But what do Rune Arcs do? And how do you use them? Let us explain, right below. Otherwise, you can check out our Elden Ring Beginners guide for more guides and tips. Well, the answer as to the utility of Rune Arcs is honestly pretty simple: Rune Arcs are an item that gives your character a buff. What buff you can get depends on what part of the game you’re at - which is where things get more complicated....

The Legacy of Thieves Collection made its way to PS5 earlier this year, and reviewed pretty exceptionally well across the board. But the PC release of the game hasn’t received an official release date up to this point. Though a recent Epic Games blog post highlighting the biggest upcoming PC releases of the year seems to have announced the collection will be coming to personal computers June 20. It should be noted that the release date is now absent from the blog post, but Eurogamer was able to report on it before the blog was updated....

For the longest time, Fortnite developer Epic Games wasn’t interested in paying a 30% cut to Google by making the game available on the Play Store, so the company simply never released it there. Fortnite has been available on Android since then, of course, but only through Epic’s launcher on Android. Skipping Google Play and asking players to side-load the game obviously lost the developer a lot of potential traffic, but for a while, it didn’t seem to matter....

Official numbers from a Blizzard investor call have confirmed that Overwatch 2 is even more popular than the original, with the oft-lambasted sequel pulling more players into the melee within its first 30 days on sale than Overwatch did back in 2016. “Over 35 million people played the game in its first month, including many who were new to Overwatch,” says Blizzard in its report. “The expanded community is engaging deeply, with average daily player numbers for the first month of Overwatch 2 more than double that of its acclaimed predecessor....

“As more people started using Quest 2, we received reports that a very small percentage of Quest 2 customers were experiencing skin irritation after using the Quest 2 removable foam facial interface,” the company said in a statement on its site. “We’ve been working hard to address the issue, working with experts and making adjustments to our manufacturing process, and communicating proactively with regulators.” This isn’t the first time the issue has come to light, either; previous statements from Facebook around the issue cropped up in December 2020 and April 2021, and it’s taken the company until now to action meaningful steps to mitigate the issue and bring consumers into the fold....

Forwards can take on a lot of roles in modern football. It used to be that the number 9 was the focal point for the entire team, but now they can be more valued for their link-up play with inside forwards - like Roberto Firmino at Liverpool - or their tireless running off-the-ball - like Patrick Bamford at Leeds United. However, the best strikers in FIFA 21 tend to be in the old-school mode: pacey finishers, with enough strength, dribbling finesse, or guile to breeze past defenders, and a powerful shot to rifle the ball past the game’s best goalkeepers....

It seems that players that already own FIFA 21 on Xbox One or PS4 can already download a patch that allows them to upgrade their game to the proper next-gen version of the game today, December 3 (thanks, Eurogamer). The actual, retail version of the PS5 and Xbox Series X version of the game goes on-sale on December 4, but it seems EA Sports is rewarding early adopters by giving them the next-gen version a day earlier than advertised....

PS5 owners of the game started sharing images of the menus on Twitter, showing the four game modes it contains. The modes are FIFA World Cup Live, FIFA World Cup Kick-Off, Online Tournament, and FIFA World Cup 2022 (via Eurogamer). The images also reveal there will be 48 teams available to play in the mode, which is 16 more than the 32 teams that qualified for the World Cup. This is the second time EA accidentally leaked FIFA 23, as a month before release, Xbox users who pre-loaded the game were able to access the title earlier than planned....

It’s been a pretty electric week in the world of football games – after EA suggested that the FIFA series may drop its now-classic branding, the publisher has trademarked EA Sports FC – hinting at what the future of the series may look like. This apparently happened because FIFA was apparently looking to more than double the cost of its licence, looking at charging EA over $1 billion per every four-year World Cup cycle to retain the FIFA branding....

According to Final Fantasy 16’s very own Naoki Yoshida, both himself and several other lead devs worked on a separate fantasy game that they said was “basically Bloodborne.” This comes from Yoshida’s own biweekly Famitsu column ‘Yoshida Uncensored’, which has been translated by a fan, with the segment discussing this cancelled game highlighted on ResetEra. This Bloodborne-like game was apparently about a year in development before Yoshida, Hiroshi Takai, Kazutoyo Maehiro, and Hiroshi Minagawa, the first three of which were brought on to fix Final Fantasy 14....

As previously revealed, Microsoft is gearing up for a big showcase event taking place sometime in July. The event will focus entirely on first-party, Xbox Game Studios-developed projects. Today on Inside Xbox, the platform holder confirmed that Halo Infinite will indeed be amongst the reveals. Head of Xbox Game Studios, Matt Booty, also announced that we’ll be seeing new games from Double Fine and some of Microsoft’s other recently acquired teams....

Despite being a little bit more expensive than the real bargain basement options, the Solo and 2i2 in the Focusrite Scarlett series are easily some of the best audio interfaces you can pick up as an enthusiast. Focusrite Scarlett Studio Bundle Review With a relatively accessible price point and a feature set that actually works for a lot of different use cases, both the Solo and 2i2 in the Scarlett series are easy to recommend....

Segabits recently published a report on the game, as well as a complementary video on YouTube, which you can check out below. The first thing I noticed is that the eponymous Astropede looks so much angrier than the blue hedgehog that became so globally ubiquitous in his place. He must have know Sonic was always gonna go faster than him. “I must continue to proceed quickly,” I imagine Astropede saying in place of Sonic’s more casual and far more beloved “Gotta go fast....

To complete this challenge, you’ll need to hop in a vehicle and head over to the South of Salty Springs. There should be a flaming ring waiting for you at the end of a ramp near a cliff edge and it’s your job to fly through it. There should be a number of vehicles in and around the area, though if you can get your hands on a car with boost abilities, that would be better....

Heart Lake is a point of interest on the map that you’ll need to seek out to complete this Fortnite weekly challenge. The area is likely to get pretty busy quite quickly, so try to land there first and grab a few weapons when you can. To complete the challenge, you’ll need to catch seven fish. It’s also worth noting that this area is part of Upstate New York, as is the entire area surrounding Stark Industries, so search for some chests to complete another weekly challenge....

Update: Fortnite’s next live event, The Device, and the start date for Season 3 have been further delayed. In a statement released yesterday, Epic Games said: “The live event The Device will be delayed to Monday, June 15, and the Season 3 launch delayed to Wednesday, June 17. We know this delay comes on the heels of another one, and we appreciate your patience and understanding during these difficult times....

Fortnite was featured today as part of an Nvidia showcase where the company revealed the new GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs. Players will be able to experience these features in all Fortnite modes, as well as in a special new Creative mode map, called RTX Treasure Run, which has been “specifically designed” to highlight ray tracing. The game will feature four ray-traced features: Ray-traced reflections – Recreates the way light reflects on glossy and metal surfaces, including smooth natural mirrors like window glass and rougher surfaces like brushed metal....

We’ve had concerts and movie short screenings, but now Epic is hosting a film festival in Fortnite. The Short Nite film festival is being held in the battle royale giant between February 20 at 2pm ET and February 21 at 2pm ET, with 12 animated short films being shown during this time. The event will be taking place in Party Royale, with players able to stop by the Big Screen or watch these movies via Picture-in-Picture mode....

We’ve been mostly hearing bad news these past few weeks, so it’s great to see a feel-good story cut through the noise. Sophia, the daughter of PlayStation London producer Alexia Christofi, didn’t get her ninth birthday party because of the coronavirus lockdown in the UK. Little did she know, her mother’s friends have been planning a little surprise party for her elsewhere: in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. They even did the work to make it feel as real as possible, bringing gifts and setting up confetti poppers, and they all played some hide and seek with little Sophia....

You’ll need to activate more than one, and while these puzzles follow a similar pattern to previous tile puzzles, the rules are a bit different this time around. Genshin Impact activate the mechanism - How to start Relics of Seirai Head to Koseki Village on Seirai Island, and you’ll find Fujiwara Toshiko under attack from some enemies. Defeat them, and speak with her to start a new treasure hunting commission....