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The latest major update for Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail is now live with Patch 7.4 "Into the Mist" bringing in main story quests, a new dungeon, UI updates, and more. View the full article

The newest entry in the Disciples series, Domination, launches this February for PS5, Xbox, and PC platforms. View the full article

Three Fields Entertainment, the studio founded by former Criterion Games leads, is asking players to fund it through Patreon to ensure its future survival. Three Fields was founded in 2014 by Fiona Sperry (former Criterion Games studio director) and Alex Ward (director of the Burnout series). The studio had previously released six games – Dangerous Golf, Lethal VR, Danger Zone, Danger Zone 2, Dangerous Driving – and its sixth game, Wreckreation, was released in October. Read More... View the full article

Palworld has just pushed out a significant new patch, bringing a collab with Ultrakill and a ton of improvements as developer Pocketpair continues work to prepare for the launch of Palworld 1.0, the game's eagerly-anticipated full release. John “Bucky” Buckley, communications director and publishing manager, teased that this update, dubbed Home Sweet Home, "puts a lot of groundwork in as we work towards our MASSIVE 1.0 release in 2026, but we have lots of little surprises in this update so check it out!" As part of the Ultrakill collaboration, you'll find several "iconic weapons and armor," as well as a V1’s infamous coin toss, while the Home Sweet Home update — as the name suggests — makes it a little more intuitive to put down roots and make your own cozy base. Pocketpair said it had been "blown away by all the incredible builds that you guys have been sending us," and knows we've "been eagerly waiting for more freedom in how you design your base." That's why this update brings a number of new building parts, including the ability to change the color of building pieces and the "much-requested triangular pieces." The building menu UI has also been redesigned and reformatted into a list. But that's not all. Melee combat has been improved to make it "more viable and fun," and now, when summoning a raid boss at the Summoning Altar, players can choose to either fight at their base as before, or take on the raid boss in a special Raid Area. "These Raid Areas allow you to fight with all your might, without risking any damage to your base," the team explained. "You can build temporary structures and take items into these special Raid Areas." Which is just as well, as a new raid boss will also pop up after the update. "2025 has been an incredible year for Palworld, and we’re excited to end the year with v0.7, Home Sweet Home!" Pocketpair exclaimed. "The purpose of this update is to begin improving existing features, and while this update may not be as content-rich as previous ones, we hope players understand that it’s necessary for us to begin laying the groundwork now as we work on the development of Palworld 1.0." Last but definitely not least, PvP! Though the studio admits PvP has been a topic of discussion in the Palworld community for a "long time," and it’s "hard to fully integrate PvP into the game," it is trying to make the dream a reality, albeit with some careful parameters. "We are releasing all the necessary tools for players to set up their own PvP rules on their own terms," Pocketpair said. "Show off your skills and compete with other Pal Tamers! Please note that PvP is experimental, and as such, there may be some balancing issues." Palworld v0.7 patch notes:ULTRAKILL Collab!Added V1 and V2 armor sets! Terrorize the Palpagos Islands as your favorite blood-fueled robot!Added a pair of iconic weapons from ULTRAKILL!Unique Mechanic - Coin TossThrow coins while using the Marksman Revolver to perform a Ricoshot! Bullets will ricochet off the thrown coin and deal devastating damage to nearby targets!Base Building ImprovementsAdded 48 new building parts, including triangular pieces!Added the ability to change the color of some buildings and foundations!Changed the building UI to a list-based system.Raid Boss ImprovementsAdded a new raid boss!Added a new battlefield for raid bosses. Players can now choose to challenge raid bosses in their base or in a new separate battlefield. Melee Combat ImprovementsImproved the melee gameplay for swords, katanas and beam swords. Pressing left click (right trigger) will perform a new consecutive combo attack. Special attacks have been added to the katana and beam sword. Holding either left or right click (left or right trigger) will activate these abilities. New FeaturesAdded PvP functionality (Experimental!).[PC - Steam Only] Added Steam Workshop, allowing players to download and use mods. Mechanic AdjustmentsWhen placing a building, an arrow indicating the building's orientation will now be displayed.When placing a building, buildings with a set work location will now display a Cattiva icon indicating the work location.Adjusted the Palbox so it can be aligned with foundations and roofs. [Keyboard & Mouse Controls] Building controls have been made more intuitive, and continuous building has been changed to the default setting.Balance AdjustmentsAdded new implants to the surgery table:Implant: Mine ForemanImplant: Logging ForemanImplant: Fine FursImplant: Sleek StrokeImplant: Work SlaveYou can now get a Little Kinship Peach from a Pal when freeing them from an enemy camp.The last hit done to an enemy while using mercy will now display ""MERCY HIT"" to indicate that no damage was done.Changed specifications so that all Pals will no longer lose SAN when taking damage.Reduced the impact of bad status effects:Hungry... Attack, Defense, Work Speed ​​-20% → -10%Starving... Attack, Defense, Work Speed ​​-50% → -20%Cold... Work Speed ​​-10% → -5%Sprain... Movement Speed ​​-10% → -5%Overfull... Increased hunger loss rate by 100% → +50%Ulcer... Work Speed ​​-20%, Movement Speed ​​-10% → Work Speed ​​-10%, Movement Speed ​​-5%Fracture... Work Speed ​​-10%, Movement Speed ​​-20% → Work Speed ​​-5%, Movement Speed ​​-10%Weakened... Work Speed ​​-20%, Movement Speed ​​-30% → Work Speed ​​-10%, Movement Speed ​​-20%Depressed... -30% Work Speed, -20% Movement Speed ​​→ -20% Work Speed, -10% Movement SpeedChanged the attribute of the Broncherry's unique skill ""Body Smash"" from neutral to the grass.Changed the attribute of Rushoar's unique skill "Heavy Charge" from neutral to earth.Added "Item Decay Speed ​​Multiplier" to the Options Settings.・[Dedicated Servers] Police NPCs targeting players who have committed crimes will now only deal damage to the target player and their guild.・The appearance of the work aptitude icon has been changed.Bug Fixes Fixed an issue where Flopie would not collect dropped items in the field while her partner skill "Helper Bunny" was active. Improved Pal pathfinding AI ​​to make it easier to reach the target location within the base.Fixed an issue where summoned Pals would attack visitors when set to "attack aggressively."Fixed an issue where attacking visitors in your base would not result in the correct attacking state. Many other minor bug fixes. Vikki Blake is a reporter for IGN, as well as a critic, columnist, and consultant with 15+ years experience working with some of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's also a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her at BlueSky. View the full article

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Fallout 76 celebrated season 2 with an expansionView the full article

Steam Replay presents a slew of information related to your time on Valve's platform since the start of 2025: How many games you played, the number of achievements you unlocked, favorite games, longest streaks, favorite genres, and so on. Read Entire Article View the full article

According to MacRumors, further data mining of a previously reported kernel debug kit leak has revealed that Apple is developing an iMac Pro equipped with an M5 Max SoC. If released, it would be the company's first all-in-one workstation since 2017 and the first iMac Pro to utilize Apple Silicon. Read Entire Article View the full article

"I'm not 100% sure if you're actually seeing speed-ups that much"View the full article

Fall 2025 has come and gone with no news on the indie darling's upcoming editionView the full article

Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus II from Bulwark Studios and Kasedo Games has a release window now set for sometime in Spring 2026. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article

Cannon Fodder is a retro action-strategy gem from 1993 that was originally released on my old love the Amiga, and the modern open source port just got upgraded. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article

The Magic: The Gathering card Hansk, Slayer Zealot has seen a huge price spike, going from just $2.80 when the last MTG set came out in November to $29.70 today, on December 17. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: MTG head designer reveals the five worst sets he's ever made Rule-bending MTG card sees 325% price rise thanks to Avatar's hottest commander Upcoming Marvel MTG set introduces new card type that feels strangely familiar View the full article

Concerns over child safety are stopping Disney from collaborating with Roblox, a new report has revealed. With 151 million daily active users, Roblox is one of the biggest games in the world — if not the biggest. And increasingly, access to this audience is seen as a lucrative and highly accessible method of marketing everything from big-name brands to Hollywood blockbusters. Still, worries over how safe Roblox is for its enormous audience of players — many of whom are under the age of 18 — remain offputting to Disney, a new Variety report has highlighted. While some had suspected Disney was avoiding Roblox due to its $1.5 billion investment in rival gaming platform Fortnite, sources told Variety that Disney was instead avoiding Roblox specifically because the company did not believe the larger platform was safe at this time. Disney content is of course deeply embedded within Fortnite, which regularly hosts Star Wars and Marvel crossovers, recently featured a well-received The Simpsons mini-season, and now includes a small army of licensed skins for everyone from Maleficent to the Mandalorian. A specific Disney Fortnite mode is also in development. For now at least, Roblox fans shouldn't expect anything similar, the report continues. That's despite Roblox's far larger audience (Fortnite averages between 30 and 40 million daily users) and the platform playing host to other large brands, such as Sonic the Hedgehog and Squid Game. Following signficant, sustained criticism of its player safety protocols and amid multiple lawsuits, Roblox has added a series of stricter requirements designed to limit who its young audience can interact with. Most recently, the platform added facial age verification to limit communication features in select countries, with a U.S. rollout to follow. But this too has been criticized as something of a band-aid. "The issue is basically the ability of younger players to cheat those systems — to pretend to be older, to use the older siblings, to use facial identity to get into those systems," Ron Kerb, CEO at child safety platform Kidas, told Variety. "And we know that it's happening on TikTok, we know that it's happening on gaming platforms, on Roblox. Platforms are trying to block kids, and kids are going to find ways to open it up." In Roblox's most recent Safety Snapshot, the company said it "continued to innovate around safety," and revealed it had open-sourced a version of Roblox PII Classifier, which "has significantly enhanced" its ability to detect and block attempts to violate its policies around sharing personally identifiable information (PII). Image credit: Katelyn Mulcahy/Getty. Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You can reach Tom at [email protected] or find him on Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social View the full article

World of Warcraft housing is finally a reality - well, it is for those that have pre-ordered the Midnight expansion, at least. It's taken players no time at all to build everything from cozy cottages, to Viking longhouses and ghostly ships that sail through the skies (thank you, floating house glitch). But for those wanting to maximize the space on their plot, there's been a really frustrating oversight - there's no visual indication of where the edge of your buildable land is. Well, that's about to change. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: New World of Warcraft Classic update sees the return of one of MOP's best raids, so get your group back together World of Warcraft Decor Treasure Hunt quest riddle solutions World of Warcraft's housing has finally arrived, but thanks to a new teaser I've now got my eye on marriage View the full article

"It's no secret that Palworld has a lot of quirks and jank"View the full article

"We have people who create art, and they use various tools…"View the full article

Bethesda and Rockstar know a thing or three about meeting anticipationView the full article

First released in the '90s, the retro racing series designed by Geoff Crammond is making a return under new names with publisher MicroProse. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article

Full Spectrum Dominance launched five years ago, and is something of a success story among totally digital miniature wargames, with community organized convention events throughout Europe, America, and even China. But without any presence in retail - and with an original 6mm model range that, while gorgeous, can't easily be used as proxies for other games - there's always the risk that you'll print off an army and have nobody to play against. Publisher The Lazy Forger is hoping to remedy that with its new solo and co-op mode, Swarm Mode, which pits players' armies against waves of autonomous robots or alien bugs. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: New Legions Imperialis scale minis blend tanks and JCBs Legions Imperialis rival coming from Bethesda mini maker Modiphius Warhammer 40k meets Command And Conquer in micro-scale wargame View the full article

Dire Wolf, a board game publisher with a knack for digital adaptations of hit tabletop titles, announced a new acquisition on December 15. It's now in charge of Tabletop Playground, a virtual tabletop with very similar offerings to Tabletop Simulator. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: This cozy bardcore board game somehow makes siege warfare adorable Brain-melting board game Mind MGMT is a hefty 38% off on Amazon right now Leave Warhammer's grimdark behind this holiday season with this whimsical and affordable alternative View the full article

There's no denying that ARC Raiders has taken the gaming world by storm over the last few weeks, and it's largely due to the hilarious and often wholesome interactions players have during PvP encounters. The community appears to share a hatred for the ARC enemies in ARC Raiders, which can frequently lead to little to no PvP, especially in Solos. This has seemingly taken developer Embark Studios by surprise, as the devs say they are "way worse people" when it comes to PvP interactions with each other. View the full article

How to complete the Toxic Trails quest in Arc RaidersView the full article

"Doing frequent updates with a team of just a few people takes it's toll"View the full article

Valve have released Steam Replay for 2025, showing off some interesting stats about your gaming and how it stacks up against everyone on Steam. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article