Animal Crossing: New Horizons Fan Crotchets Adorable Pascal Doll

AnAnimal Crossing: New Horizonsfan has made a crochet doll of the villager Pascal. Nintendo’s game has inspired gamers to make artwork based on the life sim, leading to creative pieces celebrating the game.Animal Crossing: New Horizonsarthelps show the appreciation and love that players have for the title. One of theAnimal Crossing: New Horizonscharactersthat players will encounter during their playthrough is Pascal. The red otter will appear once gamers begin collecting scallops and will show up once a day....

May 24, 2025 · 3 min · 432 words · Jason Carter

ASUS Teases World's First Dual-Mode Monitor

Summary ASUSrevealed its ROG Swift OLED PG32UCDP monitor, which is the world’s first “dual-mode” monitor.ASUS' new monitor will allow users to switch between a 4K mode at 240Hz and a 1080p mode at an even higher refresh rate. This new technology seems to be one of the main focuses for leading monitor manufacturers going into 2024.LG released some of 2023’s best gaming monitors, and the company recently announced its own dual-mode monitors coming next year, the UltraGear OLED 32GS95UE and 39GS95QE....

May 24, 2025 · 3 min · 512 words · Amber Hughes

Avowed: The Case For and Against Traditional Classes

When first-person fantasy RPGAvowedwas announced by Obsidian Entertainment during 2020’s Xbox Games Showcase, it didn’t take long for fans to speculate that Obsidian could be delivering a spiritual successor toThe Elder Scrolls. However, with Xbox Head Phil Spencer claiming that the game will be “very different” from Bethesda’s flagship fantasy series, that initial assumption has been called into doubt. Avowedmay appear to have a lot in common withThe Elder Scrolls, but even Bethesda’s games have had huge mechanical differences over the years....

May 24, 2025 · 5 min · 961 words · Craig Ortiz

Baldur's Gate 3: Best Ranger Class Build

Quick Links Rangers have three verydistinct builds available to theminBaldur’s Gate 3:Hunter, Beast Master, and Gloomstalker. When it comes down to it, having more party members with more abilities to throw down in combat is often better than higher single-target damage. As such, the Beast Master is easily the best pure Ranger build inBG3. Beast Master Rangers are able to summon a companion that’s far stronger, and far more useful, than the Find Familiarspell available to other classes....

May 24, 2025 · 17 min · 3450 words · Nichole Hudson

Baldur's Gate 3: How to Get the Sword of Justice

The early stretches of theBaldur’s Gate 3campaign can be a little tough, especially for new players who aren’t too familiar with how the mechanics work. Once words fail to avoid or defuse volatile situations, parties often have no choice but to fight for their lives. Having a balanced team is often enough to make these encounters less stressful, but the best way to win early on is to find and use a weapon players can really trust....

May 24, 2025 · 3 min · 446 words · Anthony Friedman

Best Puzzle Games With Innovative Mechanics

Among the many genres of video games that there are, puzzle games are the one that seems to have the most innovation. From rudimentary video games likeTetrisreleased in the 1980s, the genre has come a long way, introducing mechanics that rely on different rule sets that challenge different parts of players' brains. RELATED:Imaginative New Puzzle Games That Make You Smarter The consequence of this innovation is that many games that exist today use increasingly complex mechanics which can lead to unique and exciting challenges....

May 24, 2025 · 6 min · 1173 words · Bryce Thompson

Borderlands 3: 5 Best Legendary Pistols (& The 5 Worst)

Borderlands 3offers millions of weapon variations for players to use, from assault rifles to shotguns and sniper rifles to pistols. At the center of the gameplay loop are Legendary drops, with Legendary Pistols standing out as some ofBorderlands 3’s most appealing handguns– but with so many weapons in the game, ones are actually best? RELATED:Borderlands 3: All Gun Manufacturers, Ranked One could test each weapon individually, but that takes hours and hours of constant grinding....

May 24, 2025 · 5 min · 1061 words · Rachel Kim

Call of Duty Players Are Getting Shadow Banned

While account bans can and do happen for valid reasons, the amount ofCall of Dutyplayers complaining that they are being shadow banned is unprecedented.Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2players are gearing up for Season 3which will see the return of some fan-favorite characters and game modes, but it seems that something has gone awry that will end up preventing players from accessing or enjoying the new content when it releases on April 12....

May 24, 2025 · 3 min · 444 words · Jordan Martinez

Call of Duty: Warzone Season 5 Leak Reveals New Operator and Theme

Call of Duty: Warzoneis quickly approaching the release of Season 5, with the next content drop set to come sometime next week. Thanks to a new leak,Call of Duty: Warzonefans have a good idea of what to expect from this upcoming Season. For starters,Call of Duty: Warzonefans can expect to control the Operator Kitsune. Mentioned by a user named Nanikos in a post on the GamingLeaksAndRumors subreddit, this Operator is likely the person who Wraith was talking to inCall of Duty: Black Ops Cold War’s Season 4 outro....

May 24, 2025 · 3 min · 473 words · Kayla Johnson

Cutest Enemies From The Pikmin Series

With the highly anticipated return of the belovedPikminfranchise, players are once again captivated by the charming creatures that inhabit their screens. AsPikmin 4’s release approaches, these adorable adversaries, with their unique designs and endearing traits, effortlessly evoke feelings of awe and adoration instead of fear and dread. Related:Games That Scratch That Pikmin Itch From the iconic Bulborbs to the mischievous Fiery Blowhogs, each enemy in thePikminseries possesses its own distinctive charm that leaves players utterly smitten....

May 24, 2025 · 5 min · 1046 words · Amanda Herring

Deadly Premonition Creator SWERY's The Good Life Releases Summer 2021

Nobody does weird quite likely Hidetaka “SWERY” Suehiro, creator of cult classics such asDeadly PremonitionandD4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die. Weird is exactly how one would describeThe Good Life, the upcomingAnimal Crossingstyle life simulator in which the player can transform into a cat or dog. A collaboration betweenPanzer DragoonandPhantom Dustcreator Yukio Futatsugi and SWERY,two years after its initial Kickstarter campaign,The Good Lifefinally has a solid release window and publisher. Originally planned for release in late 2019, before being delayed to spring and then later fall 2020,The Good Lifeis now slated to release in summer 2021, with SWERY also announcing that the game has found a publisher in Irregular Corp, who will publish the game on PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One upon release....

May 24, 2025 · 3 min · 481 words · Mary Williams

Destiny 2: Anti-Champion Exotic Tier List

Champions are some of the major factors that influence difficulty inDestiny 2’s late-game content. With as hard as Champions can be to deal with, whenever player scores aren’t a relevant part of the activity, it’s much faster to ignore or skip them entirely. On the other hand, bringing the right weaponry into activities can make it a breeze to fight Champions inDestiny 2. Unlike enemy elemental shields inDestiny 2that can be easily overpowered with a variety of damage sources, the three Champion enemy types require a particular set of weaponry....

May 24, 2025 · 8 min · 1512 words · Justin Miller

Disney Dreamlight Valley: Dinner With a Friend Walkthrough

Disney Dreamlight Valleyis anenchanting life simulation gamethat has a number of intriguing challenges and magical adventures for players of all ages. Players get to see their favorite Disney characters lighting up the valley and engaging in a variety of activities. In most of these quests, players need to help those characters in one way or another. Dinner With a Friend isone such friendship questfor Goofy. To complete this quest, players need to look for certain ingredients that Goofy asks for and prepare a dinner for him....

May 24, 2025 · 3 min · 535 words · Russell Jenkins