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Quick Links Indiana Jones and the Great Circlehas its fair share of difficult puzzles, but perhaps none are more elusive than the Mak-Yek Puzzle. Once you’ve made your way to Voss’s Camp in Sukhothai, you’ll come across this deceptively difficult puzzle while searching for some money for the rebreather. Thanks to some tricky rules, a puzzle like this can have you stuck in place for hours at a time, trying to brute-force things....

Quick Links Throne and Libertyis a free-to-play MMORPG developed by NCSoft and published by Amazon Games. In this game, you are one of the Star-born, a hero who has been granted great powers to fight evil creatures throughout all of Solisium. While this game has gorgeous graphics, sweeping landscapes, and adorable characters, there are many other games that fit the bill. Is Throne and Liberty just another run-of-the-mill MMO, or is it worth the time investment needed to grind your character to end-game and beyond?...

The annual Team Of The Year event is here again, and now football lovers get the opportunity to vote for their favorite player who will get the elusive blue TOTY card onEA Sports FC 25. The players who are up for nomination have shown tremendous talent on the pitch in their different positions, and their impact on the team gives them a huge advantage when facing tough opponents. The players on this list are raw talents who we feel will be among the Team Of The Year, based on their outstanding performance in the 2023/2024, and 2024/2025 seasons, in their respective leagues....

Summary Marvel Rivals’s season zero comes to an end this week with season one taking its place. The first full season for Rivals and with it, four new heroes. It’s not just additions to the roster that are going to make the upcoming season interesting. There are also big changes coming for select heroes and villains, and the team behind the massively popular hero shooter has shared some bad news for Jeff the Land Shark mains....

Marvel Rivalshas proven a smash hit with gamers, racking upa whopping 10 million downloads on its launch weekend. There are loads of people diving in for matches,terrorizing healer mains with Iron Fistandthrowing groups of people off of cliffs with Jeff, but a lot of people only recently discovered that certain characters have had boosted stats ever since launch. Marvel Rivals call these seasonal boosts, as a selection of Vanguard, Dualist, and Strategist characters have boosted stats for the game’s first season....

Summary In news that will shock literally no one,Marvel’s head of TV, streaming, and animation has confirmed that the pariah ofMarvel Rivals, Jeff the Land Shark, will eventually join theMCU. Although it’s really not that surprising that a free-to-play hero shooter starring a boatload of recognisable Marvelheroes and villains is doing well,Marvel Rivals is a much bigger hit than its Overwatch clone origins might have suggested. It seems that nearly everyone has had a go at NetEase Games' megahit,something that’s cemented by its massive player count....

PlayingMetaphor: ReFantazioright afterDragon Age: The Veilguardhas sharply highlighted the differences between the two games. More striking is how these differences are born from similarities. Both are party basedRPGstrying to modernise their approach while offering complex worldbuilding, but only Metaphor manages to fully commit. And with that, it often makes you feel like you’re role-playing even when you’re not. Wandering through city environments in Metaphor can feel a little like playingDragon Age: Origins....

Flight Simulator is one of those games with a dedicated player base that will buy every new installment and expansion. The technicalities that come with flying a modern airplane and the minor differences between two very similar planes are things that get this community excited. Unfortunately, it has been let down with the launch ofMicrosoft Flight Simulator 2024. The game launched only a few hours ago, but as it stands, it has received’Overwhelmingly Negative' reviews on Steam, with 2,384 reviews at the time of writing....

The first thing you do inMiniaturesis switch on the light. You then unlock a small box, containing four different items. Presumably, these are the eponymous miniatures. You select either a moth, screwdriver, seashell, or lizard and enter an illustrated story created for each. The next hour of your life is consumed by surreal stories, illuminating illustrations, and haunting narratives. More interactive artwork than fully-fledged video game, Miniatures won’t be for everyone....

Summary Beast Games is a new Amazon Prime series helmed by Jimmy ‘MrBeast’ Donaldson that pits 1,000 contestants against each other for a prize of $5 million, running from now until February next year. It’s essentially a bigger budget version of MrBeast’s usual YouTube videos, and so it inevitably drew much of the same critique.Viewers call it “evil”, “dystopian”, and “sadistic”, with The Telegraph and IGN only scoring it 2/10....

The new expansion, Mythical Island, has not only introduced new cards but also launched retrained versions of Genetic Apex. While not every Mythical Island counterpart surpasses its Genetic Apex sibling, most remain equally viable. Many Mythical Island versions ofPokemontrade some drawback effects for higher average damage output compared to their older counterparts. Mythical Island is shaping up to be a significant update for the Pokemon Pocket meta, with numerous evolutionary lines benefiting from the expansion....

Summary When you think of the long list of talented studios under thePlayStationumbrella, chances are thatNaughty Dogis the first that comes to mind.The Last of Us,Uncharted, andCrash Bandicootare all PlayStation heritage, and Naughty Dog was behind all of them, making it pretty hard to imagine a time in the world in which the studio wasn’t owned by Sony. That was the case once upon a time though, as Naughty Dog was completely independent before it was purchased by Sony in 2001....

Summary It’s been a busy year forHello Games, with the English studio releasing no fewer than sixNo Man’s Skyupdates in 2024.Worlds Part 1overhauled the sea and the sky,Aquarius added fishing, and the latest expedition, The Cursed, addedoft-requested spooky vibesto the game. All of this has resulted in a five-year-high player count. Sean Murrayhas been a busy man. With thePS5 Pronow here, the team has shown no sign of slowing down, adding two significant features and a returning ship from the Mass Effect series....