Gearbox Software revealed details at PAX Australia on October 11th about a new event in their game. In the game’s world, a holiday similar to Christmas, called Mercenary Day, is under threat from a villainous character. Players, as Rush and the vault hunters, must use weapons, explosives, and special abilities to set things right.
Daniel Howell and Phil Lester are a well-known pair who create videos for YouTube. They’ve been posting content since the mid-2000s, but they didn’t begin their collaborative gaming channel until 2014.
A new fighting game, currently called Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game, was announced at a celebration of Avatar: The Last Airbender’s 20th anniversary during New York Comic Con. It’s planned to come out in the summer of 2026 and will initially include 12 characters you can play, with additional characters being added over time through regular updates.
Players who pre-ordered Battlefield 6 through the EA App on PC experienced problems on launch day, October 10th, due to an app outage. As an apology, EA is giving these players 12 boosts that double their hardware XP and 12 boosts that double their career XP.
In early October 2025, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) released a report called ‘The Power of Play.’ The study included a survey of over 24,000 gamers aged 16 and older, representing 21 countries across six continents.
Astronomers are puzzled by 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar object discovered in our solar system. Detected earlier this year, it came from far outside our system and behaves strangely – it spins quickly, glows in an unusual way, and might even produce its own light. This has led to speculation that it could be a man-made object.
Bitcoin’s indomitable resilience after Friday’s disastrous $19 billion flash crash reveals that long-term demand is as unshakable as a Victorian-era belief in the superiority of the English breakfast tea – even when faced with short-term hesitancy.
At New York Comic Con, Blumhouse revealed that voice actor Fox will be voicing the character Toy Chica in the upcoming Five Nights At Freddy’s 2 movie. Toy Chica is one of the redesigned animatronic characters from the video game, and she’s just one of several being brought to life on the big screen.
Jeremy Slater, who wrote the script for *Mortal Kombat 2*, will also be writing *Mortal Kombat 3*. This was revealed at New York Comic Con. Slater has previously worked on projects like *Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire*, *The Umbrella Academy*, *Moon Knight*, and *The Exorcist* TV series. It’s currently unknown if Simon McQuoid, who directed the first two *Mortal Kombat* films, will return to direct the third one.
Despite the recent popularity of challenging “Soulslike” games, games inspired by classics like *Metroid* and *Castlevania* offer more than just improved abilities and tough bosses – they really focus on creating a feeling of exploration and adventure.
