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Released in 2014, The Sims 4 has maintained an ever-growing fanbase. Players routinely participate in challenges related to creating sims, storylines, and building homes. Some fans enjoy utilizing the game cheats, like motherlode, and starting in luxury homes. Other fans like the challenge of starting in or building a starter home as inexpensive as possible. Luckily, for those who find it difficult to build sim homes, let alone build a home within a starter’s budget, the gallery is available....

At The Sims 4 birthday celebration live stream, it was announced that The Sims 4 developers would be releasing continual “Laundry Lists.” These Laundry Lists are supposed to address the most reported issues that players have had while playing The Sims 4, and how they’re being fixed. Sims 4 players have been asking for this kind of transparency for a while now, so it’s nice to see the developer following through....

Frogwares, the developer of The Sinking City, has accused the game’s publisher, Nacon, of pirating the game and selling a modified copy of it on Steam. Frogwares is also asking players not to buy the version of The Sinking City currently available on Steam, saying Nacon used illegal methods to do so. According to Frogwares, The Sinking City encountered a number of problems throughout its development phase, resulting in disputes in the courtroom between the development company and publisher Nacon....

Hey, ever notice how Daryl and Carol’s names rhyme on The Walking Dead? That’s cute, they should get a spinoff! Well, AMC agrees with that sentiment and has greenlit a spinoff series starring Norman Reedus and Melissa McBride as their characters Daryl Dixon and Carol Peletier. This news comes on the heels of the announcement that The Walking Dead franchise’s flagship series will be concluding following its 11th season. But just like the shambling zombies that populate its world, The Walking Dead will continue on after death....

The Lodge of Sorceresses was a very powerful and important group of female mages who were behind a lot of pivotal plot points in The Witcher franchise. Whether you’ve only read the books or played the games, you have some familiarity with the Lodge. The group rose out of the ashes of the Brotherhood of Sorcerers and was composed of notable sorceresses like Philippa Eilhart, Triss Merigold, Keira Metz, Sheala de Tancarville, Margarita Laux-Antille, Fringilla Vigo, and more....

Subscribers to Xbox Game Pass that are actively playing The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt or Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night might want to get the lead out. An update to the official Game Pass app has listed both of those games as “Leaving Soon,” among a few others. That typically means the games will be gone in a few weeks, likely on March 15 (which seems to be the refresh day for Game Pass)....

In the age of DLC, some games are borderline offensive in their peddling of overpriced additions shortly after launch. Batman: Arkman Knight launches tomorrow and picking up the core game plus the full season of DLC will cost consumers around $100. Although most AAA titles are definitely guilty of milking gamers for every dime, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is setting a new example with its weekly free patches and DLC additions....

Casio has announced a new model of its Frogman G-Shock that actually resembles a frog - well, it’s in the colours of the deadly poison dart frog, that is. The GWF-A1000APF-1AER is otherwise known as the special edition G-Shock Poison Dart Frog Frogman and has been developed to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Frogman watch line. Available from the start of February, the watch is Bluetooth-enabled so you can hook it up to an iPhone or Android device and use the Casio G-Shock Connected App to automatically adjust the time no matter the time zone....

One of 2021’s most fascinating stories comes to us from a recently released game that was originally created in the late 90s for the PlayStation. No, this isn’t a reboot, remake, or reimagining. After 23 years, Magic Castle, from Japanese development studio KAIGA, has finally been released, featuring incredible game design that was ahead of its time. Developed using the PlayStation development kit known as Net Yaroze, Magic Castle is a roguelike that sees players taking on the role of a knight, magician, archer, or fighter as they travel through a labyrinth of procedurally generated rooms, battling monsters, leveling their character, and searching for illusionary treasures....

This post contains THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER spoilers. Along the way, Thor got some closure on his failed relationship with ex-girlfriend Jane Foster, who joined him and King Valkyrie as the Mighty Thor in a battle against Gorr the God-Butcher. The God-Butcher was thwarted, King Valkyrie made the first steps to transform New Asgard from a kitschy tourist trap to a proper warrior nation, and Jane made her way to Valhalla....

This article contains Those Who Wish Me Dead spoilers. You can read our spoiler-free review here. What’s on the piece of paper? Why exactly do Aidan Gillen and Nicholas Hoult want this Connor kid dead so badly? The ending of Taylor Sheridan’s Those Who Wish Me Dead is purposefully vague about what all this killing was about. But as a news crew approaches the young lad, played by Finn Little, it becomes clear he is going to tell a story that a lot of shadowy people wanted to keep hidden....

While most gamers are looking forward to the release of the PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series X, some are looking for something a little more retro. The FunKey S is a huge hit on Kickstarter, and not only can it play a bunch of old-school games, but it’s also small enough to fit on a keyring. The concept began in 2017 when it was originally called Keymu and was just a prototype posted to YouTube....

Tomb Raider and Rise of the Tomb Raider writer Rhianna Pratchett discusses the writing process of the Tomb Raider games, revealing that the 2013 reboot once had a darker ending. The revived Tomb Raider franchise has earned a lot of praise, gaining plenty of acclaim in particular for an increased emphasis on story. This successful part of both Tomb Raider and Rise of the Tomb Raider certainly comes down to the work done by writer Rhianna Pratchett....

Paul W.S. Anderson’s unfaithful adaptation of Capcom’s Monster Hunter may have been a dud, but there’s one tidbit from production that makes it a little worthwhile. According to the film’s prop master, actor Tony Jaa was the only cast or crew member who was capable of lifting the Great Sword. Speaking to Polygon, prop master Kerry Van Lillienfeld spoke about the challenges involved in creating the franchise’s iconic, seven-foot Great Sword....

Fantasy novels provide escape, new perspectives, and some of the most inventive and diverse work happening in genre spaces today. Take a look at what’s coming up in June 2021 … The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo Type: NovelPublisher: TordotcomRelease date: June 1 Den of Geek says: One of the buzziest fantasy releases of the month is an alternate universe adaptation of The Great Gatsby, keeping the dazzle of the 1920s while adding the challenges of being a queer Vietnamese adoptee....

Magic: The Gathering’s widely popular Commander format allows players to construct decks around legendary creatures of a player’s choice, designating them as a deck’s commander. As these commanders are readily accessible due to their accessibility in the command zone, Commander is a format like no other. However, players are still required to pay their commander’s mana cost from the command zone, even needing to pay an additional “commander tax” for each time a commander has been cast....

E3 is just around the corner, and for the first time in its history, the whole event will be going online. That’s in stark contrast to earlier reports that said E3 was going to try to have a physical component, but pandemics don’t care about gamers’ hopes and dreams. So far, E3 is going to have some pretty big names in attendance, including Nintendo, Xbox, Capcom, Konami, Take-Two, Warner Bros, Koch Media, and also Ubisoft, which just announced its plan to host Ubisoft Forward on the first day of E3....

The Australian “craft games” development studio Mountains announced Wednesday they have acquired three new programmers including Cherie Davidson, who worked on House House’s award-winning Untitled Goose Game. She was also an associate director and technical producer on Media Molecules’ Dreams, according to her website. Mountains is the studio that produced Florence, an indie visual novel first released on mobile that later came to the Nintendo Switch and Steam that tells the story of a girl who falls in and out of love....

Destiny 2’s roadmap of patches and features coming to the game has been updated by its developer Bungie. This comes just days ahead of the planned February 27 game update, which was said to include a comprehensive list of improvements and tweaks. However, not all of the features in the original developer roadmap will be released on time; some have been delayed until March. Most notably, unique Nightfall rewards have been delayed until the March update....

VALORANT is a game with strong intentionality. It doesn’t try to be too much, sticking to a classic formula and executing it with style and ease. The 5v5 tactical shooter isn’t perfectly original either, but it doesn’t need to be. With the recent launch of VALORANT’s beta, it has become increasingly clear that Riot Games has already built a strong contender in the FPS genre. Familiar DNA, Evolved Without fail, the character-based shooter has been endlessly compared to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Overwatch, and for good reason....