
Guides Editor
Dan Tedman
Dan Tedman writes from Chicago, mostly for readers who are walking into something new — a first-time recharge, a child who's just discovered an in-game shop, a parent trying to figure out which platform actually has parental controls worth using. He has nephews at the age where the family group chat covers sandbox worlds, mobile gachas, and live-streaming apps in the same week, which is roughly the breadth of his beat. At VGTopup he edits how-to and safe-spending coverage across games, social apps, and prepaid cards.
Recent Articles
4 Articles
Where Winds Meet 1.7 Events Menu Crashing? Fix Before You Buy
2026-05-28
NetEase rolled 1.7 ("The Imperial Palace") into a maintenance window on May 28, 2026 with a freshly stocked conversion funnel waiting on the other side. New banner. Refreshed season pass. The usual...

Honkai Star Rail 4.4 Banner Leak Breakdown: Himeko's New Form and the Rerun Forecast
2026-05-20
The 4.4 first-half headliner just got an official tease, and it is not a brand new face — it is a reworked, re-roled version of one of the oldest crew members on the Astral Express. Himeko is comin...

NTE 1.1 Banner Breakdown: Lacrimosa, Chaos, and Where Your Annulith Should Actually Go
2026-05-12
The 1.1 patch for Neverness to Everness has its banner roadmap locked, and the lineup is going to test every wallet that survived launch. Phase 1 brings Lacrimosa, the Dark-side DPS the beta crowd...

Nicole in Genshin Impact 6.6: Is She Really the Big Bennett, or Just a T0.5 Comfort Pull?
2026-05-11
The Luna VII livestream had one moment that made every Bennett owner sit up straight. Three separate repetitions of "team-wide ATK buff," "regardless of whether the character is on-field or off-fie...