Fans of Hot Wheels, building sets, and cars in general should check out the recently released replica vehicle models while they are in stock. The new Hot Wheels building sets launched August 1 as the first members of the toy manufacturer's Brick Shop brand. Similar to Lego and Mega Bloks--which is owned by Mattel--Hot Wheels Brick Shop building sets are pieced together using a variety of different brick types and sizes. Whereas Mega Bloks' Hot Wheels sets are more playful and geared toward younger audiences, Mattel's Brick Shop kits were designed for collectors and car enthusiasts who are looking for authentic models of iconic cars such as the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL, Corvette Grand Sport, Cadillac Project GTP Hypercar, and Maserati MC20. Each Brick Shop model is built with pieces that are compatible with other major brands such as Lego and Mega Bloks.

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Diablo 4 Season 10 arrives September 23, and it will bring with it a major change to boss fights that players have long been asking for.

Since Diablo 4's launch, players have complained about boss immunity phases, scripted moments in boss battles where endgame bosses become invincible and force players to contend with various mechanics before they can be harmed.

While on paper it might make sense, it was resulting in a frustrating experience for many players who could easily kill the boss in just a few blows were it not for them becoming invincible for extended periods of time. Those phases became even more frustrating in Diablo 4 Season 8, which overhauled its endgame boss ladder to put even more of an emphasis on boss fights that heavily featured the mechanic.

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World of Warcraft premium cosmetics are nothing new, but a new bundle is raising eyebrows due to the sheer amount of stuff it includes.

Normally, a new premium cosmetic bundle isn't particularly noteworthy. Blizzard has sold mounts, pets, helmets, and armor sets for real money for years now. Two years ago, Blizzard sold its most expensive WoW mount ever, the Trader's Gilded Brutosaur, for $90.

The new Ascended Regalia Pack, however, stands out, but not because of the $30 price tag. Instead, the Spirit Healer-themed bundle is notable because it includes a whopping 100 individual transmog pieces, with four full armor sets and 22 weapon appearances. Blizzard clearly thinks it's a big deal, as it's the only time in recent memory that it has crafted a trailer for a premium cosmetic bundle. Because they are all individual pieces, players can mix and match parts of the armor sets to create their own look, or combine them with their existing transmog collection to create something new.

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A new update arrived to Call of Duty: Warzone on September 16. While this is a very small update, the patch notes include a few notable bug fixes and changes to Season 5's Deadline limited-time mode.

Season 5 Reloaded added the new Deadline limited-time mode, and now the new update makes a few improvements to the match rules. Circles two, three, and four are now extended by 30 seconds each. The developer says this change was made to allow players "extra time to coordinate and rack up points," while also slowing down the gas to provide players with more breathing room.

Deadline's respawn timers are reduced by five seconds, which lets players jump back into the action faster. Additionally, the mode's "Round End" warning will now show 60 seconds from the end instead of the original 30-second warning.

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Borderlands 4 is now out, and amidst several issues that players have reported, it looks like there's a bug that could cause you to lose all of your skill points. So what's causing this glitch to trigger? Gearbox says that disconnecting and rejoining a multiplayer session or a game crash in single-player could be the problem here, and it says that it has noted here. There is currently no way to restore those lost skill points, and there's no indicator yet of when a fix for this bug will be released.

"Players may lose skill points after disconnecting and re-joining a multiplayer session, or crashing in single player. In these instances, they have lost all or most of their skill points. Leveling up more and using the Respec machine do not restore the lost skill points," Gearbox wrote on its support page.

Some players have unfortunately encountered this bug, causing them to lose hours of progress. While the game is still playable, doing so without any skill points invested in your Vault Hunter makes it much more challenging, given that the game features level-scaling in its world. Skills help to even the playing field and can unlock powerful skills to help you survive longer in a fight, and Borderlands 4 places a bigger emphasis on building a powerful Vault Hunter with these abilities and the right gear.

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Disney World is one of the most popular tourist attractions in the United States, and there have been a number of high-profile incidents at the park over the years, the newest of which was a daring, underwater heist--and the suspect remains on the loose.

Florida authorities said this week that a man stole as much as $20,000 at Paddlefish, a popular restaurant located on Disney property at nearby Disney Springs. Cops say the robber swam up to Paddlefish just after midnight on Monday, September 15--when it was closed--and entered the manager's office.

Money was being counted at the time, authorities said, and the suspect instructed two staffers to close their eyes and stand in the corner. A source told WFTV 9 that the suspect tied them up, and then stole between $10,000 and $20,000. The employees informed police that the burgular left within 120 seconds, and that they called 911 after getting free of their bonds.

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Escape From Tarkov, the first-person shooter that popularized the extraction genre, is finally coming to Steam, albeit with a catch. Those who already own the game will have to buy it again if they want to launch it through Steam.

In a Steam FAQ that went live alongside the Escape From Tarkov Steam page, developer Battlestate Games explained more details about how the game will work on Steam, what Steam functionality it will support, and whether or not players who already own the game will be able to launch it through Steam.

The short answer is that those who already bought Escape From Tarkov, which until now has only been available directly from Battlestate Games' own launcher or website, won't be able to start using the Steam version. Instead, existing owners who want to play on Steam will need to purchase an edition of the game on Steam itself.

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Sony is reportedly prepping a new PlayStation event for next week, according to reliable leaker NateTheHate2. However, it's not clarified whether this could be a State of Play or Showcase, though there hasn't been a version of the latter in over two years at this point.

The last two PlayStation State of Play events have each focused on a single game. The July presentation put the spotlight on first-party exclusive Ghost of Yotei, while earlier this month, Sony showed off the James Bond title 007: First Light from Hitman developer IO Interactive. If this recent report pans out, that would mean two major PlayStation events in one month. At the start of September, NateTheHate2 nailed when the latest Nintendo Direct would happen.

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EA's skateboarding series, Skate, has been dormant since 2010's Skate 3, but it's officially back today with the launch of a reboot that's simply titled Skate. You don't have to pay a penny to get it, as it's a free game available for everyone on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S.

The version of the game launching today is an unfinished, early-access edition of the game. As such, players may encounter bugs or other oddities. Additionally, developer Full Circle plans to add new game modes, tricks, leaderboards, party voice chat, and other improvements over time.

The original Skate games were paid releases, but the new Skate is a free-to-play, always-online game, with EA making money off the game through the sale of microtransactions.

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A PlayStation 5 system update arrives tomorrow, September 17, bringing the ability to pair a DualSense to multiple devices at once. The update will also introduce a Power Saver mode to the PS5, which future updates to games like Death Stranding 2, Demon’s Souls, and Ghost of Yōtei will capitalize on.

To update your console, you'll need to go to Settings. Then select System, System Software, and finally System Software Update and Settings.

Sony teased this PS5 update back in July, elaborating on how to sync the DualSense to multiple devices and sharing plans for the console's Power Saver mode. Once the update releases, you can sync the DualSense to a maximum of four devices. Essentially, you assign each device to one of the four face buttons (triangle, circle, etc) when you pair it via Bluetooth, and can hot swap between them by pressing the PS button and the relevant action button simultaneously.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 arrives November 14, and Treyarch is bringing a continuation of its Zombies storyline. A full cinematic trailer has now arrived to show the Black Ops 6 crew fighting alongside Treyarch's iconic cast of original Zombies characters.

As shown in the Ashes of the Damned trailer, Black Ops 7's Zombies mode picks up right where Black Ops 6's storyline ended with the Reckoning's main Easter egg quest. Weaver and his crew are standing alongside Takeo, Dempsey, Nikolai, and Richtofen inside of Janus Towers. However, the building and everyone inside has been thrust into the Dark Aether dimension.

There is still plenty of uncertainty on how the original cast ended up in Janus Towers with Weaver's team, but the trailer shows the two separate casts fighting together as they face the undead and some mysterious new villain. This new threat is a man with a southern drawl and a cowboy hat, who lugs around caged-up zombie heads.

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Evercade Alpha Taito Bartop Arcade

$260 | Releases November 12

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One of the best and most versatile home arcade machines is in stock at Amazon for the first time in over six months. Amazon is taking preorders for the Evercade Alpha Taito Bartop Arcade for $260. Themed around Bubble Bobble and preloaded with 10 games, the Taito edition is the third Evercade Alpha. The miniature countertop cabinet originally launched last November with Mega Man and Street Fighter editions. But the two Capcom-themed models disappeared from US retailers in early 2025 and have remained sold out since. As such, if you're interested in the Evercade Alpha, you may want to secure a preorder ahead of the new edition's November 12 launch.

Here's the list of preloaded Taito games:

• Bubble Bobble
• Puzzle Bobble
• Space Invaders
• Cadash
• Rastan
• Elevator Action
• The FairyLand Story
• Growl
• The Legend of Kage
• The New Zealand Story

Over a dozen additional digital games can be unlocked in the Evercade OS Secret menu.

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Tuesday was supposed to mark the arrival of the Power Rangers Megazord in Fortnite, both in the form of a battle pass skin and as an in-game event in which one player in each round of Battle Royale gets to become the full-sized Megazord and terrorize the island for a few minutes. The patch was delayed, but you'll be forgiven for not knowing that since Epic hasn't yet added any in-game notification about the delay. So the Megazord page of the battle pass just looks bugged right now.

The Megazord's arrival on the Fortnite island has been pushed back a couple days.

Epic has not acknowledged the delay, nor has it said when the patch will now be deployed, but a leaked trailer for the Megazord in-game event says it begins on Thursday, September 18, so that's our best guess for now. As has been the case the past few seasons, battle pass owners will be able to unlock the Megazord skin and all its related cosmetics by gaining 24 levels in any Fortnite mode. Despite the Megazord page of the pass already being unlocked, you cannot gain these levels early since the quests haven't yet been activated.

We don't know why it was delayed, but the patch appears to be a pretty beefy one, as it's expected to include the new Party Crashers battle royale mode, which will have proximity voice chat and support teaming with opponents, Hunger Games-style.

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Microsoft is hoping to turn the Xbox app into the one-stop destination for players to launch games on PC and Windows handheld devices, pushing an update that integrates titles from other major gaming storefronts into the app's library.

Xbox Insiders have had access to this aggregated library feature since June, but now, all users of the Xbox PC app can see their installed games from Steam, Epic Games Store, Battle.net, and "other leading storefronts." Players can launch these games directly from the Xbox app, and recently played games appear in a side tab, no matter which store they were installed from.

Additionally, the Xbox app's library also has a tab for apps, allowing you to open other storefronts and web browsers to install and launch games from outside the Xbox storefront. The app's settings also let you toggle different stores if you don't want games from those sources to appear in the library.

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Last year, Nintendo filed a lawsuit against Palworld developer Pocketpair in Japanese court alleging infringement on the company's patents. The initial battle was over relatively minor aspects of Palworld that were similar to Pokemon. More recently, Nintendo was granted a potentially game-changing patent that “covers the fundamental gameplay mechanic of summoning a character and letting it fight another” in a video game. Now, one of the devs behind Baldur's Gate 3 has weighed in on these types of patents and the intent behind them.

Michael "Cromwelp" Douse, the publishing director of Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian Studios replied with a since-deleted post on X (via GamesRadar), "These types of patents are too often used in bad faith."

Douse didn't expand on his thoughts beyond that in the now-missing thread, but Nintendo hasn't made any secret of its displeasure with Palworld. The initial lawsuit asked for 5 million yen--which is roughly just under $33,000 in American dollars--for the three patents allegedly infringed upon by Palworld. Kantan Games CEO and video game analyst Serkan Toto previously previously predicted that the lawsuit was designed to force Pocketpair to make a large settlement with Nintendo.

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A movie based on EA's The Sims is in the works, with Oscar-winner Margot Robbie's production company, LuckyChap, attached. Prolific Hollywood producer Roy Lee is involved as well, and now he's shared some further insight into what fans can expect from the video game movie.

Speaking to The Direct, Lee said he expects the movie to be "unique." He said it's similar to The Lego Movie, in that when it was announced, people wondered how it would translate to the big screen. People didn't understand until they saw it, Lee said, and a similar thing could happen for The Sims movie.

Lee produced The Lego Movie as well, along with Robbie's blockbuster hit Barbie. "[Audiences] were probably wondering, 'What could a Barbie movie be?' Somewhere in between both The Lego Movie and Barbie is where The Sims movie will be," he said.

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Palworld developer Pocketpair has announced that the game will leave early access and launch its 1.0 version in 2026. Additionally, the studio teased that while the bulk of the team is working on updates, improvements, and more content for Palworld, the company also has smaller teams at work on new games.

Cleanup

Palworld 1.0 isn't launching sooner because Pocketpair is spending time now working on "cleanup" for the existing game.

"Beyond just adding new content, there is a lot of clean up that needs to be done before Palworld can exit early access. It's no secret that Palworld has a lot of quirks and jank, and we want to take the time to properly address those before releasing the game," the developer said. "We think taking the time now to fix those problems will ultimately lead to a better game."

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The lowest rung of the Game Pass ladder is receiving a small but significant expansion, with Xbox adding three games to the Game Pass Core catalog.

Starting October 1, subscribers can play Cities: Skylines – Remastered, Disney Dreamlight Valley, and Warhammer 40,000: Darktide at no additional cost. The three titles will join a line-up of just a little over 50 games in Game Pass Core, which costs $9.99 USD a month.

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Cities: Skylines – Remastered, as the title implies, is an enhanced rerelease of the 2015 city-building game. The remaster was released in 2023, and those who owned the Xbox One version of the game were able to upgrade to the remastered version for free. Interestingly, the Xbox One version is already included in Game Pass Core.

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At the beginning of the week, streamer and voice actor CDawg launched a Canvas page--an interactive pixel-based artboard that communities can contribute towards, which CDawg runs annually. Now, Neuro-Sama and her creator Vedal987 have declared "war" on CDawg's Canvas, rallying their community to flood the board with Neuro-Sama-related artwork.

Neuro is an AI-powered VTuber, utilizing an impressive large language model with rapid response times, and the ability to read her own Twitch chat to directly respond to viewers. She currently holds the record for the largest Twitch Hype Train of all time, reaching level 111 with 84,904 subscriptions and 1,201,225 bits gifted to Vedal's channel during a "subathon" event in December 2024.

Shortly after the Canvas launched, CDawg, real name Connor, and his community set to work adding artwork of him, his best friend Ironmouse, and other streamers including Lord Aethelstan and Nyanners. As soon as Neuro-Sama's community became aware though, things changed. Fast.

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KPop Demon Hunters, the hit animated film from Sony Pictures, is reportedly making its way into Fortnite, according to well-known leakers SpushFNBR and Loolo. The film, which combines KPop stardom with supernatural action, follows a fictional girl group called Huntr/x--idols by day, demon slayers by night. With songs performed by real-world KPop artists, the movie quickly became a cultural phenomenon, dominating music charts and becoming the most-watched original film in Netflix history.

INSIDER: KPOP DEMON HUNTERS X FORTNITE - THIS SEASON!
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— SpushFNBR (@SpushFNBR) September 15, 2025

While Epic Games has yet to confirm the crossover, the most likely additions to the game could be new dance emotes based on the film's choreographed musical numbers. Maybe even throw in some of The Saja Boys' Soda Pop routine, as it went viral over the summer.

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Character skins based on the three members of Huntr/x are also a strong possibility. In the film, Rumi, Zoey, and Mira all have distinctive fashion and stylized weapons. Fortnite could easily include their fits from the introductory number "Done, Done, Done" to their more detailed outfits like they had in "Golden" (see above).

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