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…
If you’re a big Fallout fan, or a big PC game collector, Bethesda’s new Fallout S.P.E.C.I.A.L. Anthology might be worth a moment of your time. It’s a collection of every mainline Fallout game ever released, stuffed inside an alarmingly lifelike Fat Man mini-nuke. The new package is essentially a repeat of the Fallout Anthology Bethesda…
Bleat it, bugs! 2022’s indie darling Cult of the Lamb has seen a good level of post-launch support over the past two years covering everything from content updates to crossovers. Today, developer Massive Monster has shared a new batch of newness, and while it might not be quite as exciting as some of those we…
Thanks to Helldivers 2’s ongoing server issues and broken matchmaking, I’m yet to see even a single online stranger drop onto my planet. Most of the time I just play with friends anyway, but recently I’ve had the itch to play when none of them are around, and what I’ve discovered is that diving solo…
The Bard has a reputation in Dungeons & Dragons at-large, let alone Baldur’s Gate 3. Stereotypes would tell you that it’s a class for silly little guys, only played by those with a penchant for seducing dragons and getting themselves into trouble. Sure, they’re not immune to becoming badasses—like one Scanlan Shorthalt from Critical Role—but…