Tired of yelling “TeeKO!” at your phone screen? Craving the social chaos of a party game without the app fatigue? Look no further! This list is your ticket to board game nights that are as side-splitting and competitive as your favoriteJackboxParty Pack. Fromcreative doodlefeststo deception-filled tabletop showdowns, get ready to ditch the controllers and phones and unleash the laughter with these board game gems for your table. Just One Laughter and Teamwork in a Box...

When I think of greatRPGstudios likeBaldur’s Gate 3developerLarian Studios, I think of ticking time bombs. Though Baldur’s Gate 3’s success has been explosive, that kind of massive critical and commercial hit has often marked the beginning of an era of decline for studios that achieve it. We notice the heat and light that accompanies the bang, but the developer ends up sifting through the rubble. Fallout 4, Fallout 76, And Starfield Chart Bethesda’s Decline TakeBethesda, for example....

Summary The ultimate goal inPokemonis to catch ‘em all, but in 2024 there are so many ways to do that.Pokemon Go,Pokemon Sleep, even justwatching ‘em all via the animehas gotten pretty complicated. Catching ‘em all can also get pretty expensive if your chosen method is via collecting physical items likeFunko Pops. Any opportunity to get Pokemon Pops for less should be grabbed with both hands, and for a limited time every single figureis up to 70 percent off at Funko....

Summary Dragon Age: The Veilguardjust got a new trailer - and we’re finally seeing the new characters. We even have a launch window, with the trailer confirming that it will be with us this autumn. That’s right, having waited almost ten years sinceDragon Age: Inquisition, we finally have a better idea of what the next game looks like. With that said, there’s no gameplay to be found here, as that’s coming on June 11....

Summary The latest trailer forDragon Ball: Sparking Zerohas shown off a bit of a redesign for Future Gohan, one that has received mixed responses from fans. Although we might not have seen the end of the dreaded “Wishlist Now” message inlast week’s Master vs Apprentice trailer for Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero,we did at least see a bunch of new characters in action, such as Beerus, Whis, Videl, and more. One of the most exciting reveals was that the most tragic version of Gohan, Future Gohan, will be a playable character,complete with his canonical one-armed look....

Summary Ever since the first Soulsborne in 2009, there has been a poison swamp. It’s a staple as much as any other mechanic—every game has to have an enormous, miserable marsh that riddles your body with toxins while you’re busy fighting tough enemies. Following on from Demon’s Souls' aptly titled Swamp of Sorrow,Dark Soulscemented the poison swamp into the formula with Blighttown, and Dark Souls 3 upped the ante withtwogiant poison swamps back-to-back....

Summary Fallout 4is unique in that it starts before the bombs drop, letting us see the suburban ’50s-style life of Nate and Nora. We’re ushered into a vault just as the nuclear apocalypse rears its head, entering cryostasis to wait out the radiation, but things go wrong when the vault is broken into. Our partner is killed and our son is kidnapped, and thus the hunt for a family member begins again....

Summary More people are flooding to theFalloutseries than ever before, and if you don’t want towait in a queueorexperience the lovable jankof the older Fallout games, thenFallout 4orFallout 76is the first port of call. In fact, the latter iscurrently experiencing its highest ever player base since launch, meaning there are loads more people than usual heading to Appalachia to get their post-TV show Fallout fix. However, Fallout 76 differs in that you’ll be exploring the Wasteland with other people, and ever since the game’s launch back in 2018, a social etiquette has been established that veterans of the title would like to remain intact....

Summary AnotherFalloutgame could be coming “sooner rather than later”, following the success of the TV adaptation. This is according to Jez Corden from Windows Central, who says thatXboxis “currently formulating plans” on how to ship a new Fallout game sooner than expected. It’s unclear if this would take the form of Fallout 5 or a spin-off developed by another studio entirely, especially as Bethesda has bothStarfieldandThe Elder Scrolls 6to work on first....

Summary EveryFalloutgame, dating back tothe original in 1997, has been set in America. We’ve gone from New California to the Capital Wasteland to The Commonwealth, but never outside the USA. Unless you count space. Plenty of fans are curious about what the rest of the world is like, to the point thatan entire fan-developed game has sprung up in Fallout London, but Todd Howard has ruled out the idea for Bethesda as he wants to keep some mystery to its world....

Summary Yeah,that Elden Ring DLClaunching later this month looks fine, but really we’re all waiting for July 2, right? That’s whenFinal Fantasy 14’s highly anticipated Dawntrail expansion drops. An expansion that will take players to Tural, and unlike Shadow of the Erdtree, Final Fantasy 14’s upcoming additional content now has a brand new, high-end chair fromSecretlabto go along with it, ensuring you’re as comfortable as possible when your MMORPG journey continues....

Summary Square Enixrevealed this week thatFinal Fantasy 7 Rebirth sales have underperformedso far. Considering the hype around it at release, that’s somewhat surprising. The demand for the action figures attached to it also makes the sequel feel more popular than Square’s numbers might suggest. New figures of Rebirth’s core characters, as well as re-releases of old ones, are snapped up almost immediately, even if they cost $180 each like the new Cloud and Yuffie Play Arts figures which you may now get on Amazon....

Summary Final Fantasy 7 Rebirthco-director Motomu Toriyama believes that Part 3 of the series will finally answer all of our lingering questions, as well as deliver an ending that will “exceed” the original game’s. Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth came out earlier this year, and despite many of us hoping it would clear up all the questions we had surrounding Whispers, Sephiroth, Cloud, Aerith, and all the other things that aren’t quite adding up,all it did was confuse us even more....