Beginner Tips For The Portal: Companion Collection

Portal: Companion Collectioncompiles two of the most beloved puzzle games of all time and released them with updated content and controls for the Nintendo Switch. Owners of the console who have yet to try this game out will have a great time playing through both games and interacting with some of the most iconic video game characters of all time. Related:Puzzle Games You Have To Be A Genius To Complete Of course, thePortalduology doesn’t shy away from ramping up the difficulty for certain puzzles as well....

July 2, 2025 · 5 min · 868 words · Peter Morgan

Best Assault Rifles In Battlefield 2042

Summary Battlefield 2042is a first-person shooter that is set, as the title suggests in the year 2042. The game portrays a semi-futuristic world that is on the brink of collapse due to intense warfare and the absence of resources. Like other games in the series,Battlefield 2042yet again brings out its massive 128-player multiplayer mode where both parties try to fight it out and control zones to win. Weapons are one of the main aspects of the game....

July 2, 2025 · 5 min · 1044 words · Marcus Yates

Best Cyberpunk TV Shows

With the resounding success ofCyberpunk: Edgerunners,Cyberpunk 2077has enjoyed its share of renewed interest. A lot of players have been flocking back into the game either to fill in the void or consume more of the bittersweet dark chocolate that is the cyberpunk genre. Thankfully, some good cyberpunk stories aren’t just limited toEdgerunnersandCyberpunk 2077. There’s a handful of good television shows and series thatcapture the spirit of the genrethat’s gradually rising in popularity....

July 2, 2025 · 6 min · 1263 words · Julie Vargas

Best Mods For Resident Evil 4

Summary Resident Evil 4was initially released in January 2005exclusively on the GameCubeand has since been released on almost every console under the sun. Capcom took a bold risk with the game by completely reinventing theResident Evilformula, with the series' trademark fixed camera being ditched in favor of an over-the-shoulder perspective. The risk clearly paid off, asResident Evil 4is still considered to be one of the best shooters andbest horror games of all time....

July 2, 2025 · 8 min · 1562 words · Donald Edwards

Best Sailor Moon Transformation Sequences, Ranked

Pretty Soldier Sailor Moonmay not have been the first magical girl series but it remains the most notable in the genre and is credited with the creation of many of its defining traits. One of these was transformation sequences, an attribute that all renditions ofSailor Moonfeature plenty of. Related:The Most Popular Anime Genres & The Titles That Defined Them Sailor Mooninarguably contains some of the greatest transformation scenes to date in animation but which of its own metamorphic scenes reign supreme?...

July 2, 2025 · 6 min · 1144 words · Tiffany Cooper

Best Shonen Anime Like Fairy Tail

Summary Fairy Tailis a fairly famous action anime. The series has everything a battle shonen fan could ever want: powerful protagonists who manage to clutch a win, quirky characters with unique abilities, a smidgen of romance, and, of course, the power of friendship. Ever since the original show’s finale in 2019, though, a Natsu-sized hole has steadily formed in the hearts of many viewers. Luckily, a good deal ofanime likeFairy Tailare available on streaming platforms like Crunchyroll, ones that are more than capable of providing laughs and wacky misadventures in abundance....

July 2, 2025 · 7 min · 1445 words · Diana Matthews

Best Turn-Based Strategy Games Like XCOM

Summary The long-runningXCOMseries began in 1994 withX-COM: UFO Defense (also known asUFO: Enemy Unknown) and started to receive mainstream attention in 2012 thanks to the critically acclaimedXCOM: Enemy Unknown,which acted as a reboot for the series. The newfound mainstream attention has not been due to changes in its core values, however.XCOM: Enemy Unknownand its sequels have kept the punishing difficulty intact. XCOM: Chimera Squadstruggled to impress fans of the series, exemplified by its brutal User Score on Metacritic....

July 2, 2025 · 6 min · 1274 words · Jennifer Johnson

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Cutscene Sets Up Season 3

The third Season of content forCall of Duty: Black Ops Cold Waris less than a week away from releasing, and Treyarch has officially started to hype up the update. A brief teaser has released forCall of Duty: Black Ops Cold WarSeason 3, showing what happened after Season 2’s intro cutscene. TheCall of Duty: Black Ops Cold WarSeason 3 teaser trailer is much like the one seen prior to Season 2’s reveal, as it is a mixture of original cinematics and in-game footage....

July 2, 2025 · 3 min · 471 words · Mr. James Williams

Control's Bureau Seemed Like a Nice Place to Work Before the Hiss

The Federal Bureau of Control, setting of 2019’s hit paranatural thrillerControl, wasn’t always ravaged by hostile resonance and filled with twisted enemies. It was once a vibrant workplace filled with government employees, who not only worked together, but also took breaks, socialized, and engaged in leisurely pursuits during their downtime at the USA’s most secret federal office. Of all themysteries thatControlpresents for players to solve, perhaps the most mundane (but most entertaining) are those uncovered by sifting through the correspondence between regular bureau employees, begging the question: what was it really like to work at the FBC?...

July 2, 2025 · 5 min · 1054 words · Denise Campbell

Counter-Strike 2 Gun Sells for Ridiculous Amount of Money

Summary ACounter-Strike 2gun was sold for an insane amount of money recently.Counter-Strikehas become famous for its high-value item trading, where players buy and sell various weapon skins and stickers for unbelievable amounts of wealth. Counter-Strike’sdeveloper, Valve, releasedCounter-Strike 2in September 2023. As the latest installment in one of the more storied franchises in gaming history, there was significant hype surrounding the new game. However, despite this excitement, its release was divisive among theCounter-Strikefanbase....

July 2, 2025 · 3 min · 526 words · Linda Mcbride

Destiny 2 May Soon Release Three Classic Craftable Swords

Destiny 2seems to have a few more tricks up its sleeve for the Season of Plunder, judging by its API, where users have discovered a few new weapon crafting patterns that may be getting released soon. The game has slowly been filling out its selection of craftable weapons since the launch of theWitch QueenDLC, and if the latest reveals are correct, class swords may be next on the docket. Specifically, whereasDestiny 2has generally stepped away from releasing class-exclusive weaponry, there are a few select examples of Bungie still maintaining some amount of diversity between Hunters, Titans, and Warlocks....

July 2, 2025 · 3 min · 526 words · Joshua Smith

Destiny 2's Exorcism Mission Proves End of Season Events Should Come Sooner

Destiny 2’s The Witch Queen expansion is just a few days away, and while it marks plenty of new and exciting beginnings, it is also the end of Year 4 and all the content that came with it. This means that every story bit from all the recent Seasons will be gone for those who didn’t experience them, much like what happened to most of the Year 1 content through the Destiny Content Vault at the beginning of Beyond Light....

July 2, 2025 · 4 min · 695 words · Stefanie Lopez

Destiny 2's Melee Supers Need More Help Than Bungie Plans For Season 15

Destiny 2manages to stay relevant throughout the years because it constantly gets attention from Bungie in the form of seasonal storylines and content, and balancing patches that shift the way the game is played. Sometimes these are mostly about guns, sometimes a mix between abilities, Exotics, weapons, and even mods. Season 15 will seemingly bring a lot of changes toDestiny 2in terms of gameplay. Bungie’s most recent TWAB highlighted all the planned changes for many of the subclasses in the game, with a trend of apparently trying tobuff Light subclasses and melee Supersto make them more impactful....

July 2, 2025 · 5 min · 1031 words · Shane Elliott