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This week, the first season pass arrived for the recently-reborn Skate in an update that—as a quick glance at the Skate subreddit will tell you—isn’t being received very well, with players complaining that a spattering of superficial challenge additions are being used to justify a pile of new microtransactions. The most reviled among Skate’s new…
Two years after the release of Cities: Skylines 2, and more than a year after it was originally supposed to arrive, the big Bridges and Ports expansion is finally almost here. Paradox and Colossal Order announced today that the big, twice-delayed DLC will finally go live on October 29. Bridges and Ports was originally expected…
The Sims 4 Adventure Awaits expansion takes the hassle out of micromanaging households by introducing its new Getaway system, which adds custom venues, daily schedules, and roles tailored to each Sim. It makes it easy to set ’em and forget ’em, and just like brainstorming small business ideas in Businesses & Hobbies, so much of…
For better and for worse, consumable XP boosts return in Battlefield 6. Activate one in the top right of the multiplayer menu, and you can double your account XP for a set amount of time—either 15, 30, or 60 minutes a pop. The timer on XP boosters stacks, meaning you can activate multiple boosters at…
Well, this is something you don’t see every day: With Arc Raiders now three weeks from launch, developer Embark Studios has lowered the price of the game in several regions on Steam “to ensure a fairer experience for everyone.” You’ve probably noticed that our coverage of games typically includes pricing info in US dollars, pounds,…
Cards Against Humanity is a party game where the humour revolves around fill-in-the-blank statements on cards, which players then complete with taboo or offensive terms. It’s a very fun game, if you get the right kind of group together, and frankly a little bit of a tonic in a world where censoriousness feels like a…
Good news for the PC massive. According to the market data wonks at IDC, worldwide PC sales are up by nearly 10% in their latest figures. However, sales in the US alone only crept up by 1%. To be more specific, IDC reckons worldwide PC sales in the third quarter of 2025 are precisely 9.4%…
Overwatch 2 Season 19 won’t just bring a new battle pass and scary Halloween modes—it’ll also introduce a ton of changes to its standalone competitive mode Stadium, including an armory upgrade, combat text, and gadgets. Torbjörn, Hazard, and Sojourn will be joining Stadium for Season 19 alongside the new Busan Sanctuary Control Map. But I’m…
We’ve got just five days until the summer season is finally kicked out of Overwatch 2 and Season 19 ushers in the season of scares. There’ll be a new Halloween-themed battle pass, more Mythic skins than you can shake a stick at, and three modes for players to terrify themselves in. “No Overwatch Halloween would…
It’s a landmark day in the greatest ideological conflict of our time: In a blog detailing its Black Ops 7 beta takeaways, Treyarch has announced that BO7 will launch with “minimal skill consideration” as the multiplayer default, reversing a series trajectory of skill-based matchmaking implementation that dates all the way back to Call of Duty…