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Next week, Archie Comics will release Archie’s Valentine’s Spectacular. The new seasonal one-shot collects classic Archie romance stories, and features a brand-new tale, “More Than Meets The Eye,” which introduces Cassie Cloud, another new member of the Riverdale gang. The new story is written by Jamie L. Rotante, pencilled by Holly G!, inked by Jim Amash, colored by Glenn Whitmore, and lettered by Jack Morelli. Today, ahead of the one-shot’s release, The Beat is pleased to offer an early preview of the issue’s new…

God of War Ragnarok has the most nominations at the 2023 DICE Awards, with a total of 12. Horizon Forbidden West has eight, followed by Elden Ring with seven. In addition to those three, Stray and Vampire Survivors are contenders for Game of the Year. Immorality, Vampire Survivors, Moss: Book II, and Tunic have all received four nominations. A grand total of 61 games have been nominated across 23 categories. The full list of nominations is below.The DICE Awards nominees are chosen by members of the…

Horizon and Elden Ring are just behind Ragnarok in nominations The nominees for the 26th annual DICE Awards are out, honoring everything the industry had to offer over the last year. From God of War Ragnarok to Elden Ring, there’s some stiff competition for the top spot. The DICE Awards, put on by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences, will be held on Thursday, Feb. 23 as the end of week-long 2023 D.I.C.E. Summit. Academy members will be able to start voting today, Jan. 12, on which games will receive the big…

In an entirely predictable turn of events, Joe Lynch’s Knights of Badassdom has spent the last decade cultivating a reputation as an unsung cult classic, which was always going to happen given the sum of its parts. We’re talking about a horror comedy with fantasy and supernatural elements that finds a bumbling band of LARPers accidentally summon a real-live succubus into their midst after reading an incantation from a “prop” book that turned out to be all too real, plunging them into a genuine battle for survival that…

You are given N and an integer X, where N represents the number of dice. You have to arrange those dices in such a way that the visible number of faces are as minimum as possible and the sum of visible faces is as maximum as possible. The task is to check if the sum of values on the visible faces is at least X or not.Approach: The problem is observation based and can be solved by using the Greedy Approach for getting the maximum possible sum. For more clarification follow the below illustration.The problem can be solved…

Photo: Linda Codega/GizmodoEarlier this week, while preparing for a tabletop role playing game, I was perusing my dice, trying to pick out a set of polyhedral dice (which consist of seven dice: a D4, D6, D8, two D10s, D12, and a D20) that would best fit my Dragonborn Monk, Teimuraz. I found a set still in its packaging—my red-and-silver Crimson Nebula dice from Dispel Dice—and immediately knew that these were exactly the vibe for Teimuraz. Choosing dice for a character is important! You have to get a good vibe. But there…

Electronic Arts is getting one piece of the Battlefield band back together. David Sirland--who previously worked on Battlefield V, Battlefield 1, and Battlefield 4--has returned to DICE as a lead producer for the franchise.Sirland announced the move on Twitter, stating, "things really are very different (in a good way)." The new lead producer added that he's "eager to make the future of Battlefield brighter and better than ever!"(1/2) Well, hello again @battlefield community - I’m back! This time around,…

Battlefield creative director Lars Gustavsson is leaving EA Dice to seek a “new adventure,” parting ways with the studio he’s been with for over 20 years. In a blog post published yesterday (September 8), EA confirmed Gustavsson’s departure. “Creative director Lars Gustavsson, who has been with the franchise since the beginning and is affectionately known as Mr Battlefield, has decided he is ready for a new adventure,” wrote Battlefield general manager Byron Beede. “We would like to thank him for his invaluable…

Battlefield is going back to a narrative campaign. EA has established Ridgeline Games, a new studio dedicated to the Battlefield franchise, that will focus on creating a proper campaign mode — a component that has been lacking in recent entries. The studio is headlined by Halo co-creator Marcus Lehto, who will lead the Seattle-based team, composed of industry veterans. “We're all in on the future of Battlefield!” EA said on Twitter, albeit it remains tight-lipped about the new experience and a release window.“It is a…

What a cool physical take on the mini-game Have you ever become so absorbed in a mini-game or side activity that it starts to overshadow the main game? It can be hard to pull yourself away! The most recent example I can point to is Cult of the Lamb and its snappy dice game, Knucklebones. This game is compelling enough that players are sticking with it long after they’ve toppled all of the competitors and no longer need extra money earned from bets. Much like the fishing mini-game, Knucklebones is meant to flesh out the…