Why Callisto Protocol's Two Head Goes from One of Its Best Monsters to Most Annoying

PLEASE NOTE: This article contains MASSIVE Spoilers for The Callisto Protocol. Proceed at your own risk. One of the best things aboutThe Callisto Protocolis that its gameplay loop is refreshing and always intriguing due to the many options in terms of crafting and upgrades for weapons, as well as the game constantly introducing new enemy types that players have to defeat. This helps keep the stakes high throughoutThe Callisto Protocol’s rather short campaign, and while some enemies are not always pleasant to run into, such as the bloodworms, others always provide a sense of challenge and increase the tension....

August 7, 2025 · 3 min · 634 words · Jerome Williams

Why the LEGO Games Are a Great Place to Start for Completionists

The video game industry has spawned a lot of different trends over its long history, but perhaps the one trend that has had the most lasting impact on gaming has beenthe desire to completely finish a game. Whether it’s a personal challenge or simply wanting to get every dollar out of a game, the need to see everything a game has to offer has created its own subculture of gamers known as completionists....

August 7, 2025 · 5 min · 1037 words · Emily Hines

Xbox Making Two Games Free to Play This Weekend

Starting today, July 8th at 12:01 a.m. PDT, to Sunday, July 11th at 11:59 p.m. PDT, gamers can get their hands on bothR.B.I. Baseball 21andDead by Daylightfor free.These two games from vastly different genres are to pique the interest of the largest variety of Xbox players as possible. RELATED:Bright Memory: Infinite Gets Fast-Paced and Stunning New Trailer To start playing the games on the Xbox console, go to the subscriptions tab in theXbox Storeand navigate to the Gold Member area....

August 7, 2025 · 2 min · 392 words · Tiffany Edwards

10 Best Horror Games With Female Protagonists

Plenty of people put on a brave face when it comes to horror games, only to start jumping in their seats at every scare a few minutes into the game. Part of what makes these games so compelling is the investment in the protagonist of the story. Most players start to care about the main character as the game goes on and more backstory is revealed about them. RELATED:10 Forgotten Horror Games You Need To Play In recent years, we’ve seen characters from many different backgrounds come into the gaming world, including lots of leading women in horror....

August 6, 2025 · 7 min · 1386 words · John Ballard

All of the Pokemon Regions and Their Real-World Equivalents

Quick Links Pokemonhas taken players to a ton of unique locations over the past 25 years. With the core series, spin-offs, and remakes, there has been plenty for long-time and new fans alike to enjoy. One of the best things about the areasPokemonintroduces are they’re based on real-world locations. While many of the earlier games took inspiration from different regions of Japan, newer generations have expanded their horizons. Locations from around the world have been used as the base ofPokemongames since Generation 5....

August 6, 2025 · 5 min · 1005 words · Kristy Wilson

Apex Legends: How to Decrypt the Passcode

WithApex Legendsreaching the end of Season 8, another end-of-season easter egg mystery has appeared in the game for players to solve. The easter egg involves finding Holo-Sprays around Olympus and Kings Canyon to decrypt a passcode and then delivering the passcode to the firing range. So far, two trailers for Season 9 ofApex Legendshave been released with both of them showing off a few of the new things coming to the game soon....

August 6, 2025 · 4 min · 748 words · Carlos Scott

Artist Shows What Mortal Kombat 11 Geralt DLC Would Look Like

With DC Comic’s Joker being released inMortal Kombat 11on January 28, fans of the long-running fighting game series have taken to imagining what the character would look like in other guises; most notablyhis red-jacketed look from 2019’sJoker, a film that just gathered up 11 Oscar nominations. However, Australian artist Kode A. (who also goes by Nikolai Baslajik and, most commonly, BossLogic online) has decided to take things a step further by imagining what it would look like if Geralt of Rivia joined as an entirely new character in the future....

August 6, 2025 · 2 min · 371 words · Kaitlin Ortega

Assassin's Creed Rift Could Set Off The End of The Hidden Ones

Assassin’s Creedas a franchise is now firmly established as a genre-defining part of the gaming industry. The next addition to the expanding collection of titles that fall under this famous IP will supposedly be calledAssassin’s Creed Rift, which is rumored to receive its own standalone release. This upcoming title will reportedly be of a much smaller scale compared to the expansive mainline entries theAssassin’s Creedfranchise has recently seen. That being said, there will undoubtedly be a lot of important lore pertinent to the origins of the Assassin Brotherhood due to the time and place in whichAssassin’s Creed Riftis reportedly set to take place....

August 6, 2025 · 4 min · 819 words · Mary Robinson

Callisto Protocol: Where Did the Biophage Infection Come From?

PLEASE NOTE: This article contains MASSIVE Spoilers for The Callisto Protocol. Proceed at your own risk. The Callisto Protocolis an interesting case because it both seems to want to spawn other games to follow in its footsteps, and also deliver a story told in a self-contained environment where players get to learn the origins and form expectations for the future. So, whileThe Callisto Protocol’s ending sets up two sequels and a prequelthat could expand this new universe a lot, the game also tries to answer burning questions that it asks since the beginning, such as what is happening on Callisto and what happened on Europa....

August 6, 2025 · 4 min · 678 words · Robert Hernandez

Comparing Assassin's Creed Origins' Aya to AC2 Claudia

Unfortunately, it’s been fairly consistent that Ubisoft has given itsAssassin’s Creedwomen the short end of the stick. Whether it was in the games or behind closed doors, the women ofAssassin’s Creedhaven’t always been treated with the respect they deserve. Aya, the mother of the Creed, was supposed to be the main protagonist ofAssassin’s Creed Origins, but her character slowly got diminished until she was a shell of the original pitch. However, just because her role was reduced, it doesn’t mean she doesn’t have a prominent place inAssassin’s Creedlore....

August 6, 2025 · 5 min · 1064 words · William Robinson

Cyberpunk 2077 Player Gets Yelled at by a Rock in the Badlands

Just whenCyberpunk 2077players think they’ve seen it all, a random rock in the Badlands shows up to prove them wrong – offering yet another example of how hilariously bizarre the glitches in this game can be. WhenCyberpunk 2077launched in December 2020, it was buried in an endless array of bugs and technical issues. The underlying game was undoubtedly good, despite a somewhat lackluster open world. Through great effort, the developers at CD Projekt Red managed to salvageCyberpunk 2077and turn it into the latest in an ever-growing line of video game redemption stories....

August 6, 2025 · 3 min · 457 words · Michael Macdonald

Destiny 2 Bringing Back Vault of Glass Raid With Season 14

There’s still a ways to go before Season 13 ofDestiny 2, Season of the Chosen, draws to a close. Still, players are already looking forward to what’s next, so the development team at Bungie recently posted information on plans for the rest of the year. Among the previews of upcoming content is a look at Season 14 and the long-awaited return of the Vault of Glass. The ability to explore the depths of Venus once more has been teased by Bungie for a while now, but now it is confirmed thatDestiny 2players will get their chance this summer in Season 14....

August 6, 2025 · 3 min · 473 words · Michael Johnson

Destiny 2: What The Huckleberry Catalyst Does & How To Find It

The HuckleberryCatalyst should be on players’ radars inDestiny 2.The Huckleberryitself is a solid SMG that is fantastic in PVE or Gambit modes given its abilities. Players can quickly chain-kill hordes of enemies. RELATED:Destiny 2: How To Get A Weapon Core That being said its main power lies in havingthe HuckleberryCatalyst installed and upgraded on the weapon. Without the Catalyst,the Huckleberryis very lackluster and not very appealing. Here’s how players can get a hold ofthe HuckleberryCatalyst and what it does for the weapon....

August 6, 2025 · 4 min · 768 words · Justin Lowe