‘We’ve got some big changes coming in Season 1’: Call of Duty: Black Ops 7’s design director talks buffing aim assist, adjusting spawn locations, and a drone pod nerf ahead of the next season

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Season 1 is only a couple of weeks away, but as we creep closer, the devs are still fine-tuning the multiplayer and campaign experience to ensure they’re both as smooth as possible. We’ve had plenty of patch notes and changes to this end. Treyarch has even changed the requirements…

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Helldivers 2 players exercise managed democracy to rename destroyed city ‘New York Supreme’ rather than the infinitely better ‘Bernard’

Helldivers 2 players have exercised their democratic rights by choosing to re-name a destroyed city called York Supreme as New York Supreme. Yes it does sound like a pizza, which is kinda the point. The sad news, however, is they chose this nonsense over the far superior choice of “Bernard.” It does make you wonder…

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Guild Wars 2: Visions of Eternity is the MMO’s best annual expansion yet, but the real test is going to be whether it can keep up the momentum

In 2023, ArenaNet switched to an annual expansion plan for Guild Wars 2—smaller, but more frequent expansions that rolled out in stages across an entire year. The benefit has been a more consistent release schedule. But there are downsides too. The first of these expansions, Secrets of the Obscure, felt like it was trying to…

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If you ever feel like you’d have won a fight in Arc Raiders if you actually heard the player sneaking up on you, then you need to turn this setting on right away

Generally speaking, it’s the players you can’t see that pose the most danger to you in Arc Raiders. Chances are, players who stroll on up to you and make their presence known just want to be your friend, or they’ll openly betray you later on but you’ll often see that coming, to be honest. Either…

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Ahead of Black Friday, Fanatical has dropped more comic and book bundles than I know what to do with, covering Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Cyberpunk 2077, Halo, and more

This week, Fanatical celebrates a whole year of its ‘Fantasyverse’ initiative—basically a fancy name for their videogame bundles now being joined by comic, TTRPG, and book bundles. But, as the hobbits do in the Shire, it’s the kind of birthday where there’s presents for everyone, in the form of (you guessed it) a metric ton…

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