Brighter Shores: How do Knowledge Points work

As you start to level up your character inBrighter Shores, Knowledge Points will have immense value to help you improve your character. InBrighter Shores, there are plenty of professions, and they don’t work like the typical class system in MMO. You don’t get to pick one of them. Instead, all of them will be available at the same time, and you’ll have to level them all up together. This is where the Knowledge Point system comes in, and it can help you level up things far more quickly....

July 2, 2025 · 2 min · 320 words · Karen Townsend

Caffeine is an oddly titled space horror game

It’s not about running out of Red Bull on a Monday morning It feels like we’ve waited a while for some space-based horror games to arrive and now there’s a glut incoming;Routine,Stasis, andAlien: Isolationare incoming later this year withSOMAfrom Frictional Games coming in 2015. Now we can addCaffeineto this list; whilst it doesn’t seem to be a game about drinking plenty of Red Bull, it does appear to be a horror game set in outer space....

July 2, 2025 · 1 min · 149 words · Samantha Ellis

Cute Mega Man and Link custom vinyl figs make me giggle

Who doesn’t love a good vinyl figurine? Something nice and sturdy that can sit upon your desk or nightstand. Maybe strategically arrange a few of thoseCastle Crashersknightsto defend your dresser from invading sugar ants. The big thing I see popping up in stores lately arePOP! Vinylsby Funko. You’ve of course got your range of superheroes and Disney characters, but what about videogame stars? When I saw the above figures of Mega Man and Link, I nearly dove for my wallet....

July 2, 2025 · 1 min · 137 words · Joseph Gonzales

Diablo Immortal, the original Blizzard controversy, is still a work in progress

But it’s looking nice for a mobile title After the kerfuffle it caused last year, most fans were pretty sure Blizzard wouldn’t utter a peep aboutDiablo Immortalduring the opening ceremonies of this year’s BlizzCon. They were right. Rather than relive the drama it caused in 2018, the publisher let it fly under the radar with some new developments announced for it later in the day. While we still don’t have a release date for it — Blizzard is aiming for that “Blizzard quality” it applies to all its games — we did get our first look at the Demon Hunter class, one of six confirmed for the title....

July 2, 2025 · 2 min · 215 words · Veronica Brown

Double D Dodgeball gets ‘Big Bang Boom’ DLC, still not what you’d expect

YUKES just dropped us a note to let us know that a new downloadable content pack for their Xbox LIVE Arcade titleDouble D Dodgeball, “Big Bang Boom,” is now available. The 100 MS Point pack includes “Barrier,” a new power-up that allows the player to create a protective barrier around itself, and the new “Bomb Ball” that explodes when an opponent is hit. They’ve also thrown in the “Fire Line,” a hot flame-engulfed baseline taht sends a player out of the game when touched....

July 2, 2025 · 1 min · 153 words · Randall Mills

Escape From Tarkov 0.14 features new guns and the ability to jump over knee-high walls

Slowly but surely, Battlestate Games’Escape From Tarkovcontinues its long trudge towards a full 1.0 release candidate with patch 0.14. The update features many exciting developments, not the least of which is an entire suite of new movement abilities and the introduction of the SIG SPEAR combat platform. Indeed, as perBattlestate Games’ forum announcement, the studio is preparing to release the bigEscape From Tarkovpatch 0.14, which comes with a slew of new weapons, bosses, movement abilities, and the long-awaited Ground Zero starter map....

July 2, 2025 · 2 min · 280 words · Erica Williams

ESRB censors the red on Risen 2 box art

The ESRB has made Deep Silver remove a red stain fromRisen 2: Dark Waters‘ box art. This stain will go from red to turquoise, owing to the North American rating board’s stance on cover imagery that could represent blood. Deep Silver‘s last game,Dead Island, had ahanging body removedfrom its cover in the US. In all other territories,Risen 2will have the “blood” on the box. Here’s what I find especially silly about censoring a violent game’s cover — surely it’s agoodthing to give a taste of the content on the cover....

July 2, 2025 · 1 min · 151 words · Tommy Ruiz

ESRB ratings receive a slight design change

Mostly for mobile devices The Entertainment Software Rating Board’s iconic black-and-white ratings are getting a new design this year,Polygon reports. They’re actually effective as of now, but these things can take time to roll out properly. Why the ever-so-slight change? Not exactly the day’s most action-packed news, I’ll admit. But now we won’t be left with the lingering feeling that something feels off about the symbols. ESRB tweaks rating icons for digital and mobile future[Polygon]...

July 2, 2025 · 1 min · 75 words · Erin Rogers

Fan-favorite Sif immortalized in this Dark Souls poster

Everyone’s favorite Great Grey Wolf The creator of those wonderfulDark Soulspostersfor Tarkus and Solaire is back with a new print for the one boss we all wish we could have spared, Sif. And since we last checked in, there’s also now a print forOrnstein and Smough, perhaps the most satisfying-to-kill beings in the game. Seriously, screw those guys. Last time, a bunch of you had recommendations for characters you wanted to see get the poster treatment from Gibbs Rainock....

July 2, 2025 · 1 min · 89 words · Mrs. Donna Brown

Fashion Dreamer sashays its way to Switch this November

My love of theStyle Savvyseriesfrom Nintendo and Syn Sophia is well-documented on this site, so I’m going to skip right over my normal lede on these stories and get to what we need to know.Fashion Dreamer, the style influencer game from Syn Sophia and Xseed Games, finally has a release date. And it’s the same day asWarioWare: Move It! I’ve been following this game since it was first announced, and as excited as I’ve been, I’ve also been somewhat confused about how becoming a fashion influencer would work as a video game....

July 2, 2025 · 2 min · 293 words · Zachary Gillespie

Final Fantasy VII PC is available for download NOW

If you’ve been hankerin’ to playFinal Fantasy VIIagain lately, try it on your PC. Now. Square Enix says that the re-release is now available as a digital downloadon their siteat their eStore. The price is set at a discounted $9.99 through September 12 to celebrate Final Fantasy’s 25th anniversary. After that it jumps up to $11.99. New features this time around include (no joke)cloudsaves, achievements (36 of them!), and a booster that allows you to max out health, magic and money....

July 2, 2025 · 1 min · 108 words · Tiffany Taylor

Final Fantasy XV has gone gold, four player co-op DLC announced

Finally Well, this is it fellas —Final Fantasy XVis done with development. Now, onto DLC, as they say! Who’s “they?” AAA publishers, of course. Square Enix, today at Paris Games Week, has announced that the decade-long shindig is finally done, but of course, didn’t hesitate to try to sell you on its $24.99 Season Pass. DLC for a mainFinal Fantasygame? It hasn’t been natural sinceFFXIII-2. Anyway, there’s going to be three episodes with new areas, new enemies, and additional weapons (that you’re able to bring back to the main story) — as previously stated, it’ll deal with Gladiolus, Ignis, and Prompto respectively — which you can buy separately from the pass....

July 2, 2025 · 1 min · 159 words · Kristine Romero

First three Dragon Quest games hit PS4 and 3DS this month in Japan

Lucky Japanese people During last night’s live stream of everythingDragon Quest, we got some good snippets of info on the series.Dragon Quest XI, released just over a week ago, has already hit 3 million copies sold across the PS4 and 3DS.Dragon Quest Builders 2is in development for the PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch, proving that not all Japanese developers are taking a wait-and-see approach with the system. Plus, it was revealed the first three games in the series will be getting a re-release this month....

July 2, 2025 · 2 min · 252 words · Kimberly Edwards