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PCGamesN Tuesday, August 26, 2025 5:52 AM What is the best graphics card? Finding a new gaming GPU can mean wading through a swamp of often baffling numbers in specs lists, as well as weighing up the pros and cons of the different feature sets from Nvidia, AMD, and Intel. Fear not, though, as we've done all the testing and comparisons for you, so that our best graphics card guide will steer you towards the right card for your needs without the jargon. The best graphics card overall is the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090. It costs over $2,000, but it's by far the fastest GPU out there. If, like most of us, cost is a consideration for you, though, the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT is the card to go for, as it offers fantastic performance for its price, even if it's impossible to find at its $599 MSRP. Meanwhile, for a budget card, the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB is the one. Read on to find plenty of other options to suit other budgets, and check the Also tested section for reviews of cards that didn't quite make the top of our list. For more buying advice, check out the How to choose a graphics card and FAQ sections of this guide. Continue reading Best graphics card 2025 - top gaming GPUs MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Ryzen 7 9800X3D review, Best gaming CPU, Radeon RX 9070 XT review |
PCGamesN Tuesday, August 26, 2025 5:23 AM Where is Tophat Gudetama in Hello Kitty Island Adventure? Once you've befriended Pochacco in Hello Kitty Island Adventure, he lets you know that fan-favorite Sanrio character Gudetama can be found dotted around the island as small figurines. While many of these can be found posed in different situations, some very special Gudetamas are key to the Laziest Egg weekly quest. Once you have triggered the Laziest Egg quest with Pochacco in Hello Kitty Island Adventure, the weekly quest appears in your log automatically to find Gudetama wearing a top hat. Only one of these Gudetamas spawns each week, and, luckily, its location is on a simple rotation, and we've got them all right here. Take a look below to find the Tophat Gudetama location this week, or browse where it might appear in the relaxing game in the future. Continue reading Hello Kitty Island Adventure Tophat Gudetama location MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best relaxing games, Games like Animal Crossing, Best life games |
PCGamesN Tuesday, August 26, 2025 5:39 AM Which League of Legends skins are currently on sale in the store? LoL is a free-to-play game in the truest sense - you can enjoy everything the MOBA offers for absolutely nothing. Now, if you were to ask a seasoned League player if that were true, they'd probably have to stifle a few tears as they check how much their bank account has suffered buying skins since they started battling on the Rift. Riot rotates a series of skins in the store, with the savviest of us holding out until the cosmetic they want ends up in the discount section of the store or even the League of Legends Mythic shop. The shiny new cosmetics are only available briefly, so act fast if you want to snag the new hotness. Here is every League of Legends skin on sale right now if you want to know what's in the store without booting up the client. Continue reading Which League of Legends skins are currently on sale? MORE FROM PCGAMESN: League of Legends ranks explained, League of Legends Mythic shop rotation, LoL tier list |
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PCGamesN Tuesday, August 26, 2025 4:09 AM What is the current and next Honkai Star Rail banner? If you want to pick up the best five-star characters for your team, then wishing on banners is your best bet. HSR banners rotate regularly, so it can be difficult to decide whether to go all-in on the current banner or wait for the next one. Our banner schedule includes everyone you can pull during the current update, plus the banners slated to appear in the next update and beyond. The Honkai Star Rail banner system allows you to trade in your hard-earned Star Rail passes for the opportunity to pull the best Honkai Star Rail characters. If you're new to HoYoverse's gacha-driven free PC games, our crash course to Honkai Star Rail Warps is invaluable for understanding banners and how they work, as well as the latest Honkai Star Rail codes to redeem currency. Now that we've got you up to speed, here's the lowdown for the current and next banner in Honkai Star Rail. Continue reading Honkai Star Rail current banner, next banner, and 3.6 banners MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Honkai Star Rail review, Honkai Star Rail codes, Honkai Star Rail tier list |
PCGamesN Tuesday, August 26, 2025 3:42 AM When is the ZZZ 2.2 release date? The next update for Zenless Zone Zero is right around the corner, and it's time to look ahead to what awaits us in version 2.2. If you've been saving up your Polychrome, we've got a full itinerary of everything coming to HoYoverse's urban fantasy in the next few weeks. ZZZ 2.2 'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night' is the next update to hit the gacha game, and it picks up right after the Miasmic Fiend's defeat in Zenless Zone Zero's last update. We expect this update to focus on Obol Squad, particularly Isolde and Seed, now that TOPS has been put in its place. We've also got an early look at upcoming characters set to make a mark on our Zenless Zone tier list, new locations, and more. Continue reading ZZZ 2.2 release date, banners, characters, events, and story MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Zenless Zone Zero review, Zenless Zone Zero codes, Zenless Zone Zero banners |
PCGamesN Tuesday, August 26, 2025 4:09 AM Who are the new Honkai Star Rail characters? Like all gacha games, Honkai Star Rail includes an ever-expanding roster of characters. From bubbly extroverts to brooders with a dark past, there's no end to the number of fan favorites we can expect to encounter on our Trailblazing expedition. We've collated them all into one handy guide, so you can keep track of who they are and how they appear in the story. Most of the characters in Honkai Star Rail are available to pull from HSR banners, though the free PC game also has various upcoming characters scheduled to appear as well. Some of them will achieve greatness at the top of our Honkai Star Rail tier list, while others will still win plenty of fans thanks to their glowing personality. Either way, Honkai Star Rail Stellar Jade and the latest Honkai Star Rail codes are essential if you plan to pull all characters. Continue reading Honkai Star Rail characters - all new and upcoming characters MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Honkai Star Rail review, Honkai Star Rail codes, Honkai Star Rail tier list |
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Destructoid Tuesday, August 26, 2025 4:38 AM
Anyone who backed the original Hollow Knight Kickstarter over ten years ago should dust off their old inboxes, as Team Cherry is starting to get in contact with you regarding Silksong.
Surveys are beginning to go out to players who backed the original game, asking them to pick their preference of codes for the upcoming release. The options are PC and Switch, despite Wii U being the original confirmed launch console all those years ago. Inboxes.
For those wondering why those who backed the original game are getting a code for free, well, it's pretty simple. Silksong was initially intended as a DLC for the first game. Still, it unexpectedly grew larger than anticipated, eventually becoming a spin-off and standalone game rather than a simple add-on DLC pack.
It makes you wonder what else the team would have done had the original Kickstart gone beyond its 50,000 dollars in fundraising and unlocked additional Stretch Goals like the third playable character and even PS Vita support. In hindsight, it's amusing to see a project that only raised that much on Kickstarter achieve such success.
For anyone who did back the original Kickstarter but hasn't yet recieved a survey email to get their free game code, Team Cherry is asking players to contact backers@teamcherry.com.au mentioning the email address you used for the campaign for verification, as well as asking players to tell them their new email address, so they can get the survey sent out to you and confirm your identity. Team Cherry is asking people to wait 48 hours before contacting them, though.
For anyone who didn't back the original Kickstarter, don't panic. No one is getting access to the game early. Not even the press are getting any form of early access (apparently), so everyone will be able to log in and experience the game on multiple systems come Sept. 4, when the game finally releases worldwide.
You know, unless Team Cherry decides to delay it for the memes.
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Destructoid Tuesday, August 26, 2025 4:00 AM
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is looking to tear a rift into different locations when it drops later this fall, featuring fun gadgets and crossover characters galore.
Sporting the new CrossWorlds feature, racing tracks in the game will have ring portals that will change the environment completely, basically turning each track into three-in-one in certain situations, making for a daring new take on the genre.
This past week at gamescom, Destructoid sat down with the head of all things Sonic Team, Takashi Iizuka, to discuss the upcoming game's crossover characters and why some of them seem to be mute in-game.
Note: Parts of this interview were edited to avoid repetition and allow for better text clarity.
With all of the different racing games coming out this year, especially with Mario Kart World recently, Kirby Air Riders, even Garfield Kart, How do you feel Sonic Racing Crossworlds is positioned as a racing game to become something that can become its own thing? And what would you say is the main feature or selling point that distinguishes Crossworlds from its competitors?
Takashi Iizuka, Head of Sonic Team (via translator): Sonic, as you know, had a lot of racing games in the past. All those racing games developed by [Sumo Digital] team and also Sonic Riders is also a racing game for Sonic, as well. And when we kicked off this project, the team wanted to make sure that we can develop the most fun Sonic racing game in history as one of the key goals that they had when they kicked off this project. So, to achieve that, [we] decided to work with the Sega Arcade Division, the Arcade Game Division. So, yeah, I think the goal was to really develop the best Sonic racing experience, to create the best Sonic racing game was really the goal. As far as differentiating from the other rating titles that the other companies were making, [that] wasn't actually one of the key things that they were thinking at the start.
So, I wanted to talk about the gadgets and customization features that you included with this game. Obviously, it's very unique in that the different gadgets combine to give yourself different ways of play. That means that not every rider is the same. I wanted to know how painful that was to develop and how the team came about deciding all these different customization options and actually implementing them into the title.
Iizuka: It adds more, I guess, it could change the rules. So, they have to kind of enlarge the scope of the gameplay. It's also another thing that was really difficult for them. Online competition is really one of the key things that kind of drew this idea about the gadgets. And the dev team thinks that one of the good things or the important things about online competition is that the players will be able to kind of bring their own setting, their own uniqueness to their online experience. [Sonic Team] wanted to create a system where they can implement those [unique ideas] or think about their own strategy so that they can compete in the online multiplayer.
CrossWorlds and crossovers are a big feature of this game, which is being shown, and obviously, the season pass on the DLC with Minecraft, Nickelodeon properties, and recently revealed Pac-Man. I wanted to know where this idea of crossovers came about and which IP or teams were looked at, and what the criteria was for that expanse into a bigger game.
Iizuka: [Sonic Team] wanted to make sure that this was like the best Sonic racing title that incorporates all those elements from the past as well. Guest characters was also one important mechanic that they wanted to reintroduce into this game. Because of that, as you already know, they announced guest Sega characters such as Ichiban and Joker that will be available for free every month through updates. And also then, to expand a bit more on that, if players can buy the season pass, they'll be able to also play IPs such as Minecraft and stuff that also includes new tracks as well. It was just kind of mechanical something that they always wanted to implement. When you talk about the criteria, of course, [Sega Team] also looked about to external ideas to see if they wanted to introduce IPs that have uniqueness and also have maybe a fun world. And then kind of put together some ideas of what IPs could maybe fit, what IPs have uniqueness, and then [Sega Team] approached multiple companies. And I guess the companies that we were able to agree upon were the ones that we are going down.
There has been some talk regarding certain DLC characters not having voices in-game currently. Even just playing on the demo, there was an instance of them not having a voice. Is there any reason behind this? And also, will you potentially add updates in the future to add voices if there's enough fan outcry for it?
Iizuka: In this game, there's a lot of interactions between characters, so if we include voices for the guest characters, that will mean a lot of interaction between them and Sega characters. The scope of the review that we'll have to ask the external companies will become very large. We didn't want to make it difficult for the external company. So that's, I guess, the reason why we decided not to be.
So just to clarify, then it was more a sense that it was just more about making sure the characters were in the game and looked good, and voices were an afterthought? Or is it a sense more that it was a gameplay decision, but it might be something that they'll look back at in the future?
Iizuka: Voices are a really important part of the game, but [Sonic Team] really focused on the interactions between the Sonic characters. The dev team really thinks that it's surprising how much interactions they put into the game for the 23 Sonic characters. They really had to focus, put all the effort into Sonic, that may be another reason. And they had to give up on the non-Sonic characters.
When did the team decide to allow players to literally crossover into different stages? And what were some of the difficulties that came with introducing a mechanic that loaded various random or different stages in one singular race?
Iizuka: The CrossWorlds mechanic was actually one of the very first keywords that the dev team was discussing. It was really a mechanic that was in their heads from the start, and that's actually one of the reasons they were able to kick off this project. It was a really difficult project. For a normal racing game, they just have to load one stage and that's it, but for our game, it has to load three stages. That means more data, and each stage has different lighting settings, different shadings and stuff, and additional mechanics. Also, players have to feel good when playing the game, so we have to make sure that players don't feel bad during those three stages. Building a stage that can support all three stages was very difficult.
Regarding the DLC and season pass, you looked at different IPs from a lot of companies. Was there a particular IP that you really wanted to cross over with that you couldn't get? Was there an IP that got away from you, or you couldn't finish or finalize in the end?
Iizuka: Minecraft was an IP that [we] really wanted to include in the game, and we were able to get it. The visuals are very different and unique, and also very popular with kids. That's one we were able to include. [Sega Team] also wanted to introduce characters from non-game media, like Nickelodeon. There were discussions and negotiations, and the IP [Sega Team] was able to agree upon the ones in the game.
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