Call of Duty publisher Activision has confirmed plans to charge players extra to earn the best Squid Game crossover event rewards in a first for the series. In a blog post, Activision detailed the Squid Game event, which includes a Red Light, Green Light limited-time multiplayer mode for ****** Ops 6, as well as new operator bundles based on characters from the hugely popular Netflix show for use across ****** Ops 6 and Warzone. One controversial addition, however, is the new Squid Game Event Pass, which includes a free reward track and a premium reward track. While Activision detailed all the rewards included in both tracks (the premium track includes a Front Man Operator skin), it failed to confirm a price. Here’s the official blurb on the Premium Reward Track: While every player can progress and unlock items along the Free reward track, a second Premium reward track in the Event Pass offers even more. Purchase the Premium track to access the ability to unlock additional themed rewards, including the instant reward “High Authority” XM4 Assault Rifle Blueprint plus Blueprints for the Knife, GS45 Pistol, and Saug SMG as well as a Concussion Grenade Equipment Skin, a Finishing Move, the “Throwdown” Emote, the “Who’s Left” Talking Gun Screen, and more! Complete the premium track to turn the tide on the other competitors: Ultimate Mastery Reward: “Front Man” Operator Become the leader of the Pink Guards with the “Front Man” Operator. Deploy as the ruthless administrator of the Squid Game and take your team to victory. Call of Duty players are used to battle passes, premium battle passes, and even more expensive versions of premium battle passes on top of the $70 cost of entry. However, this is the first time a Call of Duty event has launched with its own premium battle pass. It’s fair to say reaction to this development is negative, especially considering the hardcore Call of Duty community isn’t best pleased with the state of either ****** Ops 6 or Warzone right now due to what appears to be rampant cheating, a failing anti-cheat, and various connection problems. Call of Duty’s Squid Game Event goes live starting January 3 at 10am PT and ends on January 24 at 10am PT. Wesley is the *** News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at [email protected] or confidentially at *****@*****.tld. View the full article
Marvel Rivals already has a very impressive roster of over 30 playable characters, but this collection is set to grow with additional recruits arriving each season. The Fantastic Four are some of the first new characters to join this lineup. If you’re looking for new characters to play, this fantastic team of four presents several new gameplay opportunities. To ensure you’re ready to start fighting with them as soon as possible, you need to know when the Fantastic Four are coming to Marvel Rivals. View the full article
This Christmas may have been a painful one for all you Grand Theft Auto fans out there - despite all the conspiracy theories, no new trailers, screenshots, or info arrived on GTA 6. However, 2025 is now here, and should everything go to plan, GTA 6 will be in your hands within the next 12 months. We're on the home stretch, folks. It's going to be a monumental moment when that release date finally arrives, but a group of industry analysts predict that Rockstar Games and Take-Two could rake in over a billion dollars of revenue before GTA 6 even launches. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Upcoming PC games 2025 and beyond GTA 6 release date window, trailers, and latest Rockstar Games news Grand Theft Auto 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 actor shares hint for GTA 6 launch View the full article
Shooting Star Season is upon us in Infinity Nikki, and ringing in the new year in Florawish comes with all kinds of celebrations, including a Lucky Fishing Day that focuses on Pink Ribbon Eels. Lucky Fishing Day began with the update on December 30 and runs until January 23, so you have some time to grab those Diamonds before they go away. There's a lot going on during Infinity Nikki's Shooting Star Season event, and many of them give you Diamonds, so if you're free-to-play and need some more pulls or paid and looking to save some money, there's a bunch of ways to spend your time. View the full article
Marvel Rivals leakers have discovered two new characters that might be added to the game alongside a whole assortment of new maps. Releasing in full just a few months ago, this title has already seen huge success, competing with Overwatch 2 as something new and refreshing in the hero-shooter genre. As players battle in 6v6 with beloved Marvel characters, it's no surprise the game is already such a hit. View the full article
Grand Theft Auto 6 has been projected to earn a jaw-dropping $3 billion in its first year of sales. The number is actually projected at $3.2 billion, to be precise, according to an analysis of GTA 6 by DFC Intelligence and reported by the Financial Times. It estimates that $1 billion of that revenue will come from preorders alone, compared to GTA 5 having crossed that number three days after launch. View the full article
Monday, January 6 will be the day that Marvel Rivals pulls the curtain back on its Season 1 plans, making it a particularly exciting day for fans of the game. Marvel Rivals has already found a great deal of success in Season 0, with the free-to-play shooter earning strong reviews and drawing in millions of players. View the full article
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I come and go with the work of Ken Levine, celebrated auteurman and reported burnout-inducing manager, but I'm interested to see more of Judas, his current project at Ghost Story Games. The concept for Judas is that you're trapped in a computer-run society housed aboard a colony ship, the Mayflower. The titular Judas has managed to break free of the AI-groomed status quo, and is out to start a revolution. "Bioshock Infinite in space", we called it, back in 2022, but Levine says it's more open-ended than either of his Bioshock endeavours, with a greater emphasis on other characters remembering and responding to your actions over time. Read more View the full article
Celebrities may seem so out of reach at times—but as it turns out, even Yeezy is a bit of a gamer like the rest of us. To kick off the new year, Kanye West posted an Instagram story on Jan. 1, informing his fans of his current gaming obsession. “Last of us 2 on Survivor + mode got me spending all day on one board,” the American rapper wrote. “By faaaaaaarrrr the best game ever made so far.” View the full article
After ten years of development, a new contender in the fantasy MMO space has emerged. Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen comes from some of the talent behind EverQuest, and it pivots on that particular brand of old school gameplay, but with some modern sheen. It's early days, but so far, players seem happy. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Brad McQuaid's fantasy MMO, Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen, appears on Kickstarter View the full article
What's the point of playing a non-human character in DnD? No shade if you want to play an Orc or Elf just for the vibes - the concept of non-human sentient species is packed with storytelling potential, after all - but regular Dungeons and Dragons now plays the issue of fantasy races so safe that there's very little players can do with it. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: The Legend of Vox Machina Season 4 release date estimate and news How one DnD player's death created a community for grieving gamers Cute DnD minis be damned - I'm using Hero Forge's new tools for grimdark evil View the full article
FF14 Dawntrail marks the start of a new era for the beloved MMORPG - its second full arc, or even a third if you consider the original 1.0 incarnation of Final Fantasy 14 separately. The launch of FF14 patch 7.1 gave us a glimpse at what's to follow, but game director Naoki Yoshida, best known as 'Yoshi-P,' has his eyes set even further afield as he looks to the next Fan Fest and an even ******* future for our Warriors of Light. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: The best anime games on PC 2025 Final Fantasy 14 just got a new, savagely hard 24-person raid FF14 dev asks Riot to help bring League of Legends to the MMO View the full article
Players have discovered Winnie The Pooh holds a spot on the growing list of banned words and phrases within Marvel Rivals, prompting both curiosity and confusion. Community guidelines and moderation are a cornerstone of any online game, especially one as large as Marvel Rivals, but many fans may be perplexed as to what could be offensive about Winnie The Pooh, the classic stuffed animal come-to-life. When looking deeper, the bear's connection to the ******** government may likely be the reason he's one of Marvel Rivals' unmentionables. View the full article
A recent video by a popular Marvel Rivals streamer pointed out missing text within the game's description of the team-up ability Fastball Special, leading some players to believe NetEase Games is hinting at the arrival of Colossus. Marvel Rivals is currently nearing the end of Season 0, and the community is eagerly awaiting the arrival of Season 1. While very little is known about the upcoming season, many fans are expecting to see new characters, maps, and even game modes. View the full article
Less than a year after being shuttered by Microsoft, Hi-Fi Rush studio Tango Gameworks is officially back from the dead. The resurrected developer, now owned by Krafton and operating under a very-slightly-changed name, announced "a new start" in its first post on X since revealing its surprise closure in May 2024... Read more.View the full article
AMD could be set to make available its mid-range AMD RX 9000 graphics cards as early as March, according to a new rumor. Historically, gaming GPU manufacturers have tended to launch flagship high-end cards for each new generation first, before launching new mid-range cards several months later, so this quick turnaround from AMD would make for a change from the norm. Part of the reason for this could be that AMD has long been expected not to compete with Nvidia at the high-end of the market, with the RX 9070 XT expected to be the company's flagship next-gen card with specs fast enough to only compete with the RTX 5070 rather than the RTX 5090. That means AMD will be highly reliant on grabbing as much of the mid-range GPU market as possible, so the sooner it can launch its more affordable cards, the higher its chances of enticing buyers. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Best graphics card 2025 Best gaming CPU 2025 This rustic AMD gaming PC build blends perfectly with nature View the full article
A trio of new LG OLED gaming monitors is set to be announced next week at the CES 2025 trade show, and not only are all of them larger than 39-inch from corner to corner, but one can even bend from flat to a 900mm (900R) radius curve. The Ultragear GX9 45GX990A is the model in question and its 5K resolution will also provide a huge desktop area to match its massive 45-inch screen size. The three new panels look to be giving LG plenty of firepower to fight for places on our best gaming monitor guide this year, with the company clearly keen to push the limits of screen size, resolution, and shape. The other panels being announced both have a fixed 800R curved, with the the UltraGear 45GX950A also boasting a 45-inch panel and the LG UltraGear 39GX90SA dropping to 39-inches. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Lenovo Legion Go Steam Deck OS leaks look true, as Valve is coming to CES event Zotac just inadvertently confirmed five new Nvidia GeForce RTX 5000 gaming GPUs AMD announces CES 2025 show with huge hints at next gen PC gaming hardware View the full article
According to Review's annual State of Consumer Media Spending Report, the average American spent 23 percent less on streaming subscriptions in 2024 than in 2023. Read Entire Article View the full article
Wuthering Waves has revisited some of the designs for its original boss, Echoes, and given them slight adjustments with Nightmare Echoes. Some of these Nightmare Echoes can be complete game-changers for your build. Here’s how you can unlock and find all Nightmare Echoes in Wuthering Waves. Table of contentsHow to unlock Nightmare EchoesWhat are Nightmare Echoes in Wuthering WavesAll Nightmare Echo effects and locationsNightmare Feilian BeringalNightmare Impermanence HeronNightmare Thundering MephisNightmare Tempest MephisNightmare CrownlessNightmare Inferno RiderNightmare Mourning Aix How to unlock Nightmare Echoes Before you can collect Nightmare Echoes, you must start the Dream Patrol I quest, which can be found in Ragunna City. You can start this quest by speaking to the Strange White Cat in Raguuna City. If you don’t speak to the Strange White Cat, the Nightmare Echo locations will not appear on your map. View the full article
Arrowhead CCO Johan Pilestedt spoke with the community at-large on his X account, asking fans what they were hoping for next from the developer of Helldivers 2. In response to a user urging the company to avoid “DEI” (an acronym for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion), Pilestedt responded with a post which appears to imply that such […] Source View the full article
Yep, you've read the headline, this is serious stuff. Someone claims to have posted some images taken in a Rockstar office of GTA 6 playing on a monitor to Reddit, and it might have shown us what the developer's bins looked like back in 2021. That's assuming it's actually genuine, of course. Read more View the full article
An AI-powered VTuber known as Neuro-Sama has broken the all-time Twitch Hype Train record with the help of Riot's competitive shooter, Valorant. She completed Hype Train level 111 with 84,904 subscriptions and 1,201,225 bits gifted to her creator, Vedal987's Twitch channel within a limited time. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Best Valorant crosshair codes used by pros in 2025 LoL and Valorant esports teams can soon partner with betting platforms Next Valorant Night Market 2024 dates View the full article
When it comes to shooters, it's good to dial up the grit and suspense every once in a while. If you're in a war, it should feel like it, with all the fear and adrenaline that entails. Hell Let Loose channels the sensory load of World War 2 to an incredible degree, putting you right in the middle of some of history's most harrowing battles, and it's free to own right now. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Hardcore WW2 shooter Hell Let Loose teases a brand new desert map Now is the ideal time to try Hell Let Loose, one of the best WW2 games One of 2023's best indie games is now on ***** View the full article
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When is the ****** Ops 6 Season 2 release date? The first season reload of ****** Ops 6 and Warzone arrived at the end of last year, spinning up the annual content cycle in style. Following a loaded content drop with season start, Season 1 Reloaded brought with it a huge new Zombies map, a winter event, and more. Suffice it to say, a tantalizing precedent has been set as we look to Season 2. If you've already uncovered the secrets of the latest Zombies map, Citadelle Des Morts, or have had your fun with all the ****** Ops 6 modes that dropped throughout the season, then it's time to look ahead to the FPS game's next update. Here's everything we have on the ****** Ops 6 and Warzone Season 2 release date so far. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: The best zombie games on PC 2025 The best new PC games 2025 ****** Ops 6 double XP event is COD's Christmas gift to you View the full article
Ubisoft’s PC woes have continued into 2025, with the generally much-loved Assassin’s Creed Origins suffering a review-bomb campaign on Steam after a Windows PC update rendered it unplayable for some. In November, Microsoft confirmed that Windows 11 version 24H2 accidentally killed Ubisoft games such as Star Wars Outlaws, Assassin's Creed Valhalla, and more. The issue was so bad that Microsoft updated its support website to reveal it has placed a temporary block on Windows 11 for users with those games installed. "After installing Windows 11, version 24H2, you might encounter issues with some Ubisoft games," Microsoft said at the time. "These games might become unresponsive while starting, loading or during active gameplay. "In some cases, users might receive a ****** screen. The affected games are Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Assassin's Creed Origins, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Star Wars Outlaws, and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. "To safeguard your Windows update experience, we have applied a compatibility hold on devices with these games installed. These devices will not be offered to install Windows 11, version 24H2 via the Windows Update release channel." Ubisoft released an update to fix the problem in Star Wars Outlaws and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, but Microsoft and Ubisoft are both still working to sort out the Assassin's Creed games, and frustration has finally spilled over into Steam user reviews. Negative reviews for Assassin’s Creed Origins ramped up mid-December before hitting a peak as we crossed into 2025, with the game’s recent user review rating dropping to ‘Mixed.’ Overall reviews for the game remain ‘Very Positive.’ Pretty much all the recent negative reviews complain about the Windows update making Assassin’s Creed Origins unplayable. Until a resolution is found, Ubisoft told customers not to manually update to version 24H2 using the Windows 11 Installation Assistant or the media creation tool. If the game stops responding, you’ll need to use Task Manager to close the application. Ubisoft’s Windows problems have hit the company at a particularly troubling time. The company is reportedly in buyout talks with ******** megacorp Tencent after a torrid 2024 in which it closed studios, shut down games, and made mass layoffs. The company’s next big game, Assassin’s Creed Shadows, was delayed into 2025 and Star Wars Outlaws failed to meet sales expectations. Ubisoft’s shares fell to their lowest level in the last decade in September after it made a series of dramatic announcements around the performance of its games. As well as delaying Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Ubisoft announced a return to Steam after a ******* of PC launch exclusivity on the Epic Games Store, with Star Wars Outlaws recently releasing on Valve’s platform. Wesley is the *** News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at [email protected] or confidentially at *****@*****.tld. View the full article
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Call of Duty publisher Activision has confirmed plans to charge players extra to earn the best Squid Game crossover event rewards in a first for the series. In a blog post, Activision detailed the Squid Game event, which includes a Red Light, Green Light limited-time multiplayer mode for ****** Ops 6, as well as new operator bundles based on characters from the hugely popular Netflix show for use across ****** Ops 6 and Warzone. One controversial addition, however, is the new Squid Game Event Pass, which includes a free reward track and a premium reward track. While Activision detailed all the rewards included in both tracks (the premium track includes a Front Man Operator skin), it failed to confirm a price. Here’s the official blurb on the Premium Reward Track: While every player can progress and unlock items along the Free reward track, a second Premium reward track in the Event Pass offers even more. Purchase the Premium track to access the ability to unlock additional themed rewards, including the instant reward “High Authority” XM4 Assault Rifle Blueprint plus Blueprints for the Knife, GS45 Pistol, and Saug SMG as well as a Concussion Grenade Equipment Skin, a Finishing Move, the “Throwdown” Emote, the “Who’s Left” Talking Gun Screen, and more! Complete the premium track to turn the tide on the other competitors: Ultimate Mastery Reward: “Front Man” Operator Become the leader of the Pink Guards with the “Front Man” Operator. Deploy as the ruthless administrator of the Squid Game and take your team to victory. Call of Duty players are used to battle passes, premium battle passes, and even more expensive versions of premium battle passes on top of the $70 cost of entry. However, this is the first time a Call of Duty event has launched with its own premium battle pass. It’s fair to say reaction to this development is negative, especially considering the hardcore Call of Duty community isn’t best pleased with the state of either ****** Ops 6 or Warzone right now due to what appears to be rampant cheating, a failing anti-cheat, and various connection problems. Call of Duty’s Squid Game Event goes live starting January 3 at 10am PT and ends on January 24 at 10am PT. Wesley is the *** News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at [email protected] or confidentially at *****@*****.tld. View the full article