Tips & Guides

How To Pick Your Perfect Difficulty Level In Ori And The Will Of The Wisps

Ori and the Will of the Wisps, out tomorrow for Xbox One and PC, is a meditative, poetic, beautiful platformer, with as many quiet moments as it has intense monster battles. It’s also brutally difficult. As in its predecessor, 2015’s notoriously punishing Ori and the Blind Forest, you control the guardian spirit Ori and navigate…

Tips For Playing The Division 2 [Updated]

The Division 2 is filled with things to do, places to explore, guns to collect and enemies to kill. And after a massive sale and a new expansion, there might be a lot of players either returning to the game or playing it for the first time. So here are some updated tips for new…

How To Unlock Saitama In The One Punch Man Game

One Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows, a fighting game ostensibly about One Punch Man and pals, came out last week for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. You can play as all manner of fan favorites from the One Punch Man extended universe, including Silverfang, Metal Bat, Tank Top Tiger, and, of course, Mumen…

What Happens To Your Xbox Game Pass And PlayStation Now Downloads Once They Expire

For budget-conscious gamers, there are few better ways to get games than via the games-on-demand services PlayStation Now and Xbox Game Pass. Each service costs $60 per year or $10 a month and grants access to a vast library of games. Triple-A blockbusters and indie darlings both pop up on these services with some regularity,…

Tips For Playing Granblue Fantasy Versus

I love fighting games and wish more folks played them, but I also realize that they aren’t all that welcoming. They hyper-focus on a very specific kind of competitive player to the detriment of pretty much everyone else. Granblue Fantasy Versus is better than most at providing useful ways for beginners to learn and improve,…

Tips For Playing Iris and the Giant

Last week, the roguelite card game Iris and the Giant came out on PC and Mac. In it, you control Iris as she climbs through various floors of an underworld inspired by Greek mythology. Soon enough, it becomes clear that this underworld is a creation of Iris’ imagination, and is in fact a metaphor for…

Today is your last chance to grab a digital download of Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 for $3. For the next 18 hours, Ubisoft’s third-person shooter is available at a steep discount on the PlayStation Store, Xbox Live, Ubisoft’s UPlay, and the Epic Games Store. Tomorrow’s upcoming expansion, Warlords of New York, is not included.…

Can’t Decide What To Play In Dreams? Try These

It’s not an exaggeration to say the possibilities in Dreams are endless. Media Molecule’s creativity game, which officially came out for PS4 a few weeks back, puts the tools of a developer in the hands of a gamer. It’s not the Frostbite Engine or iD Tech 4, but, on the other hand, you don’t need…

You Can’t Catch Dynamax Mewtwo, So Why Bother?

Two decades ago, Ash, Pikachu, and friends sent Mewtwo packing. Now, the weirdo psychic feline is back for revenge—not on late-’90s moviegoers but on 21st-century Pokémon players. This weekend, in celebration of Pokémon Day, Sword and Shield players have the chance to partake in a doozy of a Max Raid Battle against Dynamax Mewtwo Many…

You Shouldn’t Play Video Games To Fall Asleep (But Here’s How Anyway)

We’ve all done it. One minute, you’re watching Jim say something mean to Dwight; the next, you’re waking up to a screen that asks “Are you still watching The Office (U.S.)?” While you might feel a bit sheepish when Netflix scolds you for falling asleep to its offerings, the use of media as a sleep…

How To Get Started Making Things In Dreams

Dreams isn’t just a game. It’s a creativity incubator with endless possibilities. If you can dream it, you can create it. Want to make a breakfast that looks more realistic than a Naughty Dog cutscene? Go for it! A cute kaiju boat-eating simulator? Sure! A recreation of the Air Buster boss fight from Final Fantasy…

PSA: Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate Is Free On The Epic Games Store Right Now

Heads up, PC gamers: In case you didn’t know, each week, you can get free games on the Epic Games Store. Think of it like Microsoft or Sony’s free-game programs, except you don’t need to pay for a monthly subscription. This morning, the digital storefront put up a truly epic title. Between now and next…

How To Beat Umbral Beast In Fire Emblem: Cindered Shadows DLC

As longtime series fans know, the real goal of any Fire Emblem game is to make it to the credits without anyone in your party dying. For the most part, well-planned tactics and well-trained troops will get the job done. But the newest Fire Emblem—an excellent full-blown DLC campaign for Three Houses called Cindered Shadows—poses…

Tips For Playing Fire Emblem: Three Houses – Cindered Shadows

Last week, Fire Emblem: Three Houses received a shiny new piece of DLC. Unlike the previous “waves,” it’s not just a handful of new quests and costumes and other small-scale additions. This DLC, called Cindered Shadows, is a fully contained standalone campaign, wherein Byleth, Claude, Edelgard, Hilda, and some other less-cool students explore a mysterious…

PSA: If You’re Just Starting Dreams, Leave The Motion Controls On

I don’t know about you, but I’m no fan of motion controls. In Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, I immediately deactivated the tilt. I would’ve turned off the motion controls in Detroit: Become Human, if doing so wouldn’t also minimize the narrative stakes. The worst Super Mario Party mini-games are those that require physical Joy-Con movement.…

Here’s The Deal With The New Fire Emblem: Three Houses DLC

When Nintendo announced Cindered Shadows, we series devotees rightfully went nuts. But it wasn’t clear what exactly the DLC actually was.

Can’t Find Pokémon Home On Mobile? Open Up Your Browser

After much anticipation, Pokémon Home came out Tuesday—but you wouldn’t necessarily know it from checking your phone. For whatever reason, the catchall Pokémon storage center does not appear if you search for it on a mobile device’s app store. For those who may not know, Pokémon Home is Nintendo’s cloud storage service for Pokémon. The…

How To Make Short Work Of Mama Tick In The New Dead Cells DLC

Dead Cells is a satisfyingly complex roguelite with fast-paced combat, Metroid-style exploration, and gorgeously rendered medieval environments. It will also kick your ass in a thousand ways. This week, Dead Cells added yet another method of ass-kicking: Mama Tick. Mama Tick is the boss of “Bad Seed,” the new Dead Cells DLC that’s out today…

Heads Up: You’ll Need To Manage The Bioshock Collection’s Limited Save Space

If you use up the BioShock collection’s limited space for making saves while playing BioShock 1, you won’t be able to save at all once you start playing BioShock 2 Yesterday was BioShock 2’s 10-year anniversary, and the remastered collection containing all three games is currently available to download as part of PlayStation Plus. As…

How To Squeeze The Most Legendary Gear Out Of Borderlands 3‘s New Event

There’s really only one reason people play Borderlands 3, and it’s not the story. It’s the guns. And right now, there are more awesome guns than you can shake a Claptrap at. Borderlands games feature a mind-boggling amount of weaponry. It’s kind of their thing. The first game featured 17.75 million different guns. In pre-launch…