5 quick tips for starting Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life

Remember these before you start hoeing Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Lifehas finally arrived on modern platforms, and I am so excited for anyone about to experience this game for the first time. This is my favorite game in theStory of Seasonsfranchise. Inmy 9.0/10 review, I called it a “…remarkable experience…” that “takes the classic farming formula and gives it a purpose beyond just seeing how many S-ranked tomatoes you’re able to grow....

July 26, 2025 · 4 min · 702 words · Sheri Hoffman

A glimpse into the future of Oddworld

Remakes, new games, and unfinished projects WithAbe’s Oddysee New ‘N’ Tasty, the remake of the classicOddworldtitle coming out later this year, Just Add Water reveals what’s next for the rejuvenated franchise. Remakes, games brought back from the dead, and entirely new titles may all be on the cards, revealed Stewart Gilray, Just Add Water’s CEO, in aninterviewwith VG24/7. The studio recently created apollto discover what fans wanted them to do, with options ranging from remaking otherOddworldgames, to working on the long-lost titlesThe Hand of Odd,Squeek’s Oddysee, andThe Brutal Ballad of Fangus Klot....

July 26, 2025 · 2 min · 355 words · Lori Johnson

Arrests made as PUBG continue aggressive anti-cheating efforts

Over five million dollars in fines handed out Over on the official Steam page for Battle Royale pioneerPlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, a community update reports that arrests have been made as part of developer Bluehole’s continuing efforts to crack down on in-game hacking and/or cheating. In the statement, PUBG Corp reiterate their ongoing promise to impose severe penalities to groups who create unauthorised coding tools and hacking programs for the popular MMO shooter, going as far as to name some of the fifteen suspects who have recently been arrested and fined for doing so....

July 26, 2025 · 2 min · 239 words · Dr. Johnny Martin

Borderlands 3 Switch impressions

I have a long history with theBorderlandsfranchise, with a few hundred hours inBorderlands 3on PC. Now it’s available on the Nintendo Switch as well. So how does one of my favorite looter-shooters hold up on the little handheld console? Fairly well, actually, especially given its size. The main game takes up 8.4 GB. The DLC is an additional 10.4 GB, or 15 GB if you include the additional voiceover language pack....

July 26, 2025 · 4 min · 711 words · Nicole Weaver

Destiny 2 Escape Velocity god roll – Best perks and attachments

When it comes to the weapon sandbox ofDestiny 2, the focus tends to be on the big and bright new weapons. More recently, some of theweapons from the Solstice eventhave taken the spotlight thanks to some refreshed perks that can make interesting combos. However, that doesn’t mean we should forget about some of the classics. This even includes a weapon you may get from a surprisingly common source. Here are the best perks and attachments for the Escape Velocity submachine gun inDestiny 2....

July 26, 2025 · 2 min · 407 words · Gregory Reynolds Jr.

Did EA Access accidentally announce the name of the next Battlefield game?

Maybe… maybe not A tweet from the EA Access team may have unwittingly revealed the name of the nextBattlefieldgame. Or not. That’s the fun with rumours – we’re never quite sure, right? Responding to a query on Twitter (viaVideoGamer), the official EA Access account saidBattlefield Hardlinehad been added to the EA Vault to “celebrate theBattlefield 5event tomorrow”. Battlefield 5,eh? @PatHaiderCorrect, it was a surprise for members to celebrate the Battlefield 5 event tomorrow!...

July 26, 2025 · 1 min · 180 words · Bonnie White

Dream Daddy is a hot dad-on-dad dating sim from Game Grumps

‘Are you ready? Hi ready, I’m Dad’ Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulatorwas announced yesterday on Daddy’s Da–erhm,Father’sDay (thankfully I get gifts on both). It is exactly what it sounds like. From the Steam page: “you play as a Dad and your goal is to meet and romance other hot Dads.” You’re a dad and you’ve just moved to a small neighborhood where, by coincidence, everyone else is also “a single, dateable Dad....

July 26, 2025 · 1 min · 116 words · Patricia Blackwell

EA FC 25: How to complete Matteo Politano vs Matteo Darmian Showdown SBC

The Matteo Politano vs Matteo Darmian Showdown SBC is now live inEA FC 25, and you can get up to two special cards from the Serie A. This is the second Showdown SBC that has been featured in this year’s Ultimate Team, and it includes two 84-rated items. Both item will have the same chance of getting upgrades in the future based on the real-life result of the contest between Inter and Napoli....

July 26, 2025 · 2 min · 217 words · Peter Hogan

First Factorio expansion takes us to the stars in Factorio: Space Age

Grab your space suits, becauseFactoriois heading to space. Developer Wube Softwarerevealed in a blog posttoday that the first expansion for the popular factory-building game would beSpace Age. According toFactoriofound kovarex,Factorio: Space Agewill continue the player’s journey after launching rockets into space at the end of the base game. Players will discover new worlds with their own unique challenges and exploit their resources. In doing so, new technological advances will be found....

July 26, 2025 · 2 min · 371 words · Anna Trujillo

Games time forgot: Lucky & Wild

I must be completely honest and admit that I owe this week’s forgotten game almost entirely to cbloggerExcremento, who highlighted it in hisTop Ten Arcade Gun Gamesarticle. Apparently,Lucky and Wildwassodamn forgotten that I’d actually managed to erase every last trace of it from my memory, up until Excremento mentioned it and sent hours of driving, shooting fun flooding back into my consciousness. An experience which, sadly, can’t really be replicated through NOT emulation,Lucky and Wildcombines the joy of a 16-bit racing game with a light gun shooter....

July 26, 2025 · 5 min · 894 words · Tim Mendoza

Gush about things you love this month

Monthly Musing [This month’s Blogger Wanted comes from Luna Sy and is all about love and video games!] This is the month of February. This is the month of♥L♥O♥V♥E♥, and it’s time to celebrate that. AsFrozenhas taught us, true love can come in many different forms. There are many kinds of love, not just romantic that deserve acknowledgment. Video games have plenty of individual elements and aspects that encourage and inspire us to express our deep love and admiration....

July 26, 2025 · 1 min · 160 words · Deborah Lucas

Half-Life Alyx guide: How to beat Barnacles and trip up enemies

Think like a Half-Life player Half-Life: Alyxis a virtual reality game, sure, but it’s also aHalf-Lifegame. While it’s second nature to go in thinking that it’ll be a base-level tech demo with aHalf-Lifestory, it really does feel like past iterations in more ways than one. It took some getting used to, but one of the chief strategies that’s helped me through a few ofAlyx‘s tougher portions is a mantra that is as true as it always was in the lore of Valve: grab junk constantly....

July 26, 2025 · 3 min · 443 words · Johnny Richards

Hideki Kamiya is probably going to suplex someone if people keep asking if Bayonetta 3 is canceled

‘I want you guys to take any concerns you have like that and throw them out the window’ History repeats itself. Ever since that very vague teaser at The Game Awards back in 2017, folks have been asking Platinum Games “where isBayonetta 3?” Amid all of the news of their self-publishing efforts, tons of new IP in the works, mobile development and re-releases, everyone can at least agree on one thing: we wantBayonetta 3....

July 26, 2025 · 2 min · 303 words · Harry Hall