Kotaku Wednesday, October 29, 2025 7:41 PM
This Anker 160W charger drops to $109 and replaces three chargers with one smart unit. The post Anker Starts Black Friday Early, This 160W 3-Port Compact USB-C Charger Is Selling for Peanuts appeared first on Kotaku. |
Kotaku Wednesday, October 29, 2025 7:14 PM
This portable monitor drops to just $69 which makes console gaming possible anywhere you go. The post If You're a Serious Gamer, This 15″ Portable Monitor for Consoles Is Selling for Pennies appeared first on Kotaku. |
Kotaku Wednesday, October 29, 2025 6:49 PM
One of the (many) Microsoft's Surface Pro drops to $949, and delivers premium 2-in-1 performance at record pricing. The post Microsoft Offloads Surface Pro (512GB SSD, X Plus) at a New Low, Black Friday Starts Early appeared first on Kotaku. |
Kotaku Wednesday, October 29, 2025 6:22 PM
This early Black Friday deal drops Nvidia's powerful RTX 5070 Ti to its lowest price ever. The post Nvidia Kicks Off Black Friday, Asus RTX 5070 Ti Now at Its Lowest Price Ever appeared first on Kotaku. |
Kotaku Wednesday, October 29, 2025 5:33 PM
Desktop Defender rides a wave of popular new idle desktop games The post Steam Next Fest's Most Unlikely Breakout Only Requires A Fraction Of Your Screen And Attention appeared first on Kotaku. |
Kotaku Wednesday, October 29, 2025 5:21 PM
The reaction to the online shooter's first season has been far from universally positive, marking a vibe shift from before the update The post The <i>Battlefield 6</i> Honeymoon Is Over appeared first on Kotaku. |
Kotaku Wednesday, October 29, 2025 4:09 PM
Embark Studios is aiming to deliver a more approachable extraction shooter that doesn't sacrifice the genre's intensity The post <i>Arc Raiders</i>: Everything You Need To Know Before Launch appeared first on Kotaku. |
Kotaku Wednesday, October 29, 2025 3:27 PM
Battle Suit Aces is the latest from Trinket Studios, the developer of Battle Chef Brigade, and it rules The post The Team Behind One Of 2017's Most Underrated Games Is Back With Another Banger appeared first on Kotaku. |
Kotaku Wednesday, October 29, 2025 3:10 PM
Love Halloween, but hate gory and terrifying horror games like Silent Hill ? This list is for you! The post The 15 Best Spooky But Not Scary Games To Play This Halloween Season appeared first on Kotaku. |
Kotaku Wednesday, October 29, 2025 2:56 PM
The developers ask for patience as fans struggle to download the latest Game Pass release The post Microsoft Outage Temporarily Derails <i>Outer Worlds 2</i> Launch [Update] appeared first on Kotaku. |
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This expensive 3D segment only happened because the studio behind it agreed to do it for free The post 30 Years Ago, Homer Entered The Third Dimension appeared first on Kotaku. |
Kotaku Wednesday, October 29, 2025 12:45 PM
The eyesores are sometimes necessary, he argues The post <i>Final Fantasy VII Rebirth</i> Director Says There Are Times When Yellow Paint Is 'Definitely Needed' appeared first on Kotaku. |
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The weekend is great, but not equally, and Mondays are bad, but are they truly the worst? The post Days Of The Week, Ranked From Best To Worst appeared first on Kotaku. |
Kotaku Wednesday, October 29, 2025 12:30 PM
I also asked how Embark Studios plans to make a notoriously difficult genre appeal to more people The post I Asked <i>Arc Raiders'</i> Design Director If Camping Makes Me A Bad Person appeared first on Kotaku. |
Kotaku Wednesday, October 29, 2025 12:11 PM
The company is sunsetting New World: Aeternum amid 14,000 layoffs The post Angry Fans Are Review-Bombing Amazon's Now Abandoned MMO: 'F*** Corporate Greed' appeared first on Kotaku. |
PCGamesN Wednesday, October 29, 2025 4:00 PM Generative AI doesn't contribute to Arc Raiders' superb aesthetic, but Embark tells us how the team has relied on AI during development. |
PCGamesN Wednesday, October 29, 2025 3:00 PM Godbreakers is a new roguelike mixing melee-based action with the frantic fights of Risk of Rain 2, and it's already available at a nice discount. |
PCGamesN Wednesday, October 29, 2025 12:38 PM Testing your base building and decision making, Dark Moon lets you become the captain of a gigantic mech as you try to outrun the sun. |
PCGamesN Wednesday, October 29, 2025 12:37 PM Battlefield Redsec Steam reviews are mostly negative, but a lot of the complaints are more about its existence, plus the lack of solo queue. |
PCGamesN Wednesday, October 29, 2025 12:28 PM Discover what you need to do to access The Outer Worlds 2 console commands, and use our extensive list of commands and cheats to do anything you want. |
PCGamesN Wednesday, October 29, 2025 12:29 PM Using the best Outer Worlds 2 mods, you can access game-breaking tools to respec your character, use console commands, and much more. |
PCGamesN Wednesday, October 29, 2025 12:27 PM The Saga of Malfunctioning Mechanicals in The Outer Worlds 2 tasks you with locating some replacement mech parts of Vigilant Hogarth. |
PCGamesN Wednesday, October 29, 2025 12:22 PM One out of two of the Asus Marshmallow Keyboard and Asus Fragrance Mouse do exactly what their name suggests. Hint: campfires not required. |
PCGamesN Wednesday, October 29, 2025 12:32 PM In a move that feels incredibly out of place for a triple-A dev, Jagex might just remove Treasure Hunter microtransactions from Runescape. |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Wednesday, October 29, 2025 6:54 PM  For as video gamey a series as The Matrix is, it is a touch surprising there have only been a handful of actual games. Obviously the one that makes most sense is The Matrix Online, what other genre but an MMO could The Matrix could be? Well, there's also Enter The Matrix, which is basically Max Payne, but you still have to wonder what else could have been. Especially because The Wachowskis literally pitched the idea of Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima making a Matrix game directly to Konami. |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Wednesday, October 29, 2025 5:32 PM The Florist sounds like a lovely, cosy game right up until its a survival horror about killer plants  Right, what do we have here, a new game called The Florist, 'ey? About a woman delivering a beautiful flower arrangement to a lakeside town? Well, surely this is one of those wholesome, cosy games I've been hearing about! Nope! It is, in fact, a survival horror, and not the kind that's trying to trick you like I just made a less than half-arsed attempt at. |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Wednesday, October 29, 2025 4:10 PM  Because that sacred line called profit must always go up, we are seeing more and more game studios announce their intention to incorporate various forms of AI tech. PUBG publisher Krafton just recently referred to themselves as an AI-first company, the big wigs up top at EA are reportedly pushing for it hard, it is, seemingly, unfortunately, inevitable. Which makes Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick's comments on it ever so slightly surprising - but only slightly, we'll get back to that. |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Wednesday, October 29, 2025 2:16 PM  I'm two for two on writing about games set on the moon today, but sometimes that's just how it is! This time around it's about a newly revealed game called Descent of Lunaris, a dungeon-crawling, turn-based RPG whose devs say it's inspired by classics like Wizardry and Shin Megami Tensei. And, truth be told, it truly looks like a game for sickos, who I'd like to clarify here I am referring to with every sincere ounce of love in my heart. |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Wednesday, October 29, 2025 2:08 PM  If you're having trouble getting into Minecraft, Helldivers 2 or Sea Of Thieves right now, it might have something to do with a Microsoft outage that has taken services such as Azure offline. All three of the aforesaid games are experiencing spikes on DownDetector.com, and there are reports of disconnections and failed logins on social media. The outage has also affected various possibly more consequential non-gaming things, such as airline bookings and banks. On the upside, it seems to have taken down Microsoft Outlook. |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Wednesday, October 29, 2025 1:31 PM  Enough time has passed that all I can remember of the Timesplitters series is a map's worth of landmine-throwing monkeys. It's possible this is an actual traumatic event from my youth, warped into a harmless videogame anecdote by years of cold water therapy and hypnosis. We'll find out on November 23rd, when Cinder Interactive release TimeSplitters Rewind - a fan revival project that stirs together modes, maps, and story material from all three original TimeSplitters games. Oh look, they've published a trailer. Let's have a watch and see if it dredges up any additional explosive, hairy, hooting memories. |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Wednesday, October 29, 2025 1:15 PM  Ring ring. Ring Ring. Ring ring. The stern and bespectacled manager of Blake Manor's hotel appears for the eighth time. You're looking a bit narked there mate, I, the investigatorman, observe. Yes, he says yet again, I'm a bit stressed and busy on account of our telegram machine having gone kaput. Makes sense, I reply, can't think of any other reasons why you might be pissed off. He shuffles back into his office for exactly five seconds. Ring ring. You're being haunted in the demo for spooky detective puzzler The Séance of Blake Manor, which released in full earlier this week, having had a demo up on Steam for a good while. However, I can confirm having taken in the first night of that demo that you're also give the power to do the haunting yourself. |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Wednesday, October 29, 2025 1:04 PM  It is more than commonplace these days for games to get some kind of delay, in fact it's surprising when the big boy names don't get one, like, say, GTA 6, which was meant to be out this year, but got pushed to 2026. But it's rare that most games take more than 13 years to develop, an amount of time which retrofuture moonbase horror game Routine did in fact take. Except now its release is right around the corner! |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Wednesday, October 29, 2025 12:34 PM  If you miss the original Dark Souls as much as you do the mottled grass textures of Hyrule Field, you will perhaps enjoy Mouseward, which is available now in pre-alpha form. It's a "soulslike collectathon" from the people behind Void Sols, which Katharine (RPS in peace) found to be "an atmospheric and highly customisable Soulslike for people who are rubbish at Soulslikes". Mouseward seems similarly forgiving, for all its grim talk of death being "a lesson, not an end". |
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Siliconera Wednesday, October 29, 2025 6:00 PM
Months ago, Takara Tomy announced a line of Sanrio characters gacha figures that reimagined each one as a tooth, and now it is confirmed they'll all appear in Japan in November 2025. It will be 300円 (~$2) per try. Six possible designs will be available. As these are Takara Tomy items and not part of Bandai Namco's Gashapon line, it's unknown if we'll see them worldwide. Rakuten in Japan is already showing listings for sets that don't include the sixth "rare" design.
Each of the figures is just over an inch tall (35mm). You get the character dressed as a tooth and a pink stand that resembles gums to hold them. (They can be removed and displayed outside of the stand.) All of them are healthy teeth except for Badtz Maru, which is suffering from a cavity. The lone "rare" one is an alternate version of Hello Kitty that is a gold tooth. In each case, there's an accessory to help establish who the character is, with both Hello Kitty options having a bow on the front and My Melody's ears poking out of the top of the tooth.
Here's the full list of character options someone could randomly get:
The full ad or the Sanrio characters tooth gacha figures shows all six of them together arranged in a row that makes them look like they're in place in a mouth. A person's fingers are shown "pulling" the standard Hello Kitty tooth from the "gum" stand to offer a sense of scale.
Some of the more typical Sanrio characters gacha figures released recently are a little more ordinary. For example, ahead of Halloween 2025 some ones of mascots in yokai costumes appeared. But in the past other unusual merchandise, like items that focus on characters' butts, did appear.
The Sanrio characters gacha figures of Badtz Maru, Hello Kitty, My Melody, Pekkle, and Pompompurin as teeth will appear in Japan in November 2025.
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Siliconera Wednesday, October 29, 2025 5:00 PM
As part of the Final Fantasy series crossover in FFVII Ever Crisis, we already knew Tifa and Aerith would get outfits based on Lightning's appearance in the original FFXIII. Now we know exactly what the two weapons will look like as well. They'll both debut in-game via the gacha at 7pm PT/10pm ET on October 29, 2025. This comes after we got a closer look at the event storyline and costumes for both characters in a trailer last week.
For this crossover, Tifa gets Lightning's Gloves and Aerith can wield Lightning's Rod. The former is a more offensive weapon, while the latter is designed to support the team. We don't know every ability they possess just yet. But Lightning's Gloves come with the Army of Strikes Ice-based C Ability that hits one foe, inflicting Ice Resist Down and 1,340% Magic Ice Damage to an opponent. It can also give her the Exploit Weakness buff if her health is over 70%. Lightning's Rod's Enhancing Rose will heal allies for up to 7% of healing potency and gives every ally a Magical Damage bonus. It also includes a buff if her health is over 70%, and though that applies to all allies' PDEF instead of just Aerith's. The first time you use that C Ability, it also boosts Aerith's Command Gauge.
Here are the two infographic images showing what the Aerith and Tifa Lightning weapons based on FFXIII look like in FFVII Ever Crisis:
While these won't be available until later tonight, there is a new Angeal Halloween 2025 weapon and outfit available. The Ghost Ensis sword with the Rock Swarm C Ability is in the gacha until November 5, 2025. There's also a Ghost Robe gear costume for him with a Ghostly Spirit that increases his PDEF and MDEF and Boost Earth Potency (All Allies) that increases everyone's Earth damage R Abilities.
Here's the trailer for that:
Final Fantasy VII Ever Crisis is available for PCs and mobile devices, Final Fantasy XIII is on the PS3, Xbox 360, and PC, and the FFXIII crossover comes to the FFVII spin-off on October 29, 2025.
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Siliconera Wednesday, October 29, 2025 4:00 PM
HoYoVerse shared details about how the moveset for Cyrene will work on HoYoLab and released a new "Keeping Up with Star Rail" trailer that shows gameplay footage of each of those attacks. Specifically, it shows how her unique traits allow her to increase everyone's damage just for being on the team on the field and that her Verse Vow Ultimate both summons a Memosprite and lets every other ally use their Ultimates.
While Cyrene will work with everyone in Honkai: Star Rail and her moveset features abilities and attacks to help everyone, there are special buffs for other Chrysos Heir characters. Her Memosprite's This Ode, to All Lives will buff people who are part of that group. But if someone isn't, it just buffs their DMG. Due to the nature of her, due to her buffs and possible zone, there are two versions of her base attack. One is Lo, Hope Takes Flight that deals Ice damage to one enemy and gives her a Recollection point. If it's enhanced to the basic attack To Love and Tomorrow, she deals Ice damage to one foe first, then to all enemies, and restores Recollection points, but won't recharge a Skill Point when used.
Her skill is the supportive one. It is called Bloom, Elysium of Beyond. When used, there's a zone around everyone that increases the amount of damage they do and does "1 additional instance of True damage." It is only available for a set number of turns and while Cyrene is around.
Cyrene's Ultimate is Verse Vow. Once used, her basic attack becomes To Love and Tomorrow for a limited time. Her Memosprite appears, and both her and its critical rate will be higher. Her zone returns to increase everyone's damage and offer True damage. Everyone else's Ultimate will also refill and be ready to use. However, due to the nature of it, it can only be used once per battle.
Here's the "Keeping Up with Star Rail - Cyrene: A Blank Verse for the Future" Honkai: Star Rail trailer:
Honkai: Star Rail is available on the PS5, PC, and mobile devices, and the Cyrene banner will arrive on November 5, 2025 and last until December 16, 2025.
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Siliconera Wednesday, October 29, 2025 3:00 PM
Game Music Festival announced five June 2026 concerts in London celebrating various games and performers, with one being Persona Grooves and the other a Hades-themed Ballads of the Underworld. Those two will both appear at different times on the same day at the Royal Festival Hall. Tickets start at £57 (~$75) for both of those shows.
The Persona Grooves concert will feature songs from the Persona 3, 4, and 5 soundtracks. The official page included the Persona 3 Reload soundtrack as a reference for "featured music," but included Persona 5's instead of the one for Persona 5 Royal. The Bartosz Pernal Orchestra and London Mozart Players will perform, and Shoji Meguro will be a special guest for that show.
As for the Ballads of the Underworld Hades and Hades 2 concert, that will focus on songs from both games. London Mozart Players will be the orchestra for that show. Ashley Barrett, who sings songs from both games like "In the Blood," "Good Riddance," "Time Belongs to Us," and "Moonlight Guide Us," will sing some tracks from the game. Darren Korb, the composer, will also appear as a special guest.
Here's the schedule for the June 2026 London Game Music Festival concerts:
The London Game Music Festival June 2025 series of concerts will start with a Diablo performance on June 6, 2026 at the Royal Festival Hall in London, England.
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Siliconera Wednesday, October 29, 2025 2:00 PM
Bandai Namco and Macy's announced that the 99th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, which takes place on November 27, 2025, will feature a Pac-Man balloon for the first time. It is, in part, designed to celebrate the character's 45th anniversary. There's no word exactly when he'll appear during the parade, but the show will start at 8:30am local time on NBC.
This version of Pac-Man is based on his Pac-Man World 2 Re-Pac release, which appeared on the Switch, Switch 2, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and PC in September 2025. He's wearing his red shoes and orange gloves, and he holds a cherry in his right hand.
Here's the preliminary art for the Pac-Man Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade 2025 balloon. That confirmed he'll be 40 feet long, almost 39 feet wide, and 37 feet tall.
This marks the third video game-themed balloon in the 2025 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. The Eevee and Pikachu Pokemon one showed up first in 2021. A new Super Mario one is debuting in the 2025 parade in honor of the Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2 remasters and upcoming movie.
Macy's official site for the parade still only notes 32 balloons as being present. It doesn't show the Pac-Man balloon yet.
The Macy's 2025 Thanksgiving Day Parade will take place on November 27, 2025.
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Siliconera Wednesday, October 29, 2025 12:55 PM
On October 29, 2025, Limited Run Games held its LRG3 2025 10-Year Anniversary Special showcase going over all planned game releases for 2025 and 2026. The lineup this year included both indie titles and ones from major publishers. Some of the most notable included physical releases of Capcom's Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny and Little Goody Two Shoes from AstralShift and Square Enix. WayForward also announced a new Shantae game is in development.
Here's the full list of upcoming games, with their expected release windows included when possible.
You can see the full LRG3 2025 10-Year Anniversary Special presentation going over upcoming Limited Run Games titles below.
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Destructoid Wednesday, October 29, 2025 3:15 PM
Hushed Whisper wasn't as popular as the other offerings in this year's Festival of the Lost, but this bow is still one of Destiny 2's hidden gems—especially with a god roll.
We overlooked Hushed Whisper at first glance, focusing instead on Gunburn, Festival of the Lost's other new addition, and the reprised Arcane Embrace. But thanks to a specific synergy between two of these perks, we're happy to keep one copy of it in our vaults.
This weapon struggles as a Legendary bow (and one of two aligned to Strand), since it doesn't get the bonus against enemies from the Wish-Keeper Exotic. Bows are also not in the best spot in the meta, but it may still be worth keeping a copy of this in your vault.
Here are our Hushed Whisper god rolls, based on perk data from d2foundry.gg.
Hushed Whisper PvE god rolls in Destiny 2
The synergy between Tear and Archer's Gambit is what gives Hushed Whisper its flavor, at least in our experience, and that's why it's our god roll. If you're aiming for harder content, Archer's Gambit lets you line up shots quickly thanks to its draw time bonus, and Tear will sever enemies in an area-of-effect on a precision kill. Gambit doesn't need a kill either, so you can get it running with little setup.
If you're struggling to land your shots without aiming down sights, you can ADS to line up your arrow and release the aim input just before letting it fly, so it still counts as hip-firing.
Still, that's not the only option for Hushed Whisper, which has a few tricks that may complement your playstyle. Melee-focused players might get some use from having Collective Pugilism as a second perk, and Strand-based builds may also benefit from Hatchling as a second perk.
If that's the case, your god roll depends on what you'd like to pair it with the most. Tear and Slice are good options, especially in harder content, but there's another perk that may shine here, as seen below.
If you're taking your new Hushed Whisper for a spin in an easier activity, however, it's worth considering Successful Warm-Up in the third column over Tear. This gets you a consistent draw time buff triggered on kills (which are easier to come by with lower power deltas) and opens up room for a damage-boosting perk, such as Explosive Head, on column four. Precision Instrument is a bit hit-or-miss: it does grant you considerable benefits, but it's tricky to keep it stacked.
For parts, we recommend going for accuracy and draw time. The former works well in general, and the latter helps you keep firing more quickly before triggering your perks. When it comes to bowstrings, Polymer boosts both accuracy and draw time, while Elastic grants you more draw time with a penalty in accuracy, and Natural doesn't impact your draw speed but bumps other stats.
How to get Hushed Whisper in Destiny 2
Hushed Whisper can drop from Festival of the Lost activities. Destiny 2's classic Halloween-themed event runs until Nov. 11 (after Bungie gave it an extra week due to bugs). It may drop from Haunted Altars of Sorrow (when it doesn't glitch out), the PvP-focused Red Rum(ble), and any Portal activity that has a FOTL Engram as your bonus drops.
After the spooky celebration ends, your next shot at getting this bow is probably in 2026. The good news is, the Call to Arms event kicks off just after FOTL, so at least you'll have more shiny new guns to chase—including the Submersion heavy crossbow, which counts as a bow and will be focusable for the first time.
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Destructoid Wednesday, October 29, 2025 3:03 PM
The Support class can arguably be the best choice in Battlefield REDSEC if you get its build on point.
The Support class has been my favorite in Battlefield 6, and it's as valuable for the battle royale mode, if not more. That said, some of its abilities have been modified according to the nature of the battle royale mode, and this guide will help you test out a fantastic build.
Best Support build in Battlefield REDSEC
Loadouts and builds work differently in REDSEC than the base game, but the fundamentals remain the same. While you're free to use any weapons, the following build makes the most of the Support's class proficiencies and abilities.
Let's begin with your primary. While I have RPKM in brackets, you'll want to opt for KTS100 Mk8. The LMG, with the right attachments, has practically no recoil while having decent damage and a massive ammo capacity.
For the Magazine, you can go with the 45RND Fast Mag. Adding the Ribbed Stubby as the Underbarrel makes it more stable, while the CQB Suppressor is the best choice for battle royale. Once built correctly, the KTS100 Mk8 can shred down enemies from a distance. It's also an excellent option for laying down suppressing fire to pin down the enemy.
For the two gadget slots, I went with the Supply Bag and the Smoke Grenade Launcher. As a Support, your job is to keep your team well-supplied. This means ammo and armor, and the latter appear to be quite scarce.
Once you drop the supply bag, it will automatically resupply your allies with ammo for weapons (gadget resupply doesn't happen in REDSEC). All your allies will also heal more efficiently by having a faster recovery rate, and even if they're in a gunfight. This can really create a unique situation where your supply bag can become the difference-maker.
For gadget 2, I have opted for the Smoke Grenade Launcher. Having an extra option outside of smoke grenades to create a temporary illusion in the battlezone is immensely useful.
With Support, it's important how you play. You will never want to get yourself isolated on the map, since it largely reduces the potential impact of the supply bag. Additionally, don't waste the ammo of your Smoke Grenade Launcher since you can't refill it.
You should aim to pick up as many health packs as you can, so that you are in proximity to your allies. Unlike other classes, your allies can pick the health packs by directly interacting with you.
You should aim to pick up as many health packs as you can to stay in proximity to your allies. Unlike other classes, your allies can pick the health packs by interacting with you.
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Destructoid Wednesday, October 29, 2025 2:48 PM
The Cornerstones/Ratings Reload Campaign Mix Upgrade SBC is now live in FC 26, and it's the first party bag challenge of the year.
You're guaranteed a promo card from completing the challenge, and there are some terrific cards in the mix. However, you'll have to invest your fodder before you can get your hands on the rewards. This guide offers you the complete list of rewards pool for you to take a look at before spending your hard-earned fodder.
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Complete FC 26 Cornerstones/Ratings Reload Campaign Mix Upgrade SBC rewards
The new party bag SBC features two promos: Cornerstones and Ratings Reload.
Cornerstones
Ratings Reload
While the cost of completing the SBC is cheap, you could end up with a low-value card. Hence, only complete the SBC if you have enough disposable fodder.
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Destructoid Wednesday, October 29, 2025 2:29 PM
The Spooky Striker Evolution has arrived right ahead of Halloween in FC 26, and you can upgrade a striker card of your choice.
The latest evolution, available for 20,000 coins, offers some impressive stat upgrades, new roles, and more. Let's look at the best possible options based on the requirements and the offered upgrades.
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FC 26 Spooky Striker Evolution requirements
Here are the requirements of Spooky Striker Evolution in FC 26.
FC 26 Spooky Striker Evolution upgrades
The evolution has four levels of upgrades, and there are certain conditions to fulfil.
Level 1 upgrades
Level 2 upgrades
Level 3 upgrades
Level 4 upgrades
Level 1 upgrade requirements
Level 2 upgrade requirements
Level 3 upgrade requirement
Level 4 upgrade requirements
Best players to use in Spooky Striker Evolution
Here are some of my best recommendations for inclusion in the evolution.
While the upgrades are minor, you will be able to include these cards in future evolutions to create a chain and upgrade their stats further.
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Destructoid Wednesday, October 29, 2025 2:26 PM
You should build Stone Roads in Super Fantasy Kingdom to upgrade houses and get extra Workers when building new houses gets too expensive. This usually happens after you build your third house for 16 Wood. Upgrading the Castle to the next level to increase your capacity to 32 will take a bit longer.
To build Stone Roads, click or interact with your Quarry to open its menu, then use the Upgrade button and pay 5 Boards to unlock the Road Builder.
The Road Builder, an NPC in Super Fantasy Kingdom, will then start building Stone Roads on his own as long as you leave him active. If you see a yellow star when you hover over your Quarry, the Road builder is active. If the star is dimmed, it's inactive and not building Stone Roads. Since he will automatically build Stone Roads using 1 Coin per stretch of road, you may want to disable him when you need to save Coins.
He starts from the Quarry and builds the Stone Road towards the closest building that's not touching one yet. When a stretch is built, he returns to the Quarry before continuing to work on the next road.
You'll be able to upgrade a house when a Stone Road touches it, like in the picture below. The builder's constant movement is the key reason to build your Quarry next to two small plots of land where you can place your Houses. This way, when the Road Builder starts working, he will quickly get to the houses and enable the upgrades for you earlier than if the houses were far from the Quarry.
Then, you can spend raw Ore to upgrade your House and increase the number of Workers available, according to the numbers below:
Since you'll need Ores for the upgrade, remember to put some of your new workers on the Goldmine to gather more Ore to fuel your economy.
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Destructoid Wednesday, October 29, 2025 2:25 PM
New World is officially in maintenance mode following massive layoffs at Amazon Games, which saw some 14,000 jobs cut, including those tied to the MMO. Mentions of AI and the sudden nature of this move threw players into an uproar, and they are now actively review-bombing the game.
As we covered yesterday, New World, Amazon's MMO and WoW rival, is going into maintenance. The game won't receive any new content from here on, which could be an overture into a complete shutdown in the coming months. The game came out in 2021 and was (and is) far from dead, peaking at around 40,000 players daily, which is a lot more than most games can hope for.
It's a fairly large community, and the sudden nature of this move has sparked total outrage, leading players to review bomb the game's Steam page. As a result, the reviews are now "Mixed" both in the recent and the overall categories. The former is on the verge of dipping into the "Mostly Negative" bracket, only held up by negatively-toned reviews that are, for some reason, set as "Recommended."
But no matter if they're a thumbs up or down, the sentiment is overwhelmingly negative and aimed against Amazon and its behavior, with fans saying the company should be "ashamed," that it "stabbed New World in the back," and that it is overall a "disgraceful" company. Words far harsher than these have also been used.
Players are even blaming AI and Amazon's affinity towards this new technology for New World's development cut. And while it isn't exactly clear what role AI had to play in this whole ordeal, Amazon's Oct. 28 blog post certainly does signify a shift in attitude, which could adversely impact other segments of its gaming division.
New World is not the only game under the corporation that's being scaled back. Amazon is halting "a significant amount of [its] first-party AAA development," which'll impact about everything the company might have been working on, such as the Lord of the Rings MMO.
The move above, while not yet the sore end for the MMO, is probably spelling the end of New World as we know it, which further highlights why movements like Stop Killing Games are so vitally important in this day and age. If the time comes, I hope Amazon will provide an end-of-life implementation that'll let players enjoy the game post-mortem, offline or on private servers.
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Destructoid Wednesday, October 29, 2025 12:49 PM
The latest battle royale game to join the genre craze that took over the world in the past decade is off to a tenuous start on Steam, but for reasons you may not expect.
Battlefield REDSEC launched yesterday morning alongside Battlefield 6's season one, and it's off to a Mostly Negative rating on Steam thanks to a wide array of "not recommended" reviews on the platform. When looking into the reviews, though, the negativity seems to have little to do with the actual game mode itself.
A good amount of the negative ratings are from players who are unhappy that the focus seems to be shifting to REDSEC over the premium base game, BF6. The comparisons between the two have already begun, and as a CoD player who's seen Warzone take precedent over the year's base game a few times before, it feels all too familiar.
"I do not like being forced to do challenges for the battle royale, when I'm just interested in playing the base game," one of the top reviews said. "Please keep battle royale challenges separate from the standard multiplayer; if you want to have some multiplayer as a timed mode for the battle royale, that's fine, but please keep it separate."
"I wouldn't hate it so much if I wasn't forced to play it for challenges in the main game," another complained. "But I am. So I do. This is not why I bought Battlefield 6."
Comparing REDSEC to Warzone here, CoD often hosts different events with challenges across the game's modes, and many of them can be completed in any mode between multiplayer, Zombies, or Warzone. For EA's try at BR, it seems to really want to force players into trying it out.
With the new free-to-play mode now making the game accessible to anybody, there's also been the inception of ads for store bundles that have begun to pop up in the game. One reviewer said that "this whole S1 update feels like adblocker stopped working."
Again, as a CoD player, this feels like standard fare. Ever since Warzone dropped in 2020, Activision has spent a lot of time and money catering to F2P players in Warzone while trying to also entice them to pick up the full game for the full price. I'd expect EA to follow suit.
"If I wanted to play Warzone I would install CoD," one reviewer stated plainly.
The complaints are not all about REDSEC taking the shine from BF6, though. Several other reviews mentioned that REDSEC launched without solo queue or the ability to disable autofill, while some others complained that the BR mode has tanks and a lack of armor to find on the map. One gamer says the experience is bad when compared to other titles in the BR genre.
"Coming from APEX and Fortnite, the UI is the worst part of the game," they said. "Menus are incomprehensible, the settings are hard to navigate and understand, and the experience while playing a game sucks."
I've played several games, and I think REDSEC is alright. I do see the Warzone comparisons pretty clearly, and I don't really see myself going out of my way to play it due to a bit of BR fatigue. What do you think of it so far? Let us know in the comments.
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Destructoid Wednesday, October 29, 2025 12:39 PM
Football Manager 26's Advanced Access Beta has received the third major update on Oct. 29, and it includes plenty of bug fixes.
The primary objective of Hotfix 26.0.1 appears to be to provide more stability to the gameplay. It also addresses many bugs in the Advanced Access Beta. Let's quickly go through the patch notes for Hotfix 26.0.1.
Complete Football Manager 26 Advanced Access Beta Hotfix 26.0.1 patch notes
Here's a list of all the changes you can expect after installing Hotfix 26.0.1 on Football Manager 26.
The patch is available for users on Windows and Mac, and on both the Epic Games Store and Steam.
We will update all the patch notes that will appear during the Advanced Access Beta on this guide.
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