Hardest Turn-Based RPGs Ever Made, Ranked

Turn-based RPGshave an extreme reliance on players using their heads to help a group of characters to survive different situations. Although these arecommonly war games, there have been other settings available for players to strategize around. Related:The Best Turn-Based RPGs On PS4 (That You Can Also Play On PS5) However, not all turn-based RPGs are made equal, as some can be incredibly challenging and therefore threaten the lives of the characters the player has to control....

May 20, 2025 · 7 min · 1416 words · Jared Diaz

How Armored Core 6 is Pushing Replay Value

Summary Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubiconis only a few weeks away, and fans are really starting to get excited about it. Now that a wave of previews has helped prospective players learn whatArmored Core 6is like, many are looking forward to this break from FromSoftware’s last decade of routine. The game promises to resurrectArmored Core’s classic mech customization and piloting action, with the added bonus of modern FromSoftware polish and mechanical design....

May 20, 2025 · 3 min · 582 words · Nicole Carter

How Beastars Rejects Humanity

The animated world has a long history with animal characters,dating back to the oldest Disneyand Hannah Barbera cartoons. While the animalistic aspects of these characters are usually only in their aesthetics,Beastarsaims to make them matter. Beastarsis the brainchild of mangaka Paru Itagaki, and is her best-known work to date. The series is set in a world inhabited by anthropomorphic(human-like) animals, whose society is largely based on our own.Beastarsfeatures a strong conflict between carnivorous animals and herbivorous animals, as the former are known to occasionallymurder and eat the latter....

May 20, 2025 · 4 min · 824 words · Daniel Frazier

How Super Mario RPG’s Take on the Plumber Differs From Mario & Luigi, Paper Mario

Summary Years after the SNES classicSuper Mario RPGunfortunately fell into obscurity in the long history ofMariogames, theFinal Fantasy-esque adventure has been given new life on the Nintendo Switch after 27 long years. While quite a lot has changed since the title’s first release, the critics have ratedSuper Mario RPGone of the best titles of 2023, and fans have been adoring getting to go on an adventure with Mallow and Geno one more time....

May 20, 2025 · 4 min · 780 words · Kevin King

How Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom's Successor Can Take Cooking to New Heights

Summary Since cooking made a return inThe Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdomwith a handy in-game cookbook to keep track of hundreds of recipes, Nintendo now has the opportunity to expand the feature even further for futureZeldagames. Though it wasn’t one of the more ambitious changesBreath of the Wildmade to the series' formula,Zelda’s introduction of cooking and useful recipesallowed players to both heal and benefit from secondary effects. As a substitute for the traditional collectible hearts and health potions, it was virtually inevitable that cooking would return inTears of the Kingdom....

May 20, 2025 · 3 min · 576 words · Chad Wilson

Kinda Funny Unveils Tournament to Pick Best PS4 Exclusive

After almost five years on the market, thePlayStation 4is nearing the end of its lifespan. But beforethe long-anticipated PS5hits the market, many players are choosing to look back on the current generation’s greatest hits. Amongst these many retrospectives, the popular YouTube channel Kinda Funny is putting a unique spin on its tribute to the PS4 by inviting fans to rank the console’s many exclusives. Following its initial cancellation in 2017, Kinda Funny re-introduced its PlayStation-based podcastP....

May 20, 2025 · 2 min · 370 words · Kara Johnson

Limited Run Games Celebrates Sales Milestone

Limited Run Games, a publisher based out of Raleigh, North Carolina known for small-batch printings of popular indie games, has hit a new sales milestone. Limited Run Games not only does special physical releases for modern digital games likeOctodad, Guacamelee!,andTransistor,but the group also handlesre-releases of classic games likeZero Wingfor the Sega Genesis. Josh Fairhurst, the creator ofLimited Run Games, recently took to Twitter to announce that the publisher has sold over 2,500,000 physical games since it began by publishing strategy gameBreach & Clearin 2015....

May 20, 2025 · 2 min · 350 words · Jasmine Montgomery

Marvel's Midnight Suns Likely Won't Get a Sequel, But The Team Could Still Return

Summary Marvel’s Midnight Sunsdid quite a lot right. Firaxis’ expertise in crafting strategy gameplay shined through, as the card combat of the title was satisfying to master. The storytelling was solid, with a unique tale involving an original protagonist called the Hunter battling their mother’s demonic forces. Where the game truly shined was in its characters, as players were able to develop relationships with faithful versions of some of Marvel’s most popular figures....

May 20, 2025 · 4 min · 769 words · Ashley Smith

Minecraft Fan Recreates Pac-Man Arcade Cabinet in the Game

One gamer has usedMinecraftto re-create the iconicPac-Manarcade machine. Mojang Studios’ blocky building simulatorMinecrafthas been a playground for gamers all across the world for over a decade, with various tie-ins to other franchises available as in-game DLC. AnofficialPac-ManxMinecraftDLCpack has been available in the game since 2020 and was released to celebrate 40 years of the pill-chomping, ghost-chasing protagonist. This 3D map sees players chased by Blinky, Inky, Pinky, and Clyde as they try to escape a ginormous map....

May 20, 2025 · 2 min · 406 words · Mitchell Barrett

Mortal Kombat 11 Reveals New Stage Fatalities

The team at NetherRealm Studios has been unveiling lots of content that fans ofMortal Kombat 11will get to play around with come the release of theAftermathDLC expansion on May 26. Among those upcoming additions are new characters likeRoboCop with plenty of brutal fatalities, however players will also be getting the ability to conduct special fatalities using elements from different stages. These Stage Fatalities, which were advertised by NetherRealm Studios Creative Director Ed Boon in a tweet earlier today, will be free for all players to use alongside new stages being added inAftermath....

May 20, 2025 · 2 min · 402 words · Bonnie Romero

Movies That Show Love For Gaming

There are a lot of sci-fi things out there: TV series, movies,web novels, books, and everything else a fan of the genre can think of. It is also very common for gamers to be science fiction fans, and when a movie combines sci-fi elements with the love for gaming, then it has the opportunity to become an instant classic. RELATED:The Best Sci-Fi Movies On Amazon Prime Video Some of the movies about gaming are, surprisingly, quite old, but there are a lot of newer films for the viewers that get squeamish about bad CGI – although if someone is to consult Metacritic, then the old movies sometimes are worth more than the movies of this and the previous decade....

May 20, 2025 · 5 min · 922 words · Tami Smith

My Hero Academia is Getting a Battle Royale Game

My Hero Academiahas been on the video game scene for sometime now, having released two pretty successful fighters and a solid mobile game over the past few years. The nextMy Hero Academiagame looks to switch up the formula, though, bringing the series into the battle royale scene of multiplayer titles. Ever sinceMy Hero Academia’s anime began in 2016, the series has steadily increased in popularity to the point of receiving multiple video game tie-ins....

May 20, 2025 · 3 min · 466 words · Christopher Mckee

Netflix's Horizon Zero Dawn Adaptation Is Not Happening.

Summary Popular video games are increasingly being transformed into live-action adaptations. However, it seems that Netflix has officially canceled theHorizon Zero Dawnadaptation. Many video game companies are jumping onthe trend of successful adaptations, with even the biggest names joining in. However, one notable project is not moving forward. Why did Netflix cancel theHorizon Zero Dawnadaptation? According to a recent report byRolling Stone’s Cheyenne Roundtree, Netflix is canceling the potential live-action adaptation of the popularHorizon Zero Dawnvideo game....

May 20, 2025 · 4 min · 828 words · William Roach