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Kojima Productions has threatened legal action over social media posts identifying Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima as the man who assassinated ex-Japanese prime ministor Shinzo Abe. Abe, the highly-respected former leader of Japan, died last week in a shooting that shocked Japan and prompted international outcry. A 41-year-old suspect was arrested at the scene. Over the weekend, internet users began to circulate an old photograph of Kojima online, identifying the image as that of the suspect....

With about 9.3 percent of the state’s total economy coming from tech companies, Minnesota is one of the most important tech corridors in the United States. Whether founded here or moved from different zones, publicly traded or privately owned, the largest tech companies in Minnesota can change the world for the better in multiple ways. © f11photo/Shutterstock.com From new patents and innovations to job opportunities, these are the biggest tech players in the North Star State....

A leaked EA marketing survey relating to Mass Effect Andromeda may have shed some light on plot elements for the secretive sci-fi action RPG. The survey opens with some blurb about the game before asking participants to rate how likely they are to buy it. “Mass Effect: Andromeda takes players to the Andromeda galaxy, far beyond the Milky Way, where players will lead the fight for a new home in hostile territory – where WE are the aliens – opposed by a deadly indigenous race bent on stopping us....

This Legends of Tomorrow episode review contains spoilers. Legends of Tomorrow Season 5 Episode 15 Broadly speaking, there are three types of Legends of Tomorrow episodes. There are the gag episodes, where the entire thing is built around one bit (like the time John Noble guest starred from the set of Lord of the Rings in a show he was already on, or the one where Gary’s dog is the demon who created Son of Sam)....

The game, which was released back in April, features all nine, main Luke Skywalker films in the Star Wars universe. It’s your typical Lego action-adventure title where your main objective is to swing your lightsaber, bash through enemies and using the force to seek out collectibles. We’ve covered tons more of the best Prime Day gaming deals in our main Prime Day gaming hub. We’re also highlighting all the best Prime Day deals over on Twitter, so make sure to go give Jelly Deals a follow....

A new company, by the name of “Nintendo Studios,” has appeared in copyright listings for the upcoming animated Super Mario movie. Twitter user MichaelO2k spotted the listings (via VGC), saying: “There are copyright records for the Illumination Mario movie, which have the expected companies listed, but there’s also new companies: ‘Nintendo Studios, LLC’ and ‘M Brothers Productions, LLC’. Guessing these are the studios Nintendo will be listing their movies under.”...

Magic: The Gathering is one of the oldest and most complicated collectible card games out there. You know the basics: Each card has a casting cost, story, and abilities. When combined with others, their effects can change significantly. And that’s just one player’s hand. Played against one or more decks, you’ve got goats vs. vampires, walls vs. cats, and a magic cup vs. the three little pigs. For serious players, this kind of complication is fun and makes for some epic inside jokes....

In the summer of 1993, Wizards of the Coast launched Magic: the Gathering, the first-ever trading card game. In this fantasy game, players are planeswalkers, powerful wizards who can roam the worlds and learn new spells and summon monsters to fight for them. In the 27 years since, we have seen many cool worlds from Innistrad to Tarkir to Ravnica, and met many planeswalkers along the way. Many of these planeswalkers are major players in the story, and classics such as Urza and Nicol Bolas now walk alongside popular newcomers such as Jace, Gideon, Chandra, and Ajani....

Tripwire Interactive has announced that the Maneater: Truth Quest expansion DLC will arrive for the Shark-PG at the end of August. Following on from the events of the main game, the Truth Quest expansion sees the return of narrator Trip Westhaven, voiced by Rick and Morty’s Jerry voice actor Chris Parnell. Going from nature documentaries to full-blown conspiracy theorist, you’ll still be playing as the mutated bull shark, only this time investigating the Naval Wildlife Organisation’s nefarious goings-on under Port Clovis....

This review contains spoilers for Manifest. Manifest Season 1 Episode 5 In “Connecting Flights,” Manifest finally lends some cohesion to the callings and the sense of fate or divine intervention that drives the passengers of Flight 828. Despite relying on a somewhat unhelpful, Marvel-associated phrase, “It’s all connected,” the fact that Cal is now fully in the mix is reassuring given that we all knew he would be special in some way....

Showrunner Jeff Rake brought the entire principal cast of Manifest to New York Comic Con this year, and nearly all of them had an enticing detail to share about where their character might head in season 2. Although the first trailer was also released at the convention, it announced a later than expected Spring 2020 return date, so while we wait to learn the answers to questions like who got shot and what the Major will do to Saanvi, here’s a little of what we learned during our time on the Manifest press line....

The Mario & Sonic series has been consistently releasing new games since 2007, combining characters from Nintendo’s Super Mario series and Sega’s Sonic the Hedgehog and having them compete in various Olympic events. Tokyo, Japan will be hosting the 2020 Olympic Games, and it too has its own Mario & Sonic game, appropriately titled Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. This marks the first time that the series has been on the Nintendo Switch, and it’s debuting with some innovations, though none of it is enough to really make the game worthwhile....

Nintendo has made a free demo available for Mario Strikers: Battle League Football. The game previously had a demo shortly before it released on 10th June, but required a Nintendo Switch Online subscription. The new demo is free to download for all Switch owners. If you do want to check out the demo this time around but don’t have a Switch Online subscription, you’ll be limited to the game’s local co-op modes for multiplayer....

Whenever a movie is being cast, especially a high profile movie, the casting process can be long and grueling. It takes a lot of effort to find the perfect person for a role that is bound to go down in history as one of the most classic characters and performances in film history. That is the case even more so when we’re talking about the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But before it became the MCU that we know today, the studio and casting directors had to make sure the actors they were putting into the roles of some of the most classic comic book characters ever to grace the Marvel Universe were the perfect fit....

Once upon a time, there were as many Marvel-licensed games on PC as they were Marvel movies. It was a time when almost everything had to have an underwhelming video game adaptation to go with it. But despite games like Iron Man, there were still diamonds in the rough to be found. X-Men Origins: Wolverine was better than it had any right to be, while the Marvel vs. Capcom and the Marvel: Ultimate Alliance franchises were true standouts....

Daredevil star Charlie Cox was on Matthew Vaughn’s mind back in 2008 when he found himself on the list that Warner Bros and DC had drawn up for possible directors to pair with their new Superman movie. Though the powers that be eventually chose Zack Snyder to helm what would end up being Man of Steel, and Henry Cavill to star in it, Vaughn was understandably excited about what he could bring to the project, and one of those things could have very well been his Stardust leading man....

Before Dark Souls came along and defined everything it meant to be a difficult video game (so much so that the phrase “harder than Dark Souls” has become a meme in its own right), the Mega Man franchise really deserved that distinction. It’s good old nostalgia-fuelled challenging gaming at its best. One way to make things easier on yourself is to ensure that you’re using the most effective weapons for each situation....

A new trailer for Metro Exodus has dropped, and this one sheds light on all aspects of the game. It briefly goes over weapon customization and combat. However, it also offers a closer glimpse at how missions work. After five years in development, the video narrator labels Metro Exodus the “most ambitious work yet” by developer 4A Games. And it really shows. Moving away from the tunnel-crawling exploits of Metro 2033 and Metro Last Light, Exodus drops players into the open world of post-apocalyptic Russia....

Today third-party developers had interesting news to share about add-ons for for Microsoft Flight Simulator. We start with Flight Replicas, which released a bunch of screenshots of its upcoming warbird, the P-40N Warhawk. At the moment, the aircraft is defined as 98% complete, and it’ll be released after it’s finished, testing is done, and the manual is written. Next, Blue Bird Simulation released new screenshots of the engines of its Boeing 757....

I’m gonna surf this ink to the end of the world, where the formless beasts are trying to devour the stories that make up the creation. Or something to that tune; I don’t think you’ll ever be able to surf in Inkbound. The game had tech test this weekend and I managed to rope in a friend to try it once more after my recent Inkbound preview. As hinted at in the intro, Inkbound is a game about being a newly-born ink being, thrust immediately into the fight against the forces that want to consume the Atheaneum and the infinite stories it contains (and thus all reality)....