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As you progress through the various quests in Disney Dreamlight Valley, you'll eventually find that Merlin offers you a way to craft a variety of useful potions that can enhance your tools. Some of these will require some very rare resources, though, including Onyx. In this guide, we'll tell you how to score some of these elusive gems. How to get Onyx in Disney Dreamlight Valley Onyx can only be obtained by mining. You can get it at any mining node in the game, but it's an extremely rare...
It's Tuesday, January 10, and we're back with another edition of our Wordle guides. Today's answer is a moderately difficult answer, but nothing too non-trivial that will force players to stare at their keyboards for minutes on end. It's a relatively common word that features some difficult letter placements. If you haven't started the January 10 Wordle yet, you can check out our list of recommended starting words to give yourself an advantage before you've begun. However, if you're already...
If you've advanced far enough into Disney Dreamlight Valley, you'll eventually find that Merlin will offer you the ability to craft unique potions that enhanced your various tools, allowing you to farm for resources more efficiently. Crafting these often require some rare resources themselves, though--one of which is Red Algae. If you're wondering how to get your hands on this uncommon drop, we've got you covered here. How to get Red Algae in Disney Dreamlight Valley Red Algae is only...
It appears that Epic is getting ready to feature another music artist in Fortnite--this time with The Kid LAROI. That's supposed to happen later this month, towards the end of January. That's according to a new report from Insider Gaming, which said the Australian rapper would be featured in a virtual concert. The Kid LAROI has 34 monthly listeners on Spotify and over 4 million YouTube subscribers. The artist would be the first featured in Fortnite this year The report goes on to say that...
Steam is the premier storefront for PC gaming, and it's only getting bigger all the time. On January 7, Steam smashed not only its record for concurrent online users with 32 million, but also its record for concurrent in-game players, with 10 million. Judging by the usual Steam charts, that's a lot of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Over at SteamDB, you can take a look at the lifetime concurrent users on Steam, and you can see that it's increased quite a bit in the past few years. In...
Fortnite players haven't been shy voicing their opinions about the game's new Shock Hammer weapon, which was added in Chapter 4. Following a large influx of player complaints, developer Epic Games has removed the weapon from the game. While the above tweet says that the weapon is "temporarily disabled due to an issue," it's unclear when it will be back. Though some players have expressed frustration over the weapon more generally, the discovery of an exploit that allows players to bounce...
Bigmode, the video game publisher founded last year by popular YouTuber Dunkey, now has its first game announcement in the form of the 2D puzzle-focused platformer Animal Well. Dunkey announced the partnership in his latest "Best of 2022" video, urging fans to wishlist Animal Well on Steam. "This is one of the very few games at E3 this year that caught my eye, and after playing it and getting to know the developer Billy Basso, we feel so lucky to be publishing Animal Well," Dunkey said...
Xbox fans might not have too long to wait to see what's on the horizon, as Microsoft is apparently looking to kick off its 2023 marketing cycle with a fresh showcase of games. According to sources at Windows Central, Microsoft will host the Developer Direct showcase on January 25, a livestream of game reveals and updates similar to Nintendo's "Direct" shows and Sony's State of Play events. Arkane's upcoming co-op vampire-hunting game Redfall is set to be in the spotlight, while Minecraft...
Naughty Dog is working on multiple new game projects, but when will they be announced? We still don't know, but Naughty Dog's Neil Druckmann has said fans should expect the studio to announce these games closer to release than it did with Uncharted 4: A Thief's End and The Last of Us: Part II. Speaking to ComicBook, Druckmann said the fact that those two games were announced years before they eventually came out, it created some hardships for the people making them. "We did announce...
Microsoft has teamed up with the company behind Oreos to create specially branded Xbox Oreos in Europe. The cookies "bring a new level of playfulness to Xbox," Microsoft said in a blog post. There are six different designs to eat, including cookies that have the Xbox logo, as well as the A, B, X, and Y controller buttons. The fifth cookie design is focused on the directional arrow. Check 'em out below. Xbox Oreos... finally The new Oreo cookies will be available in 22 countries across...
The iconic duo of "the video game industry" and "leaked secrets" has allegedly struck again, as footage of what is purported to be a brand-new franchise in the PlayStation portfolio has leaked onto the web. According to the Reddit post hosting the footage, a new project, which industry insider Dusk Golem has nicknamed "Ooze," is in the works. The author of the post does not specify which studio is working on it, only saying that it's "based in Europe." A follow-up image posted to ResetEra...
Apple has been working on a mixed-reality VR headset known as the Reality Pro for years now, and it seems that it's finally ready for the big time. According to a new report from Bloomberg's Power On newsletter, the headset is expected to ship in 2023, and the company views it as its key new product for the year. As mentioned in the report, Apple has been working on the Reality Pro headset since at least 2017, and the company has delayed it several times from its originally intended release...
The Last Of Us hits HBO Max later this month, which will give us a brand-new take on the franchise's main characters Joel Miller and Ellie Williams. However, a pair of modders decided they didn't want to wait, and they inserted the likeness of Ellie's HBO actress Bella Ramsey into The Last Of Us Part II. A modder by the name of Vontadeh has created a model with Ramsey's face sculpted onto the in-game Ellie model, with another modder called smasher248 credited with creating the tools to...
Dead Island 2 is a game that was announced nine years ago, disappeared for long stretches since, and has changed developers more than once. Suffice it to say, it's been stuck in development hell for what seems to have been several years of that time period. But now, it's almost here. That's an exciting prospect for zombie genre and RPG fans, and if you've lost the plot over the past near-decade, don't worry. Here's everything you need to know about Dead Island 2, including its release date...
Growing up, I never played Dungeons & Dragons. It was probably a combination of the game seeming overwhelming with its many races, classes, and rules to learn, but also because it seemed like it was too dorky for a kid who was already spending most of his time playing video games--cool ones, though. However, and as my eventual career path would prove, I was lying to myself. I found the appeal of Dungeons & Dragons growing stronger as I discovered hilarious shows like Nerd Poker and, more...
Twitch streamer MissMikka has accomplished a legendary gamer feat in Form Software's Elden Ring: She's killed two Malenias at the same time with a standard controller and an unconventional dancepad controller. It took MissMikka three days and 199 tries to defeat the dual Malenia. The streamer wrote in her celebratory tweet, "In the beginning I was not even sure if this run was possible. Radagon/Elden Beast is next!" Malenia's not the first Elden Ring boss to be taken down in this way. The...
FFXIV Patch 6.3, Gods Revel, Lands Tremble, is releasing on January 10. Ahead of the update, Square Enix posted preliminary patch notes, detailing what players can expect. It's a hefty list, so we've cherry-picked a couple changes and updates below. 6.3 will include a new Main Scenario Quest update with a new snowy-looking dungeon called Lapis Manalis. There will also be a new trial and raid, but no details on what either will be (literally, the patch notes say "hidden"). And of course, as...
Though Team Ninja has certainly kept busy over the years, churning out fast-paced, hack-and-slash action games and fighting titles in rapid succession, it's been a few years since the studio has unveiled a new IP. However, all that changes with Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty, the next big project from the Japanese developer. Revealed last summer during the Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase, Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty is a Souls-like action-RPG based on Luo Guanzhong's 14th-century historical novel...
A new Overwatch 2 event is currently live, and some fans are voicing their opinions on the latest Widowmaker skin by calling it "pay to lose." The current event has a handful of heroes, all in Greek mythology skins. Thanks to a CharlieIntel report, we know that the Medusa skin on Widowmaker is disadvantaging players. The report goes on to share a tweet by Brian St. Pierre, an Overwatch 2 pro, who showcases how loud the snakes on Widowmaker's head are in a tweet, which makes it difficult to...
Blizzard is set to introduce a slew of changes to World of Warcraft: Dragonflight's new Solo Shuffle Arena mode in the coming weeks, with updates set to further punish players who leave mid-match and improve the experience for those who have to deal with the aftermath. Formerly a limited-time PvP brawl, Solo Shuffle is now a new rated PvP mode in Dragonflight. It finally gives players who have always wanted to engage in rated PvP battles but didn't want to find a whole rated Battleground...