Firm cites Switch 2 release of Shadows as a contributing factor. Ubisoft has released its financial report for Q3 2026, and despite expectations, it’s actually not all doom and gloom. In fact, the firm states that the Assassin’s Creed franchise has “overperformed” this quarter, noting that year-on-year growth in active users is in “double-digits”. The…
Category: Games How High On Life 2’s Skateboarding Kickflips the Shooter Genre on Its Head Mike Nelson, Xbox Wire Editor Published February 12, 2026 Summary Chief Design Officer Erich Meyr shares with us how the High On Life 2 team brought skateboarding to their hilarious first-person shooter. The team cites their experience working on games…
Despite what all the friendly matches would have you believe, Arc Raiders is a PvP-first extraction shooter. The Arc machines are simple, well-designed hazards that are basically just there to encourage PvP altercations or large-scale team-ups for loot that’ll eventually trickle down into even more PvP. I’ll admit though, having such unique interactions with other…
It’s every PC tinkerer’s worst nightmare: an electrical fire. One unlucky Chinese gamer recorded the moment they first powered on their rig with a freshly plugged-in Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090, only to capture the card sparking and igniting. The terrifying clip was first uploaded to BiliBili earlier this week and has since earned almost 100,000…
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Arc Raiders has, by all accounts, done rather quite well for itself. Shooting past 12 million players worldwide back in January, a recent investor presentation reveals that 2026 got off to a bang for the hottest extraction shooter on the block (thanks, Eurogamer). A slide relating to the game itself claims the following—firstly, that Arc…
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Apparently jealous of AMD and Intel’s god-awful CPU branding, Samsung has cooked up a doozy for its latest QD-OLED panel tech for PC gaming monitors. We give you Samsung QD-OLED Penta Tandem, a brighter, more durable panel tech with a baffling brand name. Samsung says the new panel is 1.3 times brighter and twice as…