An Ai That Could Make You Better At Video Games? Bring On The Skynet Apocalypse

An AI that could make you better at video games? Bring on the skynet apocalypse Bad at Street Fighter? Or like, any other video game? You may be in luck, hopefully. Are you s**t at video games? Maybe AI could be your key to finally getting good, either that or it could put you out of a job. As a fighting game player, that last fear is something you’re likely used to - so you may be happy to hear about one concept AI program that could analyse your Street Fighter matches....

January 17, 2026 · 2 min · 415 words · Nancy Manns

Analyst Suggests Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Could Be On Bestseller Lists For "years"

Analyst suggests Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom could be on bestseller lists for “years” That’s a long dang time. <img loading=“lazy” src=“https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/tears-of-the-kingdom-sky-island.jpg?width=570&quality=85&format=jpg&dpr=3&auto=webp" onerror=“this.onerror=null;this.src=‘https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhe7F7TRXHtjiKvHb5vS7DmnxvpHiDyoYyYvm1nHB3Qp2_w3BnM6A2eq4v7FYxCC9bfZt3a9vIMtAYEKUiaDQbHMg-ViyGmRIj39MLp0bGFfgfYw1Dc9q_H-T0wiTm3l0Uq42dETrN9eC8aGJ9_IORZsxST1AcLR7np1koOfcc7tnHa4S8Mwz_xD9d0=s16000';" alt=“Analyst suggests Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom could be on bestseller lists for “years” - 1”> An industry analyst thinks it’s possible that The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom could stay on the bestseller charts for “years.” Not every game on bestseller lists is one that will stay that way forever....

January 17, 2026 · 2 min · 376 words · George Cooper

Anticipated Anime, Dead Dead Demon's Dedede Destruction, Casts The Singing Icon Behind Oshi No Ko Opening

Anticipated anime, Dead Dead Demon’s Dedede Destruction, casts the singing icon behind Oshi no Ko opening Some real powerhouses of talent behind this one. You might not have heard of Dead Dead Demon’s Dedede Destruction just yet, but you should be excited about its recent casting announcement. For the first time, acclaimed mangaka Inio Asano is getting one of his oddball works adapted into an anime for the first time. The Dead Dead Demon’s anime (I’m not going to write the whole thing out every time, come on) was announced back in March 2022 , and back in August it was confirmed that the project would be a two part film ....

January 17, 2026 · 2 min · 367 words · Brian Weiss

Anyone Mourning The Poignant, Meaningful Feeling From Team Ico Needs To Check Out Flow, The Oscar

Anyone mourning the poignant, meaningful feeling from Team Ico needs to check out Flow, the Oscar-winning film that beat Inside Out 2 and The Wild Robot “We are all in the same boat and must overcome our differences to find ways to work together” feels very apt in 2025. Image credit:VG247 When I was ushered into a private screening of Flow, the animated Latvian adventure film created entirely in the free and open-source software, Blender, I was not expecting to come out of the cinema thinking of nothing but Team Ico and Fumito Ueda ....

January 17, 2026 · 5 min · 860 words · Paul Corbin

Arc Raiders' First New Map Arrives This Month, Bringing Even More Arc Units, Just As The Game Casually Breaks Its Own Steam Record Again

Arc Raiders’ first new map arrives this month, bringing even more Arc units, just as the game casually breaks its own Steam record again Arc Raiders may have only just launched, but Embark has already shared what players can expect over the next couple of months. Image credit:Embark Studios. Arc Raiders , easily the biggest game for developer Embark, has seen one of the smoothest, most well-received launches for a multiplayer game in recent memory....

January 17, 2026 · 3 min · 532 words · Mary Wilder

Arcane May Have Been A Netflix Hit, But Riot Spent Way More Money On It Than It Got Paid For It, Or Made From It

Arcane may have been a Netflix hit, but Riot spent way more money on it than it got paid for it, or made from it Arcane has quickly become one of Netflix’s most recognisable animated streaming shows, but Riot Games has struggled to have it make financial sense. Image credit:Fortiche/ Riot/ Netflix Whether or not you care about League of Legends , it’s hard to deny the impact Arcane - the animated series inspired by the game’s world and characters - has had on the streaming world....

January 17, 2026 · 3 min · 509 words · Diana Jackson

As Need For Speed Turns 30, The Devs Currently Running The Series Say The Biggest Challenge New Entries Face Is "literally The Age Of The Franchise"

As Need For Speed turns 30, the devs currently running the series say the biggest challenge new entries face is “literally the age of the franchise” “The trajectory has been bumpy, actually, in some cases.” Image credit:EA/VG247 “I remember going to what was probably the local video game shop or computer shop, and me and my friends saw it on the 3DO, and we were like ‘what’s this?’, we all jumped on it, and you felt badass,” current Need For Speed producer Patrick Honnoraty says....

January 17, 2026 · 9 min · 1711 words · Janice Smith

Assassin's Creed Mirage's Map Is Around Revelation's Constantinople In Size, No Bigger Than Unity's Paris

Assassin’s Creed Mirage’s map is around Revelation’s Constantinople in size, no bigger than Unity’s Paris A smaller, but presumably more tightly craftly world for you to pull off your assassination’s in. Don’t expect Assassin’s Creed Mirage to have a massive, sprawling map, as it’ll be closer in size to game’s like Revelations’ Constantinople. The more and more that comes out about Assassin’s Creed Mirage , the more it starts to become clear how much this game really is going back to its series roots....

January 17, 2026 · 2 min · 374 words · Wesley Way

Atlas Fallen Has Great Combat And That Joyous Single

Atlas Fallen has great combat and that joyous single-A energy If you like your games slightly wonky – but effortlessly charming – Atlas Fallen is likely for you. Atlas Fallen is exactly the sort of game I need right now. I don’t quite know how to explain why that is other than to get slightly reductive, so indulge me: it’s got big, glorious A-tier energy. Not triple-A. Just A . And sometimes, that’s all you need....

January 17, 2026 · 4 min · 831 words · Carol Frost

Attention All Adoring Fans: An Elder Scrolls Iv: Oblivion Remastered Reveal Stream Has Been Announced By Bethesda, And You Can Watch It Here

Attention all Adoring Fans: an Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered reveal stream has been announced by Bethesda, and you can watch it here “All will be revealed….” Image credit:Bethesda/VG247 The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered has finally been acknowledged by Bethesda itself. The long-rumoured remaster of the Elder Scrolls game with the most loveable potato-faced weirdos looks set to be revealed and potentially arrive during a reveal stream that’s now penned in for tomorrow, April 22....

January 17, 2026 · 2 min · 419 words · Ivette Ritter

Avowed Lead Says There's "choice And Consequence" For How You Build Your Character

Avowed lead says there’s “choice and consequence” for how you build your character Be careful over what kind of character you choose to be. Image credit:Obsidian If you’re already plotting at the perfect build for Avowed , you better scrap those plans, as Obsidian says there isn’t “one perfect build.” Personally, when I play an RPG, I’m pretty happy with just winging it, not paying much mind to crafting a particularly powerful build - I like just going with the flow....

January 17, 2026 · 2 min · 384 words · Christopher Knobbe

Baldur's Gate 3 Mod Lets You Reach Level 20 With Multiclassing

Baldur’s Gate 3 mod lets you reach Level 20 with multiclassing It will not get you higher level spells and abilities, though. Image credit:Larian Studios Now that Baldur’s Gate 3 is out in the wild, it is gaining traction with the modding community. One of the more interesting mods available on Nexus allows your characters to reach level 20. Created by mod maker Malcroix , Level 20 (Multiclass) allows your character to reach this level, providing you multiclass and no single class exceeds 12....

January 17, 2026 · 3 min · 455 words · Helen Castellanos

Baldur's Gate 3's Astarion On Why He Was Keen To Add Some "very British, You Know, Everything's A Nightmare" Flavour To Fallout: London's Sassiest Mode Of Transport

Baldur’s Gate 3’s Astarion on why he was keen to add some “very British, you know, everything’s a nightmare” flavour to Fallout: London’s sassiest mode of transport “I didn’t have any say on the lipstick, but we did improvise a lot.” Image credit:VG247/Larian/Team FOLON Fallout: London , the massive Fallout 4 mod that’s recently gained some pretty stiff competition in the ‘cool radiation-themed things that people love, but suffered from some gnarly launch bugs’ department thanks to Stalker 2 , featured some really interesting cameos....

January 17, 2026 · 4 min · 735 words · Delbert Green

Baldur's Gate Overgrown Ruins Guide

Baldur’s Gate Overgrown Ruins guide Your first major test in Baldur’s Gate 3 lies in the Overgrown Ruins, full of traps, bandits and monsters! Image credit:Larian/VG247 Before you venture forward, there are two things to remember. First, quicksave often if you want a specific outcome. While you can use Inspiration to re-roll some checks, no one likes having their best-laid plans fall apart because of bad RNG, so reload when you’re frustrated....

January 17, 2026 · 5 min · 949 words · Demetrius Lane

Baldur’s Gate 3 Dead True Soul: What To Do With Edowin

Baldur’s Gate 3 Dead True Soul: What to do with Edowin Edowin got into a fight with an Owlbear, and it’s safe to say that the Owlbear won. Image credit:Larian Studios While some of the most random encounters in Baldur’s Gate 3 don’t necessarily have an impact on the overarching story, they do go a long way in adding to just how immersive and engaging this world is. The dead True Soul, Edowin , is one such encounter, but how exactly do you help him?...

January 17, 2026 · 5 min · 980 words · Alfredo Fuller

Batman Arkham Knight's Switch Port Performs Pretty Decently, Provided You Don't Get In The Batmobile

Batman Arkham Knight’s Switch port performs pretty decently, provided you don’t get in the Batmobile Holy frame rate-based stuttering, Batman! Image credit:VG247/Warner Bros/Rocksteady Batman Arkham Knight arrives on Switch today as part of Batman: Arkham Trilogy and its performance has already been put under the microscope. While the overall picture seems okay-ish, you might want to get ready to spend lots of time on foot. Following its delay from the originally targeted date of October 13 to December 1, the Trilogy was always going to have a spotlight (possibly one with a bat-signal imprinted on it) trained on how well it renders superhero action on Nintendo ’s handheld....

January 17, 2026 · 2 min · 416 words · Bart Maynard

Best Prime Day Deals Bypassing Amazon

Great deals that don’t require a Prime subscription. The best anti-Prime Day 2023 deals from Best Buy Asus Zephyrus G14 gaming laptop - $799.99 Samsung T7 2TB portable SSD - $114.99 LG 77" Class B2 4K OLED TV - $1899.99 HP 15" Chromebook - $199.99 HP Victus gaming laptop - $679.99 Samsung 980 Pro 2TB Gen4 SSD - $129.99 Corsair HS80 wireless gaming headset - $99.99 Corsair HS65 wired gaming headset - $39....

January 17, 2026 · 2 min · 308 words · Stacey Duncan

Bg3 How To Disable The Steel Watch And Save The Gondians

BG3 How to disable the Steel Watch and save the Gondians Lord Gortash’s mechanical Steel Watch are a fearsome threat in Baldur’s Gate 3. Here’s how to disable them! Image credit:Larian/VG247 At the climax of Baldur’s Gate 3 , the devious Lord Gortash has overtaken the city of Baldur’s Gate, installing himself as Archduke in the chaos surrounding the impending invasion of the Absolute. While much of the city’s business ticks along as it always did, Gortash rules the streets with an iron fist, literally....

January 17, 2026 · 6 min · 1161 words · Michael Straka

Bioshock Infinite Burial At Sea Episode 1 And 2: All Door Access Codes

BioShock Infinite Burial at Sea Episode 1 and 2: All Door Access Codes How to open every locked door in Rapture during the Burial at Sea DLC. BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea is a two-part DLC that sees the player return to the setting of the first and second games in the series, in order to discover what connects the cities of Rapture and Columbia and their respective stories. All the while, you’ll be dealing with all the same dangers and puzzles that Andrew Ryan’s failed utopia always brings....

January 17, 2026 · 2 min · 424 words · Marilyn Florence

Black Ops 6 Brings Call Of Duty Back To Steam's Top Five Most Played Games

Black Ops 6 brings Call of Duty back to Steam’s top five most played games Though we may not have a detailed statistics breakdown, Black Ops 6’s success on Steam is clear to see. Image credit:Treyarch, Raven Software, Activision. Predicting that a Call of Duty launch is going to become one the year’s biggest is about as easy as it gets, but that’s not always the case on PC. For years, Call of Duty’s presence on PC didn’t really factor into its popularity, but things have changed with the release of the Modern Warfare 2019 reboot....

January 17, 2026 · 3 min · 510 words · Jeffrey Strzelecki