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NEED TO KNOWWhat is it? A cozy life sim set in a the small Hobbit town of BywaterExpect to pay: $34.99/£29.99Developer: Wētā WorkshopPublisher: Private DivisionReviewed on: Intel i7 9700K, RTX 4070 Ti, 16GB RAMMultiplayer? NoLink: Official siteBilbo Baggins' trip to Lonely Mountain (and back again) in The Hobbit was roughly 2,000 miles. In Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of the Rings Game, I feel like I've run at...
When it comes to design, the mark of any good company is its ability to take criticism well. It's such a critical element that's often overlooked when we evaluate overall brands, but being able to take critique from a flawed product and then feed that back to the design team is incredibly advantageous on so many levels.For one, it of course shows that those in charge are humble, that they...
James Cameron’s Avatar series has nothing to do with Avatar: The Last Airbender, but the franchise is following a similar path by going on a tour of the elements. After the first movie involved former Marine Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) conquering the skies and Avatar: The Way of Water took him and his family into the ocean, the conflict on Pandora is heating up in Avatar: Fire and Ash. The...
It’s a special time of year for fighting game fans and competitors gearing up for the Evolution Championship Series (Evo) in Las Vegas this weekend. To kick off this exciting week, we’re pleased to share new images and the official name for Project Defiant, now called FlexStrike wireless fight stick. Play Video As announced during the June 2025 State of Play, FlexStrike is the first fight stick controller designed by...
Team Cherry’s promise to release the long-awaited Hollow Knight: Silksong in 2025 is looking more likely than ever. The latest evidence is a new playable demo for Hollow Knight: Silksong that will be available to the public at Gamescom in August. Silksong will be on hand on PC and the ROG Xbox Ally X, Microsoft announced Monday as part of its Gamescom 2025 plans. Along with Silksong, Xbox will offer...
The stakes of the latest Marvel Cinematic Universe installment, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, involve the familial superteam figuring out how to save the Earth by defeating the godlike adversary Galactus (now available in non-cloud form) — an expected development for a superhero movie. What audiences may not be expecting, however, is the Star Trek-like moral dilemma powering the movie’s second half, forcing its do-gooders to question whether it’s worth...
I’m not surprised smashing stuff in Donkey Kong Bananza is enjoyable. In the tutorial alone, I, like many others, spent ages demolishing everything I could get my (giant gorilla) hands on, and it’s a given that something designed well enough to distract from the main attraction like that is still going to feel good 10 or 20 hours later. What surprised me about Bananza isn’t even how much Nintendo struggled...
During a recent successful expedition in Elden Ring Nightreign, wherein my fellow Nightfarers and I took down the Everdark Sovereign version of Adel Baron of Night, I had a realization: FromSoftware isn’t giving me enough space to properly thank my fellow Limveld adventurers. (Or to say sorry to them, if necessary.) And “Vic,” a Raider who dealt the killing blow to Adel, deserved ample thanks. He’d dispatched the Baron of...
Let's make sure you get your Wordle week off to the perfect start—whatever you think that looks like. Take a peek at our tips if you want a more general sort of help, the kind of thing that improves your daily game without being too specific. Then move on to our clue for the July 28 (1500) Wordle for specific help with Monday's puzzle, and the answer to today's Wordle...
Best of the best(Image credit: Xbox Game Studios)2025 games: Upcoming releasesBest PC games: All-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest FPS games: Finest gunplayBest MMOs: Massive worldsBest RPGs: Grand adventuresOn an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that's a good thing, it can be understandably hard to keep up with. Potentially exciting gems are sure to be lost in the deluge of...