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10 Best Weapons in Phantom Blade Zero Ranked
The best weapon in Phantom Blade Zero is the Outlaw Warblade, a two-handed blade that heals you with every hit and drops from a main story boss you can't miss. After it, our top picks are the Armybreaker, Fiend Saws, Jagged Steel, Freezing Chaos, Baishan Stormswords, Whiteshadow, The Fanatic's Broken Blade, Wild Oriole…
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Phantom Blade Zero Missables: All 20 Missable Quests and Items
Phantom Blade Zero has 20 missable side quests (called Tales), and a failed Tale stays failed for the rest of that playthrough. Of those 20, 15 fail outright if you miss their deadline, 4 only cost you part of the reward if you do them in the wrong order, and 1 is currently impossible to finish because of a bug. Most of…
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10 Hardest Bosses in Phantom Blade Zero Ranked
The hardest boss in Phantom Blade Zero is Mo Yuan, the Gold-Masked One, the hidden boss played by Donnie Yen. His fifth and final fight is the toughest test in the game, and S-GAME left him untouched in its first balance patch. After playing through the game, these are our ten hardest bosses: (1) Mo Yuan, the Gold-Masked…
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What Is Melty? How AI Game Mashups Work and How to Make Your Own
Melty is a free, Y Combinator-backed Windows app that lets you play game mashups, which are mods that merge two games you already own, with one click. Popular examples include SkyCraft (Skyrim + Minecraft), Super Mario Ring (Elden Ring + Super Mario 64) and Silksong: Cuphead Edition, which a YouTuber built with Claude…
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Acer PREDATOR X27 Review: Worth the Price?
The Predator X27 QD-OLED earns its price for the right buyer. True blacks, accurate colors, sharp 4K text, and DisplayHDR True Black 500 certification set it apart. The X27 QD-OLED is a serious gaming monitor for the serious gamer. A 27 inch OLED monitor should make every other screen on your desk look outdated. The…
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Hardware (HWID) Bans Explained: Can They Stop Cheating?
A hardware (HWID) ban blocks a specific computer from an online game by blacklisting identifiers read from its parts, so a new account on the same PC gets caught. Riot, Activision and Epic all use hardware bans, while Valve still relies on account-level VAC bans. Call of Duty issued more than 70,000 hardware bans ahead of…
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10 Best Games Made by Korean Developers
South Korea produces some of the best video game players in the world, from esports legends like Faker to countless pro teams, so it's no wonder gaming is such a big part of the country's culture. Its game industry grew up around fast broadband and PC bangs (internet cafes), but Korea doesn't just produce great players. It…
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10 Best Games Made by Taiwanese Developers
The best games made by Taiwanese developers include Nine Sols, Detention, OPUS: Echo of Starsong, and the classic Sword and Fairy, along with a wave of indie hits that have won fans around the world. Taiwan's game makers are known for strong storytelling, striking hand-drawn art, and stories rooted in local history,…
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Acer Project DualPlay Mini: A New Take on Portable Gaming
This first look at Acer Project DualPlay Mini explores how the 8-inch concept combines a gaming handheld with a flip-open mini laptop. We cover its built-in keyboard, two control styles, external display support, Intel platform, dual-fan cooling and anniversary design. Acer Project DualPlay Mini is a concept only, with no…
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Microsoft Wants to Pause Your Games for Ads
Microsoft has filed a patent application for a system that would pause your video game, play an ad, and then let you keep playing for a set amount of time before the next ad. The application, published by the US Patent and Trademark Office on September 3, 2026, describes "ad credits" that you earn by watching promoted…
