No Ubisoft, I Won’t Destroy My Physical Games

We’re all guilty of not reading the terms and conditions, despite knowing that these enormous conglomerates are sneaking some truly horrifying things into the small print. At this point, your data is being sold to the highest bidder anyway, so who cares if EGS knows your Social Security number? But amid the Stop Killing Games movement, video game publishers have been under a lot more scrutiny, and players have uncovered a worrying disclaimer in Ubisoft’s EULA....

May 17, 2025 · 4 min · 684 words · Alexis Harding

Not A Romantic? Here Are The Best Disney Movies That Don't Focus On Romance

Summary When you think ofDisneymovies,fairy tales and romancelikely spring to mind. But what if you’re not in the mood for something romantic, but still want to watch a Disney movie? While a lot of Disney’s animated movies do have romance at the forefront, there’s a selection of great films that don’t. These Disney movies explore other themes and types of relationships, such as family and friendship. These are usually great feel-good movies to watch when you’re in the mood for something light, though there are some tear-jerkers in there as well....

May 17, 2025 · 6 min · 1145 words · Madeline Sparks

Octopath Traveler 0 Might Be The Unexpected Cozy Game Of The Year

2018’sOctopath Travelerwas a beautiful debut for Square Enix’s HD-2D graphics on theNintendo Switch. Following ports to other platforms and further HD-2D games such as remakes forLive-A-Liveand multipleDragon Quests,Octopath Traveler 2launched in 2023 to offer a grand new adventure that fans and critics adored. Now, Square Enix has announced Octopath Traveler 0, set to arrive on December 4, and it might just be a new height for the evolving series. There are a few reasons to be particularly excited, especially if you love cozy games....

May 17, 2025 · 3 min · 561 words · Kevin Gardner

PlayStation Boss Says Marathon Won't "Make The Same Mistakes" As Concord

Marathonis increasingly looking like it’s going to be marched out to its death whenever PlayStation decides to rip off the band-aid and finally announce a release date. Not only was opinion mixed on the title before this year, but underwhelming playtests anda pretty massive plagiarism scandalhaveturned the mood around the game more negative than ever. Understandably, the game has now begun to invoke memories of PlayStation’s biggest live-service disaster ever, when it released Concord in 2024,only for it to be removed from sale and have its developer shut downwithin the span of a single month....

May 17, 2025 · 2 min · 411 words · John Porter

PlayStation Store Games See Price Increase In Brazil, Turkey

As ifmodern gamingwasn’t already expensive enough,what with the introduction of $80 video games, plusconsole prices that resemble the cost of phones, things in countries like Brazil and Turkey have gotten a lot more expensive than that. Following arecent increase in the cost of PlayStation Plus annual subscription fees, digital titles on the PlayStation Store have now also seen an increase. The Price Increases Make It Virtually Unaffordable To Game In These Regions In their post, they note, for example, Silent Hill f has gone from R$349....

May 17, 2025 · 2 min · 259 words · Dr. Alan Khan III

Pokemon Fan Gets A Popplio Card Signed By Pope Leo XIV

Pope Leo XIVhas been the head of the Catholic church forless than two months, and he’s already had his “MatPat gives the pope Undertale” moment. In a stroke of genius, onePokemonfan used their chance in the presence of His Holiness to get him to sign one of their cards - aPoppliocard, to be specific. Just say it out loud, and you’ll realise why they chose that one. In images being circulated online, we can see Pope Leo presented with a Popplio card, and then the lucky owner holding it up to show his signature....

May 17, 2025 · 2 min · 376 words · Misty Mendoza

Pokemon Fans Are Mocking ChatGPT After It Took 80 Hours To Get Two Gym Badges

Summary OpenAI’s o3 model, supposedly the smartest AI tech created to date, is currently playing throughPokemon Redin an attempt to prove just how smart it is. However, after taking 80 hours to secure the original Pokemon game’s first two gym badges, all anyone has done so far is roast the model’s snail-paced attempts to become a Pokemon master. OpenAI’s Twitter accountdirected those interested in the playthrough to Twitch when it began last week....

May 17, 2025 · 2 min · 419 words · Kathleen Johnson

Pokemon Friends: Every Stamp And How To Unlock Them

Quick Links Pokemon Friendsbrings a cute adventure full of puzzles to solve, so you can craft even cuter plushies and decorate different rooms with them! In this game, puzzles are easy to grasp, yet difficult to master, so you must be patient and show dedication if you wanna catch them all! In this game, there are several objectives you can complete to unlock Stamps, stickers that work as trophies for players....

May 17, 2025 · 1 min · 187 words · Alex Turner

PS Plus Subscribers Keep Choosing Its Most Expensive Plans Despite Price Hikes

This console generation might go down as one of the toughest for consumers. Constant hardware and software price increases mean that it’s now more expensive to get set up with aPS5orXbox Series X/Sthan it was in 2020, and the subscription services offered by both sides are no exception to this. PlayStation Plus was hit with a price change in 2023, with the annual price of the most expensive Premium tier going from $119....

May 17, 2025 · 1 min · 203 words · Jeffrey Kelly

Ready Or Not has already hit one million players on console despite censorship backlash

The countdown toReady or Not’s arrival on consoles came to an end a few days ago, and despite a select group ofPCplayers' best attempts to try and send a message by ruining that launch, the port has been an unmitigated success so far. Just four days after Ready or Not’s arrival onPS5andXbox Series X|S, there are already more than one million of you playing it on consoles. Ready or Not studio Void Interactive shared the good news about the realistic tactical shooter on Instagram over the weekend, revealing thatit took the game just four days to accrue more than one million console players....

May 17, 2025 · 3 min · 427 words · Lisa Walker

Ready Or Not Players Are Done With The Game As Even More Content Is Censored

TheReady or Notcommunity has lost all faith in Void Interactive. The game attracted controversy even before launch, with publisherTeam 17 pulling out due to a school shooting mission. However, for the console launch, thedevelopers decided to censor a bit of content, whichdidn’t go down well with fansas it affected the PC version as well. In a bid to calm things down, Void Interactive put out adetailed statement of exactly what instances have been censored....

May 17, 2025 · 2 min · 397 words · Jonathan Bates

Rogue One Is The Number One Movie On Disney Plus Thanks To Andor

Summary Andor has come to an end. Since the season two finale leads directly into Rogue One, there’s no chanceDisneywill change its mind and renew it for a season three. Filling in the blanks ahead of Rogue One was the entire point of Andor, and now the 2016Star Warshit is enjoying a resurgence as fans watch it through different eyes with Andor’s story fresh in their minds. According totracking site FlixPatrol,Rogue One is currently the number one most-watched movie on Disney Plus worldwide....

May 17, 2025 · 3 min · 428 words · Charles Garcia

Rotten Tomatoes Steps In To Defuse Ironheart's Pre-Release Review Bomb

The first three episodes of Ironheart, the newest addition to theMCU, are now streaming on Disney Plus. They’ve only been available for a few hours, dropping late on Tuesday night. However, the show somehow managed to rack up a pretty dire score on Rotten Tomatoes before the first three episodes were even available. With Ironheart about to debut on Disney Plus,the show’s Rotten Tomatoes pagewent live before anyone had seen the show....

May 17, 2025 · 3 min · 524 words · Darlene Torres