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All the Kookiest Things to Remember About ‘Wednesday’ Before Season 2

by admin June 13, 2025

Happy Friday the 13th, you Wednesday fandom kooks. The Jenna Ortega-starring Addams Family spin-off series from Tim Burton follows the Addams’ eldest as she attends a boarding school filled with other supernaturally inclined youths in a sprawling mystery that has only begun. Wednesday returns to Netflix in less than two months, so we’re taking this spooky occasion to pull out our Nevermore notes before school gets back in session.

Here’s what you need to remember—besides Wednesday having a Friday the 13th birthday, as Morticia (Catherine Zeta-Jones) proudly boasted to Nevermore’s headmistress at the start of season one.

The Addams Family has powers

Right before getting sent off to Nevermore Academy, Wednesday begins to have psychic visions. It’s what shows her the swim team picked on Pugsley (Isaac Ordonez) at the normie school they attended before she unleashed punishment by piranhas during their practice. As the season progressed, it led her to discover her connection to Goody Addams, her ancestor from Jericho who was outcast during the pilgrim era by the town founder Joseph Crackstone—a proponent of killing all outcasts during the witch hunt era.

Morticia killed a man

While being the model student of Nevermore during her time at the academy, Morticia saved the school from by killing Garrett Gates, a descendant of Joseph Crackstone who was obsessed with her and wanted to continue his family legacy of exterminating the town outcast society. Gomez (Luiz Guzman) took the fall for his beloved—they’ve been soulmates since they met at Nevermore—while the town covered up Gates’ attempt on the school. This bit of history comes up as one of Wednesday’s first cases meant to drive a wedge between her and her family, but it ultimately brings them closer when she clears her father’s name.

Friends or foes

Despite her reluctance to make any sort of connection with others, Wednesday makes a fair amount of friends and enemies. Her unlikely friendship with Enid Sinclair (Emma Myers), her colorful opposite and werewolf roommate, helps Wednesday identify with others her age as they assist her in solving the Crackstone mystery. Even her early competition, the powerful siren Bianca Barclay (Joy Sunday), eventually comes around to a mutual respect to protect their peers from the attacks their student body suffers at the hands of a mysterious creature in the woods who is connected to it all.

The night of the Rave n’ Dance, which gets sabotaged by the town bullies, early ally and fellow misfit among the outcasts Eugene (Moosa Mostafa) nearly dies at the hand of the monster. So all the bad blood among the Nevermore student body is put aside to stand together against the looming Jericho monster and Crackstone threats. Bianca’s ex, Xavier, encourages Wednesday to join the school’s secret society, the Nightshades, who were founded to protect the outcasts. Wednesday declines, due to not wanting to be overshadowed by her mom’s legacy as a member.

A crush with everything to Hyde

Early on in the season, Wednesday meets a boy in town who happens to be sheriff’s son. Tyler (Hunter Doohan) helps get her out of trouble with his dad but also harbors a crush on her. As she works to uncover the identity of the monster, she’s blinded by her feelings for Tyler. After their first kiss, she sees the truth that he was the monster all along. Turns out, his family secret is that his mother was a Hyde, an outcast type that is so unpredictable and dangerous that Nevermore does not allow them to attend the school.

All hands on deck

While the show focuses on the strange and unusual youth in the Addams universe, other members of the family join in on the fun. There’s a fun cameo from Uncle Fester (Fred Armisen) that reminds you this is still an Addams Family affair. Disembodied hand Thing rooms with Enid and Wednesday to watch over her for Gomez and becomes a pivotal ensemble member. Thing is who nudges Wednesday to come out of her padlocked emotional shell; it also befriends the students wanting to connect with Wednesday on its own.

Before Wednesday can uncover the identity of the person controlling Tyler, Thing gets too close and is brutally attacked before seeing the face of Laurel Gates, Garrett’s sister, who returns to carry out the Hyde attacks on behalf of the Crackstone legacy. This drives the whole student body to back up Wednesday against the town’s narrative that she’s the danger that’s threatening the school. As things heat up and Joseph Crackstone is summoned alongside the Hyde for a final showdown, Enid finally wolfs out to square up against Hyde Tyler for her found family members.

Wednesday vs. Wednesday

Christina Ricci, the ’90s era Wednesday Addams from the iconic Addams Family movies, is revealed to be Laurel Gates, who posed as a teacher at Nevermore Academy. She murders the school principal and kidnaps Wednesday to use her blood to resurrect Joseph Crackstone so they can unleash revenge on the outcasts once and for all. Laurel leaves Wednesday to bleed out, but Goody Addams is also summoned by the supernatural events and uses Wednesday as a conduit to fight back, while healing her in the process. As Crackstone tries to set Nevermore ablaze, Wednesday distracts him while Bianca helps deliver the deadly blow and destroy him. Laurel rushes Wednesday and they get into it, which is such a cool and satisfying meta moment.

The baton is suitably passed as Ortega’s Wednesday delivers a foot-stomping blow to Laurel. While we don’t know if Laurel survived a Doc Marten to the head, Tyler is carted away in custody. The season leaves Wednesday beginning to get messages from regions beyond of an incoming mystery that set the stage for season two.

Wednesday season two part one drops August 6, followed by part two September 3, on Netflix.

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Diablo 4’s Anniversary Celebration event won’t be one to remember for its rewards, but at least you won’t have to pay real money for it

by admin June 4, 2025

The time has come to celebrate the second anniversary of Diablo 4. Yes, the game has been out for two years now, even if it does not feel like it’s been that long. And with every anniversary, of course, comes a new event from Blizzard designed to commemorate it.

The second Anniversary Celebration is now live in-game. And, honestly, does not feel like that much of a big deal. At all.

The Diablo 4 Second Anniversary event is available from now until Tuesday, 17th June, giving you about two weeks to take part in the muted festivities. And you’d only really want to do that, of course, if you care about the rewards you could get from grinding through the activities; rewards which this event does actually have, even if they’re nothing to really write home about.

Now that Diablo 4 has adopted Call of Duty’s battle pass system, there’s a new Event Reliquary (which is essentially a mini-battle pass) that runs parallel to the Season 8 Reliquary. While the new system does offer more utility, and is practically designed for situations like this, it has not been well received by players because of how little of the premium currency it offers compared to the old style.

But we’re not here to talk about that, we’re here to reveal the rewards… all six of them. As part of the event Reliquary, you’ll be able to exchange your Gold for these rewards:

Sunflame Lantern Mount Trophy.
Burning Dawn Banner Mount Trophy.
Sunraiser Sword Cosmetic.
Sunflame Sword Two-Handed Sword Cosmetic.
Burning Barbs Polearm Cosmetic.
Burning Dawn Bow Cosmetic.

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Once you’ve collected all six of the skins above, you’ll automatically earn The Burning Dawn Mount Armor. Having Gold set as the currency of this particular event is certainly interesting, mainly because it doesn’t involve some other paid currency, or any sort of in-game grinding. You will, of course, need to have enough Gold to be able to afford everything, but farming Gold isn’t difficult, and gives you the freedom to do whatever you want in the game (rather than force you into certain time-gated events).

The recent Berserk collaboration event certainly reminded everyone why limited-time events exist to begin with, with its meagre in-game rewards, and a skin pack that would’ve run you £110 if you wanted the actually good cosmetics.

Given that, many players will no doubt be happy to learn that there are zero skins being sold for real money as part of the Anniversary event. As a bonus, a Mother’s Blessing event will also be running right alongside the two-year party, giving everyone 35 percent extra XP, and 50 percent extra Gold.

This improved version of Mother’s Blessing also means each time you turn in your Grim Favors at the Tree of Whispers, you’ll receive an extra cache, which includes items you’d find in a Collection of Chaos cache. If you’ve been away from the game for a while, or don’t know what that means, trust me when I say: it’s a pretty good boon to have.

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June 4, 2025 0 comments

Game Updates

Remember To Ping Loot For Other Players

by admin June 1, 2025

Screenshot: FromSoftware / Billy Givens / Kotaku

Cooperation is the name of the game in Elden Ring Nightreign, so it’s good to know how to communicate well with your party to help one another succeed. And since loot is one of an expedition’s most important aspects, you’ll want to be certain everyone’s working together to find the best stuff for each member of your group. If you’re not voice chatting, that can make things a little more difficult—an issue that you can offset slightly by pinging some loot for your friends!

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Playing through an expedition in Elden Ring Nightreign is a fast-paced affair, so you’ll always be on the move trying to make the most of every second of the mission. It can seem counterproductive to stop and make a fuss over bits of loot, but taking a few moments to help your teammates with things they need may make or break your run.

While you can open the map and ping locations to help with communication when you’re not voice chatting with folks, it can be harder to get someone’s attention turned to a piece of loot you’ve dropped. That is, unless you know how to ping it for them!

If you want to ping a piece of loot you’ve dropped on the ground, walk next to it and complete one of the following combinations, depending on your platform and input device:

PlayStation Controller: Hold Triangle and press in the left stick
Xbox Controller: Hold Y and press in the left stick
Keyboard: Press the X key

When you do this, it will highlight the loot for nearby teammates to check out. So be sure you’re dropping items you don’t need and pinging them just in case they can be of use to someone else. Just because that legendary greatsword isn’t great for your class doesn’t mean it can’t help a teammate whoop the ass of an upcoming boss.

Get out there and start pinging the shit out of everything in Elden Ring Nightreign, available now on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and Windows PCs.

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