Best players for the EA FC 25 From Service to Selfish Evolution

The From Service to Selfish Evolution is now live inEA FC 25, and you can complete the free upgrade to improve one of your lower-rated items. This is the first free evolution to be released as part of Shapeshifters. The evolution’s upgrades are similar to the promo, offering unique positions, roles, playstyles, and stat boosts. Let’s take a look at the best cards to use in this evolution, following the upgrades and requirements....

July 23, 2025 · 1 min · 191 words · Eric Myers

Bungie plucked its newest community manager from the Destiny subreddit

Straight from the community The creator of the subreddit forDestinyhas leveraged his message board helpfulness into a paying gig at Bungie. TheDestinydeveloper has hired a new community manager, and it went straight to a leader in one of the game’s largest communities to do so. In a post onBungie’s site, Chris Shannon (known as “Cozmo23”) was introduced in his new role. “I now aim to better serve the largerDestinycommunity alongside those who create and maintain the game,” Shannon said....

July 23, 2025 · 2 min · 223 words · Douglas Duke

Casually Hardcore: Extending the olive branch to “casual gamers”

A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to take in a panel at one of the less reported gaming events, Casual Connect. The thing to understand about this kind of event is that it’s more of a con in the conference sense than the convention sense, and as such not exactly made for gamers so much as the companies cranking out the games. But in perusing the list of presentations, panels, and previews one session seemingly demanded my critical eye: The Games Women Play....

July 23, 2025 · 4 min · 814 words · Allison Weiss

Clever girl: Fortnite just added raptors

‘Try to imagine yourself in the Cretaceous Period…’ Dr. Grant was right…those “six-foot turkeys” are ferocious. Going along with the “Primal” theme of this new season,Fornitejust added raptors into the mix. Cleverly, they set the whole thing up with eggs littered about the map beforehand, then decided to hatch them via an update.That very same update that added extra stability for the Switch version of the game. Raptors will roam the map in pairs and add another wrinkle into the survival mix for the main battle royale mode....

July 23, 2025 · 1 min · 168 words · Timothy Cooley

Contest: Lose your head, and grab a new one, over Skul: The Hero Slayer

Just keep your cool the whole time Today’s contest features Steam copies of action-packed roguelikeSkul: The Hero Slayer! Ever notice how your head is like, just there? Like, it’s stuck there. It never moves. Sometimes you hit it on the shelf or something, and it’s really more of a pain in the ass than anything. It sure would be neat if we could discard it for a new one that gives us special abilities....

July 23, 2025 · 2 min · 282 words · Christopher Salazar

Contest: Win Super Burger Time for Nintendo Switch

One whopper of a giveaway Feeling a little famished? Enter our contest to sate your hunger with a Switch copy ofJohnny Turbo’s Arcade: Super Burger Time. They just don’t make games like this anymore, do they? Back in the ’80s it was the norm to play as tiny little chefs battling evil hot dogs with the power of hamburgers. Hell, it was all the rage! Now all we get is military shooters and battle royales....

July 23, 2025 · 2 min · 361 words · Kelsey Fernandez

Dead by Daylight welcomes Ring’s terrifying Sadako next month

Video Nasty When I first watchedRingwith my sister, long, long ago, she was so freaked out by the finale that I had to take the TV out of her bedroom that night. The next day, I cheered her up by showing her how to make a little model Sadako out of a toilet roll and crepe paper. Fun times. That misty-eyed nostalgia trip is my roundabout way of informing you that everybody’s favoriteTV-crawlin’ ghostieis headed to Behavior Interactive’sDead by Daylightnext month....

July 23, 2025 · 2 min · 316 words · Joseph Brooks

Dungeonland becomes free to play

Try before you buy this co-op action-RPG Critical Studio and Paradox Interactive have tweaked the action-RPGDungeonlandto support a free-to-play model, opening access to portions of the game. The DM Tower stage is now unlocked for regular play and the DM Mode in which one player tries to screw over everyone else. This is one of those games that lives and dies based on who’s playing, so I can absolutely see why they’d want to lower the barrier to entry here....

July 23, 2025 · 1 min · 125 words · Terrance Warren

EVO, the world’s biggest fighting game tournament, will now allow coaching

With provisos Coaching in eSports has been a long debated concept. While players can basically keep any company they wantbeforeor after a match,duringa matchup is another thing entirely. It’s commonplace in sports to confer with any number of coaches during a timeout or period/quarter/inning break in sports like basketball, football, or baseball, but the eSports community sees it differently. Regardless of what individual people think though, it’s now a thing at EVO going forward....

July 23, 2025 · 2 min · 278 words · Troy Brooks

FFXIV: All hairstyles and how to get them

If you’re looking to customize your character inFinal Fantasy XIV, one of the easiest ways to stand out from the crowd is by getting a fresh new haircut. There are a lot of hairstyles available from the start, but also new ones that can be unlocked or purchased. These new hairstyles come from a variety of sources, some of which are free, while others will cost you some Gil. If you’re in a hurry andnot short on funds, you’re able to purchase most of these on the Marketboard....

July 23, 2025 · 5 min · 896 words · Margaret Goodman

Final Fantasy Type-0 fan translation is coming along

Watch it in action What to do when your supplier of JRPGs won’t give you the one you want. You could bitch on forums, or maybe start a petition. Or just do the dirty work yourself. That’s what is happening with PSP gameFinal Fantasy Type-0, a good game that just kind of fell off in the background with no word of localization from Square Enix. ANeoGAF threadthat started out wondering where the hell the game is has morphed into a place to track the fan translation, and that’s where this video first popped up....

July 23, 2025 · 1 min · 147 words · Christine Case

gamescom: EA’s Origin service, SimCity get Mac versions

Origin, Electronic Arts’ digital distribution service, is now coming to Mac. Peter Moore took the stage today at EA’s gamescom press conference to reveal that Origin will open up shop for the Mac owning kids out there. Other platforms, like Android and Facebook, are also getting some digital love soon. More says that Origin has more than 500 games from over 50 partners. Achievements are coming, too. Sounds like some other service....

July 23, 2025 · 1 min · 101 words · Andrea Smith

Goliath eliminates the repetition found in survival games

This time your arm is the tool Survival games likeDon’t Starvecan provide some of the best moments in gaming. The early hours of trying to fathom how this new world works, the slow strengthening of self until you gain confidence, and the subsequent downfall due to your newfound hubris all etch into your mind and become the stuff of stories. But then you have to start over, rebuilding your fortress, recreating those same memories....

July 23, 2025 · 5 min · 941 words · Kathy Morrow