If you play indie games, you may have noticed Strange Scaffold’s incredible hit rate. Every single one of the studio’s games — from  Clickolding, I Am Your Beast, and most recently, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown — has ended up somewhere within the “Positive” ranking system on Steam (with several achieving “Very Positive” or even “Overwhelmingly Positive”). So, how does the studio’s creative director Xalavier Nelson Jr. ensure his...

Nintendo Switch 2 will launch June 5 with an impressive mix of splashy launch titles, from the first-party must-have Mario Kart World to third-party ports of games the Switch couldn’t run, like Cyberpunk 2077. With the launch of a new generation also comes the possibility of old titles and series getting a renewed spotlight, whether via sequels or full-on remakes, like how the first Switch saw the The Legend of...

The Nintendo Switch 2 has been at the center of perpetual online discussions since the console was shown off in earnest in April, with much of the chatter focused on its price. But with just days to go before the June 5 launch, we now find ourselves confronting the newest Switch 2 topic: ugly box art. Yes, if you let some Nintendo fans describe it, the Switch 2’s box art...

Amy Lee is having a big year. First, Evanescence’s “Bring Me To Life” became a running bit in HBO’s The Rehearsal after Nathan Fielder hypothesized that an airplane pilot may have listened to the iconic 2003 rock song while pulling off a tricky landing. Now the song is front and center in FromSoftware’s new trailer for Elden Ring Nightreign, the upcoming co-op action game with a Fortnite twist. The combo...

Occult Crescent, the new field operation added to FFXIV: Dawntrail in patch 7.25 has many secrets. Among them are the hidden rewards that you can only find with the help of a Persistent Pot, a devilish little creature you might end up finding while looking for survey points or farming FATEs for the Phantom relic weapon. But if you know how to use them, these creatures can show you the...

Electronic Arts has canceled its Black Panther game and closed down developer Cliffhanger Games. IGN, which first reported the news, cites an internal email in which EA Entertainment president Laura Miele notified staff about the changes made to “sharpen our focus and put our creative energy behind the most significant growth opportunities.” “These decisions are hard,” Miele wrote, per IGN. “They affect people we’ve worked with, learned from, and shared...

As part of FFXIV: Dawntrail’s Occult Crescent field operation, players can take on Phantom Jobs, which are mini-jobs that provide unique skills to help you out during combat. These jobs all level individually using EXP gained from the Occult Crescent, and as of patch 7.25, there are 13 of them. It should be noted that under the “Unlocking Phantom Jobs” section in the tutorial booklet, it does say “Soul shards...

Nearly 15 years after the previous movie in the Final Destination horror franchise, Freaks writer-directors Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein revived the series with Final Destination: Bloodlines, a modern update that instantly became the series’ number-one all-time box-office earner. The new movie — once again, about death as a vindictive force actively stalking people who survived a fated calamity — echoes the filmmaking of the older installments, while adding a...

Allied society quests are one of Final Fantasy 14’s more rewarding dailies. Formerly known as “beast tribe quests” or “tribal quests,” these quests involving helping out the other races of Eorzea by beating down baddies that might be giving them grief, or helping them rebuild an area using crafting and gathering. Below, we detail how allied society quests in FFXIV work, along with their rewards and how to unlock all...

In a Fortnite season filled with a variety of familiar Star Wars faces, it seems that Epic and Disney have kept one final character on lockdown. According to established Fortnite leaker iFireMonkey, a Sith-tainted Rey will be coming to the game on May 30 at 8pm ET for 1500 V-Bucks. We got a full glimpse of a Dark Side-loving Rey in Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker, when she battled herself...