In Where Winds Meet, passive skills, also known as Inner Ways, are a crucial part of strengthening your character. These permanent buffs significantly enhance your combat performance, making them important choices as you progress through the game. Inner Ways are passive abilities that give you various bonuses in combat. Once you equip them, they're always working for you. Some give you straight-up stat boosts, while others trigger special effects when you do certain actions like dodging or landing critical hits. If you match your Inner Way with weapons from the same Path, you'll get even better results.

Black Beacon’s global run is coming to an abrupt end. Publisher and developer teams confirmed that the sci-fi RPG will terminate service on December 31, 2025, less than a year after its worldwide launch. Shutdown Timeline New downloads and in-app purchases were disabled this week, marking the first step toward full closure. Servers will remain online through the end of December before going dark at 00:00 UTC on New Year’s Eve. All official channels, including the game’s website, will close on January 2. The company says the decision follows “operational difficulties” tied to maintaining the global version past its upcoming 1.3 update.

One of the cutest shiny Electric Types around.

Absolutely electrifying!

Gothic, rural, and poetic, Brendon Burton’s work creates a very cinematic beauty out of the vast, messy expanses of the North American countryside. Burton has spent the past decade building a distinct photographic voice shaped by rural spaces, quiet structures and the overlooked corners of North America. His debut photobook, Epitaph, gathers that work into a single collection for the first time. I spoke with Brendon about his low-profile creative process, his tightly defined online presence, and what it took to narrow a decade of shooting into the 150 images that made the cut.

A hungry little guy...in shiny form!

Zadie Smith is fifty years old, David Foster Wallace was forty six. Throughout her career, Smith has been called a DFW acolyte. She writes detailed, passionate, didactic, yet charmingly conversational and friendly essays. Like Foster Wallace, she strikes that careful balance between academic and intimate. You can tell that there’s a strong desire there to be both likeable and a know-it-all, to do it all, to be a museum tour guide. In Dead and Alive, Smith opens the book with this idea. That a collection of essays is like a guided tour through a museum.

Arc Raiders never disappoint when it comes to machine design and pure threat, especially with the new Shredder ARC introduced in the latest major update. The Shredders arrive alongside the new Stella Montis map, bringing fresh challenges for Raiders. In this guide, you’ll learn where to find the Shredder in Arc Raiders and how to defeat it effectively. Where To Find Shredders You can find Shredders on the new Stella Montis map. This area is filled with tight hallways and indoor spaces, which is exactly where the Shredders thrive. They hover around the map, and once they spot you, they’ll charge at you with full force.

Safari time!

Shadow, or sweet?

If you think Arc Raiders is an easy game to relax, loot, and explore, the Matriarch boss will make you think twice. This ARC titan is bigger than the Queen, hits significantly harder, and drops some of the best loot in the game. Its materials are high-tier and essential for upgrading your gear to the next level. In this guide, we’ll explain how to find and defeat the Matriarch in Arc Raiders. Where To Find The Matriarch You can’t just stumble into this mother of ARC Machines during a regular run.

Time to earn some rewards.

So pretty pink!

More shinies make their Pokemon GO debut.

Time to decorate!

There are different kinds of key cards you can loot in Arc Raiders, and most of them make it obvious where they should be used, but not the JKV Employee Access Card. You’ve likely found this key card without knowing where to use it. Don’t worry, you’re not alone. In this guide, I’ll walk you through everything you need to know about the JKV Employee Access Card. The JKV Employee Access Card is an uncommon keycard that unlocks a specific door inside the J. Kozma Ventures company building. It weighs just 0.25 kg and only stacks to 1, so you won’t be able to carry multiple copies.

Sony is taking Horizon far beyond its console roots. Horizon Steel Frontiers, is an MMORPG built by NCSoft in collaboration with Guerrilla Games and it’s headed to mobile and PC only, at least for now. The project was unveiled at South Korea’s G-Star 2025 conference, marking one of Sony’s most aggressive pushes yet into cross-platform, live-service territory. A Mobile-First MMO Set in the Deadlands Horizon Steel Frontiers plants players in the Deadlands, a post-apocalyptic New Mexico/Arizona. According to the site, thousands of players will share a giant map alongside machine threats, tribal settlements and contested resources.

The wait for a first look at Fallout Season 2 is almost over. Prime Video’s hit adaptation of Bethesda’s post-apocalyptic franchise is unveiling its new trailer in just a few hours, with the premiere stream now live on YouTube. What to Expect Season 2 picks up after the events of the first season, following Lucy (Ella Purnell), The Ghoul (Walton Goggins), and Maximus (Aaron Moten) as their stories move west toward the Mojave and the ruined city of New Vegas. The new season will feature eight episodes and is slated to premiere on December 17, 2025.

Some exciting things ahead.

There's a handful of different buffs going on.

Another season, another Will of Galacta-themed Twitch drop.

What a fanci boi!

Starting like any other landscape photographer, Scott Leggo has managed to grow his art into a million-unit business. Starting with a few sales to friends and family and exhibition wins, Leggo's business has developed a dedicated team with a client list boasting big names like Telstra and The Australian Government. I chatted with Scott to learn a little about his artist's journey and glean some business expertise too. Twisted Beauty. Where did your photography start, and when did you start taking it seriously? Growing up, I used to love the time I spent outdoors and over the years grew to love travel.

After Rogue and Gambit were leaked a season ahead via gallery card lore, we can confirm that Deadpool and Elsa Bloodstone are joining Marvel Rivals in Season 6. Like every other upcoming character duo before them, the pair were explicitly teased in Season 5's end-of-season lore card, confirming the game’s next duo will be the foul-mouthed mercenary and the monster hunter herself. From Leak to Lore Deadpool’s voice lines, Elsa’s unfinished character files, and more have been leaking for months now. Both names appeared repeatedly across leaks since August, but until now, there wasn’t hard proof they were next in line.

Phasmophobia has introduced its first interactive Easter egg with the Nell's Diner map added in the November 2025 update. While not the most complicated process, the several steps needed to unlock the secret map interaction are discreet enough for most ghost hunters to miss it entirely.