You need to start card crafting fairly early in Nightingale, as Realm Cards are needed to make new portals, which, in turn, are needed to explore. Once you’ve increased your gear score and bested the first Site of Power, you receive a quest telling you to venture into a Forest Antiquarian realm. The catch is…
A Site of Power is a type of mini-dungeon in Nightingale, and completing it rewards you with the schematic for a Major Realm Card. The first one you’ll likely come across is the Antiquarian Site of Power, and completing it is required for an early quest. Sites of Power are usually easy to spot as…
If you want to increase your gear score in Nightingale, you’ll need lots of leather to upgrade from the basic outfit that you start with. Of course, you might decide you just want to explore during the opening hours of the game, but once you return your attention to progression, you’ll find that raising your…
Realm Cards are required to open a portal to a new realm in Nightingale. Not only do they allow you to choose which biome you’ll wind up in, but they also give you some control over what you can expect when you get there. You’ll have your own home realm to return to, so while…
Essence Dust is a resource in Nightingale that is used for buying schematics, and more importantly, repairing your gear. Nightingale is pretty good at directing new players with helpful quests, but you still need to put in the legwork to complete them, and it’s not always obvious where to get the things you need. Essence…
Howdy, Partner. There she is! After waiting patiently for the first Nintendo Direct of 2024 — looking back to determine the most probable date Nintendo would unleash its next bumper crop of Switch game reveals and news — we finally have the time, date, and flavour confirmed: 21st February, and it’s a Partner Showcase. <related…
Category: Games Balatro Wants You to Play Poker – and Then Break It Apart Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief Published February 20, 2024 When I first heard about Balatro (out now on Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One), I wondered how you could make a roguelike deckbuilder – a genre already stacked with greats like…
Punch drunk. Nintendo’s coin-op boxing title Punch-Out!! is now 40 years old – it was released in arcades on February 17th, 1984. One of the last arcade titles to be released by the company before it focused its energy on home consoles, the game made quite an impact at the time of release thanks to…
I was excited about Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader when I previewed it in 2022, but the final product left a lot to be desired, according to Jody’s review. The game’s sweeping sci-fi drama was undermined by tedious combat in which “there’s never one interesting tactical battle when there could be three samey ones to grind…
But in what form..? In case you missed it, The Pokémon Company announced that the next Pokémon Presents showcase will broadcast on 27th February, 2024. It’s not known what will be featured during the presentation, but thanks to a little tip from Nintenduo, it looks like Pokémon Gold & Silver will show up in some…