Cereza And The Lost Demon Is The Bayonetta Origin Story We Don't Need

Bayonettais one of my favourite characters in video games, sogetting the chance to explore her origin story through a distinct spin-off was an exciting prospect. Unfortunately,Cereza and the Lost Demon doesn’t quite live up to its promise, and reveals the flaws in our modern obsession with knowing everything about every character we meet. Anything vaguely popular these days becomes a universe full of origin stories, spin-offs, television specials, and other extra pieces of filler media that are unnecessary and born of a desire to cash in....

May 15, 2025 · 4 min · 676 words · Rachel Richardson

Complete Guide To The Zskera Vaults In WoW: Dragonflight

Quick Links One of the most interesting additions toWorld of Warcraft: Dragonflightis the Zskera Vaults. An ever-changing system found within the Forbidden Reach, it offers a good opportunity to empower your characters alongside acquiring unique collectibles. Delving into the Vaults can go hand in hand with your other open world activities and won’t require any significant weekly grind to complete. RELATED:World Of Warcraft: Dragonflight - How To Use The Onyx Annulet Ring...

May 15, 2025 · 4 min · 797 words · Alexander Frazier

Complete Walkthrough For Chapter 2 Of The Excavation Of Hob's Barrow

Quick Links The second chapter ofThe Excavation of Hob’s Barrowstarts with a new mystery to unravel - the sudden appearance of a mysterious journal under the door to Thomasina’s room. It makes for quite cryptic reading, and it’s not immediately apparent what significance it has. RELATED:The Excavation Of Hob’s Barrow Is A Masterclass In Unsettling Horror This chapter has Thomasina making significant progress in her quest to conduct an excavation of the titular barrow, though there are plenty of hoops to jump through to get where she needs to be....

May 15, 2025 · 7 min · 1289 words · Joseph White

Coruscant Is One Of The Explorable Planets In Star Wars Jedi: Survivor

Coruscant has been confirmed as one of the explorable planets inStar Wars Jedi: Survivor, after months of speculation on whether it’d appear as more than a story location. Ever since Star Wars Jedi: Survivor was first revealed, we’ve really only seen one planet in action - Koboh,the brand-new planet created by Respawn that’s been the fixture of most of the gameplay trailers so far. We’ve been shown glimpses of other planets in the trailers but, in most cases, it wasn’t clear where they were....

May 15, 2025 · 3 min · 442 words · Emily Salas MD

Crash Bandicoot Should Get His Own Movie Spin-Off, Say Devs

Video game company Nintendo made a movie with Minions creator Illumination. That film – The Super Mario Bros. Movie – has been an enormous success as it topples records for an animation feature and closes in on the one-billion dollar mark at the global box office. But do you know another company that makes movies? That would be Sony. Sony is a conglomerate and while its PlayStation business used to be quite separate from its movie making arm, the Japanese giant at some point decided to more closely integrate the two....

May 15, 2025 · 3 min · 435 words · Sherry Hoffman

Cute Enemies From The Mario Games

TheMarioseries is full of delightful scoundrels and cute rapscallions. Yes, they want to murder a plumber trying to save a woman from the clutches of a terrifying monster, but we still can’t help but say “awwwwww” every time we see most of them. Related:Best Mario Games Where You Can Play As Luigi Despite the fact that so much as touching most of these lil guys is lethal, we can’t help but wish we could go in for a cuddle....

May 15, 2025 · 4 min · 821 words · Wendy Carey

Do We Even Need Detective Pikachu 2?

If you could accusePokemonof having a rough patch in its impressive 25 year cultural domination, you might point to the 2010s. While sales never dwindled to the point where it was in any serious trouble, that was the furthest it had wandered away from its uncontested position at the very peak of pop culture. WhilePokemon Gotookthe world by storm, the releases of Black & White, X & Y, and evenSun & Moon, despite selling well, did not make the lasting impression the games of yore did....

May 15, 2025 · 4 min · 768 words · Chris Torres

Easiest Gym Leaders In Every Pokemon Region

The world ofPokemonis full of challenging gym battles that require strategic thinking and skilled gameplay. However, some gym leaders are easier to beat than others. From Kanto to Paldea, defeating these gym leaders and earning those coveted gym badges will be your main challenge. Related:Pokemon: Each Region’s First Gym Leader, Ranked By Difficulty With engaging gameplay, memorable characters, and surprise twists, the role-playing game offers a brand-new challenge with each gym battle....

May 15, 2025 · 5 min · 1018 words · Wendy Cunningham

Elden Ring Fans Make Up Lines For Silent Radagon

Elden Ringhas a lot of great lines from some iconic bosses. Who can ever forget Margit, the Fell Omen threatening to “extinguish thy flame,” or Malenia simply stating she has “never known defeat.” And yet Radagon, the penultimate boss of Elden Ring, has nothing at all to say. To be fair to Radagon, by the time you reach him, he looks more than a little worse for wear. It’s possible he can’t speak at all–he just lets his hammer do the talking....

May 15, 2025 · 2 min · 349 words · Justin Smith

Every Cheat Code In Valheim

Quick Links Cheats and command codes can help make a game more interesting. Many games have a way to activate cheats, making it easy to tweak a game to your liking. This holds true forValheimas well. In this Viking-themed survival crafting game, you may access a variety of commands and cheats. Related:Valheim: Best World Seeds You Need To Try Right Now In this guide, we are going to go over every cheat and command that you may use in Valheim....

May 15, 2025 · 5 min · 886 words · Henry Porter

Everything You Need To Know About Cooking In Afterimage

Quick Links With many zones and formidable foes roaming the world of Engardin inAfterimage, you will constantly find yourself revisiting Resting Town to take a load off and speak with the NPCs you’ve recruited during your adventure or were there from the very beginning. RELATED:Afterimage: How To Defeat Three Question Mark Boss Aliceis one of the first NPCs you will meet inResting Townand is aConjurer,which apparently means Chef in the world of Engardin....

May 15, 2025 · 3 min · 603 words · Eric Franco

Games With Mechanics That Arrived Too Late

Summary Video games usually start with a tutorial. The purpose of a tutorial is to introduce the controls and mechanics, allowing you to acquaint yourself with what you’ll be doing throughout the whole experience. Sometimes, tutorials can be very quick and brief; other times they can be spread out throughout the game. In some games, when new items, weapons, or pieces of equipment are introduced, tutorial elements are brought back to explain their uses to the player....

May 15, 2025 · 6 min · 1196 words · Kelli Nguyen

Half-Life Fans Get Alyx Running On Steam Deck Without VR

Half-Lifefinally ended its 13-year dry period in 2020 withAlyx, but many were remis to be left out given that it required not only an expensive PC to play, but an expensive VR headset. If you’re one of the fans who have been waiting for a chance to try it out, now you can, as modders have got it working without VR, and it even runs onSteam Deck. As reported byPCGamesN, it’s simply titledHalf-Life Alyx NoVR, and it comes courtesy of@GB_2_....

May 15, 2025 · 2 min · 395 words · Eric Phillips