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It’s been a great week to be aRatchet and Clankfan. Insomniac has been rolling out loads of information concerning the series' upcoming sequel. There has been a lot to unpack. Among previews of new gameplay features, characters, and story elements, was confirmation that Raritanium would be returning as an in-game currency. Raritanium, or raritanium ore, has appeared as a rare mineral throughout the series and is typically used as trade for valuable items and weapon upgrades....

Anybody who thinks it isn’t worth gathering up treasure for Lei hasn’t played throughResident Evil Villageyet. Bucking the tradition that many other games carry forward, money does not become a negligible commodity due to the oversaturation of the currency. There flat-out isn’t enough money in the game to buy and do everything. RELATED:Resident Evil Village: All Goats Of Warding Locations So every bit of Lei counts. Many players will sell the head or the body of the Madalina Doll just to make a quick buck....

TheResident Evilseries hasn’t just become one of the crown jewels of Capcom, it’s one of the most popular video game series of all time.Resident Evilhas been able to transcend beyond video games. TheResident Eviltitles have shifted their focus over time, but there’s been a lot of debate over two of the series’ biggest characters,Chris RedfieldandLeon S. Kennedy. RELATED:Resident Evil: The Craziest Things Leon Kennedy Has Ever Done Both of these characters have accomplished tons and defeated unbelievable evils, but there are still many differences between the two....

One of the most divisive aspects ofSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leaguecould be removed during the game’s latest delay, at least according to a recent rumor. The latest installment of Rocksteady’s acclaimedBatman: Arkhamfranchise was originally set to launch in May, but the developer announced thatSuicide Squadwould instead be delayeduntil Jul 19, 2025 last week. This is the second time that the team-based spin-off was postponed, asSuicide Squadwas previously held back last year to allow more time for polish....

Skate 4will have more community and social features, confirm two of the game’s directors. EA surprised fans last week byannouncing a new Skate gameas part of its EA Play event, but did not say when the game would be available. Speaking to Jemkem Magazine,SkateCreative Director Chris “Cuz” Parry and Game Director Deran Chung offered a little more information about the newSkategame. The developers said that they were “pretty ahead of the curve back in the day with our social features” and that the new game will be “an evolution of all those things....

TheStar Trekuniverse is filled with a plethora of various different gadgets and gizmos, wondrous technologies and wild imaginings of a distant future. They have brought audiences thedizzying speeds of warp drive, tricorders, holograms, andmolecule disassembling teleportation devices. Among the ranks of most sought after technology, the Universal Translator (sometimes referred to as UT or translator circuit) is right at the top. But what exactly is it? The universal translator, or at least the Earth’s version of it, was invented sometime just before the year 2151, as a technology to help translate any desired language into whatever the native language of the user was....

Summary The Ubisoft Forward 2024 showcase revealed extended gameplay forStar Wars Outlawsbased on what was teased at Summer Game Fest a couple of days earlier. This included footage where Kay Vess buys in on a Sabacc table againstStar Wars’ one and only Lando Calrissian in the first official, explicit confirmation thatOutlawswill feature agambling mini-game akin to those inRed Dead Redemption 2. Surprisingly, Ubisoft neglected to display precisely what a game of Sabacc will look like inStar Wars Outlawsin this gameplay showcase and seemingly brushed past it with haste....

TheStar Warsuniverse is a science-fantasy epic, a space opera filled with knights and wizards and nobility pursuing noble acts against the most dastardly of villains. A splash of romance in the genre, then, is welcome every once and a while. Sometimes even expected, such asfilms likeThe Princess Bride. ForStar Wars, the Prequel Trilogy threaded a romance ten years in the waiting, climaxing with the origin of the heroes for the Original Trilogy....

Summary If the pirate life is for thee, then the Crimson Fleet inStarfieldis just the one to join. The Crimson Fleet is a faction of space pirates inStarfield, and a group that the player should try not to mess with unless they intend to join the ranks of violent space pirates to ravish other ships, and planets, and get rich quickly thanks to the abundance of illegal Credits and morally questionable activities....

Summary Continuing the trend of studio closures, layoffs, and game cancelations in 2023, the social deduction gameDread Hungerhas ended support for official servers. Whilesocial deduction video gameshave proven popular in recent years, the gaming industry has seen both AAA and indie studios struggling to keep up with rising costs. Launched in early access in April 2021,Dread Hungerwas a social deduction game that saw players take on the role of Explorers surviving aboard a wayward vessel in the Arctic, as they fight to determine who is a traitor and who remains loyal to the Expedition....

Summary A new update forSteambrings a few handy new features out of beta and into the public branch, including the ability for gamers to mark certain games and applications as private. Considering the extremely wide variety of games and genres out there, it’s no surprise that there are some games thatSteamusers would rather keep their ownership of to themselves, for a number of reasons. Beingthe colossal PC gaming hubthat it is, Steam seemingly never stops being updated, with a handful of long-anticipated features kept exclusive to beta participants until very recently....

Super Smash Bros. Ultimatecontinues to break record after record as it cements itself as one of the most influential fighting games of all time. This time, however, the record broken was not financially or critically oriented. Justice “Ember” Jackson, a Pichu main who only started playingSmashcompetitively three years ago, began a stream on November 8th with the sole purpose of beating the world record for the most hours playing a fighting game consecutively....

Summary While mostProject Zomboidplayers will opt to live in houses, heavily barricading their walls and doors with planks, metal sheets, and curtains to shield themselves from the decaying world, many survivors have other ideas. Some players might opt to take residence in the rural nature of Knox County’s forests, nesting in their tents with only luck and a fading campfire to guide them. With limitless possibilities for locations to set up a home sturdy enough to ensure survival, some base locations can provide a long-lasting solution to outlive the ever-growing zombie population....