Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair gets a lot less impossible soon

It gets a lot more impossible too Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lairbrandishes a final challenge that’s so difficult, it lives up to the billing in its title. The eponymous Impossible Lair is brutally hard, and nothing in the game up to that point really prepares you for the difficulty spike.In my review, I called the commitment to making the Impossible Lair actually near-impossible for a lot of people “equal parts admirable and confounding....

July 31, 2025 · 2 min · 379 words · Mrs. Shelley Lewis

3D Dot Game Heroes mixes sprites with high res

Oh,From Software… you really know how to make me drool. Their newest PS3 title, called3D Dot Game Heroes, takes the cool blockiness of sprites and gives it the high resolution treatment for amazing results. Described as an RPG style title in which a king decides the world should be in 3D, it’s your job to deal with retruning it to normal. Problem is, when things look this badass … who needs to change em back?...

July 30, 2025 · 1 min · 174 words · Alexandra King

All EA FC 25 FUTTIES Team 4 players (leaks) and release date

FUTTIES team 4 is now available inEA FC 25Ultimate Team, and we have a fresh set of cards to grind for. Similar to the last three weeks, we have special cards for former legends and current footballers. Some of these items have 98 and 99 overall ratings, along with five playstyles+. Table of contents All EA FC 25 FUTTIES Team 4 players (predictions) All items that have already appeared in the first three weeks might not be part of Team 4, but the new team still looks pretty stacked....

July 30, 2025 · 1 min · 168 words · Erica Strickland

All EA FC 25 TOTS Best of Re-Release players

The TOTS Best of Re-Release is now available inEA FC 25, and you may get over 40 different cards from previous promos. EA Sports has decided to re-release some of the best cards available in the past. These cards were all released with their promos, and it’s an excellent chance to pack them once again. Here’s the complete list. Complete list of EA FC 25 TOTS Best of Re-Release players The Re-Release includes cards from the following promos: Not all cards from the promos have been included, but most of the higher-rated items have been added to the packs, which is excellent news if you have loads of them saved in Ultimate Team....

July 30, 2025 · 1 min · 157 words · Julia Walker

All Ultimate Abilities in Dragon Age: The Veilguard and how to unlock them

Ultimate Abilities inDragon Age: The Veilguardacts as the personality of your subclass, but you won’t be restricted to using the same one repeatedly. Not only does the new Dragon Age RPG have a wide set of available choices for players, but you’ll be able to unlock new ones by just grinding out the game. To do so, you’ll need to gain something called Skill Points, but before that, let’s check out the complete list....

July 30, 2025 · 2 min · 381 words · William Vargas

Another former THQ employee was fired from Ubisoft

Former Assassin’s Creed project manager was ‘fired’ Yesterday Patrice Desiléts, the original creative director forAssassin’s Creed,left Ubisoftand today he Tweeted about another Ubisoft employee losing his job. Desiléts shared onhis Twitter, “Thinking of my good friend and producer @JFBoivin who also got fired yesterday. I’m sharing your support with him…” Jean-François Boivin, the production manager on earlyAssassin’s Creedtitles, left Ubisoft to go work on a project at THQ with Desiléts back in 2010, and he returned to Ubisoft when THQ went under....

July 30, 2025 · 1 min · 111 words · Mark Campos

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey director ‘surprised’ at Alexios/Kassandra usage split

‘Right now it’s two-thirds Alexios and one-third Kassandra’ We’re far removed from the whole “Assassin’s Creedis bad” mantra.Originsrocked it thenAssassin’s Creed Odysseyrekindled that fire; and with the series taking a year off in 2019, it looks like Ubisoft isn’t ready to ruin all of that goodwill just yet. At this point we’re just waiting formore DLCto arrive, but in the meantime in their latest issue, Game Informer managed to sit down with director Scott Phillips to get more insight intoOdyssey‘s development....

July 30, 2025 · 1 min · 203 words · Dylan Cunningham

Bad dog! Outpost 13 basically lets you play as The Thing

Man’s best fiend This is why you name a dog Fluffy or Fido or Spot. When you go and give it a name like Fenrir, after a mythological wolf monster, it gets taken over by an alien being and wants nothing more than to devour your flesh and bones. Bad dog! No treats for you today. The kicker withOutpost 13is that players control the dog/alien, in an attempt to gain the human crew members’ trust, separate them from one another, and systematically murder each of them....

July 30, 2025 · 1 min · 205 words · Andrew Stokes

Best tips and tricks to win more Rush games in EA FC 25

Rush has been an exciting addition, to say the least, inEA FC 25, and it has been an enjoyable ride for many players who have joined on early access. Instead of going 1v1 with an entire squad of 11, you pair up with three other players to go 4v4, where each of you picks one card from your Ultimate Team squad. As enjoyable as this particular game mode is, it can also be highly frustrating at times....

July 30, 2025 · 1 min · 202 words · Devin Hernandez

Better late than never: Metal Gear Solid 4 demo hits Japanese PSN

While you were sleeping, Konami has snuck a demo forMetal Gear Solid 4on the Japanese PlayStation Store. The demo features the game’s first area, set in the Middle East. Four months after the game’s release, it’s curious to see them releasing a demo now, but we suppose it’s better late than never. While in Japan for Tokyo Game Show this year, we noticed some curious pricing for the game at a few retailers....

July 30, 2025 · 1 min · 163 words · Todd Bishop

Borderlands 3 lets you pick between resolution and performance on PS4 Pro

This really should be a standard option, especially for next-gen Would you rather have a higher resolution or a higher frame rate when playing video games? I’m sure you don’t even need to ponder that question. We all seem to have our own set-in-stone preferences. Much to my delight, Gearbox Software has confirmed thatBorderlands 3will offer two different graphical settings on PlayStation 4 Pro: “favor resolution,” which is capped at 30 frames per second, and “favor performance,” which is capped at 60 frames per second....

July 30, 2025 · 2 min · 304 words · William Schneider

Cblogs of 2/29 to 05-07-2025: Devil May Cry, NT Mini, and Brazilian gaming history

–Acefondudiscusses the Analogue NT Mini, a clone of the NES, and how he thinks its games have not aged well. –Skazfesttalks about platforming in 3D space and how that elevates the “underrated”Devil may Cryreboot. – LaTerryunveils March’sBand of Bloggersprompt which focuses on the over-the-top moments in video games that are pure fun. – Shoggoth2588shares with us his gaming journal of February. –Brady4JahreviewsSuper Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HDon the Switch. – Kerrik52reviewsPataponon the PSP as part of his Traveler in Playtime reviews series....

July 30, 2025 · 1 min · 168 words · Laura Fernandez

Contest: Your search is over with a physical copy of Forager

PS4 and Switch up for grabs Enter our contest for your chance to win a PS4 or Switch physical copy ofForager! I know I say this every time, but giving away limited physical editions of games is my favorite thing to do. There’s nothing quite like having something sitting on your shelf for everyone to see. Or if you’re me, for you to ignore and never open or play. I’ve got a problem, for sure....

July 30, 2025 · 2 min · 367 words · John Gomez