Until recently, Nymble sat alongside the likes of Bergmite, Pincurchin, and Maractus as a completely forgettable Pokémon lying half forgotten in some beige backroom of my brain. The recently printed Illustration Rare variant of Nymble from Phantasmal Flames has completely changed my perspective on the bold little bug. Now I can see something kind of great about the little grasshopper and, I'm hoping that once you've read this, you'll see it too. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Imposing Illustration Rare Zekrom bolts into Mega Dream ex Pokémon TCG set This is the first Pokémon TCG 30th Anniversary product, and I know I won't get it The Pokémon TCG's secondary market sucks - and it's also the best there is View the full article
Sunderfolk is a game unlike any other. How, you ask? Understandable - true innovation is rare these days. On paper it's a turn-based strategy game with D&D flavorings, and while we've seen a lot of that in a post-Baldur's Gate 3 world, Sunderfolk stands out as something special. First of all, there's literally nothing quite like it on the market. You control the action on the big screen using your phone, where you decide your movements, draw from your roguelike-esque Fate Card deck, and choose your abilities. Then, there's its playfulness. Narrated by the wonderful Anjali Bhimani, who lends her voice to Overwatch's Symmetra and Apex Legends' Rampart, while flexing her DM muscles on Critical Role, her comedic voices contrast starkly with, say, Amelia Tyler's BG3 whisperings. It gives Sunderfolk more of a quirky boardgame night feel when compared to Larian's sprawling epic, which, while genuinely funny in many places, is still a mostly serious story. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: If Balatro and Cookie Clicker had a baby, it'd be this new poker-themed indie game, and I'm already afraid for my time Enshrouded's director tells us it's on track for 1.0, but that "there's no reason to stop" once the survival game hits full release A great Cities Skylines rival with some Minecraft flair, Urbek City Builder is less than $4 right now View the full article
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I haven't played Balatro in months, and it's not because I'm tired of it; quite the reverse. After pouring hundreds of hours into LocalThunk's creation, I finally managed to pull myself out of the chip-counting stupor. Now I'm a little afraid that even a taste of its 'mult' meter dinging up will drag me back into its synth-scored swirls. Unfortunately, I've instead installed the demo for a new indie game called This Ain't Even Poker, Ya Joker, and I can already feel the minutes slipping through my fingers like grains of sand. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Enshrouded's director tells us it's on track for 1.0, but that "there's no reason to stop" once the survival game hits full release A great Cities Skylines rival with some Minecraft flair, Urbek City Builder is less than $4 right now Superhero smash-hit Dispatch "changed my life," musician Bershy reveals after streams of her song Radio hit the stratosphere overnight View the full article
While it was only officially revealed a few days ago, the MTG Monster Hunter Secret Lair Superdrop is already deeply contentious. It's not because of the nature of the crossover itself, Capcom's killer Kaijus fit much more comfortably into the world of Magic: the Gathering than Furbys, or Dwight from The Office. Instead, fans are concerned that their favorite monsters are being represented using bulk bin reprints that fail to capture a fraction of their power. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Rathalos and Lagiacrus are finally coming to MTG, as Monster Hunter Secret Lair announced The 10 elite commanders you need to play in MTG Avatar The Last Airbender With this MTG Avatar The Last Airbender combo you literally can't lose View the full article
Double XP weekends in Call of Duty are considered holidays for some gamers, and honestly, I get it. The XP grind to unlock weapons, hit Master Prestige, and secure special camos and attachments is best done when the XP rate is higher. In ****** Ops 7, there are a ton of things to unlock along the way to Max Prestige, and double XP weekends are perfect for that since you don't need to use any of your XP tokens. Double XP events happen every few weeks in CoD, and BO7 is the same. It's important to know when these weekends are coming up so you can schedule time with friends to party up and pile up XP in any of the game's multiple modes. Here's when to clock out early or schedule an off day so you can get in that double XP time in CoD. Table of contentsNext ****** Ops 7 double XP weekendFastest way to level up in ****** Ops 7****** Ops 7 double XP scheduleNext ****** Ops 7 double XP weekend Image via Activision According to dataminer realityuk, the first double XP event in BO7 is set to begin on Tuesday, Nov. 25 and end on Monday, Dec. 1. This lines up with how previous CoD titles did their first 2XP events, because it will last for about a week and take place over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend in the US. So, while this info is reported and as of yet unconfirmed, it's likely to take place around the week of Thanksgiving (Nov. 27) in the US. It's worth nothing that realityuk is a reliable data miner and often posts information from the game before it's officially announced. Fastest way to level up in ****** Ops 7 Image via Activision The cool thing about BO7 is that, no matter what mode you're playing, you're earning XP towards your levels, Prestige, weapon XP, and eventually even battle pass XP. You can play multiplayer, Zombies, Endgame mode, or even co-op campaign to earn XP as you level up. In the end, this means that you can use a double XP token and rack up the points in whatever mode you prefer, but there are definitely faster ways to get XP. Zombies mode Survival maps are great for XP since you can use an item like the Rampage Inducer to spawn more enemies, and the maps are small so you can kite Zombies and blow them up to keep the points flowing. Keep in mind that tokens don't stack during double XP weekends, so save them up for when double XP is not active in-game. But if you're waiting for a double XP event to grind the game, here's what we know about when these events are scheduled to take place. ****** Ops 7 double XP scheduleDateDescriptionNov. 25 to Dec. 1 (unconfirmed)Double XP, double GobbleGumsTBA- This article will be updated with new double XP info when it's available. The post When is the next double XP event in ****** Ops 7? appeared first on Destructoid. View the full article
Resident Evil Requiem producer Masato Kumazawa discusses the game's start as an open world multiplayer title and teases that some of those elements have managed to remain in the current iteration. Even with an early 2026 launch date, there's a lot of excitement surrounding Resident Evil Requiem, though the classic single-player experience was almost something else entirely. View the full article
Anno 117: Pax Romana has peaked at 50,088 concurrent players on 16 November 2025 within the release week. View charts and more statistics on our website.View the full article
Little Rocket Lab is coming to the Nintendo Switch on December 10. The Switch version of the 2025 indie game will arrive mere months following its original debut, ending its short ******* of Xbox console exclusivity. View the full article
Paradox Games and Haemimont Games recently released Surviving Mars Relaunched to largely middling Steam reviews, maintaining a worrying trend of titles from the publishing giant behind many of the best strategy games not quite hitting like they used to. Worse yet, the release of this remaster treads another fine line - scrubbing the original version of a product in favor of a new edition that some are finding to be virtually identical in the worst ways. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Remaster of sci-fi city builder Surviving Mars locks in date for lift off and promises all-new expansions City builder Surviving Mars is a space train game now Sci-fi city builder Surviving Mars is free-to-keep on Steam for a very limited time View the full article
Build a Rocket Boy’s troubled single-player action game, MindsEye, is the worst game of 2025, according to weighted average review scores from Metacritic. As the year comes to a close, the review curation site offers a near-complete picture of the best and worst games of 2025, according to its aggregated reviews from “the world’s most respected critics.” According to Metacritic’s rankings, MindsEye was the worst-reviewed game of 2025, with a Metascore of just 37 – lower than all but eight games released in the last five years. Read More... View the full article
One day after its 1.0 and Steam release, Escape From Tarkov is already being review-bombed. However, despite Escape From Tarkov's Steam review rating tanking right now, it doesn't seem to have all that much to do with the quality of the game itself. View the full article
For almost ten years now, Battlestate Games has toiled away on Escape From Tarkov with the help of its community. The hardcore, realistic survival FPS game birthed the extraction shooter genre, paving the way for the likes of Hunt Showdown, Arena Breakout Infinite, and Arc Raiders. This weekend, it finally reaches 1.0, providing players with an actual way to, well, escape from Tarkov. To celebrate this momentous occasion, we've teamed up with Battlestate to give away ten codes for EFT so you can dive in for free. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Escape From Tarkov's final mission will be "like Call of Duty, but with all the Tarkov mechanics" Escape From Tarkov 1.0 is targeting "balanced hardcore," but escaping will be "really difficult and not for everyone" Escape From Tarkov boss says the threat of Steam review bombing isn't a concern: "let them bomb us" View the full article
Накануне хардкорный эвакуационный шутер Escape from Tarkov от российской студии Battlestate Games наконец вышел в релиз, однако восемь лет бета-тестирования безболезненным запуск не сделали.View the full article
The giant Enshrouded Wake of the Water update has brought players flooding back once more; fittingly so, given that it's all about the introduction of the wet stuff to one of the best survival games in recent years. As we approach the two-year mark, I asked creative director Antony Christoulakis how much has changed for Keen Games since release, what the future holds as it builds towards the planned 1.0 launch in 2026, and what comes after that. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: New Enshrouded update Wake of the Water totally transforms the world, but its dev was "mindful not to destroy your base" Enshrouded system requirements Survival RPG Enshrouded just dropped a colossal, creepy update View the full article
I'm always taken by surprise when Garry's Mod receives a new update. Since it came out when I was still a teenager, I just assume it's ancient history. Yet in reality, Facepunch's anarchic toolbox remains very much a going concern. With over 22,000 players in the last 24 hours, Garry's Mod is the 62 nd most popular game on Steam by daily active users (according to SteamDB). That makes it more popular than Monster Hunter Wilds and Elden Ring Nightreign—at least as far as Steam is concerned... Read more.View the full article
The giant Enshrouded Wake of the Water update has brought players flooding back once more; fittingly so, given that it's all about the introduction of the wet stuff to one of the best survival games in recent years. As we approach the two-year mark, I asked creative director Antony Christoulakis how much has changed for Keen Games since release, what the future holds as it builds towards the planned 1.0 launch in 2026, and what comes after that. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: New Enshrouded update Wake of the Water totally transforms the world, but its dev was "mindful not to destroy your base" Enshrouded system requirements Survival RPG Enshrouded just dropped a colossal, creepy update View the full article
The producer of Resident Evil Requiem says the game has retained some elements from its original concept as an online multiplayer title. The ninth main game in the Resident Evil series was originally conceived as an online open-world multiplayer game, before it was decided to scrap this idea and deliver a traditional single-player Resident Evil adventure. However, in an interview with Press Start Australia, producer Masato Kumazawa has hinted that some of the ideas that were created when Requiem was a multiplayer game have carried over to the existing project, but won’t reveal what these are yet. Read More... View the full article
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Spooky gambling roguelike CloverPit has hit the jackpot for developer Panik Arcade, selling a million copies since it was released at the end of September. Seems a lot of people can't resist the allure of playing with a cursed one-armed bandit in a dingy basement that's possibly also in hell... Read more.View the full article
If Minecraft stepped up to challenge the best city-building games, I like to think the result would be something like Urbek: City Builder. It's not just the blocky voxel style, although that certainly helps, but also the focus on pure resources over the traditional economies of games like Cities Skylines. It's a refreshing twist on the format that throws scarcity into sharp relief, and in doing so feels very of the times. And if you're quick on the draw, you can pick up a copy right now for under $4. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Superhero smash-hit Dispatch "changed my life," musician Bershy reveals after streams of her song Radio hit the stratosphere overnight Grab a free Steam key for Fellowship, the dungeon-diving RPG mixing the best bits of WoW and Diablo 4 Vein dev details its next plans following a "larger than expected" launch for the first-person twist on Project Zomboid View the full article
Bershy, the artist behind a key song featured in smash-hit narrative adventure superhero game Dispatch, says that the game and its studio "just changed my life." It comes after plays of her song Radio quadrupled in just one week. And, in a heartwarming interaction on Instragram, Dispatch studio AdHoc shared just how long ago they hatched a plan to include it in the game. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Is Dispatch Season 2 happening? Here's what Aaron Paul and AdHoc have to say as Season 1 finale sends player counts soaring The final two episodes of Dispatch drop today, and I desperately need a Season 2 announcement right now Superhero strategy game Dispatch races past 500k wishlists thanks to Steam demo View the full article
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Until recently, Nymble sat alongside the likes of Bergmite, Pincurchin, and Maractus as a completely forgettable Pokémon lying half forgotten in some beige backroom of my brain. The recently printed Illustration Rare variant of Nymble from Phantasmal Flames has completely changed my perspective on the bold little bug. Now I can see something kind of great about the little grasshopper and, I'm hoping that once you've read this, you'll see it too. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Imposing Illustration Rare Zekrom bolts into Mega Dream ex Pokémon TCG set This is the first Pokémon TCG 30th Anniversary product, and I know I won't get it The Pokémon TCG's secondary market sucks - and it's also the best there is View the full article