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Quick Links WithCall of Duty: Black Ops 6guns and movements now integrated into Warzone, Season One also introduced two new weapons to use and start levelling up. However, they’re not given to everyone right from the start. The Krig-C and the Saug are the two new weapons. While it’ll take a while for us to learn if they’re going to cement a place in the Warzone and Black Ops 6 meta, you’ll want to unlock them as soon as you can so that you’re able to start unlocking all the attachments for them....

Two minutes into my conversation withGorilla Tagcreator Kerestell Smith, I completely understood why his game has become such a phenomenon. The virtual reality hangout game that invites you to “reject humanity, become gorilla” hosts a million players per day across Quest and Steam. That’s practically Counter-Strike 2 numbers; an unfathomably sized audience for VR. Despite its modest (yet memeable) aesthetic and simplistic sandbox gameplay, the free-to-play game celebrated 12 million lifetime players and $100 million in revenue this summer....

Summary Humanoid Origin, a studio headed byBioWareveteran Casey Hudson, is shutting down. This comesjust three years after the company was formed, and before it could launch a game. Prior to this, Humanoid Origin was working on a new sci-fi IP. This was yet to be unveiled, so it’s unclear how far the project got before its cancellation and the studio closure. The closure of Humanoid Origin was just confirmed in aLinkedIn post, with “broader challenges in the industry” and and “unexpected shortfall of funding” cited as the reasons for the shutdown...

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, like the rest of the series, includes a lot of secrets, subtext, and pop-culture references. However, a certain secret has only been revealed recently, 20 years after the game’s launch. The character of the Russian spy, Eva was credited to someone called Suzetta Miñet, which fans theorised was a pseudonym. The secret is finally out thanks to the Metal Gear Solid Legacy Series, which is a documentary on the iconic series, featuring David Hayter....

Summary Future DLC forMortal Kombat 1, including a potential third Fighter Pass, has reportedly been cancelled. This comes fromMortal Komberleaker FateUnknown, who has shared details that have proven to be accurate in the past. Now, they’re claiming that planned DLC for Mortal Kombat 1 has been scrapped, including new fighters and even a second story expansion. Mortal Kombat 1 DLC Reportedly Scrapped Mortal Kombat leaker pins the cancellation on poor sales of the first expansion As spotted byInsider Gaming, FateUnknown made this claim on Reddit, sharing the details with disappointed fans....

Nieris a very well-loved series fromSquare Enix, but it’s received little from director Yoko Taro and Square Enix over the years,outside 2B being crammed into every single game under the sun. It’s been almost eight years since the last game in the series -Nier Automata- though we have had remakes and spinoffs inNier Replicantand Nier Reincarnation. It’s about time that Nier gets its time in the spotlight once again, and with the 15th anniversary of the series coming in 2025, it seems as though the team behind the series are going to use the opportunity to show us what’s next....

Red Candle Gamesis one of the most interesting indie developers working right now. Made up of just 12 employees, the Chinese studio has been responsible for three great games that range a number of distinct genres and themes. Detention is a harrowing homage to Silent Hill that pulls from its own culture to take us on a chilling after-school adventure, while Devotion is a first-person horror effort set in a spacious apartment in 1980s Taiwan where a family is pulled into a nightmare of their own making....

At CES 2025 this week,NvidiaCEO Jensen Huang announced the latest generation of GPUs, the GeForce RTX 50 Series. Like many of its cards, the RTX 50 Series has AI-powered deep learning features to boost performance, but the latest version of DLSS (DLSS 4) will use AI to generate up to three frames per rendered frame, inflating your frame rate. Most of its new features are AI-powered. Of course, that will surprise nobody....

I am now the proud owner of a PlayStation Portal. Much like thePS5 Pro, I went through this brief period of buyer’s remorse over whether I’d wasted yet more money on hardware I would never use. But it has already become a regular part of my gaming routine, charging away on the TV cabinet as it waits to be picked up when someone else in the house is eager to watch or play something in the living room....

The sixth and finalPokemon TCGexpansion of 2024 is the biggest crowd-pleaser of the year. The electric-themedSurging Sparksintroduces the iconic Tera Pikachu to the card game with a collection of four unique cards that are already blowing up on the presale charts. The Pokemon Company is evidently looking for a fourth-quarter boost to round out 2024, because this set is going to sell like Poke Puffs. It doesn’t hurt that the new Pika looks like a powerhouse....

Summary The release ofPokemon Trading Card Game Pocket’sMythical Island expansion had a huge impact on the game’s meta. While a deck that includedCelebi ex and Serperiordrew the most attention (and got the most play), there was another deck that rose to the top. A deck revolving around Gyarados ex and Greninja was found to have an almost 60 percent win rate, quickly becoming themost difficult deck in the game to beat....

Summary Lego Ideas is a program that lets anyone with an idea for a newLegoset try and get their concept in front of those who decide what might be turned into toy bricks next. The next review period for those sets will begin in January 2025, anda fanmade concept for aPlayStation 2made of Legohas received enough support just in time to be officially considered by the Lego Review Board. For a set submitted through Lego Ideas to be considered for mass creation and distribution,it must first receive 10,000 supporters....

7Refreshing Herb Back To Basics In turn-based RPGs, status effects can often be incredibly impactful, and turn the tides of combat. While they are still very much present in Mario & Luigi Brothership, they aren’t as annoying as they could be, and they’ll only start to become more of a nuisance in the late-game. You’ll want to keep some Refreshing Herbs on hand just in case one of the four status ailments (trip, dizzy, burn, and ice) is sticking around for too long....