Earlier this week, Helldivers 2’s Automaton menace — thought to have been destroyed for good over the weekend during a successful offensive — returned to the Galactic War en masse, invading Cyberstan and many other planets with a colossal invasion fleet. We’ve got a Major Order to slow its advance as much as we can […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Rod Fergusson joined Xbox On live on Twitch today to discuss Diablo 4’s upcoming Season 4 and improvements. Fergusson has enjoyed the reception of the game as it’s arrived on Xbox Game Pass, and watching players experience it for the first time. Fergusson is positive about the changes with Season […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Update: A new Major Order has now come in, directing players to head back to the bug front and liberate Hellmire, Estanu, and Crimsica to “clear the way for the construction of new, safer, and more efficient E-710 farms.” The Major Order is set to expire early on Tuesday morning, […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know As of today, Minecraft: Bedrock Edition players can test out the game’s new hardcore mode. This is a mode that has been available on the Minecraft Java edition, but hadn’t been available on Bedrock Edition. In hardcore mode, death is permanent. You will not respawn if you die and you […]
Read MoreDeveloper Pocketpair first teased the first raid battle for its explosively popular “Pokemon with guns” survival game Palworld in mid-March, and now it’s officially here thanks to a new major v0.2.0.6 update. The patch is available to download now for the Steam version of the game, though Xbox players have to wait a bit for […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know In the aftermath of a historic victory against the Automatons on Malevelon Creek, Helldivers 2 players have begun to spot mysterious cloaked warships in orbit above bot-controlled planets. Various screenshots of the vessels are shown or linked to below. Notably, they’re very hard to spot unless they’re visible against a […]
Read MoreUpdate (4/1/2024): As expected, the Helldivers 2 community has successfully liberated Malevelon Creek just a few hours after the Major Order to take the planet came down from Super Earth High Command. Since significant liberation progress for the hazy jungle world was made over the weekend, it didn’t take long for players to finish the […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Forza Horizon 5’s evolving world continues to do just that with the latest free content update. The Race-Off update is already available and kicks off tomorrow with two community-wide challenges. Players can work together to meet racing goals, with up to six brand-new cars on the line. New EventLab props, […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Dragon’s Dogma 2, Capcom’s new, long-awaited ARPG sequel, has a terrifying mechanic called Dragonsplague that infects the player’s Pawn companions with a disease that eventually causes them to wipe out an entire town or city. There are ways to spot Dragonsplague infections and deal with them, but the signs are […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Blizzard Entertainment may have over 7.25 million players are currently playing World of Warcraft, via BellularGaming, which lines up with a chart Blizzard shared at PAX East on how Dragonflight has shown subscriber growth, rather than decline, over the course of the latest WoW expansion. During a panel at PAX […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Over the last several days, Helldivers 2 players have reported (and posted gameplay footage of) mysterious blue laser beams sailing across or falling from the sky and damaging or killing players. Some argue that these are just munition deflections off of armor that are being seen at off-angles, though if […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Apex Legends was hit with a major hack during the finals of a pro tournament over the weekend. Despite being a private lobby, someone hacked the game and gave participants cheats, including wallhacks and aimbots. There’s currently no confirmed information on how the breach occurred, but given the serious nature, […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Mojang have issued an urgent warning to not download the most recent update through the Xbox app on PC. Doing so may result in players worlds being deleted for good. The current workaround is to run the Gaming Services Repair Tool before installing the update. Mojang issued an urgent warning […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Mojang have issued an urgent warning to not download the most recent update through the Xbox app on PC. Doing so may result in players worlds being deleted for good. The current workaround is to run the Gaming Services Repair Tool before installing the update. Mojang issued an urgent warning […]
Read MoreWhat is STALKER? (Image credit: GSC Game World) STALKER is an open world first-person shooter series developed by GSC Game World. The games are set in a fictional version of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in which a mysterious second disaster at the nuclear power plant occurred in 2006, resulting in the creation of mutants, the […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know To celebrate the second anniversary of Dying Light 2, a big update has arrived in the game bringing players firearms at long last. The Firearms Update (1.15) is out now and adds guns to fight off the hordes with, just as we could in the first game. Everyone who logs […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know This past weekend, Helldivers 2 has been “suffering from success.” Its concurrent player count rose above 400,000 on Steam alone, but as a result, many fans experienced capacity-related login queues for several days. Developer Arrowhead has been working hard to expand the servers, but also plans to soon implement an […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Persona 3 Reload, a remake of one of Atlus’ beloved JRPGs, Persona 3 has recently been released on home consoles and PC via Windows Store and Steam. Over twenty-four hours after Persona 3 Reload launched, it broke the Persona series’ record for the highest number of concurrent players playing it […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Early access survival game Palworld is continuing to blow up, reaching over 7 million players on Xbox so far. This makes Palworld the biggest third-party Xbox Game Pass launch of all time, displacing the former record holder, High on Life. Palworld has also sold over 12 million copies on Steam […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Enshrouded is the most recent release from former Portal Knights developers, Keen Games. Released into Early Access, Enshrouded blends souls-like high fantasy with survival action RPG gameplay. Keen Games has shared that Enshrouded has reached the 1 million players milestone just 4 days after its release to Early Access. There’s […]
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