Quick Links AFK Journey will have you explore a land of magic as the most powerful sorcerer, Merlin. Gathering allies, you’ll take on a variety of enemies, using your companions' unique abilities to overcome different situations. There are several different game modes in AFK Journey that each require careful planning and consideration when it comes to constructing your party composition. As you recruit more characters, your options will open up even more....

Laptops are a great choice for productivity, especially for those of us on the go. Laptops combine the portability and travel of a tablet with the functionality and ease of use that a personal computer offers. They’re favorites for everyone from hobby writers and graphic designers to students and office employees. Whatever your reason for using a laptop, touchscreen laptops are one of the best choices you’ll find. These options go further on the combination of tablet and PC, allowing you to control your screen at the touch of a finger instead of a mouse or trackpad....

Sometimes, you want to be transported to a different time while playing a board game. And sometimes, that time is around the mid to late 1800s England where balls were held often and gossip was the best way to pass the time, like in Pride and Prejudice orBridgerton. If you’re looking for a board game to capture the more fanciful times of this era, there are quite a few games available to you....

Summary Hand-eye coordination is a vital skill for all kinds of games, especially if you’re trying to get better at competitive shooters, or anything with fast-paced puzzle solving, bullet hell mechanics, or rhythm. Thankfully, the formula for improvement is clear: quality time spent playing games relevant to the genre you’d like to “level up” in. If you don’t know where to start, the games found below can be the very first step in your grand quest for improved hand-eye coordination....

Whether you’re using your microphone to talk to friends during your nights spent gaming or using a professional microphone to record audio, nearly everyone using a PC at this point has a need for a microphone for one reason or another. As more people shift to working from home, these microphones become even more popular. But what do you do if you can’t stand dealing with the wire you need for your microphone?...

BioWaremight have more thanDragon Age: Dreadwolfand the nextMass Effectgame in the works, as ajob listingrefers to “2-3 project teams”. Right now, the studio only has two ongoing projects that we know about, with the third perhaps being another unannounced game. The job listing, which was first spotted byGame Rant, is for a temporary development manager. As part of the job, the manager would have to “coordinate across 2-3 diverse project teams”, suggesting that there’s an announced project alongside Dreadwolf and the Mass Effect sequel....

Summary I played alotofSteamNext Fest demos over the weekend, and while I wasn’t able to work through my overly ambitious list of nearly 30 games I wanted to try, that was partly because those I played grabbed my attention and refused to let go. Closer the Distance, the newest game from Osmotic Studios (who also made Orwell), was one of those games. I wasn’t the only one immediately taken by this – my colleague Ben Sledge also included it in hislist of Steam Next Fest demos to play....

There was a time whenDead Risingfelt like the most technologically advanced game on the planet. Launching in the first six months of theXbox 360’s life, alongsideGears of War, it was considered a poster child for the platform’s visual and mechanical prowess. I remember playing it for the first time and being blown away by how it let you loose inside a sprawling mall where you could go anywhere and do anything, so long as you were ready and willing to make your way through hordes of undead....

Summary Bandai Namco recently confirmed thatSparking Zero will include fan favourites like Beerus, adult Gohan, Videl, and Whis.What’s more,future Gohan only has one arm, something that the games have rarely touched on. And in a newly released gameplay trailer, we finally got to see all of them in action. In cutscene-quality fights, the trailer starts with Piccolo and young Gohan sparring, followed by Videl and an older two-armed Gohan training together, capped off with one-armed Future Gohan and Future Trunks duking it out in the ruins of West City....

Summary Helldivers 2’s creative director and CEO of Arrowhead Game Studios, Johan Pilestedt, has revealed that he doesn’t know what players affected by the game’s removal fromSteamcan do next. As anyone who has been following Helldivers 2 even passively will know by now, it’s been a very rough week forwhat was once one of 2024’s most popular games. Just a few days ago,PlayStation revealed that players on Steam would have to sign into PSNwhenever they wanted to play the game, whichresulted in mass review-bombing and the game dropping to a “Mostly Negative” score on Steam....

Summary People who show great ambition in the vast world ofGenshin Impactare rewarded by the gods with a Vision. Visions are holy relics that give people various elemental abilities. In Teyvat, the ambition of Vision bearers often leads them to ascend to important community roles, such as influential leaders, stalwart soldiers, savvy politicians, and more. Amid the defined framework of elemental powers there are abnormalities: people who wield elemental forces without a Vision....

Last weekend, I finished upFallen Aces, a solid contender for the most original shooter of the year. The throwback FPS with visuals inspired by the Golden Age of Comic Books has quickly ascended my GOTY list. Its only problem is that there isn’t enough of it yet. Hitman’s Episodic Model Wasn’t That Different From Fallen Aces' Early Access It’s still in early access onSteamso, at the time I’m writing this, you’re able to only play the first of three episodes....

Summary Last week, theFalloutshow wasofficially renewedfor a second season, meaning that we’re finally going back to the Mojave after 15 years. Excited for more, fans are putting together wishlists for everything they want to see on the small screen in the next series. “I want a character to wake up in the desert and see a Gecko running at them at mach fu*** just out of nowhere,” CaitAthens commented. I want Lucy to find a magazine or a skill book....