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One of Strixhaven’s most famous students is Zimone Wola. The other is Everest Hootersby — a character I made up, who helped me tell a more successful story than the adventures presented in Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos. Zimone debuted in Magic: The Gathering’s 2021 set called Strixhaven: School of Mages. She was a first-year student in the Quandrix (blue-green) college, studying the intersection of magic, nature, and mathematics. She eventually went on to pursue dangerous graduate-level fieldwork. She also headlines the Quandrix Unlimited preconstructed Commander deck in the brand-new Secrets of Strixhaven set. A few years back, when I…

April 18, 2026 marks the 15-year anniversary of Portal 2’s release. Below, we reminisce about its memorable story, novel cooperative two-player mode, and enduring comedy.There was a time in the PlayStation 3/Xbox 360 era when Valve was spoiling us with games, packaging some excellent titles in The Orange Box and bringing us back-to-back Left 4 Dead entries. But the company hit a stride with the 2011 release of Portal 2, which might be its finest accomplishment of that generation.Following up from 2007’s Portal, Valve would still have had a hit if it had only made and released the single-player campaign,…

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for August 30th, 2024. In today’s article, we have a handful of new releases to look at as we bid farewell to August. A few decent ones, and a few unique ones. Outside of that, there isn’t much more than the lists of new sales and expiring discounts. This has been a busy week for me in many ways, but we should be back to the normal routine next week. Let’s get to what we’ve got! Select New Releases Umamusume: Pretty Derby – Party Dash ($44.99) I say thee neigh, Umamusume!…

It took Battlefield Studios over four months to tell Battlefield 6 players what they can actually expect from the game over the course of this year, in terms of content – but we’re glad to see a plan laid out nonetheless. The developer unveiled a grand 2026 roadmap, covering three more seasons currently in the works, and a wealth of new additions across the entire game, including new maps and the introduction of a new theatre of combat. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings In a wide-ranging new video dubbed The Year Ahead, members of…

Hot off the heels of getting review-bombed for a second time in the space of a month, Mega Crit has just released its monthly “Neowsletter” newsletter. However, unlike most Neowsletters in recent memory, this one actually contains a lot of juicy info about Slay the Spire 2’s future, including a very rough roadmap of the game’s future content and some stats regarding a few select in-game choices. As detailed in the April 2026 Neowsletter, Mega Crit is hard at work on finalising a bunch of new content for Slay the Spire 2, including The Bestiary (which will allow players to…

The Mass Production Array is the second sector in Pragmata, and it has six blocks: Test Site Entrance, Shopping District, Side Alley, Business District, Lim Recycling Factory, and Comms Tower. In this walkthrough, we’ll be guiding you through the Mass Production Array, while also 100%-ing the sector. This means you’ll find all the safe boxes, pure lunum, mods, cartridge holders, and REMs. We will lead you to some of the upgrade components and Mini Cabin figures along the way, but, as they don’t count toward the sector’s progress, we will be skipping a few along the way. Instead, please check…

Fortnite and Rocket League have kicked off a small new crossover event, called Rivals & Rockets, and it’s got unusually good rewards. With a fairly minimal amount of grinding, you can earn a free Fortnite skin and a free car body that works in both games. But you’ll have to play Rocket League to get the skin. The Rockets & Rivals event runs until April 30.To unlock the free skin–Dueling Dragons Jackie, which is a new version, with a much cooler jacket, of the free skin Jackie that was awarded for playing Rocket Racing two years ago–you’ll need to complete…

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Steam Deck Weekly. If you missed my Gundam Breaker 4 Steam Deck review, read it here. Today’s article has Steam Deck impressions and reviews for Umamusume: Pretty Derby – Party Dash, Visions of Mana, Gori: Cuddly Carnage, Bloons Card Storm, and more. This week also sees a few notable new Steam Deck Verified games and the usual slew of sales and discounts. Let’s get into the reviews and impressions first. Steam Deck Game Reviews & Impressions We are officially in the very busy season of the year, and I’m going to try and…

The Sims 4 players on PlayStation and Xbox have now caught up to their friends on PC, at least when it comes to the game’s Marketplace. This new feature is essentially a hub for paid mods and other user-created content. As often happens when long-established games introduce paid mods, The Sims 4’s wasn’t especially well-received, in part because of the introduction of a new premium currency – Moola – that is the only way to purchase any of that content. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings The Moola denominations and prices are similar to many…

I don’t envy those with the impossible task of migrating Call of Duty‘s featureless operator bravado to the big screen. Arc Raiders is falling off but still dominating. And the video game shovelware spam problem is getting out of control. It’s the latest edition of Morning Checkpoint for April 16, 2026. Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream is out today and the clips have begun. JRPG super fans will even be able to use the Switch social sim to recreate their own dinner party of Final Fantasy developer legends. Arc Raiders drops 80 percent of its concurrent player peak on Steam…