Summary Capture monsters and level them up. Use their abilities to find secrets. Explore the open ocean and take down bosses. In Synth Beasts, you take on the role of a failed experiment – a “Synth” – who escapes from its creators’ lab on a mysterious island. While exploring the surrounding archipelago, you encounter other…
Switch is already “played by many consumers”. This week during the Switch 2 reveal, Nintendo reconfirmed backwards compatibility with the original system. If you’re curious to know the reasoning behind this feature, Game File’s Stephen Totilo got a response from a Nintendo representative – explaining how it was simply the “best direction” when the Switch…
“Crush your enemies and see them driven before you”. The Switch 2 has dominated the headlines over the past few days, but there’s been plenty of other stuff going on in the world of video games this week. On the Mortal Kombat front, NetherRealm revealed the official gameplay trailer for Conan the Barbarian featuring the…
New booster packs are also being added. Late last year, The Pokémon Company announced it would finally be adding an anticipated feature to the mobile app Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket in January 2025. It’s now been reconfirmed the trading feature will arrive “this month” – with the team also detailing what exactly you can…
The headquarters of League of Legends and Valorant developer Riot Games is a large office complex in Santa Monica, not far from the Palisades neighborhood that has been flattened by one of the deadly Los Angeles wildfires that started last week. Those offices have been closed since the start of the fires—which still haven’t been…
Path of Exile 2 can be punishing. Compared to PoE 1, player characters are more fragile. Monsters hit harder, and they’ve got movement collision—if you get cornered, you can get surrounded so thoroughly that no amount of dodge rolling will help you. With this Titan build devised by YouTuber Panzerfaust, however, there’s a simple solution…
Genshin Impact publisher Cognosphere (another name for HoYoverse) has agreed to pay a $20 million fine and will block children under the age of 16 from making in-game purchases without parental consent in settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission over allegations that it violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and “deceived children…
Vampire Survivors had a big 2024 and what sounds like an even bigger 2025 is on the way, which includes free updates to the action roguelike that “will be a bit chunkier than usual.” Patience is requested from fans, however, because “a lot of time is needed to QA and release patches now, since we’re…
(Image credit: Ubisoft) Ubisoft posted some new Assassin’s Creed Shadows artwork the other day. It’s a collage of faces which somewhat oddly minimizes the two playable characters (you can see the full image at the bottom of this article). There’s a big guy at the top who’s much more prominent than the leads in the…
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth on PC will require “some serious hardware to accommodate Cloud and his silly-large sword,” we said when the system requirements were announced in December 2024, including a whopping 155GB of storage space. But the good news is the game isn’t so demanding that it won’t run on a Steam Deck—in fact,…