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We found out last month that No Man's Sky would be coming to Xbox One at some point this year with an update called "Next", but now we finally have a release date.

A new Xbox One update is out now for everyone, and it adds a number of notable features and improvements. Starting off, the May Xbox One update introduces the ability to link your Discord account with your Xbox account to chat with friends and see what they are up to.

No Man’s Sky’s next major content update is out this summer, alongside its debut on Xbox One. On an Inside Xbox stream, Hello Games co-founder Sean Murray announced that both the Xbox One version and Next would launch July 24 and it’s bringing full-fledged multiplayer with it.

In addition to the ongoing 50v50 event, Epic has kicked off a new limited-time mode in Fortnite: Battle Royale. For the next few days, players across PS4, Xbox One, PC, and mobile will be able to take part in the Solo Showdown, a limited-time competition to determine the best Battle Royale player.

The action will take place on the biggest map that developer Treyarch has ever made, roughly 1,500 times larger than Nuketown, among the biggest Call of Duty maps of all time, according to the company. From the video shown during today’s presentation, Blackout’s map appears to include features of other well-known maps and locations from the larger Call of Duty universe.

When Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 launches on PC it will be exclusive to Battle.net, Activision announced today. The PC version will launch the same date as console editions, Oct. 12.

Rainbow Six Siege continues to expand and evolve, and with the Operation Para Bellum DLC on the way, the game is gearing up to add two new Operators. Publisher Ubisoft has now, finally, revealed the second of those two characters: Maestro.

Do you feel like exploring an irradiated Bostonian wasteland? Do you have an Xbox One? If you answered yes to those questions, you're in luck--Fallout 4 is free to play this weekend on Xbox One. You can download the free version of Fallout 4 here and play it between now and Monday, May 21.

Here's some good news for everyone who hasn't purchased Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege: the game is free to play this weekend on PC, PS4, and Xbox One. Between May 17 - 20, you can access the entire game, complete with all the maps, modes, and operators released so far.

Following a leak earlier this week, Microsoft today officially announced a new Xbox controller designed for people with limited mobility. The Xbox Adaptive Controller, as it's called, will launch later this year priced at $100 US.

Overwatch is preparing to celebrate its second anniversary, and among other things that means a whole new set of anniversary skins. Blizzard is slowly revealing the new fashionable duds one-by-one, and we've just gotten a look at the first. Venom Soldier 76 is an Epic skin that replaces everyone's favorite shooter-dad with an imposing villainous look.

Following a slight delay, Epic has deployed the latest patch for Fortnite. Update 4.2 is now available on PS4, Xbox One, PC, and mobile, and it brings a handful of new items and some gameplay adjustments to both Battle Royale and Save the World.

Here's some good news for everyone who hasn't purchased Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege: the game is free to play this weekend

Hearthstone's latest expansion is just over a month old, and with a significant tournament event behind it Blizzard is prepared to start adjusting the balance. In a set of changes announced today on the official blog, the company is targeting several dominant decks with feather-touch tweaks aimed at allowing them to still be viable, but not quite so overwhelming.