Animal companions are a joy to have in both video games and real life.BitLifeoffers several ways to adopt pets, from regular pet stores and animal shelters to entire zoos if you want an extra challenge. However, there are a few obstacles you might face, depending on your character’s past actions and current living conditions. Although most are easy to work around, they can easily cause confusion if you’re unprepared for them....

The Windmill Gear inFinal Fantasy 7 Rebirthis an important item needed to, uh, fix a windmill as part ofBroden’s questin Kalm. Finding and crafting it can take time, but here’s what you need to know. Finding the Windmill Gear recipe Crafting the Windmill Gear Unfortunately, finding the recipe is the first part of crafting the Windmill Gear. You need the ingredients for the recipe. For most of these, you just pick them up off of monsters and the ground throughout the normal course of gameplay....

Once you’re at the stage of farmingPrime weapons and framesinWarframe, grinding for the supplies you need can get grossly time-consuming. Not only do you need to trust in the RNG of getting Prime parts (unless you purchase them from another player), but you also need to farm up many materials to make said Prime item. Nearly every Prime item in the game needs Orokin Cells to be crafted, so farming these as quickly as possible can help a lot....

Overwatch 2Season 12 has finally commenced and it bringsseveral new thingsto the table. This includes brand-new maps, a game mode, a Support Hero, and a lot of premium skins. To celebrate the launch of Season 12, Blizzard Entertainment has added severalOverwatch 2Twitch drops for players to claim. One of them is an epic skin for Sojourn, and here’s how you may get it. How to unlock Sojourn’s Barista skin in Overwatch 2 You need to watcha drop-enabled Overwatch 2 livestream on Twitch for 15 hoursto unlock Sojourn’s Epic Barista skin inOverwatch 2....

No, I didn’t vomit People often call me a “madman” or “robot” for playing games for lengthy periods of time, much of which results in the coverage you see here. The secret is that a lot of projects involve long lead times, but just as often, it’s crunch-time. This past week I’ve been balancing my schedule betweenthe Oculus RiftandDark Souls III, which have both, as you can probably expect, taken up basically all of my time....

The fact that it has the car episode kills me Dragon Ball Z: Kakarotis slated to be the first major release of 2020, and I can’t wait for it. Debuting on PC, PS4 and Xbox One, theDragon Ball Zsimulator will take us through the storyline of the anime and into uncharted territory, at least as far as games go. It’s getting really granular and really fanservicey here witha driving school sequence, on top ofall of the insane action and arcsthe series is known for....

Also, a Modern Warfare 2 remaster? Call of Duty‘s crusade against even numbers might soon be coming to an end. Currently, the fresh newWarzone battle royale modeonly has playlists for solo players and three-person squads. Twos and fours seem to be on their way. According to anew dataminer leak(and, really, it feels likeCall of Dutyis always the recipient of reliable datamining leaks), Warzone is primed to get playlists for duos and full four-person squads....

I just report it, guys Hot on the heels of the weekend’sEuropean breakfastconflict, Nintendo have announced the next Splatfest, this time scheduled for Japan. Once more, players will take sides in multiplayer shooterSplatoon 2to ascertain the answer to a question that is plaguing the nation: Do you prefer to eat your fried food with lemon, or without? Sometimes, it could be argued that the debates between lovable funsters Pearl and Marina are a little frivolous, but I think this holds the crown for perhaps the most oddly trivial to date....

Hylian bridge building simulator Joju-u-u Shrine is a relaxing puzzle shrine inTears of the Kingdomthat’s somewhat reminiscent of popular bridge building video games. To complete this shrine, you will need to build bridges for Link to get to the other side. Unlike those bridge building games, you’ll be using Link’s Ultrahand ability to attach the parts that are already in place. Admittedly, this is a little more difficult than it sounds....

Watch Saturday Morning Hangover every weekend on Dtoid TV! With the release ofAliens: Colonial Marinesaround the corner, I have bug hunts on the brain. And, to my mind, there’s no better bug hunt to have on the couch with some friends than a littleEarth Defense Force. Jordan and I will be diving into that, along with our weekly dose of Xbox Live Indie Games demos (there’s at least one perv-your-own-adventure this week) and we’ll switch on the Wii U to see all the latest contributions to the Willem Dafoe Miiverse community....

Some are claiming it’s ‘dumbed down’ already WhenThe Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3Dwas announced, it was said that a few changes would be coming, just like theOcarina of TimeandWind Wakerremakes. We’ve already heard aboutextra fishing ponds, but now we know that the Bomber’s Notebook will be expanded upon. The notebook was essentially a way to keep track of quests in the game, but it wasn’t all that detailed, and it was incredibly easy to miss stuff in the original incarnation....

Toy-to-Steve Now that Yacht Club Games has proven that it is possible to engineer a third-party amiibo, pretty much every publisher that has a Wii U or 3DS game is asked about creating one. The latest publisher is Microsoft, who has even acknowledged said demand very recently.Minecraftteam member Helen Zbihlyj, in response to a fan on the official Microsoft Studios site, stated, “we do know that there’s a lot of demand for aMinecraftamiibo – no idea if we’ll get one....

D20! Developer Beamdog has made a reputation for itself by resurrecting classic BioWare RPG’s. We’ve already seen modern, updated versions of bothBaldur’s Gategames,Planescape: TormentandIcewind Dale, but the next on the docket will be a remastered release ofNeverwinter Nights. Some of the updates included in this enhanced edition will be 4K resolution, scalable UI, brand new shaders and lighting and even support for mods and save games from the original release ofNeverwinter Nights....