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Quick Links You’ll notice that odd stone structure atop the Carpenter’s Shop when you first begin playingMudborne, but once you’ve found the loft key and gained access to the roof of your first home, your world opens up - quite literally! Use frogs with the right genetic code to activate what turns out to be a portal between worlds. The warm-toned world between the waking and dream worlds is called the Gateway Nexus, and by unlocking different access points around the maps in Mudborne, you’ll be able to quickly fast travel between worlds instead of trekking back and forth between them....

Barrow-Dyad is one ofDestiny 2’sstranger Exotic weapons. This weapon feeds off the life essence of its foes, generating Blight Charges that deal massive damage. It’s effectively Quicksilver Storm in SMG form, although it has significantly more perk options. One For All is one of the Catalyst options for this weapon and is easily your best pick. Hitting three targets with this gun is trivial, giving you a 35 percent damage boost for ten seconds....

Quick Links Attack on Titan,or Shingeki no Kyujin, took the world by storm when its first season debuted in 2013, quickly becoming one of the most popular - and celebrated - anime of all time. The series, based on the manga by the same name, has been praised as richly detailed, finely crafted, and consistently compelling. If you’re just getting into Attack on Titan in 2025 (or later), we’ve assembled a watch order for you....

Nintendoshowed off a lot of little details forMario Kart Worldduring theNintendo Switch 2 Directthis week. That was a good idea since A) it’s the only big first-party game hitting store shelves the same day as theSwitch 2, and B) Nintendo is asking players to spend $80 on it. Mario Kart looks bigger and better than ever before and, frankly, it needs to. The best detail? The addition ofTitanfall-style wall-riding, which I want to see in basically every game....

Quick Links Magic: The Gathering’sFinal Fantasy set has caught attention not just from the TCG’s long-time fans, but also Final Fantasy afficionados hoping to grab their favourite characters. But with so many products, and so many card treatments, working out what you can get in what pack can be tricky. Maybe you just want the cheapest versions of every card to play with? Or you want to collect every card from a specific game?...

Summary TheNintendo Switch 2Directrevealed several graphically-demanding games coming to the console, with the likes ofElden Ring, Cyberpunk 2077, and Final Fantasy 7 Remake the headliners. But when I saw these games being revealed, I couldn’t help but think of Kingdom Hearts. I can rarely help but think of Kingdom Hearts. The series is much less demanding - the most intense is KH3, a PS4 game - but the games are still stuck in cloud-based prison on Switch....

Quick Links The Harbinger of Hatred is a formidable endgame boss inLast Epoch, introduced in Patch 1.1 as part of the Forgotten Knight faction questline. This boss embodies the Tank archetype, combining heavy-hitting physical attacks with devastating void abilities borrowed from Rahyeh, The Black Sun. Defeating the Harbinger is crucial for progressing through the Forgotten Knight faction and is a prerequisite forchallenging the pinnacle boss, Aberroth. To stand a chance, you’ll need to know where it spawns, what to bring, and how to survive its most punishing mechanics....

Summary Legohas been a little quieter on thatStar Warsfront in 2025 compared to 2024 since last year the two parties were celebrating 25 years of working together. That quiet period is about to come to an end with Star Wars Day on the horizon though, and a new set that clocks in at just short of 3,000 pieces has been revealed. Lego has revealedJango Fett’s Firespray-Class Starship. Rumored for a while thanks to leaks, the set’s store page is now live, confirmingit will be released on May 24, 2025....

Summary Even now that A Minecraft Movie is out in the wild andmaking a lot of money for Warner Bros, some still aren’t convinced Jack Black was the right choice to play Steve. It was already known the video game movie go-to wasn’t the first pick to play the lead, and now we might know who was. According to Puck, Matt Berry was supposed to play Steve. If you’re struggling to place who exactly that is, Berry plays Laszlo Cravensworth in What We Do In The Shadows....

Summary Every few months we are treated to a newPokemon Trading Card Gamerelease and with Journey Together, you get a special treat when you open your packs. Trainer’s Cards are back, with a whole set themed around some of the game’s most beloved characters. Trainers from past games and more recent ones are all here, with characters like N, Hop, Lillie, Iono, Brock, and more getting not only their partner Pokemon featured, but with special Trainer cards as well....

Summary Baldur’s Gate 3has spoiled us a little bit. It’s an RPG that’s so expansive and massive that it reacts to almost everything a player does, but it’s worth remembering that it’s exceedingly rare to find an RPG that does that, and even moreso almost two decades ago. The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivionis one such game that definitely wanted to give players as much free choice as possible, but didn’t quite have the resources to make sure ALL of your actions made sense in the game’s world....

Quick Links In the original version of The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, difficulty settings were tweaked by way of a one-to-hundred slider. It gave players the control to delicately fine-tune their challenge, albeit rather nebulously.Oblivion Remasteredeschews this approach in favor of something easier to parse - a suite of five fixed difficulty options, much like Skyrim has. Of course, your pick only tells you the most cursory information. Our Oblivion Remastered difficulty guide sets out to explain the particulars....

Summary Pokemonhas been turning Poke Dolls, the little toys you’re able to find in the games, into real-life plushes for years. However, considering how big the Pokedex is in 2025, there are naturally still Pokemon that have never receved the Poke Doll treatment. Pokemon has confirmed it will be fixing that for four more of its creations, revealing the next Poke Doll plush designs arriving next week. The next four Pokemon to be turned into real-life Poke Dolls will beDragonite, Salamance, Tyranitar, and Garchomp....