Earlier this year, Halo Studios and Microsoft did a very rare thing in the video game industry by providing permission for a fan-made Halo-inspired game, Spartan Survivors, to go forward. Now, Spartan Survivors has made the leap to Steam, as shared in an announcement by developer Bathrobe.
Spartan Survivors is free on Steam, and that was one of the conditions that was placed on the project when Halo Studios signed off on it. One of the other requests was a legal disclaimer on the game's...
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Are you scratching your head because you can't seem to unlock more weapon slots in The Outer Worlds 2? It's not just weapons, mind you. The types of grenades and medical inhalers that you can equip at any given time tend to be very limited as well.
How to unlock more Outer Worlds 2 equipment slots
There are a couple of ways to unlock additional item slots in the game:
One option is to socket mods that grant an extra slot. Note that this effect remains active as long as you have that gear...
Season 1 of Battlefield 6 is live today, which includes the game's first battle pass, new weapons to unlock, and the brand-new Blackwell Fields map. Unfortunately, Blackwell Fields is a large-scale area with a ton of open ground, causing players to voice their complaints about the map.
Blackwell Fields is set on a massive oil field in California, with lots of open ground for snipers and long-range combat. The map offers structures like oil wells, construction equipment, and small pieces of...
Earlier this year, WB Games announced the cancellation of MultiVersus, and the game was shut down in May. Now, two of the directors of MultiVersus have revealed that they are joining forces to launch a new studio, Airlock Games, which will be completely self-funded.
MultiVersus production director Justin Fischer and technical director Brock Feldman are the founding members of Airlock Games, and the duo previously worked on Disney Infinity and Medal of Honor. Rather than diving back into AAA...
Fans of roguelites and roguelikes will be happy to see two of the genre’s standout titles--Vampire Survivors and Balatro--come together in a free collaboration today. Vampire Survivors, a game where players fend off endless waves of night creatures, now features jokers, planet cards, and artwork from one of 2024’s biggest hits.
"Now you can use Balatro characters in Vampire Survivors whilst using Vampire Survivors card skins in Balatro," the YouTube summary of the announcement trailer...
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask celebrated its 25-year anniversary on October 26, 2025. Below, we examine how it leveraged its unconventional time-travel element to tell some memorable stories.
Even a series as storied as The Legend of Zelda has produced a black sheep or two in its long history, but perhaps no installment is as divisive as Majora's Mask. The second Zelda title released for the Nintendo 64 and the follow-up to the universally acclaimed Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask...
Battlefield Redsec is available now, having launched alongside Season 1 of Battlefield 6. The new battle royale game is free-to-play and also available as part of the Battlefield 6 experience, which can make it a little confusing if you're just getting started. Here's how to install and play Battlefield Redsec if you own Battlefield 6 already, and if you don't.
How to play if you own Battlefield 6
If you already own Battlefield 6, you'll have an exceptionally easy time starting up...
Season 1 of Battlefield 6 adds three more multiplayer maps to the game. Two are brand-new, large-scale maps, and there is also a seasonal variant of an existing map. The new maps also introduce more vehicles to help you traverse the battlefield, which surprisingly includes a golf cart. In this guide, we'll highlight all the new maps and vehicles you'll find in Season 1 of Battlefield 6.
It's also important to know that these DLC maps and vehicles aren't all available at the launch of Season...
In a sudden move, Amazon will eliminate more than 14,000 corporate jobs as part of a massive layoff, with many of these job losses affecting the tech giant's gaming division, according to a new Bloomberg report.
According to a memo that Bloomberg saw, the job cuts largely fall on Amazon's offices in Irvine and San Diego. It's unclear exactly how many of the 14,000 jobs are part of the company's gaming division, but the central publishing unit has been hit, with the intention of reducing...
Battlefield 6's first season features plenty of new weapons to unlock, but not all of them are available at launch. Season 1 is scheduled to roll out in three phases, so you'll have new weapons to unlock with each update. In this guide, we'll list all the Season 1 weapons and attachments, as well as explain how you can unlock each.
Battlefield 6 Season 1 starts with the Rogue Ops update, which is live now across all platforms. The California Resistance phase launches November 18, and the...
Early in Pokemon Legends: Z-A, the towering and gaunt AZ makes a grim proclamation: The game's setting of Lumiose City "bustles today with Pokemon and people, but beneath the surface lurks a terrible grief."
Walking around Paris-inspired Lumiose, it's evident that as the city undergoes earth-shattering changes, uncertainty and anxiety permeate the air. Amidst catching 'em all and being the very best, the thematic core of Pokemon Legends: Z-A is a question: How does a city solve its...
Famous--or infamous, depending on your point of view--English game designer Peter Molyneux has opened up about his forthcoming and reportedly last game ever, Masters of Albion, calling it a "redemption title" for all the years that he overpromised and underdelivered.
In an Edge interview (via VGC), Molyneux said that promising his games will do A, B, and C has always led him into trouble when those promises never came to fruition, citing his previous projects like the God game Black & White...
An update on the Halo Insider website indicates that PlayStation players can join test sessions for future Halo games. It's hardly a surprise, coming after the bombshell news that the Halo: Campaign Evolved remake--and subsequent entries in the series--will be on PlayStation.
On the Halo Waypoint website, the page for opting in to console playtests now includes checkboxes for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 4 Pro, PlayStation 5, and PlayStation 5 Pro.
The Halo Insider program has given fans of...
As Nintendo celebrates 40 years of the Super Mario Bros. series, a couple of iconic developers want to see the popular plumber make it to his 100th anniversary. Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto and Super Mario World director Takashi Tezuka discussed how the Nintendo mascot can live on for decades and decades to come in a recent book.
VGC reported on and transcribed a new Nintendo Museum book focusing on Mario's 40th anniversary. In it, Miyamoto and Tezuka--alongside other developers--are...
Between the original Matrix and its first sequel, The Matrix Reloaded, Lana and Lilly Wachowski had the ambitious idea to tie in the story to a video game as well. The project that eventually came out of that was Enter the Matrix, which was published by Atari. But if the Wachowskis had their way, that game would have reportedly been made by Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima.
Konami's former VP of licensing, Christopher Bergstresser, recently shared an account of Kojima's meeting with...
It's been nearly 20 years since Rockstar Games' Bully came out, and while there's no word of a sequel, the next best thing may have dropped: a mod that introduces online multiplayer to the high school action sim.
As reported by IGN, a group of modders has finally revealed Bully Online. Led by YouTuber, developer, and "massive Bully fan," SWEGTA, the project has been a long time coming, but is inching ever closer to an early-access launch in December 2025 for those who support the team on...
For the second year in a row, it's looking like an official Lego tabletop game is going to be one of the most popular board/card games during the holiday season. Last year it was Monkey Palace, a fun strategy board game for up to four players. This year it's Brick Like This, a collaborative party game for up to eight players. Brick Like This: A Lego Party Game--not to be confused with Lego Party, the video game--is available now for only $20 at Amazon and other major retailers.
Brick Like...
A year after arriving on Switch, MySims Cozy Bundle might be on the way to PlayStation and Xbox platforms. A new report states the package--which includes MySims and MySims Kingdom--will come to PS5 and Xbox Series X|S next month. If so, it would be the first time that The Sims subseries has been released on Sony and Microsoft's console platforms.
Dealabs (via Insider Gaming) reports that MySims Cozy Bundle is slated to launch November 18 for PlayStation and Xbox. It's unknown whether this...
Loulan: The Cursed Sand has been officially revealed, and this action-RPG will see players take control of a skeletal warrior--who goes by the on-the-nose name of Cursed Sand--on a quest to rescue his beloved princess. Thanks to magical sand powers, the resurrected warrior stands a fighting chance against the monsters standing between him and the princess as he travels along the ancient Silk Road.
In a PS Blog post, game director Hongwen Huai revealed that the design of Cursed Sand is...
In April 2022, developer and publisher Sharkmob officially launched Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodhunt, a battle royale set in White Wolf Publishing's World of Darkness. Players took control of vampires in Prague as they joined rival sects and battled each other with their supernatural abilities and conventional weapons. However, new updates for the game ceased in 2023, and now Bloodhunt's servers are going offline in 2026.
Sharkmob announced the news on its site that Vampire: The...