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The Insomniac leak sucks. While I feel for the studio as its next decade of plans are unveiled for all to see, game development is constantly subject to change, and many of the things we are now peering over in an act of morbid curiosity could have evolved drastically in the years to come. What’s worse isthe extensive personal information now being released onlinethat not only reveals intimate details of employees, but could risk putting them in danger....

I’m trying to replay some of the best games of the year to decide exactly where they rank in my personal Game of the Year list. Top spot is solidly secured by a game that may or may not rhyme with Pord of the Pings Pollum, but the other nine are a nebulous field of ever-shifting titles. My boss recentlywarned against cramming games inbefore writing your list, so this paragraph is directed solely at her: don’t worry, I’m replaying, finishing, retrying, dipping back in, not cramming in games completely anew....

Every games writer across the industry is currently preparing their personal Game of the Year lists, which means that behind the scenes, many of us are furiously trying to work our way through the many games over the past 12 months that intrigued us, but we didn’t have the time for. Considering how many excellent games came out this year, that can be a time-consuming process. Quite honestly, if playing video games and writing about them wasn’t my job, I would have been quite satisfied to just play Baldur’s Gate 3 for a year straight....

Quick Links If you’re trying to unlock the final skills for Joker, Morgana, and Makoto inPersona 5 Tacticabefore you head into the final battle or a New Game Plus playthrough, you’ll need to finish Quest 13. In it, you need to get one of the Thieves to the goal on the other side of the arena using two colored elevators and a whole lot of teamwork. The caveat is that you only have one turn to reach the end, which is going to require plenty of careful planning ahead....

Magic: The Gathering’s30th year has been a bit of a ride. We saw the Phyrexians finally beat back in March of the Machine, ventured into Middle-earth for the biggest set ever, and ended it on a high with The Lost Caverns of Ixalan. But for every high, there was also a low, resulting in a year that, at times, made Innistrad: Double Feature look like a good idea. With The Lost Cavern of Ixalan now fully settled into the game, it’s time to look back on every Magic: The Gathering release of 2023....

Capcom announcedMonster Hunter Wildsduring last month’s The Game Awardswith a release date of 2025. We’re still over a year out, but plenty of fans are eager to slay the biggest critters they can find, flocking back to World and boosting its player count to record highs. As reported byPC Gamer, World hit a peak concurrent player count of 138,148 on January 1, its highest in three years. In fact, it was the 13th most-played Steam game on New Year’s Day, beatingRust,Elden Ring, andCyberpunk 2077....

Quick Links Out of all the residents inMy Time At Sandrock, Amirah is by far the most renowned for her creative talents. As the established artist she is, Amirah moved from Barnarock to SAndrock to open a shop alongside her brother. Her love of pottery and ceramics inspires her to create and make the town more beautiful one step at a time. Unlike other candidates, Amirah takes a bit more effort to romance....

“We have a companion character support group on Whatsapp,”Baldur’s Gate 3andResident Evil Villageactor Neil Newbon tells me. “I think I created that a couple of days before release because I kinda knew what was going to happen. In a way. I didn’t know it was going to be this big, but I knew it was going to be interesting because I’ve been involved with Resident Evil and Detroit: Become Human, so I’ve seen how big these things can become....

One of the big complaints withMortal Kombat 1’s first wave of DLC is that two of the characters are extremely similar - Omni-Man and Homelander. They’re both riffs on the Superman archetype, twisting it into something far less optimistic and uplifting. In a way, it made sense to pair them, even if it seemed disappointing to get two versions of the same basic character type back to back. Luckily, Omni-Man is one-of-a-kind....

Quick Links Warframe’slatest update has introduced a limited-time clan event called Operation: Gargoyle’s Cry. This fits a similar niche to the Operation: Scarlet Spear event from 2020, giving players a deterministic way to farm certain Warframe Arcanes and previous event cosmetic rewards. If you’re looking to expand your collection of Arcanes, this is the perfect time to jump back into Warframe. This guide will explain how the Gargoyle’s Cry event works, how to participate, and showcase every reward you can purchase from the Jahu Gargoyle vendor....

A roadmap for the “future ofPalworld” has been revealed and promises that PvP, raid bosses, new Pals, and a Pal Arena are all going to come to the game soon. As I’m sure most of you are aware of by now, the past week has been a runaway success for Palworld,which seems to be adding at least half a million players every single day at this point and shows no sign of slowing down....

It’s fun to look back on my childhood and realise how much of an obvious fruit I was. I never turned down an opportunity to dress up and perform, gravitated towards certain hobbies and pastimes, and always put on a mask when it came to being who I really wanted to be. There wasn’t a word for ‘transgender’ in the landscape I grew up in, only slurs I won’t bring up here and stereotypes that subconsciously suppressed my desire to be who I really was....

There is so much to do inLike a Dragon: Infinite Wealth. You can backflip on a bicycle while delivering pizzas. You can cultivate your own private island. You can help a crab and a crawfish fall in love. You can even play the main story, if you like. But mostly, what I’ve been doing is playing darts. I’m not all that good at it, there’s no reward I want for it, and I haven’t shelled out for any of the upgrades that make it any better....