Albion Online Crystal Raiders Update Revamps Conqueror's Challenge, Incentives for Conflict, and Crystal Weapons

As 2023 winds down, Fantastic Pixel Castle (FPC) provided a thank you alongside an insightful update on their upcoming MMORPG, Ghost detailing what’s to come next year. The blog started with gratitude towards their community that has taken interest in the upcoming game. FPC recognized the positive reception of Ghost's initial vision despite the game's early development stages.

Starfield developer Bethesda has issued an end of year update for the space game, outlining what players can expect in 2024.

Embark Studios have released The Finals update 1.4.0, a mixture of balance tweaks, quality-of-life improvements and crash fixes which is going down like the proverbial lead balloon among fans of the free-to-play shooter's Heavy class. I'm definitely here for the crash fixes - I can't get The Finals to run for longer than five minutes, which is a shame, because as Graham tells it, this is the most exciting new multiplayer FPS in years. Specifically, it sounds like a blend of Battlefield and Rainbow Six: Siege with a smashable toytown aesthetic. But enough about me and my computer's refusal to let me have fun. What's going on with those Heavies, then?

Since the release of Microsoft's latest Windows 11 update KB5033375 for December's Patch Tuesday, there's been a deluge of reports from unhappy users with Wi-Fi connectivity issues, according to Bleeping Computer. A quick search of Reddit reveals a large number of users who've installed the latest update complaining about dropped connections or an inability to access Wi-Fi networks, and the picture is much the same on Twitter and the Microsoft Community Forums.

Garena Free Fire MAX redeem codes for December 19: Take advantage of special in-game items in Garena Free Fire MAX to boost your gameplay without spending real money! Developers of Garena Free Fire MAX have released a fresh set of redeem codes for exciting rewards like weapon loot crates, emotes, and more. Players can redeem them and unlock the Skin upgrade, weapons, Free Pet, Character upgrades, and more, all for free. There are several reward schemes announced almost every day by the game to keep players glued to the game. While weapons, characters, skins, and other in-game items can be bought by paying real cash, these rewards schemes, offers, and redeem codes allow players to grab them for free.

Activision Blizzard has agreed to pay more than $54 million (and an additional $47 million for affected employees) to settle a lawsuit filed by California’s Civil Rights Department in 2021. The lawsuit was filed over accusations of sexual and gender harassment, along with discrimination, including pay disparities.

Blizzard has shared a lengthy Blue Post covering the development adjustments for Battle for Ashenvale, How layers have been involved, and fixes that will be implemented for Season of Discovery. Additionally, Blizzard shares that they will be taking the lessons learned and applying them for development on future Phases in Season of Discovery.

Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding live-action movie adaptation is really happening, and now A24, the studio behind Everything Everywhere All at Once, Uncut Gems, and Hereditary, is involved. Kojima Productions and A24 announced their collaboration on Thursday, offering new details about their Death Stranding movie and further reinforcing that, yeah, this this is actually happening.

NVIDIA just announced the latest round of additions to the GeForce NOW cloud library for the current week. The list of 13 PC games is led by Microsoft's Forza Horizon 4 & 5 and Minecraft Dungeons.

God of War Ragnarok: Valhalla has a challenge so difficult that no one on the game's development team has completed it. 

Fortnite has been consistently supported with regular and meaty content updates for years at this point, but last week, Epic Games went above and beyond and released three entire games within the battle royale shooter in the form of LEGO Fortnite, Rocket Racing, and Fortnite Festival. All three games have got off to great starts in terms of reception and player engagement, and according to Epic, they’re all here to stay.

If you ever wanted to know who the strongest trainer in Pokemon history really is, one person has simulated over one million battles to figure out just that. But in the process, he's also discovered the inescapable truth that "Johto is garbage."