Everyone has that game that just hits different, for some reason. It’s impossible to quantify, you couldn’t explain why if someone asked, it’s just that game you know you can fire up when you’re having one of those days, and it’s going to help. There are a huge variety of games that can do this for people, and they don’t necessarily all have to becozy, chill games. Some people get good vibes from building a nice place, other people get good vibes from doing everything in their power to not die....

Quick Links Before you can truly makeDisney Dreamlight Valleyfeel like home, you’ll have to unlock and befriend villagers that provide unique rewards and quests. The characters you unlock early on vary greatly across the Disney and Pixar canon, providing a variety of familiar faces for you to invite back to the Valley. The Cheshire Cat is a whimsical feline, and you’ll have to go along with his antics if you want to get anything done....

Quick Links Tainted Grail: The Fall Of Avalonbrings you into a fantasy world, where your path will connect with the legend of Arthur Pendragon. Once you reach Avalon, however, you will find a place that’s far from being the stuff of legends; instead, you’ll need to arm yourself to deal with the evil infesting these lands. One of the many things you’re able to do in this game is mining, an activity that will prove to be extremely useful for you in the long run....

Starter decks get their name for a reason. They are usually a great place for new players to learn and start playing a card game. While theOne Piece Card Gameis not difficult to understand, the wave of 2025 starter decks is a great way for new players to get a grip on the current power level of decks, while older players can take advantage of incredible reprints or new additions to their older decks....

UrbEx, the cool abbreviation for the mundane sounding hobby of urban exploration, is the act of exploring the abandoned places in our world. Think decaying nuclear reactors or unfinished skyscrapers. Daring hobbyists gain access to these spaces - often through less-than-legal means - and have a nose around. Many film their escapades, which allows wimps like me to enjoy their expeditions vicariously from my couch. But I’ve never played a video game based on urban exploration....

It can be hard forsmaller games to stand outin the crowdedSteammarketplace, but occasionally, we see an unexpected titlerise through the charts. Now, we have a new contender, as the demo for Quarantine Zone: The Last Check has surpassed one million Steam wishlists. While its concurrent player count isn’t much to look at right now, it did manage to pull in 17,100 players at once a couple of months ago. On top of that, there are now more than one million Steam users with their eye on the game, making it the 24th most wishlisted title on the storefront, according toSteamDB....

Earlier this month,around 9,000 people at Xbox and Microsoft lost their jobs. It was the latest set of mass layoffs,this time seeing the closure of Perfect Dark developer The Initiativeand essentiallythe death of the Forza Motorsport seriesthanks to massive cuts at developer Turn 10. It was a chaotic day for the company, and nowZeniMaxemployees have spoken out about how it all went down. Speaking with Game Developer, a number of employees described being left in limbo by the higher-ups, forcibly locked out of the company’s internal Slack channel and left waiting for news....

BeforeUltimate Teambecame the uber-profitable behemoth it is today, Career Mode used to be the bread and butter of FIFA games. You would build your dream team on the transfer market, trading virtual currency and pixel players rather than spending real cash on another loot box with a 0.01 percent chance of getting an Icon. More recently, Career Mode players (there are dozens of us!) often felt forgotten, as gameplay changes and additional content seemed to focus on FUT....

When developers update a game, they’re supposed to be making it better in some way. Perhaps, they’re fixing several troublesome bugs or adding new content for fans to enjoy. So, it should be a positive thing. Yet, it doesn’t always work out like that. Occasionally, an update can actually make a game worse. They can create new glitches, or the fresh content can actually hurt the overall appeal of a game....

Quick Links Kart selection inMario Kart Worldis critical, but before you get there, you’ve got to choose a character. There are four main classes of character stat spread in the game; each of those four has two different curves, effectively making eight separate spreads. Featherweights generally have great acceleration and handling, but poor speed and weight; the higher up you go from there, the more things tilt in the opposite direction....

Summary A game as large and expansive asBaldur’s Gate 3will inevitably have reams of content left on the cutting room floor. Hearing about these dropped plot threads and cut characters after the fact fosters a sense of longing within us. For instance, the werewolf bard Helia, a cut party member, has plenty of fans, even though she was never in the game. A Reddit user named AutisticHalsin recentlycompiled a threadof cut content associated with their namesake character....

Quick Links Once you hit the track inUmamusume: Pretty Derby, everything comes down to how hard you’ve trained. Every horse girl is different, with specific preferences and goals to achieve in their short-lived careers. No two career runs are the same, and we’ll help you get the most out of each one. Mayano Top Gun is a fiery and lovable umamusume, but she needs you to help her focus and find purpose....

Indie gameBlue Princewent viral earlier this year, buoyed by critical acclaim, a fascinating premise, and a wealth of secrets to uncover. For a couple of weeks after its release, it was all gamers were talking about. People posted cryptic allusions to its puzzles on social media, had revelations while streaming it on Twitch, and complained when its RNG locked them out of something they needed to solve a mystery. I gave it a 4....