Breaking the colorful world of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings intoMagic: the Gathering’s color pie wasn’t particularly difficult, but that still left a number of tools, weapons, and stale bread to categorize. Luckily, Magic is just as colorful even when it doesn’t apply any colors, and Tales of Middle-earth will be no exception. Related:Magic: The Gathering – The Best Horses With the entire card list of Tales of Middle-earth revealed, we’ve been able to scour the set for the best colorless cards, including artifacts and lands....

Nearly 500Star Wars Jedi: Survivorplayers havesomehowbeen killed by Rick the Door Technician, everyone’s favourite joke boss that can be taken down in just one hit. One of the most surprising things about Jedi: Survivor when compared toJedi: Fallen Orderis how much humour there is. Cal’s second adventure might have a darker tone overall, but there are lots of in-jokes and references to both the first game and the wider Star Wars universe, from Glup Shitto toCal’s weird love of ponchos....

Despite sharing a name, there aren’t many similarities to be found between the Spanish Inquisition, and theInquisitioninDragon Age. Sure enough, they are both religious organisations that aim to uphold the faith and root out perceived “evil”, but Dragon Age’s definition of evil is less racist, xenophobic, and torturous, and more focused on killing the literal demons that are falling out of the sky. Needless to say, it’s hard to confuse the two....

A couple of months after the last trailer,we now have another look at the upcomingSilent Hill: Ascension. Shown exclusively toSan Diego Comic-Conattendees, this latest trailer serves to hammer home the overall tone of the upcoming interactive narrative game. But despite being the firstSilent Hillgame in over a decade, fans aren’t impressed, with the new trailer leaving them more concerned than hyped. This comes as footage from the Comic-Con trailer is shared online, letting everyone get a better look at what this Silent Hill revival will look like....

Payday 3 finally has a release date, launching on September 21, and it’s even heading to Xbox Game Pass at no extra cost. Developer Starbreeze Studios finally pulled back the curtain to show us the long-awaited sequel to the immensely popular Payday 2. As you’d expect, there’s a lot of frantic gunplay, stealth, and co-op action as squads band together to pull off elaborate heists. Word of warning, though, if Payday 2 is anything to go by, an all-out gunfight with a neverending horde of cops isn’t the best way to go....

SonyCEO Kenichiro Yoshida isn’t convinced that cloud gaming is ready for mass industry adoption, citing technical issues. While making it clear thatPlayStationviews it as an “amazing business model,” ongoing latency concerns make Yoshida less eager to pursue the technology at this point in time - a very different approach thanXboxis taking. Unlike others, who are more optimistic when it comes to cloud gaming, Yoshida says that getting it running at a level that gamers are satisfied with is “very tricky”, particularly due to how demand fluctuates throughout the day....

Redfall’slaunch has been disastrous. Not only did it release toan overwhelming number of negative reviews on Steam, but it’s alsothe lowest-rated game that developer Arkane Studios has ever made. you may’t scroll down social media for two minutes without someone making fun of the game’sshockingly bad AIor fans angry at thebaffling lack of online matchmaking, and Arkane will likely want to ride out the storm and take the hard lessons it’s learned into it’s next project as quickly as possible....

Mortal Kombathype is pretty high right now asmore of the next game in the series was shown off at Summer Game Fest. Now feels like a good time to remind all of those eagerly awaitingMortal Kombat 1’s arrival that there’s a new movie in the works as well, and it appears to have just cast a very fitting actor for the role of Shao Khan. According toMattMcmuscles, whose Twitter handle alone suggests they’d be the go-to person on this sort of thing, bodybuilder-turned-actor Martyn Ford has been deemed the right man for the job....

Skullgirls players flipped out last weekwhen an update removed panty shots, sexualisation of a minor, and Nazi iconography. And in the wake of that update, thousands of fans have flocked to the Steam page to review bomb 2nd Encore, dragging its score down to “Mostly Negative”. “The game has been out for years and [the] updates are slow,” Mr. Serious posted. “In spite of that, they literally made an update to remove everything they deemed offensive, without even any options to keep or change the original art....

Since the last threeAssassin’s Creedgames are gigantic RPGs with equally as expansive maps, there’s understandable anxiety when Ubisoft announces a new RPG–will it be an unfathomable time sink of hundreds of hours? WithStar Wars Outlaws, Ubisoft says no. Speaking toIGNat San Diego Comic-Con, creative director Julian Gerighty addressed worries that we’d have another Valhalla on our hands, which many criticised for its enormous but uninteresting map, usually with repetitive objectives or empty stretches of land separating objectives A and B....

These days, the biggestStar Warsvillains are angry YouTubers. Zing! Gottem! But across Star Wars’ history, it hasn’t been packed with villains. Even though Darth Vader is the character we most deeply associate with George Lucas’ space western ahead of Luke Skywalker or Han Solo, he’s almost too good, and Star Wars has relied on him too often rather than building up new characters. At first glance, it doesn’t seem like it has the deep bench for Villainous the way Marvel and Disney do (after all, the Sith’s whole thing is there can only be two of them), but I recently tried out the latest expansion pack for Star Wars Villainous, Scum And Villainy, and it’s clear that Star Wars’ great baddies run deeper than just Vader....

The hype of theSteam Deckgrows as more games become verified. Whilethe more popular genresof action-adventure and FPS, strategy games deserve some love, too. The genre is diverse, with indies and AAA games to satisfy anyone’s taste buds. Related:Best Action Games On The Steam Deck Steam makes it easy to browse what will work great on this platform, even by genre. Strategy games that are marked with that certifiable green checkmark touch every corner that the genre offers....

Valvehas responded toNintendo’s latest piracy drama, making it clear it wants to stay out of the situation entirely. This comes after Nintendo put legal pressure on the Dolphin emulator,ahead of its planned release on Steam. Now, it turns out that Valve - well aware of Nintendo’s militant attitude against anyone emulating its games - actually wrote to the company to give it a heads-up about Dolphin’s Steam launch. In response to Nintendo’s objections, Valve blocked the release, wanting to stay far away from the ensuing legal drama....