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Summary There are some games that are must-plays for gamers, and the latest entry in the Like A Dragon series,Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, is easily the best in the series. If you missed it earlier this year, you’re about to be rewarded for doing so. Infinite Wealth is currently on sale at Woot for a very limited time. If you have been on the fence about picking up a charming game about middle-aged men running around, this is your chance to hop off....

Summary As a hero shooter,Marvel Rivalsis entering one of the most competitive spaces in the video game market. In the last 18 months alone,Deadlock,Overwatch 2,XDefiant,The Finals, and the disastrousConcordhave all made their play for the crown, while stalwarts operating in a similar space, likeApex LegendsandRainbow Six Siege, continue to draw huge numbers. With the full backing of theMarvelIP behind it, though, NetEase Games is confident that it can crack the market in a big way....

Summary An RPG party makes or breaks the game for me. What’s the point of going on a world-saving adventure if I’m not going to be irrevocably attached to the characters afterwards? A lot of RPGs (even some of my favourites) have great parties, but they’re not excellent. There’s usually a character or two who lets the side down. Looking at you, Amarant from Final Fantasy 9. Metaphor: ReFantaziodoesn’t have anyone like that....

The Monster Hunter Wilds open beta has just ended, and fans will now have to wait till the end of February 2025 to get back to hitting big monsters with big weapons. The PC version of the beta was unfortunately riddled with bugs and performance issues, but it was very well received overall, and is shaping up to be one of 2025’s biggest launches. Now that the beta is over, fans have started everything they like and dislike about that game....

Summary Items in RPGs serve many purposes; from healing you, to buffing you in battle, and sometimes even attacking your enemies.Persona 3 Reload: Episode Aigishas a plethora of consumable items to choose from that can sometimes save you from a grisly fate in the right circumstances. While you may be tempted to hold on to every item you come across like a dragon that hordes its treasure, you should resist that urge at all costs....

Summary First reported by Stephen Totilo, Netflix has shut down its studio in Southern California. One of, if not the biggest video game studio under the Netflix banner, its team in California, which has internally been dubbed Team Blue, included some of the heavier hitters Netflix brought on board to help it carve out a bigger niche in the gaming world. The biggest of those hires, at least in terms of name value, is Joseph Staten, an ex-creative lead at Bungie and 343 Industries who worked on multiple Halo titles as recently asHalo Infinite....

It seems like no one is safe from the recent slew of leaks that have been plaguing the industry. Themassive leak at Game Freakrevealed all sorts ofdetails that Pokemon fans would have loved to know, andsome that they wouldn’t. We’ve now started seeing leaks for theNintendoSwitch Online playtest which very few, exclusive people were privy to. While it’s nowhere near the scale of the Game Freak leak, it gives us a glimpse at what Nintendo is working on, and fans have speculated that it could be anything from the metaverse, to an MMO, and even a strand game....

Summary Nintendopublished its latest numbers this morning and naturally the anticipation of that had some thinking its quarterly earnings call might contain news about theSwitch’s successor. Technically it did, but only because Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa took the opportunity to let the world know that nothing has changed when it comes to the studio’s plans for its Switch 2 reveal. What Furukawa means by that is the Switch 2, or whatever Nintendo names its new console, is still on track to be revealed by the end of the current financial year, so by Jul 09, 2025, at the latest....

Summary Palworld’s long-awaited PS5 port shadow-dropped yesterday following the State of Play showcase, but its release in Japan has been indefinitely delayed and is likely due to theNintendolawsuit. Yesterday’s State of Play was a generally low-key affairoutside of the announcement of Ghost of Yōtei, but it did hold a few interesting surprises.One of them was the reveal that Palworld is finally launching on PS5after initiallylaunching on Xbox and PC towards the start of the year, something that would usually be a point of celebration....

Summary Developers can be guilty of letting significant milestones pass by without recognition which is why it was nice to seePokemonpay homage to Gold & Silver on the games' 25th anniversary last week.It revealed a range of very special merchto celebrate the occasion, the caveat being that merch was only available in Japan. It didn’t take long for some of it to arrive in the US and other Pokemon Centers around the world, though....

Summary While it’s been confirmed that Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 won’t be receiving any further post-launch support in the form of expansion DLC, it has been revealed thatthe final batch of costumes for Peter and Miles will be coming on Thursday. In a post on Twitter,Insomniac Games’Aaron Jason Espinoza, who serves as the studio’s community manager, shared that the costumes should be available later this week. A back-end hold up is responsible for a delay, and an official blog post will follow at some point....

Summary Stardew Valley update 1.6 is finally out on console and mobileafter months of waiting, but there’s an issue — stylish cats are lagging out the game. “PSA: if you are experiencing performance issues, remove all hats from pets,“ConcernedApe tweeted. “We will address the problem as soon as possible.” It’s unclear whyplaying dress up with your petswould cause the game to bug out, but for now, it might be time to take theBridal Veiloff your horse....

Have you ever wondered what a terrible nightmare world might smell like? Do you love candles? Have you ever wanted to get up and close to an interdimensional monster with a gross flower-like maw that is lined with more teeth than you could possibly image? Well, you’re in luck, cause Bath & Body Works has dropped a new line of candles, hand soaps, sanitizers, and more based on the Netflix original show,Stranger Things....