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Total War: Three Kingdoms – Mandate of Heaven is the latest expansion for Creative Assembly’s massive strategy game set during the Han Dynasty’s fall. The Yellow Turban Rebellion has engulfed all of China, and it’s up to you to weather the storm as the Han or aid the peasant rabble in establishing a new rule under a Divine Empire. Our Mandate of Heaven guides and features hub covers multiple factions to help you throughout the brewing conflict and the rest of your campaign....

NBA 2k19 joins the other 2K games in the franchise to have a custom created soundtrack. Recording artist Jay Z was the executive producer and contributed to the tracklist for NBA 2K13. This year, we see Travis Scott helping to curate the album’s sound. The NBA 2K team has also released a vignette discussing his involvement. In the video below, you can see NBA star LeBron James talk to Scott in regards to what it means for him to now participate as this year’s executive producer....

As the video games industry slowly inches its way into the crypto and NFT space, prolific voice actor Troy Baker has announced his partnership with Voiceverse NFT on Twitter. Best known for his role as Joel from The Last of Us, the Joker, and more, Baker stated that he would be lending his voice talents to the project, presumably giving users the ability to use his voice to create content on social media and gaming platforms....

Today Ubisoft announced its financial results for the first half of the fiscal year 2022-23 (related to the period ended on September 30, 2022). According to the press release, net bookings for the first half are “well above target” and up 3.6% year-on-year. It’s worth reminding that if you’re not familiar with the term “net bookings,” it’s very similar to sales. The results were driven by overperformance for both the Assassin’s Creed franchise and Rainbow Six Siege, which reached 85 million unique registered players....

Ubisoft is calling Steam’s business model “unrealistic” in 2019. For the past decade, if you wanted to play a PC game, you downloaded Steam. Valve’s digital storefront has a virtual monopoly on PC gaming, with almost every new game on the market being sold on Steam. At least until very recently. The Epic Games Store opened last December, and while it has attracted a ton of controversy, one good thing that Epic is doing is disrupting the PC gaming market–a market that was in desperate need of disruption....

Ubisoft isn’t taking The Division 2 to the PlayStation 5 nor the Xbox Series X because it wants to make the game “as good as possible” on the current generation of consoles (via PlayStation LifeStyle). “We are not looking at porting it to new platforms,” said associate creative director Yannick Banchereau in an interview with the Daily Star. “What I can tell you is that we are not making a specific version for those for those consoles, we are very much focused on just working on what we have now and making that as good as possible....

Project Dust is no longer dust in the wind. The upcoming game from Eric Chahi will now be known by its official title, From Dust. Although Chahi had been absent from the gaming world for some time before reemerging at the Games Developer’s Conference in 2005, his notable work on Another World makes us glad for his return and eager to see what his new title is all about. From Dust has been described as a combination of Populous and Black and White....

Ancients seeds in Valheim are used to summon bosses and are a special item. They can be hard to find especially if you are brand new to the game, but if you want to know how to get them in Valheim, read this guide. As we’ve covered how and where you can find and as well as what to do with them. Where To Find Ancient Seeds In Valheim To find Ancient seeds in Valheim, you will need to defeat certain enemies, open chests, or get them as rewards....

Valheim developer Iron Gate Studios has shared a first look at its early access Viking survival game running on Steam Deck - saying it’s hopping to get it “running smoothly” on Valve’s platform for launch - as part of a look ahead at its plans for 2022 and beyond. Writing in a post to mark Valheim’s first birthday - and a phenomenal 12 months for the game - Iron Gate said it “would of course like to have Valheim running smoothly on [Steam Deck] from the start, so that’s something we’re working on at the moment....

Valve has given the Steam stats page a huge makeover. Previously, Steam users who wanted to see real-time rankings for games would have to use the platform’s stats section. However, this has been replaced by the new Steam Charts page. Credit where due, this new page isn’t just more informative, it’s also super sleek. On the Steam Charts page, Steam users can find out all kinds of interesting information, including the top-selling games, the most played games, weekly top sellers, monthly top sellers, and the specific number of players that are playing each game....

The 2019 Valve Index vs. the 2020 HP Reverb G2: which is the gamer’s choice? VR gaming has grown in popularity and technology over the past few years. The introduction of virtual reality gaming has altered the imaginations of gaming enthusiasts by taking them in a new direction. It has also increased their interest in new gaming technologies in general. © KDdesignphoto/Shutterstock.com Having a VR headset is crucial to experiencing virtual reality technology at its peak....

While Vampire: the Masquerade Bloodlines 2 is going through some development shenanigans, fans still have more to look forward to. Vampire: the Masquerade – Swansong is a new entry in the series that’s currently in development. It doesn’t have a release date yet, but we do know that it’s an Epic Games Store exclusive. You can check out the Vampire the Masquerade Swansong cinematic trailer below, fresh from the PC Gaming Show....

Roblox Wacky Wizards has a number of potions that will help you throughout the game. Not only are they fun to make, but they will also prove to be vital given you are a wizard in the game. The tricky part is to get the ingredients required to craft these potions. One such item is chillies or pepper. These babies are a little tricky to find. So here in this guide, we will give you the exact location where you can get pepper in Roblox Wacky Wizards....

The developers at Activision Blizzard have been having a busy week. Following the release (and subsequent critical panning) of Warcraft III: Reforged, the company has been doing everything it can to claw back any possible good faith from customers. A brand new Warcraft III: Reforged patch is the next step in this process, as Blizzard attempts to repair a very broken game on the fly. While an updated version of the company’s classic strategy game Warcraft III had been hotly anticipated for some time, players quickly discovered that Reforged leaves a lot to be desired in terms of quality....

Roughly a week from today, Warzone 2 will launch and fans everywhere will finally be able to try out the new Call of Duty battle royale experience that’s been in the works for quite some time. From a brand new map to a variety of new features that will bring the gameplay a whole different level of depth, there’s a lot to look forward to in Warzone 2 and the anticipation has continued to climb to new heights....

Ubisoft has announced that UK grime artist Stormzy and the protagonist from the original Watch Dogs—Aiden Pearce—will both be coming to the upcoming Watch Dogs: Legion as playable characters. Both characters were revealed as part of last night’s Ubisoft Forward, with Stormzy set to appear with his own mission on the game’s launch day, while Aiden will get a full continuation of his story as post-launch standalone DLC which will be included in the game’s Season Pass....

After sticking to its original July 17 release date for months, and long after just about every other summer tentpole on the calendar moved or abandoned the season, Tenet has finally shifted. A little. But its small transition has had profound effects on the rest of the Warner Bros. blockbuster calendar, from Wonder Woman 1984 to The Matrix 4 moving all the way to 2022! Warner Bros. Pictures has moved Christopher Nolan’s time-bending espionage epic to July 31, two weeks later than initially planned, no doubt to give more theaters a chance to re-open and have audiences begin to feel more comfortable with the idea of returning to the movies even as the coronavirus pandemic stubbornly persists....

Pokemon Scarlet and Violet are the latest entries in the mainline series, and offer up a true open world experience with a fresh set of new starter Pokemon. While your starters will be with you for the longest time in your adventure, the most powerful ones will be the box legendaries in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, and we now have our first-look and a limited bit of information on both Koraidon and Miraidon....

The iconic and beloved Dragon Ball Z anime has been beautifully recreated for gamers in Bandai Namco’s newest action adventure RPG, Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot. Although DBZ: Kakarot is not without some glitches, fans have praised it for being an engaging, enjoyable, and accurate retelling of the Dragon Ball Z story. Many fans found themselves wondering before the game released whether it would feature elements and stories from Dragon Ball Super, but now have their answer....

What Does Byte Order Mark (BOM) Mean? The byte order mark (BOM) is a piece of information used to signify that a text file employs Unicode encoding, while also communicating the text stream’s endianness. The BOM is not interpreted as a logical part of the text stream itself, but is rather an invisible indicator at its head. The byte order mark’s Unicode character is U+FEFF. Techopedia Explains Byte Order Mark (BOM) Unicode is a group of standards developed in the 1980s and ’90s in order to integrate all of the major computer languages into one coding lexicon....