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Battlefield 6 has received a new map and it fixes one of the biggest issues with the game: a lack of airspace. Thankfully, the team behind Battlefield 6 have addressed this with its latest map, Railway to Golmud. The map is a remake of a Battlefield 4 classic and is naturally already a massive map, but even more so for pilots. The out-of-bounds area for air vehicle stretches far beyond the play area for infantry and ground vehicles, meaning you could theoretically have dogfights without having to worry about anti-air vehicles bothering you.
A core tenet of the Battlefield franchise is its emphasis on all-out warfare. Players can utilize a wide range of vehicles to battle the other team and conquer objectives, including air vehicles, which play a major role on the battlefield. However, the big issue with Battlefield 6 is that the airspace is too small in most maps. Eventually, you hit an out-of-bounds barrier, forcing you to turn back around. Not only does this give you very little room to battle other air vehicles, but can also make it difficult to escape and catch your breath when being locked on to by anti-air weaponry.
While this doesn't fix the issues with every other map, there is hope that those could be improved later in the year. EA has already committed to doing reworks for New Sobek City and Blackwell Fields, two maps that have egregious air space. Both maps are pretty small, so you are constantly being locked on to with little to no room to break the lock-ons. It's expected these reworks will address this issue, but only time will tell how much of a difference it will make.
Battlefield 6 will also be addressing another big issue later in the year. Fans have been underwhelmed with the amount of content the game has been putting out, noting that it's not coming quickly enough and the updates are too small. Season 3 just launched this week and two more seasonal updates are expected this year, with Season 5 aiming to have three new maps instead of just two, rectifying a problem with the live-service side of the game.
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Arc Raiders has announced that it will only have two big content updates every year, much to the dismay of players. In a new blog post, Embark Studios revealed that it will release the next big Arc Raiders update, Frozen Trail, in October. This will not only add new locations to explore, but also new enemies, new expansions to the story and lore, and updates to the game's progression systems. It's clear that Embark's ambition is to deliver something expansive and deep in one burst as opposed to drip feeding content throughout the year.
The studio confirmed that it will be on a bi-annual schedule for future content updates.
"Going forward, we've made the decision to release major updates twice a year – larger in scale, more impactful, with the goal to genuinely change how you play the game," reads the blog post. "Don’t worry, a dedicated live service team will continue running ARC Raiders day-to-day: regular live updates, plus balance fixes, bug fixes, store updates, and player events aren't going anywhere.
"This additional development space also allows us to invest more deeply in the health of ARC Raiders, from progression and economy balancing to fair play and anti-cheat efforts. We know these are foundational to the experience, especially in a game where every encounter and extraction matters."
Although the thought process is understandable, some fans think this is the wrong idea. Given how quickly attention can shift to other games or media, some feel that Arc Raiders won't be able to sustain its player base's attention with infrequent updates.
"'Fortnite killer' they said, they really think a live service game can survive with only 2 big updates per year," said one user. "They had a massive hit, the only consistent complaint is lack of follow on content and their response is to basically drop it?" asked another user.
Live service games are all battling for the attention of players and it's extremely difficult. Fortnite had regular updates that not only add new content, but can even radically overhaul the gameplay with new mechanics and abilities. That frequency of change has ensured Fortnite has stayed relevant for almost a decade. Other games, like Battlefield 6, have also been criticized for lackluster and infrequent content updates, but things may be turning around for that game as Season 5 plans to add three maps instead of the usual two.
Arc Raiders still has a strong player base backing it, but the numbers aren't as high as they were when the game launched. When the game launched on Steam, the game consistently had several hundred thousand concurrent players or more. This number has fallen to hover at around 100k or less since the start of spring. It'll be interesting to see how these numbers change with longer gaps between big content drops or if these major updates can meet expectations.
Still, Arc Raiders will continue to get smaller updates to improve the game in-between the bi-annual content drops. Next week, Arc Raiders will get a brand new trader that offers weekly rotating unique and rare rewards. The trader will be available starting at level 25.
Cade Onder is a freelancer for IGN's news team. He covers all things entertainment, including gaming, film, and more. You can find him on Twitter @Cade_Onder.


Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment is a Switch 2-exclusive that was released in November of last year. Up until now, the price has stayed fixed at $69.99. Even today, retailers like Amazon, Gamestop, and Nintendo eShop haven't budged. That's not the case for Best Buy, however.
Best Buy has dropped the price of Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment by 30%, down to $49.99, with free shipping for a physical copy. In fact, if you're a My Best Buy Plus member, you can get it for $39.99, saving up to 43%.
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment on Sale at Best BuyHyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment is developed by Koei Tecmo. It's the third game in the series (although the first to be exclusive to the Switch 2) and a spinoff of Koei Tecmo's popular Dynasty Warriors franchise. The premise is the same: you're an OP character that can take down hundreds, nay, thousands of minions with one of nineteen Hyrulean champions, including Zelda, Calamo, Mineru, and Rauru. It's a total power trip kind of game and I absolutely love it.
Logan Plant gave Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment an 8/10 score in his review. You can also watch the video below to see some gameplay.
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If you're looking for more Switch 2-exclusive titles to justify that $500 console purchase, check out Star Fox, which comes out next month. The space fox has become a lot more popular recently thanks to his extended cameo in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, and now he reprises his role once again in this remake of the original 1997 game.
The launch price is set at $59.99, but preordering it on Amazon lets you get it for $49.99, a savings of $10. Amazon's preorder guarantee means that even if the price goes back up, you'll pay the lowest possible price between now and when the game actually ships.
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Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus II launches on May 21 — alongside the Warhammer Skulls video game showcase.
Kasedo Games and Bulwark Studios’ promising turn-based strategy game is set for release across PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and S. Its release date was announced as part of a new video showing two deployable leaders, the returning Lector-Dogmatis Videx of the Adeptus Mechanicus (Warhammer 40,000’s tech priest faction) and the Necron Lord known as The Shield. Both factions are fully playable over multiple campaigns.
Warhammer Skulls, meanwhile, is confirmed for May 21 at 6pm CEST / 5pm BST / 9am PT / 12pm ET, and will bring with it updates for the likes of Space Marine 2, Darktide, and Dawn of War IV, alongside new game announcements. Here’s the list of Warhammer games set for an update at Warhammer Skulls:
Warhammer Skulls 2026 video game lineup:Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 (Focus Entertainment & Saber Interactive)Warhammer 40,000: Darktide (Fatshark)Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader and Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy (Owlcat Games)Warhammer 40,000 Boltgun 2 and Warhammer Survivors (Devolver Digital & Auroch Digital)Total War: Warhammer III (Sega & Creative Assembly)Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector (Slitherine)Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War IV (Deep Silver, KING Art Games)and many, many more…Right, so what can we expect? Space Marine 2 is due to release Patch 13 soon, so perhaps we’ll get a release date or even a shadowdrop during the event. At the end of the teaser video we get a hint at something new coming to Fatshark’s Darktide — a new playable class perhaps? AdMech maybe? A Servo-skull moves across the screen so quickly, it must be a hint at what's to come.
And then there’s Dawn of War IV, which is ripe for a release date announcement. Conspicuous by its absence here is Creative Assembly’s hotly anticipated Total War: Warhammer 40,000. Given it’s already announced, you’d imagine if there were an update for it set for Skulls, it would be on this list.
Not long to find out!
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Former Nintendo staff have branded the recent leak of upcoming Switch 2 game details as a "worst-case scenario" for the company, and its frequent aim of surprising fans.
Speaking via their podcast, ex-Nintendo Minute presenters Kit Ellis and Krysta Yang addressed the recent high-profile leak of Nintendo's supposed upcoming Switch 2 release slate by prolific internet tipster NatetheHate — a leak that just received further proof of its legitimacy with Nintendo's unveiling of Star Fox.
While slightly later than anticipated, Star Fox's Switch 2 debut had accurately been described as a classic experience for the franchise (it is a remake of Star Fox 64) due out within the next few months (it launches next month, on June 25).
Initially discussing whether Nintendo has deliberately moved Star Fox's unveiling back a week to derail Natethehate's predicted reveal timing, Ellis suggested this was unlikely due to ever-changing marketing timelines, and the need to work around Japan's annual Golden Week holiday. Rather than arrive before this, at the end of April, the announcement dropped immediately after, in the first week of May.
"I don't really buy that [it was intentionally delayed]," Ellis said. "It was just a slight shift to plans. And at some point, Nintendo can't... It's like: 'we don't negotiate with terrorists, we can't let someone dictate our plans'."
That said, the pair agreed that the leak had been hugely damaging to the company, and was likely further fuelling a change from releasing details in large-scale Nintendo Direct broadcasts, to more frequent, smaller reveals that were released without warning.
"Nintendo is shifting tactics in a world where leaks are more prevalent," Yang said.
"If you're Nintendo, you're obviously pulling your hair out at this," Ellis agreed. "This is a worst-case scenario. You're the company that banks on surprising people. The element of surprise is a major factor to why announcements are impactful and now that has been taken away, presumably, for a while."
"It messes with their expectation management," Yang continued. "There's a very strong focus on that element. [On the] one hand is the surprise and delight and the other is the expectation management. Both of these have been compromised now from the leaks."
The fact that many fans now expect a Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake this Christmas now meant Nintendo had a harder job meeting expectations built up over months, with many fans now already forming opinions on how the game should be updated, and how it should look. Inevitably, not all of those fans will have their expectations met.
"[There's] the idea of this Nintendo Direct era being a bit antiquated because of these leaks and because of the way people receive information," Yang suggested. "They may just have to rethink the way they share information. The shadow-dropped Direct was a good idea. The Nintendo Today drops are fun little surprises — they did that with the Splatoon Raiders trailer.
"That hype is now very much dwindled, because you already knew all the things going in," Yang concluded. "We felt it too. We certainly felt it when everything about the Switch 2 leaked last year and we saw the first-look video. I was like, I already saw that. It looked exactly like what we saw. That is a human reaction to seeing something that is not new, you know? So I get it."
For its part, Nintendo has not directly addressed the leak, though has confirmed it has multiple unannounced Switch 2 games set for launch later this year.
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