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Permadeath modes are all the rage right now. Baldur’s Gate 3 added its terrifying Honour Mode earlier this year, while games like Amnesia: The Bunker and Against the Storm included the option to play without a safety net toward the end of 2023. Now Assassin’s Creed Mirage is getting in on the high-stakes action, with…

The Steam Deck is good at many things, but a wonderful typing experience it is not. Either you’re furiously flipping away at those thumbsticks like some kind of—shock horror—console gamer, or you’re jabbing your fingers and thumbs at the touchscreen like—even bigger shock horror—a mobile gamer. Well, thanks to some clever modding, the Steam Deck…

If you’re looking for gems in Nightingale, you likely want to craft cards so you can start exploring new realms. While gems aren’t actually part of the recipe, you will need them to craft glass, one of the materials required to build a Simple Enchanter’s Focus—the crafting station that lets you make cards.  You may…

You need to find a Realmic Transmutor in Nightingale if you want to activate a Minor card. These differ from Realm Cards, which are used to create different kinds of realms. Minor cards are instead used to change the rules of the current realm, so you can gain an advantage, depending on what you want…

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…

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…