PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds sets another concurrent player milestone

The game just won’t die! Whether you like it or not,PUBGis a massive hit. The game is such a big hit, in fact, that it just passed three million concurrent players on Steam! While it has been the most played game on the service for a couple of months now, this upward trend of people playing is only widening the gap between the competition. How can anyone catch up? OVER 3 MILLION!...

August 9, 2025 · 1 min · 146 words · James Copeland

Prey: Mooncrash update adds roguelike skin homages

Love that Spelunky art Bethesda is showing a little love for the rougelike genre this week. Announced by way of an official video, the recentPrey: MooncrashDLC is getting commemorative skins by way of a free update. It’s called the “New Rogue” patch, and adds skins to “celebrate [their] favorite roguelike games,” a list that includesRisk of Rain, Rouge Legacy, Spelunky, Dead Cells, Don’t Starve, andDarkest Dungeon. Whether the list was compiled due to quality or ties to other studios, it’s one hell of a selection....

August 9, 2025 · 1 min · 139 words · Carmen Hale

Review: Vecna: Eve of Ruin

One of the greatest villains ofDungeons & Dragonsis Vecna, a lich god with dimension-spanning cults and body parts so evil they corrupt anyone who finds them. Originating in theGreyhawksetting, Vecna has proven to be such a popular villain that his influence has extended to theForgotten Realms,Ravenloftand even other media likeStranger Things. ForDnD‘s 50th anniversary, it seems only fitting that this world-spanning campaign book,Vecna: Eve of Ruin, puts the Arch-Lich front and centre....

August 9, 2025 · 4 min · 670 words · Deborah Green

Steal an Anime codes (August 2025) [CRAFTING]

Updated: June 03, 2025 We looked for new codes! Welcome to the plagiarism simulator, a game where you can steal anime characters and make money off them. To a layman, they all look the same anyway. No one will ever notice that you ripped off Goku, right? Listen, it’s called homage, and inSteal an Anime, we have plenty of those. If you want to commit crimes more efficiently, you can redeemSteal an Animecodes....

August 9, 2025 · 2 min · 365 words · Sergio Cole

The Cork is a big metroidvania adventure with a tiny hero

Rubs eyes The Corkis playing with a lot of familiar elements, but its miniature protagonist drew my attention. In the upcoming PC-bound metroidvania game – “heavy emphasis onvania” – a plague has turned the local villagers “erratic and hostile.” You’re a small-scale hero investigating a foreboding kingdom that was “built into the steep sides of an enormous crater.” Parlor Interactive is promising “combat that requires calculation as much as might,” side-quests, gear upgrades, and a “massive non-linear world....

August 9, 2025 · 1 min · 203 words · Linda Carlson

The Game Band secures funding to develop more Blaseball

A mobile version is in the works, too The Game Band, the indie outfit behind the fantasy sports sim/metafictional narrative experimentBlaseball, has secured funding to keep making more. Today, the studioannounceda “significant investment” from Makers Fund, with additional investments from 1Up Ventures and Matthew Ball. The investment will be used “first and foremost” to pay theBlaseballteam for all of the hard work that’s been put into the development of the ever-growing community sports sim, and then to grow the team, according to founder and creative director Sam Rosenthal....

August 9, 2025 · 2 min · 230 words · Jason Rojas

The Last of Us TV adaptation receives overwhelming praise from critics

‘I guess we really are The Last of Us Part I’ Following a frankly obnoxious amount of media build-up and endless think-pieces, HBO finally previewed its live-action adaptation ofThe Last of Usto an army of critics, who have been overwhelmingly positive in their response to the grim-looking televisual take of the hit game series. The new series currently sits at an incredible 97% on thereview aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes, with a score calculated from a total of 60 media reviews....

August 9, 2025 · 2 min · 300 words · Jason Melton

The new Smash Ultimate event celebrates the Willenium (2000 to 2009)

In the year 20xx… The year 2000 and whereabouts has a lot of hype behind it. Will 2K. “Party like it’s 1999.” Y2K. The generic “it’s the year 20XX, the world is in ruin” storylines. It’s the year a lot of people thought we’d have flying cars and live likeThe Jetsons. But forSuper Smash Bros. Ultimate, it’s merely a Friday. Announced by way of the Nintendo of Europe Twitter account,Smash Ultimateis getting a new event that focuses on 2000-2009 called “The Year is 200X....

August 9, 2025 · 1 min · 147 words · Shannon Stone

When do you unlock Queen’s Blood in FF7 Rebirth?

Sorry Triple Triad, there’s a newFinal Fantasycard game in town and that’s Queen’s Blood. Even though neither the originalFinal Fantasy 7orFinal Fantasy 7 Remakehad a card game, Queen’s Blood is a fully functional and fleshed-out card game that even plays a role throughout the story. If you’re wondering when do you unlock Queen’s Blood inFF7 Rebirth, thankfully you don’t have to wait long. How to unlock Queen’s Blood inFF7 Rebirth You’ll unlock Queen’s Blood inFF7 Rebirthvery early in Chapter 2....

August 9, 2025 · 2 min · 334 words · Justin Sexton

You can dress like Chris from Resident Evil Village with this expensive as hell collector’s edition

Another luxury purchase from Capcom’s Japanese store I love rubbernecking video game collector’s edition sets that are as outlandish as they are expensive.Resident Evil Village‘s Japan-onlyCollector’s Edition Version Zis one such extravagant example. This is the ultimate edition ofVillagein that it comes with everything – the game, a map, a SteelBook case, a Chris Redfield statue, an art book, 1/6 scale miniature weapons and trinkets (that I want to buy separately), a fancy package to contain it all, and the real wallet-buster: a buttonless chester coat....

August 9, 2025 · 1 min · 162 words · Anthony Atkins

Yuji Naka receives suspended prison sentence for insider trading

Collecting rings the wrong way Sonic the Hedgehogco-creator Yuji Naka has been found guilty of insider trading following a trial in Japan on June 15, 2025.As IGN Japan reports, it was found that through insider trading associated with the development of a Square Enix game, he had violated Japan’s Financial Instruments and Exchange Act. Naka was handed a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence, suspended for four years. Judge Madoka Hiruta also served him with two million yen and 107 million yen fines, amounting to approximately $14, 000 and $1....

August 9, 2025 · 2 min · 350 words · Susan Ward

‘Shameless,’ ‘slavish,’ and unoriginal: Sony’s snark-filled lawsuit forced Tencent to backtrack on its Horizon clone

TheHorizonfranchise is one of Sony’s best, both in terms of sales and quality. It’s so good, in fact, that Tencent decided to liberally take a few pages out of its book, but overdid it a little, leading Sony to file a formal copyright lawsuit. Now, however, Tencent’sHorizonclone, calledLight of Motiram, has been refurbished with new looks and content to differentiate it from Sony’s IP. Any and all content resemblingHorizon‘s assets, story, characters, or otherwise has been removed from promotional materials, including the game’s Steam page....

August 9, 2025 · 2 min · 283 words · Paul Warren

10 best Lego sets for adults

Lego is one of those hobbies many of us picked up as a kid, where we would build medieval castles, underwater labs, or pirate ships to kill hours or days. Then came the deconstruction phase and building your own unique creations. Now, you’re an adult with adult money, and Lego is preying on your nostalgia and fandoms to generate revenue. The following are 10 of the best Lego sets for adults....

August 8, 2025 · 5 min · 937 words · Andre Spears