One key to a solid passing game in EA Sports College Football 25 is understanding all the throws in your arsenal. But while the lob pass and the bullet pass are pretty easy to understand, the touch pass can be a lot more complicated. In fact, that’s probably why one...
Final Fantasy 7 recreated in Little Big Planet 2 looks shockingly good
Before the era of consumer-driven game-making software like the Unreal Engine editor in Fortnite and Roblox, fans had a different way to flex their creative muscles: Little Big Planet. Now, more than 10 years after the release of Little Big Planet 2, one creator has remade the entirety of the...
EA Sports College Football 25’s $100 version paid off for EA, with 2.2M early access players
Electronic Arts’ revival of its college football series is already off to an incredibly impressive start. The publisher announced Friday that EA Sports College Football 25, which officially launched Friday, has had more than 2.8 million players, 2.2 million of whom paid to play the sports sim in early access....
An unlockable aspiration turned my Sim into a murdering, rocket-building cheese fiend
Gabriella Duke has always been a painter — it was, as the cliché goes, written in the stars. (Or more specifically, designated by The Sims 4’s Stories feature in Create-A-Sim.) Then she discovered grilled cheese sandwiches. After Gabriella ate three grilled cheese sandwiches in a row — why eat anything...
What time does Genshin Impact 4.8 release?
Genshin Impact patch 4.8 is coming soon, bringing new characters and story with it. This is the special summer event for this patch cycle, giving a limited-time area to explore as well as hints about the upcoming Natlan region. Below, we explain when Genshin Impact maintenance starts and ends, alongside...
Genshin Impact’s Natlan trailer has fans divided
Genshin Impact’s next big adventure in Natlan is almost here, but it’s not as cheery as its rainbow-painted landscapes might suggest. On Friday, developer Hoyoverse released a teaser trailer showing 11 characters that will be joining the game as part of the Natlan storyline, including one major figure: the possible...
Sony’s new hero shooter Concord is playable this weekend for all PS Plus subscribers
Concord, the new team-based hero shooter with Guardians-of-the-Galaxy-meets-Overwatch vibes, is playable this weekend as part of the game’s early access beta test. And if you’re a PlayStation Plus subscriber, you can get into that early access beta on PlayStation 5 and Windows PC without having to pre-order the game. Previously,...
Elden Ring’s new dragon could beat up House of the Dragon’s dragons, study confirms
In Game of Thrones, dragon size matters. The No. 1 threat in House of the Dragon is Vhagar, a dragon feared not only for its magnitude, but for its uncharacteristic stealthiness. Somehow, no one sees ol’ Vhagar coming. But in another George R.R. Martin-penned universe, dragon size might be a...
Every quirky thing we know about Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding 2
In 2019, Hideo Kojima — Metal Gear Solid creator, and perhaps Hollywood’s favorite gaming auteur — released his first game as the head of his own independent studio, after parting ways with Konami. Depending who you asked at the time, Death Stranding was either a visionary work or completely incomprehensible...
The mischievous history of Elden Ring’s Patches, FromSoftware’s eternal scamp
For the past 15 years, I’ve been repeatedly tricked by Patches, the lovable scamp of FromSoftware’s Souls games. Despite him leaving me for dead multiple times and generally being a sniveling little shit, I never want him to go away. He’s become the best long-running joke in FromSoftware’s games since...