Among the many new things added in Minecraft’s Nether Update, a new enchantment called Soul Speed has arrived. Many are wondering how this works exactly, as it can be a bit complicated at first. The short of it is that the enchantment speeds players up when walking on Soul Sand or Soul Soil. Unlike other enchantments in Minecraft, however, players can’t obtain this on boots by simply using an enchantment table....
Did you know that Persona 5 invented jazz music, the colour red, and turn-based battle systems? I know right - Atlus is out here making a more significant cultural impact than the Notre Dame Cathedral and Mona Lisa combined. Except it didn’t invent any of those things, despite the fact much of the fanbase would like to convince you it did. It’s like that tweet about the guy who has only ever seen Boss Baby, and upon watching another film is all like, “I’m getting some serious Boss Baby vibes from this....
Releasing later this week, the PlayStation 5 will be one of the largest gaming consoles out there. However, a recent interview revealed that the PS5’s final size could’ve been much bigger than it currently is. According to an interview with The Washington Post, Yujin Morisawa, Sony’s senior art director, said that the PS5 was originally designed to be bigger to meet its power needs. He would later make it smaller so that it wasn’t too big to handle....
Sony Pictures has officially wrapped filming of the forthcoming Uncharted film, directed by Ruben Fleischer and written by Art Marcum and Matt Holloway. The movie, which serves as an origin story for Nathan Drake from the video game series of the same name, stars Tom Holland as Drake and Mark Wahlberg as his mentor Victor Sullivan, or Sully. The supporting cast includes Antonio Banderas, Sophia Taylor Ali, and Tati Gabrielle....
The Witcher is considered by many to be one of the greatest dark fantasy role-playing titles around, with the character of Geralt of Rivia being beloved by many for all the right reasons. The Witcher showcased a new world that was as gritty and dark as most people wanted it to be, allowing for players to roam around a landscape that felt both wondrously magically and depressingly realistic at the same time....
As a fantastic expansion to an already great narrative, The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine spares no expense when it comes to giving you plenty of tough choices to make throughout the campaign. This final expansion is the more story-focused of the two, and just like the main game, has multiple endings depending on what choices you make along the way. There are three primary endings that can be earned, but only one of them sees everyone alive at the conclusion....
EA gave Star Wars fans a treat today in the form of a reveal trailer for Star Wars: Squadrons. The newly-announced dogfighting game will put players in the cockpit of X-Wings and Tie Fighters with VR capabilities. The story takes place after Return of the Jedi, and follows both New Republic and Imperial pilots as Palpatine’s one-mighty Empire fades. The press release promises “cameos from familiar faces in the Star Wars galaxy....
With vast open worlds such as those of the Fallout series, there’s plenty of real estate to work with. The post-apocalyptic setting, coupled with a rich and often open-ended backstory, lends itself to some truly remarkable details. Surely you’ve passed by such novelties in your travels; an oddly positioned corpse, strange markings on objects, or quirky dialogue. But almost nothing in the Wasteland is without reason, every little thing has a reason or a history, it just needs a bit of digging or sporty game of connect-the-dots....
Pokémon Red and Blue came out in 1996 on the Game Boy and started a cultural phenomenon. Not only in the gaming world, but when the show came out that exploded as well. The Game Boy was a popular system, but those two games really gave people a reason to own one. In 1998 Pokémon Yellow Version came out, and the Game Boy Color was a month later. If you went to a school in 1998, chances are you would see every other kid playing one during the course of the day....
The Elder Scrolls V is a game that is very near to my heart. The return of the Dragonborn is presented as an epic tear through the frozen tundra of Skyrim. You’re attacked by a dragon within the first 10 minutes of the game! Real edge of your seat kinda stuff. And the game experience itself is just plain fun. There is plenty of room to stretch your legs. The combat is engaging, and deep....
It sometimes seems like history has forgotten about one of the most prolific gaming consoles of the late 1990s and early 2000s: the Sega Dreamcast. This was a short-lived but groundbreaking gaming system that permanently changed the landscape of console gaming forever. Despite its 1999 release, and its initial success, the Dreamcast was deemed as a commercial failure by early 2001. The Dreamcast simply could not compete with the hype from the PlayStation 2, and its failure is the primary reason as to why Sega decided to end its development of consoles, and why they now stick to developing games for third-party consoles....
Rockstar Games made a lot of gamers happy yesterday when their entire website became a giant confirmation that Grand Theft Auto V was not only in development, but that they’d be showing off the game’s first trailer next week. The official Grand Theft Auto 5 logo was revealed (it even explains that V is the Roman numeral for 5) but outside of the logo and the impending trailer, not a single detail has been confirmed....
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is supposed to be a relaxing game. Players chill out on their own island, surrounded by adorable animal villagers as they create the home of their dreams. To move the action along, New Horizons has introduced a bunch of challenges such as “Hit a rock 5 times” or “Spend 5,000 bells.” They’re typically just as low stakes as the rest of the game — however, there’s one in particular that’s causing a lot of players undue anxiety, and that’s the third tier of the Cast Master challenge....
Following the studio’s defining work on titles like Skyrim, Oblivion, Morrowind, Fallout 3, and Fallout 4, fans are waiting with bated breath to hear more about what Bethesda Game Studios has cooking up next. While the studio has been silent for quite some time, the notorious director behind its biggest games, Todd Howard, recently revealed some new details about what players can expect from its next two major projects. Speaking with GamesIndustry....
Fans have found evidence that indicates Tom Holland may appear in an episode of Marvel’s What If…? on Disney Plus, not as Spider-Man, but as Hawkeye. While dissecting an old trailer for What If…?, Twitter user @MCU_Source discovered an animated character that looks suspiciously like Tom Holland as Hawkeye. While the Twitter account took this as confirmation that there will be a What If…? episode about Peter Parker becoming Hawkeye, another piece of evidence has also come to light....
Today’s young adult books bring romance, adventure and social commentary. Take a look at our best bets for what to read this June. A Chorus Rises by Bethany C. Morrow Type: NovelPublisher: Tor TeenRelease date: June 1 Den of Geek says: Morrow’s A Song Below Water was a fun, fierce mermaid story on the borders of urban/modern fantasy and a compelling secondary world. A secondary character from A Song Below Water takes the spotlight in this fable about race, fame and accountability....
Ladies and gentlemen, Trainwreckstv is stuck in a tree. I’m absolutely sure of it because he’s screaming “I’m stuck in a tree” at the top of his lungs. Also, I can see his screen, and based on my weeks of experience playing Call of Duty: Warzone, Train is 100%, without a doubt, stuck in a tree. There’s a lot of dangers lurking on the Warzone battlefield. If you aren’t getting mowed down by a psychopath on an ATV, you’re probably getting sniped out of the air by a streamer with god aim or hit with an RPG from a mile away....
The rule of sequels states that a sequel will always be worse than the original. While there are a handful of expectations, this rule largely holds true. Sequels are, for the most part, greenlit from a profit perspective. An existing film that is popular already has a built-in audience compared to something brand new no one has ever heard of. Sequels are smart from a purely fiscal point of view, but they’re often done at the expense of quality and originality....
The Super Famicom cult classic hit Seiken Densetsu 3 is a few months away from celebrating its 25th anniversary, and Square Enix went all out for the festivities by giving the game the full remake treatment. Fans have been asking for this one, and now Trials of Mana—the remake’s rebranded title—has hit the streets, and reviews are coming in. For the longest time, the only way for many fans outside of Japan to play the Super Famicom version of Trials of Mana was through an English fan translated ROM....
When it comes to videogame streaming needs, Twitch has risen to become one of the largest providers across the globe. Garnering over 35 million monthly views and appearing on the Xbox 360, Xbox One and PlayStation 4, the service is becoming an integral part of gaming culture - so it’s no surprise that they’d want in on a piece of the proverbial Minecraft pie. During Minecon 2013 yesterday, Mojang announced it is partnering with Twitch to provide just that: an integrated Twitch feature for both PC and Mac editions of Minecraft....
