Battlefield 2042's New Dark Protocol Event Has You 3d

Battlefield 2042’s new Dark Protocol event has you 3D-printing soldiers to fight with you As many suspected, Battlefield 2042’s upcoming limited-time event does indeed involve AI soldiers. Image credit:EA, DICE. Right on schedule, DICE revealed the next Battlefield 2042 limited-time event, kicking off next week as part of the game’s Season 6. Dubbed Dark Protocol , the event introduces a new game mode with three core activities. The big twist is that both teams can call upon AI soldiers to fight alongside them....

January 7, 2026 · 3 min · 446 words · Linda Garza

Best Baldur's Gate 3 Fighter Build

Best Baldur’s Gate 3 Fighter build The best subclass, equipment, skills and spells for Fighter in BG3. Image credit:VG247 / Larian A Baldur’s Gate 3 Fighter build is mandatory for every weapon master, frontline charger, and big weapon lover out there. The fighter is one of the most popular combat classes in Baldur’s Gate 3 , with a lot of variety at your finger tips, but a lot of ways to funk up your build too....

January 7, 2026 · 4 min · 829 words · Felton Brock

Best Baldur's Gate 3 Gale Build

Best Baldur’s Gate 3 Gale build The best companion build for Gale in Baldur’s Gate 3, including subclass, equipment, and skills. Image credit:Larian Studios Gale is possibly the most divisive companion in Baldur’s Gate 3 : he’s either your main party’s hilarious go-to spellslinger with a lighthearted quip to diffuse any situation… or he’s an annoying hanger-on you need to keep supplied with costly snacks alongside everything else you already have to worry about....

January 7, 2026 · 5 min · 1018 words · Patsy Cruz

Best Elden Ring Intelligence Build: How To Make A Mage Or Sorcerer Build

Best Elden Ring Intelligence build: How to make a Mage or Sorcerer build Looking to take out enemies with Comet Azur and other OP spells? Here’s how to craft an Intelligence build to carry you through to the late-game in Elden Ring. UPDATE: We’ve added an interactive map to this Elden Ring intelligence build guide to help you with tracking down the necessary items for it. Clever players know that magic has always been a fun build path in FromSoftware games, but in Elden Ring, the best Intelligence builds have more options than ever, with over 70 — sometimes incredibly overpowered — spells to play around with....

January 7, 2026 · 16 min · 3387 words · Tammy Santos

Best Honkai Star Rail Ruan Mei Build, Light Cone, And Relics

Best Honkai Star Rail Ruan Mei Build, Light Cone, and Relics Here’s everything you need for the best Ruan Mei build in Honkai Star Rail. Image credit:HoYoverse Ruan Mei is a brilliant support character in Honkai Star Rail, if not one of the best. The Ice-wielding scholar has some of the most useful buffs in the game, with little to no downtime, and she is the only character who can increase the Break Efficiency of her team....

January 7, 2026 · 8 min · 1570 words · Michael Harb

Bg3 Where To Find The Missing Letters For The Post Office

BG3 Where to find the missing letters for the Post Office Letters are the lifeblood of any city, and in Baldur’s Gate 3, more and more messages have been going missing! Image credit:Larian/VG247 Around the South Span Gate in Baldur’s Gate 3 , you find one of the pillars of any thriving city: the post office. Head inside the Sword Coast Couriers and you’re asked to track down a sackload of missing letters, but it’s not immediately clear where you’re supposed to look....

January 7, 2026 · 4 min · 756 words · Krista Volante

Blade & Soul Neo Is Out Now, For All You Mmo Lovers Looking For Your Latest Fix

Blade & Soul Neo is out now, for all you MMO lovers looking for your latest fix A reboot of sorts of the popular action MMO is out today, so give it a try! Image credit:NCSoft Blade & Soul Neo , a refresh of the popular action MMO that first landed on PC back in 2012, is out right now. Players who wish to hop back into NCSoft’s massive online world of combos and windwalking can do so now via the Purple Launcher....

January 7, 2026 · 2 min · 390 words · Kenneth Vincent

Blizzard Is Solving Diablo 4's Big Battle Pass Problem In The Most Low

Blizzard is solving Diablo 4’s big battle pass problem in the most low-effort way Diablo 4’s battle pass doesn’t reward enough of its paid currency, and things will only slightly improve with Season 2. Image credit:Blizzard Entertainment Of the many , many major improvements Blizzard is making to Diablo 4 with the start of Season of Blood and the release of patch 1.2.0 next week, the developer appears to have ignored a lot of the discussion around the game’s battle pass....

January 7, 2026 · 3 min · 516 words · Maria Bradney

Brace Yourselves Nintendo Switch Fans: Lego Animal Crossing Is Officially On The Way

Brace yourselves Nintendo Switch fans: Lego Animal Crossing is officially on the way A short but sweet trailer released on social media has us hyped for yet another video game Lego set. Image credit:Nintendo / Lego A collaboration between Lego and Animal Crossing has just been announced via a short but incredibly wholesome trailer. Put live on Twitter by Nintendo Europe, we see Tom Nook, Isabelle, and various other cute animal villagers recreated in glorious ABS....

January 7, 2026 · 2 min · 362 words · Mary Dupes

By Azura, Forget That Rumoured Oblivion Remake, Someone's Created A Doom

By Azura, forget that rumoured Oblivion Remake, someone’s created a Doom-style Tamrihell filled with killer Adoring Fans I assume in lore terms this is a realm Sheogorath put together just to make sure the Hero of Kvatch went full Shivering Isles NPC. Image credit:Bethesda/Sloth_Johnson As we all continue to wait for any news on the heavily-rumoured Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion remake, a fan has taken matters into their own hands and created a Doom -style boomer shooter version of the game about a bunch of potato-faced empire-lovers shutting some spooky doors....

January 7, 2026 · 3 min · 493 words · Hung Williams

By Popular Demand, Ea Is Bringing Not-quite

By popular demand, EA is bringing not-quite-Tinder to The Sims 4 The Sims 4 Lovestruck expansion pack has been announced for next month, introducing a dating app to the long-running life sim. Image credit:Maxis / Electronic Arts The Sims 4 Lovestruck expansion pack may have leaked so early and so comprehensively that you could’ve sworn that it’d already been announced, but actually, we’ve only just officially learned that this romantic add-on — the centrepiece of TS4’s Season of Love summer ‘24 content plan — is soon to be a real thing....

January 7, 2026 · 2 min · 373 words · Lillian Gonzales

Canceled Zelda And Splatoon Concerts Go Digital With Youtube Premieres In February

Canceled Zelda and Splatoon concerts go digital with YouTube premieres in February Enjoy the concert no matter where you are. After canceling the live shows, Nintendo moved its The Legend of Zelda and Splatoon concerts to YouTube. The company announced earlier this week that The Zelda Orchestra Concert will air on February 9 and you can catch the Splatoon 3 Deep Cut concert on February 10. Both concerts will be pre-recorded and premiere at 5am PT, 8am ET, 1pm UK....

January 7, 2026 · 2 min · 232 words · Gregory Booker

Capybara Evolution Codes For February 2026

Capybara Evolution codes for February 2026 Get free potions and unlock new capybaras! Image credit:Capybara Evolution / VG247 1st October 2025: We checked for new Capybara Evolution codes. Capybara Evolution is a Roblox pet game all about the world’s cutest rodents! You start off with a sweet-looking capybara with a pacifier in its mouth, and you’re dropped into a world full of things you can munch on. While in real life capybaras are herbivores, in this Roblox game you’ll eat almost anything to earn more EXP - from fruits, to other cute animals and even dragons!...

January 7, 2026 · 3 min · 510 words · Herbert Crader

Counter

Counter-Strike 2’s latest update lets you hold weapons in the wrong hand (but that’s actually good) Finally, guns for left-handed people. Image credit:Valve. Left handed people, you get a win today, as Counter-Strike 2 has added in the ability to switch which hand you’re using in its latest update. Being able to play as a left-handed person in video games is few and far between. It’s not exactly a deeply pressing matter when it comes to representation, but as a left-handed person whenever I see such an option I do think “oh, neat!...

January 7, 2026 · 2 min · 340 words · Michael Banks

Criterion Is Back On Battlefield

Criterion is back on Battlefield - but Need for Speed isn’t dead, promise! After seemingly being done with Battlefield, Need for Speed stewards at Criterion Games are once again back on the Battlefield grind. EA has announced that it’s bringing Criterion Games back into the Battlefield fold. The team is joining the EA Entertainment group, overseen by Respawn co-founder Vince Zampella. The majority of the team at Criterion will be working on Battlefield projects, alongside DICE, Ripple Effect, and Ridgeline....

January 7, 2026 · 2 min · 314 words · Joel Fritts

Cyberpunk 2077 Has Officially Ended Development

Cyberpunk 2077 has officially ended development - over a decade after its reveal It’s been a wild ride, that’s for sure. Image credit:VG247/CD Projekt Finally, over 12 years since the game’s official reveal back in 2012, Cyberpunk 2077 has ended development. All staff at CD Projekt Red have no stopped working on the game, moving on to work on various projects - including future Witcher and Cyberpunk games - for the foreseeable future....

January 7, 2026 · 3 min · 475 words · Carrie Mills

Cyberpunk 2077’s 2.01 Patch Looks To Have Broken Some Passive Skill Effects

Cyberpunk 2077’s 2.01 patch looks to have broken some passive skill effects Either that, or crouching suddenly makes stealthy V more nervous than usual. Image credit:VG247/CD Projekt Red Given that Cyberpunk 2077 ’s 2.0 update totally revamped its perk trees, offering players the chance to comprehensively re-build the skill-sets of their futuristic mercenaries, plenty of those who’ve headed back to Night City to play the Phantom Liberty expansion have done just that....

January 7, 2026 · 3 min · 547 words · Joanne Dotson

Dead By Daylight Dungeon & Dragons, Castlevania Chapters Coming This Year, Plus A New Game Drops And Updates On Two Titles Shared

Dead by Daylight Dungeon & Dragons, Castlevania Chapters coming this year, plus a new game drops and updates on two titles shared News on Project T and and gameplay trailer for The Casting of Frank Stone shared with all. Image credit:Behaviour Interactive Dead by Daylight is getting another year of cool content with six updates on the docket including chapters for Dungeons & Dragons and Castlevania set for later in the year along with the long-awaited 2v8 Mode....

January 7, 2026 · 3 min · 575 words · Theodore Burdick

Dead Reckoning Part 2? What Part 2? Mission: Impossible

Dead Reckoning Part 2? What Part 2? Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning gets a first trailer alongside its slightly revamped name Hey, at least it’s still coming. Image credit:Paramount Pictures Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 2 is no more, as the film’s first trailer confirms it’s opted for a new subtitle: The Final Reckoning. We’ve known since Mission Impossible 8 was delayed last October that it would be abandoning the Dead Reckoning Part 2 subtitle in favour of, well, no one actually knew at the time....

January 7, 2026 · 2 min · 403 words · Hugh Barber

Dead Space Preload Times And Trophy List Unveiled, Revealing Alternate Ending

Dead Space preload times and Trophy List unveiled, revealing alternate ending Xbox Series X/S players can preload now, but PlayStation 5 and PC players will need to wait until Wednesday. The long-awaited remake of cult classic, Dead Space , is right around the corner, with it releasing on January 17. With that in mind and just a few days to go, the preload times for the game have been announced, and its Trophy List unveiled....

January 7, 2026 · 3 min · 451 words · Raymond Batiste