A Company Other Than Larian is Publishing Baldur's Gate 3 in Japan

Summary Baldur’s Gate 3is being released by Spike Chunsoft in Japan sometime later this year. The famous video game publisher will be teaming up with Larian Studios to localizeBaldur’s Gate 3in Japanese on the PS5. Spike Chunsoft is a Japanese video game localization and development company that works primarily with RPGs, adventure games, and visual novels. It has developed or published many famousJRPGs including multipleDragon QuestandPokemon Mystery Dungeontitles, and has published many Western games in Japan, includingDivinity: Original Sin 1and2–two other CRPGs developed by Larian Studios....

June 15, 2025 · 2 min · 415 words · Peggy Madden

AMD's Rumored/Expected Releases For Gamescom 2023

Summary Long known as one of the world’s finest destinations for enthusiasts of art, culture, and board games, Germany has also proudly played host toGamescom, the annual trade fair for video games and their attendant technology since 2002. WithGamescom 2023already in full swing, there have already been several noteworthy revelations. Scheduled events include a Q&A with the developer of Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty DLC, Xbox engaging in three days of constant streaming into hotly anticipated titles, and perhaps most intriguingly for some, rumors of new lines of AMD GPUs (Graphic Processing Unit) being announced by the red team and Senior Vice President Scott Herkelman....

June 15, 2025 · 3 min · 517 words · Tracy Reyes

Animal Crossing is Leaving Money on the Table Without Character-Driven Spin-offs

TheAnimal Crossingfranchise could be missing out on a potential windfall by not leaning into spin-off titles featuring its characters. Although story has never been the focal point of theAnimal Crossinggames, the series has generated an impressively large cast, with a lot of memorable designs and personalities. From longtime icon Tom Nook to the collection of villagers that can move in, the series has no shortage of characters that could make appearances in affiliated games....

June 15, 2025 · 3 min · 630 words · Mark Thomas

BattleBit Remastered: Best Classes

Exploding onto the virtual battlefield and into the charts on Steam worldwide,BattleBit Remasteredcombines an old-school artistic design with a surprisingly advanced, interactive first-person shooter for players new and seasoned to the genre. With field sizes as high as 254 players and an assortment of weapons, vehicles, and customization options for players, the game provides an incredibly deep variety in a low-poly package that could easily be underestimated. RELATED:BattleBit Remastered: Best Sight Attachments For Sniper Rifles BattleBit Remasteredfits the mold of a classic first-person shooterin a variety of ways, one of which is the option for players to choose from 6 distinctly different classes, each with their own loadout and perks....

June 15, 2025 · 5 min · 1053 words · Christopher Perez

Best 10 Minute Games

To many people, the best types of games are those that provideseveral hours of gameplay. For some games, it can take a player over 100 hours to fully complete the game, play through the main story and extra content and obtain all the available achievements. RELATED:Longest Open-World Games However, a game being long doesn’t automatically make it good, and not everyone can or wants to spend several hours a day playing a game....

June 15, 2025 · 6 min · 1127 words · Julie Bowers

Best FPS Games To Switch Off Your Brain While Playing

Sometimes, there’s nothing better than loading up one of the bestFPSgames and switching off a busy brain, just enjoying the immersion that a game can offer, and all of the joys within. Not every FPS game that players can experience has to be exhilarating, requiring every ounce of sweat and intensity to get into. RELATED:Best First-Person Shooters Of All Time Players that give these FPS games a good go might find themselves spending a good few hours at a time, just losing themselves in the fun to be had, switching their brains off so that they can have a good time without having a hard time....

June 15, 2025 · 6 min · 1130 words · Anthony Mcdonald

Best Seinen Romance Manga

Summary Romance mangacan often be a rather mixed bag. Some rom-coms are mostly silly hijinks between romantic leads, serious dramas where every chapter is rife with misunderstandings and melodramatic emotions, or harem stories that are filled with fanservice from top to bottom. Seinen romances, while frequently featuring similar kinds of stories as shonen stories, tend to be more mature due to the nature of their older audience, giving them more freedom to explore complex ideas....

June 15, 2025 · 6 min · 1098 words · Peggy Sawyer

BioShock 4: RPG Mechanics That Would Be Ideal for the Game

Bioshock 4from Cloud Chamber is set to be the next installment in the series after 2013’sBioShock Infinite.This will mark the first in the series without its creator, Ken Levine. While few details are known aboutBioShock 4,job listings have potentially given away some details about the game’s direction. It seems as though the new title could be more heavily influenced by RPG games, which would depart from the series' mostly linear style....

June 15, 2025 · 4 min · 671 words · Gregory Green

Borderlands 3 Update Buffs Even More Legendaries

Recently, Gearbox Software has been buffing a myriad ofBorderlands 3legendary weapons in an attempt to get them “up to par” ahead of the launch of Mayhem 2.0 this spring. Indeed, there have buffs to numerous legendaries in the last twoBorderlands 3updates, and the developer is continuing the trend by pushing even more weapon improvements live withBL3’s March 12 hotfix. TheBorderlands 3March 12 update is now live on all platforms, and it makes various adjustments to 13 legendary weapons....

June 15, 2025 · 3 min · 570 words · Victor Christensen

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Secretly Adds New Assault Rifle

Prior to the release ofCall of Duty: Vanguard, it was reported thatCall of Duty: Black Ops Cold Warwas a massive success commercially for Treyarch. As such, it was rumored that some year 2 content would be coming, and nowCall of Duty: Black Ops Cold Warplayers can access some of that content. Alongside a remaster of the classicBlack Opsmap WMD, players can access a new Assault Rifle as part of theBlack Ops Cold Waryear 2 content....

June 15, 2025 · 3 min · 467 words · Alexander Barry

Call of Duty: Warzone 2 Removes Building After Only 24 Hours

WithCall of Duty: Warzone 2’s first major update came the mysterious Building 21, a limited-time location with a timeline far more limiting than players were expecting. An addition to the DMZ mode forWarzone 2,fans were anxious to delve into the new content, only to discover it missing a mere 24 hours post-release. TheSeason 1 Reloaded update forWarzone 2arrived on December 14, bringing with it the new Chimera assault rifle, several new operators, a host of quality-of-life and bug fixes,Call of Duty’sfirst raid experience, and DMZ’s Building 21....

June 15, 2025 · 3 min · 478 words · Valerie Bennett

Chief Bloodfiend Location in Elden Ring DLC

Chief Bloodfiend is an optional boss inElden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree DLC that awards theBloodfiend Hexer’s Asheswhen defeated. While that may not be the best Spirit Ash in the game, some players will undoubtedly be interested in obtaining it. This guide is written with those players in mind, and the location ofElden Ring’s Chief Bloodfiend is detailed in what follows. Players should make sure that they collect theRauh Ruins Map Fragment in Shadow of the Erdtreewhile they are pursuing the Chief Bloodfiend....

June 15, 2025 · 2 min · 423 words · Erika Garcia

Control 2 Shouldn't Let Alan Wake 2 Hog the Horror Spotlight

Summary Last October, Remedy Entertainment’sAlan Wake 2was released after a 13-year hiatus since the first title.Alan Wake 2quickly proved popular, being highly received by the community and beyond, notably being nominated for a number of 2023 Game Awards, and winning three, including Best Narrative. Before that, the studio producedControlin 2019, which garnered wide acclaim as well with its SCP conspiracy-laden story and intuitive, engaging mechanics.Controlmarked something of a new era for the developer, and it has been capitalizing on this ever since....

June 15, 2025 · 4 min · 712 words · Erin Thompson