Developer RedOctane has announced 61 of the more than 90 songs that will be in Stage Tour at launch, including tracks from Metallica, Muse, Avril Lavigne, and Blink-182. The PS5 music game, which comes with new plastic instrument peripherals, launches on 10th December, 2026, with more songs presumably arriving later as paid DLC.
The first step of Arc Raiders' new Sheltered Retreat project is to photograph any farmland house around the Ruined Homestead on the Blue Gate map, located in the south by the Olive Grove. Taking pictures now requires a camera item, which can be bought from Shani for 1.9k, crafted at the basic workbench with 8x Plastic Parts and 1x Wire, or granted by quests like Sizing Things Up.
Star Wars: Galactic Racer is a hard game developed by a team that worked on Burnout, with wild speeds where one wrong move sends you into a wall. Polygon has gathered 10 tips to help you cross the finish line or defeat Kestar Bool.
In the second part of a five-part series, business coach Martijn van Zwieten explains how to set a long-term goal for your indie studio that will define the boundaries for every decision you make https://bit.ly/4AEHrqD
Business coach Martijn van Zwieten outlines the first pillar of the FIRM framework: defining a studio's long-term future. He draws on Jim Collins' Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG) concept, suggesting teams agree on a future date and each write an article about what the studio has achieved by then, with Collins recommending 10–25 years while 5–10 years works well for most studios. Yearly goals should number five to seven to turn that ambition into concrete progress.
In Star Wars Galactic Racer's multiplayer tour mode, you upgrade a speeder across six races, but with only one race per planet you may be caught off guard by Sentinel I. Its boiling yellow acid quickly drains your ramjet boost, so put upgrade points into resilience before arriving rather than pouring everything into afterburner and battery. The same tip applies in singleplayer and pays off in the climactic Derven Acos race, which remixes hazards from Ando Prime, Lantaana, and Sentinel I.
PSA: Star Wars Galactic Racer pilots, put some points in resilience before you hit the acid planet
Star Wars: Galactic Racer is out now on PS5, Xbox, and PC, blending fast racing, arcade action, and roguelike elements. In the tour mode, surviving a race matters more than risking everything to win, so prioritize cornering and speed upgrades and use shortcuts and abilities wisely. The game offers three vehicle types—landspeeder, speeder bike, and skimmer—each suited to different playstyles.
Control Resonant's "Unsupervised Science" side quest sends players across Manhattan to find and shut down six FBC testing facilities, which use two puzzle types. The soda dispenser puzzles require transforming items along a stove-sink-copy machine-soda dispenser cycle into yellow squares, while the power core puzzles require swapping charges between red and blue cores for 60 seconds. Shutting down every facility and entering the final threshold also advances the "Threshold Researcher" achievement.
The best builds in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt depend on your chosen playstyle. Geralt can focus on fast sword attacks that deal high critical damage, or abandon swords entirely and rely on Witcher signs alone. Whichever direction you pick, some builds are stronger than others.
Escape From Tarkov promo codes can be redeemed for in-game rewards including gear, weapons, currency, and cosmetics. These rewards don't require a successful extraction to obtain, and redeeming as many codes as possible can prepare players for their next raid.
Transmog in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt requires unlocking specific craftsman stations, as regular armorers and blacksmiths won't work. The feature was added in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered and is called "reforging" in game, letting Geralt wear flashy Toussaint robes while keeping the best Witcher School armor stats.
GameSpot lays out seven tips for Star Wars: Galactic Racer, centered on managing the Afterburner and Ramjet boost, which enters a redlining state and can detonate if pushed too long. Progressing through each tour unlocks new abilities, parts, and vehicles that extend redline time and reduce engine damage. Players are advised to avoid Eliminator races until their speeder is leveled up.
Saving Manhattan from reality-bending threats isn't easy.
Gears of War: E-Day has 130 collectibles spread across its five acts, the most of any Gears instalment to date. The Coalition has hidden items including COG tags, magazines, and posters throughout the chapters. This guide lists every collectible by act and chapter.
White is one of the easiest colors in Magic: The Gathering to misunderstand, appearing simple with its small-creature armies, life gain, exile removal, and obsession with justice. Beneath that veneer lies zealotry and dogmatism, and at its extreme White wields some of the most brutally oppressive spells in Magic history, capable of destroying the entire world in an instant or making an opponent regret casting a spell at all.
Control Resonant's "Freeze Frame" quest has players hunting cameras that freeze them in place when photographed, requiring players to approach from behind and shut them off. Each zone contains two cameras, and players are advised to grab the Shift and Reach traversal abilities first. The guide covers camera locations across Downtown, Central, and the West Incursion Zone.
Xbox Wire published Part 1 of its DMZ Deep Dive, covering Hajin environments and threats. The post is part of the Tour of Duty series and includes a full intel guide.
Aion 2 guide lists five tips for new players, starting with not enhancing early-game gear since players keep replacing it on the way to the level 45 cap. It also advises completing Regional quests to max out the Ascension Gauge, using Essence Extraction whenever possible, unlocking buffs in the Daevanion menus, and keeping inventory tidy by selling excess materials and using Item Extraction on useless gear.
In Aion 2, reaching Novice level 50 in Essence Extraction caps the skill until you find a Splendent Ruby, an account-bound item that only spawns after unlocking the quest. Asmodians can find Ruby nodes on the cliffs and rocks north of the Quai Campsite, while Elyos should search around the Verteron Fortress Ruins west of Zumion Village. Unlocking gem markers on the minimap in the Essence Extraction Skill menu makes nodes easier to find.
In Aion 2, Essence Extraction is the method for gathering materials from resource nodes, and its success rate starts low, so you need to use it repeatedly to improve. Players can unlock skills like Proficient Handling, Delicate Touch, and Lady Luck from the Essence Extraction screen, and upgrade node-specific skills to raise success rates. Nodes include Ore, Gem, Log, Herb, Cooking Ingredient, and Odyle, each usable two to four times, and the first skill of each type marks that node type on the minimap.
Aion 2's two factions, Elyos and Asmodians, differ mainly in starting regions, society, and aesthetics, while all classes are available to both and players can party with the enemy faction for Dungeon and Raid content. The choice largely comes down to aesthetic preference and which faction your friends play, since sharing the same faction makes leveling together easier. In PvP zones you fight the opposing faction, and for a second character the opposite faction is recommended.
Aion 2 is available now on Steam as a free-to-play MMO. The current max level is 45, class cannot be changed after character creation, and Pets can be unlocked and ridden as mounts. Spacetime Rifts appear every three hours, eight times a day, with players competing against the opposing Faction in PvP for gear and materials.
Pokémon Go is running a "World Space Week 2026" event from Oct. 4-10, offering a Timed Research set and the chance to catch an astronaut Pikachu. Astronaut Pikachu can only be obtained by defeating it in one-star raids or by completing the event Timed Research. The Timed Research tasks players with winning 1 to 5 raids, each rewarding 2,500 XP or 2,500 Stardust, with a final reward of an astronaut Pikachu encounter, 2,500 XP, and 2,500 Stardust.
The "Wild at Heart" quest in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt presents a difficult dilemma while searching for the Blackbough hunter's wife, as players learn it wasn't wolves that got her. Players must decide whether to tell a lie, investigate further, and perhaps even choose between two monsters.
Ars Technica's guide breaks down how optical, Hall-effect, and other contactless keyboard switches work and why they are becoming more common. Vendors claim these switches last longer and resist oxidation, but they require specific PCBs and hot-swappable options are harder to find. They can offer customizable actuation and analog input, though RTINGs found that on 14 tested keyboards the actual actuation distance differed from the app setting.
After performing for nearly 20,000 fans at a sold-out Madison Square Garden in January 2025, Dimension 20 has cemented its status as one of the internet's most popular tabletop live-play shows. Most seasons require a paid subscription to Dropout.tv or its YouTube channel, and the catalog now spans dozens of campaigns across several tabletop systems, making it hard to know where to start.
In Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 4, flushers are port-a-potties that act as teleporters, sending you to a nearby location or another port-a-potty. The third step of the second part of Geno's story quest requires using a flusher to block Geno from listening to The Order's message, and the best spot is the Chopped Shop POI, which has two in the immediate area.
Pokémon Go's 2026 "Harvest Festival" runs from Sept. 29 to Oct. 5 and debuts shiny Applin, which can be found by using Mossy Lure Modules on PokéStops. The event's second part is a Team Go Rocket Takeover that introduces shiny Shroodle and refreshes Giovanni and the leaders' line-ups. The event Go Pass has 30 ranks plus 30 bonus ranks, with the Super Rocket Radar as the rank 30 reward and a $4.99 deluxe upgrade.
In Aion 2, main story Episodes become locked at set points until the Ascension Gauge is filled. Completing Regional side quests raises the gauge by just under 5% each, and Episode quests also fill it, so players focused on the main story likely need only three or four extra Regional quests.
To complete "In the Eternal Fire's Shadow" in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, you must help an Eternal Fire Deacon at an old mine named "The Devil's Pit." Added in The Witcher 3's next-gen update in December 2022, the quest rewards the Forgotten Wolf School armor diagrams, which are modeled after the armor worn by Geralt in the Netflix series.
In Aion 2, old gear cannot be sold, but Item Extraction lets you recycle it instead. Select a piece of gear in your inventory (The Cube), click the flask icon on the description panel, and confirm; each extraction costs a small amount of Kina currency. Extraction rewards upgrade materials such as Enhance Stones plus a cosmetic skin of the extracted gear.
Ghost of Yotei Most Wanted is a new roguelike mode added with Ghost of Yotei: Complete Edition, where players start as Atsu and can unlock four playable hunters, including Jin Sakai from Ghost of Tsushima. Unlocking Jin requires spending 30,000 currency on techniques, weapons or shop items, earned by completing runs and opening chests between rounds. Once unlocked, he keeps all four stances from Ghost of Tsushima, uses the Dance of Wrath as his ultimate, and carries a Sticky Bomb and the Hankyu.
Aniimo codes grant bonus level-up materials and other currency, including glimmer. Though the game lacks a traditional gacha system, these freebies remain useful for raising your aniimo army, buying items in the in-game shop, or exchanging for Sparkling Cubes to use on eggs.
Control Resonant has six secret hideouts, each requiring a puzzle to enter, and finding all of them unlocks the "Backroom Espionage" achievement. They are located in Downtown, Central, West Incursion Zone, Evacuation Zone, The Park, and the Unknown, with rewards including lore collectibles and a health upgrade point.
Gears of War: E-Day is set during Emergence Day, the moment the Locust Horde invaded Sera and caught humanity by surprise. As explained in the review, it is a chunky Gears of War game with non-stop action throughout.
Ruriko-ji Temple in Forza Horizon 6 sits in the northwest corner of the Minamino region, just south of the farms at the top of the area. The easiest route is to follow the off-road trail on the west side of the Naruo Golf Course, or fast travel to a nearby road if you have already visited. Photograph the temple itself rather than the pagoda beside it, and during the spring week of the "British Automotive" series you can complete the #TempleVantage photo challenge with a 1964 Aston Martin DB5 Vantage.