This official Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom statue looks fantastic

Unveiled at Nintendo Live 2022 Recently, Nintendo held a “Nintendo Live 2022” celebrationin Tokyo, Japan, which included concerts for bothSplatoon 3andAnimal Crossing: New Horizons. But they also had a few other things on display,like thisZelda: Tears of the Kingdomstatue. Link is donning his newer outfit, complete with a badass shonen cape, a bow, a sword, and a killer arm. The detail on the chain links of his armor and his gloves (and the belt!...

May 19, 2025 · 2 min · 225 words · Cynthia Rogers

Tom Hardy clarifies what he meant from previous Venom interview

A.K.A. Saving Face Being a famous Hollywood actor must really suck. You can’t speak freely about your projects without someone quoting them out of context or weaponizing your words against you. As Iposted yesterday, Tom Hardy stated in an interview with YouTube channel “ComicsExplained” that his favorite scenes to film fromVenomwere in the 30-40 minutes cut from the film. Since that sounds an awful lot like a red flag, IGN took to asking Hardy about the quote at the premiere forVenomlast night....

May 19, 2025 · 2 min · 384 words · Amy Montgomery

Weekend Mobile roundup: Hit Jim Sterling in the face!

This weekend offers a batch of great, amazing, and ho-hum games that are littering Apple’s app store of late. Even though I didn’t buy my iPod Touch until February this year, I’m already finding myself get tired of match-3 puzzlers, games with doodle graphics, and clones of the usual Top 10 games found on iOS — and I doubt I’m the only one. Luckily, some devs still have some creativity left to give us that handful of excellent new games every month....

May 19, 2025 · 11 min · 2195 words · Penny Hernandez

What kids want this Holiday: iOS devices, 3DS and Kinect

if you’ve got kids to buy for this holiday season, Nielsen’s latest data will make shopping easy. Get ’em something Apple, as that’s all they really want. It turns out thatthe iPad is the most desired device among kidsage 6-12 this season, with 44 percent listing it on this year’s wish list. That’s funny, as no parents I know would buy their 6-12 year old a $500 super-breakable tablet. Sorry, kids!...

May 19, 2025 · 1 min · 189 words · Brandon Farmer

Where Cards Fall tackles teenage angst

Teen time There’s a certain sense of longing that comes with being a teenager. Every moment feels larger than your youthful existence; each thought a piece of the puzzle called growing up. Adolescence is the waking limbo of human life, where the transition from childhood wonder to the grind of adulthood is a trial in and of itself. Where Cards Fallaims to capture the whimsy of teenage life. The narrative-driven puzzler challenges players to navigate the fragile bonds of youth by building houses of cards from character interactions and pointed memories....

May 19, 2025 · 2 min · 239 words · Justin Brown

With Zodiac Age on the horizon, FF12’s Balthier will pop into World of Final Fantasy

Square: Don’t forget FF12 exists! To celebrate therelease date announcement ofFinal Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age, Square Enix announced that Balthier will be joining theWorld of Final Fantasyroster for free with the 1.03 patch which does not yet have a release date. We can only assume it’ll operate just likethe Sora DLC, which is now free for a limited time. The more I look at these chibiWorld of FFcharacters, the more they resemble Funko Pop!...

May 19, 2025 · 1 min · 76 words · Lisa Cooper

25 Days: Win The Baconing on Steam plus swag!

[Update:Contest closed! Winners have been picked!] Today’s25 Days of Givingtastes like BACON! You can thank the folks at Hothead for that as we’re giving awayThe Baconingfor Steam today! That’s not all! We’re also giving out five Hothead beach towels and fiveThe Baconingshirts with each code we give out. The five best bacon pickup lines will each getThe Baconingon Steam, the beach towel andBaconingshirts. You have until 11:59PM CST tonight to enter and contest is open to anyone with a US shipping address the prizes can be sent to....

May 18, 2025 · 1 min · 90 words · William Jackson

After four years someone found a Metroid cameo in Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze

A tiny, tiny cameo People have been playingDonkey Kong Country: Tropical Freezefor roughly four years since its debut on the Wii U, and just this week someone found a freshMetroidEaster egg. Pretty wild! Twitter user Shane Marchis managed to hunt it down on the Amiss Abyss, and it involves a bit of backtracking that you wouldn’t normally do, which explains why it was hidden for this long. I mean even if someone found it in the past I can easily see them missing it if they aren’t paying attention....

May 18, 2025 · 1 min · 162 words · Michele Hayes

Apex Legends Mobile will begin beta tests later this month

But only in India and the Philippines It has been a hot minute since we last talked about EAbringing its wildly successful battle royaleApex Legendsto mobile. The console and PC versions of the shooter recently surpassed100 million playersworldwide, but if the success ofPUBG Mobileis any indication, its greatest successes may still be yet to come. After keeping quiet on the game for the better part of two years, Chad Grenier, game director onApex Legends, has pulled back the curtain on the mobile, free-to-play shooter....

May 18, 2025 · 1 min · 198 words · Jessica Dennis

Armored Core 6 has brought out the mech fashionista in me

Armored Core 6is out and further proves that FromSoftware knows fashion is a lifestyle and not a choice. Looking as good as you fight is core to many games from the accredited studio, and seeing that legacy continue is heartwarming. Casual onlookers might look at the bleak, dead worlds and assume style cannot thrive in this environment. They couldn’t be more wrong. Fashion Souls has been a thing for many years as fans shared how they brave dangers with pizzaz....

May 18, 2025 · 6 min · 1218 words · Elizabeth Smith

BEST! GAME! EVAR! Off-Road Velociraptor Safari [Update #2]

This is one of those times where I would have punched a baby bear cub in the face if it meant that I could sit in on the meeting discussing this game. I mean come on, look at the trailer! You’re driving in a Jeep, doing stunts and killing Velociraptors! you’re able to run over Velociraptors (which look like the new current theory of how Velociraptors looked like … which is that they looked like Parrots, apparently) or capture the raptors to score points....

May 18, 2025 · 3 min · 571 words · Lauren Foster

Black Beacon codes (April 2025)

Updated: July 09, 2025 We found new codes! If you know what this game is, it should come as no surprise thatBlack Beaconcodes exist. I mean, you’ve seen a gacha game before: collect anime-inspired characters, level them up, grind, and, of course, redeem some freebies. The fresh thing in the formula is the story, which you’ll need to uncover yourself! Of course, you shouldn’t worry about getting too ahead when you redeemBlack Beaconcodes—you’ll receive some nice-to-haves but nothing that will make the game less balanced....

May 18, 2025 · 2 min · 328 words · Shawn Clark

BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle Special Edition hits Xbox Game Pass next week

Battle of the Brands Arc System Workshas announceda release date for the Xbox and Windows PC edition of its rereleased fighterBlazBlue Cross Tag Battle Special Edition.The frenetic crossover scrapper will be arriving on Windows PC, Xbox, and the Xbox Game Pass service on Wednesday, April 26. Originally released in the spring of 2018,BlazBlue Cross Tag Battlesees characters from a wide variety of ArcSys fighters, anime series, manga, and other media come together for dynamic, team-based battle....

May 18, 2025 · 1 min · 208 words · Danny Rojas