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Dragonkin: The Banished Adds Playable Harrower and Permadeath Survival Mode in Free Update

Published

1 day ago

November 14, 2026

A gameplay screenshot of Dragonkin: The Banished showing a fiery battlefield with a warrior character

A gameplay screenshot of Dragonkin: The Banished showing the Harrower in battle. Credit: Eko Software / NACON

Dragonkin: The Banished has a free major update out now. The Harrower update is available on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, bringing a new playable character, a permadeath Survival mode and new Ancestral Grid modifiers. It is free for all players.

The headline addition is the Harrower, a new playable character built around the Instability skill. The Harrower can learn up to 10 Wyvern skills and enters the Unleashed state when all four elements are unstable. The Unleashed state is the payoff for building around instability, rewarding players who keep all four elements unstable at once. With 17 active skills and 16 passives and talents to build around, the Harrower gives players plenty of room to experiment with new builds.

Survival mode adds a harder, higher-stakes way to play. It uses permadeath, a dedicated character and a separate gear ecosystem, with a Pantheon legacy carrying progress forward between runs. Each run starts fresh, with the Pantheon legacy offering a way to carry something forward even after a character falls.

The update also adds six new Ancestral Grid modifiers. Two are exclusive to the Harrower, and four are universal, including “Whirling Mastery”, giving existing builds new options whether players pick up the Harrower or stick with their current character. A Harrower Cosmetics Pack is also available as DLC.

Dragonkin: The Banished is developed by Eko Software and published by NACON. The free update is available now on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, and players can watch the Harrower update trailer below for a closer look at the new character and mode.

Project Hail Mary: Journey Among the Stars Is Out Now on Quest, PICO and Android XR

Published

3 minutes ago

November 15, 2026

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Rocky, a rocky alien crewmate, reaches out with a stone fist inside the Hail Mary spaceship in Project Hail Mary: Journey Among the Stars.

Rocky, the rocky alien crewmate, inside the Hail Mary in Project Hail Mary: Journey Among the Stars. Photo by Maze Theory

Humanity’s last hope is now a mission you can step inside. Project Hail Mary: Journey Among the Stars is out now, a mixed-reality adventure that tells a previously untold chapter of Andy Weir’s bestselling sci-fi universe.

The immersive mixed reality experience launched on PICO, Android XR and Meta Quest 3/3S. It comes from Maze Theory, the award-winning London-based immersive entertainment studio behind Peaky Blinders: The King’s Ransom and Doctor Who: The Edge of Time.

Players step into the role of Ryland Grace. Ryland Grace and his friend and crewmate Rocky must work together in the face of disaster to keep the Hail Mary intact and bring their world-saving cargo to Eridani — Rocky’s home planet, and Grace’s new home.

It is a story of trust and communication between species. As this mixed-reality experience blends your physical environment with the Hail Mary itself, players diagnose problems, improvise solutions and push the limits of science and engineering to keep the mission alive.

Along the way, players work alongside Rocky to keep the mission alive, diagnose failing systems and improvise scientific solutions, and manage their ship and its precious cargo as they travel through the stars — experiencing humanity’s last hope firsthand.

Watch the launch trailer below.