Animal Crossing: New Horizons Will Be Unplayable In 38 Years And That's A Problem

Back To The Future came out 38 years ago. Now, imagine that suddenly all copies of the film were wiped from existence, and you could never watch it again. What sort of world would we live in if other classics like The Godfather, Alien, or Adam Sandler’s Jack and Jill each came with a shelf life consumers were powerless to influence? As an art form we consistently seek to preserve and value, such an oversight would be inexcusably tragic....

June 22, 2025 · 4 min · 794 words · Sara Jensen

Ash’s Pokemon Journey Is Over, But Its Meaning Will Stay With Us Forever

Ash Ketchum bowing outof thePokemonanime is sorta like when The Queen died. He has been an institution in our lives for so many years that an existence without him feels difficult to fathom. We will come across family and friends before bowing our heads in a solemn act of collective grief, knowing that our boy has now become the very best like no one ever was. I’m actually kinda broken up about this one for realsies though....

June 22, 2025 · 4 min · 731 words · Albert Wheeler

At This Pace, Destiny 2 Is Going To Have A Rough Season

It’s well established in Destiny 2 that the seasons tied to expansions are fairly lackluster. This has been consistent ever since the four season model was introduced. Shadowkeep’s Season of the Undying gave us the irritatingly repetitive Vex Offensive, Beyond Light’s Season of the Hunt introduced the forgettable Wrathborn Hunts, and even last year’s celebrated The Witch Queen expansion started off with Season of the Chosen and PsiOps Battlegrounds, the weakest activity of the year....

June 22, 2025 · 4 min · 670 words · Andre Brown

Best Combat Platformers

Platformers are maybe the most iconic video game genre, be it thanks to Mario, Sonic, and the countless 2D platformers over the years. If you ask someone that knows nothing about games to describe one, they’ll probably give you a rough outline of a game where you “jump, collect stuff, and run around”. Related:Best Retro 2D Platformers Of All Time Because the genre is so ubiquitous, there has of course been plenty of developers that have tried their own spins on the formula....

June 22, 2025 · 7 min · 1322 words · William Avila

Best Tips For Making The Best Outposts In Meet Your Maker

Half of the fun inMeet Your Makercomes from killing off raiders unfortunate enough to venture into your Outpost. You can increase your chances of killing players by making the best use of your resources. Thankfully, there are a ton of unique ways you can design your outpost to lure in innocent raiders and make short work of them. Related:Meet Your Maker: Best Traps And Defenses, Ranked The best part of Meet Your Maker is making your Outpost your own....

June 22, 2025 · 6 min · 1173 words · Michael Torres

CD Projekt Red CEO Calls Project Polaris The Witcher 4, Immediately Takes It Back

All eyes are on CD Projekt at the moment, as the developer is in the midst of multiple major projects. Cyberpunk 2077, which finally seems to have redeemed itself, will soon be getting aDLC called Phantom Liberty. Further down the pipeline, CDP has announced a co-op game set in the Witcher universe, aremake of the first game, and thenext mainline game in the series. While there’s been someback and forth on the co-op game, there arevery few detailson the next mainline game, dubbed Project Polaris....

June 22, 2025 · 2 min · 371 words · Elizabeth Clements

Challenges To Complete After You Beat Hollow Knight

After you beatHollow Knightfor the very first time, you may feel elated, and rightfully so; after all, you just beat a very hard game. However, you may also be wondering what comes next. The game is so good that it can’t be over yet, can it? Surely there’s more content that you can explore, and luckily for you, there is! Related:Hollow Knight: Saddest Lore Details You Missed Since Hollow Knight’s launch, some of you have found ways to challenge yourselves in-game, refine your skills, or create a new experience....

June 22, 2025 · 7 min · 1286 words · Sarah Silva

Combat Tips For Digimon World: Next Order

Alongside the city building and caring for your Digimon, there’s a third activity that will keep you busy - battling. InDigimon World: Next Order, you’ll often be caught up in a fight while exploring the world surrounding Floatia. Fights can be seen coming a mile off as there are no random encounters, but that doesn’t mean a battle will be a walk in the park. RELATED:Digimon: The Best Antagonists From The Anime You’ve hatched yourself a killer Digimon, and you’re roaming the wilds....

June 22, 2025 · 4 min · 764 words · Keith Daniels

Cyberpunk 2077's Ray Tracing Overdrive Mode Is Tanking Frame Rates

Cyberpunk 2077developer CD Projekt Redtriumphantly announced its extremely impressive Overdrive Modeearlier this month, which promised to deliver full ray tracing and a variety of different visual improvements as long as you had a rig powerful enough to actually get it to work. It was made abundantly clear by the developer upon the announcement that only people with top end machines would be able to make Overdrive Mode work as intended, but that hasn’t stopped many fans from trying to get it work regardless....

June 22, 2025 · 2 min · 367 words · Sarah Mills

Dark And Darker Playtest Hit By DDoS Attacks

Dark and Darkerwasremoved from Steamafter asset stealing accusations, then its unauthorised GoFundMe page gottaken downafter raising $46,000, so the devs made it possible totorrent the alpha buildof the game, which was…shut down due to copyright claims. If you’ve somehow gotten into the playtest after all of this, you may find that the servers aren’t working, since it is now being DDoSed. As reported byPCGamesN, the news was shared by an administrator and developer at Ironmace, Graysun, on the game’s Discord: “We have been experiencing sophisticated DDoS aattacks since the very start of this playtest....

June 22, 2025 · 3 min · 455 words · Joel Williams

Dead Rising Is Overdue Its Comeback

Over the weekend,early alpha footage of Dead Rising 5 surfaced, giving us a glimpse into a series that has laid dormant for seven years. A series that, if it returned today, would be wildly out of place among its horror and zombie cohorts.The Last of Uspaved the way for a trend of serious, gritty, meaningful stories, somethingDead Risingwas pivoting toward with both shuttered iterations of its fifth game. One was inspired by TLoU itself, the other—weirdly enough—Bloodborne, moving away from the sandbox-style mix and match that made Dead Rising what it is....

June 22, 2025 · 4 min · 762 words · Michael Shaffer

Dragon Ball Super Card Game Shows Off Digital Version, Announces Closed Beta

Much like Pokemon and Magic: The Gathering,Dragon Ball Superis going from paper to digital. Bandai Namcoannounced the move late last year, and now we’re getting a progress update thanks to an upcoming beta test. The beta test is intended to gauge game behavior, matchmaker performance, and test Bandai’s servers. The beta will be English only and players will only be able to play Free Match, which will randomly match them against a human opponent....

June 22, 2025 · 2 min · 346 words · Lisa Harris

Elden Ring Fans Debate The Best Time To Use Smithing Stones

You might thinkElden Ringis an action game, but it’s really a game about resource management. Do you save up those runes to level up? Or do you spend what you have now to buy better armor? Do you use your Wondrous Physick to kill a pack of difficult enemies or save it for the dungeon boss? And do you save your smithing stones for later or do you use them right away?...

June 22, 2025 · 2 min · 414 words · Joseph Smith