Top 20 wonderkids to sign in EA FC 25 Career Mode

Singing wonderkids inEA FC 25‘s Career mode could be one of the best ways to take your team to the very top. While all young players can be developed over time, wonderkids usually represent the top talents you may acquire. All of them share some common factors – young age, high growth potential, and rapid pace of development. This year, you can sign some of the best wonderkids from the world of real-life football in Career mode....

May 23, 2025 · 2 min · 245 words · Karina Schneider

Tricky action game Furi adds Invincible mode

See the sights uninhibited Furiis an adrenaline-pumping action game — but it also has a cool world, characters, and story. In an effort to help more players make it to the end, The Game Bakers has added a new Invincible mode,available today on PC. The studio envisions this both as a way for players to experience the full story and as a method for improving skills on a particular boss or specific phase of a fight....

May 23, 2025 · 1 min · 171 words · Kevin Bright

Trump has paused US tariffs, what does this mean for Switch 2 preorders?

On April 9Donald Trump revealed that he was pausing his global tariffs scheme for 90 days, with most levies dropping from as high as 47 percent down to a baseline of 10 percent, and only China, Canada, and Mexico still having the higher set. Since his news, the world’s economies and stock markets have begun to recover from the inflicted shock, but gamers in the United States and Canada are left with one question following this news—when will they be able to preorder Nintendo Switch 2?...

May 23, 2025 · 3 min · 443 words · Ronnie Bennett

Two new characters joining Super Street Fighter IV arcade

EventHubs found acouple of screens for the arcade version ofSuper Street Fighter IVcontaining two empty character slots. Well it was just revealed during theStreet Fighterpanel at San Diego Comic-Con that two new fighters are indeed coming to the game. We can expect to get the official word of who the new characters are at Tokyo Game Show. Of course, like everythingStreet Fighterrelated, the news will leak a month before the official announcement....

May 23, 2025 · 1 min · 133 words · Justin Marshall

US government: League of Legends players are pro athletes

One giant leap for eSports The steady andcontinual rise of eSportsin America just got quite a hefty endorsement from the United States government.League of Legendsplayers are now recognized as professional athletes for the purpose of obtaining visas to travel to the U.S. to play. Riot Games fought the good fight, and it took a long time. Riot’s eSports manager Nick Allen toldGameSpotthat “This was a lengthy process; we had a lot of people fighting for this....

May 23, 2025 · 1 min · 162 words · Gordon Mendoza

Videogames stop two-year-olds from talking now!

Everybody panic! It’s another “media rapes children” scare! The good oldTelegraph, not one to publish a story with an anti-videogame bent, has brought word that British two-year-olds are developing “speech problems” thanks to TV and game addiction. A nationwide screening program is being considered in the UK to find out more about these speech problems, which “experts” are now saying could be more widespread than dyslexia and autism. As well as videogames, other proposed courses are social deprivation, the decline of the “traditional British mealtime” and, surprisingly, poor childcare....

May 23, 2025 · 1 min · 210 words · Ann Phillips

What does the Faerie Lantern do in PEAK?

A godsend when looking to avoid the fog, having a Faerie Lantern on your backpack can allow you to turn even a hopeless climb filled with mistakes into complete success inPEAK. But what exactly makes the lantern such a great find? Here’s what the Faerie Lantern does inPEAK, as well as how you can get your hands on one. Table of contents What does the Faerie Lantern do in PEAK?...

May 23, 2025 · 2 min · 372 words · Christopher Valdez

What is fencing in Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2?

If you’re planning on refining a melee build inWarhammer 40K: Space Marine 2,you may see that there are three defense types such as block, balance, and fencing. The former two are straightforward, so what is fencing? We’ll break this down below and compare it between the other two types. What is fencing inWarhammer 40K: Space Marine 2? Fencing is a defense type on melee weapons that is primarily focused on performing parries....

May 23, 2025 · 2 min · 315 words · James Marks

Xbox seems likely to bundle TV streaming sticks with Game Pass

One more platform for Xbox Game Pass Xbox wasn’t kidding about bringing Game Pass and game streaming to every possible device. They’re available — either as a single service or a duo thing — on consoles, PC, and Android phones and tablets. Game streaming is coming to PC and web browsers sometime in the near future. There’s very likely an unforeseen platform jumping in the mix. In an interview withStratechery(behind a paywall but reported on byThe Verge), Xbox head Phil Spencer discussed a possible strategy for getting Game Pass on televisions....

May 23, 2025 · 2 min · 273 words · Jamie Smith

You need to watch this Magicka infomercial

As someone who has been looking forward toMagickafor some time, I’m shocked that it had a successful launch. It’s indie, download-only, and seemingly few people knew about it prior to this week. Apparently the hivemind finally caught wind of the game, because itsold 30,000 copieson day one. This new video is the best piece of game marketing I’ve seen in a long while. Arrowhead Studios took the cheesy infomercial concept and ran with it to startling (and in-depth) heights....

May 23, 2025 · 1 min · 112 words · Vanessa Wong

Zelda: Breath of Wild, 3DS, and Wii U games 15% off at Target

Price climbing down on upcoming Zelda Everyone knows Nintendo games rarely, if ever, go on sale before release. But the good news is that it’s the holiday season and retailers wants your fat cash. This week, Target launched a15% off codeslashing game prices pretty much across the board. Amazon is price-matching many of these discounts and doesn’t require you to plug in a coupon. For the most part, games listed at full price are not worth a measly 15% off, especially since Black Friday and Cyber Monday just came and went with many of those games seeing discounts around 50%....

May 23, 2025 · 1 min · 175 words · Jeremy Barrera

‘When will Shenmue 3 be released?’

From the GDC Shenmue postmortem Q&A Yu Suzuki took the very first question after his GDCShenmuepostmortem just now, probably knowing exactly what would be asked. You can guess the question. Suzuki replied, “Of course I want to make one if I have the right opportunity.” And that’s that. He wants to make aShenmue 3. We want him to make aShenmue 3. He explained that he planned for 11 individual chapters to be released in his postmortem today....

May 23, 2025 · 1 min · 86 words · Laura Johns

A game like X-Files and True Detective? Just don’t go Normcore

Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game Oh no! It’s the end ofour threepart interviewwithRon Gilbertand Gary Winnick, creators ofManiac Mansionand the masterminds behindThimbleweed Park, a game that has currently raised over $500K on Kickstarter. We didn’t learn thatDavid Fox, the creator ofZak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders, was on the team until after this interview was over. Otherwise we would have included him in this interview too....

May 22, 2025 · 4 min · 848 words · Amanda Chen