It has only been a little more than a week since the launch of Buy Now and a new update is making it a little bit bigger. With Bethesda’s latest patch comes some PC fixes, Xbox One X support, and a peek inside the game’s mysterious vault.
According to the official 1.02 patch notes (via IGN), the vault in Wolfenstein II‘s main menu and between-mission hub area is now unlocked. Replacing the timer in the menu is the “SAS Machine.” By selecting it, players take part in 10 new combat simulations with leaderboard functionality. The only prerequisite to unlocking the vault is progressing to chapter 2 in the main campaign.
Season pass holders and pre-ordered copies also gain Freedom Chronicles Episode Zero. In this opening DLC mission, players are introduced to American heroes Joseph Stallion, Jessica Valiant, and Gerald Wilkins as they fight against the Nazi tyranny for liberty. Each character has unique abilities and guns for taking down the enemy. The three future episodes of The Freedom Chronicles will focus on each of the three American heroes as they take back America from three different locals.
In addition to extra content, Wolfenstein II also received a number of new fixes. For those who purchased a new Xbox One X, Bethesda has added 4K resolution support as well as dynamic resolution scaling.
For PC players, improvements include improved stability and fixes to the skybox and menus. In order to improve stability on Nvidia 10-series GPUs, Bethesda temporarily disabled async compute until a driver fix is available. Anyone who was repeatedly met with a forced driver update warning message can now manually bypass it to continue playing the game. Additional stability improvements include fixed scaling issues while gaming in 4K.
Wolfenstein II released on October 27 for the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC. A port for the Nintendo Switch is currently in the works with a scheduled release in 2018.
We gave the sequel high praise for its “engaging and human characters” and the “fun, kinetic shooting action.” Check out our full review to see why killing Nazis has never been more fun than in Buy Now .
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.