The stars aligned last week when I got to play the two biggest extraction shooters of 2025 on the same day: The Marathon alpha began at the same time that Embark held a press session for Arc Raiders. Going in, I was way more interested in Marathon. Not only is it an FPS (the superior camera angle to Arc Raiders' third-person), but I was sure that if anybody was going...
The Splitgate 2 open alpha test that ran earlier this year was "very fun," in the opinion of PC Gamer shooter pro Morgan Park, with some significant changes made based on feedback from a playtest that ran in 2024. And there's good news if you missed it: 1047 Games announced today that a much bigger open beta test is set to begin on May 22.The May beta test was first...
To progress in Hello Kitty Island Adventure, you’ll need to rank up your friendship levels with every character inhabiting the island by giving them gifts. Doing so will unlock tons of things — like upgrades to crafting stations, recipes for certain items, and even other characters — so make sure to gift characters every day. To help you figure out what to gift the various characters, we’ve compiled a list...
In 2006 Final Fantasy 12 was a brand new PlayStation 2 game, the Xbox 360's hard drive was at least in spirit still an optional extra, and horse armour DLC was the biggest corporate issue surrounding Oblivion's launch. I didn't play the game back then because I thought I didn't need to—I had Morrowind, a smug sense of superiority, and no use for a sequel. Need to knowWhat is it?...
Chapter 6 Season 3 of Fortnite will be be Star Wars-themed — and ahead of its release on Friday, May 2, you can get a free First Order Stormtrooper outfit. Star Wars characters have appeared in Fortnite before, but Epic Games described this update as the “first-ever” Star Wars Season. You’ll be able to watch the first two episodes of Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld, a new animated series that follows...
Legendary anime director Mamoru Hosoda is back at it again — and his latest project, Scarlet, features a pink-haired warrior princess battling enemies through a wasteland. According to the YouTube description, she’s the titular Princess Scarlet and she wakes up in a mysterious “Land of the Dead” and must avenge her father’s death, or be lost to nothingness and disappear. The poster is similarly badass, featuring the princess in a...
The Reliquary is an updated version of Diablo 4’s battle pass, debuting with the launch of season 8. Instead of a single track for you to progress over the course of the season, you’re instead able to choose the kind of rewards you want and spend in-game currency to unlock them. In this Diablo 4 guide, we’ll walk you through how the Reliquary battle pass works, and give you a...
The biggest rock bands of the ’80s and ’90s — including Journey, Queen, Mötley Crüe, Aerosmith, and Metallica — achieved a specific cultural significance beyond their music, their videos, and their tours. Some of those arena rockers built video games around themselves, often to mixed results, in a way that doesn’t really happen anymore. Now, big musicians show up in Fortnite or Beat Saber or in mobile games built around...
Head into Fortnite's ever-growing library of user-generated game modes and you'll be inundated with all kinds of AI-generated thumbnails vying for your attention.That won't be changing anytime soon either, as Epic product management director Dan Walsh and executive vice president Saxs Persson dove into the rise of generative AI usage in Fortnite during a YouTube livestream around moderation in the battle royale. When asked by host MustardPlays about Epic's stance...
Frostcrag Spire is a The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered mountain fortress and the best house in the game for your character (because it’s free). Frostcrag Spire has every amenity you could hope for in a house and it has teleportation portals to all of the mage guild halls around Cyrodiil. Frostcrag Spire was originally part of the Wizard’s Tower DLC. Since all of that content is part of the...