Tennocon 2024, Warframe’s annual convention, has come and gone, and after two days of activity, it has left fans cheering with anticipation for the game’s next major story update, Warframe: 1999, which will introduce a new cast of characters called Protoframes and add a romance system. At the center of this massive event were the game’s creative director Rebecca Ford and its community director Megan Everett. We sat down with them to talk about their journey at Digital Extremes, Warframe, and all things 1999....

Summary While having to prepare three meals a day might be a chore in real life, cooking simulators let us live out our wildest culinary fantasies without the pressures of keeping ourselves alive. In video games, you can meticulously create dishes, manage kitchens, and even run a whole restaurant all without getting your hands dirty. (The only downside is that you can’t actually eat anything you make.) Whatever kind of cooking you’re looking for, there’s something here for everyone....

Summary Who among gamers hasn’t pulled up a casual little clicker game to waste some time while they could be being productive? They often run by themselves, which gives a lot of reward for very little effort. What’s not to love? Clicker games can be cute, or spooky, or just silly, but they’re consistently easy to play. With almost no skill required, everyone can kick back (click back?) and enjoy a fun little game or two....

Quick Links Rover is the main character ofWuthering Waves, and Havoc Rover lets players deal damage like a main character. Havoc Rover is a great main damage dealer, with powerful skills and a simple playstyle. To cook the best Havoc Rover teams you need, the recipe, and that is a character that can buff Havoc damage and a support character that can heal and buff damage. Havoc Rover might be set aside by some players because Rover is free, but with proper teams and the correct builds, Havoc Rover can go toe to toe with the best main damage dealers in Wuthering Waves....

Quick Links The Putrescent Knight is an optional boss hidden in the depths ofElden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree’s Stone Fissure Coffin. Comprising a malformed, cleaver-wielding skeleton and horse duo, the Putrescent Knight relentlessly gallops across the large battlefield, always hot on your tail and giving you no moment of peace. While the Putrescent Knight, like many of the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC bosses, is no pushover, proper preparation will always mess them up....

AsEA Sports FC 24promos come and go, fodder cards become an essential part of the menu grinding during the FUTTIES end-of-cycle celebrations. Many Squad Builder Challenges (SBCs) require 85-rated players as the primary base for the variety of challenges. Whether you’re grinding packs to try your luck at packing some of the best cards in the game, or you’re working toward one of the massively upgraded player SBCs, 85-rated fodder cards will be a huge help....

Summary The now-defunctXbox Live Arcade(R.I.P) was a goldmine for fantastic indie games. Unfortunately, however, dozens of games were released as digital-only titles on the platform, and therecent Xbox 360 store closuremeans that many of them are now lost to time, unable to be purchased anywhere else. One of the titles affected by the closure was The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai, a super-stylish, hyperviolent beat ‘em up by Ska Studios, a studio that most notably released Salt and Sanctuary andSalt and Sacrifice....

Summary At Gamescom, I sat down with ZeniMax Online Studios creative director Rich Lambert to chat aboutThe Elder Scrolls Onlineand how far the game has come. Earlier this year in April, ESO turned ten, and in that time, it has received eight expansions. “Oh, you’re asking me to pick my favorite child,” Lambert laughs when I ask him which chapter is his favourite so far. “Orcinium is probably the one that bubbles to the top for a number of reasons....

ThePokemon TCGwelcomes all Pokemon to its ranks, whether they’rea valued member of the original 151or debuted with the newest generation. Roaring Moon is one of the most recent additions to the Pokemon TCG, debuting atthe top of Paradox Rift’s most valuable cards. With such a strong debut in Paradox Rift, Roaring Moon jumped out of the gate to a solid starting value, with its Special Illustration Rare eclipsing figures that most Pokemon can only dream of commanding....

Summary Everyone who grew up in the ’90s will remember the phenomenon ofTony Hawk’s Pro Skater. And everyone who grew up later will remember oldies like me droning on about how great Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater was, as well as possibly being severely let down by THPS 5 and then finally understanding the magic with THPS 1+2. But what rarely gets remembered are the copycats THPS spawned. One of these games was Matt Hoffman’s Pro BMX, the most closely related of them all....

Summary Xboxis currently the king ofannouncing games it has absolutely no intention of releasing within the next 5 years. While the most recent Xbox showcase gave us tentative release windows for games that have been in development for a long time,such as Fableand Avowed, we’re still waiting for a significant update on one of the games it announced way back in 2021 -The Outer Worlds 2. Obsidian Entertainmenthas been extremely busy under Xbox over the past few years, having releasedGroundedandPentiment, as well as the soon-to-be released RPG Avowed....

I’ve had a growing resentment towards cash-grabby crossovers bubbling up inside me for awhile, but Overwatch 2’s Transformers crossover has finally pushed me over the edge. This probably isn’t a very popular opinion yet, but this era of IP swapping and limited-time crossover events built around gross monetization is corrosive to art and culture, and I can only see it getting worse. I can’t be the only one that feels like all these crossovers are pathetic and pandering, right?...

Quick Links Summary Amazon Prime’sFalloutwas a resounding success. The first adaptation of the beloved video game franchisehad over 65 million viewersduring the first two weeks of availability, a feat only eclipsed on the platform by The Rings of Power, which came out back in 2022 and is still the most successful Amazon Prime launch. Fallout boasts an original story in the universe created by Tim Cain back in the 1990s and expanded by Bethesda Game Studios more recently....