2024 has already been a banner year for fans of Frank Herbert's Dune. Following the release of Dune: Part Two, the prequel series, Dune: Prophecy, is coming this fall. And while the story takes place thousands of years before the events of the films, the new trailer for Dune: Prophecy sets the universal stakes as the Sisterhood attempts to expand and grow their power in the empire. The Sisterhood is led by Valya Harkonnen (Emily Watson) and her sister, Tula Harkonnen (Olivia Williams). But they aren't the only women with power. The trailer also briefly introduces Empress Natalya (Jodhi May), the wife of Emperor Javicco Corrino (Mark Strong). Natalya may have the Emperor's ear, but the Sisterhood itself is beset by enemies that want to diminish their influence.Sarah-Sofie Boussnina co-stars as Princess Ynez, alongside Shalom Brune-Franklin as Mikaela, Faoileann Cunningham as Sister Jen, Aoife Hinds as Sister Emeline, Chloe Lea as Lila, Travis Fimmel as Desmond Hart, Jade Anouka as Sister Theodosia, and Chris Mason as Keiran Atreides.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

EA's College Football 25 hit the ground running this week, it seems, as the game's early player statistics are proving to be extremely impressive.Circana analyst Mat Piscatella shared on social media that on July 17, College Football 25 ranked No. 3 in the US for daily active users on Xbox Series X|S, trailing only Call of Duty and Fortnite. On PS4, College Football 25 was No. 4, trailing Call of Duty, Fortnite, and Grand Theft Auto V.Impressively, College Football 25 is putting up these numbers prior to the game's official release on July 19. So far, the game is only available to people who bought the $100 deluxe edition or tried the game via the EA Play 10-hour trial. The standard edition arrives on July 19.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Turning your crops into artisan goods in Stardew Valley can increase how much they are worth and is one of the best methods is turning fruits into wine. Creating wine requires special equipment and time, but it does boost the sell price of these goods pretty drastically, especially if you have the capacity to do it in large quantities. Here's how to make wine--and more money in the process.How to make wine and kegsPlacing fruit into a keg will produce wine after 7 days.Wine is made by placing fruits into a keg and waiting 7 days for it to process. A keg can be made using 30 wood, 1 copper bar, 1 iron bar, and 1 oak resin once you reach farming level 8. Any fruit turned into wine is worth 3x the base value of the fruit.How to make high-quality wineAll fruit becomes normal quality wine, so using high-quality fruit won't increase the value. If vegetables are placed into kegs, they will turn into juice, with a few others turning into specific items, like hops becoming pale ale. If you have the artisan profession, wine is worth an additional 40%.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Preorder Emio - The Smiling Man Standard Edition $50 Preorder at Best Buy Preorder at GameStop After a three-decade hiatus, Famicom Detective Club is finally making a return. Emio - The Smiling Man is the first game in the series since The Missing Heir and The Girl Who Stands Behind launched for the Famicom Disk System, and it's shaping up to be another terrifying entry in the long-dormant franchise. Preorders are now open ahead of its August 29 release date, so consider giving it a look if you want to dive into the chilling adventure game later this summer.Emio - The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club Preorder BonusesThere are currently no preorder bonuses for Emio - The Smiling Man, and because it's release date is just around the corner, we don’t expect to see anything announced in the coming weeks. That means you're free to shop at any retailer without the risk of missing out on cool exclusive collectibles.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

EA Sports College Football 25 Free $5 Gift Card at Best Buy | Launch-Day Delivery at Walmart Preorder at Best Buy Preorder at Amazon Preorder at Walmart At long last, there's a new officially licensed college football video game. It's been more than a decade since the last one hit the market, and now the aptly named EA Sports College Football 25 is once again letting you take to the gridiron with your favorite collegiate teams. If you haven't yet preordered the game or didn't get early access via the deluxe/MVP editions, Sam's Club is running a nice price cut that lets you pick it up for just $62.98 (down from $70). That's the first real discount we've seen for the game. If you want the fastest delivery, though, you should check Walmart's site, as Walmart is the only major retailer still offering free release-date delivery for July 19 (as of July 18 at 11:45 AM PT / 2:45 PM ET).All preorders come with the Alma Mater Ultimate Team Pack, Cover Athlete Team Ultimate Team Pack, and Bring Glory Home Ultimate Team Uniform Item bonuses.Where to Buy EA Sports College Football 25PS5Buy at Walmart -- $70 - Free release-day deliveryBuy at Sam's Club -- $62.98 ($70)Buy at Best Buy -- $70 (Free $5 Gift Card) - Free $5 gift card with preorder, release-day store pickupBuy at Amazon -- $70Xbox Series XBuy at Walmart -- $70 - Free release-day deliveryBuy at Sam's Club -- $62.98 ($70)Buy at Best Buy -- $70 - Free $5 gift card with preorder, release-day store pickup availableBuy at Amazon -- $70Xbox Series X|S users can also get a $5 gift card with all digital editions at Best Buy, including the MVP Bundle, which comes with deluxe editions for both College Football 25 and Madden NFL 25:Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Apex Legends' Steam page has been inundated with negative user reviews following the announcement that Season 22 will feature two battle passes. Prior to the July 8 announcement, the game was earning roughly 150 to 300 negative user reviews (and a similar amount of positive user reviews) daily. But in the days following the announcement of the battle pass changes, the game has earned a total of 35,035 negative reviews, dropping its score for the month of July to "overwhelmingly negative." Only 1,997 of the user reviews posted since July 8 are positive.Starting with Season 1: Wild Frontier (which launched in March 2019), Apex's battle passes have stuck to an unchanging recipe. Each season has featured a new battle pass with 110 levels of cosmetics and in-game currency for players to unlock after purchase. Previously, Apex's seasonal battle passes cost 950 Apex Coins ($9.50 USD) each, though players could spend 2,800 AC ($28 USD) to automatically unlock the first 25 levels of the battle pass. But starting in Season 22, Respawn will be releasing two 60-level battle passes per season, with the first battle pass launching alongside the new season, and the second arriving at the season's midpoint.Starting with Season 22, we’re evolving the Apex Legends Battle Pass to improve your experience and progression goals.Read on to learn everything to know about the upcoming changes or check out the infographic below to learn more. 📃: https://t.co/kg5NhlFfVq pic.twitter.com/i516ktP9ma — Apex Legends (@PlayApex) July 8, 2024 Additionally, there's been a price change: Each battle pass will now cost $10 USD ($20 USD for the upgraded version), and battle passes will no longer be available to purchase with Apex Coins, a change that players are especially displeased with. Previously, each battle pass included enough Apex Coins to purchase the next season's battle pass, meaning that once players purchased and completed a single battle pass, the next season's pass would effectively be available for free, provided they didn't spend their Apex Coins on something else.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Okay, this might sound like a small thing. Maybe it is. But for those of us who have played a lot of The Sims 4, I think this is going to be a big deal: After 10 years of having to go through and apply accessories and makeup to each one of your Sims looks, Maxis is adding an option to quickly apply your selections across outfits. Please join me in a collective sigh of relief.Previously, all accessories and makeup looks were bound to a single outfit. This meant you would have to click each and every one of your sim's eight outfits and reapply your watches, rings, necklaces, bracelets, nail polish, eyeliner, blush, and more in order to create any sort of continuity. Now, however, you will be able to simply click a box that allows you to apply an accessory or makeup look to all outfits. You will also be able to uncheck the boxes of whatever outfits you don't want to have that particular look, just in case you don't want to your sim to go running with a full beat.This is just one of the free quality-of-life changes coming to the popular life-simulation game alongside the Lovestruck expansion on July 25. Other changes include allowing you to set sims as partners in the Create-A-Sim menu, a setting that ensures only stream-safe music plays, making eyelashes their own separate makeup category, and, perhaps most importantly, the addition of Relationship Boundaries.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Diablo 4 launched with only returning classes from past entries to choose from, all instantly familiar to fans of fantasy RPGs: Barbarian, Rogue, Sorcerer, Necromancer, and Druid. One class that was notably missing was a Paladin-type--some kind of holy warrior to dole out divine punishment to demons and evildoers in kind. Many fans expected Diablo 4's first expansion would look to fill that gap in the base game's roster. Instead, Vessel of Hatred will introduce a brand-new class to the franchise, one that is fast, frenetic, and fun: the Spiritborn.I got the chance to spend two hours putting the Spiritborn through its paces at a preview event, using four premade, level-30 builds and talking to Blizzard about how the new class came to be. The Spiritborn isn't a Paladin, but that's for the best--it's something entirely new, and a class that doesn't feel like anything fans have ever seen before in Diablo. That being said, it does provide some of the same power-fantasy those who had hoped for a holy warrior might find appealing, as the Spiritborn channel the power of gods themselves to rip their foes apart.Welcome To The JungleSpiritborn are deeply tied to the new region being introduced in Vessel of Hatred: the dense jungles of Nahantu that players may remember from Diablo 2. During Diablo 4's development, Blizzard knew where the story would take Neyrelle and the soulstone of Mephisto. Rather than shoehorn in a class that had little to do with the new part of Sanctuary players were set to explore in the expansion, Blizzard instead opted to create a new one that would have a deep connection to Nahantu and establish a strong sense of cohesion with the expansion as a whole. It was from that goal the idea of the Spiritborn was conceptualized.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The Switch has seen several HD remasters and remakes released on it lately, and if you didn't pick up Luigi's Mansion 2 HD at launch last month, you can get a pretty good discount on it right now. Over at Woot, you can save 25% on the game, as the retailer is offering it for the frightfully good price of $45. See at Woot Woot's listing shows the US box art, but the URL mentions "international version," so it's possible you'd get an imported copy from a different region. However, this wouldn't change the playability of the game, as the Nintendo Switch is a region-free console. The only difference here would be the ESRB rating on the box would be replaced with another region's ratings board logo.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

You'll go through a lot of bullets in Once Human, and if you want to keep your guns loaded to stop the endless stream of interdimensional abominations that threaten you, you're going to need to craft a lot of ammo. To do that, you need the ingredients essential to bullet manufacturing, which includes gunpowder. Making gunpowder, however, requires acid--something you'll have to track down in the world until you can make it yourself.Acid ends up being pretty important, since it's also a major component in making fuel for vehicles, so you're going to want to get good at sourcing it and farming it as early as you can. Here's what you need to know about where to get acid in the early game and how you can make it yourself later on.Where To Get Acid EarlyThe good news is that, in the early game, you can find a lot of acid just lying around. In most of the early locations as you're completing quests, you'll want to also finish the exploration goals for a given location, which includes finding weapons and armor chests and mystical chests in a given area. That'll get you looking around a lot in any area, picking up as much crafting material as possible.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Amazon Prime Day may have ended on July 17, but there is a new buy three, get one free deal featuring well over 100 toys and collectibles. Specifically, you can pick up a bunch of Pokemon Trading Card Game products, which are surrounded by a sea of Funko Pops. We waded through the promotion to find all of the Pokemon TCG boxes, collections, decks, and booster bundles eligible for the deal. Check out the full Pokemon TCG list below. If you're looking to add to your Funko collection, scroll to the bottom for a big list of notable vinyl figures. See all B3G1 free deals Amazon B3G1 Free Pokemon TCGImportant note on these deals: If you click on one of the products in this list, the Amazon listing may not show the B3G1 free deal. That's because third-party resellers try to one-up Amazon by offering slightly lower prices, which results in the listing changing to the third-party seller. If the product isn't listed as sold by Amazon, click "Other sellers on Amazon" and click the "Add to cart" button next to the option that is shipped and sold directly from Amazon. Alternatively, you can also find each eligible item by clicking the button above and adding products to your cart directly from Amazon's B3G1 free hub.Pokemon TCG: ex Battle Deck -- $10Pokemon Vibrant Paldea Mini Tins -- $10 ($11)Pokemon TCG: 2023 Pokemon TCG World Championships Deck -- $15Pokemon TCG: Meowscarada/Quaquaval ex Deluxe Battle Deck -- $18 ($20)Pokemon TCG: Palafin Ex Box -- $20 ($22)Pokemon TCG: Origin Forme Palkia VStar League Battle Deck -- $22 ($29)Pokemon TCG: Paradox Clash Tin (Iron Leaves Ex or Walking Wake Ex) -- $24Pokemon TCG: Scarlet and Violet: Obsidian Flames Booster Bundle -- $24Pokemon TCG: Scarlet and Violet Paldean Fates Booster Bundle -- $25 ($28)Pokemon TCG: Paldea Partners Tin -- $25 ($27)Pokemon TCG: Scarlet and Violet Paradox Rift Booster Bundle -- $26 ($28)Pokemon TCG: Scarlet and Violet Temporal Forces Booster Bundle -- $26Pokemon TCG: Armarouge ex Premium Collection -- $27 ($40)Pokemon TCG: Miraidon ex League Battle Deck -- $28Pokemon TCG: Collector Chest -- $28Pokemon TCG: Scarlet and Violet Paldean Fates Tin -- $29Pokemon Scarlet and Violet 3 Obsidian Flames Elite Trainer Box -- $41 ($50)Pokemon TCG: Scarlet and Violet Paradox Rift Elite Trainer Box -- $40 ($50) Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Fanatical's Bundle Bash event has brought discounts to a plethora of PC game collections for a limited time. New bundles have been added to the promotion all week, with the final bundle--which typically features some big games in these week-long bundle events at Fanatical--set to go live tomorrow, July 19. You'll still have at least a few days to buy these bundles after Bundle Bash officially ends, but select games in these bundles are already sold out. In addition to the bundles that launched this week, there are a bunch of other game bundles on offer at Fanatical, including the monthly Diamond and Platinum Collections.We've highlighted this week's Bundle Bash deals below, but be sure to browse the full lineup of game bundles at Fanatical. All PC game keys purchased in the bundles below are delivered as official Steam keys. All bundles also come with a 5%-off coupon code you can use on a future Fanatical purchase.Disclosure: GameSpot and Fanatical are both owned by Fandom.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

When I moved to the United States, my parents bought their first Mac: an iBook G4. It was an absolutely devastating choice for me, personally, as it meant that I would not be able to play the newly released RTS game Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle-earth, a title it had felt like I had been waiting a Third Age to play.Now, 20 years later, Apple's gaming prospects look a lot different. Not only did the Mac move from a Power PC processor to Intel, it has now left those chips in the dust as well for Apple's own silicon. And of course, the iPhone launched, which not only revolutionized the mobile phone landscape, but the gaming industry as well; hundreds of millions of people have played titles like Candy Crush and Angry Birds.At a showcase of games and devices that Apple put on for media last week in New York City, I got a chance to check out a selection of titles across the company's various hardware options, which put the reality of Apple's gaming prospects into focus. The company recognizes the potential, and it hopes that AAA video game experiences will catch fire on its hardware. What we were shown was a compelling argument as to how it would achieve that.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Preorder EA Sports FC 25 Standard Edition $60-$70 Preorder at Amazon Preorder at Best Buy Preorder at Walmart This year's edition of EA's annual soccer series, EA Sports FC 25 launches for PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, and PC on September 27. Footy fans looking to secure their copy early can preorder EA Sports FC 25 now and get some nice preorder bonuses along with the game. Best Buy is even offering a $10 digital gift card with preorders for any platform, which is the same offer the retailer has for Madden NFL 25. EA Sports FC 25 Preorder BonusEA Sports FC 25 preorder bonusesIf you preorder EA Sports FC 25, you'll get a long list of consumable items and early unlocks that will kick-start your progress through the game's various gameplay modes, including Galácticos Icon Player versions of Beckham, Zidane, and Ronaldo Nazário in Player Career. Here's the full list of what you unlock early for preordering EA Sports FC 25:One Cover Star Loan Player Item in Football Ultimate Team (Usable in up to 10 matches)One Ambassador Loan Player Pick Item in Football Ultimate Team (Usable in up to 10 matches)Extra Player Personality Points in Player CareerThree Icon Players in Player Career: Galácticos Beckham, Zidane, and Ronaldo Nazário5-Star Coach in Manager Career5-Star Youth Scout in Manager CareerUnlocked PlayStyles Slot in Clubs250,000 Clubs CoinsThese digital items are included in all EA Sports FC 25 preorders, regardless of retailer or platform. However, if you preorder the game from Best Buy, you also get a free $10 digital gift card.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

There's a timeless quality to Final Fantasy 7, and if you want to display some of that magic in your home, you should check out the upcoming Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Poster Collection. Available for preorder and priced at $35, this is a collection of 32 premium-quality removable posters featuring characters and locations from the beloved RPG.Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth Poster Collection See at Amazon Each poster is a full-color art print on heavy, press-varnished card stock, to really help each image look and feel like a premium celebration of the game. In case you missed it, the Final Fantasy 7 Poster Collection book is also on sale, and this one is a compilation of 22 large-format art prints from the original game, the sequel film Advent Children, and other related games like Dirge of Cerberus, Crisis Core, and Final Fantasy 7 Remake.There's a lot more Final Fantasy 7 merchandise out there worth checking out, including collectible action figures, books, puzzles, and more. On the collectibles side, there's Bring Arts' line of figures that reimagine Tetsuya Nomura's original character illustrations as action figures. This series includes all nine party members from the PS1 classic. We've rounded up a selection of the best Final Fantasy 7 merch below.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com