The First Descendant is a free-to-play, loot-shooter action-RPG with hints of Destiny but from a third-person perspective, and a big part of its appeal is teaming up with your buddies to take on world-ending threats with futuristic weaponry and earning that sweet, sweet loot for your efforts.
Still, finding a full party would be much easier if The First Descendant were a cross-platform title, and there’s good news in that regard. Here’s all you need to know.
Yes, The First Descendant launched with cross-platform support across PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC, meaning you can party up with anyone, anywhere. PlayStation 4 and Xbox One were included, but the game no longer supports the older hardware from 2013, so you’ll need to shift to PS5 and Xbox Series X/S if you want to keep playing.
To unlock multiplayer, you’ll need to complete the tutorial and reach Albion, the game’s central hub area. From here, you can start adding friends in-game, but you can also take on other missions, which feature matchmaking.
Once you’ve reached that point, open the ‘Social’ tab in the game’s menu, and you’ll be able to turn crossplay on or off from here.
Wondering whether you have to complete the tutorial on every platform you’re playing on? Great news – The First Descendant also supports cross-progression, so as long as you’ve linked your various console accounts, you can hop between console and PC to keep the fun going.
The game has just received a surprising collaboration event with skins from Bayonetta, including weapons inspired by the SEGA property, and is currently in the midst of its third season of content which includes, uh, a scantily-clad maid outfit.
There are also new Ultimate Weapons, Ancestors Modules, and new story content, while a Module Trading System is listed as coming soon.
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.