Quick Links Rainbow Six Siege Xshakes up everything you know about Siege with Dual Front, a permanent mode that turns every round into controlled chaos. Success hinges on smart coordination and quick decisions. If you’re diving into Dual Front for the first time, this guide breaks down how the mode works and what you need to know to stay competitive. From how to play to the strategies that win matches, we’ve got you covered, without the guesswork....

Fortnite now has an AI Darth Vader chatbot, which is as dire and American a sentence as I want to write in 2025. Players can recruit Vader to their team, and when they do, he’ll fight alongside you and respond to your questions in real time.Per Epic, it’s a combination of Google Gemini 2.0 Flash and Eleven Labs Flash v2.5. The result is an AI that can believably respond in James Earl Jones’ distinct voice and cadence in real time....

The Slayer has returned inDoom: The Dark Ages, ready to take on the forces of hell once again, this time with a medieval twist. The third entry in id Software’s reboot trilogy is another fantastic shooter, but one of the problems with having such an acclaimed development pedigree is that your new projects will likely be compared to your previous successful efforts. The Dark Ages does have big shoes to fill, as its immediate predecessor, Doom Eternal, was hailed as an achievement in first-person shooting design....

Quick Links Elden Ring launched in 2022 and quickly became one of the most popular games of the generation. While most fans thought the journey was over with the excellent Shadow of the Erdtree expansion in 2024, FromSoftware surprised everyone with the announcement of a rougelike, cooperative spin-off known asElden Ring Nightreign. This is a new direction for a developer known for crafting ambitious and brutal single-player experiences, and while you can play Nightreign by yourself, it’snotoriously easier to play with other people....

Collective Shout, an Australian-based anti-p*rnography group, has found great success in its campaign against adult video games. The organisation says that it only targets games with “sexualised violence and torture of women”, but due to thepressure it’s placed on payment processors, many more titles have been impacted,seeingallNSFW games deindexed on Itch. However, the site has now scaled back its response. In a newblog post, Itch reveals that some adult games will be accessible through the store once more, as long as they are free-to-play....

Following its release in 2012,Lollipop Chainsawgarnered quite the cult following. The hyper-violent action game, featuring a cheerleading protagonist named Juliet Starling, was created by legendary developerSuda51andJames Gunn, the director of Guardians of the Galaxy and new co-CEO of DC Studios. While the game initially received middling reviews, scoring a70 on Metacritic, it sold well over one million copies and earned itself a remaster,Lollipop Chainsaw: RePop, which released late last year....

Discordjust got a big update, and we really do meana big update. In case yourserverswere feeling a little too cosy, you can now invite 2 million more members to join in the conversations - good luck moderating that. That’s right, in case you were unaware, there was actually a default server cap of 500,000 members before this update. I have personally never encountered this, butI suppose enough people had, because Discord saw fit to expand the size so dramatically in this new update....

What happens to Mario when he loses all his lives? Probably something you’ve not given much thought since you just use a continue and carry on, or start the game over. Well, the difference between Mario’s death inSuper Mario Worldand Super Paper Mario implies that Mario gets sent to hell, but he isn’t dead when he gets there. This rather dark deep dive into the lore behind Mario’s death, and what happens to him when he dies, began with a post shared by Mario expert,Supper Mario Broth....

Marvel Rivalsis still going strong, but its playerbase isn’t quite reaching the heights it used to. Now, eventhe launch of Season 3hasn’t been enough to bring back its lapsed players, as it debuts to almost half of the concurrent users on Steam than Season 2 did back in April. In fact, the Season 3 update even brought in fewer concurrent players than the Season 2.5 update towards the end of May....

Summary The Chronos Shield system has been inMarvel Rivalssince launch, allowing players to avoid deranking once the shield is fully charged. Until recently, the only way to charge it was by losing, so you were still guaranteed to lose some of your progression by the time it came in to protect your rank. However, a recent update has changed that completely. Now, players can unlock Chronos Shield Cards by competent event-based missions This gives you an instant Chronos Shield, meaning that you can suffer a loss without consequence....

While many people get their hopes crushed on April Fools' Day by fake announcements and cruel jokes, theMinecraftcommunity always gets some of the best news of the year. For over a decade, Mojang has released something for Minecraft on this day, and it has become a tradition that fans can’t get enough of. Every year, we all wait with excitement for April Fools' Day to arrive because, along with it, we get a passionate and unhinged update for Minecraft....

While audiences were far kinder to theMortal Kombatmovie than critics (scoring it an aggregate of 85 percent on Rotten Tomatoes), everyone seemed to agree on one thing: Cole Young. An original character made just for the film, he took centre stage over series icons, and many argued that he was boring, forgettable, and out of place, with his unique power essentially being plot armour. He’s returning for the sequel, which is set to introduce a few notably missing fan-favourites,like Johnny Cage, but don’t worry....

Quick Links Although most ofNinja Gaiden: Rageboundis about swiftly killing demons and mastering your movement abilities, there are a few bits of side content to get stuck into, including collectibles like the Golden Scarabs. Golden Scarabs are something that veteran Ninja Gaiden fans are going to get a kick out of seeing, and there are a ton of them to collect throughout the campaign. Unlike Crystal Skulls, Golden Scarabs have an important purpose to them....