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Since its release almost five years ago, Marvel Champions has put out a near-constant stream of new content. As of this list, there are a whopping forty-one different scenarios among the core set, campaign expansions, and one-off scenario packs, with another five to be released in the upcoming Age of Apocalypse box. Impressively, almost all these scenarios are good—some are better than others, but I would happily play almost all of them. With so much available content, I thought it would be fun to rank my favorite scenarios in the game, from the core set to the latest campaign release (NeXt Evolution at the time of writing this article).

Baldur’s Gate 3's Astarion actor, Neil Newbon, cut a very cool figure on the BAFTA Games Awards red carpet, with his shirt-free suit being translated into online fan art almost instantaneously.

Vampire Survivors is an indie title that is ripe for collaboration, and developer Poncle clearly thinks so too. Earlier this week, during the first Triple-I Initiative showcase, it was announced that Vampire Survivors is collaborating with none other than Konami to team up with one of the publisher's biggest and most beloved franchises. Yep, you guessed correctly, it's Contra.

Controversially, Fallout 4 makes it a little harder to build your own character. If you play as a woman, you were a lawyer before the bombs dropped. If you're a guy, you were part of the US military, fighting in the war against China. Either way, your character got married and had a son before the events of the game, and there's nothing you can do to change that.

Plunderstorm is all about, unsurprisingly, the Plunder. But love it or hate it, the love and detail that went into this game is palpable. It's hard sometimes, to explore the waiting room/lobby/starting area, but it is chock full of fun little details, from nods to shows like One Piece to developer and cat cameos.

The Diablo 4 PTR allowed players to jump straight into Sanctuary for a sneak peek at changes coming in Season 4. Everything from new bosses to new itemization was on the table, and enough information was learned to make anyone's head spin. Our Class Leads took the time to analyze some of the buffs and nerfs experienced in the Patch 1.4.0 PTR, and shared their thoughts below on the good, the bad, and the future!

Recently, a Hotfix was released that fixed the Mixology For Fun and Profit quest, allowing Alchemists to receive a ~30% bonus to Potion and Elixir crafting. Now, players are reporting that they are able to complete both this quest and the Master of Transmutation quest in order to receive additional Transmutation bonuses as well!A player shared that they were able to complete both Mixology For Fun and Profit and Master of Transmutation. You'll need to turn in quite a few items in order to complete these quests — Mixology For Fun and Profit requires players to turn in 10x Elixir of Demonslaying, 10x Invisibility Potion, and 5x Elixir of the Sages to Mixmaster Blix, while Master of Transmutation requires players to turn in 3x Arcanite Bar to Crimeon Lablade.

Garena Free Fire MAX Redeem Codes for April 13: Garena FF Max, a popular battle royale game, caught the attention of Indian gamers after its predecessor, Garena Free Fire, got banned in 2022. Its stunning graphics and exciting gameplay made it a hit in India. Adding to the fun, developers 111 Dot Studios release daily redeem codes, making the game even more appealing to Indian players.

Blaze through the sky with Dragon Pow, a new shooter RPG on Android. Following a successful open beta, Boltray Games just dropped this game that’s full of colours and chaos. A while ago, they opened up pre-registration with rewards as good as $400 Amazon gift cards. Were you one of the lucky winners?  

What does Taylor Swift have in common with a group of improv comedians pretending to be wizards? They can both sell out Madison Square Garden (… and also, their fans kind of hate Ticketmaster now).

Imitated, but never duplicated, Unpacking is a cozy game that tells a surprisingly emotional story through the meditative process of organizing your belongings in different rooms (it’s fun, but don’t just take it from me; it earned the number 13 spot in Polygon’s 2021 game of the year ranking). The game is a wealth of luscious pixel art, lovingly crafted for items ranging from the mundane to the truly distinct, each paired with a unique snippet of satisfying foley audio. Now, thanks to Serenity Forge, many of those same items are available for you to unpack in your own home.

After the Sunken Temple nerfs, some players have expressed disappointment in the lack of challenge provided thus far in Season of Discovery. But was completing difficult content the overall goal of this seasonal experiment? WoW Classic Senior Game Producer, Josh Greenfield has recently expressed his outlook on the topic of difficulty in Season of Discovery. All Runes Found in Phase 3 Worldcore Fragment Hotfix To summarize, the Season of Discovery team believes that the majority of their player-base should be able to clear level-up raids fairly consistently. While this content may seem too easy to some players, Josh Greenfield states that there are many other iterations of WoW that provide difficult challenges, and that the team wants Season of Discovery to be more focused on fun.

Ubisoft's next open-world adventure, Star Wars Outlaws, breaks at least one of the company's time-honored traditions: climbing towers to progress the map.

Slay the Spire 2 is only happening because the development team was inspired by the community's love for the original roguelike deck builder. 

Deadpool's whole thing is poking fun at pop culture, from the 2018 movie's post-credits scene where he went back in time to stop Ryan Reynolds from signing up for Green Lantern, to what looks like a jibe at the Disney/Fox merger in the Deadpool 3 trailer. 

Fallout is braving a whole new world — sort of. The new show from Prime Video is blazing a trail in the same continuity as that of the games. It’s a bold choice for a video game show (particularly when so many either just adapt the main plot of the game or create an entirely separate timeline to muck about in), though in keeping with the open-world RPG spirit of Fallout.

Red Dead Redemption 2 is fast approaching the six-year-old mark, so we think both Rockstar and the local sheriff won't mind if you use some RDR2 cheats to make the Wild West even wilder.

As a result of this week's Hotfix, the Alchemy quest Mixology For Fun and Profit is now able to be completed. Since finishing this quest, players have reported an estimated ~30% increased yield in the amount of Elixirs and Potions they have crafted. Endgame Profession Recipes Missing Phase 3 DPS Rankings — Week 1 Completing this quest requires players to bring the following items to Mixmaster Blix in Tanaris:

No Man’s Sky’s latest update ‘Orbital’ is available today and adds ship customization, a new guild system, an overhaul to space stations, and more.

2017's Gigantic was a fun MOBA experience while it lasted; the roster of heroes was fun and unique, the main Clash mode put a cool spin on the format, and each match played out in that sweet spot of «not too long, but not too short either.» It was poised to make a decent disruption in a then-crowded scene…but unfortunately, that disruption never came. Within a year, the game was shut down, lost to time, and thought to be forgotten.

Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has stealth dropped new ship upgrades alongside the new Premium Warbond, Democratic Detonation.

Instagram offers a fun way to enhance your Stories by adding music, boosting both mood and engagement. However, saving Instagram Stories with music from the platform's catalogue isn't always straightforward due to copyright restrictions. Nevertheless, there are workarounds available.  

In the first half of its first season, X-Men ’97 has played it a little safe. That’s not to say things haven’t been rather fun, as the show has put its own spin on the Inferno and Lifedeath storylines, on Magneto inheriting leadership of the X-Men, and on the birth of Nathan Summers — all pillars of X-Men continuity or beloved greatest-hit stories of the 1980s and 1990s.

World of Warcraft’s current expansion, Dragonflight, is winding down. While we know what’s next — we’ll be heading into three expansions that are collectively called the Worldsoul Saga — the team at Blizzard has been having fun with some much more experimental and unique patches. This includes Plunderstorm, a pirate themed battle royale, and now a Remix of the Mists of Pandaria expansion.

It's never fun when you have to report on a game that almost certainly isn't happening, especially when it has as much potential as a Dead Space 2 remake, but indeed, it sounds like a sequel to the brilliant 2023 Dead Space remake isn't coming anytime soon.

Palworld has made its name by allowing players to do a lot of things Pokemon would never let you do, but there’s one core Pokemon features it doesn’t have – the ability to take on others in PvP battles. Well, it seems that’s going to change, as during today’s Triple-I Initiative showcase, we got a first peek at the “Pal Arena” PvP mode, coming sometime in 2024.

In today's Patch 10.2.7 PTR, we've datamined new spells that indicate the return of raid buff scrolls including Mystic Touch and Chaos Brand for Timerunning Pandaria: Remix. In previous expansions, raid buff scrolls allowed players to partially fill in holes in compositions which was especially helpful in 10-man raiding and dungeon content where the number of players was limited. Perhaps these raid buff scrolls are returning because Timerunning raids might allow for smaller raid groups?

Patch 10.2.7 PTR is now available for download, with datamining soon to follow. Although PTR servers are still offline, we can presume that playtesting will begin soon! We similarly have no information on exactly what will be available in this PTR test, and if it will include the newly revealed WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria event, but we should learn more soon!

The Dragonflight Patch 10.2.7 PTR is up, and although the new Timerunning content is not yet available for testing, there's a new entry on the calendar titled Pandaria: Remix scheduled this Friday through the following Monday! As Blizzard has not given any indication that the actual event would be so limited, it seems that this could be scheduled testing, suggesting we'll get a chance to experience the content ahead of launch.

In today's Patch 10.2.7 PTR datamining, we've discovered that Realm First achievements are returning with the Timerunning Pandamonium event.

Patch 10.2.7 adds six new hair colors for Kul Tiran characters, expanding their hair color options from 7 to 13.

With Patch 10.2.7 datamining starting, we've found out a new model coming for Xal'atath in Patch 10.2.7

Come one come all, Silas Darkmoon and his Darkmoon Faire will start making regular appearances in Warcraft Rumble later in Season 5. Once the Darkmoon Faire arrives, you can tap the Darkmoon Faire icon in the center of the map to complete challenges, earn prize tickets for you and your guild and then exchange tickets for marvelous rewards of your choice.

When Diablo 3 got its pre-Reaper of Souls expansion patch dubbed 'loot 2.0' in 2014, it was credited with turning Blizzard’s action role-playing game around. Critics and players called loot 2.0 a big improvement on Diablo 3, with changes that sparked renewed interest from a community that had dropped off following the base game’s 2012 release. Now, 10 years later, Blizzard is aiming to repeat the trick with Diablo 4 Season 4.

A dedicated Far Cry 5 player is using the game's map editor to recreate the iconic Whiterun from The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim.

2023 is a tough act to follow. IGN awarded 83 games a review score of 8 or higher last year, including five 10s — among which were two generational greats in Baldur’s Gate 3 and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. A year later, the release calendar looks comparatively light, with Switch all but certainly in its final year as Nintendo’s primary console and Sony not releasing "any new major existing franchise titles" until 2025.

The BAFTA Games Awards 2024 are taking place on Thursday 11th April, with the whole ceremony being streamed on BAFTA’s Twitch, YouTube and X accounts from 7pm onwards.

Ma Dong-seok (also known as Don Lee) is one of the most exciting action stars in the world, bringing life even to the most charmless of projects. Since 2017, he has anchored The Roundup action franchise, delivering consistent bangers that have lit up the Korean box office and the hearts of action fans around the world. And now, we have a trailer for the fourth installment — The Roundup: Punishment.

Like previous entries in the series, Mortal Kombat 1 is rolling out plenty of DLC fighters, with the game’s first “Kombat Pack” so far serving up Omni-Man from Invincible, Quan Chi, and Peacemaker from Suicide Squad. It’s been a rather cameo-heavy list so far, but we’re getting back to a fan-favorite from the actual Mortal Kombat universe next – Ermac.

The mid-week is here and there are some fun categories in today's game, especially for fans of Quentin Tarantino movies. A nice mix of topics is required for a great Connections day and these choices are certainly fun ones. If you are having trouble with today's game, one of the best pieces of advice is to utilize the shuffle button provided.

There’s what looks like a bug (not that kind!) in Helldivers 2 that has left some players scratching their heads — and the developer of the game is certainly having fun with it.

Ever get stuck on a boring bus ride wishing you had a fun game to play? Well, look no further than MiniBozos! This game is the brainchild of a developer who, well, got tired of being bored. So they put their coding skills to work and built a world just for you.

After noting that players heavily preferred to level in Nightmare Incursions, instead of exploring Azeroth or running dungeons, an attempt to promote these other methods has been made. The experience from Incursions has been significantly nerfed — from roughly 7000 experience per quest all the way down to 3000 according to a recent Reddit post. Despite the hopes that buffing Discoverer's Delight from 50% to a new 75% would make the two methods roughly on par, this change does seem to have hit Incursions particularly hard, potentially dethroning them as the fastest leveling option.

Like yesterday, April 9’s answer is going to be tricky and could cause some players to lose their streak. The answer contains a repeating letter, and this time, they are not next to each other. What’s familiar with yesterday’s answer is that the repeating letter also happens to be a vowel. Repeating vowels is never fun, and guessing the correct positions can be tricky unless you use hints or strategic starting words.

A core aspect of any adventure is discovering the various mini-games scattered across the lands of Hyrule. Some offer up a simple sum of Rupees when completed, while others reward Link with vital tools and upgrades to aid him on his journey. In a series known for its puzzles and dungeons, it's easy to overlook how essential the mini-game offerings are. Not only can they often reap useful rewards, they sometimes introduce the most fascinating side-characters of the franchise. More than just a means of gaining extra loot,these games help to expand the lore of Hyrule.

Sea of Thieves is reportedly a "key test" that will decide if Xbox brings more of its first-party games to other consoles.

Countless obscure details and fun pieces of trivia left over from the Gen 1 Pokemon games have fueled fan theories for nearly three decades now, with one popular theory regarding a certain evolutionary line still being subject to debate from fans to this day. While quite a few of the creature designs seen throughout the Pokemon series have sparked the idea of them originally being designed to fit into a different evolution family altogether, there's one particular example that stands out.

For fresh characters just getting to Kyovashad in Season 4 of Diablo 4, they may find the skies begin to turn red at times — Helltides are making an appearance. Helltides are on the horizon for players in World Tier 1 and 2! While this isn't the greatest thing for the long term health and safety of the denizens of Sanctuary, this is quite a boon for Wanderers looking to spice up their leveling experience. With all the changes coming in Season 4, the early game experience for many players will be entirely revamped. Players have been able to experience the scaled-down Helltides in the PTR, and it's been noted that not only are they significantly safer for lower-level characters, they're excellent for experience as well. Raid Boss Coming to Helltide in Season 4 Possible Iron Wolves Season 4 Theme

Fresh from our trove of Season 4 PTR datamining, comes a new Rare Elixir with a very unique effect, the Profane Mindcage. The Mindcage increases the Helltide Monster Level by 10 as well as the Abberrant Cinder drop rate and the amount of threat gained. So, theoretically, this Elixir would make Helltides more difficult; this is a welcome improvement, considering how fun the event has become with the Season 4 changes. But that's not at all: What this Elixir might possibly be linked to is the most intriguing piece. While some information leads to a Possible Iron Wolves Season 4 Theme, this Elixir might be related to previously found new items. While there's no direct link between the Elixir and the Iron Wolves, there are breadcrumbs. The new Helltide events feature players assisting the Iron Wolves with cleansing the land of demonic influence as well as «Wolf's Honor» reputation being received for killing certain enemies. It would make sense that these Elixirs have something to do with those events. Further, we've discovered reputation rewards and caches, that subsequently would drop as rewards for completing certain events. Within this list is the Disgusting Box, which directly mentions the Mindcage Rare Elixir. Looking for more information on the Season 4 PTR Datamining? Check out the links below:

Helldivers 2 does a fantastic job of straddling the line between being a great game to goof around in with your friends, and delivering actual commentary and world-building about the folly of an oppressive regime. You play as a titular Helldiver, shot down to enemy planets in pods that look like giant bullets — no obvious symbolism there — to fight back waves of nasty Terminid bugs and evil robots. The gameplay is great, but what I’ve come to truly love is the goofy Super Earth propaganda, and how it perfectly encapsulates fascism as a ridiculous ideology that is doomed to fail.

A CD Projekt Red executive has slyly poked fun at fellow publisher Ubisoft and its failed attempt to label Skull and Bones as a "AAAA" game.

Lego has been an industry leader in the toy department for almost a century. So much has been immortalized in Lego since then with almost endless options when it comes to choosing what you're going to build next. Let's be honest though, while a penchant for Lego is fun, it can also get pretty expensive. That's why Lego giving its customers something for free should not be sniffed at, and right now Lego is giving people an entire set free of charge provided you spend over a certain amount through its official store.

Mid-March, Blizzard revealed 12 new Hero Talent Trees in a sneak peek at the new system coming with the The War Within expansion. Our Guardian Druid guide writer, Pumps, offers an early review of the Druid of the Claw Hero Talents that attempts to reunite two specs that were once one with the return of catweaving, but does it go far enough?

Dragon's Dogma 2 has lots of interesting Vocations for you and your pawn to mess around with, but there's one that almost no one seems to like - the Trickster.

In the first week of Phase 3, Blizzard has observed that players are favoring Nightmare Incursions over other forms of leveling. In order to make additional leveling methods more competitive, Blizzard has announced that they will be increasing the experience buff of Discoverer's Delight and reducing the amount of experience earned from Nightmare Incursions early next week. Nightmare Incursions Overview Guide

While Blackrock Depths is available in Season of Discovery Phase 3, it seems that it is only half of the dungeon. Bosses from the latter half of BRD have been spotted at the Grim Guzzler hanging out and having fun. This likely means sought-after items like Hand of Justice won't be available until Phase 4. Bosses spotted at the Grim Guzzler and thus not available in Phase 3:

In the previous hotfix that Blizzard pushed to Season of Discovery, the new values of health reduction have been calculated. You can see the health reduction below to some boss encounters inside Sunken Temple.

After players were struggling with the difficult boss encounters inside Sunken Temple, Blizzard announced that they would be rolling out changes for the raid. It turns out the only change being made is reducing the amount of health on trash mobs and bosses inside Sunken Temple. The Health values have been calculated and can be seen here.

Newly released MMO Ravendawn has a technical issue that led to one of the game's richest players losing his entire fortune. 

Pokemon Scarlet and Violet often offer promotional codes for players to allow them to get some rare or just fun rewards and Pokemon. Sometimes during certain events or holidays, players will be able to redeem a Shiny Pokemon to add to their collection.

 Adventurers can now level from 41 to 50, earn up to 10 additional talent points, brave new encounters in the Sunken Temple (Temple of Atal’Hakkar) as a new 20-player raid dungeon, discover new runes and abilities, and more!

Cyberpunk 2077 still has Easter eggs players haven't discovered, developer CD Projekt Red has revealed.

may have left the franchise's fan base divided but those who may have slept on the game and want to check it out before the release of the Amazon Prime TV series now have the perfect opportunity to do so. Releasing in 2018 to overwhelmingly negative reviews due to its unfinished state, is regarded as the black sheep of the series with many insisting it doesn't count as a mainline entry in the series. Despite this, there's still fun to be found in the wilds of West Virginia thanks to some excellent post-launch support from Bethesda.

That was fast! The Invincible Season 2 finale aired just this week, and already a modder has put its standout cameo character into a video game.

Red Dead Redemption 2 can now kinda run on mobile as one content creator has shrunk the Western epic onto their Android.

Sand Land, the open world adaptation of Akira Toriyama's standalone manga, has real potential. And honestly, that surprised us, because we had this game (perhaps unfairly) tagged as another somewhat underwhelming Bandai Namco tie-in. But now, having played through several hours of the adventure ourselves, we think this could be one of the publisher's best projects in years.

Sea of Thieves is one of the four Xbox titles heading for new shores with its PS5 port — not only that, it's the first ever PlayStation game from Rare. The seafaring multiplayer game lets you live out all kinds of pirate-themed adventures in its sandbox environment, and we're excited to finally take it for a spin. A big draw for some, though, is the allure of a good Trophy list, and Sea of Thieves is looking to deliver on that front big time.

Older live service games like Fortnite, Roblox, and Minecraft make up more than 60 per cent of the gaming community's overall playtime, a new report from Newzoo reveals. Based on data collected throughout last year, it is said the amount of time people play games is trending down and those hours are spent playing a smaller range of titles. In 2023, games released within the past three years accounted for 23 per cent of playtime.

Phase 3 is now live in Season of Discovery! We've prepared a Phase 3 Overview to help you navigate all the new features coming in the next phase, we've also updated our Talent Calculator with the latest datamined Runes! Have fun!Edit: Blizzard is aware of some login issues regarding EU and other players. For those that are in game, the new Phase is live. Phase 3 Overview Wowhead Talent Calculator Wowhead could also use your help with the database! Please consider downloading the Wowhead Client and uploading your player data to help our database be as accurate as possible. Help Wowhead's Database

After tumultuous back and forth, there's a new Major Order to liberate all Automaton planets in Helldivers 2 and crush the bot threat in the Western front. It's looking like the climax for an arc of the Galactic War that's now defined several consecutive weeks of Helldivers 2, and as players continue to spill oil in the name of democracy, the nature and direction of the game's emergent narrative has gotten some timely details straight from developer Arrowhead.

The latest Helldivers 2 Major Order has commenced, and it's bad news for the Automatons. Game Master Joel demands we liberate three worlds controlled by the bucket heads in just three days.

Remember Thomas, the Tank Engine, and his friends? The cheeky little blue engine is probably a slice of childhood nostalgia for many of you or your older siblings. Mattel has teamed up with StoryToys to bring the educational mobile game, Thomas & Friends: Let’s Roll to mobile devices.

The skies of Helldivers 2 are getting increasingly clouded by swarms of Automaton Gunships, and the factories that keep spitting them out are proving a particular nuisance to democracy enthusiasts as they've begun to confirm that there's really only one good way to destroy these things: the Hellbomb.

The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition will be one of the next free games offered on the Epic Games Store, and that’s a can’t-miss freebie for fans of RPGs or sci-fi.

It’s been a long few years for Hollow Knight fans. The Metroidvania’s long-awaited sequel, Hollow Knight: Silksong, was announced five years ago. Since then, we’ve barely heard a peep about it outside of one high-profile trailer in 2022 that claimed it would launch within 12 months. That didn’t happen, and we’ve been in the dark ever since. Maybe it’ll surprise drop this year. Maybe we won’t see it until 2025. All we can do is wait.

A Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League veteran has figured out how to complete the Season 1 Battle Pass in just 17 hours, and involves a lot of killing bugs.