Lost Ark Monster Bash Update Brings Spooky Season, a New Continent, and Calliligos Guardian Raid

New World’ s October Balance of Power update video is out, and in it, Creative Director David Verfaillie talks about PvE and PvP balance, how the Flail has been doing since the expansion launch, and other issues the team is aware of and keeping an eye on.

As some recent activity on Steam suggested, it really seems like Batman Arkham Knight is going to get new content in the future.

With today’s update, Lost Ark’s promised Chaos Gate revamp is here. The new format merges Chaos Gates, Ghost Ships, and Treasure Maps, and will test challengers with waves of demons and a few bosses to defeat.

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.

Voice acting in video games has grown leaps and bounds over the years. At first, it was a “luxury” to have voice acting in video games. Then, it was something you did, but you didn’t always need the “best voice actors” to get the job done. Fast forward to now, and you are almost required to have top-notch voice acting and potentially bring in A-List actors to be certain characters to add clout to the game. In the case of the Batman Arkham Trilogy, they had numerous voice acting talents, making the game emphatically good. But few will deny that one of the best of the bunch was Mark Hamill as The Joker.

One of the most celebrated actors to portray The Joker across all media is actor Mark Hamill. First taking on the role in 1992's Batman: The Animated Series, he quickly became a fan-favorite for his raucous yet still chilling take on the character, serving as a great foil to late Batman actor Kevin Conroy in the classic show and the subsequent animated movies and video games in the decades that followed.

Insomniac Games has shared the release notes for the day-one Spider-Man 2 update. Here's what the 1.001.002 patch does.

Insomniac Games has said Spider-Man 2 will get a New Game Plus mode after its release.

's Season 5: Reckoning has arrived, and it brings a variety of new content and general updates with it. Although a singleplayer campaign can be purchased in the tradition of the series, the online aspect of the game has been free-to-play since its launch in 2021. A steady stream of seasonal updates has expanded the multiplayer from a comparatively bare-bones launch, and Season 5 is no slouch when it comes to offering new opportunities in both gameplay and customization.

NEXON Company’s gacha, Blue Archive celebrates the start of October with a rerun of the 2022 New Year’s event, New Year’s Rhapsody No. 68, with new students Kayoko (New Year) and Haruka (New Year). Understandably, it is not New Year season, but the game’s global app has different dates for when events occur. Blue Archive is considered one of the top gacha RPGs to grace the Google Play Store. With over a million downloads and making over $250 million since its global release back in 2021. 

It’s Halloween once more in Guild Wars 2 , with the return of the Shadow of the Mad King festival, starting today. Enjoy returning favorites and new stuff for 2023, including a new variant of the Mad King's Clock Tower, new achievements, and more.

Chain-smoking occult investigator John Constantine returns in 2024 with Hellblazer: Dead In America. The new eight-issue series is written by Si Spurrier, drawn by Aaron Campbell and colored by Jordie Bellaire. The series is a sequel - and possibly a conclusion - to the same creative team's acclaimed 2019-2021 run.