Activision is making a major strategic shift with the Call of Duty series that will affect it for years to come. Following the less-than-stellar response to Black Ops 7, the franchise will no longer get back-to-back entries in the same sub-series. This applies not only to Black Ops, but also to Modern Warfare.

"We will no longer do back-to-back releases of Modern Warfare or Black Ops games," Activision said in the official announcement. "The reasons are many, but the main one is to ensure we provide an absolutely unique experience each and every year."

Alongside this announcement, Activision promised "meaningful, not incremental" innovation for the series' future. It didn't specify exactly what this would mean, instead stressing it would share more "when the time is right."

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Season 1 of Black Ops 7 adds the new Haven's Hollow map to Call of Duty: Warzone, and this quaint West Virginia town holds a lot of secrets to uncover. This includes six separate Easter eggs to complete for rewards, and there's a final super Easter egg reward for completing them all. In this guide, we'll walk you through how to complete all the Easter eggs on Haven's Hollow and earn every reward.

There are six Easter eggs that you can complete on Haven's Hollow, and while these can all be completed solo, two of them can become complicated without the help of teammates.

The Easter eggs and rewards are as follows:

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Last week, Netflix put forth an $82 million deal to purchase Warner Bros. Studios, one of the biggest movie and TV studios in the world. Warner Bros. also has a considerable place in the video game industry with franchises like Batman, Harry Potter, and Mortal Kombat under its domain. However, one Netflix executive has now acknowledged that Warner Bros.' gaming division wasn't a significant factor in considering its bid.

During a Netflix conference call about the potential WB sale, co-CEO Gregory K. Peters expressed some eagerness to exploit the video game franchises under Warner Bros. in the future. But he added that the games were "relatively minor" in the company's initial plans and that it may be "worth going back again to sort of how we thought about the deal and building our valuation model."

"While they definitely have been doing some great work in the game space, we actually didn’t attribute any value to that from the get-go because they're relatively minor compared to the grand scheme of things," continued Peters. "Now we are super excited because some of those properties that they've built--[Hogwarts Legacy] is a great example of that--have been done quite well, and we think that we can incorporate that into what we're offering. They've got great studios and great folks working there. So we think that there's definitely an opportunity there. But just to be clear, we haven't built that into our deal model."

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Brandon Sanderson - Tailored Realities (Hardcover)

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Fantasy and science fiction readers can add another Brandon Sanderson book to the to-be-read pile. Tailored Realities, a lengthy collection of novellas and short stories, is available now, and Amazon is offering a 30% discount on launch day (December 9). The hardcover edition of Tailored Realities is on sale for only $21 (was $30).. Walmart had the same deal, but the retailer is currently sold out of copies.

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The Pokemon Company is giving away another free gift for Pokemon Legends: Z-A players. Ahead of the game's Mega Dimension DLC, you can snag a mighty alpha Charizard for a limited time.

On top of being much larger than a typical Charizard, this particular Pokemon is level 36 and knows Solar Beam--a move Charizard normally can only learn via TM. This should make it a helpful partner to have on your team when facing off against the overleveled Pokemon that reside in Hyperspace Lumiose.

To claim the free alpha Charizard, fire up your copy of Pokemon Legends: Z-A and do the following:

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In the lead-up to The Game Awards, there has been some speculation that the scary monolith teaser was for Divinity: Original Sin 3, but developer Larian has now clarified it's not making that game. Nor is it making a toilet simulator game.

Publishing boss Michael Douse cleared things up on social media, posting, "There aren't currently any plans for a new Divinity: Original Sin 3 game but once we are ready to show what we've been working on we will."

What Larian is making next after the huge success of Baldur's Gate 3 is a mystery, but the studio has said it has multiple projects in various stages of development. One project Larian fans won't get, at least not soon, however, is a game about toilets.

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The Game Awards host and organizer Geoff Keighley has opened up on the challenges of running a show that aims to celebrate games and the people who make them while also acknowledging the challenging times people in the industry today are facing. So far in 2025, numerous developers lost their jobs, Microsoft canceled games, and the industry further consolidated with EA announcing plans to sell itself to Saudi Arabia.

Speaking to The Game Business, Keighley said the introduction of the Game Changer award in 2024 was an initial attempt to address this. Amir Satvat was given the prize for his work to support people who were laid off in the gaming industry.

Keighley hasn't said if this award is coming back in 2025, but it would be a glaring omission if it did not. In any event, Keighley said walking the line between celebrating games and acknowledging current circumstances is no easy task.

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After 25 years of being exclusive on console to Xbox, Microsoft's Halo series is headed to PlayStation in 2026 with Halo: Campaign Evolved. With the year coming to a close, Sony has published a video highlighting some of the "must-play" titles coming to PS5 in 2026, and Halo got a special shoutout in the video, while GTA 6 was not mentioned.

Seeing Halo promoted so heavily by Sony would have been unthinkable not long ago, and the comments on the video reflect this. The top comment on the video states, "Seeing Halo here is still surreal." Someone else said, "It feels so weird seeing Halo being advertised by PlayStation."

Others have pointed out that Rockstar's GTA 6 is not mentioned in the video, with people taking this to mean, or suggest, that Sony is concerned that Rockstar could push the game to 2027. But there could be any number of reasons why GTA 6 was left out. Rockstar, after all, is highly protective of its own game assets. To be sure, it is a giant leap to say that GTA 6 not being featured in video means the game won't make it out on time in 2026.

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In the first season of Prime Video's Fallout, Ella Purnell's Lucy lost one of her fingers to The Ghoul (Walton Goggins) and eventually replaced it with another ghoul's finger. Purnell has been vocal about her dislike for Lucy's "poop finger," but it's coming back for Season 2.

While speaking with IGN, Purnell offered a more positive assessment of Lucy's mismatched finger.

"I'm very fond of my poop finger," said Purnell. "It's the thing that is the Wasteland that Lucy carries with her. It's quite literally a piece of the Wasteland. Some random ghoul's finger that she's now got stuck. Even if she was to go back to the vault to try to continue life as normal, she will always have this reminder."

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Arc Raiders has been the talk of the town in the multiplayer arena over the past two months, landing a nomination for Best Multiplayer Game at The Game Awards and becoming one of the most played games in recent weeks. As players prep for this month's upcoming Expedition--an optional wipe that resets much of their progress in exchange for in-game rewards--they'll also be treated to the fresh Cold Snap update. This new content includes an additional snow-based map condition, a premium Raider Deck, and another event to complete for goodies. Here's everything we know about it so far.

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Arc Raiders' Cold Snap update will release on December 16, 2025. While we don't know an exact launch time for this update yet, the previous North Line update launched at 1:30 AM PT / 4:30 AM ET, so it's safe to assume this one may also launch in the wee hours of the morning for US-based players.

The Cold Snap update falls just one day before the Expedition window opens, which will allow players to send their raider off and reset much of their in-game progress any time before December 22. This should give dedicated players at least a few days to see this fresh content on their current raider before sending them off and starting anew.

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World of Warcraft players are pushing the game's new player-housing system to its limit, including defying the laws of gravity in a way Blizzard never intended. But rather than fix the ability to send houses skyward, Blizzard is instead embracing it.

When housing first arrived on December 2 as part of patch 11.2.7, it didn't take long for players to discover that, while the UI didn't show it, houses could actually be lifted off the ground using keybinds. The result was players making all kinds of airborne housing creations, including elaborate treehouses, airships, mechs, homes held up by kites, and everything in between.

In a forum post, WoW community manager Randy Jordan (aka Kaivax) stated that instead of fixing the ability to elevate houses, Blizzard has with this week's scheduled maintenance actually made it easier by enabling proper controls to move houses upward.

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Star Wars: Unlimited Trading Card Game

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Star Wars: Unlimited Trading Card Game Booster Boxes and Starter Sets are on sale for extremely low prices at Amazon. Three Booster Boxes are available for over 50% off, including Legends of the Force, Jump to Lightspeed, and Twilight of the Republic. If you're interested in playing Asmodee's Star Wars TCG for the first time, the Starter Sets come with two ready-to-play decks and all of the accessories you need to dive in. Twilight of the Republic's Starter Set is discounted to only $18.80 (was $35), and Shadows of the Galaxy's Starter Set is $21.17 (was $35).

Along with the deals, Star Wars: Unlimited collectors can pick up the 2025 Gift Box for $30 at Amazon. The Gift Box comes with three exclusive cards and eight Booster Packs, which makes it a nice option for existing players and collectors as well as newcomers.

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For the last few years, Capcom has been laser-focused on its core franchises like Street Fighter, Resident Evil, and Monster Hunter. Now, Capcom's latest disclosure to investors indicates that the company wants to expand and revisit three of its other franchises: Mega Man, Devil May Cry, and Ace Attorney.

Capcom's 2025 Integrated Report is online, and it notes that Mega Man, Devil May Cry, and Ace Attorney are the fourth-, fifth-, and seventh-highest-grossing franchises in Capcom's history. COO Haruhiro Tsujimoto mentioned those three games specifically as intellectual properties that the company wants to expand upon.

"We consistently release two to three major new titles each year, but recognize the need to grow our pipeline going forward," said Tsujimoto. "Capcom owns a wealth of globally popular brands, such as Mega Man, Devil May Cry, and Ace Attorney. We aim to expand our user base and improve our performance through new releases, remakes, and ports of titles in these series to new hardware. By enhancing brand power and cultivating loyal fan bases, we will grow these into core IPs"

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Yearly wraps have become an annual tradition across various platforms, and PlayStation is no exception. The PlayStation Wrap website has gone live, and once again, members of the PlayStation community can explore the total number of hours spent across single-player and multiplayer games. You'll have until January 8 to check out your stats--PlayStation Wrap-Up will continue to update until then--and users can redeem a unique glass-themed avatar once they complete their tour down memory lane.

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This year's PlayStation Wrap-Up also includes a look at the number of games played on PS5 and PS4, a closer look at your gaming style, and even the DualSense controller you used the most. If you've used other PlayStation accessories, such as PlayStation VR2 or the PlayStation Portal handheld, those stats will also be included in your personal wrap-up. Additionally, you can get a brief look at how active you were on PlayStation Plus throughout the year, and Sony is also offering a curated list of recommended games to try out through the subscription service, if you're a member of the Premium or Extra tiers.

Ghost of Yotei, Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, Blue Prince, and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 were considerable timesinks, while other noteworthy releases included games like Ball x Pit, Elden Ring Nightreign, and Battlefield 6 kept players glued to their screens for many hours.

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Xbox's Jason Ronald has teased that Microsoft has "a lot of exciting things to share" in 2026 for the Xbox's 25th anniversary. Speaking to the BBC, Ronald was asked specifically if more Original Xbox games would be coming to Xbox Game Pass. Ronald didn't confirm anything outright but said fans have a lot to look forward to for the anniversary next year.

"I can't announce anything today, but 2026 is the 25th anniversary of Xbox. And we want to celebrate the great legacy and the history that we have at Xbox, as well as defining the future of where the Xbox ecosystem is going," he said. "So, I can't confirm or deny what you are asking, but stay tuned. We have a lot of exciting things to share next year."

Also in the interview, Ronald said Xbox feels "a need but also a responsibility" to preserve games from the past and "enable them to be played in entirely new ways."

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Now You See Me: Now You Don't Limited Edition Steelbook (4K)

$35 | Release TBA

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Now You See Me: Now You Don't Standard Edition

$35.55 | Release TBA

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It took nearly a decade, but all-star illusionist group The Four Horsemen finally returned for another heist earlier this year when Now You See Me: Now You Don't hit theaters in November. The film is the third installment in Ruben Fleischer's crime series, following 2016's Now You See Me 2. While it earned mixed reviews from critics, most moviegoers found it to be another thrilling blockbuster. The film is still in theaters, but preorders for the 4K Blu-ray are already available, including a Now You See Me: Now You Don't Limited Edition Steelbook that's available for $35. We don't know the release date, but preordering locks in Amazon's price guarantee, making you eligible for any further discounts between now and release.

Now You See Me: Now You Don't Limited Edition Steelbook (4K) $35 | Release TBA

We still don't have a firm release date for this limited edition steelbook, but we do know it'll be sold exclusively at Amazon and will feature unique cover art with a slipcase that changes the cover art. Inside the fancy case, you'll find 4K Blu-ray, Blu-ray, and digital copies of the film. No bonus materials have been announced, but we expect to find out more once we get a firm release date.

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Now You See Me: Now You Don't is also available to preorder in a standard edition. Like the limited edition steelbook version, there's no release date or information on special features yet. Nevertheless, you can preorder it in three formats--the 4K Blu-ray is $35.55 (was $43), the Blu-ray is $33.11 (was $40), and the DVD is $24.49 (was $30).

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Now You See Me: Know You Don't once again follows the Four Horsemen, illusionists who use their impressive skills to not just pull off mind-bending magic tricks--but also pull off some of the most impressive heists the world has ever seen. The core cast remains intact all these years later, with big names like Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, and Isla Fisher reprising their original roles. The film is sitting with a "Mixed" score on Metacritic, though it could make for a fun watch if you're in the mood for a caper.

If you need to catch up on the first two entries in the series, Now You See Me is available on 4K Blu-ray for just $19.79 (was $23), while Now You See Me 2 on 4K Blu-ray is $17.13. If you don't mind picking up a DVD, the Now You See Me: Double Feature is just $10 and includes both films in a single package--just note it's a big step down in visual quality and lacks the special features of the standalone 4K UHD releases.

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While we're still a couple of months away from Resident Evil Requiem's release, it looks like there could be a surprise return awaiting fans. Before it was removed, the PlayStation Store revealed new cover art for the game that featured longtime Resident Evil protagonist Leon Kennedy. PlayStation 5 players noticed the art on the pre-download screen for owners of the standard (non-Deluxe) version of the game.

IGN later confirmed the art, which showed a stubbled and haggard-looking Leon hovering over Requiem's other main protagonist, Grace Ashcroft. Leon appeared similar to his Resident Evil 4 look, with his fur-lined leather jacket, albeit a bit more grizzled.

High-res image of the official Leon S. Kennedy version of the Resident Evil Requiem Playstation 5 icon that Sony accidentally leaked. pic.twitter.com/UpmAjU1LCp

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Leon's inclusion in the game has been something that Capcom has vehemently denied, with even producer Masato Kumazawa denouncing alleged leaked images of Leon going around last month. "There has been a photo lately of Leon with an eyepatch, and just basically saying there's a DLC or a new costume for Leon--but just to make sure, these are all fake news," he told Stevivor in an interview, and added not to believe anything at face value.

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Super Mario Goomba 15-Inch Plush

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Amazon recently restocked a bunch of popular 15-inch Mocchi-Mocchi stuffed plush figures, including the adorable Super Mario Goomba. Not only is it back in stock, but it's listed for one of its best prices of the year at $22.74 (was $39). We've also rounded up the other restocks below, so be sure to check them out if you're shopping for an adorable holiday gift.

Super Mario Goomba 15-Inch Plush $22.74 (was $39)

This Goomba is an officially licensed Nintendo product, meaning you can expect it to be built to high standards. Club Mocchi-Mocchi plushies are always ultra-soft, and they feel much more premium than most other plushies on the market. The 15-inch models are fantastic pieces of home decor for a game room, though they're also ideal snuggle buddies for kids.

If you're shopping for a holiday gift, you'll be glad to know that many locations are eligible for next-day shipping. We're not sure how long the popular Goomba will remain in stock, however, so consider snagging it for cheap while you can.

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While the lowly Goomba is one of our favorite Club Mocchi-Mocchi plushies on sale, it's far from your only option. Several 15-inch Mario models were recently restocked at Amazon, including Shy Guy, Thwomp, and the dreaded Blue Shell. There are also 6-inch options like the Mario Kart Banana and Red Shell. Check out all Super Mario Club Mocchi-Mocchi plushes below. You can also check out the new Metroid Prime Mocchi-Mocchi and Kirby plushies, which are also available in 15- and 6-inch variants.

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• Banana (6-inch) -- $15.74 ($18)
• Blue Shell (15-inch) -- $35 ($39)
• Buzzy Beetle (15-inch) -- $40
• Goomba (15-inch) -- $22.74 ($39)
• Green Shell (15-inch) -- $36.28
• Green Shell (6-inch) -- $15.77 ($18)
• Luigi Hat (15-inch) -- $18
• Mario Face (15-inch) -- $30
• Piranha Plant (15-inch) -- $35 ($39)
• Red Shell (15-inch) -- $35 ($39)
• Red Shell (6-inch) -- $17.38
• Shy Guy (15-inch) -- $35
• Super Star (15-inch) -- $35
• Thwomp (15-inch) -- $35
• Toad Face (15-inch) -- $30
• Yoshi Egg (15-inch) -- $35
• Yoshi Face (15-inch) -- $32

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Yet another version of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is here, with developer Bethesda Game Studios mega-hit RPG now available for Nintendo Switch 2.

Skyrim continues to conquer every platform imaginable, and this time it's specifically 2021's Skyrim Anniversary Edition that's available on Nintendo's new console. This new version of the game does come with a few additional bells and whistles not found in the original Switch version, namely Joy-Con 2 mouse-control support. It also sports improved load times and performance in addition to features found in the original Switch version of Skyrim, like Legend of Zelda Amiibo support, Zelda-themed items, and motion controls.

For those who already own the Anniversary Edition on the original Switch, the Switch 2 upgrade is available for free. Those who don't already own any version of Skyrim on Switch can buy it on Switch 2 for $60. Owners of the non-Anniversary Edition of Skyrim on Switch can upgrade to the Anniversary Edition for $20 and then receive the Switch 2 version for free. The Anniversary Edition includes the base game and its three official expansions, as well as access to Creation Club content made by players.

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Nintendo Switch 2 Wheel Set for Joy-Con 2

$21.49 (was $25)

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If you're one of the many holiday shoppers who took advantage of last week's Nintendo Switch 2 Mario Kart World bundle promotion, you should check out this week's deal on the racing wheel attachment set. Nintendo's official Joy-Con 2 Wheel Set is on sale for $21.49 (was $25) at Amazon and Target. Deals on first-party Nintendo accessories are uncommon, so even though you're only saving $3.50, it's still a noteworthy deal. Designed for playing Mario Kart World with motion controls, the two-pack of steering wheels launched alongside the Switch 2 console in June.

Nintendo Switch 2 Wheel Set for Joy-Con 2 $21.49 (was $25)

The official Nintendo Switch 2 Wheel Set comes with one light blue and one red attachment that match the color scheme of the Joy-Con 2 controllers. The textured grips are nicer than a lot of third-party wheels and Nintendo's attachments from the Nintendo Wii era.

Just like the Switch 2 console itself, the first-party steering wheels have magnetic connectors for the controllers. Large shoulder buttons (SL and SR) are built into the back of each wheel.

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Considering the popularity of the Mario Kart World bundle deal, which ended on Sunday, it wouldn't be surprising if Amazon and Target sold out of this deal. Last week, Amazon sold out of all three of Hori's new Mario Kart World-themed Joy-Con 2 wheel attachments. Themed around Mario, Peach, and Yoshi, the officially licensed $15 wheels launched December 5. Amazon lists all three as "temporarily out of stock."

For a larger Switch 2 racing wheel, check out the recently released Joy-Con 2 accessory by Numskull. Officially licensed by Nintendo, Numskull's attachment is table-mounted and has slots for both controllers. It launched for $30, but Amazon has since raised the price to $33.83.

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