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A new experimental mode coming to Marathon next week hopes to make the experience a little easier for new players by forcing all participants to load up with only the basic free sponsored kits. The experimental mode, called Dire Marsh Sponsored, goes live tomorrow (April 15) and runs for around two weeks. Players can only enter if they’re using a white-tier free sponsored kit, giving…

Marathon fans are debating the best way to get more people into the brutally difficult and complex endgame raid, Cryo Archive, suggesting ways to help more casual players learn the high-stakes map. Across the board, if you fail to exfil at the end of a Marathon game, you lose everything you took in with you, including your weapons and consumables. But Cryo Archive is even harder to get into…

It’s 2026, and Jeff Kaplan, the former boss of Blizzard hero shooter Overwatch, is still being asked about a supposed “nerf” to Tracer’s butt. Cast your minds back to the simpler times of 2016, when the world was quieter and greener, and Overwatch was still in beta. Amid a frenzy of excitement for Blizzard’s next big franchise, one big controversy stood out that…

Five independent game studios – including the developers of the upcoming Replaced and the team behind the upcoming Heroes of Might & Magic: Olden Era – have joined forces in a sort-of co-op in order to support each other with development and marketing, with an aim to eventually create their own co-owned publishing label. Sad Cat Studios (Replaced), Unfrozen (Heroes of Might & Magic…