GamersHeroes Monday, April 21, 2025 8:46 AM Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves has got that dog (or is it wolf?) in it, bringing depth, originality, and countless ways to throw down in South Town. The post Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves Review – Let's Take This Up a Gear appeared first on GamersHeroes. |
Kotaku Monday, April 21, 2025 9:56 AM  When Danganronpa creator Kazutaka Kodaka and Zero Escape director Kotaro Uchikoshi joined forces to found Too Kyo Games in 2017, I was curious to see just what the two legends of so-called "death games" would create together. But although the team has put out several games in just under a decade, none of them have… |
PCGamesN Monday, April 21, 2025 8:15 AM  Ever watched a SWAT movie or show and wished that was you? Zero Hour is your chance to live that fantasy and this tactical squad shooter is 90% off on Steam, making it less than $2. But you'll have to be fast, this offer is only available for the next 24 hours or so. |
PCGamesN Monday, April 21, 2025 7:01 AM  The original Guild Wars has hit its highest player count in thirteen years, thanks in part to a host of 20th anniversary celebrations. This fantasy MMORPG has been around for two decades and, going by the response to the anniversary, still holds a special place in many players' hearts. Continue reading Guild Wars hits 13-year player peak after 20th anniversary event |
PCGamesN Monday, April 21, 2025 6:00 AM  The Razer Basilisk V3 Pro 35K is a gaming mouse that attempts to do it all. It offers wired, wireless, and Bluetooth connections. It has a scroll wheel that can spin freely for super-quick scrolling or go clicky with the touch of a button - it can even tilt left and right too. A side button gets you an instant low-DPI sniper mode, and you can even add wireless charging as well. For those up on their gaming mice, you might be thinking this sounds an awful lot like the Logitech G502 X Plus, and you'd be right. Both offer relaxed, ergonomic designs and loads of features, and both accept that they're not the lightest options around. Instead, these two are vying to be the best gaming mouse for those seeking a single mouse that can turn its hand to just about any task, both gaming and productivity. Read on to find out whether Razer's version is the one to get. MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Razer Blade 16 2025 review, Razer DeathAdder V3 review , Best gaming mouse |
PCGamesN Monday, April 21, 2025 5:23 AM  id Software's Doom reboot may not have been big on story, but Doom: The Dark Ages is going all out to be cinematic, and its new story trailer crams in a host of plot points. Hardcore fans will be happy to hear that the trailer confirms everyone is afraid of the Doom Slayer. MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best upcoming PC games, Best FPS games, Doom The Dark Ages release date |
PCGamesN Monday, April 21, 2025 5:00 AM  When you think of Runescape you probably think of several things: quaint, pixel graphics, wise old men, a lot of woodcutting, and some extraordinarily large rats. But you also think of community; a game built by devs in direct response to players. Having attended RuneFest a couple of months ago, the passion Jagex has for its game is very much mirrored by its playerbase - the MMORPG feels, in many ways, like a reciprocal exchange of ideas. Runescape Dragonwilds' creative director Rich 'Mod Rook' Turek tells me that the team wants to foster that same sense of community and freedom in its new survival spinoff, and he knows that the introduction of mods will be key to doing so. MORE FROM PCGAMESN: All Runescape Dragonwilds skills, How to craft a bow in Runescape Dragonwilds, How to fast travel in Runescape Dragonwilds |
PCGamesN Monday, April 21, 2025 4:56 AM  April 21, 2025: We added the latest Monopoly Go dice links for free dice rolls. How can I get free Monopoly Go dice links? The household favorite board game has been reimagined as a free-to-play app on smartphones, allowing everyone to experience the thrills of Monopoly on practically any device. Everything that makes the board game special is here in Monopoly Go, so you'll be collecting properties and building hotels as you go around the board, and there are a variety of multiplayer minigames to get through along the way. You're going to need to get your hands on Monopoly dice rolls, but they are difficult to come by no matter how far you are into the board game. There are ways to earn additional dice rolls, including logging into the game every day to collect daily bonuses, progressing further in the game, and inviting friends to try Monopoly Go. While you can also spend real money to unlock more dice rolls, you may want to give our list of Monopoly Go dice links a try instead, especially if you're waiting for the next Monopoly Go Golden Blitz event. Take a look at all the currently active Monopoly Go free dice links for today. Continue reading Free Monopoly Go dice links April 2025 MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best board games, Monopoly Go events, Monopoly Go dice |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Monday, April 21, 2025 3:25 AM .jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=70&format=jpg&auto=webp) This week, no liveblog, for Edwin is away and the Maw is strangely passive - as delicate and pliant as the crumbling of embers in the grate. Still, there are new PC games. On Tuesday 22nd April 2025, get your digits into deckbuilding dream-diver Out Of Hands, commit to the bit in "match-3 survival horror comedy RPG metroidvania" Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mountain 3, platform through megacities in Steel Seed, team up to crash submarines in Darkwater, and rewarm your memories of PS1/PS2 survival horror in Post Trauma. On Wednesday 23rd April 2025, a choice of fantasy boardgames through a phone in Sunderfolk, time-travelling in pixel-clicker Old Skies, spying on passengers in Beholder Conductor, and galloping through bullets in Asura The Striker. |
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Siliconera Monday, April 21, 2025 9:01 AM
With intriguing mysteries, a colorful cast, and fun strategic stages, The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy is a gem of a game that never wears out its welcome in spite of its staggering length. As the perfect split between the styles and humor of Danganronpa creator Kazutaka Kotaka and Zero Escape creator Kotaro Uchikoshi, it will more than satisfy anyone who enjoys bombastic sci-fi stories with a resonating emotional core.
The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy follows Takumi, a boy living in the dome-shaped Tokyo Residential Complex. He's an ordinary student living an ordinary life with his mom and childhood best friend Karua and doesn't expect that to change. However, an invasion from otherworldly creatures flips his life upside down. He finds himself, along with a smattering of other high schoolers, conscripted in a war against the relentless army of invaders. They must defend the Last Defense Academy for a hundred days, while also figuring out who brought them there in the first place and why they were chosen for this task.
I really enjoyed the story and cast! Unlike in Danganronpa, where losing characters is a given and leads to some with less development or screen time, it feels like everyone gets an even share of the spotlight. Even characters with off-putting quirks, like Ima and Kurara, became endearing. Conversely, it can make bonding events feel weak, since they're more of a monologue that provides trivia rather than anything meaningful. With how much we learn about them throughout routes in the game, though, the bonding events never left me wanting for more.
The writing is hilarious too. This was the most physically hazardous review for me, because I had to put down the game at several points after laughing way too hard. The localization was successful at taking specific memes or references that would fly over the head of an English-only audience and turning them into jokes that are in-character and true to the original context. Minor inconsistencies and punctuation errors exist, but it's hard to fault minor mistakes when one considers the scope of the project. As a whole, the localization team did an amazing job!
The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy is a very long game. Even with over a hundred hours of playtime—excluding idling and retries—I haven't explored every route or seen every ending. Sometimes, the routes can read like an episode of The Simpsons. You think the story is going in one direction, only for it to be about something completely different. Because of the sheer number of options, the story can feel like a smorgasbord of genres. Not every route is a winner and it can suck when the game traps you in a boring story for hours, but I never tired of the game.
Aside from being a visual novel, The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy is a combination of a Fire Emblem-like SRPG and a tower defense game. Some levels can be surprisingly difficult, especially when you haven't upgraded your characters. A major reason for this is that you can't choose where to place them. I remember one level that had two characters I would've never put together to hold down the fort. Since you only have a set number of AP to share with your entire army and characters can't move too far after an action (unless you expend Voltage or an item), I had no way of sending more mobile units over to help. Finding the optimal strategy can feel more akin to a puzzle, rather than pure tactics or strategy.
Usually in these games, you don't want to lose your units. The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy goes against this notion. It encourages you to let them die or kill them off. Aside from providing you with bonus points after the battle, you gain 100% Voltage. Voltage is one of the most important resources, since you can use it to power up characters via hemoanima boosts. This includes increasing their attack strength or granting them a counterattack. So kamikaze your characters or don't bother with healing them. Who cares if you win a battle with only one person standing? Death is glory!
I recommend first focusing on characters like Takumi and Kako (star AP farmers) or Shouma (a literal godsend). As he's the protagonist, you always have Takumi. He's the safest option to pour resources into until you're at a more comfortable spot with BP and materials.
My major gripe about the game is the UI choice for the chapter select screen, which is where you can see all the story branches and routes. You can't zoom out to see the entire chart and every path looks the same, which can make it hard to tell what you're looking at without hovering over a node. It's just genuinely a difficult flowchart to look at or use. The lines linking all the nodes together and the line dividing up the timeline into days look the same as well, which adds another layer of frustration. Maybe a future patch can introduce colors to make the routes stand out more, or make it easier to look at the whole thing.
Kodaka said while promoting the game that he considers The Hundred Line his "best work" and a game that's close to his ideal. After experiencing it for myself, I have to agree. It's unique and unforgettable, and a magnum opus that Too Kyo Games will be hard-pressed to top in the future.
The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy- will come out for the Nintendo Switch and Windows PC via Steam on April 24, 2025.
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Destructoid Monday, April 21, 2025 8:29 AM
One of the larger maps you can investigate during Phasmophobia's Cursed Hollow event is Grafton Farmhouse. This location is incredibly dark and spacious, which makes hunting for Forest Minion nests around it a fairly daunting task.
It's easy to get lost at this location or miss a couple of rooms that may have a Forest Minion for you to reveal because of how sizeable and confusing the layout is. If you're struggling to find them, here are all of the Forest Minion nest locations around Grafton Farmhouse for the Cursed Hollow event in Phasmophobia.
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All Grafton Farmhouse Forest Minion Totem nest locations
Around the entire Grafton Farmhouse map, you can find a total of 17 Forest Minion nests. There are plenty of nests to find on both floors, so exploring the entire location is crucial for contributing as many event points as possible.
First floor
You can find the first nest in the entryway as soon as you enter the map. Look to your right under the stairs to find this nest on the ground in front of a wooden shelf and a large gas tank.
Venture into the dining room to find another Forest Minion nest you can check. Turn left from the entryway and proceed straight to enter this room. Look under the dining room table with the plaid blue tablecloth to find this nest.
The next nest is in the kitchen. Continue through the dining room and proceed through the door at the end of it. Turn right as soon as you enter to spot a nest tucked in the corner near the light switch.
The small storage room attached to the kitchen is the next location you need to check. Go through the door at the north end of this room and look down between the red metal rolling cart and the tall shelf to check the nest.
Head into the living room for the next nest. Return to the kitchen and head through the door on the left side to access this area. You can also find the living room by heading straight through the entryway from the front door. Once you're in this room, head back to the corner by the window and look down to find the Forest Minion nest.
Another nest can be found in the living room hallway. Walk over to the tiny hallway nook near the east end of the living room. Look for the small tent made of sticks right by the wall.
The master bedroom is the next location you can check. Head through the door on your left in the small living room hallway to access this area. Look down in front of the partition near the back of the room to spot this nest.
Venture into the closet attached to the master bedroom to access another nest. Go through the left door on the other side of the partition to enter this room. The nest is sitting up against the back wall.
A nest can be found in the bathroom attached to the master bedroom. Head through the door on the right side of the room divider and look down near the corner by the window to find this one.
There's another nest in the laundry room. Return to the small hallway in the living room and walk straight through the door at the end of it. Look behind the door in the corner to find this nest.
Head to the twin bedroom for the next Forest Minion nest. This room can be accessed by heading through the door on the right side of the hallway in the living room. Walk over to the twin beds in the middle of the room and look directly between them to check the nest.
The closet attached to the twin bedroom has a nest hidden inside. Go through the only other door in this room to access it. The nest can be found near the wall underneath some large branches.
Second floor
The rest of the Forest Minion nests can be found on the second floor. Turn right after entering this map to head upstairs and access the area you need to explore for them.
The first nest on the second level is sitting in the upstairs hallway. As soon as you reach the top of the stairs, turn right and right again to approach the corner area overlooking the downstairs entryway. In the corner by the window, you'll find a nest.
The nursery has another nest for you to find. From the top of the stairs, turn left and go all the way to the end of the hallway. Proceed through the door at the end and look down by the end of the bed to spot this nest.
There's a nest tucked away in the upstairs bathroom. Starting at the top of the stairs, head straight and go through the first door you find. Look in the corner by the bathtub to check this nest.
The next nest can be found in the upstairs bedroom. Turn right at the top of the stairs and walk forward until you find a door. Head inside and look by the bed in the center of the room for the nest.
The final nest is in the upstairs storage room. Go through the other door in the bedroom to find this area. Look down to your left after entering to spot the nest on the ground.
The Cursed Hollow event has plenty of other quests for you to tackle next. You may want to find the Forest Spirit ghost, learn all Forest Minion effects, and review the event maps schedule.
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Destructoid Monday, April 21, 2025 8:06 AM
Dahlia in Genshin Impact is one of the upcoming characters with an imminent release date. If you were hoping to learn more about him, you're in the right place. New leaks have surfaced online, sharing details about his potential element, rarity, and weapon type.
Dahlia's element, rarity, and weapon type in Genshin Impact leaked
According to the leaks via Kokomi and reshared by Team Mew, Dahlia is a 4-star character and his elemental type is Hydro. Assuming the leak is true, this could make him the first 4-star Hydro unit since Candace, who was released in Genshin Impact 3.1.
Additionally, the leaker claims that Dahlia is a support unit that can buff the active character's attack speed. However, at the time of sharing this leak, his synergy with Skirk, another version 5.7 character, is not good. That said, it could change during the beta.
Furthermore, as per info shared by another leaker named MeroMero, Dahlia is expected to be a Sword user. Since he is a support unit, building him would be easy since he will have access to F2P weapons like the Sacrificial Sword and the Favonius Sword.
As of writing, not much is known about Dahlia, as he has yet to make an in-game appearance, but he is one of the oldest known NPC names in Genshin Impact. Luckily, the wait will end soon, as he is expected to be released in one of the upcoming Natlan updates.
Expected release window
While Dahlia's official appearance is currently unknown, there have been several leaks in the past showing his potential in-game model. He has a short male model, and his outfit's color scheme is similar to Rosaria's. Furthermore, the character silhouette next to Iansan revealed during the version 5.3 livestream is expected to be Dahlia's. Therefore, some speculate that Dahlia will be released in Genshin Impact 5.7 alongside Skirk.
Based on the current update schedule, version 5.7 is expected to go live on June 18. Dahlia and Skirk are also likely to be the last playable characters who will be released in the Natlan patch.
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Destructoid Monday, April 21, 2025 7:41 AM
The total Astrites and pull count estimation in the Wuthering Waves 2.3 update was recently shared online. This version also coincides with the game's first anniversary, so players have been expecting many rewards.
However, the estimated pull count in Wuwa 2.3 doesn't look that different from the regular updates. Read on for more details about the total Astrites and pull you can obtain in the upcoming anniversary patch.
Wuwa 2.3 total Astrites and estimated pull count
A user named @Mortefis_Note on X has shared the total amount of Astrites one can obtain in the Wuthering Waves 2.3 update. The info is mostly based on the beta leaks, and it matches the events revealed during the livestream.
Here's a brief breakdown of the total Astrites and pull count you can obtain in WuWa 2.3 for free:
Adding everything gives you 9,420 Astrites (and another 480 if you're a returnee), 42 Radiant Tides, 22 Lustrous Tides, and 7 Forging Tides. This will get you 100 pulls on a limited banner for free, which is enough to guarantee at least one 5-star character.
We will get two more events called Resounding Waves and Dreaming Deep, but their total rewards are currently unknown, so we have more rewards to look forward to in Wuwa 2.3.
Lunite Subscription and paid Battle Pass rewards
With the monthly Lunite Subscription, you can get up to 3,780 Astrites, which equals another 23 pulls. Furthermore, you can obtain 680 Astrites and 5 Radiant Tides after unlocking the paid version of the Battle Pass, giving you 9 more pulls. In total, you should be able to obtain 136 pulls on the limited character banner, 24 pulls on the standard banners, and 7 on the weapon banner.
Naturally, you can use Astrites on the weapon banner too, so the pull count on the limited character banner will decrease accordingly.
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MonsterVine Monday, April 21, 2025 3:00 AM Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves is a smooth and sharp fighting game that brings the Fatal Fury franchise back to the forefront of the genre. The Episodes of South Town mode can be a little repetitive, but the breadth of content and core mechanics are plenty of fun for both newcomers and veterans. Fatal […] |