Forza Horizon 4 is getting a new multiplayer mode that borrows from the battle royale genre. The free update will add a mode called “Eliminator” in which 72 players race to stay within the closing play area and be left the last one driving. It’s coming as part of the Series 17 update tomorrow, December 12.
The new mode will take place in an arena set in Britain. You can eliminate other players in head-to-head races to earn upgrades and faster cars, and the arena will slowly contract to force players closer together. It all ends with a final race to determine the ultimate winner. The trailer (below) shows off the mode in action.
Battle royale exploded in popularity thanks to games like PUBG and Fortnite, but we’ve seen it slowly adopted into non-shooters like Tetris 99. Forza Horizon 4 is the latest example of a game genre that isn’t necessarily associated with battle royale adapting those ideas.
Forza Horizon 4 is an open-world game set in Britain, with a season-changing mechanic that makes for new road conditions on a regular basis. GameSpot’s review called it “a winning, all-inclusive recipe that celebrates the joy of driving above all else.”
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A new patch is now live in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. The hotfix isn’t especially big, and mostly implements fixes for some pesky bugs. The full patch notes are on Reddit, and we have them listed below too.
This new patch releases a day after a playlist update for Modern Warfare. On December 10, Gunfight: OSP replaced Gunfight and Infected replaced Reinforce–putting the fan-favorite multiplayer mode in Modern Warfare for the first time. Both Gunfight: OSP and Infected will be rotated out on December 18. The Aniyah Palace multiplayer map was also added to the Ground War rotation, and FFA, NVG Moshpit, and Shoot House 24/7 all got Hardcore modes.
Thinking about picking up Modern Warfare, but still on the fence? Look at GameSpot’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare review, in which Kallie Plagge writes, “Just when it could really make a point about any other aspect of modern war, it pulls back. Modern Warfare makes old observations and presents them with new flourishes. Those new flourishes do make for a good campaign and solid multiplayer. But it’s when Modern Warfare asks you to think harder that it falls short.”
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare December 11 Update Patch Notes
Fix for the R9-0 Smoothebore not appearing correctly in-game
Fix for the “Smooth Dominator” not appearing correctly in-game
Fix for the “Heat Cycle” weapon not appearing correctly in-game
Fix for a bug where equipping the “Old Wounds” LMG could cause an error, kicking players out of the menu
Operator challenge descriptions have been updated to indicate that a specific Operator must be equipped in order to complete the challenge
If you reached a new rank while in the middle of a match and perform the criteria to complete a challenge you just unlocked, progress would not show in the UI until you entered a new match. We’ve done some backend work to help improve this.
Fix for Objective 2 of Mara’s Operator Mission showing a placeholder name “Desert Work” for the reward
Fix for Wyatt’s Calling Card appearing with the incorrect rarity
Fix for the Cluster Strike’s missiles getting stuck on surfaces without detonating and playing looping audio the remainder of the match
Fix for exploits in Special Operations: Survival
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The Season of the Undying might be over in Destiny 2, but that doesn’t mean all the seasonal rewards you earned but didn’t claim are gone. In fact, with a little finesse, you can get an Exotic engram from last season’s rewards right now–even if you claimed it already. And thanks to recent changes with the new season, the free engram all but guarantees a new Exotic for your characters.
To claim the Exotic from the Season of the Undying season pass, you’ll have to have surpassed Level 98. As Redditor SecretAgentB pointed out, the engram seems to be available thanks to a minor glitch on Bungie’s website. Bungie’s page for the Season of the Undying season pass allows you to view your progress through that season and claim any rewards you might have neglected to grab before Tuesday’s start of the Season of Dawn. But even if you claimed the Exotic engram for level 98 on the pass, you can still get it again.
First, head to bungie.net/7/en/Seasons/PreviousSeason, which displays your progress through the season pass. A dropdown menu at the top lets you choose which character’s pass to see, and if you page through the rewards, you’ll spot any you haven’t claimed. Page to the end to find the Exotic engram at level 98 and click it. That’ll pull up a pop-up window with a button marked “Claim,” which will allow you to instantly claim the engram for the selected character (but no other character).
Choose wisely which character you want to claim the engram with, as you can only do this once per account. If you’re hoping to get one of the three new pieces of Exotic armor from the Season of Dawn, you’ll want to pick a character who already has all or most of the Exotics available from the random loot pool. SecretAgentB’s original post also suggested you be logged into the game when you use the glitch; we’re not sure it’s strictly necessary, but better safe than sorry. Thanks to a new change with Season of Dawn, all Exotic engrams are now Fated engrams, which means they’ll only give you Exotics you don’t have for that character until you’ve got everything (after that, they start dropping random Exotic armor so you can get different rolls). If you pick a character who’s missing a lot of Exotics, you’re more likely to unlock something from past seasons.
While it’s not a glitch, this page is also handy if you’ve got seasonal rewards from Undying that you never bothered to grab. Seasonal armor on the pass defaults to your current gear level, making this a useful way to shore up any armor slots that are lagging behind the rest of your loadout and boost your Power level up to the new cap of 960. If nothing else, grabbing those rewards and dismantling them will earn you materials and Glimmer you can use on other things in the game.
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With Black Friday in the rearview mirror, some of this year’s biggest discounts on consoles and console games are definitely behind us, but the same can’t be said for PC games. Sure, Steam held its annual Autumn Sale during Black Friday, but there are other digital game stores that tend to have even better prices. One such store is Fanatical, which just launched its own Winter Sale with hundreds of deals on digital game codes, many of which can be redeemed on Steam.
The Winter Sale is live now through January 3, but along with the main store sale, there will be 24-hour Star Deals going live every day until Christmas. These flash deals are only available for a day at a time and they tend to have some of the best discounts available online, so keep checking back to see what the latest game on sale is.
Some of the best deals available right now include two of this year’s biggest games, Resident Evil 2 and Devil May Cry 5, for $18 each. You’ll also find acclaimed strategy game Civilization VI for $15 as well as Monster Hunter World for $27. Newer games, like Borderlands 3 and The Outer Worlds, are both down to $52.79, although please note those must be redeemed through the Epic Games Store.
Be sure to check out some of our picks from Fanatical’s huge winter sale below. We’ve noted which platform the code can be redeemed at; the product listing will also indicate the appropriate store near the price. You can also see the full offering of games on sale at Fanatical.
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Best Winter Sale game deals
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The Game Awards is just a day away, airing live on December 12 at 5:30 PM PT / 8:30 PM ET. Show host Geoff Keighley has announced a brand-new digital consumer festival that lets you play a handful of demos on Steam for free.
The Game Festival is billed as the “first-of-its-kind,” a digital consumer event as part of a pilot program with Steam. For a limited 48-hour window, you can get your hands on 13 demos before they’re removed from Steam. These include gruesome platformer Carrion, cute skateboarding title SkateBIRD, wholesome adventure game Spiritfarer, and more.
The Game Festival runs from Thursday, December 12 at 10 AM PT to Saturday, December 14 at 10 AM PT. Some of the available demos to play can be viewed below.
The Game Festival Free Steam Demos
“Let’s face it: Not everyone can attend a physical trade show or consumer event,” Keighley said in a press release. “The Game Festival is designed from the ground-up as an event without barriers, extending the benefits of a physical event to the global gaming community that watches The Game Awards.”
Over the next few days, we will offer further insight into why we picked the 10 games we did for the best of 2019, with each article going live on- site in order of the games’ release dates. Then, on December 17, we will reveal which of the nominees gets to take home the coveted title of GameSpot’s Best Game of 2019. So be sure to come back then for the big announcement, and in the meantime, follow along with all of our other end-of-the-year coverage collected in our Best of 2019 hub.
Love is a hard thing to get right in video games–especially when that love isn’t presented as an RPG romance option or a dating sim, but rather a consistent undercurrent that elevates every aspect of the game in which you find it. There’s little love between Amicia and her brother Hugo at the beginning of A Plague Tale: Innocence. Hugo has been hidden away from his sister due to his illness for the entirety of his five short years of life, but all of that changes when their home is attacked and it falls on Amicia to save the two of them as best she can.
It’s a common sentiment in video games that escort missions are the worst, but leading Hugo through the threatening, plague-ridden countryside of France in pursuit of a cure is a thrilling, beautiful, and heartwarming experience. The performances from the main characters are extraordinarily affecting, whether it’s when Hugo innocently asks during a frantic escape if he and his sister are going to die, when he finds flowers and puts them in Amicia’s hair and tells her they’re pretty, or when Amicia has to grapple with the devastation of needing to kill to protect herself and her brother. The genuine affection that develops between the two, particularly when things take a turn for the worst, is infectious and believable. When Hugo is in trouble you feel Amicia’s panic and desperation, and your developing love for him makes seeing the story through feel essential and meaningful.
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The strength of A Plague Tale’s characters feed into the interesting ways you can engage in its combat encounters which evolve alongside your character development and progress. To great effect, each encounter is more of a puzzle than a toe-to-toe fight. Amicia is a glass cannon who is only able to sneak by her vastly stronger foes early on, but as the game wears on, her abilities become more diverse and unlock extremely satisfying options for combat. The swarms of rats, in particular, work both to establish the horrific sense of place and also become the most interesting tool to use in combat. Combat arenas gradually become more complicated, and mastering your abilities and knowledge of how to manipulate light–a rat’s worst enemy–to your advantage is necessary to paving the way forward.
The effectiveness of A Plague Tale: Innocence’s narrative is due to the sympathetic, unwilling heroes at its heart.
The effectiveness of A Plague Tale: Innocence’s narrative is due to the sympathetic, unwilling heroes at its heart. Amicia and Hugo aren’t adventurers. They aren’t trying to solve a crime, take on a fabled adversary, or become warriors–they’re victims of circumstance. Underdogs. Vulnerable to the violent, grisly world around them. As are the people who choose to join them. That isn’t to say they aren’t clever or bold or brave, but it means their fear is more palpable and their victories and escapes more triumphant. The allies you encounter are empathetic and learning about their backstories informs the harsh world around you. Having younger companions rely on you, particularly in the case of Hugo, enhances the tension in combat encounters, the fear of your environment where staying in the dark for too long puts you at risk of being devoured by rats, and the mental stakes if you fail in an attempt to be stealthy.
A Plague Tale: Innocence weaves a beautiful story about resilience and victory in the face of unbelievable odds, not out of arrogance or the desire to best an enemy, but because it is the only choice Amicia and Hugo can make. The quiet moments of discussion with Lucas and your ragtag group of collected wards and allies are an important contrast to the frantic and terrifying world that lies beyond. Between violent guards, merciless rats, and an almost unrelenting darkness, it’s a game that should feel oppressive to play–but Hugo’s optimistic naivety and the love he shares with Amicia are so touching that there is always a light to be found in the darkness.
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