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Summary Catanhas long been an all-time favorite board game among tabletop players. The game has spawned many copycats,inspired similar games, and served as the entrypoint to tabletop gaming for millions of people around the world. There was evena new novelloosely based onCatanreleased earlier this year by the creator himself. While the base game’s popularity has it discounted for much of the year, Prime Day offers players an especially good deal. Along with the core game, nearly every expansion ever created forCatanis also on sale, and not by a little....

Summary The release of the second season ofArcane: League of Legendsis coming up. Season 2 is expected to be the finale of Jinx and Vi’s story, but it might not be the end of the road for everyone. Arcaneis an adaptation of Riot’s popular online multiplayer game,League of Legends,which is brought to life in Fortiche’s unique animated style.Arcanedebuted to perfect reviews and has only gained popularity over the three years since its first season was released....

Let It Slide is the second of five DLC stages forAstro Bot. Like all of the game’s other post-launch content to date, players can find Let It Slide in the Stellar Speedway galaxy and will need to race to the end of the stage as quickly as possible in order to get their hands ontwo new VIP Bots. To be more precise,Astro Botplayers will need to finish Let It Slide with a time of 50 seconds or better to unlock both Cameo Bots, which can be a lot easier said than done....

Summary The newest upcomingBatmangame,Batman: Arkham Shadow,will see Elijah Wood take on the role of the villainous Dr. Jonathan Crane, better known as Scarecrow, following a recent reveal. The casting announcement came just days beforeBatman: Arkham Shadowis set to release on October 22 exclusively for the Meta Quest 3 and 3S platforms. A fan-favorite superhero universe is making a major return withBatman: Arkham Shadow,which will see players take on the role of the caped crusader in virtual reality, putting the fate of Gotham directly in their hands....

Quick Links Become Pro and Prove Tom Brady Wrongis aRobloxgame of the tycoon genre, involving American Football. You will make a field, invite your friends to play, and increase your fan base with successful ball throws. As is often the case with tycoon games, progress is slow at first because you won’t have the money and tools to make passive income. Fortunately, this can be solved, and you don’t even have to spend Robux....

The Doctor Goblinstein Event is now live in Supercell’s 2016 strategy gameClash Royale, and as with most CR events, players need tobuild a solid deckto win. It started onOctober 21 and will be live until October 28. Unlike the Electro Dragon Evolution event, Doctor Goblinstein comes with two modes – 1v1 and 2v2 – so players can team up with friends or go solo. The event centers around the Goblinstein card, which costs five Elixir....

Robert A. Heinlein’s 1959 science fiction novel,Starship Troopers, may have been seen as a militaristic glorification by many, but celebrated director Paul Verhoeven’s arguably perfect skewer of the source material in his 1997 film of the same name has gone down as a cult-classic, rightfully usurping the name in popular culture. Known for its overwhelming satire, bombastic sci-fi action, and memorable iconography, Verhoeven’s take onStarship Trooperspaints the perfect world for video games....

Summary The world of anime features strong heroes that get fans excited. These heroes overcome challenges and obstacles, gaining powerful abilities on whatever journey they seem to be on. The presence of a powerful protagonist necessitatesan even more powerful villainthat drives the heroes to go to the greatest lengths for the sake of power, capable of defeating these powerful adversaries. The villains on this list are some of the strongest that anime has ever seen; they are miles above the rest and have the feel of final bosses in video games—the ones that would take a million trials just to defeat, the ones that would require multiple hours and lots of level-ups just to not get instantly beaten....

Summary The PlayStation brand has a long-lasting legacy with horror games, as the PS1 was home to some of the industry’s most iconic and influential titles in the genre. FromResident EviltoSilent Hill, the PS1 was synonymous with revolutionary horror experiences, a trend that continued with thePlayStation 2. But much like the console that preceded it, the PS2 also hada selection of horror gamesthat never made it to America. Thanks to the spectacular advancement in console hardware that Sony made, the leap in quality from the PS1 to PS2 was extraordinary....

Summary Ninjas have been a source of fascination in pop culture for decades, not least in video games. The secretive, stealthy assassins of feudal Japan are surrounded by mystery (they avoided writing down their techniques, so much of their real-life lore is lost to the ages) but there is plenty of dramatic license that can be employed when bringing them to life in video games. Some of the earliest popular video games, whether on console or arcade, featured ninjas (Ninja GaidenandShinobiare two of the biggest examples) so to an extent, they’ve been synonymous with retro gaming....

Video game remakesare everywhere these days because they come with a ready-made audience right off the bat. Why not take something you already love and amp it up, right? Fans often still love the original game the most — especially when aremake actually delivers a worse product than the original— but that isn’t always the case! Some excellent remakes blow the originals completely out of the water, improving them across the board, whether by polishing up gameplay, boosting graphics, adding cool new features, or (even better) fixing those pesky issues from the first game....

Summary Activision has added the previously announced Smile 2 tracer pack toCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 3andWarzone, just in time for Halloween. The newly added bundle is available to purchase viaCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 3andWarzone’s in-game item store for 2,400 COD points and includes two new operator skins, two blueprints, and more. The addition of the new Smile 2 tracer pack is the latest in a long line of new horrifying bundles to hit theCall of Dutystore....

Summary Xbox has unveiled a new set ofCall of Duty: Black Ops 6-themed console accessories that include two customizable Design Labs controllers and a new Xbox Series X console wrap. The sixth entry in the popular FPS subseries,Call of Duty: Black Ops 6takes place in the early 90s and brings several key changes to theCall of Dutymultiplayer experience, namely Omnimovement, which will allow players to sprint, slide, and dive in any direction....