The PSOne celebrates its 25th anniversary this week. This miniature version of thePlayStationlaunched just after the PS2 as a cheaper, more portable option so us latch key kids wouldn’t feel left out, and/or to confuse grandmas at the toy store - something every tech company seems to love doing. Looking back at my love affair with the PSOne, there are still a lot of games we talk about all the time....

Baldur’s Gate 3has a lot of reactivity, so much so that players arestill finding secrets tucked away. One of these involves some major characters from Act 1 popping up again in Act 2, if you make some very specific choices. As Reddit user piwithekiwi discovered, Dror Ragzlin can be brought back as an enemy zombie in Act 2. Others in the replies say he’s not the only one and have also come acrossMintharaand Nere during this section of the game, depending on their choices....

Summary InBaldur’s Gate 3, you have two ways to start your adventure: byselecting a preset Origin characteror building your own from scratch. The Origin characters include the six main companions, but alsoThe Dark Urge, who is customisable. All of the Origins give you a set backstory, and then let you play out the rest of the journey however you wish. But what if you wanted to spice these Origins up a little?...

When you look at the best games of this year onMetacritic, you see games like the incredibleClair Obscur: Expedition 33,Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2,Death Stranding 2: On The Beach,Monster Hunter Wilds, andSplit Fiction. It shows what fantastic shape 2025 is already in, buoyed even further by the fact thatmany of this year’s top titles have come from indie or double-A studios. As we round out the first half of 2025, though, one major Japanese outlet has decided to poll its audience on the region’s Game of the Year so far, and there are a handful of surprising omissions....

Dungeons & Dragonsfeatures a plethora of powerful and deadly monsters, ranging from dragons - as the name suggests - to liches, mind flayers, demons, and devils, as well as the notorious Tarrasque. It also has cute creatures, silly monsters, and some plain old wacky concepts here and there. Still, there are some instances where silliness and deadliness combine. Veterans might be aware of the dangers that lie ahead here. Still, for newcomers, it can be an interesting shock that a fungus or a big gelatin-looking monster is actually dangerous....

Devil May Cry 5is over six years old now, but Capcom still hasn’t given any updates about the series' future. While there have been murmurs, withcreator Hideki Kamiya saying that he wants to remake the original, the departure of director Hideaki Itsuno from the company has left many fansworried that they won’t see a sequel anytime soon. That hasn’t stopped the community from calling on Capcom to make one, though, and they’re not alone....

Quick Links Wuchang: Fallen Feathersis a soulslike, and a pretty tough one at that, meaning that any advantage you can gain while playing could make a huge difference to the outcome of some fights. It also doesn’t do a great job at explaining some things, with plenty of things you can overlook or misunderstand, so here are a bunch of tips and tricks you’ll want to know before you dive in....

The colorfulMario serieshas many characters, from the sharp-shelled Bowser to the bubbly, ready-for-action Princess Daisy; every one of them is iconic. One of the series' most memorable is the lovable ape Donkey Kong and his barrel-throwing antics.Donkey Kong’s own seriesalso has just as many eccentric characters, and even his own family in the DK crew. This group of Kongs are DK’s closest friends, and they always lend him a hand to help take down whoever stole his beloved bananas....

Do you know whichStreet Fightercharacter is cool? Ryu. He’s stoic, strong, determined, and his whole life is about dedicating himself to the art of fighting. That’s very cool. But what if he dressed in black and killed people? Well, you’d get Evil Ryu. But before there was Evil Ryu, there was Akuma. He was the Venom to Ryu’s Spider-Man. There is only one way to really sell a character like Akima: you need to make him lethal....

Even if you’ve been collectingPokemon TCGcards for years, you might be wondering what in the world Trainer’s Toolkits are. In short, these Toolkits were introduced in June 2020 as a way to encourage and inform competitive deck-building strategies for you to employ in real games. Since they’re primarily sources of competitive cards, Trainer’s Toolkits remain fairly affordable collector’s items, as these cards were intended to be used rather than collected. However, as sealed product collections continue to become more popular to compile, these previously disregarded products are beginning to rise in price, as they become more difficult to find....

Summary While we do know that the next big season ofFortnitewill focus on superheroes, including some tie-in with James Gunn’s upcoming Superman movie, it seems like the current season ofEpic Games' live-service battle royale,which is centered on Star Wars, has done little to keep longtime players engaged. Specifically, in the month of May, Fortnite experienced a record-low player count, one it hadn’t experienced since 2023. Star Wars Was Seemingly Not A Hit In Fortnite As first reported by Dexerto, Fortnite saw an average of 1,043,448 players, including a peak of 2,356,174 players,according to the stats on the website Fortnite....

Judging by how wellForza Horizon 5did onXboxconsoles, it was obvious it would do well when released for PS5. But, even Sony must be surprised by how fast Playground Games' flagship racing title has closed in on the top dogs on the PlayStation 5 platform, even including the PlayStation-exclusive Game of the Year winner,Astro Bot. When it launched earlier in 2025 for PlayStation 5,Forza Horizon 5 was received extraordinarily well. In May, it wasreported that Forza Horizon 5 was performing betterthan the other two pillars that made their way to PS5 from Xbox (Indiana Jones and The Great Circle, andSea of Thieves), essentially doubling up sales of the other two games combined....

Realism is a pretty vague concept in video games. We use games to gun down hordes of zombies, rule empires, soar across the galaxy, and plunder treasure from lost tombs, yet there remains a demand that these fantasies feel authentic. The rise of open-world survival games has opened the floodgates of realism-as-gameplay as devs scramble to starve, freeze, and bleed characters in the most lifelike ways possible, andScum, which launched out of early access on June 17, shows that we’re taking all the wrong lessons from the realism arms race....