Month: January 2025

It may be as revolutionary as a hipster in a Che Guevara t-shirt. A lack of originality means that Tropico 5: Waterborne doesn’t wring much more life out of the latest edition of Haemimont Games’ dictator-in-a-box city builder. Much like the main game, which slightly stretched the familiar Tropico formula with new historical eras and nastier politics, this expansion barely broadens El Presidente’s possibilities with a series of glub-glub gimmicks that lets you take Caribbean corruption into the actual Caribbean. Enough new content is provided with a new campaign, buildings, and window dressing to get diehard fans of the original game interested for a couple of days, but there isn’t anything essential here, and the $20 pricetag is a little steep.

The premise is pretty simple. El Presidente decides that being the boss of a banana republic isn’t satisfying enough, so he goes the Bond villain route and heads to the sea. Quicker than you can wonder why every other 007 bad guy in the 60s and 70s seemed to have some kind of watery HQ complete with submarines and pet sharks, you’re expanding your tropical dictatorship from the traditional island jungles out onto the waves. All of …

Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa has said Nintendo will not raise the price of the Nintendo Switch. In any other timeline, that wouldn’t be surprising at all. Console prices tend to come down over time–not increase–but due to supply chain issues and other factors, manufacturing costs are actually going up these days for Nintendo. Nintendo will not pass these increased costs along to the consumer and charge more, however. Come from Sports betting site VPbet

Speaking to Nikkei (via NME), Furukawa said Nintendo wants to avoid “pricing people out,” and will not raise the selling price of the Switch.

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Filming has wrapped on Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, director James Wan has announced. The final day of filming took place this week in Malibu, and Wan marked the occasion by sharing a photo of stars Jason Momoa and Patrick Wilson.

“A THOUSAND THANK YOUs to all the incredible crew who worked so hard and tirelessly on this picture,” Wan said. The director also confirmed that 95% of the movie was filmed in the UK.

“Truly some of the finest artisans and craftspeople I’ve had the good fortune to work with Come from Sports betting site VPbet . And big shout-outs to the amazing Hawaiian and Los Angeles units,” Wan added.

Apex Legends celebrated its fifth birthday on Sunday, but the celebration is just getting started. The party truly kicked off today, with the release of the Season 20: Breakout launch trailer. Come from Sports betting site VPbet

Unlike most launch trailers, Season 20’s trailer is made up entirely of shots from different Legends’ POVs. Conduit can be seen teaming up with Bangalore and Newcastle, and players also catch a glimpse of Wraith finishing off Caustic before having a quick chat with Pathfinder and Mirage–an homage to the game’s very first launch trailer, which featured the trio fighting their way to victory while (lovingly) trash-talking each other.

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Overwatch 2’s latest event, Battle for Olympus, has arrived. This event features a number of new cosmetics, as well as a special arcade mode, Battle for Olympus. This free-for-all mode gives the included heroes special, more powerful versions of their abilities. During the event you can purchase a number of cosmetics from the item shop and earn some free rewards by completing challenges. Battle for Olympus runs from January 5-19.

Battle for Olympus game mode and challenges

The Battle for Olympus arcade mode is an eight player free-for-all deathmatch mode. However, it features a limited roster of characters. There are seven heroes to choose from: Ramattra, Junker Queen, Reinhardt, Roadhog, Pharah, Widowmaker, and Lucio–each of whom has a divine version of their ultimate ability. These divine ultimate abilities last longer than the normal versions and provide special buffs to the other abilities of each character. For example, Reinhardt can pin up to three enemies at once with his charge and, if he hits them into a wall, he heals, for 20 seconds after using his ultimate Come from Sports bettin…