Ghost Story Games’Judasjust had its first round of hands-on previews, an oddly restrictive affair in which Geoff Keighley got a taste of the action ahead of many high profile journalistic outfits. That’s fitting for where Judas is - it still feels like it’s in the advertising stage of its life, rather than the promotional. It can be difficult to track this shift from one to the other. Advertising and promoting seem like the same thing....

Quick Links The murder mystery inMagic: The Gatheringdeepens with the Revenant Recon commander deck. Filled with both blue/black Dimir staples and exciting exclusives from the newMurders at Karlov Manor, the deck revolves around reconnaissance and surveilling cards into the graveyard to reanimate through multiple nefarious means. Revenant Recon’s full graveyard sure seems suspicious, but rest assured the deck’s Vampire Detective Commander is on the case. There’s no escape from the long arm of the law, just as there’s no escape from the grave....

This article contains major end-game spoilers for Final Fantasy 16. With Square Enix announcing at PAX East in Boston this year that The Rising Tide, the second of two DLCs forFinal Fantasy 16, would be launching on April 18, I was eager to accept the opportunity to sit down and chat with some of the team from the project. I met with Naoki Yoshida (longtime series producer and director of multiple Final Fantasy titles), Takeo Kujiraoka (who’s responsible for The Rising Tide DLC), and Michael-Christopher Koji Fox (English localization editor on the series) the day before the launch date was announced to discuss both the game’s storied past and its exciting look to the future....

ThePokemon TCGis preparing for the arrival of its Temporal Forces expansion next week, but its creators already have half an eye on what’s next. More than half an eye as the next expansion after Temporal Forces was revealed this week. MoreScarlet & Violetgoodness dubbedthe Twilight Masquerade expansion, and not only can you be among the first to secure your cards from the new set now that pre-orders have begun at Best Buy, but for a limited time you can snag the booster box for a lot less....

There are a lot ofgreat deals available on the PlayStation Storeright now, but the best ones are, understandably, the ones that don’t tend to stick around the longest. Some of the biggest and best savings onPS5andPS4games right now are only available for the weekend, including a heavy reduction on the platform’sRed Dead Redemptionbundle. A collection that includes both games and, somewhat controversially, usually costs $100. Rockstarreleased its port of Red Dead Redemption on PS4 andNintendo Switchin the summer of 2023....

A reliableCrash BandicootandSpyroinsider has claimed that the unannounced title thatToys for Bobis working withMicrosofton is a fourth Spyro the Dragon game. And no, we don’t count Enter the Dragonfly. As great as the Spyro: Reignited Trilogy was, it’s been a long time since the purple dragon got his own dedicated game and didn’t just show up as a cameo in Crash’s more recent ventures. Fans have been desperate to see a new game for a long while now andassumed that it was the next project that Toys for Bob was working on, but those hopes were dashedwhen it announced it was going independent....

Streamingalso brought with it the complete power to choose what to watch and when to watch. Since its arrival in the middle of the 20th century, TV has been a broadcast medium, like radio. You could choose to tune into a channel, but you had no control over what was playing. This might sound negative, and it was when you couldn’t find anything to watch. We used to sit there just endlessly scrolling through the channels, unsatisfied with everything TV had to offer....

Whenever some of theNintendo Switch’s biggest games are on sale, I’ll give the usual spiel aboutNintendonever needing to reduce the price of its heavy hitters so this should be considered a special occasion. That’s still true, but maybe not quite as true as it was a few months ago. With the Switch seemingly nearing the end of its life cycle, its games have been getting their prices slashed more and more often, and right now Amazon and Best Buy have some of the biggest ones available for less....

Palworldwas a runaway success for developer Pocketpair, quickly becomingone of Steam’s most-played games of all time, hitting a peak of over two million players. While its virality has died down, currently at a much lower 24-hour peak of 85,000, it’s still going strong, and other developers are taking note. Cue Tencent. As reported byBloomberg, two Tencent studios - TiMi and Lightspeed - are reportedly developing Palworld-like mobile games. As with thePokemon-inspired survival game, they will feature an open world with crafting elements, virtual pets, and stylised violence....

Quick Links After beating the initial content inHonkai: Star Rail, most of your time will be spent trying to perfect the builds on either your existing characters or preparing for future units. This is especially true when you’re trying to build Acheron due to the complications in both her kit and team synergies. Acheron is a five-star Nihility unit that’s supposed to be the main DPS on your team. Her Ultimate is the main aspect of her kit since it works differently from any other Ultimate in the game, and the damage you see is also quite staggering....

Summary Tekken 8gives you a lot of things to do, from new stuff such as their Arcade Quest mode - an excellent way to learn the game, by the way - to old school things such as individual endings for each character, in the mode now named Character Episodes. These endings are not canonical - you have the Story Mode for canonical content - but they either give you more insight into the character you chose or, as is often the case, give you absurd and hilarious endings just for the laughs, as Tekken is a series that takes itself very seriously while simultaneously not taking itself serious at all....

Summary Elden Ring’s Golden OrderIncantationscover a wide range of power levels, ranging from among the most potent spells in the Lands Between, to some that make you wonder how the Golden Order survived so long. It’s an absurd dichotomy not seen in most other spell types. These incantations are heavily associated with Miquella, who is going to be a major player in Elden Ring’s DLC. Although, the flavor text suggests that he at some point abandoned Golden Order fundamentalism....

Summary You can’t go wrong with a bit of good ol' high fantasy, a genre giving youthe most extensive and sometimes complex lore, worldbuilding, and grand adventures throughout incredibly immersive fantasy lands. You have lots of it in literature, TTRPGs, TV, and also video games that take the highlights of high fantasy and immerse players in awe-striking gameplay, systems, and narrative design. Luckily, game designers are just as captivated and eager to get into a high fantasy game as you....