Silent Hills Fan Shares Impressive Graphical Upgrade on PT Dreams Remake

Dreams, Media Molecule’s 2020 PS4 game, has seen countless creations of varying levels of creativity, quality, and effort since its inception. Everything from impressive breakfast food to full games have been made insideDreams. Dreamsis intended to be a user-friendly way to build worlds and games, without the need for a high-powered PC or expensive software.Dreamshas even been used to helpcreate feature film environments, showing how far users can really push the game....

July 2, 2025 · 2 min · 416 words · Thomas Hernandez

Stardew Valley Reaches All-Time High Player Count Following Update 1.6

Summary The highly-anticipatedStardew ValleyUpdate 1.6 has released, resulting in the game achieving an all-time high player count of over 140,000 concurrent users on Steam.Patch notes forStardew ValleyUpdate 1.6include a slew of new content, bug fixes, and more, and both new and returning fans have booted up in droves to enjoy the massive patch. Since its release back in 2016,Stardew Valleyhas established itself as one of the most popular and successful life-sim games of all time....

July 2, 2025 · 3 min · 491 words · Shirley Combs

Steam Couldn't Handle Rabbit and Steel's Real Name, Says Dev

A video game’s name has to do a lot in a very small space: it has to communicate what the game is about as well as grab players’ attention. As Mino Dev–the developer ofRabbit and Steel–learned the hard way, names should also not fundamentally break storefronts. Rabbit and Steelis the sophomore game by Mino, which puts the fate of the Moonlit Kingdom into the hands of up to four players who traverse roguelike environments that blend bullet helland MMO raid dynamics....

July 2, 2025 · 4 min · 787 words · Jason Jimenez

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: What Time Does Pyra and Mythra Release?

Ever since the game’s initial launch back in 2018 for the Switch,Super Smash Bros. Ultimatehas been giving fans more and more content every few months in the form of a brand-new DLC fighter as part of the Fighter’s Pass. The latest fighters to join the party come from Monolith Soft’sXenoblade Chronicles 2, specifically Pyra and Mythra, who act as one single fighter, but players can switch them on the fly, similar to Zelda and Shiek inSuper Smash Bros....

July 2, 2025 · 3 min · 428 words · Adam Brooks

The Best Open-World Games by Sega, Ranked

Getting through games used to exclusively be based on going through linear levels, either going through them eternally (or until the player reached a kill screen) or until they reached the game’s ending. But there were a few games, even in the medium’s earliest days, that dropped the player in a wide-open world and let them figure out how to progress. Elitesaw players fly through the cosmos to catch bounties and make trades....

July 2, 2025 · 5 min · 1014 words · Christopher Garcia

The Case For a Stronger Skate Story Mode

EA is clearly putting a lot of work into its newest entry to theSkatefranchise. The recently released early footage shows all the effort going into the physics of the game as well as new features coming toSkate. However, there is little to no information regarding the possible storyline of the game. Fans of sports games usually do not care for the seldom-included campaign or story mode likely because it often changes the dynamic of the gameplay or does not do much to provide a good storyline....

July 2, 2025 · 2 min · 419 words · Patricia Melendez

The Game Awards 2020 Introducing New Accessibility Feature

The Game Awards 2020is set to go live in just four days. It’s the biggest awards event of the holiday season, and is guaranteed to be full of reveals and announcements. For a show as big asThe Game Awards 2020, accessibility is important, as enabling as many video game fans to enjoy the show is a part of embracing the gaming community. As such, Geoff Keighley has confirmed a new feature being used for this year’s livestream: an audio descriptive mode....

July 2, 2025 · 2 min · 415 words · Jack Eaton

The Outer Worlds' Tartarus Planet Is A Pit of Despair

The Outer Worldsdeveloper Obsidian Entertainment has consistently shown its dedication to choosing symbolic names for planets found within the game. Though some planets are still locked, there’s a good chance that their names are indicative of what players can expect when visiting them. One planet has Greek mythological roots that hint at its purpose, Tartarus. Tartarus is unlike any of the otherOuter Worldsplanets. Though it is accessible to players, it doesn’t unlock until the very end of the game for the final quest....

July 2, 2025 · 4 min · 650 words · Michael Murphy

The Stand on CBS All Access Gets Its First Trailer

In advance of its December debut, CBS All Access has put out the first short teaser for its upcoming horror miniseriesStephen King’s The Stand.Anchored bya glimpse of Whoopi Goldbergas Mother Abigail Freemantle, and ending with the appearance of Alexander Skarsgård’s Randall Flagg, the trailer is only 30 seconds long. Also, Whoopi gets into a staring contest with a wolf, for reasons. The trailer provides several brief glances of the series’s ensemble cast in the trailer, including Odessa Young as Frannie Goldsmith, Jovan Adepo as Larry Underwood, Heather Graham as Rita Blakemoor, James Marsden as Stu Redman, and Greg Kinnear, mostly hiddenbehind a cloud of smoke, as Glen Bateman....

July 2, 2025 · 3 min · 516 words · James Edwards

Things We Love (And Dislike) About Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One

Aside from the recently releasedLost Judgmentfrom Sega, there aren’t many detective games on recent hardware for players to dive into. This is where Frogwares’Sherlock Holmesseries comes in. A far more in-depth detective experience thanLost Judgmentthe series has more in common with the likes of classic point and click adventure games likeBroken Sword. RELATED:Sherlock Holmes Chapter One Interview: Frogwares Discusses the Iconic Character of Sherlock Holmes Frogwares’Sherlock Holmes: Chapter Oneserves as both a prequel and something of a reboot for Frogwares' sleuthing series....

July 2, 2025 · 6 min · 1113 words · George Cooke

Thor: Love And Thunder's Screaming Goats Get Non-Screaming Plushies

The following article contains spoilers forThor: Love and Thunder.Thor: Love and Thunderis off to a great start at the box office, but Disney knows selling movie tickets is only a part of the MCU equation. So, since the giant screaming goats from the trailers are among the most meme-worthy things in the movie, anyone can now own a pair of Thor’s trusted allies. The screaming goats, Toothgnasher and Toothgrinder, are just further proof of Taika Waititi’s desire to dive deep into the source material, as the pair find their origin inThor Annual #5(1976), with that being just one out of manyThor: Love and Thundereaster eggs taken straight from Marvel Comics....

July 2, 2025 · 3 min · 455 words · Mary Doyle

Titanfall 2 Unplayable on Consoles Due to DDoS Attacks

It’s been a less than ideal week for Respawn Entertainment, who has seen an uptick in hacks impact a number of its games. The studio had to cut short it’s Fourth of July holiday this past Sunday asone hacker kicked off what they called Operation Red Tape, by taking overApex Legendsand attempting to bring awareness to the rough state that the PC version ofTitanfallis currently in due to DDoSing. The hacker changed the message of the day, playlist names, and more to attempt to bring awareness to the issues facingTitanfall....

July 2, 2025 · 3 min · 446 words · Ms. Annette George

Vampire Survivors: How To Unlock Divano Valleto

Divano Thelma was one of the two new characters introduced intoVampire Survivorsby the 0.6.1 Patch, and this figure has already earned a reputation as a Death killer. Unlocking Divano Thelma is not as simple as unlocking the other standard characters, but fortunately not as difficult as unlocking Red Death. RELATED:Vampire Survivors: How to Unlock Leda This character’s popularity is due to their long list of passive bonuses, and the fact their only penalty is the amount of gold Divano collects....

July 2, 2025 · 3 min · 574 words · Meghan Berry