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Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Furyis now available for the Nintendo Switch and with it comes dozens upon dozens of stages. Mostly every single stage in the game is home to three somewhat hidden Green Stars and one Stamp. For the players out there that are having trouble collecting them all in order to 100% the game, here’s the location of all Green Stars (and the Stamp) for World 4-2 inSuper Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury, Piranha Creeper Creek....

The landscape of the video game industry radically changed today.Microsoft announced it is acquiring Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion, far outpacing its $7.5 billion acquisition of ZeniMax Media completed in March 2021. Questions about this corporate consolidation have been raised considering the Xbox Game Studios umbrella now includes multiple leading first-person shooters (Halo,Call of Duty, andDoom); one of the world’s biggest MMORPGs (World of Warcraft); and major western RPGs (The Elder Scrolls,Fallout, andThe Outer Worlds)....

Quick Links This year has been an absolute dream for gamers, with so many new titles released alongside DLCs that fans have been eagerly awaiting. Titles like Hi-Fi Rush, Spider-Man 2, Tears of the Kingdom, and Baldur’s Gate 3 have been making waves all year, and for good reason. Players,and even researchers, everywhere are declaring 2023 one of the best years in gaming ever. It’s certainly been a major drain on wallets, but even with Black Friday over and done with, there are still big discounts to be had on some of the best games of the year....

There are tons of new things players are eagerly expecting inThe Elder Scrolls 6. New storylines, characters, and mechanics only mark the tip of the iceberg in this case. But something to be considered by both Bethesda and the player base is the addition of a collectible board game. Franchises likeHorizonandThe Witcherhave included collectible-oriented games as a side activity players can explore at their leisure. These collectible mini-games typically come with their own unique mechanics and themes that stem from the in-game universe, embedding them in immersive lore....

Although he’s achieved legendary status as the creator of one of the most successful franchises of all time, George Lucas has much less influence onStar Warsnow than he once did. Even with his smaller role, the creator still makes his opinions heard when it matters, as Dave Filoni learned while working onThe Mandalorian. While most people’s minds go to the originalStar Warstrilogy when they think of Lucas, he was much more involved with the prequel trilogy that came twenty years after the first three movies....

The upcoming apocalyptic filmMoonfallhas got a new trailer fromLionsgatethat shows what would happen if the moon came to us. The trailer forMoonfallalso teases an extraterrestrial threat that appears to be attacking any and every human insight. Starring Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson, John Bradley, Michael Pena, Charlie Plummer, Helly Yu, and Donald Sutherland,Lionsgate’sMoonfallwill be set in the year 2022 (which is actually only a couple of months away) and will follow humanity on a mission to survive the moon crashing onto the surface of the earth....

After five long years, Rocksteady has revealedSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leagueas its super-heroic follow-up project toArkham Knight. The new game is not a continuation of theArkhamseries, either in continuity or tone, and that is one of the title’s greatest strengths—especially withGotham Knightsto fill the Batman-shaped hole in the upcoming line-up of superhero titles. Batman is arguably DC’s most popular (and lucrative) superhero. But there is a good case to be made for benching the Caped Crusader inSuicide Squad....

The past couple of months have marked a few anniversaries of some of cinema’s favorite alien characters. Not that long ago, the troubled third sequel to Ridley Scott’s original Alien had reached thirty years. Meanwhile, June finds film fans celebrating two alien flick’s 40-year anniversaries, one being Steven Spielberg’s massive success witheveryone’s favorite friendly Extra-TerrestrialinE.T., andanother alienthat was released alongsideE.T.:the ultimate in alien terror with John Carpenter’s cult classic,The Thing....

After over a year of waiting, Capcom finally gave fans a much-needed update on the long-anticipated DLC toResident Evil Village. In its half-hour showcase held last June,Capcom revealed Shadows of Rose, a story expansion toResident Evil Villagethat focuses on the journey of Rose Winters. According to the trailer released by Capcom, Shadows of Rose takes place 16 years after the main game’s events, which may have a significant effect onResident Evil’s legacy characters....

From its beginnings on the Wii to the Definitive Edition on the Switch, one elderly gamer has been with theXenoblade Chroniclesfranchise for the past ten years. In an unboxing video, she expertly recounts the series' history and what it’s meant to her. There are more elderly gamers out there other thanSkyrimGrandma. While gaming is normally known for attracting the younger generations, some older folks out there love to spend their free time exploring fantastical worlds and fighting monsters....

Code Geasshas garnered a reputation as one of the best mechanimeto come out inthe twilight of mechanime’s heyday. But what about its spinoff,Akito: The Exiled? Not everyone was entirely happy with the shift in theCode Geasstimeline leading up toLelouch of the Resurrection, mostly because, arguably, having Lelouch turn out to be alive all this time rather than to have died in the original series finale takes away some of the gravitas that his sacrifice had....

Summary Each new game in a franchise has multiple choices to make in terms of what the direction should be and how much should be iterated upon or added. Much has changed betweenMarvel’s Spider-Man,Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, and nowMarvel’s Spider-Man 2, for example, and yet Insomniac has also smartly not steered too far from its foundations and felt an obligatory need to fundamentally start from scratch in every entry. However,Marvel’s Spider-Man 2is already making a change to its boss fightsby giving bosses health bars, which could make for an incredibly exciting change to the franchise’s former formula....

World of Warcraftis offering a limited-time bundle that includes every pet currently available on Battle.net. This adorable discount is a part ofWorld of Warcraft’s portion of Blizzard’s Valentine’s Day sale which runs through February 27. The Ultimate Cuddly Pack is exactly what it claims to be, a definitive bundle forWorld of Warcraftfans who love cute things. This pack includes all 21 battle pets currently available forWoWon the Battle.net site in one heavily-discounted place....