How to make Pumpkin Puffs in Disney Dreamlight Valley

Pumpkin Puffs inDisney Dreamlight Valleyare a neat fall-themed treat you can give your favorite villagers like Jak, Mickey, and Stitch. It requires three ingredients, and two are fairly easy to find. Pumpkin Puffs Disney Dreamlight Valley ingredients and where to find them To make Pumpkin Puffs inDisney Dreamlight Valley,you’ll need three ingredients: Pumpkins are spotted byshopping at Goofy’s Stall in theForgotten Lands. It’s the biome to the top left that is one of the last you’ll unlock in the base game....

July 28, 2025 · 2 min · 344 words · April Jones

How to shock open Essence Generators in Avowed

Across the various maps inAvowed, you’ll come across gold, rectangular Essence Generators. These generators can be on walls or separate from anything, but they’re always connected to some sort of power source. to get the generator working and restart its power, you need to shock them open with electricity. But if you’re not playing as a wizard inAvowed, how can you do that? Ways to shock generators open in Avowed There are a couple of different ways to provide a shock to the Essence Generators and get them working again....

July 28, 2025 · 4 min · 783 words · Kirsten Allen

How to use shield gating in Warframe

Warframe’s rich mechanical meta gives an abundance of ways to build your Frame, but as you progress through content, survivability becomes more and more of a pressing issue. Whether it’s high-level Elite Sanctuary Onslaught, Steel Path or Sorties, understanding how to use shield gating can give your Warframe survivability for any situation. Shield gating is a technique inWarframethat relies on the brief period of invulnerability that every Warframe gets when their shields break....

July 28, 2025 · 3 min · 579 words · Angela Shepherd

It took players an average of 22 minutes to finish the tougher Monster Hunter Rise demo quest

11 minutes for the easier one Monster Huntercan be a commitment. Each run can take upwards of 30 minutes or more depending on your skill level, and it seems like even the recentMonster Hunter Risedemo was approaching that mark.Announced on Twitter, Capcom has shared the average times for players to complete each mission, and the breakdown is pretty interesting. As shared by the game’s director, Yasunori Ichinose, it took people 11 minutes and 16 seconds to clear the easier quest (Great Izuchi), and 21 minutes and 57 seconds to take out the harder quest/monster (Mizutsune)....

July 28, 2025 · 1 min · 188 words · Erica Sullivan

Kowloon High School Chronicle hunts for treasure on Steam in November

The dungeon crawler makes its way to PC Dungeon-crawling RPGKowloon High School Chronicleis making its way to PC via Steam. Arc System Works is releasing the updated version of the PS2 RPG onto Steam on November 10. This remastered version hasalready been releasedfor Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. Now, PC players will get a chance to check out this older dungeon crawler. TheSteam page is live here. Kowloon High School Chroniclefirst launched for PlayStation 2 in Japan, back in 2004....

July 28, 2025 · 2 min · 287 words · Adam Meyer

Life at home with some of the Modern Method staff

The other week,over at Japanator.com, we took a look at what life was like with some of the editors. You got to see our porn, TVs, and cats. Well, I figured that we might as well take a look at some more members of the Modern Method family. Pretty much all of us work from home, and so it leads to an… interesting blend of work and personal life. Sometimes, it’s relatively separate, like in…ah, who the hell am I kidding?...

July 28, 2025 · 1 min · 172 words · William Shaw

Max Payne 3’s ‘Deathmatch Made in Heaven’ out tomorrow

Max is all out of DLC to give Deathmatch Made in Heaven,Max Payne 3’sfinal piece of downloadable content, will launch tomorrow in North America — marking the fulfillment of theDLC schedulethat Rockstar laid out several months ago. As with nearly all previous packs,Deathmatch Made in Heavenwill contain new weapons, items, and bursts for players to get their hands on; however, the pack also addsnew co-op and competitive modes — Dead Men Walking, Run & Stun, Marked Man, and Time Attack — which Rockstar hasfully detailed here....

July 28, 2025 · 1 min · 122 words · Adam Lara

More Snipperclips is a very good thing

There’s now Pro Controller and Joy-Con Grip support too It’s become easier to overlook early Nintendo Switch successes likeSnipperclipsnow that we haveSuper Mario Odysseyand evenDoomof all things to occupy our time on the system, but I hope you don’t forget about it. The puzzle-solving, friend-annoying cooperative platform game is back with DLC. The $10 add-on offers up “new comic book and toy box worlds, three new Blitz games, and a new Stamp mode,” plus the ability to replay levels as alternately-shaped characters....

July 28, 2025 · 1 min · 117 words · Isaiah Rivers

New video shows off a cancelled Shenmue HD remake

Sailors in HD The recent release ofShenmue I + IIfor PS4, Xbox One and PC has left many wondering what a full remaster/remake of the legendary title would look like. Was Sega ever working on such a project? Turns out it was. As uncovered by Eurogamer’s Digital Foundry, Sega was initially going to rework Yu Suzuki’s groundbreaking titles with new assets and graphical options, but it seems the publisher didn’t want to go that route....

July 28, 2025 · 1 min · 149 words · Ruben Walker

Nintendo Download: Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest

Also, Unepic Today is an odd day for the eShop, withUnepicgracing the Wii U storefront after its original PC release in 2011. Also appearing on the Wii U isF1 Race Stars: Powered Up Edition, andCastlevania II: Simon’s Quest. You may recognize the latter asone of the most hated NES games of all time. Just likeZelda II,Castlevania IIwas a massive departure from what was established previously in the series, but not nearly as successful....

July 28, 2025 · 1 min · 160 words · Krystal Griffin

Nintendo is taking a Road Rules style trip across the US to pimp the Switch

Not your ride As part of Nintendo’s plan forworld domination“multiple Switch units per household,” they’re kicking off a series of tours across the US to spread the good word. Basically it starts after the E3 madness has been ended in Chicago, and ends on October 6 at the Georgia National Fair. Participating states include Illinois, Wisconsin, California, Washington, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Kentucky, New York, Minnesota, New Mexico, Massachusetts, and Georgia. The list of games isSuper Mario Maker 2(which, by the time it debuts at the first stop in Chicago, won’t be out yet),Super Smash Bros....

July 28, 2025 · 1 min · 162 words · Kristi Brown

Over one year later, Witcher 3’s last DLC is nearly here

Here’s Toussaint It’s hard to believe thatThe Witcher 3: Wild Huntcame out over a year ago, but here we are in the eve ofBlood and Wine‘s launch. As the last DLC for the game, it will close out Geralt’s tale (for now) by whisking players away to the land of Toussaint, bringing tons of new quests along with it. As one of the final trailers forWild Hunt, CD Projekt Red’s “New Region” video showcases the beautiful new area, and stays relatively spoiler free, mostly summing up information gleaned from the first 15 minutes of the DLC — but you’ll want tostop it at roughly 1:45in if you don’t want any background on the creatures that are involved with the narrative....

July 28, 2025 · 1 min · 120 words · Brian Nelson

Overwatch and Pokemon mash up better than you might think

Header image byElStrawFedora on Deviantart. Pokémon SunandMoonreleased today, and the word is no matter which version you choose, they’rebothexcellent.PokémonandOverwatchhave been in the news a lot recently since they both had a huge game launch earlier this year. Last week,Overwatchplayers got a giant patch that introduced anew characterandlots of other modes. This week,Pokémonplayers will finally get to explore the Alola region and check out some new characters of their own. Coincidentally, today marks the beginning of afree weekend inOverwatch, so those who’d like to check out the new features can do so even if they haven’t bought the game....

July 28, 2025 · 8 min · 1632 words · Nicholas Pruitt