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Who doesn’t love a battle pass? Well, hopefully you if you’re planning on hopping into Call of Duty Black Ops 6‘s Squid Game crossover event, which kicks off today, January 3, and will run until January 24. You see, it technically comes with not one, but two battle passes, a regular one and a premium one, all stocked with goodies …

Image: Nintendo / Jump Over the Age / Yellow Brick Games / Kotaku, Apple / Kotaku, Arrowhead Game Studios, Rocksteady Studios, Nintendo / Kotaku, Game Science, Screenshot: AIHASTO, TES Renewal Project, TrampolineTales, Photo: SOPA Images (Getty Images) This past week saw the end of 2024, the arrival of 2025, and, arguably, a predictably slow start to the often-relentless news cycle …

With 2025 looming, Star Wars fans have a whole new year’s worth of content to look forward to. Unfortunately, 2025 isn’t shaping up to be the franchise’s biggest year. With no new movies on the docket and only one live-action series confirmed for release, the pickings are looking a little slim. But that’s not to say there’s nothing exciting on …

Zelda fans can now get the Great Deku Tree Lego set at major retailers. Launched last September as a Lego Store exclusive, the first building set based on The Legend of Zelda is now available at Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart, and Target. The superb 2,500-piece Great Deku Tree Display Model is a 2-in-1 package that lets fans build the Deku …

Jim Carrey is fresh off of reprising the role of moustachioed and bald baddie Dr Robotnik in Sonic 3, and he’s already suggested that he’d at aleast consider the idea of returning for furture Sonic movies – for example, a Sonic 4, provided he thinks the idea of whatever’s pitched “sounds fun”. This comes after Carrey basically came out of …

Image: Night School Studio Play it on: Mobile Current goal: Stop those damn kids Oxenfree is one of my favorite games ever. Its compelling combination of naturalistic, banter-y dialogue and spooky podcast-like storyline clicked strongly for me, entirely drawing me into its mysterious narrative. Peculiar radio signals, ghostly apparitions, and time and space not behaving properly, all experienced through the …

At last, it’s time for the most exciting live competitive event of the year. No, I don’t mean the Super Bowl – it’s time for Awesome Games Done Quick, the annual charity speedrunning marathon that features a week of talented gamers showing off the wildest things they can do with video games. Games Done Quick (GDQ) has been running for …

Marvel Rivals, a free-to-play 6v6 hero shooter, features a pretty wide roster of Marvel characters to play as. While the selection of Strategists, the support heroes focused on healing and buffing teammates, is fairly slight at only seven heroes now, Marvel Rivals will be getting lots of new heroes in the future. These heroes are ranked based on the range …

Warning: Spoilers for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle lie ahead. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is pretty fun, at least in part because its Nazi baddies say some hilarious stuff at times. Everyone’s seen Gantz getting his choo-choo on in the cinematic trailer Machine Games put out prior to release, but main baddie Emmerich Voss has some just …

Image: Carter Smith You may have not noticed it, but Tom Holland wasn’t on your movie screen in 2024, and that could become an extended reality in the not-too-distant future. In his recent Men’s Health cover story, the 28-year-old actor revealed his plans for life after acting, including what life change has to happen for him to walk away from …