Pokemon Legends Z-A's Mega Evolutions Save The Day For One Pokemon

Summary Pokemon Legends Z-Ais bringing with it the return of Mega Evolution, which gives certain Pokemon a buff that they desperately need. One fan favorite in particular might just be saved in the competitive world byPokemon Legends Z-A’s resurgence of the gimmick. WhenPokemon X and Yreleased in 2013, they introduced the fan base to mega evolution, the first of many game-changinggimmicks thatPokemongames have introducedin recent years. Mega evolution gives some Pokemon the ability to transform, giving them a temporary form that may change their typing, ability, and stats....

July 6, 2025 · 4 min · 720 words · Rachel Duran

Resident Evil Has Gone Down a Path It Can't Walk Back Now

Summary In late 2021, the latest mainlineResident Evilgame,Village, hit shelves and video game storefronts worldwide. While the game was similar very similar to its predecessor in gameplay,Villagewas different in one specific area. Mainly, its primary enemies did not match the traditionalResident Evilantagonist type which could have set up a new franchise norm. The main enemies of the series are a variety of zombie-like creatures. While technically not zombies, theGanados and Majini inResident Evil 4and5certainly behaved a lot like the undead and felt widely at home in the franchise....

July 6, 2025 · 3 min · 582 words · Brittany Middleton

Robinhood Hit With Lawsuit for Halting GameStop Stock Trading

Recently, day traders in the WallStreetBets SubReddit group came together to drive up GameStop’s stock price after realizing that large investment companies had targeted GameStop for short-selling. This action caused theGameStop stock to rise rapidly, hitting over $300 when it was selling at under $5 just last year. However, this trading has stirred the hornet nest, costing billionaires and investment companies billions of dollars in just a few short days. In response, the popular stock trading app “Robinhood” put a restriction on buying stock within GameStop, AMC, and other target companies to combat the steep rise in stock prices....

July 6, 2025 · 3 min · 437 words · Thomas Duncan

Silent Hill and Resident Evil: Why Are The Most Famous Horror Games So Hard to Adapt?

Before hits likeSlender: The Eight Pages,Five Nights at Freddy’s, andUntil Dawn, twohorror video game titans dominated the genre: Capcom’sResident Eviland Konami’sSilent Hill. With 10 core games — and dozens of spin-off and mobile titles —Resident Evilis a sprawling survival-horror series that takes typical zombie fare and infuses it with bio-weapons and big pharma. With a total of 17 titles — 8 of them being core, mainline games — the atmospheric, mind-bendingSilent Hillis equally prolific....

July 6, 2025 · 8 min · 1529 words · Christopher Johnson

Sony Patents Multi-GPU System Designed to Improve Cloud Gaming Performance

A new patent fromSonyhas shined a new light on what the hardware developer might be working on for improving cloud gaming and streaming services in the future. Specifically, this latestSony patentlooks to enhance the graphical capabilities of cloud gaming services in order to bring a higher quality product through this online specific medium. The implications for the patent could extend intoSony’s PlayStation Now service, since this system does often include the ability to stream games onto the PS4 and PS5, especially for older games from previous generations of consoles....

July 6, 2025 · 2 min · 421 words · Keith Jacobs

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League May Be Teasing an Ally's Betrayal

The following contains story spoilers for Rocksteady Studios’Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League​​​​​​. Summary Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’s narrative sees the squad recruiting multiple allies, many of which are famous DC villains — like Poison Ivy and Penguin.Among those allies formed is Lex Luthor, though a different version of himself than the one the squad encounters in the game’s first act. In a surprising twist around halfway throughKill the Justice League’s story, Flash kills Luthor and the squad finds themselves in a parallel universe where they encounter Lex-2, a version of Luthor he had been working with to take down Brainiac before his untimely death....

July 6, 2025 · 3 min · 628 words · Austin Mendez

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: Sora's Taunts Should Be His Primary Magic

Nearly three years after its initial launch,Super Smash Bros. Ultimateis getting its twelfth and final DLC fighter on October 18: Sora fromKingdom Hearts. As the representative of an iconic franchise blending Square Enix’sFinal Fantasycharacters with Walt Disney movies, Sora has been long requested - even winning theSmash Bros.Fighter Ballot that ran in 2015. Many believed it wouldn’t be possible because of Sora’s Disney connection, but that makes his inclusion as the final new character much more satisfying....

July 6, 2025 · 4 min · 735 words · Bianca Torres

The 10 Best Bosses In The Super Mario Franchise, Ranked By Most Satisfying To Beat

TheSuper Mario Bros.series has undergone many changes over the years, transforming from its 8-bit platforming debut intothe 3D juggernaut it is today. While some things have stayed the same, such as Mario constantly having to rescue Princess Peach from Bowser, the level designs and the cast of characters around Mario have changed. One major element of this is the boss battles. RELATED:10 Hardest Bosses In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (& How To Beat Them)...

July 6, 2025 · 6 min · 1145 words · Danielle Mcclain

The Batman Star Robert Pattinson Auditioned For Twilight On Valium

Before taking on the Caped Crusader inThe Batman, Robert Pattinson was best known for his role in theTwilightfilms. Now, the A-list actor has admitted that he took Valium on the day of his big audition forTwilight- a franchise that would forever impact the rest of his life and career moving forward. Pattinson garnered lots of attention and mass fandom from his role as Edward Cullen, a dark vampire who falls in love with a mortal intheTwilightfilms....

July 6, 2025 · 3 min · 546 words · Judith Peters

The Boys: The Biggest Differences Between The Show And The Comics

Adapting comic books to the big or small screen is so common as to be meaningless, saying that some new show is based on a comic gives no significant impression to the average viewer. It’s still few and far between that adaptations manage to improve on their comic source material, but when it happens, it’s a big deal. The Boysbegan lifeas a comic book by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson which fleshed out Ennis’s well-known distaste for superheroes into a full franchise....

July 6, 2025 · 4 min · 796 words · Patrick Santana

The Legend Of Zelda: Every Main BOTW Character Returning In Tears Of The Kingdom

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdomis a sequel toThe Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wildin every sense of the word, including the same map andthe reintroduction of familiar companions. However, it wouldn’t be much of a continuation if there weren’t some major differences, and there are certainly enough to differentiate between the two games. Related:New Gameplay Mechanics In The Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Hyrule has undergone quite the transformation courtesy of the Zonai’s reappearance from the skies, and Ganondorf has finally returned to a mainlineZeldagame for the first time in a long while....

July 6, 2025 · 7 min · 1297 words · Christina Rose

The Marvels: Who Is Park Seo-joon Playing?

In April 2023, Marvel Studios released the first full-length trailer forThe Marvels— the Carol Danvers-helmed ensemble film that’s serving as “Captain Marvel 2,” so to speak. Brie Larson returns as Carol, a.k.a. Captain Marvel, the ex-Air Force pilot-turned-superhero, but this timethe human-Kree hybridis joined by otherMarvel Cinematic Universe(MCU) heroes with extraordinary powers: Captain Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris), who fans last saw getting her cells rewritten in 2021’sWandaVision, and Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani), a Captain Marvel superfan who becomes the body-morphing heroMs....

July 6, 2025 · 4 min · 789 words · Jean Wells

The Steam Deck May Also Get Cartridge Games

News of Valve’s handheld gaming system, theSteam Deck, has been a point of excitement in the gaming world, with the announcement coming largely as a surprise to gamers. With Valve’s description of the Steam Deck as a portable Steam library, many have had questions as to exactly what the means, and in what capacity theSteam Deckwill attempt to emulate Valve’s Steam platform. New information from Valve seems to indicate that the Steam Deck could offer more than simply reproducing a person’s Steam library on the device, instead possibly offering support for cartridge-style gaming....

July 6, 2025 · 3 min · 514 words · Heather Best