Wo Long Tips For Beginners And Veterans

Wo Long tips for beginners and veterans | 16 of our best tricks you need to know Players new to Souls-likes will be tempted to check out Wo Long. But you don’t have to feel lost, because our host of crucial tips has you covered. Team Ninja’s latest game is finally here! Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty is the studio’s systems-heavy, mechanically-dense action RPG, and the follow-up to the Nioh series....

January 12, 2026 · 14 min · 2943 words · Sharon Williams

Wuthering Waves Jinhsi Build

Wuthering Waves Jinhsi Build The Magistrate of Jinzhou is an unstoppable force while on the field in Wuthering Waves. Here’s how to build Jinhsi. Image credit:Kuro Games Wuthering Waves has Resonators ( characters ) in abundance to choose from, with a range of DPS, sub-DPS, and support characters to slot into synergising teams that’ll — with some grinding — dish out lots of damage against foes. If you’re a fan of your team’s damage output being particularly big numbers, you’ll be a huge fan of five-star DPS, Jinhsi ....

January 12, 2026 · 7 min · 1487 words · Mary Lopez

Wuthering Waves Yangyang Build

Wuthering Waves Yangyang Build Here’s how to get the most from the windy warrior. UPDATE: We’ve updated this Yangyang build with some additional information on stats, team compositions, and ascension materials. A solid Wuthering Waves Yangyang build is pretty easy to put together no matter what weapons and Echoes you have at your disposal. The kindly wind warrior’s kit works with almost any setup, which means you’re free to use more specialized equipment for characters with more demanding kits....

January 12, 2026 · 5 min · 1058 words · Jimmie Roemmich

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X-Men ‘97 announces March debut with nostalgic first trailer, OG musical theme included They also say the thing. Image credit:Marvel Studios/Animation Marvel Studios and Animation’s long-in-the-works X-Men: The Animated Series sequel, X-Men ‘97, finally has a trailer and a release date. The first look at the animated show has pretty much everything you’d want from a follow-up to the ’90s TV classic, from a vintage animation style (which only feels cleaner) to the original score you’ve hummed countless times before....

January 12, 2026 · 2 min · 302 words · Jennifer Wright

Xbox Fan? Sad About Missing Out On Baldur's Gate 3? Give Divinity Original Sin 2 A Whirl, Instead

Xbox fan? Sad about missing out on Baldur’s Gate 3? Give Divinity Original Sin 2 a whirl, instead As tricky local co-op is giving the Xbox Series S version of Baldur’s Gate 3 grief, Xbox players should look elsewhere for their RPG fix. Image credit:VG247 The story of Baldur’s Gate 3 on Xbox is a bit of a messy one, so far. As you may well know, Larian’s initial goal was to release Baldur’s Gate 3 on all three platforms simultaneously (that’s PS5, PC, and Xbox Series), but optimization issues with Xbox Series S, specifically, set the developer back....

January 12, 2026 · 4 min · 667 words · Robert Russell

Xbox Series S Carbon Black Comes With 1tb, And A $350 Price Tag

Xbox Series S Carbon Black comes with 1TB, and a $350 price tag Do you want a black Xbox Series S with double the storage? Microsoft thinks you do! Microsoft ended the Xbox Showcase with a hardware reveal, which wasn’t something anyone really expected. The Xbox line-up is getting a new Series S variant, the Xbox Series S Carbon Black . Outside of the colour, the new console comes with double the storage (1TB) compared to the launch Series S....

January 12, 2026 · 1 min · 187 words · Ray Chelton

Xbox Shows Off A Gaming Version Of Microsoft's Ai Assistant Thing That'll Show Up "at The Right Moment" And Tell You What To Do With Your Wood

Xbox shows off a gaming version of Microsoft’s AI assistant thing that’ll show up “at the right moment” and tell you what to do with your wood It can probably also aid you in getting wood, or you could do it the old-fashioned way and handle that yourself. Image credit:Xbox Sigh. Here we go. Because everything’s got to involve some shitty AI tech now, Xbox has just shown off a gaming version of Microsoft’s Copilot AI that it’ll be deploying at some point, so that you can ask a useless AI assistant stuff like, er, “Okay, I’ve got some wood....

January 12, 2026 · 3 min · 571 words · Nicholas Spellacy

Xdefiant Season One Revealed At Ubisoft Forward, And We (finally) Get A Release Date For The New Content In July

XDefiant season one revealed at Ubisoft Forward, and we (finally) get a release date for the new content in July Here it is, some FPS stuff to stare at through your scope. Image credit:Ubisoft XDefiant has just played its part in tonight’s Ubisoft Forward showcase, bringing some FPS fun to proceedings by showing off a teaser for its first season, which is set to arrive on July 2. The FPS, which arrived last month, was one of the three big headliners, alongside Assassin’s Creed Shadows and Star Wars Outlaws , advertised ahead of time for this year’s Ubisoft Forward showcase....

January 12, 2026 · 2 min · 273 words · Debra Clements

You’ll Never See Baldur’s Gate 3 On Ps+ Or Game Pass, And For Good Reason

You’ll never see Baldur’s Gate 3 on PS+ or Game Pass, and for good reason “Direct from developer to players is the way.” Image credit:VG247/Larian Studios Baldur’s Gate 3 director and Larian Studios founder Swen Vincke has decided to share his views on the whole ‘subscription services eventually becoming the dominant way people access their games’ thing, offering a pretty admirable justification as to why you won’t see BG3 being distributed in that fashion....

January 12, 2026 · 3 min · 639 words · Kelly Bledsoe

Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom

Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom - The Blocked Road Guide The Blocked Road is just one of the more mundane problems Zelda can provide a solution to across Hyrule! Image credit:Nintendo/VG247 Life as a Princess isn’t easy in Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom . Not only does Zelda have the fate of the world on her shoulders, but the citizens of Hyrule keep coming to her with their petty problems too. This time, a villager has found their way home blocked by falling boulders and boxes....

January 12, 2026 · 2 min · 382 words · Donald Simmons

Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Players Are Proving There's No Right Way To Play

Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom players are proving there’s no right way to play You can play however you like in Zelda’s latest outing. Players are quickly demonstrating that just like in Breath of the Wild , there’s no “correct” way to play The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom . One of the best parts of Breath of the Wild was that there was no one way that you had to do any particular thing....

January 12, 2026 · 3 min · 499 words · Johnnie Parham

Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom User Reviews Are Ranging From Top To Bottom Scores

Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom user reviews are ranging from top to bottom scores Most of them are positive though. Now that players have gotten their hands on The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom , user reviews are starting to come in, with some not rating it as highly as critics. We’ve still got a good chunk of the year left to go, but at this point in time Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is the highest rated game of all time on OpenCritic ....

January 12, 2026 · 3 min · 494 words · Michael Griffith

Zzz 1.7 Banners See Vivian Float In Mary Poppins

ZZZ 1.7 banners see Vivian float in Mary Poppins-style, as Jane Doe and Lighter return Featuring Vivian and Hugo Image credit:HoYoverse HoYoverse pulled the curtain back on ZZZ 1.7 banners during the RPG’s recent livestream, showcasing Vivian, Hugo, and two high-profile reruns. While ZZZ 1.6 saw Pulchra added to the mix, it’s just S-rank agents again for the upcoming version. They’re pretty big deals, too, with Lighter in particular being one of the game’s best-performing characters even several months after his debut....

January 12, 2026 · 3 min · 483 words · Luke Geoghegan

"i Cannot Imagine Anyone Else Playing Aragorn"

“I cannot imagine anyone else playing Aragorn” - As work on The Hunt for Gollum continues, the team behind it has its fingers crossed that it can convince Viggo Mortensen to return It could be fun to give someone else a shot, though, no? Image credit:Warner Bros It sounds like Warner Bros. is trying to bring back as much of the original cast as it can for The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum , as now they’re after Viggo Mortensen....

January 11, 2026 · 3 min · 490 words · George Harris

"nothing Is Off The Table" Monster Hunter Now Can Add Any Monster From The Main Series, Though There Are Some Caveats

“Nothing is off the table” Monster Hunter Now can add any monster from the main series, though there are some caveats Your favourite monster may not be in Niantic’s Monster Hunter Now just yet, but don’t worry: it’s probably coming. Image credit:VG247 What’s your favourite Monster Hunter monster? Depending on when you started playing the 20-year-old series, you’re probably going to have a different answer to that question. The oldest, most grizzled veterans of the series are going to have soft spots for the Khezus, the Diablos, the Fatalis....

January 11, 2026 · 5 min · 869 words · Michael Davis

"this Is The Endgame" Helldivers 2's Battle For Super Earth Has Entered Its "final Phase", With Agonising Failure Triggering An "all

“This is the endgame” Helldivers 2’s battle for Super Earth has entered its “final phase”, with agonising failure triggering an “all-out assault” on the final four cities Meanwhile, the game’s latest patch has delivered one of the most popular armour passive changes I can recall. Image credit:Arrowhead Time must fly when you’re having fun. Or at least when you’re defending Super Earth from a huge Illuminate invasion. Helldivers 2 ’s latest major order is the “final phase” of the battle for the divers’ home planet that’s been raging since the Heart of Democracy update dropped on May 20....

January 11, 2026 · 3 min · 569 words · Jeremy Jamal

"we’re Not Going To Grow The Market With $1,000 Consoles", Xbox Boss Phil Spencer Says, Likely Leaving The Ps5 Pro Pretty Pssrd Off

“We’re not going to grow the market with $1,000 consoles”, Xbox boss Phil Spencer says, likely leaving the PS5 Pro pretty PSSRd off Yep, just a quippy little line about expensive hardware, nothing to see here. Image credit:Xbox/Sony In a chat that also featured him talking about handheld s for the many-th time this year, Xbox’s Phil Spencer has had some thoughts on where the games industry’s at in 2024. What’s he said, you ask?...

January 11, 2026 · 3 min · 494 words · Granville Gregory

“this Doesn’t Feel Like An Amateur Production” Inside The Ambitious Baldur's Gate 3 Custom Campaign Project Aiming To Release A Demo This Year

“This doesn’t feel like an amateur production” Inside the ambitious Baldur’s Gate 3 custom campaign project aiming to release a demo this year “I feel like I have been training and working towards this one mod for the past 25 years.” Image credit:Larian/Path To Menzoberranzan team/VG247 “I think the biggest problem that we have faced in regards to the overarching story is that this project is called Path To Menzoberranzan, and it starts off in Athkatla,” Tomobamba says....

January 11, 2026 · 7 min · 1414 words · Luz Walton

2025 Is The Sink Or Swim Year For 2xko, As My Most Anticipated Game Finally Nears Its Release Date

2025 is the sink or swim year for 2XKO, as my most anticipated game finally nears its release date Can 2XKO make waves in a genre dominated by classic IPs? We’ll not be waiting long to find out. Image credit:Riot Games 2025 is the year in which we’ll finally, finally get to see 2XKO come out. If it feels like an age since whispers about Riot’s in-house fighting game were floating around… you’re right!...

January 11, 2026 · 5 min · 972 words · Joshua Scharfenberg

22 Years Later, The First Trailer For 28 Years Later Proves That Danny Boyle Has Still Got The Sauce

22 years later, the first trailer for 28 Years Later proves that Danny Boyle has still got the sauce This feels like a day one watch. Image credit:Sony The first trailer for 28 Years Later is here, and if the full thing ends up being as good, we could be in for a strong Danny Boyle comeback. Over the weekend, Sony released a very short and cryptic teaser trailer for 28 Years Later implying we’d be getting a proper trailer the following Tuesday - that Tuesday is today now, and yep, a trailer did in fact arrive!...

January 11, 2026 · 2 min · 362 words · Bradley Wright