I Don't See How Pokemon Go Recovers From This Remote Raid Pass Fiasco

Despite years of back and forth with a unified community begging for support, Niantic has finally decided to gut Remote Raid Passes. Starting this week, the price of Remote Raid Pass bundles will increase from 300 (already up from 250 several months ago) to 525, while the price of single passes will increase from 100 to 195. Additionally, players will be limited to a total of five Remote Raids per day....

July 13, 2025 · 4 min · 760 words · Jeffrey Costa

I'm Reading The Manga For The First Time Because Of One Piece: Odyssey

I started playingOne Piece Odysseyrecently despite having almost no prior experience withOne Piece. Mostly, I just figured I might as well broaden my horizons. I like anime and manga, I just don’t know it all that well. I grew up withYu-Gi-Oh!,Pokemon, andDigimon, and as an adult I’ve dabbled with the popular stuff, likeMy Hero Academia,Sword Art Online, andAttack on Titan. I read some Shonen Jump as a kid and a few volumes of Berserk as an adult....

July 13, 2025 · 3 min · 550 words · Alexandria Hunter

I've Been Waiting 10 Years For Marvel Move, And It Sounds Better Than I Expected

Zombies, Run! Came out in 2012, and for a summer it completely took over my life. The creators of Zombies, Run! saw the way that dogs will gleefully lap up their medicine if you bury it in a spoonful of peanut butter, and decided they could get nerds to exercise using the same strategy. I officially retired from exercising after running the second-slowest mile in my sophomore gym class, but a few years later the fear of being chased by zombies got me back out on the track and training almost every day....

July 13, 2025 · 4 min · 789 words · Diana Hampton

Indie Fishing Sim Dredge Is Wind Waker Meets Majora’s Mask

I haven’t playedDredgeyet. I wasn’t assigned to review it and my guide writing days are long behind me. But I’ve seen a lot of it. Probably more than you, at a guess. That’s because I’ve followed it closely, since Dredge’s premise immediately intrigued me when it was revealed – an indie fishing sim with a dark, Lovecraftian side that emerges at night. Dredge’s cosmic horror side has always been hinted at, but the more we’ve seen of the game, the more it compels me....

July 13, 2025 · 3 min · 637 words · Lucas Daniels

Lightfall's Pay-To-Skip Campaign Is Disappointing

Destiny 2’s paid Character Boost is changing in Lightfall. When the new expansion launches, there will be two different kinds of Character Boosts available, depending on your progress. Once you hit soft cap with one of your characters, you’ll be able to boost your other characters up with a set of high Power level gear, just like normal. Once you finish the Lightfall campaign, there will be a new option to pay a fee and skip the campaign on your other characters, allowing them to gain access to Strand right away, and start with high Power level gear, provided your first character is at soft cap....

July 13, 2025 · 3 min · 600 words · Holly Fischer

Magic: The Gathering: All Will Be One

Of the five key areas ofMagic: The Gathering’sNew Phyrexia, the green-aligned Hunter Maze is perhaps the most straightforward. Ruled over bythe Praetor Vorinclex, the Maze operates on a hierarchy of brute force, with the core green principle of ‘survival of the fittest’ at its heart. RELATED:Magic: The Gathering - The Best Art From Phyrexia: All Will Be One This is well-trampled ground for green in Magic, the colour of big creatures and crushing combat steps, and Phyrexia: All Will Be One doesn’t disappoint when it comes to delivering on these core values....

July 13, 2025 · 7 min · 1304 words · Angela Warren

Maono PD400X Microphone Review: The Complete Package

Maono PD400X The Maono PD400X is a USB/XLR dynamic microphone created with podcasters and streamers in mind, and can be used on a variety of platforms. Maono may not be a household name when it comes to audio equipment, but the Chinese manufacturer should not be underestimated. I’ve been using the Maono PD400X dynamic microphone for about two weeks now, and while it doesn’t have the sound quality of a top-of-the-range Shure, it performs far better than a similarly-priced Blue Yeti....

July 13, 2025 · 5 min · 934 words · Sherri Jones

Marvel's Avengers Final Patch Is Live, So Play It Before It's Too Late

Update 2.8 is live in Marvel’s Avengers, which means practically nothing to anyone except the 700 people still active on the subreddit (hello), but it’s an important milestone for the game. As in, the final milestone. Marvel’s Avengers will never receive another update, it is no longer a live-service game, and after September 30, it will cease to exist entirely. The update brings a couple of significant changes, some of which will only matter to hardcore players - like the removal of the Superior gear cap on end-game mission rewards and reduced cost on upgrading max-level gear - but other changes are worth noticing even if you’ve never played the game before....

July 13, 2025 · 3 min · 638 words · Cynthia White

Marvel's Avengers Rebranded As "Definitive Edition" Ahead Of Shutdown

Marvel’s Avengershas been on borrowed time since January when its publisher announced that the live-service title will have its support pulled on September 30. For those wanting to give the game a spin, now’s a good time as all cosmetics are available to all players for free. This could be considered a definitive edition of the game and it seems its developer Crystal Dynamics wants players to think the same as it’s renamed Marvel’s Avengers - The Definitive Edition on multiple platforms....

July 13, 2025 · 2 min · 340 words · Kristin Rivera

Navigating Peridot's Breeding System Is A Nightmare

The deeper I get into Peridot’s breeding system, the more I find myself scratching my head, wondering how it ended up this abtruse. What should be a simple process of selecting mates to breed with each other is bogged down by awkward interfaces, microtransactions, and the forced use of Niantic Discord knockoff, Campfire. The friction created by Peridot’s bizarre Hatch-a-Dot process is putting me off the game barely a week after I started playing it....

July 13, 2025 · 5 min · 1042 words · Amy Andrews

Netflix Is Beefing Up Its Game Library, But It Could Still Flop

Related:Streaming Services Need To Stop Cancelling Everything I wouldn’t go so far as to say the games on Netflix’s collection are bad, but they’re mostly a haphazard combination of games made with existing IP, and pretty typical mobile games. They have a big leg up on those in Apple’s App Store in that they don’t have microtransactions or ads, and they come included with a subscription you’re already paying for, but they still come across as mostly filler games....

July 13, 2025 · 1 min · 206 words · Jessica Turner

Pokemon Fans Are Refusing To Play Scarlet & Violet Until Save Wipe Bug Is Fixed

Earlier this month, it was discovered that a select fewPokemon Scarlet & Violetplayers were having their saves completely wiped due to data corruption, resulting in the loss of hours of progress, hundreds of Pokemon, and beloved team members. It’s an issue that’s not going to go away any time soon, mainly becauseGame Freakis reportedly struggling to reliably recreate the bug and we still don’t know what’s causing it. It was suggested thatpotentially downloading the DLC or interacting with Pokemon Gowas the cause, though this doesn’t appear to be the case for everyone....

July 13, 2025 · 2 min · 334 words · Terry Price

Pokemon Liko And Roy Should Catch In Pokemon Horizons

ThePokemonHorizons started the post-Ash Pokemon Anime with a lot of questions. What exactly is the deal with Liko’s pendant? Why is that group of trainers hunting for it? With all these mysteries, something else on viewers' minds is what Pokemon co-protagonists Liko and Roy will capture on their journey. RELATED:Pokemon With Unique Or Rare Type Combinations With so many Pokemon to catch, alongside Liko’s Sprigatito and Roy’s Fuecoco, we should explore the possibilities of what Pokemon may join Liko and Roy....

July 13, 2025 · 5 min · 931 words · Nicholas Nunez