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As the franchise’s many ardent followers will tell you, Harry Potter is one of the greatest things to happen to literature in a long, long time. There’s really no way to overstate the effect this series has had. From its humble beginnings, an equally humble writer brought the world far more than she expected. Rowling didn’t expect very much from the first instalment, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. It was a battle to get it published, which is often cited as an inspiring lesson in persistence (we’re talking Shia LaBeouf levels of inspiration here)....

The controversy surrounding Blizzard’s recent suspension of a professional Hearthstone player, which occurred following a statement the player made about the liberation of Hong Kong from the Communist Party of China, continues to expand. Mid-day Wednesday, popular Hearthstone tournament caster Brian Kibler announced that he was resigning from his position effective immediately. Kibler is resigning in protest of Blizzard’s “appeasement” and in support of the suspended player, Blitzchung, who Kibler believes has been treated extremely unfairly....

Hellbound: the Awakening is a dark fantasy, 2D dungeon crawler with some fantastic creative and innovative features that turn the genre on its head. Miki Manojlovic, the creator and one-man team developing the title, showed off a demo of the game at the recent Enthusiast Gaming Live Expo in Toronto in October, and he had a lot to say about the game. As a nameless hero, players find themselves trapped in a mysterious mining village overrun by a black plaque....

It’s been almost 15 years since we first met troubled Dead Space protagonist, Isaac Clarke, and came face-to-face with horrifying Necromorphs that must be cut limb-from-limb before they rip apart humanity, now EA and developer Motive have decided it’s time to go back to where it all began. EA just released the Official launch trailer for the Dead Space remake on the 12th of January 2023, giving gamers a closer look at what to expect when they revisit the horrors aboard the USG Ishimura....

With the Kickstarter campaign for The Wonderful 101 Remastered being an absolute smash, PlatinumGames is looking to the future for this once bomb of a game. In an interview with Nintendo Everything, director Hideki Kamiya stated that he already had some ideas for how he’d potentially follow-up the original fan-favorite action game. Speaking about the (then) impending Kickstarter, Kamiya said, “Back when we were making the Wii U original, I had a lot of hopes for the game before its release....

If there is one thing Hideo Kojima, the auteur behind the Metal Gear Solid series, loves, it is mystery. Fans dissect and analyze every tweet he makes to a ludicrous degree, always looking for some morsel of information on what the future holds. His latest tweet was no different, as Kojima briefly discusses his next project. Here’s my way of designing new title w/Yoji. 1st we discuss the setting for each character, the background, the world, the color, the characteristics, the roles, the images, ideas and keyword going back&forth via E-mail....

The developers at Epic Games are no strangers to introducing limited-time game modes into Fortnite. If you are looking for a Fortnite experience that is a little different, then the new co-op escape mode may be for you. A new limited-time mode has arrived in Fortnite known as Impossible Escape, and there is a PvP and a PvE way to play. In the limited-time game mode, you and 15 other players find yourselves stranded on the Fortnite island....

The talented creative map crafters at Beyond Creative have really outdone themselves this time. While they normally unleash some pretty great experiences on players, this new one is for all the late-night talk show fans out there. That’s right, you’ll be able to visit a creative map based on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Players right now across Fortnite can visit Island Code 2678-5325-0723 to check out the work Beyond Creative has put into this....

Epic Games is gearing up for the Fortnite World Cup 2019, featuring a prize pool of a staggering $100,000,000. Anyone else getting visions of Scrooge McDuck diving into his money bin? The event will kick off on April 8 beginning with the Online Open qualifiers, which wraps on June 16 after a run of ten weeks. During this time, $1,000,000 will be up for grabs each week for eligible players. You’ll have to be at least 13-years-old to enter....

Forza Horizon 5 is set in Mexico, and it is coming to out in November. During the Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase, we got a good look Forza Horizon 5, and it looks quite staggering. Check out the trailer: The description reads: “Your ultimate Horizon adventure awaits! Explore the vibrant and ever-evolving open world landscapes of Mexico with limitless, fun driving action in hundreds of the world’s greatest cars.” As you can see, the graphics looks quite, quite good....

11-Bit Studios are back with a new game and it’s Frostpunk, a game that can best be described as a survival city builder management sim. This is not your usual city builder, it’s not about making luxury housings or beautified streets peppered with parks and libraries, it’s about the survival of humankind and deciding what kind of a ruler you want to be. The game follows the story of London’s inhabitants as they leave the city after catastrophic climate change, an ice age that’s wiping out everyone....

Purchasers of Street Fighter 5 will need only the original disc in order to access future content updates, according to Capcom’s director of brand marketing and eSports. Street Fighter 4 saw multiple physical releases throughout the last generation of console, each bringing new characters to the roster as well as overhauls to fighters already in the game, tweaking and balancing the game’s mechanics. But with Capcom’s next entry to the iconic fighting series, it seems that fans need only the one disc in order to access all future updates....

Aquaman star Jason Momoa has signed up to play Rico Rodriguez in a film adaptation of Square Enix’s Just Cause. The action film is to be directed by Brad Peyton, who is soon to begin shooting Dwayne Johnson’s Rampage movie. He is also behind disaster film San Andreas and the Netflix series Frontier – which also stars Momoa. Plot details are currently under wraps. Just Cause 3 launched for PS4, Xbox One and PC back in December 2015....

Key Points Is GeForce RTX 3090 worth it? The short answer is yes!If you want to buy new and from Nvidia, you are looking at a cool $2,154.97. The RTX 3090 has the same ports as the RTX 3080 so it’s a good alternative. No way around it, this thing is an absolute monster. Not only in terms of performance but it is just … very big. Being the highest end of the RTX 30 FE series it is bursting with power and even now it is only really outpaced by the RTX 3090 Ti....

Over Peaks is the Day 3 Paper Theater challenge in Genshin Impact. Things are going to get more complicated since you now have to deal with wind currents and floor plates. Here’s our Genshin Impact Paper Theater Over Peaks guide to help you with this activity that’s part of Lantern Rite 2023. Note: For more information about the game, check out our Genshin Impact guides and features hub. Likewise, you can take a look at our main guide for the Lantern Rite 2023 event....

This daily reset brings the next phase of Genshin Impact‘s Thunder Sojourn event. If you spent the previous days zipping around during Bolt Blitz, then you’ll be killing lots of mobs this time around. Here’s our Genshin Impact Thunder Sojourn guide to help you with the Lightning Round challenge. Note: For more information about the game, check out our Genshin Impact guides and features hub, as well as our overview for the version 2....

Nameless Treasures in Genshin Impact are a bunch of chests that are locked behind a specific puzzle, these chests contain a ton of secrets for players to uncover and usually give out great rewards, but the problem is there is more than one nameless treasure that travelers will need to find in the game. If you want to know the exact location of all the Nameless Treasure and how to redeem them in the game, check the rest of this guide....

Looting is an essential aspect of Genshin Impact. There are several chests to loot in the game that players might not have to wait for a chest to respawn and then loot it. Still there it is always helpful to mark some rare chests on the map so that you can easily head back there after some time to loot the same chest again. But the question that arises here is that do the chests in Genshin Impact respawn at all?...

Ghost of Tsushima is a daring departure for Sucker Punch, who since 2009 has worked solely on the Playstation-exclusive Infamous series. While those games were steeped in modernity, offering sprawling cityscapes players could explore from top to bottom via superpowered “conduits” Cole MacGrath and Delsin Rowe, Ghost of Tsushima’s open world is set in feudal Japan. It’s here that we meet young samurai Jin Sakai, who must defend his homeland, the titular island of Tsushima, from an invading Mongol army....

Key Points: Gilbert Chapin was an American inventor and banker who holds three patents for calculating machines from 1870 – 1900.Chapin’s design improved on the inventions of his counterparts in Europe – although he did not solve all of their problems.The adding machine design Chapin patented in 1900 was small and portable – paving the way toward modern day pocket calculators. The American Gilbert W. Chapin (see biography of Gilbert W....