PowerA has teamed up with several games and series to create officially licensed controllers and accessories for all three leading console creators, but its newest team-up might be its biggest to date. The peripheral creator has partnered withEpic Gamesto create some uniqueFortniteaccessories forNintendo SwitchandXbox, the former’s collection including a controller that looks like it is made out of nothing but Peely. The Switch’s PowerA Fortnite collection is made up of three items, all of which are themed after the island’s resident banana....

Hey, everyone. Gather around. We haven’t talked for a few days. I can see everyone’s being really normal aboutSuicide Squad. Some people don’t like it. Some other people are extremely mad at the first group who don’t like it. And one refrain I’ve seen repeated is that the video game media is conspiring to ruin the game for [insert reasons] and thateveryone has to present receipts and clips and screenshotsto prove why it’s actually the best live-service game toever crash in the first hour....

Outlast has never been the smartest of games. It’s never needed to be – by combining the night-vision resource management of a video camera with frantic parkour traversal and some of the most controversial imagery in gaming (even more so at the time of its release in 2014), it’s never had to be particularly subtle. Red Barrels’ third outing withThe Outlast Trialsdoesn’t change that tonal ambition. This is still the macabre haunted house ride its predecessors were, but with a new multiplayer coating that, at the very least, keeps you running through the corridors long enough to get your gory fill....

Summary Slay the Spire2, a sequel to the beloved roguelike deck-builder, has been revealed at the Triple-i Initiative and is launching in Early Access at some point in 2025. Over the past few years,we’ve seen a rise in the roguelike deck-building genrethanks to releases like Monster Train, Card Quest, Dicey Dungeons, and a whole lot more. Although the subgenre is only just starting to take off, there’s one particularly beloved game that stands tall as the one that pushed the genre into the mainstream - 2017’s Slay the Spire....

Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealthdidn’t just bring the old LaD and Yakuza crews back together, it introduced us to some brand new party members to fall in love with too. One of those new faces is Chitose Fujinomiya, a spunky woman capable of holding her own in a fight and run rings around the guys. This is never more evident than in her introduction, where she drugs Kasuga and leaves him naked on a beach....

Over the years,decision-based gameshave become more and more popular, with this new subgenre of interactive fiction producing some of the most memorable video games with great storytelling and iconic characters still loved to this day. However, some of the choice-based games are the ones that lean into horror. Whether it’s emulating a B-movie or trying to tell a more gritty and serious branching narrative, these stories can be pretty hard hitting....

Summary After going through the treacherous gacha road ofGenshin Impactwhenever you’re trying to get a new five-star character, the next step is to choose the best weapon for them that’s available on your account. A character’s weapon can easily make or break them during combat. This is especially true for a DPS character likeArlecchino, who relies on a good Crit Ratio and specific stats to perform well. This Polearm-wielding character hasPyro as her vision, and she also introduces a unique mechanic to the game called Bond of Life....

Quick Links The Sorcerer is the archetypal caster inDragon’s Dogma 2.Their mastery of magick allows them to weaponize the elements themselves, creating small blizzards or violent tornados at a moment’s notice. Sorcerers can’t take much punishment, but they dish out some serious damage. If any Vacation deserves to be called a glass cannon, it’s this one. As strong as Sorcerers can be, they don’t start out as casters of mass destruction....

Quick Links Playing a Warrior inDragon’s Dogma 2is straightforward in theory: hit everything with your massive sword (or axe) and go on your merry way. However, learningthe nuances of the Warrior vocationwill unlock its true potential as a boss-crushing tank. As you progress through Dragon’s Dogma 2, you’ll come across some of the best gear for Warriors in DD2, namely fromthe Dragonforged in Battahl. Aside from amassing an arsenal of exceptional armor, the best Warrior build in DD2 requires a careful selection of Weapon Skills and Augments from across vocations....

From your favorite superhero to the most infamous villains, there’s everything in this popular browser game,Infinite Craft. With tons of stuff to explore and discover, you’re able to spend hours on this game and still find something new and exciting. Among these discoveries are also fan-favorite places like Krypton and Gotham. If you want to learn the best recipe to craft Gotham in Infinite Craft, here is the recipe for you....

Quick Links Have you ever been to an arcade? Even if you haven’t, you probably understand the basic concept. You could play a certain amount of time or a game with tokens. Naturally, there weren’t as many games back then as today. Options like Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and Donkey Kong were among the choices. For fighting games, there was Street Fighter. With fewer characters, mainly Ryu, you could face up to ten opponents from different countries....

XboxEra co-host and leaker Nick Baker recently claimed he received “evidence” of anUnchartedremake. While details are scarce, YouTuber Speclizer_ claims they found proof of its existence inThe Last of Us Part 2’sfiles. “In the years I’ve been reversing, datamining, and modding TLOU2, I’ve noticedhundredsof references to The Last of Us remake (internally called ‘t1x’) in TLOU2’s files but thought nothing of it. Two years later,TLOU remake was announced and released,” Speclizer_ tweeted....

While it can be fun to play as the righteous hero of a story or, in some cases, the villain, there is something so intriguing about stepping into the shoes of a character who walks the moral line. Morally grey protagonists in video games are so fascinating because they keep you guessing about where their true intentions lie. Because if the real world doesn’t paint things in black and white, then why should all of fiction conform to such binary characters?...