Manhwa’s rise in popularity is due to multiple factors. One of which is its masterful utilization of popular tropes, including transmigration. Transmigration manhwa is basically bringing the main characters into a new body in a new world, which is most often fantastical in nature. In that sense, it shares a lot of similarities with isekai, which has since becomea popular genre in anime. Given the trope’s popularity, it comes as no surprise that plenty of titles want to a taste of that sweet, sweet spotlight....

The sequel is heading into the polishing stage soon Alan Wake 2is still in development, but it sounds like its pieces are coming together. Remedy confirms thatAlan Wake 2is fully playable, and will be headed into its polishing stages soon. In a financial statement to investors, the studio confirms thatAlan Wake 2is coming together. Here’s the comment from Remedy CEO Tero Virtala: “Alan Wake 2is in full production. The game will soon have all content in place, and it is playable from start to finish....

Alan Wake 2isn’t the easiest game to get into. It features that classic Remedy weirdness, and it continues a plot that is more complex than most. The game explains most things, but you may still have some questions. This guide will show you how to optimize yourAlan Wake 2playtime, as well as how to make the most of both Saga and Alan. Brush up on your Remedy Connected Universe knowledge According to Remedy, you don’t have to playAlan Waketo enjoy the sequel....

Amazon’s production has its showrunners and pilot director locked in Amazon Studios’FalloutTV series looks to be moving ahead, with more big names getting attached to the project. A new report highlights several names now attached for the stream adaptation, and that production is set to start this year. Deadline reportsthatWestworldco-creator Jonathan Nolan has been locked in as director of the series premiere. Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner, meanwhile, are set to be showrunners on theFalloutTV series....

Kuki Shinobu is a 4-star Electro Sword user inGenshin Impactand one of the best Hyperbloom triggers in the game. To accompany your latest team recruit, here’s the deputy leader of the Arataki Gang’s best weapons, artifacts, and teams. Playstyles Kuki is an off-field healer and reaction DPS. Her Skill sacrifices a small amount of HP to create a ring that pulses every 1.5 seconds, dealing Electro damage in an AoE around the active player....

We’re trying to help make navigating Black Friday deals easy on you, but Amazon.com isn’t helping things much. Instead of giving us a nice, tidy list of games and consoles that will be on sale for this holiday shopping week, they would rather slowly release timed deals every little bit, from now through Black Friday. They do this every year, but the difference this year is that they’ve stepped it up to about 400 deals in all, and that’s just videogames alone....

‘Never say never’ More than a decade after launching on PSP in Japan,Breath of Fire IIIwill arrive on PlayStation Network in North America next Tuesday, February 9, according to the latestPlayStation Blogcast. Back in 2013, Capcom’s then-senior vice presidentChristian Svensson announced the company was looking into a North American release. While he referred to the possibility as a long shot, he promised to “never say never.” Svensson is no longer with the company, but it seems someone kept the torch burning in his absence....

If you’re aCall of Duty Warzonefan, particularly a fan of the ranked mode featured on Al Mazrah, we have good news. Ranked is returning toWarzone, only this time it’s not coming to Battle Royale. Instead, as of the February 7 season two launch, players can play ranked Resurgence. Additionally, Fortune’s Keep, a Resurgence map from previous versions ofWarzone, has returned. Unfortunately, the Fortune’s Keep reboot is the only playable map forWarzone’snew ranked system....

Yep physical DVDs from late 90s A new crop of PC clearance games is up for grabs this week at Best Buy at some impressive prices. Atotal of 22 gamesshowed up with decent discounts, including$6SimCityand$5Battlefield 4, both tying their lowest prices ever. (Civ: BE and AC Unity are also honorable mentions, tying or beating their lowest prices.) The games will remain on sale through Saturday or until sold out, but since most are available for both free shipping and free store pickup, there’s likely a large inventory....

The Commodore 64 fills me with many wonderful memories. Games likeDizzy: Prince of the Yolkfolk,Wizball, andThat One About The Little Pudgy Guy Picking Up Pages Of A Book And That’s All I Rememberswallowed many an evening in my childhood. We’vewritten about the C64x before, but those of you who grew up with an Amiga can relive those memories soon. Commodore USA is working on three models of Amiga computers, the 1000, 2000 and 3000....

Time is a flat circle A re-release ofDark Souls IIfor the current-gen consoles and a DX11 version for the PC has been announced in classicSoulsfashion – with a moody and cryptic trailer showing scenes of unimaginable horror. Sign me up. Scholar of the First Sin(damn do I love that title) is set to be released on April3 and will include all of the DLC packs from the original game and a suite of gameplay adjustments aimed to make the enemieseven moredeadly, plus some unspecified tweaks to player characters (likely an effort to balance out some PvP shenanigans and curb power builds)....

For average level 26 players Today the first six-person raid opened up inDestiny— the Vault of Glass. It’s one of the events in the game that has no matchmaking function, so you’ll have to use any number ofthird party toolsto find friends, or do it the old fashioned way. The raid will be open indefinitely, in case you were wondering. Technically you can enter it at level 24, but since you’ll do a fraction of the damage you should at least wait until you’re 26....

I typed it as ‘Destructoid AllStars gets bots’…twice Destruction AllStarshas been on a collision course for a while, and now…let there be bots! Lucid Games is responding to some of the feedback though, as evidencedin this new developer blogthis past weekend. The idea is that they’re adding global parties, playlists, and you guessed it…bots. The former two features are pretty easy to get down with, but the latter? Yeah, that’s going to have some pushback depending on how its done....