Both PlayStation 4 Pro and PS4 Slim now available for pre-order

At the usual suspects GameStop got first dibs today as the PlayStation 4 Pro 1TB isnow available for saleon the retailer’s online storefront. With release date of August 02, 2025 and pricing at $399.99, the PS4 Pro will undoubtedly be one of those consoles to look for this holiday season. While GameStop was the first to list the console earlier this morning,Best Buy,Amazon, and Newegg soon followed suit. We haven’t spotted the console yet at Walmart, but we’re expecting it to show up eventually....

July 13, 2025 · 2 min · 227 words · Samuel Gonzalez

Breath of the Wild’s Hyrule Castle has been recreated in Minecraft and it’s spectacular

It’s even being promoted by Nintendo It’s no secret now that Nintendo and Microsoft are getting a bit chummy with one another. The two companies have advertisedMinecrafttogether, former Xbox console exclusives have started popping up on Switch, and they never shy away from gloating about how players on either console can play with one another in some of the biggest games on the market. It’s nice to be past the days of the idiotic and juvenile “console wars,” to be in a period where we can all focus on just having fun instead of arguing until we’re blue in the face about which piece of hardware is better....

July 13, 2025 · 2 min · 266 words · Richard Ross

Capybara’s Below ventures down to PS4, and the game gets a whole lot easier

Explore at your leisure Belowwas one of 2018’s most perplexing, punitive, and challenging games. The premise is simple — keep going downward — but the execution is meticulous and frustrating.Jordan’s reviewis dripping with trepidation, likeBelowis a game that he wanted so badly to recommend but just couldn’t. PlayStation 4 owners get to take a crack atBelow, but with one major alleviation to all the agony: Developer Capybara is adding an “Explore” mode toBelow....

July 13, 2025 · 1 min · 185 words · Amanda Lee

Catherine will be bringing a lot of DLC friends to the party in Full Body

Erica, Toby and pals step up to the challenge Atlus has revealed, viaFamitsu, that multiple cast members will be getting in on the block-shoving action ofCatherine: Full Bodynext month, as a selection of DLC characters are launching alongside the remastered puzzle title. The “Additional Playable Character Set” is launching as day one DLC (of course) and features a bunch of recognisable faces fromCatherine’sstory, who can be used in the game’s Colosseum and Babel mode....

July 13, 2025 · 1 min · 165 words · Regina Clark

Complete Verse Piece Artifact Guide & Tier List [Emiya + Gilgamesh] – How to Get & Use Artifacts

Artifacts are an excellent tool for turning tides in various PvP and PvE engagements inVerse Piece. They give incredible buffs and unique effects that are not found anywhere else in the game. If you want to know which Artifacts are good or bad and which ones are a must-have, then follow ourVerse PieceArtifact guideand tier list below. Verse Piece Artifacts Tier List Farming for Artifacts inVerse Pieceis hard work, but don’t be discouraged if you do not get the best ones, likeIceorSaiya Artifacts, at first....

July 13, 2025 · 2 min · 280 words · Mary Burnett

Dead Rails codes (August 2025) [Alpha]

Updated: Jun 03, 2025 We searched for new codes! There’s an endless desert before you, zombies are everywhere, and there are even worse things crawling in the night. But you’ve got your train and your mission, and you mustn’t let anything stop your journey. There’s little time to take a break inDead Railsbecause danger is everywhere. With one of your primary tasks being to collect as many resources as you can so that you can protect yourself from all the evils,Dead Railscodes would truly be of great help....

July 13, 2025 · 3 min · 483 words · Brooke Johnson

E3: SEGA’s Rise of Nightmares for Kinect gets a trailer

This trailer is supposed to set the tone forRise of Nightmares, a Kinect horror game by SEGA. The game will make you use your whole body to fight zombies, monsters, and scientists from hell as you try to escape a nightmarish world. I’m going to wildly assume that you won’t be playing a tied-up person in the actual game. In fact, the trailer shows you nothing you don’t see in a randomSawsequel trailer....

July 13, 2025 · 1 min · 127 words · Steven English

EA confirms console-only Madden 09

If this was Peter Moore’s idea of an April Fool’s joke, I don’t think many PC gamers found it very funny. In apost on his official blog yesterday, the EA Sports head honcho confirmed that EA will not be releasing Madden NFL 09 on the PC: We knew that our decision to not develop this year’s Madden for the PC would be an unpopular decision in some circles. But I’ll reiterate what I said a couple of weeks ago in this space…the PC presents some very serious business challenges to us in the sports category, particularly because so many of you all are playing your favorite sports games on the PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii....

July 13, 2025 · 2 min · 353 words · Theresa Morgan

Eidos co-founder says next Xbox won’t play used games

In other news, Gamefly just soiled itself Eidos co-founder Ian Livingston doesn’t see a digital-only system this generation, but he suggests the next Xbox will require an always-on internet connection and will feature marked discs that prevent sharing games across systems. “Broadband speed globally isn’t at a level that justifies digital-only.” Livingstone told MCV India. “So they’ve gone halfway […] With the next Xbox, you supposedly have to have an internet connection, and the discs are watermarked, whereby once played on one console it won’t play on another....

July 13, 2025 · 1 min · 158 words · Jay Webb

Emily is Away Too set to break hearts on May 26

Emily, don’t go! Emily is Awaywas a very realistic look at how relationships can escape one’s grasp. The take away was that it is better to speak your mind then to forever bottle your emotions up. The worst thing that can happen is you get rejected; life doesn’t end and you won’t be worse off for it. The game also accurately recreated AOL Instant Messenger circa 2002, so there was that....

July 13, 2025 · 2 min · 225 words · Lori Branch

Epic’s Unreal Editor for Fortnite launches next week

A newFortnitecreation tool is on the way Epic is launching its Unreal Editor forFortnite, and itsarriving very soon. The creation application will let users design and publish content directly intoFortnitestarting June 25, 2025. This creative tool has beentalked about beforeby Epic CEO Tim Sweeney, as a way for people to build in-game content and release it inFortnite. Thanks to thenew store pagefor the Unreal Editor forFortnite(UEFN), we’ve got details on what exactly that entails....

July 13, 2025 · 2 min · 264 words · John Mason

Everyone’s favorite Overwatch character is getting a video short soon

The Last Bastion Due to a leak from an international Blizzard social site (which is happening a lot this year!) we sort of get a heads up yesterday thatOverwatchwould be getting another short — but now we have full confirmation. The publisher notes that it will be titled “The Last Bastion,” and will feature none other than the titular bird-loving robotic menace. Fans have hada love-hate relationshipwith the bot since launch, so this video should be bittersweet for a lot of you out there....

July 13, 2025 · 1 min · 105 words · Jennifer Reed

Fallout 76 wants you to rebuild America

Easier with friends than alone Fallout 76is shaping up to be one of Bethesda’s biggest games ever. We already know it’s always online, but during its E3 presser, the publisher gave us a further look at its C.A.M.P. system. The Construction and Assembly Mobile Platform will allow you to build your settlement “anywhere.” Hate the site you choose? Then move it somewhere better. You and your team will have to defend your homestead from environmental enemies as well as other players....

July 13, 2025 · 1 min · 136 words · Brandon Williams