Summary When you think of the word ‘soulslike’, you’re likely to conjure images of desolation and darkness. Dark Souls tells stories of broken worlds and cycles of undeath. Bloodborne is a cosmic horror masquerading as a gothic disease-based horror. The Salt games are foggy and devoid of friendliness. Lies of P takes place in a city of decay and murder. An oppressive, heavy feeling has become a core characteristic of the genre....

Summary It’s astounding how far video games have come since the days of Pong. What was once a means of playing 8-bit table tennis now allows you to swing through Manhattan as Spider-Man, fly to the moon as Mario, or even enter a virtual reality. Even more impressive are the decades of innovation it took to reach this point. Each video game generation represents a unique era of history. With each one came new consoles, groundbreaking genres, and ideas that would forever change how video games are made....

Summary TheFalloutshow brings back a character fromNew Vegas, albeit in a very different form than we see him in the game. Given the show’s ending, we might even see him appear in more flashbacks in the next season, despite the show largely focussing on original characters. Spoilers for the Fallout show and Fallout: New Vegas ahead. In the season one finale, Fallout brings back Robert Edwin House, or as most fans will know him, Mr....

Summary Final Fantasy 14director and producer Naoki Yoshida has revealed that players will be gifted a free Fantasia upon the release of update 7.0, giving us the chance to alter their character’s appearance following the release of the Dawntrail’s graphics update. Final Fantasy 14’s Dawntrail expansion is fast-approaching(too fast, please stop, I need to catch up), along withan ambitious new graphics updatethat should give the title a much-needed facelift. Pretty much everything in the game is being updated, including player characters, which means that our Warriors of Light may look a little different once the graphics update drops next month....

Summary If you’re a budget-conscious gamer and also happen to be an avidFinal Fantasy 14player, then you’ll want to know that in about a month’s time, your bill may get a tad bit more expensive. How expensive? Well, that depends on where exactly you’re located. According to a release from Square Enix, beginning on June 25, “all customer transactions on the Final Fantasy 14 Online Store and Mog Station, including game subscriptions, will be subject to any state or local sales tax, where applicable....

Summary Final Fantasydirector Naoki Yoshida - better known among fans as Yoshi-P - says it’s “probably about time” for anotherFinal Fantasy Tacticsgame. Yoshi-P said this in an interview with our specialist Gabrielle Castania, revealing that he loves the series just as the fans do. He also says he sees the storytelling potential in another Tactics game, even after all this time. Yoshi-P’s thoughts on a new Final Fantasy Tactics game “We have a lot of our staff who worked on previous games like Final Fantasy Tactics or Final Fantasy 12, so you’re going to have a lot of that [Tactics] feel because a lot of the same people are on the team,” he says....

Summary An unnamed ransomware group has claimed to have hackedFromSoftwareparent company Kadokawa Corporation, and is threatening to release 1.5TB of data and personal information unless the company pays up. It’s been a great few days for FromSoftware, having releasedShadow of the Erdtreeto critical acclaim and once again provingit’s the cream of the crop when it comes to soulslikes. Unfortunately, the same can’t be said of the studio’s parent company, Kadokawa Corporation, as a ransomware group claims to have acquired 1....

Summary Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2’s new form for Goku Black in the Future Saga DLC, elegantly titled “Goku Black (Super Saiyan Rosé) - Ultra Supervillain”, is so long it barely fits on the character select screen. If you’ve been a Dragon Ball fan for a long time, then you’ve no doubt heard the jokes about how consulted some of the transformation names can be.I always scoffed when people poked fun at Super Saiyan having a number grading system, but it became a lot harder to defend when we started getting titles like Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan Blue and Super Saiyan Rose....

Helldivers 2players have spotted giant cloaked warships hovering in the sky above Automaton planets. While some assumed these were just Super Destroyers, screenshots of their silhouettes show that they’re much, much bigger. So far, they’ve just been ominously floating in the atmosphere, not interacting with us on the ground, but theories are bubbling about where this is all headed. Troops have been attacked by blue laserswhile on missions to liberate enemy worlds, a signature weapon of the aquatic Illuminate alien species....

Quick Links You explore a dark yet beautiful world after you emerge from a flower inAnimal Well. As you go through more areas, you’ll find puzzles you need to solve and paths that you cannot reach. You’ll also find various items that will help you make progress in your journey. One type of item you’ll find during your exploration is a key item. These are tools that will grant you abilities that will aid in your puzzle-solving and adventuring....

Quick Links Matchmaking plays an important role inDark and Darker. If you’re a new player, and you’re somehow getting matched with high-level players with powerful gear, your overall experience wouldn’t be very fun. To help make matchmaking fair, your enemies are matched based on an attribute called ‘Gear Score.’ This score is calculated by the equipment and items that you have in your inventory and determines the difficulty of the enemies you’ll be up against....

Quick Links Excision is the first-ever 12-man mission inDestiny 2. You must have completed the campaign andthe Wild Hunt questto start it, and it is matchmade; so you do not have to worry about having a pre-made fireteam. It is an epic finale to a decade-old Light and Dark saga, pitting the forces of Light against the Witness. You can either launch the Excision mission directly from the patrol zone in the Pale Heart or via a dedicated node next to the Salvation’s Edge raid....

Quick Links AirPods are great, but just like any technology, they can get dirty quickly. Especially the case since you’re holding it, putting it in bags, your pocket, etc. Unfortunately, there’s not much you can do about preventing general grime build-up like that. However, you can give them a good clean from time to time. If that’s what you need to do but aren’t sure how to do it, fear not!...