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Easing Into the Abyss: Top Soulslikes Gentler Than Dark Souls

While Dark Souls and its ilk are revered for their brutal difficulty, many soulslike games offer a smoother difficulty curve that makes the genre more approachable.

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5 Best Turn-Based RPGs You’ll Love Playing in 2025

Turn-based RPGs are a foundation of not just the larger RPG genre but of the video game industry as a whole. In the Japanese market, turn-based games have been one of the most popular genres in the region.

Video Games News / Total Apex Gaming / June 13

Madden 26 Football Weather: Cool New Feature Or The Next Failed Experiment?

Madden 26 has been announced, and with it comes a slew of brand-new features. Every year, EA Sports comes out with new features to help the game feel more immersive.

Video Games News / Total Apex Gaming / June 13

Sony PlayStation 6 Hype Grows on 124M Foundation

Sony Interactive Entertainment previously presented PlayStation user data during its May 2024 business segment meeting, revealing approximately 49 million monthly active users each for PS4 and PS5.

Video Games News / Total Apex Gaming / June 13

Madden 26: Coach DNA Set To Make Gameplay Even More Immersive

Madden 26 has its official trailer. For many people, the NFL season begins when the latest version of the popular video game releases. One of the challenges EA Sports has every year is making each installment feel new and different.

Video Games News / Gaming on ClutchPoints / June 13

NBA 2K25 2KTV Episode 38 Answers

We got the NBA 2K25 2KTV Episode 38 Answers to help players earn some free VC this weekend. For those new to the series, NBA 2KTV is a weekly in-game program hosted by Alexis Morgan and Chris Manning.

Video Games News / Total Apex Gaming / June 13

Season 17 in Overwatch 2 Brings a Size Decrease to a Carefree Omnic

The Weekly Recall for Overwatch gave us three changes coming in Season 17. All three changes are in balance changes, with two of them aiming to change the overall Overwatch 2 gameplay.

Video Games News / Total Apex Gaming / June 13

New Roblox Grow A Garden Event: How To Snag Nectarines

“Grow A Garden” has quickly become one of Roblox’s top games, with an average of over 11.7 million users as of May 2025. “Grow A Garden” is a Roblox game designed for players to, as the title suggests, grow their own garden.

Video Games News / Total Apex Gaming / June 13

Tencent’s Bold Bid for Nexon Raises Eyebrows

Well, we have a report that Tencent is, once again, reaching into the proverbial pot of video game businesses for another piece of bacon. According to Bloomberg, Tencent has set its sights on acquiring Nexon, a company currently estimated at a hefty $15 billion (quite a few zeros in the wallet there).

Video Games News / Total Apex Gaming / June 13

Destiny 2 Rite of the Nine Weapons to Farm for the Edge of Fate

All the dungeons will become available soon in the Destiny 2 Rite of the Nine event. Similar to the Episode weapons, all drops from the Rite of the Nine will leave the game with the Edge of Fate expansion.

Video Games News / Gaming on ClutchPoints / June 13

Rainbow Six Siege X patch adds several fixes to gameplay & more

A new Rainbow Six Siege X Patch is now available, adding numerous bug fixes to gameplay, audio, and much more in terms of user experience. With Siege X launching this week, a few technical hiccups were expected, but Ubisoft has already addressed some of these issues right away.

Video Games News / Gaming on ClutchPoints / June 13

How To Unlock Rainbow Road in Mario Kart World

Rainbow Road returns to Mario Kart World, but how exactly do players unlock this course? Upon booting up Mario Kart World for the first time, you won’t see Rainbow Road in any of the Grand Prix Cups.

Video Games News / Total Apex Gaming / June 13

Super Meat Boy: A Cartoony Platformer Full of Death – Weekly Indie Spotlight

Since Super Meat Boy 3D was just announced at Summer Game Fest, now seems like a good time to reflect on the original game. What was it about getting a little hunk of meat through endless death traps that appealed to so many gamers?

Video Games News / Total Apex Gaming / June 13

Top 5 Best Underrated RPGs

One of the most popular forms of gaming is the genre of role-playing games (RPGs), which tasks players with taking on the roles of characters in an all-encompassing setting (often having to gain “experience” to boost statistical attributes and/or interacting with NPCs to progress the story).

Video Games News / Total Apex Gaming / June 13

Luto Release Date Revealed – Exciting Psychological Horror Thriller Incoming

Luto has been lurking for years, as Selecta Play and Broken Bird Games have worked to perfect the upcoming psychological thriller. The haunting storyline is based around ghosts, secrets, and ultimately, hope, something that is not always common in the horror genre, and has been anticipated since the first reveal four years ago.

Video Games News / Total Apex Gaming / June 12

Ground Zero: A New Survival Horror Game Set to Terrify Players

Ground Zero is the latest in a long list of survival horror videos to make headlines. In this entry by Malformation Games, players will be exploring a post-apocalyptic South Korean landscape.

Video Games News / Total Apex Gaming / June 12

2025 SAG-AFTRA Video Game Strike Ends in Tentative Agreement

The nearly year-long strike against major video game companies has come to an end, with SAG-AFTRA finalizing a suspension agreement allowing its performers to return to work for those studios.

Video Games News / Total Apex Gaming / June 12

This Week in Destiny Brings Joy to Destiny 2 Players

The information in the This Week in Destiny (TWID) post was shorter this week for Destiny 2. But with fewer words, you can bring better news. The blog post serves as proof, with its contents having a significant impact on players.

Video Games News / Total Apex Gaming / June 12

Directive 8020: Supermassive Games Reveals New ‘Turning Point’ Feature

Directive 8020 is one of the most anticipated horror games upcoming in 2025, and more information about what to expect came as part of the Future Games Showcase on June 7.

Video Games News / Total Apex Gaming / June 12

Destiny 2 Episode Weapons to Farm for the Edge of Fate

The Edge of Fate expansion will see the Episodic weapons taken out of the farming pool for Destiny 2. There are some weapons that players should have going into the new expansion.

Video Games News / Total Apex Gaming / June 12

Deathground: New Squad-Based Survival Shooter Featuring Deadly Dinosaurs

Deathground is a squad-based survival shooter that originally popped up in 2020 through a Kickstarter campaign organized by developer Jaw Drop Games. With it set to release this year, fans have slowly been discovering more and more about the game, its gameplay, and its features.

Video Games News / Total Apex Gaming / June 12

Epic Games Store Free Weekly Games: What You Can Claim The Week of June 12 2025

Epic Games Store is an online video game shop that hosts a variety of games for PC, Mac, and mobile. Console gamers, sadly, do not have access to the store.

Video Games News / Nerdist / June 10

Neil Druckmann Says, ‘Don’t Bet On’ THE LAST OF US Part 3 & Other Updates on a New TLOU Game

With so much excitement about The Last of Us series, fans are understandably curious if there’s a new burst of life in store for the games as well. But creator Neil Druckmann didn’t sound too optimistic about a third The Last of Us game when he last spoke about it in March 2025.

Video Games News / Nerdist / June 9

Xbox Announces ROG Xbox Ally Handhelds, Its Answer to Steam Deck and Switch

This was already a big week for handheld gaming enthusiasts. Nintendo’s Switch 2 arrived (mostly) in stores after years of anticipation. Now Microsoft has declared it’s ready to compete in that lucrative market.

Video Games News / Nerdist / June 9

CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS 7 Teaser Looks Like a BLADE RUNNER Hell

Few video game franchises have as much staying power as Call of Duty. The first-person shooter series first dropped a game in 2003 and, 2004 notwithstanding, has released a new entry every year hence.