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Pokemon Masters Improves Co-op Play In Latest Update

Pokemon Go may have changed up its gameplay to keep you from venturing into the real world, but fellow mobile game Pokemon Masters doesn't require any physical travel. The game's latest update, summarized in its patch notes, added several features that improve cooperative battles.Available with the game's version 1.8.0, Pokemon Masters' latest update gives single players the ability to form a team of nine sync pairs when in cooperative battles, letting you play on your own. It also adds more emotes for these battles, so they should be more engaging

Super Doom: How id Software’s Opus Made the Jump to Super NES

ON DECEMBER 10, 1993, ID Software's developers uploaded Doom to a high-speed file-sharing server maintained by an IT administrator who oversaw University of Wisconsin's network. The shareware episode arrived to great fanfare. So great, in fact, that the admin had to ask hundreds of users eager to download Doom to log off so id could transfer the game. Instantly the chat rooms became ghost towns. At midnight on the dot, the gamers at id uploaded their game, and all hell broke loose. Grown adults in businesses suits clogged office networks

First Post! March 18, 2020

Hey Shacknews, it's time for First Post! Let's officially kick off our day of posting. Please take a look. Is it March 20th yet? How very kind of @PlayStation to offer a countdown timer for @animalcrossing with any pre-order of @DOOM Eternal. pic.twitter.com/xKZFTsvdAE — Rami Ismail (@tha_rami) March 18, 2020 I would like to play Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Please understand. Me realizing I gotta walk into best buy to pick up my pre-order of animal crossing new horizons pic.twitter.com/bieix55z1A — Tylor (@theSirToasty) March 17, 2020 Maister wth the S-Tier

‘Incredible Mandy’ Review – A Minimalist Adventure-Puzzler With a Few Problems

TouchArcade Rating:Incredible Mandy ($2.99) is an adventure through dreams searching for memories lost, people forgotten, and experiences once treasured. It is a third person platformer with a little bit of combat and a whole lot of environmental puzzles in a semi-open world, sprinkled with collectibles to fill in the story. It, in short, looks really, really interesting. As a fan of platformers, puzzlers, and games featuring minimalist art in general, my interest was immediately piqued. An interesting story? Great art? Solid level design? Altogether, it’s a recipe for absolute success

Why Warzone Battle Royale Is A Big Move For Call Of Duty And Gaming Overall

With Call of Duty: Modern Warfare's standalone free-to-play spin-off, Warzone, Activision is pushing deeper into the battle royale space, and the impact for the publisher could be massive. Not only that, but if successful, Warzone could potentially have implications for the entire video game industry.Battle royale is not a fad. It started strong with PUBG, which paved the way for making battle royale games a household name and a viable business category for developers to pursue, and the genre has only grown in size and popularity since. Fortnite built upon

Tom King Wants Strange Adventures Comic To Be On Par With FX’s TV Shows

The team of Tom King, Mitch Gerads, and Doc Shaner have a new series from DC Comics' Black Label and putting their own spin on the sci-fi character Adam Strange in Strange Adventures. The new series is available now at local comic shops and on digital markets.Writer King, joined by artists Gerads and Shaner, all continue to elevate the level of storytelling within their books. Strange Adventures is more than a typical superhero or sci-fi comic book. "This is like your favorite FX show, your favorite HBO show," King told

Apple Arcade: ‘No Way Home’ Review – Show Me What You Got!

Mindless shooting in space is always fun. There’s something relaxing about killing alien ships in the middle of nowhere. It takes the fear of being stranded millions of miles away from home off your mind. Enter No Way Home, a fun shoot’em up game brought by SMG Studio, the team behind games like Death Squared and One More Line. In No Way Home, you play as Cho, the former Dutchess Start Captain. After the ship freezes for millions of years and is going to be wrecked by a bunch of

‘Company of Heroes’ for iPad Review – Excellent Portable Real Time Strategy

TouchArcade Rating: Originally released on PC back in 2006, Company of Heroes ($13.99) is now on iPad thanks to Feral Interactive. The real time strategy classic has been adapted for touchscreen with two control options and a plethora of enhancements in its newest incarnation on iOS as a premium release. Since this is a Feral Interactive port, expectations are very high given their superlative track record. I’ve been playing Company of Heroes on a first generation iPad Pro (9.7") over the last week and the conversion is mostly everything I

What Made VR Gaming Highly Popular

The ecosystem of digital game development is all about using the latest technologies to attract and engage gamers all over the world. Games, as one of the prime sources of entertainment, could be more prominent by becoming more interactive and immersive. Technologies like VR are being used widely to make games distinctive and entertaining so that both avid and casual gamers can enjoy their favorite games irrespective of time and place.In fact, with the introduction of virtual reality in the game development industry, the revenue earned has gone up considerably.

The internet changed gaming forever. How’s player support keeping up?

“Gaming has changed,” I thought to myself as I slowly maneuvered past the young cosplayers crowding the halls at Gamescom, the largest gaming conference in Europe for players and industry professionals.I thought back to my childhood, and the games I grew up with. Mario and Sonic were still present, I could still find Street Fighter and Fallout merchandise, and FIFA 20 was, somewhat expectedly, huge. But that was pretty much it — the gaming universe I used to know, tucked in between massive displays of games I’ve never heard of.