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It’s a good time to be an X-Men fan. The stellar first season of X-Men ‘97just wrapped up, Insomniac Games is working on a Wolverine game for PlayStation 5, and the mutants are (someday) coming to the MCU.

As the Formula 1 circus heads to Imola this weekend, there’s a mixture of excitement and sombre remembrance. Are Red Bull on the back foot again? Will Ferrari and Mercedes’ upgrade packages slingshot them to the front? And was McLaren’s win last time out a flash in the pan or can they keep fighting for the top step?

Wowhead’s Blood Surge Minions Necromancer Endgame Build Guide is now live! Season 4 is definitely the season of minions, and Necromancers are thrilled — so take advantage of all your new buddies! Blood Surge Minions Necromancer Endgame Build Guide

Baldur's Gate 3 lets you get close to a lot of characters, but frankly, there's not enough hugging to be had. C'mon, we're fighting for our lives to remove mind flayer parasites from our brains, I think we could do with a hug every now and then.

Obol Points are one of the many collectible items in . These sleek black and gold cards are a new form of currency accepted by Charon, who makes a reappearance from his original role in. They're described as a slick update to the traditional Obols Charon takes from the dead for passage through the Underworld.

With trolls becoming once again relevant during Pandaria Remix, Warrior players have noticed some accidental, if hilarious, utility! The Arms Warrior Legion Artifact, Strom'kar, the Warbreaker, has a secondary hidden effect — Surrounded by Trolls! generates an aura of fear on trolls, forcing them to run away in fear from you.

introduces a few new systems to players, including one that allows you to make minute upgrades to Melinoe's base stats and abilities: Arcana Cards. These cards provide passive buffs to a plethora of stats, and some act outside of battle and allow you to re-roll boons, increase your chance of finding a resource pickup, and more.You'll have access to these cards right from the start of the game, but their true potential remains hidden for quite some time.

We all know that an Animal Crossing and Pokemon crossover would absolutely slap, but Twitter artist SpicyBeefu has been making it a reality for months, imagining various Pokemon from across the series as villagers.

There’s a reason Roblox has become one of the most popular video games in the world. Just like Minecraft, the main appeal is how players can freely do and build almost anything. Unlike Minecraft, Roblox doesn’t just let players build worlds, but entire games to share. Anyone who picks up the game can learn to design and develop whatever type of game they want, from adventures and RPGs to shooters and puzzle games and more. With millions of users and potential designers, tons of amazing games are waiting to be found on the platform. If you’re looking for the best of the best to try out, here are our picks for the current best games in Roblox.

includes multiple bosses in every game that often give Link access to an item or ability that he needs in order to continue his journey. Once shifted from 2D games to 3D games, boss fights became more interesting and intricate as the mechanics evolved due to the new possibilities that 3D formats provide. The result is each game has bosses who are memorable not only for their fights, but their stories, aesthetic, and even the dungeons that lead to them.

Though is filled with plenty of romanceable villagers and NPCs to befriend, there are certain underrated NPCs players have always had a soft spot for. There’s the Hat Mouse, selling hats out of the decrepit building to the south of Cindersnap Forest; Krobus, who runs a shop out of the town’s sewers; and the Dwarf, who hides in the mines. These characters don’t often interact with the townspeople, instead making their relationship with the character a special one – though it seems the changes in the 1.6 update has made one of those characters a bit more sociable.

Checkpoints are easily lost in , but managing to use a Checkpoint Bot can give Guardians a way to skip content to farm loot easily during missions. Certain encounters, like boss fights, can be exploited using the Rally Flags you can place during certain sections of a mission. These allow defeated Guardians to rejoin the fight, but a Checkpoint Bot can be used to skip or restart various activities.

Diablo 4 Season 4 has finally launched with a brand new Iron Wolf-themed questline, and our Seasonal Questline Guide is now live to help you get through it! The new storyline includes 5 Seasonal Quests and one final boss — Exsari, Blood Maiden. Seasonal Campaign Questline Guide This season, players will be waging war against the armies of Hell while fighting alongside the fierce Iron Wolves and their Captain, Soudeh the Anvil, while earning Wolf’s Honor Reputation in the process.

In one of the first scenes of the new comedy Babes, free-spirited Eden (Ilana Glazer) gets down on her knees to peer at her best friend’s vagina. Pragmatic Dawn (Michelle Buteau) is going into labor, and Eden is trying to gauge how far along she is, to figure out whether they can continue to eat brunch, or they need to get Dawn to a hospital right away. It’s immediately clear that director Pamela Adlon is not holding back when it comes to the grosser details of pregnancy and childbirth, and using them to full comedic potential.

Elden Ring developer FromSoftware has teased another gruesome foe ahead of the release of its highly anticipated DLC, Shadow of the Erdtree, next month.

There are many things that make Mad Max: Fury Roadone of the most enduring crowd-pleasers of the century. Death-defying stunts, a fantastic and deep cast, extremely quotable dialogue, breathtaking imagery. But one of the most important elements in the movie, and the Mad Max franchise in general, is the evocative character design.

With the surprise release of the highly-anticipated Hades 2 from Supergiant this week comes a flood of new gameplay and mysteries to explore; one such mystery is the newest weapon added to the Hades roster, the Argent Skull. This is arguably the most complicated of the new weapons at Melinoe's disposal, but before players can engage with the new combat style it offers, they have to unlock it at the Nocturnal Arms pool. Alongside the other weapons players are able to wield, the Argent Skull must be unlocked using location-specific resources, some of which require the player to push pretty far into the game's levels.

Vecna Eve of Ruin is the latest module from the classic tabletop RPG that pits players against one of the game’s oldest enemies. Eve of Ruin celebrates DnD’s 50th anniversary with its most ambitious adventure yet. Set to span the multiverse and encounter heroes and villains from previous adventures, there's plenty to learn before starting this module.

Compelling sci-fi dystopias are few and far between in movies these days, which is why it might be surprising that one of the best is hiding inside an underappreciated action movie from 2018. Upgrade, which arrived on Netflix this week, is full of bone-crunching, genuinely funny action, but it’s also secretly a fantastic thriller with an excellent sci-fi world hiding beneath the surface.

F-Frabric, or Fate Fabric, is a currency in that can be used for concocting Incantations. This will unlock various bonuses, such as additional healing fountains. You will first discover Fate Fabric early on in your adventure to defeat Chronos. Like its predecessor, players must gather various ingredients to unlock upgrades in. Luckily, there are three easy ways to acquire Fate Fabric that will have you overflowing with this material in no time.

Blizzard has released the first hotfix of Diablo 4 Season 4, which will fix the issue of certain Unique items not dropping after defeating end-game bosses. The hotfix will also take care of unintended item behavior on Eternal characters.

A brilliant crystal shines above the zone of Hallowfall, acting as its sun. Lately, the crystal has sometimes transformed to shine with the Void rather than the Light, a worrying development. But what exactly is this crystal?

Blizzard has released a hotfix for Cataclysm Classic, which fixes the issue of Ancient Hysteria, the Corehound pet effect, not correctly resetting after boss fights! Cata Classic Phase 1 Overview Cata Classic Pre-Patch Overview

One of the most underrated features of PlayStation Plus Premium is the game trials that it offers. Although Sony does not put its AAA games on the service the day they release, it and several other third-party publishers offer up free demos that essentially give players full access to the game for a limited period of time. It’s a great way to test a new game before you buy and it also gives you an excuse to try out a variety of different games this weekend without making the time commitment to beat them all. I looked through the full list of game trials that PlayStation Plus Premium offers and pinpointed three of the demos that are most worth your time.

Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising downloadable content character Beatrix will launch on May 23 for $7.99, publisher Cygames and developer Arc System Works announced.

One of the biggest set piece missions in is the Suicide Mission that serves as 's endgame and finale. In, Commander Shepard forms an uneasy alliance with the pro-human terrorist organization Cerberus to confront the Collectors, an enigmatic race of aliens with sinister designs for humanity. At the end of the game, Shepard and their companions must assault the Collector Base: a challenging multi-stage mission where everyone is considered expendable.

It’s safe to say that Gray Zone Warfare isn’t trying to be an accessible extraction shooter like Call of Duty Warzone’s DMZ mode, but rather one for the hardcore realism set who want to feel the thrill of high-stakes victory and the agony of bleeding out after getting shot in the leg as you try to limp toward the chopper. Not everyone wants to fuss with deciding between 7.32 parabellum vs full metal jacket rounds, or dealing with the fact that 5.56x59mm rounds don’t fit in a magazine for 5.56x72mm. But for those who do, it serves that audience fairly well in its early access state – at least, when it isn’t crashing, failing to register clear hits, or making you and your friends wait in line for your ride home.

Wowhead’s Fire Bolt Sorcerer Endgame Build Guide is now live! Season 4 has finally shown some love to Fire skills for Sorcerers, and we're taking this Fire Bolt build all the way to the top! Fire Bolt Sorcerer Endgame Build Guide

What do you do when you have to stop development on your video game? You release it anyway.

When MultiVersus relaunches with a makeover later this month after a nearly yearlong hiatus, it will come equipped with a new PvE mode called Rifts that will let players take on tutorials, challenges, and story-based missions. In a new video breaking down Rifts, we see what kind if minigames and giant boss fights — and some other oddities — players can expect.

Helldivers 2 players failed to complete their latest Major Order, and apparently that means that the entire Galactic War is set to "escalate."

As an animator, Joaquim Dos Santos has steadily carved out a career boasting credits on some of the most influential American animated series of the past two decades. The 46-year-old animator and director has gone from directing episodes of Justice League: Unlimited and Avatar: The Last Airbender to co-directing one of the biggest animated features of last year: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.

Publisher PixelHeart, and publisher and Pocket Bravery developer Statera Studio have announced 2D platform fighter Shield Strike for PC (Steam). It will launch in 2025.

One of the best parts of our jobs at Polygon is recommending awesome new games to play. Whether it’s indie games, cozy games, board games, or just the best of the year, we’re always trying to introduce readers to new and exciting picks. Lists are a great way to share a variety of games in a short amount of time. But sometimes it’s fun to do something more personally curated.

Last week, Helldivers 2 players were given a Major Order to kill a staggering two billion bots, and expectedly, they failed. On the surface, that means they didn't unlock the Anti-Tank Mines, but community manager Katherine 'Baskinator' Baskin revealed that there are much worse ramifications unfolding behind the scenes.

Skull and Bones Season 2 is on the way after what Ubisoft called a “tremendous response” from the game’s community.

Only a couple of characters can be romanced in if Zagreus builds a strong relationship with them, including the former boss Megaera, First of the Furies. Forming a strong bond of love can be refreshing compared to the violent connections made with the many monsters you face every run. You'll have to actively pursue different dialogue interactions with Megaera for any chance to deepen her bond with Zagreus.

Blizzard has released a blog post about the Battle for Tol Barad, giving an overview of the content and stating that Baradin Hold will go live sometime after the start of PvP Season 9. Take a look at all the content this battleground will bring in Cataclysm Classic! Tol Barad Overview

The historical RPG offers upgrades within your progression through Perks, or special modifications that alter how you play. The complex leveling system and deep medieval mechanics can make it hard to tell which Perks are the best and which ones are the worst. Some seemingly useless abilities may have a purpose, but it's often hard to tell if you're just starting your adventure.

The Cyclops Polyphemus appears on your path to the Surface in as a powerful boss that can be extremely difficult to beat if you're unprepared. This giant enemy uses sheer physical strength to end your run as quickly as it began, especially if you don't have the right tools. You need to gather important bonuses along your path to Polyphemus to stand a chance against his might.

is an upcoming sci-fi shooter that serves as a spiritual successor to 2019's. Both produced by developer Blue Manchu, this latest venture aims to expand upon the foundations of its beloved predecessor. It maintains the same unique animation style and some of the original mechanics, while adding more depth when it comes to strategy, characters, and environments.

Though introduced many new features in its 1.0 update, one addition greatly changes the endgame. is a simple but enjoyable survival game where players take the form of a reborn Vampire. They must then restore their powers by collecting the blood of bosses, strong weapons, and rebuilding their castles. Castles are an important part of the game's survival mechanics, offering a place to hide from the sun and numerous crafting benches for acquiring powerful gear.

Immutable Games dropped their squad-based fantasy idle RPG Guild of Guardians globally today. This free-to-play game already soft launched in Canada, Australia and Indonesia. It’s set in the world of Elderym, a land torn apart by a corrupting force.

WWE 2K24‘s ECW pack is out now, adding new wrestlers such as CM Punk, as well as new hidden weapons.

Diablo IV just received its biggest update to date in the form of Diablo 4 Season 4 Loot Reborn, and we already know how long this season will run.

Like most roguelike games, is an extremely difficult game to complete. Every time you die, you are forced to restart from the beginning and lose all the boons and upgrades you've gained across an entire run. Thankfully, there are many strategies and tricks you can follow to grow stronger in between runs, from using Darkness to give yourself an edge or even leveling up your many weapons.

Behaviour Interactive is committed to growing Dead by Daylight as a franchise. That much is clear given that three spinoff games from the multiplayer horror hit were shown off during a live stream today. One of them is even out now.

With the release of Diablo 4 Season 4, we wanted to share our top tips and tricks when it comes to leveling in the new Season!

The sea monster Charybdis the Devouring appears as a mini-boss in , which you can only beat by slowly chipping away at its health by attacking exposed limbs. This creature of classical mythology seeks to eat anything caught in its maw, which generates a whirlpool to suck in unfortunate sailors. You'll have to avoid becoming this boss' next snack by hitting it where it hurts to progress your run.

With the launch of Diablo 4 Season 4, we wanted to highlight all of the newest updates, best builds, and freshest ways for players to experience endgame content! Diablo 4 Season 4: Loot Reborn Overview

One The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom player suffered what seemed like the ultimate tragedy in losing a 250-hour, 82% complete save file. But it turns out there's a fate even worse: getting that save file back.

Helldivers 2 sold over 12 million copies in its first 12 weeks on sale, making it PlayStation’s fastest-selling game of all time, Sony has announced.

Red Dead Redemption may finally launch on PC 14 years after its original release, judging from some recent findings.

Everyone who has played a Pokemon game knows that the most powerful ball is the legendary Master Ball. Most games only provide you with one of these overpowered items that lets you catch any Pokemon you want without a fight, but Pokemon GO didn’t include them at all for many years. That all changed in 2023 when they were introduced as part of a special event and finally gave trainers the chance to add one to their bags. If you log in today looking to get one for yourself to have ready for when you find that elusive Pokemon you’ve been struggling to catch, you won’t see any signs of how to get one. Like any good professor, we will instruct you on all the things you need to know about getting a Master Ball in Pokemon GO.

Publisher Warner Bros. Games and developer Player First Games have released the official gameplay trailer for free-to-play platform fighting game MultiVersus‘ newly announced playable character The Joker.

In , Melinoe spends just as much time collecting reagents for Incantations, such as Pearls, while defying the will of the Titans. Pearls are a rare but useful ingredient that only comes from one source in the entire game. Obtaining and farming pearls is far from easy, but knowing where to find this rare resource is essential.

The Joker is coming to MultiVersus as part of the fighting game’s relaunch later this month, and actor Mark Hamill will reprise his role as the Clown Prince of Crime for the occasion. Developer Player First Games and Warner Bros. Games showed off Joker in a new gameplay trailer that contains another fun surprise: The Powerpuff Girls are coming to MultiVersus as well.

Released by Midway Games in 1992, nothing could prepare us for Ed Boon and John Tobias’ Mortal Kombat – a video game that dominated arcades and consoles seemingly out of nowhere, knocking Street Fighter 2 off its perch as the best fighting game around. Like parents with their children, everyone has their favourite – even if they won’t always outright admit to it. The debate about the best characters (or should we say kharacters?) has caused many friendships and relationships to end, so we’re putting together a comprehensive list of the best of the best in the Mortal Kombat franchise to generate even more heated discussion among the fanbase.

Hi everyone! It’s been just over a year since we released Burning Shores, the expansion to Horizon Forbidden West on PS5, and with it, we challenged you with one of our most elaborate boss battles to date! We talked to our developers at Guerrilla to find out about the ideation and creation process of this epic fight.

MutliVersus just dropped a gameplay trailer for the Joker, showing off how he'll fight when the game relaunches later this month. However, the clown prince of crime has been upstaged in his own reveal, as the trailer also seems to confirm that another new fighter is joining the roster soon.

A new trailer for MultiVersus shows The Joker in action, and also seemingly confirms The Powerpuff Girls as playable characters.

Happy Mother's Day! This Sunday, all kinds of exclusive deals are now available at retailers you might not be aware of! We've compiled the best deals in games, tech, and more to make your Sunday as relaxing as possible. The best deals for Sunday, May 12, include Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, Octopath Traveler II, Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania Edition, Dead Space, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition, and more.

One of the elements which makes so unique is the overarching narrative of the fight against the Terminids and Automatons. The war for freedom is ever evolving, with the developers adding Major Orders and story elements, rather than keeping it static. This gives the game a sense of narrative weight, since all players are working together to defeat a common threat, while also giving new content in-universe reasons for being added, which helps with the immersion of the game.

There are 10 full companions to recruit in to help save the world from the evil forces of the Absolute. One of these is Jaheira, a half-elf druid making a return from the previous games. While for some companions a simple hello is enough to convince them to join the party, Jaheira's recruitment takes a little more effort, but is definitely worth it.

Kai Cenat is currently trying to beat Elden Ring in one long Twitch stream, but it's not exactly going smoothly as he's already been driven to tears due to the game's infamous difficulty.

Cataclysm shakes up players' ability to bring their allies back to life. More classes can battle ress, and hybrid classes can resurrect their whole group or raid with a single spell cast.

The Arathi settlement in Hallowfall is only fifteen years old. They originally came from a new place we haven't seen before, will we visit this zone in the future?

Saving the Gondians is a complicated task in , partially because of how it intersects with several other side quests. "" begins in Act Three, and represents the culmination of two separate quest lines: disabling the Steel Watch and the ongoing love-hate relationship between Barcus Wroot and Wulbren Bongle. Gondians are gnomish worshipers of the inventor god Gond, enslaved by Banites. Once the player has traveled to the Steel Foundry or the Iron Throne, they'll meet either Zanner or Obelia Toobin. Either NPC will then ask them to help save the Gondians from oppression.

Bosses are the main obstacles preventing you from reaching new areas in , but the Infernal Cerberus might be one of the toughest of these enemies to beat before reaching Chronos. When you try to exit the Mourning Fields, your run will be tested against this enraged Underworld guardian. The three-headed beast wields fire across a large arena to prevent Melinoë from getting to the Titan of Time.

In , players are tasked with building their settlement from a village to a large town and defending and expanding its borders. Players can recruit several kinds of military units, but none are better than Retinues. This professional soldier is far better equipped to deal with enemies than the average mercenary, but they are also the hardest to get.

It's Saturday, and plenty of deals are now available at retailers you might not be aware of! Today, we've compiled the best deals in games, tech, and more! The best deals for Saturday, May 11, include Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania Edition, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition, and more.

sets parties on a grand adventure to save the multiverse, and successfully doing so will require a lot of smart choices along the way. There's always more than one way to go about things in, and is no exception, offering adventurers plenty of options to make progress. All the same, some methods will definitely be harder than others, and making poor decisions or ignoring key opportunities could end up sinking the whole endeavor.

WWE Games has released the first footage of CM Punk in WWE 2K24, marking his return to WWE video games after a decade.

In a new hotfix today, Blizzard has made another set of changes to BFA raids, this time around making tweaks to Mythic N'zoth and Mythic G'huun, making both fights soloable. Other QoL Changes to Solo BFA Raids

With Patch 10.2.7, Blizzard did some tweaking to Battle for Azeroth raids, making most encounters easier to solo on Mythic. The two big obstacles right now are Mythic N'zoth and Mythic G'huun.

One of the biggest draws of the science fiction genre is that it gives us access to big spaceships. There’s other stuff, too, about imagining alternate futures and pasts or thinking about new forms of life, but there’s an awful lot of big spaceships, and if you’re like me you think those big spaceships are cool. Homeworld 3 is fundamentally a strategy game about really, really big spaceships and the cultures that pilot them. You are more than likely in or out based on that premise alone.

's robust combat system is one of the game's greatest strengths, but it could also create one of the biggest design hurdles for to overcome. Combat in the series has evolved and experimented a lot over the years, going from the iconic Active Time Battle system that gave turn-based mechanics some added pressure to a number of recent experiments with real-time action. found a new balance in a unique hybrid of the original game's systems and real-time action, a powerful cocktail that doubled down on.

Scylla and the Sirens is the second boss fight in , which caps off the Oceanus zone. The rockstar sirens aren’t quite as mechanically taxing as the previous boss encounter in Erebus, but this fight always has a lot going on. If players enter without prior knowledge, Melinoe can quickly get overwhelmed.

V Rising had little hype before it came out in 2022, but quickly become one of the year’s breakout hits on PC. Combining elements of the survival genre, action RPGs, and wrapping it all up in a gothic vampire tale has resulted in an incredibly deep and addicting game that is sure to suck hours of your life away. After creating your own unique vampire, you’re almost immediately let loose in a world that, understandably, wants nothing more than to see you dead. You have a lot of ways to fight back, but that amount of choice, and multiple progression systems you need to balance, would be hard for even an immortal creature of the night to keep track of.

Avowed anime afficionado Megan Thee Stallion dropped her new video for “BOA” on Wednesday, delivering a love letter to her nerdiest late-’90s and early aughts influences. That includes no shortage of shout outs to Scott Pilgrim, One Piece, Dance Dance Revolution, and the 3D fighting games of the era.