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From now until November 23 at 9:59 PM ET / 6:59 PM PT, you can go to the game's Steam page and add Vermintide 2 to your library. The title usually costs $30, but Fatshark is offering the game for free to mark 10 years of "Tide" games from the studio, beginning with Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide in 2015.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the God of War franchise, and one of the best ways to celebrate is to grab the latest entry in the long-running series, God of War Ragnarok, which is down to its lowest price yet for Black Friday. You can grab the game for just $20 (was $70) at Amazon, PlayStation Direct, and Walmart for a limited time.

Ubisoft has announced a new game prototype featuring voice-controlled AI teammates that understand visual context and natural language. This "Teammates" project builds on the Neo NPCs Ubisoft showed off with Nvidia in 2024 to demo in-game AI that can naturally respond to players. A key difference this time, besides the complexity of the interactions the prototype supports, is that Teammates is already being played in a closed playtest with "a few hundred players," Ubisoft says.

PlayStation's Black Friday 2025 sales have kicked off, and if you're looking to grow your PS5 library, then you'll want to check out this deal on Stellar Blade. Shift Up's action-RPG is on sale for $40, a big cut from its usual price of $70. The discount is available at Amazon, PlayStation Direct, Walmart, and Best Buy.

The PS5 launched in 2022 and maintained strict pricing for years, with Sony rarely offering any meaningful discounts even during major shopping events. This marks the first year the console sees genuine Black Friday price cuts, and these deals appear exclusively on Amazon. The PS5 Slim with disc drive drops to $449 from $549, while the Digital Edition hits $399 instead of $499.

Since late 2021, something has been building in the community. Dataminers have continued to extract and share pieces of code from other Valve games that seem to indicate that the company is working on a new Half-Life game, reportedly codenamed HLX. Then, earlier this month, Valve announced three (lol) new pieces of gaming hardware, but didn't announce a new game to go with any of it.

The first was a big injection of new cash, say from a sovereign wealth fund like Saudi Arabia's. The second was an outright sale of a major portion of the company, maybe to its current backstop investor Tencent. The third was much more mundane: an accounting error. After a week of speculation, the Assassin's Creed publisher confirmed that was indeed the reason for the delay.

It would be a lie not to say that obviously spring looks really good,

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7's new version of Nuketown arrived on November 20, and one of the first things people tried on it was shooting off all the mannequin heads to unlock the long-running Nuketown Easter egg. Unfortunately, it doesn't work in Black Ops 7, at least not yet. This isn't a huge shock, though, as Black Ops 6's version of Nuketown didn't unlock the Easter egg right away, either.

Speaking to Eurogamer, Moore explained that getting the Xbox 360 into the market ahead of the PS3 was key to its strong performance, saying that the first 10 million sales were vital. "I think it was really important to get it out first," Moore said. "Get going, get momentum, and aim for that 10 million installed base that I felt that would give us an amazing advantage over whatever Sony could do to catch up."

According to an Insider Gaming story ( corroborated by Eurogamer), the information came to light after Ubisoft's earnings report was finally released. The report--which the company delayed at the last minute so it could "finalize the closing of the semester," per CFO Frederick Duguet--mentioned that one "unannounced game" will come out before the end of Ubisoft's fiscal year ending on March 31, 2026.

In the patch notes, Treyarch says the studio "slightly overshot" its target balance, and a small tuning change is made to reduce this aim-assist penalty from 35% to 25%. "Our goal for this new mechanic and our other aim-assist range changes is to provide the most competitive experience for all players and inputs," the developer says. "Aim Assist is one of the most integral components of gameplay feel, so it's crucial for us to settle on tuning that both feels great to play with and hits our balance goals."

"We want players to explore the world in a freeform way, and Free Ride turns it into an expansive hub where you'll find and access various Challenges by travelling around, unlocking Hitching Posts, and meeting contacts. Challenges are instanced and accessed via these contacts, and doing so will place you into a combat location or special world state," the game's associate design director Josh Zammit said.

Doom: The Dark Ages, which just launched this summer, is down to $50.39 (was $70) as part of Amazon's Black Friday 2025 deals--which is one of the better price drops we've seen this year. The brutal shooter earned high marks from critics, and if you haven't yet checked out the latest entry in the storied franchise, it's an easy recommendation at this new price.

Square Enix confirmed the numbers on social media, clarifying that the standard edition is 90 to 95 GB, while the Limited Early Purchase Edition, which includes a port of the original Final Fantasy VII game, is a hefty 93.8 to 99 GB. The Switch 2's default internal storage is 256 GB, meaning that Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade would use between 35-40% of a console's space. For comparison, the game takes up around 81 GB on PlayStation 5, slightly less than the Switch 2 version.

If Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 flew under your radar in 2025, or you just haven't gotten around to playing it yet, now is the perfect time to jump into the sprawling medieval RPG thanks to an early Black Friday deal at Amazon that drops the Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 standard edition to just $40 (was $60) and the Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Gold Edition to $70 (was $90).