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Destructoid Saturday, December 27, 2025 5:38 PM
Time Warp is going to be the next promo in FC 26 Ultimate Team, and the first team of players has already been leaked on social media.
The upcoming promo will be a fresh addition to Ultimate Team. The promo is set to feature legends and figures who have had a significant impact on the world's game. While EA Sports continues to remain tight-lipped, here's a complete list of all the cards that have been leaked.
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All FC 26 Time Warp Team 1 players (leaks)
Here are the leaked names who are predicted to be part of the first team.
The names mentioned on this list should all be in packs, but there will be more cards as part of SBCs and objectives. Cards that are part of SBCs/Objectives won't require you to open your packs (and hence, no reliance on luck).
FC 26 Time Warp team 1 release countdown
Time Warp will be directly replacing the ongoing Winter Wildcards promo. You will be able to find all the new cards on Friday, Jan. 2. This will also become the first promo of the new year, and the following countdown will expire once the campaign goes live.
The countdown is based on the following timings.
It will be interesting to find out how many of these leaked cards will eventually make it to the official team release on Friday.
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Destructoid Saturday, December 27, 2025 4:41 PM
If you were busy trying to play Rainbow Six Siege X and saw a blank Marketplace, then you don't have any reason to be worried.
The Marketplace, as of writing, will be reopened, and it was not a bug or network issue. Instead, it was part of a deliberate action on the part of Ubisoft. The decision was made following a massive server breach that has led to unintended consequences.
Rainbow Six Siege X servers breach explained
The story begins earlier, on Dec. 27, when many players observed messages that resembled banwaves. However, the messages were slightly different from their usual appearance, and players soon found out what had actually happened.
Upon returning to the main menu, many players reported having two billion credits in their accounts. While many players felt that the quantity must be a glitch, two billion credits were actually available in their accounts. They also reportedly gained access to the ultra-exclusive DEV skin and other high-value commodities like Glaciers.
The credits players obtained through illegal methods are premium currency. You can use it at the Marketplace to buy different cosmetics. Some players have also reportedly done so to purchase as many cosmetics as possible.
Hence, the Marketplace was completely shut down to prevent players from crashing the prices. An abundance of the premium currency would have altered the prices in an unfair fashion. As of writing, the servers for the game are also down for the same reason.
While Ubisoft hasn't officially acknowledged the breach, the server maintenance page still lists unplanned outages for the game across all platforms. Since then, Ubisoft has added the course of action.
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Destructoid Saturday, December 27, 2025 3:58 PM
The Power Bank used to be one of the best credit earners in ARC Raiders, and the second season has more uses for this specific item.
The Power Bank didn't have any direct use in the first season, but it always brought a steady amount of credits. Hence, finding one was incredibly lucrative if you wanted to get quick credits. Let's look at where you can possibly find a Power Bank, and what's the best way to use it.
Best locations for Power Bank in ARC Raiders
Power Banks are relatively easy to obtain since they can be found in different areas. You can find them in zones tagged as Electrical, Commercial, and Residential. These zones are spread all over the different maps (apart from Stella Montis).
My favorite maps for finding the Power Bank are Dam Battlegrounds and Buried City. That said, you can also find them from Spaceport and Blue Gate. However, my highest success at finding the Power Bank has been Buried City and Dam Battlegrounds.
On Dam Battlegrounds, you can try your luck at the Power Generation Complex in the northern part of the map. You can also check out the western parts, namely Ruby Residence and Pale Apartments. The southern section features locations like the Electrical Substation, where you can also find a Power Bank.
There are plenty of spots to search on Buried City. The Library, Space Travel, and Town Hall are all possible spawn locations for the Power Bank. You can also try your luck at the Piazza Arbusto and Plaza Rosa. Ultimately, you'll want to look into every corner as Power Banks don't have any specific locations.
The new Expedition project requires you to find Batteries, and the Power Bank is a great source of them. You can recycle a Power Bank to get two Wires and two Batteries. You can also salvage them. So far, there are no other uses for this item, but that could change with a future trial task or new quest.
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Destructoid Saturday, December 27, 2025 3:43 PM
After 17 long years, I have finally gotten around to trying Mass Effect. For the entirety of my childhood and well into my teenage and later years, I had heard about this supposedly great game made by a once-amazing studio, but never ventured to play it for literally no reason.
But now, having played the first game for a few hours, I've come to realize my mistake and how much of a fool I was for sleeping on what could very well be my favorite RPG yet.
Those of you who have visited the site before and read up on my ramblings should know by now how much I love RPGs. I constantly highlight all the good and bad things about each individual RPG I come across, analyzing them from head to toe and theorizing about what could've been done better. This genre is thus a special one to me, one that I continue to scrutinize even outside of work, searching for that one game to rule them all.
I cannot fathom how many times I had googled "good RPG like game X or Y," always failing to take into account the amazing games that were made by the pioneers of the industry. Sure, I had played a lot of BioWare games, including those it had made over 20 years ago, like the Baldur's Gate titles, but I never, for no particular reason, tried out Mass Effect.
When I was in elementary school, I'd come home, get online by whatever means I had at that time, and read up about all the great games I could not play (on account of my crappy PC with a Rage 128 GPU and less than a gig of RAM). Mass Effect came up time and again, alongside the likes of The Witcher 2, Skyrim, and so on.
Everyone who was anyone in the RPG sphere played this series, praising its story, romance options, and choice-and-consequence systems, which I was intrigued by but never really captivated. In time, I would get a better PC, start playing games religiously from around 2013 onward, beating The Witcher 2 and 3 a dozen times, playing even Skyrim, Oblivion, and everything in between. Not a single Western RPG had been left unexperienced, that is, except Mass Effect.
And it wouldn't be until these past couple of days, in the big 2025 (right at its very end) that I'd finally pick the game up.
Man, have I been missing out.
I initially expected this to be a game with a pre-set, silent protagonist in a run-of-the-mill sci-fi setting not far removed from anything I'd read, seen, or played before. It would turn out that no, Emilia Shepard isn't silent, and while she's half-pre-written (much like V in Cyberpunk 2077), the roleplay options remain nonetheless endless.
The graphics in the Legendary Edition are nothing short of breathtaking, whereas the art direction and style are a whole other story in and of themselves. From the cutscenes to the traversable areas to the nature of this amazing world itself, I keep finding myself just staring at things, which are no doubt even more beautiful when displayed in HDR on an OLED screen.
Everything in this game seems to have been meticulously crafted with the utmost care, while even the most rudimentary prop in the environment carries artistic merit. The voice acting, writing, story—everything is beyond fantastic. It has gripped me with a force greater than I had thought possible, finally scratching that RPG itch I have long carried with me (i.e., ever since Baldur's Gate 3 came out).
And it's only the first game. There are three of these things, coupled with dozens of DLC that come pre-installed with the Legendary Edition, and I've only begun to scratch the surface of this stellar (pun intended) experience that stretches out across the cosmos, or at least our rather big milky chunk of it.
It's a refreshing moment in my gaming career, so refreshing that I had to tell you all about it. So far, I've yet to find a single flaw in the game's design, which was likely refined a bit over the original 2008 release. In particular, I am quite taken aback by the fluidity of the combat, the smooth movement, and how satisfying fights actually are.
RPGs are keen on telling you a story, but often sacrifice mechanical depth for the sake of a good narrative.
Mass Effect delivers on both and does it more than well, and is sure to keep me up for countless nights until I, too, can join the conversation about how great BioWare used to be.
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