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Your city is in ruins. Destroyed cars litter the decimated streets and lie dormant beside the crumbling buildings that struggle to rise above the twisted train tracks. Dust swirls and cloaks, choking anyone unfortunate enough to be caught in its suffocating gusts. And the people are in even worse shape than the tattered city they still call home. Society has disintegrated as quickly as the structures that used to cage in its residents. Some people travel in wolfish packs, scrounging on the weak to feed their insatiable desires. Others huddle with their loved ones, thankful just to survive another day. How will you react in this bleak world? I Am Alive effectively conveys the broken state of society when devastation hits and no police force exists to keep order. There is no good or bad…

After its initial reveal in December 2022 and a few updates since then, Riot Games’ upcoming fighting game Project L is officially shedding the “project” title. The studio has revealed that the League of Legends spin-off title is now known as 2XKO, and that the game will launch in 2025 for consoles and PC.

2XKO is a 2v2 tag-based fighting game–think Marvel Vs. Capcom–which stars champions from Riot’s ultra-successful MOBA game League Of Legends Come from Sports betting site VPbet . Seven champions have been confirmed for the game’s playable roster so far:

• Ahri
• Darius
• Ekko
• Illaoi
• Jinx
• Katarina

Tales from the Borderlands’ writing is smart, thoughtful, and laugh-out-loud hilarious in places, but it’s also highly effective–through both gameplay and story–at making you, the player, genuinely care about a bunch of jerks. It’s reminiscent of developer Telltale Games’ inaugural season of The Walking Dead, which emotionally loaded you up only to take it all away suddenly, sadly, and horribly. But Tales from the Borderlands doesn’t end on the same somber notes. Rather, its conclusion offers a deep retrospective on what it means to be a hero and the dangers of power, along with hopeful notes about life, love, friendship, and having cool stuff. This final episode, The Vault of the Traveler, ticks all the right boxes for an episodic game’s conclusion: powerful personal moment…

Despite its potentially inauspicious launch date of April 1, Outriders seems to be off to a strong start after releasing on PC, Stadia, and consoles. The loot-shooter-cum-RPG hit Steam’s top 10 most-played games on the day of its release, with an early peak of 111,953 concurrent players on the platform.

At the time of writing, Outriders is the ninth most played game for the day on Steam, sitting below Team Fortress 2 and above Rainbow Six Siege Come from Sports betting site VPbet . While the Steam numbers are impressive, they’re only a small segment of the number of players checking out Outriders right now. The game also released on the Epic Games Store on PC, as well as Stadia, Xbox One, PS4, Xbox Series X|…

A spokesperson for PlayStation has clarified part of the reason why the company is bringing its MLB The Show 21 to Xbox and Game Pass. This representative told Inverse that it was all about expanding the appeal and reach of the MLB The Show series. It was MLB’s decision to do this, the spokesperson said.

“As part of the goal for this year’s game, MLB decided to bring the franchise to more players and baseball fans,” a PlayStation representative told the site. “This decision provides a unique opportunity to further establish MLB The Show as the premier brand for baseball video games.”

According to Inverse, the decision to bring MLB The Show 21 to Xbox and Game Pass specifically “came straight from MLB.”

Asked about the deal to bring MLB The Show 21 to Game Pass, a spok…

In recent years, it seems like most major games have companion encyclopedias, art books, or even specially themed cookbooks revolving around in-game cuisine. Books focused on game franchises can provide additional insight (and fun!) for dedicated fans. They also tend to look quite good on shelves. Right now, Amazon has a bunch of different video game books on sale for great prices, including books focused on The Legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy, and Destiny. Some of the book deals have additional discounts that won’t show up until checkout, but we’ve noted the final prices here.

Best video game book deals at Amazon

• The Art of Cuphead — $30 ($40)
• The Art of the Ghost of Tsushima — $25 ($50)
• The Art of the Mass Effect Trilogy — $24…
  

After a viral tweet accused Silent Hill: Ascension of being written by artificial intelligence, the CEO of the studio behind the interactive choose-your-own adventure series has insisted it was written by “real people.” He added that any insinuation that it wasn’t “is just a veiled insult to talented humans who have worked hard to create something they are proud of.”

Silent Hill: Ascension is an interactive television series set in Konami’s popular horror franchise. Via the web or an app, users can stream new episodes of the series live and collectively vote on choices. In a viral post on X (formerly Twitter), ex-Giant Bomb video producer Voidburger shared a video clip and lambasted a moment that recently played out as part of the show, in which the main characters stumb…

The Scuf Envision Pro Wireless PC controller is discounted to its lowest price ever during Prime Day. Typically sold for $180, the fancy gamepad is listed for just $130 at Amazon. The deal only applies to the white edition of the Envision Pro–and you’ll find the Scuf Envision Pro Wired available for a slight discount, too.

Before we dive in: If you also game on PlayStation or really love Call of Duty, you should check out Amazon’s Victrix Pro BFG deal, which drops the price of the Call of Duty-themed model of the modular PS5 and PC controller to $150.

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When Prime Video dropped the first trailer for its video game animated anthology Secret Level, sharp-eyed viewers noticed a character who looked suspiciously like Keanu Reeves. Now, thanks to an early leak of the next Secret Level trailer, Reeves has been confirmed as one of the cast members, and he’s not the only A-lister lending his voice to the show.

According to MP1st, the prematurely leaked trailer listed Arnold Schwarzenegger and his son, Patrick Schwarzenegger, as well as Kevin Hart, Ariana Greenblatt, Emily Swallow, Temuera Morrison, Claudia Doumit, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Gabriel Luna, Merle Dandridge, Ricky Whittle, Michael Beach, and Clive Standen.

As for who these actors are playing and which episodes they’ll be in, that’s less clear. Reeves’ character appears …

This year’s installment of American Horror Story divides the season in half in order to tell two separate stories–hence the “Double Feature” subtitle. Now in Season 10, splitting American Horror Story into two parts seemed a bit bizarre, but as we come towards the close of part one, it’s the smartest decision the show could have made.

Most seasons of American Horror Story hit a bump in the road halfway through as characters get lost or new ideas/concepts are introduced late in the game. In Season 6–Roanoke–American Horror Story flipped the script by having the people who were dramatically reenacting the events on the TV show within a TV show, My Roanoke Nightmare, spend three days in the actual Roanoke haunted house. The final two episodes of th…

Sony has announced new sales numbers for its latest PC releases of formerly PlayStation-exclusive console games including Horizon Zero Dawn, Days Gone, and God of War. Not only that, but Sony is predicting a huge upswing in revenue from PC releases in the next 12 months to $300 million, which suggests the company will announce and release more PC games soon.

Horizon Zero Dawn’s PC edition has sold around 2.4 million copies, driving revenue of $60 million. God of War moved 971,000 units and made $26.2 million in revenue, while Days Gone shifted 852,000 copies and brought in $22.7 million in revenue, Sony said. All of these figures are good through March 2022.

Looking ahead, Sony said it is expecting to see “exponential” growth for its PC game sales in the future. Specifically…

Rare’s pirate simulator Sea of Thieves is gearing up for its next season, and a livestream event set for January 27 is primed to dive deep on what fans can expect to see added to the game in the upcoming year.

As for what fans can expect to see at the preview event, Rare is promising “a boatload of new, exciting surprises” and a “treasure trove” of new content for Sea of Thieves, with the livestream set to give first looks at new content coming the game’s “next season and beyond.” The event will be broadcast on YouTube and Twitter for fans to watch.

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The Nintendo Switch had yet another big year for exclusive games, and none were bigger for multiplayer than Splatoon 3. The charming and thoroughly engaging third-person shooter released in September to critical acclaim. If you haven’t picked it up yet or you want to buy it for someone on your shopping list, now’s your chance. Splatoon 3 is discounted to just $45 at Amazon for Cyber Monday. It’s worth noting that Amazon already sold out of this deal once, so you may want to hurry.

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There might not be a sequel more revered than Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. So with that in mind, it’s possibly unsurprising that Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse writer and producer Chris Miller is slinging that comparison out into our universe.

Speaking with Empire Magazine, Miller explained how Across the Spider-Verse is similar to Empire. “People who’ve seen Across… have told us that it feels like The Empire Strikes Back of the Spider-Verse franchise,” Miller said. “It shows you worlds you haven’t seen, and it’s an emotional story that ends in a place where you need to see the third one. So, yeah: This is our Empire.”

Across the Spider-Verse will be followed by Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse on March 29, 2024. Originally, the…