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When you boil down Elden Ring’s premise to its base elements, you have a fairly simple mission: Kill the Shardbearers and claim their Great Runes. Each Great Rune is a powerful artifact that provides substantial buffs, but unlike most equipment, you need to jump through quite a few hoops to use them. After you acquire

It’s not always easy to find proper weapon upgrades in Elden Ring, but if you know where to look, you might be surprised by how many powerful new weapons you can find during even the earlier parts of the game. Like its Soulsborne spiritual predecessors, it’s certainly possible to upgrade just about any weapon in

This article contains light spoilers for the first three episodes of Shenmue the Animation. Adapting video games for television is not something that happens very often. Filmmakers prefer to bring their favorites to the movie theater, sometimes with big name actors and budgets. But games that tell sweeping stories and create immersive worlds deserve a

Elden Ring has finally been released to widespread critical acclaim and what many believe will be record sales for a FromSoftware title, but the PC version of the much-anticipated game has sadly been plagued by various bugs, glitches, and general performance issues that are preventing many players from diving into the open-world RPG epic. While

Microsoft’s purchase of ZeniMax Media last year gave Xbox the keys to one of the game industry’s biggest publishing powerhouses: Bethesda Softworks. A platform that had previously struggled with providing a steady flow of first-party exclusives to its users suddenly had everything Bethesda Game Studios, id Software, Arkane Studios, MachineGames, and Tango Gameworks had to

Soulsborne titles are lauded for their difficulty, and while much of the genre’s joy lies in the challenge, many entries ease the burden with co-op. While FromSoftware’s previous title, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, didn’t include multiplayer, Elden Ring brings it back. As players explore the Lands Between, they can team up to conquer various challenges

Elden Ring defies many open-world and RPG conventions, but, at its heart, it is still very much a Soulsborne game. That means that your choice of which class to play as can have a significant impact on the early part of your journey and how hard certain sections of the game really are. Just as

Horizon Forbidden West is one of the most highly anticipated games of the year. The game certainly has its flaws but is otherwise a solid and enjoyable experience that has won over many gamers and critics. However, the game is also attracting a notable number of negative reviews that are…weird…to say the least. When you

Even though Horizon Forbidden West follows an open-world formula, the game is dotted with various roadblocks players can’t overcome without special items. One of those Metroidvania-esque obstacles are growths of red, crystalline fungi called Firegleam that plays won’t be able to clear until they’ve progressed through the main story. Odds are you will first discover

Horizon Forbidden West is a massive game filled with a ton of collectibles, side activities, and customization options. The title’s survey drones not only check all three of those boxes but provide a respite from the usual pursuit of destroying robots. As you wander the post-apocalyptic world of Horizon Forbidden West, you’ll find a total

When Horizon Zero Dawn was released in 2017, gamers were blown away by the ambitious open-world title and quickly started begging for more. Their prayers were partially answered with the DLC The Frozen Wilds, but many in the new franchise’s ever-growing army of fans still wanted a “proper” sequel. Now, the momentous occasion of Horizon

It may seem like a natural transition for Uncharted, one of the most cinematic game franchises in history, to be adapted to the big screen, but the games aren’t just movielike in their presentation; they’re every bit as well-made and entertaining as the Hollywood action movies they pay homage to, if not moreso. Even the

Lost Ark includes tried-and-true ARPG like class abilities and loot but plays with the genre formula through the use of creative MMO-style concepts like a collection of songs that allow you to perform a variety of unique spells and actions. Throughout Lost Ark, players can collect a library of melodies that essentially act like extra

Horizon Forbidden West offers an absolutely massive open-world filled with threats to overcome and secrets to discover, so you’re probably going to want to acquire the game’s various mounts at some point if you’re going to give yourself a fair chance to see it all. Much as it was in Zero Dawn, Forbidden West‘s mounts

Even though the bow is Aloy’s signature weapon in Horizon Forbidden West, she is proficient in a wide variety of ranged weapons that blend futuristic technology and caveman aesthetics. As you’d expect, players can acquire a healthy roster of weapons, some of which are extremely powerful. Unfortunately, since Horizon Forbidden West isn’t a loot shooter,

This article contains spoilers for Uncharted. Uncharted isn’t just a somewhat surprisingly fun movie that tries to capture the spirit of classic adventure films gone by, it’s a video game adaptation that generously cites its source material through a variety of easter eggs. Thos movie seriously pays tribute to the blockbuster PlayStation games (as well

Horizon Zero Dawn introduced a novel way to reveal the map by populating the game world with giant, giraffe-like robots called Tallnecks. These peaceful machines with radar dishes for heads return in Horizon Forbidden West, and climbing them is necessary if players want to fully explore the ruined land of San Francisco and its surrounding

You don’t have to be a gamer to appreciate the traditional animated stylings of Cuphead. That’s the first thing Dave Wasson – showrunner behind the upcoming Netflix TV adaptation – makes clear to us. Limited videogame experience aside, with credits on Space Jam, Cool World, and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, it’s hard to