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Call of Duty: Black Ops 6has brought back a fan-favorite Zombies perk in its Season 1: Reloaded update. The iconic Vulture Aid perk, originally seen in Black Ops 2’s Buried map, has returned in Citadelle Des Morts with a slight rework. If you struggle with ammo management or want to squeeze out some extra Essence from zombies, then Vulture Aid will quickly become your favorite perk. In this short guide, we cover how Vulture Aid works in Black Ops 6, how it affects loot drops from slain zombies, and give a brief overview of all six augments for Vulture Aid....

You may have noticed thatthe internet has been rifewith articlesabout the Nintendo Switch 2ever since its reveal a few days ago. That’s how these things go. It’s a big deal. We talk about it. You may have also noticed that a couple of key narratives have emerged: “I’m ecstatic that they’re playing it safe because we don’t need another Wii U moment” versus “my disappointment is immeasurable and my faith in Nintendo is sundered”....

Maybe I’m just out of the loop, but I had no ideaIndiana Jones and the Great Circlewas anXboxexclusive. Maybe it’s because I’ve had a lot of deadlines recently, or that I’ve been too busy conducting cool interviews and [redacted], but this news just passed me by. If you want to know how busy I’ve been, I haven’t even watched any ofThe Game Awardsyet. The highlight of any self-respecting gamer’s festive period passed me by like a Witcher in the night....

Dragon Age: The Veilguardtakes you to a lot of different places. It’s broader, in both variety and distance covered across Thedas, than even Inquisition, especially when you factor in the one-off locations we head to for specific companion quests. Whether its bustling cities, enchanted forests, gothic palaces, or grimdark fantasy battlefields, The Veilguard has it all. It even has tropical beaches on the Rivain Coast, and this feels like the setting with the most potential....

Summary A reliable insider has claimed thatNintendois planning to portKirby’s best 3DS game, Planet Robobot, to theSwitchat some point in 2025, despite Triple Deluxe coming before it and not yet having received a remaster. As every Nintendo fan is painfully aware of, we’re all waiting anxiously for theHouse that Mario Built to finally announce the successor to the Nintendo Switch. While it seemed for a while like it might happen in 2024,that’s rapidly looking like it won’t be the case, leaving Nintendo with a somewhat drier and more remaster-filled schedule than usual....

Horizon Zero Dawnhas a cool aesthetic. The idea of robotic animals in a post-apocalyptic world where humanity has resurfaced as a variety of comparatively primitive tribes that hunt said creatures for resources is a fabulous concept, but one that seldom lends itself well to compelling storytelling and characters. ButGuerillastruck gold with this franchise, building on the heavy and oppressive technology found inKillzonebefore combining it with a lusciously oversaturated open world where every corner you turned was an opportunity to gawp at the scenery....

Summary It’s Black Friday and no matter what site or store you visit today, and across most of the weekend, there will be video games on offer for very tempting, much lower prices. You’ll be hard-pushed to find a better gaming deal than this one, though.Mass Effect’s Legendary Edition, which combines the remastered version of the original trilogy into one collection, for less than $5. The Legendary Edition of the Mass Effect trilogy hashad its price cut from $59....

Summary So many Black Friday sales are live that even though there are still a few days to go until the sales event officially arrives, we might as well consider it underway.Segahas shared some of the more notable discounts it has exacted across various retailers with some of its biggest games of 2024 included in its cut-price picks,Metaphor: ReFantazioandLike A Dragon: Infinite Wealthamong them. Metaphor: ReFantazio is only a month old so to see it discounted for Black Friday feels like a very big deal....

Summary One of the surprise announcements atThe Game Awards 2024was thatNinja Gaidenis finally coming back in the form of a 2D side-scroller called Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound. Although this year might not have beenquite as jaw-dropping as the year that gave us Baldur’s Gate 3, 2024 has still been a very interesting year for the medium. While there’s still some time left before we jump into 2025, the last big event of the year is, like always,tonight’s The Game Awards....

I still have myNintendo 3DS. I keep it around because, unlike theWii U, its best exclusives never got airlifted out of obsolescence and delivered safely to theSwitch. There’s some logic to that – older handheld games getting ported to a new home console is not nearly as common as older home console games getting ported to a newer generation. The problem now is that the Switch is Nintendo’s home consoleandits handheld console....

Summary The Game Awardsis a contentious event every year, but this year’s nominations have been particularly discourse-heavy because for the first time in the show’s history,a DLC pack has been nominated for Game of the Year. Whether you think that’sfairornotis really none of my concern, because right now, I’m more interested in analysing a far more common complaint about the show: the snubs. Every award show has people who complain about their favourite thing of the year being overlooked, and while some of the complaints have been entirely valid, one of them isn’t....

Summary Palworldmay have launched all the way back in January earlier this year, but it’s been soldiering on with regular updates for a while now,despite the best efforts of Nintendothat would rather see the title shut down for good. A lot of focus around Palworld has been on that particular, but that doesn’t mean developer Pocketpair has been sat twiddling its thumbs. In a new tweet via the official Palworld Twitter account, it’s been announced that a new major update is coming next month, one that will add “the largest, harshest, and most mysterious” new island to the game....

Summary Pokemon’s collaborations with other companies can often feel so random that it’s usually impossible to predict what it might do next. For example, I’d be surprised if anyone saw the team-up announced today coming ahead of time. The Pokemon Company has revealed it is working on a new animated project with Wallace & Gromit creators Aardman which is set to be released in 2027. Pokemon confirmed the surprise team-up via a short animation it shared on social media....