Quick Links Foxhound’s finest has finally snuck their way onto the island inFortnite. Part of a special series of quests in Chapter Five, Solid Snake appears alongside a variety of Metal Gear Solid themed cosmetics and items. While the new Emote and Back Bling are fun inclusions, the Skins are what most people are after. To unlock the Solid Snake Skin and its additional Styles, you’ll need to complete the Solid Snake questline....

Quick Links With the rise of online games like Critical Role,Dungeons & Dragonsplayers have seen more and more of the player’s backstory taking center stage. While many games operate on the idea of ‘frontstory,’ or, how the character’s story progresses as a result of the choices made during the game, backstories are often important for some Dungeon Masters' plotlines. At the front of these plots are NPCs, driving the characters forward....

Quick Links Flashy and eye-catching skins are abundant inFortnite. To acquire some of the game’s better skins, you’ll often need to purchase them directly from the shop or earn them through the Battle Pass. However, the Fortnite Crew subscription offers another method for obtaining stylish outfits. Fortnite Crew is a monthly service that provides you with numerous rewards, such as the Battle Pass, V-Bucks, and Rocket Pass Premium. One of which is the highly coveted Drakon Steel Hybrid skin, which comes with Hybrid’s Evolved Legacy Styles....

I’ll admitI was a bit cynical about Paldean Fateswhen it was first announced. January’s Pokemon TCG expansion came across as another attempt to capture the shiny magic of Hidden Fates, which I assumed, like last year’s Shining Fates, would fail to impress. The TCG’s recent approach failed to capture the spirit and excitement of hunting Shinies, and Paldean Fates felt forced and unimaginative. The last thing I want to see with these shiny sets is stagnation, and it’s starting to feel like when a rock band that passed their prime decades ago continues touring: kinda sad....

This week,CD Projekt Redannounced thatThe Witcher 3is getting an official mod editor. “It will allow you to create your own experiences in the game by making something completely new or editing existing quests and content,” CDPRannounced via the official Witcher Twitter account. “We’re planning on releasing it for free in 2024.” This is cool news, especially given that we’re getting it eight years after the game’s initial launch, long after most single-player games would have stopped receiving support....

I likedStarfield. It’s not an all-timer, nor does it hold up toOblivionor evenSkyrim. Mechanically, it’s a step above both – have you tried combining high level jet pack perks with a sniper rifle? – and the main quests and characters are some ofBethesda’sbest. The problem is, it gets real boring when you stray from the intended path, something which Bethesda has conditioned you to do over decades of RPG evolution....

Summary I’m very doubtful of movie franchises moving into the world of video games, especially horror movies. Too often, they end up being asymmetrical survival horror games, likeThe Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Killer Klowns From Outer Space,Evil DeadandFriday the 13th. Of course, this isn’t always the case – Alien: Isolation is a single-player survival horror based on the Ridley Scott classic, for example, and it’s amazing. This game genre isn’tbadby any means, it’s just not my cup of tea....

Every year Mojang asks players to vote between three creature concepts, and the winner gets added toMinecraft. This year, two of the mobs were pitched alongside highly-requested features, wolf armour and being able to place blocks further away. Because of this, fanspetitioned and made propaganda to try and stop the vote, arguing that Mojang should add all three. That didn’t happen, butthe arguments didn’t quieten down. Jokes were made about Microsoft-owned Mojang being a little indie company, while others pointed out that the majority of the player base will always be disappointed as the vote is split three ways....

I was utterly engrossed by Pokemon Concierge, Netflix’s new stop-motion animated Pokemon series about a tropical island resort for Pokemon. The world it depicts is one of the most stunning and inviting in the entirety of the Pokemon universe, and its story, while short, is packed with heart. I’m not surprised to see Pokemon fans rallying around the show andbegging for more episodes, but if you ask me, Concierge is perfectly suited for an Animal Crossing-style life sim game....

Summary PlayStation’s busy season of new hardware and accessory releases is officially underway. The slimmer models ofPS5it revealed earlier this year are now available, and time will tell just how popular they’re going to be. Unlikely that they will quickly become as scarce as the original models at launch, but I’m sure the slim versions will be pretty popular. People have a couple of hangups with the new consoles though, top of the list being that you can’t stand them upright without paying a little extra....

A new piece of Christmas art on the official JapaneseSonicTwitter account features a heartbreaking reference to Sonic Adventure 2’s Maria and how much her death affected Shadow. The latest episode of Tails Tube already showed Sonic the Hedgehog fans that the gang isn’t great at celebrating the holidays (especially with Sonic just openly friendzoning Amy in front of everyone), but it looks like one character is going to have an even worse time than the rest of them - Shadow the Hedgehog....

Calling a game a boomer shooter has always been more of a joke than an official classification, but no more. OnSteam, games that take inspiration from classic first-person shooters can be labelled as boomer shooters, separating them from more modern FPS titles. This development, reported byGamesRadar+, is already live on Steam, making it easier to browse for games that are inspired by the likes ofDoom,Quake, and other classics in the FPS genre....

TheSuper Mario RPGremake has changed Peach and Mallow’s post-battle victory animations and made it so that they no longer make peace signs, proving that it’s not just Mario they don’t want to embrace peace. For the most part, the Super Mario RPG remake is incredibly faithful to the original release ofSuper Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, including keeping things that people weresurewould be removed,like the infamous easter egg that lets you find something questionable in Princess Peach’s room....