Elden Ring Nightreign launched missing many, many features most of us expect in modern multiplayer games. The co-op action RPG is designed for three players, and that’s about the only optimal way to play it.
IO Interactive has officially dropped the first real news on its in-development James Bond game since it was initially announced back in 2020. The game is called 007 First Light, and IO revealed it with nothing but a single piece of art on Twitter.
Elden Ring Nightreign servers are back online following brief maintenance earlier today. During that downtime, FromSoftware rolled out the first major-ish post-launch patch for the game, which does come with a welcome addition for solo players.
Elden Ring Nightreign is here, and after selling 2 million copies in its first day and becoming developer FromSoftware’s second-biggest launch on Steam, the dust is starting to settle, giving rise to thousands of player impressions.
Pokemon Scarlet and Violet's free Switch 2 update has arrived. The games' 4.0.0 patch is now live a few days ahead of the Switch 2's launch, optimizing the titles for the upcoming console.
As detailed on Nintendo's support website, the new update makes a suite of graphical and performance improvements when the games are played on Switch 2. Visuals have been "optimized for the Nintendo Switch 2 display," while the frame rate has been "improved for smoother movement on the Nintendo Switch 2." You can read the full patch notes below.
Nintendo had been offering glimpses at Scarlet and Violet's Switch 2 update in the days leading up to the system's launch. Last week, the company shared a pair of screenshots showing off the games' improved draw distance, and a brief video released recently on the Nintendo Today app provided a better look at their increased frame rate and smoother performance.
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Alien is one of the most iconic sci-fi horror franchises of all time. But the director who started it all is not only done with the franchise, but is a bit disappointed in how its legacy turned out. In an interview with ScreenRant, Ridley Scott explained how he’s done with the franchise, and reveals his true feelings…
Just days ahead of the Switch 2's launch, Nintendo has rolled out another system update for the original Switch. The new ver. 20.1.1 update is fairly minor by usual standards, primarily resolving an issue that cropped up following last week's 20.1.0 update.
According to the patch notes on Nintendo's support website, the new system update "Fixed an issue where some software would not start after updating to system version 20.1.0." No other details were provided beyond that.
The aforementioned 20.1.0 update arrived May 27 and made some notable audio and visual changes to the Switch's interface to bring it more in line with its successor. In particular, Nintendo tweaked the look and color of the Parental Control settings button on the Home screen, as well as changed the sound that plays when launching the Nintendo Switch Online menu.
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Pow! Bam! Boom! Zam! And so on. You get it. There’s a big DC video game sale happening on Steam, and a ton of great (and not so great) Batman games are discounted right now. Hence that very funny opening gag at the start of this paragraph.
Boss Monster is a retro-inspired card game that’s been around for more than a decade. It received a game-changing update this April with the release of Super Boss Monster, which introduces a new mode designed for solo play. Featuring SNES-style artwork, an arsenal of unique cards, and heaps of replayability, it looks like an excellent starting point for newcomers while also giving veterans plenty of new content to enjoy. It also works with all previous Boss Monster sets, though it’s perfectly fine to play the game on its own with no prior experience.
Super Boss Monster is the next iteration of the Boss Monser card game, which tasks 1-4 players with building a dungeon, enticing adventurers inside, and then defeating them with a litany of traps and monsters lurking within.
This new version features SNES-style artwork (a big change from the NES-inspired artwork of the original), and an all-new Solo Mode that's perfect if none of your board-game buddies can make it to game night. Veteran players, meanwhile, can play the new Challenge Mode, which ramps up the difficulty. Super Boss Monster is also fully compatible with all existing Boss Monster base games and expansions.
Looking to check out the original Boss Monster game? A few different versions are available. Boss Monster: 10th Anniversary Edition gets you the classic card game plus 15 new cards, making it the most up-to-date way to enjoy the original version of the game.
Boss Monster 2: The Next Level Card Game follows up on the original and features an all-new 160 card deck. Best of all, it can be played on its own or combined with the original Boss Monster for a massive campaign.
Then there's Boss Monster: Rise of the Mini-Bosses, which offers a slightly different take on the game. The 160-card deck is both an expansion and standalone game, introducing promotable mini-bosses that modify how rooms in your dungeon behave and grant the player additional perks. It’s currently the cheapest of the trio at $20.70, so give it a look if you’re shopping on a budget.
There's also an abundance of expansions available for Boss Monster. Some of these are designed for specific base games, while others can be used across the board. Regardless of which you choose, they’ve all earned high marks from players and are bound to bring added replayability to your sessions.
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June is officially here which means Geoff Keighley-palooza 2025 is just around the corner. E3 might be dead, but Summer Game Fest will be kicking off its fifth year running this week with a crowded field of other gaming showcases riding its coattails. Below you’ll find the schedule for each of them, including when…
Actor Jonathan Joss, who voiced John Redcorn on King of the Hill, was killed in a shooting over the weekend in San Antonio, Texas. Joss was 59 years old.
Earlier this year, the Los Angeles Chargers unveiled the team's upcoming 2025-2026 schedule directly on Minecraft. Now, Minecraft is turning from football to America's pastime with a new partnership with Major League Baseball. Minecraft and MLB are collaborating on the MLB Fan Cave, a new official add-on for the game that lets players decorate their Minecraft homes with paraphernalia from all 30 teams in the league.
Minecraft is launching MLB Fan Cave! ⚾️
— MLB (@MLB) June 2, 2025
Add your favorite team to your Minecraft home with jerseys, banners, trophies and more with the official MLB Fan Cave Add-on pic.twitter.com/Qm1CgYyV8W
As noted above, some of the MLB-themed items include team jerseys and banners, as well as trophies and other in-game items. The MLB Fan Cave was created by Pathway Studios, which released a short teaser video for the add-on.
It's been a banner year for the Minecraft franchise, including 2025's highest-grossing film, A Minecraft Movie, which made just over $800 million worldwide. Jack Black's Steve's Lava Chicken song from the film also became the shortest song to ever chart on Billboard's Hot 100.
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After the massacre at the end of Gen V’s first season, and the governmental coup at the end of The Boys’ fourth, sophomore year at Godolkin University will be nothing like the one before. By the looks of the newly released trailer, the new season will be focused on seeing the superhero students turn into soldiers.
Marvel Rivals, a free-to-play 6v6 hero shooter, features a pretty wide roster of Marvel characters to play as. While the selection of Strategists, the support heroes focused on healing and buffing teammates, is fairly slight at only seven heroes now, Marvel Rivals will be getting lots of new heroes in the future. These heroes are ranked based on the range of usability for their abilities, potential healing output, and general benefits they bring to the game when used. The best supports can manage keeping their Duelists and Vanguard alive, while still finding time to deal a little damage. While our Marvel Rivals support heroes tier list is ranked, there really aren't any characters on the roster that are completely unplayable due to balancing in the game's current state.
Rocket Raccoon has a few positive aspects to him, but fairly low healing and damage output keeps him at the bottom of the list. His respawn machine can be pretty clutch, bringing back a teammate who dies in range, but the shields it produces feel odd, since you want to hide it out of sight so it doesn't get destroyed. Rocket having a small hit box also lets him escape danger easier than other supports.
That said, Rocket's healing orbs move pretty slowly and can also bounce unpredictably, making healing with them at range harder than it needs to be. His machine gun damage is pretty low too, making it hard to defend yourself, something that most other supports are better at. Rocket Raccoon's ultimate provides a nice damage buff, but the stationary aspect makes it a bit more situational than other support ultimates.
Jeff the Land Shark is the cutest Strategist on the roster, but his simple abilities hold him back from being higher on the list. The water spray healing has far better accuracy at a distance than it should, but the healing rate is a little low, resulting in you spending a lot of time spraying down a single teammate. The healing bubbles are great and offer a nice movement buff, but a long cooldown on the charges means you are constantly at risk of dropping them somewhere, having the fight move, and being caught waiting on cooldown timers.
Jeff has three things going in his favor though: His water splash shots deal pretty good damage, making it possible to defend yourself from any overachieving Duelists. Jeff's submerge ability allows for a speedy escape, self-healing, and a smaller hitbox without a cooldown. Finally, Jeff's ultimate, even if you can't get to a ledge for the insta-kill, still lets you remove enemy players--potentially even a full team--from the fight temporarily, which is a huge advantage.
There is a lot to like about Loki, but the ability management aspect requires a lot of knowledge and skill to successfully pull off without a big enough payoff. Loki can heal by shooting teammates with his staff, and he can also place decoys around, which will also shoot. His other healing ability creates a field around him and his decoys, offering a ton of healing temporarily. Loki can switch places with his decoys, letting him get out of danger and he can even make a decoy while going invisible.
The management here is a bit of a pain, as it involves regularly placing new decoys and keeping track of which ones have been taken out. This is time not spent doing damage or healing, and is pretty overwhelming for new players. In terms of healing, he doesn't offer as much as the upper half of this list and certainly requires more skill than those heroes. HIs ultimate is pretty great, letting him switch into another hero in the lobby and immediately use their ultimate, but you need to see that hero to make the swap, making it a bit more situational than it could've been.
Cloak and Dagger are a ton of fun to play and offer a wide range of abilities, making them an excellent support to use. Dagger handles healing, throwing auto-tracking daggers that can heal or do damage, depending on who you hit. The healing and damage is fairly low, but you can use her Veil of Lightforce to grant bonus healing effects and her AoE healing ability creates a nice bubble that heals a ton.
Cloak is focused on dealing damage and applying debuffs to enemies. His Terror Cape limits enemy vision and makes them take more damage. His main attack is a beam that deals quick tick damage, offering slightly more damage than Cloak's main attack. His dark teleportation makes him and nearby teammates invisible, but it's pretty short and really only gives you a brief moment of safety. Their ultimate places darkness on the map that heals teammates and damages enemies, making it great for contesting an objective. Cloak and Dagger's main shortcoming is that you have to swap between them to either heal or deal damage, when some of the best Strategists can do both at all times.
Adam Warlock has pretty good healing capabilities, deals a surprising amount of damage, and can revive the whole team with his ultimate. To start, his main attack deals 55 damage and can crit, which is pretty good for a Strategist, even if it has a short damage fall off range. For healing, he does have to rely on his abilities, but he has two and both do a ton of healing. The big one is the Soul Bond, which connects Adam Warlock and all nearby teammates, providing healing over time and splitting damage taken.
His other healing ability is a link to a single teammate, but it provides healing for both Adam Warlock and his ally. It has two charges on a six-second cooldown, so it can be used pretty regularly. Adam's passive cocoon ability lets him revive after death, which is a great setup for his ultimate ability, which resurrects all dead teammates in range. It also lasts an additional 10 seconds, letting any teammates who weren't dead but die after activation to also get resurrected.
Invisible Woman has a pretty impressive range of abilities, but her ability to block damage with shields is unique among Strategists. On top of that, Invisible Woman has a high ceiling for healing thanks to her primary fire providing a good amount of healing that passes through teammates and her shield providing area healing. Her ultimate is another large healing field and while the invisibility aspect of it has some tactical use, it doesn't quite live up to a Luna Snow or Cloak and Dagger ultimate.
She does have great offensive capabilities and being able to go invisible with the double jump lets you escape danger more often than not. Her primary fire deals good damage, plus her push/pull ability does a bit of damage as well. Overall, she isn't the most powerful Strategist on the list, but she is in the upper tier.
Luna Snow has a powerful primary attack that heals and does damage depending on who you hit. The three round-burst heals 60 total health or deals 60 total damage, and that's without hitting a headshot. Her Ice Arts buff increases the amount of healing or damage those shots do while providing some self-healing on each shot, giving her some nice sustainability. She can freeze enemies temporarily, great for any diving enemies, and her skating passive gives her an advantageous--dare we say Lucio-like--movement speed and jump height boost.
Luna Snow's greatest asset is her ultimate ability, which has her dance, creating an AoE around her that can either heal or provide a damage buff, letting you swap freely. The healing output is ridiculous, making both Luna and her teammates invulnerable to anything except the most powerful attacks in the game, and the damage buff is nothing to sneeze at either.
Mantis takes the top spot due to her incredibly high skill ceiling. She can give either a healing-over-time or damage buff to a teammate at the cost of one of her four orbs. She can also give a self-boost at the cost of a single orb, and using an orb applies self-healing. This might sound limiting, but the orbs are on a short cooldown and you can instantly refill a charge by hitting a headshot with her primary fire, which deals 50 base damage and has no fall-off range.
This means you will always have orbs if you consistently hit headshots. Always having orbs means you can constantly have your self-buff active and apply buffs to your teammates consistently, making Mantis very powerful in the right hands. Her ultimate is a slightly weaker version of Luna Snow's, applying healing over time and a movement speed boost, with extra healing converted into bonus health. As if all that wasn't enough, she also moves faster at full health, making the walk back from spawn a little quicker, so you can get back to healing.
I almost didn't put Ultron in the top slot. Not because he isn't incredibly powerful, he certainly is, but while the skill ceiling is quite high, the skill floor required to succeed here is also pretty high. Ultron is a Strategist who wields a powerful primary fire, a healing drone, and decent survivability. His primary fire is a laser that emits a weaker beam, culminating in a powerful burst. It has 75% falloff damage at 30 meters, but the shot appears to have unlimited range, allowing you to land hits, albeit weaker ones, from far away.
Ultron's primary healing comes from his drone, which he can attach to a teammate. It provides high healing for the attached teammate and regular healing for anyone else in range. You can also grant bonus heal with the Firewall ability, which works in an area around Ultron and his mech-attached teammate. His ultimate grants a boost to his primary fire, turning into an explosive shot that deals damage and heals people in range. Ultron is also a flying Strategist, and the first of his kind. This makes him a clear target for the enemy team, although your dash and speed boost apply bonus health, allowing you a chance to escape. His overall healing output is high, and he can do pretty good damage too, although this requires you to be very aware of your teammates' health so you can move your drone, and if you aren't a good shot, Ultron probably isn't for you.
With its blend of the soulslike and roguelike genres, Elden Ring Nightreign can be an overwhelming game to adjust to. It takes time to figure out how everything works and where to spend your time most wisely on the map.
The latest entry in the Karate Kid series, Karate Kid: Legends, hit theaters last week. The new movie stars Ben Wang as Li Fong, a martial arts protege trained by senseis Daniel Laruso (Ralph Macchio)--star of the original Karate kids films and the recent Cobra Kai TV series--and Mr. Han (Jackie Chan), who appeared in the 2010 Karate Kid reboot starring Jaden Smith. Legends bridges the original films and the 2010 reboot into a single continuity--and soon, you'll be able to grab all six movies, plus a bunch of collectibles, in the upcoming The Karate Kid Ultimate 6-Movie Collection. While no release date has been announced, preorders for the $220 collection are available now exclusively at Amazon.
As the name implies, the The Karate Kid Ultimate 6-Movie Collection bundles all six Karate Kid films into a premium box along with a selection of exclusive merchandise. The six movies in the collection are:
Each movie in the collection comes in its own case, featuring both 4K UHD and Blu-ray versions on disc, as well as digital download codes. The set also includes a Miyagi-Do headband replica, three dojo patches, 11 trading cards featuring various characters from throughout the franchise, and a special collector's box that folds out into a pop-up diorama of the final showdown between Daniel LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence in The Karate Kid.
We also expect to see bonus content, such as commentaries and behind-the-scenes interviews, but these are not yet listed on the Amazon store page.
If you're more interested in just securing a copy of Karate Kid: Legends, multiple Blu-ray editions are already up for preorder, despite the movie just recently premiering in theaters, including a 4K Steelbook Collector's Edition. Like the 6-Movie Collector's Edition, there's no release date for the Karate Kid: Legends Blu-rays, but both are planned to release on the same day--whenever that is.
Nevertheless, multiple 4K UHD, standard Blu-ray, and even DVD versions are available to preorder at Amazon. It's also worth noting that the store pages do not list details such as included bonus features or even the final cover art. We also expect the prices to drop closer to the release date. Luckily, thanks to Amazon's preorder price guarantee, you can reserve a copy now and won't have to pay until the order ships, and you will only be charged the lowest price if it changes between now and release.
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The Karate Kid series kicked off in 1984 with the original The Karate Kid, in which bullied high school kid Daniel LaRusso befriends karate master Mr. Miyagi (Pat Morita), who trains Daniel in the philosophy and martial arts style, Miyagi-do, and ultimately faces down his rival Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka). The first movie was followed up by two direct sequels starring Macchio. Then, in 1994, The Next Karate Kid sees Mr. Miyagi take on a new pupil, Julie Pierce (Hilary Swank).
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The Nintendo Switch 2 is launching later this week. Many people have pre-ordered the console and are eagerly checking to see if their new machine is beginning its journey from a warehouse to their home. But unfortunately, many people are seemingly discovering that their Switch 2 order has been canceled just days…
Among Elden Ring Nightreign’s eight character classes to choose from, there’s one class that’s arguably best-suited for beginners: Wylder. This is a jack of all trades class that’s perfect if you’re trying to learn the basic mechanics of the game. If you’ve played previous soulslike games before, Wylder will feel the…
Fortnite's Star Wars season is almost over, but there's still one more big thing left on the schedule before we dive into a more traditional summer season of battle royale: the Death Star Sabotage live event! Unlike past Star Wars incursions into Fortnite, which ended with the Empire or First Order just kinda bailing, we're getting a proper wrap-up here that will involve players teaming up to invade the Death Star, which has been looming over the island all season, and presumably blow it up.
While Fortnite has frequently held ambient live events that took place during battle royale matches, Death Star Sabotage will be the sort of event that's usually reserved for the end of a chapter. We haven't had a live event like this one in the middle of a chapter since the Collision event at the end of Chapter 3 Season 2, almost exactly three years ago. Fittingly, it was what happened during that event that drew Darth Vader to the island in Fortnite's story.
It won't be long now until we get to take on Emperor Palpatine. Here's what we know.
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Elden Ring Nightreign has eight character classes to choose from, with both close up melee and long-ranged options. The dedicated archer, Ironeye, is a great pick for players who like to play the game safely; he can provide constant pressure on opponents while maintaining a safe distance. However, he does have his…
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