Animal Crossing: New Horizons Player Creates Neat Ramen Spot

One creativeAnimal Crossing: New Horizonsplayer has designed a ramen shop for their in-game island.Animal Crossing: New Horizonsis the fifth entry in thesocial simulation video game seriesdeveloped and published by Nintendo, and it quickly became one of the company’s most popular games and a definite system seller for the Nintendo Switch. During the COVID-19 pandemic,Animal Crossing: New Horizonstook the world by storm as the adorable simulation-game released during the peak of travel restrictions and stay-at-home orders in 2020....

June 30, 2025 · 2 min · 401 words · Jeremy Rose

Ark Series Director Talks About Writing for the Show's Hollywood Cast

Summary Ark: Survival Evolvedand its expanded/updated version,Ark: Survival Ascended, are well-known survival crafting and multiplayer experiences. While the games focus mainly on players weathering the obstacles (and other players) that the vast open-world maps present, there are also a number of collectibles and notes that flesh out the setting’s lore and other aspects. These form the basis ofArk: Survival Evolved’s overarching story framework, and within them are many intriguing details with wider implications about much ofArk’s in-universe history, events, and major figures....

June 30, 2025 · 4 min · 754 words · Jennifer Sanchez

Blizzard Fixes Accidental Diablo 4 Nerf

Summary The strange glitch that de-leveled Glyphs inDiablo 4has been fixed by Blizzard, though many players still consider the new Abattoir of Zir to be brutally over-tuned. WhileDiablo 4’s Season of Bloodwas favorably received by the community when it launched, Abattoir of Zir’s release has been surprisingly contentious by comparison. Meant to serve as the capstone to Season 2, this new endgame activity forDiablo 4is considered to be the hardest content released for the game thus far....

June 30, 2025 · 2 min · 416 words · Justin Holt

Borderlands Has Been Missing an Obvious Lore Opportunity

WhenBorderlandsplayers acquire a Legendary weapon, they can be sure of a few things. First, it will have some kind of unique feature that sets it apart from the millions of other guns inBorderlandsand makes it worth using, with a distinct name and appearance to match. Further, the gun will have some red text that usually hides a joke of some kind, often coming in the form of a pop culture reference....

June 30, 2025 · 4 min · 683 words · Maria Lambert

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Playlist Update Brings Back Shoot the Ship Playlist

A playlist update forCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 2adds Shoot the Ship to its multiplayer mode.Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2came out with a decent selection of maps, andActivision added fan-favorite maps Shoot House and Shipmentduring Season 1.Shoot House was released at the beginning of the season, which coincided with the launch ofWarzone 2, while Shipment came out in the middle. Each map received its own exclusive playlist at launch, allowing players to play on only Shoot House or Shipment whenever they wanted....

June 30, 2025 · 2 min · 417 words · Sonya Williams

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Finishing Move Glitch Addressed by Infinity Ward

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’s multiplayer has had its fair share of glitches and technical problems since launch, though developer Infinity Ward has been quick to address them as they’ve popped up. Now the glitch whereModern Warfarefinishing moves wouldn’t work properly has now been addressed by the studio, with the hope that it will be fixed “as soon as possible.” Reddit user Average-Genius uploaded a video of theCall of Duty: Modern Warfarefinishing move glitch in action....

June 30, 2025 · 2 min · 389 words · Michael Pena

Characters That Disappeared In Game Of Thrones

Summary Throughout eight seasons, many characters were introduced inGame of Throneswho went on to fulfill vital roles within the plot or who served their function in an episode or two with their own story completed. However, a handful ofGame of Thronescharacters seemed to be set up for greater things but had their time on the show cut short. Whether certain plot lines didn’t pan out as expected or actors could no longer continue, the followingGame of Thronescharacters just disappeared and were never seen or heard from again....

June 30, 2025 · 4 min · 749 words · Joshua Carter

Chernobyl Director To Tackle Dune Series Premiere Episodes For HBO Max

Award-winning television director Johan Renck will helm two episodes of theHBO Maxprequel seriesDune: The Sisterhood. Renck is best known for his work on HBO’s critically acclaimed miniseriesChernobyl,which earned Renck an Emmy for Outstanding Director For A Limited Series. Written and created by Craig Mazin,Chernobyl was nominated for nineteen Emmy Awards and won for Outstanding Limited Series, Outstanding Directing, and Outstanding Writing. Renck is also known for directing the pilot episodes ofVikingsandBloodline,and he has also directed episodes ofBreaking BadandThe Walking Dead....

June 30, 2025 · 2 min · 323 words · Randall Cline

Disney Dreamlight Valley: Where to Find Pink Houseleek

Players will quickly find thatDisney Dreamlight Valleyis a game that encourages collecting and utilizing the resources around the in-game world. From flowers and fruits to fish and gems, the game has plenty of items that players can spend their time tracking down. These factor into quests as well as food recipes and can even play into building friendships with the characters aroundDisney Dreamlight Valley. One particular flower has proven to be a bit challenging to locate, especially for those that haven’t been able to unlock any of the game’s biomes....

June 30, 2025 · 3 min · 441 words · Sandra Mcdonald

Final Fantasy: Ultima Weapons Facts & Trivia

TheFinal Fantasyfranchise is one of the biggest names in the gaming industry and fans have come to expect a certain caliber of quality from the series, as well as expecting many staples of the games that have since become common recurring elements. Examples ofrecurring featuresinclude gameplay mechanics, monsters, bosses, summons, and more. RELATED:Final Fantasy: Ranking The 10 Most Powerful Summons In The Entire Franchise One of these elements is the Ultima Weapon, a boss that has appeared in numerousFinal Fantasytitles....

June 30, 2025 · 6 min · 1112 words · Kimberly Harris

Fire Emblem Engage's Fell Xenologue DLC Appears to Change Another Core Conceit About Emblems

This article contains endgame spoilers for Fire Emblem Engage.The fourth wave ofFire Emblem Engage’s expansion pass is set to take a wildly different turn from the events of its base game, with one core conceit having been flipped on its head. TheFell Xenologue DLCappears to showcase a waning restriction on the Fell Dragon’s power against corrupted emblems, which could hold further narrative implications. Fire Emblem Engagebuilds upon the characterization of its protagonist, Alear, through its story revelation in the base game’s Chapter 20; when prompted to summon the Emblem of Echoes Celica, Griss reveals to Alear that they hold the blood of the Fell Dragon, determined through their reliance on the power of incantation instead of prayer as their summoning method....

June 30, 2025 · 5 min · 865 words · Victoria Davis

Forgotten 90s Marvel Games

Summary Home toThe Avengers,X-Men,The Fantastic Four, and many others,the Marvel franchisehas a wealth of superheroes and comic lore to bring to life in video game format. The first Marvel video game would arrive on the Atari 2600 in 1982 withSpider-Man. After that, it would take some time before Marvel’s comic book iconography could be rendered sufficiently in video game format.Spider-Man’s entries across the 2000s and late 2010s would prove smash hits, and numerous side-scrollers in previous decades would prove memorable....

June 30, 2025 · 6 min · 1119 words · Jared Williams

Former Rockstar Dev Reveals Why Claude Was a Silent Protagonist in GTA 3

Summary Obbe Vermeij, a former employee of Rockstar Games, has shed some light on why Claude was a silent protagonist inGrand Theft Auto 3, citing practical restraints faced by the audio team. Vermeij’s comments touch on how far theGrand Theft Autoseries has come since its third entry, despiteGTA 3being revolutionary to the open-worldgenre. For those only familiar with modern Rockstar releases, Claude’s nonverbality might come across as a bit of a surprise....

June 30, 2025 · 3 min · 539 words · Christina Wheeler