Quick Links With so much to do after you’re shipwrecked on Ambrosia Island, it’s important to prioritize your relationships with the different islanders. Each one embodies an ancient Greek god, but they’ve lost their memories and their powers. It’s up to you to help them remember and reclaim their past identities. In the process, you’ll meet headstrong characters like Ares who need more than a little push in the right direction....
Quick Links By this point inThe Rise of the Golden Idol, you really shouldn’t be surprised that the first scenario of a chapter has you doing something totally different from what you might expect. Beach Trip has you witnessing exactly that: a trip to the beach with some familiar faces along for the ride. At least it turns out to be a work trip, which introduces us to the I.D.O.L., named at the end of the previous chapter....
Quick Links InInfinity Nikki, there are plenty of events to participate in, but nothing is quite like the extravagant festival meant to ring in the New Year. With lanterns, fire crackers, and fabulous outfits, what’s not to love? All new quests and games are available for a limited time, so make sure to have fun before the event ends! We’ve outlined all you can do in the event and how to get it done so you can claim your rewards and celebrate in style with Nikki and Momo....
Quick Links Trying to end off 2024 with a bang inMonopoly Go? Consider playing along with the Fireworks Frenzy daily leaderboard tournament, which you’re able to participate in by landing on any Railroad tile on your Monopoly Go game boards between3PM EST on December 29and1PM EST on December 30. With another round of the Juggle Jam carnival minigame on at the moment, too, you’ll be bringing in more than 160 free Juggle Jam tokens from the Firework Frenzy tournament....
With the conclusion of the Peg-E Sticker Drop event inMonopoly Go, we’ve got time to kill until our next big partner event begins later this week, so it’s a good time to fit in a few quick daily leaderboard tournaments along the right side of your screen! Between1PM EST on November 11and1PM EST on November 12, we’ll be trying to land on Railroad tiles to earn points for the Foam for Funds tournament in Monopoly Go....
Quick Links InInfinity Nikki, you’ll spend most of your time filling out your extensive wardrobe. However, between shopping sprees, you’ll have to get your manicured hands a little dirty by defeating esselings. These monsters are animated scraps of clothing that need to be purified, and to do so, you’ll need your Purification Outfit to be exemplary. The default abilities won’t make much of a difference, but there are ways to improve your skills....
Villains make up some of the most interesting characters in all of fiction. Inanime, villains can be wacky, charismatic, and downright determined to have their way. While most of the time the villains will be thwarted by the heroes of their stories, there are some that you enjoy so much that you just want to see them claim victory. Sure, this might mean that the world will become a worse place, or it might just be a selfish desire that gets fulfilled, but it’s compelling to ask what will come next....
Summary Balatrois comfortably one of 2024’s best games. It rankedsecond in my personal top ten of the yearand the same forTheGamer’s game of the year top ten. The game has been undergoing somewhat of a resurgence sinceThe Game Awards, where it was nominated for five awards,picking up threebutmissing out on the top prize to Astro Bot. Every day since the early December event, Balatro’s player count has increased on Steam, starting at around 14,000 and rising to over 37,000 on Boxing Day....
Quick Links Fast Food Simulatorputs you in the shoes of a Fast-Food Restaurant Manager. You have to take orders, cook the food, and serve it all by yourself. As the game progresses, you can unlock new ingredients and even hire servers to make things easier. The game can get chaotic and overwhelming quite easily if you don’t make the right decisions, which is why it’s best to know what to do before you head into it....
Quick Links Celeste is a powerful Hunter inSupervivebecause she is extremely versatile and useful in large team fights. Her Ultimate is capable of stunning an entire enemy squad if it’s used in the right situation, and when combined with Void to teleport you into the middle of the chaos, it can completely turn a fight in your favor. She also has great mobility with her Skate dash ability and zoning with her Frozen Barricade....
Summary TheBorderlands movie was a disaster. Despite its stacked cast and huge marketing push, the movieonly made a measly $33 million, barely denting its $155 million budget. The writing had been on the walls for years, and Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer even admitted that “nearly everything that could go wrong did go wrong” (thanks,IGN), arguing that it sat on the shelf for too long during the COVID-19 pandemic while reshoots and rising interest rates inflated the budget....
Summary We’ve got Spotify Wrapped and all of its copycats, but now, the best 2024 retrospective is in: the AO3 charts. For those of you blissfully unaware, AO3 is a popular fanfiction site, often used to share work that depicts two or more characters in a relationship. The 2024 charts show us which of these relationships - or ships - were the most popular last year. Quite a few couples from video games have made the cut, although the ones that have may surprise you....
Cheaters and hackers are an unfortunate part of most multiplayer competitive games. In fact, creating and selling hacks has become a lucrative business, forcing many publishers to send in their legal teams to handle the situation. Along with working on the game itself, developers are forced to weed out these cheaters to ensure that the player base doesn’t suffer. Ricochet isCall of Duty: Black Ops 6’s AI-based tool that helps the moderation team to find and ban these cheaters, and it appears to be doing its job....
