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YouTuber Nate The Lawyer announced on November 16th that he requires urgent surgery to remove a large tumor in his skull.

Okay, so Escape From Tarkov finally hit its 1.0 release, which is huge! But honestly, the parody game, Escape From Duckov, is way more enjoyable than I ever expected – it’s seriously hilarious. And then there’s Bungie’s Marathon…it’s out there, I guess, but it doesn’t really grab me like the other two.

Whimpact! is a game where you collect and care for adorable creatures called Whims, who share magical abilities with you. The better you treat your Whims, the more powerful they become! You can team up with up to seven other players in arena-style battles. Together, you’ll collect a special energy source called Starcane, overcome challenges, and fight off waves of robots trying to steal it.

In Kirby Air Riders, you can unlock new machines in a couple of ways: you can buy them with in-game currency called Miles, or you can earn them by finishing certain challenges. The game has four different modes for you to play.

The game Prologue: Go Wayback! is currently available in Early Access, but many players think it’s not quite ready for that stage – they see it as more of a test version or a demonstration of the technology. The gameplay isn’t well-balanced yet. Players need resources to survive, but sometimes there are plenty available, and other times it’s nearly impossible to progress because resources don’t appear. The game’s random number generator needs to be adjusted to create a more reliable experience. While it’s intended to be a challenging survival game, it currently feels unfair rather than difficult.

Police in Chiba Prefecture have sent a 27-year-old man from Kanagawa Prefecture to prosecutors, alleging he used an AI-generated image created by someone else as the cover for a book he sold, without getting the original artist’s permission.

CloverPit was first released on Steam on September 26th. The developers intentionally delayed the game’s launch from a planned September 3rd release to avoid coinciding with the release of Hollow Knight: Silksong. This decision appears to have been a good one, as publisher Future Friends Games and developer Panik Arcade report that CloverPit has already sold over 1 million copies on Steam.

Tom Henderson, a reliable source for gaming news at Insider Gaming, has consistently reported on rumors about a new pirate-themed Assassin’s Creed game. Combined with recent activity from Ubisoft, this has led many fans to believe an announcement for a Black Flag Remake or Remaster is coming soon.

Despite recent difficulties, Ubisoft is doing well financially. Between April and September 2025, the company made $772 million in net bookings – a 20% increase compared to the same period last year. Players spent 45% more money in games, though this number dipped slightly when factoring in the cancellation of XDefiant.

Fans were thrilled with the reveal of the Druid class, and understandably so – they’d been anticipating it since it was first shown back in 2023. The director of Path of Exile 2, Jonathan Rogers, had previously said the Druid was planned for update 0.3.0, but the development team needed extra time to complete it.