things up, it might prove to be a deathblow for what was once the biggest games retailer on the planet. It’s gotten bad enough that RC Ventures’ Ryan Cohen has sent a letter to GameStop’s board of directors pleading with them to come up with a plan to turn the company around....

When players first got their hands on Genshin Impact, a lot of them couldn’t believe the title was open world and free-to-play. After all, Genshin Impact had an interactive and open-world similar to Breath of the Wild combined with the fast-paced combat system of Nier: Automata. Moreover, fans may find themselves surprised to learn that the game actually actively builds up its roster of playable characters. In essence, Genshin Impact serves as an example of a Gacha Game....

Still haven’t given the tremendously popular Genshin Impact a try? Well, here’s another reason to: it now features anti-gravity, airborne ice skating. It isn’t supposed to, granted, but this is 2020 and absolutely anything is possible. It hasn’t gone unnoticed that Genshin Impact bears more than a passing resemblance to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. From the aesthetic to the combat to the super cool glider – it’s an homage to the Switch smash hit in more ways than one....

The PlayStation Direct Store is currently holding a Spring Savings Sale that offers a 50% discount on eligible PlayStation Hits game with a purchase of a one-month subscription to either PS Plus or PS Now. Players interested should know that the promotion will only be available until June 1st, so those who will be renewing their subscriptions to any of the PlayStation’s online services should consider this promo to get a good deal on classic PS4 games....

The fans of Vampire: The Masquerade can get into the Halloween spirit with exclusive merchandise based on the franchise, through the new World of Darkness online store. There are a number of horror-themed tabletop RPGs, but Vampire: The Masquerade is one of the most famous. It’s part of the World of Darkness franchise, which is set in a contemporary world, where supernatural beings like vampires and werewolves maintain secret societies and wage wars against each other, without the general population knowing about their existence....

Ghost of Tsushima launches today and it’s certain to be considered one of the most impressive technical achievements on the PlayStation 4. While the PS5 may pride itself on its short or even non-existent loading times, Ghost of Tsushima’s managed to impressively cut things down this generation. In fact, the loading times were starting to get so low that developer Sucker Punch made a decision that may leave some players befuddled....

God of War art director Rafael Grassetti has shared dozens of incredible art pieces in the past. While some are related to Kratos, even more are not related to God of War, as the artist has reimagined everything from superheroes to video game characters. While Grassetti has shared stellar Marvel art in the past, he is particularly fond of Batman as well. Sharing several pieces depicting the Caped Crusader and standout members of his deep rogue’s gallery, Grassetti’s Batman art lineup has been expanded with a new piece centered on the hero’s most iconic villain....

“Of course, if we run into Godzilla, that would be extremely awful for us.” Godzilla is no stranger to reinvention. There have been no fewer than five distinct Godzilla continuities (six, I guess, if we’re going to generously consider Roland Emmerich’s 1998 monstrosity an actual Godzilla movie…which it isn’t) through dozens of films, with two different live action franchises running (one kicked off in the west with Gareth Edwards’ 2014 Godzilla and the other with Japan’s 2016 Shin Godzilla)....

It was the summer of 2010 when Electronic Arts was found to be registering trademarks for “Syndicate,” but we didn’t know at the time what it had to do with Peter Molyneux’s 1993 game of the same name from Bullfrog Productions. It was over a full year until it was confirmed that Starbreeze Studios was working on a remake of Syndicate, albeit in a totally different genre. Gone is the top-down tactical game and in is a first-person shooter that looks reminiscent to Deus Ex: Human Revolution....

Every year there is great expectation and anticipation for the release of the annual FIFA video game. Once again that is the case for FIFA 21, with soccer fans around the world being incredibly excited to see the changes made and how their favorite teams will be showcased this time around. One of the big things that gamers anticipate is how different players will be rated within the video game. Guesses about who will make the top 10 are always common, and now they have been officially announced, with FIFA releasing the ratings of their players for this year....

For years now, games have been trying to find a way to make their environments feel more realistic and immersive, and Final Fantasy 7 Remake has hit the nail on the head with its major city, Midgar. Of course, like any game, there are still certain traits that break the immersion, but Square Enix’s clever use of NPC dialogue really lends towards making the player feel as though the people around them are real and that their actions have consequences....

Final Fantasy 7 Remake launched for the PS4 as a timed exclusive in 2020 and received mostly positive reception. It was an exemplary remake of the PS1 classic, but the remake only covered a small portion of the iconic JRPG. Fans have been waiting for an announcement related to the second part of Final Fantasy 7 Remake, but during the State of Play today, no mention of a sequel was revealed, however, there was some news that should have fans excited....

Square Enix recently announced an enhanced PlayStation 5 port of Final Fantasy 7 Remake that looks to improve the game’s graphics, add some new features, speed up load times, and make various other quality of life improvements. However, the Final Fantasy 7 Remake PS5 port wasn’t the only thing that Square Enix announced recently. It also confirmed two other Final Fantasy 7 projects that are in active development, with the games helping to establish an interesting pattern with other FF7 spin-off games....

While BioWare has already outlined a pretty substantial run of post-release content for Mass Effect 3, most of that DLC will feature storylines that run concurrent to the game’s main campaign rather than after the game’s extremely controversial ending(s). However that isn’t stopping one Mass Effect fan from following up BioWare’s highly anticipated sequel with a game of their own. Unlike Mass Effect 3, though, this game, titled Finding Shepard is a point-and-click adventure in the same vein as many of the 8-bit titles of yesteryear....

Three former Burnout developers that left Criterion Games within the last two years have finally revealed what their first two projects will be, and unsurprisingly one of them will be a racing game in the same vein as the original Burnout titles. The three founding members, Alex Ward, Fiona Sperry and Paul Ross, pooled up their savings and founded the studio in February 2014, and quickly went on to hire other former Burnout developers like Chris Roberts, Paul Philpott, and many more....

To finish all 100 tiers of the battle pass and get access to all its goodies, it’s important to make sure you can level up before the end of the season. It can be tough, especially once you start reaching a higher level since it takes more experience points to level up then. There are different types of quests and they all have 5 stages. You will get 15,000 XP once you complete a stage....

Perhaps as a way to keep too many of its players from jumping ship to Respawn’s Apex Legends, Epic Games has given Fortnite players the opportunity to earn a free battle pass for its upcoming Season 8. This is possible by completing at least 13 Overtime challenges, with the final set of challenges available now. While the free battle pass is likely the prize most Fortnite fans are concerned about, there are other rewards for completing the Fortnite Overtime challenges as well....