Quick Links One of the main selling points ofDragon Ball: Sparking Zerois that it has one of the biggest rosters ever in a fighting game, with over 182 playable characters if you include transformations and variations. You might be surprised to learn that Sparking Zero doesn’t hand you all of these fighters as soon as you start the game, and actually makes you work quite hard for them. When you first start the game,you’ll be missing around 61 or so characters and forms on the roster, which means there’s a lot for you to get working on....

Quick Links Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatredintroduces the Mercenary system, allowing you to fight alongside four different NPCs, each with their own builds to set up. You will unlock your first Mercenary through the Vessel of Hatred campaign, but the subsequent three need to be unlocked through specific quests. Subo, the Bounty Hunter, has several skills that center around trapping enemies and dealing high damage to them. Below, we’ll take a look at how to start and complete the A Feather on the Scale quest to unlock Subo as a Mercenary companion....

Quick Links The Joker film, back in 2019,completely changed the origin story of the original Jokerto a much more sympathetic character who is more a product of his society and the hardships he has faced rather than general madness. The iconic Batman villain played by Joaquin Phoenix was a fresh perspective on the Joker’s traits and personality and with the success of the first movie came another. Joker: Folie à Deux builds upon the first movie but also deviates from the character in a major fashion, with a mixed response to its ending and plot....

I recently finished reading a book and the acknowledgements section was just a QR code. I dutifully scanned the code and read the thank-yous on my phone instead of on paper, but it got me thinking. What happens when that website eventually goes down? When the publisher eventually decides that it can’t afford to host a different website for every book it refused to print acknowledgements for? I don’t understand the logic at all....

Quick Links J.R.R. Tolkien created a huge and fantastic world that spans over multiple beautifully written books with lore that spills out of the pages at times. These books paved the way for Peter Jackson’sThe Lord of the Rings Trilogyand Amazon’s ongoingThe Rings of Power. The most famous Middle-earth narrative is Frodo’s trip as portrayed in the critically acclaimed The Lord of the Rings trilogy, but the renowned author wrote dozens more stories that take place at various stages in the history of his made-up world, chronicled in letters and the Silmarillion book....

Summary If you’re an Atlus fan, you know the drill by now. The studio launches a banging game, then a few short years later—just about when you’re recovering from the 100+ hour journey you poured your heart and soul into—it releases the game again, only new and improved and with a slightly longer name. Persona 3 received both Portable and FES, Persona 4 had Golden, Persona 5 had Royal, and this grand plan isn’t restricted to Persona....

Quick Links Sonic X Shadow Generationsadds an entirely new campaign where you play as Shadow. While the basic gameplay is the same, he gets some new abilities throughout the story, giving him more to play around with than the Blue Blur. Of course, this means you’ll be forced to learn some new mechanics and figure out how best to use them. In this guide, we’ll go over all of Shadow’s new Doom Powers and what you can use them for....

Quick Links Dungeons & Dragonsis more popular than it has ever been before, and with this, people are looking to find new and interesting actual play campaigns to watch. If you don’t have the patience to follow a several hundred episode story arc, or want to watch something with cool visuals including miniature battles, then Dimension 20 could be for you. The brainchild of Brennan Lee Mulligan, Dimension 20 is a series of actual play campaigns of up to 20 episodes which cover a wide range of genres and feature a variety of players of varying abilities....

With the release ofEA Sports FC 25, scouting top strikers may be difficult, especially if you’re on a budget in the ultimate team. This list selects the top strikers you can sign without breaking the bank, and you’ll still have coins left to get better players in the future. These strikers have great pace, shooting power, dribbling skills, and accurate passing skills, which you can sign for a cheap price and build your squad....

Metaphor: ReFantaziois the newest Persona-like JRPG Adventure by Atlus, and it has quite the colorful cast of characters to help you on your quest, be they in the form of followers or companions, the latter of which will join you in combat, forming your party. All of the characters have fantastic bonds and stories for their growth, but some are more tactically useful than others, and even story-wise, some hit just that much harder....

The landscape for defending has changed inEA Sports FC 25, as the new year brings a new feel to movement, especially as we adjust from the speed of playing with 99-rated cards at the end of the last cycle. With new mechanics come new ratings for some of the best defenders in EA FC 25, as there are a handful of upgrades to note. While defending is usually the most nerve-wracking aspect of a game, these excellent center-backs and fullbacks will help you keep your composure when Mbappé and Vini Jr....

While Bloober Team’sSilent Hill 2remake is, in a lot of ways, a pretty faithful rendition of the original Silent Hill 2, it also adds a couple of new novel elements. One of them is the Strange Photos, which act as a collectible of sorts. Initially, you’ll probably think that these are tethered to some elaborate new puzzle. Especially since they have cryptic numbers written on their backs. But as far as we can tell, that isn’t the case....

Whenever we watch anime, it’s easy to get lost in all those amazing visuals and storylines. But there’s an often-overlooked element, the soundtrack. Even if we don’t always consciously notice it, music is the secret ingredient that makes every scene resonate. Some anime series are still remembered for their iconic soundtracks, as their music made every dramatic moment more intense and made us fall in love with our favorite characters....