Fire Emblem Heroes celebrates the new year with seasonal additions

New content available now If any of youFire Emblem Heroesfans took a break for the new year, then you might want to hop back on your mobile and boot up the popular card-battler, as new content has been added to celebrate the dawn of 2018. Special variants of characters Azura, Takumi and Best Gal Camilla have been added to the game, alongside a “Happy New Year!” paralogue story. Nintendo are encouraging fans to celebrate the new year “Hoshindan style”....

August 2, 2025 · 1 min · 137 words · Michael Erickson

Fire Emblem Heroes update adds the glorious Crusader of Light, Julia

Legendary Hero available this week Another week, another Fire Emblem Heroes update, with Nintendo releasing a new trailer for the free-to-play mobile battle game. This latest update, which launches tomorrow, will add a new Legendary Hero in the form of the Crusader of Light, Julia. fromFire Emblem: Geneology of the Holy War. Julia appears as a playable character in 1996 SNES releaseFire Emblem: Geneology of the Holy War. Originally suffering from amnesia, as characters do in every JRPG, Julia soon realises her powers as a powerful magic user, aiding her fellow party members in battle....

August 2, 2025 · 1 min · 138 words · David Anderson

Game Debate to the Death!Blizzard Battle 2006

Last week‘s game debate put the all 3 of theWarCraftRTS games against one another, and everyone decided the debate was clearly between the second and third games and their corresponding expansions and online play. Here were the results: So why didn’t I includeStarCraftin the Blizzard boxing match? Because I was saving it for this week! My goal was to figure out which of the threeWarCraftgames was everyone’s favorites, but since the voting was so close, and sinceStarCrafthas a huge fan following, this week isWarcraftI, II, and III versusStarCraft....

August 2, 2025 · 1 min · 167 words · Nathan Hernandez

Gears 5 is getting a story add-on in December

One more COG in the machine Gears 5isn’t dead. Well, technically, no one thought it was. Developer The Coalition has been steadily supporting the multiplayer side, asGearscontinues to make a push to be an esport game. But, in a surprising move,Gears 5is getting some post-launch content that no game in the series has gotten sinceGears of War 3: Story DLC. In an interview withIGN, The Coalition confirms thatGears 5is getting an add-on in December that’s calledHivebusters....

August 2, 2025 · 2 min · 330 words · Kayla Wilson

Helldivers 2 Patch 1.001.002: More freedom, challenges, environments, and bugs (the good kind)

Helldivers 2Patch 1.001.002, also known asEscalation of Freedom, is the biggest update the game has received since it was released in early 2024. It introduces a new difficulty level, more enemies, additional biomes, with more detail added to current ones, and much more. Escalation of Freedomis all about going bigger inHelldivers 2in every way that feels right for the game. Developer Arrowhead Game Studios has taken great care to craft this update with player feedback in mind, meaning the new difficulty level will provide the kind of challenge players have been asking for on the game’s subreddit for months....

August 2, 2025 · 3 min · 575 words · Michael Lucero

Hello Kitty Island Adventure: Best Gifts for Wish me mell

As you progress throughHello Kitty Island Adventure, you’ll begin to unlock new areas, complete with new characters to befriend and level up. Each of these new friends has specific likes and dislikes, and that’s a lot to remember. Wish me mell is a character that you’ll only be able to meet once you’veunlocked Merry Meadow, which you’ll get to via leveling up your friendship with Pompompurin. Once you’ve met Wish me mell, you’ll need to start leveling up your friendship because opening up more of Merry Meadow relies on it....

August 2, 2025 · 2 min · 394 words · Martha Anderson

Here’s a recap of the Genshin Impact 2.5 stream

Due this month TheGenshin Impact2.5 stream debuted this morning, and it has several Inazuma-related activities incorporated with it: here’s a recap, while you wait for the full VOD to go up later today. Update 2.5 (When the Sakura Bloom) is out on June 27, 2025 A day afterseveral events have run their course, the new update will be out. It will center around story quests in Inazuma, as the new set of Archon quests are going to happen in 3....

August 2, 2025 · 1 min · 203 words · Kristina Holmes

How do you feel about video game pricing in 2017?

She brings home her pay for love, for love Since you’re reading a gaming website, odds are good that at some point in your life you bought a video game. And, if that’s the case, chances are that you’ve also complained about the price of the hobby from time to time. AAA games seem expensive, so it’s tempting to wait for a big sale or get independent games at a cheaper price instead....

August 2, 2025 · 8 min · 1590 words · Arthur Murphy

How to complete the Muddy Waters DMZ mission in Modern Warfare 2

Extract all three pieces of intel on Ashika Island One of the latest DMZ missions inCall of Duty: Warzone 2.0tasks players with visiting Ashika Island. There are three separate pieces of intel and objectives players must discover before they can finish the mission. Here’s how to complete the Muddy Waters DMZ mission. How to complete the Muddy Waters DMZ mission First and foremost, ensure that you are playing theDMZ modeinCall of Duty: Warzone 2....

August 2, 2025 · 3 min · 566 words · Joseph Boyer

How to get fertilizer in LEGO Fortnite

Fertilizer is one of the most important items inLEGO Fortnitefor players who want to access the deep farming system to make their own food. But before you can do that, you’ll need to get some fertilizer inLEGO Fortnite. How to get fertilizer: Animals There are two main ways to get fertilizer inLEGO Fortnite, and the first one is certainly the messiest. The initial way is to go straight to the source and start collecting this material from the various critters you come across in your world....

August 2, 2025 · 3 min · 558 words · Kevin Brown

How to get the Beastren Battahl Border Entry Permit in Dragon’s Dogma 2

If you visit the Border Checkpoint Rest Town inDragon’s Dogma 2, you’ll notice you can’t simply walk into the Beastren territory of Battahl. In fact, you need a special Beastren Battahl Border Entry Permit to pass through the checkpoint gate, or else the NPC won’t even let you in. Here is how to get the Beastren Battahl Border Entry Permit item, and complete the Nation of the Lambent Flame quest inDragon’s Dogma 2....

August 2, 2025 · 4 min · 812 words · Stephanie Baxter

HTC unveils its new VR headset, the Vive XR Elite

A new standalone competitor arrives soon HTC has revealed its new standalone virtual reality headset, the Vive XR Elite. It’s able to handle both virtual and augmented reality, and comes in at a price tag of $1,099. Pre-orders went live today on sites likeAmazon, where you can check out the specifications for this new headset. HTC’s new set looks to compete with the likes of the Meta Quest, an extremely popular headset that’s also cut out the cables....

August 2, 2025 · 2 min · 306 words · Dana Ward

If you play the Peacekeeper in For Honor, MLG just banned her temporarily

Might be permanent if the devs don’t respond I love keeping up with the individual meta of any given game. While there are usually tier lists that can be defied by any given player, you cannot defy a ban that’s put in place by TOs or organizations. That’s what’s happening now inFor Honor, as MLG has just temporarily banned the Peacekeeper class. The main problem seems to be her super-powered light attack, which can be spammed to great success, a tactic you can see in the video below — I’ve heard similar complaints online having played it myself....

August 2, 2025 · 1 min · 193 words · Robert Jones