Overview
- Xeno Arena, which launched Wednesday, lets players collect, train, and battle alien pets in turn-based fights at new holo-arenas.
- Arenas appear in Space Stations and the Nexus, where players face friends, strangers, or NPCs for rewards with daily challenges, ranks, leagues, and leaderboards.
- Each creature now has elemental affinities tied to its species and home biome, with rarer worlds yielding legendary variants and hundreds of attack, defense, and healing abilities.
- Companions grow through feeding, bonding, and sparring, and players can breed and genetically modify them; adoption limits rise from 18 to 30 to support larger squads.
- The update is free across all platforms, and Hello Games cites Pokémon, Palworld, and World of Warcraft’s pet battles as inspirations for the new competitive layer.