8 open-world games that secretly punish you for exploring too often

Not every open world game is like this, but quite a few will punish you if you spend too much time off the beaten path and ...
Game Rant

Diablo 4 Season 11 Has a New Virtually Unbeatable Leveling Route

For players looking to level up quickly in Diablo 4 Season 11, one activity may be the best choice for efficiently hitting ...
Yardbarker

Elden Ring’s NightReign Scholar: Mysteries, Clues, and Everything Known

A new trailer from Bandai Namco for Elden Ring Nightreign has given fans a closer look at “The Scholar,” one of two new Nightfarer classes being introduced in the upcoming DLC. Positioned as a ...
PC Gamer

One of Elden Ring's best overhaul mods just received a massive update that adds fully functional multiplayer

One of the earliest and most ambitious mods for Elden Ring, which revised and remixed its core systems to facilitate more tailored runs through The Lands Between, has just got a huge overhaul. Elden ...
GamesRadar+

Elden Ring's Switch 2 port delayed into 2026 by FromSoftware for "performance adjustments," and people are surprisingly OK about it: "I'd rather it releases in a better state"

While the overlap of FromSoftware fans and Switch 2 owners may not be huge, they've received some bad news all the same. The Elden Ring port for Nintendo's portable system is delayed into 2026, and ...
Shacknews

Battlefield 6 progression changes boost XP gain, but XP farm nerfs are coming

Battlefield 6 has been out for little more than a couple weeks now and it has been mostly enjoyable with only a few caveats. It’s simply too slow to progress through the ranks and attachment upgrades ...
TweakTown

Battlefield 6 XP farming is officially being stopped by EA

TL;DR: Battlefield 6 players exploited Portal mode to farm XP quickly by creating custom bot-killing servers, but EA and developers are actively shutting down these XP farms and blocking new server ...
PC Gamer

Elden Ring Nightreign's latest patch has made it impossible for greedy teammates to farm extra runes after the second-day boss, which is music to my ears

Alongside Elden Ring Nightreign's Dark of Night endless mode, the latest patch has also brought a slew of fixes and updates, including a much-needed change to the holy damage icon (finally!) and a ...
GameSpot

Elden Ring's Switch 2 Performance Isn't That Great, Reports Say

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. When the Nintendo Switch 2 was properly revealed, a perhaps-unsurprising reveal was the fact that Elden Ring would be coming to the platform. The ...
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Elden Ring's new content and Nintendo Switch 2 release could be coming soon – the Tarnished Edition was just rated by the ESRB

Elden Ring's Tarnished Edition, which will bring the storied open-world RPG to Switch 2 and bring a smattering of content to folks who own the game elsewhere, has been rated by the ESRB, suggesting a ...
Game Rant

Best Farming Locations In Elden Ring Nightreign

Joshua has been playing video games for as long as he can remember. He's currently playing just about any and every new AAA story-based game. In his free time, he enjoys buying, building, painting, ...
IGN

Another item on the agenda.

Elden Ring Nightreign is out, and players are already diving into the shifting lands to fight the Nightlord. If they warmed up a bit on the original Elden Ring, though, they might be finding ...