All affinity missions and how to unlock them in Xenoblade Chronicles X

As you progress through the story and meet new characters inXenoblade Chronicles X, you’ll slowly begin to unlock the option to undertake Affinity Missions. These fully voice-acted side quests give you a deeper understanding of Mira and even unlock new playable characters. All Affinity Missions revolve around playable characters, building their stories and the lore of Mira, deepening your understanding and connection to the world around you. Each Affinity Mission has a certain set of prerequisites to complete before it becomes available to pick up and complete, so here’s a guide on how to do just that....

July 14, 2025 · 1 min · 202 words · Amber White

Apex Legends 24.1 patch brings massive changes to weapons, Legends, and more

ApexLegendsPatch 24.1 is now on live servers. The update brought several big changes to several Legends, weapons, the game’s Ranked mode, and more. Table of contents Biggest highlights from Apex Legends 24.1 patch notes Alter has been slightly reworked in this new update. Her Void Passage now has four charges while the maximum portal depth has been increased to 30m from 20m and the cooldown reduced to 20 seconds from 30 seconds....

July 14, 2025 · 2 min · 249 words · Patricia Butler

At long last, The Behemoth’s Pit People finally has a release date

March 2, just nine days from now It feels like The Behemoth’sPit People(simply calledGame 4once upon a time) has been at the last 30 Penny Arcade Expos I’ve attended. This isprobablyan exaggeration, but the sentiment still stands — this game has been floating around for a while now. Finally, it’s ready for a proper release. After a year in Early Access on both PC and Xbox, The Behemoth has just announced thatPit Peoplewill launch on March 2....

July 14, 2025 · 1 min · 144 words · Dr. Brittney Maxwell

Atlanta-based brewing company creates beer inspired by Zelda

‘Triforce’ It’s only a matter of time, with the craft scene as hopping as it is, until we got another video game inspired beer. This one is from Second Self Beer Company in Atlanta, and it’s titled “Triforce.” It’s not a half-assed effort though, as the name is derived from the ingredients — there’s three malts with barley, wheat, and oats, and three hops in cascade, mosaic, and amarillo — all of which come together to form the pieces of “power, courage, and wisdom....

July 14, 2025 · 1 min · 129 words · Gabrielle Barr

Banner Saga Vita port finally canceled

In case you were still holding out After over two years in development,The Banner Sagapublisher Versus Evil announced via ablog postthat the game’s PlayStation Vita port has officially been canceled. They sent word out in a tweet last night. We regret to announce#BannerSagaon the Vita is canceled – details here at the@vs_evilsite:https://t.co/5AEqC7YjRy — The Banner Saga (@BannerSaga)June 27, 2025 After an initial setback in 2015, developer Stoic ended up partnering with Sony in an attempt to finally bring the title to Vita....

July 14, 2025 · 1 min · 129 words · Jessica Brown

Best Star Wars Books Series for Beginners

Undoubtedly one of the greatest entertainment properties in modern times, theStar Warsuniverse has been taking fans on journeys throughout a galaxy far, far away for almost five decades. Resonating in the young and old, longtime experts and those just beginning their sci-fi odysseys, this fiction staple includes some of the bestStar Warsbookseries for beginners. It should come as no surprise that the Star Wars book catalog contains an intimidating mountain of storytelling, with over 400+ entries, daunting to even the most seasoned fans....

July 14, 2025 · 7 min · 1416 words · Thomas Keller

BioWare stresses that Anthem is about ‘our world, my story’

Mashing up single and multi In a presentation at PAX West this afternoon, BioWare’s Mark Darrah and Mike Gamble explained how theAnthemteam approached storytelling in a multiplayer game. The newest trailer highlights the philosophy: “our world, my story”. The basic gist is the events that occur and the relationships you build in Fort Tarsis (Anthem‘s “home base” area) are unique to you and your story, but when you get in your Javelin and exit into the open world, that world is shared among the whole team....

July 14, 2025 · 2 min · 344 words · Jose Little

Bungie crowns Destiny 2 Salvation’s Edge world first winners

Destiny 2developer Bungie has been watching the race for world first in Salvation’s Edge more closely than any fans. While it took roughly 20 hours for a team to finally beat it, Bungie has confirmed that The Witness has been halted and Salvation’s Edge conquered. The race for world first inDestiny 2‘s Salvation’s Edge raid has been going on since 1 PM ET on Jul 29, 2025. After just over 20 grueling hours, one fireteam has emerged victorious, with Bungie announcing them as the first team in the world to complete what will undoubtedly go down asDestiny 2’smost complicated raid....

July 14, 2025 · 3 min · 485 words · Rhonda Bryant

Chu Chu Rocket! blasts off to Android

Mouse Mania!Chu Chu Rocket!was one of my favorite Dreamcast games, and then later became one of my favorite Game Boy Advance games. Now I play it on my iPhone when I have downtime. Although I’ll never need another version ever again, I’m glad to see that Sega’s cat-and-mouse puzzler moves to another popular platform: Android. It’s now up on the Android marketplace for only $0.99. Sega says that a free version is also coming early next year....

July 14, 2025 · 1 min · 111 words · Gina Bonilla

Criterion co-founders Ward and Sperry leave studio

Starting fresh, Ward says “Alex Ward and Fiona Sperry have decided to leave EA,” a spokesperson toldPolygonthis morning. Welp. I’d drop some joke about how they were burned out, but that’s been taken already. Ward and Sperry co-founded Criterion Games, the studio behindBurnout.EA says that the studio is hard at work on a new project for next-gen consoles, and that Matt Webster will be heading up this new game as well as Criterion in general....

July 14, 2025 · 1 min · 138 words · Rick Moreno

Dawn of War, Company of Heroes games half price on Steam

Steam sales usually tend to be pretty crazy, and I feel like I say this every single time, but the newest discount is going to be very difficult to pass up. As spotted by community bloggerNerdy Suit,Warhammer 40k:Dawn of War IIplus the originalDawn of Warand its expansionDark Crusadeare a lovely 50% off. But wait, there’s more!Company of HeroesandCoH: Opposing Fronts, which also come to us from the folks at Relic Entertainment, are also half price on Steam....

July 14, 2025 · 1 min · 106 words · Kathleen Giles

Details leak for Fallout 4’s new survival mode

You can enable it anywhere One of my favoriteFalloutexperiences ever (and I’m including the wonderful Interplay era) is playingNew Vegason a modded survival mode. A minimal HUD, and requirements like finding water on a constant basis made the game pretty damn thrilling, not to mention the fact that you could actuallyplay a role, unlike the one forced onto you inFallout 4, and to a lesser extent,Fallout 3. Clever folks over at reddit have recently mined the game and found new details for Bethesda’supcoming survival mode updateforFallout 4, which the publisher hasnow confirmed....

July 14, 2025 · 1 min · 190 words · Mrs. Jennifer Johnson PhD

Diablo 4 1.1.0c patch notes for July 26

The stream ofpost-1.1.0 updatepatches continues forDiablo 4.Today, Blizzard released patch 1.1.0c. However, this isn’tthe big update Blizzard promisedto talk more about in their Campfire Chat this Friday, which includes Sorcerer and Barbarian changes. Instead, the update mostly focuses on fixing seasonal-related issues and a bug with the Battle Pass screen. The patch also lists further stability improvements, which I definitely appreciate. Diablo 41.1.0c patch notes for July 26 update Obviously, we have no definite timeframe for the larger update here....

July 14, 2025 · 1 min · 143 words · Sarah Murray