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The Charmed reboot is back for Season 2, this time with a new showrunner. Carter Covington was replaced by Liz Kruger and Craig Shapiro for Charmed Season 2, and a new “creative direction” is being targeted for the trio of budding witches, with the series set to “lean harder into its supernatural storylines and less into the family dynamic” that formed the narrative anchor of season 1. Kruger and Shapiro previously co-created Salvation for CBS and served as executive producers on the nixed Halle Berry-starring Extant....

Chivalry 2’s Knight class is built solely for taking blows and dishing them right back out again in close combat. Their stamina depletes at a slower rate when blocking than the other three classes, and they have the highest health pool and armour in the game. The best Chivalry 2 weapons available to Knights tend to be short-ranged, although there are a few exceptions like spears and poleaxes. The best way to play a Knight, though, is to be unafraid of close combat and take advantage of its short-range, high-damage weapons....

A college Hearthstone team has quit a collegiate tournament because Blizzard punished another player for expressing support of Hong Kong but not them. Blizzard just can’t catch a break. You come down too hard on a player and ban them for saying “Free Hong Kong,” the internet hates you. You don’t punish another player for saying the same thing and the internet still hates you. It’s almost like you should just stick with one side or the other....

The Sims franchise has always been revolutionary handled sexual orientation. Before LGBTQ rights became a widespread topic, Simmers could live out the queer lives of their dreams in The Sims. The Gender Expression and Sexual Orientation options in The Sims 4 give Simmers even more control over the diversity and expression of their Sims. Here’s everything you need to know. Gender Expression in The Sims 4 CAS The Create-A-Sim menu has several options that allow Simmers to make Sims with a wide range of gender expressions....

Another person has come forward and claims to be leaking an early copy of Pokémon Sword and Shield. The difference between this and most other leaks is actual pictures. There’s also a certain progression to these leaks that appears to follow someone playing through game and encountering new Pokémon and evolutions as they go. As always, fans shouldn’t accept these leaks as fact until they get the games and see the new Pokémon for themselves....

Microsoft has buffed a number of key Xbox 360 titles with Xbox One X support this week, including the critically acclaimed The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings. Joining the fantasy-RPG is Crackdown, which not only gains some extra visual muscle with Xbox One X functionality, but also (obviously) joins the ranks of Microsoft’s growing backwards compatibility lineup. Meanwhile, Forza Horizon and Fable Anniversary have also received support for Microsoft’s beastly 4K console....

This week’s episode of Critical Role was a mish-mash of laughter and tears with moments that range from characters roasting each other to method acting to a player making a truly excellent role-playing decision. Below are a few of our favorite parts of campaign 2 episode 93. Warning: spoilers for campaign 2 episode 93 ahead! Sam’s Shirt-ception Sam has continued a long-running joke over the years where he sometimes wears shirts on the show that have a derpy face of Matt Mercer....

THQ Nordic released a new trailer for Darksiders Genesis that confirmed the game will be launched on PC and Stadia first, with a console release coming next year (via VGC). Darksiders Genesis, announced at E3 2019, brings the third person action title to a new genre for the series. As a top-down hack and slash role-playing experience, it will be a spin-off and is in the hands of Airship Syndicate. The developer is comprised of people who worked for the now-defunct Vigil Games, who made the first two Darksiders video games....

Daybreak Games Company, formerly Sony Online Entertainment, has announced a studio realignment which includes a number of staff layoffs. “Last week we announced that we were acquired and are now operating independently as Daybreak Game Company,” explained the studio on its forums. “To better position our newly independent studio for future growth opportunities and to deliver on our legacy of making top online games, we have had to make some tough choices including realignment of resources....

Dead Space Review on PS5 Launched into the cold expanse of the cosmos back in 2008, Visceral Games’ limb-slicing, blood-drenched IP Dead Space turned heads and stomachs. It went on to spawn a multimedia franchise that spans a trilogy of core video games, a handful of spinoffs, a bunch of comic books, and even a potential movie adaptation that’s rumored to be in the works. Fast forward to today, and we now have a from-the-ground-up Dead Space remake spearheaded by Canadian developer, Motive Studio....

The build to the release of Death Stranding has been one shrouded in a great deal of mystery, and, for many fans, the material that has thus far been revealed about Hideo Kojima’s brand new game has likely only served to create additional confusion rather than clarify it. Now, the Death Stranding release date has finally arrived, and these players currently have a chance to unravel some of these mysteries for themselves....

The official release of Destiny 2’s Shadowkeep expansion and the game’s migration from Battle.net to Steam is just days away on October 1st; however, Bungie announced alongside the launch trailer for Shadowkeep that players can start pre-loading the game now in preparation. This pre-loading includes the Shadowkeep expansion and the base game, which comes in the form of the free-to-play Destiny 2: New Light edition. Not only does that mean that those who purchased Shadowkeep on Steam can pre-load, but because of the addition of New Light, a large amount of the game’s content that is free-to-play, anyone can start pre-loading New Light....

Bungie announced yesterday in a blog post that the Destiny 2 expansion Shadowkeep and the new game edition New Light will need ‘a bit more time in the oven’, delaying their original release date of September 17. Shadowkeep is the first expansion coming to Destiny 2 since its severance from Activision. New Light is an augmented Destiny 2 with Warmind and Curse of Osiris, plus some remastered sections of Destiny, which will be free-to-play for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC....

David Cage, auteur game designer of Quantic Dream, is back and badder than ever with Detroit: Become Human, a video game about androids, with many branching paths and choices akin to the set up of Cage’s previous game Heavy Rain. In Detroit, however, there are a lot of choices and possible consequences, as demonstrated by a challenging Paris Games Week trailer that, be warned, features scenes of violent domestic and child abuse....

Capcom is really going above and beyond with porting Devil May Cry 3 to the Switch. In addition to all of the cool gameplay alterations confirmed for this new port, Capcom revealed today that local co-op support the “The Bloody Palace” will be included with DMC3’s Switch debut. Players will be able to tackle the basically endless arena as both Dante and Vergil, helping each other look stylish while doing so....

Digimon Survive has not been delayed permanently, refuting the report made in the latest issue of Famitsu (via Siliconera). In 2018, Digimon Survive was originally announced for PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and the Switch, and would be coming to the west as well as Japan. However, in mid-2019, developer Witchcraft and publisher Bandai Namco chose to push the game’s launch into 2020, but the rationale was left unsaid. Digimon Survive celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Digimon anime, even if its release slides further and further away from the actual anniversary....

In case you missed the memo, the Discord Store released in beta earlier today. The company, once known for providing gamers with one of the most popular voice and text service platforms, is now taking on the big boys of distribution. The store goes head-to-head against the twin titans, Valve’s Steam and EA’s Origin gaming platforms. Oh, and Ubisoft’s Uplay, I suppose. To match its competition, Discord is providing a monthly tiered subscription-based service, called Discord Nitro....

Techland has released a four-part video detailing “the creative process” behind Dying Light 2 Stay Human’s soundtrack. Chopped up into bite-sized chunks, the documentary follows BAFTA-nominated composer Olivier Deriviere as he “takes you through his creative process to reveal the intricate and powerful music that brings this highly anticipated game to life”. The episodic videos take you through collaboration with the team at Techland to rehearsals with the London Contemporary Orchestra to “create an enthralling soundtrack”....

Now that Infinity Ward has clarified the situation regarding the possibility of loot boxes in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, all that remains is for the studio to detail just how in-game purchases will work in the weeks and months following the game’s launch next Friday. Or it was, because Infinity Ward did just that today. In a message to series fans, the studio laid out a general overview of its plans for the game at launch and beyond, and how it’s trying to make it a more user-friendly Call of Duty than past titles....

When playing Call of Duty: Warzone, you may have come across a glowing strange device on the floor with either a flag, reticle, or magnifying glass on it. These are contracts that can be completed for significant cash drops and loot. This cash can then be spent at Buy Stations for some of Warzone‘s most powerful streaks, loadouts, and utility. This guide will explain the value of contracts and their three types: bounty, recon, and scavenger....