The latter is especially intriguing as one of the rare turn-based RPGs to come from a country other than Japan in recent years. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is the first game from French studio Sandfall Interactive, developed as a fantasy adventure through a Belle Époque-inspired world. Imagine the gameplay of...
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For Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, screenwriter Philippa Boyens, Jackson, and Fran Walsh took on the task of translating three expansive novels into three live-action movies. With the anime movie The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, Boyens and her co-writers took on a radically...
Crumbling Farum Azula walkthrough steps in Elden Ring
The tempestuous region of Crumbling Farum Azula in Elden Ring is marked by its floating platforms and ancient buildings, where you must face ferocious beastmen and mighty ancient dragons. The area is also an essential component for seeing one of Elden Ring’s endings. In this Elden Ring guide, you...
How to change weapons in Monster Hunter Wilds
Players can now bring two weapons on a hunt — allowing you to further optimize your equipment for the battle at hand. The Seikret, your trusty mount, carries your secondary weapon in a sheath, and is ready to swap your weapons as long as you call for its aid.Here’s how...
How to get predator cores in Palworld
Predator cores are a new crafting material added in Palworld Feybreak.Predator cores are used to create items like pouches and the Meowmere, a sword from Terraria that meows and fires bullets. However, predator cores can be pretty hard to come by as you’ll need to find rampaging Predator Pals across...
How to upgrade health in Doom: The Dark Ages
Upgrading your health is arguably the single most important thing for your survival in Doom: The Dark Ages.To make it through all the challenges entailed by fighting demons with minimal suffering, improving your health could mean the difference between life and death. And you can considerably improve your chance of...
‘Think bigger’: The Victorian steampunk game that died so that Clair Obscur could live
If only every random scroll through Reddit was as productive as the one that changed Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead writer Jennifer Svedberg-Yen’s entire life. Not too long after ditching the finance world to pursue creative dreams, but in the thick of the COVID-19 lockdown, Svedberg-Yen was wasting away an...
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People have been noticing the similarities between Twin Peaks’ eccentric small town and Gilmore Girls’ Stars Hollow for years. There’s the shared cast (Sherilyn Fenn and Mädchen Amick, in Gilmore’s original run, with Ray Wise joining later in the revival). There’s the direct callouts to David Lynch’s work (now a...
When is Godzilla coming to Fortnite this week?
Compared to previous seasonal skins, like Solid Snake, Geralt of Rivia, and Wolverine, Godzilla’s intimidating bulk doesn’t quite transpose to a vaguely humanoid frame. But the character’s signature chonkiness (Fortnite’s Godzilla is based on the Godzilla x Kong iteration) will show up at some point both as a skin and...
Ancient Arrowhead treasure map location and solution in Avowed
The Ancient Arrowhead treasure map is Avowed’s welcome to the Galawin’s Tusks region — a map protected by a beetle army and a gigantic, tier-five monster, culminating in a reward perched on a cliff with a drop that leads to certain doom. Yay…You can get in and out quickly, without...