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The TimeSplitters Trilogy Is Still Great 16 Years Later

Posted: 14 Aug 2021 10:00 AM PDT

TimeSplitters, TimeSplitters 2 and TimeSplitters: Future Perfect is one of the most beloved shooter trilogies in console gaming history. But it's been 16 long years since the last entry to the franchise, and first-person shooters have changed dramatically in that time. With a new TimeSplitters game on the horizon, how well does the original trilogy hold up in 2021?

Firearms Expert Reacts To TimeSplitters Franchise Guns

Posted: 14 Aug 2021 07:00 AM PDT

Jonathan Ferguson, a weapons expert and Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries, breaks down the weaponry of the TimeSplitters franchise, including a silenced Luger pistol, the Walther WA2000 sniper rifle, and a particularly cursed hybrid of a Desert Eagle and a Beretta 92 pistol.

Get Lifetime Access To The Latest Cheats And Trainers For Your Favorite Games

Posted: 14 Aug 2021 07:00 AM PDT

Back in K-12, Pokemon was the most popular game there was. We would rush home from school as fast as we could and try to level up our Pokemon as much as possible so that we could brag to our classmates the very next day. But there was one kid who always had the highest level Pokemon every single time, and none of us could ever keep up. That kid was always coy, but it turns out they were using cheats!

Who else knew "that kid"? Who wouldn't be annoyed knowing we had had no chance to keep up? But looking back, those kids saved hours every day of grinding the most boring aspects of the game and only focused on what they enjoyed most. And today, you can do it too with a lifetime subscription to Cheat Happens .

Cheat Happens will give you the best and most recent PC game cheat codes. Unlike websites that just compile tips from different users, Cheat Happens employs programmers whose jobs are to find the best exploits to help you with your game. As a premium user, you get access to the whole host of this information for over 6,000 different PC games, in addition to all of the trainers and cheats from in-house specialists (numbering over 27,000) you could ever want. There is also a forum where users can discuss new cheats and strategies, with an average of 170 new cheats a month for games both new and old.

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Danny DeVito Is Writing a One-Shot Penguin Comic

Posted: 13 Aug 2021 03:08 PM PDT

Danny DeVito's take on the Penguin from 1992's Batman Returns is nothing short of iconic. This fall, DeVito is returning to the role, but he won't need any make-up for it, because the actor is writing a Penguin-focused story for the upcoming Gotham City Villains Anniversary Giant #1 one-shot anthology, GameRant reports.

DC is pairing DeVito with artist Dan Mora for the story according to Batman group editor Paul Kaminski. The comic will also feature stories from writer/artist Wes Craig, writers G. Willow Wilson, Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Joshua Williamson, Stephanie Phillips, Dan Watters, and Mairghread Scott; art for these stories comes from Emma Rios, Riccardo Federici, Max Raynor, Max Fiumara, Skylar Patridge, Ariela Kristantina, Khary Randolph, Jill Thompson, Christian Ward, Gabriel Walta, and more.

Batman Returns is remembered for its villains above all else, and especially for DeVito's creepy take on the Penguin. While many other portrayals of the character make him more of an outcast-turned-criminal than anything else, the Batman Returns version turned him into a sewer-dwelling monster who planned to steal all of Gotham's first-born sons and kill them when his plan to discredit Gotham's mayor and Batman didn't pan out.

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Apex Legends Cross-Play: How To Play With Friends On PC And Console

Posted: 13 Aug 2021 02:10 PM PDT

Apex Legends, Respawn's popular free-to-play shooter, has cross-play across all platforms. Users on Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PS4, PS5, Nintendo Switch, Origin, and Steam can all link up and play together. The game did not launch with cross-play, but it was added in October 2020. Cross-play is enabled by default, matching using controllers together and players on mouse and keyboard together.

How to play with friends

The friend cross-play search screen
The friend cross-play search screen

To add a friend from any platform you will need to go to the friends screen in Apex Legends, which can be found in the bottom right corner on the main menu, indicated by an icon of three people. There you can use the find a friend to search your friends on any platform and add them. You will use their username on their platform of choice and as long as they have logged into Apex Legends before, their name should appear, unless they have disabled the ability to cross-play search for them.

Once the friend request is sent, your friend will receive a notification in the lobby to either accept, reject, or block. Blocking the request will prevent that player from receiving any other invites or friend requests from that person, unless they are unblocked in the friend menu. After accepting the request, the friend on another platform will be listed in the friends menu and will have either a generic controller logo or keyboard to indicate if they are on a console or PC.

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Battlefield 2042 - Irish Specialist Breakdown And How Story Works

Posted: 13 Aug 2021 01:49 PM PDT

Battlefield 2042 releases in October and might not have a campaign, but its story is already hitting hard by killing off a Battlefield 4 character and introducing the horrors of being stateless. The Exodus Short Film Trailer introduces a new engineer Specialist Irish who can deploy cover and grenade interceptors as well as sets up what looks like a Season 1 fight over a downed secret weapon on the Hourglass map.

Abandoned Realtime Experience App Only Contains A 5-Second Teaser

Posted: 13 Aug 2021 01:33 PM PDT

The Abandoned Realtime Experience App has finally gone live and it contains one extremely short trailer and a bunch of "coming soon" tabs. After multiple delays and months of confusion about who is actually making Abandoned--or what Abandoned even is--the app contains zero information about the game.

Abandoned Realtime Experience App
Abandoned Realtime Experience App

The app, which renders the trailers in real-time, contains four spots for trailers and two spots for gameplay demonstrations. Only the initial trailer box labeled "Introduction" actually contains anything and it features a few seconds of a person walking across a floor before saying "trailer coming soon" and "Playable prologue coming soon."

The app also has a tab for news and announcements which features a single message.

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How CoD Season 5's Double Agent Mode Works, And Why It's So Hard To Play Right Now

Posted: 13 Aug 2021 12:56 PM PDT

Call of Duty's Season 5 adds an ambitious new investigative objective mode to Black Ops Cold War called Double Agent. Similar to both Among Us and Trouble in Terrorist Town, Double Agent is a mode where certain players are assigned roles to try to sabotage a mission and stay incognito, while the rest of the competitors must work to uncover their identities. It's a much different sort of experience to see inside a Call of Duty game, but based on our impressions so far, it doesn't function well in public matches. You'll want to make sure to round up your friends if you want to enjoy this murder mystery mode. If you're diving into Double Agent, here's what you need to know about how it works, as well as why public matches are currently a nightmare.

Double Agent matches are played out in five rounds with 10 players in a lobby. Before each round, all players are given a starting pistol and 25 seconds to scavenge better weapons from crates or floor loot. Players are then randomly sorted into one of the three assigned roles: Double Agents, Investigators, or Operatives.

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The Call Of Duty: Vanguard Teases In Warzone Have Begun

Posted: 13 Aug 2021 12:55 PM PDT

After winning a game of Call of Duty: Warzone, players may notice that every member of their team doesn't escape the encroaching gas. A new cutscene has been added to the massively popular battle royale for Season 5 that seems to tease the next entry in the Call of Duty franchise, rumored to be called Call of Duty: Vanguard.

A video posted to YouTube by OHB The Don shows what seems to be a normal victory cutscene. However, not all players make it into the helicopter. The last member of the team is instead shot, seemingly out of nowhere, and left on the ground while the chopper takes off. The camera then cuts to a woman dressed in an old Russian military uniform, complete with a USSR side cap and a sniper rifle, the barrel still smoking.

To throw out any question of whether or not this cutscene is authentic, Sam Maggs, one of Call of Duty: Vanguard's writers, reacted to it on Twitter with a simple, "Atta girl."

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The First Trailer For American Horror Story: Double Feature Has Arrived

Posted: 13 Aug 2021 12:30 PM PDT

American Horror Story is known for a lot of things, but having concise titles isn't one of them. Season 10 of Ryan Murphy's horror anthology TV show, American Horror Story: Double Feature, is headed to FX later this year, but it'll be broken up into parts this time around, which makes the full title name American Horror Story: Double Feature, Part 1: Red Tide. For those playing along at home, Part 2 is called Death Valley.

You can watch the first ever trailer for Red Tide now. Take a look.

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Watch Kit Harington Perform Train's "Drops Of Jupiter" Without Knowing How To Play Piano

Posted: 13 Aug 2021 11:49 AM PDT

Game of Thrones star Kit Harington appeared on The Tonight Show recently where he put his acting skills on full display while performing Train's "Drops of Jupiter."

For years, Fallon has been trying to launch a segment called "Straight Up Goes For It," in which the celebrity guest performs "Drops of Jupiter" on a whim. Everyone said no, until Harington showed up this week and really went for it. He doesn't know how to play piano, but he's such a good actor that you can barely tell he's faking it.

"The sketch has been our white whale. We've been pitching it for years," Fallon said. "We finally have someone who has the guts to do it. He doesn't play the piano by the way. And he doesn't really even know how to sing. But, he's doing it because he's cool and he's funny and he gets it." Here's the incredible video:

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How To Turn Off DualSense Haptics And Adaptive Triggers On PS5 Controller

Posted: 13 Aug 2021 11:48 AM PDT

One of the most-touted features of the PS5's DualSense controller is haptic feedback. The technology allows for the vibration effects and trigger resistance to be adjusted by games to create a more immersive experience--such as gentle rumbling when a train passes by, or making the L2 and R2 triggers harder to push all the way down when you're in a big struggle. Some of the best PS5 games are good showcases of how haptic feedback can enhance your gaming experience. However, not all PS5 games use the controller's capability for haptic feedback particularly well, and some players simply find the rumbling controller or trigger resistance to be distracting or uncomfortable. Fortunately, there is an easy way to turn off DualSense haptics or dial down the intensity, allowing you to adjust the feature to fit your personal preferences.

Method 1: How to turn off DualSense haptics

There are two ways to reach the menu to change haptic feedback settings. The first method involves going to the PlayStation 5 home screen, which you can access immediately after powering on the console or by holding down your controller's PS button for about a second.

1. From the home screen, highlight the options menu, which is represented in the upper right corner by a little icon that looks like a gear, then press X to confirm.

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9 Unmade DC Superhero Movies That We Never Got To See

Posted: 13 Aug 2021 11:41 AM PDT


With a history that stretches back to the mid-1930s and hundreds of iconic characters, it's not surprising that DC dominated comic book TV and movies for decades. From the classic Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman shows in the '50s, '60s, and '70s to game-changing films like Superman: The Movie in the and Tim Burton's Batman, DC helped define what onscreen superhero movies were.

Of course, things have changed a little over the past 20 years. The X-Men series and Sam Raimi's Spider-man finally gave Marvel fans some successful on-screen superheroes, while the vast success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe set a standard that's hard to beat. Nevertheless, DC continues to plunder its vast catalog of characters, regularly rebooting classic heroes such as Batman and Superman, and giving others such as Shazam and Harkey Quinn their first cinematic outings.

Unsurprisingly, there's also a huge number of potential DC movies that have been announced or put into development that never made it to the screen. Some of these were new spins of the company's biggest heroes, developed by big names like JJ Abrams, Joss Whedon, and Tim Burton. Others were attempts to make movies based on lesser-known figures that for various reasons never got as far as production. Some were literally a few weeks away from shooting, while others never made it past the script stage.

We've picked some of the highest-profile and most interesting examples of these. It's fascinating to think of how the course of DC's cinematic journey would've been affected had they made it to the screen--Nicolas Cage might have forever been associated with the role of Superman, while we might never have seen Christian Bale and Chris Nolan's take on Batman. So here's 9 big DC films that we'll never see.


1. Plastic Man


DC has attempted to get a Plastic Man movie off the ground numerous times over the past three decades, but so far we're yet to see the adventures of elastic hero Patrick "Eel" O'Brian on the big screen. In 1993, Steven Spielberg was reportedly set to produce a Plastic Man movie, with Brian Spicer (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie) directing from a script by Lana and Lilli Wachowski. Nothing came of this, but many years later in 2008, after the success of the Matrix, it was reported that the Wachowskis would direct their script, with Keanu Reeves in the lead role. But again, the movie never went further. More recently, it was reported that Amanda Idoko was working on a new Plastic Man script, while a female-led version is also in development.


2. Superman Lives


Having reinvented Batman for the screen, director Tim Burton and producer Jon Peters planned to do the same for the Man of Steel in the late '90s. Superman Lives was set to be the first Superman movie since 1985's woeful Superman IV: The Quest for Peace and would star Superman uberfan Nicolas Cage. Several writers, including Kevin Smith, had been hired to work on the script before Burton was hired, and once he was on board, Wesley Strick and Dan Gilroy became the official writers. Superman Lives was to be based loosely on The Death of Superman comic book story, with Supes killed by Brainiac, before he is resurrected to save the day once more. The movie was only a few weeks away from production in July 1998 when it was delayed, then canceled, by Warner, which was concerned about the script and budget. A decade later, test footage of Cage in costume emerged, and in 2015, the fascinating documentary The Death of "Superman Lives": What Happened? was released.


3. Batman: Year One


Frank Miller's Batman: Year One was published in 1987, and is considered one of the key Batman comics of the modern era. In the early 2000s, Warner hired rising director Darren Aronofsky (Pi, Black Swan) to direct a movie adaptation, with Miller writing the script. But the film never happened, and the character was instead rebooted with Batman Begins in 2005. Miller later stated that his and Aronofsky's vision was simply too dark for the studio. "The executive wanted to do a Batman he could take his kids to," he told The Hollywood Reporter. "And this wasn't that. It didn't have the toys in it." Miller's script can now be found online, and Year One was finally adapted into an animated film in 2011.


4. Superman: Flyby


After the cancellation of Superman Lives, Warner made another attempt to get the man of Steel back on the big screen, by hiring JJ Abrams to write a new movie. Abrams' screenplay for Superman: Flyby was finished in 2002, and was a new take on the classic Superman origin story. Rush Hour director Brett Ratner was announced as director in September 2002, with production scheduled for the following year. Jude Law, Josh Harnett, Paul Walker, James Marsden, and Ashton Kutcher were all approached to playSuperman, with Matt Bomer later stating that he was cast in the role. Ratner also revealed that he wanted to cast Anthony Hopkins as Lex Luthor, Ralph Fiennes as Jor-El, and Christopher Walken as Perry White.

But in 2003, Ratner quit the project, citing production delays. He was replaced by McG (Charlie's Angels), who in turn was replaced by X-Men director Bryan Singer. Singer, however, had different ideas for the next Superman movie, and the Abrams script was abandoned in place of what was released in 2006 as Superman Returns.


5. Batman Beyond


The animated series Batman Beyond premiered in 1999 and was a cyberpunk-influenced show that focused on an elderly Bruce Wayne in a futuristic Gotham City, training a younger Batman. A live-action movie version was put into development in the early 2000s, with Boaz Yakin (Remember the Titans) attached to direct and Paul Dini and Alan Burnett, who created the animated show, hired to write the screenplay with Yakin. But DC was also developing Batman: Year One around the same time, and Yakin quit the project after turning in the script, later stating, "I very quickly got the feeling that I would be in the zone, the madness, and I didn't really have the heart for it at the time." The movie went no further, and Warner instead hired Christoper Nolan to make Batman Begins.


6. Joss Whedon's Wonder Woman


Several years before he directed the two hugely successful Avengers movies for Marvel, in 2006 Joss Whedon was hired by DC to develop a potential Wonder Woman movie. The film, which was set to be an origin story, never got past the script stage, with Whedon exiting the project due to creative differences. A decade later, Whedon's script did emerge online and was met with considerable criticism over the way it shifted much of the focus onto Steve Trevor, and over the way Diana is objectified throughout. Whedon himself defended the script, explaining stating, "I was in there swinging and the movie has integrity" Thankfully, by that point, we had Patty Jenkins and Gal Gadot to reinvent this iconic character.


7. Justice League: Mortal


With Christopher Nolan's Batman movie proving to be hugely successful in the mid-to-late 2000s, Warner planned to launch another big DC movie. Justice League: Mortal was to be the first big-screen outing for the legendary superhero team, with Mad Max director George Miller hired to direct. The project got very close to happening--a script was written by Michele and Kieran Mulroney (Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows), and production was scheduled to start in Australia in February 2008. We even know a few of the names that had been cast, including Armie Hammer as Batman, Adam Brody as The Flash, Common as Green Lantern, Megan Gale as Wonder Woman, and D.J. Cotrona as Superman.

The studio initially postponed production when the 2008 writers strike stopped further work on the script, but despite hopes that the movie would still shoot ahead of a 2009 release, it never reached the shooting stage. Soon after, Miller left the project to go make the long-in-development Mad Max: Fury Road. In 2013, the script for the abandoned Justice League movie emerged online, as well as the costume test image you can see above.


8. Lobo


There have been several attempts to make a movie focused on the fan-favorite alien bounty hunter. In 2009, it was announced that Guy Ritchie (Sherlock Holmes, Aladdin) had signed on to a make a Lobo movie, with The Hollywood Reporter teasing the movie's plot: "Lobo is an indestructible, blue-skinned, 7-foot-tall and heavily muscled antihero who drives a pimped-out motorcycle and lands on Earth in search of four fugitives bent on wreaking havoc." But a year later, producer Joel Silver stated that Ritchie had decided to make the Sherlock Holmes sequel instead, and the Lobo movie stalled.

Since then, directors Brad Peyton (Rampage) and Michael Bay (Transformers), and writer Jason Fuchs (Wonder Woman) have been amongst the names attached to the project, with Dwayne Johnson stating that he was interested briefly in the title role. But so far, Lobo seems stuck in limbo.


9. Justice League Dark


In terms of DC movies that seem like a perfect match of subject and director, it's hard to think of a better one than Gullermo Del Toro's Justice League Dark. The Pacific Rim and Shape of Water director was attached to a movie version of the supernatural superhero team for several years and recently confirmed that he wrote a full screenplay for the potential movie. But he left the project in 2015, and although Doug Liman (Edge of Tomorrow) was also briefly attached, it remains unmade.

However, while a full Justice League Dark movie doesn't seem likely any time soon, that doesn't mean we won't see some of the characters. Last year it was reported that JJ Abrams is developing several Justice League Dark projects, with a John Constantine series and Zatanna movie both in the works.

Control Passes 10 Million Players, Remedy Details Numerous New Projects

Posted: 13 Aug 2021 11:27 AM PDT

Remedy Entertainment has celebrated a big milestone for its latest IP, Control, with the action game having officially reached 10 million players. This has emboldened Remedy to push on with Control, with a new big budget entry already being planned.

Being a new IP, 10 million players is a welcome figure for Remedy Entertainment. As pointed out in the briefing, this does not necessarily mean that Control sold 10 million copies, however. The game was offered for free on the Epic Games store a few months ago, while the Control: Ultimate Edition launched on PS Plus when it arrived on PS5 in February. The regular version of Control is also part of Xbox Game Pass, which Microsoft said had over 23 million subscribers at the end of April 2021.

The news was part of the studio's latest investor briefing, which vaguely outlined some of the new projects the developer is tackling now. Some of these have already been announced, such as the cooperative multiplayer game set in the same universe as Control, as well as a higher-budget entry in the series following the same structure as the first game.

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Halo TV Show Boss On The Challenges Of Bringing Master Chief To The Small Screen

Posted: 13 Aug 2021 11:16 AM PDT

A Halo TV show is in the works for 2022, and now Halo's transmedia boss has spoken more about what the show is aiming to achieve and what it's been like to work on.

Kiki Wolfkill, the head of transmedia at 343 Industries, said in an interview with IGN that the biggest challenge with adapting Halo for TV is finding how to best present Master Chief's story in a non-interactive way.

"Probably the biggest challenge with adapting the game is, the game is designed to put you in Chief's armor. What we're asking people to do with the show is sort of sit back, and we're going to present a side of Chief that you just don't get to play in the game," Wolfkill said.

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