April 2022

Classic first-person shooter The Wheel of Time is now available on GOG, with this re-release being a remastered version of the 1999 classic. Nightdive Studios handled modernization duties for the game, adding high-resolution graphic options and support for Windows 7, 8, 10, and 11 operating systems.

Blending RPG elements into its FPS frame, The Wheel of Time was developed by Legend Entertainment and was set 150 years before the events of the original fantasy novels written by Robert Jordan and the new Amazon TV series.

As Elayna Sedai, the Keeper of the Chronicles of the White Tower, players embarked on a quest to retrieve one of the four lost seals that were used to keep the Dark One imprisoned. With a name like that, he probably wasn't a very nice guy.

There were plenty of other nods to the fantasy books in the game, an army of Dark One minions to slay, and an impressive landscape to explore--for its time--when the game first came out.

Dragon Ball Z easily dominates the anime charts when it comes to the sheer number of high-quality titles that have been released over the years. The story of Son Goku might feel like it has been told over 9,000 times already, but it's still endlessly entertaining and has produced some of the best games in the anime adaptation genre over the years. A new Dragon Ball Z game is never too far away, and with the bar regularly being raised for what the franchise is capable of, there have been more hits than misses over the years. Pity the same can't be said for Krillin's fighting record in Dragon Ball Z.

We've gathered a list of ten of the best Dragon Ball Z games below, each one a winner in their own right, and ranked them accordingly. From forgotten gems to esports-defining masterpieces, these are the best Dragon Ball Z games you can play right now.

10. Dragon Ball Z: Attack Of The Saiyans

Dragon Ball and the RPG genre pair up better than Yamcha and a cheap death, with Dragon Ball Z: Attack of the Saiyans on the Nintendo DS being possibly the purest exploration of the JRPG genre through a Goku lens. While it's primarily focused on just Dragon Ball Z's original Saiyan Saga, Attack of the Saiyans is a surprisingly lengthy game with a terrific amount of content and slick turn-based RPG gameplay that requires some quick reflexes. It's a time-sink of a game, but it's still well worth grabbing a DS and a copy of this underrated game for a terrific afternoon of number-punching action.

Anyone who wants to maximize the potential of their new PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X|S will want to pick up a fancy OLED TV--they don't come cheap, but there's no better way to experience the cutting-edge graphics and lightning-fast frame rates. However, if you head over to either Amazon or Best Buy today, you'll find our favorite 4K OLED TV for gaming on sale for just $1,100, down from $1,500.

Aside from those high-end specs, the LG C1 features a high-end processor that offers automatic picture and sound adjustments to keep the scene looking vivid regardless of what's happening on the screen.

World of Warcraft may soon receive Wrath of the Lich King Classic servers, if the discovery of a logo for the beloved expansion in the latest WoW Classic public test realm build and a recent Blizzard survey are any indications.

Via Wowhead, WoW Classic Season of Mastery patch 1.14.3.43086 on the game's public test realm includes a file that is the logo for Wrath of the Lich King. It should be noted that the logo in question is the original expansion logo, and does not include the word "Classic" as Blizzard's other old-school WoW re-releases have done.

The Elder Scrolls Online is unlocking the Morrowind DLC for everyone, and it sounds like it'll remain free for some time. In a blog post, developer ZeniMax Online Studios said it's making the Morrowind DLC free to help players get up to date before the High Isle prologue launches soon.

Beginning now and running through the "foreseeable future," all ESO accounts will be granted free access to the Morrowind DLC the next time they log in. If the DLC doesn't automatically appear, players can grab it from the in-game Crown store for the low price of $0.00.

With the Morrowind DLC going free, everyone will get access to the Vvardenfell zone and storyline, and this includes the Halls of Fabrication Trial and the High Isle prologue when it's released. One item that the freebie offer does not include is access to the Warden class.

Explore the multi-level cantons of Vivec City, the mushroom towers of Sadrith Mora, and the perilous Ashlands as you delve into the weird and wonderful home of the Dark Elves with the Morrowind DLC," ZoS said.

The DLC was originally released in 2017.

A new Ghost Recon game is reportedly in development and has been for over a year.

According to Kotaku, the next mainline Ghost Recon game could launch as early as the fiscal year 2023, and is codenamed Over. Not much other information about a new Ghost Recon is currently available.

Ubisoft experimented with NFTs for Ghost Recon Breakpoint via its Quartz initiative. The response to it was overwhelmingly negative. Strategic Innovations Lab, the team behind Quartz, has reportedly been silent since.

Last year, Ubisoft also revealed Ghost Recon Frontline, a free-to-play live-service game. Kotaku reports that a negative internal playtest earlier this year has caused the project to reset and so it will likely not launch soon.

Another Ubisoft project, codenamed Pathfinder, is reportedly in the works as well. It's reportedly similar to Ubisoft's battle royale, Hyper Scape, but "more cartoony." Hyper Scape and Ghost Recon Breakpoint weren't all that well-received, and it seems like Ubisoft is looking to move on, as Hyper Scape's servers are shutting down later this month and Breakpoint isn't getting any more new content.

Activision has announced a partnership with fashion company Alpha Industries for a very spiffy-looking bomber jacket. The Call of Duty x Alpha Industries B-15 Flight Jacket was actually first revealed during the Call of Duty: Vanguard announcement event last year, but now it's available for anyone to buy.

Activision and Alpha Industries said the jacket will only be available in "very limited quantities," and the jacket isn't cheap, either. It costs $300--you can buy it now from Alpha Industries' website.

Dying Light 2's city of Villedor is a treat for players to run around in, but once the game's main story is over, it puts players right back in, as if nothing happened. For some, that's a bit jarring, which may be why developer Techland is implementing, among other things, a New Game Plus mode in the game's next update.

Announced via a post on Twitter, Techland didn't mince any words, saying that Dying Light 2's 1.3 update would be "one of the biggest patches we've released so far." Along with a New Game Plus mode, Dying Light 2's upcoming patch will include "many fixes for both multi and single-player mode."

Publisher Funcom has announced that Dune: Spice Wars will launch on Steam Early Access for PC on April 26.

A real-time strategy game adaptation based on the popular Frank Herbert sci-fi novels, development is being handled by Northgard developer Shiro Games. Dune: Spice Wars takes place on the planet of Arrakis and features four factions fighting each other for control of the planet and its unique resource, the spice Melange. As a 4X strategy game, Dune: Spice Wars also has a slower pace as players can pause the action when necessary.

Players will need to balance military power, infiltration, political influence, and resource production as either the Atreides, Harkonnen, Smugglers, or Fremen factions, each with their own distinct strengths and weaknesses.

FaZe Clan, the esports and entertainment organisation, has announced it will be launching its own Saturday Night Live inspired series, named unFaZed.

The series will be a weekly show that will air on the live streaming platform Twitch every Thursday, starting on June 2, and is targeted toward the Gen Z audience. UnFaZed is described as "the first-ever variety franchise born out of internet culture," that will feature a recurring cast of internet personalities, but hosted by a rotating roster of guests. Each episode will also be around three to four hours long and include scripted and non-scripted segments.

FaZe Clain is also producing the previously announced Big Brother-style show called FaZe1: The Warehouse, a competition series that will be live-streamed 24 hours a day for 15 days straight on Twitch, starting on May 5.

“Those are two tentpoles for us and we plan on doing multiple seasons,” said Bill McCullough, FaZe Clan’s executive vice president and head of content.

"Some of it is going to be on our YouTube channel, some of it we’re going to take off platform and try and sell to other distributors in an effort to kind of grow our audience and broaden the platforms and the reach that we have and maybe expose a new audience to FaZe Clan. And that’s happening both in the unscripted and scripted world."

An update for the Steam Deck makes it even more Switch-like by making it more convenient to take it with you on the go. The patch notes for the April 5 client update say that Offline Mode will no longer require you to restart Steam. That would seem to effectively make it a toggle, meaning you can pick up your Steam Deck and take it with you away from a network connection more easily.

Other changes listed in the patch notes include some additional features studios can use when working on Steam Deck compatibility. Developers can now add support for showing the equivalent of other controller layouts like Xbox, PlayStation, and Switch on the Steam button footer. A new section in the App Properties section allows users to provide compatibility feedback, and a callout feature will alert users when a developer has added comments about compatibility. Those changes come among several other bug fixes and usability updates for the dual trackpad.

The Steam Deck is Valve's handheld PC hardware, with a form factor that's similar (albeit bigger) to the Nintendo Switch. In GameSpot's Steam Deck review, Alessandro Barbosa called it a "wonderfully constructed and powerful portable PC," hailing both its out-of-the-box functionality and the ability to customize it to do much more.

Previously, preorders were only going out to those in the Q1 group. Now that we've passed into April, though, Q2 emails have started to go out, and Valve has said it will be ramping up preorders with emails now going out weekly or even sometimes twice weekly.

In a new video for Starfield, Bethesda has shown off a robotic companion that will accompany players on planetary expeditions.

The VASCO is described as being built by the company Lunar Robotics to serve the Constellation corporation's pilots as a utilitarian heavy industrial machine and is well-suited to the rigors of space travel.

"VASCO's design is based on a standard type-8 bipedal chassis, capable of traversing rough terrain with all the survival gear and payload capacity needed for extended overland journeys," Starfield lead artist Istvan Pely said in the video. "VASCO does have defensive capabilities, should the need arise, but his primary role is peaceful."

E3 is canceled, but that isn't stopping game publishers from holding their own digital showcases, and THQ Nordic is one of the first to announce an official date. On August 12, the publisher--which has steadily grown into a behemoth over the last several years--will reveal "several brand-new games" for a variety of players, including light licensed games and "gritty" experiences.

The show will air on August 12 at 12 PM PT / 3 PM ET, with a HandyGames-hosted pre-show happening before that time. It will stream on the official THQ Nordic YouTube channel, Twitch channel, and Steam page, with streamers welcome to co-stream it on Twitch.

Only a few games were officially confirmed for the show: the previously revealed Outcast 2 and Jagged Alliance 3. With such a big catalog, it's tough to say what THQ Nordic will announce or show, but one franchise that seems prepped for a new game is Darksiders. Darksiders 3 released back in 2018, and though the spin-off prequel Darksiders Genesis is more recent, it was developed by a separate studio.

Bethesda has released a new purchasable Elder Scrolls Online add-on, a familiar-looking feline named Catwell, who appears to be a reference to an old Elder Scrolls character

The developer revealed the latest optional player pet on Twitter, which is now available on the Crown Store for a limited-time, showing Catwell the cat wearing kitchenware as body armor and a helmet. "There’s something in the eyes of this feline friend that seems familiar, but we can’t quite put our finger on it," the developer said.

Players have discovered that Catwell is actually a feline version of the Elder Scrolls character Sir Cadwell. As the NPC's Wiki page explains, Sir Cadwell is a "cheerful and endearingly mad lost soul" and was formerly known as Cadwell the Betrayer, a champion and knight of time long past. The character also wears a similiar metal pot as a helmet, so it's clear that Catwell is an ode to the NPC.

The follow-up to unofficial Theme Hospital remake Two Point Hospital has been delayed by three months, publishers Sega announced today. University-building management game Two Point Campus had been due to arrive on the 17th of May, now it's pushed back to August 9th. To help tide you over, a new trailer has a few peeks at the game and some chat from people making it.

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If you've ever played 2019's My Time At Portia (and given that game's popularity, statistics suggest a bunch of you have) you'll know the appeal. It's a life sim set in a post apocalyptic world where, instead of punk metal bikinis and murder, the vibe is regrowth and bright colours; a sort of juicy 3D Stardew Valley with an emphasis on crafting.

But now the sequel My Time At Sandrock is launching into early access on May 26th, bringing a whole new region to restore. Sandrock may look more traditionally post-apocalyptic, being as it is a sandy outback populated by cowboys, but it's still got a helping-hands community feel at its core, plus an interesting eco-friendly angle and an all-new multiplayer mode. But its origins were much more modest. As Pathea Games' executive producer Zifei Wu tells me, Sandrock originally began life as a My Time At Portia DLC pack.

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Episode 2 (of a future 6) of Bizarre Yet Bonafide, a podcast set in the universe of The Quarry, has arrived. The Quarry is an upcoming cinematic horror game from the creators of Until Dawn. The Quarry is considered Until Dawn’s spiritual successor, so that should tell you all you need to know.

This time on Bizarre Yet Bonafide, titled The Boy Who Cried Bigfoot:

Grace and Anton go deeper into the conspiracy of the vanishing corpse. Could it be the work of a famous CELEBRITY? That’s right – we’re talking Bigfoot and his cryptid coterie! Plus, we’ll take a deep dive into Mr. S. Quatch’s habits, smells and dating preferences, including rumors of his romantic relationships with cows. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

This “podcast” serves to share with future players of The Quarry all the strange happenings in the fictional North Kill, New York that will be the setting of the game. Despite being called a podcast, it’s only about nine minutes long, perfect for getting you in the mood for when the spooky game launches in a couple months.

You can listen to this episode of Bizarre Yet Bonafide on Spotify and Apple Podcasts as well as YouTube:

Everyone knows that Pokemon rank as some of the cutest creatures in all of entertainment, as so many of them are just so adorable that you can’t help but wish they were real. Do you know what would make them even cuter, though? Lilo and Stitch varients.

Debuting as a movie on the Disney channel back in 2002, and then running as a TV series shortly thereafter, Lilo & Stitch told a story about an alien genetic experiment that gets turned into a human’s perfect pet in order to hide. As the story goes on, the titular characters become friends and form a bond, while also realizing there are a bunch of other experiments just like Stitch that need to be captured.

As you can see from that description, there is a bunch of overlap regarding Pokemon and Lilo & Stitch, so it makes complete sense that Reddit user Troytheheartboy thought to combine these two franchises for an adorable crossover.

Platform: PC
Publisher: Funcom
Developer: Shiro Games

Shiro Games and Funcom have announced Dune: Spice Wars will be entering Early Access at the end of the month, once again embroiling the planet of Arrakis in a resource war starting on April 26.