Everybody loves fishing minigames (so we’ve heard), and now No Man’s Sky has one. Developer Hello Games announced a new fishing update coming to the game for free, and it will being along fish farming and a limited-time expedition.
The fishing in the Aquarius update is about what you’d expect if you’ve fished in any other video game. You take your fishing rod and equipment, explore different bodies of water and biomes, and see what you can catch. Different kinds of bait can also help you catch rare fish, which you can use to help fill up your fishing log. You can also compare your stats against others with an update to the Wonders Catalogue, which now includes your fishing records.
Along with fishing comes new equipment too. The Exo-Skiff is a customizable fishing platform with its own inventory that you can use to hunt for fish that live in deeper waters (although you can, of course, fish on the coastline). There’s also a deep-sea diving suit, fish traps you can set up and check back on later, and new cooking recipes for sfish.
To kick off the new update, No Man’s Sky players will have the chance to complete the Aquarius expedition, which will run for six weeks and task players with, well, fishing. Players who complete it will get an underwater jetpack, along with other deep-sea customizations. For example, part of the update involves dredging up lost notes and finding stories, and if you discover the Lost Angler story, you’ll earn the Lost Angler’s Rig, which is a unique fishing rod.
No Man’s Sky‘s latest big update, Worlds Part I (or Update 5.0), added new effects that make water look more realistic, and the addition of fishing is sort of a celebration of that. In the Aquarius update trailer, the new water effects look spectacular, only adding to the peace you might feel while taking it easy and fishing. Update 5.0 also added a new bug-hunting mode that’s “Starship Troopers-inspired” and other technical visual updates to clouds and weather.
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.