Dragon Ball: Sparking Zerohas reportedly been in development for at least five years, which means that Spike Chunsoft has been working on it since 2018. Dragon Ball fans have been waiting for a new Budokai Tenkaichi game for more than a decade now,something that was finally confirmed to be happening earlier this year with a brief reveal trailer. Just a few days ago at The Game Awards 2023,we got a new trailer that showed off gameplay footageand generated a ton of excitement from fans who seemed surprised at just how good it looks....

The team behindEA Sports FC 24has decided the best players of 2023, and they’re all wrong. Okay, maybe not all of them, but they’remostlywrong. The Ultimate Team of the Year is usually an exciting time to get back into the game after that end-of-year lull – players save packs for months to try to pull the best players, and there are dozens of celebratory SBCs and league-specific teams to showcase the best players of the previous year....

Indiana Jones and the Great Circlewas officially revealed earlier this week, giving us our best look at a brand-new Indy adventure thatwe’ll get to experience at some point later this year. While the game looks pretty great and has ticked a lot of boxes for Indiana Jones fans, one of the biggest talking points on social media is whether the game should have been in third-person rather thanthe first-person perspective that developer MachineGames has decided to go withfor the majority of the game....

The fanbase of every video game has a sharp ‘before’ and ‘after’ to it. While things change through the years as fans fade and come back, remasters or ports bring in new waves, live-service games reinvent themselves every so often, or fans invent ways to keep things fresh (likethe fake games of the Batman Arkham community), there is no moment more pivotal than a game’s launch. There is the distinct before times and after times, and this inflection point is transformative for the community in a variety of unpredictable ways....

Quick Links Games are a funny medium. When everything is digital, no one has to age. Some characters do, of course, but a mascot is ageless in the digital world. And so brings up the age-old question - how old exactly are your favourite video game characters? One of the biggest examples of this is the cast ofSuper Mario Bros. Wonder. They’ve been running around with their mushrooms and drain pipes for literal decades, and haven’t aged a day....

Quick Links Shara Ishvalda is a massive Elder Dragon inMonster Hunter World: Icebornethat acts as the final boss of the expansion’s story. As the final boss, you’ll need to do everything you can as you prepare to face Shara Ishvalda on Origin Isle. Shara Ishvalda has two phases that force you to use very different strategies. However, once you understand the rhythm of the fight, this Elder Dragon becomes much more manageable....

Though selective party-building has always been a hallmark of thePersonaseries, it’s never been as imperative to be careful in your selections than inPersona 5 Tactica. Since you’ve only got three party members in this 2023 spin-off title, whose skills need to be manually unlocked as the story progresses, you’ll need to make the most of what you’ve got. Between building each member of the Phantom Thieves’ Skill Trees in a purposeful way is critical, as is ensuring your artillery is powerful and your stat bonuses are stacking effectively....

Quick Links Gagarin Landing inStarfield, a mining settlement located on the Gagarin planet in the Alpha Centauri system, has been struggling a lot since the recent Colony War. Due to this, and the recent encroachment of new corporations trying to make a profit, this settlement is a great place to find many side quests. One such side quest is Missed Connections. A courier has gone missing in this dilapidated town. No one knows where he is, or what has happened to his package meant for Reliant Medical....

The untouchable challenge is one of the more difficult achievementsRisk Of Rain Returnshas to offer. You need to reach the third teleporter without taking a single instance of damage. Increasing the challenge factor, you need to do this playing as the Commando, who has limited tools for avoiding combat. There will always be some level of randomness to the roguelike game, but a good strategy can make completing this challenge more consistent, if not a guaranteed success....

Quick Links Tales of Arise: Beyond the Dawnplaces us back into the shoes of our trusty saviors from the base game, having them set on their final journey together to finish what they started after new threats emerge. While most new boss encounters will be fought within Mausoleums, some will be tackled in the open fields of regions you may be familiar with if you’ve played the Main Story. Venoflage is found within the fields of Menancia and is a mandatory boss encounter, as it is part of the central storyline of the Beyond the Dawn expansion....

Quick Links Marvel’s Spider-Man 2gives Peter Parker and Miles Morales the web wings, allowing them to glide and reach places at a much faster pace. The web wings are not only used as a fast travel method, but you can also perform various air tricks while initiating or breaking the glide. With the addition of these amazing web swinging and gliding features, developers also added trophies that demand expert-level demonstration and aerial control....

Quick Links Initiation 8, a late chapter inAlan Wake 2, is much shorter than the adventure in the Oceanview Hotel but still has some stumpers that make full use of Alan’s reality-bending abilities. Not only will you be using the Angel Lamp and the Plot Board extensively, but your positioning when you do so becomes more crucial than it’s ever been before! The main challenge at the movie theater is getting into the projection booth, where another Overlap waits to facilitate a brief meeting between Saga and Alan....

Quick Links Who knew that backyard weeds and fossil fragments could rival the works of great modern artists? InThe Sims 4, unassuming scientific samples can be made into abstract masterpieces using just a microscope. Sims can commemorate their greatest discoveries by collecting enlarged prints of microscope slides they’ve found, collected from plants, crystals, and fossils. Hang the prints on the walls of your Sim’s home, or sell the prints to earn some extra change — rare prints can earn you upwards of §450....