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The Legend of Zelda fans don't have to wait too much longer to return to the world of Tears of the Kingdom. As announced during the September Nintendo Direct, Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment launches November 6 exclusively on Switch 2. Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment preorders are starting to open at major retailers. Like most Switch 2 games published by Nintendo so far, Age of Imprisonment is priced at $70.

Nintendo says 14 Virtual Boy titles will be made available to Switch Online Expansion Pack subscribers over time. The eventual software list includes cult-classic Nintendo first-party titles like Virtual Boy Wario Land and Mario's Tennis, as well as extremely hard-to-find third-party games like Jack Bros. and Virtual Bowling, which can command hundreds or thousands of dollars for an original cartridge. The fact that Nintendo is officially acknowledging these games at all is a bit surprising after all these years of neglect.

The John Wick actor, who is set to appear in comedy film Good Fortune later this year, told IGN that he would be more than willing to return as Silverhand in Cyberpunk 2. "Absolutely. I'd love to play Johnny Silverhand again," Reeves said. The actor, of course, did not divulge if CD Projekt Red had been in touch with him over the role for the sequel.

Pick up the rope! Take the strain! Steady! Pull! When the referee barks those commands, eight adrenalin-fuelled competitors on each team muster every ounce of strength in their bodies and attempt to haul one another across the crumbling earth. Clutching a rope made of hemp or polypropylene, the first team to tug their opponents four metres from their starting position is the winner.

The main issue seemed to be based on progression. Some of the weekly missions involving the M1 Garand, for instance, weren't tracking correctly in All Out Warfare. Some players also felt that the grind to unlock the free cosmetics was a bit much. This has led to a Tier Skip function--a feature that, depending on who you're talking to, presents its own set of issues--allowing players to pay to advance through the ranks.

I was very predictable today on court. He did many things, he changed up the game. That's also his style of how he plays. Now it's going to be on me if I want to make changes or not. That's definitely [what] we are going to work on. I'm trying to be more prepared for the next match that I will play against him.

Last week's challenge Last week's challenge came from Mike Reiss, who's a showrunner, writer, and producer for "The Simpsons." Name a famous English author. Change the first letter of the last name to an S. Then move the first, second, and final letters of that last name in front of the first name. The resulting string of letters reading from left to right will name a major American city. What city is it? Challenge answer: Francis Bacon --> San Francisco

I wrote that no one should buy MSI and Intel's original handheld gaming PC. I literally called it an embarrassment, and the company blacklisted me after that. MSI stopped pitching me news, and stopped answering my emails, even after the company began to write off its dud of a handheld. So you can imagine my surprise to find: MSI and Intel have gone from worst to nearly first.

SAN JOSE Michael Misa will headline a group of five first-round draft picks on the San Jose Sharks team that will take part in next week's three-team Rookie Faceoff event in Anaheim. Misa, who was selected overall by the Sharks at the NHL Draft in June, joins first-round picks Filip Bystedt (2022) and Quentin Musty (2023), both forwards, defenseman Sam Dickinson (2024), and goalie Josh Ravensbergen (2025) on the 24-player team, which was announced Tuesday.

Nobuo Uematsu's classic score. I'm pleased to report the magic is still there on Switch 2. Digital Foundry said it Final Fantasy VII has one of the best openings of a video game ever. The remake cranks that up even further thanks to the the mash-up of modern graphics and might be the best looking port on the handheld hybrid yet. Nothing in my time with it led me to think otherwise. And man, does that first mission still hit.

I'm going to give you some nine-letter words. For each one, insert a letter somewhere inside it to make a familiar 10-letter word. Ex. MEDIATION --> C to make MEDICATION or T to make MEDITATION IMPERIOUS HEADWATER PACEMAKER REHEARING SIMULATED GEOLOGIST ETERNALLY MINESTONE IMPLEMENT Last week's challenge Last week's challenge came from Bobby Jacobs, of Glen Allen, Va. Take the first and last names of a famous athlete.

Arriving like a thunderbolt on Sept. 1, 2020, CK3 was the perfect game for an imperfect time. At least personally, I can say that the novelty of to-go cocktails and sitting six feet apart from my friends in parks had started to wear off by Labor Day of 2020, and I was ready to lock back in on a meaty video game. I had never played a Crusader Kings game before; hell, I hadn't played a Paradox game at all.

Deep of Night features new relics, randomized challenges, and an endless mode for those able to reach it. 'Deep of Night' is a high-difficulty challenge mode designed for seasoned players who have navigated through the Night many times," the publisher writes in a new blog post. The mode arrives on September 10 during the game's usual update time and changes up the usual Nightreign run in a few ways.

Has he then finally decided to make one? Well, yes and no. Toxic Commando may bear his name in the title, but the real credit goes to developer and publisher Saber Interactive. Still, after playing this apocalyptic co-op first-person shooter for the first time at Gamescom 2025, I see how it bears his influence. This isn't just a cynical marketing stunt to put his name on the box.

Romeo Is A Deadman is Grasshopper Manufacture latest action game created by Suda 51 and Ren Yamazaki. It's an all new IP from the developer, and it feels like Grasshopper is firing on all cylinders. Kurt Indovina got hands-on with the game, and got to fight through zombies, monsters, and a giant naked headless woman (which he was a big fan of).

Walking into a room you've never been in before can be one of the most nerve-racking experiences one can go through. Without prior knowledge of who's in there, what those people are like, and where the best place to sit is, it can be a serious anxiety trigger for the socially awkward among us. But what if there was someone who could mediate those anxieties on behalf of the people who have them?

This is something we contemplated at the very beginning when we were starting this project: What would be the best way to do a remake of MGS3? And in those conversations what we ultimately decided on for Delta is [that] the concept of Delta is to be able to have new Metal Gear fans, new Metal Gear players to experience the original as is, as much as possible. Obviously we did the modernization that we need to so that it

The recent Battlefield 6 open beta was a massive success for EA and Battlefield Studios, amassing over half a million concurrent players on Steam.

So what happened with the festive zombie? "And then you're going to say, 'Yeah, but it has,'" Miles continued. "I'll say it has by accident. And that was never the intention. We've come out and been very clear that we use these as tools to help the team, but they do not replace any of the fantastic team members we have that are doing the final touches and building that content to put it in the game."

Fleischer has been working for MTG publisher Wizards of the Coast for 14 years, and for most of that time, he's been trying to make Edge of Eternities. His original concept was inspired by the classic Flash Gordon comics published in the 1930s and '40s, with an Art Deco style to match. "I had a retro sci-fi vision," Fleischer recalls. "People said, 'It's not quite right yet.' But I kept pitching it. I knew eventually we'd get there."