PUBG, the battle royale that lets you wear a frying pan on your ass to keep it from getting shot off, is being made into a live action series for Netflix.Narrative isn't really PUBG's strong point, but this one might be interesting for one big reason: Donald Glover is set to write, direct, and executive produce the series, and will also star in it. Stephen Glover, Donald's brother and frequent...

EA took the axe to BioWare last week after a long, slow death partially born of mandates to either work on live service games that didn't work (Anthem) or pivot from live service games in messy, chaotic development cycles (Veilguard). A report from Vertical Slice now also claims that its employee morale is at an all-time low.Speaking to the site's Chris Kerr, choosing to remain anonymous, sources state that "Morale...

Galax has come out in defence of its continued existence for the second time this year, following a report that incorrectly claimed the graphics card brand was closing down its factory.In a report by El Chapuzas Informatico, citing industry sources, Palit was claimed to be closing the Galax factory. This is said to be occurring at the same time as a major reorganisation of the Galax and KFA2 brands. Galax,...

Finding a Flesh Lily for Yu'er is the first sidequest you'll encounter in Phantom Blade Zero, but you can't complete it until a few areas and bosses later.You can find the Flesh Lily below the Sha-Chi tower, an area you reach after arriving at the outpost and beating Peng Meng. Specifically, it's accessible from the Valley Sha-Chi Tower 1st Floor bell when you arrive at the base of the tower,...

Hua, Deadly Betrothed is one of the first optional bosses in Phantom Blade Zero, below the Sha-Chi Tower in the Weeping Creek Valley, but you'll have to defeat her if you want to find a Flesh Lily for Yu'er.The trickiest part of this fight is avoiding Hua's spider lilies, but here are some tips to defeat her, plus a video above of my successful run employing these strategies:Avoid her lilies...

You'll need The Banyan's Heart in Phantom Blade Zero to unlock certain skills like Fluid Form Level 2, Quick Remedy, or Opening Strike.You can get your first Banyan Heart towards the end of the Crimson Forest area, just after you activate the Parting Mists bell, after you fight Stone Fist Iron Fever—it's basically impossible to miss:Drop down from the Parting Mists bell and head across to the island with the...

Whence the Weeping might seem like a sidequest you're supposed to complete in Phantom Blade Zero's first Weeping Creek Valley area, but it's actually a major quest that takes a significant portion of the game to finish. If you've just started and are here wondering if you've missed something: you haven't, and you don't need this guide right now.It's also relatively straightforward—it's just that quest tracking isn't available for it...

(Image credit: S-Game Studios)Why is bleed always so strong? I guess the entire concept of dealing damage, but also building a status bar on an enemy that deals even more damage when it reaches full, is a bit OP as ideas go. Anyone who's played Elden Ring for any length of time has likely experienced Reduvia and Rivers of Blood, most likely when Nerijus invaded and wiped out their health...

(Image credit: S-Game Studios)I spent a long time in Phantom Blade Zero searching for the Backstreet Courtyard Key, convinced it would unlock the inaccessible area where Old Man Gen's house is located, as well as the third acolyte scarecrow. Turns out, that gate doesn't lead to either.If you're searching for that key with that in mind, you instead need to acquire the Flaming Mane phantom edge from the region boss...

The design politics of studios in the early 2000s will always fascinate me—not the unsavory stuff, I am glad that is well and truly binned—but rather, the little elbows and feet put on other designers in studios where there wasn't a clear, clean pipeline or a mandate.Such was the case with Blizzard where, as revealed by principal Kris Zierhut in a recent Polygon interview, there was a little cheeky in-fighting...