There are only so many ways to capture the majesty of sharks in reality television programming. In a genre all-but dominated by Discovery Channel’s Shark Week and National Geographic’s SharkFest, how can a contender like Netflix make a splash in the shark space? How about steal the hook of the Pokémon Snap games, but replace every Pokémon with a breed of shark? That’s effectively the premise of All the Sharks,...
Genshin Impact’s 5.7 patch (aka the Skirk patch) is coming soon, with some new heavy Danslief story coming with it. If you’re one of the people who immediately went feral for Skirk when she appeared in Fontaine, this is the patch for you. Below, we explain when Genshin Impact maintenance starts and ends, alongside the release time of version 5.7. We’ve also added some details about what to expect from...
Everyone’s on edge the moment that long HP bar appears and Elden Ring Nightreign’s choir rises into a crescendo. Even with a group of three people, boss fights are meant to be challenging in a Souls game. Yet few enemy encounters fill the community with as much dread as the Bell Bearing Hunter. It’s gotten so bad, the whole thing has become a running joke for fans who have had...
From the beginning of its 2022 launch, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds offered a different approach compared to previous entries in the franchise. Tapping into nostalgia with a prequel to the original ’60s Star Trek, Goldsman and his co-showrunner, Henry Alonso Myers, provided fresh spins on the original show’s most famous characters and minor players alike. Strange New Worlds has alternated between issue-driven stories and silly stuff like body-swapping plots...
Borderlands 4 is now up for pre-order, and the price is $69.99, not the once-declared $79.99. Publisher 2K Games revealed the news on Monday, finally putting to rest the tired conversation surrounding Borderlands 4‘s potential retail price. In a press release, 2K disclosed what players will receive as a pre-order bonus of the game’s standard edition, which comes with one Vault Hunter skin, a weapon skin, and a skin for...
CD Projekt RED is taking a “console-first” approach to The Witcher 4‘s development in the hopes of avoiding another buggy, Cyberpunk-esque launch disaster, according to a recent interview with Digital Foundry. In a tech demo shown earlier this month at the State of Unreal showcase, the studio showed off the game, playing the demo on a standard PlayStation 5 running the game at 60 frames-per-second with ray-tracing enabled. The Witcher...
My Hero Academia season 8 will be the final season of the series, and as such, the latest trailer that has just been released marks the end of an era for the popular anime based on the manga by Kohei Horikoshi. The trailer above teases a few final conflicts, including the end of the battle between Armored All Might and One For All, which began in the previous season. The...
Stray, a rather neat little puzzle-platformer about a cat in a post-apocalyptic robo-world, was fairly well received back in 2022. We gave it a solid 82 in our review, which made publisher Annapura's collapse late last year all the more concerning for studio BlueTwelve. At the very least, however, Stray's former writer is going places.You see, after writing a science-fiction game about a cat in a gritty neon-coated world, Steve...
The Alphyn lineup is PowerColor's first foray into the gaming headset market, having only specced into graphics cards until now. With the Alphyn AH10, the company hops out of the proverbial frying pan, into the highly competitive fire of wireless gaming headsets. At the $100 mark, this headset will have to do something particularly swanky to get noticed, and yet its stripped-back nature has it clawing for attention all the...
Nintendo announced on its Nintendo Today app that a Donkey Kong Bananza Direct presentation will arrive on Wednesday, June 18, starting at 6 a.m. PDT / 9 a.m. EDT / 2 p.m. BST. On the Nintendo Today app, it was confirmed that the event will present “roughly 15 minutes of information about the upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 game.” Since announcing the title back in its April Nintendo Switch 2 Direct,...