Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 arrives on October 25, but you can still get hands-on with the game during the open beta. Week two of the beta starts on September 6, and you’ll want to adjust some of the game settings to make the most of Black Ops 6’s new omnimovement system. This guide covers the controllers, graphics, and audio settings in the Black Ops 6 menus.Optimal settings are always going to be subjective, but here we detail our preferred options for console players on PS4/PS5 and Xbox One/Xbox Series X|S:

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Square Enix has announced that Final Fantasy Brave Exvius will shut down on October 30. The game was first launched in Japan in 2015 and then worldwide in 2016.”Since Final Fantasy Brave Exvius launch on June 30, 2016, we’ve strived to provide an incredible and enjoyable gaming experience for our players every day that could exceed the day before,” Square Enix said in a statement. “However, we’ve come to the conclusion that it would be difficult to continue maintaining the app experience, and to therefore end the app service.”

After seven years on the market, 140 million systems, and more than 1 billion games sold, Nintendo is finally gearing up to announce its next piece of hardware. In this post, we’re rounding up everything we know about the Switch 2–or whatever the next console is called–and what’s been speculated about the next system from Nintendo. There has been quite a lot of news about the next Nintendo console lately. Recently, it was reported that there might be some kind of Switch 2 event coming up in late-September or early October. Or perhaps not. Everyone is waiting for Nintendo to provide specifics.This post covers the system’s potential form factor, rumors about the the Switch 2 release date, price, launch games, backward compatibility, and more. For simplicity’s sake, we’ll refer to the new s…

Diablo 4’s Vessel of Hatred expansion is getting a modern take on the Runeword system from Diablo 2, one that will allow players to gain abilities their chosen class normally wouldn’t have access to.During a lengthy livestream primarily discussing class changes and a revamp of how difficulty and leveling works will work in Diablo 4 come the expansion’s release, Blizzard saved the best for last. The developer revealed Runewords as an expansion-exclusive feature that will let players combine runes in order to essentially craft new abilities. To create a Runeword, players will need to combine a Rune of Ritual and a Rune of Invocation. These effectively serve as a resource generator and a resource spender, respectively. The Rune of Ritual will specify a type of action that must be don…

At the Xbox Games Showcase this year, Microsoft officially announced the next entry in the Gears series, and it’s going back in time. Gears of War: E-Day, as it’s called, is coming to Xbox and PC in the future. Of all the biggest reveals at the Xbox Games Showcase 2024, this was arguably the biggest.The announcement is good news for fans who wanted to see the series continue, even if it may be going in the opposite direction on the timeline compared to what fans may have expected. Gears 4 ended on a dramatic cliffhanger, so some fans were hoping to see Gears 5 instead of a prequel, but that could be a story that’s being saved for another day.In this post, we’re rounding up everything we know so far about Gears of War: E-Day, including what the story involves, who’s developing it, what plat…

The full-length trailer for Terrifier 3 has been released, revealing Art the Clown’s return in a holiday-themed horror sequel. Directed by Damien Leone, the film continues the story of Sienna and her brother Jonathan, five years after surviving Art’s Halloween massacre.According to the official synopsis, Terrifier 3 follows Sienna and Jonathan as they “try to embrace the Christmas spirit and leave the horrors of the past behind. But just when they think they’re safe, Art the Clown returns, determined to turn their holiday cheer into a new nightmare.” Feast your eyes on the new theatrical poster, directly below.

GameSpot checked out the life simulation title InZoi at Gamescom, getting up to hijinks like burning down an apartment, forgetting to eat, and riding every single ride at a beachside amusement park.In InZoi you manage both individual “Zois” (think Sims) and the world itself. Each Zoi has personality traits which shape their life goals. You can also customize a daily schedule, letting you manage multiple Zois at once more easily. In contrast to The Sims, you can swap between Zois at any time.

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With a new Disney Dreamlight Valley update comes a new Star Paths, and the game is taking things back in time this go-around. The 1920s-inspired Dapper Delights Star Path has many new duties to complete if you want to unlock all of the goodies it contains.But don’t worry, as we’ll help you wrap them up with the solutions to each Star Path duty. Welcome to the roaring ’20s–let’s dance.

All Dapper Delights Star Path duties and how to complete them

• Become a three-star chef – Cook 3-star entrees
• Become a five-star chef – Cook 5-star entrees
• Become a four-star chef – Cook 4-star entrees
• Bring a frosty princess her favorites – Bring favorite gifts to Elsa
• Cast a line in the Forest – Go fishing in the Forest of Valor
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Grand strategy games are a bit too big to demo. Building from a single settlement and a couple of farms into a vast nation is a time-consuming process, and even playing tens of early game turns can only show you so much. Even with that being the case, though, a little time with the opening of 4X game Ara: History Untold suggests a sprawling entry into the genre that brings along some new ideas that focus on offering lots of different paths for creating a thriving civilization.I played about an hour of the massive turn-based strategy game Ara: History Untold at Xbox’s Gamescom preview event in Los Angeles. That amounted to about 35 turns–just enough to hit the end of the first era of human history and to get a sense of the way Ara approaches a game about being the most influential civiliza…