It's easy to go without extra energy in those first few levels of REPO, but you'll need some sort of power source for expensive new weapons as things ramp up. That's where Energy Crystals come in, providing a finite number of charges for your Semibot's growing arsenal.Keep in mind, these little yellow power-ups are separate from the stamina upgrades Semibots can purchase at the Service Station between levels. Energy Crystals...

My favourite part of A Minecraft Movie, without a shadow of a doubt, has to be Jennifer Coolidge's romance with Nitwit, a villager who escapes the Overworld and gets hit by her car. It's a love story for the ages, and an onscreen romance that Coolidge has herself admitted had some fire to it."Sometimes you show up to a movie and you read the script and they haven't cast your...

We now know that the two new heroes arriving in Marvel Rivals for Season 2 are Emma Frost and Ultron. Despite being incredibly excited to get my hands on both characters, I can't help but wonder what this all means for our friend Blade, who's still stuck in a small room on the Central Park map.Blade was first teased during the Central Park map reveal for Marvel Rivals, the only...

Balatro's creator has no enemies—in fact, he has no negative feelings at all. He has spent so much time plugged into his poker roguelite (and our game of the year for 2024) that he has purged himself of all tempestuous emotions and emerged a new, centred being of pure cards.As bragged about (rightfully so) on Bluesky, LocalThunk writes: "Beat every deck on every difficulty! I still want to 100% the...

If you're pondering what to do with Pinnacle Coins in Monster Hunter Wilds, you've likely just completed your first arena quest in the Grand Hub. Just like the monster coins you can also get by triumphing in these challenge quests, their description doesn't really explain what they're used for.For those who've just hopped into the first Title Update, you might also want to know how to unlock Mizutsune, where to...

Anyone who has opened a pack of trading cards will know the thrill and excitement that goes along with it. Now imagine every character you've pulled is a middle-aged man from your town. If you're sat there thinking 'that sounds odd, why would I want that,' you clearly haven't heard of the card game which is currently taking a community in Japan by storm.Kawara, a town in the Fukuoka Prefecture,...

The appearance of Minecraft on the big screen has apparently unbalanced the humors of the world's youths, whose ecstatic outbursts at screenings are showering audiences with popcorn and cries of "chicken jockey!" At least two incidents have even ended with police intervention.A chicken jockey is a baby zombie riding a chicken, a rare occurrence in Minecraft. Thanks to TikTok and whatever it is that compels humans to engage in weird...

Until the other day, what I knew about Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was that: It's a French RPG with some Persona-inspired flairIt's got turn-based combat with real-time mechanicsIt's coming out in April Based on the screenshots of forlorn young adults, I also expected a melodramatic story about a quest to save the world, but I realized recently that I'd never actually read the game's premise.It's more bonkers than I expected....

You wouldn't know it by looking at Animalkind, a cozy and colorful town-builder where you play as a cute little corgi driving a mech, but it got its start in a different genre altogether. The game about building houses for a bunch of adorable forest animals was originally a hardcore survival game.I met with Steven Jian, CEO of Uncommon Games, at GDC in March because I was curious how the...

The Netflix boost is a phenomenon so predictable that it should qualify as legitimate economic theory. It follows a simple pattern: Netflix releases a videogame adaptation, and the people who watch it want an excuse to linger in that world, causing related game sales to spike shortly afterwards.We saw it when Henry Cavill's Geralt performance drove a 554% increase in people tossing coins to their Witchers. It drove increases in...