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Quick Links Navigating the twists and turns of today’sStrandspuzzle proving to be a challenge? No worries! If you find yourself scratching your head over a particularly tricky word, or if you’re at a loss for the entire solution, we’ve got you covered as your linguistic life raft. Get a nudge in the right direction and keep your winning streak alive (and those bragging rights intact). This guide will give insights on today’s theme, offer hints, and even provide the complete solution....

Quick Links Navigating the twists and turns of today’sStrandspuzzle proving to be a challenge? No worries! If you find yourself scratching your head over a particularly tricky word, or if you’re at a loss for the entire solution, we’ve got you covered as your linguistic life raft. Get a nudge in the right direction and keep your winning streak alive (and those bragging rights intact). This guide will give insights on today’s theme, offer hints, and even provide the complete solution....

Part of writing about visual media for a living involves being able to showcase it effectively, so exploring the camera settings in games has become old hat to me. I won’t bore you with the technical aspects of my job, but I often need to hunt down or capture my own original screenshots, so I love it when games feature official photo modes. Letting players take pictures in your video game isn’t a new concept....

Quick Links Brighter Shoresis an MMORPG created by the same mind behind Runescape. As such, you can expect both games to give off similar vibes while still being unique enough. Although the game is free to play, you still may be wondering if it’s worth your time. Here, we are going to help you come to a conclusion and answer this question. We’ll take a look at reviews, time expenditure, any potential costs, and what other players are saying about the game....

I don’t really get scared by video games. If one suddenly makes a loud noise in the dark then I’ll probably jump, but that’s just human nature. A split second reaction before I move on with my life. But I have friends who refuse to play horror games because they’re too intense. I know people at TheGamer who won’t touch anything more frightening thanThe Last of Us. Those statements are mutually exclusive, I don’t have any friends at TheGamer....

Summary Magic: The Gatheringhas finally taken the banhammer to one of the game’s most overpowered cards, with The One Ring being cast out of the game’s Modern format. Alongside bans for both Legacy and Pioneer, the December 2024 banlist update also marks the return of Splinter Twin to Modern, after years of players asking for its unbanning. Legacy Pioneer/Explorer By far the biggest changes in these announcements are the banning of The One Ring and unbanning of Splinter Twin in Modern....

Summary ThroughoutPersona’snearly 30 years of history, the game has only hadtwo female protagonists. Maya Amano featured as the star of Persona 2: Eternal Punishment, and Kotone Shiomi took the lead inPersona 3 Portable. Despite a general feeling that the pair’s stories, especially Shiomi’s, are some of the best in the series, the more recent titles have stuck to a male protagonist. Now, at the CEDEC + KYUSHU 2024 conference, Persona producer Kazuhisa Wada shared his reasoning for focusing mostly on male students and whether we could see another female protagonist in a future Persona game....

Summary PlayStation revealed what has turned out to bea very popular 30th anniversary collectionin September, opening pre-orders shortly after and then releasing the range in November. Select items in the collection have been getting sporadically restocked here and there since release day, and this week, it’s Best Buy’s turn. You’ll need to jump through a couple of hoops if you want to get your hands on what it has left, though....

Summary Pokemon TCG Pockethas taken the world by storm, quickly becomingthe series' second-biggest mobile game behind Pokemon Go. Bringing the incredibly popular card game to mobile naturally appeals to a broad spectrum of Pokemon fans, from children to those of us who have been there since the beginning, which is why it’s so surprising that it’s taken The Pokemon Company a month to address the app’s username problem. Like most online games, one of the first things you’re asked to do after downloading Pokemon Pocket is create a username....

I have a lot of mixed feelings aboutPokemonPrismatic Evolutions right now, and most of them don’t have anything to do with the actual cards in the set. Scarlet & Violet’s Eevee-filled Prismatic Evolutions, its fourth special expansion, releases today, and the hype surrounding it is the highest for any Pokemon TCG set in years. We all knew itwould be in high demand, but it wasn’t until I started hearing about heavy allocations, local game store break-ins, and at leastone shop refusing to sell itbecause of overly aggressive customers, that I realized just how hot it actually is....

Summary Prismatic Evolutions is set to be the biggestPokemon Trading Card Gameexpansion of theScarlet and Violetera. Although the recently releasedSurging Sparkshas been lauded for its Pikachu cards, Prismatic Evolutions feels like a Hail Mary for the TCG, whichhas been struggling a little since Scarlet and Violet launched. The set has been compared toSword and Shield’sEvolving Skies, arguably the most popular expansion in the last few years, due to its number of secret rare Eeveelution cards....

Summary Resident Evil 4(2023) was a triumph forCapcom- successfully reinvigorating a legendary game from its back catalogue for new audiences. The game was certainly a critical success, holding an average score of 92 on the review aggregation siteOpen Critic. It’s also proved a commercial hit too, raking in over 9 million total sales according to a post from Capcom. “To you, the 9 million-plus agents. Happy New Year and thank you for your support....

Summary When I was younger, my parents used to shout at me for sitting too close to the TV, warning me it would make my eyes go square and I’d get a headache. Neither were true, of course. Yet as I’ve grown older, I’ve begun to question whether sitting close really did givethema headache. VR and how it affects me compared to my son has me questioning whether it’s a generational thing....