The Best Honkai Star Rail Yukong Build, Light Cone, And Relics

The best Honkai Star Rail Yukong build, Light Cone, and Relics Yukong is a tricky support character who shines with careful timing Image credit:HoYoverse The best Honkai: Star Rail Yukong build is refreshingly easy to put together thanks to a set of abilities that offer flat buffs for the party instead of ones that scale with her abilities. Yukong is a bit trickier to use than other Harmony characters, though....

December 21, 2025 · 5 min · 1057 words · Tiffany Mackson

The Best Starfield Skills To Pick First For Your Character Build

The best Starfield Skills to pick first for your character build With so many Skills to choose from in Starfield, it’s tough to know where to start Image credit:Bethesda/VG247 In the wide-open universe of Starfield you can be everyone and anyone you want to be, as long as you have the Skills to back it up. As you gain experience across your adventure, you can invest in powerful upgrades which eventually shape your character build....

December 21, 2025 · 8 min · 1590 words · Gladys Bower

The Best Ways To Earn Crowns In The Witcher 3

The best ways to earn Crowns in The Witcher 3 Here’s how to fill your pockets with as many Crowns as you can carry in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. This guide will teach you how to earn as many Crowns as you could possibly want while riding about the Northern Realms in The Witcher 3 . We’ll focus on doing things the right way, through the main quests and secondary quests, as well as a few sneaky tricks that you may not have known about....

December 21, 2025 · 4 min · 785 words · Martha Maddux

The Division: Heartland Gets Its First Rating, Could Be Set To Arrive Soon

The Division: Heartland gets its first rating, could be set to arrive soon The game was first announced in 2021. Ubisoft’s upcoming The Division: Heartland has recently been rated in Taiwan, potentially suggesting a release date could be on the way soon. As spotted by Twitter user and leaker Kurakasis, Taiwan’s Digital Game Self-regulation Committee has rated Tom Clancy’s The Division: Heartland across multiple platforms, which was posted as of November 14....

December 21, 2025 · 2 min · 395 words · Phyllis Jackson

The Finals Dev Has A Very Strange Response To Outrage Over Its Use Of Ai Voices

The Finals dev has a very strange response to outrage over its use of AI voices “Making games without actors isn’t an end goal for Embark.” After drawing criticism online over The Finals using AI voice performances, developer Embark Studios has defended the decision. Last week, a tweet showing off some of the voice acting in The Finals made it seem like the game used AI voices , which was confirmed through a podcast interview with one of the game’s audio designers....

December 21, 2025 · 2 min · 383 words · Sheena Hawkins

The First Fantastic Four Teaser Trailer Mostly Just Shows Some People Watching Tv, But Lucky For You The Full Thing Is Coming Tomorrow

The first Fantastic Four teaser trailer mostly just shows some people watching TV, but lucky for you the full thing is coming tomorrow How hard do you think they’re going to go on the whole “four” thing for marketing? Sure, the first teaser trailer for The Fantastic Four: First Steps doesn’t really show you anything at all, but at least there’s a promise of a proper trailer coming tomorrow. I’m never really a fan of teaser trailers, especially when they more exist to tease an actual trailer as opposed to just generally getting you excited for the film, and the first trailer for The Fantastic Four: First Steps certainly fits into that category....

December 21, 2025 · 3 min · 446 words · Thomas Duncan

The Nameless King And Older Souls Bosses Will Show Up In Elden Ring Nightreign For Exactly The Reasons You Think

The Nameless King and older Souls bosses will show up in Elden Ring Nightreign for exactly the reasons you think Your first guess about the reason why you’re going to be fighting classic Souls games bosses in Elden Ring Nightreign is probably the correct one. Image credit:FromSoftware Elden Ring Nightreign is quickly becoming one of the year’s most anticipated games, and with good reason. But it also represents an entirely new type of game for developer FromSoftware, one that freed it up to try things some would consider sacrilege....

December 21, 2025 · 3 min · 513 words · Edith Austin

The Next Set Of Monster Hunter Wilds Event Quests Actually Has New Stuff To Do, But There Are Still No Challenge Quests

The next set of Monster Hunter Wilds Event Quests actually has new stuff to do, but there are still no Challenge Quests The Event Quest schedule for the next several weeks in Monster Hunter Wilds has arrived, but it’s looking a bit anemic. Image credit:Capcom If you don’t intend to jump into any of the new games coming out this week and for the rest of June, you might want to check in on the latest batch of Monster Hunter Wilds Event Quests....

December 21, 2025 · 3 min · 558 words · Chad Anderson

The Office Follow

The Office follow-up series has cast its next batch of fresh talent you’ll inevitably end up cringing at Though maybe they could tone down the cringe factor just a touch. Image credit:NBC The sort-of sequel, sort-of soft reboot of The Office has just added its next round of cast members. Some kind of follow-up to the much beloved series The Office has been in the works for some time now, but it wasn’t until May of this year where the series was finally ordered by Peacock ....

December 21, 2025 · 2 min · 352 words · Robert Young

The Pokemon Company Addresses The Whole Palworld Thing Without Actually Mentioning, Well, Palworld

The Pokemon Company addresses the whole Palworld thing without actually mentioning, well, Palworld The Donphan in the room has been acknowledged, sort of. Image credit:Pocketpair Following what feels like years worth of debate on social media and in other places about Palworld and the fact that some aspects of it are a bit similar to Pokemon, the company responsible for the latter has issued a statement acknowledging it. Well, sort of....

December 21, 2025 · 3 min · 440 words · Devin Ogawa

The Problem With Xbox Is That You Don’t Need An Xbox, And That's A Hard Circle To Square

The problem with Xbox is that you don’t need an Xbox, and that’s a hard circle to square Xbox Anywhere, except under your TV where it’s supposed to be. Image credit:VG247, XBOX This week The Shiitake Show asks: what’s the point of Xbox? That’s not us being sarcastic or snide. It’s a question that everyone in the industry, not least Microsoft themselves, needs to find an answer to. A conflicted, convoluted vision for the platform has left it struggling for an identity at the dawn of a future it is trying to forge for us all, one where the console itself no longer matters....

December 21, 2025 · 8 min · 1702 words · Mary Davis

The Soul Reaver 1 + 2 Remaster Has Been Revealed At The Sony State Of Play, Following A Leak Earlier Today

The Soul Reaver 1 + 2 remaster has been revealed at the Sony State of Play, following a leak earlier today A confirmation for the remaster at last, with a new trailer to boot! Image credit:Sony It looks like the leaks earlier today were legit. The Soul Reaver 1 + 2 remaster is real, and it’s coming out December 10. The trailer, which you can watch below, shows the game in all its newfound glory....

December 21, 2025 · 2 min · 225 words · Theresa Egan

The Stop-motion Studio Behind Coraline And Producers Of Into The Spider-verse Are... Making A Live

The stop-motion studio behind Coraline and producers of Into the Spider-Verse are… making a live-action film together? At least it’s a strong team so far! Image credit:Laika Laika , the animation studio behind films like Coraline is teaming up with Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller for, uh, a live-action film. Since its inception, Laika has done one thing, and one thing only: make stop-motion movies. It kicked things off with Coraline, a film that’s developed a cult following over the years since its release, going on to make films like ParaNorman , Kubo and the Two Strings , and Missing Link , though it’s not managed to find as much success since that first movie....

December 21, 2025 · 3 min · 434 words · Lloyd Weekley

The Witcher 3: A Deadly Plot Walkthrough

The Witcher 3: A Deadly Plot walkthrough This is one of the most important secondary quests you’ll complete. A Deadly Plot is one of the most important secondary quests in The Witcher 3 . You’ll kick things off by meeting with Sigismund Djikstra, who’s plotting to dethrone Radovid, but one of their spies has gone AWOL. So, as is often the case in The Witcher 3, Geralt is recruited to track the spy down, and there’s an important decision to make once you do....

December 21, 2025 · 3 min · 488 words · Deborah Smith

The Witcher 3: Haunted House Walkthrough

The Witcher 3: Haunted House walkthrough A non-event, included for completion’s sake. The Witcher 3 has plenty of short secondary quests, and well, I’m not sure you could even call this - Haunted House - a real quest. There are no rewards for Geralt, nothing that he needs to do, and nothing much happens. However, this is a brief event that you’ll want to see through if you’re curious about the fate of Sarah the Godling....

December 21, 2025 · 2 min · 268 words · James Free

The Witcher 3: Precious Cargo Walkthrough

The Witcher 3: Precious Cargo walkthrough Who is this merchant and is he telling you the truth? The Witcher 3 ’s Precious Cargo Treasure Hunt isn’t too troublesome. You’ll encounter a merchant who claims he was attacked by monsters, but who is this merchant and is he telling you the truth? There’s only one way to find out, and that’s by investigating the scene and finding the box he speaks of....

December 21, 2025 · 3 min · 444 words · David Freeland

The Witcher 3: Tedd Deireadh, The Final Age Walkthrough

The Witcher 3: Tedd Deireadh, The Final Age walkthrough Here’s how to complete the Tedd Deireadh, The Final Age quest in The Witcher 3. Tedd Deireadh, The Final Age is the very last quest in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt . After having beaten Eredin in our last quest, On Thin Ice , Geralt doesn’t have any time to rest. Now, you’ll need to chase Avallac’h down amidst the ensuing chaos....

December 21, 2025 · 2 min · 391 words · Kevin German

The Witcher 4 Being About Ciri Isn't "woke" And All The Fuss Is "stupid" Geralt Himself Says, Fittingly In A Video Where He Offers Advice About Talking To Girls

The Witcher 4 being about Ciri isn’t “woke” and all the fuss is “stupid” Geralt himself says, fittingly in a video where he offers advice about talking to girls Also, Geralt isn’t a distracted boyfriend, Doug Cockle reckons, he’s just a lad who can only focus on what’s right in front of him. Image credit:CD Projekt Red Remember all that whinging from internet weirdos when Ciri was revealed as The Witcher 4 ’s protagonist late last year?...

December 21, 2025 · 3 min · 542 words · Marie Speight

There's Now A Baldur's Gate 3 Mod That Turns It Into A Fully

There’s now a Baldur’s Gate 3 mod that turns it into a fully-fleshed out roguelike, just in case you’re done with Hades 2 Are you and your party up to taking on the Trials of Tav? Image credit:Larian/Supergiant Games Modders add a lot of cool stuff to their various games of choice, and this might be one of the coolest additions I’ve seen for any game in a while. A relatively new Baldur’s Gate 3 mod casually gives the RPG an entire new mode, which allows you and your party to battle through waves of foes roguelike-style....

December 21, 2025 · 3 min · 528 words · Nichole Ruhland

There's Now A Monster Hunter Wilds Mod That Swaps Your Hunting Horn For A Working Toy Saxophone Jack Black Once Played After Someone Shouted "give It To Me Daddy"

There’s now a Monster Hunter Wilds mod that swaps your hunting horn for a working toy saxophone Jack Black once played after someone shouted “give it to me daddy” “Honk and Bonk, fellow rock stars!” Image credit:TalonGrayson/The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon If you think Monster Hunter Wilds’ normal hunting horns are starting to get a bit boring, good news. One of Monster Hunter World’s more interesting mods has now made its way across to the series’ latest entry, and it gives you a funky saxophone that makes actual saxophone noises....

December 21, 2025 · 3 min · 487 words · William Tate