When's the PS5 Reveal Event Happening?

Sony has yet to officially reveal thePS5, outside of confirming its existence and showing a logo, and this fact has powered a series of rumors making claims about the upcoming console’s eventual reveal event. Simply based off of the timing of the PS4’s reveal event back in 2013, many rumors have been pinpointing dates within February and beyond as the time of the reveal event for thePS5. From the beginning of the month to the middle of it, these predictions don’t seem to coincide with each other which has been making fans desperate to get any accurate information on the reveal....

May 22, 2025 · 4 min · 693 words · Allison Perez

Why Ace Attorney's Best Criminal is Yanni Yogi

Across six main games and a variety of spin-offs, theAce Attorneyseries has introduced a number of criminals. These range from unrepentant murderers to accidental killers, career criminals, hired assassins, mafia leaders, and ordinary people in the wrong place at the wrong time. The originalPhoenix Wright: Ace Attorney’s first truly sympathetic murderer,Yanni Yogi, is a compelling character who is used as a lens through which an idealistic Phoenix is forced to confront the flawed realities of the justice system....

May 22, 2025 · 3 min · 562 words · Robert Carey

Why Resident Evil Is One Of The Last Major Survival Horror Franchises Left Standing

TheResident Evilfranchise may be the most popular survival horror series, but it isn’t technically the first survival horror game. Before the term survival horror was created, earlier games such asResident Evil’sspiritual predecessorSweet Homeand Infogrames’Alone in the Darkalready implemented and pioneered the mechanics that defined the survival horror genre. However, it wasResident Evilthat invented the term survival horror, and ever since the launch of the first game in 1996, several other games followedResident Evil’sfootsteps....

May 22, 2025 · 3 min · 596 words · Katie Cameron

Xbox Game Pass Subscribers Should Play Outer Wilds, Gorogoa Before They Leave

Xbox Game Passis losing a number of games next week, as part of its monthly shuffle. The popular subscription service regularly rotates its games to keep its library of content fresh, offering players a range of different titles and genres to explore. A couple of the titles leavingXbox Game Passthis month are well worth experiencing, and gamers should look to try out bothOuter WildsandGorogoabefore they both leave the service. RELATED:The Best Games on Xbox Game Pass (December 2022) Outer Wilds and Gorogoa Are Both Worth Playing Released in 2019,Outer Wildshas an intriguing premise....

May 22, 2025 · 3 min · 477 words · Stephanie Walton

Xbox Reveals Blue-Purple Stellar Shift Controller With Exclusive New Feature

Xboxhas revealed its new Xbox Wireless Controller, dubbed the Stellar Shift Special Edition. The new controller comes in a shiny, bluish-purple color, and console owners will also have a new feature they can take advantage of whenever the new controller is connected to anyXbox Series X/Sconsole. WhileXbox Design Lab has been therefor Xbox and PC players to create and customize new controllers to suit their tastes, Xbox regularly releases new wireless controllers of different varieties....

May 22, 2025 · 2 min · 407 words · Samantha Chase

2 New Pokemon Squishmallows Can Be Pre-Ordered Now

Summary Pokemonhas released a pair of brand-new plushes for pre-order as part of its collaboration with popular plush brand Squishmallows, featuring two classic Pokemon. Throughout the history of the long-running monster-catching franchise, The Pokemon Company has released all sorts of unique merchandise for the massively popular series. Aside from the games,Pokemonhas featured on everything from board games and trading cards to apparel and evena Pikachu-themed car developed with Toyota. Now, the franchise is releasing the newest addition to a popular collaboration....

May 21, 2025 · 3 min · 444 words · Rebecca Martinez

9 Best Games Featuring Godzilla, Ranked

Few and far between,Godzillagames are a rare find in the west, somehow only surpassed by the enormous lack ofKing Kongrepresentation. Hopefully, the recent Legendary reboots of the franchises will breathe new life into the games industry with theirupcoming release ofGodzilla vs. Kong, but until then we have to settle with some old-school (and a couple of new-school) games. RELATED:10 Best Fight Scenes In The Transformers Franchise Any fan of the kaiju genre knows just how hard it is to translate the larger-than-life monsters into a playable game, much less agoodone....

May 21, 2025 · 6 min · 1198 words · Kayla Vargas

Alicia Vikander Still Wants To Revisit Lara Croft In Tomb Raider 2

It’s hard to believe that it’s been over three years since Lara Croft last graced the big screen. In that film, which starred Oscar-winning actress Alicia Vikander as the lead heroine, audiences were taken back to the iconic character’s dark and gritty origins, long before she became theTomb Raiderwe’ve all grown to love. Given that the film was a bonafide hit (grossing nearly $275 million at the box office), it seemed inevitable that a sequel would be made soon after....

May 21, 2025 · 3 min · 457 words · Matthew Todd

All World of Warcraft Expansion Reveal Trailers, Ranked

Including the recent reveal ofWorld of Warcraft: Dragonflight, the long-running MMO has featured nine expansions since its release in 2004, and each one has been accompanied by a cinematic trailer. These trailers are considered a high point for Blizzard, even its earliest trailers boasting high cinematic quality, drumming up excitement for the content to come. With so many expansions and therefore so many trailers, each bringing something different to the table, it’s a tough task to rank them all by quality, but it can be done....

May 21, 2025 · 6 min · 1154 words · Tiffany Cantrell

Avowed Should 'Steal' One Thing from Red Dead Redemption 2's Map Design

By all reports, Obsidian Entertainment’sAvowedis set primarily in the Living Lands in the studio’s world of Eora. What little information about the Living Lands can be gleamed fromPillars of Eternityand comments made by the developers indicates that the game’s setting will be on the frontier of Kith civilization, with the Living Lands inhabited by diverse, loosely formed communities and composed of a great diversity of biomes. Even thoughRed Dead Redemption 2is not an RPG, Obsidian could learn a lot about creating a diverse and compellingly threatening frontier from the game....

May 21, 2025 · 4 min · 655 words · Jennifer Johnson

Beginner Tips For DNF Duel

Fighting games as a genre can often seem quite attractive due to the allure of flashy combos and hype matches. However, they also have an unfortunate reputation for being hard for newcomers to get into, thanks to complex mechanics. DNF Duelis the latest release from legendary fighting game developer Arc System Works, best known for titles likeGuilty GearandPersona 4 Arena. Based on the popularDungeon Fighter Onlinegame,DNF Duelhas the name recognition to make it an attractive new game for beginners and pros alike....

May 21, 2025 · 5 min · 886 words · David Martin

Best Features Of The No Man’s Sky: Orbital Update

Summary TheOrbitalupdate forNo Man’s Sky, was released by Hello Games in March 2024. There have been over 30 free major updates to the base game since its rocky launch in August 2016. Since its release, the game has gone from strength to strength, completely reversing the mostly negative reviews it had just after launch, by introducingmany great changes. This new update,Orbital, introduces a number of new features and also extends and improves some existing ones....

May 21, 2025 · 5 min · 982 words · Kyle Harris

Best Platform Games On Itch.io

Summary Platforming is an old genre, established in the 80s with games likeDonkey Kong,and has seen huge popularity over the years. It is a broad genre, full of offshoots like the Metroidvania and puzzle platforming genres. RELATED:Darkest Platform Games, Ranked While most platforming connoisseurs are likely to know and love the big names, and maybe even some indie projects, there are plenty of phenomenal platforming games out there that are less well-known but no less deserving of love....

May 21, 2025 · 6 min · 1207 words · Donna Turner