The action RPG Stellar Blade was released successfully and exclusively for the PS5 in April 2024. Now, the game is set to arrive very soon on Steam, as a leaked video on YouTube shows.
The title was initially released on April 26, 2024, exclusively for the PS5, where it reportedly sold over 1 million copies within 2 months. This upcoming release on PC is expected to exceed those sales on Steam. So far, it was only known that Stellar Blade is set to be released in June 2025.
However, a leaked trailer revealed not only the exact release date but also what other content is hidden in the new version.
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Stellar Blade, the action-adventure on the PS5 launches demo
New outfits, even better visuals, and more for players on PS5?
What was revealed by the leak? The leaked video was shared on Reddit, and shows not only some gameplay impressions but also the release date of the PC version. According to this, the game will be available on Steam as early as June 11, 2025, and will bring several new features.
Among the new features are 25 new costumes for Eve and a new boss fight. These will likely also be available on the PS5, allowing console players to hopefully enjoy new content as well. However, this has not been officially confirmed yet.
The PC version will include some graphic features that will enhance the experience. The Steam version of Stellar Blade will feature AI upscaling and frame generation (for Nvidia DLSS 4 and AMD FSR 3), higher resolution environments, Japanese and Chinese voiceovers, ultrawide support (from 5:4 to 32:9), and DualSense controller support.
Whether the PS5 version will also receive a graphics update is not yet known. However, both for PC and PS5, there will be bonuses for pre-orders as well as a Complete Edition:
All new content from the various versions
So far, there has been no official statement regarding the leaked information. The video has now been removed from YouTube, but it is still visible in the thread on Reddit (as of May 13, 2025, 6:00 PM).
In Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 there is the possibility to start a second playthrough in New Game+ after the first run. In this mode, you do not have to start completely from scratch. How to start it and what you need to know will be explained here.
What is New Game Plus? New Game+ (or Plus) refers to a renewed playthrough after completing the first one. However, depending on the game, you start with achievements and items from the first run, or things may change compared to your previous gaming experience.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 also offers this option. What you should know about it is explained here.
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Update from April 23, 2026: We have reviewed the article and it is up to date.
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – JRPG with French Flair has Release Date
Everything You Need to Know About New Game+
Unlocking and Starting New Game+
How do I unlock New Game+? To start a playthrough with New Game Plus, you must have completed Act 3. Once you have finished the story for the first time, you can then start a second run with NG+.
How do I start a run with NG+? For this, you need to load your save file with which you completed the story. Then go to an expedition flag of your choice and select “New Game+” at the end of the list.
Here you will find the menu option
What is Transferred to New Game+ and What is Not?
Things you carry over to the new playthrough:
Character progression including level, attributes, and skill points
all party members are available once the prologue is completed (except Esquie)
all weapons, Pictos, and colors from your inventory will be transferred from the old run to the new run
all Chroma elixirs and Lumina upgrades
all unlocked outfits and hairstyles
all unlocked gradient attacks
Things that will not carry over:
progress in side quests
found Lost Gestrals
the ability Paint Break
all relationship levels, without affecting already received gradient attacks
Esquie’s abilities
all quest items
all music tracks
collected journal entries
fast travel from a flag to the continent must be unlocked again
Changes in New Game+ Compared to the First Run
At its core, you play the same game in New Game+, but with some adjustments, especially in difficulty, that you should note:
Enemies are much tougher, have significantly more health, and deal powerful damage.
Pictos and weapons that you can obtain from enemies, traders, and the environment will be replaced with higher-level variants.
Chroma catalysts will also be replaced with higher-level variants. This way, you can obtain Grandiose Chroma catalysts earlier in the game (weapon upgrades up to level 32) and can exclusively get Perfect Chroma catalysts in NG+ (upgrades up to max level 33).
You will receive significantly more Chroma from the environment.
You can further enhance your colors and Chroma elixirs.
You can buy baguette weapons for 3 festival tokens in Lumière – you can find them in the bakery.
What You Should Note Before Your NG+
Since the progress of your characters is mostly carried over to the new run, it makes sense to prepare good builds and level your various characters, weapons, and Pictos to a comfortable level for you before embarking on a significantly tougher playthrough. Otherwise, you run the risk of starting the run and encountering problems.
Enshrouded is an insider tip in the survival genre, although it enjoys great popularity on Steam. At its release, it went up against a giant – nevertheless, it has endured and is now even growing bigger.
What’s new now: With Update 6 “Thralls of Twilight,” Enshrouded is getting even bigger. Notably in this new update is a new quest chosen by fans through the developers’ surveys. The goal here was to involve the community more strongly.
However, the highlight of the update is the focus on night. As is common in survival games, the world becomes more dangerous at night, but Update 6 will also bring special rewards. For example, new resources for crafting and upgrading weapons are available only at night. In addition, the update brings:
an improved look for the miasma that covers the world in many places
new enemies, including: Stalkers, Fog Divers, and the Brood Queen
new armor sets and Points of Interest
forging in the miasma, where you can upgrade, add, and remove 21 different weapon gems
character customization options like colors for armor, hair, and eyes as well as new hairstyles
Where the world became even bigger in the last update “Souls of the Frozen Frontier”, the focus with Update 6 is clearly on improving and expanding existing content. Update 6 is available now. The 1.0 release is targeted for 2026.
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The developers present the highlights of Update 6 „Thralls of Twilight“ in Enshrouded
Still 18,000 players on Steam after over a year, 86% positive
Although things have been quite calm regarding Enshrouded and many survival fans turned to Palworld at release, the game is still huge on Steam. According to steamcharts, Enshrouded had an average of 8,500 players in April 2025, peaking at 18,000.
On Steam, players rate Enshrouded “very positive,” with 86% approval in all reviews. They praise the game as one of the “best games in recent years.” Great acclaim has been given for the building system, the world, quests, and the story.
The rather rare criticism mainly concerns bugs, partially missing content that will be added later, and features that still need development, such as dungeons. Nevertheless, the vast majority of players recommend Enshrouded.
Especially the exploration with the glider and the scattered puzzle towers make Enshrouded unique. The miasma represents a new way to approach dangers and divides the world into “safe” and “dangerous” areas at different points. Here on MeinMMO, Enshrouded is among the best survival games for PC, Xbox, and PS5.
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The beta of Dune: Awakening has ended and the community is discussing potential improvements to significantly enhance the player experience at launch.
Wasn’t the beta actually well-received by many players? That is true. Some even refer to it as the best survival game they’ve ever played. However, typical of Funcom, Dune: Awakening still has small flaws and weaknesses in detail that negatively impact comfort, control, or the interface.
Previous online games from the Norwegians, such as Conan Exiles, The Secret World, Age of Conan, and Anarchy Online, also faced comparable issues (and in some cases even much more serious problems).
The class trailer for the Bene Gesserit from Dune Awakening:
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Dune: Awakening – New trailer introduces the class of the Bene Gesserit
Valuable community feedback from the beta
What are the suggestions from the community? Beta tester SirSaltie claims to have spent almost 40 hours in Dune: Awakening in the past few days, having apparently started the download with a great deal of skepticism. However, the skepticism seems to have transformed into “pure fascination.”
On Reddit, SirSaltie explains that he can easily see himself spending hundreds of hours with the current version of the game. At the same time, there were 20 points that irritated him during testing and that could be relatively easily improved. Here are the optimizations he considers important for Funcom to address before launch (some summarized, hence there are fewer than 20 points listed below):
The hotkeys “Spacebar”, “E”, and “Hold E” are poorly chosen for looting, as they slow down the gameplay and collide with other interactions or jumping. The same goes for “Hold E” to exit a vehicle. All of this should be doable without a hold action or the spacebar.
Additionally, there should be hotkeys for moving items to the action bar and for splitting item stacks.
There are far too many tools. For example, the blood extractor and the dew harvester should not take up space in the limited action bar. The welder and securing tool could be combined into one device, as could the resource scanner and cutter. Constantly switching tools disrupts the gameplay experience.
Furthermore, the somewhat hidden item wheel could be separated from the action bar, allowing all tools to be selectable that way – which would noticeably improve handling and free up the action bar for other important things.
Why can’t vehicles be repaired or refueled in your base if the fuel and cable are in storage? Crafting works that way too. If you need to repair your motorcycle, you have to search through boxes, take out the cable, repair the motorcycle, and then put the cable back in a box.
In addition to the weight limit, there is also a restriction on the number of items you can have in your inventory or boxes. Both together are needlessly restrictive, especially since there will be no way to increase inventory space at launch.
The list of schematics is getting longer and longer. At some point, you’ll be searching absurdly to find the desired recipe. A simple search function would be great for both the inventory and the crafting area.
You can sort your inventory, but the game does not remember your preferred setting once it deviates from the default.
Players have access to materials in boxes via production machines that they actually have no rights to.
It would be great if you could see the markers and outposts of group members on the map. Currently, coordinating joint trips is unnecessarily uncomfortable.
Group members should automatically be given the right to ride along as passengers.
How is the community reacting to these suggestions? With more than 240 thumbs up and over 50 comments within a few hours.
zachdidit writes on Reddit: “I agree with a lot of what you write. This game definitely needs more comfort and polish. One thing though: I’ve jumped out of my airplane often enough in Battlefield to know that it’s a blessing to hold E to exit.”
finnster73 agrees on Reddit: “You have some really good concrete ideas for consolidating tools that I fully support. All I was saying was ‘too many tools! wah!’, but your feedback is very useful.”
mullirojndem also praises the post on Reddit: “I couldn’t agree more with the post. This post cannot receive enough upvotes. Please, devs, implement this.”
Did you check out the beta weekend of Dune: Awakening? What were your first impressions? What should Funcom improve before launch in June? Let us know in the comments! You can find out more about the new survival MMO for the Dune universe in our overview: All about the release, prices, editions, and content of Dune: Awakening.
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The new MMORPG BitCraft Online gears up for its early access launch on Steam with a new trailer. Particularly interesting: The developers want to make the code publicly accessible and work on the game together with the community.
To prepare all interested parties for the Steam launch, a new gameplay trailer for BitCraft Online has gone live, promising a relaxing journey into an atmospheric world while also hinting at a greater threat. See for yourself:
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BitCraft Online: New Gameplay Trailer Prepares for Early Access on Steam
Open code for everyone
What does BitCraft Online dare to do? As early as the end of April, the developers announced they want to make the code of BitCraft Online available as “Open Source”. The 3 reasons for this:
The developers want to make the genre of MMORPGs more accessible and show others how to develop new MMOs using the SpacetimeDB platform.
They believe this measure will have a positive impact on BitCraft Online. In the past, they have already seen fantastic things from the community – such as tools, spreadsheets, or fan sites. In the future, interested persons can even contribute mods as well as new features or help resolve bugs or other issues.
They want to give something back to the community because without open-source software, BitCraft Online could never have come into existence.
The developers point out that there are many good reasons why there has been not a single commercial MMORPG published under an open-source license yet. This is an experiment where they initially only want to protect the assets and music, the intellectual property.
This means that you will be able to browse the codebase, modify the code, share it, host your own servers, experiment with the game mechanics, or simply satisfy your curiosity about how an MMORPG works under the hood.
Since the early access launch in June is the top priority, the developers want to begin the process of “open sourcing” BitCraft only when they are satisfied with the launch version.
What do I need to know about BitCraft Online? The survival MMORPG from Clockwork Laboratories aims to throw all players into a single world where they collaborate to build settlements, create an economy, and compete for territories.
In this process, you can work as a craftsman, merchant, monster hunter, politician, or anything in between. The surface of the world is changeable. And the struggle for survival in the world is also supposed to play a role. You can learn more about the game here: New MMORPG looks like Zelda, now lets players build their own houses
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Elden Ring: Nightreign mixes two genres to enchant its fans again with fresh gameplay. Many do not like the idea, as they feel that the most important aspect from the Souls games is missing.
What kind of game is this? This is Elden Ring: Nightreign – a spin-off of the Souls game of the same name by FromSoftware. In this game, you take on the role of one of the 8 classes to then fight against the so-called Night-Lords.
The gameplay is simple but also challenging: alone or in a trio, you land on one of the available maps, need to loot, defeat smaller bosses, and then after 2 nights, fight against the big main boss. Essentially, it feels like a mix of Elden Ring and Fortnite.
Since FromSoftware conducted a network test, fans already know what to expect from the game. Some love it, but many Souls enthusiasts are skeptical. They feel it lacks the special something that the Souls games usually have.
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Elden Ring Nightreign: In the new multiplayer mode, you must summon comrades!
Souls games are known for their freedoms
What do players miss in Nightreign? Freedom and the feeling of exploring things at their own pace. These important points are not present in Nightreign. The maps repeat themselves eventually, and the pace is set by the annoying storm that is closely following the hero.
For many, Nightreign has nothing to do with Souls, and this is reflected in the comments on Reddit:
“No, this doesn’t seem like the kind of game for me, which is totally fine, you don’t have to buy everything from FromSoftware, it’s just not for me and I’m okay with that.” – NeoRetroBoy
“I’ll pass for now. Because I don’t have PlayStation Plus. Since the price has gone up in Canada, I said no. I almost never use the free games that are available. I only buy the games I want.” – NeverStopDancing27
“Nope. My favorite aspect of Souls is the journey, and I prefer it slow and with freedoms.” – Appropriate_Army_780
“I keep forgetting that it’s coming out soon. I’ll probably pass this time.” – jamjars222
The various worlds of Warhammer have now spawned dozens of video games on various platforms. MeinMMO gives you an overview of the currently best ones that you can play on Steam.
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What kind of games are these? Here you will find games officially belonging to the Warhammer franchise on Steam. Warhammer originally started as a tabletop, which over the years has developed into a whole world.
The video games were long known for not having the best quality in most cases. However, that has changed drastically in recent years. The best current example is Space Marine 2, which celebrated huge success.
What is Warhammer? The world of Warhammer is dark. There is a never-ending war between the races and chaos, racism divides the realms, and there are only moral gray areas, no “good” and “evil”. The worlds are divided into Warhammer: The Old World (formerly Fantasy), Age of Sigmar, and the sci-fi world of Warhammer 40,000.
How we rated: For the rating, we only considered officially licensed Warhammer games. For the ranking, user ratings on Steam are decisive.
The games are often divided into dozens of individual DLCs with varying ratings. Therefore, for the selection, we focused on base games.
In the pixel style of the original Doom, you blast your way through hordes of chaos demons as a Space Marine and use the entire arsenal of the Adeptus Astartes: Bolter, Melter, Chainsword, and more.
Boltgun aims to remind you of the “good old days” and promises intuitive gameplay that requires no prior knowledge. You start the game and begin blasting demons, just like in the shooters of the past.
Despite its considerable popularity, Boltgun is more of a niche game with only a few hundred players (via steamcharts). While it is among the best games on Steam, it is aimed at a very specific audience.
Boltgun is suitable for:
Fans of old-school shooters like Doom and Unreal Tournament
Shooter fans who enjoy fast action
Retro gamers looking for “games like back in the day”
Players who prioritize accessible gameplay and quick entry over complex mechanics and deep narratives
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The studio behind Warframe has released a fresh trailer for its new fantasy MMO Soulframe. This shows an important aspect of the game – namely, how skillfully you can take down your opponents.
Soulframe is the new game from developer Digital Extremes: The studio celebrated its greatest success so far with Warframe – a free MMO shooter set in a sci-fi world. At first glance, Soulframe also seems like a spiritual sequel:
Soulframe once again relies on a slightly crazy and – in the best sense of the word – quirky setting. This time, however, instead of sci-fi, there’s fantasy with swords and magic.
The game is playable in co-op again, but should also be interesting for solo players.
Both games focus on smooth and action-packed combat.
The developers show how the battles in Soulframe might look in a new gameplay trailer. Although it is quite short at just under 2.5 minutes, it still gives fans plenty of reasons to be excited.
You can watch the trailer here:
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Soulframe: Prelude trailer for the new fantasy MMO by the creators of Warframe
Fights look significantly better now
What are fans excited about? The greatest appreciation is for the shown battles. Many fans believe they look significantly better than in previous trailers.
For example, RandomGuy-bl9qi writes about the trailer: “Oh wow, the fights have definitely improved a lot!” (via YouTube).
MildewtheStoryteller agrees and provides first-hand experience: “I’ve been playing Preludes 9 for about two weeks. I had never played before and couldn’t see how bad the combat was before, but I can say: Now it feels great!”
vincentjacemoser is especially excited about the new staff for his mage build, new enemies, and even more lore.
Compared to Warframe, the new game takes quite a bit of pace out of the fights. Soulframe feels significantly slower and more grounded: You’re not constantly leaping through the air at a speed that could make you dizzy.
Bitcoin has gained more and more popularity in recent years, and the times when anyone could easily generate Bitcoins from home are long gone. However, a USB stick for €24 is said to make it possible again.
What kind of USB stick is this? In the early days of Bitcoin, users could easily produce hundreds of units with their home computer. As the number of Bitcoins increased, the difficulty of mining also rose significantly. Today, it has become so difficult to mine Bitcoins that there are special machines designed specifically for this purpose.
However, it is not entirely impossible to mine a Bitcoin at home; it just has a low probability. A USB stick for €24 on Amazon is said to make this possible.
So-called “Lucky Miners” or “Nerd Miners” are small devices that connect to a power supply via USB stick or cable and attempt to mine Bitcoins with a power consumption of just one watt per hour.
Once set up, it’s best to forget about them and, with astronomically low odds, potentially find a Bitcoin at some point. These devices are not competitive and, as the name suggests, require extreme luck to generate a Bitcoin block.
In Germany, hundreds of USB sticks are embedded in concrete; here’s why:
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In Germany, there are over 400 USB sticks protruding from walls – What is the ‘Dead Drops’ project?
Odds worse than in the lottery
Is it worth it to buy? Although the “Lucky Miner” is inexpensive at €24 on Amazon and the energy costs of one watt per hour are minimal, the chances of success are extremely low. It takes extreme luck to actually generate a Bitcoin block with the tool.
Experts from PCGamer have calculated that the chance of receiving even one Bitcoin block per year is 1 in 210.7 trillion. For comparison: the “6 out of 49 + Super Number” in the classic Lotto has a winning chance of 1 in 139,838,160 and would pay out more money than the Bitcoin block, which currently has a value of about 3.125 BTC, or €290,000, if won.
Warning: Gambling can be addictive. The probability of being lucky with a Lucky Miner is extremely low. Information and support regarding gambling addiction can be found at https://www.check-dein-spiel.de/.
The increasing popularity of Bitcoin also has negative aspects. Especially for gamers, the hype surrounding the cryptocurrency often leads to a shortage of hardware. We have explained why this is the case in the following article: Bitcoin is booming – Why this is bad for gamers who want better performance
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There are new teasers for the 2nd season of the Amazon-series on Fallout, along with a release window and announcement of season 3. What will particularly please fans of the games, however, is that the journey unmistakably leads to the Mojave’s gambling paradise.
Here are the new details:
In two new teasers, Amazon has provided some new information about Fallout season 2. Among other things, the season is expected to be released in December 2025, not 2026 as previously thought (via Reddit).
The teaser shows Lucy and the ghoul after their escape from Los Angeles, traveling through the desert, with a hint right at the beginning: 50 miles to Las Vegas.
A second teaser shows actor Cooper Howard in various commercials, including for Nuka Cola, a sunscreen, and the Lucky 38 – the casino from Fallout: New Vegas (via Reddit).
What do we know about season 2 now? Lucy and the ghoul are apparently on their way to Las Vegas, or rather the Fallout version of it: New Vegas. The silhouette of the city is already clearly visible in the teaser.
There is no concrete information about the plot yet, but the top of the Lucky 38 can be seen very clearly. It’s reasonable to assume that Mr. House will play a significant role, who rules over the city of New Vegas.
Robert House was briefly seen in the Fallout series as a representative of Rob-Co at the secret VaultTec meeting. In New Vegas, Mr. House is just an AI. Fans have already derived some additional information from the short trailer:
Lucy and the ghoul must have already walked at least 283 miles (about 455 km) on foot (via X), as they still need 50 miles to reach Las Vegas.
According to Google Maps, however, with the same parameters, it’s more like 233 miles (about 375 km), which is a few days’ traveling less.
Presumably, the overall journey was longer, as the golden rule of the wasteland is: “You will always be distracted by bullshit.”
As Variety also confirms, the green light has been given for a 3rd season of the Fallout series. A date and plot details are still pending.
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The official trailer for the Fallout series on Amazon in German
New Vegas is the highlight of Fallout for many fans
That the journey heads to New Vegas was already known before. The game is considered by many fans to be the best part of the Fallout series, even though according to Metacritic, at least Fallout 3 and Fallout 4 have better ratings. On Steam, New Vegas has a rating of 96% positive.
In New Vegas, you start with a bullet in your head and no memory, except for the task of bringing a mysterious chip to New Vegas as a courier. The game is characterized by classic, absurd Fallout humor and has the best writing in the series for fans of the game.
Similar to Lucy and the ghoul, you roam through the Mojave Desert in New Vegas. It is therefore quite possible that there will be a few references to the game – for example, that the courier suddenly appears somewhere.
Team GO Rocket returns to Pokémon GO and takes over an event again. Along with some new crypto monsters, there is also the debut of a legendary monster in its crypto form.
What kind of event is this? This time, Team GO Rocket has taken over the “Crown Clash” event. The takeover starts on Wednesday, May 14, 2025, at 00:00 and lasts until Sunday, May 18, 2025, at 23:59. The highlight of the event is expected to be the debut of Crypto-Dialga.
How do I get Crypto-Dialga? At the start of the event, you will receive a special research task. If you complete it, you can obtain a Super Rocket Radar and use it to seek out and challenge Giovanni. If you defeat him, you can catch Crypto-Dialga from him.
You have until June 3, 2025, at 9:59 am to pick up the special research. The additional spawns from the Rockets allow you to complete the research much faster during the event than afterwards.
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Pokémon GO: What’s in the new Season Powerful and Masterful
Contents of Crown Clash: Takeover
What bonuses are there in the event? The following bonuses are active during the event:
Team GO Rocket appears more frequently at PokéStops and in balloons
Your Pokémon can forget the charge move Frustration
The values for attack, defense, and HP for Pokémon from 1-star and 3-star crypto raids vary more than usual
You should take the opportunity to have your Crypto Pokémon forget Frustration. There are some monsters that are particularly worth it.
Which new crypto Pokémon are there? At the start of the event, there will be some monsters that you can obtain for the first time in their crypto variants from Rocket Grunts. These Pokémon are new:
Crypto-Bummelz
Crypto-Iscalar
Crypto-Balgoras
Crypto-Amarino
What monsters are available in crypto raids? During the event, you can defeat various monsters in crypto raids and catch them after a successful battle.
1-Star Crypto Raids:
Crypto-Magnetilo*
Crypto-Feurigel
Crypto-Kramurx*
Crypto-Spoink
3-Star Crypto Raids:
Crypto-Lapras*
Crypto-Keifel
Crypto-Strepoli
All monsters marked with a * can also appear as shiny.
Changes to eggs: At the start of the event, there will be a slight change to the eggs. While you could previously obtain Larvitar and Gladiantri from 12-km eggs, you will now find both monsters in 10-km eggs.
More content of the event: There will also be field research tasks adapted to the event. You can receive Instant TMs, Charge TMs, and mysterious parts as rewards. Additionally, you can participate in PokéStop showcases with event Pokémon.
For $4.99 (about €5), you can purchase a limited research task. Here, you will receive, among other things, a Super Rocket Radar, 2 Premium Battle Passes, and encounters with Nidoqueen with a crown and Nidoking with a crown as rewards.
If you buy the ticket as part of the Hyper Ticket Box in the Pokémon GO webstore, you will additionally receive a Max Revive and 10 Ultra Balls.
In addition to the “Crown Clash: Takeover” by Team GO Rocket, many more events await you in the current month. If you want to know what they are and when they take place, feel free to take a look at our overview of all events in May 2025 in Pokémon GO.
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At Path of Exile (1), things are currently worse than they have been in 9 years. The director wanted to make amends. However, the player numbers tell a different story.
Which promise was broken? The predecessor of the popular Path of Exile 2 led the developers at Grinding Gear Games to success. With the development of Part 2, a standalone game was to be created that has its own focus and community. The development of Path of Exile was not supposed to stop in the meantime.
As compensation, the developers launched the event league “Legacy of Phrecia”, allowing players to experience discarded ideas from the developers. However, the event ended on April 23 after an extension. It was replaced by smaller events on private servers. The response from gamers to the downturn is now reflected in the player numbers.
This season is currently running in the successor:
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Path of Exile 2 presents gameplay trailer with the new Hunter class
Empty servers at Path of Exile
What do the player numbers look like? Path of Exile currently reaches a peak of only 8,720 concurrent players on weekends, a declining trend (via SteamDB). Such low player numbers were last recorded for the ARPG in August 2016, about 9 years ago. For comparison: nearly 230,000 gamers played during the last league launch of Path of Exile.
The reason so few fans are currently playing Path of Exile can be answered by looking at the Reddit forum of the game. Users there explain that they have lost their interest in the game due to a lack of content. Some even talk on Reddit about how their addiction to Path of Exile has come to an end.
What does the future hold? The developers have already announced that the next league for Path of Exile is set to start in June (via PathofExile.com). However, it is still unknown what content fans can expect. A new league usually brings its own mechanics that change the game. There will also be balance changes and improvements to various aspects of the game. Players can also expect new items and abilities.
Whether the developers can meet the targeted start date in June or if there will be a delay is still unclear. The last confirmation of the league’s start in June was at the end of April. While fans of Path of Exile await a new league, a player was disappointed not once but twice after a long wait: Player spends 147 € on Path of Exile 2 and gets disappointed twice
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How to play Lune, the powerful mage in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, we will show you through some strong builds.
In Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 you have an almost endless selection of options to equip your characters. But so much freedom also carries the potential for feeling overwhelmed and choosing combinations that simply don’t work. Therefore, we want to introduce you to two particularly strong builds for Lune. One for the Early Game and one for the Endgame.
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Update, March 26, 2026: The article has been reviewed and is up to date.
Lune joins the group early – and is extremely strong.
Lune Build in Early Game – Lots of Lightning
In the Early Game, the options are still limited, but you can already take a lot from the mage Lune. Note that you don’t necessarily need all components for this build, as it works well even without all Pictos.
Weapon: Deminerim
The weapon Denerim reduces the cost of your lightning abilities by 1 AP from level 4 onwards, allowing you to spam many abilities. Perfect for getting started.
Attributes
Luck and strength, but the scaling of the weapon isn’t that relevant at the beginning of the game. Choose what you like.
Abilities
Electrify (Electrify)
Wildfire (Wildfire)
Immolation (Immolation)
Rockslide (Rockslide)
Lightning Dance (Lightning Dance)
Thunderfall (Thunderfall)
Lumina
The following Pictos are a solid selection. You can swap some as you like if you are missing any. Critical Burn is very important for your damage.
Dead Energy II (Dead Energy II): +3 AP when defeating an enemy.
Augmented Counter (Augmented Counter): 25% increased damage on counters.
Energising Start I (Energising Start I): +1 AP at the start of combat.
Energising Start II (Energising Start II): +1 AP at the start of combat.
Combat Guide
At the beginning of combat, apply burning to all enemies, either with Wildfire (for groups) or Immolation (for single targets). Then you can spam Electrify to generate AP and deal damage. Once you have gathered enough AP, simply decide whether to break the opponents with Rockslide or deal extremely high damage directly with Lightning Dance.
This sequence should quickly turn most enemies in the early game into small wood chips.
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Devastating Gradient Attacks – Lune in Endgame
The second build is particularly strong in the endgame. You must have already unlocked Gradient attacks and some strong Lumina. Therefore, the build is only helpful in Act 3, but can also work earlier in “New Game+”.
Saperim is a weapon with the lightning element but provides powerful bonuses for Gradient attacks. At level 20, your Gradient attacks and Gradient counters deal 50% more damage.
Attributes
Put all points into defense, then into luck, and lastly into strength. Defense and luck scale very strongly with the weapon and increase your attack power more than pure strength.
Abilities
Healing Light
This single ability is used to spend AP and generate light pigments. It’s not important that you actually heal a character with it. It’s just about the light pigments that can be generated so easily.
Lumina
The following Pictos are strictly necessary for the build to work. If you are missing any Pictos, the result will be correspondingly weaker:
Painted Power (Painted Power): The damage limit of 9,999 is lifted.
Cheater (Cheater): You always play 2x in a row.
Augmented First Strike (Augmented First Strike): 50% extra damage on the first hit. Once per fight.
Greater Powerful (Greater Powerful): Powerful is +15% stronger.
Auto Powerful (Auto Powerful): You gain Powerful at the start of the fight.
Warming Up (Warming Up): 5% extra damage per turn, stackable up to 5 times.
Auto Death (Auto Death): You die at the start of the fight.
Survivor (Survivor): You survive lethal damage once per fight with 1 HP.
Gradient Fighter (Gradient Fighter): Gradient attacks deal 25% more damage.
Glass Canon (Glass Canon): You deal 25% more damage but also take 25% more damage.
At Death’s Door (At Death’s Door): You deal 50% more damage when your HP is below 10%.
A list of all Pictos for maximum effect can be found here:
For the build to work, you should also have Verso in the team. Equip him with the ability Phantom Stars (Phantom Stars). Give him all Pictos with “Charging” in the name that offer a bonus to the Gradient meter.
It’s also important to have “Auto Death” and “Breaking Death” as this immediately fills the break meter of enemies and with “Second Chance” Verso will be immediately revived. “Cheater” is also helpful. Verso is primarily used to fill the break and gradient meters.
As your final companion, take Sciel. For Sciel, use the same Pictos as with Verso, but the ability “Fate’s Wrath”. This increases the damage of the selected ally by 100% in their next turn.
At the start of the battle, Verso and Sciel die automatically. This fills the break meter of all enemies. If it’s Lune’s turn, use Healing Light on allies with her. Once it’s Verso’s turn, make sure he has 9 AP. In his next turn (thanks to Cheater immediately), use “Phantom Stars” to break all enemies and fill a large amount of the Gradient meter.
Then use Sciel’s “Fate’s Wrath” on Lune and in Sciel’s second turn use “Intervention” so that Lune can act immediately.
If everything goes correctly, Lune now has 3 filled Gradient meters and can use “Sky Break”. The attack can deal up to 400,000,000 damage to all enemies, which basically pulverizes every enemy in the game instantly. Even the secret final boss of the game has been defeated more than 8 times with it. Other builds were even too powerful for the developers. Because several billion damage could be dealt with a single ability.
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The end of One Piece is drawing near. In a podcast, YouTuber Tim Gabel explains why he is so afraid that the manga’s author might ruin the ending. According to a theorist, he shares this fear with many fans.
What kind of podcast is it? In a YouTube interview, the two YouTubers Tim Gabel and One Piece theorist face each other.
Tim Gabel covers a variety of topics and invites experts to join him. His topics include electric cars, muscle building, and of course One Piece. He considers himself a huge anime fan.
The One Piece theorist discusses theories about One Piece on his channel and is therefore an expert in the field.
The two discuss the success of One Piece and the approaching end of the manga. Gabel fears that Eiichiro Oda, the author of the work, may draw an unsatisfactory ending.
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The end of One Piece is still far away
Why is Gabel afraid that Oda might ruin the ending? The YouTuber fears that he might “drive the ending into a wall.” He is afraid that the pace of One Piece could be too fast and that the manga could end soon.
He cites the fact that protagonist Luffy has now reached his ultimatum with Gear 5. The power scale allows for no more increases, so he believes that the end could come quickly now.
Is the fear justified? The One Piece theorist can reassure Gabel. He believes that the end might even stretch until 2030, making him even more optimistic than we are. Because MeinMMO thinks the end will come by 2028 at the latest.
There are still many unanswered questions that need to be resolved, such as:
For him, Oda has released the handbrake since Wano Kuni, the third-to-last arc. He has been clarifying many mysteries since then. Since there are still many unanswered questions, it will take a while before the manga ends.
On May 13, the Spotlight Hour starts in Pokémon GO. It brings Sankabuh and a bonus with it. We summarize the most important points.
What is the Spotlight Hour? This hour takes place every Tuesday. It brings you a specific Pokémon in masses for 60 minutes, which then appears everywhere in the wild. On top of that, there is a bonus.
When does the Spotlight Hour start? The second Spotlight Hour in May starts on May 13 at 6:00 PM. It ends at 7:00 PM.
What is the Pokémon on May 13? This time, Sankabuh will appear during the Spotlight Hour. The living sandcastle first appeared in the “Sun & Moon” games, and its evolution is called Colossand. Both Pokémon belong to the type combination Ghost and Ground.
What is the bonus? As a bonus, you will receive double the amount of candies when you send Pokémon.
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How to make the most of the Spotlight Hour with Sankabuh
Is Sankabuh strong? Unfortunately not, and unfortunately this also applies to Colossand. The two sandcastles are in no way among the best attackers in Pokémon GO – neither in raids, nor in the PvP battle league.
Is there a Shiny Sankabuh? Yes, if you are lucky, you might encounter the shiny version of Sankabuh. However, the shiny rate, as in any Spotlight Hour, is not increased. So you really need a lot of luck. But since so many Sankabuh spawn at once, it is definitely worth a try.
Is the bonus worth it? The sending bonus is always a good opportunity to get more candies. The Spotlight Hour today is the ideal opportunity to part with all the Pokémon in your collection that you no longer need. Important: The bonus applies not only to Sankabuh but to all Pokémon you send during this time.
It’s best to use the tag feature to sort your Pokémon beforehand and mark which ones you want to send. Then you can complete it quickly and look forward to new candies.
Is the Spotlight Hour worth it? Overall, the Spotlight Hour is rather on the weaker side, as Sankabuh is really not a useful Pokémon. For collectors, however, it is a good opportunity to gather the necessary candies to evolve it, if you are still missing Colossand.
There are a few dates in May that are a bit more exciting. Foremost among them is the Rocket takeover, which is next up in Pokémon GO. But also the Community Day Classic with Machollo and the debut of Gigantamax-Machomei are exciting. Want an overview? Then check out our list of all events in May 2025 for Pokémon GO.
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In Schedule 1, an expert has examined the source code of the game and found previously unknown tips and tricks for earning more money and experience points.
Who is it about? The YouTube creator BigWilly primarily focuses on Schedule 1 on his channel. For a new video on YouTube, he spent many hours analyzing the source code of the simulator.
During this process, he discovered new methods to obtain money and experience points more easily. He also found unfinished features and secrets of the story among his discoveries.
Here you can watch the trailer for Schedule 1:
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Schedule I shows in the trailer what the simulation of criminal life looks like
Gold is most valuable on Thursdays
What did the expert find out? In his video, he presents many new tips and tricks for the simulation game, including how to make money more easily. From the mid-game, players can buy gold bars for $10,000. If you sell these gold bars on Thursdays at the pawnshop, you will receive $18,000 for them, making a profit of $8,000 per bar.
The YouTuber recommends buying the bars throughout the week and then selling them again on Thursday. However, for this to work, players must consistently launder the money because gold bars can only be purchased with bank funds. In his tests, the creator was able to generate half a million dollars every week this way.
How can you earn experience points more easily? In Schedule 1, there is a trick to lock up the police officers. You simply need to place a large car in front of the door of the police station. The police officers will remain on the stairs and cannot get out. However, many experience points can also be earned from this, as the expert explains.
Players just need to aim a firearm at the police officers. Once you achieve the status “Wanted Dead or Alive,” you need to hide again to lose it. Each time the status disappears, you gain 60 experience points. If you repeat this process 50 times, you can reach the maximum of 3,000 experience points per day without having sold even a gram.
Here you can watch the video yourself:
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What other tricks are there? You can also make good money in the casino. As the expert has found, the slot machines are very profitable. The expected profit with each round is 135% of the stake. So if you put $1,000 in the machine, you can expect to get $1,350 back in the long run.
In the code, the creator also found unfinished features related to electricity and water consumption that could appear in the game later. Additionally, there is an unused character model that shares the same name as two unmarked graves in the woods. These are named only in the game files. This could be part of the story and play a role in one of the next expansions.
In the video, the expert frequently expresses surprise at how random mechanisms work in the game and can influence them well through his view of the code. The YouTuber wants to delve even deeper into the code in the future and find more information. How Schedule 1 will proceed can be found here from the developer themselves: Developer shows his work on Schedule 1 on Twitch, reveals the release timeframe
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In the past season, there were practical innovations for the Whispers and the Whispering Tree in Diablo 4. Some of these adjustments made it permanently into the game – but the one feature that simplified the whole process is now missing for the players.
What did Blizzard promise? On the 2025 roadmap, Blizzard announced not only seasonal features but also permanent additions for Diablo 4. In Season 7, which ran until the end of April, “gameplay updates for Whispers” were permanently added to the game. This included, for example:
Rearranged vendors along with additions like Alchemist, Armory, Curiosities Merchant, and Healer.
After the update, there were also “bequeathed” loot boxes – meaning boxes with ancestral items.
Another feature that was added in Season 7 in Diablo 4 was the Ravens of the Tree. The Ravens then spawned in the “Witchtides” and saved you the annoying backtrack to the tree as soon as you had collected 10 gifts. The feature quickly became a fan favorite – and now players miss the Ravens because they were removed with Season 8.
In Season 7, everything revolved around witch powers – in Season 8, however, you will grab the skills of the bosses and use them:
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Players miss the Ravens of the Tree
Why do players miss the Ravens? The Ravens saved you a lot of time and clicks when turning in gifts. As soon as you had 10 points from the Whisper tasks, you could pick up your reward right there at the Raven – without the detour back to the Whispering Tree.
Now, however, you have to travel back to the tree every time your points are full – because as long as you haven’t turned them in, you can’t collect any more. And that means you have to interrupt farming for the area change temporarily – including loading screens.
In a Reddit post, the community discusses which permanent “Quality of Life” improvements the Whispers have actually remained in the game. Many agree: the Ravens were one of the best features. The user bza4207 writes that there is absolutely no reason why they shouldn’t be permanently in the game.
MatthewHughes9 also agrees – especially because the constant back and forth without the Ravens is simply annoying. And DrCrustyKillz even thinks the best part about Season 7 for him was the entire Witchtides mechanic. It was significantly more enjoyable than what was introduced as the new mechanic in Season 8.
Overall, the mood in the Diablo 4 community is rather subdued: the new mechanic in Season 8 is boring or even frustrating for many. Some players say: No one wants to play this game like this.
Almost everyone has heard the memorable roar of Godzilla. In its now 70-year history, the giant monster has had countless movies. However, it is much more than just a simple giant lizard.
Godzilla is one of the most important monsters in film history. It made its first appearance in 1954 in the film Godzilla directed by Ishirō Honda, who also wrote the screenplay. To this day, there are 38 films and several series, games, and other works.
By the way, Godzilla is called Gojira in Japanese, and it consists of the words gorira (gorilla) and kujira (whale).
Over 70 years, Godzilla has received several variations, which is why there are also different origin stories. In this article, we mainly focus on the origins of Godzilla, but we also include the films Godzilla Minus One and Shin Godzilla.
In the latest Godzilla film, the monster fights alongside Kong:
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Godzilla the Dinosaur
What is Godzilla anyway? In the first film, which also launched the Showa era (1954 to 1989), Godzilla was originally a type of dinosaur that likely lived both in the sea and on land. But there were nuclear weapon tests by the USA on the Bikini Atoll.
The tests caused Godzilla to mutate and become the giant lizard that later destroyed Japan. In the film itself, the character Dr. Yamane assumes that the bomb also destroyed Godzilla’s habitat, which is why it then came ashore.
Similar events can be seen in the film Godzilla Minus One (2023). At the beginning of the film, Japanese soldiers are fighting a dinosaur on an island against which they cannot do anything. However, this dinosaur is only as big as a truck. Later, this creature also becomes the colossal Godzilla.
Due to the mutation, Godzilla also gained its destructive Atomic Breath. This is its radioactive laser beam, capable of destroying entire cities like a weapon of mass destruction. Its mere existence poses a threat in many variations because it emits radioactive radiation.
At the end of the first film, Godzilla is also killed by another human weapon. However, in the 2nd film, another Godzilla appears, which also became the protagonist of many further sequels.
Godzilla is more than just a big monster; he is a symbol
What does Godzilla symbolize? As seen in the first film, Godzilla is not fundamentally an evil monster that consciously wants to destroy humanity. Godzilla is also just a victim of nuclear weapons and a symbol of the disasters in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, after atomic bombs were first used in history.
This trauma processing becomes even clearer at the end of the film. There, Dr. Yamana says: But if we continue to conduct atomic tests, it is possible that somewhere in the world another Godzilla will appear (via inkstickmedia.com).
Although many films featuring Godzilla became sillier and more action-packed, the series has repeatedly returned to these themes. As Billy Bernfeld writes for The Crescent Magazine, the film Shin Godzilla from 2016 is a metaphor for the Fukushima disaster.
In 2011, a tsunami caused by an earthquake damaged the Fukushima nuclear power plant. As a result, radioactive substances escaped and contaminated parts of the country.
Shin Godzilla deals not only with the monster, which in this film has an even more terrifying design, but also criticizes the Japanese bureaucracy.
Although the very first Godzilla was just a guy in a costume, much more was hidden in the monster that can destroy entire cities. This is likely the reason why the fascination continues even after 70 years. You can find another big monster here: Everyone knows the sandworms from Dune, but very few know what they really are
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One Piece is packed with details, Easter eggs, and clever allusions. Yet even with the main character Monkey D. Luffy, there is still much to discover that is easily overlooked. Here are 5 lesser-known but all the more exciting facts about Luffy.
What are these facts? The following facts do not revolve around what happens directly in the plot of One Piece but rather about the background of Luffy’s character: his cultural origins, creative decisions of the author, or little details that one only picks up by watching interviews with Eiichiro Oda or being interested in the creation story.
Many fans simply enjoy the anime or manga without delving into such aspects – which is perfectly legitimate. But exactly for that reason, such insights often bring about “Aha!” moments that make Luffy appear in a new light.
Through our summary, you can jump directly to the next pages:
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Luffy’s birthday is May 5th – Japan’s “Children’s Day.”
May 5th is known as “Kodomo no Hi” in Japan – the “Children’s Day.” On this national holiday, the welfare and future of children are celebrated. Colorful koi flags (Koinobori) hang everywhere in the country, symbolizing strength, courage, and success. That Luffy was born on this very day is therefore no coincidence.
This year, Luffy’s birthday on May 5th was officially celebrated. One of the official One Piece accounts on X released a brand-new poster for this occasion (via X). It features Luffy in his Onigashima outfit – with yellow pants, a purple loincloth, and of course his wide grin as he devours two giant pieces of meat.
We continue on page 2 with Luffy’s first name “Monkey” and what it represents.
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Baldur’s Gate 3 is full of secrets and details. Some of them you will only learn if you commit to the dark side of the game and endure that it can get … pretty rough. However, it can definitely be worth it to not always be one of the good guys.
Spoiler Warning: This is about the Dark Urge and some of the special interactions the Origin has with the world of Baldur’s Gate 3.
What kind of item is this?
In the goblin camp in Act 1, you will find various body parts of dwarves that have been expertly roasted.
For most characters, these pieces of meat are useless and count as “junk” – not so for the Dark Urge.
That’s why roasted dwarf is so strong: For each body part, you get 4d4 healing, which is between 4 and 16 hit points. This roughly corresponds to a potion of greater healing (which provides 4d4+4). Swallowing a potion costs a bonus action. Eating dwarf meat is a free action, which doesn’t actually exist in the rules of D&D.
Practically speaking, this means: You can eat as much roasted dwarf per round as you want and still act afterwards – similar to the dozens of cheese wheels in Skyrim and The Witcher. Another bonus: You gain an inspiration from the first dwarf snack.
This makes dwarf meat extremely valuable because you heal without having to give up actions that you could use for attacks or spells. Disadvantage: You can throw healing potions and heal multiple people, but that doesn’t work with the meat.
If you are not playing the Dark Urge or don’t want to eat dwarves, you can also eat raspberries. They have the same effect but heal less. However, you can easily overlook raspberries because they count as storage supplies.
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The Dark Urge has several great advantages in Baldur’s Gate 3
Another advantage of dwarf meat and any other healing item is that you can more easily do without a healer in the group. Veterans know, that healing just isn’t worth it in Baldur’s Gate 3, more damage is usually more useful.
If you play the Dark Urge, by the way, you also have several other advantages that other origins or the tavern do not get, including:
You don’t necessarily have to be evil for the dwarf meat and many of the interactions. A “Resist Durge” run is based on denying your origin and resisting the urge to kill everything and everyone. For that, you also receive a special ending. In our overview, you will find all the important details about the origin: What is the Dark Urge in Baldur’s Gate 3 and why should I play it?
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