The next Spotlight Hour is waiting in Pokémon GO. We have looked at what content it brings and whether it is worth it.
What kind of event is this? The Spotlight Hour is a short, 60-minute event that takes place every Tuesday in Pokémon GO. It brings you a specific Pokémon and a bonus.
On September 23, 2025, Hoothoot is the star of the event. The Pokémon comes from the 2nd generation and has the types Flying and Normal. It can evolve into Noctowl.
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Pokémon GO: The Season “Stories of Transformation” in the Trailer
Spotlight Hour on September 23, 2025 – Start and Bonuses
When does the Spotlight Hour start? As always, the event starts at 6:00 PM. After 60 minutes, at 7:00 PM, it is over.
What bonus is active? Every Pokémon you catch during the event will give you double the amount of candies. It does not matter whether you catch a Hoothoot or another Pokémon, for example from saved rewards. The bonus is active for every catch.
If you use Nanab Berries or Silver Nanab Berries while catching, you can further increase the bonus.
Can you catch Shiny Hoothoot? Yes. If you are lucky, you can also catch the Shiny variant of Hoothoot during the event. However, the chance for this is not increased.
Is the Spotlight Hour worth it? Neither Hoothoot nor its evolution Noctowl are among the best attackers in Pokémon GO. Neither as a Flying attacker, nor as a Normal attacker do the two Pokémon represent solid choices.
Also in the battle league, you should avoid both Pokémon. They also do not play a role here and should not be used.
The bonus is therefore not the strongest addition for Hoothoot and its evolution. However, if you still have Pokémon rewards from field research or special research saved up, you can catch those during the event to earn additional candies.
In addition to the Spotlight Hours, many other events are waiting for you in September. There are various events, raids, and additional content. If you want to know what they are and when they take place, feel free to take a look at our overview with all events in September 2025 in Pokémon GO.
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A small studio from Barcelona wants to publish a new role-playing game called Starfinder: Afterlight on Steam. The release is still in the distant future, but there are already promising details. As the first medium in Germany, MeinMMO got an exclusive look at the two new companions that Starfinder: Afterlight introduces. The developers also explain how their game stands out from the competition.
What kind of game is this?
In Starfinder: Afterlight, you play as the leader of a ragtag group of misfits trying to prevent the impending apocalypse. The game is a classic cRPG with an isometric perspective, turn-based combat, and a lot of story as a pure single-player experience.
Here are the two new companions: The human Borai Sterling (who is somewhat inspired by Archer, for all you niche nerds) and the android Lu-323 complement the first two characters introduced, Tycho and Kole.
Sterling is an agent who was murdered. However, because he clings too much to life, he returned as an undead – a Borai. His class is a kind of space wizard, a solarian, who uses the powers of creation and destruction. In Sterling’s story, the goal is to solve his own murder… which he himself is not that keen on.
Lu-323 was programmed to infiltrate and execute. An assassin and killer, who as an android wants to find out where her programming ends and she herself begins. In gameplay, Lu is a charismatic envoy who can use charm and deception just as well as a quick knife to the ribs.
Companions make the world come alive
In a conversation, the developers Ricard Pillosu and Albert Jane Goset explain to me what makes the two new companions special and what happens in their stories. I don’t want to spoil too much, but with Sterling and Lu you will dive deeper into the questions of life, exploring who one really is.
Decisions play a big role in Starfinder: Afterlight, allowing you to influence how your companions develop. Depending on how you behave, you improve or worsen your relationship with your companions – to the point where it can happen that they become your enemies and fight against you.
Using Lu as an example, the developers explain to me: Depending on how you, as a player, feel about her, it will be possible for her to adopt more of her “android” or more of her “human” side. So you have a direct influence on her fate.
Relationships can go so far that you can have a romance with the companions. With each of them, as the developers explain to me, regardless of your chosen gender or your own species. Because… there are also space shrimp with tentacles as a playable race: “If it’s not weird, it’s not Starfinder.”
Astarion aims to make Starfinder outstanding: “We can’t do this without you”
To bring the characters to life and convey emotions, Starfinder: Afterlight relies heavily on voice acting. All characters are voiced, and there are “banter”, conversations between companions during journeys that often refer to the environment.
To make everything sound natural, the developers work with Neil Newbon, the voice of Astarion from Baldur’s Gate 3. Newbon is the voice director for the game, responsible for ensuring the spoken lines fit together:
He handles the whole casting, he directs the voices. Every session goes through him. He goes through all the lines, organizes them, takes the actor and brings him into the right mindset to deliver the lines. […] We also encourage a lot of improvisation. […]
The focus on voice acting should help Starfinder: Afterlight prove itself in the cRPG genre. Goset explains: Fans already know what to expect from such a game, so something special must be offered. Lively characters with deep stories should be exactly that special trait. By the way, well-known voice actors have been hired for this:
The already known characters Tycho and Kole are voiced by Inel Tomilson (Space Marine 2, Final Fantasy XVI) and Fred Tatasciore (best known as Kil’jaeden from WoW and Soldier: 76 from Overwatch).
Lu-323 is voiced by Melissa Médina, whom you know as Lettie in Warframe: 1999, Zanuhali from Final Fantasy XIV, or Callis from Borderlands 4.
James Alexander lends his voice to Sterling. Alexander also voices various NPCs in Baldur’s Gate 3, Jake the Hyena from The Division 2, and Rick from Dying Light: The Beast.
Starfinder: Afterlight comes from people who know what they want
Epictellers, the studio behind Starfinder: Afterlight, is based in Barcelona and was founded only 2 years ago. However, the developers have over 20 years of experience, having previously worked at Crytek in Germany on Crysis and Ryse: Son of Rome.
After such a long time in the AAA sector, they explain to me that they saw the chance to pursue their passion for cRPGs – especially since Larian and Owlcat have done such a good job in re-establishing the genre.
The game is currently still in pre-alpha but is expected to be made available to players as early access as soon as possible. From then on, it should take about one to one and a half years to finish the game. The idea is to follow the same path that helped Baldur’s Gate 3 achieve success: Baldur’s Gate 3 is so good now because the devs did something that many find terrible
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In the community of Path of Exile 2, there is currently a lot of discussion about the endgame of the ARPG. A player was able to convince many veterans with his suggestion.
What problem does PoE2’s endgame have? Players are slowly getting tired of the endgame in Path of Exile 2. For some time now, they have been discussing new ways to make the endgame more exciting on Reddit and in the official forum.
Many are currently annoyed that in the current atlas system, there is no end and you just run in one direction for a very long time without a real goal in sight. While each player has their own idea of the perfect endgame, one has now proposed a suggestion that was able to convince many.
Here you can see the trailer for the current season of Path of Exile 2:
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Path of Exile 2 shows Season 2 in the new trailer, brings Act 4 and 3 interludes into play
A Map in the Style of WoW
What does he propose? The player Major_Dutch_89 has devised his own concept for the endgame of Path of Exile 2. He believes that a map like in WoW could be a good replacement for the atlas system. This way, areas could be suitably placed on the new world map and you could travel from place to place to complete enemies, bosses, and challenges.
The community likes his idea and builds upon it. User Redditor TheNoon44 suggests that there could be a proper endgame campaign and after completing the game, a NewGame+ could start. This NewGame+ could then give enemies new effects, influence the world, or even bring about larger changes.
Players like this idea as long as the game offers endless replay value, as it does now. Making their character stronger and more powerful is the goal of Path of Exile 2, and players wouldn’t want to give that up.
Here you can also see his proposal visually:
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What does this have to do with WoW? The inventor of the idea accompanied his proposal with a map that looks as if the designers at Blizzard created it. Many players were immediately reminded of Azeroth upon seeing it. They write on Reddit:
CreedRules: “I thought I was in the WoW subreddit when I saw the map.”
DrinkWaterReminder: “Without my glasses, I thought it was someone in the WoW subreddit asking about this map.”
A father had to realize that his child is much more willing to clean a room when it is packaged in a video game. But the 8-year-old is not alone in this. Thousands of players feel the same way.
What does the father report? In a post on the subreddit r/mildlyinfuriating, the Reddit user and father IxDrZOIDBERGxI writes that his son hates cleaning his room. However, he is willing to spend hours doing exactly that in a digital space in the form of a video game.
The game that the 8-year-old is supposed to play is the game “Unpacking” by the studio Witch Beam. It is available on Steam, Nintendo Switch, PS4 and PS5, Xbox, and mobile devices.
On Steam, the game receives a very positive rating (93% of the 36,686 user reviews are positive) and is praised for its underlying story, themes, graphics, and relaxing gameplay.
Apparently, Unpacking also managed to engage the son of the Reddit user, even though he has to do in the game what he despises in reality. However, with over 75,000 upvotes and thousands of reactions to the post, the child is not alone.
Here you can see the trailer for the game Unpacking, which fascinates the child so much:
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The launch trailer of Unpacking shows a cozy game where unpacking and sorting become part of the gameplay
“I am in this picture and I don’t like it”
How does the community react to the post? Many players understand why the father is so surprised about this situation, but they understand the child even more. A meme that has received 19,000 upvotes is the most liked one, showing an organized and tidy Minecraft base, while a gamer sits underneath in complete chaos playing (via Reddit).
A player responds with “I am in this picture and I don’t like it” (KaleidoscopeKelpy via Reddit).
With this realization, they are by no means the only ones.
What similar games are being featured? While many players would love to enjoy Unpacking just as much as the child and explain why they find it so great and why they can understand the child, there are also other games that show similar player behavior.
“My dying plants when they see me play Stardew Valley,” Eoine notes as an example (via Reddit).
“That’s me when I don’t do my homework because I’m too busy making sure my Sims’ child does his homework,” hippy_potto admits (via Reddit).
“That’s just like me with those cooking games!” writes notsoST (via Reddit, about 14,000 upvotes), and even the initially frustrated father can agree: “Haha, true, my wife and I love playing Overcooked” (via Reddit).
In this respect, the player’s son is definitely not an exception, which the father has probably understood due to the many reactions. Do you also have a task that you hate doing in real life but enjoy doing in video games? Let us know in the comments!
Breaking Bad is a popular and acclaimed series, which shocked many fans with its ending. There is, however, an alternative ending that is much more positive and connects two series.
Ending a series satisfactorily after five seasons is not an easy task. Mammoth projects like Game of Thrones have failed in the eyes of many fans. In the case of Breaking Bad, many viewers agree: this ending was truly well-made and satisfying. On IMDb, users praise the final episode titled “Felina.” MeinMMO editor Jasmin Beverungen had her own issues with the series.
In short: the story is quite dark in itself and ends on a negative note. Anyone wanting to know more can feel free to expand the following box.
The ending of Breaking Bad – Warning Spoilers!
Breaking Bad does not end well for protagonist Walter White. He dies in the end, which makes sense in the context of the series. His partner Jesse escapes, finally getting away from White’s control.
Although Breaking Bad absolutely needs its dark story and is exactly why it is so good, the creators of the series have not skimped, and provided the main character with an alternative ending.
Better Call Saul – Trailer for the spin-off of Breaking Bad
Dreaming can be bad
What does the alternative ending look like? The mentioned scene was originally on the DVD of the last season. In it, the actor of Walter White, Bryan Cranston, awakens from a long, dark dream.
It becomes clear: all events from Breaking Bad were just a dream. And Bryan Cranston does not awaken as his character Walter White, but as family man Hal from the series Malcolm in the Middle. Fans know, of course, that Cranston also portrayed this character.
This is also the subject of numerous fan theories, which deal with the idea that the two series exist in the same universe. Some even believe that Malcolm in the Middle is the unofficial successor series to Breaking Bad and that it is the same character. This would imply that the ending of Breaking Bad is not what it seems, and Walter White has deceived everyone.
The alternative ending on the DVD takes a different direction: it shows that Hal only had a bad dream. In it, he was a chemist and experienced terrible things, produced drugs and sold them. He built bombs and killed people – Hal is visibly shaken and tells his wife Lois about the dream.
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Everything that has happened to Walter White did not actually happen. Hal can breathe a sigh of relief, or so it seems. At the end of the scene, however, the camera pans to the right side and shows an armchair. On it lies the famous black hat of Walter White.
It remains open whether Hal has anything to do with the character from the dream, or if he simply wears the hat.
The alternative ending is primarily a gag, but quite successful. The fact that Bryan Cranston and Lois actress Jane Kaczmarek slip back into their old roles for the scene is sure to be a small highlight for fans of Malcolm in the Middle. And friends of Breaking Bad receive a slightly more positive ending for their favorite series. Did you know: A cool character in Breaking Bad exists only because an actor missed a shooting day
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The Event Total Normal starts in Pokémon GO. We will show you what to expect and how to obtain the new monster.
What kind of event is this? The event starts on Tuesday, September 23, 2025, at 10:00 AM and runs until Saturday, September 27, 2025, at 8:00 PM. As the name suggests, Pokémon of the Normal type are in the spotlight.
How do I get Dummimisel? At the event, you can evolve Dummisel into Dummimisel for the first time. You will need 50 Dummisel candies for this. In the main series of games, Dummimisel has a 2-segment and a 3-segment form. Whether this is also the case in Pokémon GO and whether the chance for a 3-segment form is only 1% remains unknown.
The chance of finding a shiny Dummisel during the event is also increased. You have a better opportunity to obtain the new evolution faster as shiny.
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Pokémon GO: The Season “Stories of Transformation” in the Trailer
Other content you can expect in the Total Normal event
Which Pokémon are available? In the wild, you can encounter the following Pokémon during the event:
Wiesor*
Dummisel*
Haspiror*
Ohrdoch* (rare)
Additionally, Ditto can take on new forms with the start of the event. What those forms are is currently unknown. Once they are known, you will find them in our overview of all Ditto forms. It can also be encountered more frequently in the wild during the event.
All monsters marked with a * can also appear as shiny.
What bonuses are there in the event? Besides the increased shiny chance for Dummisel and the more frequent appearances of Ditto, there will also be double the amount of catch candies and double the amount of experience points when evolving Pokémon.
Event field research and collector challenges are also part of the event. While you can receive items, experience points, and encounters with event Pokémon in field research, the collector challenge awaits with experience points, a lure module, and further encounters with Dummisel.
Other event content: Starting at the beginning of the event, there will be a new avatar item available in the in-game shop. This is, fittingly for the event, a Dummimisel onesie.
For $1.99 (likely €2.49), you can also purchase a ticket for a limited research. You will receive 5,000 experience points, 2 lucky eggs, and encounters with Dummisel. If you get the ticket from the Pokémon GO webstore, you will also receive 5 hyper balls.
Not only the Total Normal event is waiting for you in the last days of the current month in the game. There are several other events and content coming up in the next few days. If you want to know what they are, take a look at our overview of all events in September 2025 in Pokémon GO.
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Space Marines have a hard life in Warhammer 40,000 – at least from the perspective of normal humans. While others may retire after enough years of service, the bred superhumans only have the next mission waiting for them. A user wants to know why this is the case and receives a sober yet accurate lore explanation.
Spoiler Warning: This contains some information about Space Marine 2 and the series Secret Level. We try to keep spoilers to a necessary minimum.
Throughout his life, Titus has numerous achievements to show, including victories against Orks and the Chaos as well as a membership in the respected “Deathwatch”, which was essentially a kind of exile for the former captain.
At the beginning of Space Marine 2, Titus is saved from certain death by a Carnifex, one of the worst variants of the deadly Tyranids. Titus becomes a Primaris Marine, an even better, stronger version of the already superhuman Space Marines.
This is what happens to Titus: The story of the lieutenant continues after Space Marine 2, even if some of you may not have noticed it. The Amazon miniseries Secret Level has an episode set in the world of Warhammer 40,000.
There, a group of Space Marines sets out to destroy a Chaos relic and falls into the clutches of a dangerous sorcerer. The mission is essentially a suicide mission, as the chances of success are nearly zero.
On Reddit, a user asks why Titus was chosen for this mission. After all, the Ultramarine is a war hero with several awards. A complex Primaris rite is not granted to just any Space Marine.
Someone with Titus’s history should rightly deserve to rest on his laurels. However, the community sees it quite differently and explains: A Space Marine does not live to rest, but to die.
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Space Marine 2: Clive Standen erklärt, was ein Space Marine ist
“That’s not even grimdark, that’s real life.”
In the comments, users discuss what actually defines a Space Marine and what their purpose in life is. According to many fans, this can be easily summarized: To die for the Emperor and the Imperium.
That Titus was chosen for this mission is also logical: He has both extensive experience with Chaos and a proven resistance to the Warp, and he is known for not only succeeding in impossible missions but also returning.
A user suggests that this is the curse of success: “Do a good job, achieve the seemingly impossible, and your reward is the next impossible task. That’s not even grimdark, that’s real life.”
The free skateboard MMO Skate. was very popular among players on Steam over the weekend. However, anyone who started the game had to first queue up.
What kind of game is this? The new Skate. is a free skateboard MMO on Steam and console. The spiritual successor to Skate 3 comes from EA and brings back the nostalgic skateboarding fun in a new form.
However, the game differs in its form from previous Skate titles. The world is very designed for skating, including ramps and grind spots even on skyscrapers. However, the multiplayer aspect is fundamentally different from the predecessors.
The game is not only an “Always-Online” product, but also an MMO, where you share the game world with other skaters and can develop cool lines together with them. Fitting for the MMO, the game is continuously being developed, yet it is still in Early Access. However, the multiplayer aspect caused more frustration than benefit over the weekend.
Here you can watch the trailer for Skate.:
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Skate. shows in the early access release trailer how skateboarding will be in 2025
From “Always-On” to “Always-Queue”
How did the game perform over the weekend? After Skate. was released at the beginning of last week, it attracted more players every day. However, over the weekend, the numbers peaked at over 134,000 players just on Steam (via SteamDB).
Many gamers were also active on consoles, trying to visit the virtual skate park, so many that an absurdly long queue formed. On Sunday evening, when Skate. reached its player peak on Steam, several users posted increasingly higher queue positions on Reddit.
The queue for Reddit user seasNgtings was already at 43,336 players. However, the peak position was likely reached by Reddit user Panderstar a few hours later, who had to queue at position 179,324.
How do players feel about the queues? Players have increasingly expressed their annoyance about the queues on Reddit. They criticize the “Always-Online” mode of the game. They find it incomprehensible why the developers did not create a stripped-down offline version so that the almost 180,000 players in the queue could play, even when the servers are full.
They suggested providing a small skate hall where skaters could practice before loading onto the servers and into the world of San Vansterdam.
What do the developers say about the problem? On X.com, the developers of Skate. recently addressed the issues. On the evening of September 19, they wrote:
The weekend is approaching and San Vansterdam is still filled with many more skaters than we anticipated! We are currently increasing server capacity, but please be aware that there may still be wait times when logging in this weekend. Thank you for sticking with us during the early access phase. We greatly appreciate your patience and support!
The developers are working on providing more servers to meet the surge of many players. Whether the situation will improve soon or whether even more players will get interested and overload the new servers remains to be seen.
Battlefield 6 is getting a Battle Royale and the first leaks even interest fans of the regular multiplayer.
What is this leak? On September 10, EA announced that the Battle Royale of Battlefield 6 is now available for the first players to test at Battlefield Labs. These testers have since been sharing images, videos, and impressions from their first hours in the mode.
To participate in the Battlefield Labs, players must sign a non-disclosure agreement, which means they aren’t really allowed to post videos and similar content – many do it anyway and leak the currently “secret” gameplay.
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Battlefield 6 presents classes, movement, and tactical destruction in the trailer
Leak shows Levolution through a skyscraper
What does the leak show? The leak, which was posted as a short video clip on Reddit, shows the destruction of a skyscraper. It looks like classic, Battlefield-style Levolution: An artillery strike brings the entire building down.
Levolution describes events that change a map and its gameplay. A classic example is the C-flag in Conquest on “Siege of Shanghai” in Battlefield 4. At the center of the flag stands a skyscraper that completely collapses. This affects the flag itself, but also how the surrounding area is played.
Something similar might also be possible with the collapsing building in the Battle Royale of Battlefield 6. Before the collapse, the building could be a good position for snipers, among other things. After the collapse, the elevated position and sightlines are likely missing.
What does the community say about the leak? The clip is well received by the Battlefield community. Within 14 hours, the post gathered over 7,400 upvotes. However, many players are wondering if they will see this kind of destruction in the multiplayer of the base game.
A player must find out that others must also suffer from his mistakes in Baldur’s Gate 3. This also affects his summoned helpers.
What did the player find out? The player and Reddit user Dinoratsastaja discovered that the guards in Baldur’s Gate 3 are more consistent than expected. When he was on a mission to prevent a bad headline about himself and his party, his summoned fire elemental broke a crate – and was promptly arrested and sent to jail.
The player writes in his Reddit post that he had no idea that this was even possible. However, he found the situation too funny to load an old save to try again without getting caught. Instead, he resolved to break his elemental out of jail, because he actually could find him there again… but he was not the same.
Here you can see the animated short film for Patch 8 of Baldur’s Gate 3:
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Der animierte Kurzfilm zu Patch 8, dem letzten Update für Baldur’s Gate 3
In Baldur’s Gate, the same laws apply to all, including summons
What happened to the elemental in jail? When the player ventured to the Heapside prison, he found that the guards not only confiscated his hammer but also his fire hair. Another player wonders (via Reddit) whether the elemental’s hair is a source of its fire damage and whether it was taken from him for that reason, but another player insists that the elemental was “just going through a phase” in jail (via Reddit).
After a few more updates from the author of the original post, he writes that the elemental was successfully freed and was able to get his hair back (via Reddit).
What does the community point out? Some players share in the comments that this player’s experience has already been used by some as a method to acquire the weapons from summons like Deva or Myrmidons.
The player dankmeister666 points out that the small hammer from simple fire elementals is a great weapon for Karlach (via Reddit) and also Lost-Priority-907 writes: “I literally just thought: ‘It’s time to make all my summons criminals so I can have their weapons'” (via Reddit).
You just have to steal the weapons from the chest in the prison where the belongings of the prisoners are kept – and then you become richer by one rare weapon.
All countries have now been able to see the film Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle. The feedback is largely positive, after all, the anime film is the highest-grossing ever. However, there is one thing that bothers fans.
How successful is Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle? After Demon Slayer was available worldwide, it is clear that it is the highest-grossing anime film of all time. The film has grossed around 472 million euros worldwide (via Box Office Mojo).
For comparison:
The anime tops itself. Until now, Demon Slayer: Mugen Train held the number 1 spot among the best anime films. It grossed about 413 million euros.
Even the Ghibli films, which many fans love for their magical style, have not earned that much.
According to Deadline, the success is mainly due to the international audience. In Japan, Infinity Castle has even grossed a bit less than Mugen Train. This shows how successful Demon Slayer has become worldwide. For the creators of the trilogy, it is a positive sign that it was the right decision to make a movie rather than a 5th season.
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Demon Slayer: Trailer for the Infinity Castle Arc Movie
Fans criticize one thing about Demon Slayer that is typical of any anime
How is the film received? On IMDb, the film has a score of 8.6 out of 10 from around 33,000 ratings (as of September 22 at 11:00 AM). Fans celebrate, among other things, the magnificent animations, which weren’t present in the manga.
However, there is also a major point of criticism that bothers many fans. This weakness can be found in almost every anime from the Shounen genre.
What is the weakness? As an editor at Polygon writes, viewers are taken out of the action-packed fights, which are repeatedly interrupted by flashbacks, thoughts, or visions.
In Demon Slayer, the Hashira fight against the strongest demons, whose backstory has partly never been shown. This is now being addressed in the films.
On Reddit, there are also some fans who are bothered by the flashbacks and inner monologues. The film could not be classified as an action film if there are so many interruptions. According to them, the proportion of quiet scenes should be higher than the fights shown.
PS Plus Essential will introduce the new games for October 2025 in just a few days. MeinMMO summarizes all known information and explains which games might be included in the bundle for October 2025.
What does the schedule look like?
PS Plus: Games available starting Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Available around noon
Possible announcement: Wednesday, October 24, 2025
PS Plus Essential: All games that could come in October 2025
What games are there? It can generally be stated that Sony often puts together a bundle for PS Plus consisting of one strong title and two weaker games. However, no official information is known yet, so we have to rely on fans’, YouTubers’, and insiders’ speculations. The final lineup may still change.
For our selection, we compared various opinions and highlighted the most frequently mentioned titles.
LEGO Horizon Adventures
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Trailer for LEGO Horizon Adventures – Release 2024 for PS5, Switch, Steam and Epic
Lego Horizon Adventures is an action-adventure game that brings the dystopian story from Horizon: Zero Dawn into a cheerful, humorous LEGO world. You play as Aloy, exploring a world made of LEGO bricks with her and other heroes, hunting machines and uncovering secrets about ancient threats.
The game features single-player and two-player co-op (online or couch), a variety of levels instead of an open world, and emphasizes character customization.
King of Meat
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King of Meat shows survival action in gameshow style with quirky humor and coop chaos
King of Meat is a cooperative action-platformer in the style of a gameshow for up to four players. Players fight through colorful and crazy dungeons filled with monsters and traps and can design their own dungeons to share with others.
It releases on October 7, 2025, for PS5, Xbox Series, and PC, making it a fitting candidate for the Essential Bundle in October, as the games will be available on the same day.
Farming Simulator 25
Farming Simulator 25 is a realistic farming simulation from GIANTS Software where you build a farm, raise animals, cultivate fields, and manage production chains either alone or in multiplayer. You can play on three large maps (North America, Central Europe, East Asia) and choose from over 400 machines from many well-known brands.
New features compared to previous editions include rice fields, new vegetable types like spinach and peas, water buffalo and goats, weather events such as hail and tornadoes, as well as ground deformation and controlled vehicle technology with GPS.
Other possibilities
In addition to these favorites, there are also a few other games that fans have frequently mentioned as potential options:
Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria
Jurassic World Evolution 3
Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines 2
Ninja Gaiden 4
Tormented Souls
Assassin’s Creed Mirage
EA FC 25
Final Fantasy XVI
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade: Wrath of the Mutants
If you want to celebrate great success in the career mode of EA FC 26, you need one thing above all: goals. And these are best achieved with strong forward talents in the offense.
This is what talents bring in career mode: In the career mode of EA FC 26 you take over a club of your choice or create your own directly. To lead it to the top, you need strong players.
The best talents are perfect for this: Either you develop the young players into cornerstones of your club or train them so that they bring you a lot of money in transfers.
Strikers are the players who do everything they can to get the ball into the goal. With powerful and unstoppable shots, they put a lot of pressure on the opposing goalkeeper.
Here you can find talents for the striker positions:
ST – Striker
MS – Center Forward
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EA FC 26 shows many changes for the career mode that provide more dynamics
Best Striker Talents in EA FC 26 with the Highest Potential
This is the striker list: We present the best ST talents with the highest potential. Keep in mind that this can also include established stars who can be quite expensive. Further down you will find cheaper forward talents.
All talents are a maximum of 23 years old and are sorted by potential.
Player
Age
Total Value
Potential
Position
Market Value
Florian Wirtz
22
89
93
ST, CAM, CM
150.5 million
Jamal Musiala
22
88
92
ST, CAM, LM, CM
133.5 million
Endrick
18
77
91
ST, RF
24.5 million
Cole Palmer
23
87
90
ST, CAM, RM
109 million
Álex Baena
23
84
89
ST, LF, LM
63.5 million
Rodrigo Mora
18
76
89
ST, LF, CAM, CM
17.5 million
Franco Mastantuono
17
77
88
ST, RF, CAM
22 million
Benjamin Šeško
22
80
88
ST
47.5 million
Hugo Ekitiké
23
83
88
ST, CAM
55.5 million
Francesco Camarda
17
65
87
ST
2.3 million
Cheap Striker Talents in EA FC 26 Under 10 Million Market Value
These are the cheap ST talents: If you are playing a small club with little money, cheap talents are very helpful. While they start at lower total values, they can quickly rise. Here you can find 10 ST talents under 10 million market value that you can buy cheaply.
Player
Age
Total Value
Potential
Position
Market Value
Francesco Camarda
17
65
87
ST
2.3 million
Julien Duranville
19
72
87
ST, RF, RM, LM
5.5 million
Pablo García Fernández
18
68
87
ST, RF, RM, LM
3.1 million
Maher Carrizo
19
72
86
ST, RF, LF, LM
5.5 million
Sverre Nypan
18
69
86
ST, CM, CAM
3.5 million
Ian Subiabre
18
69
85
ST, LF, RF, LM
3.5 million
Tidiam Gomis
18
68
85
ST, LF, LM, RM
3.1 million
Eli Junior Kroupi
19
74
85
ST
9 million
Conrad Harder
20
74
85
ST, CAM, LF, CM
9.5 million
Adrián Liso Lahoz
20
69
85
ST, LF, LM
3.7 million
Which talents are you getting for your team? Are you relying on established players, or are you focusing on developing young candidates into world stars? Let us know in the comments. If you’re interested in what other changes the brand new FC 26 brings, check it out here: EA FC 26: Pitch Notes show dozens of innovations – the most important changes at a glance
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A player receives a brick instead of a graphics card. In the future, such cases should occur significantly less frequently. At least Amazon intends to discontinue a controversial practice, the “Commingling” program.
What happened to the player? A player reports on Reddit that he ordered a new RTX 5080 on Amazon. For the graphics card, you pay at least 1,000 euros in Germany (via Geizhals.de). On Reddit, he posted a screenshot where you can see the opened package.
However, inside the package is not an expensive graphics card, but instead, a (costly) brick. The player is now hoping that Amazon will reimburse him for the scam and at least give him his money back. How the brick got into the package cannot be conclusively proven. Users suspect that it could have been either an Amazon employee or another buyer who swapped the goods for the return.
At least now Amazon wants to end a controversial practice, the so-called “Commingling” program. For years, buyers and sellers have criticized Amazon for this.
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Amazon changes controversial practice to make products traceable
What is changing soon at Amazon? Amazon is discontinuing its long-standing “Commingling” program. The company announced this at the annual seller conference in Seattle (via modernretail.co).
Behind “Commingling” was a practice that has always been considered controversial among sellers: Amazon previously combined identical items from different sellers under one barcode. Amazon argued this led to faster shipping and less space consumption in the warehouse. However, due to this practice, individual products could no longer be reliably traced, as they all shared the same barcode.
For years, companies complained that due to “Commingling”, it was difficult to attribute problems to specific sellers or buyers. They accused Amazon of damaging their reputation by allowing customers to receive counterfeit products and not doing enough to curb the sale of damaged or expired goods by third parties.
In the future, each product will receive its own barcode and thus also be traceable. This way, Amazon is also meeting the needs of many merchants.
While streaming live on Twitch from his car, Marcel “MontanaBlack” Eris almost crashes into a stationary car from behind. His girlfriend next to him is shocked, while the streamer himself complains about the technology that just saved him.
How did the near-accident happen?
During a live stream on Twitch, the streamer MontanaBlack is driving a car with a female passenger. He glances over his shoulder at the back seat, where his camera appears to be.
During this time, he continues to drive and does not pay attention to the road, as can be seen in a clip. The video is no longer accessible on Twitch, but the clip is shared on Reddit. His passenger warns him, but the streamer merely says: “Yeah, yeah, he’s braking.”
Just before he collides with a stationary car, a warning system in the vehicle activates and goes into a full brake before an accident occurs.
MontanaBlack complains about this: During a conversation with his passenger right after the situation, she says she can’t breathe and appears shocked. In a longer clip on TikTok, MontanaBlack appears rather calm about the situation.
He seems to be little upset, even complaining about the technology:
“That was autopilot. […] One simply cannot rely on modern technology. This was a good example. That was autopilot, and I had to brake myself.”
Twitch: MontanaBlack is criticized for his driving behavior
“Autopilot? That’s the emergency braking that tries to prevent an accident as a last resort”
On Reddit, dozens of users are discussing the behavior of the streamer. They criticize MontanaBlack, demanding that one should not be allowed to drive with such behavior and consider his driving style even life-threatening.
Earlier, MontanaBlack was criticized for his driving style, although he then refused to be pressured into driving faster. Some users point out that the streamer doesn’t even know the technology that just saved him. It’s not actually the autopilot, but an emergency assistance:
What kind of autopilot? That was the Collision Prevention Assist, also known as the emergency brake assistant, and this has been mandatory in all vehicles in the EU since July 2024. Even Audis could do that in 2007. Back then it was an optional feature.
Twitch itself has strict guidelines regarding streaming from a car. In principle, it is allowed, as long as it does not endanger oneself. The guidelines from Twitch state that “dangerous driving behavior (e.g., using the phone while driving)” is prohibited.
The video of MontanaBlack is no longer accessible on Twitch, although the channel is still available. Whether there will be a penalty remains open. Previously, a female streamer in the USA had also caught attention due to her driving behavior. There, Twitch has, however, quickly taken measures and temporarily suspended her channel: 27-year-old streams from car, runs a red light
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A new horror game featuring dinosaurs is set to be released on Steam this quarter. Some fans have wished for the title for many decades.
What type of game is it?Deathground describes itself as a dinosaur horror game where you must fight for survival alone or with three other friends. On different maps, you need to sneak around, flee from dinosaurs, and complete special missions. These include repairing generators and stealing eggs.
The dinosaurs are the greatest danger. There are several types that hunt differently: some use their hearing, while others only pay attention to what they see. Thus, you must adapt to your surroundings in real-time.
When is it set to be released? The title is expected to launch in the third quarter of 2025. This means the developers have just a few days left to release it on time by September 30, 2025. Afterwards, the game will enter Early Access. You can find the latest trailer here:
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Deathground: Trailer for the Horror Hunt of Dinosaurs
Dinosaurs are hunting you like in Jurassic Park
What dinosaurs are there? In the gameplay trailer, the developers show what you can expect from the game. They introduce the raptors, which are significantly larger than the Velociraptors you’re familiar with from popular films.
However, there are also smaller dinosaurs that can lung at you as well. A ventilation shaft may suddenly no longer be a safe spot but the hideout of these little killers. Meanwhile, other dinos like the Tyrannosaurus Rex, the Brachiosaurus, or the Triceratops are wandering around.
What do fans say about it? In the comments of a tweet mentioning the game, a user expresses nostalgic expectations. Kaiju42 believes that Deathground could be the Jurassic Park game he has always wanted since he was a child.
There is a wide selection of video games based on Jurassic Park, the original film series. These include park simulators and action-adventure titles, but there is no horror game like Deathground.
On YouTube, there are many dinosaur enthusiasts. They are pleased that developers are focusing on ancient reptiles. However, one fan writes that he wants a reboot of Dino Crisis. This is a game from the same genre that resembles the old Resident Evil parts.
No microtransactions, no in-game shop, no expensive deluxe packages and no paid DLCs. This is the promise of a new MMORPG on Steam, which digs up an old-school payment model. Not all genre fans like this plan.
Meanwhile, the icebergs have been navigated around. The release of the superhero MMORPG is scheduled for this afternoon, on September 22, 2025. The developers promise you a game in the style of City of Heroes, meaning without major Marvel or DC license, but with plenty of character options and superpowers.
You can expect missions for groups of up to 10 players, 60-player raids, crafting, and a housing system. Except for the two raids, all content should be manageable solo, by the way. Anyone who wants to team up with other players has to use chat or other social channels. The developers consciously avoid an automated dungeon finder.
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Ship of Heroes: Trailer for the new superhero MMORPG on Steam
Pricing model like the big ones
What kind of payment model does the game use? Ship of Heroes comes very old-school, with full price and subscription (though so far only the dollar prices are available):
For 60 USD you can download Ship of Heroes, install it, and play for the first month.
Every additional month costs a subscription: 15 USD for one month, 42 USD for 3 months, 78 USD for 6 months, 144 USD for 12 months.
This puts Ship of Heroes on par with the few remaining subscription MMORPGs like World of Warcraft or Final Fantasy XIV (although they now offer alternatives like the WoW Token (WoW) and an extensive free version (FFXIV)).
The developers of Ship of Heroes justify this step by stating that it allows them to completely forgo revenue sources like in-game shops, microtransactions, expensive deluxe editions, or comparable offers. All content available at launch and up to 2 years after the launch shall belong to the subscription without restrictions.
The official screenshots of Ship of Heroes do not exactly make you excited about paying the full price plus subscription.
How is the community reacting? Anyone who has read my article When someone announces such an MMORPG, I take the front seat on the hype train knows: fundamentally, I would gladly accept such an old-school payment model with full price and subscription (but without microtransactions and shop) if the corresponding game justifies the price.
20 years of experience with the MMORPG genre, all the screenshots and trailers I have seen from Ship of Heroes, as well as the recent difficulties with Valve, tell me that the developers are likely opting for the wrong model or setting the prices too high. And it’s not even considering that this is the debut work of a small indie studio.
Countless discussions on Steam and Reddit currently show that many other players feel the same way. Among them are many supporters of Ship of Heroes, who have already been able to play the MMORPG and are now pleading with the developers to significantly lower the prices.
Percello writes on Steam: “Imagine working 9 years on a game, only to watch it fail within the first 2 months because you wouldn’t lower the price, which was too high for everyone. That’s 9 years of your life that you can’t get back.”
Brian9824 feels the same on Steam: “60 dollars and 15 dollars per month for a new indie game without history and from a studio that has no other games is a big mistake. With this price, you will scare away most players and only keep the most hardcore fans.”
Designer-Message-685 calculates on Reddit with a forecasted failure: “I have been following this game for years and it looks like complete trash. It will be a flop, and anyone who spends money on it should get a refund when the game inevitably fails in three months.”
How do the developers respond? Especially on Steam, officials regularly join the discussions, suggesting that subscriptions could always be taken out when it is financially feasible (source: Steam). They respect the concerns but stick to their plan.
Another response was given on Steam regarding why developers would ban critical comments from the community. One developer’s response:
Constructive criticism has neither been deleted nor censored. However, to be constructive, one cannot be 100% negative. None of the critics ever come in and say something like, “I love these three features of SoH, but I dislike these two others for reasons x, y, and z.” Instead, they usually start by claiming a negative opinion as a physical law and then go on with more of that. Ship of Heroes was developed with enormous involvement and support from the community. The community asked for what they wanted, and we are delivering it. But trolls remain trolls. They seem to have a kind of entitlement that can be summarized as: “We can come into your house and scream at the top of our lungs that your spouse is ugly and your children are stupid.” That’s not constructive criticism.
You can imagine that this type of response was not well received by parts of the community. On Reddit, Havesh writes:
“This guy thinks constructive criticism means a criticism sandwich. Unbelievable. Constructive criticism doesn’t just mean saying you don’t like something, but also explaining why you don’t like it. You don’t even have to offer solutions for criticism to be constructive.”
In Pokémon GO, the Rocket event recently took place. However, this caused quite a frustration for some trainers.
Until yesterday, another Rocket event took place in Pokémon GO. It came again with some new Crypto monsters, a new legendary Crypto attacker, the ability to forget frustration, and additional strong bonuses.
However, a part of the event caused more frustration than excitement within the community.
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Pokémon GO: The Season “Stories of Transformation” in the Trailer
Catching Pokémon – but where?
What content caused frustration? Within the event, there was, as in many previous events, a collector challenge. Trainers must collect specific monsters to complete the challenge. As a reward, they receive a medal and various items.
In this collector challenge, alongside 8,000 experience points, there was another Super Rocket Radar as a reward. This item can be used to search for and challenge Giovanni again. Thus, trainers could get a second Crypto Boreos for free during the event.
To complete the challenge, 4 different Crypto monsters from Rocket opponents needed to be collected. But this is exactly where the problem lies. Many trainers report on social media that they were unable to find the monsters even after countless battles against Team GO Rocket.
Especially Kapuno, which was available as a Crypto variant for the first time in the event and is also among the best attackers in Pokémon GO, was simply not to be found. As a result, many trainers could not complete the collector challenge and receive the second Super Rocket Radar. Baldorfish also represented an insurmountable challenge for many trainers.
What does the community say about it? Accordingly frustrated comments can be found on social media regarding the topic. Some of them are as follows:
“I haven’t been able to find the Dragon-type Rocket Grunt with Kapuno for four days,” writes Wynautbro on Reddit
“I live in probably the largest city in America and have been out and about for the last four days. I can’t count exactly, but it must be well over 500 PokéStops. Maybe even 1,000. I don’t know,” notes Shart217 in the post
“No. I can’t get Kapuno. I hate challenges that are completely based on luck,” says rednail64 in another post on Reddit
“I feel like this is a scam,” titles slytherin_whitefox in another post on Reddit
“More than 250 grunts defeated, probably checked another 500. No Kapuno,” comments rkaixuan in the previous post
How about you? Did you have more luck? Feel free to share your experience with us in the comments. Even after the Rocket event, Pokémon GO continues to be busy with lots of content. If you want to know what that is, we have the perfect overview for you: all events in September 2025 in Pokémon GO.
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In Dune: Awakening, the developers have revealed what players can expect in the next major patch. The changes may also come from the players themselves.
What are these changes? In addition to the major “Chapter” updates of Dune: Awakening, there is also a smaller update from the developers each month, addressing current issues and difficulties or adjusting systems according to player preferences. Such a patch is also coming in October.
The developers have now uploaded the test version of their patch to the test server, which all players of Dune: Awakening can access. There, they can already test what is coming in October. In line with this, patch notes are already available, which may have been written by the players themselves.
Here you can watch the trailer for the latest update of Dune: Awakening:
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Dune: Awakening verdoppelt nach großem Update die Spielerzahlen
Patch Notes as if written by the players themselves
What do the patch notes look like? On the website duneawakening.com, the developers are already presenting exactly what is set to be released next month. The new patch notes for the monthly update sound almost as if the players have written them themselves.
The Vehicle Backup tool is set to receive an update that allows it to restore completely destroyed vehicles. If your vehicle is completely destroyed, either eaten by a sandworm or blown up in PvP by explosive weapons, you can retrieve it with the tool.
However, this comes at a cost. A fee in Solari will be required, and your vehicle will also lose 15% of its maximum repairable durability. Thus, the vehicle will be out of commission after 6 restorations at the latest. However, you cannot wait too long: the tool only stores your destroyed vehicles for 3 days, and you can only store 5 at the same time.
What other changes are there? In addition to the vehicles, the developers are also adjusting the endgame. As often requested by players, the visibility range for vehicles will be increased. This will allow players to spot enemy vehicles much earlier in the Deep Desert and escape.
There are also significant changes to loot in the Deep Desert. PvP loot will be instanced, allowing all players to obtain loot there. Starting with the new patch, all items will be available with a chance, rather than having an item pool each week, which has often resulted in duplicates in the past.
If you prefer base building, you can look forward to a change to the wind traps in the October patch. They will no longer consume filters when the water containers in the base are full. This means that wind traps can also serve as a good water source while offline.
Many of the changes sound like the developers want to respond to player demands, although it is still uncertain whether all the changes from the test server will make it into the live game. The last patch of Dune: Awakening has also drawn some players back into the survival MMO. Alongside the many innovations brought by the major patch “Chapter 2”, one thing stands out for them: Players are returning to Dune: Awakening, celebrating a new feature immediately
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Some actors take on a lot of work to bring their characters to life on screen. In the case of a film on Netflix, the lead actor trained for several years for a single scene.
Which actor is it? Bradley Cooper is an actor, but also a director. In both roles, he was involved in the film Maestro from 2023. It is about the famous composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, who lived from 1918 to 1990 and earned an excellent reputation during that time.
In addition to his work as a conductor, he composed numerous musical pieces, including well-known musicals like West Side Story. The film Maestro depicts a glimpse of Bernstein’s life and tells much about the conductor’s relationship with his wife.
Bradley Cooper directed himself and played the lead role. That alone would be a significant challenge, but Cooper was ambitious and wanted to make everything perfect. This led to a scene that was associated with years of preparation.
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Bradley Cooper as legendary conductor Leonard Bernstein in the trailer for “Maestro”
Every move must be perfect
Which scene is it? One of the highlights of the film is a sequence set in Ely Cathedral in the UK. There, the real Bernstein conducted an elaborate concert with the London Symphony Orchestra in 1973. The 2nd Symphony by Mahler was performed.
In his film, Bradley Cooper was keen to recreate that moment accurately. The scene lasts six minutes and 21 seconds in the finished movie, showing Cooper as Bernstein conducting the orchestra. And he does so with full dedication.
He seems completely immersed in the music and forgets everything around him. Cooper conducts with sweeping gestures and appears highly focused. In an interview with Indiewire, the actor spoke about his work on the scene:
“This scene worried me so much because we filmed it live. That was the London Symphony Orchestra. I was filmed live and had to conduct them. And I spent six years learning to conduct six minutes and 21 seconds of music.”
Bradley Cooper
Cooper watched a recording of the original performance long before filming and was thus able to study even the smallest nuances of the real Leonard Bernstein’s movements. It is clear that such an endeavor takes a lot of time. Six years is still an impressive number, and not many actors dedicate themselves to a role quite like that. Directors are often rather obsessed with a scene, like Kubrick with The Shining.
The fact that Cooper had to conduct a real, professional orchestra is significant and explains the pressure he was under. If you are interested, you can see a comparison of the real and performed Bernstein here:
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Was the long training worth it? Whether someone likes an actor’s portrayal is, of course, a matter of taste. However, those who watch Maestro will soon forget that it is Bradley Cooper. The makeup and the acting performance are simply too good for that.
Hollywood even rewarded the great effort with an Oscar nomination. Bradley Cooper was also nominated for numerous other awards, including for his work on the screenplay and direction. Did you see the film and think the effort was worth it? Feel free to let us know in the comments. Unfortunately, Maestro is not among the most successful films on the streaming service: The 10 most-watched films of all time on Netflix in ranking
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