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This True Detective review contains spoilers. True Detective: Season 3 Episode 1 “Yeah, of course I remember,” retired Arkansas state detective Wayne Hays (Mahershala Ali) says at the very beginning of True Detective season 3 episode 1, “The Great War and Modern Memory.” He is giving a deposition, dated May 12, 1990, on a case from a decade prior to that. It was a full moon on Friday, November 7, 1980, the day Steve McQueen died....

Two men have fallen 75 feet off a cliff near San Diego whilst playing Pokemon GO, reports KSWB. Neither man is believed to have sustained any serious injuries. It’s not known which pocket monster the pair were tracking when they fell. Pokemon GO finally launched in the UK yesterday and continues to propel Nintendo’s market value upward, having gained almost $15 billion in just one week. Game maker Niantic has said it intends to roll out GO to 200 markets “soon”....

Ever since its launch earlier this month, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint has seen its fair share of troubles. The game came with many performance issues and glitches, bad word of mouth, and poor sales. As a result, Ubisoft deemed it a failure while reporting its financial numbers last week. But it looks like the developers are listening to the complaints and vowing to do something about it. In a new post on the Ubisoft blog page, the developer discussed “Moving Forward,” detailing how it plans to fix the game....

UPDATE 2 – 15:35: Yep, the announcement appears to be for a student program called CODEX, a “new Ubisoft Montreal program to support the next generation and student retention in Quebec”. Maybe they’ll be the ones making Watch Dogs 2? Still, if you’re interested, the developer has much more detail about the program up on its website. UPDATE – 15:27: Judging by a tweet posted by Ubisoft Montreal yesterday, it’s possible that the developer may be referencing a scheme intended for students....

Uncharted 4’s launch in 2016 graced the PS4 with arguably its best-looking game, and now it’s back again for PS5 in a remastered compilation called the Uncharted Legacy of Thieves Collection. Naturally, the performance has been boosted for current generation hardware, offering players the chance to switch between different modes for differing levels of fidelity. Here’s the full overview: Fidelity Mode – For those of you who have a 4K display and want super sharp resolution above all else to enjoy the stunning environments and details the Uncharted series is known for, select Fidelity Mode and play in native 4K resolution with a 30fps target framerate....

PQube has announced that it’ll be publishing the Arc System Works and French Bread 2D fighting game Under Night In-Birth EXE: Late[st] in Europe in late 2017. It’ll be coming to the PlayStation family of consoles, providing one of the increasingly rare opportunities for PS Vita users to charge their console. As an arcade release originally, Under Night In-Birth EXE: Late[st] comes to console with a bevy of new features, including four new characters named Phonon, Mika, Enkidu and Wagner joining the fight roster....

Untitled Goose Game has surpassed over one million copies sold in only three months, as revealed by publisher Panic (via MCV Develop). Untitled Goose Game soared to the number one spot on the Australian Nintendo Switch charts only days after its launch in September 2019, and the question of a PlayStation 4 or Xbox One port was posed. House House couldn’t possibly say, but PlayStation and Xbox could, revealing that the wreck ‘em up would come to the respective platforms in mid-December of last year....

Your Blood Pool in V Rising is, essentially, a second health bar, as it represents how much blood is left in your character’s body. It will get depleted over time, especially when you use abilities (i.e., Blood Mend), when you take damage, or when you simply need to slake your thirst. By feeding on your enemies, you’ll be able to replenish your Blood Pool. But, there are also some adverse effects to consider....

In Valheim, your main aim besides killing Odin’s enemies is to survive, tame, and flourish in its environment. You need to hunt, cook, eat, kill, sail, rest and sleep, all like a true lone Viking warrior. And if you are new to the game, you might have collected many raw meat chunks from Deer, Boar, and Necks, but you have to convert them into cooked meat to consume them. So in this Food guide, let’s look at how to cook meat in Valheim....

Valorant or also initially known as “CS: Go killer” by some of the players rarely crashes or incurs bugs. But as an online first-person shooter game, it is obvious for a few errors or bugs to creep in. One of the errors restricts players to continue with their grind as they are prompted with a Critical system error. Due to this error, players are unable to launch the game or prompted during mid-game....

Valve has warned Steam Deck users against modding their devices, saying that doing so will significantly shorten the console’s lifespan. Users have been modding the console, in order to replace its SSD. Valve designer Lawrence Yang responded to an article (via Eurogamer) informing readers how to do this, saying: “Hi, please don’t do this. The charger IC gets very hot and nearby thermal pads should not be moved. In addition, most 2242 m....

Those who have checked social media within the past few weeks or so may have heard people discussing a game called Vampire Survivors. When it first came out on Steam last December, Vampire Survivors did not gain much attention from the gaming public. However, the game’s popularity began to surge dramatically this month. It amassed around 1,000 simultaneous players come January 6, and just today, it managed to reach a 24-hour peak of over 35,000 concurrent players....

Every two weeks you can catch VideoGamer’s Show Of The Week… which is called ‘Piss Morning’. Yup… The second episode is now live, which you can watch just by hitting the play button in the huge YouTube video below. This week the team head to the BAFTAs, go undercover to learn more about the great ‘resolution’ debate, and take a look at how Nintendo’s move to mobile could impact the company....

This Vikings review contains spoilers. Vikings Season 6 Episode 6 “If I didn’t worship you before, Lagertha, I worship you now.” We knew it was coming; we just didn’t know when. Quite predictably, Vikings does not tread lightly into the new year, and as Lagertha’s only son faces an uncertain future after a failed attempt to unify the kingdoms of Norway under his rule, Ragnar Lothbrok’s first wife and true love begins her journey to Valhalla and a long anticipated reunion with the man who put Kattegat on the map....

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is a fun game to enjoy solo or with friends, when you’re able to connect to its servers. But sometimes, you can’t and it returns an error code that really doesn’t quite explain the problem. Error code 2003 has been particularly frustrating for players, but it’s not the only code in Tertium. And you may be wondering how you can fix error code 9999 in Darktide. Unfortunately, there is no current direct fix....

Ubisoft is working on TV adaptations of its catalogue of franchises, including a Rabbids special, Hungry Shark, Watch Dogs, and Blood Dragon (via The Hollywood Reporter). Ubisoft has a film and television division that is creating and developing animated series inspired by its collection of video game franchises. ‘Every show has a different target that it’s aiming at and a different format,’ Ubisoft film and television managing director Helene Juguet told The Hollywood Reporter....

Japan has a big passion for Pokemon and many in the country absolutely love vehicles of all kinds, and the video you’ll see below is all about that. We start at Tokyo Haneda airport, with Pikachu and two kids taking part in a tour of Solaseed Air’s Pokemon Jet Boeing 737-800 featuring Exeggutor, showing the flight deck, the cabin, and the exterior. It’s quite cool, and I’ll even forgive them for pressing one of the landing light switches with the camera showing one of the beacon lights activating....

DICE and Electronic Arts have deployed an action-packed Battlefield V launch trailer for you to gawk at. Battlefield V isn’t actually out for a few more weeks in terms of a general release, but EA Access and Origin Access players can get in on the action a bit earlier. As for the trailer itself, well, it’s a Battlefield V launch trailer: There are explosions, people yelling, dogfights, and copious amounts of destruction....

In previous Diablo games, dying is punished, even more so in Hardcore mode. In D2, you lose your items, weapons and you have to do a corpse run to the dying spot to get them back. And in D3, you face loss in related to your equipment as its durability reduces and more. This brings us to the question – what happens when you die in Diablo Immortal? Thankfully, the death penalty isn’t severe in this game....

What Does Cybrarian Mean? A cybrarian is a librarian or research person who uses the Internet as a resource. One way to think about what a “cybrarian” is involves thinking about the next generation of librarians trying to integrate a whole host of digital technologies into a system that used to be nearly entirely on paper. Cybrarians can be associated with terms like digital exploration, content migration, e-learning and library modernization....