2025

D&D has finally completed its initial wave of revamps with the 2024 Monster Manual—confusingly released in 2025, but I don’t make the rules—and, after a read through, I’m downright conflicted. Being a recent PF2e convert, I’ve been quite grumpy about these new books (the Player’s Handbook in particular). As a point of personal opinion, I…

It simply isn’t an RPG if you aren’t doing the good old gear shuffle every few hours, but some of the unique gear in Avowed makes the old song and dance a lot easier. Equipping unique weapons and armor and then upgrading them is pretty much always going to be a better call than blowing…

The Earthly Aegis treasure map in Avowed is perhaps the most vague riddle of them all, giving you nothing but a scruffy drawing of a ruin in a forest. Do you know how little that narrows things down, Obsidian? I wandered the forest for ages before figuring out the right ruin, and even then it…

The popularity of OLED gaming monitors is becoming a popular riff. Today, we’ve got new figures from analyst outfit Trendforce that keep the good news coming, albeit with a slightly different spin from LG’s take on the market earlier this week. Arguably the most eye-catching claim from Trendforce’s latest data dump is that the release…

The latest crossover for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Radical! Except it turns out that the cost… that’s gonna be a major bummer, dude. The TMNT content arrives as part of the Season 02 Reloaded content, and in its infinite rapaciousness Activision Blizzard has separated-out each of the…

With a clear view of Solace in the background, finding the rough location of the Ancient Arrowhead treasure map in Avowed is pretty simple—it’s in the north, facing the main city. Pinpointing the exact location is much more challenging. You’re looking for one rocky overhang in Galawain’s Tusks, the map made up solely of rocky…

League of Legends developer Riot Games recently announced that a hotly coveted character skin is coming to the MOBA. Sahn-Uzal Mordekaiser will convert the game’s necromantic top-laner from his default lich appearance back to his human form. It’s a cosmetic with a lot of significance to League’s canonical story, and Riot clearly knows it, putting…