Gooners rejoice,Stellar Bladeis finally coming toPCnext month. While the date hasn’t been confirmed by Shift Up or Sony quite yet,a leaked trailerreveals it’s coming to Steam June 11. So you’ve got less than a month until you can dress Eve up on a brand-new platform, with plenty of fresh threads to boot. First launched as aPS5exclusive last April, Stellar Blade sold over a million copies in its first month and attracted a community of dedicated fans....

Quick Links Persona 5: The Phantom Xnarrates the story of another group of Phantom Thieves, assembled by the mysterious Lufel and led by the even more mysterious Wonder, a seemingly normal teenager who seems to be hiding something underneath his memories. As the protagonist of this story, Wonder will always be part of your party regardless of which characters you choose, and the Wild Card ability lets him equip and use numerous Personas, making him the most versatile character in the game by a long shot....

Open-world games are everywhere now, but they had to start somewhere. Long beforesprawling mapsand side quests became standard, a few early titles dared to break away from linear gameplay. These games gave players freedom, exploration, and choice at a time when most games kept you on a strict path. Some were clunky. Others were way ahead of their time. But all of them helped shape the open-world genre we know today....

Summary Much like the games, HBO’sThe Last of Ushas fans split. While there are those that have been complaining about the casting,especially Bella Ramsey as Ellie, many fans are unhappy with the writing of the show. Season 2 especially has been getting a lot of flack due to the dramatic change in the narrative progression, whichwill now develop over three more seasons. While The Last of Us Part 2 told Ellie and Abby’s stories parallelly, the show has dedicated a season to each of them....

Summary Most of the time, if you’re playing aLegend of Zeldagame, you’re spending your days questing in the wilderness or deep in a cavernous dungeon. However, it’s always important to break your journey in a town or village, enjoying minigames or side quests. For me, whenever I pass through one of these iconic Legend of Zelda towns, I can’t help but think what it might be like to live there....

Strategy games are notorious time sinks. They’re the kind of games you boot up for an hour and somehow end up playing until 3 a.m. But some of them take that time commitment to a whole new level. I’m talking campaigns that span generations, matches that last literal days, and grand strategies where you barely scratch the surface at 100 hours. After years of playing these games (and a few all-nighters I don’t regret too much), I’ve put together a list of the longest strategy games ever made, ranked by how much time you’ll realistically spend if you try to see them through....

The PlayStation 2 library contains a huge amount of cult classics and best-selling games compared to other consoles like the original Xbox, but that doesn’t mean they are all 10 out of 10 perfect games. The console has definitely had some pretty poor performances, but most of them were either beloved during their time or just simply don’t hold up to today’s standards. Being a step up from the original PlayStation, many games were hyped up to be some of the most revolutionary experiences in gaming, but overhyping is a dangerous line to tread if you’re a video game developer....

Dark Ritual is one of the most iconicMagic: The Gatheringcards of all time. Released in the very first set of the game, Dark Ritual is a staple in every format it’s legal in, from the casual Commander format to the highest-powered formats of Legacy and Vintage. Dark Ritual is the reason why cards that add mana to your mana pool are called rituals in the first place. It ramps you up and gets you ahead on mana, and it is one of the best black cards ever printed....

ThePokemon Trading Card Gameis in a horrible place for collectors right now. Awful pull rates aside, sealed products are continually impossible to get hold of, withprices reaching extortionate heights on the secondary market, and the same goes for single cards, with the most recent instance seeing random promos from the Sun and Moon eraskyrocketing by up to 880 percent. There was some indication thatthe bubble might be in the process of burstingback in May, but that turned out to be a false dawn....

TheSwitch 2version of Star Wars Outlawslooks a little disappointing. My colleague James Lucas compared the visuals to Virtuos' Switch port of Obsidian’sThe Outer Worlds, and I can’treallydisagree. Outlaws looked vibrant on PS5 but a bit murky on Switch 2, with far less detail and muddier textures. It won’t be the best place to play the game. But, on the off chance you haven’t heard, theSwitch 2 is the fastest-selling console of all-time....

Earlier this month,we all thought we were getting our first lookatThe Witcher 4’s gameplay.CD Projekt Redhad to step in and say it was just a tech demo, showing off what the team is playing around with as it works on the long-awaited sequel. Since then, the devs have tried to get us to adjust our expectations. We’ve already heard that 60fps on console,especially Xbox Series S, isfar from guaranteed at this stage....

Summary Some games give you 72 hours to solve a mystery before the entire town is nuked and all is lost. Other games have a clock where certain events happen at specific points in the day. Miss out on them, and you’ll need to go back in time and try again. Sometimes, you just want to enjoy the story at your own pace. Not every game will pressure you to complete the story....

Video games have been around for a long time now. What you might consider to be a childhood game is now thought of as a retro title. Sheesh. The passage of time comes for all of us, and all that. While some games show their age and end up needing remakes to appeal to a modern audience, other games hide how old they are remarkably well. In most cases, this is because the game developers opted for stylized graphics, rather than aiming for ‘realistic’ ones....