How to get Tidestone in Fields of Mistria

While you’re exploring and battling your way through the monsters in the Mines inFields of Mistria, you will come across various items and resources. If you want to complete the collections at the Museum, you’ll need to find at least one of everything. Tidestone is one such item, classed as an Artifact as part of the Tide Cavern ArtifactSet at the Museum, but it is also used as a crafting resource....

August 6, 2025 · 3 min · 459 words · Jennifer Huynh

Ikaruga model kit edition will be coming west on PS4 and Switch

Ask a grown-up to help with the cutting out Nicalis has announced that the Japanese physical release of Treasure’s iconic shmupIkarugawill be headed west this fall. Pre-orders for the limited set are now live over atthe official Nicalis store. As previously reported, theIkarugalimited-print physical edition includes a boxed copy of the game on PS4 or Nintendo Switch, (complete with colour manual and reversible art sleeve), along with a high quality “Warning” sticker and, best of all, a cool metal model kit of the Ikaruga itself, courtesy of premium modelling company Metal Earth....

August 6, 2025 · 1 min · 138 words · Jennifer Ibarra

Jackbox reveals all five games featured in Jackbox Party Pack 9

Jackbox is back again It seems like yesterday thatJackboxgamescame out for the first time and revolutionized the party game scene, but they just announced their newest release:Jackbox Party Pack 9.How we went through so many Party Packs this quickly is beyond me, but given how much I play these games at my own events, I’m excited to have another set of games to try out. I have to admit I always look forward to seeing the theming of each Party Pack, and this time each of the games are made to look like a billboard, with the number 9 floating in the sky like a cloud — cute....

August 6, 2025 · 1 min · 187 words · Justin Santos

Live show: Let’s get anime with Witch and the Hundred Knight

Phil and the Hundred Spencers You ever have those games that just sneak up on you? WhenWitch and the Hundred Knightwas announced I was all about that nonsense. Fast forward several months to now and the game is out. Boy does it look silly. If you aren’t up onWitch and the Hundred Knightit’s aDiablo-esque game with a Witch and some weird respawning knights. I don’t really understand either. More importantly, though, is the art....

August 6, 2025 · 1 min · 128 words · Brian Davis

New Arms fighter looks like they’re wearing Hammer pants

Grainy footage of the next combatant Arms. In this post-Splatoon 2world, are you still playing it? I’m not, but that’s because I don’t own the game. Or a Switch. But more than one million people have bought it and next year at Evo Japan it will be one of the featured titles, so hopefully, Switch owners will still be into it once that rolls around. One way to keep us goldfish interested is with new fighters....

August 6, 2025 · 1 min · 167 words · Austin Alexander

New PlayStation Vita title Shiin looks sinister

Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society We don’t yet know much aboutShiin, but it’s coming to PlayStation Vita, and that alone warrants a quick mention. Well that, and the red-eyed rabbit. I hope that isn’t just a part of this teaser. There’s a creepy vibe to the whole thing, but as for how that directly translates to gameplay, I’m not sure. While the PlayStation Japan channel posted this video, based onShiin‘swebsite registration, it’s believed to be a third-party title fromStranger of Sword Citystudio Experience Inc....

August 6, 2025 · 1 min · 108 words · Jeffrey Phillips

Nintendo DLC: Bionic Commando on Game Boy, VVVVVV

A mere $3.99 on the Nintendo eShop gets you Capcom’s 1992 releaseBionic Commandofor the Game Boy. Get your grapple on in green and black. Nicalis’VVVVVValso drops this week, set at $7.99 on the eShop. It’s an adventure that mixes 8-bit with 3D, and we have a review coming very soon. Stay tuned. There’s already too many ninjas cutting food. Perfectly good food. I don’t support it anymore, but if you do, there’sCake Ninja($4....

August 6, 2025 · 1 min · 116 words · Annette Kim

Payday 3’s PC specs don’t look too taxing

Now that we know whenPayday 3is coming out (September 21, if you needed a reminder), a lot of you PC gamers are going to be wondering whether your system will handle it. It’s a modern FPS, after all, but as it turns out, the hardware spec doesn’t appear as though it’ll be too much of a struggle for most rigs. According to the game’sSteam page,Payday 3won’t push the boat out, especially in terms of graphics....

August 6, 2025 · 2 min · 291 words · John Pacheco

Resident Evil 6 and Left 4 Dead 2 are getting a crossover

Both games to offer free crossover content Say what?! In a bizarre move, Capcom has announced that it is teaming up with Valve for some playable cross-promotion content betweenLeft 4 Dead 2andResident Evil 6. For starters, the cast fromLeft 4 Dead 2will be featured inResident Evil 6‘s “The Mercenaries: No Mercy” mode, which is exclusive to the PC version of the game. No Mercy will also feature the Witch and Mini-Tank enemy types fromL4D2in addition to the playable cast....

August 6, 2025 · 1 min · 158 words · Kathleen Warner

Shadowrun Returns Berlin expansion dubbed ‘Dragonfall’

Lots of new details on content released The massively successful Kickstarter forShadowrun Returnsreached lofty numbers, achieving a stretch goal which would add a second setting and campaign to the game as DLC, with the backers selecting Berlin as the locale. Today, Harebrained Schemes dropped a boatload of information on this Berlin expansion, titling it,Shadowrun: Dragonfall. Before I go any further, as a fan of theShadowrunsetting, that title gives me chills. You don’t screw around with dragons....

August 6, 2025 · 2 min · 218 words · Maria White

She’s here! Tinkaton hammers her way into Pokémon Go in a couple weeks

Paldea’s metal-eating, hammer-wielding and Corviknight-hating fan-favorite Pokémon is finally arriving inPokémon Go, with Tinkatink, Tinkatuff, and Tinkaton making their debuts in the mobile game fromApril 16 to April 22. The queen arrives as part ofPokémon Go’sThe Pokémon Horizons: The Series Celebration event, which along with Tinkaton and its pre-evolutionsbrings back Captain Pikachu and its Shiny formfor those who missed out on it last time, as well as a brand newFloragato wearing a hat with Liko’s pinas the new costumed Pokémon spawning during the event....

August 6, 2025 · 3 min · 427 words · Mary Henry

Shovel Knight just hit one million in digital sales, amiibo is doing well too

Plague of Shadows cost a million dollars [Update:Yacht Club Games reportsroughly 3,000 refunds on Steam were requested.] Yacht Club Games just posted a massive info blowout forShovel Knight, and if you remotely like the game it’s worth a read. For instance, did you know that they spent one million dollars on the freePlague of Shadowsupdate? They note that it’s insanely challenging to actually explain the value of that DLC, especially since it doesn’t even show up on some platforms....

August 6, 2025 · 1 min · 200 words · David Edwards

Slenderman meets SCP in this Half-Life 2 horror mod

Look, we all want a third installment in Valve’s iconicHalf-Lifeseries. But the sad truth is, it’s almost certainly never going to happen. As such, we’re stuck with the first two (as well as the VR gameAlyx). But that’s a good thing, becauseHalf-Life1 and 2 are exemplary first-person shooters. So loved is the series, that fans continue to tweak and modHalf-LifeandHalf-Life 2to their own ends. TakeTeam Vestigeover on ModDB (viaPCGamesN), which has taken the legendary sci-fi FPS and turned it into a horror experience....

August 6, 2025 · 2 min · 284 words · Nicholas Holland