Quick Links Pax Deidoesn’t completely leave you astray when you first join the sandbox world. Picking up rocks and crafting your first few items should be a piece of cake. What comes next may require more attention. There are many different areas of the game to learn, from multiplayer, to different types of crafting, and survival. These are all the basic beginner tips players need to understand in order to be successful in their journey....

What is it we like about dystopia? We shouldn’t like it; by definition, it is the worst possible vision of society, but for some reason, we continue to find it alluring. Perhaps it’s because it reveals something about the future of our own society. Perhaps it’s simply a great source of conflict. Either way, we find ourselves coming back to stories about hellish societies and oppressive social orders in every medium of storytelling, including board games....

Summary TheYu-Gi-Oh! TCGunleashes the power of 118 cards in Battles of Legend: Terminal Revenge. In this set, there are plenty of useful cards that get a nice reprinting, lowering the entry for both meta and niche decks. There are also cards getting their first-ever printing, which makes some of the most popular decks even more powerful than before. So, which cards are the ones you want to keep an eye out for when pulling a few packs from the set?...

Summary There’s a separate meta for every game mode inClash Royale. For trophy road, some decks are better depending on your arena, and in Path of Legends you can experiment with all sorts of decks thanks to the soft level caps within each league. But when it comes to tournament rules and the Grand Challenge, you get the opportunity to build any deck you want, with everything capped at level eleven....

DC Comicsis one of the oldest and most prestigious comic brands of all time. Thoughits rival, Marvelhas somewhat outshone it in mainstream success in recent years, especially in Hollywood, DC has the reins on many of the oldest and most successful superheroes of all time, including Superman himself, arguably the first superhero. If you’ve been reading TheGamer for a while, you already know what we’re going to say next. How do we celebrate an old and storied franchise?...

Summary Getting to play as multiple characters is a nice option to have in games, whether in co-op, singleplayer settings, or both. Some games like those from Supermassive are notorious for changing character perspectives throughout the gameplay. Then other games, like Assassin’s Creed and Red Dead Redemption 2,can switch protagonists halfway through. But there are plenty of video games that give you multiple perspectives and characters to explore in a single playthrough by allowing the option to swap them out whenever you desire....

Quick Links Scopely has just introduced an all-new leaderboard tournament toMonopoly Go, called Boardwalk Blitz. This one-day tournament is your last opportunity to grab exclusive tokens for the ongoingAnniversary Treasures minigame. Like previous tournaments, you’ll be competing with other Monopoly Go players for thetop ranks on the leaderboard. The higher you place on the leaderboard, the better prizes you’ll win. To score points in the Boardwalk Blitz, you must land on the Railroad tiles and successfully complete Shutdowns and Bank Heists....

For being a Metroidvania title devoid of traditional combat, you sure can die a lot inAnimal Well. Just because your little blob doesn’t fight back doesn’t mean the critters down here will be friendly, with plenty of them coming to attack and kill you as you solve the puzzles of the Well. There are ways to temporarily increase your hearts during tough puzzles, but quick-thinking Metroidvania fans realized that the inclusion of one specific animal with a holiday devoted to it was a little curious....

Thanks toNetflix getting involved in gameson top of all its streaming efforts and Apple developing the A17 Pro chip, lots of games from consoles can make their way to mobile like you never could’ve imagined. Remember when mobile ports were games like Telltale properties and and Limbo? Now, there’sDeath Stranding,Resident Evil 4,Alien: Isolation,Spiritfarer, and evenHades! Mobile gaming has truly come a long way already, and the technology used for phones and tablet devices will only advance further from here on out....

Summary Gameplay previews ofDragon Ball: Sparking Zerohave confirmed that it’ll be bringing back the taunt mechanic from the PS2 trilogy. Thanks to Summer Game Fest, the last few weeks have been an absolute goldmine for Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero news. Not only did wefinally see the back of the “Wishlist Now” message by getting an official release date, butwe also got a ton of gameplay information from hands-on previewsand the slew of new gameplay footage that came along with them....

Summary Elden Ringplayers seem to be pretty disappointed withShadow of the Erdtree’sboss fight cutscenes, upset that certain lore heavy characters in the game aren’t introduced in a special way or have no dialogue during or after fights. Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree may be some of the best work that developerFromSoftwarehas ever put out there, but we all know that nothing is absolutely perfect. We saw that withall the initial complaints surrounding the DLC’s brutally difficulty spikes, but now that the dust has settled, attention has turned to another element of Shadow of the Erdtree that has fans a little disappointed....

Summary Like any FromSoftware game,Elden Ringis full of bosses so tough that every time you reach them in a new playthrough, part of you wants to put the controller down and save yourself the headache. We’re all human, or as human as Tarnished can get. And that’s what the subreddit has been discussing, sharing all the big bads that they go out of their way to skip every time they play the game....

Summary A release date forDisney Epic Mickey: Rebrushedhas just appeared online, confirming that it will launch on May 21, 2025. This means that the Epic Mickey remake is sticking with its planned 2024 release window, following its reveal earlier this year. This was just confirmed by several storefronts, including GOG, which have revealed the September 24 release date formally. It hasn’t come alongside a new trailer just yet, but with the game just two months away from release, we can expect to see more from the remake soon....