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Summary Monster Hunter Wildsfans have been enjoying (and suffering) the game’s first title update for a little while now,along with all the new features the update brought. One such feature was Challenge Quests, which tasked hunters with tracking down and slaying various monsters in a bid to set the best time possible. Leaderboards were even added to give players an even greater sense of accomplishment. Unfortunately, just like what happens with every leaderboard in an online game,cheaters quickly piled in with unrealistic times, with one person even managing topost a completion time of 0 seconds....

Summary Dune: Awakeningwas never going to be a good survival game unless you could build enormous structures to call your home. Carving out a little slice of life on Arrakis might seem like a pretty ludicrous idea toanyone who has read the books- it’s a hostile desert planet infested with giant sandworms - but the developers at Funcom have given us all the tools to build some seriously impressive buildings by the looks of things....

Summary Nintendohas high hopes for theSwitch 2. The company filedits financial reportfor the year ending Jul 03, 2025, and in it, Nintendo has noted thatit expects to sell 15 million Switch 2 consolesby the end of the current financial year. If Nintendo achieves that, it will make the Switch 2’s console launch one of the most successful of all time.The original Switch sold 14.86 million consoles during its first year, an incredible achievement, and Nintendo thinks its sequel will better that....

Summary A chunk of Nintendo’sSwitch 2Direct wasdedicated to demonstrating how its new Game Chat feature will work. Part of its appeal will be the ability to effectively superimpose yourself into Switch 2 games using the console’s camera accessory. If you weren’t sold on it during the Direct, you might be swayed by the alternative version of the accessory that has been revealed since. Although the Switch 2 camera is black and likely designed to match the rather plain aesthetic of its console, it wasn’t much to look at....

ReplayingBaldur’s Gate 3always seems like a daunting task. I hit credits onLarian’s stellar RPG when it arrived on consoles a couple of years ago, but since then, I’ve only watched it grow from afar with envious eyes. As each major patch added new content, mod support, and even afanciful epilogueI’ve yet to see for myself, I haven’t taken the plunge because I just know how much of a time investment it would require....

Sometimes I open r/Gaming onRedditjust to see what’s going on in the zeitgeist. After all, if I’m going to be pitching in on gaming discourse, it’s nice to be able to estimate how many angry comments I’m going to get on a hot take by observing what Redditors are already saying online. I also like to know what people are angry about and what they’re playing, but that’s mostly because I’m nosy....

Summary Persona 4seems poised to be getting the remake treatment. We haven’t had anything official from Sega or Atlus just yet, but the fact thatPersona 4 singer Shihoko Hirata has been recording for an unannounced game, and therecent discovery of what appears to be a Persona 4-related website domain name, points to a reveal fairly soon. All we need now is a potential venue for the announcement, and Microsoft ever so kindly stepped up to the plate earlier today by revealing that this summer’s big Xbox showcase will take place on June 8....

One of the biggest surprises of last year wasAnimal Well, an incredible Metroidvania that I hadn’t expected even to play, let alonecrown my Game of the Year over hits like Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero or Astro Bot. Animal Well’s excellent mechanics, brain-teasing puzzles, and constant creativity made it shine brighter than any other game in the genre that I’d played before. As I played throughPipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo, I got some serious vibe-based deja vu....

Summary RuneScape: Dragonwildsshadow dropped earlier this week,giving fans of the old-school MMOa chance to jump into a new game with some friends for some Valheim-esque survival gameplay. It’s one of those games that you can enjoy a lot more with friends, and with the RuneScape name attached, you can guarantee there will be massive friend groups out there waiting to jump in. Unfortunately, those that have more than three friends are finding the game a little disappointing....

Summary People handle the loss of someone close to them in different ways. I imagine many of you reading this will dive into a video game to distract you. Turns out you might share that with someone who calls the Vatican home, as a resident of the holiest place on Earth picked up a cop of Cult of the Lamb shortly after Pope Francis passed away. Devolver Digitalshared the blessed news on Twitter, revealing that on April 25, four days after the Pope passed away and the day before his funeral, one person in Vatican City bought a copy of Cult of the Lamb....

Summary If you’ve been followingTekken 8recently, you’ll know that it’s an absolute dumpster fire at the moment. Despite calls from almost every fan to start making defense more important in fights, Bandai Namco has made things even more aggressive in Season 2, andlongtime streamers are leaving the gameover disagreements with the game’s direction. Tekken 8 just doesn’t feel like Tekken anymore to a lot of fans, and they’ve been leaving in droves ever since....

Summary There is a lot to consider when you take the steps to build your firstMagic: The GatheringcEDH deck, with the first of those choices being which commander you are going to play. There are hundreds of viable commanders to run, with strategies ranging from control to midrange to combo, each one shaping the flow and design of your deck. With so many options out there to pick from, you might as well start with the best that the format has to offer and go from there....

Quick Links Insect Glaive is one of the most unique weapons inMonster Hunter Wilds, and it can also be considered one of the most difficult. While the weapon itself doesn’t have difficult combos, you have the added aspect of a Kinsect that you need to manage during fights. You have to collect buffs from monster parts to enhance your weapon and also spend time developing your Kinsect so that your weapon deals the most damage possible....