Author: Jessica Lamb

Jessica Lamb was born and raised in Fennville, Michigan. She attended Aquinas College where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts in English and a minor in Creative Writing. Since then, she has dedicated herself to spreading the word about all things nerd culture.

If you’ve been online anywhere lately you have seen ads for “Genshin Impact.” This free-to-play action role-playing game allows players to assemble a team of quirky characters and explore a massive open-world fantasy realm. Each character specializes in a particular element and you will use these abilites to your advantage in both combat and world exploration. It’s a fun game with a massive amount of features to uncover. That’s why I am offering up five essential things you should know when starting out on your own adventure. 1. You cannot sell items You will pick up a ton of materials…

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It’s a normal Saturday and you are enjoying your time slaying every soldier in a base in “Assassin’s Creed Odyssey.” Everything is going great. You’re fully immersed in Kassandra’s path as an assassin. That is until your PlayStation 4 suddenly begins to sound like a jet engine coming in for a close landing. Nothing breaks your immersion quite like believing that your console may just explode at any given moment. Luckily, PlayStation 5 is taking steps to make sure that problem is a thing of the past. During Sony’s recent teardown video of the PS5, we got a closer look…

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There is still more to experience on the path of the samurai. New Game Plus mode is coming to “Ghost of Tsushima” next week. According to the PlayStation blog, New Game Plus mode will be added to the game in version 1.1. Interestingly, this same update will add the highly-anticipated Legends co-op mode to the game as well. You must have completed the game’s campaign at least once to access New Game Plus. Since you already know the story, New Game Plus starts you off at the beginning of the open-world. This means you skip all of the game’s opening…

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The launch of “Assassin’s Creed Valhalla” is only a little over a month away. While we wait, Ubisoft is giving us a chance to learn more about the world and culture surrounding main character Eivor. A new “Assassin’s Creed Valhalla” official podcast is now available on Spotify. Creating a podcast is hard but there are ways to get started. This series focuses on Assassins Creed Valhalla, consists of five episodes that are all available to listen to right now. They are short and easy to digest episodes, running only about 16 minutes a piece. In this documentary series, comedians and…

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We are in the final stretch! In a Twitter announcement earlier today, the official “Cyberpunk 2077” account confirmed that the game has finally gone gold. This means the game is on track for its scheduled release on November 19. What exactly does “going gold” mean though? Well, it essentially means that the game is complete enough that it is playable from start to finish. This does not mean development on the title is complete though. You can rest assured that the team at CD Projekt Red will spend the remaining time before launch fixing bugs, smoothing out glitches and making…

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The year of game delays continues. Yesterday, “World of Warcraft: Shadowlands” expansion was officially delayed until later this year. The announcement was made by executive producer John Hight via World of Warcraft’s official Twitter. “World of Warcraft: Shadowlands” will introduce four new zones: Maldraxxus, Bastion, Ardenweald and Revendreth. It follows the story of Sylvanas Windrunner who confronts the reigning Lich King. She tears the Lich King’s Helm of Domination from him, shattering the veil between realities and opening a portal to the Shadowlands. These Shadowlands are Warcraft’s version of an afterlife. Somehow the Maw, the place in the afterlife reserved…

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The Sails of Union are coming and with them money for a great cause! Right now, “Sea of Thieves” players can purchase this gorgeous sail for their ship. This star-studded sail was especially created to help raise money for Stand Up To Cancer. For every purchase of the sail made on the Microsoft Store, 100% of the profits will be donated. Meanwhile, 75% of all Steam profits will be donated. Are you a player outside of the United States? No problem! Your donation will go to Cancer Research UK in support of Stand Up To Cancer. So no matter where…

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October is almost here and with it some new free games for PlayStation Plus subscribers. This is the second to last month of free PlayStation Plus games before the PS5 launches, so you’ll want to make sure and grab them. It’s unclear how the service will change once the new console launches but it’s safe to assume it will. This month, you can grab “Need for Speed: Payback” and “Vampyr” for free. “Need for Speed: Payback” is a racing game developed by Ghost games and published by Electronic Arts. Players utilize three different characters to race across the terrain of…

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Rumors of a “Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic” remake have been floating around the internet for years. Like many beloved games, every few years people begin to speculate whether it’s time for a remake to appear or not. Now, with next gen consoles fast approaching and the game’s 20th anniversary only a few years away (2023), fans are back at it again. However, this time they are actually going as far as to petition EA to remake the title. The petition recenntly appeared on Change.org and asks EA to remake the Star Wars title for the modern era.…

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