The new Black Ops 4 update introduces a special event stream in the Black Market called Barbarians, bringing 25 loot Tiers below the Operation Absolute Zero stream and new rewards, including Outfits, Calling Cards, Reactive Camo and KAP 45.

Activision's ludicrous microtransactions strike again, after several blunders due to selling a red dot reticle and attempting to shame those who don't own the Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 pass. This time around, they are selling a smiley.

New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe managed to fend off competition and remain in first place but there's good news for Bandai Namco as Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown debuted in second place, which is the franchise's best UK launch as of yet.

Ambush will test players' surviving skills in battle royale mode by limiting the weapons to sniper rifles and melee. The new mode will replace the current limited-time mode Down But Not Out which is scheduled to end on 30 January 2019.

Treyarch announced a new limited-time mode for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Blackout dubbed Down But Not Out. In this mode exclusive to squads, players will respawn with each new circle as long as they have one teammate alive to revive them.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 has several multiplayer modes and the battle royale one, Blackout, will be on free trial for a week, starting on 17 January 2019. Treyarch and Activision announced that the event will conclude on 24 January 2019.

Sony have shared the list of most downloaded PlayStation 4 games in 2018. EA's FIFA 19 took the first spot in front of Treyarch's Call of Duty Black Ops 4 while Beat Saber was the best selling VR game beating Job Simulator to first place.

A new bug in Call of Duty Black Ops 4 battle royale mode Blackout has appeared and it's spawning all 100 players in the last circle. Redditor bwg11 shared a video of his experience which unfortunately ended before anyone could win.

Treyarch have rolled out an update to Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 that's more of an announcement of next week's update, which will bring mastery camos to Blackout and Zombies, improved looting in Blackout on consoles and a bunch more.

It's been a few weeks since FIFA 19 started its hunt for the first spot in UK's physical sales chart, picking up speed a bit faster than Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption 2, whose second stint in the first place has now come to an end.