SPOILERS for Fallout Season 2 Episode 1: The Man Who Knew to follow:

Fallout finally returns with Season 2, and with it comes an exciting new setting, taking the show from the sunny shores of Los Angeles to the sweltering heat of the Mojave Wasteland. While this setting hails from the beloved classic Fallout: New Vegas, it provides new opportunities to expand on the world of Fallout with an entirely fresh perspective.

Even though we’re only one episode in, there are plenty of easter eggs and references for eagle-eyed viewers and die hard fans to catch. Here’s a look at some of the nods we noticed in the show’s introduction to the Mojave Wasteland.

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The last time we saw Lucy MacLean (Ella Purnell), The Ghoul aka Cooper Howard (Walton Goggins), and beloved pup CX404, their situation looked dire.

Lucy had learned her father Hank (Kyle MacLachlan) was responsible for the destruction of Shady Sands, The Brotherhood of Steel was in a heated battle with the New California Republic over control of Griffith Observatory, and Cooper realized that Hank held the answers to the whereabouts of his family. While Hank slipped out in the ensuing chaos and headed to New Vegas, Lucy decided to join Cooper in his quest for answers, which led them into unknown and dangerous territory.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Trilogy: Limited Edition (4K Blu-ray)

$58 (was $100) | Available Now

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The highly anticipated 4K restorations of the first three Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies are available now. TMNT Trilogy Limited Edition features 4K Blu-ray editions of the early '90s live-action movies for $58 (was $100). The 4K restorations are accompanied by new bonus features and archival content as well as multiple posters, a booklet with new commentary, trading cards, and more collectibles. Arrow Video's limited editions are actually limited, so once TMNT Trilogy sells out, any future printings won't include the collectibles.

If you need a holiday gift for a TMNT fan, Amazon's store page says Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Trilogy will arrive with a few days to spare (as of December 16). The TMNT Trilogy is also available on 1080p Blu-ray, but it's actually more expensive than the 4K Blu-ray edition at the moment. Fans can also get the newly restocked TMNT: Mutant Mayhem 4K Steelbook Edition for $25.89 and the recently released TMNT: The Last Ronin Graphic Novel Box Set for $60.90 (was $95).

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Fanatical is closing 2025 out with a new build-your-own bundle deal, the Best of Platinum Collection. This deal offers a selection of various acclaimed PC games featured in the various Platinum Collection bundles throughout 2025, giving you a chance to pick up some excellent games for cheap. Like Fanatical's other build your own bundle promotions, you can pick as many games from the list as you'd like, and the more games you buy, the more you save. To start, you can pick up to four games for $3.33 each. At five or more games, you'll pay $3 per item. Grab 10 or more games, and you'll pay just $2.90 per game, and if you want the full 22-game bundle, it'll run you $63.78, a $547.75 value--not too shabby for literally thousands of hours of entertainment.

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One of the items you can pick, the SteamWorld Classic Bundle, comes with four games: SteamWorld Dig, SteamWorld Dig 2, SteamWorld Heist, and SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech. So, really, if you decide to add this to the Best of Platinum Collection, it could be a total of 25 games. The list of possible games also includes the strategy game SteamWorld Build as another pick, in case you want to load up on even more of the series.

With season 2 of the Fallout TV show looming, now's the perfect time to explore the open-world RPGs that inspired the show with Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition and Fallout New Vegas: Ultimate Edition. Both are available as part of the Best of Platinum Collection. These versions include the full base games plus every update, add-on, and DLC expansion. You can round out the selection with Fallout 76, which is an online multiplayer take on the series--though it still offers the same open-ended, first-person exploration and RPG gameplay as the other games. It also recently received a new Burning Springs DLC update that ties into the Amazon Prime Video streaming series.

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Dragon Ball Super: Complete Series Steelbook Box Set (Blu-ray)

$100 (was $200)

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Dragon Ball Z: Complete Series Box Set (Blu-ray)

$119 (was $190) | Amazon Exclusive

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Dragon Ball Super: The Complete Series Collector's Edition is on sale for its lowest price ever at Amazon. Fans can get the Blu-ray box set featuring all 131 episodes of the anime for only $100 (was $200). The Collector's Edition comes with 10 steelbook cases and a decorative metal display box. Amazon's 50% discount eclipses the retailer's $120 Black Friday/Cyber Monday deal.

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The Groundbreaking quest in Arc Raiders takes place on the perpetually busy and dangerous Blue Gate map, and it has multiple objectives that send you to its northern region. If you're looking to find the locked room at Pilgrim's Peak, or need to know where to find the building pictured on the whiteboard, we'll fill you in on how to complete this quest here.

You don't need to extract to complete Groundbreaking, but you'll receive the Blue Gate Communication Tower Key upon accepting this request, so you need to bring it into the raid with you. As such, you'll want to bring an augment with a safe pocket so that you don't accidentally lose this key during your journey to Pilgrim's Peak. If you do lose it, you'll have to wait to find another one (which is entirely random) or just hope you can catch the door open from someone else's key at some point.

When you're ready to complete the Groundbreaking quest, read on.

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Pantasy Claw Machine Building Set (1,910 Pieces)

$99 (was $140) | Limited-time deal

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Over the past five years, building-set manufacturer Pantasy has made a name for itself with impressive brick-built models. Pantasy's catalog includes officially licensed building sets based on Astro Boy, Garfield, The Little Prince, and Dragon Ball Z as well as a series of retro-inspired tech models. One of Pantasy's newest building sets might be its most ambitious: a working claw machine game. If that sounds cool to you, you have until 12 AM PT (December 17) to snag the 1,910-piece build for its lowest price yet. Normally $140 on Amazon and $150 on Pantasy's site, the Claw Machine is on sale for $99.

Amazon's limited-time deal drops the price to $109, but you can save an additional $10 by clicking the coupon box on the store page. After reading about this extremely cool building set, you can check out our roundup of the best Pantasy building deals at the bottom of this story, including an officially licensed iGame Gaming Desktop for $64 (was $70), Sherlock Holmes' 3,000-plus piece apartment for $99.19 (was $130), a Retro Gumball Machine for $59.49 (was $80), and the Retro Desktop Computer for $75 (was $90).

Pantasy Building Sets

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If you've only ever built Lego sets, it's worth noting Pantasy's bricks are fully compatible with Lego. This is common with non-Lego building sets, including Mega Bloks, Jazware's BLDR, and Brick Shop Hot Wheels cars.

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The Deciphering the Data quest in Arc Raiders sends you to Spaceport to check out some Magnetic Decryptors, and finding exactly where they're located can be a bit of a challenge. However, you've come to the right place, as we'll tell you exactly where you can find both locations you need to interact with to complete this quest from Shani.

You won't need to extract to complete Deciphering the Data--but we recommend you run a free kit either way, as you may come across other raiders working on the quest, too, and you wouldn't want to risk losing your gear if a fight breaks out while you're busy exploring.

When you're ready to take on Deciphering the Data, follow the steps below.

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The success of Baldur's Gate 3 went far beyond anyone's expectations with 20 million copies sold and multiple Game of the Year awards. That was all very good for the future of Larian, but it's also creating some pressure now that the developer focuses on its latest Divinity game.

"It's more pressure," Larian founder Swen Vincke told PC Gamer. "The weight of the expectations weighs high. We're trying not to think about it, because we have to make our own thing."

Vincke also indicated that the team at Larian believed that making Divinity would be easier after the studio's experience with Baldur's Gate 3. But that turned out to not be the case.

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Steam Replay for 2025 is now available, giving players a fun way to look back at their year in gaming. It shows what games you played, how much time you spent playing, and other simple stats from the year. Many platforms now do yearly summaries like this, with Spotify Wrapped starting the trend, and services like YouTube and Twitch followed by showing users what they watched and enjoyed in 2025.

Valve's Steam Replay covers your playtime from January 1, 2025, through the end of December 14, 2025. This gives players a clear picture of most of their gaming year, and also focuses on their habits--such as how many games they played games with either a keyboard or controller--and highlights their most-played games. This year, I finally really got into games on Steam with Peak and Repo, and I'm still dabbling with Lethal Company.

It's the most wonderful time of the year - Steam Replay 2025 is now available!

Take a trip down memory lane and see how many games you played, how much you played per month, and many more fun stats for the year.

Check out yours (login required): https://t.co/Zq9vxaFit4… pic.twitter.com/SrVS9oNdIP

— Steam (@Steam) December 16, 2025

Other gaming platforms have also released their yearly summaries, as PlayStation posted its yearly wrap-up last week. To see your Steam Replay, you can visit Valve's website or click the Steam Replay banner in the Steam app's store page. It'll be interesting to see how the Steam Machine will affect players next year for those who prefer a more traditional console setup.

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If you've come across The Stench of Corruption quest in Arc Raiders, you may be wondering how to find and complete each of its objectives. It can be challenging to round up each location you need to visit, after all, and find out exactly what to interact with in each spot. Luckily, we've got you covered below.

Keep in mind that you need to complete every step of this quest in a single round. This means that dying before you wrap things up will result in you having to redo the steps next time you load in. However, you do not need to extract to get credit for completion, so once you've finished the quest, dying won't be as big of a deal. We'd still recommend you try to extract, though, of course.

When you're ready to knock out The Stench of Corruption, follow the steps below.

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In January 2026, it will be seven and a half years since the announcement teaser for The Elder Scrolls 6. In that time, Bethesda has had remarkably little to say about it or even a trailer to show off. Now, Bethesda's Todd Howard has indicated that most of the Bethesda team is working on The Elder Scrolls 6.

"It's progressing really well," Howard told Game Informer. "The majority of the studio's on [Elder Scrolls 6]. but I'll say this: We always overlap. So, we're very used to overlapping development. And we have long pre-productions on things so that we feel good about them. And it's a process. We all wish it went a little bit faster--or a lot faster--but it's a process that we want to get right."

Although the initial announcement came years ago, it's possible or even likely that development didn't ramp up on The Elder Scrolls until after Starfield was released in 2023. Fans are so desperate for any kind of update that they're reading things in the Skyrim Switch 2 announcement trailer as if they're hidden hints about an Elder Scrolls 6 release window.

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Total War: Warhammer 40,000's four asymmetrical factions will vary wildly from one another, as developer Creative Assembly has now outlined how some of the game's factions will play and be "totally different" from factions seen before in the Total War franchise.

After being announced during The Game Awards, more details about developer Creative Assembly's next game have been revealed via a new developer roundtable. The four factions players will have to choose from include Space Marines, Astra Militarum, Orks, and Aeldari. Mann said the universe has a lot of opportunities for asymmetry between the factions, and Creative Assembly knew that it could only pick a limited number of playable factions in order to give each one the amount of effort to make them feel special.

In terms of how they play, each faction will field troops, gather resources, and engage in battle in different ways. Of the four factions, Astra Milatrum is said to be the most "traditional" Total War faction, with mass ranks of infantry and support from artillery and vehicles. Like in other Total War games, Astra Militarum players will need to gather resources, build infrastructure, and recruit more troops in order to succeed. In true Astra Militarum fashion, solving problems will often mean throwing more masses of bodies at it.

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Arc Raiders has a whole lot of quests, and one set of them requires you to do some digging on who has contaminated the water supply. This questline eventually leads to A Toxic Trail, which sends you back to a previous location to figure out more about what's going on with the water. In this guide, we'll tell you how to complete A Toxic Trail.

You don't necessarily need to extract from the map to complete A Toxic Trail, but it's not a bad idea to do so, especially if you don't have a safe pocket for the key that drops at the end of the quest. While it's not required for any quests, it can help you find some good loot on the Spaceport map later.

When you're ready to tackle A Toxic Trail, read on for each step you'll need to complete.

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Activision has made a couple of announcements that seem to suggest the company is trying extra hard to encourage people to buy and play Call of Duty: Black Ops 7.

For starters, Activision has launched a new week-long free trial for Black Ops 7's multiplayer mode. In the free trial, which runs December 16-22, players can access 20+ maps and try the Ashes of the Damned map for Zombies. In terms of modes, players can try out mainstays like Team Deathmatch, Hardpoint, Domination, and Kill Confirmed, as well as the Holiday Havoc mode and Prop Hunt.

Alongside this, Activision has discounted Black Ops 7 by up to 30%. This brings the price down to from $70 to $49 for the standard edition, or from $100 to $80 for the Vault Edition.

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Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian just recently launched its acclaimed previous game, Divinity: Original Sin II, on Switch 2, and studio boss Swen Vincke said he tried hard to cut one element in particular for the new release.

Speaking to Mein-MMO, Vincke responded to the interviewer saying they are a big fan of the game's squirrel NPC, Sir Lora. Vincke hates the little critter and wanted him gone for the re-release.

"It's funny that you like Sir Lora. I hate him. If there is one thing I regret about Original Sin 2, it's bringing Sir Lora into the game," he said.

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Embark Studios is giving Arc Raiders players a reason to jump into its free-to-play title, The Finals, by introducing a fresh color for the Ryder outfit that can only be earned by playing a few matches of the popular first-person shooter. This new color for the Ryder outfit is a good-looking option for anyone who wants to stand out with a bold and aggressive vibe, so fans of Arc Raiders will likely want to hop into The Finals and snag this one. Here's how to make it happen.

How to get the Red Ryder skin in Arc Raiders

To get the red color for the Ryder outfit in Arc Raiders, you'll simply need to play three matches of The Finals. Yes, it really is that easy--though you'll obviously need to have downloaded and installed The Finals to get things started. Thankfully, it's a free-to-play game, though if you've not played it before, you'll first be prompted to complete a short tutorial. In all, completing this challenge should take you about 1-2 hours at most.

Do note that you'll want to be absolutely certain that you're logged into the same Embark ID for both Arc Raiders and The Finals. With these linked together, completing those three matches of The Finals will automatically grant you the Red Ryder skin shortly thereafter in Arc Raiders--it took exactly one hour for it to show up in my inbox in Arc Raiders.

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If you've come across the Paving the Way quest in Arc Raiders, you're likely looking for an ENELICA building or wondering where to find some research notes. You've come to the right place, as we've got each step of Paving the Way listed out for you below. Just be aware that this quest requires you to visit two separate maps, so it's going to take a bit of time and effort to wrap it up.

You'll want to try to extract from each map when you've completed the necessary steps there, but rest assured that dying won't reset your progress. As such, we'd recommend you not bring in all of your best gear, as there are likely to be a lot of folks around questing, too, and you don't want to risk losing anything valuable.

When you're ready to complete Paving the Way, follow the steps below.

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Rosetta Stone Lifetime Subscription

$149 (was $399)

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While learning a language is challenging, it's never been easier to start, thanks to the abundance of learning apps and online classes. One of the longest-running and highest-rated of these is Rosetta Stone. The service offers comprehensive courses in 25 languages, all of which use a unique immersion learning style, making it one of the most effective language learning programs out there. Of course, as with any language-learning program, the trick is to stick with it--luckily, Rosetta Stone is offering a limited-time discount on lifetime subscriptions, dropping the price to just $149 (was $400), which could make it much easier to commit to the process.

While the Lifetime Subscription is arguably the best deal, it's not the only Rosetta Stone discount. The 3-Month Plan is on sale for $48 (was $60; billed every three months), while the 12-Month Plan is $126 (was $240; billed every 12 months). While the Lifetime Plan includes all 25 languages (listed below), monthly plans only unlock a single language--making the lifetime subscription by far the best deal. All plans offer a 30-day money-back guarantee. Rosetta Stone also lets you gift plans to others, which could make this deal a fun holiday gift. Here's a look at all the options side-by-side:

Rosetta Stone Subscription Discounts

• Lifetime Plan -- $149 ($400) (single payment) | Includes 25 languages
• 12-month plan -- $126 ($240) (billed annually) | Includes one language
• 3-month plan -- $48 ($60) (billed every 3 months) | Includes one language

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Rosetta Stone's deals are only available for a limited time, so be sure to sign up at these discounted rates before they disappear.

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The Cold Snap update has added plenty of snow and freezing conditions to Arc Raiders, but there's also a bit of holiday cheer to be found topside. That is, if you're engaging with the Flickering Flames project and collecting the necessary Candleberries to complete it. These hard-to-find berries are necessary for filling out the project alongside a handful of other fairly common items. Even better, each time you fulfill a requirement in the project, you'll earn rewards like Raider Tokens or Merits--the latter of which goes toward the Gathering Candleberries event. Here's how to find candleberries in Arc Raiders, as well as everything you'll need to complete the Flickering Flames event.

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Arc Raiders Candleberries locations

Candleberries can only be found during the new Cold Snap map condition. This map condition can occur on any map except Stella Montis, so it will be available fairly often for you to explore.

To find Candleberries, you'll want to visit areas that commonly contain other fruits, such as those you need for Scrappy upgrades. These areas are typically Nature regions, which are clearly defined on every map by the leaf icon.

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