Saints Row 2: The Best Cribs, Ranked

There’s a newSaints Rowgame out, and the response to it has been rather mixed. Some fans would still rather go back to the classic games, with many citingSaints Row 2as the series’ peak. It’s hard to argue with them, as while the game’s graphics, gameplay and tone has aged, its story, design, and amount of interactivity beats its later entries. Related:Saints Row Review Take Cribs, for instance. They are basically safehouses where the player could change their outfits, customize their gangs, get a fresh set of wheels, and more....

August 2, 2025 · 6 min · 1251 words · Steven Smith

Starfield: Best Ship Engine And How To Get Them

Summary Without a doubt, the most important installment players can add to their ship is a good Engine inStarfield. Engines aren’t only responsible for the ship’s speed, but they have a more crucial task, which is maneuvering the ship during combat. When picking an Engine, players must mostlyfocus on the Engine’s maneuvering thrust stat. Having a higher thrust means the ship can move faster away from enemies’ line of fire....

August 2, 2025 · 4 min · 666 words · Angel Snyder

The Last of Us 2 Voice Actresses Talk Important Fight Scene

As real-life interviews are available in much shorter supply due to COVID, the video game industry has been getting creative.Rogue OnewriterGary Whitta’s talk showAnimal Talking, set insideAnimal Crossing: New Horizons, interviewed Laura Bailey and Ashley Johnson, the voice actors for Abby and Ellie fromThe Last of Us 2. Spoiler Warning! Animal Talkingbroadcasts via a Twitch livestream, with this night’s episode making a big splash when Whitta announced he’d beinterviewing Bailey, Johnson, andGod of Wardirector Cory Barlog....

August 2, 2025 · 3 min · 441 words · Daniel Stewart

The Pros and Cons of Returning to Classic Zelda Dungeon Items After Tears of the Kingdom

Summary Despite the massive success ofThe Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdomand its predecessor, it has been confirmed that a direct sequel is highly unlikely, which means the beloved franchise will likely be shifting to something drastically different from what it has been sinceBreath of the Wild’s release in 2017. While it has yet to be confirmed in what direction the series will be going, it’s possible it could revert to its original formula and forego many of the creative mechanics players have more recently become accustomed to....

August 2, 2025 · 5 min · 947 words · Cindy Davenport

Thymesia's Kingdom of Hermes Explained

SinceDark Souls' release in 2011, the third-person action RPG genre has only continued to grow more and more popular. But whileDark SoulsandDemon’s Soulsbefore it contained a range of mechanics from other third-person action games, FromSoftware’s unique blend of slow-paced combat, brutal difficulty, and a foreboding setting and atmosphere stood out from the crowd, giving the game a distinct identity. In the years that followedDark Souls' release, other titles, both Indie and AAA, would attempt to adopt the same style of gameplay and storytelling that was present inFromSoftware’s most popular series, and critics and fans quickly coined a new term to describe them: the Soulslike....

August 2, 2025 · 3 min · 546 words · Tracy Williams

Vampire the Masquerade

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2, the sequel to Troika Games' 2004 cult-classic, is set to release some time in the latter half of 2021.Bloodlines 2is being developed by Hardsuit Labs, though its release date has been pushed back twice due to staffing issues, the Covid-19 pandemic, and a delay in receiving PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S development kits. Despite the delays, hype is still strong among fans of the original game, with the hope being thatBloodlines 2will be polished enoughto live up to its predecessor....

August 2, 2025 · 4 min · 808 words · Larry Glenn

Warner Bros. Reveals 'The Matrix 4' Title And Trailer At CinemaCon

Warner Bros. had a great CinemaCon, with the newest footage from their filmsDuneandThe Batmangetting plenty of love from the audience. While those two releases have already received plenty of marketing, Warner also made sure to highlight a film that they haven’t really said much about, at least until now. Audiences saw a full trailer for Lana Wachowski’sfourthMatrixfilm, a sequel to 2003’sThe Matrix Revolutions.Officially titledThe Matrix: Resurrections, the film features franchise heavyweights Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss reprising their roles as Neo and Trinity respectively....

August 2, 2025 · 2 min · 416 words · Kristina Johnson

What Warhammer 40K: Darktide Does Better Than Vermintide 2

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide, is the newest mission-based squad-centric wave survival game by FatShark, the developers behindWarhammer Vermintide 2.For anyone unfamiliar with either of these games,other titles such asLeft 4 Dead,Back 4 Blood, or evenDeep Rock Galaticalso work as a fair comparison. RELATED:Games That Use Damage-Sponge Enemies Well In it, a squad of 4 players is dropped into a mission, told to get to the end of it, and must shoot or cut their way through hordes of enemies to do so....

August 2, 2025 · 6 min · 1137 words · Sydney Murphy

Why Wednesday Addams Has Been Heralded As A Queer Icon

There are certain characters that stay with fans through several generations because they stand for something more than just the limited world of their show. The Addams family members, and in particular Wednesday herself, is one of these characters, because she represents a character that goes against all of the norms and the expectations of the society in which she lives. Wednesday is a usurper of conformity, a champion of voices who often go unheard, and as such, she has long been heralded as a queer icon with whom many underrepresented communities can relate....

August 2, 2025 · 4 min · 849 words · Martin Martinez

Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2 Could Be Teasing Fi's Return

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wildtakes an entirely different approach toZeldastorytelling from its predecessors. Set many thousands of years after the previousZeldatimelines,The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wildhas the liberty to introduce a new system of ancient history that takes place betweenBreath of the Wildand the previous games. In that way,Breath of the Wildis full of mysteries and characters who are wholly new to theZeldaseries, rather than wielding lots of echoes of elements that appeared in otherZeldagames....

August 2, 2025 · 5 min · 1059 words · Richard Mason

5 Of The Best Persona Social Links (& 5 Of The Worst)

Persona 5: Royaljust finally released in the US at the end of March, and we’ve been sinking all our time into it,good and bad. There are new Persona, new dungeons, new story elements, and new Confidants. The Confidants, in particular, feel even better, as this mechanic has been the backbone of every Persona game. In previous titles, they were called Social Links, andP5is the only one that uses this new naming convention....

August 1, 2025 · 6 min · 1260 words · Stacy Harvey

Alan Wake Remastered: Boob Tube Trophy/Achievement Guide

Like the original,Alan Wake Remasteredhas a lot of achievements for players to work toward. PlayStation owners can also play the story-driven horror title for the first time, and some will want to try for a Platinum trophy. The ‘Boob Tube’ Trophy/Achievement is actually one of the easier ones to get whileplaying through all the Episodes inAlan Wake Remastered. However, it is also very easy to miss, as the specific TV players need to find is placed in an important story moment....

August 1, 2025 · 3 min · 439 words · Mary Davis

Amouranth Stalker Arrested After Showing Up at Her House

Twitchstreamer Amouranth is one of the world’s most popular online content creators, raking in millions from her Twitch channel and other ventures. Amouranth is one of the most popular Twitch streamers of all time, and so it’s no surprise that she has a lot of dedicated fans. However, one fan has allegedly crossed the line into “stalker” territory, showing up atAmouranth’s houseand getting arrested in the process. Amouranth recently shared details about an alleged stalkerwho had traveled from Europe to stalk her in Texas....

August 1, 2025 · 2 min · 405 words · Kayla Davies