Fortnite: How to Plant Saplings at Bomb Crater Clusters

Quick Links OneFortnitequest for Week 8 of Chapter 3, Season 2 involvestraveling to the burnt craters scattered around Island Artemis and planting saplingsthere. This challenge tasks players with visiting the battle-scarred bomb sites left in the wake ofFortnite’s season-long conflict between the Seven and the IO, with the aim of bringing some life back to the ruins. While sounding simple on paper, players will need tokeep a close eye on their minimapto attain the 20K XP reward for completing the challenge....

June 1, 2025 · 3 min · 531 words · Kelly Savage

Genshin Impact 3.5 Leak Reveals Dehya and Cyno Weapon Banner

A newGenshin Impactleak has revealed which items will appear on the weapon banner in the first part of the upcoming update 3.5. The game’s weapons can be divided into five different rarity ranks with five-star items being usually the strongest in the game. Genshin Impact’s official live stream event for version 3.5 has confirmed two new characters for the next update, Dehya and Mika. Dehya will appear in the first part of the update alongside the Electro polearm user Cyno who will receive his first re-run....

June 1, 2025 · 2 min · 391 words · Dawn Alexander

Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut Leaked

Ghost of Tsushimahas been out for almost a full year, and Sucker Punch could be cooking up something special for its anniversary. The ESRB seems to have spilled the beans on one potential surprise, as a Director’s Cut ofGhost of Tsushimahas been rated by the site. With the ESRB spoiling a potentialmelee focus inDeath Stranding: Director’s Cutonly a few weeks back, this slip-up is not too unexpected. However, fans do not get get much in the way of new information in this description....

June 1, 2025 · 3 min · 440 words · Tina Richmond

Grand Theft Auto 4 Car Bomb Mission Goes Hilariously Wrong in Viral Clip

Grand Theft Autogames are known for their variable game systems. Released in 2008 on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and later PC,Grand Theft Auto 4pushed the gaming mediumto new heights at its time of release. Set in Liberty City, a fictionalized version of New York, Rockstar Games’ sprawling crime drama featured a massive, living game world and highly advanced physics. ModernGrand Theft Autogames run on Rockstar’s impressive RAGE engine, one of the few game engines to use the highly realistic Euphoria physics middleware which makes collisions and ragdolls very distinctive....

June 1, 2025 · 3 min · 446 words · Allen Gilmore

GTA Online Fan Makes Playable Rainbow Road Racetrack From Mario Kart

Mario Kartis an extremely long-lived franchise, with its thirtieth anniversary on the horizon later this year. It’s been around so long that most gamers have likely given it a try at one time or another, or are at least familiar with some of its iconic race tracks. OneMario Kartrace trackthat’s extremely well-known is Rainbow Road, which combines charming graphics with pretty intense difficulty.Mario Kartfans tend to either love or hate Rainbow Road, but those who can’t get enough of it can now visit a recreation inGrand Theft Auto Online....

June 1, 2025 · 2 min · 417 words · Jeffrey Williams

Hogwarts Legacy Should Have Worn Transgender Representation on Its Sleeve

Hogwarts Legacy’s release has been quite controversial for several reasons, including the many issues with J.K. Rowling’s outspoken anti-trans propaganda and what seemed like unwillingness to respond to it in meaningful ways on the developer’s part. This was not the only contentious fact about the game, asHogwarts Legacy’s representation of the Goblin Rebellionin theHarry Potteruniverse was seen as an antisemitic narrative that further made prospective players distance themselves from the project....

June 1, 2025 · 4 min · 645 words · Patrick Vasquez

House of Ashes Looks More Like Resident Evil Than Previous Dark Pictures Games

Supermassive Games is soon continuing its interactive horror franchise withDark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes. The title is the third in a planned string of eight games that play out as interactive movies, to a degree, and serve as the spiritual successor to Supermassive’sUntil Dawn.House of Ashesis making one pretty drastic shift away from its predecessors, and that could end up a defining factor the upcoming sequel. Previously, theDark Picturesgames, and by extensionUntil Dawn, featured normal “everyman” characters as protagonists....

June 1, 2025 · 3 min · 526 words · Patrick Johnson

How the Fallout Show's Success Could Positively Affect The Elder Scrolls

Amazon Prime’sFalloutshow has received widespread praise and critical appeal since it was released over one month ago. Many fans not only appreciated how accurate many of the sets and props were to the video games, but also enjoyed how it remained true to prior games and continued their story. One thing that both new and old fans could agree on is that the show features a lot of fun comedy in a way that only aFallouttitle could provide....

June 1, 2025 · 4 min · 644 words · Ashley Rodriguez

How to Use the New Piety System in a Dungeons and Dragons Campaign

Along with the newMythic Odysseys of Theroshandbook that Wizards of the Coast released this week onDnD Beyondcomes unique content that fans ofDungeons and Dragonscan incorporate into their campaigns. One of these features that the book spends nearly a chapter of space to flush out is piety. While gods and deities have been a big part of the roleplaying game (as well asMagic: The Gathering, the game that the world of Theros originally comes from), many players feel that they’re only significant to the Clerics andPaladinsthat wield their power, and even then their individual godly influence can stop at what domain or oath a character chooses to take....

June 1, 2025 · 4 min · 715 words · Jessica Wilson

Incuvo Games CEO Talks Adapting Games to VR

Adaptation is something many are familiar with, in one way or another. Books are often adapted into movies, and at one point in the gaming industry, major movies often had video game adaptations. With the rise of theMCU, comic book movie adaptationsare as popular as ever. The gaming industry is no stranger to it, but behind the scenes, how much adaptation goes on may be hard to see. All gamers are familiar with ports, where one game launches on a system like the Switch much later....

June 1, 2025 · 4 min · 801 words · Elizabeth Fitzgerald

Islands Might Not be the Only Objects Floating Above Hyrule in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Less than two months are left beforeThe Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdomreleases on the Nintendo Switch. As the surprise sequel toBreath of the Wild, this title has generated tons of hype, even though not much has been seen of it yet. The picture thatTears of the Kingdom’s trailers have painted is of a remixed Hyrule with far more content found above and below its surface. Only time will tell what players will find, but hopefully more trailers in the coming weeks will shed some light on this mysterious title....

June 1, 2025 · 5 min · 925 words · Emily Robertson

Johnny Depp Starred In This Infamous Sci-Fi Flop

Movie stars go through ebbs and flow in their careers. Around fifteen years ago, the public perception of Tom Cruise was unlike what it is today. Johnny Depp was the highest-paid actor in the world back in 2012. Just a few years later, he headlined one flop after another. Among those disasters,Transcendencemay be the most notable. Science fiction tends towards cynicism. Understandably, a glimpse at the future will rarely offer a reward, but a lot of sci-fi authors see science as part of the problem....

June 1, 2025 · 4 min · 801 words · David Boone

Leaker Gives Updates on Horizon 3 and Naughty Dog's Next Game

Updated on June 20, 2025: Renowned journalist Jason Schreier hasdismissedsome of Silknigth’s recent leaks as “false.” While he didn’t say anything about their Horizon- and Naughty Dog-related claims, the move still casts doubts on the veracity of Silknigth’s recently shared info. The original story follows. Summary Contrary to some recent speculation, theHorizon 3reveal is not imminent, a leaker of rising prominence has claimed. Aside from the next entry in theHorizonfranchise, the insider also offered an update on the next Naughty Dog project....

June 1, 2025 · 3 min · 624 words · Rebecca Adams