Selecting the opening track of a mixtape is one of the most important decisions you will ever make in your life. It’s the difference between just friends and til death to us part. You aren’t just picking any old tune. Not even close! Your opener is a mission statement in riffs and rhythms. Do you want to tell someone you’ll be best buds forever, even after high school? That you’re going through it and need help? That you can’t live another day without them? You need to set the stage in those precious first few minutes while still delivering a track so powerful, or just fucking cool, that it gets the listener to hit play again when the disc stops spinning. The energy matters. The tempo matters. The lyrics matter. (Unless you’re starting on some ethereal shoegaze shit.) This is your moment to grab someone by the hand and take them on an odyssey they’ll never forget. Memories that will live forever in stereo.

The task to bring the Shard of Serenity to Klastor in Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era is perhaps the trickiest objective in the campaign. First you must look for a devilishly well-hidden scout, then discover the whereabouts of the Shard of Serenity, and then, just when you think you've completed the "Missing Knight" quest, you'll realize you can't pick it up.

"We’re incredibly invested in the third one going forward," Rothe tells Polygon. "We have some tricks up our sleeve."

Sid Meier's Civilization 7 was in no way a flop - in fact, it's been performing well enough and has long-term potential, according to Take-Two - but there's no denying it caused a rift with its more daring design decisions that have split the community since its early 2025 launch.

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