FFXIV Chi Special Fate: How to earn Bolts and unlock Level Checker

Chi is Ultima Thule’s Omicron Special FATE bass, and like allFinal Fantasy XIVFATE bosses, it’s a large-scale encounter and best attempted in big groups. Defeating Chi rewards Chi Bolts, which can be exchanged for the Level Checker mount. Here’s our guide to everything Chi. How to Spawn Chi Chi’s boss FATE,Omicron Recall: Killing Order, is the culmination of a three FATE chain inUltima Thule. The first two FATEs in the chain are:...

July 16, 2025 · 3 min · 564 words · Jennifer Lewis

Former Pandemic, Obsidian folks working on ‘Necromancer’?

Earlier this year, Calabasas, California developer Killspace Entertainment opened its doors. Made up of former employees of high profile studios like Pandemic, Obsidian, Red 5, and Electronic Arts, its website is currently up and running. The content — presumably a demo reel for prospective publishers and partners — is locked. ItsLinkedIn profilesays it’s currently working on two titles — an original IP with a major publisher, and a licensed IP....

July 16, 2025 · 1 min · 169 words · Mr. Joshua Mathews

Friends vs. Friends is a colorful card-based shooter

Sometime you just gotta shoot your friends Sometimes you see a trailer for a game and think, “yeah, that checks all my boxes.” Colorful? Yup. Card-based? Go on. Shooter? I’m there. That’s what I was thinking when I saw the trailer forFriends vs. Friendsduring theGamescom streamtoday. We got a first look at the game through song, which told us a bit about what to expect. From the looks of it, you’ll be fighting against friends, although it’s unclear whether that means your in-universe friends or real-life ones....

July 16, 2025 · 1 min · 211 words · Sarah Sullivan

Gina Gershon joins Borderlands movie as showgirl Mad Moxxi

Curious casting continues for Eli Roth’s video game epic Lionsgate continues to round-up stars for the cast of its wild-sounding cinematic adaptation of Gearbox shooterBorderlands. The latest industry veteran to join the all-star cast is the wonderful Gina Gershon, who will be taking the coveted role of Mad Moxxi. Moxxi, asBorderlandsfans will be aware, is the highly charismatic and sexually charged hostess of The Underdome, where she presides over explosive and chaotic deathmatches with a flamboyant P....

July 16, 2025 · 2 min · 265 words · Timothy Benjamin

Hades 2 Path of Stars and upgrades, explained

Early during your conquest to take down the titan of time you’ll come across Selene, a Titaness and personification of the moon, who also aids you. InHades 2, Selene offers you powers called the ‘Gifts of the Moon’, along with upgrades in the Path of Stars. Unlike the gods you know, Selene’s Hexes don’t quite work the same. She instead lets you choose something like a super move you can unleash, after spending a set amount of magic....

July 16, 2025 · 4 min · 696 words · David Roth

Here’s a new Warcraft movie trailer

Now with added dubstep There’s not long to go before theWarcraftmovie hits theaters, but if you’re desperate for a quick fix to keep you going, here’s a suitably epic blink-and-you’ll-miss-it sneak peek. In this new trailer director Duncan Jones showcases brawlin’ and fightin’ and – naturally – more fightin’. There are orcs and humans and magic and things getting busted and people smashing windows, all set to appropriately wartastic music....

July 16, 2025 · 1 min · 146 words · Justin Booth

Hideki Kamiya ‘can’t conceive Bayonetta ever ending’

Hope you brought enough lollipops Bayonetta fans might have had to wait ahelluvalong time to get their hands on long-in-development sequelBayonetta 3, but they can seemingly be assured that their favorite witch is set to run and run — at least if creator and director Hideki Kamiya has his way. Speaking ina new interview with IGN, Kamiya passionately espoused his love for the high-energy, high-violence franchise, going as far as to suggest that he wants to see many,manymore sequels hit the shelves before the demonic diva takes her final bow… if sheeverwill....

July 16, 2025 · 2 min · 370 words · Marcus Contreras

Honkai Star Rail reaches 10M pre-registrations ahead of its launch

A lot of players are ready to board HoYoverse’s upcoming gameHonkai: Star Railis picking up a lot of speed heading into launch. The studio recently confirmed that it’s garnered 10 million pre-registrations forHonkai: Star Railahead of release later this month. This is the latest game from HoYoverse (also known asmiHoYo), the makers ofGenshin Impactand, before that,Honkai Impact 3rd. Considering thewild popularityofGenshinand theHonkainame attached, it’s not terribly surprising thatStar Railis garnering numbers....

July 16, 2025 · 2 min · 356 words · Claudia Boyd

How to get Portal Hardener in Anime Defenders

As you progress inAnime Defenders, the time you invest in farming for rare units will increase. Although it can be somewhat tedious, some items improve your chances through their unique abilities. So, to even the odds, here’s how to get the Hardened Portal inAnime Defenders. How do you get Portal Hardeners in Anime Defenders? To get Portal Hardeners inAnime Defenders,complete Anthenyx Realm challenges and claim rewards from its Battle Pass. The Anthenyx Realm was first introduced in Update 5, bringing forth new enemy types to fight against....

July 16, 2025 · 2 min · 293 words · Jamie Johnson

How to reduce a floor’s security level in System Shock remake

Gouging the eyes of SHODAN The goal for each floor of Citadel Station is typically different intheSystem Shockremake, but they are all unified by one need: you have to drop the security level on each one. This is important for a two reasons, and one of them is a spoiler (that is maybe good to keep in mind). The first reason is that certain doors will be locked until you reduce the security level below a certain threshold....

July 16, 2025 · 3 min · 502 words · Matthew Roberts

I hate the rumored next Xbox Achievement system

If I had to choose a single aspect of this generation of consoles that personally defined the past seven years, I’d immediately turn to the Xbox 360’s Achievement system. For better and for worse, Achievements have completely dominated my psyche and have fully affected the way that I play games. I feel guilty at times that I can’t just enjoy a game until I’m done enjoying it. Instead, I will grind away at the most arduous of tasks, as long as there’s an Achievement to be unlocked....

July 16, 2025 · 4 min · 808 words · Angelica Williams

Kingdom Hearts is coming to Nintendo Switch through the cloud

Sora’s journey finally comes to Switch Today,Super Smash Bros. Ultimatedirector Masahiro Sakurai presented the final addition to the DLC roster: Sora fromKingdom Hearts. At the end of the presentation, he also confirmed that theKingdom Heartsseries is finally coming to Switch, in cloud versions. Announced on stream andconfirmed by Nintendo, threeKingdom Heartsgames are coming to Nintendo Switch through cloud gaming. They make up the bulk of Sora’s journey, fromKingdom Heartsthrough several side games and journeys, all the way up toKingdom Hearts III....

July 16, 2025 · 2 min · 282 words · Abigail Orr

Labor Day: Labor of Lovecraft

[Last week, I asked you to tell me about a moment in your gaming career that really made you work hard. Today’s promoted blog on that topic is from Ross, who explainsall of the work he’s put intoMinecraftand how it almost feels like a (really fun) job.Want to see your own work on our front page?Write a blog onour current topic: Relaxation. — JRo] Minecraftis an amazing game. I’m sure you all know the concept: a world is generated out of blocks and you can move those blocks around....

July 16, 2025 · 4 min · 811 words · Kenneth Smith