Quick Links While helping your Umamusume train and fulfill her career dreams inUmamusume: Pretty Derby, you’ll encounter a variety of events. Some depend on the Support Cards you have equipped, while others are random and can happen regardless of what’s equipped and the Umamusume as your Trainee. One of them will have you encounter Sasami, a strange acupuncturist who claims to have learned techniques from a master acupuncturist and claims that her procedures will never fail....

If you hadn’t heard of The Tiny Chef Show before, you almost certainly have now. An animation announcing the show’s cancellation has gone viral this week. That has prompted those unfamiliar with Tiny Chef to go back and check out some of his greatest hits, including a mock addition forThe Last of Us. The Tiny Chef Show airs on Nickelodeon and is primarily aimed at children. However, Tiny Chef’s animators have used the show’s social media platforms to put the lead character in scenarios that wouldn’t make sense in the show....

When it comes to challenging bosses,Deltarunehas plenty of them to boast of. As you make your way through the Dark World, you’ll find yourself pit against many enemies that you need to get past in order to progress to the next part of your journey. Some enemies however, are only optional to face, and these tend to be the most difficult ones. At the end of chapter three, you’ll find yourself facing Tenna, but you’ll soon find that there is a more sinister presence lurking nearby and this nefarious enemy attacks Tenna before your eyes....

Quick Links Ginormosia is a large area just ready and waiting to be explored inFantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time, where you can find enemies, plenty of places to gather resources,Shrines, and more. While you’re out levelling up your Lives and wondering what you’ll stumble upon next, you may encounter a village that needs a helping hand. There are six villages scattered over Ginormosia that’ll turn into settlements you may use as a base if you help them....

Quick Links Tainted Grail: The Fall Of Avalonlets you explore the dark lands of Avalon, riddled with monsters, apparitions, zombies, and worse. In this merciless place, you will need as much help as you can get, but your best friends will be, by far, the multiple weapons you will discover. During the first hours of the game, you’ll take your first steps in the Horns of the South, a region full of enemies that will try to annihilate you at every step....

Quick Links Dune: Awakeningtakes a lot of inspiration from the Dune films, but also the novels and extended lore of the universe. One of the most direct references that the game makes is to a character from the Dune extended universe known as Count Hasimir Fenring. Though the character doesn’t appear in the films, he does play a decent role in the book series, and in Dune: Awakening. But, who is Count Hasimir Fenring, and why is he important?...

Quick Links Like most other hero PvP shooters,Wildgatedoes have a meta-progression system that allows you to rank up and even display your rank on your player card for optimal bragging rights. However, while there’s a lot that’s familiar about Wildgate’s progression system, which is known as Infamy, there are also a few key distinctions to be aware of before jumping into a match. So, if you’re playing Wildgate, look no further than this guide to understand how to use Infamy....

PlayStationhas usually been pretty good when it comes to the wait between reveals and release, with us coming up tothe release of Ghost of Yotei this Octoberdespite it only having been revealed less than a year ago. It understands that long waits between release and reveal are usually quite annoying for a lot of fans -just ask people still waiting for Hollow Knight: SilksongandThe Elder Scrolls 6. However, it does have one game that we haven’t heard of in a while, and that’sInsomniac’s Wolverine....

Layoffs are bad enough as they are. Lives are disrupted, plans forced to change, careers stalled, years of work lost with nothing to show for it. Microsoft andXbox’s many rounds of layoffs over the last few years have impacted thousands of people, suddenly severing their sources of income and forcing them to look elsewhere for jobs, perhaps even having to uproot their lives and those of their families to relocate, but this is now a mundane kind of tragedy....

Las Vegas-based PM Studios made its convention debut atLVL UP Expolast weekend, an anime and esports convention that introduced game publishers to the exhibitor show floor for the first time this year. While you may not recognize the name, PM Studios is a developer, publisher, and physical media distributor that has been part of a number of high profile games over the last 20 years, including last year’s smash hitBlack Myth: Wukong....

Ah yes, RNG. It’s one of the oldest rivals to gamers of every generation. The Random Number Generator is a programming function that dictates what is “random” in a video game. Since computers can’t be truly random, video games rely on this method for shaking things up. But not all RNG is in our favor. Whether it’s item drop rates, damage values, accuracy, or even world generation, RNG has found lamentable ways of making our gaming experience harder....

It’s hard to imagine now, but there was a point in (semi-recent) gaming history where the prospect of an open world was a flex. However, thanks to the power of oversaturation and the discovery that an open world often means more bloat than anything else, the concept of playinganotheropen world game is eye-roll-inducing. Don’t get us wrong, open-world games can be great, but it can also feel like every new title that comes out has an open world of some sort....

Not every video game is truly original. Some developers take ideas or features from other titles to incorporate them into their own games. This is normal for any art form. Yet, several developers have taken the concept further and created whole games that are remarkably similar to existing titles. To put it simply, they copied other games. Occasionally, however, this works out well, as the copycat game actually turns out to be good and perhaps even launches a full series....