The Xbox Showcase Needs to Strike While the Iron is Hot

After an 18-month wait, the latest PlayStation Showcase came and went, eliciting mixed responses that Microsoft might want to use to inform its approach to the upcomingXboxShowcase. With theJune 2023 Xbox eventbeing just a few weeks away, it’s possible that its contents are already set in stone, but that doesn’t change the fact that Sony provided Microsoft with a clear blueprint for how to knock it out of the park next month....

July 24, 2025 · 3 min · 635 words · Steven Jones

Tom Hanks Defends Forrest Gump Winning Best Picture Over Pulp Fiction

Tom Hanks has come forward to defendForrest Gumpfrom claims that it didn’t deserve to win Best Picture overPulp Fiction. Robert Zemeckis' endearing and touching film starred Hanks as the titular character, Forrest Gump. The belovedForrest Gumpchronicles 30 years (from the 1950s through the early 1980s) of the life of an intellectually disabled man. However, while telling Gump’s personal story, the film also manages to depict major American historical events and milestones throughout the decades....

July 24, 2025 · 3 min · 546 words · Mary Rangel

Train To Busan Director Working On The Bequeathed Netflix Series

Netflix has renewed its partnership with Yeon Sang-ho, the director of the hit South Korean zombie filmTrain to Busanand the Netflix seriesHellbound. Fans now learned that Yeon has been set to develop a new suspense series for Netflix entitledThe Bequeathed. When it was released in 2016, Yeon Sang-ho’shorror filmTrain to Busanbecame an international sensation and launched the director to star status. He followed this up with the superhero filmPsychokinesis, which was distributed globally on Netflix and marked his first time working with the streamer....

July 24, 2025 · 3 min · 450 words · Matthew Wheeler

Valkyrie Elysium: How to Get All Endings

Valkyrie Elysium, the latest entry in theValkyrie Profileseries, is an action RPG that strays from the turn-based formula of previous games. Yet one thing it does have in common with its predecessors is that it has multiple endings. Despite being a fairly short game in comparison to other JRPGs published by Square Enix,Valkyrie Elysiumhas four different endings. Fortunately, all four endings can be seenon a single playthrough since clear dataputs players at the start of Chapter 9, which is the final chapter in the game....

July 24, 2025 · 5 min · 859 words · Julie Norton

Why The Last of Us is Widely Considered Game of the Decade

2020 marks the beginning of a new era, with the upcoming release of Sony and Microsoft’s next-generation consoles. While the year ahead brings joy and excitement as gamersanticipate the release of new gamesand technology, the past ten years also brought in its fair share of iconic video games that left a lasting impact. Of course, each individual player would have their own preference as to which game should be considered as the best among the rest....

July 24, 2025 · 5 min · 988 words · Zachary Wilson

WWE 2K24 Teases Match Type That's Been Missing for 10 Years

Summary WWE 2K24is bringing back Special Guest Referee Matches for the first time in 10 years, and now the developers have posted a brief teaser of the stipulation. During certain wrestling matches, the usual official is replaced by someone who usually doesn’t have this job, such as anotherWWE 2K24wrestler. This can add drama to a given storyline, as the replacement referee in question more often than not has a personal bias (at least in kayfabe) toward or against one of the competitors, which could impact their enforcement of the rules during the match....

July 24, 2025 · 4 min · 669 words · Matthew Harris

Zack Snyder's Justice League Trailer is Here and DC is Looking Better Than Ever

The trailer follows a year of constant speculation regarding what kind of previously unseen footage would make it into Snyder’s realized vision for theJustice League, as well as questions regarding just how much new footage would be shot for this 4 hour extended cut of the film. Most of the newly added elements seen in the trailer had been shared by Snyder via sneak peeks that showed characters that had been outright dismissed is Joss Whedon’s version of theJustice League, such as the presence of Darkseid andSuperman looking fine in black....

July 24, 2025 · 2 min · 407 words · Jeffrey Luna

10 Most Breathtaking Locations In Far Cry 5

Ubisoft might be a company that doesn’t exactly have the most stellar reputation right now, but there’s no denying the fact that some of their franchises deserve all the hype that they get.One such seriesthat isgoing to release its sixth installmentsoon enough isFar Cry, withthe latest game in the seriesbeing considered by many to beone of the greatest Ubisoft titles of all time. RELATED:5 Ways Joseph Seed Is The Best Far Cry Villain (& 5 Ways He’s The Worst)...

July 23, 2025 · 5 min · 952 words · Nicole Hess

11th Generation Intel Processors Could be Launching Soon

Computer hardware company Intel has begun teasing “something big” for a new event it has announced for later this year, leading many to believe that this event will mark the launch of the company’s 11th gen CPUs. Intel first showed off its 11th gen CPUs at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) earlier this year. Known as the “Tiger Lake” line, these 10nm chips will have Intel’s new integrated Xe graphics, which are expected to greatly boost graphics performance....

July 23, 2025 · 2 min · 381 words · Aaron Jackson

5 Things We Loved About Jett: The Far Shore (& 5 Things We Didn't)

Jett: The Far Shorehad high expectations to fill, considering the ambition of the project. The cryptic and intriguing trailers played with the audience’s imagination, and players wereas eager to step into this promising alien world. The purpose and the vision for this game are impeccable, and the world has a lot to offer. RELATED:Beginner Tips For Jett: The Far Shore You Need To Know While players wanted to feel ecstatic throughout the gameplay, some elements swept them off their feet, while others left them feeling more empty than enthusiastic....

July 23, 2025 · 6 min · 1203 words · Tyrone Howard

Beginner Tips For Rumbleverse

Rumbleverseis a new online battle royale multiplayer game from Iron Galaxy. Following the winning formula of the extremely successfulFortnite, Epic Games are handling the publishing and will be hoping to strike gold twice withRumbleverse. Swapping out guns for wrestling moves, players will need to learn punches, kicks, and elbow drops to succeed. The game is free to play and available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and Microsoft Windows....

July 23, 2025 · 6 min · 1204 words · Sherri Hudson

Best & Worst Things In Metroid Dread

Metroid Dreadis a direct sequel toMetroid Fusion. That game launched in 2002 for theGame Boy Advanceand is considered the last 2D entry in the series prior to this new game. That’s not exactly true asMetroid: Other Mon theWiiwas a mixture of 2D and 3D. There was alsoMetroid: Samus Returnsin 2017 for the3DSwhich was a remake but still a good 2D adventure. RELATED:Metroid Dread: How Long to Beat Whatever the case may be fans have been looking forward to a new 2DMetroidgame for quite some time....

July 23, 2025 · 5 min · 988 words · Audrey White

Best MMOs For Creating Overpowered Characters

Summary An averageMMOis built for progress—it’s designed to make players feel like they’ve become stronger and more skilled throughout the course of their gameplay. However, some MMOs take this a bit too seriously, and make character progression realistic, in the sense that it makes character building very slow-paced and honestly pretty unnoticeable for the most part. While this creates a sense of realism in playing MMOs, trying to level up a character eventually becomes exhausting if the player cannot actively sense that character’s growth and gradually-increasing power....

July 23, 2025 · 4 min · 807 words · Kevin Barker