The "A Path Not Yours" quest in Arc Raiders is given by the Nomadic Envoy and tasks you with finding a nomad trail and returning to the legendary Bilguun's hideout. It takes place entirely on Blue Gate and must be completed in one round, though bringing a zipline or grappling hook is needed for the optional secret stash.
The "Taking Stock" quest in Arc Raiders has five steps, two of which require taking a photo in specific locations. The final task, delivering three industrial batteries to the Nomadic Envoy, is tripping most people up because industrial batteries are frustratingly elusive when you need them.
To complete the "Homesick" quest in Valor Mortis, you must play detective and find out what happened to a missing father. The clue lies deep underground in a hidden, easily overlooked cave full of undead soldiers, though a trick can secure a quick victory.
Indie studios tend to accumulate problems that don't fit neatly into a Jira ticket, such as team tension, a stalling publishing deal, or disagreement over whether the core loop works. The guide suggests keeping one shared, visible list of studio issues that anyone on the team can add to, starting with a SWOT analysis. Regular meetings should reserve real time for these issues, and discussions should follow the IDS method—identify, discuss, solve—to avoid endless debate.
In part 3 of his guide on how to run an indie studio, business coach Martijn van Zwieten examines how to get issues out into the open and solve them through constructive discussions https://bit.ly/4xOSOJX
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 launches on Xbox Series X|S and PC on October 23, priced at $69.99 for the Digital Standard Edition and $99.99 for the Digital Vault Edition, with a $30 upgrade path from Standard. Pre-orders get campaign early access on October 16 and DMZ early access on October 20, while physical copies get neither. The game takes up around 163.24GB on Xbox Series X|S and 115GB on PC, preload is live, and it will not join Xbox Game Pass on day one.
The "Scarecrow" quest in Valor Mortis has players searching for two items belonging to a scarecrow in a farmer's field. The scarecrow is actually a dead soldier tied to a cross, and the generous rewards make this side quest worth completing.
Call of Duty: MW4 early access is almost here, letting players play the campaign before everyone else. The original text gives no date, platform, or sign-up details.
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Bramblin is now available for a limited time in Pokemon Go as part of the Fall Marathon event, marking the first chance to catch it in the mobile game. Unlike most other featured Pokemon, Bramblin won't appear in the wild on its own and can only be encountered by using Incense. The Fall Marathon: Buddy Trek event runs from 10 AM local time on October 13 to 8 PM local time on October 19.
Valor Mortis is available today on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, and Game Pass, with Xbox Play Anywhere support. Players control William, an Englishman who joins Napoleon's cause, in a plague-ravaged Europe. Developer One More Level shared combat tips: break enemy posture for heavy attacks or finishers, counter after blocking to restore lost health, aim at glowing weak points since ammo is scarce, and use Fire Transmutation to set enemies alight for finishers. Ambers change builds, such as Marksman's Bane parrying bullets for pistol rounds and Butcher's Carnage restoring health through melee at the cost of Ferrofluid Flask healing.
Why this: The development team breaks down Valor Mortis's parry, weak-point, and Amber build systems, useful before starting the game.
Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave features classes in several tiers, but some intermediate classes only unlock if you meet certain conditions. Master-rank classes require completing certain quests in Act 3, and the final class tier is hidden in shrines accessible only very late in the game.
The "Wires Crossed" quest in Arc Raiders requires players to obtain three specific Arc parts and then attach them to antennas across three different maps. The game tells you which parts you need and where to go, but the parts are hard to find and the interaction prompts at each location are somewhat hidden, making the quest tricky to complete.
In Arc Raiders, crafting the Level 4 Gunsmith bench needed for "Amplified" weapons requires an Emperor Modulator. You must first craft a key to The Emperor dungeon on Pendola Pass by collecting three Arc Coupler materials and an Emperor Gateway Conduit blueprint during the Redirection event. The modulator is found in the final loot room of the dungeon, so bring a Snap Hook, an Anvil or Renegade, and a Hullcracker.
The "Someone Else's Shoes" quest in Arc Raiders sends players across Stella Montis to find androids on Celeste's behalf while investigating something called Project Pathos. Stella Montis is one of the most difficult maps in Arc Raiders, so the quest can be a severe pain without knowing exactly where to go.
The "Celeste's Teenage Rebellion" quest in Arc Raiders follows immediately after the "Celeste's Childhood Drawings" quest and takes place on the same Riven Tides map. Players must find a lookout tower, a raider camp, and then a large antenna, traveling across the coastal town.
Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen has nine permanent Portcrystals in the Norgan region, including the Norgandian Settlement, Rivercave Campground, Shrine of Wisdom, Northwall Campground, Sealed Study, Gagana's Grotto, Castletown Campground, Lorade Castle and Mordria Temple. Players start with an Eternal Ferrystone, allowing fast travel to any Portcrystal from anywhere with a clear view of the sky, while portable Norgan Portcrystals come from chests and quest rewards.
The "Empathetic Prototypes" quest in Arc Raiders, added with the "Frozen Trail" update, has proven very difficult for players. It tasks you with finding android friends for Lance and must be completed in a single round on Spaceport, requiring either a rare key or serious acrobatic skills.
Dragon's Dogma 2's Dark Arisen expansion adds an Obelisk of Benediction for each Vocation, and activating one grants that class a new ability plus a big power boost while making related Spoils and Relics appear more often. Activation requires an Offeringe Flame earned from the new Proving Grounds challenge dungeons in Vermund and Battahl, which can be located using the Proving Grounds Compass from Captain Brant's Lost Rites quest. There is no Warfarer Obelisk, since that Vocation can already use other classes' weapons and skills.
Arc Raiders now lets you turn off the light on your backpack via the "Emissive" toggle in each backpack's cosmetic menu. To do it, open the Raider menu, enter Customization, go to Style, choose Backpack, and toggle Emissive off. The change arrived with the Frozen Trail 2.0 update and can help you be sneakier, though it may make your character harder to spot in the game's darkest areas.
Polygon rounds up 11 replay ideas for making a fresh Stardew Valley run feel new again, aimed at players whose farm is paid off, villagers are at 10 hearts, and Community Center is complete. The piece starts from the fact that the game never tells you when you're done, and asks how to recapture a sense of wonder once you already know which crops turn a profit and which villagers to date.
Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave has been out on Nintendo Switch 2 for several weeks, and fans are still exploring the massive game. Polygon has compiled a list of games like Fortune's Weave to keep your strategic skills sharp while waiting for Intelligent Systems to reveal their DLC plans.
Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls, from Arc System Works and PlayStation, launches with 21 playable characters, with more to come via post-launch DLC. Announced DLC characters include Phoenix, Cyclops on 2nd November, Thor (Jane Foster) in Winter 2027, Venom in Spring 2027, and Jubilee in Summer 2027. Seven stages have been confirmed, with Klyntar arriving as DLC in Spring 2027.
Dragon's Dogma 2's Dark Arisen expansion adds Hal's Treasure Hunt, which tasks players with finding four wooden posts across the Norgan Snowfield. Drawing lines between the East and West posts and the North and South posts marks where the treasure lies in the Snowslide Pass cave, where the Rusted Ring is found. Returning it to Hal yields the Frostbright Ring, which prevents freezing and blizzard stamina loss in Norgan, plus 20,000 gold.
Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen adds transmog, called Tailoring in-game. After completing The Castle in Ice, unlock the Reaching the Far Shore quest, defeat the ice wyrm Fimbl, and deliver the Taillour-Crafte Treatise to the blacksmith Hal to unlock the "Tailor equipment" option. Tailoring lets you apply any previously collected appearance and usually costs no more than 3,000 gold.
Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen's Norgan region main quest requires solving three Sphinx riddles. The Riddle of the Body has you rest at the Norgandian Settlement inn until morning, defeat the rampaging giant north of the village for the Mournful Giant's Tusk, and earn a Norgan Portcrystal. The Riddle of the Soul requires defeating the lesser dragon Fimbl in the Beorcan Stronghold for the Frozen Wyrmslife Crystal and 3,000 Rift Crystals, while the Riddle of the Will needs the Decorative Brooch from the Mountain Stronghold for an Eternal Wakestone.
In Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen's The Castle in Ice quest, you summon Gagana at the open area with a permanent Portcrystal after catching up to Eir in the caves. Light the three pyres there, then carry three Nekkon with R2/RT and place them on the pyres to burn. Once all three pyres are lit, Gagana flies down for a boss fight.
In Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen, a Snowfoot has stolen five Commission supply items, and players must recover all five for the best outcome. The Thermal Supplies sit on the lower level behind breakable barrels, while the Rare Curatives and Rare Armor are found at the rear of the Snatching-Beast's cave. The Curative Supplies hide in a breakable crate on a ledge to the right of the lair entrance, and the Rare Weaponry is behind breakable crates on the right side of the fight room.
Pokémon Go is holding a Zorua Community Day on Saturday, Oct. 10 from 2-5 p.m. local time, featuring only the original Unovan Zorua with a high shiny chance. Bonuses include tripled catch XP, doubled candy, doubled XL candy chance for level 31+ trainers, three-hour Incense, and one-hour Lure Modules. Evolving Zorua into Zoroark from 2-9 p.m. local time grants the fast move Sucker Punch.
Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave has a few points of no return, but only the one at the start of Act 3 is truly irreversible. The game doesn't tell you outright that there's no going back, though it does ask you to be sure before proceeding. The second deadline is inflexible, and there's no going back afterward.
In Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen, the new Blackdog enemy uses dark magick to negate all incoming damage, so players must break its shield with Holy magick. Blackdogs only appear at night and are first encountered in the A Howl in the Dark quest, where defeating one lets you retrieve the Fallen Pendant. A Mage's Anodyne, any Holy Grimoire, or the Empyrean spell will shatter the shield.
In Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave, giving a gift that matches a character's taste delivers a hefty support boost roughly equal to inviting them to a meal they love. Figuring out what everyone likes isn't always easy, since some list likes such as "looks of fear" that you normally can't buy in stores.
The "Home to Roost" quest in Arc Raiders is one of the lengthier and more difficult quests added after the "Frozen Trails" update, and it does not involve the new map Pendola Pass at all. The quest takes place entirely on Blue Gate, where you must head to the back of the tunnels and dodge pops, fireballs, shredders, and other Arc enemies.
Arc Raiders' Empathetic Prototypes quest has players grapple up the North Trench Tower in Spaceport, jump out a window, and land on a crate hanging from an arm to manually disable its magnetic lock. Players then search the cargo crate and deliver the Project Pathos Empathy Core to Lance. Bringing an augment with a safe pocket and a Grappling Hook is recommended, since the item must be extracted and dying could mean redoing the quest.
Arc Raiders sends players back to Spaceport for the When Everything Falls quest, this time to the Water Towers to track down a weapons stash. The quest requires photographing several locations, including a security booth, a reinforced bus, a breach in the walls, the Arrival Building security room, and multiple spots at the Launch Towers. Players must bring a camera, and an augment with a safe pocket can help store it in aggressive lobbies.
In Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen's Flight in the Night quest, players help young Ilda escape the Norgandian Settlement for The Commission. The guide covers three item locations: Norgan Salmon at fishing spots on the river northeast of the settlement, Winterweed Blossom high on a hill, and Coldstool south of ruins near the Valgr Ravine. Once all items are collected, a Ferrystone can take Ilda to The Commission's campsite.
Arc Raiders' Someone Else's Shoes quest sends players back to Stella Montis to scan any android, then find a specific android in Research Lab 3 in the Medical Bay. Players must then reach the Control Room in the Western Tunnels and interact with the console to complete the quest.
In Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen's new region of Norgan, Amos has gone missing in a whiteout blizzard during The Truant Soldier quest. After exiting the Mountain Stronghold via the East elevator, head Northeast with a Climbing Hook to cross a cavern, then defeat the Nekkon surrounding Amos. Speak to him and he returns safely to the Commission without an escort, and you get your rewards back at the Commission cave camp.
The "Celeste's Childhood Drawings" quest in Arc Raiders takes place exclusively on Riven Tides. Lance wants to cheer Celeste up by searching for some of her childhood drawings throughout the map, though finding the specific locations is a pain.
The Wires Crossed quest in Arc Raiders sends players to three different maps to attach items to three antennas. Players need a Snitch Scanner from killing Snitches, a Surveyor Vault best looted from ARC Couriers, and a Sentinel Firing Core, installing them at Pilgrim's Peak, the Launch Towers, and the Grandioso Apartments.