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Magic: The Gathering has revealed its next Secret Lair crossover. Joining the likes of Fallout, Warhammer 40,000, and Lord of the Rings is none other than Vocaloid superstar Hatsune Miku.

Last week, Blizzard tested a new Global PvP Damage Reduction Aura in Season of Discovery. Beginning tomorrow, May 3rd, Blizzard will implement another PvP Damage Reduction test, which will end after next week's scheduled maintenance.

Players can customize Eve in , including changing her outfits, accessories, and hair. Besides the dynamic combat, the developer, Shift Up, has done an excellent job creating a main character that fans have latched onto. Customizing Eve is one of the many features available in, but changing her hair must first be unlocked.

When it comes to the most valuable cards in Magic: The Gathering right now, chances are you'll have heard of the Black Lotus. It's gained a very well-earned reputation for being one of the most expensive cards in the collectibles market, routinely selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars, with two high profile examples being a Black Lotus that sold back in 2023 for $540,000, and a signed version that was bought by MTG celebrity enthusiast Post Malone for $800,000.

Sea of Thieves is meant to be played as part of a crew. You and a few friends loot and plunder the seas (and other players) as a team. That’s not the only way to sail the seven seas, however. If you’d prefer to sail alone, you can also take to the ocean on a smaller, more nimble ship. Taking on the pirate life without any help can be especially tough — you don’t have any backup in emergencies, and if you run up against a crew of other players, you’ll have to take them on at a disadvantage.

Digital Sun’s previous outings, The Mageseeker and Moonlighter, were both fun games, but Moonlighter delighted me not only with its quality, but also its unusual genre combination. In this, Cataclismo is shaping up to be quite the worthy successor. While Moonlighter was half classic Legend of Zelda and half shopkeep simulator, Cataclismo is half tower defense and half base-building real-time strategy (with base-building inspired by LEGO). It’s also loads of fun, based on the hours I’ve already spent playing it. If the studio nails the landing with the full release, I’ll be spending far more time in its eerily charming world.

During yesterday's official live stream, Blizzard revealed that the much anticipated Season 4 of Diablo IV will be released on May 14 across all platforms. Titled Loot Reborn, the new season makes major changes to how players can obtain and improve equipment. So far, the community's feedback on the Public Test Realm has been very positive.

Farming the right materials for Robin’s character Ascension in is a necessary step when optimizing her as a support unit for your various team comps. Robin is a 5-star support unit added with Version 2.2 and, within the story, she is a well-known pop star from the planet of Penacony. She is Sunday’s sister and a member of the Oak Family in the Planet of Festivities. Robin is one of the new characters in 2.2, along with the DPS Boothill. In combat, she uses Physical DMG and follows the Path of the Harmony.

Hatsune Miku and her flowing twin pigtails are about to grace the art of some gorgeous collectible trading cards. The globally famous virtual pop star is the subject of several upcoming Secret Lair drops for Magic: The Gathering. The best part? She’s going on a year-long print-fueled tour with four Secret Lair drops in all. Polygon has a preview of the first six cards in the series, which go up for sale in May.

Blizzard is beginning to gather questions for the May 2nd Developer Update Livestream Q&A through the forums. If you'd like to leave your questions, check out the link below! May 2 Developer Q&A Question Thread

Final Fantasy 14's Yo-Kai Watch event has returned for a second time, allowing players to pick up some unique weapons, mounts, and one of the world's ugliest dogs. It's a great time to start farming FATEs with your fellow players, earn some medals, and get yourself some cool swag - or it would be if Blue Mages weren't making things ten times harder than they have to be.

No Rest for the Wicked is tedious by design. Healing items in the action RPG have a 10-second hold period after use, so you’re bound to die often. Equipment loses durability each time you die, and the cost of repairs quickly adds up. Bounty missions you take on to cover them pay like shit, but that’s the job. Over and over, the game punctures any confidence you build over the course of your adventure, increasing enemy numbers and introducing new, vicious foes often to shake familiarity. That frustration complements the story’s themes. When you consider the project’s development, however, it’s almost justified.

It's been over four years since we last covered the Gothic Remake. As you might remember, it all began with the so-called Playable Teaser that appeared suddenly on Steam in December 2019.

Building your population in Manor Lords is one thing, but making sure they want to stick around and continue to grow is the real challenge. You could have the ideal design for a village, or the perfect tactical mind for conquering the entire map, but if your approval rating is too low, you won't survive your first winter.

Keeping your trading cards safe and in pristine condition is of the utmost importance if you're a serious collector. Gone are the days of cramming a shiny Blastoise into your pocket and going about your day - yes, that example is pulled from personal experience. Right behind keeping your cards safe on the priority list when it comes to storing your collection is making sure it still looks good. Ultimate Guard has been helping out with that for more than a decade, and now it has officially teamed up with Magic: The Gathering's creators to further those efforts.

Daeri Soft’s latest RPG, Crystal Knights, has officially hit Android and iOS globally. It’s a real-time online idle RPG that’s free to play. Daeri Soft is known for other mobile titles like the simulation game, Cat Garden – Food Party Tycoon, and another RPG The Witch’s Knight.

As we near the end of April, the fighting game scene truly begins to heat up. From April 27 to 29, the best of the best will gather in Tokyo to crown an Evo Japan champion. Then, players will gather for the world’s premier fighting game event, Evo 2024 in Las Vegas. Through the PlayStation Tournaments: Road to Evo program, players can compete at home and join online competitions for a chance to win a trip and showcase their skills at Evo 2024 in Las Vegas.

The War Within brings changes throughout Azeroth, and Professions are no different! With the traditional new expansion Profession update, Gathering and Crafting Professions are seeing new recipes, new Knowledge Point trees, and fun new interactions for players to explore within the crafting systems. One such interaction comes from Cursed Enchantments — the first Enchantments to ever have a Kiss-Curse mechanic in World of Warcraft. Kiss-Curse mechanics are commonly referred to when players experience a large potential downside to a beneficial upside on an item or effect. While previous items in Dragonflight had minor Kiss-Curse mechanics, such as Toxic Thorn Footwraps reducing Stamina by 61, the positives far outweighed the negatives, leading to very powerful, sometimes BiS items. These new Cursed Enchantments, however, will require a bit more thought and caution — while you'll gain a significant amount of a secondary stat of your choice depending on the Enchantment, you'll also lose a large amount of another secondary stat.

We have the solution to Wordle on April 23, as well as some helpful hints to help you figure out the answer yourself, right here. We’ve placed the answer at the bottom of the page, so we don’t ruin the surprise before you’ve had a chance to work through the clues. So let’s dive in, starting with a reminder of yesterday’s answer.

Wizards of the Coast has announced that a very special collaboration will be taking place later this year, as it has been revealed that to celebrate the recently released Outlaws of Thunder Junction set, Magic: The Gathering will be crossing over with the popular anime series Cowboy Bebop. There are five cards in total in this collaboration, each one an alt version of an existing card, but with new art based on the anime's intro sequence.

The War Within is bringing new Profession recipes to players, which means new and interesting effects on crafted epics! Players will remember how useful some crafted items like Elemental Lariat were in Dragonflight, and The War Within is introducing effects just as interesting and unique on the newest epics for players to experiment with. These effects don't come free though. While not yet present on any of the crafted items, we have found a new Embellishment tag, suggesting that the most powerful special effects on crafted gear will be limited similar to Dragonflight. While we've mainly discovered Leatherworking and Jewelcrafting effects so far, we're sure there will be many more to come!

Insert Coin already has a lot of officially licensed collections featuring merch inspired by some of the world's biggest and best video games, but it has really been on a roll when it comes to expanding on those collections and adding new ones so far in 2024. Introducing a new game or series to its family on an almost weekly basis, today marks the arrival of another Insert Coin debut. The site's first-ever Doki Doki Literature Club collection and everything included in the range is available now.

Magic: The Gathering's second-hand market can be pretty volatile at times, with outside factors sometimes playing a part in the prices of certain cards. For example, Karlach, Fury of Avernus saw a pretty significant price spike after the launch of Baldur's Gate 3 due to thirsty fans buying the card in droves. Prices can drop and spike all the time, especially when a newly released set manages to incorporate a previously worthless card into an infinite combo.

V Rising is a survival game with action RPG elements and razor-sharp skill-based combat coming to PlayStation 5 later this year. Wake up as a Vampire after centuries of withering slumber, your kin having been forgotten after a catastrophic defeat at the hands of the Church of Luminance. Emerge from your crypt, explore a vast open world, hunt for blood, and build a sprawling castle on your quest to reclaim your former glory.

The president of Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro Gaming, Cynthia Williams, will soon be stepping down from her position in the company. Hasbro is yet to decide on who will replace her as head of Wizards of the Coast.

Join Game Director Ion Hazzikostas and Associate Art Director Tina Wang as they sit down with Community Manager and host Bethany Stout to take you into The War Within™.

Connections is the latest puzzle game from the New York Times. The game tasks you with categorizing a pool of 16 words into four secret (for now) groups by figuring out how the words relate to each other. The puzzle resets every night at midnight and each new puzzle has a varying degree of difficulty. Just like Wordle, you can keep track of your winning streak and compare your scores with friends.

Home, Planet & Hunters is the latest RPG from Black Pearl Games, the developers who brought us the gritty street action in Brutal Street 1 & 2. With the new game, they’re taking us through the ruins of a world called ‘The Ring’ where you’ll gather a crew of hunters to defend your home.

The Fallout ending may have left you blinded by its blast of twists, turns, and a major location reveal – but it was also hiding a cameo from a major character in the games.

The highly successful indie survival game V Rising is exiting early access on May 8, so Swedish developer Stunlock Studios has released new information on what players will find in version 1.0.

The medieval survival strategy RPG Bellwright is heading into Steam Early Access later this month on 23rd April.

Developer Mega Crit has announced Slay the Spire 2, a full sequel to its incredible roguelite deckbuilder which launched over half a decade ago.

Felvidek developer Jozef Pavelka has somehow zeroed in on basically everything that excites me about video games. Anything that takes a swing outside of the popular norm immediately rockets up the chart labeled My Interests, and a self-described JRPG that just so happens to feature a knight with alcohol problems in 15th century Slovakia with an unusual, grainy aesthetic and gameplay ripped out of games like Wizardry is... well, I'd say that counts as exactly that.

Nowadays, you will find several productivity tools with unique features, but finding an advanced AI-powered tool takes time. While AI tools have become very popular, Notion AI is one such tool which has been gaining much attention in terms of completing tasks in minutes. Notion AI is a productivity tool which provides several features such as summarization, collecting meeting notes, writing assistance and much more. However, the main question which may come to your mind is, how its AI features contribute to productivity and efficiency. Therefore, know more about the Notion AI tool here

It's day three of Phase 3 in Season of Discovery, and almost every Rune has been found — but some have trickier information to find than others. We've been hard at work scouring the database, user comments, and digging around in Season of Discovery to bring you the discovery steps for the newest Runes, but some have still eluded us — take a look! Our Rune coverage has brought us to all corners of Azeroth, and only one elusive Rune now remains unsolved — the Rune of Light's Grace for Paladins. This Rune teaches the Light's Grace spell, reducing the cast time of Holy Light, and unfortunately, there aren't many leads on its location. The running theory is that this Rune is somehow related to the datamined NPC Injured Gnome, but this mysterious Knight is nowhere to be found — at least, not yet. We don't know for certain that this NPC is connected to the Rune, but the name is suggestive since Light's Grace is a healing spell. Aside from Light's Grace, some Runes have spotty information associated with them. While we know the broad strokes of how to find and earn these Runes, the finer details have eluded us — things such as NPC names, complete coordinates, or in some situations bugs associated with them that make earning them more difficult:

Sableye, the unassuming Ghost-Dark hybrid, is actually based on a real-life monster encounter. Introduced in, this Gen-3 Pokémon quickly became a fan favorite for its unique design and adaptability in battle, thanks to its hybrid nature and prankster abilities. Its anime debut came in, where it was wielded by Cassidy of Team Rocket. While portrayed Sableye as harmless, that perception would change with its main-series debut. The episode “Ready, Willing, & Sableye” is where it would be more accurately depicted as the real-world creatures its design is based on.

Looking for a new way to soup up your Steam Deck? WWE superstar Xavier Woods has a unique portable setup you might want to try.

‘Stone Age: Digital Edition is now on the Play Store for all of the board game fans out there. Have you ever wondered how society began? In Stone Age: Digital Edition, you play as a leader from the Stone Age.

The fires of the Nikke Solo Raid S12 are ablaze! From April 4th at 12:00 to April 11th at 04:59 (UTC+9), face Nihilister, a fearsome two-headed crimson dragon. Here’s the intel you need to conquer this fiery foe:

Pokemon added Clefiary and Teddiursa to its Squishmallows collection at the end of 2023 and has been relatively quiet about what's coming next since then. No surprise really as it tends to add two new Pokemon at a time with roughly six months between reveals. Dragonite was confirmed to be the next Pokemon Squishmallow, but it's still not on sale, and there's still no sign of what its partner Squishmallow will be. Well, there wasn't until Squishmallows confirmed who it will be via a new teaser video.

brought a lot of new features with it that haven't been seen in previous games. The physics system that's used for Link's new Ultrahand ability is smooth and not like any systems he's used in the past. However, one particular system uses items in ways that destroy them, so having a steady supply of strong items to work with becomes important, especially against tougher enemies and bosses. Considering that weapons are subject to a durability system, Link goes through a lot of items throughout the duration of his journey to save Hyrule once more.

There's no bonking in Dragon's Dogma 2, but that doesn't mean your Arisen doesn't get it on. One Redditor by the name of TianAnMen_8964 gathered a bunch of evidence in an attempt to prove that you sleep with your main pawn off-screen when you go to bed.

Reports of a mysterious affliction infecting the Pawns of Dragon's Dogma 2 players, the AI-assisted NPC companion each player creates, have begun to trickle in. This sinister disease is known as Dragonsplague and affected Pawns will exhibit red glowing eyes, incoherent speech, disobedience, and increased aggression. Letting one into your party can have catastrophic, permanent consequences for your game world and inadvertently spread to others. This is an evolving situation. Vague mechanical spoilers for Dragon's Dogma 2 to follow!

In Dragon's Dogma 2, you can get an incredibly powerful weapon called the Unmaking Arrow which is "said to kill [whatever it hits] instantly." However, once you've fired it from your bow, the game automatically saves and removes it from your inventory forever. As DD2 only has one save file, that means you don't get another shot. Miss or waste the arrow and you're out of luck.

Wizards of the Coast has released a statement confirming that it has suspended Fay Dalton, the artist behind Magic: The Gathering's Trouble in Pairs card from the Murders at Karlov Manor Commander set, while it investigates her alleged plagiarism.

Earlier this week, Magic: The Gathering artist Fay Dalton was accused of plagiarism when creating the Trouble in Pairs card. Wizards of the Coast released a statement shortly after the story went live, saying that it was "looking into" the matter. But the allegations haven't stopped, as some MTG players believe they've found more art plagiarised to create the card.

Planning vacations just got easier with Google's latest update. Now, you can use artificial intelligence (AI) to create travel itineraries for your trips. Google announced this new feature, called Search Generative Experience (SGE), which helps users plan their journeys using AI. It gathers ideas from various websites, along with reviews and photos from users, to suggest attractions, restaurants, flights, and hotels for your trip.

Part of the Patch 10.2.6 updates includes the addition of many new meta-achievement mounts. One of them is an addition to an old achievement, Into the Storm, which now rewards the Coralscale Salamanther mount. This achievement was added at the start of Dragonflight and requires you to do some tasks under Elemental Storms, including killing 200 enemies under each elemental storm in each of Dragonflight's original zones.

Magic: The Gathering’s next set of cards, titled Outlaws of Thunder Junction, is a departure for the trading card game in more ways than one. The Western-themed setting puts a group of ambitious villains at its center for a high-profile heist. It also adds a heapin’ helpin’ of new mechanics, and several sub-sets of cards that fans will be eager to chase after — both for their unique art treatments, and their impact on the game’s larger meta. But golly is there ever a lot to unpack here.

Gather ’round as we mark an occasion – the Lord of Heroes’ 4th Anniversary is here, and oh boy, they’re going all out with a spectacle.

Magic: the Gathering artist Fay Dalton has been accused of plagiarising art for the card Trouble in Pairs. Dalton is accused of stealing from a piece of Cyberpunk 2020 art created by Donato Giancola, who has also produced art for Magic: the Gathering.

A job listing at CD Projekt Red has shed some light on Cyberpunk 2077's sequel, and how the devs will approach the game's cutscenes.

The gaming industry is in a terrible state right now. Just as we get some of the best games in living memory, the developers that make them are losing their jobs in endless layoffs. More than 10,000 jobs were cut in 2023, a figure that industry executives are already close to surpassing in 2024. It's so bad that it makes you want to scream - so that's exactly what some people did.

Farming the right materials to Ascend Acheron in may require a bit of work, though all of it could be pre-farmed well before her arrival in Version 2.1. Acheron is a new 5-star Lightning unit that follows the Path of the Nihility. Her specialty is applying debuffs on enemies and, with that, dealing an immense amount of damage based on how many debuffs those opponents have on them – which makes her a fantastic asset in a team with Kafka or Black Swan in , for instance.

Colorful open-world survival crafting game Omega Crafter is coming to Steam Early Access at the end of this month.

Rise, wanderer, and stand triumphant before your hoard of spoils.

Blizzard has announced a return of the Mother's Blessing event! This event will increase experience gained and gold earned by 35% multiplicative and will be available from March 26, 10 a.m. to April 2, 10 a.m. PT. Diablo 4 Campfire Chat Summary Season 4 Delayed until May 14th

Are you struggling with keeping meeting notes and focusing on the conversation at the same time? You're not alone. It is very easy to miss out on a few points and important conversations in the meeting while keeping notes of the same. To keep up with the meeting notes, there's an AI note-taking tool called Fathom which has the potential to solve all your meeting troubles. The AI tool is designed to gather meeting notes and summarize them in an understandable way which can also be shared with other team members. Know more about Fathom and how it helps increase productivity.

Here’s a very old way to think about a movie about very young people: In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus — please don’t go, I promise this will be funny — feels compelled to talk about murder. He says it’s bad (pretty uncontroversial) and then, as Jesus stories are wont to do, takes a wild left turn to say, “That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say, ‘Thou fool,’ shall be in danger of hell fire.”

The people of Tokyo have honored Godzilla in the best way they know how... by making him chief of a police station for 24 hours. 

Today's the day for a big PS Plus Extra and PS Plus Premium update, with the March 2024 refresh bringing 13 PS5, PS4, and Classic titles to active subscribers. UK and European members can get downloading and playing all the new games now, and those in the USA will gain access later in the day. If you need a reminder of what's on offer this month, here's a complete list:

The rumors about the Motorola Edge 50 series have recently started to surface with some of its speculated specifications and features being highlighted. While tipsters are on a mission to reveal everything about the device, Motorola has started to tease its unnamed device which is expected to be the Motorola Edge 50. The smartphone maker has shared a series of posts from their official X handle and it recently revealed one device's name which is slated as Motorola Edge 50 Pro. We have gathered some information about the upcoming Motorola Edge series. Check what's coming with the launch of the Motorola Edge 50 series.

It's time to saddle up, partner, because Magic: The Gathering is headed to the Wild West with its latest set, Outlaws of Thunder Junction, launching on April 19. This set draws inspiration from the romantic ideals of the American Wild West, chock full of gunslingers, masked bandits, and vigilante justice. As its name suggests, the theme of Outlaws of Thunder Junction centers around a group of villains planning a heist, using a clever mash-up of Western tropes and arcane magic.

Bellwright, an open-world survival game set in a medieval realm ruled by a brutal ruler, will hit

Gather your teammates and jump into the Gauntlet today! Hero Mastery: Gauntlet is an all-new 3-player cooperative game mode with tower defense-style gameplay. Your objective is to protect your three towers from 10 rounds of enemy training bot attacks. Purchase powerful upgrades and collect Emblems along the way to boost your score.

If you were on the fence about it, I apologize to your wallet and am sorry to say that MTG Fallout is getting quite the discount.

Magic: the Gathering has announced its latest bans and restrictions, affecting two cards across two formats. For the most part, there will be no changes, but there are tweaks being made to the Modern and Vintage formats.

Manga icon Akira Toriyama’s untimely passing has led to an outpouring of emotion across the entire Internet, with tributes being paid all over social media. But one particularly poignant post that caught our attention is this clip of Dragon Ball XenoVerse 2, where fans all gathered in a lobby to pay their respects to the legendary artist:

Dragon Ball fans across the globe are currently in mourning, as it's been announced that legendary manga creator Akira Toriyama has passed away at just age 68. According to an official post via the Dragon Ball Twitter account, Toriyama passed away on March 1 earlier this month due to "acute subdural hematoma". It was also explained that a funeral service was held with close family earlier this week, and that flowers and gifts will not be accepted at this time out of respect for Toriyama's family.

Pokémon Go Fest will head to the Spanish capital of Madrid for this year's big European event, developer Niantic has announced.

Magic: The Gathering is celebrating 50 years of Dungeons & Dragons with a crossover draft event based on Baldur's Gate 3, bringing iconic characters like Elminster, Astarion, Lae'zel, and more back from May 17 to 19.

The team behind Final Fantasy 14 knows many of the MMO's faithfuls found Endwalker's end-game weapon quest "too easy." 

For many, the promise of a game lasting upwards of 100 hours is no longer the selling point that it used to be. People who grew up with games may now find themselves with families or other responsibilities — and so, at least from what we see in comments sections and the like, there's a clear demand for shorter titles that offer more focused experiences.

Chadly has a lot of tasks lined up for you in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. Now that the world is far more open and explorable, you’ll have a ton of extra activities to take if you wish, but the first few are a bit more required. Aside from the usual tower climbing and item gathering, one task is to fight specific enemies with a series of requirements. The first one, which asks you to pressure a Thunderclaw, is more troublesome than it should be, even if you understand the system. Not to worry, because we’ve used the Assess skill to gather all the data on this foe to make pressuring it a breeze.

As was announced back in October of last year, a PS5 version of eternally popular action title Dragon Ball XenoVerse 2 is in the works — and now, we have a release date. Bandai Namco has confirmed that the port will drop on the 24th May, and from what we gather, it'll be a free upgrade if you already own the game on PS4.

If you missed out on one of the best Nintendo Switch titles of 2023, new QVC customers can save $20 on Pikmin 4 when they use the code WELCOME20 at checkout.

Some say it’s the Lifestream that makes the world go round in Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth, but we all know the real answer is Gil. Cloud may be on a quest to save the world from Sephiroth, but he’s still a merc who wants to get paid for his efforts. Plus, there are a ton of expensive items to gather up on your journey, such as Materia, Accessories, Armor, and Queen’s Blood cards. You’ll need some very deep pockets if you want to buy everything that catches your eye, but Gil isn’t the easiest thing to come by. We’ve done all the odd jobs and activities around Gaia to give you the best ways to grind for Gil in Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth.

Hello! Welcome to the 317th edition of the WoW Economy Weekly Wrap-up! This week we discuss preparation for The War Within and how to manage alts with profession combinations and racial bonuses. We also talk about changes to gold making and the economy in Season of Discovery and have some great Inscription tips for Wrath Classic. My name is Samadan and I'll be your guide through the World of Gold Making!

In a poignant moment captured amid the vastness of space, the Odysseus moon lander, operated by Intuitive Machines, sent back its final transmission before succumbing to the lunar night. With one of its legs askew during landing and power lost, the spacecraft left us with a lasting and wondrous image — a snapshot of Earth seen as a distant crescent shining against the grey expanse of the lunar horizon.

Following the best Kalpalata Lotus farming route in is the ideal way of optimizing your resource-gathering process, as it can save your time and keep things more organized so that you know exactly where you have already gone through and what your next farming destination should be. Kalpalata Lotus is a Local Speciality that is exclusive to the region of Sumeru. These blue-colored flowers with a yellow core can be found spread out across several areas of the jungle portion of the land of Wisdom, but not in the desert, which is also known as Great Red Sand.