July 2022

Good Smile Company opened up pre-orders for its Pop Up Parade figure of Hololive Vtuber Minato Aqua. She’ll appear in Japan first. The release window there is November 2022. In January 2023, she should show up in North America.

Minato Aqua wears her standard sailor uniform in her Pop Up Parade figure. Her pose features her making a heart with her hands. Her pink and blue pigtails are also curled.

Here’s a closer peek at how it will look.
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Most Pop Up Parade figures appear at a standard price. They tend to be $43.99/¥4,800. However, this one will be more expensive than usual. She’ll cost $49.99/¥5,500. Good Smile Company didn’t explain why this one will cost more.

This means the figure will appear right after the Minato Aqua game. It's called Aquarium. In Japan, the dating sim will appear on the Switch and PS4 on October 27, 2022.

In a week filled with fantastic live speedruns at Summer Games Done Quick 2022, a one-hour playthrough of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance still turned heads. Even more remarkable was the encore, unlocked through community donations: a frantic race through the game’s Blade Wolf DLC campaign which ended up setting a…

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Microsoft announced this week that, starting in October, it will stop providing monthly free Xbox 360 games as part of its Games With Gold program. Emails announcing the news have started going out to Xbox Live subscribers, and Microsoft promises it will continue to give out free Xbox One games moving forward.

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Over the past week, the gaming world has been obsessed with an indie shooter coming to Xbox, treating it with the fervor (and wildfire social media metrics) of a forthcoming AAA tentpole. But here’s the weird part: This game’s already out. It’s been playable on multiple platforms for years.

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Iridium is among the most valuable resources in Stardew Valley and if you are wondering how to get it, then we have your back. Stardew Valley is all about farming and mining for items and there are many things that can be crafted using the skills, knowledge, and materials that players collect along the way.

Iridium is a valuable metal that can be used to fully upgrade crafted items to their highest level and also create the Iridium Energy Shirt. Here’s how to get Iridium in Stardew Valley.

How to Get Iridium in Stardew Valley

The best and possibly the easiest way you can find Iridium in Stardew Valley is by heading over to Skull Cavern. In this area, you’re going to find a lot of Iridium Nodes. Not only that, but the amount you find increases with each checkpoint (10 floors) you unlock. That means that the higher you go, the more you’ll end up digging up.

Another great source of Iridium is via Magma and Omni Geodes on lower mine levels. These can be obtained repeatedly by mining all rocks on mine levels 115-119. To further improve the amount of geode you get, select the Geologist Profession at mining level 5 and the Excavator Profession at mining level 10.

Nobody does cinematics quite like Riot Games, a publisher beloved for its incredible production of new games, content drops, lore, and esports events. Today, it’s the latter of those as Valorant’s anticipated upcoming tournament Masters Copenhagen draws ever closer. It’s the second major esports competition for the game so far this year, which sees the 12 best teams from around the globe duke it out in Denmark for their share of half a million or so dollars.

Called False Gods [True Idols], the cinematic includes some of Valorant’s iconic Agents, as well as defending Masters champions Optic, who won the event earlier this year in Iceland. The cinematic is typically top-notch, boasting excellent graphics and a banging soudtrack.

Masters Copenhagen starts next week, running from July 10-17. You can check out a full overview of the schedule over on the tournament’s official page. Proceedings kick off at 7PM EST as Japan’s Northeption take on Korea’s DRX. You can expect full coverage of the event from Twinfinite.

On the lookout for the Minecraft’s Sea Lantern recipe? Light-emitting sources play a vital role in Minecraft as they protect you from monsters and mobs. Sea Lantern is one of the many light sources in Minecraft that is primarily found in underwater biomes. While it’s strategically used by players to their advantage, you can also use Sea Lantern as a decorative item for your underwater castle. However, crafting Sea Lantern is a daunting task, which is why we’ve put together all the steps to make it in Minecraft.

Sea Lantern Ingredients in Minecraft

As with other Minecraft items, you will need a couple of ingredients to make a Sea Lantern. Those ingredients are listed below:

• 4x Prismarine Shards
• 5x Prismarine Crystals

How to Craft Minecraft’s Sea Lantern

Once you have these materials, open the 3×3 crafting table and place all the Prismarine Shards in every corner of the table. Then, place every Prismarine Crystal in the remaining cells of the crafting table, and the final arrangement would look like this:

Sometimes it can be difficult to pick out the best guns in CoD Mobile, and it’s actually one of the main challenges gamers face. Choosing the right gun for the task at hand, especially during Ranked matches, is vital to the player’s success. One of the biggest aspects players fail to take into consideration is that with every new season the weapon balance changes drastically. Here are the best all-around weapons to choose from in 2022 that will take players to the next level of success in COD Mobile.

Best Guns in CoD Mobile

• Razorback (Submachine Gun)
• SKS (Marksman Rifle)
• M13 (Assault Rifle)
• DR-H (Assault Rifle)
• Kilo 141 (Assault Rifle)

These are our picks for the best guns you can use in the game right now, and we’ll go over each of them in more detail below:

The vast amount of ingredients in Wacky Wizards can range from a pool noodle to a spooky ghost. However, if you want to create a spectacular potion with these ingredients, you’ll need to visit Pete to obtain the Legacy Ingredients. We’ll tell you how to find him and what he offers in this exciting Roblox game.

Where to Find Pete in Wacky Wizards in Roblox

As the keeper of random Legacy Ingredients, Pete is at the center of all the brewing stations. All you need to do is exit your crafting post and follow along the path where a canon is also present. You should see Pete standing on a higher platform with a set of purple crates surrounding him, as shown here:

Considering all of the content updates and changes there have been to Minecraft over the years, it’s not as easy to keep track of raw materials as it once was. If you’re trying to make your way through certain biomes and interact with animals, you’ll probably want to get your hands on Scute, and here’s how. We’ll also cover what crafting recipes require Scute.

Where to Find Scute in Minecraft

You will first want to get yourself to a beach biome, as it is where sea turtles spawn. You’ll need to find baby sea turtles as they will drop Scute when they mature into adults. This is the only guaranteed source of Scute. However, it is hard to farm Scute as each baby sea turtle only drops a single Scute when they mature.

Studio MDHR’s Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course expansion is finally here, and while it errs a wee bit on the shorter side, it’s still an absolute blast that offers some of the most inventive and creative bosses in the entire game. With that in mind, then, we thought that we’d rank all the bosses from hard to controller out the window.

While there are six core bosses in the DLC, there’s also an additional secret boss which we thought we’d include in here as well. So, without further ado, let’s get started, shall we?

***Spoiler Warning: If you don’t want a major plot point from Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course spoiled, turn back now.***

Glumstone The Giant

Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course Bosses, Ranked

Stage: Gnome Way Out

Skull and Bones, Ubisoft's long-delayed pirate multiplayer game, rises from the depths of the sea on Thursday during a livestream presentation. Announced by Ubisoft today, this show kicks off at 11 a.m. PT and will hopefully provide a substantial look at the open-world multiplayer ship battles and progress made since the delay. Skull and Bones showed promise when it was first announced during an E3 press conference in 2017. Slated to release in the following year, it was indefinitely delayed, even thought to be canceled given the lack of updates from Ubisoft. With fresh wind behind its sails, we will now see what it looks like on current-gen platforms. Come Thursday, you can view the Ubisoft Forward livestream right here.

Game designer Caro Asercion has marshaled together a massive itch.io bundle giveaway to help raise money for abortion funds throughout U.S. states where reproductive health is now, or soon will be, illegal following the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade. It’s just $10, and includes hundreds of games as well…

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Last weekend, Anime Expo, the “largest celebration of Japanese pop culture in North America,” featured a treasure trove of announcements and trailers to satiate otaku… at least until next year’s event.

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Today Square Enix implemented update 6.18 on its popular MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV, bringing forth Data Center Travel.

The feature has been highly anticipated by the game’s community, as allows all players in a region to travel among data centers and meet and play together regardless of the data center they have chosen, effectively bringing down most of the barriers between worlds.

Yet, the feature has received demand so massive that the servers have not been able to cope. According to a notice from Square Enix, the system has received 15,000 visit requests per minute while it was active.

I say “was” because the system has been brought down temporarily until further notice. It will be gradually reopened as the developers assess the situation.

Yet, this is a rather sizable issue for the many who have managed to travel to another data center, as they’re now stuck there, lacking some of the features that don’t work across servers.

We’ll have to see how this develops and we’ll update you when we receive new information.

The update also included tweaks to PvP actions, new worlds for the European data centers, and more.

You can read the full patch notes here.

Final Fantasy XIV has become extremely popular over the past few years, and you may happen to see some peculiarly related billboards.

As a growing, diverse community, Square Enix’s MMORPG has given birth to several sub-communities and scenes, and the clubbing one is among the most active.

If you walk the streets of Ul’dah and Limsa Lominsa, especially on a weekend evening, you’ll most probably see several players advertising said clubs in “Shout” chat.

Those ads will usually lead you to a brightly decorated house in one of the game’s housing wards, where you’ll be able to socialize, dance, and more, often prompted to listen to a live DJ on a Twitch stream.

At times, these venues will offer additional services for a fee to be paid in gil (the in-game currency of Final Fantasy XIV)

One of said Night Clubs, named “Rain” on the Crystal Datacenter (you can find its website here, with the warning that it includes content that can be considered mildly NSFW) has decided to kick the advertisement up a notch or ten for its “Summer Bash” party on July 7, allegedly renting four billboards in different locations of Texas and California.

Capcom recently announced a 10-game Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection, bundling together the six Game Boy Advance Battle Network titles and the various versions that were originally released. I’m excited by the news because I was worried these excellent spin-offs would never receive a revival like the platforming Mega Man series did a few years back. Many Battle Network games are currently only available on the Game Boy Advance or the now-dying Wii U virtual console, while others remain locked away on the Nintendo DS. However, a large chunk of the series will now be available to anyone who owns a PlayStation 4, Switch, or a PC running Steam. It’s great to see these classic games on modern platforms, and I hope other companies take note of the preservation strategy Capcom has taken in recent years.

Ubisoft Forward is returning this September. Ubisoft's very own not-E3 livestream will "reveal updates and news on multiple games and projects", Ubisoft say. Before that - on this Thursday July 7th, even - the publisher are going to broadcast an in-depth look on their lost-at-sea live service pirate 'em up Skull And Bones.

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Rockstar have reportedly shelved plans for remasters of Red Dead Redemption and GTAIV after the poor reception of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition. The trilogy, which released late last year, was a technical disaster and heavily criticised despite high sales.

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It's been a while since we've written about Smite, so if you've forgotten: it's a third-person MOBA about duelling gods in which players control the likes of Anubis and Zeus. That makes it a slightly odd fit for new characters like Invader Zim or Rocko from Rocko's Modern Life, but well, that's what is coming later this month, alongside a handful of other Nickelodeon characters.

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Silent Hill 2 fans have been slowly working away at an Enhanced Edition PC mod for years now, and its latest update introduces some substantial new features. Those additions include an installer and launcher which make it easier to get started, better AI-upscaled full-motion videos, and a fix for a crash and stutter bug that has plagued the horror classic since it first released on PC in 2001.

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In its first month of release Blizzard’s controversial new mobile game, Diablo Immortal, has racked up nearly $50 million in reported revenue across 10 million downloads. Even as debates and criticism swirled around the free-to-play RPG, data shows that the game has made at least $1 million a day since launch.

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Today Square Enix announced the release dates and revealed a new trailer of its upcoming action JRPG Valkyrie Elysium.

The game will release on September 29, 2022 for PS5 and PS4. PC players on Steam will have to wait a bit longer, as Valve’s marketplace will sell the game on November 11, 2022.

The trailer shows off story cutscenes and a look at the cast, before moving to its action gameplay and a variety of fights and boss battles.

As a bonus, we also learn that a digital port of the PSP version of the original Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth will also launch on PS5 and PS4 on September 29.

You can check the video out below, with the voice acting in both English and Japanese, depending on your voiceover language of choice.

On top of that, we also have a gallery with new art, screenshots, and the Japanese box artwork, which is very fetching.

Today Atlus released its daily trailer of the upcoming JRPG Soul Hackers 2, focusing on the demonsthat will be featured in the game.

To be precise, we get to take a look at another sabbath, including Fafnir, Setanta, Fortuna, Thoth, Succubus, and many more. A sabbath is a mechanic that lets you unleash your demons together for a special attack.

Like most daily trailers, we also get the daily horoscope, which this time just lists a bunch of lucky signs, including Leo, Capricorn, Aquarius, Virgo, Taurus, Libra, Gemini, Aries, Cancer, and Sagittarius.

You can check the video out below.

Soul Hackers 2 releases for PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC (Steam and Windows Store) on August 26, just one day after the Japanese launch on August 25.

The Final Fantasy XIV community often sparks some amazing feats of creativity, and today we see a brand new one.

Music producer, composer, and YouTuber Alex Moukala released a video that includes about 1,400 community members as they perform the theme song from the Endwalker expansion, “Close in the Distance.” Additional special guests including musicians and YouTubers (including Susan Calloway and Amanda Achen, who are definitely familiar among the FFXIV community) also join in performing the song arranged by Moukala himself alongside Husky by the Geek.

This glorious crescendo of musical goodness is the result of several months of work since the announcement Moukala posted on social media in February.

He dedicated the song to the developers of the game and those who work on it, on top of the community itself. He also promised, to honor composer Masayoshi Soken and his courage, to make sure that all proceeds from the video’s monetization will go to “some good charities.”

Soken-san recently revealed to have battled cancer since October 2020, and he opted to continue to work from the hospital. Thankfully, he is now better.

You can check the video out below.

The Ryzen 5 5500 is one of AMD's latest Ryzen 5000 processors, but a strong competing Intel lineup means it's already gotten a 33% reduction on Amazon, dropping from £176 to £113. This six-core twelve-thread chip is a solid upgrade over the likes of the Ryzen 5 3600 from the previous generation, but mostly makes sense in a new budget gaming build or as an upgrade for an older Ryzen 1000 or Ryzen 2000 system.

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The AMD Ryzen 7 5800X has hit $275 at Amazon, an incredible price for an eight-core sixteen-thread CPU that ranks among the best for gaming and content creation. That's nearly a $100 less than the same CPU cost last year, when we trumpeted that the processor had reached $369 in a one-off sale and $175 below the chip's US MSRP.

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FavorGK is an excellent website to shop for your favorite anime statues and figurines. Nevertheless, out of all the company’s collections, its crossover of Pokemon and Sailor Moon has been widely popular throughout the community. If you want to know more about this collaboration, we’ll provide you with a list of these exclusive items.

All FavorGK Pokemon X Sailor Moon Crossover Figures

In celebration of Sailor Moon’s 30th anniversary, FavorGK has partnered with CP and YAYA Studios to create figurines of beloved Pokemon characters. Here is a list of all confirmed crossover items within the website.

Preparing well for a game like Wordle can save you not just time, but also plenty of frustration as you unearth the answer with each calculated guess. In this guide, we’ll go through all of the 5-letter words ending with FF to give you a good idea of where to start and aid you on the quest to maintain your streak.

Note that the following list of words has been tested and will work in Wordle. However, if you spot any missing or incorrect words, please inform us via the comments below so we can take a look at the list and update it if necessary.

When playing Wordle, the six guesses you’ll get will run out sooner than you think. In order to maximize your chances of winning, every guess should bring you one step closer to the answer. In this guide, we’ll go through all of the 5-letter words starting and ending with F to give you a good idea of where to start and aid you on the quest to maintain your streak.

Note that the following list of words has been tested and will work in Wordle. However, if you spot any missing or incorrect words, please inform us via the comments below so we can take a look at the list and update it if necessary.

All 5 Letter Words Starting & Ending With F

• feoff
• flaff
• fluff

Armed with your newfound knowledge, it is time to take on the challenge proper. Select your pick from the list and use it as your answer in Wordle. Be sure to check the colors to get a better idea of where to make the right adjustments. Correct letters in the right position will turn green, yellow indicates a right letter in the wrong place, while grey rules out the letter entirely.

Rinse and repeat, and as long as you get the answer within six guesses, you would have done it. If you’d rather not rack your brains, here is the answer to today’s puzzle.

The long-anticipated release of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 is just a few months away, and players are psyched about it. While the original version of the game has a lot to offer, there is a Vault Edition for those looking to really amp their game up. Let’s take a look at what comes with Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Vault Edition & where players can preorder It.

Players still have the option to pre-order Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 in the United States and the United Kingdom as of writing this. There are several different versions of the game available for pre-order, but we are going to solely focus on the Vault Edition.

The game is set to release on Oct. 28, 2022, across multiple platforms. To pre-order Vault Edition, it will set players back a whopping $99.99. While that may seem like a massive amount to spend on a game, it actually comes with quite a few useful features and well-loved cosmetics that give purchasers a bang for their buck.

Stranger Things is one of Netflix’s biggest and most popular series, so it’s not surprising at all to see that it has grown such a dedicated fan base, but this is on a whole other level. Cosplayer Lie has been working on a very impressive-looking gown themed around the Upside Down, and after tons of work, the gown is finally done.

You can get a look at it in the embedded tweet down below:

According to Lie, the gown was made entirely from leftover plastic, tied together with lace and wire. Lie painted it with acrylics and wood glue to give it a bit more texture and… yeah, it definitely looks like it came straight out of the Upside Down, which I’m sure was the whole point of the project in the first place, tentacles and all.

Avex revealed new key artwork for the second cour of the Muv-Luv Alternative anime series.

The art portrays a Type-94 Shiranui TSF mecha in United Nations color, which will appear prominently in the second season of the anime.

It also looks awesome, which never hurts. You can check it out below.

The airing of the second cour of the anime has already been set for October, following the first that ended in December last year with quite the cliffhanger.

Incidentally, the first season is being broadcasted in Japan starting today, while it’s available in the west on Crunchyroll.

The Thor: Love and Thunder trailer shows off various famous characters of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, including the legendary Guardians of the Galaxy. But, after analyzing the movie’s cast, Gamora is not in the movie’s latest release. So, where is Gamora, and will she be in the next Thor installment?

***Spoilers for Events in Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame Below***

Where Is Gamora in Thor: Love and Thunder?

Although there is no official information on Gamora’s whereabouts, she is presumably off on her own adventure. However, this version of the character is from a different universe since Thanos sacrificed the original Gamora in Avengers: Infinity War.

Fortunately, fans still have a general idea of where she is because of the timeline within Endgame. For example, if we look at the movie’s deleted scene: “Avengers Take A Knee,” we can see Gamora somberly looking over at Tony Stark while the rest of the members mourn his loss. Then, she turns away from the group and walks out to a mysterious location.

Third-party developers released new assets of upcoming add-ons for Microsoft Flight Simulator and released new airports.

We start with Carenado, which will soon release its Pilatus PC-12. Today we get to see more of both the cockpit/cabin and the exterior.

It’s been about a month since the global release of Artery Gear: Fusion, and it’s probably safe to say that the honeymoon period lasted a very short period of time. Shorter than you’d expect from most new gacha game releases, in fact.

However, the developers have since given us a sneak peek into what’s coming to the global version of the game this month. The news comes by way of YouTuber TimaeuSS, who’s unveiled the July roadmap, and there are new events to look forward to, as well as some solutions to the stamina drought that’s plaguing the game right now.

You can check out the video down below:

At the time of writing, Artery Gear players can check out the Magical Girl Erica event, which also comes with Nina’s featured banner. The event comes to a close on the 12th, after which we’ll see the release of a big mysterious event. It’s been speculated that this is going to be the Atelier Ryza collaboration event, as we’ve already seen it in the Taiwan, JP, and CN versions.

Considering that it looks like we’re following the Taiwan schedule, we’ll likely see the Ryza event next week.

In more exciting news, however, the developers have also stated that we’ll be getting Guild bosses and Raid bosses this month as well. These are features that only arrived in the JP, CN, and Taiwan versions months after release, but the global version will be getting them much sooner than expected.