One week from today, Battlefield 6 Season 2 will go live. That means changes are coming to the game, and veteran players may appreciate some of the upcoming adjustments that are being introduced to make their experience more enjoyable.

Battlefield Studios has revealed it's making changes to Challenges, by doing away with highly mode-specific challenges and eliminating the daily sidearm challenge from the regular rotation. Instead, a number of additional factors will count toward Daily Challenges, including assists. Battlefield Studios promised to keep an eye on players' experiences with these challenges and notes that it will make further changes if needed.

Season 2's Battle Pass progression will also be undergoing some changes. As part of those adjustments, players will be able to earn more Battle Pass Tokens from Career XP, which will let them complete Weekly Challenges and the regular gameplay faster than before.

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Wings of Bluestar (PS5)

$35 | Releases May 27

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Wings of Bluestar: Extra Edition (PS5)

$70 | Releases Q2 2026

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Released for PC back in 2020, Wings of Bluestar earned positive reviews from shoot-'em-up fans thanks to its retro art style, classic side-scrolling action, and heaps of unlockables. It would eventually get digital ports to consoles--and on May 27, Wings of Bluestar is finally getting a physical edition for PS5. If you're eager to add the indie gem to your catalog, preorders are now open at Amazon. Only 2,000 copies are being produced, so this might be one of your few chances to snag it for cheap. There's also an Extra Edition packed with collectibles, and it's even more exclusive, with only 500 copies produced.

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Final Fantasy VII Rebirth - Switch 2 Edition

$50 | Releases June 3

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The Unknown Journey of the Final Fantasy VII Remake trilogy continues on Switch 2, as preorders for Final Fantasy VII Rebirth are now live. The middle chapter in the trilogy heads to the Nintendo console on June 3, and you can pick up the physical Switch 2 edition for $50. Not only is that a full $20 cheaper than the game's launch price on PS5 and PC, but this new version also comes with some exclusive extras--including a unique Magic: The Gathering card featuring one of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth's best characters.

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As you might expect, the Fallout TV series on Prime Video has sent a lot of new and returning players to Fallout 76. But not even Bethesda could have predicted the warm welcome that these newcomers received from the preexisting players in the game.

While speaking with The Game Business, Fallout 76 creative director John Rush expressed his shock at the cooperative spirit and sense of camaraderie that's emerged in the game.

"I'd say a lot of the onboarding was done by our wonderful community who was recognizing all of these fresh vault dwellers emerging from Vault 76 and setting up camps outside of that and giving them free stuff and showing them things and 'look at what I built,'" said Rush. "So it was very much a concerted effort between us and our community welcoming this new influx of brand-new players and returning players alike."

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Mewgenics is out now on PC, and it's crushing it. The game not only scored positive reviews, but is racking up thousands of concurrent players and has already made enough money to recoup its development budget after just 180 minutes of availability. But is the game coming to console?

No official announcements have been made, but developer Edmund McMillen said back in October 2025 that console ports are coming "next year," referring to 2026.

That's all there is to go on at this stage, so it remains to be seen which specific console platforms may be supported. McMillen's most famous game, 2010's Super Meat Boy, was released on console at launch for Xbox 360, before coming to PS4 in 2015, Wii U in 2016, and Switch in 2018.

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Mewgenics, the newly released independent roguelike from Super Meat Boy's Edmund McMillen and Bombernaut's Tyler Glaiel, did not need very long at all to recoup its development costs.

Glaiel said on social media that Mewgenics made back its development budget in just 180 minutes, or three hours, following its launch today, February 10.

The game's budget has not been publicized, but in any event, it certainly seems like Mewgenics is off to a good start. On Steam, the game stands at 61,000+ concurrent users right now. It's close to becoming the most successful launch of McMillen's career, on Steam at least. That record still belongs to The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, a remake of the roguelite original, that peaked at just over 70,000 players concurrent at launch.

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Helldivers 2's Machinery of Oppression update is tasking Super Earth's finest with conquering the "dark heart of socialism" and so far, things are not going well.

The second phase of the invasion of the Automaton homeworld of Cyberstan tasks Helldivers with slaying 700 million Automaton forces in the next day or so in order to clear the way for a full-scale invasion. That part is going well enough, with players as of writing having already defeated well over 270 million Automatons.

It's the other part of the operation that is looking dicey. As part of the invasion, the entire Helldivers 2 community collectively has 200 million lives in order to conquer Cyberstan. Just a few hours after the update went live, the community has already lost more than half of that number, with around 94 million lives remaining currently.

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Players are itching to get back into Overwatch, as evidenced by a lengthy queue that many of them can't get out of. Overwatch's new Season 1 update just launched, acting as a soft reboot that drops the "2" from the title and adds five new heroes. It certainly has fans excited, with the shooter reaching an all-time high for concurrent players on Steam, but many of them can't even get past the title screen.

Firing up Overwatch will put you in line to enter the game, with players reporting that upon reaching the front of the queue, they're given an error message and kicked all the way back.

According to developer Blizzard, Overwatch just had its "biggest weekend in over a year," a claim backed up by recent Steam data. The game reached a concurrent player count of nearly 70,000 over the weekend, but with the Season 1 update, Overwatch has already broken its own record and reached an all-time peak with over 124,000 concurrent players (and counting) as of this writing.

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After being announced in 2012, being cancelled and then revived in 2018, Mewgenics, the latest from Super Meat Boy creator Edmund McMillen and The End Is Nigh creator, Tyler Glaiel, is finally out, and it's a roaring success so far.

Launching today on Steam, the blend of tactical turn-based combat and feline breeding has amassed a large player base already, with SteamDB recording an all-time high of over 60,000 concurrent players. That's one of the largest of the day on Steam, with Mewgenics beating out heavy-hitters such as Overwatch, Battlefield 6, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, and Elden Ring Nightreign.

The launch has been so successful that Glaiel has confirmed that all development costs for the roguelite were recouped within three hours of the game being on sale.

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Despite repeated rejections from Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount continues to pursue a buyout of the company and has now sweetened its bid for the entertainment giant in an attempt to convince WBD shareholders to drop Netflix and go with Paramount instead.

Paramount's revised offer, announced on February 10, includes a $0.25 per share "ticking fee," payable to WBD shareholders for each quarter during the deal process that the buyout is not closed after December 31, 2026. Paramount said such an offer underscores the company's "confidence in the speed and certainty of regulatory approval" for the proposed buyout.

The $0.25 per share works out to about $650 million for each quarter the deal isn't closed after the end of December 2026. What's more, Paramount said it will pay the $2.8 billion termination fee to Netflix that the streaming company would be on the hook for if the deal doesn't materialize. Paramount also said it would offer "solutions to WBD's debt financing costs and obligations."

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Amazon Blu-Ray Sale

Buy One, Get One 50% Off 4K Blu-rays

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Amazon has kicked off a massive Buy One, Get One 50% Off special on its vast library of Blu-rays this week. As usual, all you need to do is add two eligible movies or TV shows to your cart from the eligible 4K Blu-rays, Blu-rays, and DVDs, and you'll receive a discount equal to half the cost of the lower-priced item at checkout. As a reminder, this is a mix-and-match sale, so you don't need to choose just movies to get the discount. You can also choose from books, board games, and more, so long as they're included in the sale.

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For this list, we've gathered together 4K Blu-rays specifically. These are all high-quality editions of movies, and, with the classics chosen below, many are brand-new transfers scanned directly from the original camera negatives and digitized to disc. You're also getting a nice bundle of bonus materials with most of the Blu-rays, allowing you to take a deep dive behind the scenes of your favorite flicks. We've also gathered together several of the 4K steelbooks included in the sale, so if you like your movie collection to have an artistic presentation on your shelf, these are the Blu-rays to grab.

Some of our highlights here include recent 4K releases, like the superb naval film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World starring Russell Crowe and Paul Bettany, a trio of bodacious action films from Arrow Video's remaster of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Trilogy, and the ever-popular Galaxy Quest--by Grabthar's Hammer, what a movie.

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Unravel celebrated its 10-year anniversary on February 9, 2025. Below, we look back on the tiny passion project and speak with a developer about how it came together.

During EA's E3 2015 press conference, Coldwood Studios' Martin Sahlin came out on stage and revealed a cute platformer called Unravel. As he revealed Yarny's handcrafted origins and spoke about the heart and passion Coldwood had in creating this new experience, you could hear and see him growing more emotional. It wasn't an E3 flub, but a reminder that the industry is at its best when developers have space to make games they love.

Unravel turned 10 years old on February 9. I still remember the game's impassioned reveal and how I had such a wonderful time playing. Revisiting Unravel at its surprisingly distinct sequel ahead of this anniversary, I was taken aback by how refreshing these yarn-filled adventures were. I was even more excited to learn that some of the team is reuniting to work on a new game launching later this year.

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Firewatch celebrated its 10-year anniversary on February 9, 2025. Below, we examine the origins of the so-called "walking simulator" and why the fire appears to have died out.

When Firewatch launched on February 9th, 2016, it was easy to relate to the game's leads, Henry and Delilah. These characters spent a summer staring down as fire spread, slowly filling the forest around their watchtowers with smoke. Observers of the "walking sim" genre saw a similar blaze burn across the decade. It began with Dear Esther, sparked to scorching flame with the friction of Gone Home's release, and became a towering creative inferno with modern classics like Firewatch and What Remains of Edith Finch. As the 2010s came to a close, fans expected the fire to continue raging through the '20s.

Instead, it burned out. A decade after Campo Santo released this deeply human game about paranoia in a national park, walking sims have fallen from mainstream prominence. It's not that no one is making them anymore--there are tiny indies available on platforms like itch.io. But the teams that made the defining games have spun their wheels, sold their studios, or split. And The Game Awards nominations have dried up, too. Despelote is the only game in the genre to receive recognition this decade with two nods, compared to five for Firewatch, three noms and one win for Edith Finch, a Games for Impact nod for Sunset, and a Best Independent Game nomination for The Vanishing of Ethan Carter--all in a three-year span. In the 2010s, every year or two saw the release of an iconic, widely discussed entry, but we're six years into the 2020s and still waiting.

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The Walt Disney Company's new CEO, Josh D'Amaro, has further discussed the company's $1.5 billion investment into Fortnite. During a recent Q&A, D'Amaro was asked about the partnership, saying people can expect extensive synergy with Disney's other businesses, and this includes the possibility of premiering new movies within Fortnite.

"It's not just gonna be one character. It could be a new film premiering there, it could be the place that you decide to book your next cruise vacation. You could participate in the Super Bowl in some way there," D'Amaro said, as reported by Puck.

D'Amaro spearheaded Disney's investment into Epic for the Fortnite project, and the incoming CEO wants to do more with gaming overall. It was recently reported that Disney was close to making even more gaming deals, but the search for a new CEO may have disrupted or delays these plans.

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Epic Games is adding a new anti-cheat requirement for Fortnite tournaments for PC players, though it's not something most folks are going to have to worry about. Starting February 19, those who want to play in Fortnite tournaments on PC will have to have IOMMU protection (input-output memory management) enabled, in addition to the previously required SecureBoot and TPM. The good news is that most everyone playing on Windows 11 will already have this enabled, since it's typically enabled by default on compatible motherboards.

IOMMU, like TPM, is another method to protect against cheaters using hardware cheats, while the Easy Anti-Cheat application handles the software side of things. Note that this new requirement is just for tournaments. IOMMU is not required if you're just playing casual or ranked Battle Royale with your friends. If you try to play a tournament while IOMMU is off, you won't be banned--the game simply won't let you play. Learn about how to enable IOMMU here.

The topic of cheating in Fortnite has been a common one since Epic unbanned past cheaters a year ago to give them a second chance--since then, players on social media often baselessly claim the move has led to a cheating epidemic. Meanwhile, Epic has been taking legal action against cheaters and forcing them to apologize publicly several times over the past year.

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Hearthstone's Cataclysm expansion is just over a month away, and that means it's time for Blizzard to begin unveiling the cards we can expect to shake up the meta in the coming months. We're kicking off reveal season with an exclusive look at the dragon lord Ultraxion.

Ultraxion is a 6-mana 6/7 minion, aligned with the Deathwing classes, and it comes with a pair of big effects. Its Battlecry effect will Herald your Colossal minion and reduce Deathwing's cost by 1. But on top of that, if you've strengthened Ultraxion itself with other Herald minions, you can improve the cost-reduction effect as well.

Ultraxion in Hearthstone's Cataclysm expansion

The Cataclysm expansion imagines a world in which Deathwing was victorious, and Murozond pulled this victorious version of Deathwing into the world of Hearthstone. Naturally some of the classes align with Deathwing, while others align with Chromie, the dragon aspect who gathers her dragonflight against him. The new Herald keyword is used by Deathwing-aligned cards and has stacking effects the more you play. Each Herald card you play has an immediate effect on the board, while also strengthening your class's Colossal minion, and powering up Deathwing's cataclysm effect. Colossal minions, powerful Legendaries that spread their stats across several bodies on the board, make their return from 2022's Sunken City expansion.

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Catherine O'Hara played Gail in The Last of Us Season 2, and she was planned to return for Season 3 before her recent passing.

Gail is Joel's therapist in Season 2, and the role was created for the TV show. Gail was a supporting character in Season 2, and while she didn't have all that many scenes, the time she was on screen was memorable due to O'Hara's impressive performance.

"I don't think it's a big spoiler to say that she was gonna be in our show again, because of course she was," Mazin said in an appearance on the Scriptnotes podcast (via GamesRadar). "She's so good. But she was stolen from all of us. The thing that's upsetting me is I don't get to see her in other stuff. I don't care about my show. I wanted to see her in other things, cause what else was gonna happen?"

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Final Fantasy VII Rebirth will become much easier to complete on PC and PS5 when the RPG arrives June 3 on Switch 2 and Xbox. That's because a ridiculously easy mode that debuted with Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade earlier this year is now planned for the second part of the trilogy, too.

The official Final Fantasy account on X revealed that Final Fantasy VII Rebirth will get Streamlined Progression options. This means you can switch a toggle to always dish out 9,999 damage, for instance, or have your HP always at its fullest. Square Enix allows for players to mix and match these easy settings, meaning you can choose how relaxing to make the RPG.

Streamlined Progression, letting you keep all gauges fully charged and continually hit for 9999 damage is included in the Nintendo Switch 2 and Xbox versions of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth and will be added to the PS5 and PC versions.
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— FINAL FANTASY VII (@finalfantasyvii) February 10, 2026

This announcement comes a few weeks after Square Enix updated Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade on PS5 and PC with these easy options. That ensured all versions of the RPG were comparable, as the Switch 2 and Xbox versions got Streamlined Progression options, too. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is one of many Switch 2 games--including Resident Evil Requiem, Pragmata, and 007: First Light--on the way that could fix a long-running Nintendo problem this year.

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Are you excited to join the rumble with your cats in Mewgenics? This roguelite game has you coming up with ridiculous builds for your characters, which includes breeding their offspring, selecting their classes, and finding the right skills among hundreds of available options. Throughout your adventure runs, you'll stumble upon unique items, zany events, and terrifying bosses. Progression can be very daunting, which is why we've got a Mewgenics guides hub to help you every step of the way.

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  Mewgenics guides hubBasics and fur-damentals

  Beginner's guide - Learn the basic mechanics and understand the core gameplay loop.

  How to get more food - Gather enough food to keep your cats from starving.

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If there’s one thing Resident Evil is known for, outside of zombies, it’s action heroes with impeccable hair and impressive catalogs of one-liners. Who could ever forget fending off hordes of crazed villagers in Resident Evil 4, only to have Leon say, “Where’s everyone going, bingo?” There’s an edge of “cool” that has become integral to Resident Evil over the decades, but after the debacle of Resident Evil 6, Capcom knew it had to do something different.

Ethan Winters is not cool. He’s more the absence of cool than anything--a dad joke dressed up as an action hero. But perhaps what’s most amazing is how all that invariably turns him into one of the most compelling protagonists of the series’ history. Ethan is likable in spite of himself, and a surprisingly meaningful piece of the puzzle in how Resident Evil 7 and Village redefined the franchise’s tone while still keeping its heart alive. Sometimes, horror games don’t need an action hero; they just need a dude.

Ethan isn’t a highly trained specialist, he’s not a member of an anti-terrorist organization, or even a cop--he’s a systems engineer. Oh, you didn’t know he’s a systems engineer? That’s because the game itself never tells you that. Perhaps the most apt way to define Ethan Winters is as Resident Evil’s “wife guy.” What I mean by that is that Ethan’s entire identity is tied to his relationships, along with the driving force behind all of his actions. For all intents and purposes, Ethan really is just some guy--a milquetoast middle-of-the-road average dude who just happened to fall in love with and marry a woman who worked on horrific bioweapons. But in a world where zombie apocalypses happen every few years, maybe that’s not so weird. Mia is the one wrapped up in the ongoing soap opera about freakish creatures; Ethan’s just along for the ride.

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