During your exploits inDungeons & Dragons, you will probably be focused on making the most of your character’s abilities, both in and out of combat. While the careful choice and use of weapons, skills, and spells means a lot, how you interact with your teammates can speak far louder. The abilities of any class are set up to blend well with the abilities of others, even in ways you may not have thought about....

Quick Links Leveling skills is one of the most tedious parts ofThe Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered. While the game has made some major changes to how most skills are leveled, it can still take hours of your time to hit rank 100 in certain skill categories, notably Athletics and Acrobatics. Fortunately, Virtuous made all disciplines of magic significantly easier to level in the remastered version of Oblivion, now scaling off your spell’s Magicka cost instead of sheer spell quantity....

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33is a game that includesa lot of great characters. Among the most popular is definitely Esquie. He is simply so wholesome and lovable that it’s hard not to find him endearing. He never gets involved in combat, but he helps transport you around the continent, meaning he’s there for almost all of the adventure. Along the way, you can have many conversations with the big guy, typically while you’re chilling at camp....

The RPG genre has come a long way in the decades since Akalabeth was released for the Apple II, especially in the areas of narrative and quest design. However, the oft-dreaded fetch quest remains a crutch for many contemporary RPGs. It’s easy to understand why: fetch quests are essentially filler content. They boost play time without requiring the resource investment necessary for creating a compelling quest, namely quest design, writing, excessive voice acting and so on....

Video games offer us incredible worlds to explore, epic quests to undertake, and even the chance to forge deep connections with pixelated companions. But let’s be honest: while we’re busy saving kingdoms or mastering complex economies, the romantic advice these games subtly impart can be… well, absolutely terrible. From gift-bombing strangers to solving all their problems with brute force, the path to a virtual sweetheart often involves strategies that would land you in serious trouble in the real world....

Some games lure you in with bright colors, charming characters, and playful animations — only to pummel you with brutal difficulty just like anyDark Soulsentry. Whether through unforgiving combat, mind-bending puzzles, or ruthless level design, these titles prove that being cute doesn’t mean being kind. They’re the gaming equivalent of a smiling assassin: approachable on the outside, but merciless beneath the surface. If you’re looking for a challenge wrapped in whimsy, these are deceptively adorable games that will test your patience, skill, and persistence from start to finish....

Summary Dungeons & Dragonscan use nearly any story as an inspiration. From official material like Phandelver or Spelljammer, to The Lord of the Rings, The Witcher, A Song of Ice and Fire, Narnia, or many, many other series we could list. You can use modern, futuristic stories, or even anime. Nothing can stop you from using whatever you want. But there is one world filled with intrigue, its own magical events, and complicated lore of people making terrible decisions and suffering its consequences, and that’s the real world....

If you’ve been keeping up with the news about upcoming gacha games, you’ve likely already heard ofNeverness To Everness. This is an urban open-world gacha that allows you to move freely across the map and even drive your own cars. Yes, finally, a game that has added some form of fast travel without making it restricted to a region or character. However, this game introduces so much more than that to the gacha genre, making the tussle to keep more players between such live-service games even more competitive....

WhileTainted Grail: The Fall Of Avalonisn’t the first game of its kind, it certainly feels like a fresh take on the genre. What does it do differently that makes it stand out? How does it compare to time-vetted titles likeThe Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim, which have been around for well over a decade and still receive support? We’ll dive into the details of what Tainted Grail: The Fall Of Avalon does differently....

Quick Links Attack on Titanis a dark fantasy anime full of mysteries, one that hits you smack-dab in the face the moment you watch the first episode. In a world plagued by man-eating Titans that have allegedly pushed the last of humanity behind three towering walls, you would naturally wonder where the Titans came from. With the existence of Titan Shifters likeEren Jaegerand Annie Leonhart, how do these special breed of Titans differ in origin from the mindless, perpetually bloodthirsty Titans that the Survey Corps faces in their expeditions?...

Summary Pokemon TCG Pocket’sCelestial Guardians set continues the trend started by Shining Revelry by including Shiny Pokemon in the packs. This means you have a slim chance of finding an off-color Pokemon each time you hit the gacha. The Shinies included in Celestial Guardians are complete sets. This means the entire Evolution line gets the Shiny treatment, including their Pokemon ex counterparts. This includes variants from prior sets such as the original Genetic Apex and Shiny versions of cards found natively in Celestial Guardians....

I’m fortunate enough not to fear most video game spiders. They’ve got to be huge to get my heart all anxious-like. There’s a big one inFinal Fantasy 14that haunts my dreams, and Armogohma in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess has never been far behind my mind. For the most part, though, I’m totally OK. Grounded 2is the kind of game that can flip my relatively carefree sensibilities toward arachnids on its head....

Ahead ofRed Bull Instalockthis week, a showmatch tournament featuring some of the best teams in women’sValorantesports, I had the opportunity to speak to Amy “Amy” Lai and Aleyna “Vania” Keskin of G2 Gozen about how it feels to play on the team. G2 Gozen is G2 Esports' women’s Valorant team, with the organisation fielding women’s teams in both Valorant (Gozen) and League of Legends (Hel). G2 Gozen has been among the best female teams in Valorant esports since the scene’s inception several years ago....