Open-World Games With The Least Filler

Open-world games have a bad reputation foradding a ton of meaningless contentthat fulfills the sore objective of padding out the game with as much content as possible. This can prove to be quite an annoyance further down the line when players end up getting bored of carrying out the same repetitive actions over and over again just so they can satisfy the completionist within them. RELATED:The Shortest Open World Video Games So, it’s nice to seeopen-world games that take their audience seriouslyand don’t waste their time with meaningless content and the like....

May 26, 2025 · 5 min · 990 words · Roberto Bender

Persona 6 Could Set an Intimate Tone by Adding More High School Elements

Each mainlinePersonagame has made high school experiences crucial to the story, and odds are thatPersona 6will be no different. While Atlus will presumably whip up a new Japanese high school attended by its protagonists, it’ll balance out the supernatural, demon-battling narrative with slice-of-life classroom elements. As the seventh central game, however,Persona 6needs to make its educational side feel new. Perhaps the best way to do so would actually be to double down onPersona 6’s high school and focus even more closely on the protagonists' relationships with students and teachers than ever before....

May 26, 2025 · 5 min · 1052 words · Peter Schwartz

Pokemon GO Spelunker's Cove: All Research Tasks & Rewards

Pokemon GOSpelunker’s Cove event offers Field Research and an event-exclusive Timed Research quest. Completing these Research quests offers numerous in-game rewards and Pokemon encounters. Shiny Crabrawler also debuts during the event, and you’re able to encounter one as a Research task reward. The Spelunker’s Cove event starts onSaturday, June 30, 2025, at 10 AM Local Timeand ends onTuesday, July 10, 2025, at 8 PM Local Time. The event stays live for 4 days, and you must complete both Research quests before the event ends....

May 26, 2025 · 2 min · 338 words · Ellen Ryan

Remnant 2: Council Chamber Guide (All Puzzles, Secrets, & Choices)

Quick Links The Council Chamber is a Dungeon inRemnant 2that has a chance to appear in the world of Losomn. As players work through this map, they will meet the Fae Council, and there are several ways in which they can address this encounter. This guide is here to provide full details on how those options can be pursued, and it also contains information on the various secrets and puzzles that can appear inRemnant 2’s Council Chamber....

May 26, 2025 · 4 min · 799 words · Catherine Hopkins

Rumor: New Xbox Controller Leaks Online

Xboxis set to launch a new Velocity Green controller soon, according to a Twitter leaker. The vibrant new color variant feels like a throwback to theXbox’s original color scheme, while perhaps borrowing some ideas from Xbox’s online controller customization tool, the Design Lab. The new controller is rumored to launch in the coming weeks. Xbox releases new controllers periodically throughout the year. The most recent variant wasthe Stellar Shift controller. Like all new Xbox controllers, it is compatible with Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, and PC....

May 26, 2025 · 3 min · 491 words · Sarah Green DDS

Sony Wants to Create a 'Fingerprint' of Players' Voices

Summary According to a recently published patent,Sonyis working on a program that would record in-game and voice chat audio and then convert those sounds into haptic feedback vibrations to be felt on a controller. A number ofrecent patents from Sonyhave focused on enhancements to the PlayStation controller’s haptic feedback capabilities, and this latest filing has once again showcased the company’s efforts to expand the use of haptic features. One of the biggest names in gaming,Sonyis synonymous with the PlayStation series of consoles, though the company also specializes in PC hardware and other video game accessories such as headsets....

May 26, 2025 · 3 min · 455 words · Nancy Richardson

Star Wars: Could Darth Vader Have Defeated Yoda If He Found Him In Exile?

Summary There are so many what-ifs in theStar Warsuniverse, and one of the biggest is what might have happened if Darth Vader had locatedYoda on Dagobah. Both are masters in their own right, but with the rage and drive to wipe out the Jedi at Vader’s back, fans have wondered who would have prevailed if the two had come to blows. With their past in mind, it’s not likely that Yoda could have done anything to turn Darth Vader back to the Light Side of the Force....

May 26, 2025 · 5 min · 1028 words · Ronald Berg

The Flash Plot Holes & Mysteries

The Flashdoes not waste time to get going. It opens with a fight scene in Gotham wherein The Flash zips in to help Batman stop a heist. This leads to The Flash saving a bunch of babies with one of the wildest rescue scenes in a superhero movie yet. RELATED:Who Dies In The Flash? After that, the speedy hero realizes he can time travel with his skills, which leads him to a multiverse trip through time and space....

May 26, 2025 · 5 min · 920 words · Megan Hicks

The Hobbit: Bilbo’s Sword, Explained

Summary With its simple leather sheath, the undersized Sting was often overlooked as a powerful artifact. It was nothing more than a dagger for the Elves or a pocket knife for the Trolls — but it turned out to be an apt weapon for a Hobbit. There is no description of Sting given inThe Hobbitas such, and it is depicted in the film adaptations as a sort of leaf-shaped blade, with a spiral design and curving edges....

May 26, 2025 · 5 min · 947 words · Kristie Hart

The Last of Us 3 Should Repeat One of Part 2's Most Controversial Scenes Instead of Seeking Redemption

While it hasn’t been outright confirmed,The Last of Us Part 3being released is not so much a question of “if” but a matter of “when.” The franchise has been a blockbuster success for PlayStation since it first hit the scene in 2013 and has since blossomed into a sequel, a hugely popularThe Last of UsHBO TV series, and an eventual ambitious multiplayer project. WheneverThe Last of Us Part 3does see the light of day, it will be interesting to note where it takes the story next especially consideringhowThe Last of Us Part 2ends....

May 26, 2025 · 4 min · 673 words · Kelly Silva

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Gets Random Sales Spike

While creating an objective list of the best video games of all time is more or less impossible, Nintendo’s long-lived action-adventure seriesThe Legend of Zeldacomes up commonly in these conversations. In fact, in 2021, gaming outlet IGN included multipleZeldagames in its all-time top ten, with the recentThe Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wildclaiming the number one spot. Proven a massive success by just about every commonly-used industry metric, TheLegend of Zelda: Breath of the Wildcontinues to sell well in 2022, and it saw an all-new sales surge in the UK during the first week of April....

May 26, 2025 · 3 min · 442 words · Megan Logan

The Most Evil Animated Disney Characters

Despite them beingaimed primarily at young children, some of the animatedDisneymovies feature villains that would rival the majority of those found in R-rated movies when it comes to how evil they really are. In fact, this motley crew of psychopathic child murderers and narcissistic sociopaths makes mostother villainsseem pretty tame by comparison. RELATED:The Best Games Based On Disney Movies, According To Metacritic One of the reasons thatDisneyhas been able to get away with having such hardline villains over the years is because of how infrequently they win, though that’s not to say that they don’t occasionally get away withsome pretty evil atrocities....

May 26, 2025 · 8 min · 1521 words · Victor Reilly

The New Home Alone Movie Never Needed To Happen

In the past few years, reboots and remakes have skyrocketed in both the box office and television. Kids’ movies such asAladdinandThe Lion King,franchises likePlanet of the Apes,and shows likeSaved By The BellandFull Househave returned, highlighting our generation’s obsession with nostalgia. The originalHome Alonemovies are generally loved. The film is about Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin), a mischievous boy accidentally left home alone by his family while going to Paris for Christmas Vacation....

May 26, 2025 · 5 min · 944 words · Jason George