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‘Elden Ring Nightreign’ Gladius Guide: How To Beat The Difficult First Boss

Bandai Namco Despite being a multiplayer game, Elden Ring Nightreign is every bit as absurdly challenging as any other Souls game. That becomes abundantly clear as soon as you reach the very first Night Lord, the three-headed dog Gladius. If you want to unlock the entire rest of the game, you’ll have to beat Gladius, […]

One Of The Most Original Strategy Games Gets An Exciting Update Alongside Its Nintendo Switch 2 Release

When the Nintendo Switch 2 launches on June 5, it will arrive with a library of far more ports than new games. Among those is a sleeper hit from 2024, which is about to get a boost from one of the console’s biggest new features. And on Switch 2 release day, that idiosyncratic strategy game […]

Xbox Game Pass Just Added One Of The Best Live Shooters At The Start Of Its Biggest Season Yet

Ubisoft It’s tough out there for new live service shooters. Getting one off the ground these days has become an increasingly fantastical dream, with even a game from the creator of Destiny 2 running into potentially insurmountable problems before it launches. So if you can’t count on a new game that lets you endlessly blow […]

The Last Game From An RPG Legend Just Hit PlayStation Plus

Bandai Namco Joni Mitchell famously sang “you don’t know what you got till it’s gone.” And while this was meant as a rallying cry for environmental activists in the face of unchecked industrialism, it fits just about anything. It’s certainly the case with Akira Toriyama. The legendary creator behind DragonBall Z, Dragon Quest, and Chrono […]

15 Years Ago, An Unlikely Racing Game Perfected The Mario Kart Formula

Activision The cart racer is one of gaming’s most approachable subgenres. Typically signified by their stylized graphics and deceptively simple gameplay, these arcade twists on racing sims are fast-paced party games. Your cousin and grandfather aren’t going to play Forza together, but they can both hang in a round of Mario Kart. When Bizarre Creations, […]

PlayStation Just Added The Perfect Way To Cope With The ‘GTA 6’ Delay

Grand Theft Auto VI may have been delayed, but it doesn’t mean the open-world crime genre is resting. From rumored re-releases of classics, a new game from ex-Rockstar developers, and even a bizarro-world throwback like Fallen Tree Games’ The Precinct, players who love a freeing joyride through an urban sprawl have plenty of options in […]

‘Lies Of P’ Is Making An Important Change Every Other Game Should Copy

Neowiz Players soon won’t have to git quite as gud to enjoy genuinely helped me overcome a depressive episode, and sometimes it can just be fun to run up against an immovable object until you push it out of the way. But no one is taking that away by adding difficulty options. As Choi says, […]

The Next Battlefield Could Keep The Last Game’s Worst Feature

Electronic Arts Some of the many controversies surrounding Battlefield 2042 stemmed from all the ways it strayed from the series’ winning formula, and the most baffling change was the removal of classes in exchange for a Rainbow Six: Siege-style specialist system. The change downplayed the series’ emphasis on team synergy, and replaced it with a […]

‘Final Fantasy 7’ Is Hiding A Sword That Grows To Meet The Moment

You’d be hard-pressed to find a more iconic villain than Final Fantasy 7’s Sephiroth. The silver-maned antagonist is instantly recognizable from a single glance, not to mention the disturbingly tragic story behind his obsession with destroying the world. A big part of Sephiroth’s image has always been his ten-foot-long Masamune sword — but as it […]

PlayStation Plus Just Quietly Added The Stalker Trilogy, Three Uniquely Brutal Post-Apocalyptic Shooters

GSC Game World When Stalker 2 launched in 2024, it was the first game in its series in 15 years, but despite what its name might suggest, it was actually the fourth entry. The original trilogy of Stalker games were released one year after the other, from 2007 to 2009, building out of the most […]