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The Finals Spotlight
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Review: The Finals review: the most exciting new multiplayer shooter in years
I hope it blows up
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The teaser trailer is great, too
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These are the best weapons in The Finals right now
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Our 24 favourite games of 2024
In non-calendar form
The Finals Feed
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![A close-up of a player's face in a cinematic trailer for The Finals.](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/the-finals-face-closeup-2.jpg?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
News
The Finals' fourth season kicks off next week with a new map, new tutorial and the return of ranked Cashout
The teaser trailer is great, too
![A ninja slices a man into coins using dual katanas.](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/the-finals-season-three.jpg?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
News
The Finals season three takes its destructive players to 16th-century Kyoto next week
With bows, katanas and spears
![A team intro screen from the 5v5 Power Shift mode in The Finals season 2.](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/The-Finals-season-2-5v5-team-screen.jpeg?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
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The Finals’ Season 2 is a happy hackathon that laughs in the face of physics
More outlandish gadgets make for a more exciting shooter, though the new 5v5 mode disappoints
![A character wearing a robot helmet floats a cube in their hand in The Finals' Season 2](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/the-finals-season-2-character-floating-cube.png?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
News
The Finals’ Season 2 brings hacker powers, a 5v5 mode, new map and more to the multiplayer shooter this week
New gadgets, guns and revamped competitive progression
![A light, medium and heavy ready for battle before a match in The Finals.](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/the-finals-2_1JjiAeS.png?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
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The Finals' latest patch makes progression faster, stops corpses exploding
The exploding wasn't a bug
![A squad runs down a corridor in The Finals.](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/the-finals-squad-2.jpg?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
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The Finals’ 1.5 update introduces the multiplayer shooter’s first time-limited mode, a solo free-for-all
Balance tweaks, bug fixes and improved cheat detection also live now
![A light, medium and heavy ready for battle before a match in The Finals.](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/the-finals-2_1JjiAeS.png?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
News
The Finals stops players taking unfair advantage from controller aim assist
A bigger update is coming next week
![A close-up of a player's face in a cinematic trailer for The Finals.](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/the-finals-face-closeup-2.jpg?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
![A squad runs down a corridor in The Finals.](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/the-finals-squad-2.jpg?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
![A screenshot from The Finals showing a player running towards a yellow cashout point with another player holding a big hammer and some dust clouds in the distance](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/ss_d37be3e97f1dcddbd4db38ffe6eebd0fc724eec4.1920x1080.jpg?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
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The Finals holiday update is not very merry reading for Heavy players
Free-to-play FPS gets a much-demanded class rebalance
![A close-up of a player's face in a cinematic trailer for The Finals.](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/the-finals-face-closeup-2.jpg?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
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The Finals technical issue has been preventing "banning cheaters efficiently"
But they're close to a fix
![A light, medium and heavy ready for battle before a match in The Finals.](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/the-finals-2_1JjiAeS.png?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
![A player in The Finals follows their squadmates up a set of stairs in an office building.](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/the-finals-ingame-screenshot-launch-2.jpg?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
![Two enemies stand in front as the player holds an explosive gas tank in The Finals.](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/the-finals-3.png?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
News
The Finals developers say they've found why movement speed feels slower, despite "no change" since beta
It's in the animation, sound and FOV
![Blue skies and jump pads in The Finals.](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/the-finals-header.png?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
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The Finals is a gloriously destructive shooter that's too frantic for its own good
Demolition derby
![A contestant in The Finals strikes a pose against a yellow wall. The Electronic Wireless Show logo is added in the top-right corner.](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/The-Finals-EWS.jpg?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
Podcast
The Electronic Wireless Show podcast S2 Episode 37: lending an ear to The Finals' AI voices
They’re not great
![A character wearing a mask and tactical jacket poses with both arms up on a yellow wall in The Finals](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/the-finals-pose-on-wall.png?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
News
Battlefield devs’ multiplayer shooter The Finals is full of AI voices - and oof, you can tell
Embark Studios says that text-to-speech tech “gets us far enough in terms of quality and allows us to be extremely reactive to new ideas”
![Some sort of mallow mascot for The Finals.](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/the-finals-header_NjUTgZU.jpg?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
![A masked fighter turns and points her pistol to the side with an empty red background in The Finals](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/THE_FINALS_KeyArt_Character.jpg?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
![A player character from The Finals holds a sub-machinegun while wearing a smiley face mask on top of her head as an audience of silhouettes looks on.](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/the-finals-header.jpg?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
News
The Finals shows environment destruction and grappling hooks ahead of closed playtest
Battlefield with a bit more Teardown
![A player character from The Finals holds a sub-machinegun while wearing a smiley face mask on top of her head as an audience of silhouettes looks on.](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/the-finals-header.jpg?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
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Former Battlefield devs are making a shooter with destructible levels set inside a game show
The Finals is why Arc Raiders got delayed
The Finals Gallery
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