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You can try a pair of strategy and sim games this weekend for free on Xbox platforms, as long as you’re an Xbox Live Gold or Game Pass Ultimate member. Stellaris and Cities: Skylines are free to play as part of Xbox’s Free Play Days promotion. Stellaris is a sci-fi …

The fourth boss you’ll take on in Valheim is Moder, the frost dragon queen of the Mountain biome. Moder is a huge enemy that fights on the ground and can take to the skies, but the terrain on which you face the boss can give you an advantage. It’s possible …

The Swamp is likely the third biome you’ll explore as you work your way through Valheim, and it’s significantly more deadly than the forests and meadows you’ve spent time in before. There’s a lot to find and a lot to avoid in the Swamp, and if you’re not prepared, you …

Wolf Armor is the sixth tier of protection you can get in Valheim, but like everything else in the Viking survival game, crafting it isn’t easy. You’ll need to locate Silver, one of the toughest metals to find, and that takes special requirements. On top of that, you’ll have to …

You’ll get by in the early going of Valheim with leather armor made from Deer Hide, but if you want to explore Viking purgatory in a meaningful way, you need to enter the Bronze Age. Bronze Armor offers a significant upgrade in protection, and you’ll need Bronze tools to access …

Borderlands 3‘s Director’s Cut DLC has been delayed to April due to complications from the recent severe weather and power outages in Texas. Gearbox issued a statement saying that the conditions “unavoidably disrupted” its work, forcing it to push back the add-on by a few weeks. The new release date …

Microsoft has made a habit of dropping Easter eggs in its remote streams during the coronavirus pandemic. So with the Bethesda-Xbox roundtable event celebrating the acquisition, surely we were going to be teased about the setting of Elder Scrolls VI, a Starfield-themed Xbox console, and the blood type of Doomguy, …

The final tier of armor available in Valheim right now is Padded Armor, and like the other tiers before it, you’re going to have to work hard to make it. You can only create Padded Armor with materials from the Plains biome, but unlike other armor sets, it doesn’t require …

Some difficult news today for the Rust community, as developer Facepunch has announced a “total loss” of some servers in the EU and related data due to a huge fire. Writing on Twitter, the studio said, “We’ve confirmed a total loss of the affected EU servers during the OVH data …

Valheim players are combating the frustration of losing everything after death by establishing and dispatching a Body Recovery Squad that ventures out to retrieve all lost items. The Body Recovery Squad was recently set up through a dedicated Discord server. Their goal is for community members (or operators) to aid …