5 Open-World Games That Improve When Ignoring Fast Travel

Fast Travelling in video games is a super convenient way to get around the world, especially in open-world games. When the size of a game’s maprivals the size ofsome real-life small countries, there have to be methods to speed up travel from one location to the next. RELATED:The 10 Best Horses In Games (Ranked By How Realistic They Are) However, many open-world games thrive on the beauty and aesthetics of innumerable areas of the world....

May 20, 2025 · 5 min · 927 words · Connor Stewart

Anthem 2.0 Should Bring Back One Popular BioWare Feature

BioWare’sAnthemwas met with such a contentious launch that the developer is now working on reinventing and changing the core gameplay of the title.Anthemhas been praised for its graphics, but otherwise fell short for most players. Mostly created under the pressure of “BioWare Magic,”Anthemmay have created a drastic shift into how BioWare works, although to what extent remains to be seen. The major overhaul that could potentially saveAnthem, dubbedAnthem 2.0orAnthem Next, is still a work-in-progress, despite having been announced almost a year ago....

May 20, 2025 · 3 min · 598 words · Angelica Larson

Assassin's Creed Valhalla Yule Festival Event is Live

Ubisoft releasedAssassin’s Creed Valhallaover a year ago and continues to add content to the game in various forms. The annual Yule Festival seasonal event has returned from last year, and it brings with it new Holiday-themed goodies for players to collect. Like last year’s Yule Festival,Assassin’s Creed Valhallafans can complete activities to receive Yule Tokens to spend on cosmetics, armor, and weapons. Just like other events such as the Ostara Festival and Oskoreia Festival, most of the cosmetic options during the Yule Festival are settlement decorations and tattoos....

May 20, 2025 · 3 min · 436 words · Edward Jones

Baldur's Gate 3: 13 Best Illusion Spells, Ranked

Phantasmal ForceOne of eight schools of magic withinBaldur’s Gate 3, the illusion school provides its wielders with versatile utility spells. Whether players seek to buff their characters, debilitate foes, engage in subterfuge, or deal damage, there’s an illusion spell that does the job. RELATED:Baldur’s Gate 3: Best Lightning Spells, Ranked Ranging from cantrips to level five, illusion spells are predominantly available to sorcerers, warlocks, and wizards, with wizardsable to choose the schoolas their specialism, but arcane trickster rogues and eldritch knight fighters can also get some of the lower levelillusion spells....

May 20, 2025 · 5 min · 1064 words · Danielle Harris

Best Armor BOTW

When one talks about excellent open-world games, the last name that anyone would’ve thought of before 2017 would be Nintendo. While the developer is certainly one of the greatest and most important gaming companies of all time, they were known more for experimentation with new gameplay forms and opposed to conforming to established norms. However, this perception was turned on its head with the release ofThe Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild, which just might be the greatest open-world game ever made....

May 20, 2025 · 9 min · 1817 words · Connor Powers

Best Female Characters In Jujutsu Kaisen

Summary The problem withshonen animecomes in the name. “Shōnen” means “young boy,” so shōnen works have produced a wide variety of male heroes, like stoic muscleman Kenshiro fromFist of the North Staror happy-go-lucky Goku fromDragon Ball. Unfortunately, the women in those series specifically can be typically described as “useless damsels” and “they be shopping,” respectively. It’s not that guys shouldn’t be heroes in a genre named after them and primarily targeted for them....

May 20, 2025 · 9 min · 1837 words · William Gardner

Best Horror Games Set At Sea

Summary The vastness of the ocean has been part of human fear for a long time. Man has legends of monsters that live in the deep where light no longer exists. While many are fictional, there are also true horrors that have happened, with ships disappearing and never being re-discovered. If it is in mythology, books, and films, then, of course, this fear also gets rooted in video games. Games that go intothe horrors of the seamay not be quite as popular as zombie survival or ghost-hunting games, but they certainly do exist....

May 20, 2025 · 6 min · 1157 words · Sydney Johnson

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Beta Adds More Maps and Modes for Second Weekend

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2beta players have access to more maps and game modes than were available in the game’s first beta weekend, Infinity Ward has announced. The first beta weekend forCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 2took place a week ago and was exclusive to PlayStation gamers. Now the second beta weekend has started, with access opening to PC and XboxCall of Dutyfans. Infinity Ward has taken the opportunity to offer up an even deeper look at what will be included inModern Warfare 2....

May 20, 2025 · 3 min · 445 words · Mrs. Cynthia Hernandez DVM

Castlevania: Why Did Dracula Treat His Human 'Pets' So Well?

After many years of solitude, the cold-hearted Vlad Dracula Tepes found love unexpectedly, and with a human no less! Sadly, Lisa was expunged from existence by the superstitious Church, which believed her science and healing skills to be magic and burnt Lisa as a witch.The distraught Vampire King subsequently swore to seek vengeance from the entire human race, with his trusted Forgemasters, Hector and Isaac, by his side. By building a formidable supernatural army, Dracula swore to exterminate all of humanity, but what does that mean for his loyal human Forgemasters inCastlevania?...

May 20, 2025 · 5 min · 973 words · Kylie Wilson

Corsair K55 Core RGB Gaming Keyboard Review

Quick Links Gamers live in an age whenshopping for a mechanical keyboardseems crucial to assembling a gaming rig. Over the years, gaming keyboards have become more sophisticated, and added features have brought higher price tags. Still, membrane keyboards with gentler typing exist that can save money for gamers to invest in faster CPUs and graphics cards. The wired K55 Core is Corsair’s attempt to make a budget keyboard with rubber dome switches that offer the benefits of premium gaming gear....

May 20, 2025 · 10 min · 1927 words · Christopher Williams

Cris Tales' Creative Director Cautions Indie Developers Against Being Overly Ambitious

Many impactful indie games have succinct elevator pitches.Undertaleis the RPG where nobody has to die.Hollow Knightis a sleek, difficult metroidvaniaabout exploring a ruined kingdom of bugs.Hadesis a reverential Greek myth following the machinations of the gods packed into an engaging rogue-like.Cris Talescreative director Carlos Andres Rocha Silva said indies aren’t going to compete with the graphics and technical achievements of AAA games, so “making something unique is a good selling point....

May 20, 2025 · 6 min · 1274 words · Gary Stark

Destiny 2 Into The Light 'Challenge' is the Ultimate Dare

Summary Destiny 2’s Into The Light update has added several new features to the game to hold fans over until The Final Shape’s delayed release, which is now coming on August 03, 2025. TheInto The Light updatenamely reintroduces several meta weapons that were previously sunset, as well as a new wave-based defense game mode, Onslaught. InDestiny 2’s new Onslaught game mode, players can face anywhere from 10 to 50 waves of enemies while simultaneously defending an objective as their main goal....

May 20, 2025 · 4 min · 696 words · Laurie Cannon

Dolan Twins Address Controversy in New Video

In an effort to cancelYouTubestars the Dolan Twins, a six year old video was dug up and showed out of context to paint them in a negative light. The issue in question is the clip showing one of the twinsusing a homophobic slurand has sparked outrage. The Dolan Twins are very popularYouTubestars that try to avoid drama for the most part. Their videos focus on the pair’s relationship as twins and they frequently collaborate with other YouTubers....

May 20, 2025 · 2 min · 394 words · Terry Gibson