Astro Bot Now Has More GOTY Awards Than Any Platformer Ever

Summary Most who have playedAstro Botwill tell you that they knew it was a special game the second they started playing. Let’s be honest, most of us knew when the first trailer dropped. Astro’s wave of momentum has continued throughout the final few months of 2024 and into 2025 as outlets have beennaming it Game of the Year left and right. So many have done so that it now has more GOTY awards than any other platformer in history....

June 23, 2025 · 3 min · 526 words · William Hart

Baldur's Gate 3 Actor Didn't Know About The Romance Scenes

Summary Even beforeBaldur’s Gate 3’s launch, it was very clear that it would be a raunchy game. Famously, a clip from the Halsin romance went viral after it was previewed at a Panel from Hell,revealing that we could get down and dirty with the druid in bear form. However, one of the actors in the game was in for a huge surprise at launch. Neil Roberts, who plays one of the Tav voice sets - the one that’s the default for the Dark Urge - didn’t realise that the game was so naughty until it was already out....

June 23, 2025 · 2 min · 363 words · Frank Shah

Best AMR Mod 4 Builds In BO6

Quick Links Call of Duty: Black Ops 6has introduced a powerful .50 Caliber sniper in its Season 1: Reloaded update. By completing a short event or Armory Challenges, you’ll be able to wield arguably the strongest sniper rifle in the game, at least in Multiplayer. The AMR Mod 4 packs a serious punch, capable of eliminating a player from the upper legs and above. It also has solid handling stats once you get attachments for it, making this a powerhouse in the hands of a skilled marksman....

June 23, 2025 · 3 min · 432 words · Michael Chavez

Best Cooking Games Available On Steam

Summary Cooking gamescan be as fun as making delicious meals in a real kitchen. It gets even better if you may experience trying out a wide variety of cuisines. You also need to be swift in managing various orders, and if you mess up you might end up losing your customer’s satisfaction. While many games require you to run and manage a restaurant, there are a few that are highly story-driven and others that put you in the role of a head chef and give you an immersive feel of a real kitchen....

June 23, 2025 · 5 min · 879 words · Jeffrey Sanchez

Best Wii Games That Used MotionPlus

Summary While the Wii certainly made a splash withits innovative motion control gameplay, it wasn’t until the Wii MotionPlus released that many felt like the system’s true potential was reached. With more accurate one-to-one motion controls that allowed for a greater depth of gameplay interactivity, the Wii MotionPlus opened the door for developers to experiment further with their titles. It’s somewhat surprising, then, that so few games on the Wii actually utilised this advanced technology....

June 23, 2025 · 5 min · 933 words · Tina Garrett

Borderlands Movie Nominated For Six Razzies, Including Worst Picture

Summary The Borderlands movie was a disaster. Slated by critics and audiences alike,it made just $32 million on a $150 million budget. EvenUwe Boll poked fun. Uwe Boll. The guy who directedAlone in the DarkandFar Cry. Unsurprisingly then, it swept up a bunch of award nominations at the Razzies. As reported byPC Gamer, it was put forward for five different categories: Jack Black, who starred as the annoying robot sidekick Claptrap, even picked up athirdRazzie nomination for Worst Actor thanks to his performance in the Christmas comedy Dear Santa....

June 23, 2025 · 2 min · 365 words · Carrie Griffith

Characters Are Too Comfortable Getting Turned Into Balls In Sonic, Metroid, And Pokemon

There’s something upsetting that too many video games have in common. No, not the $70 price tag. No, not excessive violence and gore, that stuff rocks, actually. And also no to microtransactions. Those don’t rock, they just aren’t what I’m talking about right now. No, I’m talking about balls. More specifically, characters turning into balls. For decades, we’ve been dealing with the spherical phenomenon. It first reared its ugly head in the 1980s, and it shows no sign of slowing....

June 23, 2025 · 3 min · 577 words · Kimberly Thomas

Complete Guide To Indiana Jones And The Great Circle

Quick Links Indiana Jones And The Great Circlehas all the action, exploration, and mystery you could want from a game featuring the intrepid archeologist. Of course, that means that there’s plenty in this game to leave you stumped and confounded, whether it’s a missing collectible or a stubborn puzzle. We’re digging through the game like Dr. Jones in a hidden tomb, carefully extracting its lost secrets and ancient mysteries. See below for all of our guides for The Great Circle, all together in one place for easy reference....

June 23, 2025 · 1 min · 167 words · Mrs. Elizabeth Robinson

Destiny: Rising's Loot Boxes Are Surprisingly... Fair?

We’re in a weird era of mobile games right now. While low-impact time fillers like Subway Surfers and Candy Crush still dominate (the latter made nearly a billion dollars in revenue last year), much of the market is moving in the same direction as ‘core’ console and PC gaming: big-budget triple-A games with flashy graphics, high production values, and grippy compulsion loops. Mobile is already positioned for the kinds of free-to-play monetization models that Sony and other major publishers want to adopt, so in a way, it’s just easier to bring triple-A to mobile than it is to bring mobile to triple-A....

June 23, 2025 · 5 min · 1013 words · Whitney Vega

Dragon Age: The Veilguard Concept Art Reveals Origins' Protagonist

Summary Matt Rhodes, lead concept artist atBioWare, has shared some of his ideas for an early version of Anderfels inDragon Age: The Veilguard, including a creepy look at whatOrigins' protagonist looks like after all these years. Although Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s story focuses on a brand-new protagonist called Rook and ismostly light on cameos from previous games(likely due to the trimmed-down world states),that hasn’t stopped players from wondering how everyone is getting on....

June 23, 2025 · 3 min · 456 words · Jeremy Mitchell

Dragon Age: The Veilguard Is Releasing A Standalone Character Creator

UPDATE: 2025-05-28 17:28 EST BY JACK COLEMAN Patch 4 Released Patch 4 has been released for Dragon Age: The Veilguard, you can read the patch noteshere. Summary Just as November 7 is N7 Day, an annual celebration of Mass Effect; December 4 is Dragon Age Day. As it turns out, both of BioWare’s annual celebrations ended up beingDragon Age-y this year. BioWare isn’t holding back with this year’s Dragon Age Day, with the highlight being the release of a free standalone character creator....

June 23, 2025 · 2 min · 423 words · Steven Ruiz

Final Fantasy 14 Fans Love Patch 7.1's New Alliance Raid

Summary Final Fantasy 14 Patch 7.1has been one heck of a mixed bag so far. While there have been pretty disappointing aspects,such as the changes to jobs like Dragoon and Gunbreaker, there have also been a lot of reasons to be excited. Patch 7.1’s introduction ofthe Echoes of Vana’Diel Alliance Raid seriesis one such reason, and now that fans have had time to jump in and get splattered across the ground, opinions have started coming out on social media....

June 23, 2025 · 3 min · 466 words · Andrea Espinoza

Games Where You Can Debuff Bosses

Summary You just picked up your favourite new game, a great RPG. You’ve been playing around with builds, making your way through all the random mobs. There’s some cool status effects you decide to build around. Ah, the boss is immune to them. All of them. It’s the worst feeling, when the regular mobs are to weak to use status effects on, and then the bosses just aren’t affected by them....

June 23, 2025 · 6 min · 1174 words · Scott Robinson