If you were to rank all the things in the world from most cool to least cool, there are precisely three things that would share the top spot: pirates, cowboys, and samurai. They each offer a certain disaffected grace, capable of aesthetically pleasing and thematically loaded violence, as lone ranger rebels and highly trained warriors. It’s odd, therefore, that neither pirates nor cowboys have too many video games to let you live out these fantasies....

Roguesare probably themost balancedclass inDragon Age: The Veilguard. Able to makebetter use of the power wheel than Warriorsyetless reliant on it than Mages, they offer the best way to experience every facet of The Veilguard’s more action-heavy combat. And, while doing that, they have an excellent choice of weapons. Rogues dual-wield swordsin battle, and alsohave a bowat their disposal, so we’re going to be looking at thebest five main-hand weapons, the best five off-hand weapons, and the best five bows....

I’ve been playingDungeons & Dragonsfor years. Since I first got involved with Fifth Edition, I’ve always been bothered by everything missing for those of us who have found a way to get into the hobby but don’t have the resources to play the way they want to or have seen online. There’s so much you’re expected to know and understand when you have players sit down at the table looking at you, like there’s some secret club for Dungeon Masters where we all teach each other how to be a DM and how to be the right DM for our table....

Quick Links You’ll know things are getting dangerous when you enter the Specular Bay area inYs X: Nordicsand consistently find Griegr towers attacking you while the path forward is tiny at the same time. At the end of this region, you’ll find a floodgate blocking your path, and you’ll have to explore the Ruined City nearby to fix it. Not only will you find the second main villain at the end of this area called Logr, but you’ll also have to solve quite a few puzzles to get there....

One of the fan-favorite events inMonopoly Gohas always been that happy, familiar Pachinko machine Peg-E, and between11AM EST on October 16and4PM EST on October 20, we’ll be collecting our usual slew of Peg-E tokens to play along throughout the weekend. Though there’s always a bit of strategy to how everyone chooses to play the Peg-E events in Monopoly Go, you’ll want to spend your Peg-E tokens this week to earn the litany of cool milestone rewards....

Summary Analogue has been creating ways to play games that might have otherwise been lost to history for more than a decade, perhaps best known for the Analogue Pocket. Its next project might well be its most ambitious to date, though. The Analogue 3Dis an homage to theNintendo 64compatible with all your old N64 cartridges. Analogue announced the Analogue 3D in 2023, but this week was the first time it has shown off what the home console will look like....

Trunk of Funk has one ofAstro Bot’sgrooviest titles, and is also maybe the most platform-heavy level in the Tentacle System. Stick with us and we’ll guide you through the jumps and bumps to get every Bot and Jigsaw Piece in the level. Jigsaw 1 Another level that asks you to pay attention right from the start.Keep right as you glide into the leveland head throughthe rock tunnelto grab the first jigsaw of Trunk of Funk....

Summary Capcomhas confirmed that Frank West will level up much faster inDead Rising Deluxe Remasterthan he did in the original release, something that fans aren’t exactly thrilled about. Ever since theDead Rising Deluxe Remaster was first revealed as a semi-remake of the 2006 classic, fans have wondered just how much was going to be changed. The first few trailers indicated that it was a shot-for-shot remake thatimproved the graphics and added some quality-of-life features, but as we’ve learned more about Deluxe Remaster,it’s become clear that there’s more to it than that....

Summary It didn’t take cheaters long to startruining Deadlock for everyone. However,Valveis a bit more on the ball here than it is with its other online games, as it rolls out a new update that focuses on keeping games fair. Better yet, it’s even letting players decide what happens to any cheaters who get caught. Now that the new update is live, anyone playing in a match with a cheater will be allowed to decide their fate: instantly ban them, or turn them into a frog....

Summary Dragon Age: The Veilguardis the first sequel in the seriesnot to carry over all of our characters from the previous games or most of their decisions. The only one who makes the cut is our Inquisitor,who we recreate in The Veilguard’s character creator, as well as input three of the decisions they made inDragon Age: Inquisition. While this rules out cameos and most references to the Hero of Ferelden and Hawke - protagonists ofDragon Age: OriginsandDragon Age 2respectively - BioWare has still managed to sneak one in for the Warden....

Summary Dragon Age: The Veilguardneeds to be a hit for developerBioWare. After two high-profile disasters in Mass Effect: Andromeda and Anthem, the studio needs a winner to remind everyone that it’s one of the best studios in the business when it comes to single player, narrative-driven RPGs. Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a great way to do that, and regardless of the game’s overall quality, it looks as though BioWare has a commercial success on the way....

Necromancers tend to fall into one of two categories, sometimes both. They are either extremely creepy about death as a concept to the point of it being uncomfortable, or they are irredeemably evil creatures with no respect for the sanctity of life. ButDragon Age: The Veilguardmanages to offer a more romantic view of necromancy, and of death itself. Love and death are intimately intertwined. It’s the most famous part of your wedding vows - till death do us part....

Summary Dragon Age: The Veilguarddiffers slightly from the other games in the series in thatit’s got a pretty good character creator this time around. BioWare appears to have takenthe criticism of Dragon Age: Inquisition’s character creatorto heart, and will allow players to customize almost every aspect of their character in The Veilguard. As a result, a tremendous amount of work has gone into the game’s character creator, making sure that players from all walks of life can feel represented when making their characters, and one way that BioWare managed to do this was to use a character creator from another of publisher Electronic Arts' long-running series -The Sims....