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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV developer King Art Games has released the CGI cinematic trailer for the Necron faction, and it’s got aura written all over it. This latest trailer shows off the powerful Necron Chronomancer Thothmek, who, like most Necrons who wake after their 60 million year slumber, seems pretty grumpy at the state of the galaxy. Thothmek explains that he’s setting out to reclaim Kronus, which was a Necron Tomb World long before the Space Marines, Orks, and Adeptus Mechanics stepped foot on it. This is the third of King Art Games’ four in-game CGI narrative trailers for upcoming real-time strategy game Dawn of War IV, and while it perhaps doesn’t beat the wonderful Orks CGI trailer (“CRASH FASTER!”), for me it’s a step up from the disappointing Adeptus Mechanicus CGI trailer , which painted the normally deadly Necrons as worse shots than Star Wars Stormtroopers. This new trailer, though, makes the Necrons look as imposing and dreadful as they should. I particularly l...

Activision and Infinity Ward have confirmed dates for the upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 beta tests across PC, Nintendo, PlayStation, and Xbox devices. The team behind this year's first-person shooter installment revealed its playtest plans with a blog post on their website . Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 players who pre-ordered on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X | S can dive in first when beta early access runs from August 21 – 25, with Nintendo Switch 2 joining the mix when the open beta takes place between August 28 – September 1. It's all set to truly kick off immediately after the Call of Duty Next presentation comes to an end August 21. A brief description for this year's event promises "live gameplay, an in-depth briefing on the lineup of content coming to Modern Warfare 4's Multiplayer, developer insights, and new reveals ahead of the beta." Exactly which weapons, Operators, maps, and modes will be featured in the beta have yet to be revealed, bu...

Inde Navarrette is going viral for her reaction after a fan gifted the Obsession star a sealed copy of Modern Warfare 2. The internet’s obsession (ha, get it?) with Inde Navarrette is reaching a fever pitch, especially after it was discovered that she’s a massive gamer who even has her own Twitch channel . Clips from her streams have gone viral across social media, earning her admiration from the gaming community — one member of which parted ways with an extremely valuable copy of Modern Warfare 2 just to show their appreciation for the actress. Over the weekend, fans gathered at the Javits Center in New York for Fanatics Fest, where Navarrette participated in a Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 panel alongside Kevin Durant. As she walked out of the venue, she spotted a fan holding out a sealed copy of Modern Warfare 2 still in its display case. “Oh my god!” Navarrette gasped, excitedly snatching the game out of the fan’s hands. “This is the 2009 version!” “One recently sold for $1,000,” ...

Bethesda chief Todd Howard has issued a rare post on Reddit, telling gamers that the developer is "constantly listening” to fans on the website. And so, unsurprisingly, fans have responded with requests. Howard posted in the r/games subreddit in the wake of Bethesda's announcement of its roadmap of releases over the coming years . With The Elder Scrolls 6 taking up Bethesda Game Studios’ attention, Howard confirmed Fallout 5 is now in pre-production , New Vegas developer Obsidian is working on a new Fallout game, Fallout 3 and New Vegas remasters are in the works, and Starfield is still alive . That announcement itself followed a significant round of layoffs across Xbox, which hit Bethesda and its various studios hard as new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma continues her “reset” of Microsoft’s gaming business. That reset involves doubling down on Xbox’s core franchises, and for Bethesda that means more The Elder Scrolls and Fallout games, more quickly . Howard then took the unusual step...

The director of Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced has told fans to keep playing — even when GTA 6 launches. Of course, the hugely-anticipated GTA 6 arrives on November 19, and is expected to gobble up gaming time and attention away from pretty much every major release — so much so that many other developers are steering well clear and launching their games en masse in September and early October. But what about post-launch support for games that have already released, such as Resynced? Asked about the contents of future updates for the newly-launched remake, game director Richard Knight played coy, though mentioned the upcoming New Game Plus mode that publisher Ubisoft previously confirmed. What might follow that remains to be seen. Still, the suggestion that support will continue through GTA 6's November release date is interesting to consider. "I mean, I can't say anything officially, but you know, it doesn't feel like a crazy bet," Knight said, speakin...

Have you ever wanted to fall asleep to the sound of Call of Duty players screaming through a $5 mic and into your ear? No? Well, Call of Duty Ambience is here anyway. Erected by app-maker Mike Wing, Call of Duty Ambience is a new website that, for some reason, allows you to tap back into multiplayer lobbies like it's 2010 all over again. Fit with an Xbox 360 theme, cringy gamertags, and other classic visuals, the site allows anyone to log in and get some shuteye while strangers argue in the background. Three Call of Duty games are supported at the moment: Modern Warfare 2 , Black Ops , and Black Ops 2 . If you ever played a few games of team deathmatch for any of these first-person shooter classics, you should immediately feel right at home. most people fall asleep to white noise i fall asleep to grown men arguing in cod lobbies so i made a website that plays Call of Duty voice chat 24/7 pic.twitter.com/tu0q1rxtFO — mike wing (@immike_wing) July 16, 2026 "Most people fa...