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🎮 Multi-platformWhere to find ancient bones in Palworld
In this guide, you learn how to get ancient bones in Palworld and all the recipes that require this crafting material.
🖥 PC, Multi-platformGameStop & Uber Eats team up just in time for the death of physical games
Get your Funko Pops while you order dinner for delivery, thanks to GameStop's new partnership with Uber Eats.
🎮 PlayStation, Mobile, Multi-platformRatchet & Clank: Ranger Rumble announced for pre-registration
Sony announces that PlayStation fans can sign up to play Ratchet & Clank: Ranger Rumble, a new hero shooter, on iOS and Android now.
🟩 Xbox, Multi-platformPersona 6 fan theory may have just solved one of the cast's greatest mysteries
Persona games often include at least one non-human party member, and we can expect that character to be in keeping with Persona 6's spooky vibe.
🎮 Multi-platformOverwatch’s Barely-A-Year-Old Stadium Mode Is Going On Life Support
Overwatch's Stadium mode(https://www.gamespot.com/articles/overwatch-2-stadium-mode-is-excellent-but-makes-an-awful-first-impression/1100-6531214/), which transformed Blizzard's hero shooter into something more akin to a third-person MOBA, won't be receiving new heroes or maps moving forward. Game director Aaron Keller announced the news in a blog post(https://overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/news/24289101/director-s-take-future-formats/) discussing the game's various formats, along the way revealing Stadium in both its ranked and unranked versions are Overwatch's least played modes by far. Only 3% of Overwatch's daily players dip into either version of Stadium, according to Keller. By comparison, 54% of daily players participate in unranked 5v5 role queue. "Stadium, meanwhile, has settled into a dedicated, smaller audience," Keller said. "With this in mind, while we'll continue supporting Stadium with seasonal balance updates, rank resets, and rewards, we're not planning on expanding Stadium with new heroes or maps." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9tUpO0BTQY Instead, Keller said the team will take lessons learned from Stadium and apply it to "future plans," though he did not elaborate on what those might be. Stadium released in April of 2025, a few months after Overwatch's main hero shooter competitor, the third-person Marvel Rivals(https://www.gamespot.com/games/marvel-rivals/), seemed to be popping off. In addition to its third-person perspective, Stadium introduced a full on MOBA-esque item store, invoking Valve's still-not-technically released hero shooter/MOBA-hybrid Deadlock(https://www.gamespot.com/games/deadlock/). Not all of Overwatch's roster is playable in Stadium. Since each character needs to be able to be built in multiple ways, with a whole slew of unique items that radically alter their gameplay, Blizzard was slowly adding heroes from the main game's roster to the mode. As it stands, only 33 of Overwatch's 52 (and counting) heroes are playable in Stadium, and it seems it will be staying that way. While Stadium is in essence winding down, Blizzard will still be experimenting with different modes and formats. In the blog post, Keller broke down two upcoming 6v6 experimental queues. One of the new queues will look to solve the game's tank problem, its current matchmaking-speed bottleneck, by allowing one damage player the ability to "flex" during a match and swap to a second tank if need be. Overwatch's latest hero is the cyberpunk demon Shion(https://www.gamespot.com/articles/overwatchs-new-hero-is-a-cyberpunk-demon/), added as part of Season 3 in June. Following Overwatch's rebrand earlier this year (when it added five new heroes at once and dropped the "2" from its name(https://www.gamespot.com/articles/overwatch-is-dropping-the-2-and-launching-a-new-story-driven-era/1100-6537874/)), Blizzard committed to one new hero per season for the remainder of the year, for a total of 10 new heroes in 2026.
🎮 Multi-platformWorld Of Warcraft’s Haranir Lore Reveal Has Players Scratching Their Heads
World of Warcraft's(https://www.gamespot.com/games/world-of-warcraft/) latest storyline is one of its most lore-heavy quests to date, and the revelations included within have left players scratching their heads trying to make sense of what all it means for Azeroth's ancient history. Spoilers for patch WoW 12.07 below! A story prologue introduced in patch 12.07 meant to lead into the game's major 12.1 content patch sees the haranir, the vaguely troll and elvish-looking playable allied race introduced in Midnight, invite the leaders of all the various troll and elf factions to their home to inform them about an important revelation--they are all related! According to a vision presented by haranir leader Elder Hagar, trolls and elves are directly descended from the haranir, thus making them all one big happy family who should get along. Needless to say, the elves and trolls, who have a long bloody history in opposition to one another, don't exactly see things that way. Many of the faction leaders have a hard time accepting the haranir's lore dump. One of the Amani leaders, Zul'jan, storms away, looking to disprove the haranir's claims and in the process stumbles upon an ancient evil he will seek to use to restore the Amani trolls to power in patch 12.1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXtWJURokdE The "news" that trolls and elves are related doesn't exactly feel like news at all to many in the WoW community. In-game hints and theories about the elves having descended from trolls go back nearly two decades, to WoW's earliest days. These subtle hints were later confirmed in things like (as Wowhead(https://www.wowhead.com/news/the-big-haranir-revelation-does-it-make-sense-382153) points out) the official World of Warcraft: The Magazine and the World of Warcraft: Chronicle books, the latter of which serves as a comprehensive history of Blizzard's Warcraft setting. According to those sources, it was a splinter group of underground dwelling trolls called the dark trolls who would eventually evolve into the night elves players know today. The fact that the trolls and elves are blindsided by the news that they are ancient relatives is a little odd, since it doesn't exactly seem like an in-universe secret. While some characters, like Zul'jan, may not be up-to-date on their studies, highly-educated characters who have lived for hundreds of years like First Arcanist Thalyssra, Vereesa Windrunner, Lor'themar, and Queen Talanji (who notes that Zandalar is home to the oldest library in Azeroth) also seemed shocked and confused by the very concept of being related to one another. What is really throwing players for a loop is how exactly the haranir fit into all this. When the haranir were first revealed, many players assumed based on their appearance that they were a "missing link" of sorts between troll and night elf evolution. Elder Hagar's vision, however, goes against that assumption, clearly stating and showing the haranir existing first before splintering off into two groups--one that lived underground and one that lived on the surface. These two groups then, over time, are shown to have evolved to become night elves and trolls respectively. She goes as far to call elves, trolls, and haranir "one people." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc9flwgEZMU This does make sense, but also seems to contradict previously established lore of elves descending from trolls. Instead, both races appear to have evolved from two different groups of haranir. It also doesn't address the question of the dark trolls. Are the haranir actually dark trolls by a different name? Did the haranir evolve from dark trolls, or are dark trolls a step in between the evolution of haranir into night elves? WoW content creators like Nobbel(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XohBVRimLhY) and Taliesin & Evitel(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc9flwgEZMU&t=1s) have attempted to unravel the genealogy mystery, but so far Blizzard isn't giving curious fans a definitive answer as to where the haranir or previously established lore of the dark trolls fit in. Senior WoW quest designer Kieth Riley did, however, offer some additional context via X(https://x.com/BoogilyWoogily/status/2076007096341192929) about Elder Hagar's vision. He stated the vision is from the haranir's point-of-view and one they believe to be true, but that it doesn't necessarily represent Blizzard's official stance on the matter. "It is NOT 'Blizzard's presentation on the absolute truth of haranir/elf/troll genealogy' (though I'm sure some of you would enjoy a BlizzCon panel titled as such)," Riley said(https://x.com/BoogilyWoogily/status/2076007219095875661?s=20). https://twitter.com/BoogilyWoogily/status/2076007096341192929?s=20 Riley said while the visions "don't lie," they also may be missing some information or be inaccurate. "There's no incontrovertible proof either way so it's up to debate," Riley said. For now, the actual truth of troll, elf, and haranir ancestry will remain up for debate until Blizzard clarifies for all the lorehounds out there. WoW: Midnight's next patch, 12.1, may offen more clues but doesn't not have a release date just yet. It's expected to arrive in mid-August and will introduce a new troll-focused zone and raid to the MMORPG.
🎮 PlayStation, Mobile, Multi-platformPlayStation Shares New Details For Mobile Hero Shooter, Ratchet & Clank: Ranger Rumble
!Game Informer News(https://www.gameinformer.com/sites/default/files/styles/bodydefault/public/2026/07/15/ecad9fb6/ratchet-and-clank-ranger-rumble-gameplay.jpg.webp) Last November, PlayStation unveiled Ratchet & Clank: Ranger Rumble, a new mobile hero shooter take on Insomniac Games’ flagship franchise. After soft-launching in various non-US regions over the last few months, a new blog post(https://blog.playstation.com/2026/07/15/ratchet-clank-ranger-rumble-gameplay-details-on-the-upcoming-mobile-hero-shooter/) reveals more details about the game ahead of its yet-to-be-revealed global launch. Developed by Oh Bibi in collaboration with Insomniac, Ratchet & Clank: Ranger Rumble is a free-to-play multiplayer hero shooter coming to iOS and Android. The game takes place inside a combat simulation created by Captain Qwark to train new Galactic Ranger recruits. Players control a roster of 12 heroes (with more to come post-launch) that, while featuring Ratchet and Clank and other recognizable faces, largely consist of new characters. This includes robots, aliens, and even Lombaxes from other dimensions like Widget, a spunky investigative journalist, and Mopz, a mopey street gang member. Ranger Rumble's bread and butter are its PvP arena battles (featuring "dynamic PvE elements") where players team up to blast competitors apart using the series' signature wacky weaponry. The blog post reveals the game will have six game modes at launch that promote PvP and PvE play. Modes include a take on battle royale and a soccer-inspired contest. “Staying true to the series has been at the heart of the project from day one,” writes Oh Bibi chief executive officer Stanislas Dewavrin in the blog post. “The signature humor, beloved characters, and gloriously inventive weaponry that have defined Ratchet & Clank for over two decades are all here, reimagined for fast-paced battles built specifically for mobile, with new characters and weapons to discover. There’s no release window for Ratchet & Clank: Ranger Rumble’s global launch, but players can pre-register to play on its website(https://www.rangerrumble.com/) now to receive exclusive rewards. To read about other PlayStation franchises spinning out into multiplayer titles, check out the reveal of Horizon Hunters Gathering(https://gameinformer.com/2026/02/05/guerrilla-games-reveals-its-cooperative-horizon-multiplayer-game-horizon-hunters).
🎮 Multi-platformPokémon Center's 30th anniversary TCG pre-orders are a disaster
Fans hopeful for ETBs and UPCs at MSRP are instead encountering errors, crashes, and freezes. Despite issues, there are good reasons to try anyway
🎮 Multi-platformForza Horizon 6 update throws the game's economy into chaos
Playground Games' latest patch for FH6 has removed auction house caps and nerfed credits and wheelspins, making rare cars much harder to get
🎮 PlayStation, Multi-platformPlayStation Store summer sale has deep discounts amid anti-Sony fury
Sony just launched a PlayStation summer sale as it continues to wade through controversy due to killing physical games on its systems.
🎮 Multi-platformWeekly Shonen Jump sells out across Japan due to One Piece scalpers
The new issue of Weekly Shonen Jump experienced a snag as the manga mag sold out across Japan with the introduction of a One Piece trading card.
🎮 PlayStation, Xbox, Multi-platformSavannah Bananas announce original song from EGOT-winning Disney team
The duo behind La La Land, The Greatest Showman, and more are lending their talents to baseball's most viral team