Final Fantasy XIV got its 6.1 update today, bringing new content to the game. The new patch is titled Newfound Adventure, and it adds new story quests to the current iteration of the massively multiplayer online JRPG. Players will need to upgrade to the Endwalker expansion to get their hands on the new quests included in patch 6.1.
The Newfound Adventure update is exactly what its title states. Players can access all-new main scenario quests that follow the Endwalker campaign. These quests feature an entirely new storyline that begins yet another thread in the world of FFXIV. A new dungeon is also featured in this mission.
Of course, it wouldn’t be XIV if the new patch stopped at a simple story expansion. Once players complete the main scenario and role quests of Endwalker, they can play through even more story with the Newfound Adventure role quests.
Players without groups to play with also get a bit of help with this new patch. There’s always been an aspect that keeps many players away from MMORPGs, and that’s the fact that it’s necessary to schedule group sessions to take on quests. That goes double for the task of late-joining players starting from older missions. Now solo players need not fret, as they can now complete main scenario dungeons and trials from A Realm Reborn (2.0) with NPC party members.
Along with all these updates comes more player-versus-player (PvP) content, gear, mounts, and a whole lot more. You can read the 6.1 patch notes for more details.
The Call of Duty franchise has held a special place in my heart ever since I played my first Black Ops game back in 2010. That game's campaign was something else, with twists and turns that culminated in a mind-blowing finale. We can all admit that compared to those older campaigns, the recent CODs have been lackluster at best, and a complete and utter disappointment at worst. The reboot of Modern Warfare did give me some hope, as the first two installments were actually quite good, but the third game left such a bad taste in my mouth that I wasn’t exactly expecting much from Modern Warfare 4.
After recently finishing the campaign, I can say that this installment is nothing like the recent releases and instead feels closer to the franchise’s roots. For the first time in a long while, the campaign comes across as well-crafted rather than rushed to hit a release date. It arrives three years after MW3, and you can see exactly where all that time went. It seems the studio finally made listening to player feedback a priority.
Epic Games has just announced the 2026 Epic AI MegaJam, which is looking to see how much game development can be squeezed into a very short window. This is running from November 12 through November 15.
Participants can work alone or in teams of up to five people, build in Unreal Engine or Unreal Editor for Fortnite, and bring along “as many AI agents as you want.” Epic explicitly encourages coding agents, AI-generated assets, audio tools, writing tools, and other AI systems. The official event page literally says "Vibe your way to $50k.”
It’s turning into a pretty good time to be a Monster Hunter fan who plays on a phone. Capcom has confirmed that Monster Hunter Outlanders will launch on Android and iOS on October 29, giving the series a new mobile-first game just as Monster Hunter Rise is also preparing to make the jump to smartphones through Netflix.
Outlanders is being developed by Tencent subsidiary TiMi Studio Group under license and supervision from Capcom. Unlike Rise, which appears to be the full console and PC game adapted for mobile, Outlanders is a free-to-play survival hunting game made specifically for phones.