The world of Pokemon is a fascinating one. Not only are their countless regions, a surprising amount of copycat ‘gangs’ of bad guys trying to take over the world, and nearly a thousand of the cute, tough, creepy and cuddly creatures to catch, it’s also teeming with secrets and mystery. That’s why the community has frequently come up with their own conspiracy theories to answer some of the Pokemon world’s biggest unanswered questions. Sometimes, it’s to do with the all-powerful legendary and mythical Pokemon, other times, it’s just a random thing that doesn’t make sense. Whatever it may be, we’ve compiled 15 of the most interesting Pokemon conspiracy theories in this post, so you can get your sleuth on.

Mews are ‘Un-differentiated’ Pokemon

Ok so this is a pretty nifty theory on everyone’s favourite cute pink cat/mouse hybrid… thing. The theory suggests that Arceus is the God Pokemon and, after he created time and space, with Dialga and Palkia to govern it, he wanted to populate said planet.

While scrolling through Reddit I saw this peculiar yet interesting discussion on the Fortnite page: what is the ugliest skin in the game? Not necessarily bad, just ugly. Disgusting. Hideous. It’s a fact that Fortnite has way more creative characters than bad ones, but not all of them are meant to be pleasing to the eyes; some are actually made to trigger nightmares. We’ve already talked enough about great skins and fan-favorite crossovers here, but now it’s time to look at the nastiest outfits in Fortnite.

10. Styx

It’s hard to know what’s going on with Styx. He looks like a modern zombie who was shot by a laser beam in his stomach…? Well, I don’t know but it looks disturbing.

DOOM is one of the most iconic and long-running first-person shooter franchises of all time. The brainchild of iconic FPS developer id Software, DOOM took the essence of id’s previous franchise, Wolfenstein, and pushed it even further, serving as one of the most important titles in gaming history. Not only did this lead to a massive, lucrative franchise, but the series has continued to grow and enthrall audiences with successive titles.

Incredibly, the franchise is set to celebrate its 30th anniversary this December. It’s amazing to see it’s lasted this long and, through all the ups and downs, remained one of gaming’s most venerable shooter franchises. Let’s take a look at DOOM’s biggest titles and rank them from worst to best.

The life simulator genre is about to get a whole lot bigger with the highly-anticipated release of Life by You, a game that is considered to be The Sims franchise’s biggest contender for the throne. Although it has yet to launch, Paradox Tectonic has already provided fans with all the juicy details through screenshots, videos, and informational questionnaires. So, if you want to get a head start on your new virtual adventure, here’s 10 exciting features you can look forward to in Life by You.

Control Anyone at Any time

The stories you create in Life by You don’t have to be limited to a particular household, as the game allows you to control anyone at any time. So, if you are curious about an athletic biker or an intriguing co-worker while walking around the map, you can instantly switch over to their journey to get a fresh new start in life.

As technology exponentially advances, it only makes sense for classic titles from yesteryear to receive the remake treatment. While some are totally remade from-the-ground-up, other offerings net a more rudimentary “spit shine” finish to help bring the experience up to modern standards. With the recent cavalcade of remakes releasing this year, we thought that now would be an ideal time to update our list of best remakes of all time. So, without further ado, let’s shake a leg and get right into it!

20. Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes

Metal Gear Solid is one of the most prolific games of all time, even creating the brand new genre of Stealth-Action. Recreating such a classic experience is no small task, but it’s one that developer Silicon Knights took to with gusto.

Witcher 3 has no shortage of romance options, but whenever I inevitably go to replay it, I can’t help but notice a few missed opportunities. Some characters only gave us a brief, but impactful look into their life and left us wanting more. Sure, you’re meant to roleplay as Geralt and by this point he’s essentially a one-woman man, but it doesn’t hurt to imagine other characters we wish could have been romanced in Witcher 3.

10. Tomira, the Herbalist of White Orchard

It’s clear Tomira has no love for Nilfgaard (Get in line, right?), but she certainly cares for White Orchard and its residents. Then there’s her expertise in herbalism, which some people tend to associate with witchcraft. Geralt even manages to unintentionally impress her with his own knowledge, and she also helps him locate buckthorn for baiting a griffin.

2023 has been a phenomenal year for video games. It feels like exciting releases have been aplenty this year, with fantastic new games at almost every corner. Thanks to titles like the Resident Evil 4 Remake, Street Fighter 6, Final Fantasy XVI, Diablo IV, and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, gamers have been treated like royalty across the first six months of the year.

But would you believe it if you were told that a year like 2023 could get even bigger? The second half of the year feels just as loaded (if not even more so) than what the first half offered up, and there’s gonna be plenty to put your money toward as we approach the Holiday season. Here are 12 upcoming games that we’re heavily anticipating across the rest of 2023.

The 2022-23 season is in the books and means football fans are looking forwards to the 2023-24 season. Here are the top 10 players we expect to receive major downgrades when EA Sports FC Ultimate Team rolls around.

The release of player ratings is a big moment in the build-up to any FIFA game. This year is a little different though, with EA Sports’ infamous football simulation franchise being rebranded as EA Sports FC. This is as a result of the company’s exclusivity deal with the FIFA governing body wrapping up, which looks set to continue the FIFA video game series on its own.

With another season in the books, gamers are looking forward to EA Sports FC and a series of new superstars to play with and enjoy. Here are the top 10 players we expect to receive major upgrades in EA Sports FC Ultimate Team.

FIFA player ratings are a big event every year, especially in the build-up to a new instalment’s release. That’s even more true in 2023, with EA Sports FC set to launch a new era in EA-developed football simulation titles.

The Shinobi world of Naruto is filled with dangerous missions, powerful antagonists, and full-fledged wars, so it’s no surprise that there’s been many tragic losses of character lives along the way. However, among the frequent deaths occurring throughout the ninja lifestyle, there are several instances in Naruto where characters realistically should have lost their lives but somehow managed to escape such a fate. We’ve rounded up the most notable characters that come to mind regarding near-death experiences and defying the odds, so without further ado, here are 10 Naruto characters that should have died.

Orochimaru

The strange mentor-student dynamic between Sasuke and Orochimaru has always seemed to be building up to the moment Sasuke would finally overthrow the latter, killing him off for good. There had been years of training to this build-up, fuelled by Sasuke’s hunger for revenge and desires to hone his abilities, so it only made sense that the time would finally come and Orochimaru’s chapter would be closed for good, leaving Kabuto to carry on his legacy.

The Far Cry series has been one of Ubisoft’s longest running franchises, offering players tight first-person shooter action, sprawling open worlds teeming with missions to complete and bad guys to gun down, and an absolute bucket-load of weapons. Whether you want to go the silent, stealthy route, or make lots of big, big bangs, any and all approaches are welcome as you fight off against the series’ notorious villains. Alas, like lots of things in life, not all Far Cry games were created equal. Some are great, standing the test of time over a decade later, while others… well, they’re better off just being forgotten. After spending dozens upon dozens of hours with the series at this point, we’ve put together our definitive ranking of the best Far Cry games from worst to first.

9. Far Cry

Credit to the first game in the Far Cry series for kicking things off, but after what came before it, it may not entirely stand the test of time. Considering when it was released, the original Far Cry looks pretty great and it sold the jungle environment very well. The enemy AI is mostly intelligent, and the weapons have a good balance between them.

One of the best ways to convince new people to play Fortnite is by telling them all of the possibilities, such as having Kratos and Ryu on the same team. Or even Chris Redfield and Leon S. Kennedy fighting back-to-back against a zombified squad. What started as a small and colorful battle royale a few years ago is now a playground full of infinite characters and this unique place where you will see crossovers among the most unusual IPs. After rating the best Marvel and DC skins, it’s now time to rank the best Gaming Legends Series outfits in Fortnite. We’ll stick to one person per franchise since many of them have multiple great skins.

10. Sakura (Street Fighter)

Street Fighter is one of the community’s favorite collabs in Fortnite and with good reason. With 6 outfits in the game at the moment, the partnership between Capcom and Epic Games started with Ryu and Chun-Li back in 2021 and collects some of the best cosmetics in the whole Gaming Legends Series.

While we’re still a bit away from the spooky season, it’s never too late to prepare for it. If you’re a fan of horror games or want a gaming experience that will keep you on your toes, the PS5 library has some solid choices. It might be hard to sort through the PlayStation Store if you aren’t looking for something specific, so we have gathered a list of the top 10 best horror games the PS5 offers.

The Quarry

This spiritual successor to Until Dawn takes players to a remote summer camp deep in the woods of Hackett’s Quarry. The start of the game teases a monster on the campgrounds and then fast forwards to the last day of camp. Due to one counselor’s wish for his summer fling to continue, their transport is sabotaged. This strands the counselors overnight at the camp without knowing what awaits them when the sun goes down.

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away… in 1977, the first Star Wars film released in theaters. George Lucas introduced moviegoers to a new universe that was clearly expansive and well-thought-out, but few people could have expected it to become what fans see today when they play something like Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. With Star Wars Outlaws peering over the horizon, it’s going to have its work cut out for it in order to fit itself into a galaxy filled with stories new and old.

For Star Wars, the term “world-building” seems like an understatement. Truly, there is an entirely fictional galaxy, consisting of hundreds of planets with thousands of races of people and animals, both intelligent and non-intelligent. On top of that, there are multiple time periods with their own technology, politics and key players that can be traced through various source material. Somehow, throughout all of this, the Star Wars games have to do something that deserves more credit than it receives: staying both grounded and original in a franchise that is filled to the brim with content.

Modern Warfare 2 Ranked Play has been universally popular with players since it was developed by Treyarch and dropped in the Infinity Ward title. With certain weapons restricted and others not as strong as in casual multiplayer, it can be more difficult to work out what to use. Here are the best Ranked Play loadouts for MW2, including weapons, attachments, Perks and Field Upgrades.

Right now, there are a lot of viable weapons in Modern Warfare 2’s Ranked. To make this page more digestible and easy to follow, we’re splitting them up by weapon type below. After the weapons are detailed, we’ll move onto equipment, perks and gear.

Over the years, annual Call of Duty installments have featured different weapons of different strengths. Some are perpetually weak but others are at the opposite end of the scale: so strong they can be considered overpowered. Here, we’re taking a trip down memory lane and picking the top 10 most overpowered weapons in Call of Duty history. 

For this list, we’re trying to ignore good weapons and focus on those that were so strong, at least for a period of time, they qualified as OP. Not all were dominant for months, with the respective devs generally quick to nerf standout guns. However, some were at the height of their powers for inexplicably long periods so, without further ado, here are our picks. 

Pokemon training can be a lonely endeavor. Scouring the verdant plains in search of willing challengers, gym badges, or in the case of Paldea, literally anything of interest whatsoever.

It’s enough to drive one mad, mad I say! But fear not, weary travellers, for I have gone on a Pokemon journey of a different kind. I have scanned the vast catalogue of pocket monsters not for the fiercest battlers or the rarest beasts. Nay, I have instead elected to narrow down the ten most unreasonably handsome Pokemon for your enjoyment/bewilderment/abject horror.

After 15 years since the last movie, Harrison Ford puts on the fedora once more for a final ride in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, hitting theaters this weekend. Although Indy takes part in mostly good movies throughout over 40 years of history, we can’t say the same about his games. The adventurer who inspired characters like Lara Croft and Nathan Drake indeed has some gems in his pocket but lacks a title that keeps the eye of multiple audiences, as Tomb Raider and Uncharted themselves did in the last two decades. Fans are hoping that the MachineGames Xbox-exclusive title will finally deliver when it’s released. While we wait, let’s have a look at these 10 Indiana Jones games and remember the best – and worst – quests since Raiders of the Lost Ark debuted on Atari 2600 41 years ago.

10. Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings

When I first put my hands on this game in 2009, the year it was released, I knew something was wrong. Indy never looked so stiff in a poster or a cover box before, he looked quite… artificial. To no surprise, when the game started, it was just like its cover. Yet, due to the absence of better Indiana Jones games, here it is in the top 10.

The highly-anticipated Steam Summer Sale has just gone live, much to the crazed anticipation of nearly every PC gamer across the globe. While Steam often has rotating sales throughout the year on some games, the Summer Sale is one of the biggest discount events of the year, tapping an overwhelming majority of titles across every genre. If you have some Steam funds lying around and are wondering what you should consider adding to your catalog next, here are some of the best Steam Summer Sale 2023 deals.

Steam Deck Handheld Console – Up to 20% Off

• Price: 64GB Model – $359.10 USD | 256GB Model – $449.65 USD | 512GB Model – $519.20 USD
• Buy here from Steam

We’re starting off our list with one of the hottest pieces of handheld gaming hardware used to play all the Steam games you could ever want. It’s been one of the most notoriously difficult ones to obtain due to sheer demand, but if you’ve been wanting to get your hands on a Steam Deck, now may be the best chance because they’ve gotten a pretty substantial discount.

The ever-popular Final Fantasy series has once again released another hit title with its sixteenth installment, welcoming longtime fans and newcomers alike. Even those who have played for just two hours will see its brilliance as you immerse yourself in Clive’s enthralling journey. However, despite its successes, there are a few ways Final Fantasy 16 could be even better, making the overall experience more epic than it already is.

Character & Room Customization

The Final Fantasy franchise is no stranger to customization, with the likes of FFXIV featuring a character creation system. Yet, this option is not present in the latest installment, given that the cast only includes pre-set outfits. But, even if Clive does look like a strapping young lad with his father’s clothes, wouldn’t it be better to design his suit with the garments you discover across Valisthea?