Guild Wars 2 Opens Shadow of the Mad King Festival With New Ways to Enjoy Spooky Season in Tyria

Obsidian Entertainment's Grounded is getting user creation tools. Known as "Make It or Break It," the November 13 update will feature a Playgrounds mode that allows players to create their own custom backyards (or use the base game's pre-existing one) and release them to the community. 

Writer Jonathan Hickman's new Ultimate Universe has officially launched. And while readers previously got some hints from Marvel about what's in store, with some particularly interesting news about the new Ultimate Spider-Man already being teased by the publisher. 

Airship Syndicate and Digital Extremes have released the final mid-season update before Season 2 of Wayfinder, titled The Reaver King. The update for the Action RPG MMO brings a trove of new content ahead of Season 2 which is expected to release later this year. Players with any Wayfinder founder’s pack can jump into The Reaver King starting today.

Wizard101 has been teasing the arrival ofthe Wallaru update for a while now, and today marks the opening of the test realm. Check out the Guild Museum, which you can help to fill up, all the new spells to learn, and a number of other updates.  

This year colony survival sim Stranded: Alien Dawn left early access, but that doesn't mean it's done. Not content to wipe out your colony of hard-working survivors with giant alien bugs, debilitating injuries and illnesses, and deadly weather events, developer Haemimont Games is throwing something new at you next month: killer robots.

Torchlight: Infinite has launched its Season 3 preseason, Hunter’s Odyssey, with a new map, new preseason gear, and more to lead into the new season. 

Valve has launched its much-awaited SteamVR 2.0 update, following a one-month beta testing period in September. While it's unclear whether the company is laying the groundwork for a new virtual reality headset, the update brings a complete overhaul to the user interface, in a way that matches the current Steam Big Picture mode. The store prioritises new and major VR releases at the top, in addition to making it easy to navigate through a consistent experience across the desktop app, the Steam Deck, and other devices. The update was originally supposed to drop in 2020.

Here we are again, friends. Deep in the Wednesday grind, but peering ahead for ways to make the weekend awesome. In interesting cost-of-living times such as these, you and I can always look to games as the greatest (and cheapest) forms of escape. I got a bunch of those today; however, it's also a pretty great time to consider a steering wheel purchase. Especially on Xbox, for all my fellow Forza fans.

Ankama Games has opened up a brand new season, Lance Dur, in Waven with Chapter 1: Cire Momore starting today. The update to the Early Access tactical MMO adds a new competitive PvE mode, rewards, an overhauled Battle Pass, and the spooky challenge  coincides with Halloween.

Respawn Entertainment has revealed the next playable character to join Apex Legends ahead of the release of Season 19.

Sea of Thieves is kicking off its tenth season, bringing with it a host of new features. Headlining the update is the ability for players to form Guilds, allowing them to unite under a single banner to take on greater challenges.

It happened again. Diablo 4 Season 2 brought a bunch of highly requested changes to the action RPG – and also some new short shorts for Rogues which are somehow even more revealing than the last pair.