Monsters News, Tips, Tricks & Ideas

Chrono Odyssey, the space-time bending open world game developed by South Korean developer NPIXEL, has released a series of monster models that border on the freakish, just in time for Halloween. We’ve compiled each of the short teasers in one place so you can get your fright on with a look at some of the fearsome enemies you’ll be facing when you set foot on Setera.

Dark Horse is continuing to expand its growing lineup of figures based on the Witcher games. The series is known for its colorful assortment of beasts and monsters, so it's only fitting that some of those creatures join the likes of Geralt and Imlerith in your collection.

Indie MMORPG lovers looking for their old school fix will be happy to hear that Monsters and Memories, is chugging along and plans to open up testing to the public later this year. The upcoming subscription-based MMORPG promises to transport players back to the genre’s golden age of the early 2000s, when MMOs were few, mysterious, and unique. Developed by a passionate indie team of 20, the Monsters and Memories is described as a love letter to classic MMOs, multi-user dungeons, computer RPGs, and the team at Niche Worlds Cult wants like-minded players to join them in their upcoming test.

We review Horrified: Greek Monsters, the third iteration in the Horrified series from Ravensburger. Horrified: Greek Monsters adds some new twists to the already popular Horrified gameplay.

What better way to follow up my interview with Just Stop Oil than by writing about a horror game set on a haunted oil rig? The game in question is, of course, Still Wakes The Deep from Dear Esther and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs developer The Chinese Room. Set off the coast of Scotland in the 1970s, it sees you navigating collapsing gantries and flooded rooms while avoiding an unearthly terror apparently extracted from the ocean floor. Mind you, the worst thing in the game could be the weather, which you can witness for yourself in the latest gameplay trailer below. Never mind the dreadful moaning on the other side of the pipes - how about that drizzle?

Dragon Quest Monsters Super Light will end service on January 31, 2024 at 15:00 JST, Square Enix announced. Gem sales ended with today’s announcement.

Godzilla is back, only this time on the small screen. At a New York Comic Con 2023 panel for Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, the new MonsterVerse show on Apple TV Plus which premieres in November, hopeful kaiju buffs were shown a new trailer and a look at the first episode for fans. Luckily, Apple put the trailer online right away.

Large Monsters are the core of the Monster Hunter Now gameplay. Focusing on combat, the game offers monstrous enemies with unique attack patterns. To master the game, you’re encouraged to learn these patterns and time your attacks and dodges accordingly. But if you want to button (or screen) mash, you can do that too.

I'm a known strategy-game turtler, which means that I'll spend as much time shooting arrows off the top of a great big stone wall as games like Age of Empires 4 will let me. That habit made me a big fan of 2017's They Are Billions, which condensed the RTS experience into a huge horde-defense mode, and now it's turned me towards Cataclismo, which might have the most promise of anything I've played so far in Steam Next Fest.

' newest edition to its library is, a set of three books that bring together many facets of the expanded worlds that the game encompasses and makes nearly anything possible in its mystical planes. Among these books is, a new companion book to the standard that adds many mighty monsters to the multiversal menagerie. Using similar presentations of stat blocks, has more than 60 enemies included for adventuring parties to vanquish, or at least attempt to.

October has rolled in, and along with it, new Monster Hunter Now events. So what’s in store? Well, you won’t be shocked to hear that there’s a Halloween event on the cards, but before that there’s a pretty vibrant surprise.

latest book, has some very Lovecraftian new monsters included in its bestiary to add some more horror to the tabletop game. The book includes 35 enemies to go along with its adventures in the region of Phandalin, 20 of whom are horrific creatures that truly are pretty cool in a terrifying way. Many of these monsters may have started as fairly ordinary beings who have since become warped beyond recognition to create nightmare fuel.

NEOWIZ and Round8 Studio have released a new update for Lies of P, their recent Souls-like action RPG, easing the difficulty in certain aspects. Certain field monsters have had their HP reduced while the chance of breaking the stance of some monsters has increased (in addition to the stagger frequency).

I hope you enjoyed your monstrous ways while you could, because the most messed-up option in Baldur's Gate 3 was actually a bug that was fixed as part of Patch 3.

New information about Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince has just been revealed. Many of these details specifically deal with references to Dragon Quest IV: The Chapters of the Chosen in which protagonist Psaro made his debut. This upcoming adventure offers fans an alternate depiction of some of the events in Dragon Quest IV as Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince will explore some of the untold stories through the eyes of Psaro himself.

Square Enix has released the “final” trailer for Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince.

There's a world somewhere on an alternate timeline where is simply the latest part of one of the biggest monster collector/battlers in its genre. The earliest iteration of the franchise was full of charm and surprisingly exciting gameplay systems that arguably rivaled at the time; unfortunately, a much less smooth timeline featuring scattered releases quickly made the spin-off series feel like it would be relegated to a bunch of «what-if» and «forgotten gems» lists.

Update 40 for The Elder Scrolls Online is coming, bringing the Endless Archive and a series of improvements. The ESO team revealed more about the update, including a deep dive into the Endless Archive dungeon. Update 40 arrives October 30th on PC/Mac and November 14th on console.

Okay, today’s Nintendo Direct was pretty cool, but the fun isn’t over for RPG fans. And on a day that saw an update for the Super Mario RPG remake and a Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Doorannouncement, that’s saying something. Square Enix has released a demo for the upcoming Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince for Nintendo Switch, which you can download right now on the eShop.

As Toho’s titanic monster moves ever closer to our theaters with, the more we get to see of it. The latest batch of images will no doubt whet the appetite for some good old-fashioned Kaiju carnage.

Dragon Quest Monstes: The Dark Prince is now available for pre-order on the Nintendo Switch! The game comes out on December 1st. There are two versions of the game available for pre-order: the regular version and the Digital Deluxe Edition.

Square Enix has released new information and screenshots for Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince, introducing the game’s new battle and monster recruiting systems, as well as opened digital pre-orders via Nintendo eShop.

Gunbrella continues to look top-notch, the side-scrolling action-adventure serving up a does-what-it-says-on-the-tin approach to combining the floaty platforming of an umbrella with the shoot-everything-in-the-face simplicity of a gun. Now we know when we’ll be able to actually play it - and it’s soon!

The thrilling experience of Minecraft Survivor mode is what many players seek and enjoy. Surviving in its daunting world can be a tough challenge, even for the game’s veterans. Although monsters add another dimension to the gameplay experience, many might want to enjoy the game without them. While the vanilla game doesn’t offer an option to remove monsters completely, you can achieve a monster-free survival experience by using certain mods or adjusting game settings. Hence, we’re listing the best mods and tips for playing Minecraft survival without monsters.

This week's Diablo 4 patch will tone down the ability of monsters to control players, nerfing a variety of crowd control effects across the entire game. The variety of cold-enchanted elites with exceptionally quick attacks will no longer pop you with the cold enchant every single hit, Cold Spiders will chill you less, Cold Goatmen will drop ice pillars slower, and chilling winds will overlap its nasty walls less often. That's in addition to a variety of slows and stuns getting shorter durations or more easily avoided animations.

The latest board game from Brotherwise is probably the closest you'll get to Mario Kart on tabletop any time soon.

Apple TV Plus has unveiled the first look at Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, a new Godzilla and Titans series.

A new patch is available for Blizzard Entertainment’s Diablo 4, but it’s not on the same scale as the disastrous pre-Season of the Malignant patch (or its follow-up). Regardless, it makes some good changes, like reducing the time for Malignant Monsters to spawn when a Malignant Heart has activated. It’s gone from five seconds to two.

Here's everything you need to know about the 1.1.2 update.

Monsters & Memories has graced us with a new update detailing the strides they’ve made in July. With Update 34, we see new visuals, and tons of improvements. Buckle up for a swift summary of what developer Niche Worlds Cult has been working on.

Diablo 4 players have discovered a dungeon with enemies packed so tight you can use it to level up from 1 to 40 in around 2 hours.

Ravensburger has announced the latest in its Horrified series of spooky board games, and this time we’re heading to the underworld in Horrified: Greek Monsters.

Zoeti is a roguelite deckbuilding game that sees you fighting fantasy monstrosities with magical powers, all fueled by poker rules and hands. Playing for your life can be a bit more exciting than playing for money, after all.

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Players have been diving into the world of Sanctuary for Diabo 4's very first season, and the results are in — a massive number of characters have been created, monsters have been slain, and Malignant Hearts have been caged! The official Diablo Twitter account posted some stat roundups from the first week of Season of the Malignant, revealing that players have reached a few staggering milestones — inlcuding over 74.6 billion monsters slain. Of particular note, less than 10,000 characters have hit level 100 so far this Season, which is to be expected — hitting max level in a week is no easy feat.

"I'm going to put on my golden spike fists and start punch the air rapidly, like this", Amid Evil expansion The Black Labyrinth seems to say. "And if all you monsters in the mist should be pulped, then that's your own fault."

My Singing Monsters (MSM) allows players to breed different monsters, care for them, and raise them into full-fledged monster pets. The game is full of unique monsters, and each monster has a specific combination of elements you need to use in the breeding process. One of the popular choices for breeding in My Singing Monsters is Strombonin, a Mythical Monster first found on Cold Island. Like all the monsters in the game, Strombonin can only be bred using specific combinations, and if you are interested in knowing how to Breed Strombonin in My Singing Monsters, refer to the guide below.

You'd think running a seaside sushi restaurant would be a relaxing, low-stress experience, but despite the chill tropical vibes in Dave the Diver there's also quite a lot of pulse-pounding action. Just because he's working at a vacation destination doesn't mean his life is smooth sailing, and along with reef sharks and angry crabs nipping at his flippered feet, Dave often has to go head-to-head with fearsome boss monsters in the briny depths.

 The Ethyrial:  Echoes of Yore team has announced that they are planning for their next update this week, Part of their ongoing effort to revamp the game as it goes free to play and eventually relaunches.