Top Weekly News: Fallout London & COD on Game Pass

• Fallout London mod finally arrived this week.
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III added to Game Pass.
• Sony testing new PS5 features for its anniversary.
• Free Sims 4 update breaks the game.
• Team Ninja's Rise of the Ronin gets a free demo.

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Read on to explore the latest news and updates in the gaming world.

Fallout London Arrives

This week, the long-anticipated Fallout London mod finally arrived.

That's cool! Less cool is the Cybertruck showing up in Fortnite.

Also, a Call of Duty game has finally arrived on Game Pass some time after Microsoft completed its acquisition of Activision Blizzard.

The specific series entry that's kicking things off isn't exactly a fan favorite.

Surprise for Fallout Fans

If you've been waiting for the ambitious Fallout London mod to release, then I have good news for you—it's out tomorrow.

The mod, which tells an entirely original story set across the pond, has been in development since 2019.

Thankfully, the wait to see what the developers at Team FOLON have pulled off is almost over.

Game Pass Gets Its First Call of Duty

It appears that finally, almost a year after completing its acquisition of Activision, Microsoft is adding a previously released Call of Duty game—2023's Modern Warfare III—to its Netflix-like subscription service.

And you won't have to wait long.

Sony Testing New PS5 Features

As the PlayStation 5 nears its four-year anniversary, the platform team at Sony is continuing to cook up small new improvements to help players get the most out of the console.

The latest batch of changes we'll soon get to test are hyper-niche but still pretty cool.

Trump's VP Nominee and Mountain Dew

Former President Donald Trump's running mate JD Vance is out campaigning to show he's not a boring weirdo with zero charisma.

It's not going well.

Last week, Donald Trump announced he had selected Ohio senator JD Vance as his vice presidential nominee.

Vance is famous for being terrible but also for writing a bestselling memoir—Hillbilly Elegy—which was turned into a forgettable Netflix movie starring Amy Adams and Glenn Close.

Oh, and he also once called Trump a moral disaster and possibly America's Hitler.

And apparently, Trump now regrets picking the boring dude after the recent announcement that Joe Biden is stepping out of the 2024 race and Kamala is likely to replace him on the ticket.

Free Sims 4 Update Breaks Game

EA is very good at consistently adding player-requested content to The Sims 4 with free updates to the base game.

Unfortunately, EA is also very good at breaking The Sims 4 with those updates, as evidenced in the latest debacle.

PS5's Overlooked Samurai Game Gets a Free Demo

Team Ninja's ambitious and slightly clunky open-world RPG Rise of the Ronin now has a free demo on PS5.

You have no reason to not check it out.

New Crate Creates Turmoil in Counter-Strike 2

How much chaos can one box cause?

When that box is added to a decades-old Counter-Strike map with no warning, it turns out quite a lot of chaos.

For those out of the loop, in 2023 Valve updated Counter-Strike Global Offensive and changed so much stuff that it also rebranded the game as Counter-Strike 2.

But much of what people love about CSGO is still available in CS2, including one of the franchise's most popular maps, Dust2.

However, a new update for CS2 has slightly changed a stack of crates near bombsite A, and the reaction has been wild to watch.

No, Southwest Airlines Isn't Using Windows 3.1 in 2024

Last week, a good chunk of the digital world shut down and stopped working due to an update that caused Microsoft's Windows operating system to crash and display a blue screen on millions of devices.

This affected places like hospitals, schools, and airports.

But one airline, unlike the others, was spared from the chaos.

And many are saying it's because it's still using an ancient operating system, but that's not the case.

EA College Football Confuses Xbox Fans

Last week, EA College Football 25 launched, and people went wild with the game already becoming one of the biggest titles of 2024.

But some fans on Xbox, perhaps not as familiar with video games, are frustrated after buying the new college football simulator and discovering that it doesn't play on their console.

Let us explain.

One of the Worst Things Fortnite's Ever Done

Fortnite's next crossover isn't with a cool new movie or a beloved comic book franchise.

No, instead Epic is adding Tesla's silly and ugly Cybertruck to the F2P game in a move that might be one of the worst and cringiest things yet.