Hearthstone‘s Fractured in Alterac Valley expansion has just been released, and it’s already clear that the game’s new cards are going to shake up the CCG’s competitive meta. While some of those new cards simply bolster existing deck types, we’re already seeing them enable a few entirely new deck types that players are currently scrambling to solve during the exciting experimental phase that follows the release of any new Hearthstone expansion....

Modern video game stories often benefit from new avenues of development and distribution that allow a greater variety of voices to tell unique stories that would have once struggled to find a home in this medium. Maybe some Triple-A studios have pivoted away from narrative-based games, but a host of smaller studios and independent developers have more than picked up the slack. For those who believe that gaming offers one of the most complex and satisfying storytelling mediums in all of the entertainment, please be sure to find the time to experience the absolute best video game stories of 2021....

Maybe you, like us, need a break from all the elves but still want all the great things an RPG provides. Then perhaps you want something darker. Perhaps you want to roll the dice, make a character, and feel the chill of dread creep up your spine. Perhaps, dear reader, you want a horror RPG. Thanks to the likes of Sandy Petersen’s Call of Cthulhu and modern titles like Dread, horror has been a fixture in role-playing games since the days of pen and paper....

Of course, most gamers know that NPCs can be so much more than non-playable characters. While there are some NPCs that are little more than seat fillers in some of the largest and most elaborate video game worlds ever, others have used their supporting roles to steal the show and establish themselves as legends in their own right. From mistranslated villagers and merchants to dogs and knights, these are some of the absolute best video game NPCs ever....

After nearly 12 months of pandemic and shutdown, social unrest and political upheaval, we are only beginning to understand the ramifications from the year that was. There hasn’t been one facet of our culture that wasn’t dramatically altered by the effects of COVID-19 and the world it wrought. And yes, that includes movies. When the year began, moviegoers were still going to the last Star Wars movie in theaters to the tune of a billion dollars and looking forward to summer spectacle like Wonder Woman 1984....

There’s no one element that makes FPS games so brilliant, and that is, ironically enough, exactly what makes them brilliant. The history of the genre is written by developers who used a certain point of view and a gun or two as the basis for a variety of experiences that continue to surprise us even after we told ourselves that we’ve seen it all. Those are the games we’re here to celebrate today....

At least that’s what AMC is hoping with the arrival of 61st Street, the latest TV legal drama from British lawyer-turned screenwriter Peter Moffat. Moffat is well-known to U.K. audiences through modern law and order sagas like North Square, Criminal Justice, and Silk. In 2020, Moffat took his first crack at unwinding the American judicial system with the Showtime series Your Honor, which starred Bryan Cranston as a New Orleans judge faced with an impossible decision....

A Discovery of Witches began as a Romeo and Juliet-ish romance about the forbidden love between a witch and a vampire in a world where magical creatures were segregated by a centuries-old covenant. It was the story of Diana, a scientist and witch whose extraordinary magic had been hidden from her by parents trying to protect her from the power-hungry Peter Knox, who sought to make it his own. In season one, Diana learned who she was and whom she loved – Matthew de Clermont, the son of a powerful vampire family with a historical prejudice against witches....

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Ron and Russell Mael, otherwise known as the synth heavy band Sparks, are in the midst of a career renaissance. They’ve been producing music for close to 50 years now, and the recent documentary into their history directed by Edgar Wright, The Sparks Brothers, has introduced the band’s work to a whole new generation. Now they’ve teamed up with acclaimed French director Leos Carax (Holy Motors) for his first English language film, a surreal musical wonder called Annette....

And yet, when thinking back to his own halcyon days as a child growing up in the Houston suburbs during a time of technological innovation and wonders—the time of the Apollo 11 mission and when a man walked on the moon—he realized his own nine-year-old understanding of the world wasn’t that different from, say, Keanu’s dream life. And exploring that paradox is what gives his ultimately semi-autobiographical reverie, this weekend’s Netflix release of Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood, its enchanting quality....

The theory is gathering so much steam online that even Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, arguably gaming’s foremost investigative journalist, was almost 100% convinced the conspiracy was true at one point (although he’s no longer sure). There’s also a whole subreddit now dedicated to “The Blue Box Conspiracy,” where you can follow and post your latest finding in a strange sort of ARG. So, what exactly is happening here? Rumors of a connection to a secret Silent Hill game and Hideo Kojima have followed Abandoned since it was first teased last April....

As one might expect, there is no easy way to summarize or explain the plot without delving into spoilers, and make no mistake, there are spoilers around almost every corner. But the gist of the story is simple enough and pretty much accurate to what has been shown in the trailers: after Thanos (Josh Brolin) has cut the population of the universe in half with a snap of the Infinity Gauntlet, the surviving Avengers — the original six plus a few remaining allies — immediately deploy a plan to find the Mad Titan, wrest the Gauntlet from him, and undo his monstrous actions....

But with the introduction of Babs comes several other new and returning characters. Returning are J.K. Simmons as the DCEU version of Commissioner James Gordon, who we first met in Justice League, and Michael Keaton once again reprising his role as Batman (he’ll first appear in The Flash later this year). The other confirmed newcomer is Brendan Fraser as villainous pyromaniac Firefly, a deep cut from the comics who first appeared in Detective Comics in 1952....

That series, which was spearheaded by Bruce Timm, Eric Radomski, Paul Dini, and Alan Burnett, went on to spawn a whole universe of animated DC TV series, including Superman: The Animated Series, Batman Beyond, Justice League Unlimited, and others. It also introduced us to the lovable anti-hero (then villain) Harley Quinn as well as established the definitive origin story for Mr. Freeze. Not to mention that the Batman: TAS film, Mask of the Phantasm, has been named one of the best Bat movies ever made....

Spring is almost here, but as we wait inside for the season to truly bloom, there are a ton of fantastic movies and documentaries just waiting to be discovered. If you’re looking to save a little coin, luckily Plex TV is a free option that will keep you entertained without breaking the bank. Spring into Plex for the best entertainment options streaming today! Plex is a globally available one-stop-shop streaming service offering 50,000+ free titles and 200+ free-to-stream live TV channels, from the biggest names in entertainment, including Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM), Warner Bros....

One occupant of the Albuquerque-verse, however, is determined to end off better than he arrived. In a new interview with Collider, Better Call Saul star Bob Odenkirk teased a bit of the show’s sixth and final season, and shared his hopes for the character he’s played for nine seasons of television now. Of Jimmy McGill, Saul Goodman, Gene Takovic, or whatever you want to call him, Odenkirk said: “My point of view is that Walter White became an angry, broken version of himself....

History: Teach went by a number of names, and Drummond was one of them. Teach did retire, and did subsequently return to piracy. Was he married? The jury is still out on that one; there’s no proof one way or the other. Rumors, however, continue to persist that he did. And Blackbeard was buddies with Charles Vane. Yes, indeed he was. During Blackbeard’s “retirement” Vane showed up at his hideout on Oracoke Island, and the two pirate crews partied together....

Taking to Twitter late Tuesday evening, Baron Cohen revealed the below deleted scene, which offers a seemingly more dangerous chain of events than what appeared in Borat 2. The sequence in question involves Baron Cohen’s Borat impersonating a Western singer (who likely doesn’t exist) called Country Steve. Taking the stage as “Steve,” Borat attempts to win over the crowd by singing about how “Corona is a liberal hoax,” yet also singing how they should inject former President Barack Obama “with the Wuhan flu....

PlayStation 4 players will have exclusive access to the first weekend of the Cold War open beta, which runs from Oct 8-12, before Xbox and PC owners jump in on Oct. 15-19. If you’re wondering what the actual start time for the Cold War open beta is, servers will go live at 10 am PT/1 pm ET on Thursday, according to Activision. The beta will run until Monday on both weekends, giving players ample time to get quite a few matches in....