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While you’ll only get a say in who’s on the battlefield with you during your expeditions inThe Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy, it’s helpful to know which of your teammates is best to fall back on during combat missions -they’ve all got different roles to play, so you’ll need to know how to use everyone. But we all find ourselves drifting back to the same characters throughout The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy, focusing on them in combat and homing in to let their strengths shine....

Ever since Sherlock Holmes was by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887, he’s been the focus of some of the best detective thrillers in Hollywood history. One of the most popular fictional detectives, Holmes' supremely sharp intellect and observational techniques appear to make him omniscient at first glance, only to break it down for the audience in an extremely logical way that never gets boring. The many thrilling adventures of Sherlock Holmes and his trusty sidekick, Dr John Watson, have been dramatised for both film, television andvideo games....

The main narrative ofClair Obscur: Expedition 33is exceptional as it’s filled with compelling characters and exciting twists. However, Expedition 33’s quest to stop the Gommage isn’t the only story the game tells. After all, it’s set in a big world with deep lore. So, there are many other narratives in the game you can experience. You can find them in journals, optional areas, and other hidden places. They help add a bit of depth to both the world and several of the main characters....

Summary WhileMario Kartis often consideredthe undisputed king of the kart racing genre, over the years there have been a number of worthy competitors. FromDiddy Kong RacingtoCrash Team RacingtoSonic Racing, there’s no shortage of kart racers featuring some of gaming’s most iconic mascots. Oh, andGarfield Kart— a kart racer based on the world of the lasagna-eating, Monday-hating orange tabby cat and his friends. As it turns out, Garfield Kart is making a comeback to a console near you....

The race for theEmmysis heating up. With just a month to go until the eligibility date cutoff of May 31, we’re starting to hear about the major submissions from the biggest shows in television. This year, one of the key shows to watch at the ceremony will beNetflix’sAdolescence. The streaming platform’s four-episode limited series has been one of the most talked about TV shows this year, tackling knife crime not from the perspective of a whodunit but in terms of the culpability of society....

Quick Links Avowedmay not have the biggest open-world that the RPG landscape has ever seen, but it certainly has one of the densest. It’s a game that makes nearly maximum use of all the space that it’s created, and part of what fills that space are chests. Paradis is one of the earlier accessible areas in the game, and while it might be a bustling city, it’s teeming with more than just citizenry: it’s full of chests....

Summary Animeis notorious for putting in the worst spoilers in its openings. Some of these openings spoil things like certain character fights, upcoming moments, and even major deaths. While the spoilers have definitely been toned down in the openings of modern anime, they have not completely disappeared. Perhaps the animation studios already assume the viewers are reading the manga, so they don’t consider the anime openings to be spoilers. It could also be that the studios would rather avoid creating multiple versions of the same opening while the arc progresses....

Summary Ubisoft recently released apost-launch roadmapforAssassin’s Creed Shadows, detailing the game’s upcoming updates and expansions. The roadmap specifically concerns Shadows' first year of release. The first major milestone on the roadmap has just been added to Shadows, a new free story pack called “The Works of Luis Frois.” Players will primarily remember Frois for his participation in the Jesuit mission, for whichYasukeacted as a bodyguard. A Man About Jesus The pair went their separate ways after Yasuke entered the service of Oda Nobunaga, with Frois settling in Kyoto....

Few games launch with as much baggage asAssassin’s Creed Shadows. It would have already had a tough hill to climb thanks to finally tackling the Feudal Japan setting that fans have been requesting since the series began nearly two decades ago, butseveral high-profile misses from Ubisoft,multiple sudden delays, andthe swirling culture war around Yasukemeans that Shadows simplyneedsto be a hit like no other game before it. Seeing the weight of the world on Shadows’ shoulders has been especially strange as someone who hasn’t been bothered about leaps of faith or hidden blades for a long time....

Summary When Sandfall Interactive announcedClair Obscur: Expedition 33, people were immediately captivated by an interesting premise combined with Belle Époque aesthetics. Considering Sandfall is a debut studio, people were also surprised to see such a star-studded cast attached to the game. Charlie Cox (Daredevil), Jennifer English (Baldur’s Gate 3), Ben Starr (Final Fantasy 16), Andy Serkis (The Lord of the Rings) and other prominent voice actors areAll Setto feature in Clair Obscur....

Spyro 4is one of those long-running rumors that just won’t go away. We’ve had no indication fromXboxorActivisionthat something is on the way,but newly independent developer Toys for Bob- which developed the Spyro: Reignited Trilogy - has been cryptically teasing what appears to be a Spyro revival for quite some time. First, the studio revealed thatXbox would be the company to fund its first solo project, which understandably led to rumors that it was something Spyro or Crash Bandicoot-related....

Summary The second DLC pack forDragon Ball: Sparking Zeroseems to support the fan theory thatDragon Ball Daimaisn’t in the same continuity as Super and Z. If you’ve been a Dragon Ball fan for long enough, then you’ve no doubt heard all of the arguments about canon -it’s basically the biggest talking point outside of power levels, after all. Those discussions used to just be saved for Dragon Ball GT, butthey’ve now moved over to the latest series, Dragon Ball Daima....

Summary Yesterday,Elden Ring Nightreign’s review embargo was lifted. Although most players don’t have access to Nightreign yet, there is already robust discussion based on reviewers' impressions of the game. Nightreign is an experimental title, and itsmixed critical receptionreflects that. The game currently holds an average critic score of 80 onOpenCritic, a decent score but far from the lofty heights ofElden Ring(95) andElden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree(94). A common criticism from reviewers is that the game feels unbalanced....