It’s a part of the character that I’ve been exposed to so many times over the years – I don’t care anymore.

Although it takes a few hours before Batman makes an actual appearance, LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight does a great job focusing on the more exciting elements of Bruce Wayne’s evolution to the Caped Crusader.

The whole parents thing is there, sure, but its brevity allows players to instead see Bruce Wayne training with the League of Shadows. While touching upon Batman lore mainstays from comics, movies, and games, a number of unexpected locales and characters also make an appearance.

Batman’s arsenal of sidekicks also brings plenty of collectible co-op partners for players to try out. Jim Gordon, Catwoman, Robin, Nightwing, Batgirl, and Talia Al Ghul each offer different combat and puzzle-solving abilities – although the latter becomes a little frustrating when playing solo.

Each character is heavily linked to specific parts of the story, providing interesting insight into each character’s origins and motivations. For instance, the Flying Graysons scene at Haly’s Circus – where Batman meets Robin for the first time – offers some of the game’s most engaging and challenging platform puzzles.

Much can be said for the long list of villainous troubles Batman and co encounter. Iconic characters, such as The Joker, Bane, The Penguin, and Poison Ivy, all make an appearance. That being said, some feel too brief and rushed for the legacy they hold.

Some lesser-known characters also pop into the fray in LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, with the Condiment King quite possibly making his first appearance since LEGO DC Super Villains.

One of the more annoying elements of LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight sees the player having to constantly switch between characters to solve “puzzles.” This is in quotations, as these require little thought and are solved nearly as quickly as it takes to switch the characters in the first place.

It does make this title very approachable for younger players, and should offer enough challenge without leading to frustration. That being said, more experienced players might feel like a missed opportunity to break up the otherwise combat-centric gameplay.

Case in point: Catwoman’s Safe Cracking puzzle requires simply holding a direction on the thumb stick and waiting for a hole.

While true for most of LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knights’ puzzles, some optional open-world puzzles provide more of a challenge.

The laundry list of collectibles in LEGO Batman: Legacy Of The Dark Knight will keep completionists entertained for hours on end. Most levels feature five thematic items hidden throughout, rewarding skill points or upgrades upon discovering them all.

When exploring the impressive open world of Gotham, it often feels like you’re tripping over a collectible or shiny chest every 20 seconds. While many become troublesome over time, the vast array of suits and vehicles for players to unlock is truly fantastic.

These iconic aesthetics from throughout Batman’s history have all been wrapped up in the beloved LEGO theme, provide plenty of nostalgic visuals for fans.

Although exploration and discovery play a large role, combat is the central focus of LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight. Taking clear inspiration from the Arkham games, it is simple at its core. Although the game does have multiple special enemy types – each requiring different approaches to take down – it never tests the player or evolves much past the initial stages.

It’s a rewarding system, making the player practically invincible with the right timing of counter and dodge. However, with infinite lives and plenty of health, it lacks impact – so to speak.

Featuring sharp writing, accessible gameplay, and plenty of discovery opportunities, LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight is another strong entry in the LEGO franchise perfect for younger players.

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Some of these quests provide direct map locations, while others provide hints and tips. The “Fifteen Men On A Dead Man’s Chest” quest tells you where to go, but when you arrive, there’s just a group of skeletons lying around on the floor.

To complete this quest, you need to unlock and craft a shovel. This is done by smelting a Copper Ore into a Copper Bar in the Furnace and then picking up the Copper Bar. This unlocks several recipes, including the shovel.

Once you have the shovel, head to the location shown on the map. You’ll notice that the skeleton bodies actually form a small circle. Use the shovel to dig in the center of that circle to reveal a treasure chest.

Once you have looted the chest, the quest will be completed.

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Windrose features a number of mechanics that are tied to unlocking new materials and progressing to new technologies. Firstly, you can discover blueprints and recipes to unlock new items. Secondly, some can be unlocked via quest progress and lastly, discovering materials and items unlocks related recipes.

To unlock the Shovel recipe, you need to find Copper Ore. The world of Windrose is procedurally generated, so your islands and locations will be different to ours.

Every starting island has a Copper Cave somewhere. It’s a very large rock formation with an entrance that leads to an instanced cave. Once you get close, the ? on the map will change to a mining icon.

Once you have the Copper Ore, simply use the Furnace to smelt the Copper Ore into a Copper Bar. Once you remove the Copper Bar from the Furnace, you will unlock the Shovel recipe.

If you are struggling to find the Copper Cave on your island, follow the tutorial quests. One of them will take you directly to the cave, so you don’t have to worry about finding it.

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Rosalinda Mercer

Rosalinda is a fantastic addition to your crew. She brings two powerful crafting bonuses. Master Bottle Maker (which doubles Clay Bottle production) and Talented Alchemist (which provides a 30% bonus to craft additional Elixirs). Clay Bottles are a vital component for healing supplies later in the game, so she’s well worth recruiting.

She can be found in Tortuga and costs 500 Piastre.

Jasper Crowe

Jasper Crowe is another very strong addition to your crew, offering a 30% chance of returning materials when upgrading armor at camp.

Jasper Crowe can also be found in Tortuga and will join your crew for 500 Piastre.

Black Axel

Food plays a huge role in Windrose, so having access to a skilled chef is a massive help. Black Axel has a 30% chance to craft an additional meal every time you cook. This includes cooking multiple of the same dishes.

Black Axel will join for 500 Piastre and can be found at the People of Tortuga’s main camp (this is not on Tortuga, it was a nearby island for us).

Mortar Joe

Mortar Joe is one crew member you will want to wait until later to recruit. His 30% chance to craft additional Gunpowder is another great trait, but you won’t gain access to Gunpowder until the later stages of the game.

He can be recruited for 500 Piastra and can be found at Brethren of the Coast main base.

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Windrose features a procedurally generated game world, so your world and locations will not be the same as ours. However, the game features quest chains that directs the player to most of the locations, such as the Underground Network quest.

Almost all quests in Windrose start the same way. Exploring “?” locations on items, inspecting important clues (marked by a clear shining special effect), and looting items into Curios before adding them to your journal.

The Underground Network quest is the same. You find a smuggler’s camp that has been ransacked, and once you inspect all of the details at the location, the quest begins.

It’s important to understand that Tortuga is a central hub for buying items and exchanging reputation items. The Buyers, the NPC’s who buy the items from the player, are not in Tortuga. They are on the main base islands for their respective factions.

Below is a list of each faction and what it purchases.

Rogue Buccaneers

Brethren Of The Coast

Smugglers Of Port Royal

People Of Tortuga

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It’s a shame we have yet to see an AAA pirating game in that time. AAAA did take a shot with Skull & Bones, and while I enjoyed it (gave it an 80/100!), it wasn’t what people were expecting. Sea of Thieves’ rough launch was also off-putting for many.

As often the case with niche genres, we rely on the resilience and creativity of the indie gaming scene to raise the flag – and the Windrose Crew has done exactly that.

Windrose Early Access Review – It’s About Damn Time

Don’t be fooled by Windrose’s Early Access banner currently adorning its Steam page – this is as good as any full indie release on any platform today.

While simple in spots, needing some quality-of-life touches and a tad more fleshing out, I’ve never seen such solid foundations on which to build an Early Access game.

Windrose’s core gameplay loop will no doubt be familiar to survival players. Players will spend many of their early hours gathering resources and materials as they build a settlement, completing quests and upgrading gear along the way.

While fantastic toward its latter stages, Windrose’s building system can be frustrating to wrestle with early on; at least in a creative sense.

Exploration, quest, and reputation rewards in Windrose bless players with new buildings elements. That being said, its procedurally generated nature means that something specific – like a certain angled roof piece – could very well be a long ways off.

A highlight of Windrose’s overall base-building process is linked to how its fast travel system doesn’t punish those that spend hours on their first island.

A little settlement made in Windrose’s first hour, we still used that as our main settlement even 50 hours later.

Windrose allows players to construct up to 10 fast travel bells to be placed anywhere near water, unlocking immediate fast travel from any other bell or while aboard a ship.

You can have entire villages at each of these locations, or simply use them to access resources and materials not available on one’s home island.

Windrose really shines in the versatility of its character builds – especially for an Early Access game. Through the combination of food buffs, armor set bonuses, and select weapon choices, players can craft a wealth of unique and engaging combat builds.

Focusing primarily on Greatswords, I spent most of my points on Character Traits to increase critical hit chance, stamina, and survivability.

As my build neared completion, I was stacking healing and critical damage on perfect blocks, gaining buffs for defeating enemies, and launching widespread sword swings as I tackled large groups of foes a blast.

Needless to say, character builds are important in Windrose – this is not an easy game.

On that note, playing Windrose on the recommended difficulty as a solo player will be challenging for even the most seasoned of survival players.

Adding friends to Windrose’s co-op mix is hugely beneficial, as having an extra sword or musket in a fight has clear benefits. However, this also allows players to double up on many rewards, proving that co-op play is a huge focus for the title.

Character progress in Windrose is based on the character rather than the server, so players can swap between games without losing progress.

Rewards in Windrose – including those as big as ships – are provided to all players upon quest completion, allowing groups to form small armadas even early in the game.

While each person taking a ship is obviously the best idea when tackling Blackbeard’s pirates, it’s not the only option. Windrose allows players to share ships, and although functionality is currently quite basic, they can interact with one another.

You can pilot other players’ boats, you can man the guns and fire while another steers – you can even throw your line over the bow and do some fishing while your captain plots the course.

Get ambushed by pirates in the process? No worries – simply summon your ship and hop aboard.

Even boarding enemy ships in Windrose can be done by multiple players. Only one ship may “officially board,” but nothing stops other players from jumping aboard and helping take down the enemy crew.

That being said, boarding combat in Windrose is a bit rough. Cannons, rigging, multiple enemies running up a small set of stairs – it’s very easy to die due to getting stuck or not being able to dodge properly.

However, as the only real issue lies with naval combat speaks, it speaks volumes for Windrose’s overall quality.

Windrose is definitely a survival-lite experience when it comes to traditional survival games. Food, while vital for surviving combat, is not a required resource to literally stay alive.

No need to run to the ocean every 10 minutes to fill up a hydration bar.

The true challenge with survival in Windrose comes with the combat system – and it is gloriously brutal.

Characters in Windrose – both friendly and enemy – use a Posture system that represents how many times a character can block attacks before succumbing to exhaustion.

…and likely get smashed in the face several times as a result.

The magic of Windrose’s combat comes in a player’s ability to hit the Perfect Block: a timed block that preserves the character’s Posture while reducing one’s opponent’s.

Put simply, Windrose features as satisfying a combat system can get in an Early Access release of an indie game.

While tough to start when learning the timing and attack patterns of different enemies, the end result of becoming an almost unstoppable force against crowds of up to five enemies is worth every scratch and bruise along the way.

The thought of dying to single enemies even toward the end of the game won’t appeal to everyone, but Windrose features incredibly accessible difficulty settings. With three main difficulty settings, each one can also be tweaked even further to reduce difficulty.

I played Windrose on various difficulty options, customizing each one. Regardless of survival or combat experience, I can confidently say that Windrose is accessible to all players.

That being said, playtime in Windrose will vary massively depending on one’s play style.

Our team played through Windrose’s entire story in co-op. Finishing most of its content – including maxing out our gear and building all the stock ships – clocked us at approximately 50 hours.

You can probably halve that playing on easier difficulty settings, or alternatively add up to 20 hours playing solo. Either way, the sheer amount of content in Windrose in Early Access easily matches the level of content and quality as full releases on the market today.

For an Early Access release, Windrose is incredible with zero technical problems. Not only are the foundations across every system and mechanic rock solid, Windrose is already feature-filled with ideas often months – or years! – away from their Early Access launch.

While it will earn an official final score once fully released, Windrose comes out of the Early Access gate strong with an easy 85/100.

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Each year, I’m excited to dive into Visual Concepts and 2K’s latest entry into the WWE game library. Despite its issues over the years, it still brings the strongest wrestling game on the market.

That said, this year, something feels a bit off…

What Happened to Slingshot Tech?

This year’s Showcase sees CM Punk relive some of his highs and lows, with some dream matches thrown in.

It’s okay, but I can’t help but ask myself:

“What’s the point?”

I can throw together these matches in many different game modes, without the irritating objective-based unlocks. I’ve enjoyed some of the previous Showcase events, but like many of MyGM rivalries, this is getting stale.

WWE 2K24 showcased 2K’s Slingshot Tech with near frame-perfect transitions between in-game action and clips from the WWE archives.

Now?

Even with CM Punk mentioning the Slingshot Tech 20 times during his on-screen appearances, it’s been reduced to nothing but the concept of playing matches from the past.

I’m not CM Punk’s biggest fan, so others will likely enjoy the Showcase more than I did. Playing back through some of his most iconic matches, getting the opportunity to change a loss to a win, to see where his career went.

For me, Showcase was at its best in WWE 2K24 – and has been on the decline since.

Tables, Ladders, and Thumbtacks, Hell Yeah

The in-ring action continues to improve in WWE 2K26, with genuine moments of awesome that feel ripped straight from an actual WWE show.

More moments than ever just had me stepping back to admire just how great a sequence of moves and reversals turned out – even if its AI can be a little irritating when it ruins the perfect moment.

Ripping out the thumbtacks and stacking tables with some of WWE’s hardcore legends was the closest I’d felt to the carnage of the Smackdown vs. RAW days in a long time.

The only things really holding back the in-ring action is WWE 2K26’s dodgy stamina system that doesn’t seem to apply to AI characters, and a problem that has persisted for years: the lock-on is still a complete mess.

It’s clunky, unresponsive, and just does what it wants only half the time.

I’ll never understand why a game released in 2026 cannot compete with a lock-on system from the PlayStation 2 era.

It makes any matches outside 1v1, arguably, the most exciting to play in a WWE game; a complete gamble on the outcome.

MyFaction, or Not

I didn’t typically dip into MyFaction too much before WWE 2K24, but I really enjoyed it the last couple of years. It’s all very much the same in WWE 2K26, grinding for better cards and unlocks – as 2K hopes you spend some cash in the process.

I jumped in, excited to get my pack rewards and start my own faction, only to be immediately met with a series of starting challenges that forced me to remove half the characters in favor of weaker ones – because card rating was restricted.

What followed was a series of intergender matches that still add absolutely nothing to the single-player experience, being forced to play as wrestlers I actively dislike, in matches you see on WWE once in a decade. Then comes a group of mirror matches where it’s nearly impossible to tell who is who in a ring of clones.

The “tutorial” sequence doesn’t last long; it’s about 15 matches, but about 14 of those feel entirely unnecessary.

It took me two days to dive back in, and then I was met with frozen loading screens and crashes. Between that and getting headbutted by Blake Monroe every other match, it’s a very slow start.

The Island Gets Even Crazier

The Island makes a return in WWE 2K26 – with all its ridiculous glory.

Following on from the events of WWE 2K25, players join The Island as a member of one of three new factions, each with their own storyline, characters, rewards, and unlocks.

The most welcome change in WWE 2K26 comes with its vastly improved navigation, with on-screen quest markers showing where the next stage of progress can be found – a huge improvement on last year’s ask of having players run around like a headless chicken.

Outside that, it’s all very much by the numbers.

While WWE 2K26 features new content and new stories, it is also very much still in the same package.

It’s probably a feature I would have loved 20 years ago, but it’s over-the-top, wacky stories and meta-busting showpieces are just a touch too much.

That, and the awful camera angle put me off exploring more than a few hours of what it had to offer.

Roguelite elements of The Tower on The Island, the CCG card collecting and levelling of TCG games, the strategy aspects of GM Mode, and the micromanagement of MyUniverse…

WWE 2K’s constantly increasing list of features and game modes almost overwhelms.

Every year, I push myself to dive into all the different modes, knowing I won’t particularly enjoy half of them, and that’s where I think the series is struggling.

The Island, with more polish and more grounded stories, could be incredible. A deeper, more meaningful GM Mode would keep me entertained all year round, but everything feels a bit shallow this year.

WWE 2K26 still represents the best wrestling game on the market today, but it does very little to distinguish itself from last year’s release. Combined with egregious monetization and the needlessly mundane grind across nearly every single game mode, and this year simply feels like a step back.

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There are two different methods to sheathing your weapon in Crimson Desert, one with speed, and one with style.

For the more stylish option, press “Left” on the directional pad twice. This sees Kliff sheathe his weapon with style, twirling the blade and handle before putting it away. As cool as it looks however, it’s pretty slow.

So to simply put it away, just press “Left” on the d-pad once. This will cause Kliff to quickly and easily put his weapon away.

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There are two main elements to learning to dye armor and clothes. How, and where. Firstly, let’s get to the where.

Where To Dye Armor

Thankfully, you don’t have to wait long to start showing your style. You can find a Dyehouse just South East of Hernand, near the river. There’s a merchant there that both sells dyes and lets you dye your armor with the dyes you have.

How To Get Dyes

Dyes are obtained in a couple of ways. Firstly, they are sometimes used as quest rewards and can be found and stolen from various places in the world. Additionally, dyes can be crafted by the player.

To do this, all you need to do is fine a cauldron, such as the one near the Dye shop, in town, or at the first Witch house. You can then experiment with ingredients to make your own dyes. Once a dye has been made and used from the inventory, it is unlocked permanently without the need for further materials.

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In this guide, we show you a quick and easy method to getting your first 50-70 silver which is more than enough to get you started, as long as you spend it wisely. Don’t waste your money on items you can get for free. Need food? Hunt the meat, steal the grains, buy only the water. Money is a challenge through much of Crimson Desert, but this can be drastically reduced with intelligent spending.

You don’t need much to get started, you only need a key and a mask. Once you have your key and mask, head to the bank in Hernand.

Directly opposite the banker is a locked door, head inside. This room is filled with loot. Expensive items you can take, chests you can rob. Make sure, when you loot containers such as a Small Locked Box, always open these in your inventory. They will give items that sell for 1-5x more than the box itself.

You can then sell these items freely to any vendor in town, you don’t need to sell it somewhere specific. Best of all, the chests in the bank respawn after 7 in-game days, so you can return and loot it all again later.

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