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Everybody loves a grab bag, and the 5E Adventures, Crafting, Monsters and VTT Assets Bundle features exactly what it says on the tin. Instead of focusing on any singular adventure or theme, this bundle focuses on DnD 5e resources meant to enhance tables with fresh experiences. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: As DnD's best campaign turns 10, it deserves a reboot for the new rules DnD Artificer 5e class guide Everything revealed about DnD's brand new monsters so far View the full article

Three new Honkai: Star Rail codes give players up to 300 free Stellar Jades and other useful items like Credits and EXP materials. Honkai: Star Rail will soon launch its 3.0 update, debuting a new planet and several characters. In order to pull for their preferred units, players might need to stock up in Stellar Jades. View the full article

A recent spate of forced password resets in Action RPG Path Of Exile 2 was acknowledged by developer Grinding Gear Games on Sunday, after a hacker gained access to an administrative account. As reported by 404 Media, this follows several reports on the game's forums and social media from players who'd had their inventories emptied of rare items. Read more View the full article

There are plenty of absolutely huge Skyrim quest mods out there, and one that already had an entire plague that spreads like a real epidemic in it has just gotten a whole lot *******, thanks to a new addition-filled overhaul. It's called Death Consumes All, and it's inspired by The Witcher 3's brilliant Hearts of Stone DLC. Read more View the full article

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League developer Rocksteady Studios has released Season 4 Episode 8, which will be the final major content update for the live-service title. After releasing to largely negative reviews back in February 2024, Rocksteady announced less than one year later that it would be ending support for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League on January 14. The game's final patch is now available to download on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. View the full article

A new report has thrown fuel on the fire labelled "Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion remake". Don't ask me why people have started labelling fires. It's probably a rite to summon a Daedra, or something. Anyway, a new version of Bethesda's somewhat scorned 2006 RPG is allegedly in the works at Singapore-based Virtuos. If rumour speak true, it's being made in Unreal Engine 5, and will feature changes to core systems like blocking, stamina, and sneaking. Read more View the full article

League of Legends season 1 saw a bunch of new features and changes made, including a new thematic that revolves around Noxus, a change to ranked resets, and a more streamlined reward system. While the last change may seem like a smart idea, it's wound up causing more harm than good for some players... Read more.View the full article

Here we are again. The Call of Duty cycle has reached the “this game sucks, I’m done” portion. Has it already been a year? ****** Ops 6 launched in October 2024 with very positive reviews for the game’s campaign, multiplayer based around omnimovement fun, and Zombies with multiple maps and a satisfying grind for unlocks and camos. Less than three months later, the game is on fire and the franchise is coming to an end… or so reading social media would have you think. View the full article

It is looking increasingly likely that the US might ban TikTok before the month is out, if not the end of this very week. As such, many are opting to use a TikTok VPN to ensure that they can continue to access it. What else are they supposed to do? Scroll through videos on Instagram or YouTube like an absolute fossil? (No disrespect to absolute fossils, I'm one of you). Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Intel's latest laptop CPUs beat AMD, but you might want to hold off for gaming This Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 leak appears to show a new budget laptop gaming GPU I played Half-Life 2 RTX with Nvidia neural rendering, and it looks damn fine View the full article

For an entire generation of PC players, the name Crysis will still summon memories of glacial framerates, frantic fan blades, and gaming rigs that were sufficiently overheated you could use them as a stove. The gorgeous world of Crytek's tower-toppling 2007 FPS was made more elaborate with Crysis 2, which traded palm trees and dense brush for the concrete jungle of New York City. Crysis 3 combined the two - it was the Big Apple as reclaimed by nature. Led by a former Stalker designer and combining the crafting and survival-driven gunplay of modern Fallout, a new shooter, Forest Reigns, picks up the world design where Crysis 3 left off. Read the rest of the story... View the full article

Megagon Industries has announced a January 21, 2025, release date for Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders. The indie developer and publisher has also confirmed that the Steam and Xbox release will be available on Game Pass for console at launch. Snow Riders is the follow-up to 2019’s mountain bike game Lonely Mountains, which has scores of 79 (Xbox One), 80 (PS4 and PC) and 84 (Switch) on review aggregation site Metacritic. Read More... View the full article

When is The Blood of Dawnwalker release date? The action RPG is in development by Rebel Wolves, the studio co-founded by Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, director of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. It was announced on the day of the Wolf Moon, and rather fittingly follows the rise of a powerful clan of vampires in an alternative 14th century. Set during a time of devastation, this vampire game is a supernatural ****** on the events of the plague. Vampires lurk in the darkness, biding their time until the ****** Death takes hold of the land, when they seize the opportunity to strike for control while the humans are weak. In Dawnwalker, vampires now reside in the previous lord's castles, these vampires rule over the valley, and it's your job to save your family from them. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Dawnwalker is a remarkable and very dark RPG from ex The Witcher 3 devs Ex Cyberpunk 2077 and Witcher 3 devs reveal new RPG, Dawnwalker View the full article

How do you use the Monster Hunter Wilds Great Sword? This staple Monster Hunter weapon returns in Wilds, and we couldn't be happier for it. The Great Sword is ideal for players who prefer to charge into battle and inflict massive damage with slow and deliberate slashes. It boasts the highest damage per hit out of any weapon, making it a worthwhile pick regardless of skill level. The Great Sword is the best weapon to get to grips with the slower and heavier cadence of combat in Monster Hunter Wilds. Its skill ceiling is also high enough that the investment in learning how to use it doesn't go to waste. An effective Great Sword build should comfortably see you through all the hunts in the RPG game, so let us walk you through how to use one of the most iconic Monster Hunter Wilds weapons in the series. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: A new Monster Hunter Wilds open beta is coming soon, with a fan-favorite enemy Monster Hunter Wilds beta start and end times All Monster Hunter Wilds characters confirmed so far View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

A new video coming from BiliBili, a ******** social network, shows off the performance of Intel and AMD's current generation of mobile chips. The user pitted AMD's Ryzen AI 9 365 against Intel's Core Ultra 9 285H and the result is that the new Intel laptop CPU impresses in some areas, but not so much in gaming. Intel sweeps the performance metrics when it comes to productivity, but AMD still keeps its competition at bay in gaming. This isn't too surprising if you've been keeping up with the best gaming handhelds. One of the only handhelds using Intel's chips, the MSI Claw, is already rumored to be considering ditching them for AMD's gaming prowess. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT gaming performance beats RTX 4070 Ti Super in new leak This awesome Lamborghini gaming PC is primed for racing sim perfection AMD executive blames Intel's "horrible" gaming CPU for 9800X3D stock issues View the full article

We have reached the halfway mark in Chapter Six, season one, and players on Reddit have come together to debate the best landing spot. Most players have a preference for what they want from a drop point in Fortnite, but some spots are still surprising. Some players like to land straight from the Battle Bus into action, disregarding any fear of being eliminated before even hitting the top 50 players. For those of you who can handle the heat, Fortnite fans on Reddit suggest some of the sweatier spots like Flooded Frogs, Magic Mosses, and ******’s Dojo. Anyone dropping first into ******’s Dojo, in particular, must be brave. Not only do you have to fight off other players, but there are Void ****** Guards who creep up on you and the boss NPC, Night Rose ******, to battle. If you make it out alive, the rest of your game is smooth sailing though so the battle is usually worth it. View the full article

There’s no better feeling in Dynasty Warriors Origins than leading an Ambush or Charge against the enemy. It’s one of the new mechanics where you either completely demoralize the enemy by catching them by surprise or charge at the opposing army, triggering the use of Grand Tactics against each other until one army crumbles. Some of the Dynasty Warriors Origins Bonds require you to trigger an Ambush or Charge a certain number of times. Of course, you could use story missions to do this, but there’s an unlockable skirmish that guarantees an easy Ambush every time. Below are tips for initiating charges and the level at which you can repeatedly ambush a bandit army. View the full article

Once Human is one of the few 2024 survival games still going strong. The vibrant post apocalypse shooter is pulling in around 40,000 players at any one time, and developer Starry Studio continues listening to feedback while planning a huge 2025. This big year starts with a heavily player-requested feature, alongside some broader improvements to make it sing. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: The best new MMOs worth playing in 2025 Once Human codes and how to redeem When is the next Once Human server wipe? View the full article

Whether someone first experienced Lunar on ***** CD or PlayStation, the announcement for Lunar Remastered Collection was an exciting one for fans of the JRPG classics Lunar: The Silver Star Story Complete and Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete. GungHo Online Entertainment America announced today that Lunar Remastered Collection will be launching on April 18 for PC, PlayStation 4, Switch and Xbox One. Lunar Remastered collection will be receiving both physical and digital editions. Digital editions will be priced at $49.99 USD / €49.99 EUR. Physical editions in America will be priced at $54.99 and will be available exclusively through Amazon. European physical editions for PlayStation 4 and Switch will cost €54.99 and will be available through Clear River Games. The physical editions will feature reversible covers showcasing new art for Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete and Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete, both illustrated by Toshiyuki Kubooka. View the full article

Try not to get too jealous, Overwatch fans, but the devs behind Marvel Rivals are planning some pretty frequent hero updates. Read more View the full article

Have you been sick of your spouse in Stardew Valley for a little while now? Have you tried to divorce them, and found that you can't do it because the game keeps crashing? Well, if you're on console, that shouldn't have been an issue since about Christmas, and if you're on Nintendo Switch, a solution is still coming, and looks like it might rock up before the Switch 2. Read more View the full article

If you've been curious as to what the crew of former CD Projekt Red staff who left to form Rebel Wolves has been up to, you don't need to wait any longer. The Blood of Dawnwalker has been officially shown off properly, with a cinematic trailer as well as a a brief deep dive into what the game will actually play like during an official Twitch stream. Read more View the full article

2K has announced PGA Tour 2K25 for Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5 and Steam. While the Standard Edition of the game will be released worldwide on February 28, 2025, players who pre-order the Deluxe Edition and PGA Tour 2K25 Legend Edition will receive up to seven days of early access beginning on February 21. The latest series entry will feature the franchise debut of the PGA Championship, US Open and The Open. Read More... View the full article

Following Uncharted’s 2022 cinematic outing and The Last of Us’ hit HBO show, it was only a matter of time until Sony announced that Horizon was coming to the silver screen. PlayStation Studios and Columbia Pictures recently formally confirmed that a movie adaptation of Horizon Zero Dawn is in the works, which will bring to life both Aloy’s origin story and the video game’s vibrant, machine-filled world. And while development of the movie is only in the early stages, I’m already pretty confident that it could be Sony’s first major video game win at the box office… if it stays true to the games. The last few years have seen several video game success stories grace both the small and big screens. The Super Mario Brothers and Sonic films, both skewed for family audiences, are the gold standard in terms of both critical reception and box office numbers. On TV, Sony’s own The Last of Us show sits alongside the likes of Netflix’s Arcane and Amazon Prime’s Fallout as fan favourites. And even adaptations that have had more middling reviews from fans and critics have been able to come out on top at the box office; the Tom Holland-led Uncharted movie grossed more than $400 million. But while it’s true that the days of the “video game curse” are mostly long gone, there are still issues that persist in this field. Uncharted may have found its audience, but it is not the faithful adaptation of the original games fans were hoping for. More recently, we have seen poor critical and box office performance for the likes of last year’s Borderlands film and Amazon’s Like a Dragon: Yakuza series. Both seemed completely uninterested in staying faithful to the storylines, lore, or even simply the tone of the games they were built upon. They simply did not accurately depict the world of the games that fans fell in love with. While such failures can occur in video game adaptations, they are part of a wider issue with adaptations in general. Netflix's The Witcher has taken considerable liberties with its source material, significantly changing the original books’ events and characters, plus shifting the overall tone. While adaptations often need to make changes to fit their new medium, these examples feel like they have become different things entirely. And for fans of the original texts – the pre-baked audience that should be the first in line to watch a new adaptation – this can be not just incredibly disappointing, but also signal the project’s eventual downfall. That brings us back to Horizon. The recently announced movie isn’t actually the first attempt at bringing Horizon to screens. Back in 2022 Netflix announced it was developing a series based on the game, and rumours began to circulate about a “Horizon 2074” project that was to be set during the pre-apocalypse *******, perhaps trying to fill in some of the backstory the games touch upon and skirt around. This direction, while ultimately never confirmed by Netflix, certainly proved polarising for the game's fanbase, who are clamouring for a story that is faithful to the one that made the original game such a resounding success. Plus, of course, they want to see huge robot animals, which a pre-apocalypse setting would naturally not feature. However, such fans need not worry: whatever the plans were for that show, the project is no longer in development at Netflix and Horizon is now being reworked into a cinema release. Given the heavy CGI effects that any Horizon adaptation would need to realise its iconic visuals, this is a smart move, as the increased budget of a Hollywood movie is one of the keys to realising the story and world’s potential and make them shine on the big screen. If Horizon is given the same kind of treatment afforded to The Last of Us on the small screen, there is no reason it can’t be PlayStation’s first big cinema win. But there’s much more to Horizon than its incredible robotic creatures. Consider the success of Fallout, Arcane and The Last of Us in the past few years. These adaptations were praised for being worthy extensions of their source material and for their faithfulness to not just the visuals, but also the tone and stories of their original game franchises. Gamers care about adaptations having an authentic story. The Last of Us did, of course, craft new storylines that deviated from its source material, but most of the show stayed true to the narrative structure of the games. The result was a show that sailed on the proven strength of the game, which resonated with both fans and newcomers. And so if Horizon is given the same kind of treatment afforded to The Last of Us, Arcane and Fallout on the small screen, there is no reason it can’t be PlayStation’s first big cinema win. Remaining faithful to the original game isn’t something to do just for the sake of fan expectation, though. Horizon Zero Dawn received the Best Narrative award at the The Game Awards in 2017, as well as the Outstanding Achievement in Story award at the 2018 DICE awards, which shows how highly regarded the game’s story is. It is a tale worth staying faithful to. Set in 31st century North America, it follows Aloy, a member of the Nora Tribe, as she explores the mystery surrounding her origins and how they link to an old-world scientist, Elisabet Sobeck, who is Aloy’s perfect doppelganger. These characters and the world they exist in are captivating: Aloy in particular is a brilliant anchor, and her allies Erend and Varl are easy to root for thanks to relationships that are massively fleshed out across Horizon Zero Dawn and its sequel, Forbidden West. Further depth is added through the examination of how attempts were made to save Earth’s climate, with a rogue AI expanding to create the creatures that now populate so much of the Earth. Complimenting this is the mysterious Sylens, a constant presence and an enigma we want to get to the root of. The intricacy of each community and settlement Aloy uncovers along her journey makes for an expansive, immersive world that feels completely unique. This worldbuilding is fuel for a compelling film franchise. Much like how James Cameron’s Avatar series has explored the culture and traditions of Na’vi tribes, a Horizon film could dig into the ways tribes like the Nora protect themselves from Earth’s robotic hunters. The unique combat encounters are a highlight of both Horizon games, and with the likes of the saber tooth tiger-like Sawtooths, the towering Tallnecks, and sky-bound Stormbirds, there’s the potential to litter the landscapes with impressive visuals. Alongside rival tribes and those loyal to the rogue AI Hades, these creatures ensure the games are full of action and suspense. Those same elements would provide interesting challenges for Aloy and her allies in a movie adaptation, too. All combined, Horizon is a rich source of creative and visually-rich storytelling that needs very few changes to suit the current cinematic landscape. Horizon’s story is compelling from the offset, and if followed faithfully, I believe its film adaptation could be, too. What makes Horizon stand out from other would-be franchises is the diligence in its story, crafting a world that is unique, timely, and fresh with an aesthetic that feels distinctly cinematic. There are so many nuances to the world and the storytelling that it is easy to imagine a Horizon adaptation being a resounding success both critically and at the box office. And with the more expansive story of Forbidden West, there is a huge canvas for the franchise as a whole to work with – if adapted carefully, this could be a long-term proposition for Sony. There is a huge opportunity to make a film franchise that can match the success of its source material, which has proven to be tremendous success across the last two generations of PlayStation consoles, captivating gamers worldwide. If the film can take the ingredients that have made the game such a success and keep them intact, then the basics are in place for a compelling adaptation. And with more Sony titles set to become film and TV franchises, such as Ghost of Tsushima and Helldivers 2, such an approach would set PlayStation up for success in an entirely new medium. But forgetting what made Horizon great in the first place – or, even worse, purposefully diverging away from it – could put Sony not only in the firing line of negative fan feedback, but also the same kind of financial difficulties suffered by Borderlands. Bad adaptations have been overwhelmingly rejected by fans, and as a result often audiences as a whole. Let’s hope that Sony (plus the writers and directors it chooses) recognise what they have on their hands and do right by Horizon. Chris Connor is a coffee and whisky driven culture wordsmith, with work published at NME, Radio Times, Yahoo, and others. View the full article

Team Rocket has struck again amid another event in Pokémon Go. This time, it’s for Fashion Week 2025, and Team Rocket has captured several notable Shadow Pokémon. You’ll have the chance to track them and Giovanni down with the latest Taken Over Special Research. All players should receive this Special Research when they jump into the mobile game starting on Jan. 15 after midnight. From there, the Special Research gives players the opportunity to chase down multiple Team Rocket grunts, leaders, and follow the tracks to Giovanni, who has a new Legendary Shadow Pokémon under his control: Palkia. For those who have been eagerly awaiting to get this Pokémon added to their roster, now’s the opportunity. Here’s what you need to know about all Fashion Week 2025: Taken Over Special Research tasks and rewards in Pokémon Go. View the full article

Valorant is implementing ranked rollbacks in order to crack down on the recent wave of hackers. Valorant’s head of anti-cheat commented on the current situation with cheaters, warning them that Riot can “hit so much harder now” and explaining what the new changes entail. View the full article