Once upon a time, there was a small village, which was inhabited by many animals of all colors and sizes. The village was ruled by a kind king, who reigned with grace and maintained the order between the animals. One day, the king suddenly disappeared! A few days later, the village fell into despair and the once so cheerful days seemed gone forever. In the midst of chaos a group of brave adventurers emerged, determined to find the whereabouts of the king! Paper Animal RPG is a cute roguelike game where you can explore a colorful world, fight scary enemies and relax with your friends at the campfire! The game is inspired by and pays homage to the Paper Mario, Mario & Luigi as well as the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series.

Leave everything behind and open a tiny bookshop by the sea in this cozy narrative management game. Stock your Tiny Bookshop with different books and items, set up shop in scenic locations, and run your cozy second-hand bookshop while getting to know the locals.

1000 Deaths is a gravity-bending 3D platformer where your choices matter. What you choose defines the game's levels, mechanics, and story. Dash through platforming hubs and decide your character's fate while exploring surreal worlds. Speedrun, or don't!

Before us are the exciting adventures of Jack, who went to the library and discovered a magic book. Having opened it, he finds himself in a wonderful world where he has to solve riddles. Find objects, solve puzzles and help the local inhabitants of this world so that you can return home.

After a shorter summer season than usual, Fortnite is shifting into Chapter 6 Season 4. Unfortunately for us, there's just one little thing getting in the way of us diving into all the new stuff: Fortnite servers are down for maintenance while Epic deploys the new season update. Below, you'll find a rundown on when Fortnite servers should be back online.

Fortnite Chapter 6 Season 4 start time

When Fortnite goes offline to deploy a patch, it usually takes about three or four hours, but a new season launch is much more of a thing than your average update is. For a new season, Fortnite typically goes offline for four hours at a minimum, and often longer. Sometimes much longer--Fortnite was offline for 18 hours ahead of the start of Chapter 5 Season 2 last year. If all goes well, you can expect Fortnite to come back online, at the earliest, around 3 AM PT / 6 AM ET.

When Fortnite's servers do return to action, the new bug-squishing season teased in trailers will kick off. With collabs that include Halo and Power Rangers--along with whatever other secrets Epic has in store--this season will have a very late '90s, early aughts feel to it. The bug takeover will begin immediately when servers come back up. There will be a new battle pass full of several new skins, plenty of new weapons, several map changes, and likely a few new movement items, which are reliably some of the best parts of every season. My Fortnite crew is routinely annoyed at how few actual guns I carry because I want to have all the stylish movement items instead.

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Everyone's favorite subnautical cartoon is returning for his next video game adventure with SpongeBob SquarePants: Titans of the Tide. Launching for PS5, Xbox Series X, Switch 2, and PC, the 3D platformer will have you swapping back and forth between SpongeBob and his BFF Patrick Star as they unravel a spooky new story. Preorders are now live ahead of its November 18 release, with three versions up for grabs, including a $40 standard edition and a $90 Ghostly Tides Edition. Both editions are available in physical and digital formats.

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Preordering SpongeBob SquarePants: Titans of the Tide gets you the Natural Costume Pack, which includes two hilarious butt-bearing costumes for SpongeBob and Patrick.

SpongeBob SquarePants: Titans of the Tide Standard Edition $40 | Releases November 18

SpongeBob SquarePants: Titans of the Tide standard edition includes base game on your platform of choice. Physical PS5, Switch 2, and Xbox Series X preorders are available at Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, and GameStop. Digital preorders are also available on PC and consoles.

Preorder at Amazon Preorder at Walmart Preorder at Best Buy SpongeBob SquarePants: Titans of the Tide Ghostly Edition $90 (physical), $55 (digital) | Releases November 18

SpongeBob SquarePants: Titans of the Tide is also available in a special Ghostly Edition. This edition includes a selection of extra content, but exactly what content you get depends on whether you grab the $55 digital version or the $90 physical release. Both versions include the Tidal Season Pass, which unlocks Plankton's Portal Challenge, new costumes, and more levels. However, the physical edition includes a few collectibles you won't find in the digital version. Here's everything in the physical SpongeBob SquarePants: Titans of the Tide Ghostly Edition:

• Tidal Season Pass
• Steelbook case
• 5 lenticular cards
• Golden Spatula keychain
• Flying Dutchman patch

Physical PS5, Xbox Series X, and Switch 2 preorders are available at Amazon.

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Titans of the Tides is the latest in SpongeBob's long run of video games that started with 2001's SpongeBob SquarePants: Legend of the Lost Spatula. The last few years have given us several SpongeBob video games, including 2024's The Patrick Star Game, which saw SpongeBob's pal take the starring role in his own 3D platformer on Nintendo Switch. You can grab it while it's on sale for just $18 (was $40).

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Think mechs and you'll probably imagine something at least the size of a building, or not far from the 65-foot Unicorn Gundam displayed in Odaiba, Japan. Daemon x Machina's mechs, referred to as Arsenals, aren't quite as large, but you still could only pilot them by climbing into a cockpit. For the sequel, Daemon x Machina: Titanic Scion, the Arsenals have undergone a more significant change--Arsenals are no longer mechs, but mech suits. It's an important distinction, because you get the sense that your movements are 1:1 when you're boosting along the ground or swinging your blade. Playing the opening hours of Titanic Scion, the game I'm surprised to have as a reference point is Anthem.

It might not make for a flattering comparison, but then you are playing as a custom avatar who can fly around in a powerful and customizable mech suit in an open world with the ability to take on missions with other players online. But unlike BioWare's doomed game, this doesn't feel like a misguided attempt at a live-service loot-grinding game. If anything, Titanic Scion feels like a genuine step up from its predecessor that was developed originally within the constraints of the Nintendo Switch, which managed to retain a striking visual style of red and metallic palettes that screams both anime and metal, but still felt constricted by the hardware.

Titanic Scion begins with an exposition-laden opening crawl, which also highlights in red some terms you'll be encountering more over the course of the story, though the one that's probably best to familiarize yourself with is "outers." These are beings who have transcended humanity and as such are also treated as outcasts, leaving them ripe for exploitation. That also happens to be the protagonist that you get to create, with the flexibility to mix hair styles, body types, and voices. Your hero wakes up in some kind of facility in outer space called the Garden and is set to be turned into a "centurion" before suddenly being thrust in media res into an escape mission.

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Wildgate, the PvP multiplayer shooter that plays sort of like Sea of Thieves in space, features a roster of seven different Prospectors you can play as. To start, you only have access to three of the seven, all of whom have unique abilities and excel at different aspects of the game, but unlocking the other four Prospectors doesn't take too long, so long as you know where to check.

How to unlock every Wildgate characterThere are seven total Prospectors in Wildgate at launch, three of which are unlocked from the start.

To unlock the four locked characters--Sammo, Ion, Mophs, and Sal--you will need to unlock the first tier of the corresponding Adventure reward track. The Adventure reward tracks function like battle passes, but these ones don't cost real money and all of them are unlocked from the start of the game. You will need to activate the Adventure prior to queueing up for a match. XP is only awarded in PvP matches, playing matches against CPUs does not award XP, so make sure you are selecting the correct playlist.

Locked Prospectors Adventures:

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The most traditional input throughout the lifespan of Battlefield has been a controller. While Battlefield 6 has full support for mouse and keyboard on PC as well as consoles, a majority of the playerbase will head into battle with a controller in their hands. Due to the popularity of controllers, Battlefield 6 offers a wide range of input settings, including some brand-new options that haven't been seen before in the franchise.

It can get a little daunting trying to go through all of the available controller settings, so if you want to set all of them correctly and head straight into the action, we have you covered. Below, you'll see a list of every major controller setting in Battlefield 6 and what you should be using for those settings.

Best controller presets in Battlefield 6

For starters, you'll want to head into the "Settings" menu of Battlefield 6, which is done by pressing the cog icon at the top of your screen. Once you're in Settings, go to the Controller section on the left side of the screen.

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The Cozy Companions event has begun in Pokemon Go, and as part of the festivities, a couple of new Pokemon are now available. Snom and Frosmoth, two ice types originally from the Pokemon Sword and Shield games, are appearing throughout the event, making this your first chance to get them in Go.

Unlike some of the other event Pokemon, you won't find Snom in the wild; you can only get the ice worm through eggs and Research tasks. Evolving one is also a bit complicated, so you'll need to put in some work if you want to add Snom and Frosmoth to your collection. Here are some tips to help you get the new ice Pokemon.

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How To Get Snom

There are two ways to encounter Snom in Pokemon Go. The first is to hatch one. The ice worm is one of several Pokemon that may hatch from 7 km eggs during the Cozy Companions event, so be sure to place these eggs in incubators while you're playing. Once the event ends, you'll have a chance to hatch Snom from 5 km eggs.

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Later this week, Battlefield 6's first open beta is set to begin and it's already hit 10,000 concurrent players on one platform despite the servers not being live. Players are apparently eager to get their hands on the game, but there are still questions about how much of a factor skill-based matchmaking will be in online play. According to EA, skill will be a factor in determining matchups, but not the deciding one.

CharlieIntel was told by an EA rep that Battlefield 6's matchmaking will be focused on a player's location, ping, server availability, and "some skill factor." However, the matchmaking factors will be different for each mode and player counts.

Earlier this month, Battlefield 6 producer Alexia Christofi noted that the primary feedback that her team has received about server browsers include a desire for "persistent servers, a sense of community and a way to play together, being able to choose specific maps/modes, being able to filter by ping/server fullness, [and] support for low pop regions." Christofi has previously stated that cross-play can be toggled on and off, and that console players and PC players will largely be kept apart unless players are needed to fill a lobby.

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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 will add the islands of Jurassic World very soon, perfect for those who want to view dinosaurs from a safe distance where nothing could possibly go wrong.

The Jurassic World: Archipelago DLC will add the Muertes Archipelago (also known as The Five Deaths) from the Jurassic Park and World films, located off the coast of Costa Rica, to Microsoft Flight Sim. It will be available in late August or early September, according to a FAQ on the DLC's website, and will first be available for Microsoft Flight Sim 2024 before later coming to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020.

Players will be able to fly between the five islands and parts of Costa Rica to take on various challenges and tours. As for what dinosaurs will be available for viewing in their (sort of) natural habitat, the DLC's website confirmed the following, with more to be revealed later:

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