Baldur's Gate 3 Adds a Feature Fans Have Been Asking For

Summary Inside of Patch 3, Larian Studios adds a new feature toBaldur’s Gate 3called the Magic Mirror, giving players access to a highly requested feature. Following a lengthy Early Access period, Larian Studios finallylaunched the full version ofBaldur’s Gate 3at the beginning of Augustto both critical and commercial success. The game features a wealth of content for players to explore with nearly everything influenced by a Dungeons and Dragons style dice roll, ensuring that each playthrough is unique....

May 15, 2025 · 3 min · 462 words · Anthony Wang

Battlefield 3 Reality Mod Releases Later This Month

After the fiasco that wasBattlefield 2042, franchise veterans may have found themselves yearning for the days ofBattlefield 3and its immediate successor. Comparatively simpler and more pointed multiplayer FPS experiences, these games avoided succumbing to some of2042’s widely criticized flaws and are still kept in high regard by the community. It’s good news, then, thatBattlefield 3is about to get a huge new multiplayer mod that has been in active development for seven years and has been produced by over 80 contributors during that time....

May 15, 2025 · 2 min · 417 words · Rebecca Baker

Borderlands 3 Reveals Nintendo Switch Update Patch Notes

Summary Gearbox Software has released a pretty significant update for the Nintendo Switch version of its action RPGBorderlands 3.Rumors that the game would be coming to Nintendo’s portable device were swirling years before it even released on other platforms, but Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford debunked that early on by confirming that there wereno plans to bringBorderlands 3to Switch. Of course, the studio eventually changed course and the game launched for Switch on July 05, 2025....

May 15, 2025 · 4 min · 721 words · Michael Dixon

Chris Hemsworth And Taika Waititi On Loki's Absence In Thor 4

With the release ofThor: Love and Thunderright around the corner,Thorstar Chris Hemsworth and director Taika Waititi are giving fans a tease at what’s to come and why Tom Hiddleston’s Loki won’t be part of the new adventure. Loki has been a part of allThorfilms up until now, making his absence in this new film surprising. While doing press forThor: Love and Thunder,Hemsworth and Waititi joked when Hiddleston’s Loki not being a part of the new film was brought up to them....

May 15, 2025 · 2 min · 364 words · Sarah Myers

Daniel Kaluuya Confirms Why He's Not In Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

It appears thatBlack Panther: Wakanda Foreverwon’t be having one of its core main characters back from its predecessor. Daniel Kaluuya, who played W’Kabi inBlack Pantherin 2018, will reportedly not be in the sequel of the Oscar-nominated Marvel Studios movie. InBlack Panther, W’Kabi is the best friend and confidant of King T’Challa. While W’Kabi served as head of security for the Border Tribe in Wakanda, he was ultimately convinced to allowMichael B....

May 15, 2025 · 3 min · 553 words · Felicia Golden

Elden Ring DLC is FromSoft's Next-Best Opportunity to Tease a Long-Overdue Project

Well over a year since its release, 2022’s Game of the Year,Elden Ring, continues to dominate headlines. The culmination of developer FromSoftware’s Soulsborne collection,Elden Ringis far from done just yet, and its highly-anticipated DLC, titledShadow of the Erdtree, was announced via Twitter back in February. While details of the expansion are fairly limited at the moment, FromSoftware should seize the opportunity to use it in order to stoke the fires of speculation around a long-sought-after project:Bloodborne 2....

May 15, 2025 · 3 min · 621 words · Barry Anderson

Every Machine Confirmed for Horizon Call of the Mountain So Far

TheHorizonseries has been one of Sony’s flagship franchises ever since it first debuted in 2017 withHorizon Zero Dawn. Featuring an incredibly unique premise and setting,Horizon Zero Dawnmanaged to stand out from the oversaturated open-world market when it released, and its sequel,Horizon Forbidden Westdoubled down on what made the original so unique. Early next year, Sony’s hopingtheHorizonfranchisecan pull it off for the third time, but this time it’s in a new medium: VR....

May 15, 2025 · 3 min · 568 words · Alexander Rodriguez

Grand Theft Auto 5 Player Finds Mk 2 in Story Mode

Less than a month afterGrand Theft Auto 5hit shelves,Grand Theft Auto Onlinewent live as well. Since then Rockstar has added a ton of content for players since its initial 2013 release date. One such addition was the inclusion of the Oppressor Mk 2 which was made available in 2018, as part of the After Hours update. However, the vehicle was not made available inGrand Theft Auto 5’s single-player mode. Cars play a big role inGrand Theft Auto 5due to the nature of the open-world game....

May 15, 2025 · 3 min · 451 words · Crystal Mcfarland

Halo Reach Clip is Reminder of Just How Deadly Elites Are in the Campaign

TheHalouniverse is full of threats bearing down on the UNSC over the franchise’s history, whether it is the parasitic and all-consuming Flood or the newer, more mysteriousEndless. A near-constant during that whole time, though, has been the various aliens making up the Covenant and its various splinter factions, such as the Banished. One of the deadliest among the Covenants' forces has been the Elites, which humanity now calls allies, but oneHalo Reachplayer got a painful reminder of how dangerous the Elites are while playing through the campaign....

May 15, 2025 · 3 min · 453 words · Devon Curry

Hard Decisions Players Have To Make In Games

The main aspect of gaming that differentiates it from books and films is that players are in control of the main character(s). Although there are some “choose your own adventure” books and interactive films likeBlack Mirror’sBandersnatch, they are outliers. RELATED:Great Choose Your Own Adventure Video Games As narratives in gaming have grown in budget and scope, many games now let playersmake key choices in what happens in a story. While some games have decisions that are arbitrary or uninterestingly simple, there are others that force players to make decisions that can have them staring at the screen for far longer than they may want to admit, weighing up the potential future consequences of their choice....

May 15, 2025 · 5 min · 995 words · Daniel Collins

Hogwarts Legacy: The History of the Gryffindor House

In each new academic year, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry welcomes a whole host of new students. During their time in the castle they learn about potion-brewing, herbology, and defense against the dark arts, all in the hope of being better at wielding magic than they ever thought possible. WithHogwarts Legacy, Avalanche Software will look to replicate this experience for gamers everywhere with an adventure that stretches from the historic halls of Hogwarts itself to the unassuming alleyways of Hogsmeade....

May 15, 2025 · 4 min · 734 words · Elizabeth Pollard

How The Last of Us Runs a Risk of Kneecapping Its Storytelling Potential

Summary It’s great thatThe Last of Ushas received so much newfound success with its live-action HBO adaptation because, sinceThe Last of Us Part 2, there haven’t been many reasons for anyone to get tremendously excited about the franchise’s future otherwise. It wasn’t until recently that a thirdLast of Usgame was even explicitly referenced in any official capacity thanks to the sequel’s behind-the-scenes documentary, and thecancelation ofThe Last of Us’ online gamewas a huge hit for the series as that would’ve presumably been a big way for it to thrive beyond the only two installments it’s treated players to thus far....

May 15, 2025 · 4 min · 751 words · Lisa Lewis

James Gunn Confirms When The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special Takes Place

Just as Marvel Studios is starting to clear up the landscape for theMCU’snext couple of phases, the ever-talkative James Gunn has revealed the upcomingThe Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Specialis actually meant to act as an epilogue for Phase Four, before completing the Guardians’ film trilogy next year. During Marvel Studios’ panel at San Diego Comic-Con, it was revealed that the ongoing Phase Four would endthis November 11 withBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever, which happens to release shortly before the Guardians’ planned Holiday Special, set to drop on Disney Plus in December....

May 15, 2025 · 2 min · 407 words · Brandy Mcfarland