Tartaglia, or Childe, is a 5-star Hydro DPSGenshin Impact.Here are Tartaglia’s best weapons, artifacts, and teams to help you decide whether towhalefor this whale. Playstyles Tartaglia is an on-field DPS. No matter what team you run him in, he needs to be on-field in order to do damage. Set up your supports, swap to Tartaglia, then use his Skill to enter melee stance. In his melee stance, he does increased Hydro damage with his Normal Attacks and can apply Riptide to enemies....

As soon as it launched on Game Pass,Call of Duty: WW2was beset by hacking problems, most notably those concerning RCE exploits that allowed hackers to take control of others’ PCs. The game has since been taken offline, with Activision not acknowledging the “issue” at hand. Activision, by way of the officialCall of DutyUpdates page on X,announced on July 5thatCoD: WW2would be going offline as developers investigate “reports an issue.” This particularly affects the Microsoft Store (Game Pass) version of the game, which appears to be the most affected....

Many gamers cry foul these days at the linearity found in modern game design. Gamers looking for more open and adventurous shooters were given a saving grace with 2007’sCrysis.The game offered huge amounts of space and all sorts of crazy superpowers allowing players to plan attacks and let our imaginations go nuts with the different ways we could complete objectives. Oh, and it was the prettiest game of its time....

’80s platformer returns on the small screen Hamster have added another bit of old-school adventure to their Arcade Classics range, as sky high superhero Bomb Jack brings his explosive adventures to the Nintendo Switch. Developed by Tehkan for the arcade market in 1984,Bomb Jacksees players control the titular character through a series of single-screen platform stages. Jack must collect all of the bombs littered around each stage, using his jumping and gliding capabilities....

Last Call Alright, alright, alright! Welcome back to Comment of the Week, the only place where you can find the best community members of the entire internet in one place: me, and all of the parallel universe versions of me. Oh, and this is the only place where the greatness that is me is also mingling with the lesser common folk, the folks of Destructoid, so give a round of applause to them too, I guess....

While a current focal point ofDestiny 2‘sEpisode: Revenantis aTonic system that didn’t initially workas intended, the third Act offers players a reliable way to brew Exotic Tonics. While it was possible for Guardians to create an Exotic Tonic before, there weren’t recipes for the concoction until recently. Of course, as with many things inDestiny, players aren’t just given the means to produce these valuable Tonics. First, Guardians must uncoverthe Tonic recipesfor themselves; otherwise, strike it lucky on a never-ending treadmill of chance....

New map on June 30 Heroes of the Stormis going to get amajor update later this month. Blizzard’s Dustin Browder stated it plainly at the PC Gaming Show today at E3: “Heroesis all aboutDiablofor the next few months.” Not only with The Butcher and the newDiablomap arrive on June 30, but we also have a few new confirmations. As seen in the key art for the event, King Leoric will be a future hero in the game....

Combat, balance, characters, and lessons learned We learned a lot aboutCastlevania: Lords of Shadow 2from our time at San Diego Comic-Con last week. Wesaw a demoshowcasing the game’s emphasis on exploration and combat, experienced iton PC, and have alsodelved into the music. Now we have further details about the combat system, sense of balance, characters (including the roles that Alucard and Simon Belmont play), and the lessons learned from previous games....

Made by people who know C&C best Last month, an EA producer took to redditto publicly statethe publisher’s intent to return to the roots ofCommand & Conquer— notthe mobile stuffthat has longtime fans disillusioned with the direction of the series. Now, EA has told us exactly what it has in store. EA is remastering the originalCommand & Conquer(Tiberium Dawn) andRed Alertin 4K on PC. They’ll be bundled together as a single collection, along with their expansion packsCovert Ops,Counterstrike, andAftermath....

Hey there Delilah Campo Santo’s Wyoming wilderness-set adventureFirewatchis coming soon to Nintendo Switch. “We’ve been hard at work stripping much ofFirewatch‘s tech down to the studs and rebuilding it to render the world more quickly, to stream and load faster, and to generally be more responsive,”wroteCampo Santo co-founder Jake Rodkin. Performance would’ve beenmy first concern, so that’s excellent. pic.twitter.com/m3Ud9DMpR8 — Dave 2.0 (@1800IfeelOK)June 22, 2025 Switch owners aren’t the only ones getting good news....

There is nothing (and I mean nothing; no food, nor sex, nor drug) that I enjoy more than the act of sitting down next to another person whose company is pleasant and playing a game with them.Couch Campaignis an opportunity for me to indulge in this thing that I love and share it with you in the hope that it’s entertaining. For our first endeavor, Jordan and I tackleGears of War: Judgment, and you can view the first part of our playthrough above....

Genshin Impacthas an ever-growing roster of characters, most of which are obtained through the gacha system. Primogems are at a premium though, and not all characters are created equal. A big disclaimer before we jump into the tier list though:Genshin Impacttier lists suck.There’s no one universal way to assign value to characters inGenshin.The tiers below don’t necessarily correlate with power level; rather, I tried to sort characters byteam flexibility, overall utility, and popularity in the meta....

The nextHalo Warsupdate looks like a good one. A recent blog posting on theofficialHalo WarsWeb sitehas a list of the bug fixes and major balance tweaks set to come to Xbox LIVE within the next “few weeks.” Among our favorite fixes are the squashing of the Covenant Generator dog s–t we’ve been dealing with for some time and the nerfing of the Warthog’s Gauss cannon. (But that whole players-NOT-receiving-points-for-jacking-their-own-dudesthingsounds pretty good, too....