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- February 25
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- "We're still dedicated to supporting these legendary RPGs": Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 set for a new update "nearly 15 years after the Enhanced Editions" launched, earning an approving nod from BG3 developer Larian itself
- Fed up with cheating in Arc Raiders, FPS streamer Shroud concludes "this game is so s**t" and Embark "actually doesn't care" given softer response to hacks and exploits
- A24 horror Backrooms taps into the kind of fear I want to see on screen: YouTube creepypasta and the childhood terror of going out of bounds in a video game
- The Logitech G325 headset is as light as a cloud, and my migraine-having butt has never been happier
- Where to buy Pokemon Day 2026 Collection, the adorable but hard-to-find Pikachu pack
- Uh-oh, I can't stop playing Vampire Survivors' new roguelike deckbuilder thanks to this free Steam Next Fest demo
- Attention hot-swap fans, this Cherry keyboard can make your magnetic dreams come true - at a price | Review
- Amazon cuts ties with Forza Horizon 5 director's upcoming open-world driving game as it focuses on Tomb Raider, cloud gaming platform Luna, and more
- Project Mirror Labyrinth codes (February 2026) for Fragments, Condense, and more
- Andor creator Tony Gilroy explains why Bix doesn't accompany Cassian for an on-screen mission in season 2 of the Star Wars show
- 10 years on, Marvel fans are still confused over the Doctor Strange post-credits scene: "Did Marvel forget about that?"
- Arc Raiders Stable Housing walkthrough
- Where to find a Camera Lens in Arc Raiders
- Pokemon Day has me inching closer to checkout on these adorable Loungefly backpacks
- Arc Raiders A Rising Tide walkthrough and guide
- Bo-Katan Kryze actor Katee Sackhoff says she'll be back as her Star Wars character: "She's based off Dave Filoni's wife, so I have job security forever"
- The best Pokemon merch to celebrate 30 years of the beloved series, chosen by superfans
- "You will hear more about that soon": New Xbox boss is "committed to returning to Xbox," and that "starts with console"
- A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms star says Egg's dad Prince Maekar Targaryen will not return for season 2
- Blizzard declaws Overwatch terror Jetpack Cat in a new hotfix, but gives new heroes like Emre, Anran, and Mizuki some needed TLC
- "Completely broken": Square Enix rushes out Final Fantasy 7 patch for the OG JRPG's new Steam version following fan reports of dizzying battle speed and other technical issues
- Anime Guardians codes (February 2026) for rerolls, coins, and more
- Sony CEO confirms studio's Spider-Man spin-off universe will get total reboot, but says partnership with Marvel is "great"
- Project Hail Mary first reactions are calling the Ryan Gosling sci-fi movie a "must-see space odyssey" and an "epic cinematic achievement"
- Netflix is proving it does know the importance of theatrical releases as One Piece season 2 sets sail to debut in over 200 theatres
- As Xbox exclusives continue to land on PS5 and Switch 2, new CEO says "we're going to keep meeting players where they are," but "the plan's the plan until it's not the plan"
- Spider-Noir's new teaser gives us best look yet at Electro and Nic Cage's webslinger beating up gangsters
- How to watch the Scrubs reboot, JD, Turk, and Elliot return to our screens tonight
- The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, RoboCop: Rogue City publisher Nacon files for insolvency, requiring "rapid implementation of a financial restructuring" with creditors to continue operations
- Ex-Diablo 2 leads have "tons of conflicted feelings" about going up against the iconic ARPG with their new indie competitor Darkhaven
- February 24
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- GTA 4 was apparently "so ahead of its time" that its own tech lead didn't know helicopters could do this: "Didn't really consider the side effects"
- Finally, a new pirate game that's actually good: I can't stop playing the Steam Next Fest demo for this open-world survival game with Assassin's Creed Black Flag sailing, Sea of Thieves combat, and Ark crafting
- Stranger Things: Tales From '85 confirms casting for the latest member of the Hawkins gang with a wave of new posters
- This cyberpunk Metroidvania co-written by a Resident Evil veteran also wants to be an RPG with romance, and I went from "this looks cool" to "I need this right now" playing the Steam demo
- Ubisoft CEO fights nepotism accusations after appointing son to lead new Assassin's Creed studio – by insisting "Ubisoft was created as a family company"
- "We've made mistakes": Discord delays age verification rollout but promises no meaningful change as co-founder spends 1,857 words trying to sound apologetic
- Arc Raiders just pulled a Helldivers 2: players spot enormous, unannounced UFOs after Shrouded Sky update goes live
- "This isn't an insurgency": Xbox co-founder says Phil Spencer exhausted himself "managing the beast" at Microsoft to "try to do the right thing for games," and he feels "worst" for Sarah Bond
- Deadpool actor cast as Baldur for God of War TV show
- Xbox is not "dead" after CEO change, says original co-founder: "It's literally something I nearly died to bring into existence" and "seeing it struggle and being unable to act is hard"
- Assassin's Creed 3 director says Ubisoft's Skull and Bones dev team was "junior" and "trying to essentially make Black Flag crossed with World of Tanks or World of Warships," but without the "experience"
- Fallout 4 is now on Switch 2, and first impressions say the port is way better than the disastrous Skyrim launch last year
- After 9 years, this underrated Lovecraftian FMV detective game is getting a sequel, and its free Steam Next Fest demo makes a strong first impression
- American Psycho author says "high-profile actors" have turned down the role of Patrick Bateman in the new movie, as they don't want to "be in the shoes of Christian Bale"
- A fantasy Fallout opening pushes me right into one of the most promising RPGs I've played in ages, and it's by far the best Steam Next Fest demo I've tried
- Sony announces first Horizon Hunters Gathering playtest is coming this weekend, right in the middle of Marathon's server slam because the Horizon curse is eternal
- Nintendo's made me wait 15 years for a new Nintendogs, but now I don't have to – this cozy game is "a tiny dog hotel for pups" and its Steam Next Fest demo has me hooked
- I finally fixed my gamer posture, and it's all thanks to this floating backrest
- The Hori Gengar and Mikimyu Switch 2 accessory set is everything I've dreamt of as a spooky Pokemon girlie
- Microphones this good seldom cost less than $100: Maono's wireless, XLR, USB hybrid mic is currently 35% off
- I didn't think it could be done, but Super Meat Boy 3D's Steam next fest demo proves Team Meat's masocore platformer translates to 3D shockingly well
- Blizzard is so concerned with World of Warcraft expansion Midnight completely changing the MMO's meta that it's already loading over a month of balance patches
- The Evercade is finally getting a wireless dual analogue stick controller, and I'm hoping it means more PS1 ports are coming
- Marvel's Wolverine release date revealed for September as Insomniac just tweets out launch confirmation 2 weeks after State of Play no-show
- Maul – Shadow Lord star says the former Sith has a new perspective on the Jedi in the upcoming Star Wars show: "He’s looking at the galaxy going, 'Boy, we could sure use a Jedi Knight or two'"
- Arc Raiders Weather Monitor System project materials and rewards
- Kojima's version of my favorite gaming tablet is up for pre-order, but you can save nearly $1,000 if you drop the swag
- Resident Evil Requiem director says he was "raised by Nintendo," which is why Zelda 2's most annoying enemy inspired an infuriating zombie design 14 years ago
- Blizzard reveals Overwatch Rush, a "top-down hero shooter designed specifically for mobile" that's being built by a dedicated team within the studio
- Mike Flanagan assures Stephen King fans that his new take on The Mist "won't be a retread" of Frank Darabont's iconic film: "The differences start page 1"
- Days after closing remake legend Bluepoint, PlayStation asks fans what remakes they want to see and gets a crash course in reading the room
- After surprise server shutdown, Dune: Awakening devs squash bug that cost players 1,000-hour bases – and promise "adequate resources and item packages to cover any losses incurred"
- Jujutsu Shenanigans codes (February 2026) for emotes, cash, achievements, and more
- Challenges in emulating Zelda titles demonstrates the series' knack for reinvention
- Zero Parades proves itself a worthy Disco Elysium successor in this free Steam Next Fest demo that has me debating music formats, trading anime swords, and feeling like a fool for doubting this follow-up
- Discord ends partnership with controversial age verification software, Twitch immediately says hold my beer and tells new affiliates to submit faces and IDs to the same service
- Before The Walking Dead sold 45 million copies, author Robert Kirkman was told "zombie books don't sell"
- Arc Raiders apparently had a legendary weapon "intended" for PvP all along, but it was so bad nobody noticed: "We weren't quite happy with the previous balancing"
- Netflix has released a One Piece season 1 recap, so you can catch up with the Straw Hat Pirates before your season 2 binge
- How to watch T20 World Cup 2026 — watch from anywhere
- "Don't judge the resume, judge the K/D": Ex Activision Blizzard exec defends new Xbox CEO with absolutely zero gaming experience, says "it IS learnable"
- Blizzard boss says "we're not Blizzard Games, we’re Blizzard Entertainment" and "near-term discussions" are underway to adapt "almost every one of our worlds"
- After 5 games in almost 30 years, Diablo lead hopes future releases will become more frequent before the series' 60th anniversary: "Maybe we get some out faster"
- "It’s an ongoing fight, and we’re committed": Arc Raiders devs insist they aren't that soft on cheaters, "stepping up enforcement" with permanent bans for "serious infractions"
- Arc Raiders A Dead End walkthrough and Battery door puzzle
- My partner dubbed this "the coolest headset" I've ever tested, and it just got a chunky discount
- Backrooms trailer brings YouTube creepypastas to life as Doctor Strange's Chiwetel Ejiofor enters a nightmarish alternate reality
- The Logitech G Pro X 2 Superstrike will change the game for some, but not all | Review
- Indie pirate game overtakes Pragmata with swashbuckling Sea-of-Thieves-meets-Rust Steam Next Fest demo as devs celebrate 1 million wishlists: "A few weeks ago, we couldn't even have imagined this"
- I'm a lapsed Sims player who just wants a doctor husband, and Love and Deepspace's new update lets me date five guys at once
- The top 5 pieces of Zelda merch I wish I could still get my hands on
- Toy Story 5 actor says to "bring tissues" when going to see the new animated sequel, and now we're scared
- "There are a zillion demos in this Steam Next Fest," Palworld lead says, and "I don't feel very compelled" to check out any that feature AI art
- Where to buy Pokemon TCG First Partner Illustration Collection Series 1, the highly anticipated new release
- Neve Campbell says Scream 7 won't be "as gory" as Scream 5 and 6, and feels like those sequels went "off path" from Wes Craven's original vision
- I hate to say it, but since the Steam Deck is AWOL, the ROG Xbox Ally is the only handheld PC I can find for under $600
- Embark takes the nerf bat to Arc Raiders' Venator once more as "it's still dominating in PvP," and while we're at it, the Kettle and Stitcher are also getting reined in
- How to find the collapsed highway for Keeping an Eye Out in Arc Raiders
- A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms author George R.R. Martin didn't want the show to "confirm one way or another" if Dunk is really a knight: "Can you earn it, even if you've never been given it?"
- Scary Movie 6 has modern horror in its sights, with Sinners, Weapons, and A Quiet Place being spoofed
- Ryan Coogler's X-Files reboot finds its star and showrunner as the pilot gets the greenlight at Hulu
- The Simpsons Hit and Run studio resurfaces, and it's taken no time at all for fans to demand a remaster or sequel to the beloved GTA-style spin on Springfield
- Timothée Chalamet says Dune: Part 3 is "the eeriest" entry in Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi saga so far: "It’s a big swing"
- Weeks after Nioh 3's release, developer Team Ninja is being split into 3 as Koei Tecmo confirms major restructure
- The Witcher 4, Cyberpunk 2 developer CD Projekt Red scoops up more industry talent as a Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 cinematics dev joins the team
- New Xbox boss says "I don't pretend to be the best gamer," but that's not her goal, anyway: "My focus is to make Xbox the best place to play, return to our roots, ship great things, and become stronger"
- Yoko Taro's Evangelion trailer has fans thinking it's a sequel – but not as you know it
- From Pokopia to Gen 10, here are my top 7 Pokemon Day 2026 predictions to kick off the 30 year celebrations with a bang
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 studio co-founder reportedly steps down as creative director to focus on turning the RPG series into a movie or show
- "If we only cared about money, we wouldn't ship on anything but Steam," says head of indie empire New Blood, but "we hate money, and we love our players" so the devs put up with the "pain" of consoles
- February 23
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- Assassin's Creed 3 director says Ubisoft held back on the ship-sailing stuff until Black Flag because they were worried the tech "wouldn't work," and I have to say that was 100% the right call
- Netflix's Devil May Cry season 2 shares new look as showrunner promises an unpredictable follow-up: "I dislike when successful shows turn into comfort food"
- "The future of preservation is decided by players who give a s***," GOG asserts as it reiterates its 18-year mission to make games "live forever"
- "Made by many of the original creators of Diablo and Diablo 2" are big words for an action RPG, but the Steam Next Fest demo for Darkhaven feels like sampling bread by eating raw flour
- New Star Wars boss Dave Filoni doesn't hate Andor, according to creator Tony Gilroy: "There's no Andor without the Mandalorian"
- Blizzard's never done this before, but World of Warcraft devs say they ditched combat addons to make raids harder strategically – not to "shoot more bullets at you"
- Xbox co-founder says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has "a hammer called gen AI" and "there's a nail with an Xbox logo on it"
- Scream 3 is my second-favorite movie in the horror franchise and with Scream 7 bringing back its Ghostface, it's time everyone gives it a second chance
- Marathon looks miles ahead of Arc Raiders in one key area: "Anyone found to be cheating will be permabanned from playing Marathon forever, no second chances"
- What if Bloodborne was on PS2? Dark horror No Vacation for an Executioner is so old school even the dev insists you try the free Steam Next Fest demo before buying "to make sure you like this control style"
- James Gunn explains his comic influences for Man of Tomorrow's Brainiac, including the classic story he won't be adapting
- "Demon child" star of Mike Flanagan's Exorcist movie "doesn't think" he'll ever watch the original as he reveals filming starts in a few weeks
- "A floating nightmare": Arc Raiders' big Shrouded Sky update has 2 new Arc, a big Dam Battlegrounds change, confirmed beards, and even an outfit for the friendliest players
- After five years, I can finally turn the Zelda Game and Watch into a proper retro handheld thanks to new microSD and memory mods
- Disney's forgotten Donald Duck PS2 game is harder than any FromSoftware title I've ever played
- Sony's Venom lives on with new animated movie from Final Destination: Bloodlines directors and producer Tom Hardy
- Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag and Origins director says it's "wonderful to be back after all these years" as he returns to "lead the creative direction of the franchise"
- Nier fans have zero expectations as Square Enix teases Automata will "be continued": "It's probably some merch or some bulls**t"
- I've reviewed a lot of Lego, but I still think this the greatest gaming set ever made
- Thal's balls, Final Fantasy 14's beloved in-house rock band that's made up of Square Enix devs is playing one of the UK's biggest festivals
- Xbox will be "sunsetted" under new CEO, original co-founder expects: "Her job is going to be as a palliative care doctor who slides Xbox gently into the night"
- After topping Steam in 2022, "Thief with guns" FPS shouted out by Cyberpunk 2077 devs is back with a map-focused update that's reigniting fans' love: "Here goes my sleep schedule again"
- Blizzard hands Overwatch's suffering Mercy mains a lifeline, promises to rescue their healer queen from the bottom of many tier lists in Season 2: "LIFE IS SO BEAUTIFUL"
- I've spent the last year collecting all 1025 Pokémon in two mega binders, here's everything you need to join me on the journey
- "Heart is what makes good games": Baldur's Gate 3 publishing lead says gaming executives shouldn't rely on a "dysfunctional chain of command" to understand game quality
- Unbothered by RAMageddon, PSVR 2 is thriving at its lowest-ever price
- After Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's controversial Best Indie win at The Game Awards, publisher's CEO admits the J'RPG is "blurring the line," but doesn't think "labels matter as much as the things we're able to create"
- How long is Crimson Desert? Time to beat revealed
- You'll soon be able to own KPop Demon Hunters as the Netflix sensation heads to the Criterion Collection
- 6 of the best new shows and movies streaming this week on Disney Plus, Netflix, Apple TV, and more (February 23–March 1)
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3's Ultimate Weapon design may have just been shown off in a free-to-play spin-off
- Now might be the worst time to buy an Alienware laptop, don't waste your money in 2026
- Stardew Valley creator offers advice to fan hoping to recover save file of co-op farm with late partner: "I would love to have everything we built together"
- "It's a bit unfair to have to compete with Isaac": Mewgenics co-creator felt pressure to "prove myself" working with Edmund McMillen on the follow-up to one of the biggest roguelikes ever
- The full WWE 2K26 Ringside Pass unlockables list
- As Arc Raiders enters a peaceful era of jolly cooperation, I'm begging Embark Studios to make the robots terrifying again
- WWE 2K26 makes a fantastic entrance, literally, thanks to theatrical and tactical evolutions that have me pumped to play more
- How to change appearance in Crimson Desert
- This Best Buy Nintendo Switch game sale is a physical collector's dream
- Dune: Awakening "shutting down all servers" for emergency fix to yet another exploit that put entire bases at risk: "Lost my base and 1k hours of progress"
- Mortal Kombat's Sub-Zero and Kitana team up after figure skating duo's Winter Olympics silver medal win to pull off a competition illegal move – but don't worry, there's no finisher
- Marvel's Wonder Man drops out of the streaming top 10 after only 2 weeks on Disney Plus despite a promising 91% Rotten Tomatoes score
- Baldur's Gate 3 somehow delays Grok update on Twitter, and Larian feels the same way about that as you: "Can I have just one normal week"
- New Xbox boss says great games make you "feel something," unexpectedly calls out Firewatch, the 10-year-old walking sim from former Telltale devs
- Wednesday season 3 teaser confirms filming has begun, but we're busy thinking about Winona Ryder's casting and a mystery character being teased
- "I ain't no b**ch": Slay the Spire 2 pushes multiple indies to delay their games, but one brave roguelike deckbuilder stands firm
- The longer Valve waits, the more this could happen: Virtual Desktop has just sniped one of the Steam Frame's coolest gaming features in a win for all eye-tracking VR headsets
- As Zelda gets zilch for 40th birthday, former PR leads say Nintendo's approach to anniversaries is very different from The Pokemon Company's: "It's like this way of life"
- When is Scream 7 on streaming? Speculation on the new slasher flick's Paramount Plus release date
- Just like Ditto, these Switch 2 accessories will transform my time with Pokemon Pokopia
- AMD is apparently cutting off Ryzen Z1 Extreme handhelds from driver updates, and I can't help but blame the Xbox Ally
- Evangelion 30th anniversary short reveals Asuka and Shinji get together, but Studio Khara threatens "legal action" to anyone who shares it
- Final girl Neve Campbell shares her favourite moment from the first Scream movie, and her reaction to finding out the OG cast would return for Scream 7: "I was crying"
- Scream writer had a totally different plan for the franchise before Ready or Not directors took over for Scream 5 and 6 – and Emma Roberts' character Jill would have played a big part
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 only costs $50 as the J'RPG's publisher prices games "lower" than what they're worth so players feel like "we are respectful of their money"
- Garden Horizons codes (February 2026) for free Shillings and Seeds
- After working on a "AAA open-world" for 5 years, Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag director's studio reportedly shut down by Tencent without releasing a single game
- Arc Raiders cheaters are now spawning their own hatches to escape death, and players are once again begging Embark to punish cheating more: "The fact people can do this is insane"
- Neve Campbell reflects on 30 years of Scream and why that first movie became a genre classic: "I think there was a lull in horror films"
- Bandai Namco may have accidentally confirmed its mysterious new Dragon Ball game was actually Xenoverse 3 all along as it namedrops the sequel in a YouTube playlist
- Resident Evil Requiem leakers "deserve to die ten thousand deaths," former series director Hideki Kamiya says: "I pray they are cursed to never play the game again"
- Overwatch player peaks have only grown since Season 1's launch weekend and show no signs of stopping as hype for the revived FPS continues: "We're so back"
- James Gunn says the DCU's upcoming Wonder Woman project is "definitely not" cancelled
- A new Neon Genesis Evangelion series is in the works with the perfect writer: Nier Automata's Yoko Taro
- The Super Mario Galaxy Movie plot may have just been spoiled by a cinema chain, possibly revealing the sequel's true antagonist
- Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition saddens JRPG fans with "really disappointing" Switch 2 upgrade that's "worse than the Wii U version" – and Nintendo is apparently offering refunds in turn
- A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms showrunner teases Dunk and Egg's travels to Dorne in season 2 and says your faves from season 1 could still return
- Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle 2 confirmed to skip 2026, to the surprise of no one
- A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms season 1 ending explained: what happens to Dunk and Egg? Will there be a season 2?
- A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms season 2: Everything we know about the Game of Thrones show
- A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is no Game of Thrones, but that's what makes it special
- A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms episode 6: Is there a post-credits scene?
- February 22
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- Forget Animal Crossing, my favorite life sim of 2026 is tucked inside a controversial remake
- In the best thing Overwatch has brought to the world in years, fans flood the internet with edits of their own pets cosplaying as Jetpack Cat
- WoW Midnight's Prey system is a "don't AFK mode" on its nastiest difficulty, says Blizzard dev who was "surprised" to learn "players really liked being ambushed"
- $1 million in debt, devs on handheld Tony Hawk's Pro Skater saved the company by pitching "fake" screenshots that forced them to turn the GBA into a 3D gaming machine: "Nobody could believe it"
- Arc Raiders lead says "revisions are probably required" on uneven events like Locked Gate and Hidden Bunker, which have just become a camper's dream
- Nature is healing: After Smash Bros and Fortnite nerfed him, Rainbow Six Siege has finally given Solid Snake a bigger butt in line with Hideo Kojima's intention
- Daredevil: Born Again season 2 will introduce a Karen Page "you haven't seen before", says showrunner: "In my mind, she's never been a sidekick"
- The Witcher 1's infamous sex cards rarely ever matched because a colorblind CD Projekt Red dev was too shy to tell anyone, former lead says
- Arc Raiders players predictably tried to rig matchmaking by lying in post-match surveys, but Embark says those don't do a darn thing: "We get really weird graphs that don't match up with what we're seeing"
- Slay the Spire 2 scares another roguelike deckbuilder to delay as devs don't want to be "instantly buried under a legendary sequel" that "everyone will be playing"
- Desperate for more Viltrumites in Invincible season 4? Creator Robert Kirkman says you'll be "very happy" with the new batch of episodes
- Daredevil: Born Again will "let rip" in season 2 in a way they "might not have been able to" in the divisive first season
- Blizzard is already nerfing Overwatch's Jetpack Cat as the hero continues to suffer from constant bans: "She can be very, very lethal"
- Ready or Not directors say they'll make more of the horror franchise "until they tell us to stop"
- February 21
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- One Piece co-showrunner teases "heartbreaking" season 2 finale as he reveals exactly where the new chapter will take us up to in the manga's Arabasta Saga
- Daredevil: Born Again showrunner has "mixed feelings" about season 2's timely political focus and says he prefers the show being "a little more street level"
- Xbox president Sarah Bond speaks out after news of her Xbox departure: "I’ve decided this is the right time for me to take my next step, both personally and professionally"
- Ready or Not 2 directors say they feel more pressure with this horror sequel than they did with Scream: "That franchise very clearly is what it is"
- This Pokemon Tamagotchi-style toy lets you pet Pikachu, and I need it to release outside of Japan
- Arc Raiders devs love the self-described sheriffs of PvP, even if they do kill the wrong people sometimes: "Those are some of the better moments"
- Balatro's long-awaited 1.1 update is still in the works, LocalThunk says: "Last night I stayed up until the early hours of the morning"
- Helldivers 2 players fail the game's "biggest" battle ever as the Cyborgs repel Super Earth's attack on Cyberstan and prepare for an "unjust counter-offensive"
- One Piece co-showrunner says he was "most excited" about introducing the manga's "Tarantino-style Kill Bill" villains in season 2: "They don't just do bad, they look good"
- Demon Slayer studio finally shows off its Genshin Impact anime after 3 years of silence, alongside a tease for JRPG Tales of
- OLED gaming laptops prices are falling fast, but these two machines offer the best value right now
- Daredevil: Born Again showrunner weighs in on the show ever crossing over with the wider MCU: "Those guys are uptown, we're downtown!"
- The Ossiarch Bonereapers were my least favorite Warhammer army until the new models, and now my head's been turned
- Robert Kirkman opens up on Invincible season 4's show-original Hell storyline – and why it will shape future seasons
- The Bethesda game Todd Howard is most proud of isn't Skyrim or Fallout 4, it's Fallout 76, even though he admits "it didn't launch great"
- Xbox's new chief content officer Matt Booty says "there are no organizational changes underway" following abrupt leadership shakeup, which seems like a businessy way of saying no one's been canned
- This week's Prime Video top 10 shows and 3 you need on your watchlist right now (February 21–22)
- February 20
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- Monster Hunter Stories 3 will take 30-50 hours to finish the main story, and the JRPG's devs want you to "feel satisfied" with the plot instead of just dragging you straight to the endgame
- It's about to be easier than ever to start reading Jujutsu Kaisen with a complete box set of all 30 manga volumes coming this year
- "I can't type as fast as you're funding": Solo dev buried in over $250,000 learns there's a huge appetite for deep open-world RPGs inspired by early '00s classics like Gothic, Fable, and the anime Berserk
- New Xbox CEO, a former Meta and Instacart exec brought in from Microsoft's AI division, says "we will not chase short-term efficiency or flood our ecosystem with soulless AI slop"
- Fallout TV show almost went to New Vegas in season 1, until Todd Howard said "there’s a million ways to f**k that up" as "it can be a bit of a minefield"
- Todd Howard says The Elder Scrolls 6 launch is "a while" off, so fans are doing the rational thing and looking for body language experts to analyze his face when he says that
- Xbox boss Phil Spencer is leaving, and a Microsoft AI exec is taking over with president Sarah Bond also resigning
- If you want to keep some blueprints in Arc Raiders after each Expedition, the devs have good news and bad news: it's not "off the table," but it is "tricky" to do
- League of Legends threatens a new circle of MOBA hell with public voice chat, and I'm already worried for my fellow junglers
- EA invents new microtransaction nightmare as it breaks paywall promise on Skate: rent a playable area for 24 hours or buy a premium pass, bucko
- 3 new to Prime Video movies you should watch this weekend (February 21–22)
- Trails boss tells players intimidated by nearly 1,000 hours of JRPG catch-up to "just start with whichever title catches your interest," which is true if you're also willing to start One Piece at episode 1,155
- It took 25 years for Diablo 2 to get a new class, and less than 2 weeks for players to figure out how to become invincible Warlocks with demon meat shields
- Pokemon Go codes (February 2026) for free Outfits and Timed Research Quests
- Rayman remaster is just "the first step in the brand's comeback" says Ubisoft boss, who says "we're looking forward to talking more" about the series "soon"
- Solo dev who worked "80 hours a week for 8 years straight" to finish roguelike puzzle hit Blue Prince says he "physically" cannot make another game this "ambitious"
- The ultimate Pokemon Day starter pack, celebrate the 30th Anniversary in style
- Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die got me in the mood for more wacky, time-travelling fun, and these 6 sci-fi comedies perfectly fit the bill
- After cutting down World of Warcraft classes, Blizzard "heard loud and clear from players that it was not what they were looking for," so it has already walked back some changes
- The Gametank just smashed its crowdfunding goals, and I'm thrilled at the idea of a new 8-bit retro console in the big 26
- Ubisoft CEO admits the company spun up "too many projects" which are now widely canceled in the fallout from bad bets during Covid
- Baldur's Gate 3 marketing lead hands Sony some advice after its live-service fails, saying "pretty much every game" is effectively multiplayer now: "Every experience is a shared experience"
- "Are you serious?": Dev claims Sony lawyers killed their Bloodborne ARPG, and now they're extra devastated with hopes for a Bluepoint remake crushed by its closure
- Blizzard pleads with World of Warcraft fans not to judge the removal of combat mods too early, because Midnight was designed with it in mind: "We changed some of how we build encounters"
- I finally found wireless earbuds that fix the Meta Quest 3's latency issues, and they don't sound half bad either
- Steam Machine delays are getting me down, but Valve could be extremely cool and release its controller right now
- Highly anticipated Witch Hat Atelier anime adaptation unveils new trailer as fans give early praise: "The 'Anime of the Year' vibes here are strong"
- Tell Heisenberg I want him to know it was me: Breaking Bad masterpiece Ozymandias loses 10/10 IMDb score – thanks to salty Game of Thrones fans
- With almost 13 million viewers per episode, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is on track to be HBO Max's third-biggest TV debut ever
- "Please don't," says a teary-eyed Capcom as Resident Evil Requiem spoilers breach containment: "Our legal department will continue to issue takedowns"
- "Several" Assassin's Creed single-player and multiplayer games to come, Ubisoft promises, plus more Far Cry amid further "restructuring across the company"
- Pokemon lead gets "nostalgic" about FireRed and LeafGreen, remembers being "absolutely thrilled" by its advancements in wireless multiplayer: "Now that's the power of science!"
- Not only does this postal roguelite somehow make cockroaches cute, but it also turns every parcel into a puzzle
- Egyptian God of War rumors rekindled as dataminer seemingly uncovers cut Ragnarok dialogue: "Just like the beginning of Ragnarok was hidden in the 2018 files"
- It's not a full-scale replica, but the F4F Hylian Shield now takes center stage in my Zelda collection
- Rocket League codes (February 2026) for free Boosts, Titles, and more
- Arc Raiders fans suspect the new Arc from the roadmap is hiding in plain sight in the Shrouded Sky teaser: "If it’s a Boston Dynamics dog Arc then I’m soooo stoked!"
- Scream 7 star Neve Campbell says the sequel is a "full circle" moment for Sidney, who is protecting her daughter 30 years after the killer murdered her mother
- Daniel Radcliffe was once pitched a Wizard of Oz remake alongside his Harry Potter co-stars – playing a karate-kicking Cowardly Lion
- Blizzard tightens its grip on Overwatch's revived fanbase, slips more lootboxes and bonus XP into players' hands as a thanks "for a warm reception to Season 1"
- Stop Killing Games optimism is at an all-time high as 2 official organizations are established to take part in "long-term counter lobbying": "We're going to win this"
- "I think it's going to be the next big thing": As Marathon's launch looms, will Arc Raiders' success help or hurt Bungie?
- Barbarian star's new slasher horror called "abysmally dull" and "a nothing burger of a movie" in scathing first reviews
- 3 new to Netflix movies I recommend you watch this weekend (Feb 21–Feb 22)
- I didn't expect obscure level pack Rayman Designer to be my biggest nostalgia trip of the year, but it's become the highlight of this anniversary collection for me
- In a RAM-pocalypse world, even external HDDs aren't safe
- These five essential board games are perfect for cheering up rainy days, so check them out if the weather's getting you down
- Starfield seamless space travel hopium is at a new high as Bethesda boss Todd Howard teases "using outer space and things in ways that we haven't" in future updates
- "Razer's most ambitious keyboard to date" costs how much? This super limited drop would bankrupt me if I let it
- The Pocket Super Knob 5000 sounds rude, but I promise it's a new gaming handheld
- Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen are skipping Switch Online because Nintendo "thought it would be fun," but the steep price has fans divided: "$20 is ABSOLUTELY disgusting for GBA ports"
- Scream 3 star hints at how his dead villain might return in Scream 7: "There's a legit reason behind his appearance"
- It: Chapter Two star reteaming with his Barry collaborator for new original horror about a divorced dad
- Nier Automata "to be continued," Square Enix says, giving stunned fans some hope as the Yoko Taro-led JRPG flies past 10 million copies sold
- Best Scream movies: All 6 slashers ranked, from worst to best
- Pixar confirms which actors have taken over the voice of Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head in Toy Story 5 after original stars passed
- Pokemon acquires US trading card game distributor, so our stock woes could be about to change
- Netflix and Take-Two are "very anxious" for the BioShock movie to coincide with the release of "potential new incarnations of the game"
- Arc Raiders lead dispels conspiracy theory that the robots are somehow learning how to kill us better: "That's just us in the way we author them"
- Resident Evil Requiem's 'Terrifying Nightmare Set' sells out in under 5 hours and includes every gamer's biggest fear: exercise equipment
- "Devastating": Game devs send outpouring of love to Sony's latest closed PlayStation studio Bluepoint, saying "the sheer amount of institutional knowledge lost is quite literally staggering"
- Wuthering Heights is the first movie of 2026 to pass the $100 million mark at the box office
- Can you guess the Legend of Zelda game from a single screenshot?
- Braniac star says it's a "true miracle" that he was cast in Superman sequel Man of Tomorrow
- Battlefield 6 lead knows fans "want more maps," but we won't be getting them any faster in order to preserve quality: "There are worlds in which we release hundreds of maps, but they're not fun"
- A Minecraft Movie 2 producer drops the biggest hint yet that the Ender Dragon will appear in the sequel: "That's what a lot of the requests have been"
- 10 years after Rogue One was released, the Star Wars movie is getting a series of prequel comics – including a new Andor story
- I played Zelda Breath of the Wild on Virtual Boy so you don't have to, and Calamity Ganon was the least of my worries
- Zach Cregger's $80 million Resident Evil movie is going to be a "roller coaster ride of nonstop action"
- Arc Raiders Hurricane map condition explained
- Overwatch fans think a RuPaul's Drag Race winner and Doctor Who star is teasing another new hero: "I'm immediately maining them"
- The Witcher 3's best ending is the one where "everybody lives happily ever after," says Geralt actor – and he got it in his only-ever playthrough: "I didn't know the choices that would lead me there"
- Winter Olympics gold medal winner Alysa Liu proves her anime street cred by listing her five favorite shows including Jujutsu Kaisen and Chainsaw Man
- A week before Pokemon Day, FireRed and LeafGreen get a surprise reveal for Nintendo Switch, and they'll be launching next week on the series' anniversary
- Dev accused of stealing Spyro the Dragon-inspired platformer, recoloring it, and selling it on the Nintendo eShop for $15 with AI-generated art: "Wonder if they'd give me a free key"
- 3 new to Netflix shows I recommend you binge-watch this weekend (Feb 21-Feb 22)
- February 19
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- The Witcher 3's best romance is Shani, Geralt actor says, and Yen is "more like a naggy mom," but her and Triss are both "absolutely stonkin' ladies"
- Luke Cage actor Mike Colter says it would "be a shame" if he didn't return to the MCU in Daredevil: Born Again alongside Jessica Jones
- I could've used this Super Mario 64 secret 30 years ago, and it's blowing my mind now: all you need is exactly 11 button mashes to escape King Bob-omb
- The shooter so brutal that under 1,500 people have survived it for over 8 minutes is getting a sequel 10 years later, as dev casually announces Devil Daggers 2
- Mewgenics players hated a tutorial boss fight move that instantly did 50 damage, so the roguelike's creators helpfully increased that number to 999: "Fixed the problem entirely"
- I wasn't expecting Alien vibes from the Life is Strange dev's new sci-fi adventure: "We intend the Nemesis to be difficult"
- Thor has "nowhere to go but down" as Dario Agger the Minotaur returns to kill him in The Mortal Thor #11
- Forgive my laughter, I can't believe the $1,000 ROG Xbox Ally X is getting a price hike, even if it is only in Japan for now
- "The ultimate sign of respect": Path of Exile co-creator says Blizzard locking Diablo 2's base game updates to paid Warlock DLC isn't about "selling copies," it's "about preserving a museum piece"
- Slay the Spire 2 Steam early access release date set for March 5 as the king of roguelike deckbuilders returns to its throne
- Splinter Cell remake still happening, Ubisoft insists as it lays off 40 developers at the studio developing it
- God of War reboot actor Christopher Judge reiterates he has "zero involvement" with remake trilogy, teases "other projects" after fans convince themselves there's a Ragnarok sequel
- Sony shuts down Demon's Souls remake dev Bluepoint after cancelling its God of War multiplayer project
- "Racing is in the DNA of Star Wars": Galactic Racer makes more sense for the Star Wars universe than Palpatine somehow returning ever did
- After a year of bad reviews, Monster Hunter Wilds claws its way to 50% positive on Steam after a big performance patch finally moves the needle
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (February 20-22)
- It looks like Arc Raiders is finally adding beards in the Shrouded Sky update, plus a hurricane map condition that eats your shield and sends your grenades flying
- As Todd Howard distances The Elder Scrolls 6's "classic style" from Starfield and Fallout 76, it seems Bethesda has learned all the right lessons
- Time Takers has one of the most interesting setups I've seen in a shooter, and it's about to open its doors for the first time
- It was niche and nearly forgotten, but horror fans begged devs for a Fatal Frame 2 remake and got it: "Responding to those voices was the main reason behind this project"
- The NSO N64 controller isn't the most authentic option, but its made me feel like a kid again in the best possible way
- XCOM boss's new studio evidently shutting down without releasing a game: Jake Solomon shares AI-powered build of The Sims meets The Truman Show "before we close the doors"
- Buzz, Woody, Jesse and the gang are in trouble as big tech invades the toy room in Toy Story 5
- "Very important findings": Much like Baldur's Gate 3, Larian knows you have been watching Divinity's "sexy times" on repeat
- Former Street Fighter and Mega Man producer spends $500,000 "per account" on his own game to "make sure the biggest spenders don't feel dissatisfied"
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons update ensures Timmy and Tommy never let you out of their sight again while Resetti can no longer clone your fences
- Avowed's new playable races are missing "unique dialogue choices" because Obsidian simply didn't have any "dedicated narrative people available"
- Demon Tides review: "Super Mario Odyssey and Wind Waker collide in this expressive 3D platformer that's already one of my games of the year"
- Paranormasight: The Mermaid's Curse is a horror adventure, so I of course spent several hours diving for lobster instead
- Blizzard made "a strategic mistake" releasing Diablo 2's Reign of the Warlock without "substantial new exploration content," Path of Exile co-creator says
- Avowed's anniversary update loosens the "strict and punishing" upgrade system that Obsidian was "surprised" fans bounced off, but director warns the haters that the RPG hasn't "fundamentally changed"
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- Escape from Tarkov codes (February 2026) for weapons, supplies, Roubles, and more
- First House of the Dragon season 3 trailer teases the Battle of the Gullet and heartbreaking drama, as the Targaryen civil war heats up
- The Witcher 3 may have one of the best quests in RPG history, but it drove Geralt actor Doug Cockle completely "bonkers": "I hated running up and down that hill"
- New Tron: Ares concept art shows Cillian Murphy suited up as Sark, with artist admitting it was to "lure him to the production to reprise his role"
- Overwatch's evil faction suffers a huge blow in a new Helldivers 2-style event, and it's all thanks to the Jetpack Cat cosmetics tempting everyone to switch sides
- The Duskbloods hopium is out in full force as FromSoftware fans spot ad for the action RPG online following the emergence of a new eShop listing: "New trailer soon?"
- Arc Raiders players are killing Queens and Matriarchs way too fast, devs admit, because it's "not intended" for entire lobbies to dogpile them
- A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms showrunner says The Sworn Sword is his favorite Dunk and Egg Novella, which bodes very well for season 2: "It feels nice to see it slowly come together"
- As the Wii U's most underrated JRPG Xenoblade Chronicles X becomes the first in the series to get a Switch 2 Edition, fans are begging for the main trilogy to get the same treatment: "MY LIFE IS YOURS"
- Highguard drama prompts Palworld lead to confirm that, no, the hit survival game has no secret investors: "We are 100% independent and self-funded"
- Pokemon Emerald speedrunning has been changed forever after the discovery of a very specific, lonely Mudkip that was fittingly overlooked for 21 years until it earned one player a new world record
- Monster Hunter Wilds Switch 2 port seems more real than ever, as fans discover what might be the most solid evidence Capcom's action RPG is coming to the Nintendo console yet
- As Fallout 3 and New Vegas remake hopes and rumors persist, Bethesda's Todd Howard says he's actually "anti-remake" and prefers remasters like Oblivion's instead
- Frozen star Josh Gad says Ryan Gosling sci-fi movie Project Hail Mary is the "first masterpiece" of 2026: "I don't know how the hell they did it"
- Did Yakuza just turn this fan favorite villain into Aerith, creating a Final Fantasy 7 Remake situation for its Kiwami re-releases?
- Lego Batman himself joins Baldur's Gate 3 and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 star for the Future Games Show Spring Showcase
- Yellowjackets star says they want to "stay true to the first season" with the final episodes: "We all feel a lot of responsibility"
- The Meta Quest 3 is getting an official VR treadmill accessory, which costs ~$2,000 more than the headset itself
- Building the ultimate Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary setup
- I am a Hatsune Miku gaming headset connoisseur, and I need these Yowu cups in my life
- How to set up the Virtual Boy for Switch 2 and relive the cursed retro console in seconds
- Ghostface is back in a big way: Scream 7 is set to debut to a franchise-best opening weekend as presales show no sign of slowing down
- Glen Powell's new crime thriller movie How to Make a Killing debuts to disappointing Rotten Tomatoes score
- Super Mario is "who I want to be as a man," says legendary voice actor Charles Martinet: "Kind, passionate, always optimistic"
- Predator: Badlands has bested its predecessor Prey by becoming the most-watched movie premiere on Hulu ever
- After Highguard fans feared the worst when its website randomly went down, Apex Legends and Titanfall vets prove it's not totally dead yet as the FPS gets a new map with another mode on the way
- Jason Segel and Samara Weaving are a murder-obsessed married couple in unhinged first trailer for Over Your Dead Body
- Excuse the pun, but this Fallout RPG bundle is RADically good and will save you a (Mega)ton
- God of War fans will be "hearing about what we're doing probably late summer," Kratos actor Christopher Judge teases in comments I can't imagine Sony being thrilled about
- Crimson Desert skills and abilities explained
- Abxylute's new Switch 2 deck-style N6 and N9C controllers are here, and GameCube fans are in for a treat
- Game of Thrones stars Kit Harington and Sophie Turner share hilarious romantic moment gone wrong in new behind the scenes footage from their new horror movie
- The Mandalorian and Grogu's deep cut Clone Wars bounty hunter has a bizarre link to Dave Filoni and a French Smurfs book
- The AI boom is "certainly not a fad," Elder Scrolls and Fallout boss Todd Howard says, but Bethesda is "being incredibly cautious" and isn't using it to "generate anything"
- As Sony wins bidding war, Brie Larson's creature feature drops an intriguing new plot detail – and now we're itching to find out more
- 17 years after the original medical comedy series came to an end, the Scrubs revival debuts to mixed reviews from critics
- After "2 and a half years of free work" Steven Soderbergh says he is "very disappointed" by the decision to cancel The Hunt for Ben Solo
- Arc Raiders "needs that element of tension and risk" from PvP to work, dev says, even though Embark knows people are loving its "safer lobbies"
- Stardew Valley patch finally stops unruly Switch 2 port from stealing precious inventory items while crafting, and makes the farming sim "obey" parental controls when you join GameShare
- Destiny 2's big Shadow and Order update is officially delayed more than 3 months as it gets "large revisions" and a new name
- February 18
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- "This is the culmination of over a decade of work": Nintendo's forgotten Mario Kart game is finally playable again 21 years later as the best GameCube emulator gets even better
- 1 week after Diablo 2 got its first new class in 25 years, the playerbase is already fractured on whether it's perfectly OP or "completely unacceptable"
- Nintendo Treehouse product team makes game developers "terrified" because they don't "give a s***" about anything other than how a game plays: "They were like these alien gods"
- "It is not Starfield 2.0": Todd Howard says the RPG's big update is for the people who already love it, and if you "found it boring in places, I don't think this is gonna change that fundamentally"
- Frozen star to voice Amy Rose in Sonic The Hedgehog 4
- George R. R Martin announces Game of Thrones stage play The Mad King based on the "final years before the events of the novels"
- Armored Core 6 is an otome game if you squint at the mecha in the right light and admit he's handsome, Japanese fans of the FromSoftware game decide: "Yeah, I get it"
- Todd Howard says Elder Scrolls 6 is a return to "classic" Bethesda RPGs like Skyrim, Oblivion, and Fallout 4 after the "creative detour" the studio took with Fallout 76 and Starfield: "We do have a certain style that we like"
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day official synopsis confirms a 4-year time jump and teases a story where Peter Parker faces "repercussions of his past"
- 15 years on, From Up on Poppy Hill confirms my Studio Ghibli hot take: its slice-of-life movies are better than its fantasy epics
- Konami seemingly confirms Silent Hill Townfall will be a PlayStation console exclusive at launch
- After 22 years and 984 hours of JRPG adventures, the Trails series is finally "close to its conclusion," which is why the studio "needed to properly remake" the originals for new players
- Ori studio's new action RPG No Rest for the Wicked may be coming to Switch 2, judging by a since-deleted video from the creative director showing off the game running on Nintendo's console
- New Lee Cronin's The Mummy trailer looks more Pet Sematary and Evil Dead than Universal Monsters movie, and I'm not *not* into it
- Rogue Piece codes (February 2026) for gems, potions, rerolls, and more
- How to equip a Battlefield 6 gas mask
- Let the House of the Dragon hype commence as HBO teases first trailer alongside season 3's release month
- Is Crimson Desert multiplayer or singleplayer?
- After a Super Bowl misstep, the latest Mandalorian and Grogu trailer proves the film will be worth the 7-year wait for Star Wars to return to the big screen
- Nintendo always knows just what to say – after unofficial Pokemon TCG store was robbed of $100,000 at gunpoint, the publisher reached out with copyright "concerns"
- 13 years ago, Wolverine actor Hugh Jackman predicted the ultimate superhero team-up that takes place in Avengers: Doomsday: "Maybe I'm optimistic"
- Deadlock nerfs Apollo in new update, but fans want Valve to pay more attention to another "menace" hero instead: "Why does Celeste get to exist in her current state?"
- This 256GB Switch 2 SD card is cheaper than the official Nintendo model, just in time for Pokemon Pokopia
- Lego Snoopy is perfect, and I dare you to say it isn't
- New Clair Obscur Expedition 33 photo mode had some “unexpected” issues during development, like deforming Gustave’s head and other “things we don’t want to show”
- "Smol" - NZXT enters the small-form-factor world with a new H2 Flow ITX gaming PC case that takes the fight to Corsair
- All Crimson Desert weapons revealed so far
- Arc Raiders streamer who helped popularize notorious dupe exploit says "oopsies" after getting off with a light warning, leaving fans to question if Embark is serious about fair play
- "Your goldfish has been executed": Helldivers 2 support staff apparently don't take kindly to requests to join the Cyborgs, noting the "dissidence" against Super Earth
- Plane sequel reportedly cancelled after star Gerard Butler decided "last minute" that he "didn't want to go forward with it"
- "You did it, we did it": Anime girl horror game with wrestling finishers finally gets Steam release date as Valve caves after ghosting indie dev who made it
- A Witcher dev accidentally sent one of the RPG's most important characters to the shadow realm, and a tester had to play the entire game again to save him
- This musical turn-based RPG hits all the right chords, and you can play the free Steam demo right now
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is scratching my Knight of the Seven Kingdoms itch
- Roguelike legend doesn’t know what consoles are even "viable" for his viral cat-breeding game Mewgenics, but Nintendo Switch 2 "seems like the front runner"
- Determined not to lose the Overwatch players it just won back, Blizzard turns on the free loot tap as server issues plague the hero shooter’s big return event
- How to record gameplay on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X, and Switch/Switch 2 to save your highlights
- OG The Witcher lead thinks the Wild Hunt "will probably need to be changed" for the RPG's new remake because they were originally seen as wraiths – not "elves in armor"
- Discord competitor experiencing "incredible surge of new users" following the leading chat platform's controversial age verification announcement: "Hosting capacity has been reached in many regions"
- Resident Evil Requiem is pushing me to buy an amiibo I don't need for a console I don't own, but its only alternative costs $300
- After 4 years of no Luke Skywalker, Star Wars fans are plotting ways in which he can return to the franchise
- This Bloodborne-style board game is one of the best boss battlers I've ever played, hands-down
- RAM shortages explained: Why the world's supply of computing memory is so expensive right now
- No Man's Sky's latest patch fixes a bug that's in the top 2 hardest issues the devs have ever had to solve in the survival game: "Apologies this one got through"
- Hideo Kojima can't help but flex his famous friends as he shares Metal Gear Solid 3 collector's edition book featuring "legendary" contributors like Guillermo del Toro: "The energy we had was incredible"
- The Virtual Boy is officially back, but I've got bad news for those of you without the new Switch 2 goggles
- A new animated steampunk Western show is coming to Netflix from the studio behind X-Men '97
- These £17 fairy lights were all I needed to transform this Ikea bookshelf into my dream Zelda shrine
- R-rated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie isn't "off the table", says franchise co-creator: "I think it will happen"
- Battlefield 6 Season 2 delay "broke that pace" of the FPS' "smooth launch," lead dev admits, but hopes the update will be "the foundation going forward"
- Barbarian star hunts down her husband's killer in new Psycho killer clip, and it reminds me of the basement scene in The Silence of the Lambs
- Bethesda turns Skyrim's rough Switch 2 launch around with an update that quietly adds 60fps mode, leaving fans on the floor: "I wanna cry, it's beautiful"
- Daniel Radcliffe doesn't want the new Harry Potter actors to always be asked about him, Emma Watson, or Rupert Grint: "I would like not to be some weird spectral phantom"
- New God of War game Sons of Sparta's early Metacritic score places it as the worst in the series, with even the divisive Ascension over 10 points higher
- Even Chris Hemsworth thinks that they "took the piss" with how goofy Thor: Love and Thunder was: "We were just trying something different"
- Mario fans are trying to work out who the mysterious character is in the new Super Mario Galaxy teaser: "Is that Fox?"
- Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined convinces Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi to do the unthinkable and drop FF14, at least for now: "Somehow I eventually cracked"
- Fans are realizing the Scream 7 timeline makes no sense, as the film introduces Sidney's grown-up daughter
- Netflix joins the fight against Seedance 2.0, with the streamer targeting AI-generated Stranger Things and Kpop Demon Hunters videos: "[We] will not stand by and watch ByteDance treat our valued IP as free, public domain clip art"
- Arc Raiders' February update gets a release date as players brace themselves for a new map condition, Arc threat, and more when Shrouded Sky launches next week
- Your fave might die in The Boys season 5 as Karl Urban confirms there are "fatalities right from the get-go" and "nobody is safe"
- Arc Raiders Shrouded Sky update and new content
- "Bet you thought you'd seen the last of these": New Baldur's Gate 3 update comes 10 months after Larian's "final" Patch 8 for the D&D RPG, with fixes in tow
- "That is extremely stupid design": The Witcher 1 story lead, frustrated playing the epilogue he largely designed, says "I got only myself to blame for everything that's happening here"
- Blizzard drops Overwatch Jetpack Cat lore and everyone agrees there's something fishy with that feline: "No regular cat would be able to coordinate and operate machinery like that"
- February 17
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- Netflix's live-action Scooby Doo prequel finds its Daphne in Ghostbusters and Five Nights at Freddy's star
- Resident Evil Requiem spoilers are apparently here 10 days ahead of launch, so prepare accordingly
- Fallout's Walton Goggins to star in John Wick-style thriller alongside Kick-Ass actor
- Highguard was reportedly secretly funded by Tencent, and if that kind of backer can't offer more than two weeks of life I don't know what hope a multiplayer FPS has in 2026
- Streamer who beat Elden Ring with her mind creates a device that controls her movement in real life, immediately regrets it: "I don't condone that behavior. It's incredibly dangerous and I'm not liable"
- True Japanese horror games avoid "jump scares and graphic violence," Fatal Frame 2 directors say, because they respect that "frightening things can be beautiful"
- Chris Hemsworth says Thor might return after Avengers: Doomsday, and that he and Marvel boss Kevin Feige have some "pretty unique" ideas about the God of Thunder's future
- LittleBigPlanet lead working on OG Fable boss Peter Molyneux's new god game finds cozy games "incredibly boring," and they're so much "nicer" with a dash of "extreme violence"
- KPop Demon Hunters star auditioned with a "cheap $40 mic" and begged her manager to remove a challenging high note in Golden: "Tell them Rei cannot hit this note"
- "What else are we going to do, another f***ing platformer?": Mewgenics took 15 years to dominate Steam, but its secret sauce was cooked up in just 2 weeks
- After directing 29 films across nearly 60 years, legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese finally joins the Star Wars universe as a four-armed monkey creature in The Mandalorian and Grogu
- Ahead of The Witcher 1 remake, OG RPG story lead reveals that ending cutscene was created not "really involving the story team," which was "a mistake"
- I was skeptical about MTG Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but a surprising connection to the arcade games may have won me over
- I have 100 different ways to play The Legend of Zelda, but I'm still using the Game and Watch ahead of the 40th anniversary
- I revisited Avowed on PS5 for the anniversary update, and after 20 hours I'm convinced there's never been a better time to play the RPG
- $8,000 is on the line for the Super Mario 64 speedrunner who can bring the "dead" game back to life, but so far the only world records come from the guy who killed it in the first place: "If only I was eligible to claim my own bounty"
- There's a moving tribute to Carl Weathers in the new Mandalorian and Grogu trailer, but you've got to be familiar with Aurebesh to read it
- After 23 years, WWE SmackDown Here Comes the Pain's hellishly obscure story mode is getting the guide it should've had from the start thanks to one dedicated fan: "Better late than never"
- Superstar Baseball codes (February 2026) for free spins and coins
- Devs failing to make games with AI won't stop flooding the Godot game engine with slop requests, and its project manager has had enough: "Does the 'author' understand the code they're sending?"
- Blizzard "looking at" giving World of Warcraft's older races the customization overhauls they deserve, but it's not happening "soon"
- This Oblivion Remastered player has spent 300 days following an Imperial Palace Guard in the RPG "until I can loot his armor" – and they've only just seen his face
- New on Netflix in March 2026: all the latest movies and shows streaming this month
- Proving the universe has favorites, Pokemon Blue player accidentally catches a shiny legendary they couldn't even see: "Actually in disbelief"
- Predator: Badlands director reveals that there was a Xenomorph cameo in the original draft of the script
- Dune: Awakening player proves you can overcome the survival MMO's tricky new testing stations solo – and completely naked: "It is 100% doable"
- The Witcher 1 lead story designer completes his first playthrough of the classic RPG in "almost 20 years," and the commentary is a must watch ahead of the remake
- Battlefield 6 devs hear your cries for bigger maps "very loudly," but they'll "need some more time"
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- Game of Thrones creator George R. R. Martin says that surprise death in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms episode 5 is one of the most "significant" events in Westeros history
- New Mandalorian and Grogu trailer brings a Clone Wars bounty hunter to live-action for the first time
- Iron Lung's box-office success "is a win for YouTubers", says Markiplier: "The more this happens, the more normalised it becomes"
- "Both gameplay and the economy suffers": Arc Raiders devs commit to suspending dupe exploit users, among other "enforcement actions" for the shooter’s first cheat "at such scale"
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 director says PC is the "highest-end gaming environment" and the "foundation" for the new JRPG's development, while the PS5 Pro is just "mid-range"
- To hell with Furby and Butt Face, these Yoshi and Pikachu animatronics were the best thing about New York Toy Fair
- New God of War game Sons of Sparta was originally going to be set "a little bit closer" to the classic Greek saga, but the devs thought Kratos as a kid "resonates" more with the franchise
- A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms showrunner says it was "probably George R.R. Martin's preference" for the Game of Thrones spin-off to be a 2-hour movie rather than a 6-episode HBO show
- As God of War Sons of Sparta comes under fire, fans say "PlayStation would benefit a lot from more games like this" instead of massive budget AAA games with "countable nose hairs"
- New Silksong update brings "game-changing" tweak to Silk Soar, and fans of the Hollow Knight sequel can't quite believe it: "Wait, this isn't a really good Silkpost?"
- Pedro Pascal is unmasked and back in gunslinging action in new Mandalorian and Grogu trailer
- The best toys in 2026, from Pikachu animatronics to Furby and beyond
- Revealing a 3D Mario game too early would be "dangerous," former Nintendo marketing leads say: "Think about Metroid Prime 4"
- Iron Lung director and star Markiplier says he isn't rushing into another project, but next time he doesn't need to star in his own movie
- The Night Agent showrunner says keeping the Netflix hit on an annual schedule is not difficult – because he once made 44 episodes in a year
- Newly released deleted footage from 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple adds a whole new layer to Jack O'Connell's Jimmy Crystal
- Pokemon Pokopia follows Minecraft's lead in featuring persistent private servers with unlimited member caps, but you'll have to "swap in and out" as it only accommodates four at once
- Fallout season 2 star Justin Theroux says he'd be "happy" if Mr. House "got left in the Vault" but also wants to see "what made House House" in future seasons
- Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol. 2's included games disappear from storefronts without warning, days after Konami's reveal of the re-release
- This new Switch 2 accessory lets you play both Joy-Cons with one hand, and it's a win for accessibility
- I have made it my life's mission to get this Legend of Zelda toy, because it is truly magnificent
- From the new John Wick game to 007 First Light, the age of PS2-style film adaptations is upon us once more
- As Battlefield 6 loses more ground to Arc Raiders after Season 2 delay, lead says devs have "taken a lot of different steps" to prevent more holdups: "We need to make sure those hit as expected"
- Hulu has decided to end one of its most popular shows at its peak, and I think other studios could learn a thing or two from that
- Dwayne Johnson shares a new behind-the-scenes look at Jumanji 3 and tribute to Danny DeVito as his co-star wraps filming: "Please keep smilin’ and please keep exfoliating the top of your head"
- Arc Raiders' Shrouded Sky update arrives next week, Embark confirms, but there will be "no major game update" this week to tide you over until then
- Mike Flanagan's next Stephen King adaptation Carrie is reportedly coming this Halloween season, star reveals
- Horror visionary Zach Cregger is being given "carte blanche" for his Resident Evil movie: "We are creating something new"
- Death Stranding 2 lead says "no engine is the best choice," but Kojima Productions gambled on Horizon studio's "less immediately approachable" Decima engine for "long hoped" for features
- After flopping at the box office, Chris Pratt and Rebecca Ferguson's AI thriller heads to digital just 25 days after release
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 director says the new JRPG is "already in a playable state," with Square Enix "in the final push phase" of development: "It's genuinely exciting"
- Valve finally admits the Steam Deck is out of stock thanks to "memory and component shortages", and I'd be surprised if the Steam Machine still happens
- Styx: Blades of Greed review: "What if Metal Gear Solid 5 went goblin mode? This dark fantasy open-world stealth 'em up is devilishly creative"
- After 7 years and the most controversial finale ever, Game of Thrones fans are celebrating the best additions not from the books
- After reaching 800 episodes, The Simpsons showrunner says they will never do a season finale
- God of War: Sons of Sparta's easiest difficulty makes an excellent reference to the 2018 reboot, and fans love it: "Whoever came up with that should get a raise"
- February 16
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- Stardew Valley fan recreates wait for Haunted Chocolatier by sleeping for 1,000 years in the farming sim, wakes up to sea of giant mushrooms and chickens that are immortal, but understandably "grumpy"
- A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms episode 5's IMDb score puts it in the top 5 best Game of Thrones episodes ever
- Red Dead Redemption 2 fan hits the emergency button after accidentally deleting his fiancée's save file, pays Arthur Morgan's actor to apologize on his behalf: "Let us all send this poor girl positive vibes"
- Fallout 3 is famously green, but series co-creator Tim Cain didn't even notice because he's colorblind: "I was blown away"
- Glen Powell promises horror fans he'll "protect" Texas Chain Saw Massacre's legacy when it comes to the A24 reboot: "We're gonna do something special with it"
- Pokopia finally gives starving Pokemon Mystery Dungeon fans some food with its talking 'mons as the life sim's devs "really focused" on conveying each one's "unique personality"
- A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms fans think episode 5's brutal battle is "unlike anything we've seen in the Game of Thrones universe": "Just personal and visceral"
- "Only the nerdiest of the nerds would tolerate that stuff": Mewgenics dev says before Spelunky and The Binding of Isaac, roguelikes were the reserve of hardcore fans
- "We got there in the end": No Man's Sky dev says sorry "it took so long" to add customizable ships to the Switch 1 version, but optimizing things enough "was a difficult technical challenge"
- My favorite N64 controller in the color I actually want is weirdly hard to find at Amazon, but it does exist
- Sorry Elite, but PS5 players should grab this SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro headset deal this Presidents Day
- New Mandalorian and Grogu teaser feels like classic Star Wars as the galaxy's first movie since 2019 gears up for release
- As Assassin's Creed Shadows nears its first anniversary, Ubisoft brings back a series favorite feature parkour fans have been asking for – a manual jump
- Cult JRPG series is getting a new game for the first time in 15 years, and Bandai Namco is giving the OG devs full control of the project
- Tubi to add 100 classic cartoons to stream for free, including Teen Titans, Courage the Cowardly Dog, and more
- 6 of the best new shows and movies streaming this week on Disney Plus, Netflix, Prime Video, and more (February 16–February 22)
- Talented Square Enix team behind Octopath Traveler and Dragon Quest's HD-2D JRPGs asks fans what remake they'd like next – and I'm praying for Chrono Trigger
- 9 years later, Hollow Knight's lore just became even weirder thanks to a subtle update to the Metroidvania from Team Cherry
- In honor of Sega Genesis designer Hideki Sato, I spent the weekend with an original Mega Drive, and I'd urge you to do the same
- Best Legend of Zelda merch, chosen by two lifelong fans
- Despite being one of the fathers of FPS, Doom co-creator John Romero's true love is World of Warcraft: "I lived in that game every day for five years"
- Ubisoft knows Rayman: 30th Anniversary Edition's new soundtrack might not "recapture the vibe for you," so it's looking into the suggestion of adding "the old music again"
- Jujutsu Kaisen season 3 leak confirms fans' worst fears as main director gets set to depart
- "GTA 3 cost like $5 million": Ex-The Last of Us Part 2: Remastered, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor artist says the industry is becoming "less risky and creative" as "anything under $100 million is considered small"
- Forget another Ocarina of Time remake – Nintendo needs to get weird with Zelda's 40th anniversary
- Crimson Desert is "not a Soulslike," Pearl Abyss says, but "does that mean the game's easy? Hell no"
- The Super Mario Galaxy Movie toys are available to pre-order, and they're absolutely egg-cellent
- Tell us about how you play games for a chance to win a £250/$300 Amazon voucher
- After Tom Cruise's AI fight video goes viral, SAG-AFTRA condemns Seedance 2.0: "This is unacceptable and undercuts the ability of human talent"
- High on Life 2 review: "I smiled, I laughed, I sorely wished the combat was a lot better"
- Castlevania and Metal Gear Solid 5 legend Shutaro Iida has passed away, with tributes saying "numerous titles hailed as masterpieces would not have been possible without his contributions"
- Courteney Cox's Gale Weathers will appear in less than a quarter of Scream 7, but it will be the most fans have seen her since 2000
- Mewgenics genius discovers the true strength of the roguelike's skill synergies, creating an infinite fly generator that bullies bosses into not even showing up to battle
- Survival horror movie Send Help from Evil Dead director Sam Raimi drops just 0.8% at the box office, while Wuthering Heights tops the charts globally with $82 million
- Pokemon Pokopia's new Pikachu form was dubbed "unfortunate Pikachu" by co-dev Koei Tecmo, but it comes from a place of love: "We were surprised and thrilled"
- Legendary Sega console designer Hideki Sato, the man behind everything from the Master System to Dreamcast, has passed away
- After Old Spice and Pillsbury cookie leaks, a deep cut Super Mario Galaxy Movie cameo has been revealed by toy packaging
- Mewgenics surpasses Hades 2's concurrent player peak on Steam, and one lead says it's very "possible" roguelike hit Megabonk will fall next
- You can visit the Fallout season 3 set – if you have $20,000 for this charity auction
- Frieren season 2 joins Jujutsu Kaisen by going on a sudden break – in preparation of a new arc
- A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms showrunner defends interrupting the Trial of the Seven with a lengthy flashback: "It's gonna displease some people"
- "That is the transaction": Crimson Desert won't have microtransactions, says Pearl Abyss, because the promising open-world game is "a premium experience"
- PS6 could reportedly be delayed while Switch 2 might get even more expensive as Sony and Nintendo reckon with brutal AI-led memory chip shortage
- Pokemon Pokopia director thought up the Animal Crossing-like while placing grass for Ruby and Sapphire, as he wanted to give players "the experience of creating their own Pokemon world"
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day art seemingly gives us a new look at a returning MCU villain – and a tease of two new ones
- Mewgenics isn't stopping with dominating Steam, co-creator Edmund McMillen says the roguelike is heading for consoles and has DLC plans in the works
- Game of Thrones fans were convinced Henry Cavill was cameoing in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, but Dunk actor confirms it's "a complete misunderstanding"
- New Discord age verification system and filters will rely on oversight from mix of "AI validation and human review," because that always works
- The Batman 2 writer says the story is "new and dangerous": "The bar couldn't be higher"
- Marvel's Spider-Man is "not likely" to come to Xbox, Insomniac Games says, despite Helldivers 2 and Marathon breaking containment
- A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms episode 5 explained: What is the Blackfyre Rebellion?
- February 15
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- Silent Hill Townfall looks like the most Silent Hill game in years, and I never thought that could be a bad thing until now
- Making Fallout, Bethesda Game Studios realized "being realistic sometimes isn't fun" in games, dev says
- I bought the NSO N64 controller purely for Ocarina of Time, and I've never been a happier Zelda fan
- Silent Hill 2 dev announces Layer of Fear 3 is its next game alongside Silent Hill 1 Remake, not the impossible Rule of Rose reboot that was theorized
- Fallout 3 had "the opposite of feature creep" because Bethesda devs "were really smart about cutting things" they knew they couldn't do
- Nintendo dishes out DMCAs to several more Switch emulators, continuing its crusade against emulation: "If they kill one, 10 more will pop up"
- Daniel Kaluuya might be checking into a new horror that sounds like a headwrecking version of Stephen King’s 1408
- Deadpool 2 director set to helm Jason Statham Stole My Bike starring Jason Statham
- How to watch Family Guy Season 24 when the Griffins return this weekend
- Charlie's Angels will be back in action in a new reboot from Crazy Rich Asians writer
- Dead by Daylight movie draws in fresh blood with Crawl and The Conjuring 2 writers
- February 14
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- Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined producer says Square Enix tried to convey the "cuteness" of legendary Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama's original designs without compromising the JRPG remake's "unique atmosphere"
- I spent $200 on this official Master Sword replica, and it made me weep with pure Zelda-fandom joy
- Horror is (finally) in at the Oscars 2026, but the Academy still overlooked the best genre performance of the year
- I'm convinced Fallout season 2 has set the board for Fallout 5
- My favorite Zelda: Breath of the Wild-like indie has a new expansion that doubles the size of the game, and it even follows Tears of the Kingdom with an underground twist
- Ori boss shares "one of the crazier ideas" for a possible third game that would flip the Metroidvania on its head: "Think Katamari, but with a Ghibli-twist"
- Launching a new studio with former Forza Horizon and Codemaster devs is like "taking the best singers from the best boy bands in the world," says studio head
- "It was very bad": Baldur's Gate 3 was once heavily teased in Larian's Divinity Original Sin 2, but it was so obvious the devs had to water it down
- Post-Skyrim and pre-Fallout 4 was a glorious time at Bethesda, devs say: "When we made that game, it was like World Series Red Sox"
- Movie fans are debating the otherwise bad films saved by amazing endings, and you bet Terminator 3 is on the list
- 4 years later, MCU fans are reassessing one of the most controversial Marvel Phase 4 releases: "I personally feel like this movie had so much potential”
- Andor fans are split on whether a subtle season 1 ending change was a good idea: "If I had a dying wish, it would be to have Disney restore this scene as it was originally spoken”
- Scrapped Zatanna DC movie was "maybe a little too far away from the genre," director admits: "I always felt like I hadn't quite maybe delivered the thing that they wanted"
- 007: First Light will be less stealthy than Hitman because IO is pushing "forward momentum gameplay all the time"
- 3 new to Prime Video movies you should watch this weekend (February 14–15)
- February 13
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- The Super Mario Galaxy Movie pays tribute to GameCube classic Super Mario Sunshine and more with a series of posters full of deep cut Easter eggs
- Mass Effect fan claims massive discovery and a win for game preservation: DLC prototype uncovered after 19 years with a look at the cut side mission that became Bring Down the Sky
- "It's important that our game doesn't just feel like FromSoftware": Lords of the Fallen 2 dev says what too many Soulslikes forget
- Diablo 4 PC filled with real human blood is "virtually perfect" after 3 years, according to owner who doesn't know where the blood came from but would "love to give this to my future kids"
- Most of the original Fallout's "dark humor" was added just to make co-creator Tim Cain laugh: "We made this game for each other. When it shipped, we were like, 'Well, I hope other people like it!'"
- Even Valve is impressed by Deadlock's most dedicated simp, who spent hundreds of hours voting 813 times during Old Gods, New Blood: "Every single one was for Celeste"
- Fans have waited 12 years for a new Castlevania game, but Belmont's Curse is an even greater gift for swine like me who have never played the series
- Spited FPS streamer Shroud vindicated as Arc Raiders finally gets its GOTY award, taking Online Game of the Year at the DICE Awards
- Marvel brings back the most prolific Spider-Man comic writer of all time to revive Brand New Day before Spider-Man 4
- Warhorse admits Kingdom Come: Deliverance was "rough," but says surprise "next-gen update" brings the RPG up to PC Ultra standards with "massively improved performance"
- Netflix drops first trailer for the Duffer Brothers' new horror show Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen
- "You are wrong" and Fallout New Vegas was ripped apart at launch, Obsidian's Josh Sawyer reminds RPG fans, comparing it to Cyberpunk 2077: "Its reputation at launch was not fantastic"
- Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Volume 2 revives Peace Walker, but lets other PSP-era games like Portable Ops fade away: "This game should be considered an integral part of the saga"
- Bullying companies works: Capcom tries and fails to make Street Fighter 6 fans pay $40 to watch a tournament, reduces pay-per-view price to $10 and commits to showing it for free inside the game
- Top Gun 3 producer says they're "expecting a script shortly," and that Pirates of the Caribbean 6 is still on the way
- Bethesda made Fallout 3's VATS system to avoid competing with Call of Duty and Battlefield, taking influence from KOTOR and Burnout: "Imagine the car parts are, like, eyeballs and guts!"
- I finally understand the hype for Flydigi controllers because it doesn't get much better than the Apex 5
- Best Presidents Day Nintendo Switch deals, I've whittled all the sales down to 10 must-see offers this week
- The Rayman 30th Anniversary Edition is neat and all, but I'd still recommend playing the PS1 original on original hardware
- Yearning for an even bigger screen? My favorite PS5 projector just dropped to its lowest price yet
- The Mandalorian and Grogu director confirms Din Djarin is back in "the same model of ship," and now we're wondering why the Razor Crest got blown up in the first place
- Helldivers 2 players cheated so hard that Arrowhead had to "disable the Galactic War" and change a Major Order, but don't worry, "the offenders have been volunteered" to test "bio-safety protocols"
- The Acer Nitro V 16 AI is a solid piece of kit, but it's chasing higher value elsewhere | Review
- Dragon Ball Legends codes (February 2026) for free Chrono Crystals
- Animal Crossing retired Mr. Resetti but his anger lives on in indie roguelike hit Mewgenics, which will aggressively tell you off for save scumming
- Scarlet Hollow's fifth chapter is full of terrifying revelations, but I'm too busy chasing a hot mom to notice
- This week's Prime Video top 10 shows and 3 you need on your watchlist right now (February 14–15)
- Stardew Valley-inspired life sim dev "working with Valve to ensure all fake reviews - positive and negative - are flagged and removed," insists it's not behind fake Steam positivity
- One of the worst bugs a Soulslike could ask for was making it "impossible" to heal in Nioh 3 with elixirs "sometimes," but thankfully it's been "partially fixed"
- Fortnite, The Sims, and now RuneScape - Chappel Roan loves the MMO's "medieval synth sh*t" music as a "video game girl" into "'80s weird sh*t"
- Marvel fans don't think Avengers: Doomsday can beat Infinity War's $2 billion box office haul: "Not a chance"
- I've found the best SSD prices in February 2026, for those who really need an upgrade right now
- Hideo Kojima shares rare "pre‑COVID" look at Death Stranding 2, before the "storyline was revised" to change Sam's business casual look
- God of War Sons of Sparta review: "Retro-style Metroidvania Kratos struggles to stand out, making for an overly tame adventure"
- Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker co-op, inspired by the Monster Hunter craze, lives on in Master Collection Volume 2
- Clair Obscur Expedition 33 and Metaphor ReFantazio were inspiration for Monster Hunter Stories 3's "satisfying and challenging" turn-based combat
- Ignore its disappointing Rotten Tomatoes score, Emerald Fennell's controversial Wuthering Heights works because it's like a half-remembered dream
- Highguard was "doomed" on its own merits, says indie games veteran, and "now you have a developer still unable to believe they made a bad game"
- Shovel Knight developer's Game Boy-style metroidvania Mina the Hollower that's taken "more than 6 years of work" will be larger than "the entirety of Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove"
- Despite streaming struggles, Star Wars show Skeleton Crew may be getting a second season
- Deadlock icon Celeste survives her first round of nerfs, with fans hoping Valve's mere "slap on the wrist" isn't the last for the dazzling hero
- Two years later, I'd still say this 1440p OLED monitor is the one to watch during sales like Presidents Day
- The bass of the Skullcandy Crusher PLYR 720 headset makes me literally shake with excitement, and I'm obsessed | Review
- Marathon console players can turn off PC matchmaking if they want, but Bungie made a point to give everyone the same gameplay experience
- Even Blizzard's begging you to stop banning Overwatch's Jetpack Cat, and I promise shooting down the furball is easier than it looks
- Grab a pal and play REANIMAL in co-op because it's so much scarier when there are two of you
- This detective mystery game with a survival horror twist transfixed me for 7 hours, and I still don't know who the killer is
- An incredible Marvel toy from our childhood gets a premium remake in this exclusive reveal
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance fans are on the PS5 hopium again, as the RPG's devs announce a "special" anniversary stream: "Yup, 100% remaster announcement"
- Todd Howard gives Fallout 3 an "average grade," and only after Bethesda used numerous DLC to fix what everyone "hated" about the RPG's original ending
- A Castlevania legend made non-canon by the Metroidvania series could be making her return in Belmont's Curse, even if it makes no sense in the timeline: "Trevor’s mom became his daughter, ain’t no way"
- Fullmetal Alchemist writer addresses rumor creator Hiromu Arakawa was furious with the anime's changes from the manga
- Shark horror is so back as Deep Blue Sea director returns to the subgenre with action-packed first trailer for Deep Water, featuring Marvel and DC stars
- Marathon isn't taking Arc Raider's approach to aggression-based matchmaking, as being unaware of another player's intentions is what Bungie's extraction shooter is all about
- Sony Animation bosses defend decision to release KPop Demon Hunters on Netflix: "It needed time, which you do not get theatrically"
- Marathon server slam open beta start date and rewards
- Hideo Kojima still isn't done, Death Stranding 2's PC port brings "new modes and features" that the PS5 is also getting, and we'll learn more next month
- Terminator Zero Netflix anime series was quietly canceled because "not nearly enough people watched it"
- Roses are red, this retro handheld is blue, and I'll be using it this Valentine's Day to play Street Fighter 2
- Valve trials new Steam reviews option that lets you include your hardware specs, letting everyone know if those performance issues are a you problem
- KPop Demon Hunters 2 may have stalled, but the long-awaited Beyond the Spider-Verse is swinging into sight soon
- Anbernic's Vita Pro handheld is missing two features I'd assumed were a no-brainer, but not all is lost
- New Scream 7 trailer shown exclusively in theaters gives us our first look at Matthew Lillard's return as Stu Macher, and calls back to the first movie
- Can you guess these iconic video game couples in our ultimate Valentine's Day quiz?
- A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Egg actor accidentally lets slip huge A Song of Ice and Fire spoiler told to him by George R.R. Martin
- Demon Slayer and Gintama voice actor is going on a health-related hiatus
- Dead Cells devs' new Castlevania game is just "the beginning," Konami says there are "numerous new products" in the works around the beloved Metroidvania series
- Jon Favreau admits The Mandalorian's jump to the big screen means they have to "up their game", and that even extends to a "leveled up" Grogu
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is still winning GOTY awards, snagging the top honor at DICE to extend its lead over Elden Ring and every other game in history
- Watch out, Crunchyroll: Prime Video is making a play to become the "preferred destination" for anime – starting with this Ghost in the Shell exclusive
- This week's Netflix top 10 movies and 3 you need on your watchlist right now (February 14–15)
- Resident Evil Requiem's new trailer has me convinced Capcom's bringing back the Licker zombie from scrapped Resident Evil 2 concept art
- This week's Netflix top 10 shows and 3 you need on your watchlist right now (February 14–15)
- February 12
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- Everybody shut up, the PUBG company announced an open-world action RPG that looks like Black Myth: Wukong meets Dynasty Warriors except you're a giant chicken man
- All the Spider-Man characters we know about in Spider-Noir
- A new God of War game just shadow dropped: see Kratos as a Spartan warrior in surprise 2D action game Sons of Sparta
- God of War Greek trilogy remake is official, but it's "still very early in development" and the devs want to "ask for your patience"
- Boy, 007: First Light really looks like Uncharted but with Hitman-style stealth, and honestly hell yeah
- John Wick "AAA game" for PS5 coming from Space Marine 2 devs and Lionsgate
- Over 30 years later, Rayman is finally getting a remake, giving me a chance to get revenge on this rock-hard platformer on behalf of my five-year-old self
- Marathon server slam announced, open preview weekend starts February 26 as Bungie prepares for long-awaited March launch
- New 2D Castlevania game announced: Belmont's Curse looks perfect for fans of the Netflix anime and was made with 2 of the best indie devs to ever do it
- A new Legacy of Kain Defiance Remaster is happening thanks to files "found in a closet" and features a restored demo for a cancelled sequel no one's ever seen before
- After 23 years, Legacy of Kain is back with a chunky retro platformer featuring M-rated pixel gore and "lore-heavy" PS1-inspired 3D for the true Kain sickos
- After 18 years, Metal Gear Solid 4 finally escapes PS3 jail as Konami announces Master Collection Volume 2 and throws in the overlooked GBC game
- Pokemon developer to launch Beasts of Reincarnation in August, promising "one-person, one-dog action" for its first non-Nintendo game in years
- The PlayStation State of Play opened with exactly what I wanted: a short game, in the form of a Kena: Bridge of Spirits sequel "with PlayStation Studios' support"
- Ghost of Yotei Legends free DLC brings 4-player co-op and the demonic Yotei Six to Sucker Punch's open-world samurai game next month
- Death Stranding 2 PC port out in March with "unlocked framerates" and ultra widescreen support, Kojima truthers rejoice
- Overwatch streamer lost her voice for a year then reclaimed it just in time to be the actor for Anran: "Thank you for being the reason I play dps now lol"
- Metaphor ReFantazio director is "delighted to see Japanese-style RPGs being born" around the world as Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 joins the 2024 GOTY in a deep discount Steam bundle
- "There's no way this will flop": Laid-off Highguard dev says internal sentiment was sky-high, "but then the trailer came out, and it was all downhill from there"
- No Rest for the Wicked director and Ori studio founder says you can "kick me in the balls" if you ever find a battle pass or microtransactions in a Moon Studios game "as a reminder to not join the dark side"
- Zelda: Breath of the Wild devs knew the open-world pivot was "the right direction to head in" after seeing the "amazing" things players came up with
- Lionhead "had a pitch document" for Fable 4, says Peter Molyneux: "It was the thought of moving through time a little bit more"
- Steam might stop dev from releasing viral horror game just by ignoring them: "Be prepared for the game to be delayed until further notice"
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (February 13-15)
- Fallout 3 feeling like "Oblivion with guns" was only natural, Todd Howard says – the RPG was Bethesda's follow-up to, well, Oblivion
- Witch Hat Atelier creator approves of the magical girl anime I'm convinced is what Frieren would be if it were made by Studio Ghibli, and I can't stop watching
- Accused of forging Steam reviews to boost their anime life sim, Starsand Island devs claim they're innocent and confused: "Whoever may be behind this, we kindly ask you to stop"
- Square Enix and Disney will do everything except show us Kingdom Hearts 4, as Fortnite x Kingdom Hearts collab rumors resurface once more
- After 25 years, one of the first non-Elder Scrolls fantasy RPGs to eat over 50 hours of my life is getting a remake – and it's finally got its 2026 release date
- A24's Undertone is quickly becoming my most anticipated horror movie of the year, and its creepy new teaser proves why
- Avowed missed sales goals, but Obsidian's RPG still beat huge games like Silksong and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 in daily Xbox player count last year
- Save up to 70% on Nendoroids, anime merch, and more in this ridiculous Crunchyroll sale
- GameStop has dropped up to half off a ton of SEGA games, and I gotta go fast to grab them all
- My biggest problem with Stardew Valley is fixed in the hottest new life sim RPG on Steam, which has 1,700 reviews at 91% positive after 1 day in Early Access
- I'm grateful Skyrim 'dumbed down' The Elder Scrolls
- I've watched Shoujo anime for 10 years, and these are the best romance anime on Crunchyroll that you need to watch in 2026
- This new Black Myth: Zhong Kui video for Chinese New Year is really cooking something up
- Former Mario actor Charles Martinet is "more Luigi" in real life, but still thinks the iconic Nintendo mascot is "the most wonderful human being ever"
- Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined "isn't meant to supplement or improve upon" previous versions of the classic JRPG, but simply to "represent" the game "for today"
- Netflix anime Beastars Final Season part 2 finally gets a release date as animation studio calls the series their "longest challenge"
- Spider-Noir release date, cast, trailer, and everything else we know about the live-action Spider-Man show
- The Duskbloods is still coming to Switch 2 this year, FromSoftware's parent company promises while keeping almost everything about the vampire RPG a secret
- The boy done bad in new teaser for bloodsoaked, buzzy horror Obsession
- Spider-Noir trailer proves everything is cooler in black and white, especially when it involves Nicolas Cage punching criminals
- Peak developers promise a console port is coming, but there's still no timeframe: "Porting games, let alone a game jam, takes a while to do"
- How to reach Mewgenics' secret areas
- Fall producers threaten to shred our nerves again with new rollercoaster horror: "We're pushing the tension to the extreme"
- A free copy of GTA 6 could be yours, Norwegian retailer says, all you have to do is have a baby on release day and pray Rockstar doesn't delay it further
- Battlefield 6 season 2 finally delivers a big map and more, but I have bad news for anyone who doesn't like being poisoned or shot in the dark: you're going to be poisoned and shot in the dark
- Best Presidents Day PS5 deals in 2026 that are still live, with savings on Silent Hill, SteelSeries, Battlefield, and more
- KPop Demon Hunters Zoey actor reveals they originally auditioned for Rumi and Mira first
- Sinners star Michael B. Jordan says his TV adaptation of popular Game of Thrones-esque fantasy novel will be "something that feels honest" to the source material
- "Master Chief, mind telling me what you're doing in Overwatch?": Halo veterans find a home in Blizzard's new DPS hero, prompting fans to call for an official crossover
- Best Presidents Day sales for gamers 2026, all the biggest early deals across PS5, Switch, PC, and Xbox
- Everything announced at the PS5 State of Play February 2026
- New tactics RPG Solasta 2 is doubling down on a DnD 5e rule that Baldur's Gate 3 didn't bother with - and don't worry, it'll be "very straightforward"
- How to complete the Helldivers 2 raze strategic infrastructure objective
- Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director says no, Geoff Keighley isn't to blame for Highguard and its mass layoffs – and folks who think so have "little understanding" of the industry
- This Hall effect controller with six extra buttons is supremely underrated, and it's half off right now
- "The 2000s were a simpler time": How The Sims 2 inspired the first generation of YouTubers
- Please leave the Piranha Plant camera alone this Valentine's Day, grab these Switch 2 accessories instead
- "This seems like a very tough boss": Mewgenics eyes Steam roguelike record held by Hades 2 as the cat breeding sim surpasses its legendary dev's other indie hit, The Binding of Isaac
- How to use a VPN to play games early
- The Russo brothers tease "the complexity and the difficulty" of the Avengers: Doomsday story: "Victor von Doom demands a certain tone"
- You vs Homer codes (February 2026) for free Quidz and Candy Hearts
- Diablo 2 could get even more new content, Blizzard says, but "we have to nail that otherwise we kill the game in trying to progress it forward"
- Halle Berry "promises" Marvel fans that X-Men's Storm isn't in Avengers: Doomsday, but we've been here before with Spider-Man's Andrew Garfield
- "We’ve found a solution to the obstacles" - Hyperkin's Mega95 Sega Genesis handheld is now closer to launch, and I'm more hyped than ever
- Scream 7 director confirms my biggest fear about the horror sequel, says it "doesn't really have that meta goal"
- Hideo Kojima discussed a Metal Gear Solid FPS with Call of Duty co-creator Vince Zampella during the early days of Respawn Entertainment
- A Severance prequel, anyone? This latest Severance update shows Apple is learning all the wrong lessons
- "The mood all week" - After a year of Marvel Rivals taking its lunch, Blizzard is just happy you're playing Overwatch again
- Should you use a VPN while gaming?
- Star Wars just revealed a crucial part of Grogu's backstory in the most unexpected way: a Jar Jar Binks comic book
- Thor star Chris Hemsworth says his daughter had "angsty, sort of teenager attitude" on set of Avengers: Doomsday: "In the end, I had to bribe her"
- Uh-oh, every Steam Deck is now out of stock, and I'm hoping RAMageddon hasn't claimed Valve's handheld
- This Nerf blaster makes me feel like an '80s action hero, and I'm a step away from spitting out corny one-liners
- How to watch the PlayStation State of Play February 2026 and what we could see during its "60+ minutes of news"
- Deadpool and Wolverine writer thinks this Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise AI slop fight scene somehow means "it's over" for Hollywood
- Arc Raiders "significantly exceeded expectations" with 14 million copies sold and almost 1 million concurrent players last month, and its publisher expects momentum to continue
- "It's not coming this weekend": Marathon isn't getting a surprise preview drop just yet, Bungie confirms, but you will see the Destiny 2 studio's new shooter at State of Play
- The Warlock is Diablo 2's first new class in 25 years, it's playable right now, and, oh, it's coming to Diablo 4 too
- February 11
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- Highguard dev hit with mass layoffs as "most of the team at Wildlight" is let go
- Following Anaconda and Primate, new hippo-based creature feature unveils its first look
- After a mixed response from some critics, Christopher Nolan looks back at Interstellar's growing reputation as a modern classic: "It's incredibly rewarding"
- Helldivers movie sets late 2027 release date and adds a video game movie hero to its ranks in Minecraft's Jason Momoa
- After blending Wind Waker with Kiki's Delivery Service last year, indie dev reveals an N64-inspired Zelda-like RPG – and it's an instant Kickstarter hit
- "It's honestly been surreal": Yapyap dev sells 500,000 copies in a week through the power of friendslop and Steam, this time with wizards and 6-player co-op
- Hollow Knight: Silksong community crosses 4 weeks of cheering a mad lad fighting Savage Beastfly with ungodly custom rules, like doing the infamous Groal runback with every attempt
- "I'm not slamming FromSoftware," says Lords of the Fallen 2 director, but CI Games' Soulslike has "more drives to experiment a bit" with your build
- Retro Jurassic Park collection is being delisted just over 2 years after launch as Limited Run Games insists "we learned how important it is to provide plenty of notice for changes like this"
- KPop Demon Hunters star pitches a "very, very serious" prequel set during the early 20th century: "That would be our Andor"
- Masters of Albion is "a true God game," Peter Molyneux says as he unveils a fully manipulable world halfway between Populous and Fable
- OG Fable designer Peter Molyneux cried tears of joy watching Xbox reveal the new reboot, even though he thinks "there was a slight antiseptic feel about it"
- "'You have no idea what you've built'": Arc Raiders lead says a "prominent professor in neurology" encouraged him to submit the extraction shooter to science
- Modder puts Super Mario 64 on PS2, hacks in co-op, and adds online multiplayer with the N64 version, all through the power of Sony's secret PS1 chip: "It works much better than I thought it was going to"
- Soulslike action RPG Lords of the Fallen 2 is on the "same journey" as the Batman Arkham games, dev says: "It all came together and it felt perfect"
- Resident Evil meets BioShock in a survival horror FPS that would be cringe if it wasn't so damn metal
- Pirates of the Caribbean director's first film in nearly 10 years is being hailed by critics as "the best Black Mirror episode in nearly a decade"
- The Virtual Boy returns next week, but there are three things I need you know about the Switch Online remake
- How to kill Helldivers 2 Vox Engines
- Roguelike legend Edmund McMillen crammed 200 Simpsons-inspired intros into his new strategy game Mewgenics, and I'm ashamed I didn't notice sooner: "There's like 200 couch gags"
- These Baldur's Gate 3 treasure packs are a serious delight filled with Sirius dice
- Deltarune Chapter 5 is still underway, and Undertale icon Toby Fox says devs are "polishing" it with "some preliminary internal bugtesting on PC"
- "Stop banning the cat please": Jetpack Cat just became the most popular Overwatch hero as players call her the "most fun" – but she's starting to get banned from overuse
- Pokemon devs "wanted to create a different type of game that's not an RPG" with cozy life sim Pokopia, but that whole idea "was a challenge"
- "I could see $1,000": Steam Machine is "a PC with console benefits" and console hardware struggles, analyst says, and "whatever the next Xbox thing is, it's going to be just like it in a lot of ways"
- How to watch Fallout season 2 from anywhere, catch up on the Wasteland's latest adventure
- Best Disney gifts, recommended by a mega-fan
- Pokopia "doesn't force you to wait" like Animal Crossing – the cozy Pokemon life sim wants you to knock stuff out your "own way" instead of waiting "a whole day to continue to play"
- Fable promises a Bethesda-like reactive fantasy world, and I think it will be enough to cover for The Elder Scrolls 6
- Best Star Wars gifts according to a lifelong fan
- Black Panther director Ryan Coogler says sequel Wakanda Forever is watched at home "so much more than the other Panther" for a simple reason: "People may be watching when they want to feel something specific"
- Best Nintendo gifts, with recommendations from a fan of 30+ years
- Watch out, Jason Voorhees: a sequel to the most violent movie of 2024 is in the works, and the killer is headed to summer camp
- TMNT OG actor confirms they would have returned for R-rated The Last Ronin movie, and slams execs for canceling it: "Maybe you need to spend some time with the fans"
- Best PlayStation gifts, according to a fan who's been playing on Sony's console since the start
- "There are also lots of different ways to enjoy Pokemon, not just by battling," says Pokopia lead, who points to Ruby and Sapphire for ways to "scale the Pokemon games in general"
- Unearthed concept art for Eidos-Montréal's canceled Lord of the Rings game suggests it focused on Aragorn before the events of the trilogy in a Telltale-like narrative
- CD Projekt Red welcomes new AI director, who joins The Witcher 4 studio "after 8 years of building memorable RPGs at BioWare" like Mass Effect 2 and 3
- Battlefield 6 Season 2 is bringing 2 new maps and a pair of limited modes, while the Battle Pass is becoming "more rewarding" as challenges are "streamlined" for better progression
- "When Bethesda bought the Fallout license," RPG legend Josh Sawyer figured his "dream" of making a Fallout game was dead – until New Vegas came along
- Reanimal review: "A feast of twisted weirdness conjuring up unpleasant imagery and dark world building"
- Mewgenics was in development for 14 years, but these top five features prove it was all worth it
- Saltburn director's controversial Wuthering Heights movie starring Margot Robbie is set to win Valentine's Day weekend with a $70 million debut
- These are must-have Valentine's Day Disney gifts I'd recommend if you're shopping for a fan
- Some of my favorite gaming laptops come with Resident Evil Requiem for free this week
- Project Egoist codes (February 2026) for free Yen, emotes, and more
- Arc Raiders immediately suffers an infinite ammo exploit after Embark fixes a dupe, heightening criticism of the studio's soft response to cheaters
- "Hang tight": Minecraft-inspired sandbox game returns to Steam as Microsoft drops DMCA claim, but demo issues persist
- This Skullcandy gaming headset has a brain-melting sound, and it's cheaper for a limited time
- The Intellivision Sprint puts Atari's console war rival back on the track, but I'd rather it crossed the finish line with cartridge support
- After days of teasing No Man's Sky fans with cryptic emoji posts, Hello Games boss Sean Murray reveals new update with gravity guns, recycling, and vehicle customization that lets us build spider mechs
- 90 minutes with Pokemon Pokopia convinced me this could be the biggest cozy game since Animal Crossing, and I'm already eager to spend hundreds of hours in it
- Dan Trachtenberg says he's still looking to make more Predator movies despite his new deal with Paramount: "My God, there are so many exciting things we can do"
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 fan says their merch has been detained by government officials who think it's "possibly" a relic: "Customs opened the package and decided the art book looked a bit too ancient"
- Director of scrapped animated movie two years in the making speaks out on why Sony pulled the plug: "It wasn't commercial enough"
- Stranger Things play The First Shadow could finally be heading to Netflix, with filming reportedly taking place this week
- How to watch Frieren Beyond Journey's End Season 2
- Keychron Q1 HE 8K drops features for speed, but it still feels fantastic | Review
- The Diablo 30th Anniversary Spotlight is today, here's how to watch the stream as Blizzard gears up to show off a new Diablo 4 class and region
- A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms showrunner says there's "less of an inherent danger" of the show ending up like Game of Thrones, but George R.R. Martin would be "highly" involved past season 3
- The Last of Us' Ashley Johnson shares her reaction to the season 2 backlash: "Sometimes that passion feels really great, and sometimes it feels not great"
- Welcome to the future: Scream 7 director and star Neve Campbell livestreamed the first Scream movie on TikTok
- Helldivers 2 Cyberstan tips, loadout, and Major Orders
- Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc gets a surprisingly early streaming release on Crunchyroll
- Overwatch smashes its Steam record, more than doubling its previous concurrent player peak with over 165,000 people jumping in as Blizzard's hero shooter enters a new era
- Discord raises more questions while attempting to quell age verification fury by saying an AI model can look at "patterns of user behavior" to predict how old many folks are anyway
- Insomniac dashes Marvel's Wolverine hopes, says more info is coming in spring despite Sony's State of Play happening this week
- A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms showrunner admits cutting a major line from the novella was "a mistake": "That scene was in the script at one point, then fell out"
- After Andor cost over half a billion dollars to make, The Mandalorian and Grogu will reportedly be the cheapest Disney-produced Star Wars movie
- Jujutsu Kaisen season 3 is already going on a break after just six episodes
- You can now play the Valheim leads' side project - a "cozy & dark" co-op dungeon crawler blending Lethal Company and Phasmophobia with a dash of Animal Crossing - thanks to its new Steam demo
- February 10
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- Spider-Noir TV creators explain why Nicolas Cage's Spider-Man is "jaded" Ben Reilly instead of "boyish" Peter Parker
- Square Enix throws a bone to Xenogears fans on the classic JRPG's 28th anniversary, but with no remake or remaster in sight, folks are behaving exactly as you'd expect: "I'm on my knees here"
- HBO's Baldur's Gate 3 TV show may not involve Larian, but Wizards of the Coast's former Head of Story has signed on as a consultant
- 19 years after Frank Darabont's devastating adaptation, Mike Flanagan is set to make a new movie based on Stephen King's The Mist
- "I think Speranza is heavily underutilized": Arc Raiders boss wants to see more social elements and thinks the main city is ripe for "something else"
- Stranger Things spin-off creator says it's meant to feel like a "lost season" of the main show: "You could easily take this and make it the live-action version"
- Nicolas Cage says his performance in live-action Spider-Verse spin-off Spider-Noir is "70 percent Bogart, and 30 percent Bugs Bunny"
- Longtime Zelda producer says "the hardware evolution" lifts "restrictions" but, more importantly, "greatly influences the game design"
- With Ubisoft's dire finances, widespread cancellations, and a disastrous launch working against it, famously AAAA game Skull and Bones celebrates Year 2 with a big ol' kraken
- These isometric screenshots of Fallout 4 make me wish Bethesda would return to the genre's roots
- Helldivers 2 passes 150,000 players on Steam for the first time in months thanks to Cyborgs, who may actually be the good guys: "I'd be playing for the Cyborg faction if given the option"
- I love knowing how games are lying to me, and this breakdown of graphical tricks in Half-Life and more is an incredible peek behind the curtain: "The underwater concrete is just literally wobbling"
- All Helldivers 2 Cyborgs and the best weapons against them
- A game-changing Netflix original is at risk of becoming lost media, and that's not OK
- "We have made back our development budget after 3 hours": Over 8 years in the making, strategy roguelike Mewgenics is an instant hit for The Binding of Isaac creator and his team
- Genshin Impact dev sues leaker behind beloved HomDGcat wiki, who allegedly responded to a cease-and-desist letter by saying he'd only follow "some" demands
- After 20 hours spent training necromancer cats and raising an army of sentient rocks, I can safely say Mewgenics is one of the best roguelikes I've ever played
- Subnautica 2's "optional co-op" looks like exactly what I want – not the live-service mess I was afraid the survival game might become
- Marvel Rivals somehow finds a way to make Deadpool even more annoying, with the newest hero Elsa Bloodstone able to force opponents to hear his one-liners
- Fallout devs wanted uber-violent deaths to feel "like an R-rated version of Warner Bros cartoons" back in the '90s: "It was supposed to be funny"
- When does the Fortnite Honkai Star Rail crossover begin?
- Devil May Cry voice actor shares DMC 6 rumors ahead of PlayStation State of Play, accidentally sends fans into a frenzy, then insists "if I knew anything, I'd say"
- Deadlock matchmaking is so broken, even Valve devs are getting put in the wrong lobby: "Can you imagine playing a game and having no one to blame except yourself?"
- An epic D&D adventure starring Vecna was apparently abandoned, and now I'm heartbroken
- Baffling Capcom once again, Monster Hunter Stories 3 players are taking down superbosses despite being capped at level 10 in the RPG's free demo
- Newegg just discounted its $100 PS Store gift card, and these are the co-op games I'd buy this Valentine's Day
- Crisol: Theater of Idols review: "This blood-powered shooter intrigues me, but never manages to live up to its dark folklore promises"
- Sinners director Ryan Coogler is "deep in" to writing the X-Files reboot, and has a notebook full of advice from Vince Gilligan that he goes "back to often"
- Risk of Rain creator intentionally leaked Deadlock news months ago, but no one believed the Valve dev because he called a guy Chickenwing
- Baldur's Gate 3 had so "many people involved" that there are all sorts of influences running through Larian, with one combat dev being "a big JRPG fan" but the CEO being "an Ultima guy"
- CM Punk fan in disbelief as WWE 2K26 immortalizes the bracelet she gave the superstar 2 years ago: "WHAT IS MY LIFE"
- After 9 years of work, team behind GTA 5 multiplayer mod that rivalled Rockstar-owned FiveM says Take-Two is shutting the project down: "Thank you for being part of this journey"
- Are gaming laptops worth it? The answer might change in the next few years
- Hasbro gets hold of Harry Potter merch rights, which means an MTG set feels inevitable
- From Wolverine to Tomb Raider, here are my 5 biggest predictions for February's PlayStation State of Play
- The Fastsnail Switch 2 Protective Case is my go-to cheap alternative to dbrand's premium offering | Review
- Dev says "false DMCA" from Microsoft got their sandbox game removed from Steam over apparent Minecraft copyright, all because of a screenshot of birch trees
- Ghost in the Shell director says he doesn't consider the anime to be cyberpunk and he's "not that interested" in the genre: "I don't care about it"
- Hitman Card Game codes (February 2026) for free Cash, Tokens, and customization items
- Lenovo's next gaming tablet could pack 24GB RAM, but RedMagic may still have the edge
- I've played Starsand Island for 25 hours, and this is the most invested I've been in a cozy game for years
- Until Dawn studio looks to recover from layoffs, a 7-month delay, and 4 so-so Dark Pictures games in May with co-op game set to receive online multiplayer
- New One Piece season 2 trailer promises a high-stakes swashbuckling adventure complete with giants, dinosaurs, and the return of Buggy the Clown
- After 10,000 hours of Fallout 4 in 8 years, Ghost in the Shell director Mamoru Oshii still couldn't tell you how the main quest goes because he just hangs out with Dogmeat
- As Zelda devs experimented with contraptions that made Tears of the Kingdom great, director realized Breath of the Wild had unused potential: "That's why I thought a sequel would be a good idea"
- Mario Tennis Fever review: "Riotous, hilarious, and chaotic, but it can't quite serve up the complete package"
- Romeo is a Dead Man review: "When this time-traveling hack and slash hits its groove, this is Suda51's bloodiest, sharpest spectacle since No More Heroes"
- Frieren season 2 releases a special music video, and it's the perfect accompaniment to that new title track
- All Arc Raiders Shared Watch event rewards and how to earn them
- Arcane studio lead denounces “soulless and deeply disrespectful” AI-generated fanart: "If you truly want to pay homage to the show, don’t be afraid to pick up a pencil"
- OG Fallout devs had to talk themselves into the RPG's name: "My immediate reaction was 'ehh...'"
- Hands on with the Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike, the gaming mouse that swaps switches for haptics
- Black Myth: Wukong devs are literally "cooking" in "non-canon" teaser video for sequel Zhong Kui, flexing the action RPG's engine with a cinematic preparation of a feast
- Capcom knows you don't care about Monster Hunter Wilds' poor Rompopolo, so it's making the sentient bagpipe the star of its own event quest
- Robert Downey Jr. reminds us all Doomsday is coming with Doctor Doom-themed Super Bowl jersey
- Critics are calling Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights "sexy" yet "incoherent," as the adaptation lands the director's lowest Rotten Tomatoes score yet
- Razer's Pokemon headset is at its lowest ever price at Woot, so you can celebrate the 30th anniversary in style
- Blizzard yields, new Overwatch hero Anran will be redesigned after players complained about everyone looking like Kiriko: "We agree she can be even better"
- 4v4 fighter Marvel Tokon will reportedly only have 20 fighters at launch, leaving fans underwhelmed at the idea of one team using "20% of the entire playable roster"
- Lucasfilm says the 36-second Mandalorian and Grogu Super Bowl ad nods to "classic Big Game spots of years past," but fans aren't happy
- Arc Raiders devs rush to fix duplication exploit, threaten "possible penalties" after infinite Trigger Nades rain from the sky as TheBurntPeanut shows the glitch to over 140,000 people
- What happens when you savescum in Mewgenics
- House of the Dead director Uwe Boll is crowdfunding an unofficial sequel to his 3% Rotten Tomatoes-rated original, as a new adaptation featuring Superman star heads into production
- Avengers: Doomsday star says the movie is like "the Met Gala full of superheroes" and he's "flabbergasted at how I could be of service in something that is surrounded by so many total legends"
- Deadlock scores another win with new hero Celeste, a dazzling unicorn-horned performer whose bhopping is so good fans are counting down the days until Valve nerfs her: "It is EXTREMELY overpowered"
- Monster Hunter Wilds boss casually confirms "large scale" expansion, and as it's Iceborne and Sunbreak-like in scope, I'm just thankful my PC will be able to run it now
- This 3D printer has been a blessing for making D&D and Warhammer models quickly
- Ahead of the HBO reboot, Harry Potter star says he's "had quite enough of that" and he's "sick of talking about it quite honestly"
- Resident Evil devs monitored players' brainwaves to ensure their free-to-play spin-off was sufficiently scary, which is weird because almost no one thinks it's scary
- Helldivers 2 devs didn't know if players would actually manage to defend Super Earth last time, so as they drop Cyberstan on their heads, "we don't know what will happen"
- February 9
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- Pokemon player spends 5+ years completing one of the weirdest Shiny hunts in history, immediately promises to never do it again
- 49 years after Close Encounters, Steven Spielberg still says it's a "guarantee" there's alien life out there as he promotes new sci-fi film Disclosure Day: "Why haven't we been told?"
- Arc Raiders goes full-friendly PvE tomorrow with new Shared Watch event: "Team up with strangers, turn your barrels on the machines, and earn rewards"
- Fallout's Aaron Moten has forbidden himself from playing the games at this point
- Riot cuts 80 employees 3 weeks after League of Legends spinoff celebrates official launch: "We're reshaping the team to give 2XKO a more sustainable path"
- Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined is having a great time on Steam as players flock to the cult classic JRPG, but Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D still reigns supreme
- John Helldiver is Arrowhead canon thanks to Helldivers 2 players: "Named by the community"
- Masters of the Universe director refused to compromise on Skeletor's look: "F**k that, he has a skull face"
- Spider-Man and Venom cause problems for Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson's "heart-to-heart" in Venom #258
- "It would've been impossible to make a good game": MindsEye CEO and Rockstar vet blamed for impossible design demands, on "temporary leave" as company forces monitoring software on devs in hunt for "saboteurs" blamed for flop
- Working with Final Fantasy is like "deciphering sacred texts," says veteran JRPG composer: "I feel my posture straighten every time I engage with Final Fantasy music"
- Arc Raiders boss says he'll "apologize" to Italy's Stella Montis hotel after it's flooded with reviews from players: "I didn't know about that. That's amazing"
- The vibrant, spicy RPG Dosa Divas is more cooking rhythm game than not – and it's kicking my butt
- A second StarCraft revival is reportedly in development at Arc Raiders publisher Nexon, but it's got nothing to do with Blizzard's long-rumored shooter
- After dodging Slay the Spire 2 by moving forward a whole month, Balatro-inspired roguelike launches into 1.0 and goes straight onto Steam's new and trending chart
- Boy! God of War show casts rising star Callum Vinson as Atreus
- Check out these Valentine's Day gifts for gamers if you're stuck for ideas
- After swapping Metroidvania icon Ori for Soulslike RPG No Rest for the Wicked, studio boss tells Horizon devs not to sweat it "too much" if fans don't like their multiplayer pivot "just yet"
- 6 of the best new shows and movies streaming this week on Disney Plus, Netflix, Prime Video, and more (February 9–February 15)
- "Stop trying to get us to make the next Fortnite, or Destiny, or Balatro," says the developer of Australia Did It, a train-based tactics tower defense reverse bullet hell: "Let us make weird things"
- "I've met a beautiful woman": After nearly 1 year, indie dev returns with good news of why development on stunning stop-motion puzzle game "is going slow"
- Arc Raiders boss says "that's not the vision for our game" when asked about Fortnite-style skins, prefers the Battlefield 6 route where "everything fits the fiction"
- "It took about 5 years" for Fallout: New Vegas to win over fans, former lead says, and "a few years more" for the devs to believe they "actually liked the design choices we had made"
- A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms fans are debating whether Dunk is actually a real knight – but they don't seem to mind either way: "He is a knight in the ways that matter"
- Game of Thrones fans have pointed out how close to the main series A Knight of the Seven Kingdom's Egg actually is, and it's eye-opening
- Death Stranding 2 fans certain PC port is on the way after another Hideo Kojima cryptic message: "Didn't have much time today for editing"
- No Man's Sky and Light No Fire fans in shambles as Hello Games boss Sean Murray starts tweeting emojis again: "violently shaking"
- Discord will age-lock your account next month and you'll have to submit an ID or accept a face scan to unlock it – you know, 4 months after suffering a third-party data breach
- How to complete the Arc Raiders Harvester puzzle
- Game devs have once again led Valve by the hand to a great, if obvious, Steam update: Official 1.0 Early Access release dates
- Warner Bros. executive says the Harry Potter HBO series will be the "streaming event of the decade" and possibly the biggest ever
- I review board games for a living, these are the five I'm playing this Valentine's Day
- Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties review: "The meatiest brawling this crime thriller's tackled in years combines with its warmest story, but its overly edgy new chapter leaves me cold"
- In Clair Obscur's wake, Dragon Quest 7 finally has its chance to shine
- No Rest for the Wicked lead wants to "repeat" the success Baldur's Gate 3 had launching out of Early Access, but hopes to "keep growing" like Minecraft or Fortnite after that "for years to come"
- Fallout games all get a huge boost in players thanks to Fallout season 2, although FO3 is way less popular than you'd think
- 5 years after it launched in the US, HBO Max has finally revealed when the streaming service is coming to the UK and Ireland
- This post-apocalyptic indie platformer might have Cyberpunk 2077 vibes, but comparisons to CD Projekt Red's RPG aren't a concern for the devs: "This is not your cookie-cutter thing"
- Todd Howard "stole" his brother's copy of Fallout during his early days at Bethesda "and never gave it back to him" as he "loved the vibe" of the RPG
- Replaced is a side-scrolling cyberpunk beat 'em up that wants to feel like a playable movie: "We were heavily inspired by games like Inside, the Batman Arkham series, and Uncharted"
- Sequel to Netflix's divisive shark horror hit Under Paris finds director in The Hills Have Eyes and Crawl helmer
- The next Xbox will apparently use Windows, and that's the last thing I want to hear after a weekend wrestling with Fallout New Vegas on the Xbox Ally X
- Best Buy's Presidents Day sale is already live, these are the 10 gaming deals you don't want to miss this week
- Oops, Crunchyroll accidentally leaks brand new episode of fantasy anime from Solo Leveling studio a whole week early
- PlayStation State of Play is coming this week, Sony confirms, and at 60 minutes it's going to be a big one
- Rayman creator casually reveals "I think there's a kind of remake planned" for the 1995 platformer, as the classic seemingly joins rumored Assassin's Creed Black Flag revival as yet another badly-kept Ubisoft secret
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- How to kill the Matriarch in Arc Raiders
- Upcoming DC horror movie Clayface gets pushed back, but it's now releasing closer to Halloween
- Despite only briefly appearing in season 2, Fallout showrunner says Ron Perlman's Supermutant will figure into future seasons: "He is a larger character in this world"
- The Pokemon Super Bowl trailer didn't give fans the Gen 10 tease they wanted, but a rundown of celebrities' favorite pocket pals: "Stayed up until 3 am"
- Abyss codes (February 2026) for free Star Shards, Potions, and more
- Bethesda is "looking into" Fallout 76 crossplay, but "huge technical hurdles" mean it won't be coming soon: "We know players want it"
- Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes producer says Hideo Kojima and Shigeru Miyamoto's secret isn't just their "genius", it's that they work "really f**king hard"
- Helldivers 2's Cyborgs are real, and they'd kindly like you to "defect" from Super Earth as you're just "cannon fodder" anyway: "Must be embarrassing"
- The rumored PS6 handheld and console will reportedly pack 24GB and 30GB RAM, respectively, and I'm sure hoping RAMageddon has blown over by then
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- Stranger Things' Papa star Matthew Modine didn't enjoy the finale, and hopes Confrmity Gate is real "for the fans"
- Gore Verbinski's BioShock movie would have somehow used both endings but no studio was "willing to go" where he was headed
- A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms episode 4 becomes one of the highest rated Game of Thrones episodes ever, and higher than any House of the Dragon episode
- Overwatch's Steam reviews are still in the gutter, but hype for new update revives the hero shooter's player count as it surges past Call of Duty and Battlefield 6
- Horizon 3 is probably not coming for a long time, as "most of the studio" is reportedly working on multiplayer spin-off Hunters Gathering instead
- No Tarantino, no problem: Brad Pitt channels classic Hollywood in stylish first look at David Fincher's The Adventures of Cliff Booth
- February 8
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- Steven Spielberg is at his unsettling best in Disclosure Day's nerve-shredding Super Bowl trailer
- Ryan Gosling's space odyssey wows in final trailer for cosmic sci-fi thriller Project Hail Mary, but Rocky is the real MVP
- Baby Krypto captures our hearts in Puppy Bowl's new Supergirl teaser
- How to watch the Super Bowl 2026: Patriots vs Seahawks free streaming options and TV info
- All-Star Superman writer Grant Morrison has some issues with James Gunn’s take on the character
- Strange and excellent Morrowind-like RPG with 90% positive Steam reviews is finally coming to PS5, Xbox, and Switch 2
- New Overwatch actor addresses the "elephant in the room," says she had to "mourn" her character's redesign: "Let's keep rooting for the version of her that could be"
- Former Mass Effect devs know "there's a hunger" for big RPGs, so there's an "unbelievable amount of pressure" when making their upcoming sci-fi romp Exodus
- Fallout co-creator wasn't allowed to share ideas with the rest of the team, so he showed the engine that would eventually power the RPG at a secret pizza party
- How to watch Liverpool vs Man City Premier League 2025/26 clash from anywhere
- Austin Butler in talks for Lance Armstrong biopic from Conclave director
- Chris Hemsworth will return as wiser Thor in Avengers: Doomsday: “He does feel like one of the elders"
- Blue Beetle director thinks there’s still a future for Xolo Maridueña’s DC hero: “I don’t think that chapter has been closed”
- February 7
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- My favorite anime of the season isn’t Frieren or Jujutsu Kaisen, it's this one-of-a-kind masterpiece about quiet domesticity
- Mass Effect veterans don't want side quests to feel "tacked on" to their new sci-fi RPG, and they can't add everything or "the game would be thousands of hours"
- Horizon's co-op game may be a shameless Monster Hunter-like, but it's enough to get me excited about a new PlayStation live service for once
- Fallout co-creator "would have gone in a different direction" than Bethesda did with the RPG series, but "sales say people love what they did"
- Arc Raiders boss can tell Embark's anti-cheat efforts are working because there's "an influx of people trying to get to the studio, and to me"
- Horses dev says Epic Games Store made "provably incorrect" comments about the banned horror game: "They have effectively ghosted us"
- Master of the Universe’s Skeletor will embody toxic masculinity in new movie
- I've tested projectors worth nearly $20,000, but I'll be watching the Super Bowl on this $319 thrower this year
- Brendan Fraser’s Mummy movie is happening, but is one fan favorite cast member coming with him? "I've heard many things from a lot of people”
- 3 new to Prime Video movies you should watch this weekend (Feb 7-8)
- Sam Raimi says Stephen King "gave [him] his chance in the business" after supporting his horror movie The Evil Dead: "Nobody would touch Evil Dead with a 10-foot plague pole"
- Warhammer: Age of Sigmar's latest Battletome completely changes the way my favorite faction plays
- Frankenstein director Guillermo del Toro reveals he once developed a screenplay with The Godfather's Francis Ford Coppola for an adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo: "It's a Gothic Western!"
- 3 new to Netflix movies I recommend you watch this weekend (Feb 7-Feb 8)
- New Overwatch VA shouts out the subreddit that's been waiting 8 years for his character to become playable: "Search and destroy"
- Fan-made Oblivion remake Skyblivion continues looking real pretty in new screenshots as devs admit "we've been a bit quiet since our last update," which was a delay
- 3 new to Prime Video shows I recommend you binge-watch this weekend (Feb 7-Feb 8)
- February 6
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- "We could have just made The Binding of Isaac 2," say Mewgenics creators, and a "very easy" sequel to one of the greatest roguelikes ever "would have gotten 20 million wishlists like one second after announcing it"
- Nioh 3 hides game-changing settings deep in the options menu, and I'm begging you to try auto-loot and extra item shortcuts
- Is the Fallout TV show really Fallout 5? Star Walton Goggins says it could be, but "that's way above my paygrade"
- Expectations for Haunted Chocolatier are "a huge struggle" for Eric Barone because "there's going to be a lot of people playing this game who are expecting it to be a Stardew Valley 2"
- Fallout was a "B-tier side project" compared to the D&D "money teams" at Interplay, says series co-creator Tim Cain: "We're off in the corner"
- Todd Howard likes "to start over" on every Elder Scrolls game, and as we approach Skyrim's 15th anniversary I don't know that Bethesda needed to start over that hard
- New Hello Kitty Island Adventure event turns money, clothes, and probably your brain into chocolate, and I'm also having a meltdown: "OH MY GOD IT'S SO CUUUUTEEE"
- New Super Mario Galaxy Movie teaser shows off Shy Guys, Koopa Kids, and Yoshi's talent for turning enemies into eggs
- Reported Arc Raiders budget of $75 million is "not too far off," says Embark head: "We can live for a long time on the money that Arc Raiders has been generating"
- Whistle director breaks down the gory horror movie's surprisingly sweet ending: "I wanted it to be gentle"
- You're really "gonna s*** your pants" this time, Helldivers 2 boss threatens, and I'm more convinced now that he's speaking the same language as the bots
- A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms episode 4 explained: What is a trial of 7?
- Blizzard insists its Overwatch rebrand isn't "us trying to admit there was a failure," it's about easing fears over "when it's going to get replaced by Overwatch 3"
- After 42 years, one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' oldest allies gets a fresh start for his Mutant Mayhem debut in Tales of the TMNT #4
- Xenogears translator had a rough time with the legendary PS1 JRPG, and not just because it's about killing God: "At the time, I was a Jehovah's Witness"
- Todd Howard knows there's "anxiety" about Fallout 5, admits "we do like to wait" but reassures fans "we never stopped developing Fallout"
- Bungie reluctantly responds as the best raiders in Destiny 2 force each other to solo-kill the Witness final boss "or drink pee" as punishment
- Dragon Quest 8 translator's decision to make the JRPG British English didn't go down well with Square Enix's American office: "They couldn't understand it, and they really hated it"
- Ruark's latest desktop speakers will have you listening to your favorite game soundtracks as though it were your first time hearing them
- Bethesda could take notes from Baldur's Gate 3 on how to make new RPGs like The Elder Scrolls 6 "meaningful," says Skyrim lead: "The gaming community has spoken"
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs receive rare honor from French Ministry of Culture, previously won by Shigeru Miyamoto and the creator of Rayman
- Chrono Trigger writer and Xenogears composer's new JRPG, also starring a sick frog warrior, is coming to Switch and PC this summer
- How to kill the Queen in Arc Raiders
- After 100 hours of The Binding of Isaac creator's new cat breeding roguelike Mewgenics, I'm not surprised it's the highest-rated game of 2026 so far
- Danganronpa creator encourages devs to "deceive the company" to get risky projects approved: "If something goes wrong, the one who hired you is to blame anyways lol"
- 3 new to Netflix shows I recommend you binge-watch this weekend (Feb 7-Feb 8)
- Detective Instinct is a retro throwback that celebrates menu-based sleuthing with a thrilling train conspiracy I can get on board with
- So long, '80s nostalgia! Stranger Things star's new zombie horror is a love letter to gooey, goofy sci-fi from the early 2000s – and I hope Hollywood is taking notes
- Silent Hill: Townfall from Outer Wilds publisher confirmed as Konami's "brand-new Silent Hill," but after 4 years of silence I don't know what to expect
- Switch 2 suddenly has a better PS1 emulator than the one PS5's had for years, as the new Console Archives series shows Sony how retro games should be
- The Apothecary Diaries season 3 release date speculation, story, trailer, and movie news
- Light guns at the ready: House of the Dead movie is reportedly a "top Sega priority", with The Last of Us breakout Isabela Merced now onboard
- Five new Analogue 3D "Prototype" consoles are coming in unreleased N64 colors I'd have killed for back in the '90s
- After losing 92 soldiers in Menace, I'll never call XCOM brutal again
- Mass Effect veteran says new RPG Exodus won't be one of those games where "you can just romance anyone because you're the hero"
- Nioh 3 shatters record for the series' highest Steam concurrent player count through the power of actually launching on PC simultaneously for once
- A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms episode 4's dragon dream is an ominous portent of things to come
- MachineGames boss says Wolfenstein 3 is still on the cards, almost 12 years after the trilogy began: "It can be now, it can be later, but we're not done with it"
- Skull Up codes (February 2026) for Diamonds, Summon Cards, Souls, and more
- I just got my hands on MANGMI's Pocket Max modular gaming handheld, and I suspect it could be my new favorite for PS2 games
- Arc Raiders player seeks ultimate victory over the Arc by one-shotting the Queen with synthesized fuel canisters: "16 hours I'm not getting back"
- The official Switch 2 SD card is back in stock, and it can cope with all 102GB of FF7 Rebirth
- Paranormasight's sequel is going to leave me sleeping with the lights on thanks to this Switch 2 headset
- Baldur's Gate 3 director says the RPG's endings were made to "serve as narrative soil for new adventures," so he's "eager to find out which ones" will be adapted in the TV show
- Mewgenics review: "The Binding of Isaac collides with Into the Breach in a strategy roguelike that has me battling bomber rats, breeding brutes, and more"
- I have over 800 hours in Baldur's Gate 3 – here's the only way I see HBO's TV show working
- Can you name all these Super Mario characters and earn yourself a 1-Up?
- Baldur's Gate 3 TV show: Everything we know so far about the upcoming HBO fantasy series
- Nintendo aims to offset skyrocketing memory prices through "mass production of Nintendo Switch 2," because if more people own the console, it can "greatly expand software sales" instead
- Todd Howard says Fallout season 2 has "the most badass Power Armor I think we've ever done," so it's "awesome" to have it in Fallout 76 too
- Horror fans will be able to purchase Markipiler's Iron Lung in one week, but the director still plans to release the film on his own terms: "We're still doing it independently from start to finish"
- Larian's publishing boss threatens to "crash out" over Baldur's Gate TV show but immediately walks it back with a more level-headed outlook: "I don't think anyone can trump our writers"
- This Viking card game is perfect for two-player matches on the go
- Faced with the bots' attempts at peace, Helldivers 2 players shoot down "baseless propaganda" as anti-freedom drivel: "I can't believe they would lie to their own citizens about our peaceful ways"
- More mysterious Nintendo trademarks updated amid first-party Direct rumors, but hype responsibly as one has made me less certain these mean anything
- Don't get too excited over Nintendo's mysterious "Nintendo Switch 2: Wii Remote" page – it's probably just a glitch, with the same controller also listed for the long-dead 3DS
- Nvidia RTX 6000 GPUs might not actually happen next year, but I'm more concerned about what Dynamic Multi-Frame Generation will mean for current-gen cards
- X-Men star Ian McKellen teases Magneto role in Avengers: Doomsday in the most hilarious way: "I'm putting on a fierce look and I'm trying to be magnetic"
- Roblox brags about its experimental AI tech while showing off a disorienting AI-generated Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lookalike
- Larian isn't involved in the Baldur's Gate TV show, but Swen Vincke says his conversation with Craig Mazin gave him "hope"
- Baldur's Gate 3 fans are already skeptical over HBO TV show adaptation: "It'll make Game of Thrones season 8 seem good"
- Before Final Fantasy 7 blew up globally, a lot of Square Enix leadership thought there wasn't "real money" in English translations, and the localization team had to beg them for overseas releases
- Baldur's Gate TV show in the works at HBO with The Last of Us co-creator Craig Mazin attached as writer and showrunner
- February 5
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- Kill Bill star's bloody new thriller movie about a killer ballerina gets its first images
- The anime action RPG I played for 130 hours is suddenly back after 19 dead-silent months – Granblue Fantasy: Relink gets huge DLC and Switch 2 port in July
- The Highguard whiplash continues as yet another massive patch is announced: a new shapeshifting hero, sky palace map, wolf mounts, and 3v3-only ranked mode are coming tomorrow
- Xbox is fine with releasing Halo: Campaign Evolved in the summer, but it's worried about Fable and Gears of War: E-Day getting overshadowed by GTA 6
- Helldivers 2 Cyborgs hack Arrowhead socials, post propaganda recreating the game's intro but with evil humans killing innocent robot children: "Think if you were in our place"
- The Matrix and John Wick star Laurence Fishburne has joined the cast of Mike Flanagan's new Exorcist movie
- Lies of P boss fights were so good they inspired Nioh 3's director to improve the bosses in his own Soulslike: "I really had a lot of fun"
- Borderlands 4 is finally getting Pearlescent gear this month, plus Bounty Pack 2 ahead of the March story update bringing new Vault Hunter C4SH
- Holding the throne of "biggest survival game on Steam," Rust unveils massive naval update with player-made boats, floating cities, more islands, and an AI overhaul
- Fallout season 2 showrunner suggests the series is pulling a Fallout 4 when it comes to the finale's big twist
- Bethesda knows putting Switch 2's Indiana Jones on a real cart is a flex, but it still can't help but lock Fallout 4 and Oblivion Remastered to code-in-box launches
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (February 6-8)
- Dune Awakening devs don't expect to "keep launch player numbers" after Steam player count hit 189,000 then ran off a cliff, but they're trying: "We do hope to get players returning"
- Fallout 3 remaster is reportedly still happening as Bethesda aims for Oblivion Remastered-level polish, but personally I think it should aim a little higher
- Once again, the secret best Nintendo Direct announcement was purely for retro sickos like me: The Virtual Console dream isn't dead on Switch 2
- "We’ve heard your feedback": Arc Raiders lowers Expedition requirement to 3 million coins, lets players "catch up" on missed skill points from the first Expedition for just 300k each
- Hideo Kojima is teasing something ahead of the rumored State of Play, and almost everyone's thinking the same thing: "PC trailer for Death Stranding 2?"
- After announcing a multiplayer Horizon game, Guerrilla boss heads off live service complaints: "We absolutely love making single-player games, and we're going to keep making them"
- Horizon Hunters Gathering: Everything you need to know about Guerrilla's new co-op action game
- My new favorite Legend of Zelda amiibo has been caught in the Best Buy deal crossfires
- Horizon Hunters Gathering playtests start in February, and you can already sign up for PS5 and PC access
- Stardew Valley fans risk their title as "the most wholesome gaming community" after ConcernedApe's past homewrecker comments see them hoping the 1.7 update ends in a virtual divorce
- Square Enix might finally reveal Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 as the RPG's director promises "more updates" on the series "than ever before" this year
- How to sign up for the Horizon Hunters Gathering playtest on PS5 and PC
- 25 years since Onimusha: Warlords, two Capcom developers break down why the samurai action series is primed for a comeback
- My players were genuinely freaked out by this Alien RPG Starter Set, which plays up the dread nicely
- Bethesda's much-rumored Starfield PS5 port is reportedly coming in 2 months, according to latest leak
- Elden Ring and The Duskbloods were both missing from today's third-party Nintendo Direct, and FromSoftware fans aren't taking it well: "I'M FALLING TO MY KNEES IN THE PARKING LOT"
- I regret to inform you that FF7 Rebirth features an exclusive MTG card by JRPG legend Tetsuya Nomura, so you're gonna have to buy it again
- 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple has been pulled from theaters after a significant box office drop, and fans are asking Sony to "give it more time!"
- Resident Evil Requiem Leon Kennedy is a hopeless loser in Switch 2 teaser during Nintendo Direct that makes him miss nearly every shot: "Are you censoring this one too?"
- Square Enix reveals $230 The Adventures of Elliot Collector's Edition, so I can only assume the JRPG's sterling Switch 2 demo did its job
- After 50 hours, I've fallen in love with Dragon Quest 7 – not the JRPG's breezy new remake, but the 25-year-old PS1 original
- Ori studio head looks to Final Fantasy Tactics for help fixing No Rest for the Wicked's progression, says other devs "haven't paid enough attention" to the JRPG
- The first Resident Evil amiibo figures are here, and my collection is itching for them both
- Nioh 3 devs "never considered adding difficulty settings" to the notoriously brutal Soulslike games, because "one of the best parts" is getting good
- New Horizon game announced: Guerrilla surprises with Horizon Hunters Gathering, a Monster Hunter-like co-op action game for PS5 and PC
- Step aside, awful Skyrim Switch 2 port – Bethesda is releasing Oblivion Remastered on Nintendo's new console this year, and I'm not sure how I feel
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is coming to Nintendo Switch 2 less than half a year after FF7 Remake's port, Square Enix confirms
- Final Fantasy 11 devs pay tribute to 91-year-old grandma who played the MMO for almost 20 years before passing away: "Thank you for journeying through Vana'diel"
- World of Warcraft lead sometimes wishes Blizzard "hadn't called it Warcraft" because "it sounds intimidating," admits the MMO's executive producer and VP
- More alien cat action, big brain puzzles, and a "darker" story give this epic sci-fi adventure more bite than I expected
- 10 years later and with no XCOM 3 in sight, I'm in love with XCOM 2 now more than ever
- I never thought my Astro Bot PS5 controller needed a case, until I knew it'd come packaged with a plushie
- Star Wars fans have uncovered a new dimension to Qui-Gon and Darth Maul's Phantom Menace showdown
- Helldivers 2 grunts speculate Cyborgs might be back on the menu as mysterious binary messages assert brazen lies, claiming Super Earth's leaders have been deceiving us
- Despite its pricing delay, Valve's Steam Frame could still turn out to be the VR market's Steam Deck moment
- Blizzard says Overwatch's sexier heroes are more down to "technical hurdles" than a desire to make everyone hot, but fans would rather devs focus on finally fixing "same face syndrome"
- Saw creators James Wan an Leigh Whannell wanted to kill Jigsaw and move on after Saw 3 because they didn't want to be "one-hit-wonders"
- Roblox Knockout codes (February 2026) for free Ice and Spins
- Skyrim is already on Switch 2, so Todd Howard had no choice but to announce some other stuff: Fallout 4 arrives this month, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle coming in May
- PS5 will hopefully avoid a price hike this year as Sony CFO says "we intend to minimize the impact" of ongoing RAM shortage, company positioned to secure memory through 2026
- Nioh 3 Revenant Malice and Bloodedge Demon explained
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- Sony is "very confident" in Marathon after playtests revealed "good points," as well as "not good points" that have since been changed for Bungie's Arc Raiders challenger
- 20 years after its disastrous film adaptation, beloved fantasy series Eragon gets a second chance as a Disney Plus series
- The Last of Us showrunner Craig Mazin says "of course" Catherine O'Hara would have returned in season 3: "The thing that's upsetting me is I don't get to see her in other stuff"
- Hideo Kojima reckons Eternals director Chloe Zhao "must be a witch" after being blown away by her new Oscar-nominated drama: "Has the power to rewrite cinema"
- Nioh 3 release times and dates for your region and platform
- "Marvel Rivals is the best thing to happen to Overwatch": Fans react to Blizzard's big changes and 10 new heroes, thanking NetEase's shooter for healthy competition
- Fallout producer says the team wants to make a practical Liberty Prime Alpha suit for season 3: "We just need to figure out how to build it"
- King of Marvel spoilers Mark Ruffalo retains his crown by seemingly ruining which Avenger will definitely be in Secret Wars
- The Nintendo Switch 2 is the shiny new console on the block, but the 5-year-old PS5 still outsold it by almost 1 million units over the last quarter
- Ghost of Yotei has "exceeded the sales" of Ghost of Tsushima "in the same period of time," says Sony CFO, and "significantly contributed" to the company's financial results
- Yes, the Steam Machine will arrive later than expected and with a higher price, but I'd call it a heads up rather than a delay
- "Upgraded" Hollow Knight edition announced, coming to Nintendo Switch 2 later today as a free upgrade to Switch owners
- 27 years after the Deep Space Nine finale, Starfleet Academy just solved one of Star Trek’s longest-running mysteries
- Cyclops actor James Marsden says Marvel is "giving everybody what they want" in Avengers: Doomsday, and old school X-Men fans will be happy
- Valve is revisiting Steam Machine pricing and release timing due to "rapidly" increasing memory and storage shortages
- Steam is giving some players refunds for Ashes of Creation, which had the biggest MMO Kickstarter campaign ever, after leadership resignation and mass layoffs
- February 4
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- Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone still feels "like an amateur" even with nearly 50 million copies sold, but he hopes that'll help Haunted Chocolatier keep its "indie soul"
- GTA 6 publisher Take-Two responds to the Google AI that sent game industry stocks crashing: Project Genie is "not even in the same ballpark" as a real game engine
- Game of Thrones star joins season 2 of underrated Stephen King sci-fi show from Lost director
- Marvel Rivals owner Netease says heck no we didn't shut down our AI department or warn devs off it: "The situation described did not occur"
- Marvel and Life of Chuck actor to star alongside Scarlett Johansson in Mike Flanagan's Exorcist reboot
- "Made without crunch": World of Warcraft Midnight is the "the fastest expansion" Blizzard has ever made, with "no sacrifices to team health"
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 players have already killed more NPCs than there were people on Earth in the real 15th century
- The first trailer for Netflix's War Machine channels classic Predator vibes as Reacher star Alan Ritchson leads a squad of soldiers against an unstoppable killer robot
- After 60 years in the industry, Harrison Ford says Shrinking would be a "sufficient" way to end his storied career: "Where do you go from here?"
- Red Dead Redemption 2's enigmatic spider web puzzle is the first thing that's gotten me genuinely excited for GTA 6
- Those big Animal Crossing and Splatoon updates are meant to be a pathway for fans to migrate to Switch 2 at their own pace, Nintendo says
- Blizzard renames Overwatch 2 to Overwatch, 4 years after deciding Overwatch was Overwatch 2, because "Overwatch is more than just a digit: it's a living universe," called Overwatch
- After Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was snubbed at the Grammys, legendary Journey composer Austin Wintory dedicates his win to Sandfall's "once-in-a-generation-level rarity"
- Control Resonant may be an action-RPG, but Remedy isn't veering into hellishly-challenging territory: "There are no parries, there is no back-and-forth with a single enemy"
- Peak's "8 bucks is still 5 bucks" view is a genuine look "behind the curtain" at "vibes pricing" across the industry, analyst says: "70 bucks seems right. All right, we'll try that"
- Original Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner reacts to Ubisoft's "brutal" cancellation of Sands of Time remake: "Words like loss and grieving might seem exaggerated, but artists put their hearts into their work"
- My favorite Baldur's Gate 3 companion got more love in the latest MTG Secret Lair, but I can't stomach buying it
- Beast of Reincarnation's battles are about "the joyful dilemma of choice", building on the director's Pokemon battle planning expertise
- Helldivers 2 finally brings back underrated service technician, whose voice actor is "so happy" to be returning: "Love this game, love this team, love this character"
- Nioh 3 Metacritic score sees it beat Nioh 2 with its open-world pivot, but you may be surprised to hear it's still losing to the original samurai Soulslike
- Iconic Mario voice actor "didn't know anything about video games" in his audition, so he did what anyone would do and "just made things up about food and started talking"
- Thor star Chris Hemsworth praises Steve Rogers' surprise Avengers: Doomsday teaser: "No one knew he was going to be in the film, and then there he is"
- My Switch 2 collection continues to suffer with this Super Mario Bros Wonder deal
- Stardew Valley still has "a secret that no one has ever found" after 10 years, but ConcernedApe says it "reveals something that actually isn't even true anymore"
- Texas Chain Saw Massacre is being turned into an original TV show because its director is "not interested in remaking perfect films": "It's the only way I wanted to do it"
- Ubisoft loses another Assassin's Creed veteran: 21-year design senior on the series since the original game leaves the company for "a smaller studio with other veterans"
- Pokemon Ultra Beasts are "a manifestation of my own resentment," Game Freak artist says after his designs were rejected by art director: "This doesn't mean that I hate Mr. Sugimori or anything like that"
- This mega-cute Eevee Switch 2 pouch is a Valentine's Day gift no-brainer for Pokemon fans
- Someone put a force feedback wheel on an RC-style controller, and with GameSir's Swift Drive on the way, I hope this sim racing trend continues in 2026
- Switch 2 won't increase $450 price tag due to ongoing RAM shortage according to Nintendo president – for now, at least
- Arc Raiders squeezes cheaters a little harder, blocking Steam Family Sharing workarounds "to prevent abuse of shared licenses" and stop players evading bans
- The Last of Us season 3 finds it new Manny in Spider-Man: No Way Home star, and casts '90s icon as new Seraphite
- World of Warcraft lead says Blizzard has "a bigger vision" than simply just being an MMORPG and the Warcraft IP has "been underutilized"
- Crime 101 director reveals he wrote Barry Keoghan's role as a wildcard criminal especially for him, as his co-star Chris Hemsworth praises his "magnetic" performance
- KPop Demon Hunters Lego sets teased, and if you ask me it's a Golden opportunity
- Nintendo Direct is back this week with 30-minute Partner Showcase where delayed Elden Ring Switch 2 port could finally reemerge
- Mistonia's Hope is a revenge quest romantasy that left me murdered, devastated by a love triangle, and bewitched – I'm obsessed
- The Pokemon Company teases "special" 30-year celebration for February 8 – by putting Jigglypuff in a recording studio for Super Bowl LX
- After campaigning for Arc Raiders to win GOTY at The Game Awards, former FPS pro Shroud is taking a break because he's "tired of the cheaters," plus "once you have everything it loses a little bit of its fun"
- UK Nintendo fans this is not a drill, Animal Crossing amiibo cards are back
- Send Help producer reveals the surprising on-set hazard that had to be removed from island thriller's set – killer coconuts: "We had to be so 'safety first'"
- Nioh 3 review: "Brutal samurai and ninja clashes across wide maps avoid retreading Elden Ring – this Soulslike is all demon killer, no filler"
- This Lord of the Rings card game is a puzzle-solving masterclass
- High-end live streaming mixers can cost $499, but this one somehow costs $49 - is OneOdio's Solocaster too good to be true, or a new budget hero?
- "Their worlds are handcrafted": GTA 6 parent company CEO says "generative AI has zero part in what Rockstar Games is building," even if he's "enthusiastic" about AI in game development
- Christian Bale reveals he would "scream like crazy" in the makeup chair for The Bride!, but horror fans think he's overreacting: "He couldn't like, put on some YouTube or something?"
- I still use multiple CRT TVs with my retro consoles, but I've found a way to satiate my lust for scanlines on even modern screens
- Anime adaptation of Fullmetal Alchemist creator's underrated manga is suddenly one of 2026's big highlights
- Stardew Valley 1.7 update will add "2 more marriage candidates," and fans theorize they could be anyone from the farming sim's past villagers like Sandy to entirely new NPCs
- Borderlands 4 will continue to be supported says Gearbox owner, and "we still are very optimistic about that title" despite launch being a "bit softer than we would've liked"
- Pluribus creator Vince Gilligan says he is "deeper into the process" of season 2 than he had predicted, but it will still take time: "It ain’t gonna be The Pitt"
- When is Chappell Roan coming to Fortnite?
- Fallout season 2 doubles down on not committing to a canon New Vegas ending – thanks to one Courier line
- Amazon's Fallout countdown leads not to the Fallout 3 and New Vegas remasters everyone wants, but a 3D tour of Mr House's penthouse: "My fault for being a loser and expecting anything from Bethesda"
- Sam Raimi "promised himself" he'd work with Rachel McAdams again after she was "underutilized" in Doctor Strange 2: "I saw how talented she was"
- As everyone continues to fear $80 GTA 6, Take-Two CEO says "we do feel a compact with the consumer" and wants to "deliver way more value than what we charge"
- X-Men star James Marsden says the Russo Brothers are "upping the ante" with Avengers: Doomsday: "Of course you can count on being blown away"
- GTA 6 owner has "every reason to believe" GTA Online will continue to be supported after Rockstar's next game finally releases: "There's a great community that loves it, that stays engaged"
- Fallout season 3 is headed to a new location, but its underrated semi-canon RPG has taken us there before
- With Colorado on the horizon, Todd Howard says it's "good" for the Fallout TV show to "go new places where the games haven't been"
- Todd Howard says the Brotherhood of Steel surprise in Fallout season 2's post-credits scene was no afterthought: "It was always a matter of how and when, not if"
- "Valve is on track" - AMD just put my Steam Machine fears to rest while hinting that a new Xbox could show up in 2027
- "That's never going to happen": Stardew Valley creator ConcernedApe wants to make his farming sim "infinitely replayable," but only "without the use of AI"
- Fallout showrunner and producer Todd Howard on whether the TV show just changed video game canon: "What existed before, and how do you remain respectful to it?"
- Fallout season 2 finale blueprints explained: what is Liberty Prime Alpha?
- Fallout season 2, episode 8 post-credits scenes: how many are there and how do they set up the next season?
- Fallout season 3 release date speculation, cast, news, and everything else we know
- Fallout season 2 ending explained: Who dropped the bombs? Where does Fallout season 3 take place?
- Fallout stars Kyle MacLachlan and Annabel O'Hagan talk "peeling back the layers" of their characters in season 2's epic finale: "What are we growing here? We don't know yet"
- Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh are unlikely allies in first look at "genre-bending, action packed buddy comedy" from Dungeons and Dragons directors
- Doom devs including John Romero respond to terminally ill fan spending his final days playing Doom: The Dark Ages: "You are not alone in that hospital room"
- Apple TV's Cape Fear remake sees Amy Adams in over her head as Javier Bardem's ex-prisoner plots revenge in tension-filled first look
- February 3
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- Apple unveils first look at Peacemaker star John Cena in upcoming Matchbox The Movie based on the classic toys by Mattel
- Borderlands 4 Switch 2 port looks dead as Gearbox parent Take-Two "pauses development"
- Oblivion Remastered studio worked on Fallout season 2, so you might as well toss them Fallout 3 and New Vegas remasters too, Bethesda
- GTA 6 physical copies will not be delayed to avoid leaks, says Take-Two CEO: "That's not the plan"
- GTA 6 release date seems locked in at last as Rockstar owner promises "launch marketing" starts this summer: "Groundbreaking for Take-Two and the entire entertainment industry"
- Baldur's Gate 3's Shadowheart and Gale star in Magic: The Gathering's new D&D Secret Lair – "pre-queue" opens next week an hour before they inevitably sell out
- "When you make literally billions of dollars on Skyrim," Bethesda veteran would be "shocked" if Amazon's Fallout TV show makes the studio "any money they care about"
- PC gamers and Steam customers are "a really bright spot" as the games industry struggles with pricing and sustainability, analyst says: "We can look at an audience that's excited to try new things"
- Resident Evil Requiem gets official short film that might be the best adaptation so far, and its possible Nemesis cameo doesn't hurt: "FIVE STAAAAAAAAAAAARS"
- I was going to play the Nioh 3 demo for 30 minutes and then I played 5 hours – this open-world Soulslike is blowing me away at 120 FPS
- A year after pop star Chappell Roan asked Fortnite to "please give me a skin, please," Epic reveals long-rumored collab for Fortnite Festival
- Anya Taylor-Joy is a con artist on the run in the action-packed first teaser for Apple TV's new show Lucky
- It's not Kong, it's not Godzilla, it's something far worse in first trailer for Monarch: Legacy of Monsters season 2
- Sony embraces death, patents AI-generated podcasts hosted by video game characters that eat "the data associated" with your player profile: "Also, Try A Spin Move On The Boss Next Time!"
- Fallout New Vegas was a 2010 GOTY for me, and a sequel would be perfect timing for where the TV show is heading
- "Goodbye for now": Still in Steam Early Access, action RPG from ex Ubisoft, Capcom, and Riot devs with $17 million investment hangs it up after "mixed initial reviews and a declining player base"
- I'm the voice of your Guitar Hero nostalgia, and I think you should look at the price of the PDP Riffmaster guitar controller right now
- This Hori Gengar & Mimikyu Switch 2 Vault Case has leveled up my portable gaming setup
- Helldivers 2 grunts, your tank awaits: Completely "pancake" Automatons threatening democracy with "new heavy-hitting" Bastion Tank
- Obsidian doesn't want another 3-game year, but Fallout: New Vegas' example shows how the studio can make games faster without needing "to change everything every time"
- Arc Raiders devs triple the frequency of Bird City after time zones locked many fans out of playing, Embark promises to "keep revising" its map event schedule
- This Oblivion Remastered mod adds actual jobs to Bethesda's revamped RPG, just in case you're not already sick of working your 9-5 in real life
- How to unlock the Helldivers 2 Bastion Tank and how it works
- Red Dead Redemption 2 is now a "legally distinct" Pokemon RPG thanks to one modder who has turned Arthur's gang into Gym Leaders and wildlife into formidable foes
- Highguard review: "A fresh but muddled FPS genre mashup that needs refinement if it's to have any staying power"
- Thor: Ragnarok duo Chris Hemsworth and Mark Ruffalo re-team to play "yin and yang" thief and cop in new thriller Crime 101, but the Marvel stars think their characters are "more similar than they are opposite"
- Avowed and The Outer Worlds 2 weren't "disasters," but one Obsidian veteran admits "it's not good to release three games in the same year"
- Sam Raimi had creative "disagreements" with one of his Send Help stars, but the director ultimately admitted he was wrong: "He wasn't afraid to go all the way to the edge"
- Nintendo doesn't think Metroid Prime 4 sales are worth mentioning in new financial report even after an 18-year wait, and fans fear the worst: "This might be it"
- Stardew Valley had "many" chances to become a movie or TV show, but creator ConcernedApe only had eyes for the legendary director of Twin Peaks: "'You can do whatever you want, Mr. Lynch'"
- HP just dropped $1,000 off my favorite gaming laptop, but this flash sale comes with a caveat and a countdown
- Anbernic is beating Sony to the chase with its RG Vita handheld, but I don't think it's enough like a PS Vita
- Sorry Virtual Boy, I wasn't familiar with your game: just 10 minutes with Switch 2's relaunch of the failed Nintendo console made me realize I've been underestimating it this whole time
- Oops, Genshin Impact challenger Arknights: Endfield accidentally charged 1,800 players $80,000 in Paypal disaster before the devs could stop it
- Stardew Valley 2 was in the works at one point, says Eric Barone, and he'd still love to make it happen: "It would just be fun to work on a whole new set of characters, a whole new world"
- Where to find Geiger Counters in Arc Raiders
- Dune: Awakening Chapter 3 is the survival MMO's biggest yet: a rebuilt Landsraad, new areas to explore, a specialization system – and did I mention, no more taxes?
- "We do not police how developers make their games": Epic Games Store boss says "we let players decide" on games that use gen AI
- Even Epic says Epic Games Store free games boost Steam versions, with concurrent Steam players rising 40% on average during free promos: "It's a good thing"
- There's a difference between back buttons and back paddles, and the Gulikit KK3 Max controller will prove it to you
- Super Mario Bros. Wonder Switch 2 Edition adds some major Mario Party vibes, and after 30 minutes it feels like a worthy expansion to one of the best games on the platform
- "My goal on PC isn't to topple Steam": Epic Games Store boss says beating Valve isn't the plan – just getting "enough market share on PC that you have to be here no matter what"
- Epic says only 16 to 18% of people claiming free games on the Epic Games Store buy games there afterwards, but "for cost per new user, it's hard to beat"
- Best Buy has just unleashed a Square Enix game sale, and my free time is cooked
- 3 years after it was announced, Longlegs star gives promising update on horror sequel They Follow: "I would stay positive, because I've heard some good news recently"
- Anime Reversal codes (February 2026) for free Rerolls and Gems
- As Nintendo Direct rumors swirl, updated Splatoon Raiders trademark releases copium that we may hear about the upcoming Switch 2 exclusive soon
- Nintendo Switch overtakes the DS as Nintendo's best-selling console of all time, and with its sales figures still growing, it's closing the gap with the PS2
- "Malicious" mod that deletes files spreading through Steam Workshop just like John Carpenter's The Thing, says dev of sandbox hit with 300,000 reviews: "It replaces them with itself. This is how it spreads"
- Ms. Marvel star Iman Vellani rates Wonder Man 4.5 stars, with the disclaimer that "no Kevins and/or Feiges are currently present"
- The makeup team behind horror movie The Ugly Stepsister definitely earned their Oscar nomination, as one scene made them "want to vomit on set"
- "The loss of a studio is a huge blow": Christopher Nolan says he has "very, very significant concerns" about the Warner Bros. Netflix sale
- Major Helldivers 2 patch increases "intensity" of the highest difficulties, buffs all melee weapons, makes enemies better at aiming, and so much more
- HBO boss confirms George R.R. Martin "definitely took a step back" from House of the Dragon
- With over 17 million units sold and counting, it took Nintendo Switch 2 under 7 months to overtake the woefully underrated Wii U's lifetime sales
- Netflix didn't reign supreme in 2025 as Stranger Things loses to a kids' TV show as the most watched series of the year
- This new Logitech G325 headset features an invisible beamforming microphone, and I'm not sure how to feel about that
- Crunchyroll is raising subscription prices halfway through Jujutsu Kaisen's latest season
- Skyrim lead thinks it's "wiser" for Bethesda to use its Creation Engine for new games like Elder Scrolls 6, with Fallout 76 an example of why it's "extremely difficult" to swap
- 9 games to watch out for this month
- "WE DID IT!": Highguard 5v5 is "here to stay," and players are psyched that the studio is doing what it should've done in the first place
- All of the Fallout games are heavily discounted on Steam right now, and maybe if you play each one 50 times over, Fallout 5 will be waiting for you when you're done
- February 2
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- Alone in the Dark's influence on survival horror is so profound that it saved Resident Evil from being a first-person shooter – and now you can get the whole trilogy for free
- I need every developer currently making a Soulslike to stop what they're doing and add this time-saving feature from Nioh 3: one-click level-up top-offs
- Ubisoft fires 13-year Assassin's Creed veteran just days after suspending him for speaking out against the company's return-to-office mandate: "This was not my decision"
- Call of Duty is cracking down on cheaters ahead of season 2 and the launch of ranked play with "major technology innovations" and bans on third-party devices: "Cheating can cost more than a win"
- "What the f***" is Markiplier's Iron Lung movie doing earning $8.9 million in one night, wonders Iron Lung dev
- In a post-Baldur's Gate 3 world, I need Larian to hold tight to the D&D chaos that makes Hail Mary moments so satisfying
- Silent Hill 2 remake studio's new teaser isn't a comeback for infamous PS2 horror game Rule of Rose, or any other remake for that matter – "Nice guess"
- Marathon is a greatest hits of '90s futurism, according to Bungie lead, who says the shooter was "deeply inspired" by wild PlayStation ads and "translucent DualShocks"
- Dragon Quest visionary Yuji Horii is getting his own RPG-style manga detailing his journey to creating the iconic JRPG series
- Whistle director says he's "never known chemistry" like Sophie Nelisse and Dafne Keen's in the new queer supernatural horror: "It worked so perfectly"
- The Elder Scrolls fans fire back at Skyrim lead's fightin' words: Morrowind "manages to hold up better than Skyrim" and Oblivion's Attribute system was great, actually
- Arc Raiders' second Expedition window ends in just 23 days, but Embark still hasn't told players what they need to prepare: "Please tell us"
- Cyberpunk 2 lead says first-person POV "was better" for Cyberpunk 2077, as third-person is "for more defined characters" like The Witcher 3's Geralt and God of War's Kratos
- Best Buy's Super Bowl sale has up to 50% off OLED TVs, here's how to pick the right one
- Nioh 3 might come to Xbox for the first time in the nearly 10-year-old franchise as a flashy new trailer confirms 6 months of PS5 exclusivity
- 6 of the best new shows and movies streaming this week on Disney Plus, Netflix, Prime Video, and more (February 2–February 8)
- Warhammer 40K Chaos fans adore these new models, and I agree with their "O hell to the f*** YES" verdict
- You can now use Nintendo's N64 Switch online controller with the Analogue 3D, but I've got a few better options worth looking at
- Where to find arc resin in Arc Raiders
- One year after Civilization 7 tried to fix the strategy genre's biggest problem, Firaxis is meeting fans in the middle with an "expansion-level" update: "I think we're going to blow some fans' minds"
- Fallout works as a TV show because it's "unique," says Skyrim lead – but Bethesda's other RPG series might not: "Do they really need marketing for Elder Scrolls 6?"
- Baldur's Gate 3 boss Swen Vincke forced to reveal Larian's next RPG Divinity "ends with a lot of fire" after a 19 roll for Persuasion
- "'Yes, I will gladly die for Super Earth'": Helldivers 2 writer had only 7 days to find unofficial face of the franchise John Helldiver, "the cheesiest, most insincere" man in the galaxy
- The first open-back planar magnetic Asus ROG headset is here, and it's another win for audiophile gamers
- A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms young star didn't initially grasp the significance of his big episode 3 reveal: "I don't know much about Game of Thrones because I've never watched it"
- id Software's 2D platformers were making "10 times" more money than its early FPS games, and Doom might never have happened if the studio followed the easy cash
- Fallout 76 will get "thicker" this year, teases lead, who says Bethesda isn't just making the RPG's map bigger anymore: "I really want our gaze to shift from the outskirts to inwards"
- Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says games "could benefit" from being more like toys, which Minecraft, Skyrim, and all "the best games" are: "Freeform, goal-free playing"
- Soccer Zero codes (February 2026) for free rewards
- Fallout star Walton Goggins says that fateful moment in season 2 episode 7 is "a lot to ponder": "Why believe in anything except yourself?"
- Michael Rooker only landed his Guardians of the Galaxy role because he was suddenly killed off on The Walking Dead
- 5 years on, I still think about Mass Effect Legendary Edition's symbolic first trailer
- First trailer for animated Stranger Things spin-off Tales from '85 is here to fill the Upside Down-shaped hole in our hearts
- The Nun director reveals the "three things" that drew him back to original horror with Whistle, as star explains how "fun" it was to play both hero and villain
- The SteelSeries Arctis Nova 3 Wireless headset is so cheap I had to pinch myself, but this record low is real
- The PS6 controller might not even have buttons on it as a new patent hints Sony is going all-in on haptic feedback
- A gospel-inspired Super Mario medley just won a Grammy, beating Wicked star Cynthia Erivo and becoming the group's second Nintendo cover to win despite no nominations for the company itself
- This cozy "carefree" Stardew Valley-like that first caught my eye with its anime aesthetic officially releases into early access next week, and I can't wait
- Full WWE 2K26 roster guide with every confirmed wrestler sorted by brand
- Turns out Intel's XeSS 3 upscaling works on MSI Claw handhelds, so I'd pop it on your portable ASAP for Multi-Frame Generation tomfoolery
- Markiplier's Iron Lung scores impressive $17.8 million US opening weekend, but it was beaten to the top spot by Evil Dead director's new horror movie Send Help
- 15 years later, infamous Minecraft anarchy servers strengthen chat moderation at the reported request of Mojang itself
- Franchise creator James Wan says he wants to make John Kramer "scary" again in Saw 11 and explore "Jigsaw’s philosophy and what makes him tick"
- How to fix Pokemon TCG Pocket Error code 102-243-099
- HBO boss says House of the Dragon will end with season 4 but "doesn't know" if it will be an extra-long final season
- Baldur's Gate 3 and Divinity publishing lead disagrees with Bethesda veteran, says Morrowind with a modern combat system "would sell like f***ing hot cakes"
- The Batman 2 writer teases two notebooks full of material for his Game of Thrones spin-off Aegon's Conquest
- HBO boss says It: Welcome to Derry season 2 is "not in limbo at all" and he would be "happy to do it"
- Over 8 years since a $3.27 million Kickstarter, MMO Ashes of Creation hit with "mass" layoffs after studio founder resigns "in protest"
- Jujutsu Kaisen manga casually reveals a fan-favorite character lives in the sequel after all
- Nintendo does what '90s Nintendo could only dream of – sell out of the Virtual Boy
- How to create the best builds in No Rest For The Wicked
- A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms showrunner says he made "peace" with the huge episode 3 twist being an open secret
- Avengers: Doomsday directors may have revealed too much after swiftly deleting a video showcasing the Marvel movie's biggest fan theories
- That ominous A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms episode 3 prophecy actually ties into the George R.R. Martin book lore in a major way
- February 1
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- How to watch the 2026 Grammys online from around the world
- Scream 7 unveils extremely nostalgic popcorn bucket ahead of the horror sequel
- Final Fantasy 7's Tetsuya Nomura reveals concept art made in the JRPG's "very earliest" stages that "envisioned combat" not fully realized until FF7 Remake
- "Go back and play Morrowind and tell me that's the game you want to play again," says Skyrim lead, who thinks players "will cringe" at a possible remake
- Steam hit Escape From Duckov gets official crossover with Escape From Tarkov, bringing the two extraction shooter giants together
- Skyrim lead thinks Starfield "would be talked about like the second coming" if a new studio made it, but "expectations were so much higher" with Bethesda
- Blumhouse developing adaptation of The Exorcism at 1600 Penn
- Ian McKellen lets slip details on how much damage Magneto does in Avengers: Doomsday
- Scooby-Doo star Matthew Lillard chimes in with thoughts on Netflix’s live-action show
