Black Myth: Wukong – Focus Points, explained

Focus Points are an integral part of combat inBlack Myth: Wukong, to the point that not being aware of them means almost certain failure later in the game. If you’re not sure how they work, here’s a guide explaining to them in detail, and why you should be using them often. What are Focus Points inBlack Myth: Wukong? Focus Points are a unique, combat-orientated resource that allows you to use powerful staff attacks to overwhelm your foes....

July 1, 2025 · 2 min · 407 words · Deborah Fox

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare sure is a name

Spotted on the PlayStation Store Based on a now-removed promotional listing found on PlayStation Network (alternate view here), the nextCall of Dutywill be calledInfinite Warfare. Assuming that’s true, and it sounds just silly enough that it probably is, where does the series go from here? Wherecanit go? Back to real-world wars? Something to chew on this morning. From the sound of it, we’ll get a confirmation on the new game fairly soon....

July 1, 2025 · 1 min · 109 words · Daniel Abbott

Cancelled SNES Akira game from THQ looks…not great

But maybe it could have been good perhaps! Before THQ was known for such great games asMX vs. ATVandHomefront, it made a name for itself with titles likeThe Ren & Stimpy Show: Veediots!. In those days, even before publishing theGhost in the ShellPS1 game, THQ was working on a game based on the seminal animeAkira. You can check out this old interview about thedisappeared licensed game, but it seems the entire thing wasn’t as lost to the ether as we had thought....

July 1, 2025 · 1 min · 99 words · Janice Rodriguez

Club a dragon in 2015 with Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate

Lets hurt dinasours! Capcom has been pretty quiet on their plans to localizeMonster Hunter 4, which had the West’s small but dedicatedMonster Hunter fanbase a little worried. Well worry no more, fictional animal murderers! Capcom has announced that they’re launching a new version ofMonster Hunter 4calledMonster Hunter 4 Ultimate(Monster Hunter 4Gin Japan). The game will have more multi-player features than ever before (including online play), plus other as yet unnamed features....

July 1, 2025 · 1 min · 173 words · Lindsey Ward

Dead Cells update brings a new biome, monsters, and weapons

Back for more punishment Welp, my weekend plans are made. Motion Twin has a new update forDead Cellsthat adds content (monsters, weapons, another area) and shuffles some of the existing stuff. These are the highlights: you’re able to find thefull patch notes over here. Weaponized boots, you guys! If you haven’t playedDead Cellsyet and you’re longing for a snappy new vania, you should strongly considerfollowing Ray’s lead and giving this a chance....

July 1, 2025 · 1 min · 104 words · Jennifer Miller

Destiny 2’s endgame matchmaking system is finally coming

There’s a whole slew of big changes coming toDestiny 2with the release of the Season of the Wish on November 28. Aside fromgetting rid of Legendary Shards, for example, Bungie is also about to finally push out the working version of the long-awaited Fireteam Finder. According toBungie’s latest in-depth feature overview blog forDestiny 2, Guardians will have access to a work-in-progress version of an actual, honest-to-goodness in-game LFG (looking for game) system, after close to a decade of relying on external services to find Fireteams....

July 1, 2025 · 3 min · 449 words · Shane Clay

Diablo IV’s item system will be ‘somewhere between Diablo II and III,’ new class reveal teased for BlizzCon

Here’s another ‘quarterly update’ Oh yeah,Diablo IV! I don’t know what I occasionally forget this one exists, though it’s probably because I’m so used to therenotbeing aDiablogame in active development. There was a 12-year gap betweenDiablo IIandIII, and now, it looks like it might be at least a decade afterDiablo IIIuntilDiablo IVis out. Who knows at this point? It’s kind of in theOverwatch 2column of “when it’s finished.” To that end, Blizzard is working on eventually finishing it,and here’s some proof, compliments of a new “quarterly update....

July 1, 2025 · 2 min · 389 words · Keith Cox

Doom’s Myhouse.WAD is one of gaming’s greatest literary adaptations

House of Doomed Leaves If bringing a novel to the big screen is a tough job, then making a movie into a video game tends to spell doom from the get-go. And we don’t meanthe good kind of Doom.Go ahead, try to think of a film’s video game tie-in or even a less rushed adaptation that’s even a tad beyond “meh”. If it took your mind no more than one second to think ofThe Chronicles Of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay,then congrats....

July 1, 2025 · 3 min · 549 words · Bridget Schmidt

Drawn to Life for DS: I’m in ur village, drawing ur d00dz

We’re excited to bring you word today of an interesting new DS title in the works from THQ and developer 5th Cell, slated for release this fall. InDrawn to Life, players will “help save a distant village from the shadow-like evil that has covered it in darkness.” Sounds like pretty standard stuff for an action RPG, until you factor in that you’ll be drawing your very own custom hero to play through it with....

July 1, 2025 · 2 min · 234 words · Jose Williamson

EA FC 24 Path to Glory tier list: All cards ranked

TheEA FC 24Path to Glory cards might no longer be available in Ultimate Team packs, but the real fun has just begun. With the commencement of the European championships in Germany, many cards are now eligible for upgrades over the next few weeks. All the representatives from Copa America will follow the same pattern. Some items have already been upgraded, and their overall ratings have increased, raising their demand in the community....

July 1, 2025 · 2 min · 401 words · Kimberly Rogers

EA FC 25 Arthur Theate Fantasy FC SBC solutions

The Arthur Theate Fantasy FC SBC is now live inEA FC 25, and you can complete the challenge to unlock a special card. This is an extremely good SBC to consider if you’re a beginner in the Ultimate Team mode. To unlock the card, you’ll have to complete all the tasks. Let’s take a look at how to complete the challenge and if you should invest your resources in it....

July 1, 2025 · 2 min · 263 words · John Curtis

EarthBound localization dev chats about the old days on his new Kickstarter

Art changes, daughter cameos, and big tanks Marcus Lindblomis a heck of a guy. Every time you think he’s let loose everything there is to tell about taking Shigesato Itoi’sMother 2and transforming it intoEarthBound, he pulls out some new stories to shares. Right now he’s running a Kickstarter for a RTS calledThe RobotApocalypse, but the subject ofEarthBoundfollows him wherever he goes. He’s got some interesting insights on giving the game’s religious cult a less KKK-style, more Santa-influenced look, how the “just say no” anti-drug campaign of the time influenced how stores were named, and a lot more....

July 1, 2025 · 1 min · 191 words · Michael Anderson

Everything that happened at Sony’s E3 2017 press conference

Did you like it? Guys, as our own Jordan Devore put it —“how is Ubisoft winning E3 so far?”! Sony had some great stuff for us tonight. We gotMonster Hunter World, but that’s also coming to PC and Xbox One. We got a lot of old footage, vague confirmations like the fact thatGran Turismo Sportwill run at 4K and 60FPs in an attempt to take the wind out of the Xbox One X’s sails, and so forth....

July 1, 2025 · 1 min · 186 words · James Fernandez