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The Big House, a yearly Super Smash Bros. tournament, will be providing its competitors with therapy dogs this year to help them with the stresses of tournament play that can occur before, during and after games. Among Smash Bros. competitions, The Big House is considered a major tournament due to its relatively large prize pool and the high number of top-level players that compete. This will be the first Big House to feature Super Smash Bros....

Sniper Elite 4 will be getting support for the PS4 Pro, and DirectX 12 on the PC, when it launches later this month. According to the developer Rebellion PS4 Pro users will be offered ‘a number of technical improvements’, including the following: Enhanced frame rate Increased draw distances Increased geometry level of detail Improved lighting and shadows fidelity Increased image quality of reflections Faster loading times Chris Kinglsey, CTO and co-founder at Rebellion, said ‘We’ve worked really hard to make Sniper Elite 4 our biggest and best game ever, and now the power of PlayStation 4 Pro, and DirectX 12 on PC, means we can take things even further,’ adding ‘We’re turning everything up to 12!...

Handheld beat-em-up SNK vs. Capcom: The Match of the Millennium is heading to the Nintendo Switch, SNK has announced. As spotted by Nintendo Life, the game was first uncovered on the South Korean ratings board last month, but was formally announced by the SNK Twitter account last night. The game originally launched in 1999 for the NeoGeo Pocket Colour, and features eighteen fighters from both studios’ back catalogues, including Street Fighter, Darkstalkers, Samurai Shodown and The King of Fighters to name a few....

Key Points Physicists and inventors started experimenting with photovoltaic energy as early as the 1830s.It wasn’t until the 1990s that solar was used beyond business and began going into residential areas.Solar Power is the only truly smart and sustainable energy source for charging EVs. As of 2021, renewable energy sources accounted for 20% of US electricity generation. While this is far from the country’s goal of total renewable energy by 2050, it does suggest a committed effort to develop the technology....

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is now live. While the game has released to mostly positive reviews, that doesn’t mean that everyone is happy with this year’s iteration of the FPS franchise. In fact, some fans are pretty frustrated with Modern Warfare’s maps, with a variety of complaints beginning to circulate online about the new game’s level designs. One of the primary complaints so far have been about the size of the maps themselves, with some fans believing that it feels closer to Battlefield than the traditional Call of Duty experience....

A video of the Nintendo Switch setup process and menu system has been posted on YouTube, some two weeks before the console launches worldwide on March 3. The video was posted by NeoGAF member hiphoptherobot, who says he got lucky as the store he ordered from made a mistake in sending the Switch two weeks early. “It isn’t like I grabbed it off the back of a truck or anything, I just happened to get lucky because unnamed store decided to ship early for whatever reason,” he wrote....

When it rains it pour, at least if you’re Sony these days. Everyone has heard by now of the various hacks that both PSN and SOE suffered over the past month, and while the PlayStation manufacturer has been working around the clock to get PS3 owners back online, the hackers haven’t been resting. According to an online security firm, Sony’s own server has once again been infiltrated, and is currently being used to host a phishing site targeting an Italian credit card company....

Not yet subscribed to PlayStation Plus? The now is as good of a time as any, as format holder Sony is knocking 25 percent off the asking price of a 12-month membership for its flagship online service. The limited-time deal, which is running for three weeks, means you’ll only be paying £37.49 for a year’s subscription to PS Plus instead of the usual £49.99 annual fee. It’s worth noting that your membership will automatically renew after the year’s up unless you turn off auto-renewal, so keep that in mind....

Following reports earlier this week that Microsoft is considering introducing ads to free-to-play games on Xbox, a new report has surfaced claiming Sony has been working on its own plan to do the same with its PlayStation games. As reported by Business Insider (paywall), which cites three people involved with Sony plans as its sources, the company is currently investigating ways to encourage developers to continue making free-to-play games - said to have soared in popularity during the pandemic - by providing new ways to monetise them....

Wrestling duo The Young Bucks seem to have confirmed that alternative wrestling brand All Elite Wrestling might be getting its own videogame. The comments came at the end of an interview with Chris Van Vliet on his YouTube channel, which we’ve embedded below (the relevant comments come at 36:51) – when asked the question ‘Is there any talk on making an AEW videogame?’ Both Nick and Matt Jackson responded with a simple ‘Yes’ and added ‘We want to have a little bit of everything....

Stop me if you’ve heard this one. The world is in danger and only a mystical four-legged canid can clear nature from corruption and make things right. Spirit of the North definitely shouldn’t be confused with Okami though, nor should it be accused of ripping it off. But I couldn’t help but be reminded of Capcom’s Zelda-like throughout my time playing. While it doesn’t do much new and isn’t as satisfying as I was hoping, fans of peaceful, nature-centric puzzle games might find enough reason to give the game a try....

Splatoon, the squid-based shooter for Wii U, has sold over one million units worldwide, Nintendo has announced. More than 230,000 physical and digital units have sold across Europe, more than 368,000 in Japan, and more than 476,000 sold in the Americas. 20,000 units sold in Australia. “Since Splatoon launched on 29th May, it has been great to see so many players competing in online matches,” said Nintendo of Europe President Satoru Shibata....

This article contains major Split ending spoilers. As sure as the sun will rise and America’s new commander-in-chief will tweet, inevitably an M. Night Shyamalan movie will have an ending that twists, bends, and contorts its narrative into unexpected shapes—often while dividing audiences in the process. Shyamalan returned to form with 2015’s The Visit, but in spite of Split being even more straightforward in its narrative than its direct predecessor, its multiple third act developments, complete with one doozy of a ‘post-credit’ scene, is sure to leave plenty of folks scratching their heads....

Regardless of what people think of the most recent game of the franchise, the Final Fantasy series has been the dominant player in the role playing genre for the past twenty years. The level of quality Square Enix pumps into their games is top notch and the story telling is some of the best in gaming. One thing that stands out about each game is how it’s never a continuation of the story that came before....

We now have a little more insight into Square Enix’s upcoming mech survival-action shooter, Left Alive. Yesterday, two new cinematic trailers were posted to the game’s YouTube page, accompanied by the announcement of its release date of March 9, 2019. As of current, the game will be available for the PlayStation 4 and PC via Steam. In Left Alive, players will take control of three protagonists fighting for survival in the war-torn nation of Novo Slava; a tiny nation within the world-at-war conflict in the year 2127....

A listing for a mysterious Star Wars: Project Maverick has apparently appeared on the European PlayStation Store. (via VideoGamesChronicle) The listing was apparently unearthed by Twitter account PSN releases, which tracks new additions to the PlayStation Store, with the above official looking image attached. It follows from reports a couple of weeks ago that EA were working on two other Star Wars projects, including a sequel to Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order....

Let’s face it, the main reason for wanting VR to be a success is so we can all hold a virtual lightsaber and wield cool Force powers. Sadly the imminent VR mission for Star Wars Battlefront won’t feature lightsabers, but does offer the next best thing. As the title of the free DLC suggests, Star Wars Battlefront Rogue One: X-Wing VR Mission for PlayStation VR puts PlayStation VR users in control of their very own X-Wing as they jump through hyperspace to carry out an important mission for the Rebellion....

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, the upcoming sequel to Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, may launch in early 2023. That is according to Twitter account PlayStation Game Size (via Eurogamer), which, predictably, lets people know the file sizes of games on PlayStation. The account said that, on the PlayStation Network internal database, there was a listing. And that this listing noted that the game would be out “Early March 2023.” The listing on the game’s PlayStation store page now says, “date to be determined,” so there you go....

State of Decay 3 was announced at Microsft’s July Showcase, with a snowbound trailer featuring a zombified deer. The game looks cold, desolate, and bleak—all things you may expect from a zombie apocalypse. Check out the trailer: The game is described as “the next evolution in State of Decay,” and, true enough, it looks like a leap forward for the series—albeit in gameplay-free, pre-rendered form, but the mood feels different....

Street Fighter’s back in a big way this June with the launch of the legendary fighting series’ sixth numbered instalment, but it turns Capcom has more fisticuffs in store: it’s now now revealed Street Fighter: Duel, a “casual” free-to-play RPG heading to iOS and Android in February. Street Fighter: Duel, a collaboration between Capcom and Crunchyroll Games, features an “original story” in which players take on Seth and the Shadaloo’s army of mech clones using a three-strong team assembled from over 40 possible familiar faces....