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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
Ananas Dragon Cookie Toppings — The ATK-to-Cooldown Loop
Three separate guides on this site have now called Ananas Dragon Cookie out by name as the gap in their rankings — a Dragon-rarity Cookie that August community tier lists put at the top of the Arena pool, with no build guide of her own anywhere on the site. Her skill sheet turns out to hide a specific, checkable mechanic: a passive that converts Topping ATK directly into Cooldown reduction, capped at a threshold one single maxed Topping already clears.
MTG Reality Fracture: The Best New Commanders
Reality Fracture ships 75 Commander-legal legendary creatures, more than Secrets of Strixhaven, Lorwyn Eclipsed, and Edge of Eternities combined. Here's which ones are actually worth the command zone, checked card by card against Scryfall's own spoiled set data.
Cookie Run: Braverse Worlds 26-27: New Date and Venue
On September 1, Devsisters told players the second CookieRun: Braverse World Championship would run June 19-20, 2027, in Bangkok. On September 15 it posted a second notice - still live, with no reference to the first - putting the same event on June 5-6, 2027, at a named venue for the first time. Both notices are still up as this is published.
Roblox Plus Private Servers: What's Changing Sept 24
Roblox Plus launched with unlimited free private servers. On September 24, 2026, that drops to one per game. Here's exactly which server you keep, what expires, what still costs Robux, and why Roblox says it's doing this now.
PUBG Workshop Guide: How Crafting and Disassembling Work
PUBG's Workshop has quietly run on Imprints, Vouchers and Credits since 2022. In 2026, KRAFTON deleted a standing chest, retired the two-step randomness its own developers called the 'Double Gacha,' and just made a chunk of the catalogue up to five times more expensive to craft or disassemble.
Fortnite Kingdom Hearts Skins: Price, Keyblade and More
Our Chapter 7 Season 4 weapons post named the Kingdom Key and Rebecca's Guns as arrivals Epic had announced but not shipped — 'neither is in the pool yet,' it said, three weeks ago. Update v42.20 shipped both, plus a four-skin Kingdom Hearts bundle tied for the most expensive in the game's history, four new Sprites, and six new Match Overrides. Here's what actually landed, what it costs, and what Epic still hasn't published.
Minecraft Stronghold Guide: Finding, Loot, and Layout
A stronghold is not a hallway with a portal at the end of it — it is a sprawling, half-collapsed complex with up to nine room types, three separate loot tables, and a generation algorithm precise enough to predict a distance before you throw a single eye. Here is the whole structure, not just the part that gets you to the dragon.
Genshin Impact 7.1 Release Date and Anniversary Rewards
Genshin Impact's sixth anniversary lands with two new 5-star characters and, for the first time, two separate free character selectors instead of one. Here is the exact maintenance window, the confirmed banner order, and the full character lists for both giveaways.
How to Beat Mohg, Lord of Blood in Elden Ring: Full Guide
A White Mask Varré questline reward can teleport you to Mohg, Lord of Blood's fog gate straight out of Liurnia of the Lakes, hours before the game's normal pacing puts a late-game shardbearer in front of you. Here is his full verified moveset, why his own resistance data rules out the fire and frost builds his aesthetic suggests, the item built specifically to survive his Bloodboon Ritual, and the DLC access rule that still trips people up after he's already dead.
Baldur's Gate 3 Critical Hits: What Actually Doubles
A natural 20 doubles your damage in Baldur's Gate 3 — but "doubled" hides real nuance: which half of that number actually doubles, which of the game's dozen crit-threshold sources stack together, and how "immune to critical hits" still lets a natural 20 miss outright. bg3.wiki's own combat-log breakdown settles all three.
CS2 Trade-Up Contracts: The 5-Skin Knife Route
Ten skins in, one skin out — that ratio has governed the Trade-Up Contract since 2013, and for twelve years it could never produce a knife no matter how many you burned. Valve changed that on October 22, 2025, and changed the contract again seven months later. Here is the actual ladder, the float math that decides your outcome's wear, and both updates most guides still have not caught up to.
The Witcher 3 Remastered: Frame Rates, Saves and Mods
CD PROJEKT RED's free-upgrade announcement covered who pays for what on 29 September. It could not say how the game runs, because the studio had not said. Three weeks and a gamescom broadcast later, PS5 Pro and Switch 2 have real frame rate numbers, a support article spells out what happens to your save and skill points, and six mods are confirmed for console launch day.
Breath of the Wild Towers: All 15, and What Blocks the Climb
Fifteen Sheikah Towers rise the moment you place the Slate in the Great Plateau, and the game never tells you where the other fourteen are. One sits in a Bottomless Bog. One has a Royal Claymore buried in a stone skull. One is stranded inside a ring of Decayed Guardians. Here is every location and exactly what makes each climb different.
Ocarina of Time Ice Cavern Walkthrough: Every Room
Skip the Ice Cavern and the Water Temple becomes uncrossable — the Iron Boots live nowhere else in the game. It's also a genuinely strange dungeon: per Zelda Wiki, it's tied with the Gerudo Training Ground as the smallest in Ocarina of Time, and every room but the mini-boss chamber connects by open hallway instead of a door. Here's the room-by-room route: the Ice Scythe hub and its five Silver Rupees, all three Gold Skulltulas, the White Wolfos fight, and the underwater shortcut on the way out.
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 Snowman's Land Guide: All 7 Stars
Snowman's Land looks like the throwaway snow level, and the wiki record on it backs that read up in one specific way: it is the only one of the game's 15 main courses with no Blue Coins at all. What it does have is two freezing ponds that hurt you in two different ways, an enemy species that appears nowhere else in the game, and a cap-stealing snowman nobody warns you about. Here is every star, the full 127-coin breakdown, and the course's last remaining gap in this vertical.
Half-Life 2 Voice Actors: Who Plays Every Character
The G-Man and Barney Calhoun sound nothing alike, so it never registers that they are the same actor. That is the kind of fact a chapter walkthrough has no room for. Here is the full Half-Life 2 cast, character by character: who voices who, the casting stories worth knowing, and the one recasting the trilogy made without ever announcing it.
The Last of Us PC Requirements and Best Settings
This vertical has told you which version to buy and how each mode plays, but never what your PC actually needs to run it. Here are the official spec tiers for both Part I and Part II Remastered, exactly which upscaler each one supports, whether Steam Deck can handle it, and the patch history that turned Part I from a 59-Metacritic launch into the clean build you'd buy today.
RE4 Remake Best Knife: Combat vs Fighting vs Primal
The Resident Evil 4 remake gives Leon three knives worth upgrading and two worth throwing away, and their stat lines differ more than you would guess. Here is the whole ladder in two tables — every power and durability value, every exclusive upgrade, and what each blade costs to take to the top.
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.
TETR.IO Blitz Explained: Levels, Gravity, and Score
TETR.IO's own wiki calls Blitz "similar to Ultra" and leaves it there. What that skips: a 15-level gravity ladder that multiplies every point you score and eventually outruns your reaction time, a Perfect Clear bonus that does not work the way Tetris Effect's does, and a spin rule the all-spin rework never touched.
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 CDs Guide: Every Song and How DJ Rotom Works
Pokopia never puts its soundtrack in a menu. Every track beyond the default ambience is a physical CD, hidden in glowing blocks and Dream Islands with no in-game checklist to work from. Here is the full list, where the CDs come from, and why DJ Rotom is worth more than a CD player.
Crimson Desert Duo and Five-Card: How to Play and Win
Crimson Desert hides two full card games inside its taverns, and this vertical has never covered either. Here is how Duo and Five-Card actually work, cross-checked across five sources that do not all agree with each other — plus the live bug that just took one table offline.
Pokémon TCG Dragapult ex Deck Guide: The Worlds-Winning 60
Dragapult ex is Standard's most-played deck by a clear margin, and it has been since Andrew Hedrick took it to the 2026 World Championship. Here is the exact 60 cards that won Worlds, the three variants the format has split into since, which decks actually beat it, and what happens to the matchup when Mew ex goes legal on September 30.
Disney Lorcana Digital Game: What's Confirmed So Far
The entire public case for a Disney Lorcana digital client is one graphic, two sentences and a QR code. Here is exactly what Ravensburger has confirmed since D23 2026, what three outlets disagree about, and what the last two TCGs to try this actually shipped, and when.
Tears of the Kingdom Switch 2 Edition: What It Adds
Breath of the Wild's Switch 2 Edition got eight of the nine Zelda Notes features. Tears of the Kingdom gets the ninth — Autobuild Sharing, QR codes for Ultrahand builds — plus a Voice Memory count nearly double its predecessor's and an amiibo rule that quietly breaks the Weapon Bonus system the rest of this vertical has been mapping for weeks.
Riftbound Radiance Preview Season: The Full Schedule
Riot quietly opened Radiance preview season on 18 September with a two-broadcast teaser, then published the real schedule: 115 confirmed creators, streamers and press outlets, each assigned a date between 25 September and 10 October to show off pieces of Set 5. Here is the full day-by-day list, plus the two official tools - the Card Gallery and the #RBRadiance hashtag - built to track all of it.
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Gundam Card Game ST11-ST14 Card Lists - All 64 Cards
On 11 September 2026 Bandai put the ST11 through ST14 card lists into the official card database, two weeks before the decks reach shelves. That is 64 distinct cards, 2 Legend Rare and 14 Common per deck, all of them Block 2. It also shipped 62 new rulings and Comprehensive Rules Ver. 1.9.0 the same day. Here is every card, what the four decks are actually built to do, the ruling that changes cards you already own, and the one card whose database entry already disagrees with Bandai's own errata.
Palworld TCG Challengers Cup Prizes and 2 New Promo Cards
Two cards landed in the Palworld TCG's official database this week that break a pattern our promo card guide called out by name a month ago: not one of Bushiroad's first sixteen promos carried the Lucky Pal icon, or reprinted anything rarer than an Uncommon. EPR-010 does both - a reprint of the RR-rarity Lucky Pal Jormuntide Ignis, whose own card image shows a 000/750 serial-number window. Neither it nor its Common-tier companion, EPR-011, is in a booster or either PR Card Pack. Both are exclusive prizes for the Grand Challengers Cup, whose full prize list and registration window are now live.
NARUTO Mythos TCG: Breakflip and Zvezdar Disagree
Our own NARUTO Mythos TCG explainer, five days old, named Zvezdar Toys as the company bringing the game to Europe and North America — sourced to trade press, because Cicaboom's own site never spelled it out anywhere we could find. This morning Cicaboom published a company update naming a different company, Breakflip, as the coordinator for those exact regions, and stated in writing that Breakflip is 'not the distributor.' Its own Products page, three clicks away, still names Zvezdar for the same three regions using the same three email addresses. Zvezdar's own site still calls itself the official distributor. All three pages are live right now, and none of them mentions the other two.
Tokyo Game Show 2026: What Actually Happened
Typhoon Dujuan (Japan's Typhoon No. 25) forced Tokyo Game Show 2026 to cancel its entire fifth and final day in person — the extra day that made this the show's first-ever five-day edition. Here's what still got announced across the four days that did open: a second playable Mega Man protagonist, a firm date for Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen, Hideo Kojima revealing Bill Skarsgård as PHYSINT's lead, and an R-rated Lollipop Chainsaw movie hiding behind a schedule listing our own streaming guide had already flagged as recycled copy. Plus the final attendance numbers, the exhibitor record set before the storm arrived, and what still streamed live from an empty venue on the cancelled day.
Cyberpunk TCG Edgerunner Open: $75 Tickets, 10 Prize Tiers
As of 12 September, WeirdCo's own Edgerunner Open post said venues, ticket prices, prizing and format were all still unpublished. Nine days later they are all live on cyberpunktcg.com/eor - McCormick Place, Warsaw EXPO XXI, a $75 Major Leagues badge, an 8-round-then-playoffs format, a ten-step prize ladder, and a serialized Encrypted Legends mechanic explained in full for the first time. The four alt-art promos WeirdCo teased on stream in September have also turned up in the card database - not as one printing each, but four art variants apiece.
CRK Town Square Guide — Shop, Rewards and Weekly Events
Two hours in Cuckoo Town Square is worth 240 Stamina Jellies, 120 Juicy Stamina Jellies and 480 Town Square Coins before you do anything at all — on top of a shop, a Post Office and two rotating mini-events with their own payouts.
MTG Reality Fracture: Mechanics, Set Size, Prerelease
Prerelease weekend starts in nine days, and Wizards has already spoiled enough of Reality Fracture that you do not have to walk in blind. Jace becomes the villain, every deck gets a planeswalker token, and Tarmogoyf is quietly back in Standard packs. Here is the whole set, checked against Wizards' own preview articles and Scryfall.
Cookie Run: Braverse Card List Filters Are Missing Cards
Open the official CookieRun: Braverse card list, tick the Effect chip marked On play, and you get nothing. Not a short list - an empty page, from a database holding 268 cards that print that exact ability. The filter is doing an exact, case-sensitive string comparison against data that spells the same thing more than one way. Here is what each of the nine chip filters actually matches, which cards fall through each one, and the one search box on the page that does not have the problem.
Roblox Studio Plugins: Build, Debug, and Publish
A Roblox Studio plugin is not a game script with extra steps — the plugin global is not passed to ModuleScripts automatically, ChangeHistoryService does nothing at runtime, and Roblox's own tutorial still teaches a method its own reference page marks deprecated. Here is how to build one that actually works: toolbar button, undo support, a dockable widget, saved settings, and what publishing it to the Creator Store pays.
PUBG Item Carrying and Instant Use, Explained
Update 43.1 gave PUBG two systems that skip the inventory screen entirely: carrying an item off the ground with no backpack cost, and using items — heals, a Folded Shield, even C4 — straight from where they're lying. Our Update 43.1 kick coverage gave this two rows in a summary table. Here is everything KRAFTON's patch notes actually say about it: which item categories qualify, what forces you to drop a carried item, and how a full bag stops being a real problem.
Fortnite OG Season X: The BRUTE and Rift Zones Return
Our OG mode guide explains how the permanent playlist works in general. It doesn't tell you what's live right now, because that changes every season — and on September 3, the tenth one brought back a two-person mech, a fully automatic sniper, and three Rift Zones with rules of their own.
Minecraft Wilderness Bound Guide: Dappled Forest and Camps
Minecraft quietly swapped its whole version-numbering scheme and shipped a full content drop the same week — a new autumn biome, camping structures with a chest that hides in a different spot every time, and the game's first real sit-down furniture. Here is every number from Wilderness Bound, checked against the wiki the day after launch.
Genshin Impact Codes — Every Active Code Today
Six Genshin Impact codes redeem right now, and three more died yesterday. Here is the exact active list with rewards, the just-expired table so you stop retyping dead codes, and the redemption steps — plus why two of the six show no expiry date at all.
How to Beat Malenia in Elden Ring: Full Boss Guide
Bandai Namco's own anniversary infographic counted 329 million attempts against Malenia, Blade of Miquella in one year — more than any other boss the infographic broke out. The reason isn't her health bar, it's the mechanic layered on top of it: she heals off almost everything she lands. Here is her full moveset, phase by phase, the resistances that actually work, a verified damage-reduction stack, and what patches have and have not changed about the fight.
Baldur's Gate 3 High Ground: It's Not Advantage
The standard beginner tip in this game is "take the high ground" — and it leaves it there, as if it works the same way a Prone target or an unseen attacker does. It does not. High ground is a flat, separately tracked +2 or -2 bolted onto the attack roll, and bg3.wiki's own numbers show it does things the "it's advantage" version of the rule never predicted.
CS2 Knife Damage: Why the Backstab Isn't Automatic
Every knife tip you have ever heard treats the backstab like a cheat code: get behind someone, hit them, they die. The Counter-Strike 2 damage table tells a more specific story — a light hit to the back will not drop a full-health target, aiming for the head buys you nothing at all, and the fastest confirmed kill with a knife never requires you to get behind anyone. Here is the actual table, hitbox by hitbox.
The Witcher 3 Crafting Guide: Diagrams, Craftsmen and Gear
Crafting in The Witcher 3 is not one system, it is three tiers, four craftsman ranks and a diagram supply that is deliberately capped by your level. Here is who can actually make what, where the one Grandmaster in the game is hiding, and whether any of the 49 Relic-tier diagrams are worth the trip.
Breath of the Wild Guardians: HP by Type and Every Drop
A Decayed Guardian has exactly 500 HP, and a Perfect Guard deals exactly 500 damage — parry once and it is dead. A Guardian Stalker takes three of the same parry, because it has 1,500. Six machines share the name "Guardian," and three of them tie at the exact same HP total.
Ocarina of Time Jabu-Jabu's Belly Walkthrough: Every Room
Inside Jabu-Jabu's Belly is the third dungeon in Ocarina of Time and the odd one out: no map-and-compass hunt for its own sake, and an escort mission where the person you're escorting can drown. Here is how to actually get in (it takes a diving contest and a message in a bottle), the full route through the Fork in the Guts, the Big Octo fight, and every phase of the Barinade boss fight, including the scripted invulnerability window partway through.
A Link to the Past I-Frames: 58 Frames After a Hit
One byte at $031F runs the mercy window. It gets loaded with 58 after an enemy touches you, and while it is counting down, contact damage, projectile trails, electric shocks, your own bombs and the spike tiles all skip their damage check. Here is what that buys you, and where it quietly runs out.
Super Mario 64 Jolly Roger Bay Guide: All 7 Stars
Jolly Roger Bay is the only main course in Super Mario 64 with no Star Marker, and it hides two separate treasure chest puzzles that open in two different orders. Here is every star for both games, the eel you have to lure out twice, the version that only exists after you've earned the first star, the full 104-coin breakdown, and the mission order Super Mario 64 DS actually reshuffles rather than just extends.
Half-Life 2 Citadel Guide: Our Benefactors and Dark Energy
Our Benefactors and Dark Energy get summarized as "you get the blue gravity gun and blow up a reactor," which skips the part where Breen steals that gun and runs off with it, the part where Gordon is a prisoner too, and the part where the game itself refuses to confirm whether Breen dies. Here is the full run, and the confirmed-versus-unresolved line at the end.
The Last of Us Factions Multiplayer: How It Works
Naughty Dog cancelled its multiplayer sequel in 2023 and Sony killed the PS3 servers in 2019, but Factions itself never actually died — it is still taking matches on PS4 and PS5 in 2026, and this vertical has never explained how it plays. Three modes, two currencies, a 12-week clan you can lose, and 17 maps across three expansions.
RE4 Remake Switch 2 Release Date and Gold Edition Price
Capcom confirmed Resident Evil 4 Gold Edition for Switch 2 at the September 9 Nintendo Direct — the remake's first native, installed release on Nintendo hardware after three years as a cloud-only stream. Here is the launch date, the price, exactly what the bundle includes, and what it quietly leaves out.
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.
Classic Tetris World Championship Explained
Every other guide on this site covers a Tetris built after 2001, when the Guideline standardized rotation, hold and 7-bag. The one tournament with real prize money and 129 entrants in 2026 ignores all of it and plays the 1989 NES cartridge instead. Here is how that tournament is actually run.
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 Outfits Guide: All 25 Outfits and 20 Hairstyles
Pokopia never sells you a shirt. Ditto copies looks out of magazines, newspapers and letters left behind by people who are no longer there, which means every outfit in the game is a findable object sitting in a specific place. Here is the full set, who carries it, and what the two big databases disagree about.
Crimson Desert DLC Blocked in the UAE: What We Know
Our September 12 DLC guide refused to guess which regions Charting the Unknown would skip. Four days later, three outlets did the guessing, and converged on the same answer. Here is what is confirmed, what is reported, and what is one outlet's own theory dressed up as a probable cause.
Pokémon TCG 30th Celebration: Cards, Products, Prices
Pokémon TCG: 30th Celebration went on sale worldwide today, the game's first simultaneous global launch in three decades. Here is what actually shipped: the full numbered checklist, what each of the thirteen products costs and contains, the two Futuristic Rare chase cards, and the date - not this week - the new cards clear Standard's waiting period.
Disney Lorcana European Championship 2026 Results
Emerald/Steel has now lost the final at both of Season 2's regional championships. Here is what happened at Disney Lorcana's European Championship in Paris - the Top 16, the archetypes behind it, and who is headed to Worlds.
Tears of the Kingdom Best Weapon: The Untouched Tier
The 31-pair decayed-to-intact table tops out at 39 attack. It was never the whole game. Forty-eight more weapons never had a decayed state to begin with — Zelda Wiki calls them Untouched — and they include the three Champion weapons, the entire Zonaite line, and the three Gloom weapons that outdamage everything else in Tears of the Kingdom. Here is where they all come from, what locks their numbers in place, and the one that doesn't.
Riftbound Ban List Update: Ekko and Stacked Deck Banned
Riot published two new Standard and 2v2 bans on 15 September, effective 18 September: Ekko, Recurrent, for enabling an infinite combo in the Lux deck, and Stacked Deck, for overtuning the Kennen-led Chaos decks that topped the last two Regional Qualifiers. It is the third ban wave of the year, and the timing - a week before RQ Los Angeles, the same day Riftbound launches in Korea - is not an accident.
Gundam Card Game Space and Earth Zones Do Nothing
628 of the 1,078 cards in the Gundam Card Game database print a Zone field reading Space, Earth or both - and not one card in the game refers to it. The Comprehensive Rules give zones two lines and never name the values. The FAQ has no Zone category and no ruling that mentions one. So I counted the whole field anyway: the Unit split, the Base split that inverts it, the trait pattern that explains both, and why the first booster printed 43% of the game's Earth-only Units.
Palworld TCG AUTO, CONT and ACT Abilities Explained
Every ability on a Palworld TCG card opens with one of three tags - AUTO, CONT or ACT - and Comprehensive Rules 10.1 makes that tag the most important word in the text box. It decides whether the ability works on your opponent's turn, whether you are allowed to decline it, and whether a [Once Per Turn] clock applies. I counted all 153 printed abilities across the 157 distinct cards in the launch pool and sorted them by category, trigger and cost.
NARUTO Mythos TCG: The Card Game Already on Shelves
Our own coverage of this vertical has treated the Naruto card question as a two-way choice: Bandai's NARUTO CARD GAME, which does not release until Summer 2027, or Kayou's collectibles, which are not a game at all. There is a third product neither of those posts mentions. NARUTO Mythos TCG — published by Italy's Cicaboom, sold in Europe through Zvezdar — has been on European shelves since 13 March 2026, ships with a full public rulebook, and ran a three-day Regional Championship in Paris the week before this was published. Here is what it actually is, and where it leaves the "Bandai vs Kayou" framing.
BlizzCon 2026: Every Announcement and Every Champion
Our BlizzCon 2026 schedule guide could tell you exactly when the Diablo panel started. It could not tell you what got said in it — Blizzard's own words were that any article claiming otherwise before September 12 was guessing. The doors are open now. Diablo V is coming in 2029 to a Sanctuary where the demons already won, StarCraft is becoming an open-world shooter targeting 2030, World of Warcraft is getting a third permanent version of itself in November, and five esports titles were decided on the show floor — including a Hearthstone final that ended 3-1 and an Arena World Championship that came back from 0-2 down to win it.
Cyberpunk TCG's Deck Builder Is Live: 716 Decks So Far
WeirdCo's official Deck Builder went live on 2 September 2026, and by 16 September the community had published 716 public decks through it. Pull every one through the tool's own API and a pattern falls out that the RAM-ceiling math alone could not show: which colours people actually pair, which Legend is in more than a quarter of all decks, and which one of the 27 Legends in the database has never been picked once.
CRK Crystal Jam Guide — Life Jewel Costs and Trial Grounds
Crafting a Crystal Jam and taking it to +30 costs 10,750 Life Jewels, 312 Legendary Soul Essence and 5,149,540 Coins — and the only repeatable source of Life Jewels hands them out seven times a week.
MTG Arena Is Retiring Alchemy: Dates and What You Keep
Wizards announced on September 11, 2026 that the Alchemy format is being retired from MTG Arena on February 2, 2027, alongside the 2027 Standard rotation. The shutdown runs in three dated stages, and the first one lands on September 22 — every rebalanced version of a tabletop card reverts to its paper printing across every format, and five cards get banned in Historic as a direct consequence. Here is the timeline, what happens to the cards you already own, and what none of it changes.
Cookie Run: Braverse 2027 Tournament System Explained
Three days apart, Devsisters published two notices that redraw CookieRun: Braverse's entire North America tournament ladder for 2027 - Brave League, Regionals and the NA Champion Cup are being replaced by Brave League, Epic Cup and Legendary Cup - and confirmed the World Championship 26-27 will be held in Bangkok on June 19-20, 2027. Here is the new ladder, the full 2027 calendar Devsisters published alongside it, and the one thing the graphics make clear that the text alone does not: Bangkok is not being qualified through this new system at all.
Roblox Custom Loading Screen: ReplicatedFirst + Preload
A LocalScript anywhere other than ReplicatedFirst does not run until the game has already loaded, which is why your loading screen never shows up. Here is what ReplicatedFirst actually guarantees, why the default Roblox screen vanishes on its own a few seconds after you put anything in there, and why game:IsLoaded() returning true does not mean a single texture has downloaded.
How to Kick in PUBG: Update 43.1's New Melee Action
Update 43.1 gave PUBG a kick button. Right-click while unarmed and you can shove a player off a heal, boot a wooden door off its frame, or shake loot out of a vending machine faster than the interact prompt would. Here is exactly what KRAFTON's patch notes confirm about it — inputs, the destructible list, the vending machine cost — and the parts they left unstated.
Fortnite Storm Phases: Damage and Timings Per Zone
Our rotation guide tells you the storm "ramps up" and leaves it there. This one gives you the actual clock: how many seconds each of the 12 Battle Royale phases waits and shrinks for, what the safe zone radius drops to, what the damage per second is at each step, and how Reload, Fortnite OG and Blitz differ. Plus the five cells where the Fortnite Wiki table disagrees with the wiki's own change log.
Minecraft Dye Guide: How to Make All 16 Colors
Fifteen of Minecraft's sixteen dyes come from a single item you can pick up, smelt or squid. Purple is the only one that does not exist outside a crafting grid, and green is the only one with no crafting recipe at all. Here is the whole palette in one table, which biome hands you eight of the sixteen for free, and the sheep trick that turns one dye into unlimited coloured wool.
Genshin World Level Guide — What Each Level Pays
World Level is the number on your profile that quietly rewrites your drop table: which artifact rarities and ascension gem tiers bosses can drop, and what a Ley Line Blossom pays. Here is what each of the ten levels changes, which three thresholds actually move money, and exactly what you give up if you lower it.
Elden Ring New Classes: Heavy Knight and Idus Knight Stats
Elden Ring had ten origins for four and a half years. Since 28 August it has twelve. Here are the exact stat lines for the Heavy Knight and the Idus Knight, how they sit against the other ten, what the Tarnished Pack costs, and the one piece of its content you can lock yourself out of.
Baldur's Gate 3 Camp Supplies: What to Carry and Sell
A Grilled Steak weighs 3 kilograms and pays 8 Camp Supplies. A Poutine weighs a quarter of a kilogram and pays 20. Both are just "food" in your inventory, and the game never shows you the ratio. Here are the supply-per-kilogram and supply-per-gold numbers from bg3.wiki item data, and the camp chest trick that makes most of the carrying argument moot.
CS2 Bomb Timer and Defuse Time: The New Blast Rules
Four numbers decide every post-plant in Counter-Strike 2, and a fifth thing changed in July 2026: Valve threw out the old C4 blast model and replaced it with a shockwave that travels through the map instead of a sphere that ignored walls. Here are the timings, the defuse windows, and what the rework actually changed.
The Witcher 3 Horse Gear: Best Saddle, Blinders and Bags
Roach starts the game in a saddle worth 20 Stamina. The best one in The Witcher 3 is worth 100, and no merchant sells it. Here is all 47 pieces of horse equipment with their real numbers, the race or quest that hands each one over, and the Skellige route that gets you endgame tack in an afternoon.
Breath of the Wild Yiga Clan Hideout and Master Kohga
Inside the Yiga Clan Hideout, hearts, armor and a pocket fairy stop mattering: a direct Windcleaver hit is a scripted game over. That makes it a stealth section pretending to be a dungeon, and the tool it wants you to use is fruit.
Ocarina of Time Dodongo's Cavern Walkthrough: Every Room
Dodongo's Cavern is one enormous lock with a giant dead Dodongo for a keyhole, and the entire dungeon is you gathering the means to open its mouth. Here is the route through the Entrance, Eastern, Western and Northern Rooms, every chest, the Bomb Bag, all five Gold Skulltulas — two of which child Link cannot reach on the way through — and the King Dodongo fight.
A Link to the Past Movement Speed: When Dashing Is Slower
A Link to the Past does not simulate movement. It looks it up. One byte picks your speed, the byte divided by sixteen is your pixels per frame, and every surface and every held item swaps the byte for a worse one. Here is the table, and the arithmetic that says the Pegasus Shoes are a loss under four and a half tiles.
Super Mario 64 Whomp's Fortress Guide: All 7 Stars
Whomp's Fortress is the second course in Super Mario 64, and your star selection swaps out the building itself. The Whomp King and the tower occupy the same spot at the top of the fortress, and which one is standing there depends entirely on the star you picked from the menu. Here is the mission list for both games, the three course versions and what loads in each, the full 141-coin breakdown, the ten-coin Whomp drop, and all four 1-Ups.
Half-Life 2 Developer Commentary: 282 Nodes, 44 Speakers
For twenty years the base game had no commentary track — only the Episodes and Lost Coast did. Then Valve put the original team back in a booth. Here is how big the result actually is, who is in it, and the one thing turning it on takes away from you.
The Last of Us Part 2 Accessibility Settings: Every Option
Naughty Dog published its own option-by-option accessibility list for The Last of Us Part II. Here is the whole thing: 82 options across eleven menus, the exact settings each of the three presets switches on, and the menu paths for the ones that are not where you would look.
RE4 Remake Costumes and Accessories: Every Perk
Capcom's own manual calls costumes and accessories a Perk system, not a wardrobe. Most of the 39 options in the Resident Evil 4 remake do nothing mechanically — but six of them, one costume and five accessories, genuinely change how the game plays, and four of those five accessory perks are locked behind an S+ run on a specific difficulty.
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.
TETR.IO Handling Settings Explained: DAS, ARR, SDF, DCD
TETR.IO gives you four handling numbers and explains none of them in the panel. One of them had its ceiling raised out from under a warning, and one is described differently by the two sources that document it. Here is the whole panel, with the version and date each behaviour arrived.
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 Expansion Pass Part 2: The Accessories Update
For seven weeks, Part 2 of the Pokopia Expansion Pass was one vague sentence about "additional new features." Nintendo finally showed what that sentence meant on September 9: sunglasses, bow ties, a Sylveon ribbon, and at least four Pokemon nobody has seen in this game before.
Crimson Desert Charting the Unknown DLC: Price and Contents
Pearl Abyss finally attached a price and a feature list to the Crimson Desert DLC. Here is what Pearl Abyss has actually confirmed about Charting the Unknown, what it needs to run, and the two catches buried in the notices.
Pokémon TCG Bench Rules: Can You Attack the Bench?
The Bench looks like a safe zone. It is not. The 2026 Web Rulebook gives each player five Bench slots and says only the Active Pokémon can attack — but 90 card names in the Standard-legal pool have an attack that reaches past it, Weakness and Resistance are switched off when they land, and the format's blanket Bench immunity has a hole in it big enough for five specific cards to walk through.
Every Disney Movie in Lorcana: All 62 Films and Shows
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit has exactly one card. Toy Story has 34, and every one of them was printed this year. Here is every Disney and Pixar property in Disney Lorcana, counted, with the set it debuted in and how much of it survived rotation.
Tears of the Kingdom Intact Weapons: Break These 31 First
Intact weapons are not loot you find. They are loot you unlock, one broken decayed weapon at a time, and the game never says so. Here is the full 31-pair table, the unlock rule, the one way of breaking a weapon that does not count, and how a Spectral Figure actually picks what it is holding.
Riftbound RQ Los Angeles: Prizes, Schedule, Radiance Panel
Riot published the RQ Los Angeles details on 11 September. It is the final Regional Qualifier of the Vendetta season, 25-27 September at the Los Angeles Convention Center, and it carries two things worth planning around: the last Regional Qualifier route to a Regional Championship invite in 2026, and the panel that opens Radiance preview season.
Gundam Card Game Commands - All 145, and When to Play Them
Comprehensive Rules 9-2 makes Command the only card type in the Gundam Card Game you can play out of your hand on someone else's turn, and whether a given Command can is written on one line of the card: 84 of the 145 Commands in the game carry an Action effect, which Bandai's own FAQ says can be played during your action steps or your opponent's. I read the timing line off all 145 of them, then counted what Bandai actually puts in its own 41 decklists - and 15 of those lists run none of it at all.
Palworld TCG Keyword Abilities - All 10, and Retaliate Has 1
How to Play the Palworld TCG defines all ten keyword abilities in one summary table - what Brave does, what Taunt does - and stops there. Nobody has counted how many cards actually carry each one. I pulled every card tagged with a keyword ability out of Bushiroad's official database and cross-referenced all 97 rulings: Interrupt covers nine Pals, Retaliate covers exactly one, and Depresso - Late Night Hustler prints Nocturnal twice on the same card, which the official Q&A confirms stacks to +600 Power.
Kayou Naruto Fake Cards: The Check Is Not on the Card
Kayou’s FAQ answers "How to verify the authenticity of a KAYOU product?" with a single image and no text at all. That image names four security features — shifting text, a point-light "K", a depth-of-field background and a micro-embossed logo — and every one of them lives on the anti-counterfeit collection certificate rather than on a Naruto card. Two of the nine regions in Kayou’s own country registry carry the page at all, and the site’s product pages never say which products ship a certificate.
How to Watch Tokyo Game Show 2026: All 15 Programs
TGS 2026 puts 15 official broadcasts on six of the seven calendar days from September 15 to 21, and four of them never appear on the Event Stage. The whole timetable converted into Pacific, Eastern and UK time, which of the eight named streaming services actually has a Tokyo Game Show channel behind the link, why the Opening Ceremony is stream-only even if you are standing in Makuhari Messe, and the one weekday with nothing scheduled on it at all.
Cyberpunk TCG Edgerunner Open: Dates, Tickets, 12 Promos
WeirdCo's Organized Play page still says the Edgerunner Open Regional schedule is coming 'in due course'. On 4 September it named two cities and five ticket-sale dates, and the official card database has quietly gone further than the announcement did: twelve cards now carry an Edgerunner Open Season 1 printing, eight of them Legends stamped with a serial box.
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