Quick Links InPalworld, your base will become a fortitude of shelter and safety from stronger Pals and factions that pursue you. As you develop your base, you may have times when a raid is more than just inconvenient. These raids can wreak havoc on your base and ruin your plans, so how do you stop them? There are a few ways you can stop raids from destroying your base, or from happening all together....

Quick Links Builds that can reachLast Epoch’sendgame can take advantage of the powerful Blessings system. By completing Monolith of Time boss fights, you can acquire powerful boons that permanently increase your character’s power. Blessings can increase your resistances, add HP leech to your attacks, or increase the drop rate of certain items you’re chasing. Regardless of your build, these Blessings can prove invaluable for endgame farming in Last Epoch. Similar to Idols, they can offer small power spikes that you can chance out, albeit with slightly more friction....

Quick Links Yellowish ooze that can slide through narrow cracks, devour adventurers, and split into several other pieces. Of course, this is the ochre jelly ofDungeons & Dragons. However, creatures like this can be difficult for both new and veteran dungeon masters as it offers a bit of a stranger playstyle and takes more to control than just a simple goblin. These creatures can be split into more pieces after being struck by a sharp blade or zapped with lightning damage, and these new pieces are smaller and have less health, but can still be incredibly deadly, especially for a new party....

I’ve missed a lot of video games over the years, which means I’ve missed a lot of video game history, too. There are many beloved franchises releasing new entries that I feel totally disconnected from because I didn’t grow up playing those games like everyone else.Never having played a Final Fantasy gamehas left me bereft of all context while my colleagues talk about what they loved and hated in recent instalments....

I’m doing better in ranked inApex Legends Season 20, but I’m playing worse. The big fifth anniversary reset was like a Thanos snap for all ranked grinders, pitting everyone against one another as all RP was put back to zero. No matter how good your previous performances, we all started from a level playing field. I assume the reasons for this were enforced by the change to matchmaking. Instead of matching players by a hidden MMR stat like in previous seasons,Apex Legendshas switched to matching players by rank....

In 2023, the bottom fell out for superheromovies. The trend that had made even bad movies box office gold for over a decade now seemed to be box office poison. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, The Marvels,The Flash, Blue Beetle, Shazam! Fury of the Gods, and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom all underperformed or outright flopped. Audiences were rejecting superheroes to some extent, but they were also rejecting the interconnected, labyrinthine, meta storytelling that had increasingly defined comic books’ big screen adaptations....

We’re all familiar with samurais to some degree. Even if you’re not a history buff, they often feature in films, TV, and video games. My own knowledge of samurai was rather basic. Like most people, I just thought, ‘Hey, cool warriors with swords!’, but after playingLike a Dragon: Ishin, I’ve learned a lot more about these famed warriors. But how much of Ishin is actually accurate? Though the storyline is fictional, the game is set in the Bakumatsu period and draws inspiration from historical characters and events, and the protagonist is based on one of the most famous samurai in history, Sakamoto Ryōma....

In a genre as booming ascozy gaming, developers are constantly searching for creative twists to make their titles stand out, which can lead to some rather unique twists on the usual fare. Kamaeru: A Frog Refuge offers a beautifully natural spin on the genre: you’re rebuilding ecosystems with your farming and crafting efforts, and the ecosystem in turn provides you with resources and a landscape that improves visually with your efforts....

Sometimes, I wonder if reducing every game down to an elevator pitch is ruining the way we talk about games. I get why marketing likes to do it – when you hear Rise of the Ronin is ‘Assassin’s Creed meets Nioh’, it instantly gives you a general idea of what the game feels like to play, while also pulling in the fans of those popular games. But taking those shortcuts to describe games can often create wrong associations that lead to unfair expectations....

Quick Links Cloud, Aerith, and Tifa had to tango with Rude and Elena of the Turks in Chapter 3 ofFinal Fantasy 7 Rebirth, but Barret and Red XIII aren’t left out in the cold. Their opponent is the mighty Mythril Golem, a crystalline creature that doesn’t appear particularly happy to see our heroes. With two phases, high damage output, and multiple targetable body parts, the Mythril Golem’s got it going on....

The survival game genre is growing in a variety of ways. Not only are we getting more survival games to choose from, but studios are pushing and expanding the boundaries of what exactly makes something a survival game.Nightingalewill do exactly that next week when its early access period begins. A game from Inflexion that unquestionably falls under the survival umbrella while also switching up the genre’s mechanics to make it feel unlike any other survival game on the market....

Project XL is aRobloxanime questing game as you level up your character by defeating enemies, improving your character’s mastery score, and unlocking powerful new gear to tackle new areas of the map. TheseProject XL codeswill grant you a lot of early boosts to mastery XP and free items to improve your play. There are different traits, character races and weapons to try out, each with their own abilities and different playstyles....

Summary It’s been a while since the last properCrash Bandicootgame - no, I’m not includingCrash Team Rumble, and neither should you - and even longer since the lastSpyrogame, although rumors continue to circulate that the purple dragon will be revived soon. Odd considering how much stock both characters have with multiple generations of gamers. The pair’s remastered trilogies are evidence of that, and right now you can grab both withCrash 4thrown in for good measure for a lot less than usual....