Ever sinceCyberpunk 2077launched, players have had a ton of requests. Some of those have actually been realised, with theusable metro system and a portable radio. However, one of these would be a much larger undertaking: a third-person camera mode. Alas, it looks like anyone waiting on this shouldn’t get their hopes up. A fan asked the social media team if we’re going to get third-person in a future Cyberpunk 2077 update, and the answer is pretty definitive: there are no plans for this right now....

Death Stranding 2: On the Beachhas near-instant loading times that put evenMarvel’s Spider-Man 2’s incredibly speedy menus to shame. When Sony first announced the PS5 what feels like an eternity ago, one of its big promises for the new system was faster loading times.The PS5’s SSD drive should feasibly make loading screens a thing of the past, and we’ve seen a lot of games take advantage of barely having to take a second to breathe....

Summary It has not been an enjoyable couple of years forBungie, the once-beloved developers of Halo and Destiny. Aseries of layoffs, reports of underwhelming Marathon playtests, anda lawsuit involving the alleged misconduct of Marathon director Christoper Barrettdogged Bungie throughout 2024. This week, the studio stumbled into another controversy. Bungie was accused of including plagiarised assets in Marathon, stolen from an independent artist unaffiliated with the studio. Theseaccusations proved true, with Bungie blaming a former artist and committing to a full audit to ensure there is no other plagiarised art present in Marathon....

Bungie’s recent preview stream forDestiny 2’supcoming expansion, The Edge of Fate, has revealed a new weapon archetype that answers an age-old question: what if you could use a bow in the heavy slot? Revealed earlier today, the game’s next expansion will add legendary crossbows as a new heavy weapon archetype to Destiny 2. While technically classified as bows, they have unique functionality that sets them apart from their primary counterparts and other heavy weapons....

Summary Kingdom Heartshas grown a lot as a series. It’s introduced numerous original characters and plotlines that expand beyond the Disney-centric affair of the first game, but Disney is still a key part of its foundations. However, as Kingdom Hearts has evolved, some fans have called for it to leave Disney behind. With Kingdom Hearts 4 leaning further into a more mature approach, this mindset has steadily become more popular. I don’t think Kingdom Hearts should ever ditch Disney, though, and here are my reasons why....

Kalos' bestPokemon TCGcards have been eating well ever since the announcedreturn of Mega Evolutions,and a renewed interest in thebest the XY era has to offer.When it comes to the Pokemon TCG, Kalos focuses on quality over quantity with its most valuable cards. There’s not a ton of variety in the Pokemon that rise to the top, but if you’re a fan of one of these popular Kalosian Pokemon, you have some elegant and expensive artwork to choose from....

Quick Links Few ratings are more impactful for a ball-carrier to have than speed. Speed can make a bad player usable, a good player great, and a great player into a Heisman winner. When that player who has speed is a Running Back, it makes them a scary prospect to defend on every single play. There are a lot of Running Backs with game-breaking speed inCollege Football 26, and while a good RB is not necessarily enough to build a team around, they can make a huge impact on the game, and make great choices whenchoosing a teamto play in Dynasty....

Final Fantasyis one of the few names in video games that has been around for decades and still commands an unparalleled following. Ever since the initial entry for theNESin 1987, the series has strived to innovate and evolve with each new entry. It quickly became the jewel of Squaresoft’s crown, a mark of quality that saw Japanese role-playing games take the global market by storm and spawn dozens of worthwhile copycats....

Nintendois a more mysterious company than most. There’s little transparency in which developers are making which games, as the conglomerate prefers instead to keep a united front, putting the Nintendo label on anything developed by any of their internal teams. It’s still possible to figure out which team made which game; Nintendo just isn’t in your face about it. We know The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and its sequel Tears of the Kingdom, Super Mario Odyssey, Splatoon 3 and more were made by Nintendo’s largest internal team, Entertainment Planning & Development (EPD)....

Nvidia’s DLSS upscaling technology is the most exciting thing happening in gaming that sounds like the least exciting thing. I’ve been crowing about what an amazing tool DLSS is for years, going all the way back to whenwe thought the Switch 2 was just the Switch Pro. I mean, I guess it kind of is… but I digress. DLSS 4 released alongside the newest generation of 50-series GPUs, and I’ve been putting some of the new features through their paces to find out if they’re everything Nvidia says they are....

If you ask a diehardMass Effectfan to nametheir favourite romanceable companion, there’s a good chance that they’ll say Tali. Then, if you ask a few more to get a larger sample size, there’s also a very good chance that you’ll hear Garrus' name come up a few times. These two are beloved in the Mass Effect community, and their fans are incredibly dedicated. So, it’s no wonder that Garrus is getting some new merch on the BioWare store....

Minotaurs are perhaps one of the coolest beasts to emerge from Greek mythology, being a creature that’s part man and part bull. Minotaurs are basically anthropomorphic bulls and scary ones at that, since they can use their horns to impale you and often wield dangerous heavy weapons that can spell trouble. Though Minotaurs don’t always match exactly how they’re described in ancient Greek literature, their designs are close enough to look quite intense and daunting to take on....

WhenObsidianlaunched the firstGroundedin early access back in 2020, it was clearly a side project. After finishingPillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire, 13 Obsidian employees set to work on a modestly scaled survival game, as the rest of the crew moved ontoThe Outer Worlds, and this Honey, I Shrunk the Kids-inspired survival game was the result. Coincidentally, there were also 13 developers on the team that madePentiment, the other small-scale Obsidian game that entered development around the same time....