Starfield Releases New Update for May 2025

Summary Starfieldhas released its latest patch for May 2025, providing a helpful quality-of-life improvement that should boost performance on lower-end devices and providing the modding community with a lot more tools to help with its efforts.Starfield’s Creations feature has provided some extra longevity to the space exploration RPG, and Bethesda’s latest move seems aimed at keeping the Creations community well-supplied. Theofficial Creations Store forStarfieldlaunched in June 2024, nine months after the game’s initial release on Xbox Series X|S and PC....

July 7, 2025 · 2 min · 407 words · Jeremy Johnson

Tales of the Shire Should Keep Wider LOTR References to a Minimum

Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of the Rings Game’s release is just around the corner. Weta Workshop has been hard at work to bring players the opportunity to create a hobbit who peacefully lives in the Shire. Players will be able to create and customize their own hobbit, forage in the Shire for ingredients, cook delicious meals for their friends and neighbors, grow a garden, and decorate their own hobbit hole....

July 7, 2025 · 3 min · 592 words · Adrian Williams

The Best Looking Resident Evil Games

Summary While theResident Evilseries may have once been known as those horror games that featured pixelated characters and pre-rendered backgrounds, it has come a very long way since then. With the franchise only becoming more popular as time has gone on, it has encouraged Capcom to ensure each new entry meets modern standards, and while this means updating the gameplay and introducing new characters, it also relates to the visuals....

July 7, 2025 · 7 min · 1347 words · Roberta Diaz

The Last of Us Season 2’s Finale Hides an Awesome Game of Thrones Easter Egg

Summary And there we have it,The Last of Usseason 2 is now done and dusted, and what a rollercoaster it has been for fans of the Naughty Dog adaptation. Throughout the highs and many lows, season 2 of HBO’s series saw Joel and Ellie’s world turned completely upside down as the pair were drawn into conflict with each other, as well as a world even more unpredictable than the one they left behind in season one....

July 7, 2025 · 3 min · 535 words · Daniel Peterson

The Last of Us Visual Effects Team Talks Season 2's Infected Horde, CG Creations, And More

The second season of the hit TV showThe Last of Us,inspired by Naughty Dog’s game series of the same name, recently concluded its second season on HBO. Season 2 ofThe Last of Uswas inspired by the first half of 2020’sThe Last of Us 2,and continued Ellie and Joel’s story five years after the events of Season 1. The characters had to face a variety of new and returning threats, including Stalkers, Bloaters, and a massive horde of infected buried underneath the ice outside of Jackson....

July 7, 2025 · 20 min · 4053 words · Jennifer Newman

The Two Movies You Must Watch Before Mission: Impossible

Major Spoilers for Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning are below. Summary Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoningis finally hitting theaters. It features deep ties to earlier movies in the franchise, but they may not be the installments you would assume. Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoningsees director Christopher McQuarrie return for his fourth outing in the series, having started with 2015’s Rogue Nation. Tom Cruise is back in the lead alongside Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Hayley Atwell, Pom Klementieff, Nick Offerman, Esai Morales, and Angela Bassett....

July 7, 2025 · 5 min · 1035 words · Jessica Johnson

What's Next for the OG Switch (Part 1)

With the Switch 2 here and in players homes, what will become of the original Switch. Today we take a trip back through memory lane to look back at Nintendo’s entire console history and see how they’ve handled console deprecation in the past. Whether it was the jump from the 8-bit NES to the 16-bit Super Nintendo, the ushering of the 3D era with the Nintendo 64, or the revolution that was the Nintendo Wii, there is something to be learned from history....

July 7, 2025 · 1 min · 91 words · Douglas Roy

Why God of War Ragnarok Valhalla Fans Should Play Elden Ring Nightreign

Elden Ring Nightreignis easily one of FromSoftware’s more left-field experiments, but it’s also reflective of the industry’s recent embracing of the roguelike genre. Yes, roguelikes have been around for decades, but it wasn’t until the 2010s that they exploded in popularity, reaching a point where even casual gamers are familiar with the likes ofHadesandThe Binding of Isaac. It’s not just the indie scene that’s feeding the genre, either. In late 2023, Santa Monica Studios surprised audiences by releasing theValhallaDLC forGod of War Ragnarok, free of charge for anyone who owned the base game....

July 7, 2025 · 4 min · 660 words · Julia Gilbert

Why One Pokemon TCG Pocket Card is Considered the Worst in the Game

Pokemon TCG Pocketplayers have free rein over what cards to include in their deck. However, those who want a better chance at winning must use compositions with powerful and synergistic Pokemon and items. Therefore, some cards won’t see much play, at least until there’s a shift in the meta or a highly synergistic critter or item comes along. One card in particular likely won’t take any space in a competitivePokemon TCG Pocketplayer’s deck because the resources it requires far outweighs the value it can provide....

July 7, 2025 · 3 min · 560 words · Diana Arnold

World of Warcraft Reveals Patch Notes for 11.1.7 Content Update

World of Warcrafthas officially revealed the full patch notes for the 11.1.7 content update, including the Rise of the Red Dawn campaign chapter, Lorewalking, and Overcharged Delves, among many other things. The lion’s share of theseWorld of Warcraftfeatures go live with the update on June 17, with the Greedy EmissaryDiabloevent returning on July 1. Recently, Blizzard locked downJune 17 as the release date forWorld of WarcraftPatch 11.1.7, Legacy of Arathor. This content update marks the final one before the start ofThe War WithinSeason 3 in Patch 11....

July 7, 2025 · 6 min · 1238 words · Tara Williams

‘There Is So Much More To Explore’ Arcane Writer Admits They Didn’t Explore An Important Concept That Its Spinoffs Might Do So

Summary Arcaneis one of the most successful animated series on Netflix. Despite its success, its writer admitted there was one concept they did not explore in the show. Arcaneis a critically acclaimed animated series based onLeague of Legends.It debuted on Netflix in November 2021. It was well-received, so it was renewed for a second season.ArcaneSeason 2 was released on the streaming giant three years later and was as successful as Season 1....

July 7, 2025 · 3 min · 540 words · Samantha Thompson

All Playable Characters in Mario Kart World

Mario Kart Worldis set to go all in with its incredible roster of characters from Nintendo’sMariofranchise.Mario Kart Worldhas over 50 racers to choose from, with the popular main cast and some truly obscure background villains featured in the series, so players will want to check in below to see who made it on the Mario Kart World roster to determine their new main character. While some might preferthe classics of Mario and Luigi,Mario Kart Worldprovides a place for everyone to get behind the wheel, even if the cow from Moo Moo Meadows isn’t exactly the safest choice for a racer....

July 6, 2025 · 3 min · 546 words · Melanie Fisher

All Vehicles in Dune: Awakening

Quick Links The playable space inDune: Awakeningis massive, and given the prevalence of sandworms in the open desert, walking from one end of the map to the other is going to be impossible. Thankfully, there are a number ofvehiclesin the game, and they’ll do more than just make you go faster Players can drive/pilot different vehiclesfromDunelore, and they all function just as much as you’d expect them based on the source material....

July 6, 2025 · 3 min · 526 words · Cheryl Phillips