Latest from Al McCarthy
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New This Week in Video Games
The long awaited return of Tekken 7 highlights this week’s big game releases, but this week is another that’s chocked full of choices. For virtual reality enthusiasts and Trekkies, Star Trek: Bridge Crew is coming to PlayStation VR, Oculus, and Vive and lets you take…..
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Overwatch Loot Box Chances For Rare Event Items Being Investigated by Blizzard
The Overwatch One Year Anniversary Event is underway and with it the opportunity to earn loot boxes that contain rare event items. This isn’t the first event of this sort that Blizzard has had for the game, but the one year anniversary event has some…..
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Hitman Season 2 Looking More Likely as Square Enix Searches for Investors
When the first season of Hitman concluded it seemed like a certainty that a second season would arrive. IO Interactive’s latests efforts with the Hitman series are not only their best to date, but most ambitious in the delivery structure of the content. When it…..
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Pokemon Go: Bots and Hacks Have New Anti-Cheat Protection to Deal With
The Pokemon GO developers are continuing to fight back against cheaters, hackers, and bots with their latest updaes for the game. It appears that Niantic is doing this in a number of new ways, one which includes shadowbanning bots. In a collection of posts on…..
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Destiny 2 Servers Aren’t Dedicated or P2P
The Destiny 2 reveal event is behind us and a lot of questions were answered about the game. However, one of the lingering questions about Destiny 2 remained centered around its servers. The news coming out of the event was that the game would not…..
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Injustice 2 How to Turn Off Gear in Online Versus Player Match
Gear is one of the big new features of NetherRealm’s Injustice 2, but if you want to level the playing field and turn off the stat buffs that gear provides in the game you’ll need to follow some simple instructions. For an Online Player Match…..
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PUBG What is Zeroing Distance
Whether you’re a hardened PUBG player or a rookie, one of the most challenging things to master is zeroing distance for different weapons. When using a scope in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, you’ll see on the screen a zeroing distance…. so what is zeroing distance and how…..
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Nintendo Switch Shortages Could Continue All Year Long
The Nintendo Switch has been hard to come by. Whether you’re looking at online or brick and mortar retailers, the console is always sold out. Demand for the console is still out there and will likely continue to increase if Nintendo keeps popping out games…..
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WWE 2K18 Will Arrive This Fall
Alongside a bevy of sales figures and one high profile delay, Take Two Interactive also revealed that they’re not quite ready to give up on the WWE series just yet. In fact, WWE 2K18 will arrive this fall, according to the financial report from the…..
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Red Dead Redemption 2 Delay: Reasons This is Good For Fans
The first reaction to the delay of a highly anticipated game is almost always negative. In the case of Red Dead Redemption 2, we’ve been waiting so long for any news on the project that for this to be first thing we’ve heard since the…..
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Tekken 7 PC Requirements Set
Tekken 7 is due out at the beginning of June for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. For those wondering what the PC requirements are going to be for the fighting game, they’ve been revealed via Steam. Here’s what you’ll need to play Tekken 7…..
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LawBreakers Will Not Be Pay to Win, Heading to Consoles
LawBreakers has been announced for the PlayStation 4. While it was known that the game would be coming to PC for quite some time, today’s announcement from Boss Key Productions reveals that PlayStation owners will get a chance to play the hero shooter as well. In…..
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Why is Ubisoft Teasing Us With Splinter Cell?
Splinter Cell is a series that hasn’t been heard from in a few years, but that makes now just about the time we could start hearing about Sam Fisher’s next adventure. Like the other recent Ubisoft rumors that eventually turned true (Far Cry 5) this one…..
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Destiny 2 Features Four New Worlds: Earth, Titan, Nessus and IO
Destiny 2 will feature four new worlds for players to explore. In today’s Destiny 2 reveal event Bungie revealed the new destinations that players will fighting in. The four new destinations include the European Dead Zone, which Bungie describes as the largest zone they’ve…..
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Destiny 2 Raids and Nightfall Will Have Matchmaking… Sort of
Raids, Nightfall Events, and Trials will be available to all players in Destiny 2 through matchmaking. During the reveal event, Bungie explained that it was a miracle that some of the tasks in Destiny were completed, which included the Raids and Nightfall Strikes. For Destiny…..
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Life is Strange 2 Announced
Life is Strange is getting a sequel. The original team behind the game at DONTNOD are working on a new Life is Strange game. A post on the Square Enix blog outlines all the details that we know about what we’ll go on calling “Life…..
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Scalebound Could Be Back in Play for Xbox Release
Scalebound could very well be a game that’s back in play for Microsoft and the Xbox One if new rumors hold true. Despite a recent cancellation of the project, it appears that Microsoft has renewed the rights to this game per a trademark extension. One…..
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Overwatch Anniversary Event Will Feature New Arena Maps
The upcoming Overwatch Anniversary event that’s scheduled to take place between May 23 and June 12 is starting to take form. It appears that as part of this celebration, Blizzard will be releasing three new Arena maps and have begun to tease the new content……
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Destiny 2 Gameplay Live Stream Where to Watch
Destiny 2 Gameplay will finally be revealed in just a few short hours and you can watch it right here. We also have a man on the ground at the event, so following the reveal we’ll have some gameplay of Destiny 2 on PS4 and PC on our…..
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Splatoon 2 Single Player Revealed For Nintendo Switch
New footage of Splatoon 2 for Nintendo Switch was recently revealed by Nintendo and it offers players a glimpse at single player portion of the game. One of the Squid Sisters, Callie, has gone missing in the game and you must find her. You’ll team up…..
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Infinite Warfare DLC 2 Continuum Now Available on Xbox One and PC
Infinite Warfare DLC 2 is now available on Xbox One and PC after a month’s long wait while the content was on PlayStation 4 exclusively. This second installment of DLC includes a new Zombies mode in “Shaolin Shuffle,” as well as four new competitive multiplayer…..
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New ARMS Characters Leaked Ahead of Nintendo Direct
There is a Nintendo Direct scheduled for later today that was likely planned to give Nintendo Switch owners more information about ARMS. We’ve seen a few ARMS characters in the upcoming fighter from Nintendo but apparently an embargo has been broken that has leaked four new ones for…..
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PUBG Leaderboard Wipe Coming and Monthly Update on May 25th
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has their updates slated in two tiers. Since March we’ve seen weekly updates, which are for fixing critical bugs and improving the anti-cheat systems for the game. They also are doing monthly updates, which are for client improvements, server performance, and new content……
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Where is Xur in Destiny This Week?
Each weekend in Destiny, Xur, Agent of the Nine makes an appearance in the Tower to dole out exotic weapons and engrams to Guardians. He’s a one stop shop for the rarest exotics in Destiny, so it’s no surprise that players await his weekly arrival…..
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NBA Playgrounds Guide to Farming Gold Card Packs for Legendary Players
NBA Playgrounds is now out on all platforms and the race is on to build the best possible roster. The problem is, NBA Playgrounds is a little bit stingey with the card packs, especially the gold ones that contain Legendary players in them. So first…..