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At first glance, Genshin Impact looks like a straightforward “mash A to win” anime-fantasy RPG, but as you encounter more bosses and become familiar with your talents, you’ll eventually realize that careful planning and deliberate team building can make or break your experience. Elemental strengths and weaknesses are a common feature of every RPG, but few games make them as important in combat as Genshin. All elemental reactions in the game scale with “elemental mastery” but this seemingly simple stat obscures the complexity of elemental reactions and the damage they deal or mitigate — read on for a comprehensive explanation of reactions and how they stack up....

Genshin Impact, the gacha game that’s been making waves on the internet since its release in September, looks to be getting a lot more medieval. A must-see fan edit has taken advantage of the game’s teleportation scene to show one of the characters accidentally teleporting themselves into the world of Skyrim. Talk about taking a wrong turn! The hilarious video, posted to Reddit, shows Genshin’s Chongyun going through the animation of teleporting, and after a brief flash, the infamous opening to Skyrim begins....

With God of War’s release date fast approaching, fans of Sony and Santa Monica Studio’s action-adventure epic are understandably clamoring for as much information as possible about the forthcoming title as they can handle. Now, in order to provide even more details for the game, a fresh video has been released that features director Cory Barlog extrapolating on the project’s lore, providing a richer context for the story to come....

As if it needed to be said, Sony and Santa Monica Studio’s forthcoming action-adventure epic, God of War, is one of the most highly anticipated video games of 2018, with the title currently only having a little less than a month to go before its release. Now, director Cory Barlog has confirmed that the PlayStation 4 exclusive has reached a major and necessary point in its production prior to launch, by revealing that the game has officially gone gold....

With the release of God of War a couple weeks behind us, most of those that picked it up have likely experienced all that it has to offer by now. However, some players aren’t quite done squeezing a bit more enjoyment out of the title, such as one YouTube user who challenged himself to beat the hardest boss in the game on the hardest difficulty. He did just that, won, and didn’t take a lick of damage in the process....

EA’s FIFA 21 has continuously dominated sales charts since it released in October 2020, much like prior entries in the yearly sports game franchise. FIFA 21 Season 3 began on January 1 and will run until February 12, but the developer is now also celebrating the start of 2021 with its fan-driven “Team of the Year” competition. For those who do not follow FIFA-related ventures, the vote does not pertain to which specific team was the best overall....

The MMORPG, Final Fantasy 14, has a lot of crafting classes that a player can take up. These include Blacksmith, Carpenter, Goldsmith, Leatherworker, Weaver, Armorer, Culinarian, and Alchemist. All of these can be pretty useful to the player to make gil, gear, housing items, and consumables like potions and food. Leveling up these classes is a far different experience than the combat classes. They cannot level up with the games’ story and there aren’t dungeons, hunts, and leveling roulettes for crafters....

Playing Final Fantasy VII Remake on Hard Mode completely changes the dynamic of the game and can make certain boss fights considerably tougher than they were the first time around. Rufus and Darkstar are definitely among them; with the inability to use items making this a particularly tricky battle. Thankfully, however, Rufus has something of an Achilles’ heel. Those who read his enemy intel page will see that he’s largely immune to stagger, but there is one ability in particular that will instantly stagger him if used at the right time....

After the fallout between legendary game creator Kojima and his longtime studio partner Konami, the final stretch of marketing for Metal Gear Solid 5 has been an interesting one. Controversary over the removal of Kojima’s name from the box art for the game further fueled the theory that there was no lack of bad blood after the split. The latest piece of advertising for Metal Gear Solid 5 was delivered by Kojima and brings a lot more blood to the table....

Rhea plays an integral part in the Three Houses narrative, and serves as the answer to so of the game’s most intriguing mysteries. She’s unavoidable, no matter which route you’re on and depending on your choices can either be an ally or an enemy. Regardless, she plays a big role and is a character most fans are very familiar with. Most fans know nearly all there is to know about Rhea, and some pretty funny revelations have been made as a result....

It’s been quite the roller coaster of a week for Alan Wake fans who started off with elation when a follow-up to last year’s cult hit was announced, then fell into a small stage of depression when that title was revealed to be an XBLA game, but then came out feeling much better once Remedy clarified the experience would be structured like a retail release. Now that roller coaster of emotion has finally culminated in the release of the promised fist screen shot of this Alan Wake title, which may or may not be called Alan Wake’s Night Springs....

Infinity Ward’s creative strategist Robert Bowling has released the first image of the Hardened Edition for the studio’s upcoming title Modern Warfare 3. Bowling states that the Hardened Edition he holds in his hands is “literally on the factory line.” The release of special editions has become common place for Call of Duty games ever since Modern Warfare 2, for which Hardened and Prestige Editions were released. Though we do not yet know the contents of the Modern Warfare 3 Hardened Edition, the Hardened and Prestige editions of past Call of Duty games may provide a clue....

Anyone that’s played a multiplayer-focused Ubisoft game recently can attest that the company has been aggressively pushing for revenue through microtransactions. Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege was one such title to emphasize a digital, in-game marketplace, and now the melee-centric For Honor is the latest to embrace paid-for aesthetic content. Given that in-game transactions are such a polarizing affair, this has lead to some controversy within the title’s fan base – resulting in one gamer calculating the cost attached to purchasing all of the content found within For Honor....

Fortnite Battle Royale has been around since 2017 and in the years that have passed, the game has amassed quite the collection of character skins. Each week seemingly brings new, unique, and creative skins to the in-game shop, and, of course, in the battle pass each and every season. Due to the incredible amount of skins that have released, there are now many rare ones. These skins are rare because they either haven’t been featured in the shop for many months, sometimes years, or they released in a season’s battle pass but never returned again....

It’s that time again — Fortnite’s Week 5 challenges have dropped and it’s time to get on the grind. There are quite a few vehicle-related quests since the update added a new vehicle mod that allows you to put off-road tires on them. Deal Damage With SMGs (1,000) Certain Fortnite players prefer to simply carry a shotgun and AR in their arsenal. However, there is a more classic loadout that consists of carrying an AR, a shotgun, and an SMG....

As many Fortnite fans are likely aware, Season 7 of the free-to-play battle royale release is almost here, which means that the sixth season of the wildly successful game is getting ready to wind down and give way to an all-new cycle of content. With this being the case, the title’s Season 6 Week 10 Battle Pass challenges are in full effect, and those who need a little help to complete them would do well to follow along with our guide....

Fortnite Update 15.30 is now live, and it adds some new content to Epic Games’ battle royale sensation. Among this content are two new Exotic weapons, the Burst Quad Launcher and the Chug Cannon, and many players will undoubtedly be interested in giving them a try. The first step to doing this is to locate Fortnite’s new Exotic weapons, and this guide is here to assist with exactly that. To put things simply, both of the Exotic weapons featured in the new update can be purchased from NPCs in Fortnite....

Fortnite, the game that has taken the world by storm and turned Epic Games into a multibillion-dollar company, has seen its first decline of active streamers since the Battle Royale mode launched. While this certainly doesn’t spell the end of the free-to-play title, it does seem to indicate that popularity surrounding the release may finally be cooling down. The number of streamers playing Fortnite decreased by 5% from 2.37 million in Q3 to 2....

Fortnite has already been downloaded on mobile over 100 million times despite still only being available on iPhone. Fortnite is currently celebrating its first birthday and despite only being around for a year, it has basically taken over the video gaming world. In fact, it’s not only the gaming world that has been saturated by Fortnite. The first ever Fortnite Funko Pop figurine was revealed at San Diego Comic-Con, and Antonine Griezmann paid homage to the game during the World Cup final....

Fortnite is about to get another major crossover with Marvel. Earlier today, Epic Games confirmed a new Marvel and Fortnite crossover event. Now, it seems like players are already getting a rough idea of what the crossover event might bring in the way of cosmetic items. Reliable Fortnite leakers are detailing what kind of skins players can look forward to with the Marvel event, including cosmetics relating to Groot, Wolverine, Thor, and a few others....