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Majima fans have been waiting years for the Mad Dog of Shimano to make his return as a main story character. The years of waiting around have finally come to an end. In Ryu Ga Gotoku (RGG) studio's newest title, Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, Majima shines again, and this time as the sole protagonist.
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hunters.Flesh and BloodThe creators of Flesh and Blood (https://www.ign.com/games/flesh-and-blood) are traditionalists; they designed their game to be played in person – hence, in “Flesh and Blood” – rather than an online format. The game is fantasy-themed, and you have a hero who falls into one of 11 classes: Assassin, Brute, Guardian, Illusionist, Mechanologist, Merchant, Ninja, Ranger, Runeblade, Warrior, or Wizard. You equip your hero, build a deck around them, and send them into battle with spells, blows, and counterblows at the ready.Kevin Wong is a contributing freelancer for IGN, specializing in LEGO and Card Games. His byline has appeared in numerous publications, including Complex, Engadget, Vice, Playboy, Gamespot, Popverse, and Kotaku. A pop culture aficionado, Kevin has written long-form features on a wide range of subjects, including movies and television, video games, professional wrestling, comics, and emerging tech. He lives in New York with his wife and son. Follow him on Twitter at @kevinjameswong.
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The Best Trading Card Games Worth Getting Into
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Today, card games are everywhere, but in 1993, the trading card game (TCG) genre was born with just one: Magic: The Gathering (https://www.ign.com/games/magic-the-gathering-trading-card-game), created by Richard Garfield. I became a fan a few years later, in 1996, during the release of the Fourth Edition core set.Once I got the hang of the game, I was hooked for nearly three years. The artwork drew me in, and the flavor text – often witty, dark, and sarcastic – kept me entertained, but what I loved most was playing. The tactile thrill of placing a card on the table, imagining myself as a powerful planeswalker commanding forces beyond mortal comprehension, was unbeatable.Though other trading card games existed back then, my loyalty to Magic: The Gathering consumed both my attention and my budget. Fast forward to today, and the landscape is even more crowded. The old titans of the genre are still thriving, while countless newer games vie for attention, each bringing something unique to the table. With that in mind, here are the 10 best trading and living card games to dive into in 2024 – games that are fun to play, boast active communities, and have the potential for long-term growth. Whatever you decide to try out and play, make sure you have a community to share it with: either a local one where you live or an online one that is supportive. The community surrounding the game is as important as the game itself.The Big ThreeThese are the established choices for anyone who's deciding on a trading card game.Magic: The GatheringThe original trading card playing experience, Magic: The Gathering established so many norms that we take for granted today. Plains, Swamps, Forests, Mountains, Islands – these were the lands you drew power from, to call angels, demons, zombies, orcs, goblins, and enchanted creatures to your side. The benefits of picking up Magic: The Gathering now, nearly 30 years into its run, are the same as the drawbacks: It's just so big at this point. There's a lot to explore and play with, but it can be intimidating and overwhelming to learn it from scratch. As was true back when I started playing, the best way to learn is not by reading the instruction booklet that comes with every starter deck, but by having a friend walk you through a match.You can check out our guide to all of the upcoming MTG releases coming in 2024 and beyond.Pokémon TCGStill popular after all these years, Pokemon TCG started in 1996. Its cards in America were originally published by Wizards of the Coast, the same company that published Magic: The Gathering. Pokemon's fan base has always been more collector-heavy than player-heavy, but this has been especially true in recent years, as the value of Pokemon cards (https://www.ign.com/articles/how-to-check-value-of-pokemon-cards) has continued to go up. (Most famously in 2021, Logan Paul paid $5.27 million (https://www.ign.com/articles/the-most-expensive-pokemon-cards) for a Grade 10 Pokemon Illustrator card, which he occasionally wears around his neck when he wrestles in WWE.) Beyond this, there's an appealing simplicity to Pokemon, in that your turn is largely your own; you aren't overlapping moves or playing over your opponent's turn, which makes things a lot more streamlined.You can check out our guide to all of the upcoming Pokemon TCG releases coming in 2024 and beyond.Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card GameRecognized in 2009 by Guinness as the highest-selling trading card game in the world, Yu-Gi-Oh! popularized chains as a gameplay mechanic, and it was considerably more chaotic than its predecessors. You're often countering and making significant moves during your opponent's turn in addition to your own, and on its highest levels, the victor can be determined on a starting hand and who goes first. Your enjoyment will largely depend on who you learn from, especially if you're coming into the game cold.The
Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom – Suthorn Ruins Dungeon Guide
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Raiding the Suthorn Ruins and solving every puzzle.
Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom – How To Beat Imposter Link | Suthorn Ruins Boss
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The first boss fight in Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom pits a defenseless princess against the Hero of Hyrule. The Imposter Link is an evil doppelganger with a sword and shield — he’s totally relentless, but there are tricks you can use to defeat the legendary warrior. Like everything in this weird twist on …
You can see the massive, sustained influx of pro-Black Myth: Wukong voters who pushed it to the top of the list, followed by a short but potent spike. That corresponds to the period where it fell back down.The fact that Black Myth’s vote total so quickly surpassed that of games that had been accruing votes for months before it was added to the list of games strongly suggests that someone exploited the system to allow them to vote only on one specific game – something the randomization of matches is intended to prevent. Likewise, that double-elimination bracket system means you should only be able to vote against a game twice in a run before it stops showing up, since it clearly wasn’t going to be your favorite, but that also seems to have been bypassed to achieve this volume of losses in such a short time. Unfortunately, since Face-Offs aren’t limited to logged-in users it’s not obvious which votes are real and which are fake, so we can’t simply delete the exact number of suspicious votes. However, in the interest of fairness, we’ve decided to remove all of the negative votes from the period that the Black Myth: Wukong community and our engineers have identified as the most likely to be fraudulent, during which the win percentage fell at what should’ve been an impossible rate – a total of 46,000 losses. As of this writing, that change moves Black Myth: Wukong back into the #1 position on the list, with a 76% win rate. It’s unfortunate to lose any valid votes that were caught up in the mix, but this is the best solution we have given the information available. Over the next few months we’ll keep an eye on this Face-Off to guard against other efforts to manipulate the results. This being the internet, there’s no realistic way to prevent someone who knows what they’re doing from playing dirty tricks on a anonymous online poll, but we’ve taken steps to at least mitigate their effectiveness going forward, and we hope to continue to improve Face-Offs in a lot of different ways to make them even more fun to engage with. I hope you continue to enjoy them!In the meantime, our What’s Your Game of the Year So Far? Face-Off continues: Yesterday I added The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (to both this Face-Off and our Zelda-specific (https://www.ign.com/faceoffs/the-legend-of-zelda-which-game-is-the-best) one), so if you’re playing and have an idea of where it belongs relative to other 2024 games, we’d love to have your vote. If you’re passionate about movies (https://www.ign.com/faceoffs/whats-your-movie-of-the-year-for-2024-so-far/results) or TV shows (https://www.ign.com/faceoffs/whats-your-tv-show-of-the-year-for-2024-so-far/results) this year, check out our Face-Offs for those as well. And share them with your friends – I’m trying to make these a thing.Dan Stapleton is IGN's Director of Reviews and self-proclaimed Chief Face-Officer. Follow him on Bluesky.
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played out, and the resulting ranking is a fascinating melding of thousands of different people’s opinions. Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth had held a steady lead most of the year, but Shadow of the Erdtree was nipping at its heels for months. (See? People wanted to vote for it.) When Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, Helldivers 2, Space Marine 2, Astro Bot, and Black Myth: Wukong, and other popular games came out, they shot up into the top half of the list and jockeyed for position. There were no hard rules (again, Face-Offs are a wild west territory for us!) but I mostly added games that either scored 8 or above on IGN or had proven themselves popular or at least interesting elsewhere. At the same time, I periodically pruned low-performing games from the bottom of the rankings that looked like they were never going to recover to make way for new entries and prevent the list of games from becoming unmanageably long – Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League didn’t make it, I’m afraid. Then, late last week, it dramatically blew up.Until recently, the GOTY So Far Face-Off wasn’t exactly lighting the world on fire in terms of traffic numbers (not a ton of people are looking for Game of the Year content in April). Still, it had been humming along nicely, racking up hundreds of thousands of votes, and I think there’s a lot of potential for it in the future. Then, late last week, it dramatically blew up: The Black Myth: Wukong fandom discovered the Face-Off page and, seeing that their favorite game was within striking distance of the top of the list, rallied around it. We saw a massive influx of traffic from Chinese and other Asian sources to that page, and over the weekend Black Myth’s win percentage went from a very respectable showing in the 60s all the way up to an absolutely astronomical 90.4%, blowing past Rebirth’s relatively meager 72%. We never saw that coming, and what had been a relatively stable list was upended so quickly our scheduled social media repromotion of a Playlist built to reflect the top games – as they had been – was caught flat-footed and caused major confusion because it hadn't been updated yet. Face-Offs are dynamic and react to the community; Playlists are not and must be manually updated. We’ve learned from this that the two probably should not mix!Aside from that wrinkle, this response to Face-Offs is exactly what I hoped would happen… but on an intensity level I hadn’t imagined. Our goal is for Face-Offs to be fun, and by golly, people were having an absolute blast with it – some were even livestreaming as they refreshed the page to see how high Black Myth could go! For the record, we don’t consider it cheating at all for fan communities to champion their game and support it by voting, and it’s actually encouraged for people to run through multiple times. (The double-bracket system we currently use means that a single run could possibly eliminate a #3 choice early on, and everything is not matched against everything, so more data gives a better picture of your preferences.) We were thrilled that so many Black Myth fans noticed the Face-Off and participated in force, and we’d love nothing more than for other fandoms to join in the fray. Friendly rivalries like that would be the best-case scenario for us, and we’d find out what other games those groups are into in the process by seeing how the rest of the list shook out. In the past few days we've gotten nearly twice as many votes on this Face-Off than it'd racked up in the previous six months.This response to Face-Offs is exactly what I hoped would happen… but on an intensity level I hadn’t imagined.But of course, this is the internet, and on the internet we know certain immutable truths. One is that online polling is not secure. Just about anything can be manipulated if someone puts their mind to it, especially if you’re not creating multiple layers of security and identity verification to lock it down. Face-Offs aren’t intended to be taken super seriously, so
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Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii – The First Preview
https://www.ign.com/articles/like-a-dragon-pirate-yakuza-in-hawaii-the-first-preview
Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii isn’t a turn-based RPG like Infinite Wealth, but instead an action beat-em-up like the original Yakuza games. A short tutorial primarily described Majima’s two fighting styles: Majima’s classic Mad Dog Style and the new, aptly pirate-themed Sea Dog Style.
The Nintendo Museum in Kyoto, Japan looks to be a celebration of one of the most influential and beloved video game companies in the world. The sprawling project encompasses all of Nintendo's history, from its humble beginnings as a toy and card game company to the video game behemoth we know today. The scope includes classics like the Nintendo and Game Boy and oddball experiments like the Virtual Boy, leading all the way to the modern state of the company. The company will open the museum to the public on October 2, but the distance may be daunting for many Nintendo fans, and right now tickets are only going out via a lottery system.So until you can make the pilgrimage yourself, check out the gallery below to get a closer look at the breadth of exhibits and experiences the Nintendo Museum has to offer. And be sure to read our in-depth impressions (https://www.gamespot.com/articles/my-visit-to-the-nintendo-museum-made-my-life-flash-before-my-eyes/1100-6526764/) for even more details on what it feels like to see Nintendo's history up close.
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My Visit To The Nintendo Museum Made My Life Flash Before My Eyes
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/my-visit-to-the-nintendo-museum-made-my-life-flash-before-my-eyes/1100-6526764/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f
More than any other game company, Nintendo loves to play with its history. Just look at how many times the NES library has reappeared across virtually every console era--remakes in Super Mario All-Stars, re-releases on Game Boy Advance, playable titles in Animal Crossing, the Wii Virtual Console, NES Remix on Wii U, and NES World Championships on Switch. Characters like Pauline from Donkey Kong can disappear in the mid-'80s and suddenly reappear decades later. And for a quarter of a century, the Super Smash Bros. series has essentially served as a digital museum of Nintendo's most iconic characters, worlds, and franchises. Given this fascination with its own history, it's surprising that it took this long for Nintendo to produce a physical museum. A week before its October 2 opening, I had a chance to spend two days at the Nintendo Museum in Kyoto. As a lifelong fan of the company who credits it with my early fascination with gaming, it was a tremendous and surprisingly personal experience that I won't forget.Nintendo's first-party titles have always been filled with a certain polish that can feel like magic at times, so it should serve as no surprise that the company's obsessive attention to detail translates to a physical space. As you enter the main building (well, after you pass the line of five Toads who sing if you bonk their heads around), you're ushered into a holding area before the escalator to the exhibit space. In this dimly lit room, silhouettes of various Nintendo consoles light up in sync with the sounds of their startup chimes. From there you step onto the escalator and are greeted with ambient console-menu music as you're ushered upstairs. The first visible element of the exhibit room is a scoreboard-style box hanging from the ceiling with screens on each side. It displays startup screens of various consoles such as the iconic GameCube intro. It's very cool to see the entrance to the museum replicate the feeling of turning on a Nintendo console, from the chime to the logo animation to the menu music.As you reach the top of the escalator, you suddenly emerge in the center of 360 degrees of Nintendo's history. It's almost overwhelming to go from a dark room and escalator to a panorama of sights and sounds from Nintendo. Game displays, massive controllers, and dozens of screens surrounded me as I entered the space, and I found myself randomly walking to the left to look at my first display. It was for the Nintendo DS, and I spent a couple of minutes taking in a wall of game boxes before I decided that I needed to have an attack plan for the exhibits or I was bound to miss something.Continue Reading at GameSpot (https://www.gamespot.com/articles/my-visit-to-the-nintendo-museum-made-my-life-flash-before-my-eyes/1100-6526764/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f/)
How Long Is The Legend Of Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom
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The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (https://www.gamespot.com/games/the-legend-of-zelda-echoes-of-wisdom/) has arrived, bringing Zelda's first starring role in a mainline entry to Nintendo Switch. This top-down Zelda experience isn't as chunky as its open-world counterparts, but it still has plenty to see, including both main story quests and side activities. Echoes of Wisdom marks another first for the series as well, marking the first game in the franchise to have a female director (https://www.gamespot.com/articles/the-legend-of-zelda-echoes-of-wisdom-features-franchises-first-female-director/1100-6526641/). Here's how long you can expect it to take to beat The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom.How long to beat The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of WisdomEchoes of Wisdom features an open-world map and its main story functions similarly to Tears of The Kingdom and Breath of the Wild in that you are given a few map markers to go to in your preferred order. While you can certainly complete these at your leisure, there aren't as many side activities to get lost doing, although there are definitely some.A typical playthrough for The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom will take between 20 to 25 hours, depending on how much exploring and side quests you do. That said, if you were to focus only on the main quests, you could likely finish as quickly as 15 hours, and finding everything there is to offer will take you upwards of 30 hours. In terms of main objectives, there are a total of seven main dungeons to complete, along with side activities and areas.Continue Reading at GameSpot (https://www.gamespot.com/articles/how-long-is-the-legend-of-zelda-echoes-of-wisdom/1100-6526753/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f/)
Marvel Legends HulkbusterGallery
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This is an enticing deal and is one of the cheapest options we've seen for more than doubling your PS5 storage in 2024. The S70 Blade boasts up to 7,4800 MB/s read speed on PC and 6,300 MB/s on PS5. To use it for PS5, you'll need to connect it to a heatsink, which doesn't come with this particular SSD--but you can grab one for $6 (https://www.amazon.com/GLOTRENDS-NVMe-Heatsink-M-2-2280/dp/B076YZMQR5?tag=gamespot-promos-20).It has been fully tested to run on the console, and it’s even backed by a five-year limited warranty. And with tons of great games arriving later this year, now is a great time to expand your storage capabilities without breaking the bank.If Amazon sells out, you can get the same SSD at Best Buy for $5 more, which is still a pretty great deal. Get 1TB SSD (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093DP3X4H?tag=gamespot-promos-20) Get 2TB SSD (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093DNV47J?tag=gamespot-promos-20) Get 4TB SSD (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B2FSKTHK?tag=gamespot-promos-20) Continue Reading at GameSpot (https://www.gamespot.com/articles/this-1tb-ps5-ssd-is-only-65-with-amazon-lightning-deal/1100-6526751/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f/)
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This 1TB PS5 SSD Is Only $65 With Amazon Lightning Deal
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Destiny 2's Ace Of Spades Nerf Gun Is A Delightful Way To Remember A Great Character
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/destiny-2s-ace-of-spades-nerf-gun-is-a-delightful-way-to-remember-a-great-character/1100-6526746/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f
A real-life Destiny-themed Nerf gun is nothing new, with Bungie having previously released a giant replica of the Gjallarhorn rocket launcher. But the upcoming Ace of Spades Nerf blaster feels decidedly different, both in terms of its usability and the fact that this particular gun choice resonates more deeply with the story of Destiny 2.Bungie recently sent me the Ace of Spades, which I've spent the last few days playing around with, much to the disdain and horror, respectively, of my two cats. Not having seen any dimensions listed for the blaster prior to it showing up at my door, I was shocked to open the shipping box: This thing is big. It's about 18 inches from the tip of the handle to the end of the barrel, which may not sound enormous for something you'd display on your shelf, but as a handgun you're actually going to hold and use, it's hard not to laugh at just how big it is when first seeing it. They don't call them hand cannons in Destiny for nothing, I guess.
Beat 'Em Up Combat Returns In Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza In Hawaii
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NewcomersThe seven TCGs below might not have the decades-long legacies of the Big Three, but they're making plenty of noise and are worth checking out.Digimon TCGNewly revamped for 2020, Digimon's main draw is its progression: Hatch an egg, have it undergo Digivolution (which allows you to improve upon your Digimon's stats), and move it to the Battle Area to attack your opponent. It is still a newer TCG game, relatively speaking, which means that it doesn't have the legacy baggage of the prior three. The community is notably welcoming and open to new innovations, and the metagame is diverse and still in the process of being defined.NetrunnerSet in a cyberpunk dystopia, Netrunner (https://nullsignal.games/), which pits hackers against a faceless corporate entity, has a long, complex history. The original physical card game came out in 1996, and it was revamped and released as Android: Netrunner in 2012. Today, it currently exists as an ongoing fan project. Non-profit game publisher Null Signal Games releases new starter and expansion sets, and the PDFs are all available on a pay-what-you-want basis. These new sets are also compatible with the prior Android: Netrunner sets, and everything, from the artwork to the new mechanics, feels legitimate and true to form.Disney LorcanaWhen Disney commits to something, they go full throttle. Disney Lorcana (https://www.ign.com/games/disney-lorcana), which draws from over 100 years of Disney animated history, takes full advantage of the nostalgia and sea of creative properties inherent in its brand. Instead of land, you summon with ink, and true to Disney's family-friendly image, you accumulate 20 points instead of decimating your opponent's life to win. There are currently over 600 different cards in print between the starter set and the two expansions. The newest expansion, Chapter 4: Ursula's Return, launched on May 31.Marvel Champions: The Card GameName recognition goes a long way. In Marvel Champions, select the specific Marvel superhero that you want to play. Then, team up with other players and work through different scenarios, in which you defeat villains and foil their schemes. The Core set starts you with five different selectable heroes: Iron Man, Black Panther, Spider-Man, Captain Marvel, and She-Hulk. Subsequent Expansion packs give you prebuilt decks that allow you to play as over 30 additional characters and face additional villains with different storylines. It's among one of our favorite Marvel card games (https://www.ign.com/articles/the-best-marvel-board-games) available.Arkham Horror: The Card Game Inspired by the 1981 horror RPG Call of Cthulhu (https://www.ign.com/games/call-of-cthulhu), Arkham Horror is a supernatural, Lovecraftian mystery game. It puts you in the shoes of an investigator, who must work through a creepy horror scenario and emerge with their body and sanity intact. You start by choosing an investigator: a Guardian, Seeker, Rogue, Mystic, Survivor, or Neutral, each of which has its specific strengths and weaknesses. Then, you investigate missing people, creepy cults, rumors of a lost ancient city, and more. It's all very evocative and tentacled. It's a great RPG card game (https://www.ign.com/articles/the-best-rpg-board-games) worth getting intoStar Wars UnlimitedStar Wars: Unlimited (https://www.ign.com/games/star-wars-unlimited) is a brand new card game, but the established pre-existing universe of Star Wars makes this an excellent place to start; its longevity is nearly guaranteed, given the franchise's popularity. You play as a leader of your respective faction – the starter set includes Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader. Then you wage war, sending out droids and troops or using Force powers until one base is destroyed. The current set, Spark of Rebellion, focuses largely on the events of the original trilogy. The most recent expansion set, Shadows of the Galaxy, focuses on the criminal underbelly of the galaxy, and features mercenaries and bounty
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NHL 25 Review in Progress
https://www.ign.com/articles/nhl-25-review
This doesn’t seem like the current-gen hockey game fans have waited for.
Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom – How To Beat Seismic Talus | Suthorn Ruins Boss
https://gameranx.com/features/id/510777/article/zelda-echoes-of-wisdom-how-to-beat-seismic-talus-suthorn-ruins-boss/
Take on the Seismic Talus to complete the Suthorn Ruins.
MW3 and Warzone: How to Turn Off Jump Scares
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Taking the frights out of The Haunting.
we don’t even require you to create an IGN account to participate – as we do with our traditional Community Game of the Year vote – because we want as many people to join in as possible. (We’d love it if you did create an account, though – it’ll save your progress on a run and your personal vote count if you’re signed in.)Another truth is that the more people pay attention to something, the more likely it is that a bad actor tries to ruin the fun. In this case, it appears that someone – probably fully aware of how closely this page was being watched – figured out a way to quickly dump tens of thousands of votes against Black Myth: Wukong into the system, dropping it back down into the high 60s in a matter of hours. If trolling the Black Myth: Wukong fanbase during a moment of triumph was the goal here, it was extremely effective. We’ve seen a lot of anger and accusations of altering the results leveled at us, which is disappointing because again, this was all supposed to be for fun.This was all supposed to be for fun.To be explicitly clear, no one at IGN tampered with the results of this Face-Off in any way during this period. We’ve spent the past few days investigating what happened, and how we can keep Face-Offs making people happy instead of mad going forward. Here’s what the voting activity looked like on September 21 through 24, by the hour, from the top regions where people were participating.
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Explaining – and Fixing – IGN's Face-Off Controversy
https://www.ign.com/articles/explaining-and-fixing-igns-face-off-controversy
Over the past few days you might’ve caught wind of some controversy stemming from IGN’s community game of the year Face-Off. It’s become a full-on drama, complete with literal ups and downs, shocking twists, and accusations of foul play flying. There’s also quite a bit of confusion, so to clear it up a bit I’m going to walk you through how we got here, and how we’re making it right.Early this year IGN rolled out a new version of our Face-Off tool, and it’s become a pet project of mine to use it to get our community to create ranked lists of games, movies, TV shows, and literally everything else that people have opinions about. It works by showing you two things and letting you pick whichever you think should win, whether that’s The Empire Strikes Back vs Attack of the Clones (https://www.ign.com/faceoffs/face-off-what-is-the-best-star-wars-movie-or-tv-show), or Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (2011) vs Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (2023) (https://www.ign.com/faceoffs/whats-the-best-call-of-duty-game-of-all-time). It then generates a list of your personal rankings, while also mashing your votes together with everybody else to create a community ranking. It’s far from perfect, and we hope to iterate on it so that it becomes a better experience that creates a more accurate personal list for you in fewer matches. Even so, it’s been a lot of fun to mess with and find interesting ways to use it – and to watch people agonize over tough choices between two things they love.On February 22, after a few big 2024 games had launched, I started the What’s Your Game of the Year So Far? Face-Off (https://www.ign.com/faceoffs/whats-your-game-of-the-year-2024-so-far) as an experiment to see how the running tally would look if we’re adding new games as they come out. Importantly, this was an informal test that asked a casual question about how people are feeling in the moment, and it was never presented as our official Game of the Year community vote (https://www.ign.com/articles/ign-community-awards-2023). We still plan to do that the old-fashioned way later this year, and it will be entirely separate from this. (To answer the frequently asked question of why Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree is on the list when it’s a DLC expansion and not a full new game: Because there are no rules and I wanted to see what would happen! I’ll put Starfield: Shattered Space on there next week, too.) This use case technically wasn’t what the tool was built for, but I wanted to see if it would work – and the results have been promising. This was an informal test that asked a casual question.How the list shakes out is proving to be very interesting because the community ranking is based on the win/loss ratio, rather than the sheer number of votes a game receives. That means a new entry added in November can outrank something added in May simply because it wins more often, as opposed to more times. For instance, something that’s chosen as the winner in 6,500 out of 10,000 matches will outrank another item that wins 60,000 out of 100,000 matches. (It’s very silly when you add something new and it’s #1 with a 100% win ratio for a brief moment, but that quickly evens out.) So, while the hot new thing might get a lot of wins shortly after it comes out, after the honeymoon period expires and people move on to other games its ranking might fall if it’s more of a flash in the pan than something that sticks with you for a long time, as truly great games do. Ideally, people would only vote on games that they’ve actually played and disqualify the rest (using the little X in the corner of each card) so they’re not voting against something they don’t have an informed opinion on, but realistically I know the overwhelming majority is not going to do that. This is purely a popularity contest.Even so, it’s been a treat to watch how things have
Walmart Drops $930 Off the 55" LG C4 OLED: The Best TV for Your PlayStation 5 Console
https://www.ign.com/articles/55-lg-c4-4k-oled-tv-deal
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Behold The Nintendo Museum In All Its Glory
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The Day Before Devs Seemingly Resurface and They're Asking for Your Money Again
https://www.ign.com/articles/the-day-before-devs-seemingly-resurface-and-theyre-asking-for-your-money-again
The Day Before studio Fntastic has seemingly resurfaced, with a website claiming to be the developers asking for a "second chance" (and your money).
The cool thing about this action figure is that it is designed to be in scale with the regular six-inch collectibles in the Marvel Legends line. On its own, it dwarfs those toys with a height of nine inches and it comes with cool extras like a removable helmet, a Tony Stark head, additional armor pieces, and an extra pair of punch-happy fists. This particular suit is based on the version designed by artist Adi Granov, which was featured on the cover of a 2006 issue of Iron Man.Continue Reading at GameSpot (https://www.gamespot.com/articles/marvel-legends-hulkbuster-deluxe-action-figure-can-now-be-added-to-your-collection/1100-6523657/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f/)
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Marvel Legends Hulkbuster Deluxe Action Figure Can Now Be Added To Your Collection
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/marvel-legends-hulkbuster-deluxe-action-figure-can-now-be-added-to-your-collection/1100-6523657/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f
The Marvel Legends action figure line expanded this month with a special deluxe edition of the iconic Hulkbuster. Originally slated for an October 1 release, the Hulkbuster 85th Anniversary Deluxe Action Figure (https://www.amazon.com/Marvel-Legends-Hulkbuster-Anniversary-Collectible/dp/B0CQJ3DZ6G?tag=gamespot-promos-20) arrived a bit early and is in stock at Amazon for $60. See at Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Marvel-Legends-Hulkbuster-Anniversary-Collectible/dp/B0CQJ3DZ6G?tag=gamespot-promos-20)
XPG Gammix S70 Blade PS5 SSD (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093DP3X4H?tag=gamespot-promos-20) $65 for 1TB | $118 for 2TB | $239 for 4TB (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093DP3X4H?tag=gamespot-promos-20) Get 1TB SSD (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093DP3X4H?tag=gamespot-promos-20) Get 2TB SSD (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093DNV47J?tag=gamespot-promos-20) Get 4TB SSD (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B2FSKTHK?tag=gamespot-promos-20) PS5 users who are running out of space on their SSD can pick up a pretty awesome Lightning Deal at Amazon right now. Gammix's highly rated XPG S70 Blade NVMe SSD (https://www.gamespot.com/) is available in its 1TB capacity for only $65 (was $90). If you want to future-proof your PS5 against increasing Call of Duty install sizes, you can snag the 2TB model (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093DNV47J?tag=gamespot-promos-20) for only $118 (was $210). Though overkill for most, the 4TB edition (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B2FSKTHK?tag=gamespot-promos-20) is up for grabs for $239 (was $299). XPG Gammix S70 Blade PS5 SSD (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093DP3X4H?tag=gamespot-promos-20) $65 for 1TB | $118 for 2TB | $239 for 4TB (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093DP3X4H?tag=gamespot-promos-20)
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The Ace of Spades makes a Nintendo Switch look tinyThat's not to say the size is a bad thing--quite the opposite. The scale doesn't feel far off what it's like to use the Ace of Spades in-game, and at least for me, this is ultimately destined to be displayed on a shelf in my office, so the larger size ensures it won't be dwarfed by what's around it. And despite being big, it's not so heavy as to be uncomfortable; it's got a decent heft to it that prevents it from feeling flimsy, though you won't mistake it for being anything but plastic.Continue Reading at GameSpot (https://www.gamespot.com/articles/destiny-2s-ace-of-spades-nerf-gun-is-a-delightful-way-to-remember-a-great-character/1100-6526746/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f/)
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Call Of Duty: Warzone Removes Several Popular Battle Royale Playlists
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/call-of-duty-warzone-removes-several-popular-battle-royale-playlists/1100-6526749/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f
Call of Duty: Warzone (https://www.gamespot.com/games/call-of-duty-warzone/) is currently in its sixth and final season with Modern Warfare 3 (https://www.gamespot.com/games/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-iii/), and the developer has announced that playlist options will now be limited until the battle royale integrates with Black Ops 6 later this year.Normally, Warzone playlists would rotate weekly, changing the offerings between a mix of solo, duo, trio, and quads. Sometimes all of the options were available, and other times playlists like duos or solos were temporarily removed for the week. Unfortunately, all of that changes now as Raven Software has revealed (https://x.com/RavenSoftware/status/1839349500017861077) that Warzone's playlists for Resurgence modes and standard battle royale are being consolidated, giving players fewer options to choose from.Instead of weekly playlist rotations, players can expect only solo and quad playlists for standard battle royale on Urzikstan, and Resurgence maps are limited to duo and quads. This means the only way to play Warzone in trios is to play the competitive Ranked Play mode, which is getting a shorter timeframe for the final season. Season 6 of Ranked Play ends on October 17.Continue Reading at GameSpot (https://www.gamespot.com/articles/call-of-duty-warzone-removes-several-popular-battle-royale-playlists/1100-6526749/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f/)