Baldur's Gate 3: How to Recruit Minthara Without Betraying the Grove

Baldur’s Gate 3is an action-packed, story-rich RPG where a player’s choices shape a tale of betrayal and friendship, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power. Prior to Patch 5, players had to side with the Goblins and slaughter a bunch of innocent Tieflings residing in the Grove if theywanted Minthara on their team. This seemed like a high price to pay just to recruit one character, which is why Larian Studios added another way to recruit Minthara that requires fewer murders....

June 19, 2025 · 4 min · 812 words · Kelly Gonzalez

Best Australians In Games

Humble, welcoming, and downright easy-going are all aspects developers love to include within their Australian video game characters. With a cherishable sense of humor, witty attitude, and laid-back nature, the land down under has birthed a plethora of iconic mascots over the years. RELATED:Iconic Italian Characters In Games Retaining close ties to their initial home is commonplace within these beloved characters, as they often reminisce on anecdotes, describe life in their birthplace, or even blurt about how things should be more like their sunburnt country, placing this crowd of Aussies in gaming’s hall of icons....

June 19, 2025 · 4 min · 811 words · Scott Byrd

Best Board Game Expansions

Nowadays, mostboard gamescan provide gaming groups with hours and hours of fun and solid entertainment. To elevate the experience, most games come with expansions that either provide additional mechanics and actions or switch up the dynamics. It’s no surprise that some of the most popular board games have several expansions that come out yearly. RELATED:Best Board Games For 5 Players Expansions, whilst not necessary, can make a good board game great....

June 19, 2025 · 5 min · 970 words · Nancy Allen

Best Historical Series Like Shogun

Summary Historical drama is a genre that enjoys consistent popularity, although some eras, cultures, and countries are more popular than others. The new hit seriesShōgun, a brutally honest andrealistic portrayal of thelate medieval era in Japan, is a recent example. Produced by Disneyand currently available on both streaming services the entertainment giant curates, Disney+ and Star+,Shōgunis about political intrigue and chilling action scenes as much as stunning costuming and brilliant set pieces....

June 19, 2025 · 5 min · 889 words · Brittney Lutz

Best Isekai Anime & Manga Where The Protagonist Is An Inventor

Summary Death is, in fact, not the end but the beginning of a new life in the Isekai genre. This creative genre unravels the life of a regular character who, by death or chance, is reborn in a new and unfamiliar world where they have to survive. These Isekai anime and manga explore a diverse array of fantasy-filled plots and tropes. When their protagonists are reincarnated in different worlds, they have to survive with knowledge from their previous lives, apply it, and subsequently become inventors....

June 19, 2025 · 5 min · 1057 words · Ann Stone

Call of Duty: Warzone Update Looks to Address Performance Issues

Summary Call of Duty: Warzonedevelopers have released a patch that is supposed to fix the PC performance issues related to low framerates stemming from the seemingly unoptimized Warzone Season 4 Reloaded update, released on July 12. While many first-person shooter enthusiasts were very excited about the numerous new features introduced to the game,Call of Duty: Warzone’s Reloaded updateproved to be a nightmare for a great deal of PC gamers. As soon as Season 4 arrived, manyWarzonefans who preferred to experience the intense battle-royale action on their PCs started to notice serious performance drops in-game....

June 19, 2025 · 3 min · 428 words · Kimberly Smith

Cyberpunk 2077 Will Be a Thorn in The New Witcher's Saga for a Long Time

On the surface, it may seem like the ambitious sci-fi titleCyberpunk 2077and the belovedWitcherfantasy franchise couldn’t be further apart from each other. But they’re more intertwined than players might think, and not merely because they share the same developer. CD Projekt Red, the Polish video game developer and publisher, made a name for itself by bringing the popularWitchernovel series by author Andrzej Sapkowski to gamers everywhere, and it generated a lot of goodwill in the process....

June 19, 2025 · 4 min · 640 words · Amanda Jones

Dead by Daylight Releases New Tome of the Archives, Improves Graphics

Fans ofDead by Daylighthave a host of new additions to enjoy with a new Tome of the Archives. Developer Behaviour Interactive released a series of videos showcasing various changes forDead by Daylight’s DIVERGENCE Tome. The game has players competing against each other in a world of survival horror. In a 4 versus 1 format, the group takes on the role of survivors as theytry to outlast the big bad killer. A hide-and-seek experience utilizing cult classic horror,Dead by Daylighthas more than 30 million players....

June 19, 2025 · 3 min · 479 words · Jennifer Sims

Dead Island 2's Development Hell Gives Hope to KOTOR Remake Fans

It has been a long time coming, but Dambuster Studios has finally released the sequel to 2011’s zombie-smashingDead Island. For many years,Dead Island 2seemed lost in development hell, initially moving from original series developer Techland to Yager Development, then to Sumo Digital. The project changed hands multiple times, which lead to the franchise going on hiatus, although Deep Silver’s Dambuster team eventually took the reins to buildDead Island 2from the ground up....

June 19, 2025 · 3 min · 624 words · Kelly Clarke

Destiny 2 Engrams Bugged When Looking at Player Gear Power Level

Destiny 2fans are eagerly jumping back into the game for the new gameplay, and event-exclusive loot added to the game with thereturn of the Trials of Osirismode. As players prepare to fight both new enemies and each other, they might find some inconsistencies with the items that they end up recovering. Twitter user Gitv_Kyle recently discovered that although the in-game vendors were supposedly decrypting engram items that matched players' maximum power level, he was receiving slightly underpowered gear....

June 19, 2025 · 2 min · 382 words · Jennifer Good

Destiny 2's Skill-Based Matchmaking Might Be The Lesser of Two Evils

BecauseDestiny 2is intended to be a looter-shooter with MMO elements, it features all sorts of game modes for players to tackle, ranging from PvE to PvP with something in-between. For PvE, players can delve into Dungeons, take on full Raids, or venture into the variousplaylist activities like Strikes and Nightfalls. For PvP, the selection is a narrower despite there being different game modes in the Crucible on a rotation, but things are supposed tp get better in Year 5....

June 19, 2025 · 3 min · 572 words · Michael Murray

Disenchantment Deserves More Credit Than It Gets

Disenchantmentis Matt Groening’s most recent animated television show. His first success,The Simpsons, takes place in the present, and the cult classic,Futurama, takes place in the future. Subsequently, the decision to now make a television show that takes place in the past does seem a bit like a perfectionist’s attempt to complete a triad. From the start of the first season, it was obvious thatDisenchantment’s main advantage to its predecessors was its stunning animated visuals of the fantastical far-off Dreamland....

June 19, 2025 · 7 min · 1286 words · Alexa Maxwell

Dragon Ball: How Weaker Forms Can Be Made Relevant Again

Summary Dragon Ballis known all over the world for two things; screaming and transformations. Ever since the days of the Namek Saga, transformations have played a massive role in the landscape of the series and have been the turning point of various arcs, in which the Z-Fighters are finally made powerful enough to defeat the villain. Over time, however, the sheer number of forms has led to some eventually becoming irrelevant....

June 19, 2025 · 5 min · 906 words · Melvin Douglas