Lightyear Frontier: How to get a Grinder

What’s a farm without some giant windmill for grinding things into dust? Maybe a poultry farm or something? But inLightyear Frontier, the Grinder is an important construct you should place on your interstellar ranch. To get the Grinder blueprint inLightyear Frontier, you need to complete the mission ‘Restore Edge Cliffs’. Cleaning up the place, which is south of The Meadow biome, will award you with a new resource: Copper Ore. With Copper Ore gathered, you should unlock the blueprint permanently....

June 24, 2025 · 2 min · 381 words · Michael Meyer

Live show: BioShock Infinite

[Mash Tacticsairs Monday through Friday at 4p.m. Pacific onDtoid.TV. Watch King Foom play a variety of games, each day with its own theme. With a heavy focus on community and viewer interaction, you can be as much a part of the show as anything else.] To start off, PAX-E was damn amazing, and it really went by far too fast. So many people to hang out with and meet, so many games to play, and not even close to enough time....

June 24, 2025 · 1 min · 192 words · Amy Thomas

Lords of the Fallen 2 picks up a new developer

Defiant is picking up where Deck13 left off 2014 brought the worldLords of the Fallen, an action-RPG that tried — and succeeded, to an extent — to capitalize onDark Soulsmania. As much as I’ll forever associate the game with technical issues and middling review scores, things worked out okay in the end: it sold over two million copies. Developer Deck13 followed up its work onLords of the Fallenwith 2017’sThe Surge, a sci-fi title that I felt had way more going for it, setting-wise....

June 24, 2025 · 2 min · 262 words · Joshua Ochoa

Media Molecule realizing PlayStation Move’s potential

Taking creative gaming to next level Media Molecule took the stage at Sony’s PlayStation 4 event and revealed that their next project will help players cut through the crap, sweep away the techy mess, and put players in the designer’s chair. After two years of research in a variety of fields the developer is endeavoring to realize the full potential of the PlayStation Move. Media Molecule wants to give players the tools to bring their dreams to life....

June 24, 2025 · 1 min · 162 words · Adrian Lopez

Microsoft bans Xbox Live user for living in Fort Gay

Microsoft has had to apologize after banning a resident of Fort Gay due to the “offensive” nature of his location. Josh Moore is a resident of Fort Gay in West Virginia, but Microsoft decided it didn’t need to verify that, and simply banned him because “ohmygod that word has gay in it!” Even when Moore argued that Fort Gay was a real town, Microsoft refused to hear him out. The company suspended all his gaming privileges until he could provide evidence that the location was genuine....

June 24, 2025 · 2 min · 229 words · Rachel Walker

Minecraft Marketplace Pass pricing, features, and playable versions, explained

Minecraft Bedrock Edition’sMarketplace allows you to access high-quality content, from custom worlds and skin packs to resource packs that completely change how your game looks. With the introduction of theMinecraftMarketplace Pass, you’ll be able to access hundreds of pieces of content with one monthly subscription. What is theMinecraftMarketplace Pass? TheMinecraftMarketplace Pass is aBedrock Edition-exclusive pass allowing you to access over 150 content packs using one monthly subscription. The content you’ll be able to use includes the following:...

June 24, 2025 · 2 min · 395 words · Daniel Becker

Mojang is looking to focus on smaller game prototypes

Studio will see what sticks and go from there After Markus “Notch” Persson’s development and eventual cancellation of0x10c, it sounds as if he’d just as wellstick to smaller-scale games. “I think when it comes to game development I would prefer it if we did it in more the style I’m comfortable with, just experimenting,” the designer said at Minecon. “So we could just do prototypes, hopefully, and see what sticks,” he said....

June 24, 2025 · 2 min · 230 words · John Jackson

Monopoly GO: All Anniversary Bash rewards and milestones

Monopoly GOis celebrating its first anniversary since launching with three new themed events. The first event to appear, Anniversary Bash, is making its return with nearly 50 rewards for you to claim, including over 15,000 dice and several sticker packs. Here’s the complete list of Anniversary Bash event rewards. AllMonopoly GOAnniversary Bash event rewards and milestones Monopoly GO’ssecond iteration of the Anniversary Bash event has 49 rewards to claim until July 05, 2025....

June 24, 2025 · 2 min · 250 words · Carol Williams

Monster Hunter World: Iceborne soundtrack may have revealed a returning beast

Monster Mash Monster Hunter World: Iceborneis right around the corner, with the exciting expansion to Capcom’s open-world mega-seller a little over a week away. While the publisher hasalready dropped trailers revealing some ofIceborne’sdangerous prey,a soundtrack listing may have added another beastie to the menagerie. The Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (JASRAC) has recently released a trademark for theMHW: Icebornesoundtrack, and among the toe-tapping hits headed to the DLC are two tracks that reference the fanged wyvern known as Zinogre, who made its debut appearance inMonster Hunter Portable 3rdback in 2010....

June 24, 2025 · 1 min · 173 words · Katie Bennett

MY BOI! Roasted Octorok is a meal fit for a hero

“I’m so hungry, I could eat an Octorok!“ VIGIDEN, the ScrewAttack partner show dedicated to Onion-style fake news stories, has taken a taken a break from hardcore journalism to demonstrate culinary magic. Of course, you can’t actually prepare the meal demonstrated in the video linked below, but I’m suresomeonecould concoct a close approximation. Something about purple food just looks so gosh darn appealing. When was the last time you ate something purple, huh?...

June 24, 2025 · 1 min · 92 words · Taylor Walsh

Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon for N64 is some premium jank

Dash! Dash! Dash! It’s a great injustice that we never got to see more of Goemon in the West. While you may count the number of games we got over here on enough fingers if you have them, it was one of Konami’s flagship properties for over a decade in Japan. Part of the reason why we didn’t get more over here is that they’re justsoJapanese. It takes place in Feudal Japan and ties in more local pop-culture references than you can shake a pipe at....

June 24, 2025 · 7 min · 1366 words · Jeffrey Pearson

Nvidia DLSS Presets: What do they mean, and which one should you choose?

Nvidia’s DLSS upscaling tech has slowly but certainly become a necessity if you’re playing cutting-edge AAAs. The more you know about DLSS, the more effectively you may use it, and I find that DLSS Presets, specifically, are important if you care about image quality and motion clarity. Here are the facts, then: DLSS has become something of a universal upscaler since 2018, thanks in no small part due to Nvidia’s effective stranglehold on the PC gaming market....

June 24, 2025 · 5 min · 944 words · Abigail Smith

Rare North Dakota-themed Carmen Sandiego game has surfaced

You’re darn tootin’! In the late ’80s theCarmen Sandiegoseries was immensely popular and over 20 states were looking to get in on that red hot edutainment action. Details are sketchy on exactly what happened, butWhere in North Dakota is Carmen Sandiegowas the only state-specific entry Brøderbund ever produced. The game was developed in conjunction with the North Dakota Department of Education. It came with a full lesson plan, comprising of the double-sidedCarmen Sandiegofloppy, a North Dakota state almanac on floppy, a binder with info on the game, a printed version of the almanac, and a teacher’s guide....

June 24, 2025 · 1 min · 192 words · Catherine Jordan