Summary Blood magic is the pathway to abilities many may find unnatural. It’s the dangerous last resort for mages and is considered the ultimate crime against the fade. Wielding blood magic puts the caster at risk of being possessed by demons and becoming grotesque abominations. Powerful mages can wield it without entirely giving themselves over to the dark side. However, wielding it does taint the user, and the more negative effects will eventually rear their heads....

Job systems are rather commonplace inFinal Fantasy, with some titles letting players switch these roles on the fly while others feature characters with fixed jobs whose personalities are reflected in the abilities they have. For the most part, the jobs that players can mess around withinFinal Fantasyare pretty great. However, some notable outliers can be a huge pain to deal with. Players must do some serious mental gymnastics to make these jobs work in their favor, which isn’t all that worthwhile given how much easier it is to master other jobs instead....

Finding a GPU deal this Black Fridaymight be a tricky affair thanksto Nvidia’s dominant position and price tags that have held since the beginning of the year in each performance segment. This is even as AMD has cut prices repeatedly to contend with the relatively new SUPER lineup that saw a mix of performance gains, VRAM upgrades and price cuts at the start of 2024. However, during Black Friday deals, you can save $100 on theMSI GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super Ventus 3Xthrough Amazon....

For the first time in its thirty-year history, the iconic racing franchiseNeed for Speedhas moved beyond cars by introducing a motorcycle. The bike is part ofNeed for Speed Unbound’sVolume 9 update, which launched on June 30, 2025. In addition to the motorcycle, the Volume 9 update included Lockdown Mode, a high-intensity heist-style mode in which teams of players must steal cars from locked-down zones, and fifteen vehicles based onNeed for Speed: Most Wanted’siconic Blacklist....

Summary Anime is an industry based around adaptations. Whether it’s adaptations andremakes of classic series, manga, or light novels, having a strong property as a base is one of the most common starting points for bringing an anime series to life. Now, one of the most well-known works of world literature is now getting the anime treatment, and it’s coming to Japanese television in time for the Spring 2025 season. Asreported by Anime News Network, Anne Shirley, a new adaption of theAnne of Green Gablesnovel series, is coming to NHK in 2025....

Summary Quick Links The Final Saga ofOne Pieceis well underway, and fans know that Eiichiro Oda, the author of the series, is more excited than ever before for this segment of the story. Oda has previously made it clear to the fans that the part of the story he is itching to drawthe most is the Final Saga, with the only issue being the time required to get there. Now,One Pieceis in the Final Saga at last, which means Oda is certainly going to go wild in this segment of the story....

Summary Blizzard Entertainment has brought back Competitive Drives toOverwatch 2from November 29 to December 2.Overwatch 2players can already dive into it, tackle various challenges, and earn new rewards during the event’s three-day duration. Overwatch 2is Blizzard Entertainment’s evolution of its popular team-based shooter. It introduced a free-to-play model, a shift from the traditionalOverwatch’s 6v6 to a 5v5 PvP format, and an updated hero roster that includes new characters and maps. With Season 13 nearing its end, Blizzard has reintroduced a popular three-day event for players to enjoy....

Summary Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer has explained the reasoning behindAvowed’s delay, stating that the upcoming action role-playing game from Obsidian Entertainment wasn’t pushed back to give the studio more time, but rather to pace out the number of games coming to Xbox’s lucrative Game Pass service.Avowedwill be the next big RPG to come from thePillars of Eternitystudio, and was originally scheduled to launch in Fall 2024 before being pushed back to July 11, 2025....

Summary An inspiredPokemonfan created their own version of an in-game map, using Chile as an inspiration to design a series of land and water roads for trainers to explore. Many players dream of seeing their own regions or countries reinterpreted in thePokemonuniverse, with exclusive new creatures and locations to discover. ThePokemonseries has a long history of basing its regions on real-world locations. Early installments drew inspiration from areas in Japan, such as the Kanto and Johto regions....

Summary Isekai mangais quite a divisivegenre; some fans enjoy it, and some manga enthusiasts avoid it at all costs. And eveninside the overcrowded market of isekai fantasy stories, there are series that generate quite some discord, with some of these series being so controversial that have been splitting the community between love and hate ever since they started. The following isekai series are tremendously divisive, be it by the tropes they deal with, because they have similar content to other famous series or any other reasons that generate discordance among their fandom....

Summary According to a recent leak, Version 5.4 will release aGenshin Impactcharacter from Inazuma, adding a new member to the Electro Nation’s growing roster. WhileGenshin Impactis set to prioritize Natlan characters for the foreseeable future, it does not necessarily preclude the developers from adding characters belonging to other nations. The Fontaine era inGenshin Impactintroduced Xianyun, Gaming, Chiori, and Sethos to the playable cast, despite all four characters hailing from outside Fontaine....

Because the One Ring, Gollum, and Gandalf have been inseparably hogtied to theLord of the RingsIP as pieces of iconography, it’s terrific to seeTales of the Shirecommit to its hobbit-holes and seemingly refuse to permeate the cozy life sim with anything that would otherwise be there solely for the sake of nostalgia or familiarity. Not every game can say that of the looming franchise IP it belongs to, though, and that’s certainly true of theSilent Hillgames that had to somehow follow Team Silent’s astonishing psychological horror titles....

Quick Links If you’ve been hunting down all the Journalist Stashes, chances are you’ve hit a dead end after reaching the military base in the Duga region ofStalker 2. The base is highly guarded by snipers in the watchtowers that can one-shot you if you get too close to the main gate. A couple of soldiers are also patrolling the base, keeping intruders out. So, how can you get to the base to secure a special suit and the Journalist Stash in the Duga region?...