Quick Links The Trading system inPokemon TCG Pocketlets you exchange cards with other players on your friends list. There are a few restrictions in place to prevent players from abusing this system, but trading is still very helpful if you want to complete your collection or get a duplicate of a card for a new deck. At first, trading can seem a bit complicated due to these restrictions, but that’s where we can help....
Quick Links Slitterheadhas many ways for you to personalize your favorite characters, enabling you to upgrade their Skills to fine-tune their gameplay.You can also obtain new Outfitsand Masks for them, allowing you to customize them even further to your liking, making these bonus items worth seeking out if you want to spice up their fit a bit. Even if you’re not looking to play as all the Rarities in the game, seeking out these optional items will be an excellent way to challenge yourself and add more replayability to your journey if you’re enjoying the horrific sights and sounds present in Slitterhead....
Unlocking your Ascendancy subclass inPath of Exile 2is a little different from the first installment. You’ll need to complete a fairly difficult trial during your campaign to reach your fullpotential. But unlike the first game’s Labyrinth, the trials you undergo in PoE2 are much more difficult and based on older league mechanics like Sanctum and Ultimatum. If you can handle a fairly difficult dungeon and come out alive, you’ll unlock access to a powerful subclass tree that offers build-enabling benefits, ranging from new skills to massive bonuses to your damage....
Quick Links There are some quests inDragon Quest 3 Remakethat are very straightforward: go to a place, defeat a person, get a thing, and you’ve done it. There are other quests that are much less so, and it’s up to you to piece together things you’ve heard from characters or gathered from paying attention to the world to figure out what to do. What to do about the village of Norvik is one of the latter instances, where you simply stumble across something that’s peculiar, and you naturally figure out how to fix the problem by exploring the world and talking to a specific set of characters....
A Gatorade commercial made me cry once. This happened back in high school when I was home for the day, laid up on the couch with the flu. Thecommercial in question, which started running in 2012, showed Michael Jordan hobbling into Game 5 of the 1997 NBA Finals, the famous ‘Flu Game’ that the basketball icon played while “suffering from flu-like symptoms,” which Jordan later said resulted from food poisoning. Despite being visibly exhausted, Jordan went on to score 38 points and lead the Bulls to a 90-88 win over the Utah Jazz....
After four years of silence,Naughty Dogfinally unveiled its next big game atThe Game Awardslast week. It’s calledIntergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, andas rumors suggested, it is indeed a sci-fi game. As a fan of speculative fiction, ’80s aesthetics, and Naughty Dog, I’m extremely excited to get my hands on the studio’s first original game since 2013. But after an evocative trailer that showed off gorgeous cosmic vistas, I worry the final game may end up being a little too down to earth....
Summary It’s a time of great change forLeague of Legendsas the confusingly-titled Season One is set to kick off. Back in my day, Season One meant Twisted Fate’s ultimate was global, but I digress. There are a lot of changes in the new season, but one that’s sure to delight game mode enthusiasts is the return of Arena during the second half of the upcoming season. The new Arena is going to be themed around Noxus - each of the maps will resemble a Noxian gladiatorial pit and will have map-specific mechanics....
Summary Despite enough delays and mysteries to make one wonder whether any of its titles will ever see the light of day, Level-5’s CEO Akihiro Hino has reiterated the Japanese company’s plans to release three new titles coming next year. In an interview with 4Gameras part of a series of interviews with Japanese game creators centered around 2025 ambitions, Hino hoped that “2025 will be a ‘breakthrough’ year for Level-5” due to the planned releases....
I’ve always admiredLike a Dragonfor its masterful balance of tone. Ever since it first arrived onPS2as Yakuza in the West, each game has told a heartfelt yet harrowing tale set amidst the criminal underworld while also leaning hard into consistent absurdism. Kazuma Kiryu is risking his life to save everyone he holds dear, but he can also go diving off the coast of Hiroshima to battle with giant sharks in his downtime....
A big problem I’ve had since I got into the games journalism biz is that I now rush games so I can play more games so I can write about games so I can play more games so— sorry. Once upon a time in ye olden 2010s, if I got really into something, I’d obsess over it for months and pour through every fibre of its being. Usually, that’d be a methodical lore playthrough where I soak everything in, do every quest, and get wrapped up in endless speculation, leading nicely into a speedrun phase where I would spend hours learning all of the glitches and breaking the game like Batman over Bane’s back....
Summary Black Friday weekend will be well underway by the time you read this, but hopefully you’re not done tracking down video game bargains just yet. If you didn’t already know, there’s a Black Friday sale going on at the PlayStation Store right now. Big discounts on more than 500 games, some of them very recent releases, and we’ve picked out some of the best ones you can still pick up for less....
Summary With thousands of cards available inPokémon’s"Pokémon Trading Card Game," it can be hard to remember what is what. After all, since first debuting in the mid 1990s to coincide with the games of the same name,the popular collectible has been going strong ever since, withnew releases constantly filling store shelves. That said, one avid Pokémon fan took it upon themselves to archive the card game’s unique artwork. After hundreds of hours of work, over 23,000 cards have been archived, along with an additional 2,000 pieces of artwork....
Quick Links There are many ways to win inMagic: The Gatheringand one of the best ways is to simply outgrow your opponents. Draw more cards, play more lands, produce more mana, and cast more spells. Do that enough and you’ll be so far ahead that your foes have no chance to catch up. Blue and green (referred to as Simic in Magic color parlance) best exemplify this strategy of endless, unrestricted growth, and perhaps no other commander best typifies this ethos than Prime Speaker Zegana....
