The Mapping the Living Lands quest comes to an end in Avowed once you reach the final region of Galawain's Tusks. Sanza is missing one last cartographer somewhere in the fiery region and it's your job to find out where they are. Unlike the other cartographers in Mapping the Living Lands, however, the one in Galawain's Tusks is alive and well, and you have a decision to make regarding their fate.

To see where the Galawain's Tusks cartographer is located in Avowed and how to finally complete Mapping the Living Lands, keep reading the guide below.

Galawain's Tusks Cartographer location in Avowed

Unfortunately, the cartographer in Galawain's Tusks is just about as far as possible from the starting position in the region. You have to travel all the way north to Solace Keep and then find a jail tower where the cartographer is being held prisoner. This jail tower is called "Soreena's Mercy" and it's located to the northwest of Solace Keep.

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Some of the most popular Strategists in Marvel Rivals are about to become less overpowered, as developer NetEase has revealed some of the balance changes coming as part of the game's mid-Season 1 update.

In a "Dev Vision" video, NetEase took aim at what it calls the "Triple Strategist Terror" meta that has begun to form at the game's higher competitive ranks. In the first half of Season 1, characters like Cloak & Dagger, Invisible Woman, and Loki have proven invaluable and extremely powerful, as their healing ultimate abilities have the potential to bring matches to a grinding halt for an extended period of time. Adding insult to injury is that they recharge incredibly quickly, meaning they can be used frequently.

That's now about to change. While NetEase said it's happy that there are more viable options aside from a classic two-tank, two-DPS, and two-support lineup, the current three-strategist meta has led to some "oppressive moments." As a result, ultimate energy costs are going up for the game's most powerful support ultimates, which will translate to them being used less often. There will also be some targeted nerfs to characters like Cloak & Dagger, currently the most-picked hero in the game.

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In Avowed, you can find treasure maps in each region that lead you to unique gear, if you can find the location on the map. In the Emerald Stair you can find the Practical Pockets treasure map, which is being sold by the vendor at The Gifted Magpie in Fior mes Ivérno. Once you have purchased the treasure map, you will get a side quest of the same name, tasking you with locating it using the image on the map.

Where to find the Practical Pockets treasureThe Practical Pockets treasure can be found near the Ranger Headquarters.

The treasure can be found just a bit northeast of the Ranger Headquarters, which can be found on the eastern side of the map. Use the fast travel beacon there and head further east and just a bit north to find a small cutout in the cliff. Jump down into the small area to find a large chest, which contains Hjilde's Handy Hide, a set of Fine armor.

The treasure is in this small cove in the mountain.

Hjilde's Handy Hide has two unique passive abilities, the first being All Seasons, which reduces incoming fire, frost, and shock damage by 10%. The second is the Survivor passive, which grants 40 maximum health. While the armor set isn't a higher quality than most of the armor found in the Emerald Stair, its unique passive abilities might be appealing to you.

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In the Emerald Stair in Avowed, you can find the Earthy Aegis treasure map, which leads to a legendary unique shield. This shield is of a much higher quality than most found in the region and it has unique powers as well. Here's where you can find the treasure map and the Earthy Aegis treasure.

Where to find the Earthy Aegis treasure mapThe Earthy Aegis treasure map can be found in the Naku Tedek Grounds.

The Earthy Aegis treasure map can be found in the Naku Tedek Grounds. Just south of the Naku Tedek Party Camp is a line of merchant booths that have been set up and left unattended. Head past them to find a tree root growing towards a hole in some ruins, jump inside to find the treasure map.

The treasure map can be found in the ruins shown here by jumping into the broken hole.Where to find the Earthy AegisThe Earthy Aegis treasure can be found on the eastern edge of The Delemgan Glade.

The Earthy Aegis can be found on the east end of The Delemgan Glade, in some small circular ruins. The ruins are next to the Rock Arch Beacon fast travel point, but you will need to head north as the ruins are above the fast travel point. Once up at the ruins, use the tree root wrapped around the building to walk to the outside of the ruins, overlooking the cliff.

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Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii takes you to the high seas, but you will also be subject to walking. Or not. The ever-helpful Street Surfer makes a comeback from Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, allowing you to cruise around Honolulu, Hawaii at your own leisure.

Sadly, everything has its limits. As an electric ride, the Street Surfer will eventually run out of battery. This means manually heading to a charging unit and paying a fee to recharge it every now and then. Thankfully, there's a way to mitigate the process. This guide will walk you through where to find battery packs for the Street Surfer in Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii.

Street Surfer Battery Pack Locations in Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii

In a similar fashion to Infinite Wealth, there are two battery packs available to find and purchase in Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii. Both of them are located in Honolulu, Hawaii, so you don't have to travel to Madlantis or any other main location to track them down.

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Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii has a plethora of bugs to hunt down. Most are useful as ingredients, but some also double down as valuable items to recruit crewmembers and complete substories. Among them are the dragonflies, which can be far more elusive than you think.

If you're wondering where to find this particular flying bug, which is needed to recruit a new member for the Goromaru located in Honolulu, this guide explains where to find dragonfly locations in Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, offering a few different spots so you don't have to run around too much.

Where to Find Dragonfly Locations in Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii

As you cruise through Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, you might find that butterflies are everywhere, while other flying bugs are a bit more elusive. If you're wondering where to find dragonflies, below are three locations--the bug isn't exclusive to just these, but they're helpful locations where the spawn is secured.

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Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii brings back the Ounabara Vocational School quiz tests. In a similar fashion to previous Like a Dragon games, you'll have to go through more than a dozen exams answering five questions at a time. Most of them feature a pool of around 10 questions, and you only need to guess three correctly to pass the exam--until the final one, that is.

Once you've reached Honolulu, the substory called "The Smartest Pirate Crew!" kicks off the minigame. You can find it over at Harbor St., northwest of where the Goromaru is decked when you visit Hawaii. When you get close to the entrance an NPC will immediately talk to you and start the quest, mentioning a pirate-related exam as well as some other traditional tests.

While the substory only requires you to take an exam once, regardless of the result, it's worth spending time with the minigame. You'll tackle the Erudite Pirate achievement, get a bunch of Pirate Rank points, a new crewmember, and one cosmetic item for the Goromaru. Below you'll find all Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii Ounabara Vocational School Quiz answers to easily ace all tests in the game.

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Marvel Rivals Season 1 mid-season update is coming on February 21, bringing changes to the hero shooter, including a change to leftover battle-pass currency. The mid-season update will also add The Thing and Human Torch, along with a new map and balance update.

Shared in the Marvel Rivals Dev Vision, leftover Chrono Tokens, the battle-pass currency, will be exchanged for Units, an in-game currency used to buy cosmetics from the store, like hero skins. While the exact ratio wasn't revealed in the video, this exchange will be available to players who have purchased the premium version of the battle pass and redeemed all of the rewards in the battle pass. If you meet those two requirements by the end of the season, whatever tokens you have left will be exchanged at whatever the ratio is. It wasn't stated if the ratio will be revealed along with the patch notes for the mid-season update, or if it will be revealed towards the end of Season 1.

Chrono Tokens are earned exclusively from challenges--daily, season, or event--so players cannot earn them endlessly. However, in Season 0 there were certainly far more tokens that could be earned than needed to unlock every item in the battle pass, and the Season 1 battle pass is tracking to be similar. Marvel Rivals battle passes don't expire, so this exchange offers a reward for players who finish a battle pass within the same season it's released.

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Throughout Avowed you can find treasure maps, which provide a painted image of a location where unique loot can be found. In the Emerald Stair, you can find the Painter's Regret treasure map. It's inside a farmhouse in the southeast area of Emerald Stair called Maxim's Claim. If you start at the Maxim's Claim Party Camp, the farmhouse can be found a short way to the north, sitting on an easel.

Where to find Painter's Regret treasureThe Painter's Brush can be found overlooking the waterfall southeast of The Wildwoods and southwest of Fior mes Ivérno.

The treasure can be found on a cliff overhanging the river southeast of The Wildwoods. If you start at the Wildwoods Outskirts Party Camp, head south toward the river. Near the waterfall there is a small stretch of a wood fence, just beneath that down the cliff there is a small camp set up with an easel. In the chest there you can find the unique treasure called Painter's Brush. The camp itself is overlooking the waterfall and is north of the Rootbound Godless Ruins.

Painter's Brush can be found in the chest at the small camp.

Painter's Brush is a trinket that provides a 5% critical hit chance when equipped. You can have one trinket equipped at a time. Unlike armor and weapons, it cannot be scrapped or upgraded, but it can be sold if you have no need for the boost.

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The arrival of Grand Theft Auto 6 at some point later this year remains one of the biggest stories in gaming. It's not a question of whether it will be one of the biggest releases of 2025; it's about how big it can be at launch and in the years to come. Now, a new report suggests that Rockstar Games is going to expand GTA 6 even further by turning the game into a platform for user-generated content.

According to Digiday, Rockstar is in talks with experienced Roblox and Fortnite creators in addition to GTA mod creators about creating customized experiences in Grand Theft Auto 6. It's not that far of a conceptual leap, since there are already numerous Grand Theft Auto 5 mods, and because Rockstar purchased FiveM, which lets players take part in modified versions of the game with hundreds of other users.

The belief among some industry insiders is that Rockstar will follow the example of Fortnite and allow users to create customized locations and items that could be purchased by other players or accessed via subscriptions. Any money earned from these creations would likely include a sizable share for Rockstar itself, while also giving modders the chance to make money as well.

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Relic Entertainment has announced Earth vs. Mars, a new turn-based strategy game that looks like a mash-up of Advance Wars, Mars Attacks, and irresponsible genetic manipulation. Currently scheduled to be released on PC in Summer 2025, the game pits humans against Martians in a battle for supremacy over our corner of the cosmos.

Like Nintendo's Advance Wars games, you'll get to pick from several commanders to lead Earth's military forces, with each battlefield leader having unique abilities that you can make tactical use of.

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While you'll have access to military hardware like tanks and artillery, the real secret weapon here is the Splice-O-Tron that can be used to transform "volunteers" into powerful super-soldiers when you add some animal DNA to the mix. Some of the interesting combinations teased include the fast-moving cheetah-fly, powerhouse human-rhino hybrids, and the deadly squirrel-cow infantry.

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Sony's big push into the live-service market has been hit and miss, and the company is continuing to invest in the space with the next game from former Assassin's Creed boss Jade Raymond. Her team at the PlayStation-owned Haven Studios is making a heist-themed competitive game for PS5 and PC called Fairgame$--and yes, it's really styled that way.

Described as a "fresh, modern take on the heist genre," Fairgame$ aims to be a competitive heist game where people steal from the rich to "rebalance the scales" in a society where billionaires hold an increasingly large share of the wealth. While the game was conceived of years ago, this setup is certainly something that remains topical today.

Not much has been said or shown of the game, but there have been some details released so far, which we're compiling together in this post.

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It's been over 5 years since Rare's in-development project Everwild was announced by Xbox, and details have been thin on the ground ever since. In a recent interview, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer said that Everwild is proceeding well.

Speaking to XboxEra, Spencer mentioned a few games in passing that he's excited for. Everwild was one of those games, with Spencer confirming that Rare is making "progress" on the project. "I do think the work that Double Fine's doing and how [Double Fine founder Tim Schafer] kind of solicits feedback from the team," Spencer said in part. "And the other one, I'll say because I was recently out at Rare. It’s nice to see the team with Everwild and the progress that they're making."

Spencer also mentioned State of Decay 3 as part of the same section, with the Xbox boss calling the series "one that I love." Later in the interview, Spencer said that studios like Rare are allowed more time to make long-in-the-oven games like Everwild because Xbox's current slate is already packed with games. He also indicated that the next studio he's going to visit is The Coalition, the stewards of the Gears of War franchise.

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Days Gone Remastered will be an affordable $10 upgrade to anyone who owns the 2019 survival-action game, but there is a catch here. Like several other PlayStation games that have gotten the PS5 remaster treatment, the upgrade doesn't apply to the PS Plus version currently available in the Game Catalog, or the one that was given away back in April 2021 as a PS Plus freebie.

Naturally, this hasn't gone over well with fans who have taken to online forums like Reddit (via Eurogamer) to voice their complaints. As several people have noted, PS Plus is a paid-for subscription service, and in comparison, Microsoft allows Game Pass subscribers to upgrade to premium editions of new releases, allowing them to access the benefits of their upgraded games--like early access--at an attractive price. It is worth noting that you'll still need to purchase the base game on Xbox, if you plan to keep playing without a Game Pass subscription.

Another point of contention brought up is that Sony still allows its users to purchase DLC for PS Plus games, and many see the "Remaster" upgrade of Days Gone as a somewhat similar piece of content that can be added onto a game. "This is as stupid as requiring someone to pay for the full game when purchasing a DLC for a PS Plus game," CoolGur878 wrote. "And, mind you, PS Plus is not a free service."

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Epic Games has sent a loud and clear message to the cheaters and hackers of the world about Fortnite. The company "took legal action" against a pro player called RepulseGod and banned them from ever participating again in organized tournaments for the battle-royale game.

On top of that, RepulseGod, whose name is Morgan Bamford, had to return prize money from Fortnite back to Epic. Eurogamer reports that the company then donated the reclaimed funds to the Child's Play Charity, which provides games and technology to children's hospitals. Last but not least, RepulseGod released a public apology video on YouTube summarizing the situation--which the Fortnite Competitive account on X also highlighted.

"Cheating in tournaments ruins the fun for the players who earned their spot in tournaments, and I apologize to the Fortnite community for my actions," RepulseGod posted in text on the apology video. "I won't ever cheat in Fortnite again."

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Pro skater Tyshawn Jones said that he's going to be in a new remastered Tony Hawk game, despite Activision not announcing any new ones.

"I'm in a Tony Hawk [game] coming out, so they got a new one they're remastering...that's about to come out. I was in the last one," Jones said in an interview with The Breakfast Club. He was was one of the new playable pro skaters added to Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2.

Jones specifically mentioned that the unannounced game was a remaster. Although it's unclear which game he's referring to, he may have also meant remakes. Last year, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 remake was reportedly rejected in order for developer Vicarious Visions to focus on more Call of Duty content. However, Tony Hawk himself came out and confirmed that the series will continue on in some form.

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The PS5 is currently riding high, but everyone always wants to know what's coming next. It's been reported that the PS6 is in the works, and according to former PlayStation executive Shuhei Yoshida, the system launching in 2028 feels "right."

Speaking to VentureBeat, Yoshida the last console cycle was about seven years long, and if that holds again, the PS6 would debut in 2027, and he said that feels "a bit too early." Stressing that he has no inside information about the PS6, Yoshida said, "If the next PlayStation comes out in 2028, that feels right to me."

He added that the next Xbox might be planned for 2028 as well, based on a leak from Microsoft, but of course, this may not be true and plans can always change. In any event, Yoshida speculated that there is a chance that the next PlayStation and Xbox devices come out in the same year.

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Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii introduces itself as a spinoff in the vein of Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name. Meaning that, instead of looking at a mammoth of a story that can take well over 30 hours at minimum, it's a far smaller slice, this time placing Goro Majima as the main character.

Despite the absurdity of its premise, Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii is indeed canon, the story taking place after the events of Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth. Majima has amnesia, however, which leads to a fresh start for a standalone tale that is progressively intertwined with the usual swings and roundabouts of a Yakuza story.

If you're wondering how much there actually is in the game, both from a main story and side activity standpoint, this guide covers how long Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii is and what you can expect to find.

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While Naughty Dog has only teased the third installment in The Last of Us franchise, co-writer and director Neil Druckmann discussed recently sequels are never part of his initial plans. Talking along with Sony Santa Monica head Cory Barlog at the DICE Summit in Las Vegas, the two chatted with an audience about their doubts about their creative process.

After taking a few pre-submitted audience questions, one came across which asked about the development of sequels and how to maintain character development over multiple games. Druckmann said he goes one game at a time and doesn't think that far ahead.

"That's a very easy question for me to answer, because I never think about multiple games because I'm the game in front of us is so all-consuming," he responded (via IGN). "I think you're jinxing yourself if you're starting to think about the sequel when you're working on the first game. So when I was making The Last of Us 2, yeah, sure. Every once in a while an idea pops in your head of where it might go if we get the chance to do another one. But I just approach it as, 'what if I never get to do another one?' I'm not saving some idea for the future. If there's a cool idea, I'm doing my best to get it into here."

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After a 38-year run at Sony, former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida bid farewell to the company earlier this year. In a new interview detailing his career, the former executive commented on how he was left with "no choice" but to step down from his position as president of SIE Worldwide Studios in 2019, as then PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan offered him the opportunity to either lead a new indies initiative for Sony or leave the company.

"Moving from first-party to indies? Well, I had no choice. When Jim asked me to do the indie job, the choice was to do that or leave the company. But I felt very strongly about the state of PlayStation and indies. I really wanted to do this," Yoshida said to VentureBeat. "I believed I could do something unique for that purpose. That was the bigger change for me personally, moving from first-party to indies, than leaving the company this year."

Yoshida's position would be filled by Hermen Hulst, who was also recently co-CEO of SIE alongside Hideaki Nishino for several months. While Yoshida is no longer working for Sony, he hasn't retired from the gaming industry and he currently works alongside indie publishers and developers as an independent advisor. Yoshida added that his ultimate goal during his final years at Sony was to cultivate a relationship with indie developers that would make his position obsolete.

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