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Celebrity endorsements are a longstanding phenomenon in gaming. Many famous faces have madecameo appearancesin titles or lent their likeness to advertising campaigns. However, here we are looking at games that have celebrities' names right in the title. From long-standing franchises to one-off titles, the range of available celebrity endorsed games is huge. RELATED:10 Celebrity Gamers (& Their Favorite Game) Recent trends for mobile gaming have vastly increased the number of celebrity name-bearing freemium titles available on app stores but we are looking at games from a wider range of platforms....

Food service is a make-or-break industry at all levels. Whether one is scraping pennies at McDonald’s or beingscreamed at by Gordon Ramsayat a Michelin-star restaurant, it’s seldom depicted as an easy experience. Over the years, this has been showcased through Netflix’s exhausting outflow of cooking competitions and in movies likeChef,Burnt, and the classic dramaJulie & Julia.Even Disney’sRatatouillehad fun with its try-hard protagonist who could never seem to ace his flavors despite his lifelong desire to be a chef....

The release of the PS5 and Xbox One Series X|S has once again brought the conversation of consoles vs. PCs back to the forefront of the gaming industry. The pros and cons can be debated for hours, but there’s one indisputable benefit of playing on PC. If someone has the funds to afford the high-end hardware, PC gaming provides the best visual and graphical performance around. Because the majority of gamers don’t own high-end PCs, many developers aren’t willing to spend too much time optimizing their games....

Summary Unsurprisingly, for a show involving characters with practically every superhuman ability under the sun,The Boysfeatures some of the most formidable fictional faces in recent memory. Antony Starr’s chief antagonist, Homelander, is arguablymodern television’s most powerful villain, demonstrating a terrifyingarray of powersthat render him virtually omnipotent. However, not all heroes are born equal in Eric Kripke’s depraved and ruthless adaptation of of Garth Ennis' comic series. Whilesome supes possess a unique weaknessthat renders them vulnerable to attack, the show has featured manysuperpowered characters whose Achilles' heel stemsfrom the simple fact that they are just as mortal as the average human being....

In terms of horror movie premises, it feels like almost everything has been done, and that anything can be evil. There have been movies about killer cars, killer tomatoes,even killer clothes. Of course in the prime of social media, there had to one day be a movie about a killer app. A killer app is a premise that seems like it might be kind of fun, but upon further inspection, it’s evident that there’s nowhere to really go from there....

Summary Twitchstreamers Abe “BaboAbe” Chung and Wendy “Natsumiii” Luo have announced their separation, nearly nine months after getting married. The two have kept most of their relationship private, but would share glimpses of it with viewers whenever they streamed together onTwitch, and when they got engaged in 2021. Last November, BaboAbe and Natsumiii tied the knot and streamed the intimate ceremony on Twitch, which was also one of the subathon goals that the latter reached beforehand....

Valkyrie Elysiumis the most recent addition to theValkyrie Profileseries, andfans have waited a long time for its release. It follows the traditional Norse mythology background, with characters interacting with the gods through the end of days. Players will take on the role of a Valkyrie entrusted with the task of preventing the world below from meeting its final demise. She will embark on a vast journey, battling the most powerful foes in search of answers....

Ever since Naughty Dog revealed the firstThe Last of Us Part 2trailer players have hadquestions about Joel’s rolein the game. There were some that thought that his absence from early promotional material suggested he had died in the time sinceTLOU1, but eventually, Naughty Dog did come clean. One of the later trailers confirmed that Joel is inThe Last of Us Part 2, but there was still a lot of mystery surrounding him....

In the recent meta ofOverwatch 2, tank heroes have seen a major buff, with characters like D.va, Zarya, and Sigma ranking near the top of the heap among all playable heroes. The one notable exception to this relative power buff has been Doomfist, who has fallen to arguably his worst state since the debut ofOverwatch 2. Doomfist was once a versatile and strong pick, but as he currently stands he is an unviable option unless the team builds around him, or he is played by someone with incredible individual skill....

As a follow-up to Gearbox Software and 2K Games’Borderlands 2: Tiny Tina’s Assault on Dragon Keep,Tiny Tina’s Wonderlandsrepresented a bit of a new direction for theBorderlandsfranchise. While a lot of the core elements of the series remained — the oddball humor, the cel-shaded art style, the looter shooter gameplay —Tiny Tina’s Wonderlandsinfused these elements with its own brand of wackiness. With the titular explosives expert leading the charge, players were able to delve intoBorderlands' take on a fantasy tabletop adventure, and the results have been met with praise from both critics and fans....

Xbox continues to make regular announcements regarding upcoming titles planned for Xbox Game Pass, including new day one releases. Outside these regular announcements, there are rare surprise announcements from developers themselves, another of which has recently cropped up. Yaza Games, which is currently working on strategy gameInkulinati, announced that it will be bringing it toXbox Game Passas a day one release when it’s eventually ready.The latest game planned to launch on Xbox Game Pass isInkulinati, a strategy game based on ink art from medieval manuscripts....

Microsoft’s E3 presentation isn’t for few more days still, but the company has already begun sharing some major plans it has for the future ofXbox. On the gaming front, it has stated that it will be aiming to releasea new first-party title on Game Passevery quarter and Xbox head Phil Spencer has explained how the company will expand the Xbox ecosystem and attempt to reach an even wider audience. Microsoft’s pre-E3 briefing hasn’t been made available to the public, but IGN has reported on Spencer’s comments aboutXbox’s future, which includes a way to provide access to Xbox games and even its Game Pass service without even needing a console or a PC....

Mobile game fans may want to shift their attention to an orange bandicoot spinning its way onto their devices.Crash Bandicootsees his second release of the year hit the Google Play Store and Apple App Store in 2021.Crash Bandicoot: On The Runaims to add a notable mobile release to this year’s schedule. RELATED:Crash Bandicoot Mobile Game Reaches 8 Million Downloads Already Afterthe franchise’s repeated successin the form ofN Sane TrilogyandCrash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time,it’s unsurprising that Activision plans to expand this marsupial’s horizons....