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XDefiant Review

XDefiant is an FPS with an identity crisis. This arcade-style arena shooter pulls characters and locations from various Ubisoft games, and it feels a little bit like a lot of different things as a result: It's fast and twitchy in a way that’s similar to games like Call of Duty, but has class abilities that might put it closer to something like Overwatch. It’s got fast respawns and faster deaths, but offers objective-based modes that prioritize teamwork over straight killcount. That combination o
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Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile Review

Successfully bringing well-known console video games to phones and tablets requires hitting a very specific balance. You want the mobile version to feel like the same game people already like, while acknowledging that using a touchscreen device usually means playing for a short period of time on something that's not designed for games. Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile is a pretty ideal demonstration of hitting that balance — it maintains all the most important elements of the PC and console Warzone
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The Inquisitor Review

Video games can be great vehicles for mysteries. The idea of gathering clues, questioning witnesses, and giving dramatic speeches where you stun an array of suspects with your intellect makes for an exciting fantasy. But lots of games stumble trying to fit the inherently open-ended, red-string-connecting fantasy of the detective into traditionally linear story structures. The Inquisitor is a game like that — it starts with the compelling concept of playing as a medieval church cop hunting a vamp
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Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Review

I fell in love with Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time way back in 2003, when it helped redefine 3D action-adventure games with its clever rewind ability enhancing its environmental puzzles and fast, acrobatic combat. But while the aughts saw a bunch of sequels with similar elements, none ever quite hit the same heights as The Sands of Time – and the 2010s were a parched desert for the series. But like an oasis, Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown finally nails what I loved about those classic Pri
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Lego Fortnite Review

Surprising absolutely no one, Fortnite and Lego snap satisfyingly together like a couple of plastic construction bricks. Combining the building creativity of Lego sets with Fortnite's expansive and often gorgeous island playgrounds is a smart match that creates an approachable yet fairly deep survival game. But while it streamlines a few of the more cumbersome aspects of the genre, Lego Fortnite also has the distinct feel of an early access game, trading as much on its future potential as its cu
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Zombies Review in Progress

This is our Zombies review for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Check out the single-player review for our thoughts on the campaign or the multiplayer review for our thoughts on PvP.

Like a lot of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, this year’s Zombies mode has undergone what might be described as a "Warzone-ification," forcing its traditional PvE elements into a larger, more open map. But as popular as the Warzone side of Call of Duty (or in this case, the extraction shooter mode, DMZ) might be, mi

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Junji Ito Tells You How He Creates His Terrifying Manga In New Book You Can Preorder

According to Amazon's description of the book, Uncanny is both professional memoir and horror manga analysis. "...[Ito] tells all and digs into dark recesses--reflections on influences from his childhood, thoughts on manga, next-level idea-generation techniques, character design, craftmanship, and more," it reads. It also says that the book is "full of never-before-told insider anecdotes and behind-the-scenes stories."Ito has written about how he goes about creating the intense, frightening, unn...
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Destiny 2 Liturgy God Roll Guide - Best Perks And How To Get It

Destiny 2's new Stasis grenade launcher, Liturgy, is a fairly remarkable breech-loader for a couple of reasons. First, the Episode: Revenant weapon is one of the few Double Fire archetype launchers, which means it fires two grenades at a time instead of one for double the explosive power. Second, it goes in your primary weapon slot and is imbued with Stasis, an element that is highly in vogue thanks to boosts coming from the Revenant artifact. And finally, the excellent perks in its god roll syn...
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Silent Hill 2 Remake Answers A Decades-Old Question: Which Ending Is Canon?

Note: This article contains spoilers for the story of Silent Hill 2 and Silent Hill 2 Remake. Read on at your own risk.Silent Hill 2 players have been speculating about what's really going on in the game since its release in 2001. Even on its most surface level, it's impossible to say definitively what's happening to protagonist James Sunderland. Is he trapped in a hallucinatory nightmare of grief and guilt? Has he wandered into some kind of supernatural space situated around a small American to...
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Destiny 2 Vantage Point God Roll - Best Perks And How To Get It

While a few other guns in Destiny 2's Episode: Revenant stand out a bit more, like Exuviae and Liturgy, the adaptive frame Arc pulse rifle Vantage Point you can get from the episode is pretty good, too. Its god roll makes it a well-rounded weapon in PvE in particular, and can work well with Arc builds focused on delivering Jolt to enemies to keep them electrified while keeping yourself Amplified.Right now, Revenant weapons can be earned by playing the episode's main attraction, the wave-based On...
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Destiny 2 Revenant - Every New Exotic In The Episode (So Far)

Revenant's season-pass weapon is available either as soon as you start Revenant, if you've purchased the season pass, or at Tier 40 on its free track if you haven't. It's a pretty remarkable gun, giving you the chance to play a support role on your team while still knocking out lots of enemies quickly.Alethonym is a Stasis grenade launcher that uses primary ammo--the first to do that since Fighting Lion. When you get final blows with it or impale a more powerful enemy with the exploding ice stak...
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Destiny 2 New Dungeon Vesper's Host: Release Date, Disabled Weapons, And Everything To Know

Alongside Destiny 2's Episode: Revenant content drop comes Vesper's Host, a three-player dungeon that, like previous dungeons, is sure to offer some intense challenge to endgame players. That challenge is going to be more intense than usual for the first weekend of Vesper's Host, because for the first time, Bungie is running a world's first completion race similar to those it puts on for its raids. As players compete to be the first in the world to finish Vesper's Host, they'll have to deal with...
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Grab Metaphor: ReFantazio On PC For A Discount At Fanatical

Metaphor: ReFantazio is in rarified company, garnering a 10 out of 10 review score from GameSpot. That makes for a pretty good reason to want to check out this RPG from the studio behind the Persona and Shin Megami Tensei games. If you're looking to preorder Metaphor: ReFantazio on PC, you can knock a few bucks off each edition of the game at Fanatical, while also securing a number of preorder bonuses. The discounts at Fanatical knock about 13% off of Metaphor's list price. That brings the base...
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Destiny 2 Onslaught: Salvation Guide - Potions, Banes, And New Defenses

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The launch of Destiny 2's new content episode, Revenant, brings Onslaught: Salvation to the game, a new version of the Onslaught activity. We first saw Onslaught in the Into the Light content drop that led up to the release of The Final Shape expansion, but with Revenant, the activity gets new enemies, new objectives, and new defenses for players.Ons...
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Get The Dark Knight Trilogy On 4K Blu-Ray For Cheap During Prime Big Deal Days

Amazon has some stellar deals on Batman Blu-rays and graphic novels for Prime Big Deal Days, and some of the items are also eligible for the retailer's B2G1 free sale on movies and books. Most notably, Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy is available for only $34. Here's a list of other Batman Blu-rays you could add to your cart alongside The Dark Knight Trilogy.B2G1 Free Batman Blu-rays Th...
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New Destiny 2 Discord Quest Gets You A Free Shader

Destiny 2 developer Bungie has teamed with Discord for one of the chat app's video game "quest" advertisements, offering players a free shader if they log in to its newly released content season, Revenant.The blue-ish shader is called Celestial Ties, released during the Season of the Lost in 2022, and earning it is pretty easy if you're a Discord user, requiring you only to play Destiny 2 for a total of 15 minutes. Once that's done, you can redeem the quest in Discord for a redemption code to us...
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Destiny 2 Revenant Tonics Guide - How To Get More Tonic Recipes And Fieldwork

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With Destiny 2 Episode: Revenant comes the new Onslaught: Salvation activity, and with it, a new system for crafting special tonics that provide you with lots of different bonuses. These break down into two categories--Volatile tonics, which give you specific combat buffs, and Enriching tonics, which help you tune which rewards you receive from activ...
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Silent Hill 2 Remake Guide: How To Solve The X-Ray Puzzle In Brookhaven Prison

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Making your way through Silent Hill 2 Remake's Brookhaven Hospital requires solving lengthy puzzles to uncover the story of its strange, obsessive Director. To make your way all the way through the hospital, you'll need to solve the puzzle of the X-Ray Viewer on the third floor, which requires finding and arranging a group of radiographs in order to...
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Destiny 2 Episode: Revenant Season Pass Gear And Exotics

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The second of Destiny 2's new content episodes, Revenant, has arrived, bringing a whole new season pass and a bunch of new rewards spread out over its three Acts. With the replacement of the old seasonal model with the new episodic approach, Destiny 2 has also changed its paid battle passes, expanding to a total of 200 levels where once there were on...
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10 Years Later, I Think I Finally Understand Alien: Isolation Hate--But It's Still A Masterpiece

Alien: Isolation celebrated its 10-year anniversary on October 6, 2024. Below, we reexamine how the despite its great ideas, the game may not have communicated its expectations clearly enough. This piece was written before the announcement of a sequel, with the original director returning.It's been a decade and I'm still mad about Alien: Isolation.I'm mad that one of the best horror games that exists, if not one of the finest video games ever, has been met with relative obscurity rather than acc...
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Silent Hill 2 Remake - Coin Puzzle Guide For Wood Side Apartments

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When you first arrive in Wood Side Apartments in Silent Hill 2, you'll find a strange cabinet with spaces to insert several round objects and a poem on top. This cabinet is the remake's version of a similar puzzle from the 2001 original, and you'll spend the next few hours of your time exploring the apartment building in order to solve it. To finally...
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Silent Hill 2 Remake - Moth Puzzle Guide For Blue Creek Apartments

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Early in the Silent Hill 2 remake, protagonist James Sunderland makes his way to the Wood Side Apartments, and after searching almost every inch, leaps across a small gap into another building, the Blue Creek Apartments. It's here, in Silent Hill's strange and frightening Otherworld, that James faces even more puzzles blocking his progress. One of th...
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Silent Hill 2 Remake Guides Hub

Though it's often pretty faithful to the 2001 original, Bloober Team's remake of Silent Hill 2 is also filled with differences. Chief among those are the puzzles. While this new version of the game often works to preserve the spirit of elements, like the famous gallows scene or the coins scattered through the Wood Side Apartments, the puzzles themselves have been altered so that you can't just remember old solutions to make your way through this new trip into the fog.In addition to a huge number...
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Silent Hill 2 Remake - Trick Or Treat Elevator Quiz Answers

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Brookhaven Hospital in the Silent Hill 2 remake is a weird place, but no part of it is weirder than the unprompted, radio-style quiz show that plays late in the level. As protagonist James Sunderland rides an elevator, he's asked three questions about the history of Silent Hill. If you've been exploring the town thoroughly and paying close attention,...
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Silent Hill 2 Remake - Weights Puzzle And Hanging Poems Guide

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Late in Silent Hill 2 Remake, James makes his way into one of the strangest and most intense locations in the game: Toluca Prison. The dark and frightening location in the original game includes the gallows, one of the game's most iconic puzzles, where players are tasked with identifying which of six criminals is innocent based on the descriptions of...
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Silent Hill 2 Remake - Apartment 206 Safe Code In The Blackout Room

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While the Silent Hill 2 Remake sticks close to the original's story and path through the game, it's filled with puzzles that are similar to what was in the 2001 game, but not quite the same. One of those is the lengthy search for three coins in Wood Side Apartments that are necessary to make your way through to the second apartment building, Blue Cre...
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Silent Hill 2 Remake - Bug Room Door Code In Toluca Prison

Entering Toluca Prison is one of the more unsettling and strange moments of Silent Hill 2, and that disturbing vibe is amplified early on when you find yourself trapped in a room filled with bugs, with a keypad locking the door and barring your exit.The only way to escape this room is by punching in the right code on the door's keypad, but finding the code can be difficult--especially as the place periodically fills with bugs you'll need to smash if you want to keep them from attacking you. The...
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How Long Is Silent Hill 2 Remake? - Playthrough Times For All Play Styles

Like the 2001 original, the Silent Hill 2 remake is a dense game with lots to find within it if you're willing to scour its foggy and dark corners. With a greater emphasis on combat and a few areas that feel larger and more involved, and with new puzzles that often require multiple steps to complete, though, it's going to be a while before you can escape that town. If you're wondering just how long it'll take, that depends greatly on how completionist you intend to be and whether you want to lea...
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The Casting of Frank Stone is poised to bring a new audience to the Dead By Daylight world

With The Casting of Frank Stone, developers Behaviour Interactive and Supermassive Games are opening up the world of Behaviour's multiplayer horror game Dead By Daylight with a totally new story. The two development studios are also hoping the story will reach a new audience—one that might be interested in the frightening horror universe of Dead By Daylight but hasn’t yet experienced it.

Dead By Daylight pits a team of four players, the survivors, against a fifth player in the role of a vicious...
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In 33 Immortals, Dante’s depiction of Lucifer makes for a massive, challenging first boss

In multiplayer roguelike 33 Immortals, 33 players band together to fight their way through an afterlife inspired by Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy and eventually challenge God to win their freedom from eternal damnation. Like its source material, 33 Immortals is broken down into three worlds—Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise—each divided into environments inspired by different sections of Alighieri’s seminal work. To escape Dante’s Inferno, though, players will first have to face its most powerf

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Once Human review: "Like a crawling bus, its more original elements hide dull and generic ones"

Once Human offers a world full of strange creatures that's refreshingly unique in the survival MMO genre, but that world is populated by derivative gameplay and boring combat and never matches the potential of its premise.Why you can trust GamesRadar+


Our experts review games, movies and tech over countless hours, so you can choose the best for you. Find out more about our reviews policy.The most iconic image to come out of Once Human is a mutated, insectile city bus. Instead of wheels,...

Digital Trends

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How to sync an Xbox One controller with your console

Making your Xbox One controllers work with your game console is a little different than just plugging them in, like in the old days. Luckily, console makers have made syncing wireless controllers relatively easy.

That doesn’t mean there aren’t issues with wireless controllers, though. On the Xbox One, syncing is easy, but if any problems arise with your Xbox wireless controller, there are lots of ways to troubleshoot. Here’s what you need to know to sync your Xbox One with your controllers and
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How to Trade in Pokemon Go

Two years after the release of Pokémon Go, the game finally added one of the features fans have been waiting for since the beginning — the ability to trade Pokémon with friends. Trading has been part of the Pokémon games since Red and Blue were released in 1995, but it had been sorely lacking in Pokémon Go. If you've been wondering how to trade in the popular mobile game, we have you covered.
• The best Pokémon Go tips and tricks
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Here's everything you need to know to transfer data between Switch consoles

The Nintendo Switch keeps a tight leash on its data, but not so tight that players can’t transfer their screenshots and videos from one console to another. Although you can’t swap game saves or move over game libraries using a microSD card, you can at least transfer user data and some photos from one Switch to another.

For those who want to move save data, microSD cards won't be enough. Luckily, we have some tips and ideas on how to move your data, whether it be save data or photos, from one Sw
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How to Use a VPN with Your PS4

Although gaming doesn’t jump to mind when talking about a virtual private network (VPN), there are myriad uses for one on your PlayStation 4. With a VPN, you can connect to servers around the world, allowing you to shop the PlayStation Store in other regions and pair up with players on the other side of the globe. Plus, a VPN encrypts your internet connection, protecting your personal data from anyone spying on your connection, and it can get past internet service provider speed throttling.

Unf
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How to Record Gameplay on PS4

Recording and sharing gameplay on a PlayStation 4 is a lot easier than you might think. Sure, capture cards are the best way to record and stream your gameplay, but you can capture your PS4 gameplay right from the console, too, with no extra hardware required.

Even better, you don’t have to trigger the recording beforehand on your favorite PS4 games, so no matter if you score a win in Warzone or stumble upon one of the many twists and turns in The Last of Us Part II, you can put it on the recor
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How to Sync a PS4 Controller

Although the PS4 has developed quite a reliable reputation, you can expect issues to arise as your console continues to age into “last-gen” status. In fact, new problems are being discovered every day.

Fun new issues aside, we can’t overstate the convenience of having wireless PlayStation 4 controllers — but you must sync them to your system to use them. For PS4 or PS4 Pro owners, syncing your PS4 DualShock controllers shouldn’t be an issue, but we’re here to clear up any confusion. We’ll run d
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How to Factory Reset Your Nintendo Switch

The Nintendo Switch actually offers more than one way to reset, or “initialize,” its firmware, potentially sparing your save data, if you choose. In fact, there are many options for deleting different types of data, depending on your needs. Here’s everything you need to know about deleting data from your Nintendo Switch, including how to do a factory reset.

Just make sure you backup your best Switch games before you do.

How to factory reset your Nintendo Switch

The easiest but most permanent
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How to Factory Reset a PS4

Technology isn’t perfect, including our gaming systems. It’s always terrible to get really into a game, only to have it freeze right before you hit that checkpoint. Recently, it seems these problems have been amplified by the age of the system. These frustrating experiences happen to many PlayStation 4 users, and there’s a relatively simple way to fix them: A complete factory reset.

How to factory reset your PS4

A complete factory reset for the PlayStation 4 is a pretty straightforward process
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What Is Discord?

When playing video games on PC, players often need to solve two problems: How to talk to one another, and how to organize people long enough to actually get a game going.

Discord is the latest in a long line of apps designed to solve that problem. The free platform, which blends the approachable chat UI found in apps like Slack with video and voice chat, a la Skype, has quickly become one of the most popular, reporting 250 million users, with 14 million people logging on every day. Discord is g
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How To Add External Games to Your Steam Library

Steam is the place for PC games, but several games are only available on other storefronts. The Epic Games Store, Ubisoft Connect, Origin, and more have games that you can’t find on Steam. To clean up your desktop gaming experience and make the upcoming Steam Deck a little easier to use, we’re going to show you how to add external games to your Steam library.

Although you can add almost any game to Steam, you won’t have access to social features or achievements. Instead, Steam allows you to con
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The Best Oculus Rift Games

A few years ago, virtual reality (VR) was a costly endeavor. With controllers, sensors, and the headset itself, it was easy to drop $600 or more on a suitable setup. With the recent Oculus Quest 2 and Oculus Rift S, however, getting into VR is now more affordable than ever. The Oculus Rift is the system to use, not only because it’s cheap, but also because it has a library of excellent games.

From animatronic scare-fests to tense first-person shooters, here are best Oculus Rift games available
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The Best Weapons in Destiny 2, and Where to Find Them

Destiny 2 is all about finding newer, better guns scattered throughout the solar system and across its many activities. There are a ton of great weapons already in the game, from Legendary guns you’ll find all over the place and in the Crucible, to highly prized Exotics you can only get from special drops or completing particular quests. Then there are guns that you’ll only find in the game’s six-person Leviathan raid and its new Raid Lairs, or from finishing its super-tough Trials of the Nine m
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God of War Guide: How to Beat All Nine Valkyries

The toughest battles in God of War are against the Valkyries — nine super-strong enemies that have awesomely-powerful attacks, a crazy amount of speed, and huge amounts of health. They represent the game’s biggest challenge and require players to have good equipment and great reflexes.

The Valkyries aren’t unbeatable, though. With a little preparation and patience, you can learn the ins and outs of their attacks, outlast them, and defeat them. Doing so earns a few of God of War‘s toughest troph
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The Best Weapons in Mass Effect: Andromeda

Mass Effect: Andromeda has nearly 70 weapons to find, research, and craft, plus I–X upgrade tiers for each gun. With so many options — and not nearly enough research data in a single playthrough to upgrade every weapon — it can be difficult to tell which guns are actually worth the resources.

You’ll unlock the best weapon blueprints as you advance beyond Level 25, so keep plugging away at quests to grab access to the best of the best. That said, we’ve collected our picks for the most powerful a
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Jumping back into 'Dark Souls 3' to play 'The Ringed City'? Keep these tips in mind

The Dark Souls series is notoriously challenging, and while it has become popular among gamers in the last few years exactly for that difficulty, it remains a bit inscrutable and overwhelming for many players. Dark Souls III is arguably a more easygoing Souls game than its predecessors, however, in that it gives players a little more leeway as they learn and provides something of an easier time getting into the game. It’s still no walk in the park, but it might not be as ruthless as previous tit
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Detroit: Become Human Guide: Every Ending Explained

Developer Quantic Dream is in the business of interactive storytelling, and Detroit: Become Human is no different. Although you’ll do everything from investigate to clean dirty dishes in the game, most of what you’ll do is make decisions. In true Quantic Dream fashion, each decision you make will have a ripple throughout the world of the game, not only determining the course of the narrative you experience, but also how that story ends. Here, we’re going to explain everything you need to know ab
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God of War: Niflheim and Ivaldi's Workshop guide

God of War provides players with some of the toughest challenges yet to be seen in the series. One of the most difficult challenges, aside from defeating the eight Valkyries, is fighting through Ivaldi’s workshop in Niflheim. The workshop is swimming in cursed mist, which forces a timer onto your forays. On top of this, Ivaldi’s Workshop will change every time you enter it, which makes it easy to get lost in. However, with great risk comes great reward.

Although it seems a bit like there is no
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Destiny 2 Warmind: Worldline Zero Exotic Sword Guide

Hidden throughout the Destiny 2 expansion, Warmind, are a bunch of strange little colored lights. It’s not immediately apparent what these little guys are, but with some investigation, you’ll find that the lights are vulnerable to bullets. Check the map when you venture to the Hellas Basin on Mars, and you’ll find that these are the 45 nodes it tracks.

The 45 test nodes on Mars are well-hidden, and their colors designate what kind of gun you need to use to destroy them: Orange for solar weapons
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9 Tips to Help You Win Fortnite Battles on a Smartphone

Epic Games’ Fortnite has taken the world by storm, creating a version of a massive, Hunger Games–like shooter that is dependent both on quick shooting skills and the ability to smartly construct structures that give you an advantage in a fight. With the game’s smartphone and tablet version, Fortnite brings those ideas to a different medium, and winning matches requires a few new skills — like mastering touch controls and adapting to a smaller screen.

Creating a smartphone-compatible version of
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How to Take a Screenshot with Your Nintendo Switch

One of the coolest features among current game console hardware is the ability to snap screenshots of your gameplay and share them easily on the internet and social media. Sony and Microsoft were first to the gate with super-easy sharing buttons on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, but the Nintendo Switch has what may be the best and easiest sharing interface of them all.

It’s incredibly easy to snag a screen grab with the Nintendo Switch, thanks to a dedicated button on the left Joy-Con controll
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The Ultimate Guide to Marvel's Spider-Man: Combat, Suits, and Mods

Fighting bad guys is a big part of the job for your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. Taking on the role of our favorite web-slinging superhero gives you access to all of Spidey’s cool powers including running on walls, avoiding incoming danger, and punching the heck out of thugs, as well as his range of spider-themed gadgets for webbing up and taking down crime.

The thing is, all those different gadgets, moves, spider-suits, and suit mods can get a bit confusing, and a lot of them are tuned fo
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Sea of Thieves: How to Find and Kill the Kraken

There are many dangers in Sea of Thieves — from pirate crews to skeletons to deadly storms. There is one sea-faring creature that almost guarantees a one-way ticket to Davy Jone’s Locker. In pirate lore, the Kraken is one of the most feared creatures an adventurer could be so unfortunate to come across.

The Kraken isn’t so much a boss you hunt down as it is a hazard that appears at random, attacking ships with its huge tentacles. When that happens, crews have to drop everything and make a major
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Who Needs a Crew? How to Sail Solo in Sea of Thieves

Sea of Thieves is meant to be played as part of a crew. You and a few friends loot and plunder the seas (and other players) as a team. That’s not the only way to sail the seven seas, however. If you’d prefer to sail alone, you can also take to the ocean on a smaller, more nimble ship. Taking on the pirate life without any help can be especially tough — you don’t have any backup in emergencies, and if you run up against a crew of other players, you’ll have to take them on at a disadvantage.

It’s
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Sea of Thieves Beginner's Guide | Tips and Tricks

Cooperative piracy simulator Sea of Thieves is a game that drops players right off the plank and into the deep end of the ocean as soon as they start it up. There is little or no explanation of how most things work in the game, from sailing to completing voyages. All of it is picked up through experience as you play, which is part of what makes Sea of Thieves interesting. There are tons of little nuances and best practices, however, that you need to become an effective pirate.

If you want to wi
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'Lost in Space': How Far Away Is Alpha Centauri, and Could Humans Live There?

Humans are looking to colonize the rest of the universe in Netflix’s reimagining of the 1960s sci-fi TV show “Lost in Space.” Of course, it doesn’t go very well — hence the name of the show.

When viewers catch up with the Robinson family at the start of the series, they’ve crashed onto an unfamiliar alien planet nobody knew was there. But it also wasn’t their actual destination. The Robinson family is one of many aboard a huge ship known as the Resolute, which is venturing to Alpha Centauri sta
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All 11 M Night Shyamalan Movie Twists Ranked, From 'Sixth Sense' to 'Old'

M. Night Shyamalan has been known as a twist ending guy since “The Sixth Sense” — his debut as a director — blew everybody’s mind way back in 1999. Since then, not all of his twists have fared so well, with some delighting viewers and others garnering outright scorn from audiences.

And now we’ve got a new one, “Old,” which has thus far proven to be pretty dang polarizing as it competes with “Snake Eyes” for the box office crown this weekend. Check out the list below to find out what we think of
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The Worst Parts of 'Justice League' Theatrical Cut, From Superman's CGI Mouth to That Underwater Battle

“Justice League,” while certainly never approaching the creative nadir that was the DC movie “Suicide Squad,” is really just not a good movie. It’s silly-but-not-in-a-good-way, it’s nonsensical, it’s sort of inexplicably chaotic. It’s exciting, then, that we’ll eventually be able to compare Joss Whedon’s “Justice League” to the Snyder Cut on March 18, and maybe get a better understanding of what went on here. But while we wait for that day, let’s reflect on the pure madness of the theatrical ver
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'Altered Carbon' on Netflix Explained: What the Heck Are 'Meths'?

While “Altered Carbon” on Netflix might seem like an overly complicated show sometimes, it really isn’t. It just seems that way because this fictional sci-fi universe has a ton of its own lingo that you generally have to absorb through context. And while, yeah, you may not have much else to do during your coronavirus quarantine other than watch TV and think real hard about what you’re watching, I don’t think any of us really wants to think too hard about anything right now. So we’re gonna help y
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'SNL' and Amy Schumer Honor Moms by Showing How Awful Childbirth Is (Video)

Amy Schumer paid homage to mothers in a 2018 Mother’s Day sketch on “SNL” that showed just how hard they have it.

The sketch, titled “The Day You Were Born,” finds Schumer welcoming her husband (played by Mikey Day) and young son into her room, where they surprise her with breakfast in bed for Mother’s Day. Like a good mom, she tells her son about the beautiful day he was born and how happy it made her.

But as she explains, flashbacks paint a very different picture, one of a delivery room in w
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The Complete Timeline of Marvel Cinematic Universe Movies, From 'Iron Man' to 'Avengers: Endgame'

We get it: the Marvel Cinematic Universe has a ton of lore, and it can be hard to keep track of it all, especially as the movies get increasingly bonkers. But worry not, true believers. We’ve taken the time to lay it all out as clearly as can be. Read on for the complete timeline to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, from “Iron Man” to “Avengers: Endgame.”

The Big Bang explodes from six preexisting singularities. As the universe is created, remnants of these singularities are forged into objects wi
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'Game of Thrones': Everyone Arya Stark Has Killed So Far

Arya Stark’s (Maisie Williams) journey has been a long and arduous one, full of pain and suffering and a whole bunch of close calls ever since her father was executed at the end of season 1. She’s spent years training with the Faceless Men in Braavos, and now she’s back in Westeros ready to stab anybody who threatens her family. And she’s done just that a number of times already. So everybody who’s died by Arya’s hand, through the Battle of Winterfell.

Stable boy (Season 1)

Arya’s first kill
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Yes, That Was THAT Dead Villain in 'Solo: A Star Wars Story' - Here's What it Means

“Solo: A Star Wars Story” fills in the backstory of Han Solo and quite a few other characters. The movie’s biggest twist, however, doesn’t have to do with the events that lead Han to becoming one of the greatest smugglers in the galaxy — it’s about one “Star Wars” character who turns out to be still alive, still influencing the galaxy, and still posing a threat to a lot of people.

That character is Darth Maul (Ray Park, voiced by Sam Witwer), and if you haven’t been keeping up with any of the a
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20 Famous New England Patriots Fans, From Ben Affleck to Mark Wahlberg (Photos)

Super Bowl LIII, the big number 53, is upon us, and fans all over the country will tune in to see the New England Patriots take on the Los Angeles Rams. If you’re rooting for the Patriots this weekend, here’s a rundown of the good, famous company you’ll be in when you do. And if you’re a Rams fan, here’s a quick celebrity enemies list so you can rub it in their faces on Twitter.

Let’s keep right on going with “Famous Massachusetts natives who do that accent in movies.” Batfleck, who was born in
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How Will 'Captain Marvel' Play Into that 'Avengers: Infinity War' Ending and 'Endgame'?

Watch the second “Captain Marvel” trailer here.

When Brie Larson’s Captain Marvel enters the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2019 just two months ahead of “Avengers 4,” she’s potentially going to have a big impact on the story left hanging at the end of “Avengers: Infinity War.”

Sure, “Captain Marvel” won’t take place at the same time as “Infinity War” or any of the other current Marvel movies — instead, it’s hopping back in time by a couple of decades. But we have every reason to believe the fil
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'Avengers: Infinity War' Post-Credits Scene Explained: What Logo Was That on the Pager?

The battle against Thanos in “Avengers: Infinity War” is the biggest one yet for the heroes of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but not all of them participate. Heroes like Ant-Man and Clint “Hawkeye” Barton don’t show up in the fight to stop the mad Titan.

There’s one other character we know will be in the MCU before “Avengers 4” rolls around in 2019, but who didn’t join the fight against Thanos in “Infinity War” — but that character does get a shoutout in “Avengers: Infinity War” to let us know
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'Marvel's Spider-Man' PS4 Has the Most Heartwarming Stan Lee Cameo Ever (Video)

Developer Insomniac Games’ new Spider-Man video game isn’t quite a tie-in with the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but that doesn’t stop it from feeling very in line with Marvel Studios’ offerings on film.

“Marvel’s Spider-Man” manages to tell a pretty involved, cinematic story in the medium of a video game. It’s not tied to either “Spider-Man: Homecoming” or its sequel, “Spider-Man: Far From Home,” instead crafting its own original tale based on Spider-Man’s expansive lore. “Marvel’s Spider-Man” do
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Every Marvel Comics Live-Action TV Show Ranked, from 'Incredible Hulk' to 'Daredevil'

The recent high-profile shows on Netflix, ABC and FX aren’t the first ones Marvel has taken to the small screen. Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk, Blade and even knock-off-ish X-Men had a go before the current golden age. Here are all the Marvel shows, ranked from goofiest pajama costumes to best character-driven dramas.

17. “Spidey Super Stories” (1974-77)

Spider-Man takes on some super-boring villains. He goes up against The Prankster (a school principal who keeps pranking his students) and T
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'The Purge' Is at Its Scariest, and Most Poignant, Addressing #MeToo

The concept behind “The Purge,” a night each year when all crime, including murder, is legal, is pretty ridiculous when you apply any logic to it. Of course, the point isn’t that the Purge makes sense — it’s a state-sponsored terror campaign designed to keep the lower classes in line.

The four films have used that theme mainly to examine American racism and classism with blantant candidness. And for much of its first season, USA’s TV addition to the series, “The Purge,” has been content to do t
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'Venture Bros': Are Hank and Dean Destined to Arch Each Other?

“The Venture Bros.” has changed quite a bit over seven seasons and 15 years, but nowhere is that more clear than in the story of its title characters, brothers Hank and Dean. And in season finale, “The Saphrax Protocol, “their relationship took a turn that hints at what could turn into the show’s most tragic story to date: The Venture Bros. as arch enemies.

It became clear midway through Season 7 that, while Hank and Dean didn’t get as much screen time as they might have in previous seasons, th
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Batman: Arkham Knight Dropped the Ball On One Major Character: Batman

Batman: Arkham Knight sets up from the beginning to be one of the best Batman stories out there—and then it falls flat at every key moment.

Here’s the thing about Batman: The more time you spend with him, the more you realize that he’s not actually that interesting a guy. Sure, he’s broody and dark, has all kinds of emotional baggage, and is totally unable to allow himself to be happy for fear it’ll all get snatched away one dark night in a shadowy alley.

But he’s also unshakeable, nigh unstop
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Final Fantasy VII Will See 'Dramatic Changes,' and That's Good

Don’t expect the upcoming remake version of Final Fantasy VII to be exactly the same game you remember excitedly talking to your friends about over the school lunch table.

At least when it comes to FFVII’s battle system, things are going to be different the second time around, according to Game Director Tetsuya Nomura. Speaking with Official Playstation Magazine (thanks, GamesRadar), Nomura called the changes “dramatic,” although they won’t change the game so much that fans are left looking at
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Watch Summer Games Done Quick's Last Day of Charity Speedruns

It’s the last day of Summer Games Done Quick, the weeklong pile of awesome video game speedruns to benefit Doctors Without Borders, which makes it your last chance to watch talented players break your favorite games.

We’re in the closing moments of the non-stop 160-hour game extravaganza. Ignore the family and forsake the sun: it’s video game time.

Check out the full schedule of speedruns for the day below (they’re all on Pacific time, so keep that in mind). I’ll be taking note of the Dark Sou
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A Resident Evil 2 Remake Pitch is Already in Capcom's Hands

Good news everyone! Yoshiaki Hirabayashi, the producer behind Resident Evil HD Remaster, has already put together a pitch for a remake of Resident Evil 2 and apparently presented it to his Capcom overlords.

Gematsu reported that Hirabayashi posted a picture of the pitch on Facebook, noting that he started putting the pitch together after the RE HD Remaster was finished. He also says that he cleaned it up and showed it to his bosses. And then ... he doesn’t say what happened. Stop teasing us!

B
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Make Your Own Fallout Pip Boy With These Specs and a 3D Printer

Bethesda might have sold out of Pip Boy editions of Fallout 4, never to make any again, but thanks to one enterprising fan, it’s still possible to get one of your own. You just need a 3D printer.


Engineer Yvo de Haas used his know-how and 3D printing capabilities to whip up his own interpretation of Pip Boy 3000 Mark IV based on Bethesda’s recently released teaser trailer. As Eurogamer spotted, he also was cool enough to post the schematics online so anyone can create one.

Like Bethesda’s ve
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Portal Speedrun Makes Me Regret Thinking I Was Good at Portal

Way back in my college days, The Orange Box came out for Xbox 360, and I was very excited.

The Orange Box bundled a bunch of Valve games together, including Half-Life 2 as well as Episode 1 and Episode 2, plus Team Fortress 2 and, most exciting for me at the time, Portal. It was the first time I’d been able to play the soon-to-be-classic puzzle title, and it quickly became my favorite game of the year.

In fact, I went crazy on The Orange Box. Back when I was slightly obsessed with achievements
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Game of Thrones Season 6 Casts Ian McShane in 'Key' Role

British actor Ian McShane is joining the cast of Game of Thrones in a role that reportedly will have a small amount of screen time but a lot of significance for Westeros.

That’s according to a report from Entertainment Weekly, also confirmed by Variety.

You might remember McShane from the last time he was involved with HBO, as Al “I sure do say ‘cocksucker’ a lot” Swearengen on the western Deadwood. Or you might remember him from my favorite of his roles, Stabby Hobo Santa Claus from American
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Super Mario World Music Medley Will Brighten Up Your Day

Super Mario World was great for a lot of reasons, but I think it might have been the music of composer Koji Kondo that sticks out in my mind more than anything else. It’s even better when played on real instruments, and the talented musicians from YouTube channel moonbowmusicmovie very much do it justice with this medley.

As my very first, incidentally very long day as guest editor at Kotaku draws to a close, this was exactly the pick-me-up I needed. Plus, there are a bunch more game music trac
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Resident Evil 4 Fans Are Creating the HD Graphics Capcom Neglected

A pair of Resident Evil 4 fans are working to improve the graphics of 2014’s “Ultimate HD Edition” on PC, and the results are pretty dramatic.

Called the “RE4 HD Project,” the mod is cleaning up the game’s textures and producing some very pretty screenshots. The differences between Capcom’s definition of HD and those of Cris and Albert, the two modders working on new textures for RE4, are stark. And kind of ridiculous, actually. Side-eyeing in your direction, Capcom.

At present, it looks like
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Summer Games Done Quick Raises More Than $1.2 Million for Charity

The weeklong speedrun event Summer Games Done Quick has come to an end, inspiring the games community to give a whole lot of their money to Doctors Without Borders.

The event’s final tally was some $1.232,441.90 across 28,466 donations. The highest donation SGDQ 2015 received was a huge $21,498, although your average gamer pitching in to the event was pretty generous, too, giving about $43.

If you haven’t been watching SGDQ, you missed some pretty epic speedruns as top-class players took on 16
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Everything You Do is a Lie in Actual Sunlight Creator's Next Game

All you do in Little Red Lie is lie. You lie constantly, about everything, to everyone—even yourself.

Think of an adventure-style game like Secret of Monkey Island, creator Will O’Neill told me, except instead of verbs like “Look” or “Pick Up” to interact with the world, instead you get “Lie.” Little Red Lie follows two protagonists who never meet and have very different stories, but they’re united by a common thread: they live their lives by lying.

“The reasons for [lying] are as varied as th
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Reports of League Of Legends Champion's Death Were Greatly Exaggerated

Take heart, League of Legends pirate fans: Champion Gangplank didn’t actually “die,” he was just ... maimed.

Last week, developer Riot Games killed Gangplank off during its big crazy League story event, Bilgewater: Burning Tides, which added new related game modes and rewards while spooling out new lore about League’s characters. Gangplank was murdered in Act 3 of the event’s related story, blown up by rival Miss Fortune, and boom—literally—he was gone. Players couldn’t use him in the game, bec
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Welcome to the Next Stage in Meme Evolution

What’s the Internet rule number for everything eventually becoming a body pillow?

Reddit user Red_Cheddarz posted this pic, purporting that a (potentially ill-advised) friend liberated this delightful curiosity from a local thrift store. Now hopefully begins his epic quest to determine who had the wherewithal to turn Sanic Hegehog into a body pillow, and much more importantly, why they would play God.

Of course, Redditors in the thread have their own theories: mainly that the creator wanted to
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These Witcher 3 Panoramas Show Off the Game's Gorgeous Landscapes

Crank up those PC settings and The Witcher 3 becomes pretty damn beautiful.

Redditor R_Spc was captivated by CD Projekt’s work on the latest installment of their RPG franchise, and went and created some huge panoramas to showcase just how great they can look—because not even regular screenshots are enough.

The photos do a great job of capturing the graphical work that went into the game, to say nothing of relaying the huge, expansive scope of some of The Witcher 3’s locales.

R_Spc made a ton
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Rocket League Video Teaches Us to Accept Our Failures and Move On

I want to close out my time as your Kotaku ancient sentient robot weekend overlord with a final, Zen-like moment, thanks to the wonder that is Rocket League.

Sometimes, things just don’t go your way. You have to let it wash over you and through you, refocus your energies, and persevere. Laugh at yourself, repeatedly, and move on.

Rocket League teaches us that sometimes, we all fail. Sometimes, we all bumble as though suddenly key areas of our brains have ceased to function. Sometimes, we all l
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For the Next 48 Hours, I Am Assuming Direct Control

Greetings, Kotaku! It’s the weekend: my name is Phil Hornshaw, and I’ll be your guest editor for the next two glorious days.

Yes, that’s a Mass Effect joke in the headline. I’m in Los Angeles and it’s early here, folks. We’re constantly at the mercy of the rest of the country having a better time zone than us. I got up at about 5:30 this morning, which for you East Coasters is roughly 8:52 p.m.

But I’ve got coffee and adrenaline! Video games whoo! It’s gonna be a good time.

And now, by way of

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