As players work through the tutorial inStranded Deep, they will be instructed to set down a camp fire. This is a very important thing to learn how to do, as fires are used to make raw food items into something edible. Fortunately, it is not very difficult to make a fire inStranded Deep, and this guide is here to walk players through the process. Stranded Deep: How to Set Down a Camp Fire The first step toward making a fire is to obtainfour sticks....

Lost Ruinswasreleased for consoles on Jun 04, 2025, however, the game was originally launched in 2021 for PC. At that time, the game received some low scores on the aggregate review scales. Right now it is sitting at a 59 on Metacritic. The hope for any game to receive scores like that is to improve it with updates. RELATED:Most Influential Indie Games Sometimes ports to consoles will include enough changes, through patches and additions, that that original score may seem like a joke....

Nintendo has numerous franchises to its name, with theSuper Mario Brosseriesbeing among the most successful. The originalSuper Mario Broswas the pack-in game with every NES back in the mid 1980’s, and its addictive gameplay single handedly helped usher in the boom of home console gaming. Naturally with that kind of success, sequels were sure to follow. After a strange direct sequel inSuper Mario Bros 2(which was actually a repurposedDoki Doki Panic), the triumphant threequelSuper Mario Bros 3served as the NES’s swan song in 1990....

Summary The Day Beforecould be reaching a turning point in its development story. The once highly-anticipated game has grown to become one of the most scrutinized and criticized titles in the industry, with the game’s director even having to fight claims thatThe Day Beforeisn’t real. Announced in 2021,The Day Beforequickly became one of Steam’s most wishlisted titles. The game promised open-world, co-op action with a zombie-horror backdrop and a dash of life simulation elements....

Summary The Simsfranchise has prided itself on its realistic simulator elements over the years, and as the series' ecosystem continues to evolve through DLCs, gamers are looking to see just how much Maxis' flagship title improves. So far in 2023,The Sims 4has rolled out two new expansion packs (Horse Ranch and Growing Together), each receiving starkly different receptions for their varying content depth and base game enhancement. Judging from the emerging trend, it seems like players are placing more value on what a new pack has to offer to decide whether it is worth the customary price tag EA slaps on its additional content....

Legendary streamerNinjahas jumped ship from Twitch and is now streaming on Kick. While many notable streamers have checked out the up-and-coming streaming platform over the past few months,Ninja’s interest is definitely worth mentioning due to his popularity.Over the past decade, few streamers have received the same notoriety as Richard Tyler “Ninja” Blevins. Starting out as a professional Esports player,Ninja rose to fame by playingFortnite, smashing Twitch records in the process. While Ninja might not be as popular as he once was, he still has a large number of followers that enjoy his content....

SinceValheimreleased via Steam Early Access in February it has enjoyed a meteoric rise to popularity. Fans have spent the last month exploringValheimand its potential thoroughly, with some truly amazing builds coming out as a result. Valheimis the newest survival game to take the gaming industry by storm. It places players in the shoes of warriors slain in battle who are sent toNorse mythology’s titular purgatorialrealm to cleanse it of terrible beasts that have called it home....

Summary Eiichiro Oda’s magnum opus,One Piece, has been continuing for nearly 25 years now and the series keeps on getting better with each passing saga.One Piecerecentlywrapped up its biggest arc yet, the Wano country arc, and it is safe to say that this story was loved by fans far and wide, with quite a lot crowning it as the best arc ofOne Pieceto date. With the conclusion of Wano, it was only a matter of time beforeOne Pieceentered its final phase....

Stats & Consumables What’s New for Shadow Priests for WoW: Dragonflight? The newtalent systemintroducedin theWorld of Warcraft: Dragonflight 10.0 Pre-Patchhas brought many changes to the Shadow Priest and how you set up your character. Some skills are no longer either learned spells, covenant abilities, or legendary abilities. Many of these have been moved to talents that you can choose if you’d like to use them. A few examples of skills that are unlockable as talents for a Shadow Priest are:...

Summary Thirty years ago today, Square unleashedFinal Fantasy 6upon the world, revolutionizing both the franchise and the role-playing game genre. Not only wouldFinal Fantasy 6end up being the last game in the series to utilize 2D sprite-based graphics, but it would also be the first game in the series to feature direction from someone other thanFinal Fantasycreator Hironobu Sakaguchi. As a result,Final Fantasy 6represents a monumental turning point for the franchise, signaling the passing of the torch from the first generation of creators to the new luminaries behind theFinal Fantasygames....

Since it was founded in 1984, Naughty Dog has developed some of PlayStation’s biggest and most successful franchises.Jak and Daxter,Crash Bandicoot,The Last of Us, andUnchartedall originate from this single studio. Pretty impressive. Thebest Naughty Dog gamesare known for their iconic characters, engaging stories, and epic world-building. All things that take time to create. While not as notorious as other high-profile studios for making gamers wait, Naughty Dog’s development cycle can be on the long side....

Summary TheOne Pieceanime has over 1100 episodes that are all part of the same interconnected storyline. Since this is one of the most popular shonen franchises in the world, a lot of people want to catch up with this world-changing series before it reaches its inevitable conclusion in the future. Do those people have to watch every single one of those episodes, or is there an arc that can be skipped?...

The Isekai trope is seemingly as old as time itself, withAlice in Wonderland, The Wizard Of Oz, andThe Chronicles of Narnialeading the way in otherworldly adventures. The genre has become exceedingly popular in anime sinceThe Twelve Kingdoms, .Hack//Signand, most notably,Sword Art Online;however, the uncreative overuse of the stereotypical narrative has flooded the industry with predictable content. RELATED:Best Isekai Heroines, Ranked In an attempt to keep the genre alive, several series aim to deconstruct the familiar themes instead, as Isekai is not to be discarded as a dead horse trope but merely treated with the respect it deserves....