Diablo 4's Live-Service Model May Be Less Appealing to Dedicated Players

Diablo 4’s Quarterly Updates have been a great way for fans to stay in touch with Blizzard’s plans, and the latest one this month featured a class-focused trailer for the game’s final playable character, the Necromancer. Blizzard talked about what its plans are for whenDiablo 4comes out, as well as what is going to happen in the long run. SomeDiablofans have been skeptical about the series' fourth installment after various controversies surrounding Blizzard’sDiablo Immortal, a mobile adaptation of the ARPG....

August 6, 2025 · 3 min · 557 words · John Little

Disney Dreamlight Valley Player Recreates Mermaid Princess Dress from Animal Crossing

ADisney Dreamlight Valleyplayer made an outfit modeled after the Mermaid Princess Dress seen inAnimal Crossing: New Horizons. Gamers are able to customize a number of things in the title, including the layout of their village. This helpsDisney Dreamlight Valleyplayers fashion their playthrough however they like, allowing gamers to enjoy the title however they want. One thing that players have a lot of options in is clothing.Disney Dreamlight Valleyallows custom outfits, letting gamers make designs as well as mix and match various pieces to dress up their avatar how they please....

August 6, 2025 · 3 min · 431 words · Linda Taylor

Dying Light 2 Writer Leaving Developer Techland

UPDATE: Techland has provided the below statement following Selinger’s announcement: In connection with the information about the departure of Techland’s Art Director, we would like to reassure all fans of the upcoming Dying Light 2 that the position of Art Director is not threatened and has been held by Eric Cochonneau since November 2019. Eric has been taking care of every aspect of the upcoming production ever since and the team under his leadership is doing their best to offer players the best game possible....

August 6, 2025 · 3 min · 638 words · Tammy King

Epic Games' Fall Guys Acquisition is a Big Deal

Recently, news broke thatEpic Games is buyingFall Guysdeveloper, Mediatonic.Fall Guysproved to be a hit for the developer when it was released last year, partly thanks to its PlayStation Plus debut on Sony’s platform. Since then,Fall Guyshas gone through several seasons of themed content and still boasts an active player base to this day. The battle royale and platforming title is set to be released on Nintendo Switch and Xbox platforms, but this, arguably, isn’t the biggest recent news for the developer and their multiplayer platformer title....

August 6, 2025 · 4 min · 652 words · Kevin Mills

Fans are Obsessed With Leaked Elden Ring Enemy

FromSoftware continues to unveil new details aboutElden Ring, but fans are obsessed and expressing their enthusiasm with a recently leaked enemy. The leaks have confirmed visual details about an enemy inElden Ringin addition to illustrating some attack patterns that FromSoftware fans will be able to memorize ahead of the game’s release. YouTube content creator ER-SA recently posted a clip of Crucible Knight Floh inElden Ring, and it has garnered the attention of many FromSoftware fans that are anticipating the February release....

August 6, 2025 · 3 min · 457 words · Jillian Wells

Final Fantasy 7: The First Soldier – The Best Magic Materia, Ranked

Set before the events of the mainFinal Fantasy 7series,Final Fantasy 7: The First Soldierexplores a Midgar where the Shin-ra Electric Power Company has just begun exploring the idea of their SOLDIER Program. As a result, players ofFF7: The First Soldier, called Candidates, must engage in a simulation and fight to win their worth among the company’s elite ranks. Players can access not just a unique Style and Job and a wide variety of weapons, but also the use of Materia....

August 6, 2025 · 8 min · 1540 words · Kathy Harris

Halo Infinite's Multiplayer Weapons Need Rebalancing

Halo Infinite’s first six-month-long multiplayer season has come and gone without much original content being added. Features such as the series' beloved Forge game mode are absent, and multiplayer only has ten locations (some of which are exclusive to the Big Team Battle mode), making the game’s mode rotations stale and repetitive. The list of problems withHalo Infinite’s multiplayer goes on, but one glaring issue that really plagues the game is weapon balance....

August 6, 2025 · 5 min · 864 words · Austin Young

Hardware Hack Gets Wordle Running on Game Boy

Seemingly coming out of nowhere, the online gameWordlecontinues to grow in popularity. It appears that the developer behindWordlehas managed to see both the good and the bad of that kind of popularity, including how hard some people work to get the program onto devices it was never intended to be playable on such as the Nintendo Game Boy. The word gamehas seen an absolute explosion in popularity over the last few months with hundreds of thousands of users, if not millions, posting theirWordlesuccesses and failureson social media, showing how quickly they guessed the correct word for the day....

August 6, 2025 · 2 min · 408 words · Michael Ortega

Hearthstone: New Expansion Returns to Alterac Valley

Hearthstoneis known for providing an alternative, oft-goofy lens through which fans ofWorld of Warcraftcould experience the characters and locations it has explored over the years.Hearthstonejust announced its next card expansion pack,Fractured in Alterac Valley, set in the memorable Battleground fromWorld of Warcraft’sinitial launch. Hearthstone’sseasonal system operates on a yearly release cycle, complete with its own set of fantasy horoscope animals. This cycle, called the Year of the Gryphon, is entering its third and final expansion phase withFractured in Alterac Valley, meaning it is the last major release of cards being added before a new cycle begins....

August 6, 2025 · 3 min · 435 words · Alexis Rose

Hilarious Elden Ring Strategy Actually Has Players Feeling Bad For Malenia

Summary A new strategy used inElden Ringis making players feel somewhat guilty after defeating Malenia so easily.Elden Ring, the acclaimed open-world video game from FromSoftware, presents a significant challenge for players. Its world offers a plethora of bosses to battle, and some require many attempts to overcome. That’s why this new strategy is so surprising; it turns one of its toughest enemies into a joke. Malenia is one ofElden Ring’smost well-known bosses, even more so than the final boss, the Elden Beast....

August 6, 2025 · 3 min · 432 words · Nathaniel Perez

Jamie Foxx Discusses His Unreleased Film With Robert Downey Jr.

Jamie Foxx currently stars in Netflix’sDay Shift, but he recently reflected on his unreleased film titledAll-Star Weekend, which featured a roster of A-list talent like Robert Downey Jr. During a recent interview withCinemaBlend, Foxx discussed his unreleased 2016 comedy filmAll-Star Weekend, which also includes big names like Jeremy Piven, Benicio del Toro, Gerard Butler, and Eva Longoria. Foxx stated that his unreleased filmAll-Star Weekendhas yet to be released to the public due to the “current state” ofcomedy....

August 6, 2025 · 2 min · 402 words · Kimberly Murphy

LOTR: If Treebeard Thought That Merry And Pippin Were 'Little Orcs' Why Didn't He Squash Them?

It is one of the many mysteries of the Lord of the Rings that by the Third Age of Middle Earth, Hobbits have managed to disappear almost entirely from the knowledge of every other kingdom. When the famous prophecy about Isildur’s Bane is sent toBoromir of Gondor,he has no understanding of what a halfling is, and neither do any of the men of Rohan, or any of the servants of Sauron for that matter....

August 6, 2025 · 4 min · 844 words · Jennifer Bishop

Microsoft and FTC Pre-Trial Hearing Begins Soon

Microsoftand the US Federal Trade Commission are about to trade blows in a court of law very soon. Being the latest hurdle in front of the software company’s attempt at acquiring Activision-Blizzard, FTC has approached the process from an outwardly critical point of view, making it seem that the completion of the acquisition is far from certain yet. It’s not overly surprising, perhaps, thatMicrosoft accused FTC of violating its constitutional rightsby blocking the acquisition....

August 6, 2025 · 3 min · 470 words · Diane Phillips