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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 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.
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.
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.
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 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.
CRK Topping Tarts Guide — Crafting Odds and Legendary Tarts
An Epic Searing Raspberry Tart rolls 7.2% to 12.0% ATK the day it is crafted, against the 9% main stat of a Searing Raspberry Topping pushed to +12. Here is every Tart's roll range, what the Mine Workshop really charges for the roll you want, and how the Legendary tier added on July 29 upgrades.
MTG Planechase Rules: Planar Die, Planes and Phenomena
Your first roll of the planar die each turn is free. The sixth costs five mana on its own, and the six together cost fifteen. Here is how Planechase actually works, from the planar deck and the starting plane to the die, chaos, phenomena and Commander pods, checked against the Comprehensive Rules effective September 25, 2026.
Cookie Run: Braverse Summer Champion Cup 2026: What Won
Devsisters' 2026 Summer Champion Cup report is out, and three of the six champions it covers won with Purple decks built on the same self-milling core. Here are all six winners, each country's field and Top 16 color charts, the card cores the winning lists share, and the numbers behind Green's fall from four winter titles to none.
Roblox Ban API: BanAsync, Alt Accounts, Device Blocks
Player:Kick() drops someone from one server. Players:BanAsync() evicts them from every server, keeps them out for as long as you say, and bans their suspected alts by default. Here is every field in the config table, the scope rule that decides whether your unban does anything, the 24-hour device block only one unban path can lift, and why GetBanHistoryAsync fails in Studio.
PUBG Utility Items: Folded Shield, Zipline Gun & More
PUBG's loot pool has a whole layer of kit that isn't a gun, armour, a heal or a grenade. Here are nine of those items: what each one does, what slot and weight it costs you, where it spawns as of Update 43.1, and which patch changed the rules on it.
Fortnite Blitz Royale Guide: How the 5-Minute Mode Works
Blitz Royale was meant to close on July 15, 2025. Fifteen months later it has its own dev team, a $1,000,000 mobile tournament and a victory emote you can only earn inside it. Here is how a match actually runs: the kit everyone lands with, what Blitz Levels pay out, where the gold loot is, how fast the storm kills, and what Epic has and has not changed this season.
Minecraft Spear Guide: Jab, Charge Damage, and Lunge
A diamond spear jabs for 4 damage. Held low on an elytra at rocket speed, the same spear charges for 37. The spear's charge takes its damage from how fast you are moving, and the weapon breaks several rules the rest of Minecraft combat runs on. Here are the real numbers for every tier, both attacks, and Lunge.
Genshin Anniversary Selector — Which Free 5-Star to Pick
Version 7.1 hands every eligible account two free 5-star invitations from two lists that do not overlap. Five of the fourteen names work in both Imaginarium Theater seasons that open before the deadline, two are wired into Stellar Swirl, and one is missing from the current free-constellation event roster.
Elden Ring Memory Stones: All 8 Locations and Max Slots
Every character starts with two memory slots, and Comet Azur alone needs three. Here are all eight Memory Stones, the tortoise puzzles and missable gesture that guard them, the talisman that takes you to twelve, and the spells that cost more than one slot.
Baldur's Gate 3 Death Saves: What Actually Kills You
Baldur's Gate 3 keeps the tabletop shape of death saving throws and rewrites the details: no massive-damage deaths, no natural-20 comebacks, and failures that survive stabilising. Here is what kills a Downed character, what stops it, and what each way back from the dead costs.
CS2 Zeus x27: Range, Recharge and the $100 Kill
The Zeus x27 does 500 damage, ignores armor completely and reaches about 120 units, roughly 2.3 metres. Since February 2024 it recharges instead of disappearing, and since April 2024 a kill pays $100. Here is the whole weapon, from Valve's release notes and the game's own files: reach, recharge, money, purchase limits by mode, and every Zeus line in CS2's release notes.
The Witcher 3 Remastered Mods: How to Install, What Broke
Remastered put a Mods button on The Witcher 3's main menu, and CD PROJEKT RED says the same update stopped mods carrying script, XML or w3strings files from working. Here is how the mod.io menu works on PC and console, what broke and who fixes it, which Steam branch actually gets your old build back, and what a mod does to your trophies and your cross-save.
Breath of the Wild Rupee Farming: How to Make Money Fast
Four Lynel Guts and an Energetic Rhino Beetle sell for 830 rupees raw and 2,330 as an elixir, by the selling formula Zelda Wiki publishes for Breath of the Wild. Here is what sells for the most, what the cooking pot does to a price, what Ramella pays for gems, where rupees still drop as rupees, and which side quests pay in cash or Diamonds.
Ocarina of Time Gerudo's Fortress: Free All 4 Carpenters
The Gerudo do not want you dead. They want you in a cell. Here is how to cross Gerudo Valley, get through the fortress, beat the four Gerudo Thieves guarding the carpenters, and walk out with the Gerudo Token — plus the collectibles on the grounds.
ALTTPR Inverted Mode: What Flips and How to Route It
Inverted starts you in the Dark World and turns the Moon Pearl, the Magic Mirror, the portals and the flute around. Here is what the A Link to the Past Randomizer actually changes, the eleven overworld checks open on an empty inventory, and the routes its logic accepts into the Light World.
Super Mario 64 Bowser Levels Guide: All 24 Red Coins
Bowser in the Dark World, the Fire Sea and the Sky each hide one Power Star behind eight red coins on the obstacle course in front of the fight. Here is the route through all three, where every red coin sits, and what else the level data holds.
Half-Life 2 on Console, Mac and Steam Deck: Every Version
Half-Life 2 has shipped on seven platforms and one arcade cabinet, and only one of those versions still gets patches from Valve. Here is every official port, what each one is missing, and the right way to play it on whatever you own.
The Last of Us Part 2 Crafting Guide: All 12 Recipes
Part II has twelve crafting recipes and neither character gets all of them. Here is every ingredient list, which recipes are locked behind a skill, what one craft yields, and where the ingredients collide.
RE4 Remake Best SMG: TMP vs LE 5 vs Chicago Sweeper
Leon's campaign in the Resident Evil 4 remake has three submachine guns, and whether the TMP or the LE 5 hits harder depends on whether you count the exclusive upgrade. Here are the TMP, the LE 5 and the Chicago Sweeper side by side: stats at every level, full upgrade bills, where to find the LE 5, and what a magazine costs to craft.
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 Fumen Explained: Read, Make and Share Diagrams
The v115@ string attached to Tetris setups is a whole multi-page board packed into a link. Here is what is inside it, which editor to open it in, what Lock, Rise and Mirror do, and where numbers like 84.64% come from.
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 Halloween Event: Pumpkaboo's Sweet Surprises Guide
Pokopia's first Halloween event adds Pumpkaboo and Gourgeist from October 17 to November 1, 2026, and it has a gate the Feebas event did not: you need Camouflage from Zorua. Here is the confirmed schedule, the checklist to clear before it opens, and what is still unannounced.
Crimson Desert Boss Rematch: Reminisce vs Resonate
Beat a boss once and its Memory Fragment lets you fight it again, as any of the three characters, in one of two modes. Here is how Rematch works, why it pays nothing, and what 1.07.00 and 1.13.00 moved.
Pokémon TCG Delta Reign: Dates, Legendary Stadiums, Cards
Mega Evolution—Delta Reign is five weeks out, and The Pokémon Company has now published enough to plan around: the dates, the card count, eighteen English card faces with all four Megas among them, and a new two-card Stadium. Its Japanese counterpart, Storm Emeralda, is already out, with official rulings. Here is what is confirmed, what is still Japanese-only, and why November 20 matters.
Lorcana Shift Explained: Stacks, Damage and All 6 Variants
Shift is 199 cards and a full page of rules, and most of that page is about the card underneath. Here is what a shifted character inherits, why 63 Core-legal cards care about the stack, where every card goes when the top one leaves play, and what each of the six variants actually lets you shift onto.
Tears of the Kingdom Monster Medals: Sub-Boss Counts and HP
Breath of the Wild had three Medals of Honor and 84 kills behind them. Tears of the Kingdom has six Monster Medals, a six-quest gate in front of them, and a Gleeok tier where an ordinary Flame Gleeok carries more health than the Demon Dragon's main body. Here is how the hunt unlocks, how many of each monster Gralens counts, and what every variant can take.
Riftbound 2027 Organized Play: Regionals and Continentals
RQ Los Angeles was the final Regional Qualifier of 2026, and under Riot's 2027 plan the last event to carry that name. In 2027 the RQ becomes the Riftbound Regional, the Regional Championship becomes a once-per-set Continental with an open Day 1, and Summoner Skirmish is retired in favour of two new store programs. Here is the whole structure, the first three dated events, and what Riot has still not published.
Gundam Card Game Errata and Comprehensive Rules Updates
Bandai has corrected the text of three Gundam Card Game cards, and on 30 September 2026 its own card database still shows the uncorrected wording on all three. Here is each errata and what it changes at the table, plus a version-by-version account of the Comprehensive Rules from 1.0 to 1.9.0, built by comparing every archived English PDF against the next - including three rules the official changelog never lists.
Palworld TCG Meta: What Won the Kyoto Masters League
Bushiroad has published the decks that finished first, second and third in all four blocks of Japan's first Masters League 26-27 qualifier, held in Kyoto on 22 September 2026. Every card in them has an English printing, so this is the first Masters League data for the Dawn of Palpagos format English players are about to take into October's Grand Challengers Cups. Eight of the 12 are Blue-Purple, ten run four Chillet, all 12 run exactly eight Lucky Pals, and not one contains a Green card.
How to Play NARUTO Mythos TCG: Rules, Decks and Scoring
Our NARUTO Mythos TCG explainer covers the rules in a handful of bullets. This is the full walkthrough, built only from Cicaboom's rulebook, Tournament Rules, FAQ and Game Mechanics pages: the 30-card, two-per-number deck rules, how the coin flip decides whose Missions land where, the four ways to put a card on a Mission, why a hidden card pays for itself, how Set 2's Attachments work, and why the first Mission revealed can be scored four times while the last is scored once.
PAX Aus 2026: Badge Prices, Hours and the MA15+ Rule
PAX Aus 2026 is nine days out, and the 3-Day and Saturday badges are already sold out. What Friday and Sunday cost against the prices PAX's own FAQ still quotes, why Sunday costs the same for five and a half fewer hours, the Victorian MA15+ rule that no parent can sign away, the tabletop side that runs until 11 p.m., the card games PAX has announced, and the headline sessions converted to US and UK time.
Cyberpunk TCG Rules FAQ: What 269 Official Rulings Settle
Besides the Comprehensive Rules and the Tournament Rules, WeirdCo publishes a third rules document written as the questions a player asks mid-game: a Rules FAQ with 269 official rulings, 244 of them on specific cards. It settles the GO SOLO question the rulebook left open, half-settles the Sell contradiction, and makes clear which card effects you cannot decline.
Povidone-Iodine Cookie Toppings Build — Three Types, One Gap
Three ranking posts on this site already name Povidone-Iodine Cookie as a gap they never filled. Her own infobox recommends three different Topping types instead of the usual one, and its top sub-stat pick is not something Toppings can actually give her.
MTG Turn Structure: Every Phase and Step, Explained
A Shock in your own end step finishes off a 3/3 your attacker already hit for 2. The same Shock in your opponent's upkeep does not. The difference is a step in which nobody normally gets priority: cleanup. Here is the whole Magic turn in order — what the game does automatically at the start of each phase and step, where you get priority and where you don't, checked against the Comprehensive Rules effective September 25, 2026.
Cookie Run: Braverse 2-on-2 Rules and Winning Team Decks
Braverse's standard rulebook says it doesn't cover games with more than two players, so the official 2-on-2 format runs on two separate documents - and they change more than you'd think. One loss counter for two Break Areas, a four-copy limit that belongs to the team, and board wipes that hit your partner. Here are the rules, read off the source, plus what all five Asian 2-on-2 champion teams with published lists actually brought.
Roblox BadgeService Guide: Award, Check, Debug
Call AwardBadgeAsync on a player who isn't currently in your server and it fails one of five documented requirements — silently, the same way it fails for a disabled badge or a place outside the badge's own experience. Here is every BadgeService method, which four are dead, the rate limit two of them share despite a 10x difference in batch size, and the deprecated check that Roblox says will now always return true.
PUBG Secret Rooms: Every Map, Key and What's Inside
Secret Rooms are on seven PUBG maps now, they've been in Ranked since June 2026, and the Self-AED hasn't spawned in one since April 2025. Here's every map's key and door rules, the loot lists KRAFTON has actually published, and the two unlocked cousins: Vikendi's alarmed Lab Camps and Sanhok's Loot Truck.
FNCS Global Championship 2026 Results: SwizzY and Pixie Win
Twelve games, 50 duos, $2,000,000 — and two points between first and second. SwizzY and Pixie never led the Fortnite Global Championship 2026 until the last game ended, while the duo that led for six straight games scored nothing in the final two. Here are the full standings, the game-by-game swing, and how the scoring decided it.
Minecraft Game Rules List: Every Rule and Its New Name
Java 1.21.11 renamed every game rule: keepInventory is keep_inventory now, doDaylightCycle is advance_time, and doFireTick is gone entirely. Here is the full list for Java 26.3 and Bedrock 26.50, with old names, new IDs, menu labels, defaults, and the 19 Bedrock rules that switch your achievements off for good.
Genshin Vesna Build Guide — Talents, Weapon, Artifacts
Vesna's biggest hits change damage formulas depending on whether a Stellar Swirl went off in the last eight seconds. Build her like an ordinary Anemo carry and you are optimising the half of her kit that does the least.
Elden Ring Respec Guide: All 27 Larval Tear Locations
Every Rebirth at Rennala costs one Larval Tear, and a Journey only holds 27 of them. Here is where all 18 base-game tears and all nine Shadow of the Erdtree tears are, what the Rebirth menu will and will not let you change, and why eight of the eighteen wait behind Starscourge Radahn.
Baldur's Gate 3 Initiative and Surprise: How to Go First
Tabletop D&D rolls initiative on a d20. Baldur's Gate 3 rolls it on a d4, which turns a +5 from Alert from a nudge into something close to a guarantee. Here is how turn order is built, what Surprised takes away, and the line-of-sight rule that decides whether your ambush gets a surprise round at all.
CS2 Rush Mode Explained: Towers, Arenas and Money
Wiping the enemy team does not, by itself, win a round of Rush. Controlling the tower does. Counter-Strike 2's new 3v3 mode, read straight from its config, its map script and its arena list: how rounds end, how the front line moves, all 19 arenas, and an economy where a first loss pays only $400 less than a win.
The Witcher 3 Kaer Morhen Allies: Full Crew Checklist
Whether Lambert survives the Battle of Kaer Morhen is decided in a level-8 Velen side quest about plague notes. Here is every ally you can bring, the exact quest chain each one needs, what they change once the Hunt arrives, and the quests that fail the moment you sail for the Isle of Mists.
Breath of the Wild Best Bows: Stats and Where to Get Them
The Great Eagle Bow draws 1.8 times as fast as a Royal Bow, and the Ancient Bow's arrows fall under less than a third of normal gravity. Neither number is on the inventory card. Here are all 26 bows in Breath of the Wild, the hidden stats that separate them, where each one comes from, and what every arrow type adds.
Ocarina of Time Remake: Switch 2 Release Date and Changes
The 1998 original never gave you a jump button. The Switch 2 remake puts jumping on one, adds a Breath of the Wild item scroll, fully voices its cutscenes and lets you hum Zelda's Lullaby into the console. Here is everything Nintendo has confirmed about the November 5 release, the editions and amiibo, and the questions it still has not answered.
A Link to the Past Crystal Switches: One Byte, Whole Dungeon
A Link to the Past does not track its orange and blue Switch Fence panels room by room. One RAM byte, shared by the entire dungeon, decides whether every crystal switch and every panel in it is up or down — including the ones in rooms you have not opened yet. Here is the exact byte, what it will and will not respond to, and why it resets the second you walk back through the door.
Super Mario 64 120-Star Reward: Yoshi and the Castle Roof
Super Mario 64 does not announce your 120th Power Star. The reward is outside: a cannon grate that stops loading, Yoshi on the castle roof, and a gift that quietly resets the next time you load your file. Here is what 120 stars changes, checked against the wikis and the decompiled code.
Half-Life 2 Difficulty: What Easy, Normal and Hard Change
The menu says Hard makes enemies very tough. The code says the Combine soldier has the same 50 health on every setting, and the thing that got weaker is you. Here is exactly what each Half-Life 2 difficulty changes, and the handful of things it cannot touch.
The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered Skins: How to Unlock Them
The 2020 release of Part II had no outfits you could wear. Remastered added dozens, split between a points shop and No Return challenges. Here is what each one costs or asks of you, and where the lists disagree.
RE4 Remake Best Rifle: SR M1903 vs Stingray vs CQBR
Leon can carry three rifles in the Resident Evil 4 remake, and they all drink from the same ammo pool. Here are their stats, upgrade prices and exclusives side by side, plus the arithmetic on what a full magazine of each one costs to craft.
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.
TGM4 Absolute Eye Modes Explained: Where to Start
Arika's first Grand Master in twenty years is not one game. It is six modes, four unlockable variants behind Normal, two control types that change the randomizer, and a 2,600-level Master mode that freezes your own stack. Here is what each one asks and where to start.
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 Team Initiation Challenge: All 9 Steps and Badges
The sand-covered tower on the Withered Wasteland beach runs a nine-step request, and it is the last one before the credits. Here is each delivery it asks for, where each item actually comes from, and the combined bill so you can stockpile once instead of nine times.
Crimson Desert Re-Blockade: How to Stop Forts Being Retaken
Enemies back on a fort you cleared weeks ago is not a bug. It is Re-blockade, switched on by default since May. Here is how the setting, Protection and the 1.10.00 stages actually work.
Pokémon TCG Frankfurt & Brisbane Regionals 2026 Results
Two Regionals ran on September 26-27, 2026, and they told opposite stories. In Frankfurt, a deck only 26 of 2,793 Masters registered played itself in the final. In Brisbane, Dragapult ex took the top three places. Both were the first Regionals with 30th Celebration legal, so this is also the first real data on where Mew ex actually landed.
Lorcana Ink Drops Explained: Hyperia City's New Resource
Hyperia City's headline new mechanic is a counter that pays 1 ink and then disappears. Here is what Ravensburger has actually published about ink drops, what the card text implies about the rest, every revealed card that makes or spends one, and the new Adventurous keyword riding alongside them.
Tears of the Kingdom Rupee Farming: What to Sell and Keep
A Ruby sold for 210 rupees in Breath of the Wild. In Tears of the Kingdom it sells for 110. Six of the eight ores the two games share lost 42 to 71 percent of their value, which quietly broke the old money playbook. Here is what actually pays now, what the Great Fairies will want back, and the real math on feeding Luminous Stones to a Dondon.
Riftbound RQ Los Angeles Results and the Post-Ban Meta
RQ Los Angeles was the first Regional Qualifier played after Riot banned Stacked Deck to slow Kennen down. Riot's own table shows fewer players registering Kennen afterwards, not Kennen surviving Day 1 any worse - it converted to Day 2 at 38.2%, the best of any Legend with ten or more pilots, and still put nobody in the Top 8. Rengar won, undefeated.
Gundam Card Game Multiplayer Rules - 2v2 and Battle Royale
On 25 September 2026 a store release event opened with a Battle Royale option and Bandai posted four decklist pairs built for 2v2 Team Battle. Most of the 1v1 game carries over, but a handful of rules change who gets EX Resources, whose hand a Shield lands in and what "friendly" means once your partner sits next to you - and Bandai's own two rules documents disagree on one of them. Here is every change, the 11 multiplayer rulings I found in Bandai's FAQ, the 35 cards whose text reads the size of the table, and what Bandai's 14 team decklists do differently.
Palworld TCG Masters League 26/27 - Dates, Format, Prizes
Bushiroad's English Masters League 26/27 page now lists 23 qualifiers across the Americas, Asia-Oceania and Europe, the first on 7-8 November 2026 in Kissimmee - eight days after Legends Awaken releases. Here is every listed date and venue, which sets will be legal at each dated stop under the page's own release-date rule, how Japan's separate leg fits in, the Day 1 and Day 2 format, the full prize ladder including a new eight-card promo pack, and exactly how a top-three finish turns into a World Finals invitation.
NARUTO Mythos TCG Orlando Regional: Results and Decklists
Cicaboom's website has not posted a result for either of its 2026 Regionals. The Orlando one is on TopDeck.gg anyway, the platform Cicaboom sent players to for registration, with final standings and 43 player-submitted decklists. The champion went 3-3 in the Swiss, took the last Top 16 seat on tiebreakers, and beat the only 6-0 player in the first round of the cut. Here is the bracket, the champion's 30 cards, and what the Top 16 had in common.
SPIEL Essen 2026 Tickets: Prices, Hours and the Halls
SPIEL Essen 2026 has no box office, no four-day ticket and, four weeks out, two days down to their last few tickets. Every 2026 day-ticket price against last year, the family-ticket arithmetic, the Golden Demon add-on that quietly needs two day tickets, the first eight-hall layout with Hall 5 as the card game hall, and the shipping rates for getting a haul home.
Cyberpunk TCG Night City Brawl and Showdown Prizes
Before Chicago crowns a Regional champion, local stores crown their own: the Night City Showdown window opens one week after retail. WeirdCo has now published every prize for it and for the weekly Brawls, and the card database already carries all of the promo cards - including a headline Showdown prize that only a mono-Yellow deck can legally play.
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