PlayStation’s Best-Selling Games, DualShock Colors and More Revealed

Today marks five years since Sony launched the PlayStation 4, and the company took the opportunity to release some sales info and to announce a new Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 bundle.

In a PlayStation Blog post, Senior Vice President of PlayStation Worldwide Marketing Eric Lempel revealed Sony has sold more than 86.1 million PlayStation 4 consoles and 777.9 million pieces of software to date. Lempel also shared PlayStation 4’s five best-selling games (in alphabetical order):

Sid Meier’s Civilization VI for Switch

When I first reviewed Civilization VI back in 2016, here’s what I had to say about it as I awarded it a score of 9.4 (for amazing) and nominated it for game of the year:

“Civilization VI will go down in history as the most fully-featured launch version in the series. Many of those are smartly revamped versions of Civ classics, but it finds its own identity with great new ideas like spread-out cities, customizeable governments, research boosts, and leader agendas. And even though the AI has some improving to do, it can put up enough of a fight to make world domination a challenge.”

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13 Best Zombie Games of All Time

Zombies make marvelous antagonists. They’re plodding dark mirrors parodying our society’s short sightedness. They’re plentiful and emotionless eaters of flesh, which makes them perfect cannon fodder for action films and twitch shooters. Their wasted visages serve the purposes of both horror and humor with equal effectiveness. They’ve been a part of the video game landscape for decades – so long that they’ve carved out their own subgenre: the “zombie game.”

Strangely, the still-shambling corpses of the damned have been important to some of gaming’s more notable narratives and innovations.

Here are the 13 best zombie games of all time.

13. Zombies Ate My Neighbors

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Marvel’s Uncanny X-Men Relaunch Is Frustratingly Bad

The past 18 months have marked a rare period in Marvel’s history where there’s been no ongoing Uncanny X-Men comics. Sure, there have been plenty of other X-books during that time, but no clear contender for the flagship book of the line. Therein lies the appeal of the newest volume of Uncanny X-Men. Not only does it just feel right to have Uncanny as a regular part of the Marvel lineup, it’ll be nice to have the franchise re-center itself around one book and one central conflict. That was the hope, anyway. Judging from the first issue, Uncanny X-Men won’t be the cure-all solution this franchise has been needing.

With this relaunch, Marvel is basically applying the Avengers: No Surrender formula to the X-Men line, bringing together multiple writers for one weekly epic. That story in this case is called “X-Men Disassembled,” an obvious nod to 2004’s status quo-shattering “Avengers Disassembled” storyline. The hope is that this new series will have a similar impact on the X-Men, providing a fresh jumping-on point, an exciting new mutant conflict and a general quality boost for a franchise that’s been all over the place for the past four years.

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Jack Reacher Author Says Streaming TV Reboot in the Works Without Tom Cruise

Lee Child, the author who created and penned 23 Jack Reacher novels and various short stories, has confirmed that a TV reboot of his prolific series is on the way, albeit without Tom Cruise in the titular role.

In an interview with BBC Radio, Child claimed that, despite various fitting qualities, Cruise was simply too short for the role, clocking in at 5’7”. Jack Reacher, on the other hand, is supposed to be 6’5” tall.

“I really enjoyed working with Cruise. He’s a really, really nice guy,” said Child. “We had a lot of fun, but ultimately the readers are right. The size of Reacher is really, really important and it’s a big component of who he is. The idea is that when Reacher walks into a room, you’re all a little nervous just for that first minute. And Cruise, for all his talent, didn’t have that physicality.

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The Avengers #10 Teases a Thrilling Future for Earth’s Mightiest Heroes

Marvel is taking a surprisingly subdued approach to the release of The Avengers #10. This issue also happens to be the 700th Avengers comic overall. But rather than officially renumbering the series yet again or drawing in all sorts of guest creative teams to celebrate the franchise’s long history, this issue simply focuses on the road ahead. It’s impossible not to be excited for the future of the franchise after reading this issue.

One of the great things about Aaron’s Avengers run is that it taps into elements that fueled two of the best Avengers runs of the 21st Century – Brian Bendis’ original New Avengers and Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch’s The Ultimates. You can see the former in this small, eclectic band of heroes Aaron has assembled for this new incarnation of the Avengers. It’s a an enjoyable blend of traditional favorites and unusual picks, with the end result being a fun and slightly dysfunctional team dynamic. It’s not everyday you see Thor turning to Captain Marvel for help in his middle school-level relationship with Hulk.

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