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Treyarch has announced that Call of Duty: Black Ops 7's Endgame mode, which players can unlock after completing the campaign, will soon be available to everyone. Beginning Friday, November 21, everyone can jump right into Endgame. Technically you could already do this, as only one player in a group needed to beat the campaign to get into Endgame, but soon everyone can play it. For anyone just catching up, Endgame takes place on the Avalon map where 1-32 players in squads of up to four...
The first major Arc Raiders update arrived last week, with the introduction of the Stella Montis map as one of the main highlights. Now, days later, developer Embark Studios has revealed on X some statistics about how players have fared in the abandoned facility. To start, the Shredder enemy is living up to its namesake, knocking out more than 2.2 million players. The Shredder is just one of the new additions with the North Line update for Arc Raiders. The Matriarch is another fresh ARC foe...
Fortnite's Simpsons season is apparently about to become a landmark for Epic Games' metaverse for reasons nobody could have expected--by reportedly offering the first shirtless character sporting visible nipples. The skin in question is an additional version of Homer Simpson, separate from the one in the battle pass, who's wearing nothing but his tighty whities. The discussion about Fortnite skins lacking nipples goes back to 2019, when a gigantic, shirtless and nipple-less digital version...
Once again, Activision has reimagined one of Call of Duty's most iconic maps, Nuketown, and it's launching on November 20 for Black Ops 7. Now, Activision has released a new trailer dedicated to the map, which shows off its new look. The new version is called Nuketown 2025, and as you can see in the trailer, the map appears to be based on the same Nuketown 2025 from Black Ops 2. This makes sense as Black Ops 7 is a sequel to Black Ops 2. Whereas the original version of Nuketown from 2010's...
Epic Games is teaming up with Unity to support the popular game engine within Fortnite. Eventually, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney said, this partnership will allow "all Unity games" to be published within Fortnite. That means even games that weren't designed for Fortnite should work, and this move could pave the way for Epic to fully incorporate Fall Guys into Fortnite. "Starting next year, Unity developers will be able to publish games directly into Fortnite to appear in Fortnite’s discovery system...
It's the most wonderful time of the year for Fortnite players who like free stuff. While Epic regularly offers free in-game items for completing quests or leveling up, the company tends to really ramp up its charitable giving toward the end of the year--and our first truly free skin of the season is Cuddle Team Rider, which you can earn as part of the Winter Rush event, which runs through the end of the season on November 29. The Cuddle Team Rider skin is free for those who complete nine of...
David Anthony Burke, who began his music career as D4vd after uploading Fortnite montages to YouTube with his own original songs in 2021, has reportedly been identified as a suspect in the murder of Celeste Rivas. According to TMZ, law enforcement said that despite there being no official paperwork classifying Burke as a suspect yet, "investigators are looking at [him] as a suspect." Those same investigators reportedly claimed they're viewing Rivas' death as a homicide while waiting on...
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 received a small update on November 18. It's less than a week after launch, but Treyarch is already working to make improvements to the game. The patch notes mostly detailed fixes for the game's campaign and Zombies mode, but stability improvements were included for multiplayer. The developer addressed a campaign issue that allowed some events to lose their progress when players left the activity area. Unfortunately, the patch notes didn't specify if this is for...
Veteran RPG developer and Fallout co-creator Tim Cain argues that modern games have forgotten some lessons of history--a point he made in a recent YouTube video--you can watch the full video below--responding to a viewer's question about whether older titles contain any supposed lost wisdom. Cain's answer--"Yes, there is. Good question." Looking back at his own early years in the industry, he describes an era with only programmers and some artists, but no narrative designers, and far fewer...
The nominations for this year's The Game Awards were announced earlier this week, and fans can place their votes on which games they want to see take home this year's awards. The demand for this was strong, so much so that The Game Awards website crashed--now, organizer and host Geoff Keighley has apologized for the website's struggles and said work was done to improve the experience. "We've seen truly unprecedented levels of global voting activity for The Game Awards this year--tens of...
It appears Battlefield 6 has received a stealthy backend update that tweaks the way your player stats are tracked. Now, EA's military shooter will seemingly no longer count the bots you kill in a match, but if you get blasted by a bot, that death will still show up in your stats sheet for now. According to a November 18 X post by the community news source Battlefield Bulletin, the update was deployed to make the game's stats accurate and fair. If you visit your profile page now, you may see...
The Game Awards return this December, but how were the nominees selected and who determines the games that actually win? And does the public have any say? All of these are questions you might be wondering ahead of the event next week, and here's what we know about the key details. What games are eligible? To be eligible for The Game Awards this year, games must be "available for public consumption" on or before Friday, November 21. Any game releases after then will be eligible for next...
Dragon Quest is one of the most recognizable names in classic RPGs, and also one that has recently leaned heavily on the past to attract new fans. Square Enix has remastered the first three classic DQ games, dubbed the Erdrick Trilogy, and is now skipping ahead to the seventh installment with Dragon Quest VII: Reimagined. It's an unexpected move, but partially explained by DQ7 having such a notorious reputation among fans. Namely, it was a slog. Even its own key developers acknowledge that...
Developer Sucker Punch Productions has revealed a new patch for the open-world samurai sim Ghost of Yotei that introduces a New Game Plus mode on November 24, which lets you literally bring a gun to a swordfight ... or at least more of them. The studio posted a video to the official PlayStation YouTube channel showcasing Ghost of Yotei's New Game Plus update as part of the upcoming free patch 1.100.000. The mode does exactly what you'd expect: allows you to replay the entirety of Atsu's...
There's a free new Minecraft game being developed for mobile in partnership with King--the creators of Candy Crush Saga--but most players won't be able to get their hands on it for some time. Minecraft Blast is a free-to-play mobile game that combines match puzzles with a Minecraft-themed world that you can continually upgrade. Mojang and King describe it as a "delightfully blocky puzzle adventure," and promise "fun and challenging" match puzzles that grant rewards that can be used to build...
The nominations for The Game Awards are out, and among the titles to receive a nod was Larian's Baldur's Gate 3. The RPG scored a nomination for Best Community Support, and it's the second year running that the game has been nominated for it. In response to the news, Larian said, "What the f**k." "Honestly, what the f**k thanks guys," the developer said on social media. In another post, Larian said, "It's a complete honor to have been nominated for Best Community Support again this year...
This was the Kirby Air Ride match where legends were born. Two players faced off on the streets of City Trial, each maneuvering Kirby with precision. One player had assembled what seemed to be an unstoppable, legendary machine--a combination of three difficult-to-collect pieces that granted a huge advantage. The other player gambled, taking a risky move in striking the machine and destroying it before the match ended. Against all odds, the underdog seized the win. It was a comeback rarely...
Usually, Fortnite players like it when Epic Games offers a free skin. But that's not the case for Freediver, a new skin that's available for free only through the Priority app, which offers various deals and rewards to customers of UK mobile providers O2 and Virgin Media. O2 and Virgin members can use the Priority app to claim a code that'll let them unlock the skin by gaining a couple account levels. O2 and Virgin Media customers in the UK can unlock the Freediver skin for free in the...
If Among Us players aren't too busy trying to root out imposters, the crewmates are getting a little taste of life on the farm in a new collaboration with Stardew Valley. "The spacebeans yearn for the cozy charm of farm life, away from the sabotages of space," wrote developer Innersloth on the official site for Among Us. "They've gained inspiration from Stardew Valley--it has their two favorite things: tasks and NO Impostors. Unless...?" From now until February 18, 2026, Among Us players...
Zombies mode returns in Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 with the brand-new Ashes of the Damned map. The roads of Ashes of the Damned are dangerous, so you'll want the map's new Wonder Vehicle in order to survive. Here we'll guide you through how to repair and upgrade Ol' Tessie to make the truck even more powerful. We'll also include some helpful tips for finding and respawning the truck. The full upgrade quest requires the use of the map's unique Necrofluid Wonder Weapon, and you'll want to get...