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Forza Horizon 6 players are exploiting certain parts of the game so that they can quickly and easily unlock every vehicle in the game. As spotted by GamesRadar , YouTuber XMBWesley posted a guide on how to quickly rack up a bunch of credits and XP. For starters, you can use map code 121 812 769, equip the Impreza 22B-STI Version 1998 Subaru (you'll need to acquire this if you don't already have it), and then enable auto-steering and assisted braking. The game will essentially do all the work for you and ram your car into a bunch of objects. This will not only earn you credits at the end of the race, but give you skill points. By investing the skill points back into your vehicle, you can unlock more wheel spins, bonuses, and more to help quickly earn additional credits. You can do this as much as you want, but there is also a second race that is just as lucrative. If you enter the map code 197 337 317, you can play another track with the same custom settings as the previous ra...

Walmart is offering an outstanding gaming laptop deal that I haven't seen since Black Friday. As part of the Walmart Memorial Day Sale, you can pick up a powerful MSI Vector HX 16" Gaming Laptop for just $1,399.00 with free shipping. This laptop features an RTX 5070 Ti GPU with 140W TGP rating for impressive gaming performance. MSI Vector HX 16" RTX 5070 Ti Gaming Laptop for $1,399 The MSI Vector HX laptop is equipped with a 16" 1920x1200 144Hz IPS display, Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX, Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti GPU, 16GB of DDR5 RAM, 1TB SSD, and weighs in at about 6 pounds. Both the RAM and SSD are user-upgradeable. The Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX is a 20-core CPU with a max turbo frequency of 5.2GHz. This is a great processor for both gaming and multi-core tasking. A 1 year warranty is included. The GeForce RTX 5070 Ti mobile GPU can handle the most demanding games The RTX 5070 Ti mobile GPU performs about 20%-30% better than the RTX 5070. Compared to the previous gen...

If you're planning out a PC build and have been hoping to get one of the new Nvidia Blackwell graphics cards at a reasonable price, this might be the best opportunity you'll get in the near future. Walmart is offering a retail boxed PNY GeForce RTX 5070 12GB graphics card for just $599 shipped. Mind you this is still $50 over MSRP, but it's the best price I can find right now for a standalone 5070 GPU and the first time I've seen this card drop below $600 this year. PNY GeForce RTX 5070 12GB OC Graphics Card for $599 The GeForce RTX 5070 GPU is an excellent choice for 1080p or 1440p gaming. Compared to the previous generation GPUs, the RTX 5070 offers a slight performance improvement over the RTX 4070 Super , which was and still is an excellent GPU. The fps gain is greater in games that support DLSS 4.5 with multi-frame generation. Read our RTX 5070 review for our hands-on impressions. This PNY model features a slim 2.4-slot triple-fan cooling system and a slight ove...

Warhorse Studios has revealed what it’s working on: a Lord of the Rings role-playing game and a new Kingdom Come game. In a post on social media , the Embracer-owned developer confirmed rumors that it was making a Lord of the Rings RPG, although it described the game as an “open world Middle-earth RPG.” The suggestion, then, is this game may not be set within the Lord of the Rings era of Tolkien’s fantasy setting. But it seems likely to follow the template established by the studio’s hugely popular Kingdom Come: Deliverance games. Indeed, it's easy to see why Warhorse is a great fit for a new Lord of the Rings game; Kingdom Come: Deliverance is a story-driven open world RPG set in medieval Bohemia (modern-day Czech Republic). And while the Kingdom Come: Deliverance games are pride themselves on their historical accuracy, you can imagine this Middle-earth RPG as Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 with a dash of fantasy thrown in to give it that Lord of the Rings feel. Speaking of which, Wa...

Embracer Group is spinning off Fellowship Entertainment, a new business unit designed to expand The Lord of the Rings and Tomb Raider, as well as breathe new life into some of the company’s dormant video game franchises. In a letter to investors , Lars Wingefors, founder and chair of Embracer, said the new Fellowship Entertainment will “more actively be exploring” external partnerships around its well-known IP, such as Saints Row, Legacy of Kain, Deus Ex, Red Faction, The Mask, Thief, TimeSplitters. The suggestion is we may see new games in these franchises, developed by studios that are not under the Embracer umbrella. Wingefors did not outright confirm any new games or announce a timeframe for more news, but there is now hope for some of these franchises where fans thought there was none. Take Saints Row, for example. Earlier this year, Saints Row 1 design director Chris Stockman said he believed the series was “dead” and that Embracer had “zero ability” to do anything with the fran...

Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced , the upcoming remake of 2013's Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag, will give players the option to completely disable the HUD at will. Ubisoft has revealed in a new gameplay clip that players will be able to turn off the HUD at the press of a button without opening any menus. It's extremely seamless and allows players the chance to fully immerse themselves in the world. The option is being welcomed as a great addition, as Ubisoft can sometimes clutter the screen with a lot of icons like health bars, weapon/throwables, the map, and more. To our explorers, Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced will feature an option to seamlessly hide the HUD in-game with the press of a button 🤝 #AssassinsCreed pic.twitter.com/QNP5UFeVs1 — Assassin's Creed (@assassinscreed) May 19, 2026 This gives players the chance to remove all of that and simply embrace the grand, beautiful open world that Ubisoft is creating. Assassin's Creed 4: Bl...

Microsoft is continuing its drive to revamp brand Xbox with the launch of a feedback platform that gives fans the chance to vote on community requests. Predictably, the request with the most votes is a return to exclusives. Microsoft’s multiplatform push may have increased sales (Forza Horizon 5, for example, has found significant success on PlayStation 5), but it has come at the expense of alienating hardcore Xbox fans, some of whom want Microsoft to return to Xbox exclusivity. Earlier this month, it was reported that new Xbox boss Asha Sharma was “treading carefully” as she worked out what to do with exclusive games. Sharma, who replaced Phil Spencer as boss of Xbox earlier this year, has spent her first few months in the job making a number of significant changes as Microsoft works to win back the hearts and minds of its core gaming fans. Among them was the end of the controversial ‘This is an Xbox’ marketing campaign , quickfire new Xbox console features, and a Game Pass price cut ...

EA has confirmed the first details for F1 25’s 2026 Season Pack update will be made available this Wednesday, May 20. The reveal trailer for the upcoming DLC will be released at 4pm UK time, May 20 (11am EDT/8am PDT, and 1am AEST on May 21). For the time being, EA has revealed the “cover” athletes for the update: seven-time F1 champion Lewis Hamilton, former F3 and F2 champion Gabriel Bortoleto, and veteran driver Valtteri Bottas, winner of 10 F1 Grands Prix and current owner of the greatest F1 moustache this side of Nigel Mansell. The presence of Bortoleto and Bottas would be no accident, since they represent the two new teams on the 2026 grid: Audi and Cadillac. EA confirmed in late 2025 that there would be no standalone F1 game released alongside the real-life 2026 season , revealing that the 2026 Formula One World Championship would be coming as a paid expansion for the existing F1 25 instead. The content update is set to reflect all the sport’s 2026 changes, with new cars, new dri...

Forza Horizon 6 managed to slip in a sly reference to Pokémon. Xbox and Playground Games' beloved racing franchise has returned, and it's arguably better than ever . Forza Horizon 6 takes the series to Japan, a long-requested setting amongst fans. Not only is Japan a beautiful location for any game, but it has a very strong and thriving car culture. After years of fleshing out the franchise, Playground finally felt comfortable in taking on the setting and making the biggest Forza game yet. As a result, Forza embraces Japan in all kinds of different ways. Of course, there's an emphasis on drifting in the game, there are cherry blossom trees that are so culturally significant they can't be destroyed , and there are all kinds of references to Japanese culture. One of the game's most notable events even sees the player racing a giant mech through the streets of Japan. It's outrageous, but right in line with the tone of Forza. Perhaps one of the most notable Japanes...

Out on 3 June, the Nintendo Switch 2 port of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth has had preorders for its physical copies (though Game-Key Cards) drop at retailers like Amazon and Argos. Although the epic follow-up to the Final Fantasy 7 Remake has been out on PS5 and PC since early 2024 and 2025 respectively, but is finally coming to the Switch 2 and Xbox Series X|S next month. Among various preorder bonuses for the Switch 2 preorder, however, (including a reversible alternate box art inlay) is a very unique and limited in-box pre-order bonus: a Zack Fair Magic: The Gathering card. This borderless version of the card, with variant art done by Tetsuya Nomura himself, has specifically been spotted among FF7 Rebirth’s Switch 2 pre-orders on Amazon UK and Argos — both for £43.99, after Amazon cut its initial £49.99 price. On the other hand, Argos’ listing also comes with added in-game pre-order bonuses along with the Zack Fair card: a Posh Chocobo Summon Materia, a Shinra Bangle Mk. II item, and...

Borderlands’ well-documented 11th hour art style change cost Take-Two an extra $50 million in development costs and delayed the game by a year, but without it the now successful franchise would have flopped straight out the gate. That’s according to Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick, who in a sweeping interview with David Senra about his career said his approval of the last minute switch and associated extra cost was “a non-obvious decision” that no-one else would have made, but his trust in the developers was rewarded with a new hit franchise. “We had not turned around the company yet, and we had very limited capital,” Zelnick began, speaking of Take-Two as it was after he had taken over the company in 2007. At the time, Borderlands was due out in 2008 with a realistic art style, but then Zelnick was asked to approve a significant change with the game basically done that would see it rebuilt with a cel-shaded, cartooney art style. “We were developing a game and it was about to be released...

GTA 6 is due out November 19, 2026, but as we all know it’s suffered a number of delays. It was officially announced for a fall 2025 release, but was then delayed to May 2026, and then, again officially, to this November. But in a new interview, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick suggested GTA 6 was internally targeting an even earlier release window — around spring 2025 — before it was announced for fall 2025. Speaking to David Senra in a new video interview about his career , Zelnick said GTA 6 was “about 18 months behind the original date… not much more than that.” That suggests the original plan, even if it wasn’t announced publicly, was to have GTA 6 out spring 2025. Assuming that’s correct, GTA 6 is significantly behind schedule, but Zelnick has gone on the record to say he’s keen to give developer Rockstar Games everything it needs to achieve “perfection.” And there is of course pressure on the game to deliver just that and break every sales record going. Earlier this month, Business...

Ghost of Yotei developer Sucker Punch Productions has confirmed its Legends multiplayer mode will not receive any additional major updates after first launching in March. Lead designer Darren Bridges announced the end of online support for developer Sucker Punch Productions' 2025 PS5-exclusive sequel in a message shared via the PlayStation.Blog . The post itself mostly serves to cover all of the big changes brought by the new Raid update, which launched April 10, but comes with the caveat that this content-packed patch will be the online modes' last. "The Raid update was our last major planned update for Legends," Bridges said. "It finishes the story of the Yōtei Six in that mode. We’ve loved to see players playing it, continue to play it and enjoy it. It’s been great." Ghost of Yotei launched for PlayStation 5 October 2, 2025, but Sucker Punch didn't go on to announce plans to add its Legends mode as a free DLC until February of this year. Its release...

A new weekend has arrived, and today, you can save big on Super Mario RPG, Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, Super Mario RPG, Star Fox for Switch 2, Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment, Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties, Dragon Quest VII Reimagined, and more. Check out our top picks for Sunday, May 17, below. Super Mario RPG for $15 GameStop has a flash sale today on Super Mario RPG, and you can score one of the best Mario games on Nintendo Switch for just $15. This adventure is a collaboration between Square Enix and Nintendo, following Mario, Bowser, Peach, and new friends on a journey to find the seven star pieces. In our 8/10 review , we wrote, "Super Mario RPG is considered a classic for a reason, and this faithful remake makes it easy for anyone who missed it in the SNES era to see why. Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment for $49.99 The Hyrule Warriors series returned on Nintendo Switch 2 with a true canon story in Age of Imprisonment. You can score a copy for $49.99 today at Best ...

A new weekend has arrived, and today, you can save big on Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, Super Mario RPG, Star Fox for Switch 2, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties, Dragon Quest VII Reimagined, and more. Check out our top picks for Sunday, May 10, below. Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment for $49.99 The Hyrule Warriors series returned on Nintendo Switch 2 with a true canon story in Age of Imprisonment. You can score a copy for $49.99 today at Best Buy, which saves you $20. In our 8/10 review , we wrote, "Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment’s story may fail to capture the promise of a Tears of the Kingdom prequel, but the gameplay more than makes up for that by wonderfully fusing its source material’s craziest ideas with great 1 vs. 1,000 battles, resulting in the best action of the series yet." DJI Mini 3 Drone for $379 DJI drones are well-known for being high-quality and expensive. Today, you can score a DJI Mini 3 (DJI RC) drone for $379.99, saving you ...

Forza Horizon 6 for PC and Xbox comes out next week (the PS5 edition comes later). This is the perfect excuse for you to finally upgrade from a controller to a bona fide racing wheel. For a limited time, Amazon Resale is offering a used "Like New" Logitech G923 Trueforce Racing Wheel and Pedal Set for PC and Xbox for just $184.79 with free shipping after an extra 20% discount that's automatically applied. It normally retails for $350 new, although it's currently on sale for $280 . Amazon Resale (formerly Warehouse) is Amazon's official account for used goods. The products are sorted by condition, with "Like New" being the best. All Resale items get the same 30-day return policy as buying new. 50% Off Logitech G923 Trueforce Racing Wheel and Pedals Set The G923 is Logitech's mainstream racing wheel that replaces the venerable G920/G29 racing wheels. New to the G923 is TrueForce technology, which offers more precise haptic feedback than the previous...

While folks may picture a certain gentleman spy these days when they hear IO Interactive, fans of Agent 47 and board games may want to listen to this: Hitman: The Board Game is coming, and its campaign is now live on Gamefound . IGN had a chance to go hands-on with a preview sample to see whether this cardboard adaptation could capture the thrill of the video games. Grabbing my best red tie and bald cap, I eagerly recruited some fellow assassins, and off we went to see who was the best among us. After the blood settled, it was easy to see that even with this small snippet of what's to come, it’s on the right track to succeed in that mission. Published by Mood Publishing, the same publishers behind the tabletop adaptations of Deep Rock Galactic , Valheim , and Goat Simulator , Hitman: The Board Game, pits up to four players against one another in a race to see who can take out the target first. Along the way, you'll do your best to secure helpful loot around the map, avoid gua...