Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Players Claim Mighty Pikachu Raid Is Impossible

It’sPokemonDay! A day on which many of you will be doing a number of things to mark the anniversary of the series. Perhaps you celebrated early by trying to beatthe seven-star Pikachu raid added to Scarlet & Violet. If you tried and failed to beat the incredibly challenging new raid, you’re not alone.In fact, some failed to defeat the Mighty Pikachu so many times, they labeled the new raid impossible. Equal parts frustrating and amusing since some complained even the toughestScarlet & Violetraids were a little easy....

May 31, 2025 · 2 min · 366 words · Matthew Beck

Resident Evil 4 Has Made Me Appreciate Elden Ring

Back last year when the only game anybody on the planet could talk about wasElden Ring, Ijust didn’t get it. I could appreciate the game on an academic level, seeing it transform a once fairly linear genre into not only an open world, buta fresh interpretation of a modern world without boundaries or markers. I could appreciate it on a technical level, with mechanical depth and a surrender to player control....

May 31, 2025 · 4 min · 664 words · Gary Martinez

Resident Evil 4 Remake's Sentinel Nine Pistol References Resident Evil Vendetta

Resident Evil 4 remakeensures it has plenty to tie it to the rest of the Resident Evil series.Luis now has a Nemesis referencethat binds the game to the plot of Resident Evil 2, for example, and there’seven a reference to Resident Evil 3.5during an Ashley section later in the game. And now we’re finding out that the Resident Evil 4 remake even ties itself to the wider Resident Evil cinematic universe....

May 31, 2025 · 2 min · 333 words · Miguel Allen

Resident Evil's Leon Kennedy Voice Actor Doesn't Know What A Himbo Is

Everyone loves Resident Evil’s Leon Kennedy- he’s beautiful, loyal, and the definition of a himbo. Off to rescue the president’s daughter halfway across the world? Better bring a pistol with one mag, an empty suitcase, and a nice warm jacket. No need for money, backup, or anything else. Just good looks and a few rounds in the chamber. Now, you might be asking what a himbo is, and you’re not alone - Leon Kennedy himself, Nick Apostolides, didn’t know what it meant....

May 31, 2025 · 3 min · 438 words · Brandon Evans

Respawn Wants Apex Legends To Last For 15 Years

Respawnwants to take the meaning of ongoing development to another level, keepingApex Legendsalive for up to 15 years. Very few live services stand a chance of making this a reality, but the Apex devs want us to still be playing the game more than a decade from now, and are already making plans in aid of this. This news comes as Respawn opens its third studio for Apex Legends development, as the company vice president admits that keeping up with demands is “no easy feat”....

May 31, 2025 · 2 min · 341 words · Hailey Hull

Sega Leak Seems To Show Beta Build Of Sonic Frontiers With Improved Visuals

Sonic Frontierswas a surprise hit with fans and critics alike, and was even the highest-rated game in the series onSteam.Until The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog overtook it, of course. But it looks like Sonic Team had its sights set even higher, especially in the visual department. In an alleged leak fromSega, footage from an older build of Sonic Frontiers gives us a look at the Starfall Islands in even better detail than we got on current-gen hardware....

May 31, 2025 · 3 min · 451 words · David Blair

Shigeru Miyamoto Says There's "No Doubt" That We'll Get More Nintendo Movies

The Super Mario Bros. Movieis a massive success for bothNintendoand Illumination. Not only is it widely adored by fans of the games, but it’s alsoon track to make at least $1.2 billionat the global box office, making it one of the most successful animated movies of all time. It’scompletely smashed the previous record for a video game adaptation, leaving Warcraft and Pokemon: Detective Pikachu in its dust, and was even reported as the number one film in at least 26 different countries....

May 31, 2025 · 3 min · 429 words · Timothy French DDS

Skyrim Players Discuss Which Enemies They Couldn't Beat In Real Life

Skyrimplayers have been discussing the various enemies which can be encountered in the game and which ones in particular would be the most challenging to fight in real life. The conversation remains ongoing with users sharing all kinds of different thoughts on the subject and explaining why they find certain enemies to be more difficult than others. While some of the reasons are pretty obvious, others have been rather surprising. In any case, most players believe they could beat a chicken....

May 31, 2025 · 2 min · 417 words · Jennifer Haley

Sons Of The Forest: 10 Mods That Make Surviving Easier

Picture this: you’re a demon mercenary, and you just got hired for the gig of a lifetime - save a billionaire family, last seen and heard from seven months ago on their extravagant private island. Simple enough, right? Might even get a tan out of it, grab some cocktails. Sweet deal. RELATED:Sons Of The Forest: Things You Didn’t Know About The Lore Wrong!Sons of the Forestpresents you with an island infested with demons, cannibals, mutants, and some rogue personnel in silver jumpsuits that smack you unconscious right after you crash your fancy Puff Corp helicopter....

May 31, 2025 · 5 min · 981 words · Richard Mitchell

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Makes The Same Mistakes As Fallen Order

Star Wars Jedi: Survivoris most commonly called a Soulslike, because of the parry-based combat system and the fact save points exist at meditation zones (stand-ins for bonfires) which fully heal you, but at the cost of respawning enemies. There are also significant boss battles scattered across the campaign and the open world, some of which have one-hit kill attacks. I get it, but at the same time, I’ve never been sure the description fits....

May 31, 2025 · 4 min · 798 words · Ms. Deborah Harris

Star Wars: Podracer Credited Tim Schafer Just Because He Asked

As developerscontinue to be wrongly omitted from video game credits, an amusing example of quite the opposite has emerged. 24 years after its launch, someone has noticed Tim Schafer is credited for his work on Star Wars Episode 1: Racer, a game he never actually worked on.Noted byTruckleChuckle, theStar Warsfan shared a screenshot from Podracer’s credits in which Schafer is credited as “never actively tried to sabotage the project”. Tagging Schafer hoping for an explanation, the developer has revealed how this happened....

May 31, 2025 · 2 min · 419 words · Michael Daugherty

Star Wars: Unlimited TCG Will Feature Space And Ground Combat

Last week,Fantasy Flight Games announced Star Wars: Unlimited, a new TCG that would use the Star Wars IP’s “iconic heroes, villains, ships, and settings.” The game is expected to launch sometime in 2024 with its debut set, Spark of Rebellion. We didn’t know much about how the game would actually work, but today we’ve gotour first look at some of the cards coming in Star Wars: Unlimited. Those cards include units, tactics, gambits, and leaders, some of which include Litleo Organa, Grand Moff Tarkin, Luke Skywalker, and the dreaded Darth Vader....

May 31, 2025 · 3 min · 468 words · Billy Garcia

Stardew Valley Dev ConcernedApe Shows Confections Coming In Haunted Chocolatier

After recently celebratingStardew Valley’s seventh anniversary, Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone is back with the first Haunted Chocolatier update of 2023. Where last year we learned abouthow players will explore the world of Haunted Chocolatierwhile questing for ingredients, this year we’re learning more about what those ingredients will make.Barone shared a collection of “assorted chocolates” onhis Twitter, specifying that at least some of these chocolates will be “haunted.” Many are pretty standard looking, with cubes or circles that wouldn’t look out of place in a box from Godiva....

May 31, 2025 · 2 min · 325 words · Nicole Carr