From side-scrolling Metroidvanias to upbeat, humorous soulslikes, from the depths of the sea to the stars above, this weekā€™s reviews run the gamut. Read on to find out what we thought of this weekā€™s releases.

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With folks flocking back to the Appalachian wastelands of Fallout 76, weā€™ll help you survive and thrive with some great builds. Weā€™ll also help you optimize your build in Mario Kart, make Cait Sith crush it on the battlefield in FF7 Rebirth, and more.

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Fallout 76 is getting plenty of attention in the wake of the hugely popular Amazon show, and weā€™re happy to see it. Also, we reflect on Final Fantasy 16's DLC now that Cliveā€™s journey is truly at an end, and recommend a fresh new Zelda-like thatā€™s also a twin-stick shooter. Enjoy!

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This weekā€™s gaming news saw Helldivers 2 continue its efforts at world domination, Fallout 4's big next-gen patch cause problems as well as fix them, and much more.

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As its name suggests, Manor Lords is a city builder about managing a medieval village. You help it grow, fight off bandits, and eventually take part in larger military campaigns. But none of it amounts to a hill of beans if you canā€™t get families to move in and help your society grow, and some players seem to beā€¦

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Another Crabā€™s Treasure is finally out, and if youā€™re as much of a sucker for soulslikes as I am, youā€™re likely picking it up. Good news: itā€™s pretty great and packed to the brim with charming nods to the Souls games, tight combat and skills, and funny-as-hell jokes. One of its running gags could potentially bite youā€¦

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In the days after the April 19 release of The Tortured Poets Department, the latest album from Taylor Swift, I came across a presentation explaining the artistā€™s relationship with 1975 frontman Matty Healy. It is over one hundred pages long, and itā€™s not the only presentation, video, or article of its kind. Fans areā€¦

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A Lego YouTuber has recreated the housebuilding scene from Rockstar Gamesā€™ open-world western, Red Dead Redemption II, complete with the catchy tune, a curious bird, and a pesky cougar.

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Arrowhead Game Studios has enjoyed handing down some tough and consequential major orders for the Helldivers 2 community to beat, but its latest might be one of its thorniest yet. You see, major orders tend to focus the entirety of the player base on a single objective or set of goals, such as killing billions ofā€¦

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Last week, journalist co-op 404 Media reported on Spy Pet, a site that was mining billions of Discord messages from nearly 620 million users and selling access to that data for as little as $5. After investigating the matter, Discord has announced that the accounts connected to that repository have been banned and theā€¦

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Tesla was recently forced to recall every Cybertruck itā€™s ever built ā€” all 3,878 of them ā€” because the cover on the accelerator pedal could come loose, causing unintended acceleration. As it turns out, though, you donā€™t even need to be old enough to get your driverā€™s license to deal with unintended accelerationā€¦

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Facebookā€™s parent company, Meta, made a lot of money in its last financial quarter. However, its virtual reality and augmented reality division, Reality Labs, lost over $3 billion. That means that since June 2022, the metaverse-focused division has lost a billion dollars per month, and Meta expects to continue losingā€¦

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Stellar Blade is a good game. If you wanted Nier: Automata without all the heady themes, then Shift Upā€™s latest PS5-exclusive character action game fits the bill perfectly. It doesnā€™t tell as good a story as PlatinumGamesā€™ 2017 character action game, and its characterization isnā€™t as deep either, but there is oneā€¦

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Donā€™t shoot the messenger, but even if youā€™ve played your Xbox consistently for the past four years and you think you know it inside and out, you may still be surprised by what your console is capable of. Just like the PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch, the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S have a bevy of hiddenā€¦

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As soon as Honkai Star Rail launched on April 26, 2023, I immediately downloaded it on my phone. The turn-based sci-fi RPG from HoYoverse, makers of gacha juggernaut Genshin Impact, was already an anticipated release after I had read impressions from the gameā€™s beta. A year has passed since the gameā€™s initial release,ā€¦

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I didnā€™t love the Knuckles show, but as a long-time Sonic fan, one of its six episodes stuck out to me for a few reasons. One, itā€™s easily the most representative of the showā€™s problems with excluding its titular hero, but it also drops a huge lore bomb in the wildest way possible. It all ties into the game thatā€™sā€¦

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Another Crabā€™s Treasure is out now and thankfully itā€™s a really solid soulslike game, one which wears its influences on its sleeve. Despite the fact that itā€™s much more accessible than most of the games that inspired it, it isnā€™t without mechanics and features that need to be explained to some degree. Luckily for youā€¦

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The Knuckles show is out today on Paramount+. As Kotakuā€™s resident Sonic (eh, Shadow, really) sicko, I did not like it! I gave it a broadly negative review and was especially caught off guard by how little the titular punch-throwing echidna is actually in it. Now that the show is available to stream, fans are formingā€¦

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Fallout 4ā€™s free next-gen update is finally here, and itā€™s brought plenty of headaches with it. Patching in a 60fps mode for free on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S is a nice reason to dive back into one of Bethesdaā€™s more controversial and arguably underappreciated post-apocalyptic RPGs, but some notable hang-upsā€¦

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Weā€™re just a few days out from the much-anticipated Early Access launch of the current most Wishlisted game on Steam: Manor Lords. But despite the hype, no one knows how much the medieval city-builder will cost to play. The devs say thatā€™s to prevent misinformation and pre-order scams.

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After your early moments in the PS5-exclusive action game Stellar Blade, youā€™ll be given a quest called ā€œScavenger Adam,ā€ where youā€™re asked to travel to the Hall of Records. The only problem? Thereā€™s a stubborn math puzzle standing between you and a monorail that will take you to your destination.

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A new wave of rumors are doing the rounds regarding the near-mythical Switch 2. Nintendoā€™s much-deliberated follow-up to its seven-year-old handheld console was most recently speculated to have an 8" screen, after Sharp Corp reportedly massively upped its LCD screen production. Now we have word that it could beā€¦

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Not everything in action slasher (and super-pretty simulator)Stellar Blade is cute outfits and gory glory kills. Youā€™ll have to find a few hidden objectives from time to time. One such location is the Solar Tower in the Wastelands, the gameā€™s first open-ish area following Eveā€™s arrival in Xion.

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