Summary The first (maybe only) season ofThe Penguinis just about over, and it’s been quite the wild ride. It’s a safe bet that the ride has taken viewers to places they didn’t initially expect, especially when dealing with a series that so wholly focused on what had been a major Batman villain that still mostly took a back seat to the hero in the comics and definitely in The Batman movie....
Summary By almost all accounts,The Penguinis one of the most popular shows of 2024. At least part of the reason that it has found such popularity is that because it’s based on a Batman villain, Lauren Lefranc and Matt Reeves have struck gold by putting the character through a more realistic lens. There’s no weird bird affectation, he’s not eating raw fish. He doesn’t carry an umbrella that shoots smoke or acid....
Quick Links The Sims 4: Life & Deathcaptures the journey through life’s meaningful moments, offering players a thoughtful exploration of both the highs and lows. As the seventeenth expansion in the series, Life & Death introduces new gameplay aspects like funerals, bucket lists, and soul’s journey that allow Sims to experience life’s profound stages more deeply. From meaningful relationships and bucket-list aspirations to unique interactions forghosts in the afterlife, this pack encourages players to add purpose and legacy to their Sims’ stories, creating memories that echo across generations....
Quick Links TheTraces of Chromaquest is necessary if players wish tounlock the color purplefor Asha inGenshin Impact. The Easybreeze Holiday Resort is full of these small creatures that can use colors to paint stuff around them, and you willrequire specific colors to solve puzzlesor complete quests. How To Trigger Traces Of Chroma Quest In Genshin Impact To trigger the Traces of Chroma quest inGenshin Impact, players must complete The World is Your Canvas quest (Sunspray Summer Resort Part 2) and then use an Asha to paint the building in front of the NPC saying “No vandalization…” in Easybreeze Market....
Summary Valve has confirmed that it will eventually make theSteam Deck’s Linux-based SteamOS operating system available for rival handhelds like the Asus ROG Ally and Lenovo Legion GO. The well-optimized and console-like experience of SteamOS has long been a big selling point of theSteam Deck, and now Valve is working on extending the software to its Windows-powered competitors as well. TheSteam Deck has been a highly successful devicefor Valve since it launched back in February 2022....
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7was this year’s most surprising announcements, as the game takes the series back into the future in the year 2035. Set after the events ofBlack Ops 2,Black Ops 7follows David Mason as he and his team work to take down a dangerous new threat. This is a pretty standard formula for theBlack Opsseries, but the game being set in the not-so-distant future lends itself to some exciting tech and borderline sci-fi themes....
Summary A recentWuthering Wavesleak has revealed a new fast-travel feature that would provide faster Echo EXP farming starting with the game’s next update.Wuthering WavesVersion 1.4 is expected to launch around mid-November and will potentially be the last patch set in the Huanglong nation. Similar toGenshin Impact’s Artifact system,Wuthering Waveshas Echoesto help players boost their characters' stats for better performance in combat. To level up their Echoes,Wuthering Wavesplayers need Sealed Tubes, which can be obtained by clearing Tacet Fields dispersed throughout the map....
Summary Persona 3 Reloadwas a day-one Xbox Game Pass releasethat reached Microsoft’s subscription service on February 2. Shortly following its debut, developer Atlus announced an Expansion Pass for the game, whose first wave of content launched in March 2024, introducing two background music sets. Another BGM set and some Velvet Room costumes debuted two months later. This post-release content roadmap will conclude withEpisode Aigis - The Answer, a remake of the epilogue chapter fromPersona 3: FESfor the PS2....
Summary TheMarvelUniverse is home to some of the most iconic and diverse characters in all fiction. The heroes and villains fans have come to adore range from realistic and relatable to idealistic personifications of morals and societal values. But even in a world full of campy heroes and wholesome altruists,Marvelhas a gallery of macabre and sinister characters that have a strong following. AsMarvelcontinues to expand its video game empire, it may be worth placing some of these darker characters into a genre the media juggernaut has seldom explored: horror....
It’s somewhat rare that players get to enjoyGrand Theft Autogames on Nintendo consoles, let alone three of the most influential open-world video games of all time. However, that’s exactly what players got when theGTAdefinitive edition trilogy was released for the Nintendo Switch back in late 2021, finally allowing Nintendo players to get their hands onGrand Theft Auto: San Andreasalmost two decades on from its initial release. Like a lot of games from that era, cheat codes are fairly prominent in the 2004 title, with more than seventy of them in total....
The biggest anti-Steamcensorship petition to date has surpassed 200,000 signatures and is still showing few signs of slowing down. It has thus completely dwarfed the original petition that called for forcibly censoringSteambefore payment processors stepped in, granting that wish. Shortly after Valve started delisting hundreds of adult games from its digital storefront in mid-July 2025,Steam users began rallying behind an anti-censorship petitionon change.org. The initiative amassed thousands of signatures within its first few days, its momentum closely mirroring the ongoing social media backlash sparked by the actions of Australian activist group Collective Shout, which successfully lobbied payment processors to help with delisting some types of fetish games....
Ubisoft has confirmed thatAssassin’s Creed Shadowshas passed the five-million player milestone, just four months after its initial release. Hitting this number is an impressive achievement forAssassin’s Creed Shadows, which takes players back in time to experience feudal Japan for the first time in the series' history. After a difficult period including the high-profile flop ofStar Wars Outlaws,Assassin’s Creed Shadowswas a much-needed win for Ubisoft. Despite the game facing its share of controversies pre-release,Assassin’s Creed Shadowsinstantly hit one million players on day one, and the game’s community has only grown since....
Quick Links Classes (officially referred to as Perks) inKilling Floor 3let players specialize in certain playstyles. While everyone can use whatever weapon they want, Perks supercharge certain playstyles by giving players certain effects that make them do more damage, absorb more punishment, and everything in between. Class progression is tracked individually in this game, which means players will need to commit to one Perk if they want to max it out....
