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Eight years after the franchise’s last installment was released and 19 years after the launch of the series’ very first game, Ubisoft has finally announced that the beloved Splinter Cell franchise is getting a remake. Announcing the news over on its website, the company says that the upcoming remake will be led by the Ubisoft Toronto team, which is currently looking for new talent to join the project. With almost a decade of technological advancements to play with, the title will now tap into the developer’s very own Snowdrop engine, the same tech behind both the upcoming Ubisoft Star Wars game as well as the long-awaited Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. In an interview with the company’s creative director Chris Auty, producer Matt West and technical producer Peter Handrin...

Ramping up its much hyped Fall/Winter 2021 release of the new Supreme®/MG 1/100 RX-78-2 GUNDAM Ver.3.0 plastic model kit, Supreme has teased an animated video featuring the coveted Gundam character engaged in a seismic stop motion battle. Made in part with Gunpla and Bandai, the video includes voiceover by NY Instagram account @crimefacesx proclaiming the Japanese figurine’s animated hood as “Gundam Town,” describing itself as “a robotic Don Cheadle, dressed as a hot Cheeto!” In the video, Gundam dons a brand new, fiery-red body armor with a Supreme logo arm shield, fighting against a competing Zaku that bows out in defeat. Also appearing in the video is a glass display case containing additional “handy” items like a Supreme-branded blowhorn, a red and yellow handsaw and a canteen, accesso...

Rockstar Games has officially launched the newest GTA Online radio station, MOTOMAMI Los Santos. Hosted by ROSALÍA and longtime Rockstar collaborator Arca, MOTOMAMI Los Santos is named after ROSALÍA’s forthcoming album and plays cuts from the likes of Caroline Polachek to Daddy Yankee, Mr. Fingers, Aventura, an exclusive song from Bad Gyal and ROSALÍA’s “LA FAMA” with The Weeknd. In addition to the launch of MOTOMAMI Los Santos, Rockstar Games revealed that Radio Los Santos will feature a series of exclusive new music from Hit-Boy, Freddie Gibbs featuring Pusha T, TiaCorine produced by Kenny Beats, Rich the Kid, Offset and Mozzy featuring YG and cuts from Saweetie, Future, Tyler, The Creator and Kodak Black, while Mike Dean and ScHoolboy Q are also set to have special cameos on the station...

2021 is coming to an end, and to celebrate the games that accompanied us through this COVID-stricken year, Steam-tracking site SteamDB has published a list of the top-ranked titles on the digital storefront as rated by users. A few familiar names and recent hits top out the first 10 spots, with Totally Accurate Battle Simulator taking the first spot, followed by Dyson Sphere Program and later PowerWash Simulator. Interestingly enough, the top 10 doesn’t feature many AAA titles, and the Game Awards 2021 Game of the Year winner It Takes Two only came in at 19th place despite its award show success. Other big titles this year can also be found within the top 20, including Valheim, Inscryption and Psychonauts 2. You’ll find the top-rated games down below...

Following the announcement of a new Grand Theft Auto: Online expansion, dubbed “The Contract,” last week, Rockstar Games has unveiled additional content headed to the title, including an all-new radio station called MOTOMAMI Los Santos featuring music from leading artists. The station will be hosted by ROSALÍA alongside frequent Rockstar collaborator Arca. While the station will feature artists including Daddy Yankee, Mr. Fingers, Aventura, Caroline Polachek and several others, ROSALÍA will also share the first single from her forthcoming MOTOMAMI album, “LA FAMA,” with The Weeknd. Additionally, Arca will post several tracks and Bad Gyal will share an exclusive single. Elsewhere, two pre-existing radio stations will receive major updates. First, Radio Los Santos has revamped its ...

After running for more than a decade, Heroes of Newerth is finally shutting down. Originally launched back in 2010, the DOTA-derived MOBA gained immense popularity following a shift to a free-to-play model in July that year, at one point peaking at 150,000 concurrent players during May of 2013. Unfortunately, as the years went by, more and more fans of the genre shifted over to DOTA 2 or League of Legends, and has left HoN to slowly wither away after 12 years. Despite the unfortunate fate of the game, however, the Frostburn Studios team remains positive: “Even though the journey of HoN or Heroes of Newerth has come to an end, we believe that all the valuable memories of our players through all these years will never fade away,” they said. “It’s ...

Following its legal saga over third-party console covers, Sony has now announced that it will be releasing its own official PlayStation 5 covers. Coming in five colorways, the bright and bold covers will be released alongside matching DualSense controllers. The Midnight Black, Cosmic Red, Nova Pink, Starlight Blue and Galactic Purple color options to add color to your gaming setup are centered around a galaxy-inspired theme. According to Sony, “Simply remove your original white PS5 console covers and click your new ones into place. The PS5 console covers will be available for both the PS5 with the Ultra HD Blu-ray disc drive and the PS5 Digital Edition.” Priced at $55 and $75 USD respectively, the PS5 console and DualSense wireless controllers will be available in specific regions, includi...

Ubisoft has just announced a new crossover event for Assassin’s Creed Odyssey and Valhalla, the first of its kind for the comprehensive franchise. While characters from one installment have made appearances in others before — such as Assassin’s Creed Rogue‘s Shay Cormac meeting Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag‘s Adéwalé — those personalities existed within the same period as each other. In this scenario, we’ll be seeing Kassandra, an ancient Greek warrior, face off against Eivor, a ninth-century Viking raiding England. Just exactly how the storyline will play out remains to be seen, but it’s probably safe to say that the Animus will play some part in it, given how far off in time the two protagonists existed. The crossover will span across two new story arcs, one in...

Nickelodeon‘s Super Smash Bros.-style All-Star Brawl game has just announced its newest free DLC character — Garfield. Jim Davis‘ loveable orange tabby cat character joins the GameMill Entertainment game for all platforms except the Nintendo Switch, but will be eventually making his way to the console later this month. Garfield is now accompanied by the likes of SpongeBob SquarePants, Toph, Reptar, Ren & Stimpy, Patrick Star, and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Taking his love for food with him, Garfield’s attacks employ the use of pizzas as well as his claws and burps to knock out his opponents. Check out the action above. In other gaming news, Sony set to release PlayStation 5 console covers. Read Full Article

A top Halo Infinite player has now been suspended after he was accused of cheating. According to Kotaku, the Sentinels esports team’s player Royal2 recently competed in a Halo Championship Series event but was found to be “geofiltering,” which allowed him to block out high ping servers and by extension force your opponents to play in servers with higher ping for them instead. Throughout the matches, there were also suspicious “lobby connection issues” that ended up delaying the qualifying round for more than four hours. After protests were lobbied by other players who reviewed the various Twitch streams and player ping, the HCS ran an investigation into potential server manipulation and found that “from November 26, 2021, the day before NA Open Series 11-27 on November 27, 2...