Quick Links Whether coating them on your swords for an advantage in combat or slipping them in an adversary’s drink, poisons inDungeons & Dragonscome in various forms and uses. More often used by the Rogue class to assist in stealth and assassinations, poisons are a handy tool on anyone’s belt. Some poisons also require expensive materials to create to be granted their potent effect. This could cause the Dungeon Master to send their party on a side quest to obtain said materials....

Summary Influence can be a dangerous thing in gaming. Many a dev has spoken about the nightmare scenario of working on a game for years, only for a senior executive to come in one Monday and say “I played this great game at the weekend, they had this cool feature we should use!”. Games have long development cycles and slow turning circles, and so adding inspiration often takes a long time....

There was a time, many years ago, when people would have been excited about a Naruto live action remake. In fact, that time was 2015, when the project was originally announced. But in 2024, the announcement that there’s finally a director (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings’ Destin Daniel Cretton) attached to the project has largely been met with middling to negative reactions. We are at the point in the cycle that nobody wants this anymore, because nobody believes the adaptation will be any good....

It feels weird to say theOne Piecebandwagon is picking up speed when its manga and anime have been running for decades and are made up of more than 1,000 chapters. The debut of a live-action adaptation onNetflix, and the reveal that the anime will be getting a reboot on the same platform, has brought in waves of new fans, though. Knowing that, Funko has been releasing Pops for One Piece fans old and new, and four more figures were revealed this week....

Summary Cyberpunk 2077has had one of the better comebacks in modern gaming. It was launched minus a ton of features promised throughout its long-gestating development, and became divisive among those that played it, despite receiving mostly favorable critical scores and earning award recognition along the way. CD Projekt Red got to work post-launch, adding numerous updates and patches, eventually culminating in a significant update and expansion calledPhantom Liberty. Wonderful character interactions,tense player choices, a mind-blowing virtual concert, incredible set pieces, and more, provided a glimpse of what the future of this once highly anticipated IP could be....

MultiVersushas been gone for quite a while now, with no real hints as to exactly when it’ll be coming back. We had an official announcement at the end of 2023 thatnews would be shared “in the coming months”, but we’ve had radio silence ever since. Daniel Ross, the voice actor for Uncle Shagworthy, Stripe, and Gizmo, alsotweeted a rather cryptic smiley face emoji at the start of this month, hinting at incoming news, but our biggest clue has come from Steam....

Just when you thought the era of playing rhythm games with instrument controllers had firmly been left in the past,Rock Banddevelopers Harmonix created Fortnite Festival. A part of theFortniteexperience built on the back ofGuitar Heroand Rock Band. That quicklyprompted PDP to create a guitar controllerfor the modern era dubbed the Riffmaster. It isn’t compatible with Fortnite Festival yet, but you can pre-order it now and use it to play Rock Band 4....

The first couple of months of a new year are usually when we’re afforded the opportunity to catch up with all the games we missed the year before, or to just play something that has been sitting in our backlog for longer than we can remember. With the number of great games big and small that were released in 2023, we needed that time to catch up more than ever. The industry wasn’t having it though, dropping a handful of fantastic games in our laps before we’d even made it out of January....

As a lifelong comic reader, it’s very funny to see people get so riled up aboutSPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERSBatman dying in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. Superhero deaths are considered a cheap marketing ploy in modern comics, since advertising the death of a beloved character is a great way to bring attention to a monthly series or big crossover event. No one expects them to last longer than a few months, a year at most....

Summary A reliableCapcominsider has suggested thatResident Evil9 could have been “internally delayed” from its original plan of being revealed this year and released in 2025. 2024 has already been abig year for Capcom with the release of Dragon’s Dogma 2but, despiteResident Evil 4’s remake having just released a year ago, there are a lot of us hoping to see it get even bigger with Resident Evil 9. Although the next game in the series hasn’t even been confirmed yet,it’s been rumoured for some time and seems to be on the distant horizon....

Hello Gamesboss Sean Murray is teasing anotherNo Man’s Skyupdate with cryptic emojis. In two separate tweets now, Murray has shared a series of star emojis, or more specifically, the star emoji used to represent dizziness. It’s not clear what that’s meant to signify, but that hasn’t stopped fans from guessing. This comes shortly afterlast month’s Omega update, which of course, was also teased with a string of emojis over on Murray’s social media account....

Summary Created by SHIFT UP Corporation,Stellar Bladeis an RPG set in a post-apocalyptic world where the players are tasked to clear the earth of horrific monsters that have taken over. This PlayStation 5 exclusive game tells an amazing story across its 30 hours and includes epic, fast-paced combat, an incredible soundtrack as well as exceptional level design and monsters. This list will tell you some games you should check out if you’re done with Stellar Blade or are looking for something similar....

Earlier this month,I spoke to the developers of SpellRogueand had a chance to play the game’s demo. They were later kind enough to send me a key for the Early Access version shortly after it launched, and the next day or so of my life vanished in a blur of D6s. The demo showcased a well thought-out turn-based roguelike with a fun, intuitive, roll-and-assign dice pool mechanic. What wasn’t apparent, though, was the depth of spells, options, and builds available to players in the full game....