GamersHeroes Saturday, November 8, 2025 11:31 AM Smashing the 50.5 billion gathered feathers milestone in the limited-time Angry Birds 2 Space in-game community event, Rovio has officially launched the iconic Red into space. The post Angry Birds 2 Space Campaign Launching Red Into Space IRL appeared first on GamersHeroes. |
GamersHeroes Saturday, November 8, 2025 11:13 AM It's time to reload the Universe - the world of TORSHOCK's spatial puzzler Total Reload is now available for the PC. The post Spatial Puzzler Total Reload Now Available appeared first on GamersHeroes. |
Kotaku Saturday, November 8, 2025 10:17 AM
This Dell laptop packs 32GB RAM and 1TB storage, and it's currently selling for a record low price. The post Dell Offers Its 1TB Laptop Almost Free (-71%), but Quietly Dumps Stock Through Amazon Only appeared first on Kotaku. |
Kotaku Saturday, November 8, 2025 9:05 AM
This 891-piece Hagrid's Hut includes seven mini-figures and opens for easy interior play. The post Hagrid's Hut Falls to Pocket Change, LEGO Cuts 4.9-Rated Harry Potter Set to Fresh Record Low appeared first on Kotaku. |
PCGamesN Saturday, November 8, 2025 2:59 PM Grab some easy rings, a skin, or something else entirely with new Sonic Rumble codes for the release of the Blue Blur's speedy party game. |
PCGamesN Saturday, November 8, 2025 12:00 PM Open-world FPS Skopje '83 brings its infested streets to life with colorful flair, and you can try the looter shooter before you buy. |
PCGamesN Saturday, November 8, 2025 10:38 AM The November Nightingale update introduces several new charms, expands decoration sets, buffs one-handed weapons, and rebalances magic. |
PCGamesN Saturday, November 8, 2025 9:32 AM Mixing mystical monsters with mythical Greek gods, a strong Kickstarter run means Elestrals Awakened will grace our screens in a few years. |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Saturday, November 8, 2025 2:55 PM Slightly serious one here folks! The studio behind Blue Prince, one of this year's best received games, is asking for some help for one of their lead playtesters, Matthew "Iggy" Kowalski. As shared on Bluesky, Iggy has polycystic kidney disease, leaving him with only a few months to find a living kidney donor. |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Saturday, November 8, 2025 2:24 PM While there is a notable enough sentiment that old games are worse because they are old, so should therefore be either let to rot or to be remade so that they are "better," I think this argument goes out the window when you look at something like Final Fantasy 11. That thing came out in 2022! And it launched on PS2 first! Yet here it is more than two decades later, still getting updates, and now, potentially, an entire new zone. |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Saturday, November 8, 2025 12:02 PM I know, I know, change is difficult isn't it? It upset me just the other day that YouTube has changed videos so that they have rounded corners instead of being perfectly rectangular. It's sacrilegious! A feeling I will continue to have until I ultimately forget about it because life moves on to the next grievance. Still, subtle changes like that can often set some kind of internal alarm bells off, something you might have been experiencing with store pages on Steam looking a bit… wider. |
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Siliconera Saturday, November 8, 2025 3:00 PM
While it is primarily a fantasy shojo series, If the Villainess and Villain Met and Fell in Love also includes some darker elements related to parental abuse, PTSD, and bullying, and the fourth volume highlights the kinds of dangers and breakthroughs that can come from a victim attempting to face that too swiftly. In this case, we see a major mystery start to be revealed as Brigitte Meidell pushes herself in the name of progress in the fourth volume of the manga, and the results are both unsettling and satisfying.
Editor's Note: There will be spoilers for parts of volume 4 of If the Villainess and Villain Met and Fell in Love manga below. There will also be references to parental abuse and both physical and verbal abuse.
One of the main plot points in If the Villainess and Villain Met and Fell in Love is that Brigitte comes from the Meidell family, which is known for making contracts with powerful fire spirits. However during her own ceremony, the priest determined she'd contracted with a minor, weak, no-name Spirit. The devastating part of that is that it completely enraged her father. He dragged her out of the temple in front of the priest, manhandled her at home, and massively verbally abused her in the house. As part of that, he grabbed her hand and forced it into the family fireplace while her mother and him agreed and mocked her, disowning her. That set her down a path of being the "villainess," as despite being engaged to the kingdom's prince as the story began, she was bullied and despised by most everyone but the "villain," another noble named Yuri Aurealis.
Now, throughout the manga until this point, we've seen suggestions that maybe people were mistaken all along about Brigitte in many ways. She's got a budding and healthy start of a relationship with Yuri, though that hasn't turned officially romantic yet. She's started to form friendships over the past few chapters and volumes. More importantly, there are suggestions her spirit is actually something special. Both reactions from other spirits and certain situations seem to hint at its power and influence. The third volume even closed out focusing on that.
Which means that volume 4 of the If the Villainess and Villain Met and Fell in Love manga begins with Brigitte approaching that knowledge and attempting to solve it in an unhealthy way. After visiting the Aurealis estate, she runs into someone who looks like Yuri's younger brother and his older brother. The younger explains that her spirit is masking itself and its identity because of her fears and PTSD, out of concern for her. He offers to assist her in awakening it. Now she doesn't really bring this up to Yuri in a way that could offer extra insight. Instead, Harunadon's story decides to go with a more brute force approach.
While this does lead to some scary situations and us watching Brigitte deal with some additional trauma, I actually appreciated the way Harunadon handled it and Chiru Ukai depicted it. The boy, who then shows up at her estate and agrees to be referred to as Blue, suggests a method akin to exposure therapy. Brigitte is afraid of fire. Put her in situations with it. Now, the initial concept and idea doesn't seem bad. When Carson, the home's chef, is making a dessert, Blue and Brigitte watch. Brigitte even comments internally that her servants were kind enough to limit fire usage to keep there from being too much exposure. This goes well and seems like an okay sort of step.
Except then we see the more drastic move of Blue asking Carson to reveal his contracted fire spirit in front of Brigitte. That… goes poorly. It's a harrowing moment. It leads to a moment in which we, as the reader, watch as she experiences a massive panic attack, passes out, and relives the events that led to her abuse, dismissal, and trauma. It's even uncomfortable to read. It feels raw and realistic. This isn't taking a typical shojo manga approach where suddenly Brigitte would "get" it and be fixed from that exposure. It shows an actual breakdown and realistic reaction to being suddenly hit with a trigger.
For the sake of spoilers, I won't go over everything that happens next. But we do see this plotline lead to results and progress in the mystery regarding the identity of Brigitte's spirit in If the Villainess and Villain Met and Fell in Love. However, it isn't 100% because of that situation Blue suggested with Carson. It comes from Brigitte taking time to think things out. To reflect. To be in a space space with someone she trusts as she works through things. Now this part doesn't seem as realistic as the depiction of trauma, but it is satisfying nonetheless.
If the Villainess and Villain Met and Fell in Love doesn't shy away from dark elements and trauma, even though it is a shojo manga. While it might sometimes feel like it is played up for the sake of drama, the situations in the fourth volume feel a little more like realistic depictions of someone with PTSD dealing with their triggers and confronting their trauma. It might make it difficult to read. However, it also comes across as a more realistic approach to addressing that kind of pain.
Volume 4 of If the Villainess and Villain Met and Fell in Love is available now, and Yen Press will release volume 5 of the manga on April 28, 2026.
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Destructoid Saturday, November 8, 2025 2:58 PM
GSC Game World, owners of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. franchise, have filed a copyright infringement claim against the indie co-op title MISERY. The former argues MISERY infringes on its IP, citing player reviews and comparisons as proof, but MISERY's creators are having none of it.
In a Steam community posed shared today, Nov. 8, MISERY's developers said GSC Game World, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.'s owner, has "attacked MISERY with a DMCA strike," claiming copyright infringement.
"In their claim, they state that MISERY infringes on their IP and that players' reviews mention S.T.A.L.K.E.R., which means it hurts their interests," the devs stated.
Furthermore, they completely dismissed all claims made by GSC Game World, stating they would "fight back" against the claim and do everything possible to have the game reinstated. On that subject, MISERY was removed from Steam following the claim, and cannot be purchased on that store at the time of writing.
The developers believe this is "100 percent a misunderstanding," as MISERY "is a completely different concept, happening in the fictional Republic of Zaslavie."
"It has nothing to do with the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. universe, Chernobyl, etc. MISERY uses no characters, plot, storyline, assets, monsters, music, code, etc., from their games," they added, saying that GSC does not own copyright on "depressive Soviet-era buildings, playing guitar, vodka, radiation, or abandoned locations, or even the poo."
What's more, the devs said S.T.A.L.K.E.R. itself is filled with various inspirations that it does not own the copyright to, including Andrei Tarkovsky's film, which is literally called STALKER, where hunters go to explore a mysterious "Zone." The movie itself was inspired by the Roadside Picnic novel, which contains many of the concepts that would later find their way into S.T.A.L.K.E.R., the game.
The franchise thus is built on verbatim copies, or derivatives, of existing works and ideas, which is fine, as all art has to be inspired by something. But MISERY's devs believe issuing copyright claims on inspirations is "just wrong."
The creators remain hopeful that all will be well soon, with MISERY back on the storefront, with updates rolling out.
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Destructoid Saturday, November 8, 2025 2:03 PM
If you're bored of gathering nature-themed quests in ARC Raiders, Prescriptions of the Past will feel completely different.
The quest begins once you receive it from Lance, and the gist is to find a set of medical records. This guide will help you complete all steps of the Prescriptions of the Past quest.
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ARC Raiders Prescriptions of the Past quest walkthrough
The Prescriptions of the Past quest can be broken down into three different parts.
Our quest begins at the Departure Building in Spaceport. Located in the middle of the map, edging towards the west, it's right by the Launch Towers building. I have marked the location, and it's impossible to miss. However, I have marked the exact point from where you'll enter the building. There are multiple entries, but the one I chose is the quickest way to reach the medical records.
Go up one floor using the stairs, and you'll find a doorway (shown in the screenshot). Turn left, and then head straight. You'll reach the Medical Records. Stand close to it, scan the records, and it will complete the quest.
If you notice the screenshot above, you'll find that I have marked two locations. The Medical Records can sometimes be found in the room to the left of the one shown above. If you don't find it at the spot marked as 1, go to the spot marked as 2 to find the records.
Prescription of the Past quest rewards in ARC Raiders
Here's a complete list of rewards you get for completing the Prescription of the Past quest.
If you're looking to complete more quests for extra rewards, A Warm Place to Rest and Water Troubles are great choices.
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Destructoid Saturday, November 8, 2025 1:28 PM
The Defensive Shift Evolution has arrived in FC 26 Ultimate Team, which allows players to improve a silver card to a first-team regular.
With plenty of stat upgrades, roles, and playstyles on offer, there are some fantastic choices to include in this evolution. This guide will help you narrow down the best choices and make the most of the 10,000 coins you need to unlock the upgrades.
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FC 26 Defensive Shift Evolution requirements
Here are the requirements of Defensive Shift Evolution in FC 26.
FC 26 Defensive Shift Evolution upgrades
The evolution has five levels of upgrades, each with certain conditions to fulfill.
Level 1 upgrades
Level 2 upgrades
Level 3 upgrades
Level 4 upgrades
Level 5 upgrades
Level 1 upgrade requirements
Level 2 upgrade requirements
Level 3 upgrade requirements
Level 4 upgrade requirements
Level 5 upgrade requirements
Best players to use in Defensive Shift Evolution
Here are some of my best recommendations for inclusion in the evolution.
While the upgrades are significant, you will be able to include these cards in future evolutions to create a chain and evolve their stats further.
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Destructoid Saturday, November 8, 2025 12:11 PM
Unleash the animal inside you and train hard to become as fast as the expiration date of the latest Roblox trend. There's a variety of creatures in Animal Training, and you'll surely want to unlock them all. Hit that treadmill and then dominate the race track.
Naturally, it takes a while to gain all the speed and wins you require to unlock the best animals, pets, and items in the game, so you should use the latest Animal Training codes and grab a bunch of free potions for instant boosts. For another Roblox experience all about our animal friends, visit our article on Build a Zoo codes and claim all the freebies while they're still available!
All Animal Training codes list
Active Animal Training codes
Animal Training Codes
Expired Animal Training codes
Related: Raise Animals codes
How to redeem Animal Training codes
Follow our guide below to successfully redeem all your Animal Training codes:
How to get more Animal Training codes
For more Animal Training codes, you can join the Animal Training Discord server and the Animal Run Club Roblox group. If you'd rather skip the tedious process of digging for codes, bookmark our article and rely on our easy-to-use code list, which we update regularly.
Why are my Animal Training codes not working?
It's easy to make a typing mistake when entering Animal Training codes manually, so we suggest using our copy feature to always get everything correct. Still, sometimes you'll encounter codes that the developer has decided to remove from the game. Let us know about those so that we can move them to the Expired section of our list.
What is Animal Training?
Animal Training is your typical Roblox train-to-race experience. Use treadmills to gain speed, so that you can race and collect wins. With enough wins, you'll be able to hatch pets, purchase trails, and acquire items that provide all sorts of boosts. You'll also be able to feed your animal so that it grows, and, of course, unlock new, faster animals to play as. Don't stop until you're a T. rex with a top hat.
If there are any other Roblox titles that come to mind where you could really use a helping hand, head straight to our Roblox Codes section and discover all the handy free goodies that you can claim right now!
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Destructoid Saturday, November 8, 2025 10:29 AM
ARC Raiders is all about heading out into an unknown world for loot, riches, and maybe even some friends (or foes).
As part of ARC Raiders' storyline and journey to get a stacked inventory, there are over 60 quests in the game at launch that will provide new items, blueprints, and even story exposition to show off the lore of this interesting and cool universe.
Here's all the info we have so far on the currently available quest list in ARC Raiders.
ARC Raiders full quest list
This list is a work in progress as we play through the game. It's being updated regularly.
This article will be updated with new information and quests when they become available.
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Destructoid Saturday, November 8, 2025 10:09 AM
The Water Troubles quest in ARC Raiders teaches you a thing or two about the scarcity of the liquid resource in the wasteland, and you can complete the tasks to earn some fantastic rewards.
You begin the Water Troubles quest by obtaining it from Celeste. The gist of the quest is to collect a water sample and hand it over. Here's how you can complete it.
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ARC Raiders Water Troubles quest walkthrough
The Water Troubles quest can be broken down into the following parts.
The first task is to find the Flood Access Tunnel in the Red Lakes Balcony area. Located in the Dam Battlegrounds region, I have marked the spot on the screenshot below to make it easy for you. If you're at the exact spot, you'll find the intake of the district's water supply.
You can either approach the spot from below on foot or slide your way down from the top. Be careful while moving down to avoid any fall damage. Enter the tunnel via the entrance and continue on the path to find the dirty water. You'll notice a pipe on your left. Interact with it to collect the sample.
Once you've collected the sample, it's time to head back to Speranza. Keep the sample in the safe pocket if you don't want to risk your quest progress. The closest elevator is at the Red Lakes Balcony itself, but expect to find some ARCs on the way (along with human players as usual).
Water Troubles quest rewards in ARC Raiders
Here's the complete list of items you'll get for completing the Water Troubles quest in ARC Raiders.
If you're looking to complete more quests, Our Presence Up There and Celeste's Journals will challenge you in different ways.
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WGB Saturday, November 8, 2025 1:55 PM Take-Two announced a delay for GTA 6 and reported that Red Dead Redemption 2 has sold 79 million copies, making it the 4th best-selling game, likely to surpass Wii Sports soon. |
WGB Saturday, November 8, 2025 11:21 AM Hoomanz flips the script on alien invasions by putting you in the paws of the local wildlife, scaring off clueless humans who've invaded your planet. It's cute, quirky, and built on a fun premise — but after a couple of levels, the charm starts to wear thin, and you'll be glad it wraps up before the novelty fades. |
Gaming Instincts – Next-Generation of Video Game Journalism Saturday, November 8, 2025 2:23 PM The trailer showcases the game's mechanics. The post Kirby Air Riders Gets New Overview Trailer appeared first on Gaming Instincts - Next-Generation of Video Game Journalism. |
Gaming Instincts – Next-Generation of Video Game Journalism Saturday, November 8, 2025 1:59 PM Announced on the official website. The post MLB The Show 26 Officially Announced appeared first on Gaming Instincts - Next-Generation of Video Game Journalism. |
Gaming Instincts – Next-Generation of Video Game Journalism Saturday, November 8, 2025 1:39 PM A new trailer was also released. The post BlizzCon 2026 Tickets Available Now appeared first on Gaming Instincts - Next-Generation of Video Game Journalism. |









