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Maybe it’s meant ironically? For a trailer that boldly suggests that “power changes everything,”Call of Duty: Advanced Warfaresure looks pretty similar to past installments in the franchise. I guess the guys jump higher before using their mega-death machines. Maybe what’s changed is Kevin Spacey’s capacity to yell “On my authority!” Or, possibly it’s the hellacious clothesline dealt at the very end of the trailer. It’s like theWWE/Call of Dutycrossover that we never knew we needed....

Last week we learned thatZynga gobbled up OMGPopand it turns out that the founder of the latter actually turned down a job offer from the former in 2008.Charles Forman, after starting up OMGPop and a dating site, I’m In Like With You, left the gaming industry, and said no to an offer to go work for Zynga. Forman is no sucker though, and kept his stock even after leaving his company....

It’s been 25 long years since the release of the Dreamcast (in North America), Sega’s short-lived but beloved little console. That’s about the time that society began to slide downhill. To celebrate this (the console, not the slide), Limited Run Games has some great swag to take you back to the before times. The big push they’re doing is mostly behind the trading cards, which they say are the “coolest trading cards to grace your eyeballs and touch your fingertips....

Totally Butter-freeeeee! The episodes of Pokemon — catch ’em all for free in a new iOS and Android app called Pokemon TV. you’re able to watch the beloved anime as well as movies, trailers, and special features on Pokemon through this streaming app, which is now available on theApp Storeand Google Play. Totally free. On Friday you can use this shiny new app to watch some Pokemon specials.Meloetta’s Moonlight Serenadewill be shown in English for the first time....

Persona 3is still one of my favorite games of all-time. I’ve played it so many times now that it’s bordering on crazy, but I may give it another go on my PS3 as it’s being re-released as a PlayStation 2 Classic tomorrow on PSN. Persona 3: FEScomes to the PlayStation Network tomorrowfor $10. That’s like a bazillion hours of dungeon crawling, demon collecting and social linking. This is the whole enchilada, containing both The Journey (the original game) and The Answer, a standalone second adventure where you’ll play as Aigis, solving a new mystery....

Real or not this is a wild story Zelda: Breath of the Wildwas one of the biggest games at E3 this year, and this caper involving that very project is easily one of the most interesting stories out of the event. According to Kotaku, a “17-year old game developer” tried to steal theZeldademo at E3 by way of transferring the code to a PC from a demo pod. This story has been backed up by famous hacker NWPlayer123, as well as A....

Dreams do come true As highly-regarded as the soundtracks toSonic the HedgehogandSonic the Hedgehog 2are, you’d think the music would have been released before 2011. It didn’t happen, however, as composer Masato Nakamura of Dreams Come True retained the rights to his music and was very picky about how it was released on CD. That changed in 2011 when he released this three-disc collection containing the original soundtracks, an unreleased track, his demo versions for every song, and a few vocal themes from theSonic the Hedgehogreboot released in 2006....

Take that, Kinect After responding to allegations that the separately priced $59.99PlayStation Eyewas not packed into the PlayStation 4 to make the launch price cheaper, Sony had a few words to say on the subject. Regarding the experience as a whole, Sony’s Worldwide Studios President Shuhei Yoshida stated that the technology still isn’t there yet: “We already have many years of research on vision tech. The natural user interface is interesting, and sometimes really robust…this will continue to evolve....

Danny B no longer works with Team Meat Super Meat Boyis finally coming to Sony platforms next week, but the game PlayStation owners will experience is slightly different than the one that launched on Xbox 360 and PC in 2010. Writing on Team Meat’sofficial blog, designer Tommy Refenes confessed the studio was forced to produce a new soundtrack for the game after failing to secure the rights for the original score....

Electronic Arts has plenty to crow about following the release ofStar Wars: The Old Republic. It would appear that the game has enjoyed a hugely successful launch, with the publisher claiming it to be the “the fastest growing subscription MMO in history.” To hammer home the point, EA has released some big statistics detailing just how many hours have been logged, how many characters created, and the sheer genocidal figure that represents the number of slaughtered NPCs....

It’s quite possible for psychological thrillers to leave you scared, jittery, and constantly looking over your shoulders, but there’s something about the knife-cutting tension underlying these stories that makes them utterly irresistible. From rural sociopaths with amnesia to strange, inexplicable phenomena occurring in a clandestine site, here are the best psychological thriller books you can get your hands on in 2024. Sharp Objectsby Gillian Flynn Gillian Flynn is the unrivaled master of psychological thrillers, and even her breakthrough novel,Sharp Objects, released in 2006, remains one of the best books you could read in this genre....

The multiplayer cyberpunk shooter garnered $5 million, while launching on Game Pass Curve Digital launchedThe Ascentlast week, and it sounds like it had a solid launch weekend. The publisher confirmed today thatThe Ascentset its largest-ever opening weekend sales revenue, generating over $5 million. The Ascentalso topped the Steam Global Charts over the weekend. Intoday’s statement, Curve Digital says this positions the indie game as a “AAA competitor.” “The Ascentis the first game out of Curve where our new team has been able to substantially make their mark, working closely with the developer and our platformer partners,” said Curve CEO John Clark in a statement....

Off-Road Velociraptor Safari.Blush. Crane Wars. Time Donkey. You’ve played them (hopefully), you’ve enjoyed them (to some degree), and now you can buy enhanced (meaning: fullscreen, and including sandbox modes with no time restrictions), downloadable versions of them in a single, $20 bundle directly fromBlurst. I’ll be completely honest —BlushandOff-Road Velociraptor Safariare the only games in this pack that I really enjoy, and even thosegreatlybenefit from their originally imposed time limits. It’s notquiteas fun to hit Velociraptors with a Jeep when you’re not fighting the clock to do it....