Nicholas Turner is a writer on Game Rant. He’s also an avid consumer of comics, film, TV, theater, and—of course—video games. Struck by an affliction for loving stories as a young whippersnapper, ...

Everybody wants to have a smooth experience playing games where they don't have to worry about getting stuck on a loading screen forever. Loading screens were once a fact of life. Almost every game we ...

Loading screens in classic games like Too Human and World of Warcraft were excruciatingly long, making gameplay frustrating. Even acclaimed games like Divinity: Original Sin 2 and Bloodborne suffer ...

You can only manually save the game during open-world exploration. Otherwise, manual saves are disabled once you start a mission – you’ll have to rely on checkpoints from there. You can load the game ...

In games, nothing breaks player flow like a loading screen, and in virtual reality this problem is amplified tenfold. ‘Presence’ or ‘immersion’, the magical yet fragile feeling of ‘being there’, is ...

This is the third new bundle launched during the event, following the Killer Bundle Winter 2025 Edition on December 1 and the Play On The Go Bundlefestive 2025 Edition on December 2. These bundles are ...

Jay (He/They) is a fiction writer and high school teacher. He has a Bachelor's degree majoring in English and a Master's in Creative Writing. When he's not writing, he's either gaming (on the Destiny ...