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If you’re into fast-paced shooters, 2019 provided quite a few. The highly popular genre still lived on through 2019 with an impressive array of games, like Apex Legends, Control, Borderlands 3, and more. But if you’re here, you’re probably curious about every fantastic shooter to release in 2019. Well, you’ve come to the right place.
Below you can find an extensive list of every shooter that scored an 8 or above on GameSpot’s review scale in 2019 across every platform. If you think that sounds limiting, you might be shocked at the number of quality shooters that came out.
But if you’re curious about all the other games we’ve highlighted in our annual Best Of awards, be sure to jump over to our Best Games of 2019 hub. And while you’re there, keep your eyes peeled for our most anticipated games coming in 2020.
Operencia tells a wonderful story derived from Central European folklore, mythology, and history, and it does so with unwavering confidence in its makeup. Companion characters are funny, and the banter between them makes for a fun experience that’s not without its heartfelt moments. In terms of combat, the strategizing is so engaging that you’ll likely end up charging rat warriors headfirst instead of hopelessly attempting to avoid bumping into them. Best of all, though, this world is so stunning that you’ll just look at the trees, the water, the rocks–everything. It’s a shame that some of the puzzle solutions are needlessly frustrating and present significant obstacles in getting through the story, but aside from that Operencia provides a truly special experience.
Operencia transports you somewhere far, far away, and once you get there, you’ll probably want to stay a while. — Cian Maher [Full Review]
Available digitally on Xbox One PC via the Epic Games Store.
Microsoft has announced its next set of Xbox Games With Gold for the month of January. Starting on January 1, 2020, the games will start rotating in. This will mark the first set of Games with Gold for the new year, which are included with your Xbox Live Gold or Game Pass Ultimate subscription.
Styx is a stealth-action game from 2017 that received a 6/10 from GameSpot for its fluid controls but uneven AI and mission structure. Batman was one of Telltale’s higher-profile licensed games, and was well-received as a new take on the iconic character. Tekken and Lego Star Wars are classics from the last generation, and Lego Star Wars is being re-envisoned with a new “Skywalker Saga” game in 2020.
The Games with Gold are included with your Gold subscription, which enables Xbox Live online play. But you’re also a Live member if you have Game Pass Ultimate, which also entitles you to Game Pass games. That subscription is getting some heavy-hitters this week including Pillars of Eternity and The Witcher 3.
Xbox Games With Gold January 2020
Styx: Shards of Darkness (January 1-31)
Batman: The Telltale Series (January 16-February 15)
Tekken 6 (January 1-15)
Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (January 16-31)
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While Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker isn’t receiving the best reviews, at least it didn’t wind up on this list of IGN’s worst-reviewed movies of 2019!
It’s an unfortunate list, because nobody sets out to make a bad movie (as far as we know), but sometimes a project just doesn’t come together. Often you can see these films coming from a mile away, but then you get a Glass or a Hellboy remake and it’s like, man, what went wrong?
So let’s have a look at the films released over the last year that were scored the worst of the worst by IGN’s critics. But first, a few notes:
Coming from Crema and Humble Bundle, the creature-collecting adventure game Temtem pulls a lot of influences from Nintendo’s immensely popular Pokemon series. Still, it injects an online twist to give it its own flair As a massively-multiplayer online game, you’ll start in a setting known as the Airborne Archipelago, a collection of six floating islands with different terrain and wildlife, and embark on an adventure with other explorers to catch magical creatures known as temtem. In this exclusive new trailer, we get to see the three starter temtem that you can choose from, who can eventually grow into formidable members of your roster.
After creating your custom protagonist, who you can deck out with new costumes and accessories, you get to pick your starting temtem to accompany you on your journey. In the new trailer, we get a solid rundown of each of the three starters, which detail their strengths and weaknesses.
Here’s a brief explainer on each one:
Crystle: A lizard temtem that can conjure up crystal spikes to attack its enemies. Many of its abilities are defensive in-nature allowing it to absorb blows and dish them out in kind.
Smazee: A monkey-like temtem that specializes in using melee-strikes and offensive abilities. Smazee is the fastest starter choice, and it can quickly dish-out strikes against its foes.
Houchic: A fairy-like temtem that uses psychic attacks and mind-based abilities to confuse and weakens its foes. Houchic can use its psychic attacks to pierce through enemy defenses.
After picking a starting temtem, your protagonist–a temtem tamer in training–will be able to explore the six islands of the archipelago. Throughout your journey, you’ll come to blows with Clan Belsoto, who are seeking to control the six islands for themselves. While exploring, you’ll be able to battle other tamers, level up your party, and capture new temtem to expand your roster.
All this sounds very familiar when thinking of the Pokemon series, but what makes Temtem stand on its own is that it all takes place within an online world where other players will be making a go of it on their journey. In addition to battling NPC characters, you’ll also be able to test your skills against other players online. But if you want to stick with the story, then you can still play through the game solo, or even with a friend and go through the entire campaign cooperatively.
As of this time, Temtem is planned for a PC release on Steam on January 21, but according to developer Crema, they’re looking into releasing the game on Playstation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch at a later period. During the early access period, the developers will continue adding new content after launch.
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In general terms, Spencer described the console’s cooling system, saying, “What the team did, and you [see] it through the top grate, is we went with one central fan in the design.” He continued, “What this design does, with the size of the fan that we built around, is it lets us match how quiet the Xbox One X is with all that power inside of the box.”
It’s not as simple as deciding on a type of cooling system and running with it, of course, as Spencer explained, “There’s always this tension between design, acoustics, cooling, and the function of the console, and we were not going to compromise on function. I’m just incredibly impressed with the design that they [came up with].”
Spencer went on to describe how he’s been using a Series X at home and that its acoustic profile helps it keep a low profile even for people who have seen it in action. He claimed, “If I don’t point it out, it just sits there and plays video games the way I want it to and I never hear it, just like how I don’t hear my [Xbox One] X.”
The Series X sports a natural, PC tower-like design, which was accounted for in its cooling system, but also the fact that you can set it horizontally or vertically. Microsoft wouldn’t get into the specifics of dimensions and hard technical details of the cooling system, but Spencer asserts that the single fan is “able to spin at a low enough rate that it is whisper-quiet.” He also said that the Series X has “no secondary fans, probably just passive coil” to keep temperatures in check.
When you take a look at the Series X itself, you see that the single central fan gets a bit fancy. “We did do a nod with our Xbox; it has a green tint and it’s a concave design so as you come up [to it].” Considering that one of the goals with the Series X is to sort of unify the Xbox brand and ecosystem, we suppose it seeps into all aspects of its design. Spencer goes into a bit more detail as to what that means in our story about why the console was named Series X. And for all the details we gathered in our exclusive coverage, be sure to read our in-depth feature on the Xbox Series X.
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It’s Star Wars Day! Alex, Dale and Cardy are here to spoil everything about Star Wars Episode 9: The Rise of Skywalker. Do not listen to this podcast unless you’ve seen the film. I really can’t stress that enough. It would be a really stupid thing to do. Don’t do it. But do enjoy.
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Here’s a great deal for fans of comic books, magazines, fiction, nonfiction, and pretty much any other writing you might purchase in digital format: You can get three months of Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited for just $0.99. That’s a killer deal on one of the best services for readers.
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Resident Evil 3’s remake will have more changes to the original game compared to how Resident Evil 2’s remake was handled.
Capcom producers Peter Fabiano and Masao Kawada revealed new details about Resident Evil 3 in the latest issue of Japanese magazine Famitsu (via Siliconera). Producer Masachika Kawata also appeared in the latest episode of Capcom TV to talk about the remake (via ResetEra).
