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Games
Cookie Run: Kingdom
Devsisters' flagship gacha RPG. Cookie team-building, kingdom management, PvE story, Guild Battles, Arena, Beast-Yeast, and seasonal collabs.
Magic: The Gathering
Wizards of the Coast's flagship TCG. Commander, Standard, Modern, Pioneer, Pauper, and Limited coverage — deck guides, card evaluations, set reviews, and format primers.
Cookie Run: Braverse
Devsisters' Cookie Run trading card game — a fast-to-learn two-player TCG. Starter deck rankings, deck-building basics, the five colors, the FLIP mechanic, set reviews, collecting guides, and competitive archetypes.
Roblox
The massive user-generated game platform. Finding the best experiences, getting started safely, earning and spending Robux, Roblox Studio basics, and the best games to play with friends.
PUBG: Battlegrounds
Krafton's original battle royale. Survival fundamentals, weapon and loadout tier lists, attachment setups, the best landing spots, and settings and sensitivity tuning.
Fortnite
Epic's genre-defining battle royale. Beginner fundamentals, building basics, current-season landing spots, weapon tier lists, and the best settings for PC and console.
Minecraft
Mojang's sandbox phenomenon. Survival guides for beginners, enchantment rankings, redstone basics, the best seeds, and building tips for every kind of player.
Genshin Impact
HoYoverse's open-world action RPG. Character builds, artifact and weapon guides, team comps, elemental reactions, Spiral Abyss clears, and version update coverage.
Elden Ring
FromSoftware's open-world action RPG. Build guides, boss strategies, weapon and spell scaling, Legacy Dungeon routes, and Lands Between exploration.
Baldur's Gate 3
Larian's D&D 5e CRPG. Class and subclass builds, companion and origin guides, multiclassing, act-by-act walkthroughs, and Honour Mode strategy.
Counter-Strike 2
Valve's tactical FPS. Aim and recoil control, utility lineups, map callouts and strategy, economy management, rank climbing, and settings tuning.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
CD Projekt Red's open-world RPG. Build and sign guides, Witcher gear sets, alchemy, Gwent, quest walkthroughs, and the Hearts of Stone / Blood and Wine expansions.
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Nintendo's genre-defining open-world Zelda. Shrine and Divine Beast guides, cooking and armor upgrades, Korok hunting, combat tech, and exploration routes.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
The N64 classic that defined 3D action-adventure. Dungeon walkthroughs, item and heart-piece locations, boss strategies, and speedrun routing.
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
The 16-bit action-adventure benchmark. Light and Dark World routing, dungeon order, item and upgrade locations, and randomizer basics.
Super Mario 64
The blueprint for 3D platforming. Star-by-star guides, movement tech, course routing, secret stars, and the 70-star and 120-star runs.
Half-Life 2
Valve's landmark physics-driven shooter. Chapter walkthroughs, gravity gun techniques, combat and puzzle solutions, and the Episodes.
The Last of Us
Naughty Dog's narrative survival-action benchmark. Chapter guides, collectible locations, crafting and stealth strategy, and difficulty-mode tips.
Resident Evil 4
The over-the-shoulder survival horror landmark. Chapter walkthroughs, weapon and upgrade priorities, boss strategies, merchant requests, and NG+ runs.
Resident Evil Requiem
The latest mainline Resident Evil survival horror entry. Coverage of its systems, enemies, resource management, and progression.
Tetris
The puzzle benchmark. Stacking fundamentals, T-spins and finesse, versus strategy and garbage management, and modern guideline mechanics.
Mina the Hollower
Yacht Club Games' retro-styled gothic action-adventure. Combat and burrow mechanics, gear and sidearm guides, boss strategies, and exploration.
Pokémon Pokopia
The Pokémon life-sim entry. Building and terraforming, Pokémon residents and their abilities, resource gathering, and island progression.
Crimson Desert
Pearl Abyss' open-world action-adventure. Combat systems and combos, exploration, boss encounters, and progression across Pywel.
Pokémon Trading Card Game
The Pokémon Trading Card Game. Deck guides and archetypes, set reviews, Standard and Expanded rotation, pull rates and collecting, grading, and competitive play.
Disney Lorcana
Ravensburger's Disney TCG. The six inks, lore and questing, deck archetypes, set releases, starter decks, card rarities, and collecting.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Nintendo's sequel to Breath of the Wild. Ultrahand and Fuse builds, Zonai devices, sky islands and the Depths, shrine and temple guides, armor sets, and Korok hunting.
Riftbound: The League of Legends TCG
Riot Games' League of Legends trading card game. Champions, runes and battlefields, deckbuilding, the 2026 set schedule (Spiritforged, Unleashed, Vendetta, Radiance), and competitive play.
Gundam Card Game
Bandai's Gundam trading card game. The resource-deck and shield system, Mobile Suits, Pilots, Bases and Commands, starter decks, booster sets, and deckbuilding.
Palworld Trading Card Game
Bushiroad's Palworld card game. The four colours, souls and cost, Power vs Strike, base-building win conditions, the Dawn of Palpagos launch set, and trial decks.
Naruto Card Game
Naruto trading cards: Bandai's NARUTO CARD GAME (revealed at Gen Con 2026, worldwide launch Summer 2027) and the separate Kayou collectible cards — what each one actually is, and what is confirmed so far.
Gaming Events
First-hand convention and live-event coverage. Gen Con, MagicCon, and the shows that follow — what the floor was actually like, what launched, what got announced, and what to know before you go.
Cyberpunk TCG
The Official Cyberpunk Trading Card Game from WeirdCo, licensed by CD PROJEKT RED — the most-funded tabletop campaign in Kickstarter history at $28.3M. Rules primers, the seven-Gig-dice win condition, dice-stealing combat, deckbuilding, and release coverage.
Latest Articles
CRK Trials of the Nether Realm Guide: Nodes, AP and Rewards
Trials of the Nether Realm is the mode Devsisters points you to for Legendary Topping Tarts, and per the reward table cookierun.wiki recorded during Season 6, each of Hard Mode's first ten zones pays one of a fixed type. Here is how a run works: tickets, the one-high-rarity rule, season elements, Activity Points, the five node types, what Easy and Hard pay, and what the September 23 update changed about Time Jumpers.
Mystery Booster Commander Edition: Packs, Draft, Legality
Festival in a Box: Atlanta 2026 goes on sale October 19 for $249.99 with a full box of Mystery Booster Commander Edition inside, and one box is exactly one eight-player Commander Draft. Here is the booster slot by slot, the draft rules, all 60 new commanders by color, the eight rulebreakers, and when the cards become legal.
When Does Cookie Run: Braverse Launch in Europe?
Devsisters is launching Cookie Run: Braverse in Europe in January 2027, starting with Booster 13, through Blackfire, Cube Golem and Bliss Distribution, with store-level Brave League first. Here is what is confirmed for European players, and what is not.
Roblox Animation Graph Editor: Blends and State Machines
Animation graphs left beta on July 15, 2026, and on October 8 Roblox added State Machine nodes and Expressions as a Studio beta. Here is how a graph loads like any animation, what each of the 15 node types does, how SetParameter drives it, what the beta features can't do in a live game yet, and who runs the graph under each authority mode.
PUBG on PS5 and Xbox: 120 FPS Mode and Bigger Hitboxes
PUBG on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S was held to 60 FPS by design until July. Update 42.2 added a 120 FPS Frame Rate Priority mode on all four consoles, and Update 43.1 enlarged console-only hitboxes with no damage or recoil changes attached to them. Here is the resolution and frame rate for each console, the buttons 42.2 moved, and the controller scheme KRAFTON announced but hasn't shipped.
Fortnite Arenas Boxfights: How the Ranked Mode Works
Arenas Boxfights is Epic's own build-only Ranked mode built around the box fight, and the win target, Overtime and the loot pool have all changed since launch week. Here is how a match runs as of update v42.30, what each Ranked season's rewards are, and where Arenas tournaments stand.
Minecraft Wandering Trader Guide: Trades, Spawns and Llamas
Every wandering trader shows 9 offers drawn from a pool of 100 that is the same on Java 26.3 and Bedrock 26.50. Here is the full price list from the game's own trade files, the odds of seeing the offer you want, what the trader buys from you, how long one takes to spawn, and why a name tag will not keep it.
Genshin Miliastra Wonderland Guide — What It Actually Pays
Miliastra Wonderland runs on its own currencies, so you can ignore most of it. Three things leak back into Teyvat: a free 5-star you can't take into the endgame, about 200 Primogems this update, and a Battle Pass deal that makes one of its passes free.
Elden Ring Tarnished Pack: Every Weapon and Armor Location
Patch 1.17's notes never name the Tarnished Pack's weapons. Here are all eight armaments, the four armor sets and the three Torrent attires, where each one sits, what stands in front of it, the two invaders who carry two of the sets, and the one set you can lock yourself out of.
Baldur's Gate 3 Saves: Where They Live, What Larian Deletes
Since 29 September 2026, Larian deletes cross-save copies older than six months. Your own drive was never part of it. Here is where Baldur's Gate 3 actually keeps a campaign on each platform, how cross-save moves one between machines, and the Honour Mode and Custom rules that turn a whole run into one file.
CS2 Retakes Explained: Loadout Cards, Maps and Rules
On 19 of the 20 bombsites Retakes plays, the game file that places the bomb puts 75% of its weight on the default plant. Nuke A is the exception. Counter-Strike 2's 4v3 after-plant mode, read from its config, its card definitions and its per-map files: how a round runs, every loadout card on both sides, the two map groups and what it does to your rank.
The Witcher 3 Remastered Skill Tree: What Unlocks What
CD PROJEKT RED described the Remastered skill overhaul in three bullet points and has published no skill list. The Witcher wiki has since filled in all four trees. Here is how unlocking works now, what every skill needs and does at rank 1 and rank 3, and which old skills are gone.
Breath of the Wild Best Shields: All 33, Stats and Locations
The Ancient Shield and the Royal Guard's Shield both block at 70 guard, but surf them down a rocky slope and the Royal Guard's loses durability fifteen times as fast. Here are all 33 shields with guard, durability, material and source, plus the surfing friction, surfing wear and Guardian-beam values from the game's data.
Ocarina of Time Hyrule Castle: Sneak In and Meet Zelda
Young Link's trip to meet Princess Zelda runs on three rules that are easy to miss: Malon is not at the castle on your first visit, her egg only hatches at dawn, and the drain is a daytime-only door. Here is the whole route, how the guards actually spot you according to the game's code, and what the visit unlocks.
A Link to the Past Cuccos: 35 Hits Until the Flock Attacks
The number is 35, it is counted on one bird, and the flock never forms indoors. Here is the Cucco routine read out of the SNES code: what counts as a hit, how the attackers fly, what they cost you, how to switch them off, and the one Cucco in Kakariko that talks back.
Super Mario 64 Camera Guide: C-Buttons, R and the Fixed Cam
Super Mario 64's camera is a dozen-plus cameras in a trench coat. Here is what every C-button and R press actually does, the LAKITU ↔ STOP setting hiding on the pause screen, why the camera buzzes at you, which camera each course loads with, and how it all changes on Switch and DS.
Half-Life 2 Steam Workshop: Campaigns, Addons, Known Bugs
Half-Life 2 has had a Steam Workshop in its Extras menu since November 2024, and it held 12,469 items on October 11, 2026. Here is how Campaign and Content items load differently, how to start a Workshop campaign, what people actually subscribe to, and the bugs still open on Valve's tracker.
The Last of Us Photo Mode Guide: Every Version Compared
Photo Mode has shipped in four Last of Us releases and the toolkit is different in each. How to open it, what each Part II tab does, what Part I and Part II Remastered added, and the slider settings Naughty Dog's own staff use.
RE4 Remake Platforms: Every Version and What It Needs
The Resident Evil 4 remake is sold on PlayStation, Xbox, Steam, Apple's App Store and, from October 16, the Switch 2 eShop, and the versions are not the same deal. Here is what each one needs to run, what it costs at list, and what it adds or leaves out.
Which Resident Evil Games Should You Play Before Requiem?
You do not need to play nine games to understand Requiem. You need one, maybe two. Here is the honest catch-up list, what each one actually sets up, and what you can skip without missing anything.
Game Boy Tetris Explained: How It Differs From NES
Game Boy Tetris and NES Tetris share a points table, but the handheld game stops speeding up at level 20, pays a level-up Tetris at the old rate, deals the L about 10.7% of the time, and makes a held direction wait 23 frames.
What Mina the Hollower Is Actually Made Of: Zelda, Castlevania, Bloodborne
"It's like Zelda" is the laziest thing you can say about Mina the Hollower, and it is only about a third true. Yacht Club has been unusually specific about what it stole and from where, so here is the actual recipe.
Pokopia Magnet Rise: How to Unlock It and What It Can Move
Magnet Rise is the Ditto transformation Serebii ties to the post-game, and the one that lets you pick up trees, boulders and ore deposits whole. Here is the Factory Storage unlock, the controls, Replace mode, and the 102 trees, deposits, boulders and ruins Serebii lists as Magnet Rise pickups.
Crimson Desert Bounty Guide: Crime, Masks, Jail and Outlaws
Crimson Desert crime from both sides of the law: the mask that unlocks stealing, how a witnessed crime becomes a regional bounty, the Writ of Absolution against jail, what being wanted blocks, the nine Hernand outlaws and what each pays, and the March patch that launch-week guides still contradict.
Pokémon TCG N's Zoroark ex Deck Guide: Builds and Matchups
N's Zoroark has been the second-most-registered deck at three of the 2027 season's first four Regionals, and it reaches Day 2 more often than the field. Then it stalls: 2 of 42 top-cut seats. We pulled all 564 lists and every match those players finished to find which build works, which cards came with worse results, and where the losses come from.
Lorcana Challenge 2026-27 Schedule and How to Qualify
Under Ravensburger's updated format, a Season of Villainy Challenge weekend is three tournaments, not one, and each hands out Championship invites on different terms. Here are the 11 Challenge dates on Ravensburger's English-language Challenge page, what Main Event 1, Main Event 2 and the Infinity CCQ each qualify you for, the CCQ and Local Qualifier rules, the prize ladder and the golden Hades on it.
Tears of the Kingdom Master Kohga: All Four Mine Fights
The two researchers who watch you get Autobuild are Yiga, and their boss wants it back. That fight at the Great Abandoned Central Mine is only the first of four. Here is how to reach each Abandoned Mine Master Kohga runs to, how to knock him off each of his four vehicles, and what the whole chase pays.
Riftbound Battlefields: What 111 Tournament Decks Ran
Every decklist Riot published from Barcelona, Singapore and Los Angeles, counted by battlefield. Seat of Power was the most registered and the most common in Top 8s, six popular battlefields carry no payoff for whoever holds them, and Radiance adds ten more on 23 October.
Gundam Card Game Timing Keywords: All 13 and When They Fire
Section 13-2 of the Gundam Card Game Comprehensive Rules defines 13 timing keywords, and 715 of the 956 main-deck cards open an effect with at least one. Here is what each one is, when it fires, how many cards print it, the colour it wears on the printed card, and the rulings that separate When Paired, During Pair, When Linked and During Link.
Palworld TCG PR Card Pack Vol.2 - All 9 New Promo Cards
Every promo Pal handed out at a Palworld TCG shop tournament so far has been a reprint. PR Card Pack Vol.2, the shop-tournament prize from November, is not: none of its nine card designs is in Bushiroad's English or Japanese card database, and they include a Red Lucky Pal with Assault, the first Colorless Interrupt Pal, a 700-Power 3-drop and two saddles for Legends Awaken Pals. Here is every card, who gets the pack, and the rules and prizes for the Legends Awaken Release Tournament that runs in the same month.
Naruto Card Game Release Date: June 2027, 3 Starter Decks
Bandai used New York Comic Con to put a month on its NARUTO CARD GAME: June 2027, with three Starter Decks led by Naruto, Sasuke and Gaara and a first booster called "Enter: Naruto Uzumaki!". It also announced in-store demo events from February, a million Demo Decks from spring, and two products you can only buy at those events or selected BANDAI CARD GAMES Fest stops. Here is what was announced, what changed from the July roadmap, and what is still missing.
Paris Games Week 2026: Tickets, Hours and What's Playable
Paris Games Week 2026 runs October 22 to 25 at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles. A day ticket is €29, anyone aged 8 to 25 pays €20, and the undated two-day pass saves €8. Here is what each publisher has confirmed you can play, why the biggest stand on the floor still has no published line-up, the 3,000 m² card game area, the rules at the door, and where PGW's own pages disagree.
Cyberpunk TCG Rarities Explained: Iconic, Secret and Nova
Cyberpunk TCG has seven rarities, and the official card database now lists 31 Iconic Rare printings in Kickstarter Beta and 19 in Retail. Every one of the 19 numbers that exists in both sets carries a different painting in each. Here is the full ladder, from the symbols to the Secret Rares to where Nova Rare actually lives.
CRK Destiny Gacha Guide: 9 Themes and the 300-Pull Pick
The Destiny Gacha guarantees its featured Cookie at 300 draws, but every theme keeps its own count, so 150 draws in two themes buys nothing guaranteed. Here are all nine themes, what draw 300 pays in each, how long the Kingdom Pass takes to fund one, and why you should check Call of Destiny before you pick.
MTG God Packs and the 2027 Booster Changes Explained
One Booster Pack in 1,000 will hold 14 rares and mythics. The rest lose the guaranteed foil Play Boosters have carried since 2024. Here is what Wizards announced on October 5, what a God Pack contains, the odds per pack, box and draft, and what Collector Boosters give up at the same price.
Braverse Festival Arena Reprints: What Devsisters Promised
Five days after Festival Arena went on sale, Devsisters apologized for the older cards it had reprinted into the set and promised standard boosters will not be built that way again. It never said how many reprints there were. Its own product listing and card database imply 48.
Roblox Collision Summaries: Impact Speed, Point and Normal
Touched tells you what your part hit. BindToCollisionSummaries, live since October 6, 2026, tells you where, from which direction and how hard. Here are the seven fields, why one bump arrives as several summaries, the Normal field Roblox's own pages describe two ways, and the network-ownership rule that decides which machine sees a summary at all.
PGC 2026 Qualification: PGS Points, Seeds and Circuit 4
PGS Circuit 4 starts on 14 October with 240 PGS Points on the table, and it decides more than who reaches PGC 2026 in Istanbul. It decides which stage each PGS Points qualifier starts from. Here is KRAFTON's whole qualification map, the standings after Circuit 3, and the double-qualification rule that sends spare seeds to the regions instead of ninth place.
Fortnite Reload Nitemare Island: Map, Loot and Rewards
Nitemare Island came back to Reload on October 8 with something the 2025 version never had: a match modifier that hands you a rival and pays out a Kado Thorne Exotic when you drop them. Here is the map, the three-map rotation it sits in, the loot you can only find there, and what the new Ranked and Map Mastery tracks pay.
Minecraft on Switch 2: Free Upgrade, Price and Minecoins
Digital owners of Minecraft for Nintendo Switch get the native Switch 2 version free in most regions until January 31, 2027. Cartridge owners have been offered nothing so far. Here are the editions, the US prices, what the native version changes, and the Minecoins change that lands on the same day.
Genshin Escoffier Build Guide — Talents, Weapon, Artifacts
Nothing you equip on Escoffier changes her 55% Hydro and Cryo RES shred: it reads your party, not her stats. Her build decides everything else — how hard her Cooking Mek hits, how much she heals, and whether her Burst comes back on time.
How to Beat Radagon and the Elden Beast in Elden Ring
Elden Ring's final boss is two resistance charts behind one fog gate, with no Site of Grace between them. Radagon has no fire negation at all; the Elden Beast blocks 40% of it and every status buildup. Here is what each half resists, the one damage type that works on both, the holy-defense stack they both punish you for skipping, and what the patches actually changed.
Baldur's Gate 3 Concentration: Why Your Spell Dropped
Baldur's Gate 3 ends concentration in more ways than the tabletop rules do: a natural 1 fails the save whatever your bonus, falling Prone ends it with no roll, and casting a second concentration spell after Haste on yourself costs you both. Here is what breaks it, temporary hit points and Rage included, the gear and feats that hold it, and the spells BG3 stopped making you concentrate on.
CS2 Wingman Explained: Maps, Money and Rank
Lose the first four rounds of a Wingman half and the fourth loss pays you $2,900, while an elimination win pays $2,750. Counter-Strike 2's 2v2 mode runs on its own config: smaller round awards, a higher and flatter loss bonus, an $8,000 cap, a 90-second clock and a seven-map pool that ignores Active Duty. Here is the whole mode from the game files and Valve's release notes, including every community map Valve has rotated through it.
The Witcher 3 Remastered PC Requirements: All Six Tiers
CD PROJEKT RED's Remastered patch notes carry a six-column PC spec table, from a GTX 1660 at 1080p on Low up to an RTX 5080 for path tracing at 4K. Here is every tier, which upscaler your graphics card actually gets, why CDPR's own storage figures disagree, and the PC settings its patches and support pages have touched since launch.
Breath of the Wild Kilton: Shop Locations, Mon and Masks
Kilton pays 3 Mon for a Bokoblin Horn, exactly what a shop pays in rupees, and 100 Mon for a Lynel Guts a shop buys for 200. Here is where the Fang and Bone opens, the full Mon exchange table, all twelve wares and their Divine Beast unlocks, and what the masks, the Dark set and Monster Extract actually do.
Ocarina of Time Lost Woods: Route, Upgrades and Hearts
Take the wrong doorway in the Lost Woods and the game just puts you back in Kokiri Forest. Here is the seven-turn route to the Sacred Forest Meadow, how to find it by ear instead, and everything the route walks past: two Pieces of Heart, five capacity upgrades, four Gold Skulltulas and two shortcuts out.
ALTTPR Swordless Mode: Hammer, Medallion Pads and Ganon
Swordless takes every sword out of the A Link to the Past Randomizer and then rewires the game so a seed can still be finished. The Magic Hammer inherits three of the sword's jobs, medallions only fire on their emblem pads, and Ganon wants the Hammer and the silver arrows. Here is what changes, gate by gate and boss by boss.
Super Mario 64 Lives and Game Over: What You Actually Lose
A Game Over in Super Mario 64 is a file reload: you keep everything you saved and lose everything you did not. Here is when the game actually writes your file, exactly what a Game Over rolls back, the five courses where a fall is free, and every way to earn a life, from the coin tally to the Monty Mole streak that never runs dry.
Half-Life 2 Episode Achievements: All 36, and the Hard Ones
Half-Life 2's Steam page now lists 69 achievements, not 33. The 20th Anniversary Update brought in the Episodes' 36. Here is every one of them, which game each actually counts in, which ones a reload can rescue, and the runs that need planning.
The Last of Us Part 3: What Naughty Dog Has Confirmed
Neil Druckmann's Last of Us Day note confirmed two new projects that expand the canon beyond Part I and Part II. It did not confirm a game, a title or a date. Here is what is on the record, the three years of mixed signals behind it, and why HBO's Season 3 is a different thing.
RE4 Remake Small Key Locations: All 8 Locked Drawers
The Resident Evil 4 remake has eight Small Keys for eight locked drawers, with no spare. Here is where every key is, what every drawer holds, the order that never strands a key, and the five drawers Ada opens in Separate Ways with keys she has to buy.
Resident Evil Requiem Challenges: All 62 and What CP Actually Buys
Infinite ammo costs 50,000 CP. Forty-six of Requiem's fifty-one story challenges, combined, pay 35,000. The unlock economy is front-loaded onto five brutal runs, and nobody tells you that up front.
Tetris Mid-Game T-Spins: STSD, Imperial Cross, Kaidan
Once the opener is spent, the board decides your T-spins. Hard Drop files 63 pages of mid-game T-spin setups; this guide covers three families: lend your well to a T-spin, stack two TSD slots, or kick a T two rows deeper to save a bad board.
The Mina the Hollower Soundtrack: 96 Tracks, Free, and Koshiro Shows Up
Yacht Club let its composer release the entire Mina the Hollower soundtrack name-your-price on day one. It is 96 tracks, it runs on a Game Boy sound chip plus a Konami MSX cartridge, and Yuzo Koshiro wrote two of them.
Pokopia Photo Ops: All 50 Highlight Reel Shots and Frames
Pokopia's Highlight Reel is a 50-shot photo checklist, and it is where most of the game's photo frames come from. Here is every photo op, the Pokemon and prop each one needs, the 15 that pay a frame, and where Serebii and Bulbapedia disagree on the setup.
Crimson Desert Fishing Guide: Rods, Legendary Fish, Pond
Crimson Desert fishing in one place: how to learn it, the four rods and how to get each, the spots two guides agree on, all five legendary fish, the camp pond, and the May patch that made legendary fish unsellable while a March guide still lists a sell price for them.
Pokémon TCG Recife Regional 2026: Results and Winning Deck
The fourth Regional of the 2027 season, and the first in Latin America, went to a deck only two of 1,074 Masters registered. Victor Carreira's Ogerpon/Meganium/Arboliva list beat three Dragapult ex players in the top cut, in a field where Dragapult builds were a bigger share than at any Regional so far this season.
Lorcana Hyperia City Rules Changes: What CR 2.3 Changed
Ravensburger's Hyperia City release notes do more than explain the new set. Five Core cards gain a keyword, ink drops finally get a rule, keywords stop cancelling each other the old way, and an old Black Cauldron trick gets a written answer. Here is each change, the old wording next to the new, and the rulings that teach a general rule.
Tears of the Kingdom Paraglider Fabrics: All 57 Sources
Mineru's Construct amiibo went on sale September 17, 2026, and its one exclusive drop is a paraglider skin. That makes 29 fabrics you can only get from a figure, against 28 you earn by playing. Here is where every one comes from, which figure drops which, and the per-scan odds from Zelda Wiki's datamined tables.
Riftbound Radiance Rules Update: Neeko Rulings and Errata
Riot published three Radiance rules documents on 9 October: Core Rules patch notes with ten official rulings, an errata article for four cards, and a Tournament Rules update. Together they settle how Neeko works, what happens to Equipment that Orianna turns into a unit, and what changes at your table from the 16 October Pre-Rift.
![The official Gundam Card Game Unit token T-029 Bit / Funnel from Silent Barrage [ST13]: a beige-framed token card showing purple, red-capped bit pods and magenta funnels firing white beams through a blue starfield, with the line This Unit can't be paired with a Pilot or attack, the Long-Range Weapon trait, and 2 AP and 2 HP along the bottom, under a SAMPLE watermark.](/images/blog/gundam-tcg/gundam-card-game-tokens-guide/gundam-t-029-bit-funnel-token-card.webp)
Gundam Card Game Tokens - All 29, and What to Bring
The English card database holds 29 Unit tokens and 32 deck cards that make them, and Bandai's own Aquatic Assault build needs three token cards from a different starter deck. Here is every token, every card that makes one, the six-copy rule, what three Bandai documents say about substitutes, and where the database gets its own tokens wrong.
Palworld TCG Tokyo Autumn Results: How the New Cards Did
Japan's second Palworld TCG Masters League qualifier ran at Tokyo Big Sight on 3 October 2026, the day after Sleeve & Card Set Vol.1 went on sale in Japan, and Bushiroad has posted all 18 podium decks. They are the first published decklists with any of the sleeve set's five cards in them. Chillet – Final Frostneedle made eight lists and Quivern seven, Blue-Purple took three of the six blocks, and a Blue-Green deck won Block B, eleven days after Kyoto's podium had no Green cards at all.
Two Naruto TCGs at Paris Games Week and Lucca 2026
Bandai's NARUTO CARD GAME and Cicaboom's NARUTO Mythos TCG have booked the same two European shows. At Paris Games Week they are at booths E8 and E30; at Lucca, in Piazza Santa Maria and the Padiglione Carducci. Bandai's tutorial seats now have to be booked in advance, from Wednesday 14 October, and each of its stops sells its playmat a different way. Cicaboom's booths are about promo cards, including a Lucca demo card printed with two rules terms no published Mythos document defines.
TwitchCon San Diego 2026: Passes, Meet & Greets, Deadlines
There is no walk-up Meet & Greet line at TwitchCon San Diego 2026. Every session needs a reservation made in the TwitchCon app, the request window opens October 12, and pass prices go up on October 27. Here is what a pass costs, how the reservation system works, the 59 bookable sessions by day, what is on for Minecraft, League of Legends and Riftbound players, and where Twitch's own pages disagree.
Cyberpunk TCG Holophone: Factions, Jobs and Launch Date
WeirdCo announced Holophone on 7 October: a text-message story app that connects your Night City Brawl results to jobs for one of three factions. Here is what it is, how you get in, how it lines up with the Organized Play calendar, and the naming clash worth knowing about before it goes live on 30 October.
CRK Into the Depths Guide — Mines, Agar Cubes and Fossils
An Epic Mine Battle pays an Agar Cube that melts into a Beast or Ancient Soulstone, and a Purple Fossil works out to a 15% shot at a Legendary Beascuit. Here is how Ventures, Ore Veins, Mine Battles and the Appraiser work, what each Trait does, and what the August 26 update changed.
How to Qualify for the MTG Pro Tour: RCQs, RCs, Spotlights
Win a Store Championship this month and you get a foil Jace Reawakened and no invitation to anything. Here is the actual path to the Pro Tour for the 2026-27 season: RCQs, the Modern Regional Championships running through November 1, Spotlight: Fracture, the Arena route and the one-off Magic Limited Championship.
Cookie Run: Braverse Battle Rules: How an Attack Resolves
Rule 7-1-3-1-1 settles FLIP timing in a single sentence, and it sits inside a four-step battle procedure. Here is every step of a Cookie Run: Braverse attack, read straight off the Comprehensive Rules Ver. 1.8, plus the March 2026 rule update that locked the damage number mid-resolution and moved multipliers to the end.
Roblox Localization: How to Translate Your Game
Since June 2026, any player can switch on Automatic Translations and read your game through Roblox's machine translator, whether or not you ever opened the Localization page. Here is what gets translated, how to stop it on text that should stay put, the five kinds of text automatic capture never sees, and the Translator and real-time APIs that cover the rest.
PUBG Blue Zone Timings: Every Phase in Normal and Ranked
Update 42.1 retimed PUBG's blue zone separately for Normal Match and Ranked, and made its damage depend on how long you stay in the blue rather than how far out you are. Here is every phase as a table, built from KRAFTON's own charts.
Fortnitemares 2026: New Overrides, Weapons and Dates
Fortnitemares 2026 went live with update v42.30 on October 1 and runs until November 1. Here is what is live now (five bosses, the Bonerattler SMG, six new Match Overrides), what Epic has dated for later in October, and what changed without a line in the patch notes: two replaced POIs and four Overrides switched off.
Minecraft Ice Caves Guide: Frostbite, Icicles and Freezing
Minecraft's fifth cave biome is mostly packed ice, its icicles drop when you light them, and its new zombie variant applies a brand-new Freezing effect with its melee hits. The ice caves drop is playable today in Bedrock Preview 26.60.29 and not yet in Java. Here is what is in it, with the numbers, and what could still change.
Genshin Skirk Build Guide — Talents, Weapon, Artifacts
Two effects in Skirk's kit and one in Escoffier's only reach their ceiling when all four party slots are Hydro or Cryo. In an Escoffier team, swap one teammate for any other element and her Seven-Phase Flash hits land at roughly 55% of what they were.
Elden Ring Dragon Communion: Every Spell and Heart Cost
The base game has 23 Dragon Hearts and its 13 Dragon Communion spells cost 20, but six of those hearts sit behind Ranni's questline. Here are all three altars, all 16 spells, every base-game heart, and the arithmetic for spending them.
Baldur's Gate 3 Stealth: Where You Stand Beats the Roll
Baldur's Gate 3 only rolls a hiding character's Stealth in one of its three obscurity states; the other two decide whether you are found before Dexterity gets a vote. Here is how obscurity and darkvision work, why Fog and Darkness are different tools, what breaks Hiding, and the gear that switches on in the dark.
CS2 SCAR-20 vs G3SG1: The $5,000 Two-Shot Autosnipers
The SCAR-20 and G3SG1 are the same rifle in Counter-Strike 2's weapon file except for three values: reload time, recoil, and the flinch numbers behind tagging. Both cost $5,000, pay $300 a kill, kill with any two hits and one-tap a helmet at any range. Here is the pair from the game files, what March 2026 did to their ammo, and how the money compares with the AWP.
The Witcher 3 Fist Fights: Every Circuit and Brawl Master
Skellige's fistfighting champion is a bear, the Champion of Champions is a rock troll, and before the troll will fight you at all you have to lose a fight to a ghost on purpose. Here is every fistfighting circuit opponent across Velen, Novigrad, Skellige and Toussaint, what each one pays, and the single loss that makes Brawl Master unobtainable.
Breath of the Wild Great Fairy Fountain Locations and Costs
In Breath of the Wild the 10,000-rupee Great Fairy is not Tera. It is whichever fountain you open fourth. Here is where Cotera, Kaysa, Mija and Tera are, what each fairy you revive unlocks, and what every upgrade tier costs in materials once the rupees are paid.
Ocarina of Time Speedrun Guide: Categories and Records
The fastest Ocarina of Time run is 3:47.9 and never leaves Kokiri Forest. The fastest glitchless one is 2:09:05. Here is every full-game category on the main speedrun.com board, its record, what each ruleset bans, and where a new runner should start.
ALTTPR Retro Mode: Rupee Arrows, Keys and Take-Any Caves
In Retro every arrow has a price, small keys sit on shop shelves, and five ordinary caves hide an old man with a free gift. Here is what the A Link to the Past Randomizer actually changes, where the quiver is sold, and the shortcut its logic takes with your wallet.
Super Mario 64 Music: Every Track and Where It Plays
Super Mario 64 scores 15 courses with seven songs, and only one of them belongs to a single course. Here is which track plays in every course and secret level, the five levels whose music rearranges itself as Mario moves, what triggers the boss music and the jingles, all 36 soundtrack tracks under their 1996 and current names, and where to listen today.
Half-Life 2 G-Man Sightings: Where to Spot Him, Map by Map
Between the opening monologue and the ending, the G-Man turns up twelve more times in Half-Life 2, mostly at a distance or on a screen. Here is where each one is, by chapter and map, plus the three in Episode Two and the ones Valve cut.
The Last of Us Part 1 Skins: All 55 and What They Cost
Part I kept all 21 skins from the 2013 game, added 18 outfits and 16 weapon skins, and put the lot in one points shop. Here is the listed price of each skin, filter and modifier, what the Digital Deluxe Edition actually unlocks, and the two Steam-only shirts.
RE4 Remake Sentinel Nine and Skull Shaker: Worth Using?
The Resident Evil 4 remake's Extra DLC Pack, bundled in Gold Edition, puts two extra guns in typewriter Storage from the start of a new game. One of them buys back 11 case slots. The other is a starting pistol with a bigger magazine. Here are both, stat for stat against the guns they replace.
Resident Evil Requiem Release Date, Platforms and Editions: What Is Confirmed
When Requiem launched, which platforms it hit, what the three editions actually cost, and the confirmed PC specs — the buyer-facing facts, stripped of the guesswork.
NES Tetris Level Transition and Scoring Explained
Start NES Tetris on 18 and you stay there for 130 lines. Start on 19 and it is 140. Start on 12 and it is 100. One missing conversion in the cartridge explains all three, and it also decides which clear gets paid at the higher rate.
Mina the Hollower Release Date, Platforms & What's Confirmed
The Shovel Knight studio's Game Boy Color love letter is finally here. Here is the confirmed release date, every platform, and what Yacht Club has actually said about Mina the Hollower.
Pokopia Paint Guide: All 18 Colors, Patterns and Smearguru
Pokopia's paint system runs through Smearguru, a Pokemon the story never makes you meet. Here is how to unlock it, which berry makes which paint, the recipe for all 18 colors, and where every one of the 116 patterns comes from.
Crimson Desert Achievements: All 34, Rarity and Missables
Five of Crimson Desert's 34 achievements come from the story and camp. The other 29 each ask for a whole family of Challenges. Here is every one with its Steam unlock rate, the Sealed Abyss Artifact rule, and the missables list rechecked against Pearl Abyss's patch notes.
Pokémon TCG ACE SPEC Cards: All 29 Legal, Ranked by Play
You get one ACE SPEC per deck, and Standard currently offers 29 of them. We pulled all 6,728 Masters decklists from the first three Regionals of the 2027 season to see which one players actually spend that slot on, archetype by archetype, and which ACE SPECs nobody registered at all.
Lorcana Hyperia City Prerelease Guide: How Sealed Works
At a Lorcana prerelease the two-ink rule is switched off, and Hyperia City shows why: six packs average about 12 cards per ink, so two inks rarely reach 40. Here is the event under Ravensburger's own rules, what the box holds, how Sealed, Draft and Pack Rush differ from Constructed, and what the full 204-card list says you will open.
Tears of the Kingdom Lynels: All 34 Locations and HP
Breath of the Wild had 22 Lynels. Tears of the Kingdom has 34, and 19 of them are in the Depths, including every Silver Lynel on Thonky's list. There is no Monster Medal for them, so here is the full list by variant, what each one can take, what changed in the fight, and the 111 Lynel parts the Great Fairies will eventually ask you for.
Riftbound Radiance Legends Revealed, by Domain Pair
Eight of Radiance's nine Legend cards have now been shown, through Riot's Card Gallery, an IGN exclusive and Riot's own reveals video, and the empty ninth slot has a Riven Signature card sitting right after it. None of them is on a rival pair. Here is each Legend's domains and text, and what Radiance does to the Legend grid.
How to Qualify for the Gundam Card Game World Championships
Eleven of the 22 Season 2 Regionals on Bandai's World Championships 26-27 calendar have been played, and the rest run from 3 October to 20 December 2026. Here is every route to an Area Finals seat - the Top 16 invite, the Store Championship lottery and its attendance cliffs, the Last Chance Qualifiers in Orlando and London, the open finals in Latin America and Oceania - plus the one Regional that falls inside Stardust Trails' first week, and a Season 2 prize ladder that turns out to be one Zeong board handed out in pieces.
Palworld TCG Sleeve & Card Set Vol.1 - All 5 New Cards
Every promo Pal in the English Palworld TCG database is a reprint of a launch card. The five cards in Sleeve & Card Set Vol.1 are the first new card text since 30 July, and they landed in the English database this week, two weeks before the 16 October English release. One of them is the game's first Colorless Lucky Pal, and it is the biggest cost-6 Pal in the pool. Here is what all five do, the three Japanese rulings already published for them, and when you can play them.
NARUTO Mythos TCG Shinobi Shiren: Set 2 Cards and Rarities
Set 2 of NARUTO Mythos TCG has been in European stores since 4 September, and Cicaboom's Products page still lists it as "Coming soon". The official Collection Guide says a great deal more: 150 numbered cards, a new Attachment card type, four rarities Set 1 never had, and serialized runs of 300, 400 and 1,500. Here is the whole set, rarity by rarity, checked against the official card gallery and events page.
Golden Joystick Awards 2026: Every Nominee and How to Vote
The 44th Golden Joystick Awards public vote is open until Friday, October 23. Here is all of it: 168 nominations across 21 categories, the deadline converted to six time zones, why Future's own two announcements disagree on the leaders' totals, the three eligibility windows that let The Witcher 3 Remastered in and keep GTA VI out, the games this site covers that made the ballot, and the twelve games also on gamescom's award lists.
Cyberpunk TCG Starter Decks: Embracing Power vs The Heist
WeirdCo's two Welcome to Night City starter decks share no cards and are built on mirror-image Legend lines. Here are both full lists with every card's cost, RAM and power, the five cards each second Legend exists to pay for, the rulings that change how they play, and which box is the better first buy.
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