Palworld community manager briefly opens up about Summer Game Fest experience and AI accusations

With the reveal of the upcoming summer update, Sakurajima,Palworldis once again in the spotlight. The reveal came at this year’s Summer Game Fest, andPalworld’scommunity manager, Bucky, detailed his experience at the event on Twitter. While mostly positive, Bucky noted a few encounters paintedPalworldas “the boogeyman” for some people. In his post, Bucky opened with his better experiences at the show, then acknowledged the team is “more than aware of all the Palworld discourse” since its launch earlier this year....

July 13, 2025 · 2 min · 314 words · Karen James

Pew! Pew! Preview!: Battlestar Galactica

As the new re-imagining ofBattlestar Galacticais undoubtedly my third favorite sci-fi television series of all time, I was extremely excited at the prospect of reviewing the upcoming Xbox Live Arcade game. As a fan, I had to put aside my initial dispapointment at the fact that the game, instead of recreating the dense and ingenous political allegory and intrigue of the show, chooses to focus more on the epic space battles of the first three seasons....

July 13, 2025 · 12 min · 2405 words · Brittany Castro

Play the original Tomb Raider on iOS for $0.99

Because why not Square Enix just released the originalTomb Raiderfor iOS, and it’s just $0.99. The oldTomb Raidergames were really good, so it’s tempting to grab this for this cheap. It comes with the extra chapters from the 1998 re-release, so that’s kinda cool. According to the iTunes page, Square Enix haven’t “messed about with it, so it’s the full, unedited, unadulterated experience from the classic release at a super-low price....

July 13, 2025 · 1 min · 138 words · Gabrielle Mendez

Quick and easy WoW mount collecting: Domesticated Razorback

Try not to be scared when I say the term “rep grind.” While a rep grind inWorld of Warcrafttypically means days, weeks, and maybe months of work, such is not the case for the Domesticated Razorback. In an incredibly rare exception, the rep grind to exalted necessary for acquiring this mount can be done in about an hour. I’m staking my reputation on this pig The faction in question selling the Domesticated Razorback is the Steamwheedle “Preservation” Society....

July 13, 2025 · 2 min · 270 words · Anthony Garcia

Romancing SaGa 2 returns on multiple platforms next week

Blame the parents Square Enix have announced that their 1993 SNES titleRomancing SaGa 2is getting re-released next week on a host on modern gaming platforms. The epic role-playing game sees the player hold court as the leader of the nation of Avalon. As the story progresses, the player must expand and fortify their kingdom, while handing the down the reigns of power through a series of successive heirs. Whatever the generation, the empire must be prepared for battle with The Seven Heroes, folklore legends that have returned as terrifying demons....

July 13, 2025 · 1 min · 189 words · Charles Cross

Senran Kagura: Peach Beach Splash’s breast mousepad coming to Europe

Special Editions announced Hey Europe, if your hand hurts after slamming it against hard objects out of frustration that Portugal won Eurovision with one of the most forgetful songs there, then you can rest it on Yumi’s breast as you look up Moldova and Sweden’s entries on YouTube. No, you don’t have to import from Japan, because it’s coming inSenran Kagura: Peach Beach Splash‘s Girls of Paradise Edition DX for £169....

July 13, 2025 · 1 min · 139 words · Vincent Martinez

Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion drops June 12

Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, the long-awaited standalone expansion to the 2008 4X strategy game, is due out June 12. The expansion will be adding three new factions, two new classes of ships, an additional battleship for each race, as well as dozens of new abilities and upgraded visuals. Pre-ordering now, either through the game’swebsiteor throughSteamwill get you instant access to the second stage of the beta. Additionally, a trailer showing some footage from the beta was released earlier today....

July 13, 2025 · 1 min · 104 words · Michelle Nicholson

So let’s talk about Hainly Abrams from Mass Effect: Andromeda

That escalated quickly Usually, when looking over my Dtoid emails, I’m content to watch the main staff do their thing. This includes controversial topics that I must later brace myself to help moderate alongside the rest of the community team, so it’s rare that I hop from one side to the other. Still, when we’re going to talk about the presentation of Hainly Abrams inMass Effect: Andromeda, we’re talking about BioWare misrepresenting the transgender community, which I am also part of....

July 13, 2025 · 6 min · 1199 words · Lindsay Mitchell

Splatoon’s latest splatest getting medieval on your ass

Swords and Sorcery Messers Pearl and Marina haveclued us in on the details of the next splatfest, to take place on Nintendo Switch multiplayer shooterSplatoon 2. The new splatfest, which takes place in all territories next weekend, concerns the mystic tales of yore. Players will be asked to battle it out to ascertain which fantasy character they would rather be; a Knight or a Wizard. Pearl, ever the psychopath, wants to decapitate folk left and right with heavy weaponry, while her dopey hippie friend Marina is all about the arcane arts....

July 13, 2025 · 1 min · 206 words · Alison Sullivan

Square Enix says the Final Fantasy name is ‘damaged’

Square Enix has admitted that theFinal Fantasybrand is “damaged” and it now needs to work on restoring faith. The publisher blames it all onFinal Fantasy XIV, the ill-fated MMO venture that didn’t quite work as intended. “TheFinal Fantasybrand has been greatly damaged,” confessed CEO Yoichi Wada. “We’ll continue with our reform work, which basically amounts to fully redoing the game, and hope to revive theFFXIVthat should have been released.” That’s cool, but I think the damage toFinal Fantasywas done long beforeXIVever released....

July 13, 2025 · 1 min · 135 words · Andrew Collier

The 300 Week 15: One Hundred Down, Two Hundred More to Go

Hitting triple digits on the eve of the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival Hey, compañeros, and welcome back toThe 300, a recurring feature on my imprudent attempt to watch 300 movies in theaters in the year 2018. I’ll be watching new releases, classics, hidden gems, and festival films to experience the wide world of cinema in all its forms. I hope there’s something here for you to enjoy and share as well....

July 13, 2025 · 7 min · 1356 words · Pamela Jones

The DioField Chronicle is getting a free update with new story and more

Reopening the Chronicle Last year’sThe DioField Chroniclewas an interesting look at the tactics genre, and now in 2023, there’s more of it in store.The DioField Chronicleis getting a free update in less than a week, adding more features and content to theChronicle. The new update forThe DioField Chroniclearrives on March 5 at 7 a.m. PT / 10 a.m. ET. It is free for all owners ofThe DioField Chronicle, so no need to purchase a separate piece of DLC either....

July 13, 2025 · 2 min · 333 words · Terry Ruiz

The original Diablo is now playable in shareware form (remember that concept?) in your browser

You can also ‘upgrade’ to the full game via GOG The originalDiablostill kind of rocks, as evidenced by the fact that Blizzard stuffed the thing intoDiablo IIIas an annual event. But now you don’t even need to boot up your GOG copy or buy it, as Rivsoft has made the shareware version of the game completely playable, and painless,in browser form. Now a lot of you kids might not know what “shareware” is, but it’s basically an expanded demo edition of the game (one of the most popular versions of the concept hails from FPS games like Doom) that you were intended to “share” with other people....

July 13, 2025 · 2 min · 225 words · Kimberly Becker