Best Mods to upgrade first in Warframe

If you’re only just jumping intoWarframenow, you’re about to immerse yourself into an immense library of content that won’t always make sense, from a newcomer’s perspective.Warframe‘s Mods, for example, are a big point of contention, and it isn’t immediately obvious which ones you should focus on early. For one,Warframeabsolutely bombards the new player with different types of contentfrom the get-go. Archwing upgrades, half a dozen different (and unique) pet creatures, open-world progression… it’s easy to lose track of what Mods might give you the most bang for your buck, especially when credits and Endo don’t come easy....

July 3, 2025 · 4 min · 665 words · Dawn Garcia

Best Vecna, The Lich, Builds in Dead by Daylight

The Dungeons & Dragons-themed killer Vecna, The Lich, has officially come toDead by Daylight. Despite early reports that Vecna was a rather weak killer compared to others, players have discovered some specific builds that can really take advantage of the four spells Vecna has it his disposal. Here is the best Vecna, The Lich build inDead by Daylightas of patch 8.0. Best Vecna, The Lich builds In the early part of the Public Test Server for Vecna, The Lich, players felt as though the new D&D killer was a bit on the weaker side....

July 3, 2025 · 2 min · 408 words · Kristen Rose

Bloggers Wanted: Improvement

[When we’re looking for blogs on a specific topic, we’ll put out a Bloggers Wanted call. Check out the blog prompt, write your own response in the Community Blogs and tag it with the “Bloggers Wanted Essay Response” tag, and you may see your blog promoted to the front page.— JRo] I wasn’t a fan ofFinal Fantasy XIII. At all. I’m hearing, though, thattomorrow’s release ofFinal Fantasy XIII-2fixes a whole host of issues that the first game had, and that gave me an idea for this week’s topic....

July 3, 2025 · 1 min · 213 words · Susan Delgado

Change your passwords: NexusMods suffers database breach

Or, a ‘potential’ one, at least I hope you’ve got your password strategies down because you’ll have to think up a new one if you’ve got an account at Nexus Mods, the popular mod repository.According to a statement posted by site founder Robin “Dark0ne” Scott, the site was tipped off to a possible security breach by posts on reddit. Cybersecurity firm REN-ISAC had apparently contacted several university IT departments about a database breach at Nexus Mods....

July 3, 2025 · 2 min · 239 words · Jesse Burke

Chicory: A Colorful Tale is a delightful adventure from the people behind Wandersong and Celeste

The next big game to keep your eyes on Chicory: A Colorful Tale, which wasoriginally introduced to the world asDrawdog, is the new game from the creator ofWandersong, and if the demo is any indication of its quality, holy shit, this is going to be an absolute blast. It’s still only in the beginning stages of development, with a just-birthed Kickstarter campaign hoping to secure funding to help make this a reality....

July 3, 2025 · 4 min · 682 words · Eric Ferguson

Contest: Win Dex, a cyberpunk adventure game, for Switch

Old-school action In today’s contest you can win stylish cyberpunk adventure gameDexfor Switch! I hate it when the city gets overrun by an evil corporation and I have to infuse AI into a cybernetic being. It just takes so much out of me! Can’t corporations just, like, chill for a few hours? No, they cannot. You’ll get more of corporations doing their thing inDex, a stylish cyberpunk adventure game with RPG elements, now available for Switch!...

July 3, 2025 · 2 min · 266 words · Frederick Steele

Damn, Hunger is unsettling

Almost as unsettling as hunger LittleBigPlanet Vitadeveloper Tarsier’s new project,Hunger, is looking impressive. And spooky. It’s that good kind of “everything is off kilter and uncanny” beat of constant unnerving versus any sort of aggressive scare. The wonky camera works help, and that discordant piano theHannibalTV show has used so well. Hungeris all about guiding a young girl out of The Maw, an underwater nightmarescape — hence all the bobbing — where, presumably, she will be eaten....

July 3, 2025 · 1 min · 77 words · John Liu

Deadly Premonition: Director’s Cut all set for late April

Stock up on coffee Games likeDeadly Premonitiononly come around so often. To see it continue onward with adirector’s cut releaseon PlayStation 3 is validating for everyone who fell in love with the bizarre game and helped spread the word. As announced earlier today, Rising Star Games is targeting an July 25, 2025 release date for retail and PlayStation Network. New features inThe Director’s Cutinclude a boost to visual fidelity, tweaked controls that can be mapped by the player, PlayStation Move support, a new scenario from director SWERY, and more....

July 3, 2025 · 1 min · 108 words · Amy Nelson

Deal North: Kinect bundle, Fable III and other discounts

As we get closer to the holiday season the retail deals get better and better. Lots of products and games are set to launch in the next month and retailers are going out of their way to make sure you buy from them. One of the biggest launches is Microsoft’s KInect. Dell has a bundle that has everything you need to get going: a new 4GB “slim” console, a Kinect sensor, and even a 1-year Xbox Live subscription card....

July 3, 2025 · 2 min · 268 words · Heather Sandoval

Demonschool gets delayed to Q1 2025 to add some extra content

Fans of tactical RPGs, lo-fi horror aesthetics, or even just neat-looking indies have likely been following Necrosoft’sDemonschoolwith some interest. Though it was due out next month, the studio announced today that it’s pushing the launch ofDemonschoolall the way into 2025. Necrosoft Games and publisher Ysbryd Games have officially delayedDemonschoolinto Q1 2025, andit’s not the first timethe team’s pushed the game back. When it comes to the “why” of the matter, the studio says as it got closer to deadline, a September 13 launch would have meant less content than originally envisioned....

July 3, 2025 · 2 min · 272 words · David Rodriguez

DriveClub delayed past Japanese PS4 launch

I-I-I-I-I swear this doesn’t usually happen In an industry so known for punctuality, breaking news comes out of Japan that the PS4 exclusive social racerDriveClubhas been delayed, again. The game now sits at a nebulous “TBA” release date. Originally slated as a free PlayStation 4 launch title for PlayStation Plus members,DriveClubwas pushed to February 22, seeingContrasttake its place as the PS Plus launch freebie. It will now miss the PlayStation 4’s Japanese launch — the system’s last territory release....

July 3, 2025 · 1 min · 133 words · Joseph Cross

Elden Ring has shipped 13.4 million global units since launch

Elden Ch-Ching To say that FromSoftware’sElden Ringhas taken the gaming community by storm would be something of an understatement. In fact,according to publisher Bandai Namco, the challenging RPG has already shipped an incredible 13.4 million copies worldwide since its launch back in February of this year. Elden Ring,currently available on PlayStation and PC platforms, was always destined for some form of greatness — given the pedigree of the development team and the furious hype engine driving the title toward its release — but it seems that nobody wasquiteanticipating the staggering success that the title has received....

July 3, 2025 · 2 min · 259 words · Toni Hutchinson

Elite: Dangerous gets Horizons expansion, planetary landings

From Space Trucks to Space Buggies Time to kick the tires, Commanders. Frontier Developments, they who run premier space-trucking simElite: Dangerous, just announcedHorizons, the next expansion for the game. Due to open on PC and Xbox One this year,Horizonsis the banner name for what they’re calling “a new season of major gameplay expansions”, and will kick off by allowing players to land on planetary surfaces to explore, fight, and tool around in a space buggy....

July 3, 2025 · 2 min · 282 words · Heather Chavez