Overwatch 2 Comp Rank Decay Appeals to Casuals at the Expense of Hardcore Fans

While the recently releasedOverwatch 2can provide fun and engaging gameplay, a huge appeal of the title stems from the intense competitive playlists that the game offers. The new title has revitalized the franchise’s longstanding player base since its October release, especially by providing more material to master to the diehard players attracted to the more intense gameplay of competitive matchmaking. However, as might be expected fromOverwatch 2,since it is a sequel to the original game, many aspects of the new release’s core gameplay have undergone significant changes....

August 5, 2025 · 3 min · 626 words · Randy Hampton MD

Phasmophobia is Outselling Some Massive Games on Steam

Regardless of if one is an avid PC player or not, chances are they’ve heard ofPhasmophobia,the co-op horror game created by one single developer. The indie game tasks players with teaming up to investigate a series ofhaunted houses, with the spirits lurking in each residence searching them out and trying to kill them. While the game has already accomplished a crazy milestone recently,becoming one of the top five most played releases on Steam earlier this month, it has just achieved something equally as mind-blowing....

August 5, 2025 · 2 min · 400 words · Joshua Lopez

Pokemon Anime Composer Ralph Shuckett Has Died

Ralph Schuckett, the composer of the originalPokemonanime, has died at the age of 73. In addition to the anime, Schuckett composed the first threePokemonmovies, as well as music for several other anime shows. His cause of death has not been announced, though the public already knew Schuckett was ill in the years leading to his death. In 2018, Schuckett was scheduled to go on tour with Utopia, one of his old bands, but suddenly withdrew shortly before rehearsals began....

August 5, 2025 · 2 min · 399 words · Abigail Goodwin

Pokemon GO: How to Get Flareon

For as long as thePokemonfranchise has been around,trying to control (and collect) Eevee’s evolutionshas been a core part of the Pokedex completion challenge. That tradition is no different when it comes to thePokemon GOmobile AR experience. With so many different Eevee evolutions available inPokemon GOat this point in the game, it can begin to get a bit difficult to keep track of how to obtain each different evolution of the popular Gen 1 Normal-type Pokemon....

August 5, 2025 · 3 min · 620 words · Tammy Ferguson

Pokemon Scarlet and Violet Fan Theory Explains Why There Are So Many Corviknight in Area Zero

APokemon Scarlet and Violetfan comes up with an interesting theory about why there are so many Corviknight Pokemon in Area Zero within the Great Crater of Paldea. Many players are loving the vast open world thatPokemon Scarlet and Violet’s Paldea region has to offer, as they are able to explore diverse locations and find a variety of different Pokemon and characters to interact with. It is hard to believe thatPokemon Scarlet and Violetare already at the Ranked Battle Series 2, as the games have been out for over a month and a half now, and more players are dropping into the Paldea region to start their Pokemon journeys....

August 5, 2025 · 3 min · 432 words · Melinda Allen

Pokemon Scarlet and Violet Home Compatibility Explained

Pokemon Scarlet and Violet’s players have waited months, but thePokemon Homeservice has finally become available for the latest mainline entry in the Pokemon series. As a mainstay of the modern Pokemon franchise, thePokemon Homeservice now allows trainers to transfer their pocket monsters across various games via the cloud. As the primary method for Pokemon to be transferred from the older generation and spin-off titles,Pokemon Scarlet and Violethave suddenly been updated with many new creatures, courtesy of other recent games....

August 5, 2025 · 3 min · 598 words · Destiny Jones

Pokémon Sword & Shield: 5 Reasons We Love Automatic Exp Share (& 5 We Hate It)

PokémonSwordandPokémon Shieldsee the beloved series put a mainline title on a home console for the first time. For some, these titles change too little and for others, they vary too much from the formula. RELATED:Pokémon Sword & Shield: 10 Things To Consider When Choosing A Starter One of the changes is the EXP share being automatically on, with no option to turn it off. While people have argued about if the EXP share should be used in the past, its no longer up for debate for better or for worse....

August 5, 2025 · 6 min · 1117 words · Douglas Powell

Portal: Prelude Mod Gets RTX Remix Treatment With Full Ray Tracing, DLSS 3, More

Summary Portal: Prelude, the most popular community-created mod for the classic award-winning gamePortal, has got the RTX Remix treatment. Nvidia has announced that the remaster for the game will now feature full ray tracing, DLSS 3, Nvidia Reflex, and the new Nvidia RTX IO, along with a few other material and asset improvements.Portal: Prelude RTXis available fordownload via Steamfor free. Last December, Nvidia releasedPortal with RTXwhich was a free DLC forPortalowners, and it added full ray tracing, new hi-res physically based textures, and enhanced high-poly models to the game that was released almost 16 years ago....

August 5, 2025 · 2 min · 407 words · Linda Baxter

PSA: Don't Sleep on Turtwig in Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl

Picking a starter Pokemon is easily the single toughest conundrum every trainer has to tackle in each mainline installment of thePokemonfranchise. It’s not an exaggeration to say that whichever creature is chosen will in many ways go on to define the whole journey. Nowhere is the choice more difficult than in the fourth generation gamesPokemon DiamondandPearl, which ask players to partner with either Turtwig, Chimchar, or Piplup. WithPokemon Brilliant DiamondandShining Pearlon the horizon later this year, trainers are once again faced with that exact same dilemma....

August 5, 2025 · 5 min · 1044 words · Jeanette Anderson

Shadow And Bone: Who Are The Crows?

The first season of Netflix’sShadow and Bonewas a fun and well-received hit. An adaptation of several popular young adult novels, one of the many twisting plotlines clearly captured the hearts of its viewers and left fans with many questions around the enigmatic criminal band known as the Crows. Shadow and Boneprimarily adaptsthe 2012 Leigh Bardugo novel that shares its name, but it also interweaves her 2015 novelSix of Crows.Though the two works definitely take place within the same universe, the two storylines do not interact very much in the source material, but combining the two allowed audiences to be introduced to the trio they fell in love with....

August 5, 2025 · 4 min · 768 words · Jesse Arias

Should You Bring the Drug Stash to Tucker or Copeland in Days Gone

Quick Links PlayStation Studios’Days Gone Remasteredtakes players to the zombie, or Freak, invested forests of Oregon. Players must survive while collaborating with local camps to clear out nests and defend their compounds against Rippers and other hostile characters. The story mission, “Price on Your Head,” has Deacon torn as he decides whether to deliver a valuable drug stash to Tucker’s or Copeland’s camp. Whichever camp they choose doesn’t have dire consequences inDays Gone Remastered, but players receive specific rewards depending on where they take the drug stash....

August 5, 2025 · 3 min · 515 words · Melanie Jordan

Teen Wolf: The Movie Drops First Clip

Teen Wolf: The Movieis nearly here. Ahead of its January 2023 release date, the film has dropped a clip that features the return of a few fan-favorites.Teen Wolfaired on MTV from 2011 and 2017. It started the careers of several prominent actors working today, like Tyler Posey, Dylan O’Brien, andTyler Hoechlin. The show was based on the 1985 film of the same name which starred Michael J. Fox in the title role....

August 5, 2025 · 3 min · 466 words · Christina Powell

The 15 Best Tetris Video Games Of All Time

Summary The tile-matching gameTetriswas first introduced in 1984. The game was rudimentary at its inception, but the game began to show much promise. It wasn’t untilTetrisrelaunched on theNintendoGame Boy,a handheld gaming device, thatTetrisgrew to prominence. With the Game Boy as its platform, both the system andTetrissaw explosive popularity in the late ’80s and early ’90s. As it happens,Tetrisis the best-selling video game franchise of all time. It’s been ported countless times and received numerous spinoffs....

August 5, 2025 · 6 min · 1253 words · Riley Foster