While it may still carry the moniker of its predecessor,Elden Ring Nightreigndiffers pretty dramatically from Elden Ring, and I’m not referring to how the game is structured. In the base version of Elden Ring, consumable items are oftenprettyunderwhelming. However, while Nightreign’s consumables may share the same names, they are considerably more useful. The truth is, players are still leaving too many items behind in the mad dash to hit every boss....

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4is here, providing the older gamers among us with a hit of nostalgia while giving a new generation of fans the chance to play polished versions of more games from the series. While the remaster’s arrival has been largely celebrated, there’s been widespread confusion regarding how exactly we’re supposed to access the game’s teased Bikini Bottom area. The inclusion ofSpongeBob SquarePantscontent in Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 has been teased ever since the game was shown off during April’sSwitch 2Direct....

Back in December 2013, an ambitious space-faring adventure calledNo Man’s Skywas revealed by independent studioHello Games. It garnered much more attention in 2014 following Sony’s marketing push at E3 that year, and the scale of its ambition and hype began to snowball. I won’t give you the whole tale you already know, but Hello Games’ ambition exceeded its grasp when the game finally launched in 2016. Fast forward almost a decade, and No Man’s Sky is one of the most impressive, colossal, and strongest live-service games ever made, without being driven by persistent microtransactions or any kind of additional purchases at all....

The Legend of Zeldaseries has been ongoing for decades, and it’s a franchise that isn’t a stranger to reinvention. There are very few entries in the series that feellike a direct continuationfrom something before it, and even those that are, have new features and mechanics to help them stand out from their predecessors. With the Zelda series constantly starting afresh, it means that there have been some fantastic mechanics that only got one chance to show off, and have now been relegated to a page in Hyrule’s history books....

Quick Links It won’t take you a lot of progress inRune Factory: Guardians Of Azumato realize that a lot of the game’s combat relies on your stats. You can see these stats on both your character and your allies, and they single-handedly decide the outcome of most battles, allowing you to even defeat much higher-level enemies with good stats. There are many ways to increase these stats, but the most important thing is to understand exactly what they do first....

Quick Links Traversal and exploration are two of the most important elements of gameplay inDune: Awakening. Early on in the game, you’ll be instructed on how to use a Survey Probe to populate your map with details on resources, dungeon locations, and more. While this is great for the Hagga Basin, where most of Dune: Awakening’s action takes place, you might need a more useful tool in the Deep Desert, Dune: Awakening’s PvP area....

Quick Links In real life Japan, there are a massive variety of gacha machines, including capsule types, and much like real life,Persona 5: The Phantom Xincludes its own set of capsule machines you can try your luck at. They won’t be giving you characters or weapons you can use though. Instead, the Capsule Machines give out small collectible figures that you can decorate the character’s display case at their home with....

Xbox Game Passalways sounded like a model that was too good to be true, and now, it turns out that it might have been just that. It’s being claimed thatXbox’s insistence thatGame Pass is profitabledoesn’t exactly give us the full picture, and that the calculations were not taking the cost of developing first-party games into account. This comes courtesy of Christopher Dring, editor-in-chief of The Game Business. He says that he asked Xbox for clarification on its claims that Game Pass was profitable, and was told that “no first-party costs are included” in these calculations....

The following article contains spoilers for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’s first act. Summary Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’sexcellent prologueremains memorable, even after dozens of hours of playing the game. This section emphasises the stakes of the game’s primary conflict and reminds us of what we’re fighting for while on the Continent. The prologue also introduces us to Gustave, Maelle and several other characters. Although the section of the prologue that occurs before the gommage is primarily concerned with the brief rekindling of Sophie and Gustave’s relationship, you can actually spot a couple of characters who will become relevant later....

For nearly four decades and counting,The Legend of Zeldahas charmed players across the world with some of the finest exploration and puzzle-solving in the medium, not to mention the depth of its worldbuilding, and the charm of its eclectic casts of characters. As with any dedicated fandom, then, the race has always been on for those with enough disposable income to secure the coolest collectibles on the market. And The Legend of Zelda has had alotof cool collectibles....

We all have a favorite A button. Some of us fell in love with the iconic green chunk on the GameCube controller. Others preferred the subtle snap of a DS Lite. And then there are those who still think the N64 was a perfectly reasonable shape for human hands (we’re concerned, but we respect your truth). In this extremely serious, not-at-all-silly breakdown, we’re zooming in, literally and metaphorically, on the A button through Nintendo history....

Quick Links In a state-of-the-art facility likeAbiotic Factor’sGATE, you’ll come across a ton of advanced technology, some born of scientists on Earth and some from fantastic realms reachable through portals. One of the most common and humble, compared to the others, is the Power Cell. A lot of different mechanical and technological items in GATE run on Power Cells, but between some prior research and the catastrophic events that occurred during your orientation, they’re not easily available....

Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobylhas been announced for PlayStation 5, signalling the end of the game’s timed Xbox Series X/S exclusivity. It’s rare to see a timed console exclusive not tied to a first-party developer, given Sony and Microsoft’s penchant for acquiring every major independent studio under the sun. Final Fantasy 16 is an example of a non-first-party timed exclusive on PlayStation 5, while Stalker 2 satisfies the same criteria for Xbox....