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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 (debuted at Gen Con 2026, worldwide launch June 2027), Cicaboom's NARUTO Mythos TCG (playable now), 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
Lychee Dragon Cookie Toppings Build — ATK Becomes Cooldown
Lychee Dragon Cookie's Violet Scales turn ATK from Toppings into Cooldown reduction, capped at the same 60% the whole game caps at. Here is how far five Searing Raspberries, a Tart and Resonant rolls get, with seconds, and what the wiki still leaves open.
Best MTG Star Trek Commanders: Precons and Top Picks
The Wizards schedule set the full Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek gallery for October 30, and Scryfall lists 198 cards in the main set and the Commander set can lead a deck. Here is which commander to run in each of the four precons, the picks outside them, and the color identity traps that catch people on cards like Captain Benjamin Sisko.
Braverse Tournament Rules: Time Limits, Sleeves, Penalties
Devsisters replaced the CookieRun: Braverse Tournament Rules on October 16, 2026. A deck that does not match its registration is now a disqualification, the original Braverse × Dragon Shield sleeves are written out of the rules, and best-of-three matches lose their clock. The banned list printed inside it, though, is the one Devsisters replaced in February. Here is the whole document: what changed, what happens at time, legal sleeves, the penalty ladder, and how Korea's version differs.
Roblox ReservedServerId and VipServerId: Migrate Teleports
Roblox deprecated ReserveServerAsync, ShouldReserveServer and access codes in favor of a GUID you generate, and TeleportAsync can now target VIP servers by ID. Here is the before-and-after code, the one-routing-field rule, and the reserved-server return trip.
PUBG Esports 2027: Four Phases and the New Points System
On 28 October KRAFTON announced how PUBG Esports will run in 2027: four Phases that each pair a Regional League with a PUBG Global Series, one PUBG Esports Points system that only PGS results feed, new regions including India, and Global Partner Teams that no longer hold guaranteed slots. Here is what changes from 2026, what the announcement says about the extra seed for a champion's region, and what it leaves unanswered.
Fortnite Treasure Hunters: New Island, Sprites, Battle Pass
Epic's v43.00 notes in one place: Crossbones Isle and its 11 named locations, the four-week Captain's Day schedule, the new weapons, the Sprites that carried over, the Battle Pass and Shop dates, Ranked rewards, the loot pool and the Gold Bar and Vending Machine removals.
Minecraft Goat Horns: All 8 Sounds and How to Get Them
Eight goat horns exist, and four of them only come from screaming goats. Here is exactly which blocks knock a horn loose, how to breed screaming goats, the pillager outpost chest that can hold a horn, and why blowing one in the Deep Dark is a bad idea.
Genshin Odette Build Guide — Talents, Weapon, Artifacts
The hit that ends Odette's dance duet is 550.37% of her ATK as Stellar-Conduct DMG or 825.55% as Stellar Swirl DMG at talent level 10. Which one you get depends on the teammate beside her, and that choice decides her weapon, her artifacts and her team.
Elden Ring Boc the Seamster Questline: Every Step
Boc the Seamster turns up at six places between Limgrave and Leyndell, and all he really gives you is free armor alterations. Here is every stop, what the Gold Sewing Needle adds, where the wikis disagree, and why you can alter armor without him anyway.
Baldur's Gate 3 Mods: How the Official Mod Manager Works
Baldur's Gate 3 has had an official in-game Mod Manager since Patch 7. Here is how it installs mods, which ones reach PS5, Xbox and Mac, where the 100-mod console cap came from, what mods do to achievements and saves, and how to clear third-party mods out of a PC install.
CS2 Silent Reload: Hold, Toggle and What Changed
Since September 22, 2026 you can reload Counter-Strike 2 weapons quietly by holding the reload key. On October 28 Valve added a Hold or Toggle option. Here is where the setting lives, what each update changed, and the one number Valve has not published: how long a silent reload takes.
The Witcher 3 Songs of the Past: What CDPR Has Confirmed
Songs of the Past brings Geralt out of retirement in 2027 to find a missing Dandelion in Letten. Here is what CD PROJEKT RED and the storefronts have actually confirmed: platforms, the Remastered requirement and PC spec, the chain weapon, the new monsters, the Diablo IV skin and the 31 October Lucca panel that has now taken place, plus the gaps, starting with the price.
BotW Temperature and Lightning: What Stops What
Wearing a resistance and still taking damage usually means you brought the wrong one. Breath of the Wild has four separate temperature hazards and two separate lightning protections, and each fix works on exactly one of them. Here is the map, with the thresholds Zelda Wiki publishes.
Ocarina of Time Goron City: The Vase, Shop and Bomb Bag
Goron City has one Piece of Heart, a Bomb Bag upgrade, a free tunic and a shop that sells bombs only after you beat Dodongo's Cavern. Here is what each takes, and how the giant vase decides what it pays.
ALTTPR Hard and Expert: Item Pool and Functionality
Hard and Expert are two separate settings in the A Link to the Past Randomizer, not one. Item Pool caps what you can keep, Item Functionality changes how items behave, and neither one removes an item from the seed. Here is what each takes away, what the base ROM quietly keeps, and where the logic stops matching what you are holding.
Super Mario 64 Plaque Decoded? What the Claim Shows
On October 15, 2026 a programmer called Mochi64 claimed the blurry plaque in Peach's courtyard says "Eternal Star / We hope so". This is what the tool actually measured, which parts are strongly supported, which are not, and why Nintendo's 1998 "it means nothing" letter does not settle it.
Half-Life 2 RTX Update #4: DLSS 5, 6x Frame Gen and ARM
On October 23, 2026, after 533 days with nothing new on its Steam feed, the Half-Life 2 RTX demo moved onto NVIDIA's RTX Remix 1.6 runtime. No new levels, seven listed changes, and three of them split by GPU generation. Here is what each one does, which cards Orbifold and NVIDIA name for it, and why shipping the headline feature switched off makes sense.
The Last of Us Part 2 Workbench Locations: All 25
Push Square lists 23 workbenches in The Last of Us Part II. The wiki's act pages add up to 25, and so do three chapter-by-chapter lists. Here is every bench in the order you reach it, the detours that hide them, and where In the Field and Prepared for the Worst pop.
RE4 Remake Matilda: Is the Burst Handgun Worth 22 Spinel?
The Matilda's three-round burst is a separate 12-spinel part in the Resident Evil 4 remake. Here is the gun level by level, against Leon's other handguns, and what its 22 spinel does to your Exclusive Upgrade Ticket budget.
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.
Tetris Forever Games: All 21 and Which Are Worth Playing
Digital Eclipse counts 21 playable games in Tetris Forever after its free updates, and one of them is a game of Go. What each one is, how its rules differ from modern Tetris, what each patch added, and which to open first.
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 Mystery Gift Codes: What Still Works
One Pokopia code is live, one has expired, and one free item has a hard deadline of January 31, 2027. Here is every Mystery Gift we could verify, what it gives, when it ends and the menu path that claims it.
Crimson Desert Romance and Marriage: How Flirting Works
Pearl Abyss spelled out the romance rules in the 2.04.00 launch notes, and three hotfix notices have touched them since. Here is the trust ladder, the one-a-day limit, what flirting as one character costs you with the others, and what a spouse actually does.
Pokémon TCG Regional Results: Season Winners and Meta
Seven Regionals into the 2027 Pokémon TCG season, Dragapult ex has won three, Basic Box two, and two events went to decks under 1% of the field. This hub keeps the running table: who won, what filled the Top 8, and which decks are gaining or losing share between events.
Lorcana Hyperia City Enchanted and Iconic Cards: All 20
Hyperia City has 18 Enchanted and 2 Iconic cards, and the art team put the Enchanteds out on the town at night. Here is every one, the base card it copies, what it does in a deck, and what the foils cost on 1 November 2026.
Tears of the Kingdom Yiga Schematics: All 34 Locations
Each of the 34 guarded Yiga Relay Bases in the Depths keeps one Autobuild schematic in a storehouse, next to a Large Crystallized Charge. Here are all 34 bases by region with map coordinates, the seven Relay Bases that hold no schematic, and what all 46 Autobuild designs are made of and cost in zonaite.
Riftbound Radiance Rules FAQ: 16 Rulings Explained
Riot published the Radiance Rules FAQ on 26 October 2026, three days after the set released. Sixteen questions, and the ones that matter most are Gravity Field, Baron Nashor and what happens when an opponent plays your Neeko.
Gundam Card Game Area Finals 2027: Format, Dates, Prizes
Bandai has now published the page the 2 October qualifying guide said was still to come: the World Championships 26-27 Area Finals. Four finals in January 2027, a Swiss that is best-of-one and a top cut that is best-of-three with a sideboard you must register before round one, and a North America and Europe prize ladder that changed after a 29 October notice. Here is the format, the schedule, the old and new prize tables side by side, and what Bandai still has not said.
Palworld TCG Legends Awaken Card List: All 100 Cards
Legends Awaken's card text is finally in the English database: 100 base cards, 64 parallels, three cost-8 Legendary Pals, the first cost-8 gears and a Pal wipe. Here is what the set contains, how the new Legendary rule works under Comprehensive Rules 1.01, and what Bushiroad has still not ruled on.
NARUTO Mythos TCG Sleeves: Size, Designs and Deck Box
Cicaboom's NARUTO Mythos TCG accessories page lists four sleeve designs, one flip-top deck holder and four binders. Here is the sleeve size and pack count the packaging prints, what each product is, and what the page leaves out: prices, capacity and a buy link.
G-STAR 2026: Tickets, Exhibitors and What's Playable
G-STAR 2026 is under four weeks out and every consumer ticket is an online booking for one named day, with no sales at the door. What a ticket costs and when the shop closes in your time zone, who is on the two official floor plans (and who is missing from them), Krafton's five-game PUBG-led booth, the new Hall 2 showcase with CD PROJEKT RED, SEGA, KOEI TECMO and NetEase, the 39-speaker G-CON line-up, the Overwatch finals in the Auditorium, and where the organiser's own pages disagree.
Cyberpunk TCG Rules Update: Fights, Steals, Penalty Guide
WeirdCo shipped a rules update on 28 and 29 October 2026 to coincide with the Welcome to Night City retail release. The Comprehensive Rules flag 73 changed entries, 45 of them in four brand-new sections that define fight, steal, defeat and top-deck. The Tournament Rules flag 41, and the penalty appendix that was a placeholder in September is now a working guide. Here is what moved and what it changes at the table.
Rambutan Cookie Toppings Build — Cooldown Feeds the Team
Rambutan Cookie's Chieftain's Power pays her allies extra Regular Attack damage for every point of her Cooldown reduction, and nothing at zero. Here is how much Cooldown each slot can put on her, what it is worth by Devsisters' own roll odds, and where the skill's unlabelled 60% cap might stop it.
MTG Archenemy Rules: Schemes, Life Totals and Commander
One player starts at 40 life, goes first and flips a free scheme every turn. The rest share a turn and block for each other. Here is how Archenemy works, from the scheme deck and setting schemes in motion to ongoing schemes, hot-seat choices and the 60-against-60 Commander version, checked against the Comprehensive Rules effective September 25, 2026.
Braverse Brave League Season 4: Promos and Prizes by Region
Roguefort Cookie is a Brave League Season 4 promo in North America, Asia and Korea, and each region hands it out for something different. Here is what Season 4 pays in each region: dates, the new weekly Cookie Party Online schedule and points, the promo cards Devsisters added to its English card database on October 19, Korea's Selection Pack vol.1, and the October 6 letter that promises one promo standard from 2027.
Roblox A/B Testing: Experiments and ConfigService Guide
Roblox has a built-in A/B testing system: configs hold the values, Experiments splits players between them, and since October 1, 2026 early harm detection watches the first 24 hours. Here is the rollout math, the one method call that decides who gets enrolled, the harm thresholds, and what Make decision actually does to your configs.
PUBG Custom Matches: How Hosting Works After Update 43.2
Update 43.2 gave PUBG custom match hosts a Force End button, random team assignment, a lobby-wide nickname hider, a host-only chat setting and a 0-10x explosion multiplier, and they don't all work in the same modes. Here is who can host, which tool works where, what Esports Mode copies from Ranked, and the patches that changed settings your old presets rely on.
Fortnite Season End: What You Keep and What Expires
The Chapter 7 Season 4 Battle Pass screen said it was available through October 31, Epic's Battle Pass page said it ends November 1 Eastern Time, and Fortnite Treasure Hunters (v43.00) began on November 1. Here is what a season changeover takes from you, what it doesn't, and what Epic's v43.00 notes say about Sprites and Ranked.
Minecraft Dripstone Guide: Infinite Lava, Growth and Caves
One pointed dripstone, one cauldron and a lava source you never use up: that is renewable lava. Here is how the dripstone lava farm works, how much fuel each cauldron is really worth, how dripstone grows, where dripstone caves generate, and what falling stalactites and stalagmites do to you.
Genshin Carefree Snowball Fight Guide — 420 Primogems
Carefree Snowball Fight caps your Snowball Cheer until Day 5, so the full 420 Primogems can't be claimed before October 25. Here is how a match turns into Snowball Cheer, the 1,660 ceiling per match, and everything the six milestones pay.
Elden Ring Alexander Questline: Every Step and Reward
Iron Fist Alexander turns up at eight places between Stormhill and Crumbling Farum Azula, and Fandom's questline list marks five of them optional. Here is every stop, both summon signs, the Oil Pot puzzle in Liurnia, the final duel, and why killing him early trades a 15% talisman for a 10% one.
Baldur's Gate 3 Multiplayer: How Co-op Actually Works
A Baldur's Gate 3 co-op campaign can run with any of its players missing except one. The host saves it, loads it and has to be there. Here is how to get up to three friends in, what cross-play and split-screen actually cover, the first-come rules on origin characters, and which systems run separately for each player.
CS2 Deathmatch and Arms Race Explained: Points and Rules
A Deathmatch kill has been worth a base 8 points since May 7, 2026, and a bonus-weapon kill half as much again. Counter-Strike 2's two respawn modes, read from their configs, strings and Valve's release notes: free-for-all scoring, the 10-second buy window, the bonus weapon, healthshots, the maps, and how Arms Race levels you up.
The Witcher 3 Remastered Settings: Bard's Ballad, Loot, Map
Remastered lets you switch off item weight, durability and Geralt's need to breathe underwater, and that is only the Bard's Ballad preset. Here are the new gameplay, interface, accessibility and control options, where each one lives in the menus, which ones stay off until you find them, and what the 19 October Switch 2 patch changed.
Breath of the Wild Runes: Damage, Cooldowns and Upgrades
A Remote Bomb hits for 12 and recharges in six seconds; three Ancient Shafts make that 24 and three. Here is what each Sheikah Slate rune does, with the numbers where the wikis publish them, where each one stops working, and which of Purah's three upgrades to buy first.
Ocarina of Time Zora's River: Frogs, Beans and Heart Pieces
Zora's River holds four Pieces of Heart, ten Magic Beans, four Gold Skulltulas and the door to Zora's Domain. Here is what each one takes, and why the frogs' bug-catching game is a tune you can learn before you play it.
ALTTPR Entrance Shuffle: What Each Setting Moves
Entrance shuffle rewires the doors, caves and holes of the A Link to the Past Randomizer and leaves the screen edges alone. Here is what each of the five settings mixes, what never moves, why Ganon's Tower and the Pyramid are always in play, and how the hints change to help you find your way.
Super Mario 64 DS Rabbits: Every Location and Minigame
Super Mario 64 DS turned MIPS into 28 rabbits in four colours, one minigame key each. Here is where every one hides, which character can see it, how many stars you need, and how eight glowing rabbits lead to a hidden Power Star.
Half-Life 2 Graphics Settings: What the New Options Do
Valve's 20th Anniversary Update put bicubic lightmap filtering behind Shader Detail's Very High setting, added a Classic Effects toggle that only works in the base game, and moved HDR to the main Video tab. What each Half-Life 2 video option does now, what to set it to, the launch options worth knowing, and the graphics bugs still open on Valve's tracker.
The Last of Us Part 2 Speedrun Guide: Categories and Records
Part II has three main full-game speedrun boards, and they do not read the same clock. What Remastered's Speedrun Mode records, which board and category your run belongs on, the settings that get it rejected, and the current records as of October 23, 2026.
Resident Evil 4 Remake Story and Ending Explained
Full spoilers. The Resident Evil 4 remake story chapter by chapter, who is really working for whom, what the Amber is, the four beats Capcom rewrote from 2005, and what Ada's post-credits call to Wesker sets up.
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 T-Spin Triple Setups: Triple Double to Infinite TST
A T-spin triple sends 6 lines from one T where a double sends 4, but it costs a three-deep hole and leaves an overhang behind. How to spot one mid-game, pay off the overhang, and turn it into a Triple Double, a second triple or the Infinite TST loop.
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 Emotes Guide: All 47 and How to Unlock Them
Pokopia has 47 emotes, and 27 of them come from Pokemon rather than Human Records. Here is every one, the 15 Pokemon that teach an emote and the habitat that brings each in, the 12 visitor-only emotes and the Kanto Gym titles hiding in their names, and how to set up the emote wheel.
Crimson Desert Dyes, Barber and Wardrobe: Change Your Look
Crimson Desert has no transmog, so your look is your gear plus four tools: dyes, the barber, the display settings and the Wardrobe. This covers how a dye colour actually unlocks, the five-shade beetle recipe, the ten regional dyers and Oliver at camp, where white and black come from, what each patch made dyeable, and which outfits Oongka and Damiane can now wear.
Pokémon TCG Mega Excadrill Deck Guide: Lists and Matchups
Mega Excadrill ex has been in 713 Regional decklists since Pitch Black, and it has made Day 2 at 11.8% against a field rate of 18.0%. We pulled every one of those lists and every match they played to show what the deck is, which counts moved results, and why it beats Crustle three times in four while losing to the Alakazam decks.
Lorcana Infinity Format Explained: Rules, Bans and Decks
Infinity is Disney Lorcana's non-rotating format: Core's deck rules, every set from The First Chapter to Hyperia City, and a ban list one card long. Here is what the Tournament Rules say, how the pool compares with Core, what won the June 2026 Infinity Challenges, and where the format is played this season.
Tears of the Kingdom Skyview Towers: How to Unlock All 15
Ten of Tears of the Kingdom's 15 Skyview Towers have something wrong at the door when you arrive: a stolen terminal, a jammed door, a broken elevator, brambles, sludge, a trapped repairman or a snowdrift. Here is where every tower is, what is wrong with each one, the fix, and what to pack before you go.
Riftbound Stuttgart Regional Championship: Prizes and Rules
Three weeks before Stuttgart, Riot rewrote what a Riftbound Regional Championship pays out. Overnumbered Foil Plated Legends are now drafted by the top 58 finishers, Best-Of prizes shrink to Unleashed, Vendetta and Radiance Legends, decklists are open, and asking for a concession gets you disqualified. Here is what changed, what each finish now earns, and what is still unannounced.
![Bandai's sample image of Official Card Sleeves EX 02 [EVX10], four sleeve designs in a two-by-two grid, each with the GUNDAM CARD GAME logo in its lower-left corner: two young women sorting clothes with a third behind them on a pink-bordered sleeve, an orange-haired girl eating a chocolate sundae on a red-bordered sleeve, a red-haired girl in a cap and a dark-haired girl in a long navy coat against a city skyline on a blue-bordered sleeve, and a blonde woman in a white jacket seated by a sunlit window holding a cup on a yellow-bordered sleeve, all under a SAMPLE watermark.](/images/blog/gundam-tcg/gundam-card-game-sleeves-accessories-guide/gundam-evx10-card-sleeves-ex-02-designs.webp)
Gundam Card Game Sleeves, Dice and Accessories Guide
All seven sleeve products on Bandai's English product list hold 70 sleeves - a 50-card deck, a 10-card best-of-three sideboard and ten spares. Here is every sleeve, dice, case and playmat product on Bandai's English list, how the tournament rules want your resource deck and tokens sleeved, how many dice a game needs, and which accessory boxes hide tournament-legal cards.
Palworld TCG Recommended Decks: All 4, and Which One Wins
Bushiroad recommends four decks to build from Dawn of Palpagos: Material, Dragon, Ingredient and Nocturnal. Its English site posted all four on 1 October, and on 7 October it posted the first tournament lists played with English cards, from the Grand Challengers Cup at Bushiroad EXPO 2026 in Kuala Lumpur. Here are all four recommended lists, card for card, and what happened when I checked each one against the 49 tournament lists in Bushiroad's own databases as of 14 October 2026.
NARUTO Mythos TCG Penalties: Warnings to Disqualification
Cicaboom's NARUTO Mythos TCG Tournament Infraction Guidelines, in effect from 23 October 2026, decide what happens when you draw an extra card, register the wrong deck, arrive late or stall on the chess clock. Here is the five-level penalty ladder, how a judge repairs a game before penalising anyone, and the mistakes that cost a round or a whole tournament.
PAX Unplugged 2026: Badge Prices, Hours and TCG Events
PAX Unplugged 2026 is six weeks out, the 3-Day badge is sold out and the schedule has just landed. What Friday, Saturday and Sunday cost, the new kids badges where the third day is free, why the October 30 registration time says EST when it is not, what the nine card games we cover are running in Philadelphia, the rules at the door, the pages PAX still has not updated from 2025, and the second Unplugged coming to Houston.
![Official Cyberpunk TCG card render of the Judge promo MaxTac Squadron (JDG-WNC 002): in a dim, green-lit interior, an NCPD MaxTac officer in a dark armoured suit and helmet with a cluster of round green-glowing optics fills the right of the frame, a second officer stands behind him holding a rifle, and more figures are visible in the background. The green Unit frame shows cost 03, x3 RAM, a [JUDGE] stamp at top right, the NCPD tag, the text 'At the end of your turn, if this Unit is spent, ready a friendly face-up Legend.' and power 04.](/images/blog/cyberpunk-tcg/cyberpunk-tcg-judge-program/cyberpunk-tcg-judge-promo-maxtac-squadron.webp)
Cyberpunk TCG Judge Program: 3 Levels, Tests and Promos
WeirdCo opened its Judge Program on 16 October 2026. Pass the Basic test and you are a Level 1 judge on the spot, qualified for every store event in any position. The Regional floor normally starts at Level 2, the Level 3 test is not live yet, and EOR Chicago is taking applications from Level 1 judges as a one-off. Here is each level, what it lets you judge, and the five Judge-stamped promos in the card database.
CRK v7.10 Update Guide — Cradle for the Sleepless Dragon
Cookie Run: Kingdom's October 21 update headlines a Dragon, but its widest changes are structural: Arcade Arena goes permanent, Kingdom Arena gets an overtime rule ahead of a cross-server Champions League, and Moonlight Cookie moves to the ★6 track with a Soulstone conversion worth doing the arithmetic on.
MTG Star Trek Set Guide: Mechanics, Boosters, Release Date
Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek previews began October 20 and the set releases November 13. Here is what Wizards has confirmed now that previews are over: five new main-set mechanics, two Commander-only ones and returning Spacecraft, three set codes with different legality, the four Commander decks, Play and Collector Booster odds, prices, and the Beginner Box that was cancelled.
Braverse Festival Arena Meta: 22 Winning Decks From Korea
Devsisters has posted the first 22 champion decklists from Korea's Brave League Season 4, the first Brave League events since Festival Arena went on sale there. Fourteen of them play no Festival Arena card. Here is the color split against the 63 Season 3 winners, the six near-identical Arena Green lists the set did change, and whether you can play these lists in English events.
Roblox Platform-Integrated Chat: Migrate Your Custom Chat
On October 21, 2026, Roblox announced that chat message text will stop being readable from game code. It is opt-in today, the default from February 2027 and required from May 2027. Here is what stops working, the replacement for each custom chat feature, which one has no replacement yet, and how to test it in Studio now.
PUBG Bans: What Gets You Banned and How Many Each Week
KRAFTON banned 34,271 PUBG accounts in the week of 12 to 18 October 2026, and 20,929 of them for cheating. Here is the Rules of Conduct penalty table, what counts as cheating on PC and console in 2026, the non-cheating offences that can still cost you the account, how reporting and appeals work, and 11 weeks of KRAFTON's own weekly ban figures.
Save the World Fortnitemares 2026: Grave Feather Guide
Save the World's Halloween runs on its own clock, through November 18. Epic's October updates brought three hero questlines, and two of those heroes are Soldiers built around Lefty and Righty, the same ability v42.40 buffed through two older perks. Here is what each questline asks for, when it closes (Bladey Acres' October 28 date has now passed), and how the new Challenge the Rift encounter works.
Minecraft Advancements List and How to Get the Hard Ones
Minecraft Java has 126 advancements, but only 23 pay XP, and one of them pays 1,000. Here is every advancement by tab for Java 26.3, the challenges ranked by reward, the full Adventuring Time, Monsters Hunted, A Balanced Diet and Two by Two checklists, the descriptions that mislead you, and what the 26.4 snapshots change.
Genshin 7.1 Phase 2 Events: Rewards and Deadlines
Phase II of Genshin 7.1 adds three events, but most of the confirmed Primogems still on the table come from two holdovers that close eleven hours apart on November 3. Carefree Snowball Fight adds 420 more until it closes at 03:59 on November 2. Here is the calendar in deadline order and what each event pays.
Elden Ring Millicent Questline: Every Step, Both Rewards
Millicent's questline crosses four regions and ends with two summon signs. One pays the Rotten Winged Sword Insignia, the restored needle and Miquella's Needle; the other pays Millicent's Prosthesis. Here is every step, every gate, and what each side is worth.
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.
How to Watch CS2 Demos: Controls, TrueView and Commands
Valve rebuilt the Counter-Strike 2 demo controller on October 14, 2026 and described only part of it in the patch notes. How to get a match onto your PC, what every button on the new bar does, how highlights and TrueView work, and the demo console commands, read from the game files.
The Witcher 3 Remastered Rewards: Fire Horse, Scarlet Crest
Ninety minutes of Twitch bought Roach a 90-Stamina saddle that only one saddle in the game beats, and it could be looted before the prologue ends. Here is every Remastered reward in the Vizima chest, how each one was and is claimed (the Twitch drops closed on 27 October), and what the Fire Horse and Scarlet Crest sets are actually worth.
Breath of the Wild Mini-Games: All 16, Costs and Prizes
Breath of the Wild has 16 mini-games, from Snowball Bowling to Gut Check Rock. Four of them stand between you and a shrine, and their prizes run from a refunded fee to a 300-rupee Gold Rupee. Here is every location, fee and prize tier, and which ones repay a second run.
Ocarina of Time Castle Town Market: Minigames and Shops
Hyrule Castle Town Market holds three Pieces of Heart, two capacity upgrades, a Gold Skulltula and the first Hylian Shield you can buy. Here is when each part opens, and how the game's code really picks the Bombchu Bowling prize and the Treasure Chest Game's key.
ALTTPR Boss Shuffle: Which Bosses Can Land Where
Boss shuffle moves thirteen fights around the A Link to the Past Randomizer and leaves three alone. Here is how Simple, Full and Random deal the bosses, which slots turn which bosses away, what each boss asks for in a sword seed, and how the compass tells you who is waiting.
How to Fly in Super Mario 64: Dive for Speed, Then Climb
Wing Mario can't flap for height. Every bit of height costs speed and every dive buys it back. Here is how takeoff works, the one glide the code holds steady, why the nose lifts on its own, how each flight ends, and the A-button trick that cancels fall damage.
Half-Life 2 Episode Three: What Was Built and Why It Died
Valve promised the Half-Life 2 trilogy would end by Christmas 2007. Episode Three never shipped, and neither did the two Ravenholm projects Junction Point and Arkane built for Valve. Here is what each project contained, the code Valve still publishes, and the reasons the developers have given on the record, up to an August 2026 interview.
The Last of Us Part 1 Human Enemies: All Six Factions
Six human groups fight Joel and Ellie across eight of Part I's twelve chapters, and they do not carry the same kit. Where each one appears, what the wiki lists them carrying, who wears armor, and what the 2022 remake changed about how they hunt you.
Resident Evil 4 Switch 2 Reviews: Scores, Gyro, Frame Rate
The Switch 2 reviews for Resident Evil 4 Gold Edition landed on October 13, three days before the October 16 launch. Here is what six scored reviews, four more write-ups and Digital Foundry's analysis found: the scores, the gyro aiming a September hands-on said not to expect, and the resolution and frame rate behind the praise.
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.
Tetris DX Explained: How It Differs From Game Boy Tetris
Tetris DX keeps the 1989 Game Boy well and points table but changes how pieces move: a second rotation center that lets pieces climb walls, auto shift every 3 frames, a randomizer that deals the T about 24% of the time, and a seven-digit score.
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 Litter Guide: All 40 Litter Pokemon and Their Drops
Forty Pokopia Pokemon have the Litter specialty and drop one of 14 materials near their home. Here is every one with its habitat, the drops worth farming (Fluff, iron ore, Twine, squishy clay, honey), and the Gather Pokemon and community box that pick it all up for you.
Crimson Desert DLC Unlock Requirements: What to Finish First
Pearl Abyss's October 20 Features Overview and the 2.04.00 launch notes name the base-game gate for most parts of Charting the Unknown. Which ones a mid-campaign save already clears, which wait for Journey's End, and which two castles exist.
Pokémon TCG Slowking Deck Guide: Builds and Matchups
Slowking was the second-most-registered deck at the Nice Regional and the fourth-most across the 2027 season's first six, and it has not won any of them. We pulled all 815 Slowking decklists and every match they played to show how Seek Inspiration turns Kyurem and Metagross into attacks, which card counts came with better results, and which decks it loses to.
Disney Lorcana Coco Cards: All 27 in Hyperia City
Coco is the biggest property in Hyperia City and, by LorcanaJSON's property tags, the only one with no card in an earlier main set. Here are all 27 Coco cards, the two engines they run, the rulings that decide how they play, and what Ravensburger's own Coco deck does with them.
Tears of the Kingdom Purah Pad Upgrades and the Compendium
The Purah Pad you take off a Steward Construct is missing half its features. The Camera and Hyrule Compendium wait on a Main Quest in the Depths, and the Sensor, Sensor +, Hero's Path Mode and three Travel Medallions come one Side Adventure at a time from Robbie. Here is what unlocks each one, what Robbie charges for Compendium pictures, and which boss entries have no rematch, so they are best photographed mid-fight.
Riftbound Going Second: Riot's Start-of-Game Rules Test
Riot says going first wins too often, and on 15 October it published three possible fixes it wants to test at events: the second player starts on 1 point, draws an extra card, or Predicts before their first draw. Turn order would also be settled before battlefields are picked. None of it is a rules change yet. Here is what moves, where the test tables are, and when Riot decides.
Gundam Card Game GD06 Stardust Trails Card List
Bandai's English card database now carries all 130 numbered cards of Stardust Trails [GD06], which released on 30 October 2026, along with eight tokens and 60 rulings dated 16 October. Here is the list by colour, the 12 Legend Rares, the ZZ Core Block and Turn X engines, three cards that do something no earlier card did, the three vanilla Units that join the banned pair, and the release-event Sealed format.
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 was in Bushiroad's English or Japanese card database when the prizes were announced, and they include a Red Lucky Pal with Assault, a Colorless Interrupt Pal (the first, before Legends Awaken), a 700-Power 3-drop and two saddles for Legends Awaken Pals. All nine have since turned up as same-name booster cards in Legends Awaken. 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 Mythos TCG Münster Regional: Prizes and Side Events
Cicaboom's third NARUTO Mythos TCG Regional runs 27 to 29 November 2026 in Münster, Germany. Paris listed three scheduled side events; Münster lists eleven, including four alternative formats. Here is what each ticket costs, what every Main Event placement wins, how Mini-Mythos, Evolving, Bad Deck and Highlander work, and the Tournament Rules update that takes effect today.
Lucca Comics & Games 2026: Tickets, Wristbands and Games
Lucca Comics & Games 2026, the festival's 60th-anniversary edition, ran October 28 to November 1 across the walled city of Lucca and is now over. This page is a dated archive of the pre-show guide, kept as a planning reference for 2027: a ticket on its own got you into nothing paid, you also needed that day's coloured wristband, and the option that posted it to you closed at 10:00 Italian time on Friday, October 16. It records what every ticket and pass cost, where the welcome desks were, how the free Pikachu card worked, and the video game and card game programme as announced.
Cyberpunk TCG Edgerunner Open Side Events and Prizes
WeirdCo's 19 October side event preview lists 12 event types for the Chicago and Warsaw Edgerunner Opens. One of them is a second route to a Black Sapphire invite, four Friday play-ins fill 64 Chicago Main Event seats, and every event pays Prize Wall Eddies even when you lose. Here is what each one pays, which rules it runs under, and when the tickets go on sale.
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