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Wizards of the Coast has unveiled two upcoming Magic: The Gathering Secret Lair card drops in partnership with Riot Games. The collaboration celebrates the upcoming release of Riot Games’ new Netflix series Arcane, a prequel to the League of Legends game. Available for streaming on Netflix now, Arcane, which took six years to make the first season of, follows two sisters pitted against one another as they fight on opposite sides of a dystopian war. The game developer is currently working on the second season of the animated series, Riot CEO Nicolo Laurent recently shared. While this coming season is expected to be made on a shorter timeline, it won’t be debuting in 2022. The limited-edition cards will drop in both foil and non-foil sets. A sneak peek of the cards given to fans de...

Dragon Ball‘s new asymmetrical survival game The Breakers will be launching its closed beta test soon. Just like other games in the genre, Dragon Ball: The Breakers pits one central villain known as the Raider against seven Survivors who will try to fight for their lives and ultimately escape from the mysterious dimensional plane they’re trapped in called a Temporal Seam. To get away, the Survivors will have to find the Super Time Machine while delaying the Raider’s onslaught through collecting different weapons, vehicles, and upgrades throughout the map. The longer it takes, the more powerful the villain becomes, and with each evolution, the Raider also gets to destroy a portion of the map, so the seven will definitely want to work quickly. For the Dragon Ball fans out there, yo...

Fortnite has unveiled the official teaser for its Chapter Two final event, dubbed “The End,” which is scheduled to take place on December 4 at 4 p.m. ET. “With The Convergence complete, The Cube Queen prepares her endgame for the Island and nothing will ever be the same,” Epic Games wrote in a blog post. “Grab your weapons and fight the ultimate destroyer of all reality.” “The End” will be a one-time-only, in-game event that supports parties of up to 16 players queued together. Ahead of the event, players should take steps to record and archive their experiences in Chapter Two as replays will not be available. Additionally, players will be unable to edit their settings once the event commences. Players will want to complete any remaining Quests and unlock any remaining rewards before ...

As part of Xbox‘s ongoing 20th-anniversary celebration, Microsoft has unveiled an all-new virtual museum celebrating the consoles’ history as well as individual players’ personal experiences with the gaming company’s many titles. Users will be able to roam around inside the digital museum, where they will see other Xbox players interacting with several virtual exhibits that map out the advancements of the original Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One and the latest Xbox Series X / S consoles. At each touchstone, the company has included an associated video surrounding the given milestone. While the museum mostly lauds the company’s many successes, there are certain exhibits dedicated to Xbox’s infamous mistakes, including the brand’s Xbox 360 red ring of death and Microsoft’s attempt to buy Ninte...

If you’ve had your Game Boy Advance for two decades now and you’ve exhausted all the games you can play, YouTube hacker Rodrigo Alfonso is here to help you breathe new life into the classic handheld. As seen in a series of videos Alfonso has uploaded, the tinkerer managed to get original PlayStation games to run on the little device using a custom cartridge that carries a Raspberry Pi 3 mini-computer working in tandem with the RetroPie emulator. Essentially, the game runs on a separate system that’s connected to the Game Boy and streams both your control inputs as well as the video via the handheld’s Link Port which was previously used for local multiplayer connections. As Engadget points out, you won’t get bi-directional transfer speeds of more than 1.6Mbps, although even within thos...

Epic Games has bought the game developer behind Rock Band and Guitar Hero, Harmonix. The two companies announced the acquisition separately. Harmonix’s team will be collaborating with Epic to create “musical journeys and gameplay” for Fortnite, per its announcement. The studio noted that it still plans to move forward with Rock Band releases slated for 2022 and that it will continue to support its older games. Epic attributed the acquisition to needing Harmonix’s expertise on music creation and distribution as it works on building out the metaverse. “Harmonix has always aspired to create the world’s most beloved interactive music experiences, and by joining Epic we will be able to do this at scale,” said Alex Rigopulos, Co-Founder and Chairman at Harmonix. “Together we will push the creati...

Before Xbox was created, Microsoft tried to acquire Nintendo. In celebration of the popular console’s 20th-anniversary, the tech and gaming giant has created a virtual museum for fans to look back on some of the most special moments of its history. Embedded within that treasure trove is a letter revealing that Microsoft actually tried to acquire Nintendo back in 1999 before it developed its own Xbox console. While the letter itself is largely blocked by a big chunk of text, you can still gather a few details from it. Microsoft ultimately met with Nintendo’s president at the time, Hiroshi Yamauchi, along with the legendary game designer Genyo Takeda, and vowed to “make Dolphin the best video game [console],” also eventually known as the GameCube. “Steve [Ballmer, Microsoft’s former CEO] mad...

Mediatonic is just about to launch season six of Fall Guys, and as you’d expect there’s a whole roster of new content to come, including a special costume from Ghost of Tsushima. Launching November 30, the new season of the popular platformer will feature not just one but two outfits themed after Jin Sakai from Ghost of Tsushima, as well as a Sackboy skin from the beloved LittleBigPlanet spin-off. Of course, there’ll also be a whole series of new obstacles and challenges for you and your friends to face, including vacuum tubes, a round version of the seesaw, a cannon shooting out water balloons, a platform that flips vertically at regular intervals, and trapezes to swing from. Riding off the new cross-play feature, Fall Guys will also be receiving cross-progression...

Despite launching less than a week ago, Battlefield 2042 has quickly become one of the worst-rated games on Steam, amassing almost 30,000 negative reviews in the span of just days. Now, hearing player feedback, EA and DICE have promised to bring a series of fixes to the game through two major updates coming in the near future. Scheduled for tomorrow, the second update to the game will introduce a series of important tweaks to existing gameplay. A new respawn protection system will fix the bug where downed players have stayed in that state for too long, while revives have been optimized so you won’t suffer from being too close to walls or objects. Balancing mechanisms will be introduced for both the LCAA Hovercraft as well as the MD540 Nightbird, and UAV-1 will also be adjusted in Port...

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