I Will Never Forgive Bethesda For Starfield’s Maps

I’ve only just started playingStarfield, and I’m already mad atBethesda. I’ve been making my way slowly through the game’s introduction and landed on Jemison a little while ago, and decided I would take my time doing some side quests before jetting off to another planet and amassing more tasks. I like to clear my little shopping list of quests before it gets too long and overwhelming to handle, and with a game as big as Starfield, I’m likely to find myself completely overrun with errands for strangers within hours....

June 14, 2025 · 4 min · 740 words · Sean Hudson

In This Busy Gaming Year, Don’t Sleep On Your Local Library

2023 has been a very busy year for great game releases (though a terrible year for the people who make the games we love). And if you’re trying to keep up with every game that launches to critical acclaim, it’s probably going to take a toll on your bank account. There are deals that can help you get around that. I got access toHi-Fi Rush,Venba,Cocoon, andLies of PthroughXbox Game Pass, and am planning to attempt to make time forLike a Dragon: Ishin!...

June 14, 2025 · 3 min · 530 words · Jerry Hernandez

Mortal Kombat 1's Stryker Is Still A Cop

Stryker is one of the more questionableMortal Kombatcharacters. His entire premise is that he’s a trigger-happy cop on a power trip, with one of his MK9 fatalities even making light of police brutality. Given that his look was stripped back with much of the police memorabilia removed inMK1, it seemed as though NetherRealm was distancing itself from this depiction. Nope, he’s still a cop. He’s not a fully-fledged fighter in MK1, but he doesappear as a kameo....

June 14, 2025 · 3 min · 448 words · Mary Martinez

Most Stunning Castle Builds In Minecraft

If you have spent time building different houses or bases in the popular sandbox gameMinecraft, chances are you have seen some players create some genuinely stunning structures. As the game is made up completely out of blocks, chunkier structures such as medieval castles really shine within the game’s landscape, but they can be pretty difficult to pull off. Related:Minecraft: Best Starter Houses For Survival Luckily there are numerous amounts of building tutorials online, each with the sole purpose of guiding you through these challenging and lengthy building processes....

June 14, 2025 · 5 min · 1051 words · William Davis

Movie Directors Who Worked With Video Games

Summary Hollywood’s directors are some of the most inventive creatives in the entertainment industry. The amount of planning that goes into producing a movie is immense, and the technical abilities required to understand how to a shoot a movie in the first place are hard to master. Truly, Hollywood’s top directors have some incredible talent. However, many directors don’t just stick to film. There are plenty who go like to explore directing across different entertainment mediums, including video games....

June 14, 2025 · 6 min · 1089 words · Sara Johnson

Nendoroid Makers Have Released Lucy And David Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Plushes

Cyberpunk 2077owes its miraculous recovery to a few things. While the work behind the scenes that has gone into fixing the game and the success of its Phantom Liberty expansion are the two big ones, there’s no doubting Edgerunners also had a part to play. An anime set in Night City that wound up being a hit onNetflixin 2022 despite the rocky launch of the game from which it’s spun. There’s a reason there are so many references to Edgerunners in Cyberpunk’s DLC....

June 14, 2025 · 3 min · 536 words · Elizabeth Cox

Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2's First DLC Fighters Have Leaked

A reliable platform fighter leaker has seemingly revealed the first four DLC characters coming toNickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2, and they’re going to be some pretty controversial choices. Ever since Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2’s roster was first leaked, it’s been a bit controversial, to say the least. Although the new additions like Jimmy Neutron, the Angry Beavers, and Squidward are widely looked upon as good choices, the characters that have been removed like CatDog, Toph, Sandy, and two of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,have caused a lot of fans to be disappointed....

June 14, 2025 · 3 min · 490 words · Adrienne May

Nintendo Has "No Plans" For Tears Of The Kingdom DLC

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wildhad three waves of DLC, but Nintendo has “no plans to release additional content” forTears of the Kingdom. “That’s because I feel like I’ve done everything I can to create games in that world,” producer Eiji Aonuma said in an interview withFamitsu. “The reason we chose [to make] a sequel to the previous game in the first place is because we thought there would be value in experiencing a new kind of way to play in that Hyrule....

June 14, 2025 · 3 min · 437 words · Cassandra Pena

Old Rockstar Games Might Be Broken Because Of Anti-Piracy Measures

If you’ve ever felt that oldRockstargames perform poorly onPC, you’re not alone. Many fans have long complained of performance issues, but it had largely been put down to their age, and the fact that they’re having to run on operating systems that didn’t exist when they were released. That, however, might not be the reason at all. Fans online have found evidence of what appears to be cracked game files in the official releases ofMax Payne 2, Midnight Club 2, andManhunt....

June 14, 2025 · 3 min · 551 words · Mandy Parker

Retro Games Over 10 Years Old You Can Still Enjoy Today

Summary Retro gaming—when controllers had fewer buttons than a microwave, and ‘saving your game’ often meant scribbling down a 30-character code on a scrap of paper or buying a special cartridge for games likeOcarina of Time. If those memories don’t hit you right in the nostalgia, then maybe you’re too young to remember dial-up internet. Related:Classic Games Exclusive To PC In the last few years, retro gaming has skyrocketed in popularity, and it’s not just among those who grew up in the ’80s or ’90s....

June 14, 2025 · 4 min · 850 words · Mark Mccoy

Scorpion's New Identity Is Mortal Kombat 1's Best Change

One of the big promises thatMortal Kombat 1has been making through its promotional material since it was first revealed is that all of the characters that we know aregoing to be “reimagined” in Liu Kang’s new era. In practice, though, that doesn’t really end up being the case. There are a few examples of characters being significantly tweaked. Liu Kang is a god, Mileena is now a loveable heir to the throne rather than a cannibal clone, and Reptile is no longer a snarling force for evil....

June 14, 2025 · 4 min · 641 words · Angel Hendrix

Should You Steal The ES Award?

Quick Links There are many opportunities to earn credits inStarfield, though not as many are as lucrative and elegant as infiltrating a Trident starliner. As part of your undercover work, you’ll be working alongside Delgado and his associates to find the lost LEgacy of Jasper Kryx, a Crimson Fleet legend. This mission requires more diplomacy than stealth, with steep consequences for going in guns blazing. To get the information you need, you’ll have to socialize with the elite and dig up dirt on your target to be successful....

June 14, 2025 · 6 min · 1068 words · David Smith

Sonic Frontiers Players Are Spamming Pause To Beat Master King Koco's Trials

Sonic Frontiersplayers are having so much difficulty with the Master Trials rematches against Giganto and other bosses that they’re spamming the pause button and stomp moves to get through them. In case you haven’t seen all of us Sonic fans having a meltdown on Twitter -Sonic Frontiers' Final Horizon update is brutally difficult. It seems that Kishimoto heard all of us laughing at how easy the base game was and decided to punish us for it because, whether it’s climbing the Trial Towers or putting up with Knuckles' control scheme, Frontiers' third update has got hands....

June 14, 2025 · 3 min · 470 words · Charles Goodwin