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What To Expect: Developer CD Projekt Red wowed us with their behind closed doors demo at E3 2014 and we expect them to pull off a similar site feat at their Comic-Con 2014 panel. Attendees will hear more about this final game in the trilogy, see it played live, and learn more about Dark Horse's upcoming The Witcher graphic no


Who Will Be There: Panelists include actors Doug Cockle (Geralt of Rivia, The Witcher franchise), Dark Horse Comics author Paul Tobin (The Witcher House of Glass), Nick McWhorter, CD PROJEKT RED's game developers Damien Monnier and Lukasz Wnek ( The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt ), and Rafal J

The Assassin's Creed series has featured many notable female characters, such as Evie Frye from Assassin's Creed Syndicate and Aya from Assassin's Creed Origins , but none can match Kassandra, who is canon in the latest game in the series, Assassin's Creed Odyssey . Kassandra has proved to be the toughest female character in the series so far, being the great-granddaughter of King Leonidas of Sparta, who can wield a variety of weapons in the game, including swords, bows, spears, and axes. Kassandra can also perform brutal stealth kills, and she definitely does not let anything or anyone in the game intimidate


Mechanically, the game looks and plays like The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim but in Deliverance, there are no magic or fantasy elements of any kind. It’s a medieval simulator where players need to keep an eye on their character’s well being as much as their health. Furthermore, it features some of the most complex and realistic sword fighting mechanics in gaming where timing is everything and one mistake can cost one their li


Sadie Adler is an outlaw and bounty hunter who joins the Van Der Linde gang in Red Dead Redemption 2 . Rockstar Games describes her as "a widow who is hell-bent on taking revenge upon those who killed her husband. Relentless and afraid of nothing and no one. The wrong woman to cross, but very loyal to those she loves. " Sadie definitely lives up to this reputation and proves to be a great fighter alongside Arthur throughout many of the game's most memorable missi


The biggest games of the year have the potential to sell tens of millions of units, raking in literally billions of dollars in revenue. At the same time, development teams have grown larger, game creation itself takes longer, and budgets have become greater than ever. After all, it takes a lot of effort to make today's games look and feel so amazing. Through it all, however, the price of a retail game has not chan


Like the games themselves, Parasite Eve can at times be quite terrifying through its exploration of human biology and helped the author to win numerous literary prizes. There was even a movie adaptation of the novel in Japan, which managed to rake in almost a million dollars despite its limited theatrical rele


What To Expect: The Far Cry 4 panel will give attendees insight into how Ubisoft created the game's fictional locale of Kyrat , which included a trip to Nepal with the HBO show VICE. Ubisoft will also crown a winner for their Quest for Everest contest, which sends one lucky fan to the summit of Mt. Everest to play video ga


Loot boxes are here to stay, and if publishers include them in ways which the gaming community can feel comfortable purchasing in large enough numbers, while ironing out the issues inherent in titles like Shadow of War, Forza 7, and Gears of War 4, then maybe gamers won't feel cheated as much as they currently do by the less savory titles making use of practice in today's mar


What we can look forward to more great games with notable female characters in 2019. Some of the most highly-anticipated games include Gears 5 that will have Kait Diaz as its protagonist, Wolfstein: Youngblood that features twin sisters killing nazis , and the Indie game, Sea of Solitude , that follows the story of a young girl who becomes a monster. These last few years have definitely been female character's time to shine in gaming, and the trend seems to continue for future releases


As far as authors go, the late, great Tom Clancy has had a larger impact on the video game industry than most . Many of his novels have been adapted into video games, with numerous others being written as tie-ins. Perhaps the most prominent of these, however, is the writer's Rainbow Six series, which has spawned numerous best-selling video games over the ye


With the nominations coming before the year's end, we're faced with the usual issue of not all of 2014's titles being included (like Ubisoft's The Crew ) but at least they got in the most recent two-three weeks which includes the largest batch of high profile releases. The deadline for eligible entrants was games released by November 25th. On the Canadian Videogame Awards front, the date of nomination eligibility was much earlier and meant that some of the year's biggest titles ( Assassin's Creed Unity, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Far Cry 4, etc. ) didn't make the