Life Is Strange: Double Exposure simultaneously serves as a welcoming return and an exciting leap forward, as fan-favorite protagonist Max Caulfield steps back into the spotlight with new friends, a fresh mystery, and reality-bending abilities. I took the game for a spin during
There’s nothing subtle about the eat-the-rich message at play in Blink Twice, the horror-thriller that adds “director” to the list of hyphenates for actor-producer-writer-model Zoë Kravitz (The Batman, Kimi). This is the kind of movie where people talk in declaratory speeches,
I would also like a six foot-tall Sarevok poster in my office
Apocalypse Now director Francis Ford Coppola’s sci-fi passion project Megalopolis continues to be one of Hollywood’s biggest train wrecks. The latest derailment was a trailer that had to be pulled for fabricating quotes. It’s now being reported that, surprise, the trailer
In Fields of Mistria, there are quite a few romanceable characters that you can woo by giving gifts to. You’ll run into these characters in your day-to-day and those wanting to rush to that romance will need to know exactly what to give them. It should be noted that while there
Water chestnuts are an item you can forage in Fields of Mistria, but unlike the other plants you find around the colorful world, these ones can be pretty hard to see. Pretty early on into the game, Juniper will task you to find water chestnuts. She’ll want two of them, and in
Lilacs are an item you can forage in Fields of Mistria, but if you’re not fully taking in Mistria carefully, you may miss where these spawn. Pretty early on into the game, Juniper will task you to find a lilac. She’ll only need one and as a reward, you’ll get five free dips in
Catfish is one of the many fish you can find in Fields of Mistria, but if you don’t know where to look, it can be hard to find. Pretty early on into the game, Hemlock will request for you to get him a catfish via the request board, in exchange for a recipe to learn […]
Fields of Mistria is an early access farming sim that clearly pulls its inspiration from iconic predecessors that came before it: Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons and Stardew Valley. While playing these games will already give you an idea of what you should be doing in Fields of
Just in case you were wondering, Dying Light protagonist Kyle Crane has been in captivity, suffering the unethical zombie-DNA-splicing experiments of the brutish Baron for the best part of a decade. Yeah. He’s had a pretty rough go of it, but I’m pleased to report that Crane
The summer is winding down, the days are starting to grow shorter, and there’s a new chill in the air at night. It’s the perfect time to catch up on some older games ahead of the September onslaught that kicks off with Star Wars Outlaws’ launch next week. Read more...
Monster Hunter Wilds is looking like it’s going to be one of the biggest games of 2025 already, and its showing at Gamescom is going incredibly well. The game is playable for the first time to the public, and the amount of information coming out of just that preview build is
The layoffs have resulted in a 'majority' of losses for VC South's art team, along with cuts among design and engineering.
The Vessel of Hatred, the first expansion to Diablo IV , is set to release on October 8 and Blizzard dropped a ton of new information about it at Gamescom . That includes more details on the game’s new class , new region, and a few surprise announcements to get players even
The Yellow Wind Sage is the final boss of chapter 2 in Black Myth: Wukong, and he’s much more difficult than most other bosses in the game. He is a mandatory boss and the gut check between you and chapter 3. In this Black Myth: Wukong guide, we’ll walk you through how to find
If genAI has any benefit to game development, Christoph Hartmann believes it lies in getting rid of the 'less boring' parts in the name of creativity.
Concord is a hero-based multiplayer shooter where you run around sci-fi maps on distant planets using pistols, cannons, fireballs and knives to obliterate opponents in familiar modes like “capture the point” and “kill stuff.” There’s nothing in it that’s surprised me or blown
Diablo IV’s first big expansion, Vessel of Hatred , is just a few weeks away. The add-on will bring new stories, quests, and the Spiritborn class on October 8. If you’ve been sleeping on it since it launched last year, the RPG is on sale until September 2. However, if you’re
When Hasbro purchased the D&D Beyond toolset in April 2022, it set off a series of events that effectively turned that platform and its forums into the front page of 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons on the internet. As the pandemic dragged on, new users were funneled into this
Hit the 10 million mark in no time flat.
CEO Christina Seelye explains why physical games still have an important role to play in an increasingly digital-focused industry.
The Animation Guild, a union made up of more than 5,000 workers across the animation industry, is at the bargaining table right now, negotiating a new three-year contract with Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. The guild’s previous contract expired on July 31,
DLC Weapons come with some interesting new abilities and move sets in Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree DLC, which can really shake up your playstyle. There are even new weapon families for you to try, including Wolverine-like Beast Claws. In this Shadow of the Erdtree guide,
Sir Ansbach is one of many NPCs in Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree DLC. You’ll meet him early on in your adventure — in Gravesite Plain — and if you follow his quest, he’ll be with you through the entire expansion. In this Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree guide, I’ll walk
Imaginative bosses are the highlight of Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree, and you’ll find dozens of them scattered throughout the Shadow Realm of the Lands Between. But there are so many invaders, mini-bosses, optional bosses, and story bosses that it can be hard to find the
Dune: Awakening , the survival MMO set in Frank Herbert’s iconic sci-fi world, looks huge. Developer Funcom, the team behind Conan Exiles , showed up at Gamescom with a hefty amount of new gameplay footage to pour over. In addition to giving a release window of early 2025, the
As an open-world survival crafting game, 7 Days to Die thrusts so many different resources and materials in your face. It’s hard for any new player to sift through the baggage to find what’s most valuable, and often hard to actually find the most valuable. For example,
PlayStation's new program offers funding and guidance for MENA developers
GameScience talks about delivering on the promise of Black Myth's viral first video, and making it approachable to English audiences.
To say professional wrestling is a rousing form of entertainment is an understatement. This year alone, fans of World Wrestling Entertainment and All Elite Wrestling have witnessed a Samoan family mafia civil war, a spooky horror villain faction uprising, a gothic cuckoldry
In its first few hours, Red Thread Games’ Dustborn flaunts so many of the qualities I look for in a story-driven adventure game. It’s full of relationship-building with complex characters, has stakes that are just high enough to draw me into the weight of each dialogue choice I
"I’m a Steam customer, but sure wish they had more and better competition."
For years fans have been saying things like, “Why aren’t there any Sims games on Switch?” and “Will we ever see a Sims game on Switch?” Well, now their desperate pleas have been answered with a port of a a Sims spin-off from 2007. Kotaku understands that a remaster of MySims of
When you load into your first world, there’s a chance you could spawn already infected. It’s a kick straight in the butt, as you’re now forced to trudge onward in search of medication. Otherwise, you risk your survival run not featuring an enormous amount of surviving. 7 Days
