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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.”

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

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.