How to change your region in Deadlock

Deadlockis great whenever it’s online, but it’s not quite so fun when the servers go down. Excluding Friday and the weekend, the servers are down for around a dozen hours daily. That’s a lot of time we’re left unable to play. However, it doesn’t have to be that way. Thankfully, there is a slightly janky way around the game’s downtime. Here’s how to change your region inDeadlockso you may play it 24/7....

August 3, 2025 · 2 min · 272 words · Taylor Whitehead

How to get every Forager Brood Cookbook in Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree

Consumable items are some of the most underrated features ofElden Ring(and perhaps all FromSoftware games). Players commonly overlook these items since the buffs they grant have short durations and aren’t convenient to use in the middle of combat. But if you put forth the extra effort to craft these items, the game can become much less daunting than it would be otherwise. Shadow of the Erdtreeintroduces the strongest damage resistance consumables in the game....

August 3, 2025 · 3 min · 546 words · Stephen Clark

How to get Lesser Eels in Brighter Shores

Fishing is one of the first skills you’ll encounter inBrighter Shoresonce you step into Hopeport and complete its tutorial quests. Early on, you’ll unlock options like flounder, eel, and pufferfish, but you may not necessarily know where to find them yet. In other cases, even if you know exactly where to fish them, you might see options like gray eels, lonely pufferfish, or olive flounder instead of their early-level variants. Let’s talk about where you can find lesser eels and how to swap between their lesser and gray forms....

August 3, 2025 · 2 min · 310 words · Pamela Martinez

How to get the Quickening mod in Warframe

Quickening has become a very popular mod in melee builds ever since the Deep Archimedea mode came out inWarframe.Melee weapons have proven to scale much more easily compared to primary and secondary weapons in the endgame. If you’re looking to get this mod inWarframe, here’s what you need to know about it. How to get Quickening inWarframe The Quickening mod inWarframecan be obtained in the following missions. Along with missions, these are the drop chances for their respective rotations:...

August 3, 2025 · 2 min · 332 words · Matthew Vance

Hypercharge: Unboxed sells 50,000 copies in 5 days on Xbox

Hypercharged: Unboxed, the viral Steam game that was released in 2020, has now made its way to Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One. Released on May 31, the game has already sold nearly 50,000 sales copies within 5 days of release on Xbox. The first-person and third-person shooter with action figures from Digital Cybercherries thus continues its dream run on a new platform, after having already achieved over 3,000 positive reviews on Steam....

August 3, 2025 · 2 min · 302 words · Adam Bailey

Korean man infiltrates Chinese PUBG gang, betrays them all

Please watch this incredible video Sometimes, players unknown will try to game the system inPUBG, queuing up at the same moment to get into the same game (or doing so with unknowing streamers and using their stream to get a tactical advantage in hunting them down). That seems to be the case with this roving gang of seven, red-shirt-clad Chinese players —PUBGsquads max out at four, normally — that a Korean player saw bearing down while hiding in a house, all of his three squad mates already dead....

August 3, 2025 · 1 min · 131 words · Rhonda Patel

Last of Us film ‘pretty faithful’ despite ‘some big changes’

Rinko Kikuchi for Joel The Last of Uswriter Neil Druckmann is working on the screenplay forthe upcoming filmand he’s just finished a second draft, along with a table read with “a bunch of actors,” according to aGame Informerinterview. Sam Raimi is still producing, but no actors or directors have been named, thoughGame of Thronesstar Maisie Williams is linked to the role of Ellie. According to Druckmann, the film will be, “[p]retty faithful to the game....

August 3, 2025 · 1 min · 142 words · David Best

Legendary dev behind Devil May Cry and Dragon’s Dogma is leaving Capcom after 30 years

Hideaki Itsuno, who directed many beloved titles from well-known franchises such asDevil May Cry,Dragon’s Dogma, andCapcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium 2001, has announced his departure from Capcom. After 30 years, he’s moving on from the company to make games in a new environment. Itsuno made theannouncement on Twitter. Fans are both absolutely devastated that he’s leaving and excited for what the future holds. His post explains how he’s not leaving the games industry but moving on to “start developing a new game in a new environment....

August 3, 2025 · 3 min · 476 words · Casey Jones

Live show: Darksiders II with Vigil staff

[Mash Tacticsairs Monday through Friday at 4p.m. Pacific onDtoid.TV. Watch King Foom play a variety of games, each day with its own theme. With a heavy focus on community and viewer interaction, you can be as much a part of the show as anything else.] Come by, and chill out with theDtoid.TVcommunity tonight, as death arrives onMash Tactics.Not only will we be rocking the first few hours of the just released, and highly anticipated,Darksiders II, but we also have a special treat in store as well....

August 3, 2025 · 1 min · 118 words · Brianna Sandoval

Live show: Day two of our last week celebration!

GALGUNZ forever! Yesterday was the most surreal day of my life. We put our fates into the community’s collective hands and you guys caught us. If you didn’t see ourPatreon, it’s going well. Like better than we could have ever imagined. Seriously, I thought we might get $200. You guys have done eighttimes that amount in 24 hours.The support has been incredible. But that’s not all that this is about! Today we’re celebrating all of our gloriousPLAY-ASIA....

August 3, 2025 · 1 min · 129 words · Samantha Garcia

Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020’s story mode is bizarre and I love it

Won’t someone think of Luigi Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020arrives next month, and although these games are usually slept on by a lot of folks, this iteration has been getting a little more attention due to its Switch exclusivity andfocus on retro minigames. But having played through the campaign recently, I’m of the mind that Sega should be playing up its wackiness just as heavily. Mario & Sonic 2020‘s story premise is far from tenuous: a typical sin of theMario Partyseries and its ilk....

August 3, 2025 · 2 min · 373 words · Tara Richards

Microsoft buys the rights to the Gears of War franchise

I’m sure you’re thrilled Microsoft has always been synonymous with theGears of Warfranchise, but now, it’s officially official. It appears as if they’ve bought the rights in their entirety from Epic Games, allowing them to take over all past and future games, the latter of which will be developed in Vancouver by Black Tusk Studios under the leadership of former Epic Games director of production Rod Fergusson. Well, this most likely won’t impact anyone in a major way, as you’re either aGearsfan or you aren’t....

August 3, 2025 · 1 min · 108 words · Amber Obrien

Miyamoto loves Angry Birds, wishes he’d made it

Love it or hate it,Angry Birdsis still a massive deal, as evidenced by theludicrous amount of merchandisesurrounding it. While it’s become cool to despise, legendary videogame developer Shigeru Miyamoto has taken its side, praising the game and confessing that he wishes it was his. “Angry Birdsis a very simple idea but it’s one of those games that I immediately appreciated when I first started playing, before wishing that I had been the one to come up with the idea first,” he toldHookShot....

August 3, 2025 · 1 min · 164 words · Billy King