The exciting time of new land discoveries has returned on Final Fantasy XIV with the early-access release of the game’s latest expansion Endwalker on Dec. 3, four days before it drops for the rest of the players. Fans can be confused by the lack of flying when stepping onto those areas for the first time. Garlemald, for instance, is one of those maps. To unlock flying, players will have to attune to several Aether Currents and complete various quests.

Among Us took the world by storm when it was thrust into the spotlight in 2020 and now two years on the game is making appearances in other mainstream media. During a recent episode of the long-running game show Jeopardy, a phrase from the incredibly popular murder-mystery game was featured. In the episode, the cue for players was “slang adjective for someone you think is not what they seem, especially if they might be the impostor in the game ‘Among Us’.

Samurott, a Water-type Pokémon from the Unova region, will be featured in Pokémon Go’s September Community Day on Sunday, Sept. 19, which will see its spawn rates increase, and if you’re lucky enough, you can also find its Shiny version. Samurott is capturable in its initial form, Oshawott, and needs 25 candy to evolve into a Dewott. You’ll need an additional 100 candy to evolve Dewott into Samurott and get the event-exclusive move Hydro Cannon.

Players who install Pokémon UNITE on Switch within the first few weeks of its release will score themselves the legendary Pokémon Zeraora as a playable character for free. This electric-type legendary species is one of the most powerful and commonly played Pokémon right now. With its agile movement, powerful melee attacks, and electric abilities, Zeraora is a pick that the best players are going to want to master. As everyone gets a chance to try out the game and figure out their playstyle, you may be wondering what the best way to build Zeraora is.

Light machine guns in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare are heavy, loud, and dangerous. This weapon class is sadly slept on due to its weight slowing players down in a game primarily dominated by run-and-gun play, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t viable. This tier list should give you a better idea of which gun is worth spending your time mastering. Although these weapons aren’t the strongest pick in every game mode, they do excel particularly in Ground War.

Players eager to get in on the Halo Infinite action will have two chances this weekend and the following weekend thanks to the second stage of technical previews for the game’s multiplayer mode. Halo Infinite held its first technical preview back in late July, which was restricted to only bot-controlled enemies. But starting with this weekend’s preview beginning on Sept. 23, players will be taking on other players. Again, this test will be limited to eligible Halo Insiders.

The newest CS:GO case, Dreams and Nightmares, features 17 weapon skins made by community designers. As the name suggests, the skins feature dreamy and psychedelic aesthetics. Most of the popular weapons in the game, including the AK-47, M4A1-S, and USP-S, received a new look, with a few exceptions. The Dreams and Nightmares case is the first case to join the game in over half a year. Snakebite, the previous case, was added in May 2021.

Call of Duty: Vanguard invites players on a journey in a World War II setting with a thrilling story. The high-quality cutscenes take up over an hour of the complete campaign experience, making the game feel like a Hollywood production at times. Considering the cinematics alone can last over an hour, players may wonder how long it’d take to complete the campaign. Depending on the difficulty of your choice and your pace, it should take around five or six hours to complete Vanguard’s campaign mode, keeping it in line with recent iterations of the franchise.

Discord is an excellent way to communicate with your friends or a wider community on almost any subject. You can create separate text and voice channels to organize the chaos and use Discord bots to help improve your experience and monitor or moderate your server to your liking.  Sometimes, certain individuals will violate the server rules or be disruptive, ruining the experience for other members of the server. But admins can ban these users to avoid further issues, maintaining the desired experience for the rest of the server.

If there’s any feature that’s instantly recognizable and foundational to New World, it’s player housing. The mechanics behind player housing have been often marred throughout the history of MMO games, as the logistics needed to fit a full server’s population in different homes across the given space of a world is always difficult—especially when multiple players want to occupy the same spot.  But in New World, player housing is a mechanic that’s been practically perfected, and all of the kinks from other MMOs that have tested player housing have been worked out almost completely.