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Let's be real, Balatro has made card games trendy again. It's thoroughly addictive, easy to pick up (literally and figuratively), and doesn't break the bank - it's easy to see why it's been at every awards ceremony from the Golden Joysticks to The Game Awards and, laterally, The BAFTAs. Various competitors have attempted to hop on the card game train - Nubby's Number Factory and Aotenjo spring to mind - and All In Abyss: Judge the Fake is hoping to cement itself as gaming's next big Balatro-like...

45 minutes of announcements. Exactly one year on from its debut presentation, The Triple-i Initiative is back for another round of news drops and announcements. The show is set to kick off in just a few minutes, promising 45 minutes of world premieres, gameplay reveals and launch dates from over 30 developers. The dev lineup includes the likes of Digital Sun (Moonlighter), Poncle (Vampire Survivors), Fair Play Labs (Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl), Sloclap (Sifu) and many more, so expect to see a go...

There's an elevator in Blue Prince's foundation room: here are some hints and a full solution on how to get inside it.

Bad Guitar Studio has announced that its free-to-play 5v5 hero shooter FragPunk is coming to PS5 and Xbox Series X|S at the end of the month.

This week, Nintendo fans received two important pieces of information about GameCube controller functionality on the Switch 2, both of which suggest the original Switch could have better GameCube controller support. Here’s the first one: The Switch 2 GameCube controller will only work with games in the upcoming console’s GameCube library for the Switch Online...

The darts puzzle in the Billiard Room is a Blue Prince puzzle you’ll encounter early during your daily expeditions through Mt. Holly. While not essential for reaching the fabled Room 46, it’s still worth taking the time to solve the darts puzzle on each run. Solving the darts puzzle rewards you with a randomized key...

Party on! Hello, yes, we're back with the boxed charts over in Japan. Apologies for missing last week, it was quite a busy one for Team NL, as I'm sure you can imagine. This week, Super Mario Party Jamboree is once again at the top, selling another 11,487 copies. It's not the biggest increase we've ever seen, but we suspect that sales in general will be starting to slow down as the region awaits the launch of the Switch 2.

Apple has been hit with at least two more proposed class action lawsuits over its delayed personalized Siri features for iPhones. In the U.S., a complaint filed in a California federal court this week alleges that Apple violated false advertising and unfair competition laws by marketing Apple Intelligence upgrades for Siri that are still not available. The two named plaintiffs said they never would have purchased or been willing to pay as much for an iPhone 16 had they known that Apple's marketi...

Gosh, they sure are cute. There's definitely no dark side to this.

Kinetic Games has announced the Phasmophobia Cursed Hollow event, which is set to bring new rewards and more when it starts next week.

Netflix has renewed Devil May Cry for a second season.

Dungeons and Dragons strategy game Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms has a special present for Baldur’s Gate 3 fans, but you’ll have to move fast to claim it. The free-to-play idle RPG’s developer Codename Entertainment is giving out a bundle via the Epic Games Store with five heroes, including three from its BG3 crossover, along with the chests to gear them up. The total package is valued at $100, and you’ve got just seven days to claim it, along with even more EGS freebies for the week.

The billiards room in Blue Prince has a mathematical dartboard puzzle that gets a bit harder every time you complete it.

The mysterious mansion offers up new puzzles around every corner, long after I thought it was done.

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Every year that I visit AdeptiCon, the premier wargaming convention hosted each year here in the United States’ Midwest, I think about entering the North American Golden Demons. Run by Games Workshop, makers of Warhammer 40,000, Warhammer: Age of Sigmar, and many other popular lines of miniatures wargames, it’s one of the most prestigious hobby...

The West Gate is a door in Blue Prince you can reach at the start of each run, but you won’t be able to open it until you’ve drafted a few particular rooms beforehand. Here’s how to open the West Gate in Blue Prince, and a little bit about what you get for doing so....

The Garage is a yet another room in Blue Prince with a locked door. Specifically, if you try to open the garage’s door to the outside, you’ll find you’re unable to. Here’s how to open the Garage door in Blue Prince, and what you’ll get for doing so. How to open the Garage in Blue...

The terminal password is a codeword you can use to access additional features of the computers scattered throughout Blue Prince. As you explore Mt. Holly in Blue Prince, you’ll find computer terminals in certain rooms. They look like old-school desktops. You can interact with one to boot it up, but you need a password to...

The Key to the Secret Garden allows you to access the Secret Garden room in Blue Prince. You will need to access the Secret Garden if you want to get one of the Antechamber levers and make your way to Room 46. This guide will show you how to use the Secret Garden Key in...

The Utility Closet is a blueprint room from Blue Prince that allows you to control the power to specific rooms, like the Garage, through its breaker box puzzle. The breaker box has your usual switches to control power, but also includes six buttons labeled “V.A.C. indicators.” Pressing the buttons seems to do absolutely nothing, but,...

Sheet music pages can be found in a variety of rooms in Blue Prince, and finding one will make you wonder, “Are there more?” Short answer: Yes, there is indeed a sprawling sheet music page puzzle. There are a total of eight sheet music pages in the estate. Luckily, they will always appear in the...

Antechamber levers are hidden all around the estate of Blue Prince, and allow you to unlock the locked doors in the Antechamber. They’re a key part of reaching Room 46. The levers will always appear in the same rooms, but with the house changing every day, it can be very tricky to find their locations....

Pencil rube? No… Runic bleep? No… it must be Blue Prince, the genre-defying puzzler with twists and turns winding through an entire mansion. Anagrams are just one of the dozens of puzzles you’ll have to worry about as you try to find Room 46 and collect your inheritance in Blue Prince. You might be thinking...

Navigating through the twists and turns of the Mount Holly estate to reach Room 46 is one of the main goals of Blue Prince. In Blue Prince, you play as Simon, a 14-year old child who has inherited the will of his wealthy grandfather — under condition that you can find the elusive Room 46....

AMD has now officially lifted the lid on a new gaming CPU range for laptops, with the top AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX chip sporting 16 cores and a top clock speed of 5.4GHz. Don’t get too excited, though, as these new CPUs bear many similarities to their predecessors. In fact, the above CPU basically has the exact same spec as the Ryzen 9 7945HX. Indeed, this refresh of AMD’s Dragon Range laptop CPUs only appears to increase the clock speeds here and there (but not everywhere), and perhaps more important...

Netflix and Adi Shankar's Devil May Cry series has been renewed for a second season, so prepare for more demon-slaying antics alongside Dante.

Bungie is set to take the wrappers off Marathon this Saturday and reveal gameplay from its first non-Destiny project in many years (and its first new one since joining Sony in 2022). Before that though, the studio has confirmed one detail about the multi-platform extraction shooter that PC and Xbox gamers may like to hear. The game won’t force players to log in with a PlayStation account on those platforms. The Marathon team confirmed on the game’s official Discord server that "Marathon will not...

You know, cards that actually stay near MSRP.

Will Dune Awakening have crossplay? While Funcom’s sci-fi survival epic will soon be released on PC, everything’s quiet on the console front. We do, at least, know that players on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S will eventually be able to immerse themselves in the Arrakean desert, and there’s already been talk about crossplay from the devs. Dune Awakening has had to get creative with Frank Herbert’s spice-fueled odyssey, ducking around the canon currently being adapted by Legendary Pictures. W...

Star Overdrive! Monument Valley! Promise Mascot Agency! The latest Nintendo Download update for North America has arrived, and it's bringing new games galore to the eShop in your region. Before we jump into this week's download, let's address the elephant in the room — last week was a little bit crazy, and that means certain things got lost in the chaos, including last week's download. Almost like a whole new console was revealed and dissected! That being said, we want to highlight a handful of ...

A new report from The Information today reveals much of the internal turmoil behind Apple Intelligence's revamped version of Siri. Apple apparently weighed up multiple options for the backend of ‌Apple Intelligence‌. One initial idea was to build both small and large language models, dubbed "Mini Mouse" and "Mighty Mouse," to run locally on iPhones and in the cloud, respectively. ‌Siri‌'s leadership then decided to go in a different direction and build a single large language model to handle all...

Will something good happen instead? After months of speculation, Nintendo finally lifted the lid last week on the information that people really wanted to hear: a new Mario Kart game, the Switch 2 release date, what the heck Switch 2's mysterious 'C' button does. As it turns out, clicking the right Joy-Con's new button opens up the GameChat service, so you can have a natter with your pals while you get to some online gaming. However, as you might expect, such a service requires you to have a Nin...

Catan just got its first update since 2015. The new sixth edition of Catan is now available from a number of online retailers including Asmodee, Miniature Market, and the Catan Shop for $49.99. The latest edition of Catan features new art, slightly larger game components, improved packaging, and a cleaner design, but the core mechanics...

Want to know the Runescape Dragonwilds release date? Jagex, the team behind the long-running Runescape series, is expanding into a new genre with the release of Runescape Dragonwilds. Set in the continent of Ashenfall, players will embark on a journey filled with mysterious monsters, magical abilities, and of course, teamwork. Runescape Dragonwilds is a standalone survival game which sees groups of up to four players band together to take down the evil dragons in Ashenfall. Dragonwilds can be pl...