The nominees for the 21st DICE Awards have been revealed, and Horizon Zero Dawn leads the pack with a whopping 10 nominations.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild received a total of six nominations, while Cuphead, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, and Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, each garnered five.

The nominees for Game of the Year include Horizon: Zero Dawn, Cuphead, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, and Super Mario Odyssey.

Check out the full list of nominees below:

• Cuphead
• For Honor
• Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
• Horizon Zero Dawn
• Uncharted: The Lost Legacy

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The Walking Dead has been renewed for Season 9, but there are changes afoot.

Writer and co-executive producer Angela Kang is being promoted to showrunner for the upcoming season, which will premiere in late 2018, while current showrunner Scott Gimple is being elevated to a new role as Chief Content Officer of what AMC describes as "the entire Dead television universe, including The Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead, and potential brand extensions on a variety of platforms."

The move makes sense as The Walking Dead and Fear begin to converge -- this season will see Walking Dead character Morgan Jones (Lennie James) cross over to Fear, and Gimple was recently added as an executive producer on the prequel series. The vote of confidence in Gimple from AMC seems to hint that there may be more spinoffs or companion shows ahead.

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Arc System Works has announced BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle will be released in North America on June 5.

The developer shared the news in a post on its official website (via Gematsu), where it also announced the fighting game will launch in Japan on May 31.

In addition, Arc System Works announced Blake Belladonna from the anime-inspired web series RWBY will be added to the roster as a playable fighter as one of the game's 20 DLC characters. The base game will feature a 20-character roster that includes Persona 4's Yu, Ragna the Bloodedge from BlazBlue, Hyde from Under Night In-Birth, and RWBY's Ruby Rose.

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Though the Monster Hunter World betas let us experiment extensively with all 14 weapons, they aren’t great representations of what the game’s online experience will be like at launch. We were able to play the first 12 hours in a preview build with multiplayer compatibility, and learned a lot. Here are nine cool things about Monster Hunter World co-op, and one not so great thing, that we think you should know about.

Before I get into the meat of online co-op, let’s just get this out of the way: You can play the entire game with no internet connection, by yourself. I don’t recommend it, as one of the huge draws of Monster Hunter is the ability to hunt with three friends, but you can. At least now the voice-acting and more robust story may make single-player feel more like a traditional campaign, and you do have a Felyne Palico friend. Speaking of offline play, there is also no couch co-op, and (sadly) there never has been.

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Daniel Radcliffe, star of the Harry Potter films, has spoken up about the decision to keep Johnny Depp on as Gillert Grindelwald in the upcoming Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.

Speaking to EW, Radcliffe said "it's a very hard thing for me," because he wants to support the producers who gave him "a great start in life and an amazing job." He avoided taking a stand one way or another, for or against the decision to keep Depp on.

Depp has been accused of abuse by his ex-wife Amber Heard. Heard released photos of herself, bruised and battered, allegedly at the hands of Depp.

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Solo: A Star Wars Story has had a bumpy road to the screen, after original directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller were booted from the movie mid-filming and replaced by Ron Howard for a lengthy reshoot.

But the stars are feeling optimistic about the project despite the behind-the-scenes drama. Fleabag creator and star Phoebe Waller-Bridge is playing an unrevealed (but reportedly CGI-based) role in Solo, and spoke to IGN about the experience of working with Howard while promoting her upcoming BBC America thriller Killing Eve at the Television Critics Association winter press tour.

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The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) has issued a statement regarding President Donald Trump's recently reported comments allegedly regarding immigrants from countries like Haiti and El Salvador.

The Washington Post reported President Trump referred to these places as "s******e countries" while discussing protecting immigrants from those countries as well as some African nations.

The ESA, the owners and operators of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), posted the statement on Twitter, saying "America's greatness is built on our diversity." The company's full statement reads:

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Even though CES is for consumer electronics, there was still a good amount of PC hardware demos this year. Everything from new mice and keyboards to giant displays and impossibly small PCs were on-hand. Below, we've collected what we think were the most notable announcements. 

Razer Mamba HyperFlux

Razer is jumping aboard the “charging mat” bandwagon with its $250 Mamba HyperFlux mouse/mat combo. Unlike Logitech’s PowerPlay system whereby the mouse surface is able to charge the battery inside the mouse, Razer’s design eschews the battery completely as the mouse pulls power directly from the mat, making the mouse a bit lighter than it would be otherwise. Both the mouse and the mat offer RGB illumination, and they’ll be showing up in the first quarter of 2018. We expect other HyperFlux mice to follow as well.

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