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Quick Links If you talk to the locals and the Talking Stones dotted around the land inLuma Island, you’ll find out some interesting facts about its history. Ancient civilizations used to inhabit the island, it was visited by pirates on multiple occasions, and it used to be home to magic creatures called Luma. Your first hint about this is usually the Ancient Farm Temple near your home, but it isn’t the only mysterious location you can visit and explore....

Quick Links In any crafting, survival, or RPG game, you’ll want to upgrade your equipment more often than not, and it’s the same inLuma Island. You’ll get a set of seven basic tools after the tutorial, including your standard Axe and Pickaxe, and all but two of them can be upgraded at the local anvil. You’ll be breaking down and harvesting many different materials in the game for all your recipes, and it’ll get annoying if you stick with the basic, slow equipment you have at the start....

Summary As you might expect,Kingdom Heartsfans aren’t doing so well afterKingdom Hearts 4failed to show atThe Game Awardslike so many of us hoped it would. Just a few days ago,The Game Awards 2024 gave us a bunch of surprising game revealsand stand-out moments,from Ninja Gaiden finally getting a new gameafter far too long toNaughty Dog announcing what it’s been quietly working on over the past four years. While it was a great show in all, there were alotof expectations for what might show up....

Summary While 2024 was a somewhat quieter year when it came toNintendoreleases,compared to the monster that was 2023, there were still some notable highlights. Among the games released in 2024 included remasters ofMario vs. Donkey KongandPaper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, along with the release ofThe Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom,Super Mario Party JamboreeandMario & Luigi: Brothership. The latter represented the most recent entry in the RPG offshoot of everyone’s favorite plumbers....

Summary Even thoughMarvel Rivalsis an online multiplayer game rather than one with a single-player campaign, there is a story behindthe chaos millions of you have been getting involved withfor the past two weeks. If this is news to you, or you’ve been struggling to piece together what the heck is going on in between bouts of being swallowed up by Jeff the Land Shark, a new comic seriesavailable through Marvel Unlimitedis here to help....

Summary A game of chicken years in the making between TikTok and the US government came to a head over the weekend, and it resulted in the incredibly popular social media platform becoming unavailable for American users, but only very briefly. TikTok has since been reinstated, however,Marvel Snap,which was unexpectedly caught in the crossfire, is still down in the US. Marvel Snap studio Second Dinner issued a statement in the early hours of Sunday morning, confirming the app was not only unavailable through the app store in the US, but even to those who already have it downloaded....

With us now being knee-deep inMonopoly Go’s Amazing Partner’s event, we need one thing more than all else: Gauntlets. Thankfully, ask and ye shall receive. With the Thwip And Zip tournament, you’ll be able to keep those hands warm! This tournament will run from1PM EST on November 13to1PM EST on November 14, and will task you with landing on Railroad tiles to earn points. These 40 milestones offer us more than just gauntlets, though....

Summary Warner Bros. Discoveryhas admitted during a recent investor’s call thatMultiVersusis “substantially” underperforming and has added another $100 million writedown to its game business. Over the past few years,MultiVersus fans have absolutely been through the wringer. After the crossover platformer fighter was leaked long before an official announcement,its open beta broke records and drew in massive crowds, which quickly died down as it went intoSeason 2 and content came to an absolute halt....

I don’t playEA FClike I used to. I’m not sure it would be possible to find enough hours in the day to work, eat, and sleep if I played as much as I did as a teenager, but even from those lofty heights, I’ve turned into a filthy casual. I play whenever the new game comes out, usually enough to get through a season of Career Mode, then drift away to sporadic online matches....

Quick Links Ultrakilland challenging Boomer Shooter gameplay go hand in hand, breaking the boundaries of repetition value and an immense variety of level designs. With the unique style ranking system, the game introduces a few levels only for those who have mastered every aspect of the game, gaining the maximum rank, P-Rank, at every level. To unlock these special and gut-wrenching levels, you must achieve a P-Rank at every level of an act; every act has one special level, and you’re able to find them in some levels....

There are too many currencies inPokemon TCG Pocket. There are pack hourglasses, pack points, wonder hourglasses, premium gold, shop tickets, event shop tickets, special shop tickets, premium tickets, and the blue hourglasses to recoverevent staminathat I’m not even sure have a name. Phew. This is a common situation with mobile games. The more currencies involved, the more obfuscated your spending is. How much real money does it cost to buy enough pack points to get that ex card you need?...

Summary Your social media timelines have likely been filled with the name and likeness of someone who you will have almost certainly never heard of before yesterday - Luigi Mangione. Mangione has been arrested for the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, and as people clamor to learn more about the suspect, part of the spotlight has fallen on Breloom, a rather unremarkablePokemon. No offense intended to Breloom nor those of you who are fans of the Gen 3 Pokemon....

Summary Concordis officially dead in the water following Sony’s closure of Firewalk Studios. The expensive, high-profile live-service game was ultimately a flop, shutting down after just two weeks after active player numbers dropped intodouble digits. It was a tough market to launch a pay-to-play hero shooter, and the sales numbers ultimately reflected that. One of the more interesting aspects of Concord’s legacy is that the game’s universe is a setting for one of the episodes of the animated anthology series Secret Level, a collaboration between Tim Miller’s Blur Studio and Amazon MGM Studios....