Tips & Guides

How To Clean Up Your PS5’s Newsfeed

Like an untamed Instagram feed, the PlayStation 5 sometimes gives you updates about things you don’t care about. When you tap the PS button, you’ll see an “official news” card, which lists a handful of news blips—trailers, announcements, that sort of thing—about “your games.” Most of the games listed appear to be those you follow…

Tips For Playing Immortals Fenyx Rising

Immortals Fenyx Rising is much better than its bad name. It’s the latest big open-world game from Ubisoft. Wait, don’t run away! While it’s true Ubisoft has made some overly-long open world games before, Immortals is different. It’s a simpler, pared down game featuring a smaller map and more puzzles than your average Assassin’s Creed…

How To Make Short Work Of Any Enemy In Assassin’s Creed Valhalla

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla isn’t a difficult game. If you venture at all off the beaten path, you’ll quickly accrue enough experience and gain enough Power levels to become an unstoppable Viking tank. Still, some boss fights—and other high-level enemies, like zealots—can be a pain. That is, unless you’ve equipped the best ability in the game:…

Holy Cayde-6, You Can Buy Back Your Old Colors In Destiny 2

Earlier today, I wrote about how I’ve been playing a whole lot of Destiny 2 these days. I messed around with Bungie’s hilariously good-vs.-evil shooter at launch, then dipped out. Returning after a few years away for the recent Beyond Light expansion meant reacquainting myself with a whole lot of stuff, but nothing threw me…

There’s Still Hope If You, A Dummy, Didn’t Pick The Providential Ring In Demon’s Souls

Did you start the Demon’s Souls remake without choosing the new Providential Ring as your starting gift? Well, first off, you really should have read my beginner’s tips! Lucky for you, the Souls community has discovered a way to snag this helpful piece of jewelry further into the game. It’s just going to take a…

The PS5’s Confusing ‘Other’ Storage Leaves Users Less Room For Games

Games are getting bigger, and yet the new Xbox and PlayStation consoles don’t offer a whole lot of room.

Beware This Weird Blindness Bug In Assassin’s Creed Valhalla

Like any massive open-world game, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla has its fair share of bugs. Most of them are slight (graphical hiccups, audio tweaks, things of that nature) or laughably irreverent (super-sized children), stuff you’d expect from a game of this size and scale. One, however, is worth raising the alarm about: a world event in…

How To Easily Uncover Every Skill In Assassin’s Creed Valhalla

Ever spend dozens of hours with a game only to discover something so blindingly obvious yet critically helpful that you can’t help but kick yourself in a fit of despair? Yeah, me neither. On an unrelated note, after I hit the 40-hour mark in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, I learned something essential about the skill tree.…

How To Zoom In On Small Text In Any Xbox Series X / S Game

As the saying goes, nothing in life is certain except death, taxes, and painfully tiny video game text. If you were lucky enough to beat the queues and snag a new Xbox Series X or S, know that you can zoom in on any game’s text at more or less any time. All you have…

How To Make Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Feel More Like Classic Assassin’s Creed

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is not a subtle game. Ubisoft’s latest well-rendered history lesson, out now for basically every platform but the Switch, puts you in the shoes of a muscular Norse raider. You often wield weapons so large they’d make Cloud Strife blush. Stealth is almost always optional. Yes, Valhalla is as much a far…

Destiny 2’s new Season of the Hunt goes live this afternoon, but you’ll need to have finished the first mission from the Forsaken and Shadowkeep expansions before you can start it, Bungie confirmed on Twitter last night.

How To Share Games Between Accounts On Your PlayStation 5

These days, with downloadable games being the norm, sharing your games isn’t as easy as handing your friend a disc. Maybe you’ve run into a situation on your PlayStation 4 where, even though a game is downloaded on your machine, you can’t play it, since the license is technically owned by a different user. The…

Tips For Playing Demon’s Souls On PS5

Demon’s Souls, which as you might have heard recently received an incredible remake on PlayStation 5 courtesy of Bluepoint Games, is arguably easier than the games that iterated on its formula, but still likely to be a daunting experience for newcomers. As such, here are a few tips to get you started on your visit…

PSA: Turn Off Your PS5 Faster By Scrolling Left, Not Right

Turning off the PlayStation 4 was a piece of cake. You’d hold down the PS button, maneuver to the “Power” menu, and click “Turn off.” After years with the system, it likely became second-nature: hold PS, down, right, down, X. You could probably do it with your eyes closed—or, more likely, and more helpfully, with…

How To Get The Cat Suit In Spider-Man: Miles Morales

Spider-Man is the hero of Spider-Man: Miles Morales. That’s not a statement about either of the Spider-Men (Peter Parker or the titular Miles Morales) but about Spider-Man, the bodega cat who charmed the internet to pieces earlier this fall. Insomniac’s web-slinging action game, out now for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5, allows you to unlock…

Tips For Playing Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales

Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, a superhero action game about bad guys who don’t know how to look up, has officially swung onto PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5. The game unmistakably shares a lot of DNA with its predecessor, 2018’s amazing Spider-Man. Still, there are some quirks to this follow-up, things you should know that will…

15 Tips To Make The Most Of Your New PlayStation 5

With the launch of the PlayStation 5, “next-gen” is no longer a thing of the future. We’re officially in current-gen territory now. But every period of novelty brings a period of learning—about new features, new functions, and new ways to play games. It can be a lot to take in, whether or not you’re coming…

How To Move Your PlayStation 4 Stuff To Your PlayStation 5

The PlayStation 5 promises the future, but that doesn’t mean you need to let go of the past. After all, we’re talking about seven years of hard-earned memories: beloved games, hard-earned save data, and sweet, sweet, Trophies. The bad news is that, as far as I can tell, there’s no way to move your screenshots…

Tips For Playing Yakuza: Like A Dragon

It doesn’t matter if you’re a newcomer to the series or a veteran, there’s a lot to get to grips with in the latest Yakuza game, thanks to a new cast, a new city and, most important of all, a transition from action gameplay into full-blown JRPG combat. Also Yakuza: Like a Dragon is just…

How To Make The Most Of Your PlayStation 5’s Internal Storage

Those making the leap from a PlayStation 4 Pro to a PlayStation5 are in for a rude awakening. The PS4 Pro, of course, boasts a 1TB hard-drive. The PS5, meanwhile, is equipped with an 825GB solid-state drive (SSD)‚ but that’s only on paper. As with any modern video game console, a good chunk of the…