Timothy Foster needed something to look forward to when he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma last summer. The 35-year-old software developer, from upstate New York, knew he would have lots of time to kill while he recovered from his chemotherapy infusions, but what is there to do when you're laid up in bed all day? Yes, he had owned an NES and SNES in the '90s, but the last video game he had played in earnest was NCAA Football 14--a beloved 2013 college football simulator that was the final entry in a series that was discontinued following an arcane legal dispute between the powers that be in campus athletics and publisher EA Sports. But the landscape of college football has changed dramatically over the past few years, following a windfall of suddenly legal name, image, and likeness deals that freed up players to make money from outside sources. All this ultimately cleared a path for a revival of the one video game Foster ever truly loved.

Ever wanted to play a computer game based on the poems of Emily Dickinson? Well, now you can, with the release of EmilyBlaster, a 1980s-style game in which players must shoot words out of the sky to correctly recreate Dickinson's verse. EmilyBlaster is a real-life version of the fictional game that a character makes in Gabrielle Zevin's novel Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, out next month. Zevin's book is about Sadie and Sam, who first meet as children in a hospital computer room in 1987. Eight years later, they are reunited and begin to work together making computer games.

"Splatoon 3," the newest edition of the colorful family-friendly combat game, is in development for a 2022 release, the game maker announced during its 50-minute Nintendo Direct reveal on YouTube Wednesday. While Switch players must wait for that one, there's plenty of other games in the Switch pipeline. New items are coming to "Animal Crossing: New Horizons" to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the release of "Super Mario Bros." You can get Mario, Luigi and Princess Peach costumes. You can also order the Super Mushroom and Question Block as furniture and install a pair of Warp Pipes to travel between locations on your island.

The next video game from publisher Electronic Arts started with a simple activity: playing catch. What developed is something far more intense: the dodgeball-inspired action game "Knockout City," which will launch May 21 for PC, PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo Switch. It will be available under a free trial at launch, then cost $19.99. The game, described by its developers as "dodgebrawl," has players compete against each other in a bustling metropolis, working as teams to knock out their opponents with powered-up balls. Even players' characters themselves can become the ball, allowing their teammates to whack an opponent.

Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. Check out what's clicking today in entertainment. Keanu Reeves is taking the video game world by storm. After a long career in action movies and even several appearances on television, the star appeared in the video game "Cyberpunk 2077," which dropped on Thursday. For the game, the 56-year-old actor portrays -- in voice and likeness -- a character by the name of Johnny Silverhand.

Google announced that its new game streaming platform, Stadia, will be released on November 19. People who pre-order the Stadia Founder's Edition will be able to access the service at 9AM PST/5PM BST/6PM CET. The Founder's Edition costs $129 and includes a controller, the company's streaming dongle, the Chromecast Ultra, a three-month Stadia Pro subscription, and a second three-month subscription that can be gifted to a friend. Google Stadia will launch on November 19, letting users stream games over almost any device they wish. Stadia isn't a traditional games platform, but a streaming service that Google is promoting as part of its new emphasis on conservation and reducing waste.

The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening: Nintendo has reimagined this iconic 1991 Game Boy title for Nintendo Switch owners in 2019. It's no secret many of the year's biggest video games debut around the holidays – to capitalize on the all-important gift-giving season, perhaps – but you might be surprised what's new this fall. In fact, September is shaping up to be an unusually big month with a handful of big-name releases bowing this month – a pair of sequels in beloved sci-fi action series, the latest in a best-selling basketball franchise, and the remake of a Nintendo Game Boy classic. While there are other basketball simulation games, NBA's 2K basketball franchise is the best of the best. Landing next week on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Windows PC, "NBA 2K20" (2K/Take-Two Interactive; $59.99, rated Everyone for all ages) is the latest in the celebrated basketball simulation series, which fuses several solo and multiplayer game modes with near-photorealistic graphics.

'SolSeraph' is an'ActRaiser' homage for PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One. Back when flannel-wearing grunge rockers were lighting up the music scene, I remember browsing through the video game section at Video Maniacs – a local Blockbuster competitor in Reno, Nev. At the time, I had already played the heck out of the pack-in game that came with my Super Nintendo, "Super Mario World," as well as "Contra III: The Alien Wars," which I bought on my broke-college student budget. Unable to afford another game, I decided to go the rental route and, after having tried every interesting-looking SNES game at the rental store, I finally decided to give "ActRaiser" a shot. Honestly, the package art wasn't that impressive, which was the reason I didn't rent it right away.

Mario's brother Luigi is the ghostbusting star in'Luigi's Mansion 3,' a new video game coming to Nintendo Switch later this year. LOS ANGELES – Mario is usually front and center for Nintendo, but the video game maker has propelled his brother Luigi to the forefront at this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo. The upcoming game "Luigi's Mansion 3," out later this year for Nintendo Switch, got headlining treatment during the Nintendo Direct online video message Tuesday, just before the doors opened at the E3 expo, which runs through Thursday. The setup: A scary adventure ensues after what Luigi and Mario thought was going to be a fun vacation getaway at an upscale resort, instead turns out to be a trip to haunted hotel. When Mario and Princess Peach go missing, Luigi must become a ghostbuster and find them.

The wait is over as gamers get a glimpse of Activision's 2019 "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare." Activision is set to redeploy "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare." The next edition of the multi-billion dollar video game franchise will harken back to 2007's "Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare," the first entry in the series to depart from a real-world historic conflict to explore modern-day hostilities. Since then, Call of Duty games have gone into the future with "Call of Duty: Black Ops 2" and "COD: Black Ops 3" based in 2025 and 2065, respectively. Originally, the first-person shooting games were set in World War II or the Vietnam War.