Mushrooms in everyday life are pretty standard. Not in Minecraft, though. Chuck some bonemeal on them and they have the potential to grow to intimidatingly towering heights. If you look carefully at specific Minecraft mobs, namely suspiciously red cows, you might find mushrooms growing on their backs. There are plenty of places to find mushrooms, […]

Baldur’s Gate 3 Developer: Larian Studios Release Date: August 3, 2023 Platforms: PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC Genre: RPG Now, your first thought when you see a game like Baldur’s Gate 3 might be that you’re not a fan of turn-based combat. After all, if you liked Hogwarts Legacy, going from fast-paced wand fights […]

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Shooting has stood out as gaming’s most prominent verbs since its inception, evolving tremendously from the simple, flat 2D blasting of Asteroids, to the genre-defining release of first-person shooter Doom, to the bursting scene of creativity that […]

Look, I get it. You’re 200 hours into the build of your life when suddenly a Phantom drops from the sky, knocking you from your Happy Ghast, plunging you to a certain death. Minecraft is no joke–all that XP gone just because you hyper-focused on your new castle and forgot to sleep for a few […]

How do you play with your friends in Minecraft? It all depends which version of the game you’re playing, as it’s one of the many Java vs. Bedrock differences. We’ll cover the prerequisites for joining friends in Minecraft, no matter which version you’re playing, as well as troubleshoot some common issues found when trying to […]

I walked out of my Summer Game Fest 2025 demo for Mixtape beaming like an idiot, a smile stuck on my face. I can’t think of a game that has ever vibed as hard as Mixtape does. Beethoven & Dinosaur’s debut, The Artful Escape, was a vibes game, too. Light on traditional gameplay mechanics and […]

The Dark Pictures Anthology is up to its fifth horror story in the ongoing series. Supermassive creative director Will Doyle told me The Dark Pictures will go on “as long as people keep buying them,” adding that the team has a list of nearly 40 horror subgenres it’s interested in tackling in the future. But […]

Ahead of its release on August 26, a Gears of War: Reloaded multiplayer beta kicks off this weekend, running for two weekends in total. While you can get access to the beta by preordering the game, there are other ways to play that you may not be aware of. Players on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox […]

Dying Light: The Beast was once going to be an expansion to the main game, but it grew to be so big that developer Techland eventually spun it off into a standalone experience. It’s not Dying Light 3, but the team told me it feels The Beast is the best version of what the Dying […]

There are numerous ways to improve your skills and success in Mario Kart World, and not everything is totally obvious. As an example, it’s been discovered that Mario Kart World brings back a feature from Mario Kart DS that allows players to get an edge they might have overlooked or been unaware of. Clips on […]