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Blizzard has officially announced the five exclusive cosmetic items players can buy for the Season 18 collaboration, following earlier hints. Here’s what’s available:

Draco is a pirate adventure where you play as a Captain who’s struck a deal with the Kraken. To save his child, he must find the legendary Seven Scales. The game demo let us play through the opening, which taught us the controls, how to use weapons like swords and pistols, and how to rescue the crew. It ended with a challenging boss battle. Of course, no pirate is complete without a ship! We quickly recovered ours with the crew and set sail.

Taylor Swift is a hugely popular singer, and when a bar in Orlando, Florida, announced a weekend event featuring one of her dancers, local fans quickly bought tickets.

RelicKris is a Twitch streamer from Stockholm, Sweden, who often broadcasts live while traveling around Europe. On September 15th, he and another streamer, ManukiEmi, began sharing a hike through the mountains of Switzerland.

A core game update will launch on PC on September 18th, and on consoles five days after that. This is happening sooner than expected, giving the development team time to fix any issues players might encounter with different computer setups. Plus, it gives modders and content creators a head start on updating their work before the new “Adventure Awaits” expansion is released.

Randy Pitchford recently shared his thoughts on player expectations regarding game performance, particularly frame rates. He believes some players demand too much, specifically when hoping to run Borderlands 4 at 4K resolution on a variety of computer setups. Pitchford referred to those insisting on 4K as being “stubborn” and suggested they would have a better experience playing at 1440p instead.

For a long time, Battlefield games have featured classes with their own specific weapons, skills, and equipment. This system, particularly popular in games like Bad Company, Battlefield 3, and 4, helped set the series apart from other first-person shooters. But the developers have been shifting away from this approach in recent installments, and with Battlefield 6, they plan to introduce completely customizable classes – at least in some game modes.