InGhost of Tsushima, Jin Sakai never strikes a foe in the back and always fights honorably. This means you will fight foes head-on, striking steel with steel like an honorable samurai. While maintaining focus on a target is convenient when battling a single enemy, things can get complicated when many foes surround you. The lock-on feature can help you pick a target and effectively unleash deadly swings of Sakai Katana and Tanto....

Quick Links You did it. Your traitor PC did what traitor PCs do and finally turned their back on theDungeons & Dragonsparty forever, monologuing about how friendshipisn’tmagic, actually. They’re going to crush their former companions now that they’ve taken the Hand of Whoever and ascended to BBEG-dom. Yay! Your player rolls up a new character, and you realize that you have a fun new NPC to play with. But… how? It might feel weird to use your player’s old sheet, or the confines of the sheet limit what you’re able to add to the character without risking balance issues....

In order to conquer the brutal desert world ofSand Land, you’re going to need to build and upgrade your roster of vehicles at Ann’s Garage whenever you get the chance. That’s initially a very easy task in the opening hours of Sand Land,as most of the building requirements are slimand just require you to pick up whatever B-Grade materials you may find after defeating enemies andcombine them with a Core Frame....

Summary From the entire cast of theSuper Mario Bros.franchise, the two most recognizable characters (other than Mario, of course) are Luigi and Princess Peach. These two have aided the red plumber in countless adventures, and nowadays, they even go on adventures of their own. Their biggest titles to date arePrincess Peach: Showtime!andLuigi’s Mansion 3, but which one is better between the two? They come with a lot of differences, since they are meant to represent two vastly different characters, but they are still within the Mario umbrella, so who takes the cake?...

The release ofLike a Dragon: Infinite Wealthmade me finally want to get my butt in gear. I had been sitting back and watching the series pass me by since the release ofYakuza 0. I’d always meant to get to it eventually, but never knew when that would actually be. I even wondered if it would take anadult summer vacation— i.e. three months of uninterrupted time with no work expectations — to finally get up to date on the decades-spanning story of Kiryu and Ichiban....

Summary A reliable movie and TV insider has claimed that an adaptation ofKingdom Heartsis currently in the works atDisney, although it’s unclear which it is. As we’ve talked aboutplentyover the past few months, it’s been an incredibly dry season for Kingdom Hearts news, with the only exciting thing to talk about being theannouncement (and delay) of a second closed beta test for Missing Link.Although it looks like we’re going to be kept waiting to hear about Kingdom Hearts 4, there is at least some activity in the series....

Summary A cursory glance at all of the Mercenary creatures inMagic: The Gatheringwill show you that the creature type hasn’t received much love in recent years. With less than 100 Mercenaries in the game, those that do exist are split between sets from the late 1990’s and early 2000’s, and those that have seen a resurgence in sets likeFalloutandOutlaws of Thunder Junction. Thunder Junction in particular gave players a new-found reason to care about the Mercenary creature type, since it’s one of the five types encompassed bythe ‘outlaw’ batch....

Summary WhenLife Is Strangefirst released in 2015, the draw of its indie vibe was irresistible. The game swept through my friend group like wildfire, all of us loving the feel-good music, the chaos of a coming-to-age mystery, and the weight of making heavy choices while reuniting with a long-lost friend. So much happened all at once that it was easy to get swept away and lost in the narrative. And yet the sequels that followed the original’s success failed to capture that spark in the same way....

Summary Nintendo’s Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is now available onSwitch, potentially marking a significant milestone for the console. Now it has been confirmed thatNintendo will reveal news about its next consolewithin the next ten months, the Paper Mario remake could be the last Mario game we get on the console. It has also continued a trend of Nintendo reviving unlikely games from the plumber’s past for remakes and rematsers, and if you love the original Thousand-Year Door there’s a way you may make your Switch version look just like it....

Summary If you’re one of the many wondering where the games are, when it comes toSony’s PlayStation VR2 headset, then you’re not alone. That’s because after launching withan original Horizon title in the form of Horizon: Call of the Mountainas well as VR functionality for the likes ofGran Turismo 7andResident Evil Village, things have been remarkably quiet on the VR front. Of course,the popular rhythm game Beat Saber made its way to PS VR2, as well asVR functionality for Capcom’s Resident Evil 4, but when it comes to first-party releases, it’s been pretty dire....

Summary ThePokemon TCG’s march through Paldea continues today asthe first details about the next Scarlet & Violet set were confirmed. Dubbed Shrouded Fable, almost everything in the new collection, including mini tins and special illustration collections booster bundles, will be released on July 25, 2025, with the exception of its booster bundles which will follow on September 6. If the excitement of new cards is too much to handle, Shrouded Fable’s elite trainer box is already available for pre-order at the Pokemon Center....

Quick Links Harbor Havoc onRobloxis an action-packed war simulator where you cantake on different army rolesin an epic Red vs Blue sea battle. You can choose between two sides, Red or Blue, and work with your team to destroy the enemy harbor and secure victory. There are different ways to defeat enemies in Harbor Havoc: you’re able to command a warship to rain fire on enemy vessels, fly a military-grade airplane and attack from the skies, or man powerful turrets on your battleship and defend it against enemy attacks....

Summary HappyShadow of the ErdtreeDay to all those celebrating, and thank you for tearing yourself away from theElden Ringexpansion to read this article. Don’t worry, your Lands Between-themed weekend will not be interrupted with anything not related to the game and its very well-rated DLC. We’re just here to inform you that the Thrustmaster Shadow of the Erdtree controller, an accessoryfirst discussed so long agothat it pre-dates the announcement of the expansion’s release date, is finally available for pre-order....