Pokemon GO Players Can Get Banned for Abusing a Specific Exploit in Routes

Summary Pokemon GOdeveloper Niantic is banning players who use a particular exploit to farm XL Candies. The exploit letsPokemon GOplayers farm hundreds of XL Candies with little effort, but Niantic is cracking down hard on those who take advantage. Niantic releasedPokemon GOin 2016, and the game has evolved significantly over the last seven years. The most recent addition toPokemon GOis the Routes feature, which the studio introduced last month. Routes are pre-defined paths for the player to use while exploring....

May 19, 2025 · 3 min · 433 words · Albert Kelley

Pokemon GO Reveals January 2024 Community Day Classic Pokemon

Summary Niantic reveals the nextPokemon GOCommunity Day Classic event will be held on January 20 with Normal-type Porygon as the featured Pokemon. During the event, Porygon will appear more frequently in the wild, andPokemon GOplayers may earn an exclusive move by evolving the Pokemon. Typically, Niantic hosts twoPokemon GOCommunity Day events per month. ThefirstPokemon GOCommunity Day event of 2024will arrive on January 6, and the Community Day Classic event will follow up just two weeks later....

May 19, 2025 · 3 min · 508 words · Beth Gates

Resident Evil 4 Remake: How To Get Hand Grenades

Resident Evil 4remakedocuments Leon Kennedy’s journey to find and rescue Ashley Graham from the unhinged cult that kidnapped her. During the game’s opening few sections, Leon must rely on his Combat Knife and his SG-09 R pistol in order to stay alive, and though they are both quite useful, there are better weapons to find while progressing the story. RELATED:Resident Evil 4 Remake: How To Get Flash Grenades Players will need to fight and defeat countless enemies while progressing through the story ofRE4remake....

May 19, 2025 · 3 min · 499 words · Brandon Tate PhD

Shadows of the Damned Remaster Gets Encouraging Update

Summary The development ofShadows of the Damned: Hella Remasteredappears to be on-track for its 2024 release, as new details about the re-release have emerged regarding its ESRB rating.Shadows of the Damnedis one ofGrasshopper Manufacture’s more underrated titles, released in 2011 on Xbox 360 and PS3 as a result of a collaboration between Grasshopper and Electronic Arts, with Suda51 at the director’s chair. Despite creative clashes between Suda51 and EA, resulting in mixed reviews at launch, fans and Suda himself have come around to the game, with it accruing a cult following....

May 19, 2025 · 3 min · 441 words · Rachel Burns

Streamer 'Comment Etiquette' Banned from Twitch

Several popularTwitchstreamers have been getting banned lately, showing how even those with the largest audiences can be subject to forced time off. One content creator and new Twitch streamer known as Comment Etiquette has just gotten banned from Twitch because of something they said that is known for causing bans. Twitchstreamer Comment Etiquette was recently writing a script to scary music during a livestream, in which they said “cracker,” a word that goes against the website’s terms of service, causing a 30-day ban....

May 19, 2025 · 3 min · 437 words · Angelica Santiago

The Fallout Franchise's History With Aliens

TheFalloutfranchise is mostly known for the raiders, the super mutants, and other such dangers in the wasteland. However, it has also showcased extraterrestrial beings in its titles. Every main game in the series has included aliens in some form or other — from passing encounters to full-blown quests surrounding them. In fact, there seems to be more alien-related content in the newerFalloutgames.Fallout 3even features an expansion where the player is abducted by aliens and must escape their spacecraft....

May 19, 2025 · 5 min · 1056 words · Kimberly Bowers

The Game Awards 2022: Predicting the Best Art Direction Winner [UPDATE]

UPDATE: Elden Ring won Best Art Direction at The Game Awards 2022! Graphics versus gameplay is still a debate that dominates a lot of gaming discussions. But, with technology being advanced as it is in 2022, a lot of the time beautiful visuals can be accompanied with satisfying gameplay loops. Even if that wasn’t a case, there’s still a space to praise the art direction that goes into making the visual elements of a video game stand out from the crowd....

May 19, 2025 · 6 min · 1083 words · Theresa Marshall

The Last of Us’ Ellie Needs Some of Resident Evil 4 Remake Leon’s Special Training

It is impossible to overlook how important the parry mechanic is forResident Evil 4’s remake. Like how seminal the arcade-esque controls of the originalResident Evil 4were at the time, the remake has been able to add its own new stamp on the franchise that was not there before, but makes perfect sense with an older and more skilled Leon Kennedy. It will be exciting to see ifResident Evil 9or a potentialResident Evil 5remakecan improve upon theResident Evil 4remake, butThe Last of Uscould certainly take inspiration from it as its own new combat mechanic....

May 19, 2025 · 3 min · 578 words · Matthew Welch

The Marvel's Avengers Spider-Man DLC is Under a Lot of Pressure

Marvel’s Avengers' release was less than perfect, with bugs and complaints on the game’s gear system galore. Developer Crystal Dynamics has done what it can to work on these issues, and the game is slowly getting to a point where fans are mostly satisfied with the experience. AsMarvel’s Avengersbegins to expand with the addition of some long-awaited DLC, many fans are eagerly awaiting the arrival of everyone’s friendly neighborhood Spider-Man....

May 19, 2025 · 5 min · 905 words · Meghan Church

The Outer Worlds 2 May Be Far Off, But an Appetizer Is Coming Soon

Summary It has been nearly five years since the release of Obsidian Entertainment’s action RPGThe Outer Worlds, and almost three years since the announcement of its sequel,The Outer Worlds 2. Needless to say, anticipation for the sequel has only grown since its announcement and the conclusion of the first game. However, while Obsidian has yet to reveal much aboutThe Outer Worlds 2, players may be able to get a taste of what it will be like with another upcoming Obsidian game set to release later this year....

May 19, 2025 · 3 min · 542 words · Anita Norman

Ubisoft Finally Shares More Details About The Division Heartland

Developer Red Storm Entertainment, a Ubisoft first-party studio, has finally unveiled additional information about the long-awaited free-to-play third-person survival shooter gameThe Division Heartland. Officially announced in May 2021, players have received very few updates about the game since, other than a small bit of gameplay footage and theinfo blurb that appears onThe Division Heartland’s Ubisoft store page. April 20 was Division Day, and Ubisoft provided updates about three of the games in the franchise....

May 19, 2025 · 3 min · 506 words · Mark Hill

Uzaki-Chan Wants to Hang Out! Season 2 Episode 3 Review

The following contains spoilers for Episode 3 of Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out! Season 2, “Does Uzaki-chan Want to Go to the School Festival?,” now streaming onCrunchyroll. So far the second season ofUzaki-Chan Wants to Hang Out!has been pretty give and take.The first episode was an excellent startto the season, although it had its flaws and thesecond episode felt heavier in defectsthan strengths. This episode delivered more development than the previous one and even if it had managed to lack significant action, it was still enjoyable to watch....

May 19, 2025 · 6 min · 1183 words · Laura Santiago

What to Expect From Marvel Video Games in 2023

Marvelhas always had a pretty prominent spot in the gaming industry, dating all the way back to 1982’sSpider-Manon the Atari 2600. While the quality of its games has varied pretty heavily over the decades, Marvel has released a plethora of games in that timespan, and it seems as though that continued effort is finally paying off. Over the last few years, Marvel has been knocking it out of the park when it comes to AAA video game releases....

May 19, 2025 · 5 min · 1001 words · Kelly Rice