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Summary Ahsokacreator and Lucasfilm Chief Creative Officer Dave Filoni has been slowly building things up in theStar Warsuniverse since his days working onThe Clone Wars. Now, it looks like a pair of beloved characters may be about to clash once again. Star Warshas maintained its hold on fans with new characters and stories. When Disney bought the franchise and reset its official canon, many were concerned that the new offerings wouldn’t live up to what they’d grown to love about the eminent sci-fi/fantasy series....

Among the myriad of bad things that can happen to the player inStranded Deep, broken bones are a particularly nasty affliction. Players will know that they have a broken bone after falling from a great height and hearing the accompanying snap. If these visual and auditory cues weren’t enough, the player’s arm will be twisted out of shape whenever they check their watch. The negative effects of a broken bone are both debilitating and indefinite, so it is in the interest of players to cure any broken bones they get as soon as possible....

Telltale Gameshas raised $8 million in funding to help with current and future narrative projects, includingThe Expanse: A Telltale SeriesandThe Wolf Among Us 2. In 2018, the developer abruptly shut down and filed for bankruptcy protection, and someformer employees from Telltale opened a new game studioshortly afterward. Luckily, many of the company’s assets were acquired by LCG Entertainment, which revived Telltale Games in August 2019. Since then, the studio has continued to flourish, specializing in the unique narrative and graphical style that grabbed the attention of gamers and critics alike in 2012 with the release ofThe Walking Dead....

Twenty years ago,Terminator 3: Rise of the Machineswas released, marking the firstTerminatorfeature to not be directed by James Cameron nor star Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor. It’s hard to imagine aTerminatormovie without Cameron, because the original 1984 film is the one that launched the filmmaker’s historic directorial career. WhileThe Terminatorsequels overall haven’t lived up to the intensity and inventiveness of the franchise’s iconic first two films,Terminator 3is a decently well-made sequel because it continues John Connor’s story and the mission to take down Skynet and prevent warfare....

The originalFalloutgame is unique in that it presents the Vault Dweller with a time limit to complete the main questline. These deadlines push a sense of urgency onto the player, making each completed quest feel much more rewarding — from finding the Water Chip for Vault 13 to helping settlements across the wasteland of Southern California. That said,Fallout’s canon ending doesn’t wrap up well for the Vault Dweller. On the contrary, it tells a grim tale of an exiled hero....

Summary CD Projekt Red has several of games currently in development, the vast majority of which were announced all together during the studio’s October 2022 financial meeting. Though a few things have changed since that initial meeting, most of these projects remain in active development, including Project Polaris, the next mainlineWitchertitle, Project Canis Majoris, a remake ofthe firstWitchergame, and Project Sirius, aWitchertitle that’s set to have a strong focus on co-op multiplayer....

Netflix’sThe Witcheris the latest adaptation of of the franchise, this time premiering on the streaming platform. From original novels, immensely popular video games, and now this, it seems safe to say that fans are being treated with such a diverse portfolio of adaptations.Note: This article contains minor spoilers for Netflix’sThe Witcher. The Witcher,as mentioned above, was originally published in Poland in the early 1990s and consisted of two collections of short stories featuring Geralt of Rivia and some of the tales that fans have come to recognize him for....

Tropico 6came to Nintendo Switch late last year, granting a new lease of life to Limbic Entertainment’s political management sim. In theTropicoseries players take on the role of El Presidente , governing their island nation with a mixture of administration, corruption, and political manipulation. WhileTropico 6mostly follows theclassicTropicoformula, it also added a new way for players to interact with the rest of the world. Raids are special operations that players can organize to loot, spy on, or politically manipulate other nations....

TheResident Evilfranchise has a dubious track record with movie adaptations, especially after the originalResident Evilfilms threw out much of the games' plot and let new protagonist Alice overshadow the original cast. However,Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon Citymay have hit gold by casting Robbie Amell as Chris Redfield, who notoriously starred inResident Evil 5. While Chris Redfield has appeared in many games, including the originalResident Evil,Resident Evil: Code Veronica, andmost recentlyResident Evil Village, his appearance inResident Evil 5helped to solidify his modern image among fans of the series....

Fans of director Tim Burton have been looking forward to his series,Wednesday, based on the Addams family’s only daughter, played byXstar Jenny Ortega. It seemed like a perfect match of material and meister, so to speak, a gothy director turning to the gothiest of families in American culture.TheNetflixseries hits just in time for Thanksgiving, and for some corporate reason too late for Halloween. Now the steamer releaseda newWednesdayfeaturettewhere the creators go into the direction the series is taking and explain how it’s going to be more of a long movie than a TV series....

Perhaps the most surprising element ofApex Legendsseason 21 is Respawn bringing back Solos as a 6-week takeover of Duos, though many fans were expecting Solos to revert back to Duos once its time came to an end. Now, however, fans know that Solos is going straight into Quads. For the first time ever,Apex Legendsplayers will be able to join up in teams of four, experiment with new team comps, and play a very different loot game while chasing that elusive victory....

As a romantic comedy anime,A Couple of Cuckoosface lots of strong competitors in this Spring 2022 season. Well-known titles likeKomi Can’t Communicateand newcomers likeShikimori’s Not Just A Cutiehave become fan favorites for the genre, and are still going strong with each new episode. That being said, the first episode ofA Couple of Cuckooswas actually quite good. It managed to do its job as an entry point for the viewers while introducing the characters and establishing the premise properly....

Over the last decade, anime has steadily become more mainstream, and a side effect of this increase in popularity is that game adaptations are more likely to be localized. Now, there are still plenty ofanime gamesthat never leave Japan, especially ones based on non-shonen properties, but things are certainly better than during the PS2 era. That said, there aren’t all that manyPS4 anime games, at least if the selection is limited to licensed titles rather than just projects with an anime aesthetic....