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- June 30
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- Pokemon's hardest challenge has finally been completed after 15 months and "easily over 100k" collective attempts, and it took an absolute monster Crobat to do it
- You may not like it, but peak Death Stranding performance is this incredible road that took 5 hours to make
- You'll soon be able to buy Fantastic Four comics off a newsstand, just the way our ancestors once did
- Hideo Kojima was "so bummed" Death Stranding 2 Easter eggs were "revealed on social media right away," but "I'm retweeting all these things so the blame is on me"
- Maxwell Lord - The comic history of the villain who mind-controlled Superman and almost destroyed the Justice League
- Elden Ring's new content and Nintendo Switch 2 release could be coming soon – the Tarnished Edition was just rated by the ESRB
- The Institute showrunners explain why the new Stephen King dystopian sci-fi TV series is more timely than ever: "Children shall inherit the earth, but first they have to save themselves"
- Hideo Kojima says "I'm happy with the scores, thank you" as Death Stranding 2 settles at 90 on Metacritic, overcoming his fears that it might be too likable
- Amazon's missing out on that sweet Switch 2 money because Nintendo's mad about "unauthorized sales," new report suggests
- James Gunn says Marvel boss Kevin Feige was a "really great role model" for what he's trying to achieve at DC: "He let me do my thing, but he also was really honest with what he thought"
- Nintendo warns Switch 1 consoles, games, accessories, amiibo, and more will "experience price changes" in Canada, and it's tough to imagine the rest of the world escaping
- After revealing he was ordered to destroy his copy of Fallout's source code, OG lead Tim Cain says we're losing game history because companies "take authority but not responsibility" for preservation
- After 4 years and 800k gold, World of Warcraft player claims the MMO's smelliest "World First" by collecting 10 million of a very specific fish: "I have no intention of ever getting rid of even a single one"
- How many Episodes are in Death Stranding 2?
- The best new shows and movies streaming this week on Netflix, Prime Video, Disney Plus, and more
- Death Stranding 2 is taking its On the Beach subtitle seriously as players think its map screen could be making some PS5s overheat
- Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone receives the highest honor possible: Big ConcernedApe, a gigantic in-game portrait one fan made with 20 hours of painstakingly arranged items
- Persona offers a new contender for silliest JRPG villain with Persona 5: The Phantom X and its "Subway Slammer," who declares "the whole subway's mine for the slammin'!"
- Netflix has spoiled the final scene of Squid Game season 3 just three days after release
- Newegg's 4th of July sale is live so I've scrolled the entire site for the seven best discounts available right now
- "Standard is saved": Massive MTG card ban stuns the community while completely upending the metagame
- Jurassic World Rebirth Review: "An unscary sequel that needed a little more time in amber"
- 70 hours later and with a full launch imminent, I already miss Hades 2 being in Early Access
- With 21 million concurrent players, Roblox hit Grow a Garden is bigger than half of Steam combined, but players are already flooding another, far weirder competitor
- Hideo Kojima admits references to himself in Death Stranding 2 are all his own doing, even if it "might cause certain people to cringe hard"
- Like the contestants themselves, Squid Game fans are almost perfectly divided on season 3, calling it either "the best series of my life" or "the worst show I've ever seen"
- "Y'all are pathetic": Dune: Awakening players are using sandworms to kill their rivals in PvE-only areas, proving once more that nowhere on Arrakis is safe
- James Gunn reveals that Superman has a secret voice cameo from a DC star playing a totally different role: "I actually recorded her on my phone"
- First trailer for Project Hail Mary sees Ryan Gosling embark on a dangerous journey into space in new sci-fi movie from Spider-Verse creators and The Martian screenwriter
- I forced my friends to use these $15 Switch 2 Twin Racing Wheels, and now Mario Kart World is our favorite co-op game
- Randy Pitchford asks fans "would you pre-order Borderlands 4" on your "favorite" PC game store "if you knew that would influence exclusivity decisions," is overwhelmingly told Steam is all that matters
- All Death Stranding 2 best unlocks and rewards
- HDMI 2.2 cables will theoretically help the PS6 hit 16K, but I'd maybe focus on perfecting your 4K setup instead
- It's so over: Sonic boss Takashi Iizuka says there are "currently no plans" for Sonic Adventure remakes as they would take "as much time and energy as it would to make a new title"
- The Sandman season 2 release schedule: what time is Volume 1 on Netflix?
- New Lego sets for July 2025, including the perfect gift I think fans will go nuts for
- Hideo Kojima altered certain Death Stranding 2 characters to better match their actors, which is why why Cliff and Fragile smoke and Higgs plays guitar
- The Alters has changed the way I play games for the better, and after 18 years I can finally finish Mass Effect
- Where to buy Nintendo Switch 2 - new US and UK restocks as they happen
- Demon Slayer's new movie will be released on an "unprecedented scale" according to Crunchyroll boss: "The attention of theater owners around the world to anime has changed"
- The Office star Rainn Wilson says the show was "chaotic" and a "struggle" to film after Steve Carell left: "We knew it was coming for a long time"
- To mark Resident Evil's 30th anniversary, a free-to-watch fan-made web series with the original cast is heading to YouTube
- After fears it wouldn't, Capcom has addressed Monster Hunter Wilds' CPU issues on PC, but it's not out of the woods just yet
- Deltarune Chapter 3 was originally supposed to be even longer, as the devs "made most of" a third TV Time gameshow round before it was cut
- Early test footage of the first Sonic movie shows how the original design could have been even worse than what we saw
- Spider-Man: No Way Home script was changed after Reddit guessed how Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield would be introduced
- "Pick your lane and stick to it": Former Blizzard president says it's "tough to see Xbox confused" amid "this is an Xbox" branding: "They have to figure out what needs to change... and fast"
- Palworld is back in Steam's top 10 thanks to its Terraria update, but one dev is "sure it'll be branded a 'dead game' for the 100th time a week from now"
- Netflix’s upcoming follow-up to its most popular non-English language movie ever gets first trailer, giving us our first look at the franchise’s biggest monster yet
- Superman has a twist from an obscure 1970s comic book to explain why no one realizes Clark Kent's identity, because "the glasses always bothered" James Gunn
- Squid Game's finale is being called a Game of Thrones-style "disaster" – but Netflix viewers are missing the point
- Assassin's Creed: Black Flag remake takes a step closer to reality as lead voice actor tells fans "you may have to beat it again"
- James Gunn says we'll see Superman again in "less than a couple of years", and DC fans are already speculating when and how
- Jurassic World Rebirth director thinks the fact that people "aren't that interested in dinosaurs anymore" in the new sequel is "honest" and a "good reflection of where we are with cinema"
- June 29
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- Death Stranding 2 is my favorite online game this year, even though you never directly see any other players
- Henry Cavill’s Warhammer 40K series should ditch Space Marines for one of the series’ most important characters, and I know exactly how it would work
- The Outer Worlds 2 director "loves" complex RPG systems, which means if "you just want to blow stuff up, you never have to worry about stealth"
- The Witcher 4 narrative lead says CD Projekt Red "can't break" the stuff that people want from a Witcher game: "We have to do that"
- Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds mirrors Mario Kart World's move away from traditional 3-lap races with tracks that put you in a whole "different universe"
- The Squid Game season 3 finale is a crushing but ultimately hopeful conclusion – and I wouldn't have it any other way
- New Switch 2 game comes from the developer of some absolute DS classics, is designed for "adult women," and is doing something genuinely exciting for visual novels
- Borderlands 4 dev says "the way we've done guns before is great," but Gearbox is still overhauling its weapons to offer even "more opportunity for surprise"
- I don't care what Capcom says, Leon not being in Resident Evil Requiem makes no sense
- OG Hytale founder confirms he "will reach out" to Riot Games about buying back the Minecraft rival: "The chances of revival are next to impossible… It's the least I can do"
- Don't expect The Witcher 4 to look exactly like its big showcase when it launches, as CD Projekt is "not guaranteeing that this will appear unchanged" in the full RPG
- Disney's Tower of Terror movie with Scarlett Johansson is still under maintenance due to "thin" lore
- "I might never finish this game, so I'm releasing the demo": After 9 years, A Short Hike dev soft-cancels Paper Mario-inspired RPG but lets players try a build
- Superman star Nicholas Hoult sized up David Corenswet after auditioning for the role himself and knew he was "perfect for it"
- One James Bond potential favorite thinks it would be a "nightmare" role after recent rumored list is revealed
- Live-action Akira movie finally dies after Warner Bros. give up rights to beloved anime
- Jurassic World Rebirth director says the new sequel pushes the horror "a little bit further" than previous movies: "I was kind of amazed that we were allowed to go that far"
- June 28
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- The first Demon Slayer Infinity Castle trailer is here and it's epic in every sense of the word
- "Games are amazingly affordable": Former PlayStation boss defends $80 prices because stuff like Mario Kart provides "hours and hours and hours with just one purchase"
- FC 25 Path To Glory tracker with all Women’s Euro 2025 cards
- Capcom agrees Monster Hunter Wilds has an endgame problem, so it's adding "a new level of quest difficulty" and Talisman crafting to "broaden the range of builds"
- Stardew Valley's ConcernedApe reportedly says he could "possibly" step in to save cancelled Minecraft-like Hytale, but he'd need to know "why it failed" first
- Cyberpunk 2 director says "mature games" used to mainly be about killing and sex, but The Witcher 3 was part of a "broader process" to change that as devs grew older
- Squid Game creator reveals that devastating finale moment wasn't in the original plan – and why it had to happen [spoiler]
- Dying Light: The Beast director says great open-world games aren't about how big the map is, but about how good it feels to move around
- A major Reacher season 4 role has been re-cast
- Codex Supplement: Space Wolves detachments, ranked worst to best
- New James Bond report claims Denis Villeneuve won't have final cut and that the next 007 won't be picked until the script is written
- Scarlett Johansson thinks new sequel Jurassic World Rebirth "stands on its own" despite including plenty of franchise Easter eggs: "The hope is that if you've never seen any of the other Jurassics, this is the one"
- Hope you like Transformers, because a new report says there are 5 films on the way, including a new Michael Bay movie and the G.I. Joe crossover, but no Transformers One sequel
- Dave the Diver celebrates 2nd birthday by sharing messages from Baldur's Gate 3 actor Neil Newbon and the Subnautica studio CEO, bringing back Godzilla DLC, and dang, delaying its next DLC
- June 27
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- Blizzard jumps out of bed, rushes to the desk, and slams the nerf button after Diablo 4 players find a way to use Season 9 powers to "teleport effectively infinitely" and speed farm with every class
- As if the usual Marvel Rivals leaks weren't enough, Twitch has accidentally confirmed that Phoenix and Blade are your new Season 3 heroes alongside new "sizzling summer events"
- Tom Holland and Jacob Elordi are reportedly being considered for Denis Villeneuve's Amazon James Bond movie
- Palworld has a gigantic new Terraria collab because creator Redigit got a Hail Mary DM from Pocketpair: "Let this be a lesson to always shoot your shot"
- Ex Dragon Age writer's new studio shrugs off a failed Kickstarter, chucks its exorcist take on Slay the Spire right onto Steam – and it's a cool roguelike with a mana system I don't think I've ever seen
- What's the best movie of the 21st century so far? Thousands of people – and Julianne Moore – agree that it's 2020 Best Picture Oscar winner Parasite
- The Sims competitor InZOI has one big issue beating every other problem in a new player survey: it's "lacking simulation content," which seems kinda bad
- MMO community fears PvP bots have formed a "cartel" using false reports to get you banned if you kill them for their illegal loot, bringing Old School RuneScape's bot problem to a boil
- The 10 best movies on Paramount Plus to watch right now
- 13 years ago, Mojang canceled its Lego Minecraft game amid frustrations with the toy company's brand restrictions - now the original prototype has been found and preserved online
- Fist of the Northstar is getting a reboot in 2026 – the most gonzo fighting anime of all time returns nearly 40 years after its debut
- Sonic races into Magic: The Gathering with a surprise limited run, and you can guarantee they're gonna sell out fast
- Kill Team Starter Set (2024) review: "A great introduction to the mechanics, but it doesn't always capture what makes the game special"
- Roblox Grow a Garden codes (July 2025) for seeds and more
- Do not play the new Persona 5 game like it's a Persona 5 game, Persona 5 experts warn: "P5X does not give you a deadline"
- Ex PlayStation boss thinks Nintendo's cheaper Japan-exclusive Switch 2 is an "amazing business decision," but doesn't think "PlayStation would emulate what they did"
- Terraria update 1.4.5 grows ever larger as devs try "our very best to narrow in on that elusive launch window" but also tease "there will be Palworld content in Terraria"
- Former Nintendo marketing lead says the "one time" she "saw genuine fear from the executives" at the company was "when we saw the rise of mobile games"
- Desperate to avoid saying 'we want that $10 billion', League of Legends dev Riot Games tries to justify legalizing esports gambling sponsors, but players aren't buying it
- PC gaming doesn't have to mean sitting at a desk in your spare time: Here's how I built the perfect couch setup
- Ahsoka star Ivanna Sakhno says the Star Wars show's second season is "currently in the middle of filming" and promises a "bigger" and "even more in-depth" journey: "I'm really excited for people to see it"
- Link wanted for counterfeit as The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom's Switch 2 edition adds a new item duplication glitch for infinite rare materials
- The Outer Worlds 2 is "going deeper and more complex" with its companions, and I'm already making grabby hands at this RPG
- "REPO has changed forever": Semiwork finally releases its first major update and celebrates with the co-op horror game's best discount yet
- Anime Expo 2025: dates, announcements, and why One-Punch Man fans should be excited
- Helldivers 2 finally gets its review bomb cape to celebrate your "unquestioning commitment to the defense of Managed Democracy"
- The biggest unofficial Xbox 360 emulator "is by no means associated with, nor working alongside Microsoft in any capacity" despite rumors about Xbox's preservation efforts
- Full Death Stranding 2 cast and cameos list
- The Razer Clio doesn't support my butt, but it's still become my favorite gaming cushion
- Legendary board game designer says his upcoming Lord of the Rings project is "definitely the most thematically and mechanically rich game I’ve worked on"
- It may feature corpses, missing limbs, and AI, but with The Shrouds, legendary director David Cronenberg has made the ultimate meditation on grief: "To me, there is no afterlife"
- Capcom forgot to buff one of the worst and least popular weapons in Monster Hunter Wilds, but the rest of the Title Update 2 balance changes sound pretty good
- All Marvel Mystic Mayhem codes (July 2025) and how to redeem
- Street Fighter 6's latest outfit DLC adds the game's biggest batch of horny yet, which might distract people from the fact that this is only the second wave of costumes in 2 years
- Capcom confirms where Resident Evil Requiem falls in the series' timeline, as devs say they initially thought they "couldn't touch Raccoon City"
- Donkey Kong Bananza is the perfect time to bring back an AWOL villain, and I'm already uncovering conspiracies that say our favorite crocodile will turn up
- I've spent six hours exploring the Steam Summer Sale with our Games Editor, and these are the 10 best games on discount I'd recommend so far
- New $35 Donkey Kong cushion also comes with what fans are calling a "banana hole", but I don't think people are going to use the 15-inch plush in the way Nintendo intends
- Elden Ring Nightreign has a secret way to get a buy-one-get-one-free buff if you're extra nice to one of its annoying raid enemies
- Banjo-Kazooie and Paper Mario mix together in this delightful puzzle platformer that has me swapping textures to solve puzzles by changing the world
- I spent 75 hours unlocking every trophy in Elden Ring Nightreign, only for Rematch to steal its thunder with a single hat trick
- Spider-Man director reveals why he stepped down from making Marvel movie Fantastic Four: "I knew I didn't have what it would've taken to make that movie great"
- Death Stranding 2 players discover that they're being penalized for efficiency, as bulk-delivering items rewards you less than handing them in one at a time
- M3GAN 2.0 star Ivanna Sakhno explains how she brought horror villain AMELIA to life and what it was like having a creepy animatronic version of herself on set: "I cannot begin to tell you how unsettling it is"
- The 55-inch LG OLED C4 has transformed my living room gaming setup, but just know that I'll be jealous of anyone who grabs the 65-inch version
- Resident Evil Requiem devs spent "some time experimenting" with open world and online formats, but in the end settled for a "single-player, offline game"
- Mario Kart World fans slam Nintendo for making 3-lap tracks even rarer: "Now I have an excuse not to buy the Switch 2"
- Disastrous Borderlands movie gets the faintest of praise from Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford, who says it's a "miracle" the film even exists, which makes it "amazing" in his eyes
- Borderlands 4 won't get a big discount or hit subscription services any time soon, Randy Pitchford says, as it "took over 5 years" for Borderlands 3 and "it will be even longer" for this game
- An extended version of the live-action Spider-Man movie with the best Rotten Tomatoes score is swinging into movie theaters this fall
- FBC Firebreak Resonance and Status Effects explained
- Do you need to play Death Stranding 1 before Death Stranding 2: On the Beach?
- Capcom revealed some Resident Evil Requiem gameplay and it's a big day for people who like walking down hallways
- Fantastic Four: First Steps press release has removed one major cast member, leaving fans to wonder if the character has been cut
- Monster Hunter Wilds is getting more PC improvements, but they don't seem to address the CPU issues tanking the game's performance
- The 32 greatest Lord of the Rings movie moments
- You should probably plug in your Switch and 3DS games every 5 to 10 years to keep them from breaking, preservation activists say
- Switch 2 permabans are so permanent that not even Nintendo itself can overturn them, as one user named 'Twink Link' discovered to their horror
- M3GAN 2.0 is going to be as much of a social media hit as the first was, and star Allison Williams already knows which moments are going to get memed
- M3GAN 2.0 ending explained: does M3GAN die? Will there be a sequel? And everything else you need to know about the horror sequel's final scenes
- Who does [SPOILER] play in Squid Game season 3?
- Squid Game season 3 review: "A staggeringly excellent final season wraps up one of the greatest Netflix shows ever"
- Does Squid Game season 3 set up a spin-off?
- Squid Game season 3 ending explained: who dies, what are the games and do they end, and what happens to Player 456 and the Front Man
- Madden 26: Everything you need to know about the new NFL game
- Sea of Remnants is an online pirate swashbuckler take on Honkai Star Rail that's had me rolling dice in turn-based duels and trading cannonfire with a gorilla
- June 26
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- Resident Evil Requiem director says Leon Kennedy is "quite a bad match for horror," and that's why he's totally, 100% not in the game even a little bit
- The Fantastic Four: First Steps - Everything you need to know about the comic run that director Matt Shakman says inspired the film
- They'll do anything but make a new Friday the 13th movie: the first new image of a live-action Jason Voorhees in 16 years comes from a YouTube short sponsored by a cider company
- Mark Hamill invented a disturbing backstory involving an "unattended lightsaber" and a Greek-level tragedy to explain why Luke Skywalker became a hermit in Star Wars: The Last Jedi
- Xbox 360 dashboard tweak adds insult to injury a year after the shutdown of the classic marketplace: would you like to buy an Xbox Series X instead?
- 50 Cent has joined the cast of the long-delayed Street Fighter movie alongside Jason Momoa and WWE superstar Roman Reigns, and you know what, hell yeah
- Warren Spector celebrates 25 years of Deus Ex, reiterates he wasn't some sole creator: "The Deus Ex concept may have been mine, but the game itself and all kudos aimed at it belong to the great, great team"
- The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman is taking over Transformers, and he's bringing DC's best artist with him
- "Thanks for the inspiration, Henry Cavill": Viral FPS Metroidvania riffs on an iconic Mission: Impossible moment to introduce its beefed-up boss
- Elden Ring Nightreign players worship a new god: a Relic buff that gives a gigantic damage boost just for killing some pretty easy mini-bosses
- Fortnite player allegedly cheated to win $6k in a competitive tournament - now he owes Epic $175k and is banned from the game "forever"
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (June 27 - 29)
- Nintendo has made my biggest problem with Mario Kart World even worse
- The 2025 Steam Summer Sale is live – here are 10 deals we love, from the biggest Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 discount yet to 50% off Lies of P and Dragon Age: The Veilguard
- Doctor Doom has taken over the world, but the cosmic powers of the Marvel Universe will finally respond in GODS: One World Under Doom #1
- Hytale studio founder says he was "burning" up to $400,000 a month on its development at one point, and turned down "way more money" before partnering with Riot
- How to complete GTA Online Safeguard deliveries
- Atlus is still limit-testing the concept of Too Much Persona 5, and its latest spinoff is already its biggest P5 Steam launch ever
- It looked normal at first, but Helldivers 2's new Major Order snuck in a big surprise: "Hulks can jump! I repeat, HULK CAN JUMP NOW!"
- John Cena says scrapped-then-saved Coyote vs. Acme is a "bunch of fun" and that it was "tough" when Warner Bros. pulled the plug: "I'm glad it's out of the dusty box"
- Everything you need to know about MTG Edge of Eternities, from mechanics to story
- Superman actor Anthony Carrigan explains how Metamorpho is the film's most conflicted villain "There's this struggle to want to be good"
- Steam's fourth most popular game isn't really a game at all, but it's doubling as a "marketing tool" so effective its devs don't mind that "it's actually losing us money"
- Rematch players have discovered that flopping around the field is faster than sprinting, but Sloclap is going to stop the flop
- I'm not the target audience for Mr Beast tech, but this is an impressive Switch 2 headset for just $30
- The Witcher 4 is learning lessons from CDPR's past: no fetch quests, an eye on Cyberpunk 2077's fan-favorite characters, and devs who "care about the art we're making"
- The best new game I've played all year is a 30-minute demo where I just climbed rocks and ate chocolate bars – and I still care about it more than Borderlands 4 and GTA 6 combined
- James Gunn says Supergirl is the next DCU movie after Superman because of its "incredible script": "Other movies have been written, but they haven't been as good as this one"
- Peak devs really did not expect to sell 2 million copies in 9 days, say they're now "looking into possible updates" for their hit that started as a "stupid jam game"
- Emma Stone stars in frenetic first trailer for Poor Things director's remake of cult South Korean sci-fi comedy
- Death Stranding 2's cameos don't stop at celebrities and vtubers - Pac-Man shows up with a playable mini-game set on the open world's map
- Baldur's Gate 3 dev clarifies that "Karlach's final ending was indeed in response to fan feedback," but Larian was definitely trying to stay clear of Starfield with its early release
- Hytale studio founder says he'd spend $25 million buying it back from Riot to get the game finished, and in his eyes it was "maximum 2 years away from a PC release" over 5 years ago: "That's how much I believe in it"
- Splitgate 2 codes explained – are rewards available?
- If you play Death Stranding 2 on your birthday you're treated to a 90-second cutscene that's unbelievably ridiculous even by Hideo Kojima's standards
- The FTC is giving $126 million-worth of Fortnite refunds to players, and there's still time to submit a claim for one
- Playing a horror game is my worst nightmare, but these two gnarly farming sims make me want to brave the genre
- Nacon Revolution X Unlimited review: “As OP as pro controllers get these days”
- Mario Kart World player smashes their "world record" of 770 air tricks after finding a way to trap themselves in a spinning "infinite loop forever"
- Massive Super Smash Bros. mod adds the N64 fighting game's actual announcer, and its new 15-minute trailer rivals Masahiro Sakurai's best work
- Superman has his trunks in James Gunn's DC movie, but the decision was only made at the very last moment after one crew member "refused to give up"
- Look, I'm loving Mario Kart World, but it won't keep me from playing my favorite PS1 racer on this $40 retro handheld
- Squid Game star Lee Jung-jae found Red Light, Green Light and Mingle the hardest games to shoot: "Some games are very physically demanding, and then others are very emotionally demanding"
- Elden Ring Nightreign's new Everdark Sovereign is "not even close to as hard as juiced-up Gaping Jaw," players declare, so go and kill it quickly before FromSoftware buffs it
- A new Death Stranding 2 update has dropped and, just like Hideo Kojima's scripts, nobody knows what it means
- I'm replaying Dying Light 2 to prepare for The Beast, and I finally get why it isn't scary: it tried to fix something that wasn't broken
- Dune: Awakening can't have it all, as MMO players praise the "incredibly fast" turnaround time on its latest update while some question its PvE changes: "What's the point of all this?"
- The Thunderbolts gag reel has been released, and it's made us love Florence Pugh even more
- Ironheart stars come as close as Marvel will allow to spoiling a major cameo, promising one of the "elite actors of our time" will show up next week
- As Hideo Kojima celebrates Death Stranding 2's release, he says "there were moments when I truly felt like we might never finish this game"
- Mario Kart World's latest update has Nintendo saying you will play those intermission tracks and you will like them as picking 'Random' no longer guarantees a regular 3-lap race online
- The Bear season 4 debuts to series low Rotten Tomatoes score, with reviewers saying the show should end
- It's official: the next James Bond movie will be directed by Dune helmer Denis Villeneuve, who says 007 is "sacred territory" for him
- "Chasing safe bets is a death sentence": Rematch devs had no desire to simply chase FIFA or Rocket League, but they spent years planning out their hit football game
- Borderlands 4 director says the FPS is "more intense" than others in the series while Randy Pitchford hints its toughest boss hasn't even been shown
- This PS1 Harry Potter parody game just got its first major update, adding a scalable inventory for all those explosive barrels you want to hoard
- 9 years after the Star Wars prequel hit theaters, director Gareth Edwards reflects on Rogue One's legacy in the wake of Andor season 2: "I'm just eternally relieved that I don't walk across the street and people shout that I ruined their childhood"
- Who should you pick to be Charlie's face in Death Stranding 2?
- What's the answer to the Death Stranding 2 Platypus question?
- How to get to the Lone Commander in Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
- What is the Death Stranding 2 Motherhood passcode?
- How to unlock Pizza-Do Karate martial arts in Death Stranding 2
- What's the best choice for Tomorrow's Nightmare in Death Stranding 2?
- How to solve the Death Stranding 2 F1 Fastest Route puzzle
- What's the answer to the Death Stranding 2 block puzzle?
- How to kill the first BT boss in Death Stranding 2
- How to fast travel in Death Stranding 2
- How to find the Artist in Death Stranding 2 and all rewards
- How to find the Bokka in Death Stranding 2 and all Bokka rewards
- How to kill BTs in Death Stranding 2
- How to get to the Inventor in Death Stranding 2
- All Death Stranding 2 vehicles and how to get them
- Death Stranding 2: On the Beach ending explained
- The top Death Stranding 2 tips we wish we'd known before we hit the road
- The best Death Stranding 2 weapons and how to get them
- How to farm materials in Death Stranding 2 and all Mine locations
- June 25
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- The Outer Worlds 2 was obviously inspired by Fallout: New Vegas, but if you're "tired" of hearing that, its director says it's got plenty of Deus Ex DNA too
- Dying Light: The Beast director says no-one expected Dying Light 1 to be "such a kickass game," but admits "we made some missteps" on Dying Light 2
- Before it was Square Enix, Square "collapsed" when Final Fantasy boss Hironobu Sakaguchi left the company, says composer Nobuo Uematsu: "The situation at Square was awful after he quit"
- The Social Network is finally getting its long discussed sequel with original writer Aaron Sorkin, and this time he'll also direct
- Blizzard builds a $158 gacha wall in front of a cute pet, tilting Hearthstone players straight off a cliff: "So disappointing for such an adorable boy"
- A permanent Switch 2 console ban has apparently stranded Twink Link in Nintendo support hell: "The guy over the phone was laughing at the username"
- Genshin Impact has an actual new endgame mode after 5 years, and it is kicking the crap out of everyone – even whales who've spent thousands of dollars
- Superman director James Gunn shares a twisted new look at one of the film's most mysterious characters
- Wind Waker on Nintendo Switch 2 made two tiny changes that break it wide open for Zelda speedrunners – a strategy so hard "only a few people in the whole world can do it" is suddenly a lot easier
- Oblivion Remastered proves I was wrong to give up on the original game 10 years ago, but I worry Bethesda has lost the magic that made Cyrodiil's open world RPG shine
- Nintendo, I am still waiting for a good reason to buy a Switch 2 – there's exactly one launch game I care about, and I ain't paying $500 for a JRPG I played on DS 10 years ago
- Square Enix knows Final Fantasy 14 is losing players after Dawntrail and many still logging on are losing patience, president acknowledges concerns Yoshi-P is stretched thin carrying the whole Final Fantasy franchise
- Mario Kart World player declares a new "world record" with 770 tricks in the air off one jump as they soar across the map
- MMO dev admits egregious microtransactions are "harming" its game, the player base "isn't really growing," and it's time to clean up: "The era of a tainted RuneScape 3 is coming to an end"
- Halo fan game that blends the iconic FPS with Vampire Survivors gets seal of approval from Halo Studios: "Really love to see the passion you and your team have poured into this"
- Exclusive Riftbound card reveals give nightmarish League of Legends champions deadly adaptations
- M3GAN 2.0 review: "A bold sequel with a slightly underwhelming conclusion"
- This insomnia simulator has Outlast enemies, Alan Wake dream sequences, and "evil" music by a Nine Inch Nails guitarist, and I already need to watch about 50 lore videos on it
- I was on an FPS losing streak until I realised my biggest gaming issue, but this mouse pad fixed it
- Upcoming sci-fi action RPG The Expanse: Osiris Reborn isn't just inspired by Mass Effect, but Baldur's Gate 3 and Soulslikes, and it's even "a little bit similar" to Persona 5
- Almost 5 years since its reveal, Ark 2 devs admit the survival sequel was put "on hold a couple of years ago," but they're hopeful it could release in early access "within the next 2 years"
- Custom keyboards are going mainstream, but you don't need to spend hundreds to mod your deck
- Dune: Awakening players' wishes have been granted as the MMO's Deep Desert PvP endgame is now almost half PvE thanks to a new test patch
- 2025's wildest TV cancelation will hit you right in the feels as its creators beg for help: "Many have you said you would die for Tiny Chef, we don't need all that"
- There's a major Switch 2 stock drop happening at Walmart today, but there's a catch
- Nintendo makes a surprise appearance in Death Stranding 2 credits – its motion capture company worked on the PS5 exclusive
- Fantastic Four appears to have a new runtime, which takes it from one of the longest recent Marvel movies to one of the shortest
- Early Superman reactions have leaked online and fans are calling James Gunn’s first DC movie "unique" and "damn beautiful"
- Now that I know The Blood of Dawnwalker is a vampire game that's not about Doing The Right Thing as a Very Special Boy, 2026 can't come soon enough
- 007 First Light could feature live-service missions in the vein of Hitman, as IO Interactive teases "you could expect that we'll be applying some of our learnings from World of Assassination to Bond"
- RPG players stun Larian yet again: Karlach's actor says Baldur's Gate 3's extra character endings were always planned and the devs didn't expect fans to "rush to the end"
- The 32 greatest movies under 90 minutes
- Time is running out and The Thing teases his iconic catchphrase in epic final trailer for Marvel's Fantastic Four
- Step aside, Cow: Mario Kart World's new fan-favorite racer is Spike, a goofy guy with a haunting stare and some fantastic speedy stats
- I tried replicating the Dbrand Switch 2 Killswitch problems, but luck might be on my side
- Only 5 years since the last TV adaptation, Edge of Tomorrow director is turning Stephen King's epic, post-apocalyptic horror novel The Stand into a movie
- Become an unstoppable action hero with Reach's next-generation VR combat
- Squid Game star Park Gyu-young knows her Pink Guard is "standing on the wrong side of the system," but says she "holds onto that minimal amount of humanity that's left in her"
- The best RTX 50-Series gaming laptop I've tested yet is now also the cheapest, but you'll need to be fast
- Elden Ring Nightreign's next beefed-up Everdark Sovereign has been announced, and fans all have the same reaction: "Oh no"
- Time Crisis is my favorite arcade shooter, so I'm naturally losing it over this upcoming light gun plug and play console
- After being asked if he would join the MCU, Peacemaker star John Cena says he wants a crossover: "I would love Iron Man to shake hands with Superman"
- Asked for another turn-based Final Fantasy in the wake of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's success, Square Enix says turn-based RPGs are its origin and its future
- Hideo Kojima spends Death Stranding 2's early access release at a pro wrestling event watching a "Fluorescent Lighttubes Glass Board Barbed Wire Death Match"
- The Simpsons pulls a Game of Thrones and 'kills' one of its best characters, leaving fans clutching their red pearls
- Covering over 100,000 light years, hundreds of planets, and a 59-page reference sheet, this official new Star Wars map is the nerdiest way to explore a galaxy far, far away – including a genius prequels Easter egg
- Animal Crossing fans sent into a frenzy over a tweet from Nintendo that could mean nothing or everything: "Are you trying tell us something?"
- Borderlands 4 creative director says new endless quests "remind me of the simpler missions from BL1," which became harder to make as the games got more complex
- DC boss James Gunn says audiences won't be confused by all the new characters in Superman: "Oppenheimer has three times as many speaking roles as we do"
- Does Rematch have Crossplay?
- How to unlock titles in Rematch
- Ironheart is the latest victim of a review bombing campaign on Rotten Tomatoes, which started before the Marvel show had even released
- Palworld update introduces its Terraria collaboration, fishing, a friendship mechanic, and lets you "sleep together with your Pals," so "stop asking"
- Death Stranding 2's loading times are pretty much instant, adding another notch to the best-looking game on PS5
- The Witcher author fires shot at Game of Thrones' George R.R. Martin and never-ending Winds of Winter saga: "When I say I’ll write something, I will"
- The best settings to use with your NVIDIA RTX 50 series for DOOM: The Dark Ages
- The Lenovo Legion Go isn't my favorite, but it could end up being the better Xbox handheld for under $500
- Ironheart has a surprising character reveal that ties one of its cast back to a major Iron Man villain
- When does Ironheart take place on the Marvel timeline?
- Ironheart review: "A relic of Marvel's content-at-all-costs era"
- June 24
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- Little Nightmares 3 release date set for October, it's also coming to Switch 2 alongside an enhanced version of the original, and oh, here's 10 minutes of new gameplay footage
- Thunderbolts director Jake Schreier denies he's attached to Marvel's X-Men reboot, but Black Panther Ryan Coogler says otherwise, and Marvel may have confirmed it
- Gearbox confirms Borderlands 4 will get photo mode in a post-launch update: "We've always planned for it"
- The Fantastic Four changed superhero comics forever, and could do the same for the MCU
- 10 years later, the original Dying Light is getting a chunky visual upgrade with audio improvements this week, but it's not a "complete overhaul or remaster"
- Lego Island is now fully playable in your browser, thanks to a group of fans who spent years painstakingly decompiling the game's original code by hand
- Pixar boss says it's a "rough time" as Elio tanks at the box office, but the studio is still committed to original animation or else they'd be "making Toy Story 27"
- Fantastic Four star Pedro Pascal had to go to Robert Downey Jr.'s house for an Avengers "homework day"
- Ex-Hytale dev tells fans who waited 7 years only for the Minecraft-inspired sandbox RPG to get canceled they "should be angry at the mismanagement" at Hypixel Studios, not Riot: "The issues were all internal"
- Assassin's Creed Shadows update adds nightmare difficulty, an "open-world alarm" system," a potato mode for low-end PCs, and a new story quest crossing over with D&D series Critical Role
- Helldivers 2 patch finally lets you take the fight to the Illuminate Leviathans, but the real MVP is the fabled review bomb cape that's been datamined: "This is the one cape I won't remove"
- Lego Piranha Plant (71426) review: "Full of charm"
- If I had to recommend one Lego Star Wars set to a friend, it'd be this
- How to unlock every weapon in FBC Firebreak
- Ultimate Sonic Smackdown is the latest banger dropped by the Sonic fan game community, and it's filling the Marvel vs Capcom void
- This Nintendo Switch 2 case drops one feature, but I'd argue that makes it far safer
- Moon director's Rogue Trooper movie made in Unreal Engine 5 gets a first look and fans can't decide if it looks good or bad: "Welcome back, weird 3D animation from 2000s"
- My new Netflix obsession is an animated K-pop musical about demon hunters that I watched 8 times in one week
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs went from being "pretty nervous" about Oblivion Remastered stealing their spotlight to celebrating with champagne and croissants days later when reviews landed
- Ironheart swaps Iron Man's AC/DC for Chaka Khan, Nina Simone, Alanis Morisette, and more – and the iconic needle drops are "super important" to the show, says producer
- Fantastic Four star Pedro Pascal was more aware of the "disgruntlement" around his casting as Reed Richards than his roles in Game of Thrones or The Last of Us: "He's too old, he's not right"
- This Turtle Beach headset sounds incredible, but its current discount is music to my ears
- Hideo Kojima fans are discovering just how good Death Stranding 2 looks thanks to a generational Norman Reedus comparison
- It's still "too early to talk about what will be in The Witcher 4," let alone The Witcher 5 and 6, but CDPR's new tech will "benefit all of the industry"
- Nintendo's suddenly made Switch 2 release dates for Metroid Prime 4 and Kirby Air Riders a lot easier to guess as it reveals an August launch for its Rocket League-style wheelchair basketball game
- Finally, Jurassic World Evolution 3 devs have successfully been bullied out of using generative AI: "Thanks for your feedback on this topic"
- Everything you need to know about MTG Final Fantasy
- The Outer Worlds 2 has over 90 perks, but you can't respec your character because your "choices are permanent" and the RPG's director wants to make sure "you're building your character and really doubling down"
- After 10 hours of The Alters, I've been trapped in a Groundhog Day of mutiny and magnetic storms – and I fear even movie night can't save me
- College Football 26 preview: EA says “We listened” with 2,800 new plays and 300 coaches
- Will Death Stranding 2 release on PC and Xbox?
- When should you upgrade your gaming laptop? The top three rigs I'd buy this year (and who should grab them)
- Black Panther director recalls his "heart swelling" watching new Disney Plus show Ironheart: "I feel like I'm diving into these characters"
- Dying Light: The Beast director says he's "a little bit surprised" that more studios haven't followed Techland's "go anywhere" approach to open-world game design
- Raidou Remastered really is the historical Persona I've always craved, even if I'm 19 years late to using demons to pummel Rasputin
- Ironheart producer Ryan Coogler teases the Marvel show is "a great sample of things that are to come" in Avengers: Doomsday, which he describes as "the biggest movie in Marvel history"
- Setting Silent Hill f in Japan is the smartest move Konami has made for the survival horror series since The Room moved out in 2004
- The Limited Edition Xbox Meta Quest 3S is real, and it's available for $399
- Ironheart mixed MCU ground-level action and Doctor Strange-style magic in the Disney Plus series for one perfect reason: "Whenever we make a new show at Marvel, we always ask ourselves, 'What is something that only this character can offer us?'"
- Front Man actor Lee Byung-hun believes his Squid Game villain actually "wants Gi-hun to prove that there is hope in humanity" in season 3
- One of the most underrated "Metroidvanian" games buried thousands of feet underground is now free on Steam
- The best Research and Requisition Upgrades in FBC Firebreak
- Mario Kart World player discovers you can defy the laws of gravity in Free Roam with a bug that allows you to float across the map: "I think I broke the game"
- CDPR had a "do it but not force it" philosophy for Cyberpunk 2077's Switch 2 port, with new features only being added if they were "genuinely good"
- Everybody Loves Raymond stars won't do a Malcolm in the Middle-style sequel because "you shouldn’t try to go back and redo something that is pretty much perfect"
- Ironheart creator says you don't have to have seen any Marvel titles to enjoy the Disney Plus show: "I wanted [people] to be able to open the show and flip through it the same way you could a comic book in a store"
- Rematch devs "never considered free-to-play," even if it risked being "dead on arrival," because "the best way to make a commercial success is to just make a very good game"
- As Death Stranding 2 scores make it one of the most popular games of the year, everyone's making the same joke about Hideo Kojima
- I'd pair this NES-themed gaming mouse with a sleeper PC, but it boasts plenty of modern clicker tricks
- As Dune: Awakening celebrates 1 million players, Funcom reveals an unforgiving 816,720 deaths to Shai-Hulud and over 6 billion grams of Spice consumed by fans of the survival MMO
- Death Stranding 2 "I won't do it" choice explained
- Star Wars actor Carrie-Anne Moss didn't think her Jedi's death in The Acolyte "would be a big deal at all" until fan backlash: "It didn't cross my mind"
- Palworld publisher's 2D roguelike Metroidvania that looks like Hollow Knight but plays like Dead Cells is ditching early access and going straight to a full launch thanks to massive Steam demo
- Buffy star Sarah Michelle Gellar says her "dream" for the reboot is to "bring back everyone who has died" but still wants to make time for "new stories"
- Ironheart earns mixed first reactions, as early viewers can't decide if the Marvel show is a "disappointment" or "better than I expected"
- This early Prime Day controller deal drops my go-to gamepad under $30
- Borderlands 4 gets an M rating from the ESRB as it warns of "enemies bursting into chunks" and dialogue such as "I'm gonna go home and have sex with my wife"
- Square Enix isn't ruling out another Final Fantasy Tactics-style game if the strategy RPG's remaster sells well: "We sincerely hope that this happens"
- Phantom Blade Zero is "neither a Soulslike game nor a traditional action game," creator says, suggesting that "maybe it could create a new identity" altogether
- Max Payne's iconic mug came about because of its creator's university TTRPG club, but he got so "self-conscious" after the game's release that he had to change his hairstyle to remain incognito
- Blade star Mahershala Ali says he doesn't know "where Marvel is at right now" with the MCU reboot, but remains hopeful: "I would love for Blade to happen"
- Fire Force season 3's mind-bending anime reveal is being called a "top 5 plot twist of all time"
- Solo Leveling may be breaking records in the west but audiences in Japan are cooler on it: "No different from any other anime"
- 6 essential Rematch tips to know before you play
- June 23
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- "I'm gonna crash out": Even the creators of co-op climbing game Peak are stunned by 1 million copies sold in 6 days – "Why did this stupid jam game sell more than Another Crab's Treasure"
- REPO's "weird" new museum map will have "tons" of verticality and laser alarms you'll have to "Mission: Impossible" your way past
- DC boss James Gunn says that there are "so many more" canceled DC movies than we even know about
- Marvel reportedly turned down offer from original Blade writer because it was "in a good place" before the MCU reboot was shelved indefinitely: "They said, 'We love you, but we think we've cracked it now'"
- Street Fighter movie finds its Chun-Li in Presence actor Callina Liang
- 6 years after an announcement trailer with 61 million views, Minecraft-inspired survival game Hytale is canceled and its developer is shutting down
- "Immortal king of speedrunning" can only say "that's a great run, gg" after MMO mad lad beats him in 3-year revenge match with a new world record just minutes ahead
- Hideo Kojima celebrates his new delivery sim with the official Death Stranding 2 Giga Meat pizza, complete with can of Red Bull
- The Boys fifth and final season wraps filming as Black Noir actor teases an "amazing conclusion": "I didn’t know we were going there!"
- Valve remains undefeated: Microsoft will seemingly wear Steam like a jacket with new "aggregated gaming library" on Xbox PC app, and "this is just the beginning"
- Barbarian director's new horror movie Weapons gets a bloody and tense new trailer featuring jump scares, demonic voices, and an angry Josh Brolin
- RedMagic 10S Pro review: "some of the highest benchmarks I've seen so far"
- Ironeye is Elden Ring Nightreign's most useful character, but their anti-soulslike style bores me to tears
- Thanks, Sony: Monster Hunter Wilds Title Update 2 leaked on PlayStation, fan-favorite monster Lagiacrus brings a friend as Capcom gets pummeled for longstanding issues
- This fan-favorite but forgotten Warhammer army is finally getting a revamp
- Mario Kart World just launched with Switch 2, but PC gamers are playing Mario Kart 64 instead thanks to a "many-year" fan project that doesn't contain Nintendo's original code
- Dune: Awakening creative director reduces PvP for Deep Desert endgame and makes some of it PvE-only since his "wish" for players to "embrace" its loop turned to "s***": "One of my hands is overflowing right now"
- "We must change our methods": Smash Bros. director Masahiro Sakurai says game development has become "too time consuming and unsustainable"
- Warhammer 40K: Boltgun 2 devs reveal what to expect from the Imperium's answer to Doom, and here's a spoiler: "More explosions, more blood, and more gore"
- This Hall effect gaming keyboard shot up in price last month, but this is a deal I can get behind
- What do Death Stranding 2 Likes do?
- This cute pink gaming gadget doesn't give me a competitive edge, but I can't imagine being on my PC without it
- "You will never lose another '50/50'": Open-world RPG Neverness to Everness takes a sledgehammer to Genshin Impact standards, promising guaranteed characters with better rates and no weapon banner
- PS5 owners beware: Death Stranding 2 Quality Mode "is largely redundant on the Pro"
- I use this stylish retro mini PC as a living room indie games portal, and it's effectively a tiny Xbox that rivals handhelds
- The best new shows and movies streaming this week on Netflix, Prime Video, Disney Plus, and more
- Paramount Plus renews crime series starring Tom Hardy for a season 2 after the show becomes their second most-watched show ever with over 26 million viewers
- GTA Online's new Money Fronts update is a solo-friendly Breaking Bad fantasy, and it's the most fun I've had in the game's 12-year run
- Hideo Kojima worried Death Stranding 2 was too likable, so hold his hand when you tell him it just beat the original game on Metacritic and zoomed up to a 90 score
- Rematch dev says FIFA is "so disconnected from how it actually feels to play football," but his game "feels more dead-on"
- DC boss James Gunn reveals that the upcoming Clayface movie is a "body horror" and will be "most likely rated R": "It's pretty intense"
- Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet apparently has "RPG progression systems," which could be as simple as The Last of Us' supplements or usher in a whole new era
- Cyberpunk 2077 update 2.3 delayed so CD Projekt can "make sure we're happy with it" as it aims for a similar patch to 2.2
- You need to see this brilliant, but slightly unhinged, Squid Game merch ahead of season 3
- All Rematch unlockables and how much they cost
- Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk is still wondering if the season 3 ending is "good or not," but star Lee Jung-jae calls it the most "entertaining ending possible"
- GamesRadar+ Summer Preview: The biggest games of Summer Game Fest 2025
- The Outer Worlds 2 director says not every RPG is "for every single person," so Obsidian is "not going to make a game for literally everybody" because "it waters down the experience a lot"
- This $30 wireless headset is the 00s throwback my Switch 2 needed
- Borderlands 4 has "more skills per character than in Borderlands 3 and 2 added together," Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford says: "We're working late on Fridays for you"
- Death Stranding 2: On the Beach review: "This tarpunk delivery epic is more Metal Gear Solid than ever, for better and worse"
- What does your Death Stranding 2 birthday do?
- How long is Death Stranding 2?
- After being near-impossible to watch for years, one of the greatest horror movies ever made is streaming free - just in time to watch the sequel
- The best Splitgate 2 weapons to use
- The Tomb Raider tabletop RPG is dead due to "creative differences" with licensor
- Top Gun: Maverick director explains why Bridgerton star has been cut from new Formula 1 movie
- Kingpin star Vincent D'Onofrio weighs in on the Daredevil: Born Again creative overhaul: "Hallelujah"
- New images from Return to Silent Hill are being compared to a "porn parody" as Baldur's Gate 3 dev asks "Is this meant to be a deterrent?"
- Daredevil star Charlie Cox says hold the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 praise, please, as he only spent 4 hours working on the French JRPG and now feels like "a total fraud"
- Mario Kart World doesn't feature Nintendo icons from Zelda and Animal Crossing because its developers say "it didn't seem necessary to us, given everything we could already do with Mario"
- Netflix's Devil May Cry creator says he feels "preemptively bad for the cry babies" after acquiring the rights to video game icon Duke Nukem: "You're not gonna like what I'm gonna do"
- New Pixar movie Elio has the studio's worst ever opening at the box office, and it's sparked a discussion about why
- DC boss James Gunn says he made sure Marvel scripts featuring Rocket "always made sense" – as sometimes they "didn't match" what he felt about the character
- Netflix's outspoken Devil May Cry creator promises season 2 will be a "very different show" and Dante will become more of a badass after taking so many Ls in season 1
- Death Stranding 2 release time – here's when early access for Hideo Kojima's next game begins
- June 22
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- Forget FIFA, Rematch is the most authentic football game I've ever played – right down to the very worst bits about playing IRL
- Veteran Sonic producer says Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds team completely removed items from the game if they were too "stressful" or let players "win all the time"
- I've tested a ton of Switch 2 gaming headsets, but these are the only 5 I'd recommend so far
- The Witcher 4 dev says "it's very clear" that Ciri is the right choice of protagonist, but that players shouldn't "make opinions" until the game is out
- 32 years later, Jurassic Park's greatest legacy isn’t the Jurassic franchise, but the cultural overhaul of our idea of dinosaurs
- NSFW Stellar Blade mods have well over 1 million downloads, but the director's favorite mod is actually a surprisingly wholesome one
- As Cyberpunk 2077 tops Switch 2 sales charts, one analyst says divisive game-key cards "aren’t a major issue" for most gamers and a Baldur's Gate 3 dev agrees
- Thanks to No Man's Sky's Switch 2 update, I've finally found time to become the mech-wielding Mayor of my very own alien Settlement
- The Blood of Dawnwalker takes major inspiration from Zelda: Breath of the Wild with a main quest you can tackle at almost any point
- The Witcher 3 veteran's vampire RPG shows off how dramatically different one quest can turn out: "Coen may be a human during the day, but he turns into a vampire at night"
- 28 Years Later star talks about that heartbreaking scene in one of the scariest films of 2025
- Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning's big death is finally explained by director Christopher McQuarrie: "It was one he wanted to do, and one he was most moved by"
- 28 Years Later director Danny Boyle on why he skipped the Alien franchise: "I didn’t do Alien and I went and made this flop for them instead."
- Superman's David Corenswet dodged a classic supersuit curse: "I never had an issue with that"
- June 21
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- The most farm sim-looking farm sim I've seen all year just dropped, and it's unsurprisingly an instant hit on Steam with 3,000 glowing reviews after 3 days
- Borderlands 4 isn't a "cynical" sequel that's only being made "to meet the market," but because Gearbox wants to improve movement like it improved Borderlands 3's gunplay
- "Our fans would kill us": Dying Light: The Beast director outlines Techland's "areas of perfection" that "we cannot mess up to any extent"
- Splitgate 2 studio lays off "small group" of developers, while its co-founders aren't taking salaries "as we lock in to deliver the next phase" of the troubled FPS
- Man of Steel stars set to reunite as Russell Crowe joins Henry Cavill in Highlander remake
- Sega accidentally reveals sales data on everything from Sonic to Yakuza, but with 7.25 million copies sold, I wouldn't move on from Persona 5 Royal either
- I've reviewed water guns for years, and these are the 4 I'd recommend prioritizing this summer
- Master Mode is the best thing about replaying Zelda: Breath of the Wild on Switch 2, and it's a tragedy that Tears of the Kingdom will apparently never have that option
- "This is almost 5 years here of my life": Sequel to early internet sim Hypnospace Outlaw, one of the best adventure games of the decade, has been cancelled
- Dave Bautista could be headed to the Road House in Guy Ritchie's sequel
- Hideo Kojima's cult vampire RPG Boktai only exists because Konami made a UV teddy bear that completely flopped
- From Fallout's Walton Goggins to Game of Thrones's Kit Harington, Marvel fans are discussing the MCU's biggest wasted castings
- Terrifier director has revealed his favorite horror remake from the '00s, and film fans are discussing their picks
- June 20
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- Persona 6 hopefuls spiral as Sega reveals Persona 4 Revival isn't coming out before April 2026
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day adds The Punisher star Jon Bernthal to cast
- Superman director James Gunn has revealed a secret cameo by the Guardians of the Galaxy in his big DC reboot movie
- You're alright, Todd Howard: Skyblivion dev says the Bethesda director "genuinely" wanted to talk to "every single person" working on the mod, despite "being in a position" to just not
- Nostalgic indie game from publisher Annapurna is a "respite from the current cursed reality" inspired by real-life, dev says: "Ended about as well as you can expect, including a nice scar, and cow s***"
- Jurassic World Rebirth first reactions are seriously mixed, with fans praising the film's "practical magic" and criticizing its "shallow and unnecessary" storyline
- Atelier producer says the next game will "take a completely different direction" than the last one after mixed reviews, teases a more "old school" JRPG with turn-based combat
- New Marvel/DC crossover has Kevin Smith returning to Green Arrow and Daredevil, Jeff the Landshark frolicking with Krypto, and Wonder Woman meeting Captain America
- Final Fantasy 14's Yoshi-P apologizes for the buggy state of the MMO and vows to make a Dawntrail raid that's only been cleared 400 times in 23 days more accessible
- What are the biggest changes for the Fortnite Star Wars Galactic Battle season in Chapter 6?
- The "exciting news" Red Dead Redemption fans were waiting for might have been a big meet and greet all along, which is still cool, but not as good as a remaster: "We're cooked, chat"
- 30 years after its release, I'm still convinced Clueless is the gold standard for teen movies
- Hideo Kojima throws a watch party for Death Stranding 2's launch trailer, which sounds increasingly like a short film as it features "180 shots"
- These are the four Hall effect gaming keyboards I'd buy instead of a mechanical deck this weekend
- How Obsidian became Xbox's most prolific studio: "There's not a lot of studios at Microsoft that have an entire external developer making the whole game for them"
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom players discover Switch 2-exclusive exploit that lets you summon horses, Ganon, and an infinite herd of un-pettable dogs
- The 10 best shark movies to bite into this summer
- Skyblivion isn't another Oblivion Remastered – lead says "we still have something to offer" as the project's devs have "more or less redesigned every aspect" of Bethesda's original RPG
- Get Out star Allison Williams wants to play a robot in future M3GAN movies: "I'm kind of doing one long audition for that role"
- Onimusha: Way of the Sword director would much rather "express the clashing of blades" in a franchise revival than turn it into a Soulslike: "It certainly isn't a punishing die-and-retry game"
- Is there a Splitgate 2 ranked mode or playlist?
- I think the ROG Xbox Ally X can tell us a surprising amount about the "next-generation of Xbox"
- The OXS Storm G2 isn't my favorite gaming headset, but it's winning me over with 20% off
- 20 years into its run, hit manga Vinland Saga announces the publication date of its final chapter – and it's super soon
- Nintendo seemingly took out an unofficial, paid interactive Mario Kart World app, but free browser versions can help you find all the P-Switches the Switch 2 racing game won't tell you about
- Is Splitgate 2 crossplay or cross-platform?
- After conquering Clair Obscur and Persona 3 Reload, I'm continuing my JRPG discovery journey with Final Fantasy 16 on Xbox – and I'm very impressed
- College Football 26: Everything you need to know about the upcoming sports game
- Elden Ring Nightreign sicko who beat the whole game solo using nothing but his fists sets sights on the first beefed-up Everdark Sovereign, punches it to death first try even after a "very bad RNG run"
- 3 years after the first film, The Batman 2 script is expected to hit James Gunn’s desk in a matter of days, with filming to start in 2026
- Final Fantasy Tactics devs tried to match its director's cult strategy RPG for scale, but admitted defeat because they wanted the PS1 game to run at 60fps even more
- As Play Anywhere takes center stage, the future of Xbox has never been clearer: "Our plan is to keep making amazing games and have them reach as many players as we can"
- 10 years ago, Sega producer was convinced he had to "save" Sonic the Hedgehog from certain death: "This brand isn't going to be around for much longer"
- King of the Hill is committed to the idea that everything changes – that's why I’m convinced it's the perfect show to bring back
- Infamous Final Fantasy 14 plugin that could enable stalking reportedly hit with a cease and desist, with all player data "permanently and irreversibly deleted"
- Battlefield 6 dataminer shows evidence the FPS is bringing back 2 series mainstays: a dam-busting campaign mission and a battle royale mode
- 14-year-old M3GAN 2.0 star reflects on growing up in the horror genre and how it all started with The Haunting of Hill House: "I like to get scared"
- I just reviewed Corsair's latest MMO mouse, but it's changed my work life far more than my ranked position
- If you loved Unpacking like me, you absolutely shouldn't sleep on Camper Van: Make It Home
- The 32 greatest movies about siblings
- Marvel star reacts to Hideo Kojima's glowing review of his underwater thriller, says "it's an incredible honor to be recognized" by the Death Stranding director
- Dune: Awakening devs say "you don't have to engage in PvP" in the MMO and the Deep Desert is here to stay, but more PvE is coming
- Corsair Scimitar Elite Wireless SE review: "made for streamers, but just as satisfying for regular MMO players"
- How to tell if a Labubu is real or fake
- FBC Firebreak Roadmap: Update schedule, new jobs, and more
- A third-party Nintendo Switch 2 dock that "works" with the handheld just arrived at Amazon, but I'd avoid it for now
- Star Wars fans are debating one of the biggest unanswered questions from the sequel trilogy: what was the deal with Snoke?
- Does FBC Firebreak have crossplay?
- After 2 underrated tactical RPGs on Switch, Mario + Rabbids developer Ubisoft Milan's pitch for another game was apparently turned down, which may explain why it's now working on Rayman
- "Nothing could've prepared me": Horror fans react to Sinner star Jack O'Connell's brief appearance in zombie sequel 28 Days Later
- NetEase's first AAA single-player game is packed with brutal action and gorgeous cinematics in a promising blend fans say looks "like a Tang Dynasty take on Uncharted"
- Despite laying out DC's 10-year-plan in micro-detail, James Gunn is keeping one top-secret project under wraps because it would be "too easy" for "another company" to rip it off
- Terminally online DC boss James Gunn will keep shooting down false rumors "if people's feelings are at stake" from leaks that are only correct "once every 20 times"
- Metroid Prime 4 is "Out Now," a London Underground ad cruelly claims, but I wouldn't rush to the Switch 2 eShop just yet
- New horror movie directed by Steven Spielberg's daughter unveils its first trailer, and it's giving us major Ma meets 28 Days Later vibes
- Borderlands 4 doesn't have a minimap, but it's getting an optional combat radar after all following feedback from "the real fans who sincerely want the best for the game"
- Rematch Goalkeeper guide to help you keep clean sheets
- GTA 5's worst mission isn't just hated by fans, as its actor says it was "hands down the worst to shoot" because he "sweated my ass off for 8 hours"
- Hideo Kojima says he needs to "guide" the live-action Death Stranding movie adaptation, but he won't have "too much" input: "I have to trust these people"
- The reported shortlist for the next James Bond director has me excited and terrified about the future of 007
- Palworld's big Terraria collab is coming next week, letting you "capture, train, fight, and work monsters" from the survival game "just like Pals"
- M3GAN 2.0 star Allison Williams compares the new horror sequel to Netflix’s Adolescence in that it has an "important" and "necessary" underlying message about technology
- Games are more accessible than ever before - here's how you can improve your playing experience with EE
- June 19
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- Nintendo proves nothing is too niche for Mario Kart World's massive soundtrack with a remix of a drawing tutorial from a late 2000s DSi app
- Baldur's Gate 3 dev buying Borderlands 4 "day one" despite calling out its price controversy and thinking Borderlands 3's writing "was a dry-ass turkey dropped 8 months after Thanksgiving"
- Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is getting Minecraft characters and Hatsune Miku to make sure people are "not just playing it when it comes out, having fun, and that being it"
- Even Death Stranding 2's Solid Snake doppelganger thought he was playing a Metal Gear Solid character, but Hideo Kojima had to tell him "you're not Snake"
- MIA open-world D&D RPG leaks, and if you squint hard enough, it looks just like Dungeons and Dragon Age 5 with a hint of Baldur's Gate 3
- The Witcher 4 devs are preparing for "a generational shift" after The Witcher 3, and they're studying the RPG's biggest city to help
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (June 20 - 22)
- I embarrassed myself playing rhythm strategy roguelike Ratatan in front of the devs at Summer Game Fest, and I'm not alone, so the devs are already tweaking the difficulty level
- A 3D Mario game for the Switch 2 could be "many years away" as former Nintendo marketing leads also speculate Donkey Kong Bananza is being made by the Super Mario Odyssey team
- The OG Switch has one massive advantage over the Switch 2, and it'll let you extend your screen using this cheap portable monitor
- How to do the Rematch Alley Oop and other skills
- From Keanu Reeves to Michael B. Jordan, DC fans are trying to figure out which "very, very, very famous" person once pitched an Elseworlds story to James Gunn
- Fighting his own roguelike monster, Balatro creator says he's "146/150 for completionist++ and getting a taste of my own medicine"
- Donkey Kong Country's 90s cartoon is now free to watch on YouTube if you fancy seeing the peak of musical cartoons and early motion-captured CGI
- Marvel Rivals fans think Blade is finally coming in Season 3 as the vampire hunter is no longer napping away in a spawn room
- I could build an entire Lego Animal Crossing village and save over $100 this weekend
- The 8 essential Marvel movies and shows to watch before Ironheart – a spoiler-free guide
- You can turn Elden Ring Nightreign into Pokemon as one of its big dragon bosses can inadvertently help you fight other enemies
- Superman's viral flying shot isn't in the movie as DC boss James Gunn admits "I forgot to look at this closely" before it was made public
- M3GAN 2.0 is more of a sci-fi action movie than a horror says director, and takes inspiration from '80s classics: "If you own T2 and Aliens and Robocop, you're gonna love this movie"
- OG Final Fantasy Tactics director "might" have included War of the Lions' added content if he were leading the strategy RPG remaster, but backs the controversial call not to
- 5 years ago, this $5 PS1-style horror game went viral for turning retail work into even more of a hellscape, and it's finally releasing on Steam next month
- "Notoriously obtuse hardware" meant Mortal Kombat 4 has "never accurately" come to home consoles, but Legacy Kollection found a way to preserve NetherRealm's full arcade roots
- Dying Light: The Beast dev reveals the unlikely inspiration for Kyle Crane's new abilities – "I think of Pac-Man as a survival horror game"
- The latest budget SteelSeries headset has been the perfect PS5 Deltarune companion
- Tom Holland, start taking notes: Thunderbolts star knew that big New Avengers twist for "many years": "I haven't said a thing to anyone"
- Rematch review: "As with Rocket League, the just-one-more-game pull is magnetic"
- Toby Fox created a beloved Deltarune villain "a long time ago," and had to abandon many ideas like using an Xbox Kinect and making them dance using a Hatsune Miku animation program
- Google AI is worse at Pokemon than I was when I was 5 – taking 800 hours to beat the Elite 4 and having a breakdown when its HP got low
- Marvel unveils new Fantastic Four popcorn bucket – and with it, our best look yet at the titular team's ship Excelsior (AKA the one that's not in Thunderbolts*)
- Lee Jung-jae says he's "almost addicted" to Squid Game memes – and that he'll "carry very dear to [his] heart" his memories of the show as a global phenomenon
- Struggling with poor Switch 2 battery life? This Power Bank will lend Ninty's handheld a helping hand
- Does Rainbow Six Siege X have crossplay?
- Switch 2 broke Pikmin 3 Deluxe with visual glitches and crashes, but Nintendo has swiftly patched it up so you can enjoy the Wii U banger once more
- Where to pre-order the new Switch 2 Donkey Kong Bananza amiibo
- Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies throws doubt over the future of the sci-fi show: "We don't know what's happening yet"
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 gets dethroned as Metacritic's best-rated game of 2025 by Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom's Switch 2 upgrades
- As Donkey Kong Bananza reveals full-blown voice acting, Pokemon fans are wondering when they will be spared from the awkward silences
- Dragon's Lair finally gets a director alongside Deadpool and Wolverine star Ryan Reynolds – five years after it was first announced
- Mario Kart World reportedly had almost double the amount of developers as Mario Kart 8, with the Switch 2 game's art team almost tripling
- This Metroidvania-tinged old-school 2D action game is more than another Sega retro revival: it's the highlight of my Summer Game Fest
- Magic: The Gathering really understood the assignment with its Final Fantasy set, and it's going to financially ruin me
- Marvel is gearing up for a stacked 2028, as it adds a fourth mystery movie to the year's schedule – and fans are hoping it's either X-Men or Blade
- Dune: Awakening will get a roadmap "once the craziness of launch has died down," and the only time the survival MMO will charge for new content is "because it's something big"
- Saw franchise finds its way back home to creators James Wan and Leigh Whannell in new Blumhouse deal that will "push the legacy forward" in "unexpected ways"
- Will Donkey Kong Bananza be on Switch 1?
- Danny Boyle's horror sequel 28 Years Later is proving to be all the Rage, as it earns higher Rotten Tomatoes score than the 2002 original
- Donkey Kong Bananza is bringing back the DK Rap, but after going uncredited for the seminal hip hop classic in the Mario Movie, the song's composer wasn't aware it was returning in the Switch 2 game
- Elden Ring Nightreign kicks off big boy season with its first souped-up Everdark Sovereign boss, but not everyone loves their limited availability: "Not permanent? Are we for f****ng real?"
- A fan favorite Demon Slayer character returns in an original Infinity Castle short all about cinema's hot button topic: theater etiquette
- The best cards in MTG Final Fantasy to help you conquer the battlefield
- Marvel boss Kevin Feige confirms the events of Fantastic Four will lead directly into Avengers: Doomsday
- Borderlands 4's $70 price is "extremely unlikely" to have been influenced by backlash to Randy Pitchford's "real fan" comment, Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director says, even if he thought it was "gross"
- The first Switch 2 post-launch update is here, and Nintendo hasn't given up on our favorite thing from the Switch era: extremely vague patch notes
- 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple release date, cast, trailer, and everything else we know about the zombie horror sequel
- June 18
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- This weekend's Gears of War: Reloaded beta has been extended and expanded with more maps and modes, including Execution: "We heard you"
- All the new Madden 26 QB Traits and what they do
- 28 Years Later Review: "Enough terror, splatter and suspense to satisfy”
- Switch 2 stick drift doomers pin their hopes on Nintendo's repair service, which will take a Joy-Con 2 that "doesn't work" for free
- Hugh Laurie reportedly has no interest returning to House: "[He] frankly doesn't care about the audience or reliving the show"
- Deus Ex lead's new game offers a Baldur's Gate 3-grade commitment to cheese where friends can betray each other over a wheel of parmesan
- Netflix is reviving cult-classic '70s sci-fi show Land of the Lost with the original production company on board
- Marathon is delayed, but don't worry, Bungie says it just has to work on the AI, loot, combat, graphics, narrative, playlists, prox chat, and oops that's the whole game isn't it?
- After raising over $300,000, Kickstarter-funded JRPG love letter "is now on an indefinite pause" as studio closes down: "Know that we share your sorrow"
- Spider-Man: The Animated Series' 31-year-old cliffhanger will finally be answered in comic sequel
- Another Avengers: Doomsday character with a connection to Thunderbolts hero Sentry might have been accidentally revealed by Marvel
- David Cronenberg says he's "never been a great games player" — the only "game" in movies like eXistenZ and Videodrome "is to try to understand what life is now"
- The next big Switch 2 exclusive Donkey Kong Bananza is playable on Switch 1 after all, you just need a friend kind enough to share it to your dusty old relic of a console
- After nearly 5 years, Genshin Impact recasts Paimon in English – and I'm definitely not the only one who prefers her new voice
- Doctor Who gets ripped to shreds by the BBC itself in a vicious parody: "I'm off to regenerate into Billie Piper for clicks!"
- Borderlands 4 may not cost $80, but it will be more than that when you upgrade your PC to meet the absurd minimum requirements
- Nier creator Yoko Taro reckons "there’s less 'weird people'" making games nowadays although he's not sure if it's "something that's happening to the world as a whole"
- How to complete GTA Online QuickiePharm deliveries
- It's official, the HP Omen Max 16 is now my top gaming laptop, and it's just taken a $700 price cut
- A vital piece of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's story literally came to the RPG's lead writer in a dream: "I realized, 'Oh actually, this story might work'"
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 started as a "completely different game set in Victorian England," not the French turn-based RPG we now know and love
- Cancelled Netflix show with near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score might still have a shot at returning (and in movie format, too), according to one "hopeful" star
- This mini arcade machine is my favorite retro game room gadget, and it makes for a phenomenal conversation starter
- Until Dawn studio's first sci-fi game is a body horror fest inspired by John Carpenter with tons of Lethal Company tension, and I've never been so excited to turn into a pile of sludge
- You can cure Elden Ring Nightreign's most annoying random event for free by simply making it to Day 3 and jumping off a bridge and into a black pit of death
- The king of all monster Lego sets is on its way with a simply enormous Lego Godzilla kit
- Red Dead Redemption's John Marston actor tries to calm fans down after having "possibly misled" them with his "exciting news" teaser: "I do not make announcements for Rockstar Games"
- SteelSeries Arctis Nova 3 Wireless review - "a budget-friendly, cozy gamer dream"
- HP Omen Max 16 review: "one hell of a show"
- Florence Pugh says they filmed a fake Thunderbolts scene to cover up its New Avengers reveal: "We shot a version where [Val says] 'The New Thunderbolts!'"
- Toby Fox worried two Deltarune villains were too similar for anyone to "really care," but he's come to think they're "characters who mutually enhance each other"
- I was already excited for Marvel Cosmic Invasion after the studio's incredible retro TMNT brawler, and 30 minutes of hands-on has me even more confident that the spirit of '90s arcade gaming is alive and well
- Donkey Kong Bananza takes notes from the best Mario and Zelda games: it has its own shrines, you can totally destroy levels, transform into animals, and dive into the underground
- Donkey Kong Bananza reveals a co-op multiplayer mode that sure looks like something the Mario Odyssey team would cook up
- Silent Hill 2 movie adaptation confirms 2026 release date, will come out 20 years after the original film
- How many Ironheart episodes are there?
- Even George Clooney’s son isn’t convinced by his 1997 portrayal of Batman: "'I said to him, 'I was Batman’ and he was like, 'Not really'"
- Donkey Kong Bananza features a young Pauline, immediately raising lore implications and many questions about the very serious DK timeline
- Elden Ring Nightreign data miner uses math to prove FromSoftware really wants you to stay dead: reviving teammates gets exponentially harder the more they die
- A $1.4 million Nintendo Switch 2 heist saw nearly 3,000 brand-new consoles stolen from a truck going to GameStop
- Reach is a cinematic VR shooter pushing the boundaries of immersion as you battle to save colliding realities
- The 33 greatest Disney villains
- "I almost gave up": Hideo Kojima on looking into the abyss, Death Stranding 2's Australian setting, working with his idols, and connecting with koalas
- After 4 hours with Borderlands 4 I'm not yet sold on its biggest changes, but Gearbox says "it would be strange" if Borderlands wasn't "constantly growing and adapting"
- Modders are already working on Switch 2 Joy-Con adapters, and I'm hyped to use old gamepads in handheld mode
- GTA 3 could have been the debut of GTA Online, according to Rockstar veteran who says online play was planned as early as 2001
- Rick and Morty gets meta with a shot at Warner Bros. CEO David Zaslav in the latest episode of season 8
- Elden Ring Nightreign's most annoying random event was apparently never meant to be so tricky to deal with, as FromSoft fixes "a bug where the Demon Merchant would spawn near the Night's Tide"
- From Final Destination's infamous log truck to James Bond's big parade, movie fans are discussing the film moments that changed real life
- Self-confessed Flanafan James Gunn says the Clayface movie is "all Mike [Flanagan's] story" after reported planned rewrites
- You'll soon be able to enjoy your favorite Netflix shows for real in what sounds like one chaotic, immersive experience
- These Switch 2 controller grips are only $15, but the extra joy they add to Mario Kart World is priceless
- Death Stranding anime movie confirms writer, who is excited to bring "new stories" to Hideo Kojima's "fertile, mind-bending universe"
- Gearbox says the Borderlands 4 collector's edition isn't actually the collector's edition, even though there doesn't seem to be any other version available
- Predator: Badlands director teases "something akin to Prey 2", as he confirms Naru's cameo in animated movie Predator: Killer of Killers is canon: "I [have] a bunch of big ideas, I would love to get to all of them"
- Invincible creator says the superhero show’s level of violence was made possible by The Boys doing it first: "We get to hide behind the trailblazing of The Boys as they keep pushing the envelope"
- Dune: Awakening patch addresses PvP complaints from fans of the survival MMO, fixing respawn timers and ornithopter ramming: "A step to the right direction"
- Boldly go with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds in the latest issue of SFX
- Elden Ring movie director Alex Garland proves he's the perfect pick for the adaptation after schooling an interviewer on one of the game's toughest bosses
- Stellar Blade studio reportedly acquires Switch 2 devkits, but also say nothing has been confirmed regarding its plans for Nintendo's new console
- Dune: Messiah adds two new cast members as significant book characters – and one of them is the son of Jason Momoa
- Mario Kart World's first post-launch patch suggests we somehow weren't getting hit with enough items as it fixes an "an issue where items were no longer able to be used"
- Marvel fans have been convinced Mephisto is showing up since WandaVision, but Ironheart's clue-filled tease might finally be a sign it's really happening
- After 13 years, Harold and Kumar 4 is in the works from Cobra Kai creators: "Puff this deep and pass it on!"
- June 17
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- Borderlands 4 is getting "a TON of awesome DLC," including "a range of free and paid updates," according to Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford, who continues to be "stoked" that the game is only $70
- William Shatner's Captain Kirk returns from the dead just in time to watch Starfleet burn in Star Trek: The Last Starship
- 2 years ago an MMO player locked himself in a virtual cage of his own making – "after 10,000 hours" he is finally free
- Fallout New Vegas designer and noted RPG romance cynic Josh Sawyer was sold on Cyberpunk 2077's love stories: "If I were gonna base romances on anything, I'd probably do something like that"
- Ironheart takes flight in a new Iron Man comic cover that shows off MCU concept art
- Warner Bros. triples down on Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, Mortal Kombat, and DC in organization restructure, putting Batman: Arkham Origins and NetherRealm studio heads in charge
- DCU boss James Gunn clarifies his recent comments that Marvel Studios was "killed" by putting out too much content: "They were screwed by the situation they had no control over"
- Check in on the Hollow Knight: Silksong fans in your life, because the triple-whammy of mentions, no-shows, and clarifications at Summer Game Fest was absolutely brutal
- Lois Lane actor Rachel Brosnahan learned she got the part from Superman director James Gunn in the most awkward way possible: "I'm in the bathroom, but I'm not about to miss this call"
- PlayStation explains Death Stranding in 6 minutes to remind hopeful Death Stranding 2 players where they came from, but now I'm so confused I forgot where I was born
- PlayStation delays Marathon indefinitely: "Your voice has been strong and clear"
- "Next-generation Xbox consoles" at the heart of Microsoft's new "multi-year agreement" with AMD: "The next generation of Xbox is coming to life"
- DC's unlikely Clayface movie casts its lead actor after an "exhaustive search" as DC boss James Gunn says he and The Batman director Matt Reeves were "blown away" by the audition
- Hades 2 just got a huge update with over 5,000 words of patch notes, and Supergiant says "we're now starting to prepare for our v1.0 launch"
- Onimusha: Way of the Sword started development in 2020, but it took 2 years to get late samurai movie star Toshiro Mifune's likeness for the protagonist
- 43-year CRPG Fallout and Wasteland veteran says his studio “wouldn’t be here” if not for a “Hail Mary” $2.9m Kickstarter: “That culminated into Clockwork Revolution”
- Final Fantasy 14 devs will address "player feedback on Cosmic Exploration and the Occult Crescent" this week, following negative Dawntrail reviews post-Patch 7.25
- Date Everything, a dating sim where you can romance household appliances, has around 80 hours of voiced dialogue from stars of Baldur's Gate 3, Final Fantasy, and more: "You can keep playing this for a long time"
- Anker Nebula X1 review: "one of the greats"
- One of the best-rated action RPGs on Steam faced the wrath of furries over a body slider nerf, but the dev says it was a misunderstanding: "I won't write a manifesto"
- Hyper Light Drifter studio's new 2D side-scroller is a chimera of my favorite things: the mythology of Neon White, Metroidvania tension from Animal Well, and perfect Smash Bros. combat
- Robert Downey Jr. throws his support behind Ironheart: "Iron Man loves Ironheart"
- Solo Elden Ring Nightreign players prove they don't need a duos patch by beating the game with the only duo that matters: their fist, and their other fist, with "no skills or anything"
- Forget the $100 and $130 Deluxe editions, Borderlands 4 has a "pretty rad" collector's edition that doesn't include the game for the low, low price of $150
- Screw Hogwarts, this might be my favorite Lego Harry Potter set right now
- KYY K3 Portable Monitor review: "a remarkably cheap handheld screen"
- "Only Danny Boyle is brave enough to make bold swings like that": 28 Years Later star teases new horror movie, as he compares "experimental" shoot to "technical" Nosferatu's
- Helldivers 2 players, rejoice: Super Earth is in ruins and millions of NPCs died, but hey, we just got a sweet cape
- Demon Slayer Infinity Castle's marketing makes no sense but we love it anyway: a 28,000 square-meter Tanjiro rice field that might have broken a Guinness World Record
- Red Dead Redemption cast take notes from the Persona 4 school of early announcement teasers with Arthur Morgan's actor now seemingly confirming Red Dead news
- I'm testing a ridiculous number of Switch 2 accessories right now, but this case is one of my top picks so far
- New trailer for I Know What You Did Last Summer sees Jennifer Love Hewitt's character going face-to-hook with the Fisherman in the horror sequel
- "Is that enough to get DMC6 going?" asks Nero's voice actor, joining series fans, as Devil May Cry 5 passes 10 million sales
- Hear me out, this CS2 Dragon Lore mouse pad is worth every fiber - even if the mouse might need an eco round
- Tron: Catalyst review: "Disc slinging is a thrill in this gorgeous rendition of the series, but I'm let down by a time-loop story that falls flat"
- Amanda Seyfried says sequels are "just for money and it's frustrating", but admits she would do Mamma Mia 3 "in a heartbeat"
- Harry Potter star says his role in 2003's Peter Pan was a "catastrophe" that almost killed his career: "The lowest I've ever been was Peter Pan"
- 29 years of Resident Evil has left the horror series riddled with lore issues, but I'm convinced Requiem can finally tie it all together
- Diving into Gears of War: Reloaded's chaotic multiplayer servers is like being wrapped in a warm blanket lined with sandpaper
- Forget gaming headsets, I owe my Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 parries to these speakers
- Disney Plus removes a classic James Cameron sci-fi movie after featuring a "troubling" scene that was cut from previous releases
- STEALTH Premium Travel Case review - a plain but necessary Switch 2 accessory
- "Just all gone": Pokemon player loses "20 years worth of data" when transferring Scarlet save file to Switch 2, and they're apparently not the only one
- Nobody is safe from sandworms in Dune: Awakening – the survival MMO's players are now being eaten mid-flight, ornithopters and all: "Shai-Hulud can fly"
- Square Enix finally ported Final Fantasy Tactics after its director played it for the first time in years, then instantly ran into issues because no one had the source code anymore
- 28 Years Later star Aaron Taylor-Johnson explains why the zombie sequel is "more horrific" than the average scary movie
- Switch 2 owners using Mig Flash cartridges say Nintendo is bricking their new consoles, even if they're only using the carts for their own ROMs rather than pirated games
- Final Fantasy Tactics remaster doesn't include content from the strategy RPG's beloved PSP port War of the Lions: "The most appropriate path for us was to pay respect to the original game"
- The first Steam Deck dock I tested is now under $20, and picking one up is a no-brainer
- "F*****g Iron Man wasn't the be-all and end-all": James Gunn explains why he doesn't feel the pressure over DCU's first movie Superman being a "home run"
- Original Blade screenwriter thinks it's "confusing" that Marvel's reboot is stuck in development hell: "Blade is a relatively simple story"
- James Gunn proved the DCU's commitment to quality by scrapping a movie that was "ready to go" because the "screenplay wasn't ready"
- After attempts at Lord of the Rings and Star Wars anime, one producer is "pissed off" by Hollywood requesting everything be turned into an anime: "There are too many works to check out"
- Borderlands 4 has "a huge slate of post-launch content planned," and its "Bounty Packs are going to be similar to Headhunter Packs from Borderlands 2"
- James Gunn says his Superman was influenced by his controversial Marvel firing: "I don't think that I would've written the Superman that I wrote"
- "I cannot believe how lucky of a person I am": Mario voice actor says "hearing myself" in Mario Kart World "is truly an unbelievable experience"
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is even getting praise from within The Witcher 4 studio CD Projekt Red, as community director says "we NEED more games like this"
- Hideo Kojima says size does matter, but smaller is better as he praises Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's team size: "That's my ideal"
- Best MTG Final Fantasy Commander decks, ranked and compared
- Daredevil: Born Again season 2 set photo teases the return to a fan-favorite location from the Netflix show
- This LG OLED TV is one year old, here's why I bought it for my Switch 2 over the latest model
- Horror helmer Mike Flanagan confirms production on his upcoming Stephen King Carrie adaptation has begun: "And we’re off"
- Solo Leveling beats Demon Slayer and Attack on Titan to become Crunchyroll's most-watched anime of all time
- FBC Firebreak Paper Chase guide: How to destroy Sticky Notes and defeat Sticky Ricky
- FBC Firebreak Crisis Kits explained: How to use Fix, Jump, and Splash Kits
- FBC Firebreak Hot Fix guide: How to repair the Transfer Fans
- FBC: Firebreak review: "A disappointingly bland multiplayer FPS that's missing far too much of what made Control special"
- How to complete the Dune Awakening Zantara's head bounty
- June 16
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- Ubisoft yet gain assures parched Prince of Persia fans that The Sands of Time remake is still alive: "We're still deep in the game — exploring, building, and ensuring the sands move with purpose"
- "When they do a business analysis, Nintendo doesn't show up": Ex PlayStation boss says Sony's only real competition outside Japan is Xbox, even though they have "huge respect for what Nintendo does"
- Infinitesimals is a Honey I Shrunk the Kids take on Halo with a very good jetpack, and its vibrant combat sandbox reminds me of one of the most underrated Xbox 360 cult classics
- New Star Wars comic brings Han Solo and Chewbacca out of retirement to reclaim the Millennium Falcon in the time between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens
- Batman is James Gunn's "biggest issue in DC right now," and isn't ruling out bringing in Robert Pattinson as a solution to his Bat-problems: "I would never say zero [chance]"
- New Naked Gun reboot trailer has Liam Neeson fighting and farting his way through a hilariously violent send-up of his own brutal revenge movies
- Stellar Blade director promises the sequel will add more narrative substance to the game that received practically a billion "adult" mods as soon as it released on Steam
- Avowed isn't Pillars of Eternity 3, but if the third RPG ever happens director Josh Sawyer reckons it should move to a proper 3D environment "more like Baldur’s Gate 3"
- 24 years after launching Nexus Mods, the founder of the worlds biggest modding site is stepping back for health reasons: "The strain of being responsible for the behemoth I created has taken its toll"
- After a rocky launch, MindsEye is officially this year's worst-rated game according to Metacritic, ranking below 183 other games
- Legendary designers ditch D&D for critical roles with Critical Role in major coup
- Dune: Awakening devs promise "a bunch of changes" as the survival MMO's PvP and endgame content come under fire over loot, balance concerns, and more: "Total mess"
- Borderlands 4 post-launch roadmap includes 2 new Vault Hunters, 2 new stories, and a bunch of extra missions and areas
- All eyes are on Superman, but I'm suddenly more excited about this DC adaptation of the only comic I rate above Watchmen
- The best new shows and movies streaming this week on Netflix, Prime Video, Disney Plus, and more
- Best card games: New favorites that won't get lost in the shuffle
- After Superman: Legacy dropped the 'Legacy', Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow has changed its title because James Gunn is "sick of the superhero title, colon, other-name thing"
- The Sandman co-showrunner says they wanted to "preserve as many of the comic book moments as possible" but certain big scenes had to be cut: “They can’t say we didn’t try!”
- A Switch OLED is still worth it in a post-Switch 2 world, especially now it's under $250
- Tekken series producer Katsuhiro Harada has been dumping lore about the series over the weekend, including why Heihachi has around 25 kids
- This Razer keyboard just joined my list of the best wireless decks available, all because it plays so nicely with the Asus ROG Ally
- Borderlands 4 isn't $80 after all, publisher confirms, weeks after Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford enraged the community by saying a "real fan" would pay that much
- Disney might be scaling back on streaming shows, but Marvel fans still want one project in particular: a Winter Soldier spin-off
- DC boss James Gunn responds to suggestions that Marvel Studios is putting out too much content – but says it wasn't their fault: "That wasn't fair. It wasn't right. And it killed them"
- Hideo Kojima "changed stuff" in Death Stranding 2's script because playtesters enjoyed themselves too much: "If everyone likes it, it means it's mainstream"
- A late contender for my favorite roguelike of Steam Next Fest combines Vampire Survivors with an arcade classic, and it's sticking around for a few more days
- As Crunchyroll shows off first Demon Slayer Infinity Castle footage behind closed doors, its movie chief declares "Anime is niche no more"
- 28 Years Later dark web teaser site all but confirms that the 2007 sequel's cliffhanger ending won't affect the third installment
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs tease "new content" as they eye up "a wide range of future improvements" for their hit JRPG love letter
- Elden Ring Nightreign geniuses are putting even the most dedicated trios to shame, completing entire runs solo without getting hit
- Predator: Badlands is "not just a slasher movie" or "a generic sci-fi", says director Dan Trachtenberg: "It's a hardcore, brutal survival tale… but also crazy fun"
- Lucasfilm boss Kathleen Kennedy teases more "standalone" stories in Star Wars: "It doesn’t necessarily have to connect to every little thing that's been done"
- Donkey Kong Bananza is getting its own dedicated Nintendo Direct this Wednesday, with "roughly 15 minutes of information" about the next big Switch 2 game
- The humble Steam Deck dock is the reason I'd buy Valve's handheld over a Switch 2 right now
- Helldivers 2's long-awaited review bomb cape teased once more as Sony rolls back controversial region lock: "A cape to celebrate is in order"
- Dune: Awakening review: "Both extremely compelling and extraordinarily boring, sometimes at the same time – yet still a true Dune love letter"
- Ironheart will go to "uncomfortable" places for viewers, "almost in the vein of Walter White or Tony Soprano"
- Mario Kart World tricksters are getting so advanced, they're breaking the damn game: "I could explore underneath basically the whole track"
- Longlegs studio boosts budget on fan-funded found footage horror movie, adding more "gore and violence"
- Stellar Blade's huge PC launch rakes in 1 million sales in just 3 days, taking the action RPG across the 3 million sales mark as its Steam player peak continues to reach new heights
- Slow Horses is showing the rest of television how it's done with confirmation of a seventh season in four years
- Stellar Blade's director says that Shift Up is positive about the game's modding scene, but he's looking forward to mods that meaningfully expand the action RPG instead of… y'know
- Will Smith turned down Christopher Nolan and Inception because he "didn't get" the plot: "These movies that go into these alternate realities… they don't pitch well"
- If Assassin's Creed isn't going to bring back the multiplayer we all loved, there's another stealthy murder game that can do it even better: Hitman
- Elden Ring Nightreign Steam reviews recover to "Very Positive" after several patches and FromSoftware promising to add the duo option it "overlooked"
- The Witcher 4 has a "console-first" philosophy and a 60fps target to avoid another Cyberpunk 2077 situation, though the Xbox Series S is "extremely challenging"
- Hideo Kojima shares the summer blockbuster he's most excited to see
- Netflix's latest number one movie worldwide is a thriller with a low Rotten Tomatoes score, but viewers have nothing but praise for it
- Final Fantasy 14 Dawntrail recent reviews drop back to "Mostly Negative" on Steam as Patch 7.25 falls short of MMO fans' expectations: "Occult Crescent has disappointed many people"
- New King of the Hill teaser has a perfect Hank gag, and fans have declared "we are so back"
- Director of the scrapped Star Wars movie that became The Rise of Skywalker has admitted it's a "struggle" to watch the saga "on an emotional level", but he's going to try Andor
- Star Trek: Strange New Worlds showrunners reveal plans for a cancelled crossover with the '70s animated series
- Grounded 2 is targeting updates every "four to five months" after Obsidian learned the hard way: "When we started with Grounded 1 in early access we were trying to do monthly updates – that was a hassle and it didn't work"
- Squid Game creator gets candid about the likelihood of Netflix spin-off show
- Predator: Badlands release date, cast, trailer, and everything else we know about the sci-fi sequel
- Prey director teases secret new project after Predator: Killer of Killers and Predator: Badlands: "I sort of rushed two at once because I was so eager to get to the third thing"
- Jurassic World Rebirth director read the screenplay "wanting to hate it" because he needed a break, but did a 180 after finishing it: "It was an opportunity of a lifetime"
- June 15
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- Masters of the Universe's He-Man Nicholas Galitzine strikes the hero pose in all-new first look
- With The Outer Worlds 2, Obsidian is dedicated to making sneaky playstyles truly viable: "We have a strike team going room-by-room to see if we can stealth properly through each location"
- If collecting fish in Animal Crossing, Stardew Valley, or Dave the Diver consumed your life, this new fishing RPG might be perfect for you
- Years before becoming The Witcher 4's narrative director, Philipp Weber's first job at CDPR was spending days throwing quest ideas into a GDoc for The Witcher 3
- This Steam Next Fest demo is exactly like Escape from Tarkov, except you're a duck and it only gets weirder from there
- After almost 15 years, Minecraft's massive visual overhaul comes this month with over 3,000 lush new textures: "We didn't want to take away from what makes Minecraft Minecraft"
- Poirot is inexplicably set in the disco-lit '70s in this new Steam Next Fest demo – and seeing the moustachioed detective strut his stuff might low-key slap
- While streaming Red Dead Redemption, John Marston's actor teases "exciting news" coming this week and he "cannot wait for you to know what's going on"
- Obsidian won't rule out bringing Grounded 2 to PS5 in the future, but says that its initial release is "all about being in Game Preview and Early Access"
- 28 Years Later director Danny Boyle confirms he won't go back to James Bond: "That ship has sailed"
- The Shovel Knight devs' Steam Next Fest gem is such a perfect homage to Zelda: Link's Awakening that I wish I was playing on an actual Game Boy
- Tears of the Kingdom is great, but the Switch 2 upgrades have made me confront the hard truth: Breath of the Wild is still the superior Zelda game
- Superman director James Gunn confirms "dead is dead" in the DCU but with maybe one exception
- The Mandalorian director Bryce Dallas Howard clears up details about her Mace Windu discussions with Dave Filoni
- Severance star joins Boogeyman director Rob Savage's next horror film, which is based on a book by the Bird Box author
- Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 review: "The show's most assured run of episodes to date"
- June 14
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- Everything is bigger in Grounded 2, but Obsidian never considered stretching beyond four-player co-op: "It would have undermined what Grounded was really about"
- After playing The Outer Worlds 2, I'm convinced that it has the potential to be Obsidian's greatest game – and the best FPS of 2025
- "Suddenly a lot of people who loved Skyrim started paying attention to The Witcher 3": CDPR says an old E3 demo was a turning point for its defining RPG
- This Stardew Valley-ish farming sim looks super cozy until you find out about the supernatural serial killer (who you can also romance)
- Fresh from the Xbox Showcase, There Are No Ghosts At The Grand is the supernatural powerwashing musical I didn't know I needed
- The Witcher 4's narrative lead is holding onto some of his earliest Witcher 3 feedback for the RPG's sequel: "We don't do fetch quests"
- After playing Grounded 2 for 30 minutes, it's clear that my favorite survival game is getting a massive glow-up
- Nintendo Switch 2 beats PS4 to set sales record in the US with Mario Kart World, Cyberpunk 2077, and Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom as its best-selling games
- These devs basically made their own Danganronpa, and I already feel at home in its mysterious Steam Next Fest demo
- We finally know when A Minecraft Movie will be streaming, and it's in just a few days
- The Stellar Blade PC release finally convinced me to try it out, but after its Steam Next Fest demo I'm going straight back to Elden Ring Nightreign
- Marvel's Eyes of Wakanda series will be set a thousand years in the past and is four episodes long
- New rom-com starring Marvel actors was inspired by legendary romance movies like Pride & Prejudice and The Graduate
- Kill Team: Typhon introduces an unexpected twist to its competitive gameplay, and I think it might be a game-changer
- Andor isn't just the most critically acclaimed live-action Star Wars project, it's also a streaming hit
- June 13
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- Sony seems to have removed the Helldivers 2 region lock in most countries, players erupt in celebration with their own Major Order: "Give them the positive reviews they've earned"
- IOI says the hero in 007 First Light isn't the "classy Bond with the martini" we know and love, but thankfully Q will teach him "why he needs to wear a nice watch and things like that"
- Matthew McConaughey is set to play an iconic private investigator in a new movie from True Detective creator
- Soulslikes are getting easier, and I'm not complaining: The First Berserker Khazan renames "Easy" to "Normal," adds "Beginner" for good measure, and introduces "Hardcore" for sickos
- With over 6,600 hours on PS5 alone, Elden Ring player claims to have more Malenia and Consort Radahn kills than nearly anyone – and has quietly been uploading videos for years
- Madame Web star Dakota Johnson says Hollywood is "a bit of a mess" because of constant remakes: "When something does well, studios want to keep that going"
- Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour review: "Mostly a fancy toy and not much more"
- The Witcher 4 is coming together with the same "scrappy energy" CDPR used to get The Witcher 3 over the line: "Get it done. Do it dirty"
- This is your last chance to grab the Meta Quest 3S at a record-low price in its current sale
- FC 25 Shapeshifters guide grants position changes for Vieira, Kompany and Kane
- This Balatro-style roguelike is Localthunk's nightmare, because it swaps Poker for a literal slot machine to really simulate that gambling feel and its Steam Next Fest demo is dangerously addictive
- A new Hong Kong drama about three d/Deaf friends brings sign language to the big screen in a different way
- REPO devs apologize for teasing cosmetics we'll never get, confirm other cosmetics are actually coming and "old levels will get updated" eventually
- Elden Ring Nightreign's notorious Bell Bearing Hunter mini-boss is more trouble than some Day 3 bosses, but one player has found a classic cheese: body blocking
- Obsidian explains Grounded 2 was born from technical limitations of the Xbox One: "This is our opportunity to build the world from the ground up"
- "I want Hundred Line to be like Shonen Jump – a single game packed with all kinds of stories": Danganronpa creator isn't done with his new tactical RPG, even after 100 endings
- Elden Ring Nightreign's worst character is The Guardian, or he might be one of the best depending on who you ask: "Guardian is top 3 you can’t change my mind"
- Hollow Knight: Silksong has its own GTA 6-like release date blast zone – "I hope Silksong will release this year coz we are avoiding them," says boss of lovely JRPG-flavored Metroidvania
- Oblivion Remastered player escapes a special kind of torture, but not without scars: "My Adoring Fan has asexually reproduced and my game is now a waking nightmare"
- MindsEye review: "An uninspired and forgettable sci-fi action adventure that feels like a Netflix movie you watch while on your phone"
- MindsEye dev says new performance hotfix is "the first in a series of patches," but with 40% positive reviews and just over 500 players on Steam, it would take a miracle to turn this train around
- Nintendo Switch 2 is too powerful for asses to handle: 1v1 butt swordfighting game Ketsu Battler is having issues with literal backwards compatibility
- Pokemon makes its funniest in-game event even better with a meme reference hidden in its distribution code: "This is quite possibly the best special event code in the history of ever"
- I played 30 minutes of the new game from the original Little Nightmares devs, and it turns out a twin-stick survival horror Metroidvania is a recipe for spooky heaven
- This Oblivion Remastered mod lets you keep everything from mudcrabs to trolls as pets, making Bethesda's RPG a little less lonely and a lot more Pokemon-y
- "I would have done things differently": Splitgate 2 director would be "less controversial" if given the opportunity to repeat his Summer Game Fest antics
- Deltarune fans think they've found the boss fight Toby Fox's family described as a "cry for help," and yep, it's the stuff nightmares are made of
- Hollow Knight: Silksong dev simultaneously backtracks and doubles down on possible DLC, thinks "DLC is likely" despite his last apparent teaser being a joke
- "Everyone in the industry said it's not possible" – The Witcher 3 at 10: diving into the legendary RPG's creation, legacy, and secret sauce that makes CDPR's quests so special
- The chaos of Hotline Miami meets the intricate planning of Payday in this hostage-saving Steam Next Fest demo that's absolutely riffing on Die Hard
- From Zelda-likes to Batman-style action, here's the 20 Steam Next Fest demos you have to play this June before they disappear
- 6 scary movies to watch this Friday the 13th on Netflix, Apple TV Plus, Shudder, and more
- I've sacrificed millions of imps in my new favorite roguelike city-builder, but it's still not enough
- This Steam Next Fest demo mixes Journey with The Last Guardian, having me run through gorgeous fields with my fluffy herd
- PlayStation boss Hermen Hulst wants to develop Astro Bot into an enduring series, calling it one of the consoles "most exciting recent successes"
- PlayStation is still "continuing to invest in new live services," and has "reviewed our processes" following Concord's failure
- Ex-PlayStation boss says Stellar Blade's combat is what's made it so successful, but the 95 "adult" mods on Nexus tell a different story
- The Rock had a bizarre request for his Black Adam action figure: "Can you make me more ripped?"
- Dune: Awakening's endgame "unfairly favors large guilds," so the survival MMO's community is asking developer Funcom to "fix the Landsraad" and not leave solo players and small guilds behind
- PlayStation insists Marathon has "strong early engagement," even after a very public art scandal and divisive playtests
- Reacher star Alan Ritchson confirms the lone hero is heading to New York City in season 4 – and it could be his most dangerous mission yet
- Sony isn't worried about the Switch 2 being the fastest-selling piece of Nintendo hardware ever, because you need the PS5 for "a great experience on big screens"
- Pirates of the Caribbean star says there have "been talks" about reuniting the original cast for another movie: "We'll have to see where it lands"
- This ridiculously adorable Kirby controller works with Switch 2, and it'll provide pink puffball goodness for under $30
- Pixar is bringing back iconic animated blooper reels for new movie Elio, just like in A Bugs Life and Toy Story, and the 90s nostalgia is real
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle has quickly become one of favorite adventure games of all-time, and the DLC promises to give me exactly what I want - more of it
- American Psycho reboot has another potential Patrick Bateman: The White Lotus and Gen V star Patrick Schwarzenegger
- The "first print" of Star Wars just screened for the first time in decades: "There's so much tinkering that's gone on over the years [...] and then everybody kind of lost track of what it was"
- Fans worry Xbox Game Pass could be due another price increase after evidence seemingly surfaces on the Xbox website, just a month after the latest console price hike
- Sony is "really thoughtful" about bringing PlayStation franchises like God of War and The Last of Us off console, and PS5 games going to PC is a matter of "if", not when
- GTA 5, Call of Duty, Genshin Impact, and 5 other games alongside 2 subscription services make up 53% of PlayStation Store revenue, more than the other 12,000+ combined
- Nier: Automata creator shoots down rumor Square Enix forced the RPG's devs to alter character designs to avoid outrage: "I've never heard of such a thing"
- Sony knows "there's a huge interest" in PlayStation's "next-generation console strategy" after the PS5, and "the future of the platform is top of mind" for the company
- Live-action adaptation of Your Name director's underappreciated anime classic gets a trailer that might break your heart all over again
- After weeks of speculation, EA officially unveils new Sims 4 expansion Enchanted by Nature – and all fans can think is how it'll up their challenge game: "Rags to Riches is gonna go crazy in this world"
- The 32 Greatest Animated Movies of the 2010s
- Monster Hunter Wilds recent reviews on Steam drop to 'Mostly Negative' as performance issues persist months after launch, with some players saying new updates made it worse
- Win a copy of VE Schwab’s new novel
- Win a Blu-ray of In the Lost Lands
- June 12
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- Deltarune's hardest achievement is the most Toby Fox thing ever: A secret message on PlayStation for whoever somehow dodges every trophy in the game
- Star Trek: Strange New Worlds fans get the best and worst news as it's renewed for season 5 and simultaneously canceled
- Disney and Universal call AI "bottomless pit of plagiarism" in lawsuit against Midjourney
- Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is the hardcore Soulslike you'd get if you tried to turn Sekiro into Chinese Dark Souls 3, and that devotion to FromSoftware is exactly why I like it
- One day after launch, the top 30 "adult" Stellar Blade mods have over 350,000 downloads on Nexus Mods, which isn't far off what Nier Automata has after 8 years
- 'Zelda but a life sim' RPG Fantasy Life i sells 1 million copies, and there's a new update with improved graphics for Switch 2 and the improved camera everyone's been hoping for
- New Netflix murder mystery series starring hot Sauron from Rings of Power comes out of nowhere with 100% Rotten Tomatoes score and rave reviews
- This co-op platformer was a "boyhood dream" for the self-taught stop-motion animator now directing it, and it might just rival It Takes Two with a more earnest story and action less likely to destroy your relationships
- Turns out you can ruin some of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's most impactful moments and fights with a funny costume secret – or enhance them, depending who you ask
- Microsoft has reportedly killed its in-house Xbox handheld to focus on its new ROG Ally platform
- Almost 40 years later, Spaceballs is getting a sequel that brings star Rick Moranis out of retirement
- Marvel stars' A24 rom-com Materialists has great reviews, but many are repeating the 'elevated horror' mistake of the 2010s – and we need to dump it before it's too late
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (June 13 - 15)
- Bandai Namco's first-ever roguelike is an entertaining, direct descendent of Hades with anime girls, but I wish it really was "unlike any roguelike" the way its devs promised me
- DC's Mister Miracle will get his own adult animated series from the writer of the comics
- Twin Peaks co-creator says he and David Lynch talked before his death about bringing back the hit cult mystery drama for another season: "We had a little bit of a recipe forming"
- Among Us devs find their shoutout in Deltarune, Toby Fox immediately responds with "removed Among Us" patch notes
- Mario Kart World is outselling Switch 1 launch title Zelda: Breath of the Wild by over 4x in Japan, Switch 2 physical launch estimates show
- Mario Kart World could be due a Donkey Kong-themed expansion, fans theorize, with the bizarre lack of DK love in the Switch 2 racer leaving players suspicious
- Final Fantasy 14 devs once thought Field Operations would only "resonate" with select fans of the MMO, but now "it feels like even more players than we expected are looking forward to the next piece"
- Shiny Pokemon are absolutely raining in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet after Nintendo Switch 2 upgrades: "I legit couldn't believe this many spawned"
- Arnold Schwarzenegger explains how the new remake of Stephen King's Running Man can improve on his 1987 movie: "[Ours] was great, but it could've been better"
- Persona 5 and Hatsune Miku aren't enough – Sega confirms Mario Kart World rival Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds will get new characters every month
- The best Rainbow Six Siege X Operators for beginners
- Razer Joro review: "a fantastic travel companion"
- Cyberpunk 2077 on Switch 2 is not without its flaws, but this is the best portable trip to Night City so far
- Razer launches a new range of mobile pro controllers that's ideal for gamers with larger hands, and even larger devices
- Seagate's new 4TB Storage Expansion Card is a win for Xbox owners, but it costs more than a Switch 2
- Silent Hill f game director says "it was absolutely critical" for the game set in Japan to not simply "copy" previous titles – it had to "really understand" that horror atmosphere
- Dune: Awakening patch fixes bugs and improves server stability after the survival MMO's full Steam launch dumped 142,000 peak players on those poor servers
- My favorite Nintendo Switch accessory was done dirty by Switch 2, now it's cheaper than ever
- Another Suikoden game is coming to PC as Konami continues the JRPG's resurgence, but the monkey's paw curls: it's a free-to-play mobile gacha game
- MindsEye is getting 3 hotfixes this month to remedy its rough launch as devs explain those viral bugs "were caused by a memory leak" that "impacted roughly 1 in 10 of our players"
- Switch 2 is Nintendo's fastest-selling console despite high prices, former Nintendo marketing leads say "you're basically teaching them that they can continue to do this"
- The original Silent Hill is getting a remake from Bloober Team following the horror studio's success bringing Silent Hill 2 into the modern day
- "Cowardly and disgusting": RuneScape veteran joins players laying into Jagex CEO for cancelling Pride events over reported fear of backlash, which has created backlash
- Switch 2 docks require a "20V power input to activate TV mode," according to accessory maker Jsaux
- Malcolm in the Middle's Hal actor Bryan Cranston reveals that the OG Dewey actor was asked to return for the sequel series, but they politely declined
- Razer Kishi V3 Pro review: “Razer’s stubborn pricing throws a big green spanner in the works”
- The Batman 2 gets a promising update from DC chief James Gunn following delays, says the sequel is "still really important"
- Elden Ring sicko who beat Shadow of the Erdtree on NG+ 1,000 is now tackling Nightreign solo using only his bare fists: "This s**t's not that bad"
- Colin Farrell says The Penguin finale makes a second season "more difficult": "It’s not impossible, but it's a tougher hill to climb"
- Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is getting online in the form of Fox Hunt – which Konami wants you to know isn't Metal Gear Online: "The landscape of multiplayer games has changed a lot"
- Not stopping with WipeOut or Doom 64, this prolific Dreamcast modder is bringing Mario Kart 64 to Sega's long-forgotten console
- Moonlighter 2 is one of the biggest roguelikes at Steam Next fest, but I might prefer its shop management sim gameplay to be an arcane adventurer
- Forget blindfolded runs, a Switch 2-exclusive challenge emerges as fan proves you can play Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom with your Joy-Con attached the wrong way
- "Basically everything in our store was way overpriced until 2 months ago," admits Splitgate 2 director, who says he "would never have allowed" unpopular $80 bundle to go live
- The latest Middle-earth mystery: The Rings of Power season 3's latest incoming characters are a big secret, but one actor will be a "series regular"
- The Outer Worlds 2 is fixing the first RPG's biggest weakness by improving guns "in every way", and the sci-fi nerd in me is already screaming about the Shrink Ray
- The mystery of Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart's final Easter egg has finally been revealed, but Insomniac had to show us itself
- Ninja Gaiden 4 devs say "Soulslikes have kind of taken center stage" since the last installment in the series, but "we are going against the trend in that way"
- The Alters review: "More tactile and story-heavy than the Frostpunk dev's earlier games, but the fight for survival is just as fierce"
- The Alters Cooked Meals – how to get Raw Food and make meals for your crew
- The Alters Minerals location – where to mine Minerals
- How to increase Base Level in The Alters so you can expand
- 10 The Alters tips and tricks to help you get ahead in the early game
- How to increase Qubit Level in The Alters
- The Alters Fundamentals mission – how to gather 60 Metals, build a Workshop, and craft a scanner
- Smiling Friends' newly renewed seasons 4 and 5 may be the last hurrah for the adult animation as creators are worried the show will "overstay its welcome or get stale"
- Sponsored streams for former GTA dev's new game MindsEye aren't going to plan - sponsor apparently cancels one stream and another creator actually laughs while promoting it
- Elden Ring Nightreign players found one boring answer to the mystery of the game's 0.035% drop rate oddity, but insist there has to be more to the impossibly rare item
- Mario Kart World repeats Mario Kart 8's most annoying problem as Nintendo's seemingly hiding all-important stats for characters and vehicles
- Nosferatu director Robert Eggers is swapping bloodsuckers for Scrooge with A Christmas Carol reboot, and Willem Dafoe is rumored to star
- SpyraThree review: "Makes all other water guns look ridiculous"
- Superman star says his first comic book role in an X-Men movie was a "missed opportunity": "There was a lot they could have done with the character"
- Superman has a Krypto-themed pup-corn bucket ready for its big release, including a literal dog bowl for your snacks
- My dream The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time successor is finally playable in Steam Next Fest, and I'm pleased to report it nails the Nintendo 64 vibes
- Superman star to lead new season of Jake Gyllenhaal's Apple TV crime drama
- My favorite Steam Next Fest city-builder so far is a chill sequel to Plague Inc, but I still ended up feeding dogs to my citizens
- Final Fantasy 14 devs know some fans found Field Operations "boring," but it's helped make Occult Crescent better: "We hope those kinds of players will be sure to try it out"
- Hollow Knight: Silksong dev deals psychic damage, hinting at future "DLC" for the Metroidvania which fans aren't convinced won't "turn into a full-fledged game that takes 8 years to develop"
- SAG-AFTRA suspends video game actors strike after reaching a "tentative agreement" with major game publishers over AI protections and better wages
- Apple takes inspiration from controller haptics as it rolls out new F1 trailer that makes your phone vibrate with the race cars – but you need an iPhone to get the full experience
- The previews for Death Stranding 2 are so good, Hideo Kojima's worried too many people will like it: "Maybe this is a problem"
- Stellar Blade beats God of War and Ghost of Tsushima to become PlayStation's most-popular single-player Steam launch
- The structural perfection of this fan-made Lego Xenomorph is matched only by its hostility, and I need an official set yesterday
- As Splatoon 3 gets a Switch 2 upgrade, Switch 1 players see a visual downgrade to "reduce differences in game operation speed as much as possible"
- Splitgate 2 review: "A slick and enjoyable free-to-play FPS, but a disappointing sequel"
- As Stellar Blade PC gets booted off the Steam Next Fest charts, a sci-fi FPS that's everything I actually wanted from Starfield is rising up to take its place
- Stranger Things spin-off showrunner reveals the '80s animated series that was his "north star" when making the new Netflix show
- Death Stranding 2's Norman Reedus calls Hideo Kojima "one of the most brilliant people" even if his ideas are wild: "OK, pick up the baby doll and cry"
- All P-Switch locations and missions in Mario Kart World
- MindsEye's launch "hasn't been without its challenges," says ex-GTA lead's studio, and the action game is set to get a "series of updates aimed at enhancing your experience"
- June 11
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- Indie Sims-like Paralives is getting everything from modding tools to cooking and house fires right at its early-access release, but stuff like weather and pets will be added in free updates
- "Games and studios are being cancelled because of content that is perceived to be 'woke' or representative," new RuneScape CEO reportedly said in internal meeting explaining decision to stop or shrink the MMO's Pride events
- Grounded 2 adding mounts was such a big change that Obsidian had to "rethink how the world works"
- Director James Gunn says everyone knows Superman is an alien in the new DCU: "He's sort of this terrifying creature"
- Capcom's android apocalypse Pragmata is such a genius mix of shooters and puzzle games, both of which I normally hate, and I'm starting to rethink my entire existence
- New Superman trailer sees Lex Luthor's hatred burn bright while the Man of Steel is at odds with the Justice League
- Capcom says Resident Evil Requiem's Grace Ashcroft is "the new main character," which I'm sure will totally stop everyone from theorizing it's secretly Leon Kennedy
- A24 movie based on viral found-footage horror videos adds Worst Person in the World actor to cast, taking the previously reported role of The Penguin star
- Capcom worked with real-life Japanese temple officials to build a major temple in Onimusha: Way of the Sword and make sure it was realistic for "the time setting that the game is in"
- With Haunted Chocolatier still miles away, farming sim with serial killers Grave Seasons is here to scratch that cozy horror itch until it bleeds
- Starving husband collectors declare victory as Zenless Zone Zero adds a buff furry guy with pecs so big they jiggle like pudding: "I’ll take 6 of them, thank you"
- This super-hard survival game is the most unforgiving Steam Next Fest demo I've played so far, and I completely failed to get revenge for the last time it kicked my ass
- Razer Pro Click V2 Vertical Edition review: "supreme comfort"
- Multiplayer shooter Mecha Break has working toilets because you aren't a mech, you're a squishy person in a mech, and sometimes you gotta go
- Oblivion Remastered player nears day 50 of threatening the Imperial Palace Guards with "re-opening every Oblivion Gate" for the RPG's coolest armor
- Dune: Awakening players are really getting into the spirit of things by hoarding water and blocking critical routes, but some have had a change of heart
- Asus ROG Strix G16 (2025) review: "a jack of all trades"
- The Outer Worlds 2 director reveals Obsidian "did a full breakdown on Destiny" and sought advice from the Halo team for the sequel's shooting
- As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG
- How to start the GTA Online Money Fronts update
- Dan Da Dan has beaten Marvel's Thunderbolts at the box office this week, and it could be a sign of anime's cinema domination in the rest of 2025
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard dialogue was reportedly rewritten to be more serious after BioWare worried it would face the same backlash as Forspoken for being too snarky
- Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse star Shameik Moore may have just revealed that there are three versions of Miles Morales in the upcoming threequel
- Even after EA let Dragon Age: The Veilguard out of multiplayer hell, BioWare reportedly still had to rush to target "as wide a market as possible," which feels like the opposite approach of great RPGs
- Argylle star Bryce Dallas Howard isn't surprised by her movie flops: "You can always see it coming while you're making it"
- Onimusha: Way of the Sword looks like an incredible PS2 throwback in all the right ways, but with a modern feel and a swaggering protagonist I already love
- The Last of Us composer seemingly confirms previous comments from Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann that a season 4 will be needed to finish Ellie and Abby's story: "There'll be at least two more seasons, no question"
- The Blood of Dawnwalker's protagonist is "equally engaging, fun, and meaningful to play" in both his human and vampire forms, say the ex-Witcher 3 devs behind the RPG
- Yoko Taro jokes maybe he shouldn't have done the Nikke x Nier: Automata collab after all as cosplayers are now dressing up as Shift Up's characters instead of his own
- Resident Evil Requiem lead thinks the game is even better than Resident Evil 7 and Revelations, which he also directed: "I think this title will make fans the happiest"
- In just 30 minutes, Resident Evil Requiem scared me more than anything in the series' 29-year history
- The Electric State Roleplaying Game review: "The quintessential road trip movie turned TTPRG"
- Intel Core Ultra 7 265K review: "Not the best, but a lot better than when it launched"
- Resident Evil Requiem is playable in first and third-person, letting you toggle between perspectives whenever you want in the options menu
- Resident Evil Requiem's demo tops the series' scariest moments with what might be the most upsetting monster Capcom’s ever devised, and as a horror baby I'm afraid of how much I want to play it
- James Gunn says he's working on something that's "in some way" a Superman follow-up, but it's not "a straight-up Superman sequel"
- Frenched-out Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 cast takes psychic damage watching speedrunner skip the cutscenes they worked so hard on: "Thank you so much"
- Sandra Bullock sent a supportive text message to Dakota Johnson after she won the Razzie Award for Worst Actress Award for Madame Web: "We should have brunch"
- Flanked by The Duskbloods and The Blood of Dawnwalker, Code Vein 2 swoops into the vampire game renaissance by "improving" the lovably janky Soulslike RPG we got 6 years ago
- First trailer for new Stephen King sci-fi drama The Institute feels like X-Men: New Mutants meets Stranger Things – and some fans believe it has an eerie connection to another King story
- One week of Switch 2 backwards compatibility: The good, the bad, and the bilinear-filtered ugly
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 – Everything we know so far about the upcoming shooter
- The PS5 Pro's latest firmware finally addresses its VRR problems, and this is your last chance to get it $50 off in Days of Play
- Batman Arkham combat is reimagined as a disco nightmare in this Steam Next Fest demo – and yes, you can already import your own songs
- Xbox boss Phil Spencer shouts out "Nintendo's amazing track record" and the Steam Deck when promoting the ROG Xbox Ally
- Incredibles 3 will be the first movie in the Pixar superhero series not directed by Brad Bird, but he's still involved
- Don't ask legendary former Mario actor Charles Martinet to say anything weird, because he still wants to "maintain the integrity of the character"
- Hideo Kojima has been hard at work editing the final Death Stranding 2 trailer – one he says will make people go, "What?!"
- Date Everything review: "A masterclass in character design full of wonderful faces I love meeting, but juggling so many means sacrificing depth"
- I've played 200 hours of Street Fighter 6, and the Switch 2 version is a perfectly fine companion piece – even if it could never be the ideal platform
- Mario Kart World's new Rewind feature can be used in Time Trials to set wild records, like this 13-second lap
- Vampire horror movie based on Van Helsing story by the son of Stephen King gets eerie first trailer
- Marvel star Scarlett Johansson "asked to have [her] credit removed" from Thunderbolts because she "wasn't involved"
- Switch 2's controversial game-key cards come on a physical cartridge, but Capcom is still counting its sales of them as digital
- One CGI Transformers character used up so much data during its creation that Google complained about it
- Elden Ring Nightreign player beats the final boss solo using nothing but a bell, after presumably giving the guy tinnitus by ringing it so many times
- I almost missed this Switch 2 HDR setting, and your TV will thank you for the fix
- James Gunn told Marvel he wouldn't put Thor in Guardians of the Galaxy 3: "I don't understand how to write that character"
- After 10 years, Stranger Things star David Harbour is more than ready to say goodbye to his character Jim Hopper: "How much more story is there?"
- "MindsEye definitely needed a delay": GTA 5 veteran's new action game is here with 'Mixed' Steam reviews and "bugs galore," as players share spaghettified NPCs and cars with lives of their own
- Switch 2 sells 3.5 million units in just 4 days to become the "fastest-selling Nintendo hardware ever," and it's already a quarter of a way to the Wii U's lifetime sales
- How strong is Superman and does James Gunn even know? What the comic history of the Man of Steel's powers tells us
- James Gunn's DC universe is handling its superheroes very differently to the MCU – because their world has known about them for 300 years
- If Death Stranding and Metal Gear Solid ever crossover, Kojima knows who should be a porter, even though they "won't be able to carry things so much"
- Deltarune review: "This Undertale successor is an unapologetically weird RPG epic, where each chapter is a new canvas that doesn't have to conform to any rigid rules, style, or logic"
- I carved through my first dangerously addictive Steam Next Fest demo with the power of 'shotgun magic' in this mystical twist on Hotline Miami
- Stardew Valley creator ConcernedApe says the "world of Haunted Chocolatier" will somehow be even "larger" than his farming sim – the same one I already have over 1,000 hours in
- All Dune Awakening trainer locations to unlock every skill tree
- The 32 Greatest Alien Invasion Movies
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege X review: "Bigger, better, and more user friendly than it's ever been – it's the perfect time to dive in"
- June 10
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- Microsoft's Phil Spencer says the Xbox Ally is "the tightest collaboration" he's seen between the gaming and Windows teams "in my 3 decades at the company"
- Hollow Knight: Silksong appearance in ROG Xbox Ally reveal was "a good partnership," says Phil Spencer, who seems to know he's being watched by countless Skong devoted
- Days Gone studio Sony Bend reportedly lays off 30% of its staff as it works on new game following live service cancelation
- Splitgate 2 CEO apologizes again, says "I'm not an idiot" and expected "some" controversy, but wasn't being political with his hat at Summer Game Fest: "We needed something to grab attention"
- A new Wonder Woman movie is "being written right now," DC Studios boss James Gunn confirms, but no one has been cast yet
- Amazon adds Star Wars and Haunting of Hill House actors to already stacked cast of Mike Flanagan's Carrie TV show
- Hideo Kojima says "I always think of other, more weird stuff to make" but he can't just do that when it also has to sell or "my studio will go bankrupt"
- The Last of Us TV show creator confirms Kaitlyn Dever's Abby will lead season 3: "I was sure [HBO] wouldn't let us do this"
- Replaced Embracer CEO wins understatement of the year, says "the road has not always been straight" after billions burned, thousands of layoffs, dozens of games canceled, and multiple studios closed
- Ninja Gaiden 4 hands-on: PlatinumGames and Team Ninja are cooking up something pretty special in this bloody and brutal return to form
- Pedro Pascal slaps Joaquin Phoenix during a heated standoff in first trailer for Hereditary director's pandemic drama that critics are calling "the first truly modern western"
- Fortnite Supernova Gear: What is it and where to get it
- Best Mario Kart world setup to win at any cc
- Lies of P's Overture DLC is crushing players so hard that the devs are making it easier: "We identified areas that did not turn out quite as we intended"
- Helldivers 2 designer outlines Arrowhead's "trainwreck in slow-motion" design philosophy, and another essential guiding star: "The tingle in the ass"
- Playing Gears of War: Reloaded on PS5 is exceptionally surreal, especially in online co-op with a player on Xbox Series X
- Razer just released a barebones kit for its first hot-swappable keyboard
- Intrepid Mario Kart World explorer spends 1 day mapping the "202 unique routes between tracks" in the new Switch 2 game: "If you raced on all of them, it would take over 10 hours"
- Fans briefly panicked after Hideo Kojima's account shared "The life and death of Hideo Kojima" piece, but he's fine – he's just thinking about death and the things he still wants to make
- MCU star Scarlett Johansson gets candid about her time as Black Widow, saying some movies had "so much plot" that "you start to feel like you’re a device to move it along"
- "It looks like Nintendo did a good job" – Sonic boss Takashi Iizuka says Mario Kart World looks more like an action game, whereas Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds "really" focuses on racing and competitive play
- The Walking Dead's Maggie actor says one dramatic scene with Glenn still doesn't sit right with her over a decade later: "It was strange timing"
- Nintendo Switch 2 review: "We're in for an excellent generation"
- The biggest strategy game in Steam Next Fest is a medieval siege MMO from cult devs - but it's impossible to play it most the time and I have to wait 5 hours to get in
- I struggle to learn board game rules, but this RPG tactics Steam Next Fest demo has shown me the power of digital versions to teach
- You aren't supposed to ride Dune: Awakening's sandworms, but the survival MMO's community has figured out a daring way to do it regardless
- Jennifer’s Body star Amanda Seyfried has some ideas for the cult horror sequel – and she won’t do it without Megan Fox
- The Boys creator is "in a fair amount of terror" about the season 5 finale, because "the graveyard is literally filled with terrible [series finales]"
- Halo dataminers uncover evidence of a PS5 release coming, days after Phil Spencer hinted at the return of "a classic that's been with us since the beginning"
- Helldivers 2 finally gives bugdivers something to do now the Illuminate and Automaton attacks are over, as "massive Terminid outbreaks have erupted simultaneously" across 5 planets
- MindsEye continues to project confidence: ex-GTA 5 lead's new game is available physically, but the devs ask folks to delay streams until official launch time – meanwhile a 7-hour "100% walkthrough" is already on YouTube
- Schedule 1 patch arrives alongside its solo dev apologizing for taking "a bit longer than usual," while teasing the drug dealing sim's upcoming "first major update"
- All Mario Kart World Outfits and all food locations for unlocking them
- Death Stranding creator Hideo Kojima is passing ideas onto his staff for after he dies, but he doesn't want them to copy him, because they "will go out of business": "I am not going to pass the baton to anyone"
- David Lynch's unmade Netflix series was a "really interesting mystery" but definitely wasn't a Twin Peaks sequel: "It's too bad. Because it would've been good"
- Major board game publisher snaps up the Zombicide franchise, saving it from an uncertain future
- You can play the RPG that inspired Undertale during Steam Next Fest and it even features the work of Toby Fox himself
- Moon Knight creator says the character’s return to the MCU is up to Kevin Feige and Oscar Isaac: "I would be shocked if we didn’t see him again at some point"
- How to Train Your Dragon director is already thinking about the sequel, wants Cate Blanchett to return in live-action
- Elden Ring Nighreign patch makes the Nightlords fight fair, stopping one from tanking your framerate and another from performing a combo of "72 consecutive attacks"
- Fantastic Four co-writer tried to have "a classic Galactus" as the "big bad" in the 2015 Marvel movie, but "internal push back" stopped it
- No Pikmin games got Switch 2 upgrades, and fans say Pikmin 3 Deluxe is "borderline broken" thanks to crashes, bizarre visual bugs, and screen flickering
- The Switch 2 has a big dock compatibility problem, and I need Nintendo to fix it before it ruins my summer plans
- The Stellar Blade PC release was briefly the biggest demo at Steam Next Fest, but it's been overtaken by a controversial soulslike MMORPG revival that shares at least one thing with Stellar Blade itself
- Lost in Random: The Eternal Die review: "This sequel's roguelike shift squanders the potential of its Burton-like world, yet I can't stop rolling the die for one more go"
- Fortnite on Nintendo Switch 2 is a huge upgrade, and the mouse mode controls are my new favorite way to play
- Nintendo announces Switch 2 exclusive Splatoon spinoff via its official app, proving it's very serious about getting you to download Nintendo Today
- Mortal Kombat 2 writer heaps praise on the video game sequel, says test screenings have been getting Avengers Endgame-style reactions: "Every joke is landing"
- Blood of Dawnwalker director says the vampire RPG's story is so non-linear that "you can align with the human rebellion or finish the game without ever meeting them”
- Elden Ring sleuth cracks Nightreign open to prove FromSoftware is still being very weird about stat scaling and hitting level 15 really doesn't matter that much
- Everything we know about Valve Deckard, the long-awaited sequel to Valve's Index VR headset
- Cult sci-fi movie from 28 Years Later filmmakers was supposed to be the first in an "interplanetary" trilogy
- Hideo Kojima shares the secrets behind his movie reviews, and it's adorably low-key: a Notes app filled with thumbs up and heart emojis
- Star Wars icon Mark Hamill says George Lucas never considered killing any of the main characters, unlike the sequels: "In the new ones, they pop us off one at a time"
- Persona 4 Revival: Everything we know so far about the new Persona 4 remake
- I broke this roguelike FPS Steam Next Fest demo wide open once I combined its gritty freerunning with a gun that spams pandas
- 007 First Light leads say James Bond is no Agent 47: "If Hitman is a single-minded killer and basically the bad guy of the game, Bond is the hero"
- Splitgate 2 director says it was "news to me" that the FPS launched with $80 bundles, blames former monetization head "who happened to come from Call of Duty"
- Snow White ends its box office run as one of Disney's worst performing live-action remakes in almost a decade, proving a rare misfire
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 update lets you rematch the RPG's most punishing boss – and why stop there? New challenge modifiers let you multiply enemy HP x100
- The Last of Us showrunner knows some of Neil Druckmann's ideas for The Last of Us Part 3, but he's not sure Naughty Dog will make any of them: "I don't know if he's zeroed in on one"
- Ryan Reynolds jokingly responds to new Deadpool VR actor Neil Patrick Harris voicing his Marvel hero: "People who steal your signature roles are the biggest buttholes of all"
- ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X "have access to all the games you can play on Windows PCs," so you'll be able to play PlayStation games like The Last of Us and God of War
- Captain Marvel star Brie Larson headlining new creature feature from the director of 2024's most surprising horror-thriller
- Mario Kart World players have found the optimal way to unlock every vehicle, and it involves driving slowly behind a pedestrian car for 25 minutes
- Survival Kids review: "A largely unambitious but extremely accessible My First Survival Game for Switch 2"
- Ayaneo just announced a new handheld homage to the 3DS, and it could outpace the ROG Xbox Ally X
- Ex-Witcher 3 devs' new vampire RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker features "combat that feels authentic" because they "studied medieval fighting styles and even have a few trained swordsmen on the team"
- I lost all my progress in a single catastrophic fall in this impossibly hard open-world Steam Next Fest demo, and I'm not even a tiny bit mad about it
- June 9
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- Dying Light: The Beast dev says "we are not Call of Duty" and the series has a "complicated relationship" with guns, but The Beast's firearms should finally be "on par" with melee
- After handing out millions, Among Us dev says its indie fund has a signing rate roughly 8x higher than most publishers, most of its games are under $500k, just 6 are $1 million or more, and RPGs are king
- Captain America actor Chris Evans says he's definitely, really, totally not coming back for Avengers: Doomsday, but he talks to directors the Russo Brothers "all the time"
- "For us, it really is Dying Light 3": Techland admits Dying Light 2 "lost the horror, lost the tension," but says The Beast is "the best Dying Light that we have ever made"
- "We are going to do CRPGs that are going to be as serious as BG3," says Wizards of the Coast president, but Star Wars Jedi director's D&D action game is very different to Larian's RPG
- After 2 years and 10 episodes, Twisted Metal season 2 finally gives us the high-octane tournament everyone's been expecting
- What if Spot the Difference was evil? This bizarre Steam Next Fest demo has cursed me to keep replaying it, and I'm getting Five Nights at Freddy's vibes
- Marvel's Ironheart isn't just Iron Man meets Wakanda tech as the latest trailer reveals an unexpected third ingredient: magic
- Official Helldivers 2 world map puts Super Earth's destruction into perspective, and oops we just turned our last remaining rainforests into "massive tactical airstrips"
- I thought only needing two buttons would make this Steam Next Fest rhythm demo easier... I couldn't have been more wrong
- Caves of Qud dev says they "made enough from launch" to work on this roguelike RPG for "a couple more years at minimum, so we're using the time to get up to some extreme bulls**t"
- Ninja Gaiden Ragebound is a perfect distillation of the series' 37-year legacy and an absolute highlight of Summer Game Fest
- "I bet they didn't crunch this in a year or 2": As Switch 2 gives Pokemon Scarlet and Violet a needed FPS boost, fans blast GameFreak one last time as it unveils its gorgeous new action RPG
- PXN P5 review: “Buying cheap might mean buying twice."
- Elden Ring Nightreign player becomes "world's first" to solo all 8 main bosses, back to back, without dying once: "We did it"
- Gears of War: Reloaded isn't coming to PS5 in Japan because of "regional rating restrictions and platform policies," despite its Xbox and PC releases going ahead
- The best new shows and movies streaming this week on Netflix, Prime Video, Disney Plus, and more
- Dune Awakening Third Trial location and guide
- Mario Kart World has Mirror Mode after all, and you can even explore it in Free Roam thanks to this Super Mario 64 Easter egg
- Everything we know about the Asus ROG Xbox Ally
- Creators of Splinter Cell's Netflix series namecheck its wildest inspirations, from Ghost in the Shell to Tom Cruise – and respond to Sam Fisher's "important" recasting
- Aluminum location in Dune Awakening
- Resident Evil Requiem's Grace Ashcroft has me theorizing on the next REmake – and it's not Code Veronica
- Deltarune has already been patched 3 times in its opening weekend, with Toby Fox and the team fixing crashes, freezes, and maybe a Geneva Convention violation
- The sandworm in Dune: Awakening mysteriously vanished from the MMO and nobody knows why, but I have good news: it's back
- As another year passes with no Elder Scrolls 6 news nearly 14 years since Skyrim, Bethesda fans gather to mourn what could've been at Summer Game Fest 2025: "I feel like giving up"
- The Witcher 3 almost ended on a Mass Effect 2-inspired "suicide mission," but CD Projekt Red "decided to make this more personal ending" instead
- Some of the best Lego Star Wars sets just hit a record low price
- Bethesda-approved Skyblivion is suddenly more than just an exciting remake – it's a poster child for a potential game-changer for mods: one-click modding on GOG
- I played Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds for an hour and its chaotic item-based destruction reminded me of how fun it is to be bad at a kart racer
- The Legend of Zelda movie has been delayed, but creator Shigeru Miyamoto says it’s so they can "make the film as good as it can be"
- A new Netflix crime thriller series is climbing the streamer's charts, but you probably haven't heard of it
- How to unlock Mirror Mode in Mario Kart World
- This wireless Razer headset is perfect for Nintendo Switch 2 and it's just returned to its lowest ever price
- How to rewind in Mario Kart World
- Mario Kart World Kamek item explained - All Mario Kart World Kamek unlocks
- Mario Kart World is "completely broken," speedrun legend declares as players demolish the racing game's time trials with its wild new movement mechanics
- Marvel's animated Black Panther anthology will feature Iron Fist, but "not the Iron Fist you expect"
- Martin Scorsese thought his cameo in Apple TV Plus show with great Rotten Tomatoes score was being filmed "wrong," but he didn't want to "be a backseat director" and point it out
- Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 trailer introduces a new slew of adventures as Spock and the crew leap into the unknown – and teases Kirk’s promotion to Captain
- Less than two weeks after release, prolific Elden Ring challenge runner beats Nightreign using only a shield, and he's not done yet: "We could’ve got hitless"
- After 19 years, D&D fans can finally play Neverwinter Nights 2 on Steam again, thanks to the Enhanced Edition releasing this summer
- Dead Cells co-dev's slick Prince of Persia action roguelike gets a full release this August, and you'll "finally meet the Prince's father, the King of Persia"
- Nioh 3 completely changes the formula, allowing me to transform from samurai to ninja with a single button press as I take on its 'masocore' world
- Harness the elements to cool these high-powered GPUs
- After 9 years of deadly new Hitman updates, the hardest part about designing new Elusive Targets like James Bond villain Le Chiffre is "actually keeping the target alive"
- Hitman dev says 007 First Light isn't "just shooting and shooting and shooting," and spy gadgets will allow for "varied and spread out" approaches to missions in the James Bond game
- Marvel is so secretive that one Avengers star didn't even know he was in the movie until he was on set: "I almost passed out"
- Andor fans think the Star Wars show recontextualizes a Cassian and Jyn moment in Rogue One: "Andor has truly increased the depth and meaning of anything it touches"
- Jurassic World Evolution 3: Everything we know so far about the new dinosaur management sim
- I've been playing Switch 2 using a DualSense, and it's all thanks to a GameCube controller adapter
- The Walking Dead boss clarifies that Dead City's grizzly is "just a regular bear" because "if a zombie bites a bear, it does not turn into a zombie bear"
- Death Stranding 2 director Hideo Kojima came away from Summer Game Fest with praise for this handcrafted co-op platformer: "It's the kind of game we need in an age where we've lost the true meaning of 'words' on social media"
- While Hollow Knight Silksong fans rejoice after getting actual news, Starfield fans are in shambles as Bethesda's space RPG skips Xbox Games Showcase: "The game looks so dead"
- Three years after it was announced, Henry Cavill talks up his "dream come true" Warhammer series at Amazon: "It is a very complex IP, and that's what I love about it"
- From serial killer to bad knees, The Outer Worlds 2 has some ridiculous perks even by RPG standards, including one that just "makes the game pretty unplayable if you happen to choose that"
- The Office spin-off's star says his character is not like Ricky Gervais and Steve Carrell's iconic roles: "I hope people will find a reason to love him as well"
- Is Mario Kart World on Switch 1?
- Mass Effect 5 director reacts to The Expanse: Osiris Reborn, a new sci-fi action RPG reminiscent of BioWare's own beloved series: "Looking pretty awesome"
- Fast Fusion review: "Futuristic racing from the same mold as Wipeout and F-Zero shines on Switch 2"
- Fantastic Four producer teases the new Marvel movie's villain and says Galactus is "the most epic of the most epic that you can imagine"
- Loki star Tom Hiddleston says he "didn't know until the rest of the world knew" about Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom: "I texted Kevin Feige with just like exclamation marks"
- If you're still upset about Joel in The Last of Us season 2, the co-creator wants you to remember that Pedro Pascal is actually "alive" and he's "in literally everything else"
- Borderlands 4 is "turning out to be better" than Borderlands 3 "by every measurement we have, including subjective ones," Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford teases
- Does Mario Kart World have Game Share?
- Fantastic Four director is evoking 2001: A Space Odyssey with 14-foot miniatures and "depending less and less" on green screen: "A lot of our inspiration is what Stanley Kubrick did in the 60s"
- Persona 4 Revival trailer uses Golden-exclusive content, suggesting we might be getting a remake of Atlus' expanded JRPG – unlike with Persona 3 Reload
- Carbon Ore location in Dune Awakening
- June 8
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- Sims competitor Paralives secures a December early access release, hopefully giving life sim enjoyers something fresh after inZOI's mixed reception and Life by You's cancellation
- Legendary roguelike dev behind The Binding of Isaac finally reveals the release date for his cat-eugenics strategy game, 13 years after it was originally announced
- Hollow Knight: Silksong is releasing "before" the Holiday season, Team Cherry says, and isn't "tied to a console release" like the Xbox ROG Ally
- Microsoft insists its Xbox handheld is a "breakthrough moment," but it kind of sounds like an ROG Ally with an Xbox sticker and Game Pass to me: "It looks like an Xbox, it feels like an Xbox, it plays like an Xbox"
- The Outer Worlds 2 devs have already shown the background I'll be using in this RPG: the Roustabout, a talentless loser who is "not quite sure what happened" to get them here
- Persona 4 Revival is finally confirmed, but the JRPG's lead has me excited for the possibility of Persona 6: "We are actively preparing for the future development of the Persona series"
- Ninja Gaiden 4 boss misses "classic" action games in the Soulslike era and thinks he's not alone: "The types of games we grew up playing have become a lot less common"
- Grounded 2 will follow its survival game predecessor's early access window, but the downside is "the game's not done and it's out to the world," which makes for horrifying bugs like this reverse face
- You simply will not guess the main character of the Psychonauts studio and Brutal Legend art director's new mind-bending adventure
- Xbox boss Phil Spencer says the next Forza game releases in 2026, and that we'll also see "the return of a classic that's been with us since the beginning"
- The game that Invincible's creator said made him "the most excited I've been about anything" in the franchise just got announced at Xbox Game Showcase
- The Outer Worlds 2 "basically borrowed" Fallout: New Vegas' excellent Perks system, and I'm already spinning up an amazing stealth RPG build
- Gears of War: E-Day is being pitched as the ultimate 20th anniversary present as The Coalition locks in a 2026 release window
- Gears of War Reloaded is getting several weekend-long betas for pre-order buyers "to really test at scale the cross-platform play experience" and "make sure that the servers are ready for big numbers"
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 announced: the first consecutive release in the series gets a 2025 release window, is set 40 years after Black Ops 6, and brings back campaign co-op
- Spiritfarer and 33 Immortals developer, a team that seems allergic to bad games, just announced a gorgeous new action game for 2026
- Sea of Thieves season 17 is called Smugglers' Tide, and it brings on board a new faction, new "smuggling voyages," and "explosive new loot"
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade and Final Fantasy 16 are both coming to Xbox - and one of them is available today
- Aha, this is our chance: After 17 years, Persona 4 Revival brings back the stone-cold classic PS2 JRPG with a gorgeous new visual treatment that looks way more lavish than Persona 3 Reload
- Step aside, Pokemon and Palworld – an adorable new open-world creature collector ARPG mashup called Aniimo is coming to PC and Xbox next year
- Bioshock-esque RPG Clockwork Revolution continues to look promising in new trailer, but we'll have to wait as the release date will be unveiled in "due time"
- Pokemon developer Game Freak's new "one-person, one-dog action RPG" looks like Nier and Sekiro had a gorgeous baby, and it's coming next year to PC, Xbox, and PS5
- Ex Witcher 3 devs reveal first gameplay trailer for vampire RPG Blood of Dawnwalker, complete with decapitations and a 2026 release window
- Grounded 2: Everything we know so far about the upcoming survival game
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle: Order of Giants DLC is out this September with more of everyone's favorite fedora-wearing archaeologist
- Surprise! Obsidian is making Grounded 2, and it's launching into Steam Early Access and Xbox Game Preview next month
- 15 years later, Super Meat Boy 3D gives one of the best platformers of all time a whole new dimension, and it's out early 2026
- Ninja Gaiden 4 finally makes its 13-year overdue debut this October: "We often joke that 'we’ve made something that really doesn’t feel like a modern game—it’s just too hard'"
- 3 years after telling us Hollow Knight Silksong would release in 1 year, Xbox once again hints vaguely at a release date, this time linked to its new handheld
- The Outer Worlds 2 gets an October release date as Obsidian opens pre-orders and confirms that 2 story expansions are on their way
- Don't tell Microsoft it's the Nintendo Switch 2 launch week, because it just announced two Xbox handhelds
- High on Life 2 announced during Xbox Games Showcase, an out-of-this-world FPS sequel that looks just as wildly trippy as the original
- I'm not saying I regret buying a Nintendo Switch 2, but the ROG Xbox Ally X is almost everything I want from an Xbox handheld
- Jurassic World Evolution 3 is the "next frontier" for the series with baby dinosaurs, new creative tools, and a globe-trotting campaign
- Splitgate 2 devs slash microtransaction prices and promise to refund the difference as the FPS looks to bounce back from 'Mixed' Steam reviews: "We hear you loud and clear"
- Everything announced at the Xbox Games Showcase 2025
- Mads Mikkelsen says his roles in Death Stranding and Hitman both had "one thing" in common: "I had no idea what was going on"
- I didn't know how badly I needed a PvPvE Dark Souls in my life until Mistfall Hunter threw one in my lap
- Dan Da Dan director admits "expectations are high" for season 2 ahead of the supernatural anime's return: "We are trying to make a better season"
- Predator: Killer of Killers clears up jaw-dropping ending and fan theories of an Alien presence
- Daredevil: Born Again almost used Loki's laws of variants to bring him into the MCU
- Kieran Culkin advises fans "lower their expectations" for his performance in The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
- 6 years later, Marvel fans are debating one of the biggest "what ifs" of the MCU involving Thanos
- June 7
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- Explore an abandoned tourist haven to investigate a first-person mystery in Dimhaven - The Lost Source
- Terrifier: The ARTcade Game announces a demo for its bloody, retro beat em up action and it's live now
- Antro is a rhythm-action platformer all about starting a revolution to sick beats, and it's coming out at the end of June
- Moonlighter 2: The Endless Dungeon is Hades meets Zelda: Wind Waker and is coming this summer
- Delve into the tales of King Arthur's knights in Legends of the Roundtable, an RPG with a striking medieval art style that has a demo you can play now
- Upcoming puzzle game from The House of Da Vinci devs shows up at Future Games Show Summer Showcase to tease never-seen-before levels
- Explore the alien caverns of Mars in Blind Descent, a subterranean survival game that's giving Subnautica via Jules Verne
- If you've ever wanted a PS1-esque Soulslike, then you'll totally be into Prison of Husks
- Hotline Miami meets Payday in tactical top-down shooter Phantom Squad
- Fantasy city-builder Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown gets its full release date later this month
- Mixtape sent a sherpa up a mountain to get the rights to use a song, and Grand Theft Auto has "nothing on our toilet paper tech"
- Berserk B.I.T.S is an idle-RPG that's shaping up to be a major threat to my productivity, and there's a new Steam demo you can try now
- Moros Protocol is a splashy mash-up of Hotline Miami and Dead Space, with a new trailer revealing more gameplay and the upcoming release window
- Mini Motorways becomes the super-chill city builder it was always meant to be with a new Creative Mode update coming this summer
- Everything announced at the Future Games Show Summer Showcase 2025
- Former GTA and Red Dead dev's ritualistic horror game is expanding on its planned PC-only launch, and is now releasing on consoles too
- Crisol: Theater of Idols is a game so bloody you're literally loading your guns with the stuff
- This fighting game lets you give your opponents a time-bending beat-down across three timelines at once
- See all new Mafia: The Old Country footage in a Future Games Show exclusive scene
- Jinkies! There's a Scooby-Doo DLC expansion for House Flipper 2 coming this October
- Hercule Poirot hits the dancefloor in this 70s spin on a classic Agatha Christie novel
- Rhythm roguelike Ratatan shows off its colorful world and chaotic combat in a new trailer
- Brand new nDreams VR title gets honored introduction and "groundbreaking" endorsement from Shuhei Yoshida himself
- Psychological horror Luto gets an official release date and chilling new trailer, featuring one of the creepiest dolls I've seen in a while
- Play as an adorable mouse with a magical froggy backpack in Hela, a co-op puzzle adventure
- Hark the Ghoul is a low poly Soulslike-style explore-em-up that throws in a few immersive sim ideas to sweeten the deal
- If you’re after a retro Resident Evil fix, upcoming survival horror game Ground Zero will scratch that terrifying itch
- Climb anywhere as you try to summit the unforgiving Mount Kami in survival-climber Cairn
- Supermassive makes death in space a little easier with Directive 8020's all new Turning Points rewind system
- A trio of classic SNES platforming games is making a comeback after 30 years, and you can support the project on Kickstarter this week
- Lynked: Banner of the Spark is a robo-arm swinging 'rogue-life RPG', where you fight robots for the parts you need to build the town of your dreams
- Spaceship bullet-hell shoot-'em-up Truxton soars onto modern platforms with Truxton Extreme and you can play it during Steam Next Fest
- SacriFire is an HD-2D ode to 90s JRPGs you can wishlist on Steam now
- Put your water-bending skills to the test in action adventure Fading Echo
- Upcoming dark action-adventure game Hell is Us is channeling "old Zelda games" by giving you "just enough to know where to go but not too much"
- SCUM celebrates its long-awaited 1.0 release with a 100 key giveaway at the Future Games Show
- Lead your army of cultist followers to incite the end of the world in Pikmin-inspired roguelite Worship
- Save the world in just 30 seconds in this time-bending roguelike that has a Steam demo you can play now
- Create your perfect golf club with Under Par: Golf Architect
- Line up the perfect shot to launch your hero spinning through their enemies in Flick Shot Rogues
- Trade goods and mastermind ferocious naval battles in this historically accurate sea-faring adventure game set in the late 18th-century Caribbean
- Formula Legends has a new trailer and a new demo you can play right now, revealed in the Future Games Show
- The MMO icons behind EVE Online are lifting the lid on their upcoming sci-fi survival MMO
- Origami action platformer Hirogami looks stunning in its latest trailer and the best part is there's a new Steam demo available right now
- WTF: Waifu Tactical Force is the upcoming PVP shooter fever dream that just made its first open playtest available for all
- Set the stage for the hero in narrative-driven exploration game The Bureau of Fantastical & Arcane Affairs
- Firefighting Simulator: Ignite shows off co-op gameplay for the first time at Future Games Show Summer Showcase
- Team up with friends and platform across an unknown planet in Popucom, a cute co-op puzzle game
- Assemble a party and fight for survival in the turn-based tactics of Lost Eidolons: Veil of the Witch
- Adapt or die on dynamic battlefields while capturing biocores in dystopian PvPvE shooter Ascendant
- Lovecraftian puzzle game Call of the Sea is getting a sequel that's coming out soon and there's even a trailer for it
- Titan Quest 2 is Diablo 4 for fans of Greek mythology, and with its early access launch coming soon, it's one to watch
- 2D indie painterly platformer Constance gets a new trailer and release date reveal
- Take an atmospheric journey beneath the ruins of Atlantis to find priceless treasures in The Explorator
- Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream developers on making a game with 16 people: "We do these things not because they're easy, but because we thought they'd be easy"
- New horror game Sleep Awake from Spec Ops the Line director, Nine Inch Nails' Robin Finck, and Blumhouse Games gets release window
- Gather your pack of mysterious creatures and lead them on a fantastical journey in Herdling
- The Finals returns for another chaotic season, with new gear, gadgets, and some crazy weapons
- The Seven Deadly Sins: Origin gets a new trailer revealing that pre-registration is live now!
- Listen to the voices in Whispers in the Fog, to solve the mystery of its cursed Japanese forest
- Echoes of the End is a new Iceland-inspired, sword-and-sorcery action game and it's out this summer
- The Expanse: Osiris Reborn is basically Mass Effect: Expanse edition
- 007: First Light isn't an Uncharted-style action game, but it's not just another Hitman game either: "We are leaning a lot on what IOI does best"
- I've never felt as much camaraderie as I did with the Resident Evil 9 hopefuls absolutely crashing out over Capcom's SGF prank: "Not gonna trust this dude anymore ever"
- "It was not 'one guy', look at the dang in-game credits": Balatro's Localthunk joins team size discourse after Geoff Keighley fumbled it at Summer Game Fest by saying Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was made by "under 30" people
- After 26 years, a gorgeous PS1 cult classic is being officially released in English for the first time, and one of the best fan translation groups around helped make it happen
- Every new indie game that shadowdropped during Wholesome Direct 2025: From a Sims-like decorating game to a chaotic cooking roguelike
- Ghost of Yotei's M ESRB rating reveals the best part of Tsushima is back in the sequel: "Exposed buttocks is depicted in a hot spring"
- "I got to shag his wife and kill him, so let's see what happens in the game": 26 years before becoming David Bateson's target in Hitman, Mads Mikkelsen worked with the Agent 47 actor on a Danish short film
- Don't feel bad if you fell for Final Fantasy Tactics' viral "penalty for a crime" meme, the OG strategy RPG's director says "it certainly sounds like something I would have written"
- 007 First Light is "a distinct and separate universe," says IO Interactive, despite Mads Mikkelsen's Le Chiffre coming to Hitman
- Splatoon 3 has a Switch 2-exclusive bug that's giving squid fans an advantage on the new console, even without an update: "Pay to win"
- Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom player finishes the entire game with 100% completion in a single 136+ hour stream, and "only burst blood vessels in both my eyes" doing it
- Step aside, Super Horn: Mario Kart World's "exploitable" new Rewind feature is the best way to dodge blue shells in single-player or bring the CPU racers down with you
- Splitgate 2 launches to "Mixed" Steam reviews as players call out pricey microtransactions, right after the game's creator said the "state of multiplayer FPS games is tragically stale"
- Toby Fox urges streamers to "PLEASE dispute" any copyright claims they get over Undertale and Deltarune content, because his RPG music is so popular "it hit a threshold for increased copyright strike aggression. Not kidding"
- Patapon's creator raised $1.5 million on Kickstarter to fund the PSP classic's spiritual successor, and the roguelike now has an early access date after two years
- Stranger Than Heaven: Everything we know about the new Project Century game
- 007 First Light: Everything we know so far about IO Interactive's new Bond game
- 007: First Light devs chose a James Bond origin story to help be "more relatable" to a "younger audience maybe than the Bond franchise is used to"
- Resident Evil 9 Requiem references have been spotted in Resident Evil 7, a game that came out 8 whole years ago
- Splitgate 2 dev doubles down on flaming an entire genre with an unpopular hat: "The state of multiplayer FPS games is tragically stale"
- "This is completely insane. I didn't even think that was possible?": Minami Lane dev stunned to see his new cute $5 Steam game gather over 1,000 flawless reviews
- From a Stardew Valley-like with a horrifying twist to an adventure from the artist behind Journey, these are the Day of the Devs SGF Edition 2025 games I need in my life
- Ballerina almost crossed over to John Wick with one iconic Chapter 3 fight scene
- Star Wars: Starfighter has Mia Goth in its tractor beam as the big movie villain
- Daredevil star Charlie Cox acknowledges there's a massive cliffhanger looming over Jessica Jones reunion in Born Again season 2 – and how the Marvel show might handle it
- GDT's Frankenstein gets an R-rating for "bloody violence and grisly images"
- It turns out there's a reason the Red Hulk was spoiled in Captain America: Brave New World marketing
- Day of the Devs Summer Game Fest Edition 2025 brought us 7 new reveals - here's what they were
- Splitgate 2 dev snatches defeat from the jaws of victory, channeling Borderlands 4's Randy Pitchford by upsetting fans even when his FPS is looking pretty good
- The devs behind one of our favorite Metroidvanias are making an action RPG with a Hades look to it, and I'm convinced this studio just cannot miss
- I was sad it wasn't Judgment 3 at first, but RGG has officially sold me on its gritty, time-hopping, jazzy action game now officially titled Stranger Than Heaven
- Resident Evil Requiem: Everything we know about Resident Evil 9
- Gearbox finally responds to series-wide Borderlands review bomb after 19 days, says its owner "does not use spyware" and it's actually OK with most mods
- The title of Gachiakuta roughly translates as "legit trash" but this new trailer for the Crunchyroll anime is pure gold, and the release date is just around the corner
- June 6
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- Gears of War creator admits he can't explain a key event within one of his games: "Sometimes ya just put stuff in a game you think is cool"
- REPO and Schedule 1 receive the highest honor an indie game can possibly get outside 2 seconds in a Nintendo sizzle reel: Geoff Keighley telling the world they're outselling some genuine AAA juggernauts
- Street Fighter 6's third DLC season is a banger with possibly the weirdest DLC pick to date – announced by AEW's Kenny Omega playing dress-up
- Splitgate 2 dev says he made his FPS because he hates Call of Duty, loves Halo, and wants Titanfall 3 – and his new battle royale is "f***ing awesome"
- Killer Inn is a new murder mystery game that sounds a lot like Among Us, but looks a lot more like a chaotic, 24-player version of Hitman
- Jurassic World Evolution 3 officially announced with an adorable trailer filled with dinosaur families and Jeff Goldblum, and it's coming this October
- Lies of P: Overture's mutant kangaroos and new difficult settings give the long-awaited DLC a Resident Evil 4 vibe, and I wouldn't have it any other way
- Fresh from unveiling Atomic Heart 2 and wild spin-off The Cube, Mundfish's CEO has his sights set on making a game as impactful as Crysis: "This is art!"
- Ill looks like a gnarly cross between Half-Life and The Thing, and its developer has just one goal: delivering "a good f**king horror game*
- Capcom finally reveals first trailer for Resident Evil 9 at Summer Game Fest a year after its announcement
- After 6 years and 88,000 reviews in Steam early access, open-world survival craft game Scum finally has a 1.0 release date
- PvP mech shooter Mecha Break finally has a release date, and it's coming to PC and Xbox Series X next month
- Nostalgic new Mixtape trailer demonstrates the impossible power of a Life is Strange-like: I now want to attend my high school reunion
- You can get a unique 007: First Light reward if you kill Mads Mikkelsen's Casino Royale character in Hitman in the next 30 days
- Ex-GTA 5 dev remembers he's about to launch a game, announces Mindseye collab with Hitman's Agent 47
- A new Scott Pilgrim beat 'em up is coming from the developers of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge
- 2 years after getting too big to be Dying Light 2 DLC, Dying Light: The Beast finally launches this August
- This seriously pretty couch co-op platformer looks like a stop motion It Takes Two where "everything has been crafted by hand," and I need it in my veins yesterday
- Hollow Knight: Silksong disappointment hits its peak as Team Cherry gets a mention at Summer Game Fest, only to be replaced by Deadpool VR
- Deadpool VR stars Neil Patrick Harris as the merc with a mouth, and its super slick combat has impressed me so far
- Geoff Keighley can't help himself, pours gasoline on the memes as he unveils a real-time boxing game starring puppets: "You guys all know I love my puppets"
- Shovel Knight devs unveil the demo and release date for the Castlevania meets Zelda: Link's Awakening game I've wanted for years, and I can tell you it's every bit as good as that pedigree suggests
- The 8th most wishlisted game on Steam, Arc Raiders, is still the extraction shooter to watch, and it's coming this October
- Lego Voyagers is a co-op follow-up to a critically underrated puzzle game, and it's just as adorable as its predecessor
- It's Bucky fan service galore in a New Avengers #1 preview that has the Winter Soldier effortlessly exploding his enemies before a steamy hook-up with Black Widow
- This new Game of Thrones strategy game will let you change one of the final season's biggest moments, and it's coming next year
- New strategy game Chronicles Medieval has you fight third-person battles with Tom Hardy narrating in a surprisingly normal accent for once
- Bandai Namco unveils Code Vein 2, a stunning follow-up to the 2019 anime action RPG that still has one of the best character creators ever
- Sonic's Takashi Iizuka dunks on Mario Kart World as Sonic Racing: Crossworlds unveils Hatsune Miku, Persona 5, and Minecraft Steve
- Death Stranding 2 shows a surprisingly normal new clip, starring the Metal Gear Solid doppelganger who Kojima's a massive fan of
- That's another Soulslike RPG for my list: Mortal Shell 2 is coming to consoles and PC next year, and I'm a big fan of the gigantic gross stuff in its trailer
- "Is this the best Nintendo could do?": Repair expert gives Switch 2 a 3/10 for repairability, citing "probably still drifty" Joy-Cons and "tamper-proofing hidden in plain sight"
- Black Panther 3 director Ryan Coogler confirms Denzel Washington is joining the film in a special role: "There's no fiction out there about that"
- Nintendo, what have you done: Moo Moo Cow has completely overtaken Mario Kart World lobbies as Switch 2 players embrace the best new character
- Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles will have a free Nintendo Switch 2 upgrade, which is great because the separate new version is just a code in a box
- How to the watch the Future Games Show Summer Showcase 2025
- Half-Life 3 obsessives put Valve boss Gabe Newell under the microscope, tracking his yacht as it gets kind of, sort of, actually not at all near the Summer Game Fest venue
- A live-action Care Bears movie is in the works from cult comedy director and Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves producers
- Silent Hill f actor spent so long playing her role that "I almost felt my own sanity slipping," and I'm starting to see a pattern here
- Amazon's Mass Effect TV show is moving forward with Star Trek writer as showrunner
- Nintendo Switch 2 has been out for a single day and there's already a Schedule 1 ripoff on the eShop
- Hollow Knight: Silksong fans are less OK than ever after Team Cherry confirmed a 2025 launch, with fresh Steam updates pre-Summer Game Fest provoking doubters and believers: "We've come full circle"
- Marvel boss Kevin Feige confuses all of us by saying the Fantastic Four ship in the Thunderbolts post-credits might not be "the same ship" as the Excelsior
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Maelle actor and her real-life partner play the French JRPG for themselves, immediately hunt down the notorious "sex hotel" – "a perfect way to balance out the darkness"
- Don't write off a Red Dead Redemption 2 remake or remaster, Arthur Morgan actor says: "We've already started to see it for GTA 5 and the original"
- How to beat the Elden Ring Nightreign Night Aspect boss Heolstor the Nightlord
- Nintendo says it'll "be able to meet that demand" for Switch 2 through 2025, so don't worry about another PS5 situation
- I'm busy testing over 16 Switch 2 accessories but here are the top 4 that have already impressed me so far
- Scream and Ant-Man stars' horror sequel Ready or Not 2 gets 2026 release date, as they announce end of filming in the most on-brand way
- No Man's Sky boss assures fans Hello Games "did not have a secret room hiding deaf kids" following the survival game's unfortunately auto-captioned Switch 2 trailer
- How long is MindsEye?
- Best Buy just dropped Meta's cheapest Quest 3S headset back to a record-low price
- After looking through Bring Her Back's viral black market website, I need Danny and Michael Philippou to make a V/H/S-style found footage movie about its creepy, cursed objects
- How to unlock new outfits in Mario Kart World
- You can play Cyberpunk 2077 on Switch 2 with a mouse and keyboard, and it makes the console feel like a handheld PC
- Lies of P Overture DLC seems to be closer than we thought - an Xbox leak points to a shadow drop coming very soon
- How to unlock new Mario Kart World karts and bikes
- Jaipur review: "Lightning in a bottle"
- Nintendo Switch 2 vs PS5: A battle of the console giants
- If you’re having Nosferatu withdrawals, there’s a new Dracula movie coming this summer from The Fifth Element director Luc Besson
- How to charge jump in Mario Kart World
- Mario Kart World recast Princess Peach, but Nintendo apparently only told her actor of 17 years yesterday: "I truly would have wanted to voice Peach and Toad forever"
- You need these 7 board games from the UK Games Expo 2025 in your collection
- Is MindsEye on Game Pass?
- One of my favorite Switch 2 features is super boring, but it makes traveling with the handheld a dream
- As GTA 6 looms, Suda51's new action game Romeo is a Dead Man is only "probably" launching in 2026: "Every publisher wants to make sure to steer clear of That One Game's release date"
- 50 years on, new shark horror movie Dangerous Animals puts to rights many of the mistakes Steven Spielberg confessed to making in his epic Jaws
- Everything announced at Summer Game Fest 2025
- Tencent reportedly snaps up 16% of Helldivers 2 studio Arrowhead, continuing a prolific spree of share buying that includes Ubisoft, FromSoftware, and more
- Our chests are bursting with excitement: Alien: Romulus director Fede Alvarez says the sequel begins filming in October
- New animated Predator movie with perfect Rotten Tomatoes score just gave Dan Trachtenberg's Prey a twisted new meaning
- You win, Switch 2 – I guess I paid over $400 to play The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker again
- Mario Kart World geniuses are already using the racing game's new mechanics to create incredible shortcuts and land some nefarious green shell snipes
- Dan Da Dan: Evil Eye co-director "didn't know" it was going to be a movie, but hopes anime continues the trend of big-screen releases
- The SteelSeries Arctis Game Buds are Switch 2 compatible and now I'm more obsessed with them than ever
- AMD Ryzen 9 9900X review: "Is it just too darn expensive for its own good?"
- Mario Kart World smart steering explained and how to turn it off
- How to unlock and use Mario Kart World stickers
- Fallout and Five Nights at Freddy's attractions set for Universal Studios' Halloween Horror Nights 2025
- Mario Kart World's intermissions are a fun novelty, but I'm already sick of them detracting from more time in the circuits
- Predator: Killer of Killers director Dan Trachtenberg says playing video games informed his filmmaking style: "How to [...] pull people through a journey they feel primally connected to"
- After Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Mario Kart World is the latest Nintendo game to feature cannibalism because, yes, the cow happily chomps down beef burgers
- Superman is locked and ready to go as director James Gunn confirms Superman is "100%" done: "Our last visual effect shot has been finished"
- The Wheel of Time showrunner reacts to "devastating" cancellation: "These fans deserve to see the story finished"
- Borderlands games are still being review bombed on Steam following Take-Two terms of service backlash, but modders say "the main clause everyone's freaking out about was already there"
- Mario Kart World rarely lets you play classic 3-lap races online, but players have found a workaround to avoid the divisive intermission tracks altogether
- This is probably the reason Switch 2's Joy-Cons aren't immune to stick drift
- How to play Mario Kart World online with friends
- Predator: Killer of Killers directors toyed with making it a TV series, but ultimately decided it would be "special" if the sci-fi horror was an anthology movie
- New horror movie Bring Her Back launches in-universe black market website all but confirming Talk To Me connection, and its contents will terrify you
- After Thunderbolts underperformed, Fantastic Four could be on track to disprove Marvel fatigue with massive start at the box office
- Your Switch 2 will happily use a webcam without USB-C, and I feel like Nintendo should be telling you that
- The 32 greatest cinematic legal thrillers ever made
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs say "our game was crafted with love," and don't want anyone using their RPG "to spread hate"
- John Wick director gives The Continental spin-off both barrels for ignoring his and Keanu Reeves's ideas: "A group of individuals thought they had the magic sauce"
- Borderlands 2 is temporarily free on Steam and Randy Pitchford is even throwing in free loot keys, inviting even more negative reviews as Take-Two privacy policy backlash continues
- Death Stranding 2 hands-on: An emphasis on combat and vehicles feels like an evolution of Metal Gear Solid 5, while continuing to push the first game's in-depth hiking physicality
- Predator: Killer of Killers director wanted to make sure the sci-fi anthology movie wasn't "going to just smash action figures together"
- Dune: Awakening launched to "Mostly Negative" reviews thanks to server frustrations, but it seems fans of the survival MMO are content now: "I don't hate it"
- Black Myth: Wukong is coming to Xbox a full year after hitting PS5 and PC, alongside the breakout action game’s first-ever discount
- Ballerina director says it was important that the new John Wick movie's action scenes "make you go, 'Okay, well, I haven't seen that [before]"
- Predator: Badlands director explains why the upcoming sci-fi movie is an "inversion" of the franchise: "This time, the Predator is the one being hunted"
- Ballerina ending explained: Is John Wick in the new action movie? Is there a post-credits scene?
- The big Zenless Zone Zero 2.0 interview: buffing old characters, standing up to Miyabi, the missing idol faction, and the "undeniable" Yixuan
- June 5
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- Epic's Tim Sweeney declares "the long national nightmare of the Apple tax is ended" as appeals court officially denies Apple's emergency motion
- Tom Cruise's death-defying stunts in Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning have earned him an impressively specific Guinness World Record
- How to wall ride in Mario Kart World
- How to grind rails in Mario Kart World
- How to unlock characters in Mario Kart World
- Marvel's new summer event harkens back to one of the publisher's last great eras, and the villain will actually surprise you
- Full Mario Kart World track list for Grand Prix Cups and Knockout Tour Rallys
- Confirmed: Nintendo has freed the F bomb and you can swear in Switch 2 speech-to-text GameChat
- FC 25 Season 8 Ladder Players list and how to unlock them all
- This gorgeous free-to-play pirate RPG from the studio behind one of the longest-running asymmetrical horror games stole the show in a State of Play that already wowed me with Silent Hill f and Ghost of Yotei
- Marvel Tokon devs want to push the whole tag-team fighting game genre forward with 4v4, and insist it's not that overwhelming: "Wait, do I have to practice four characters just to win?"
- It belongs in a museum: Indiana Jones' actual whip is up for auction, and it could be yours for the low, low price of $500,000
- A GameStop reportedly ruined new Nintendo Switch 2 consoles with receipts stapled to the screen, but hey, Walmart is giving out free chips and soda "to celebrate launch day"
- The White Lotus star wants to reprise her iconic Scream 3 character – and she already pitched her idea to the studio: "Can I just be in another dimension and come back?'"
- Some Oblivion Remastered players were shocked to find Oblivion gates inside other Oblivion gates, but this is one of the RPG's old quirks that thankfully survived the remastering
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (June 6 - 8)
- CDPR can't help itself, channels Terraria with yet another Cyberpunk 2077 update coming this month: "We have been cooking for you in secret for a bit"
- Baldur's Gate 3 player tragically loses 50-hour Honor Mode save in Act 3 to some rain that Larian added in just to screw with us: "Hate my favorite game so much"
- Mario Kart World roster: The complete Mario Kart World character list
- Nintendo Switch 2 GameShare explained
- A Final Fantasy Tactics remaster appeared in the Nvidia giga-leak nearly 4 years ago, so with The Ivalice Chronicles announced I'm staring extra hard at the Final Fantasy 9 Remake that was also mentioned
- The Witcher 4 devs are inspired by RPGs like Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 and Baldur's Gate 3, but "definitely are not going to make a game like Larian did"
- Mike Flanagan says his Exorcist film is going to miss its release date and, hours later, Universal pulls it from the schedule – but it's "nothing to worry about"
- Lego One Piece was just revealed, and it's so much more ambitious than I expected
- After surviving 3 robberies, a dead game, and burnout, crabby indie studio says 'oops' and makes 2 more games: "You can't stop us, we're gonna keep making s**t"
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate on Nintendo Switch 2 has fixed the most annoying bit of loading the fighting game has to offer, even without a proper next-gen update
- Nintendo Switch 2 Pro Controller vs Switch Pro Controller
- From Batman: Arkham Knight to Bayonetta 3, Switch 2 is already improving the performance of several OG Switch games without a next-gen update
- Mario Kart World review: "A glorious road trip that embraces the open road"
- All Mario Kart World items and what they do
- Elden Ring scared me away for a year, but returning to the FromSoftware classic has convinced me its movie adaptation needs to be a horror
- By bringing Cyberpunk 2077's density to The Witcher 4, CDPR is finally bridging the tech gap between its biggest RPGs
- Pragmata: Everything you need to know about Capcom's new sci-fi adventure game
- You can stop pretending you played Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 now – they're on Game Pass, a year after a leak predicting this, so now you have no excuse not to try them
- Ridley Scott thinks his and James Cameron's Alien movies were good, but "the rest were not very good": "F*ck, that’s the end of a franchise which should be as important as bloody Star Trek or Star Wars"
- In a week, Elden Ring Nightreign players have turned the Revenant class into the new FromSoftware mascot, all but worshipping her as a tiny gremlin god
- After breaking Steam, Deltarune dev Toby Fox appears to aim to break the internet: "After you finish Chapter 4, make sure to load up your save file one more time afterwards"
- Oblivion Remastered player absolutely dunks on the Dark Brotherhood's most annoying target with a parkour kill that would put Assassin's Creed to shame
- Switch 2 marks the end of an era as Mario Kart World is the first time in 20 years Donkey Kong's voice actor has changed, and the replacement seemingly comes straight from the Mario movie
- The Witcher 4 doesn't just rival Red Dead Redemption 2 in hyper-realism – one equestrian expert says the RPG has "one of the overall most impressive and well-put-together game horse animations ever seen"
- Pokemon Scarlet and Violet speedruns are in a different league on Switch 2, with a day-one attempt already coming in around half an hour faster than the old world record
- Horizon Zero Dawn star Ashly Burch says she had no idea if she'd actually been cast as Aloy until she was suddenly in the recording booth: "It really hit me in that moment, like, oh this is a big deal"
- Undertale's Toby Fox offers "temporary workaround" for a Deltarune bug preventing people from loading demo save files into the full RPG
- Borderlands 4 boss Randy Pitchford wants to know what makes a game bigger or better, and he's using Borderlands 2 and 3 to find out
- The best Nintendo Switch 2 cameras
- After losing "eight or nine teeth" on season 1, Squid Game creator says he's lost two more making season 3 of the Netflix show: "I haven't put them back in yet"
- Which Nintendo Switch 2 accessories do you need from day one?
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's Nintendo Switch 2 journey isn't going too smoothly as Nintendo asks "please avoid using Mii Fighter in online play as much as possible"
- F1 first reactions are calling it the "coolest and most entertaining movie you’ll ever see", and it's already being compared to Top Gun: Maverick
- Two months ahead of its premiere, the Alien TV series has finally released its first full trailer – and it's not just Xenomorphs you need to be afraid of
- Queen by Midnight review: "Saddled by excess that would make a real princess shudder"
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs "knew within seconds" that Baldur's Gate 3's Shadowheart actress was the perfect pick for Maelle
- Nintendo Switch 2 owners are ripping apart their new Joy-Cons in record time to check the stick drift situation
- My least favorite Elden Ring Nightreign character just became one of my top choices by stopping a collapsing universe with a sword
- Nioh 3 isn't trying to be an Elden Ring behemoth: producer says with a true open-world map "it would no longer be Nioh 3," but tighter "open-field" design makes it shine
- Nintendo Switch 2 vs Asus ROG Ally
- Wildcard Wishlist: These are the games we've pinned our hopes and dreams on turning up at Summer Game Fest 2025
- Nintendo Switch 2 setup guide
- Nintendo Switch 2 game upgrades explained
- How to turn on Nintendo Switch 2's battery preservation mode
- Despite 123,000 fans signing a petition to save the canceled Amazon series, The Wheel of Time is reportedly not being shopped around to other streamers
- The best Nintendo Switch 2 Micro SD Express Cards
- Everything in the Helldivers 2 Force of Law Warbond
- Nintendo Switch 2 vs Nintendo Switch OLED: how does the new console shape up against its predecessor?
- Oblivion Remastered's first patch is out now in beta to iron out the RPG's janky charm, and Bethesda is already working on another one that "will focus on performance"
- Nintendo Switch 2 GameChat explained: how to use the handheld's new social hub
- A new Helldivers 2 cape is in the works to "honor the service and victory of those who fought to defend Super Earth against the Illuminate invasion"
- After helping Nintendo with Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, Xenoblade devs brought their open-world expertise to Mario Kart World as well
- Madame Web star Dakota Johnson says the Marvel movie "started out as something and turned into something else," but she's not bothered that it flopped: "Who cares?"
- Anora star Mikey Madison in talks to play two roles in upcoming adaptation of the Edgar Allan Poe story that inspired a Mike Flanagan series and Wednesday season 2
- Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls was initially more faithful to the comics, but Marvel encouraged the Guilty Gear Strive and Granblue Fantasy Versus studio to lean into its signature style
- 007 First Light's James Bond actor hasn't been confirmed, but fans are convinced it's someone who only recently starred in Dexter: Original Sin
- Superman's runtime is just over 2 hours long, but director James Gunn denies rumors that the studio stopped it from being longer: "Zero truth to that"
- Final Fantasy 16's creative director is leading Final Fantasy Tactics' remaster, almost 30 years after working on the original JRPG at the start of his career
- The most memeable horror movie is finally getting a sequel, and fans are over the moon: "This might be the best day of Ma life"
- Seafaring adventure Tides of Tomorrow includes Dark Souls-style ghosts of previous players that can influence your own story
- Tom Cruise and Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning director have high praise for "very beautiful, very human" Godzilla Minus One: "You reinvented the genre"
- A Minecraft speedrunner nearly smashed a world record by one whole minute, but then an Enderman ruined everything: "This is the most depressing thing I've ever seen in my life"
- Sinister and M3GAN studio looks to acquire rights to Saw franchise, meaning original creator James Wan might make Saw 11
- Blumhouse has heard your complaints that Five Nights at Freddy's "lacked blood" and wasn't scary enough, promises it's going to fix that for the sequel
- The first Wicked: For Good trailer doesn't feature the new songs, but it has already made me cry
- Lords Mobile launches Pacific Rim collaboration and celebrates 19th anniversary of developer IGG
- How to transfer Nintendo Switch save data to the Nintendo Switch 2
- 007: First Light also includes other big screen James Bond regulars, and "players will choose how to utilize" the agent's "relationships"
- Ballerina star Ian McShane thinks there may be more to his John Wick character than meets the eye, but "the ambiguity keeps it nice"
- The 15 best Switch 2 games to play right now
- Future Games Show
- Switch 2 vs Xbox Series S: How does Nintendo's handheld compare?
- Predator: Killer of Killers review: "Great characters, thrilling action, and gorgeous Arcane-esque animation"
- June 4
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- "The will to resist is in your hands": Final Fantasy Tactics writer puts capitalism on blast as the strategy RPG returns nearly 30 years later to a world still filled with "inequality and division"
- The new Ghost of Yotei trailer is really just one big teaser for the "gameplay deep dive coming in July," but it's still pretty cool and has a wolf
- Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is getting a prequel in 2026, and with the "largest and deadliest" map yet it's somehow even more Castlevania-coded
- Move over Marvel vs. Capcom, PlayStation invited Arc System Works out for drinks and now we're getting a new tag fighter in the absolutely gorgeous Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls
- From the World of John Wick: Ballerina review: "Brilliant action, even if the plot gives you a sense of déjà vu"
- Abzu and The Pathless studio's stunning new adventure game Sword of the Sea gets a release date, and it's right around the corner
- 11 years since the last stealth title, Thief returns with a VR game this year called Legacy of Shadow
- Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection isn't just a modern fighting game rerelease, it's an interactive documentary with 20 different versions and even includes the completely awful GBA game
- 007: First Light brings Casino Royale energy to the Hitman devs' James Bond game
- Nioh 3 announced for 2026: Team Ninja's genuinely great Soulslike series is back with a bigger open world, and there's a demo out today
- Silent Hill f is coming in September, and after watching its twisted gameplay reveal trailer, I'm ready to let it dominate my Halloween season
- Metal Gear Solid 3 teases what certainly looks like a Metal Gear Online homage, complete with its adorable Kerotan frog figurines
- After 28 years, the Final Fantasy Tactics remaster is real: The Ivalice Chronicles is coming this September with original and enhanced versions included
- Suda51 reveals his new "ultra-violent science-fiction" action game, featuring an FBI agent tracking down and defeating criminals "across spacetime"
- PSP banger Lumines is making an overdue comeback in a Tetris Effect-style "synesthetic sensory wonderland"
- Digimon Story: Time Stranger lends a hefty chunk of Persona to its massive turn-based JRPG, which launches this October
- Capcom says "sorry" again, confirms Pragmata is "real" and coming in 2026 – and it looks a lot more like Dead Space than I remember from 2020
- Elden Ring Nightreign recovers faster than a two-phase boss, hitting Mostly Positive reviews on Steam as FromSoftware drops patches to improve the solo and duo experience
- Over 30 years later, the Street Sharks are back in a comic that continues their original animated series
- Deltarune launches to 12,865% more Steam players than Undertale had on day one, becoming the top-selling game on Steam after apparently crashing Valve's servers
- Hits like Schedule 1 are a dangerous bar for indies, Steam expert says: "That top potential has completely warped people's brains about what they should be making"
- Marvel's hot new swimsuit comic comes with a Marvel Rivals skin, but here's The Thing
- Localthunk says Balatro doesn't have microtransactions "because when I play other games that have those things it makes me want to put my computer in the dishwasher"
- Martin Scorsese "went all Raging Bull" when asked why he doesn't watch movies in theaters anymore, but his answer is sadly relatable
- The Witcher 4 design lead says the problem with yellow paint in games is subtlety: "Someone went into this specific spot and painted a yellow line ... at that point it's not necessarily believable"
- With hours to go until launch, Switch 2 has its very first firmware update enabling some of its core features
- Street Fighter 6 sees Capcom follow the road Nintendo abandoned in Animal Crossing by adding a collection of stone-cold NES bangers
- Nintendo Switch 2's Welcome Tour is not only a $10 version of PS5's free Astro's Playroom, you also have to buy extra peripherals to 100% it
- Everything announced at the PlayStation State of Play June 2025
- Move over, Barbie! Universal lines up M3GAN director to helm new movie based on Monster High dolls
- New Sims 4 teasers have fans convinced one of the most hotly anticipated features from The Sims 3 is finally making a return: "Yep, it's definitely fairies!"
- Mark Hamill once tried to hide his Star Wars credit, but Carrie Fisher talked him out of it: "Hey, get over yourself. You're Luke Skywalker. I'm Princess Leia. Embrace it."
- Fantastic Four unveils its epic Galactus-themed popcorn bucket, and it's going to turn audiences into the Devourer of Snacks
- Mario Kart World's Metacritic review score could be impacted by people who are still "big mad about the price," former Nintendo marketing lead predicts ahead of Switch 2 launch
- Nintendo workout enthusiasts rejoice: sleuth finds patents suggesting Ring Fit Adventure could get a Switch 2 sequel
- Palworld studio is releasing a psychological horror game so terrifying, even Pocketpair's own publishing manager has been "too scared to play it"
- Battle for the Deep review: "A new and unique take on the long-running, beloved Axis & Allies franchise"
- If you want to avoid Deltarune chapter 3 and 4 spoilers, developer Toby Fox warns you to stay off social media, don't look up the soundtrack titles, and steer clear of anyone from New Zealand for a few hours
- With Ubisoft Forward looking unlikely this year, here's what I'm still expecting from the publisher at Summer Game Fest 2025
- Palworld devs making "certain compromises" in the survival game amid Nintendo lawsuit doesn't mean Pocketpair is admitting to patent infringement, expert explains
- Incredible things are happening in Oblivion Remastered's Mage's Guild, where one player has spent 6,000 gold on the spider-summoning 'Alone Time with Mommy' spell
- Fantastic Four: The First Steps drops a new trailer that's all about family – and a Marvel comics-accurate catchphrase
- Mario Kart World devs had to approach track changes with the entire world in mind, but "we don't call this world an open world"
- Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin doesn't like Hollywood screenwriters changing the source material because in "the majority of cases" they don't improve it
- No Man's Sky's new free update adds robot settlements you can be mayor of, and it'll be on Switch 2 day 1: "A huge leap forward"
- From arduous to glorious: How Oblivion Remastered saved the Siege of Kvatch
- New Battlefield 6 leak shows the tank-on-tank combat, and it looks raw as hell: "Destruction and audio are back"
- Rick and Morty writer's new animated comedy show is headed to Netflix, and it looks like Scooby Doo meets Hazbin Hotel
- Mario Kart World almost cut iconic items like the banana peel and green shell, because Nintendo wasn't sure if they still made "sense" in the Switch 2's new generation
- Elden Ring's legendary no-hit saxophone player is having a tough time with Nightreign, which he says is "one of the hardest games I've ever dooted"
- The Witcher 4 dev says the tools behind its PS5 tech demo "unlock me as an artist," and that CDPR will use them "to create much bigger things" in future
- The 32 greatest biopics of all time
- Final instalment in beloved found footage horror franchise Hell House LLC confirms release date with clown-tastic creepy teaser
- Crunchyroll's Anime Expo plans are here, and it involves exclusive episode premieres and a look ahead to "what's next" for Frieren: Beyond Journey's End
- The Witcher 4 is "shaping up to be something special" with "some of the best" devs working on the RPG, says CD Projekt Red: "Our team is full of wizards!"
- Pokemon Scarlet and Violet's Switch 2 update footage shows the "notorious frame drop lake" running at 60fps, and fans say it might be "the best possible advertisement" for the new console
- Team behind Netflix's Cyberpunk: Edgerunners tease follow-up announcement ahead of Anime Expo 2025: "The next datadrop's almost here!"
- With creators of Cyberpunk 2077, Frostpunk 2, and award-winning indies under one roof, Digital Dragons is helping Polish game developers "catch up to the West"
- Witcher 4 tech demo shows swapping to Unreal Engine was "worth it," CDPR says, and that "it's not like we lost things because of the transition" away from Cyberpunk 2077's RED Engine
- Jack Black's Tenacious D nearly soundtracked a film based on cult adventure game MediEvil, and one producer says it came "very close" to happening
- Vampire horror movie Sinners is now available to buy, and fans are rediscovering their favorite moments, from its killer soundtrack to Remmick’s line delivery
- Former GTA 5 lead's new studio sees 2 execs leave just 1 week before the launch of its debut Cyberpunk-flavored action-adventure MindsEye
- Fantastic Four director appears to rule out a Robert Downey Jr. Doctor Doom cameo before Avengers: Doomsday: "Doom is not part of my film"
- The Witcher 4 lead says CD Projekt Red's State of Unreal stream "showcases both our ambition for the game and the in-engine capabilities," but "isn't a demo" of the RPG
- Lego Twilight The Cullen House (21354) review: "An Easter egg filled set that's a must for any Twihard"
- Helldivers 2's "ongoing merriment and sanctioned frivolity" following our victory over the Illuminate cut short with a new Major Order to defend from incoming Automaton attacks
- Ballerina star Norman Reedus hopes his character returns for a sequel, and thinks his arc mirrors John Wick's: "He's willing to fight everybody in the world"
- Phasmophobia movie in the works from Paranormal Activity and The Conjuring studio Blumhouse: "We never could've imagined the incredible heights this game would reach"
- June 3
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- "For the first time in ESO's history," the MMO is moving past the events of the base game with Seasons of the Worm Cult: "We've never really moved time forward"
- After 4 years of rumors, Final Fantasy Tactics remaster hopes reach an absolute frenzy as director Yasumi Matsuno shares and hastily deletes PlayStation State of Play announcement
- CDPR barely mentioned my favorite part of The Witcher 4's new tech demo: this RPG is absolutely overflowing with medieval stank
- Elden Ring Nightreign wizard accidentally discovers 4-perk stack that turns the game into Vampire Survivors bullet heaven
- Steam expert points to the games you never see quietly "making hundreds of thousands of dollars for small devs" as a key sign "Steam is doing okay"
- As the third and final season approaches, Squid Game creator says a potential spin-off would "show that they did" between season 1 and 2
- Jagex lays off RuneScape staff and indefinitely pauses Old School RuneScape's Project Zanaris private servers, but says the MMOs won't be hurt in the long run
- CDPR says Ciri's face in the new Witcher 4 trailer is "a direct copy of The Witcher 3 model" despite "two subtle changes"
- Nintendo and Nvidia bosses say Switch 2 is the ultimate realization of late president Satoru Iwata's dream: "It is wonderful to see Mr. Iwata's vision come full circle"
- "It's not only chaos but an absolute clown show": Switch 2 price could still rise after launch in the US, analysts warn amid tariff uncertainty
- Mario Kart World won't have fan-favorite 200cc at launch, but the game's producer is being coy about it being added later: "I'm afraid I can't say just yet"
- Netflix unveils episode titles for The Sandman season 2 and reveals an unexpected surprise for fans
- Where is The Witcher 4 setting Kovir? Everything we know about the little-known kingdom that got a minor shout-out in The Witcher 3
- M3GAN 2.0 takes on the female Terminator in the upcoming horror sequel's final trailer, full of bodyswapping, explosions, and already meme-able moments
- Monopoly Go Carnival Games Fortune Flip minigame explained
- "They pressed the AI button, it might have been a bad idea, but in truth there's no un-pressing that button," says Epic CEO, immediately after Epic shows a "conversation" with an AI that embarrasses us all
- Elden Ring Nightreign players finally discover where the game's most mysterious key item leads, and it's humiliating
- How to watch the PC Gaming Show – and what to expect this year
- Rode Wireless Go Gen 3 review: “I never thought a wireless mic like this would win me over”
- The Penguin and Barbie stars new futuristic fantasy romance is giving Suzume vibes in first trailer
- How to complete the Elden Ring Nightreign Duchess Remembrance quest
- Desperate to fight Steam, Epic burns money like firewood – but admits the Epic Games Store kind of sucks and "there's still a ton of work to be done" with "long overdue features"
- The Witcher 4 finally features manticores, and it sounds like protagonist Ciri might be able to fight one herself over 10 years after they were reportedly cut from the last RPG
- "We can't fully imagine all the types of ways that people will play": Like Tears of the Kingdom, Mario Kart World is going to thrive on player imagination
- The Witcher 4 sees Red Dead Redemption 2's horse anatomy and submits "realistic muscles moving and stretching" under the skin of Ciri's horse Kelpie
- The Acolyte creator had one "guiding principle" for their canceled Star Wars show: "What would George [Lucas] do?"
- Helldivers 2 grunts afraid of what's next following 5 days without a Major Order after saving Super Earth: "Those f***ers are up to something"
- New Lego sets for June 2025 include my favorite Fortnite kit and mega-Hogwarts
- The Witcher 4 is targeting 60 FPS on current-gen consoles and will "bring in a new generation of open-world RPGs" with its Unreal Engine 5 tech, CDPR says
- 28 Years Later director confirms Cillian Murphy will appear in Nia DaCosta's The Bone Temple sequel: "I shouldn't give away too much, I’ll get killed"
- The Witcher 4 showcase literally tosses Ciri a coin in a valley of plenty and that damn Netflix song is about to be stuck in my head for the next 6 months
- Elden Ring Nightreign's top modder claims the game could theoretically support "up to 127 players" somewhere down the line
- The SteelSeries Arctis Nova 3 Wireless is on track to become my favorite budget headset, and it's available today for just over $100
- New The Witcher 4 screenshots show Ciri in a beautiful, bustling location, and a truly horrible monster
- Apple announces release date for Slow Horses season 5 and unveils first-look images with Gary Oldman and Jack Lowden
- The Witcher 4 setting could be the never-before-seen region of Kovir, as Ciri journeys to the far north in CD Projekt's new tech demo
- PlayStation State of Play confirmed for tomorrow with 40+ minutes of "news and updates on must-play" PS5 games, right before Summer Game Fest kicks off
- New thriller with great Rotten Tomatoes score is storming up Netflix's TV chart, and it's getting rave reactions from subscribers: "One of the best shows I've watched"
- Predicting the games of Summer Game Fest 2025: What we expect to see from each of the 20 major publishers in attendance
- Helldivers 2's Illuminate invasion brought players from around the world together, and our defence of Super Earth's Shanghai even made the news in China
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs held blind auditions, so they didn't know they landed talent from Final Fantasy and Baldur's Gate 3 until after they picked them
- Scream and Prey stars join Mike Flanagan's Carrie TV series, completing the Stephen King adaptation's main cast
- Reviving the long-lost Borderlands MMO may be one modder's "biggest challenge ever," but they're already eyeing up another that's even "harder to obtain" – a web browser game killed in 2012 called Mount Jackmore
- Fantastic Four director "delved into the 60-plus years of comics history" to make the Marvel movie, and he's revealed the run that made it into the film in "small and large ways"
- Marvel Rivals Vanguard mains say "there’s nothing we can do except hope a DPS can kill them" as the flyer meta dominates Season 2.5: "A tank exodus is probably not far from happening"
- Weapons director says the upcoming horror movie is "fun, scary" and even "weirder than Barbarian"
- As fans reject Switch 2 game-key cards, former Nintendo marketing leads say it's unlikely that physical games will ever "100% go away," because "they realize the importance of that"
- Tom Cruise's most dangerous Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning moment involved being "trapped" by real torpedoes: "Tom does not want an audience disconnected"
- A big Hollow Knight: Silksong Steam update has Metroidvania hopefuls daring to believe once again as Summer Game Fest and Xbox's Summer Showcase nears: "Doubters in shambles"
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director found something that "makes the game feel 10 times better" mid-development, then painfully realized they had to apply it to "like 1,100" different attacks
- Thunderbolts looks set to lose Disney $100 million, despite being the best-reviewed Marvel movie since Spider-Man: No Way Home
- New single-location horror movie with in-tree-guing premise unveils nail-biting first trailer
- Elden Ring Nightreign director has soloed every boss "without relics," and he wants fans "to know that this is very possible" despite concerns over difficulty
- Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin throws his support behind Elden Ring movie: "Alex Garland is a first rate director"
- Godzilla Minus One director has incredibly wholesome response to hearing his movie inspired James Gunn's Superman
- Death Stranding 2 devs are taking a break after release, but Hideo Kojima is already working on his next game: "Everyone dislikes it when I submit the project plans at this point in time"
- I’m sad to see Ncuti Gatwa go but a surprise Doctor Who regeneration is something I’ve always wanted
- Skyrim Grandma is "still learning" the ropes in Oblivion Remastered after 10 years of The Elder Scrolls 5 – and it's not easy: "This stupid thing won't die!"
- How to beat the Sentient Pest in Elden Ring Nightreign, aka Gnoster, Wisdom of Night
- The Witcher 4 first look - State of Unreal 2025 Live Coverage
- Ballerina director says it was "wonderful" to work with John Wick star Keanu Reeves: "Stepping back from it, you could feel that this is iconic"
- RoboCop: Rogue City – Unfinished Business finally puts me in control of the series' iconic ED-209 bot, and it's as silly as it is violent: "Realism is not a part of RoboCop at all"
- An Elden Ring Nightreign two-player mode is coming later this year, as FromSoftware changes course after criticism over its lack of duos support
- June 2
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- Viral FPS dev hits back at "dead on arrival" comments and says it will never add microtransactions: "We don't need to sell millions of copies. We don't need millions of players online at once"
- Mass Effect 5 director hints that the sci-fi RPG series' notorious lens flares will be back in the next game, as BioWare apparently goes head-to-head with JJ Abrams
- Bring on the Bad Guys: Green Goblin #1 reveals Norman Osborn's secret pact with Mephisto
- Nintendo finally shows gameplay footage of Pokemon Scarlet and Violet on Switch 2, and the frame rate boost is honestly a lot nicer than I expected
- "I might have exhausted all my luck": Balatro God-King hits lucky streak so powerful that 1-in-1 billion odds don't even begin to describe it
- Zynga suddenly shuts down studio from Diablo and Torchlight creators before they even had a chance to reveal its first original IP
- The Witcher 3 devs "toyed with" making Geralt drown if he tried to swim with his armor on: "Immersive or just a bit too realistic?"
- Stellar Blade already has mods thanks to its Steam demo, and you simply won't believe this: the top 3 are all nude mods
- Mike Flanagan says he's working closely with Stephen King on his Dark Tower adaptation: "I'm not gonna let him down"
- James Cameron is set to adapt a fantasy novel described as "Suicide Squad meets Hammer Horror" as he finishes work on Avatar: Fire and Ash: "It will be a joyful new challenge for me"
- "600 Deaths & 54 Hours spent on this mod": Elden Ring's Let Me Solo Her takes on "lore accurate Promised Consort Radahn," the most absurd boss FromSoftware never made
- "Long time no see": Lethal Company update V70 is out now after several quiet months, adding a radar face cam and "the most powerful creature in the game"
- "Has that been announced?": Assassin's Creed Black Flag remake seemingly leaked by statue maker who said "you should be aware that there is something going on with Edward"
- Stellar Blade dev's game reveal sparks AI art accusations, sounds like its own take on Genshin Impact, and surprises nobody with art so horny I can't show you the whole thing here
- CDPR "thought it was going to be more of a challenge" porting Cyberpunk 2077 to Nintendo Switch 2, but beefier specs and microSD made it "surprisingly fast"
- Stellar Blade is already the third top-selling game on Steam more than a week before launch, and just its demo has reviews and players most full games would kill for
- The best new shows and movies streaming this week on Netflix, Apple TV Plus, HBO Max, and more
- Xbox Games Showcase 2025 needs to build on Microsoft's momentum, but it may need to go beyond The Outer Worlds 2 to pull it off
- One of Elden Ring Nightreign's many Dark Souls throwbacks also has players thinking about a very different action RPG: "What in the Monster Hunter?"
- 007 First Light is officially the name for Hitman studio's James Bond game, and it looks to be an origin story
- Before James Gunn took over, Warner Bros reportedly wanted a Henry Cavill Superman film directed by Michael Bay
- After splitting with Larian following Baldur's Gate 3, Dungeons & Dragons publisher signs God of War 3 and Star Wars Jedi director's new studio for a "single-player action-adventure" D&D game
- Tiny Tina's Wonderlands is free, but Borderlands boss Randy Pitchford has somehow found a way to make fans mad about it: "Dude's milking people for hate clicks at this point"
- Daredevil: Born Again season 2 behind-the-scenes photo sets up return of another major Marvel character
- Nintendo indirectly confirms the Switch 2 will have a glass screen, and asks you "do not peel" the film on it
- Move over, Galactus: Fantastic Four's Joseph Quinn confirms there's another unannounced villain in the Marvel movie
- After years of asking, Elder Scrolls Online fans hear the 3 words they've dreamt of since playing WoW and Lord of the Rings Online: Difficulty options are "in the works"
- Deep Sleep: Labyrinth of the Forsaken puts an Inception spin on PS1-era survival horror games, and I totally get why it's winning pre-launch awards
- How to get your gaming setup ready for Elden Ring Nightreign
- Nintendo "won't know" if the Switch 2 eShop will crash on launch day as everyone rushes to download Mario Kart World, former marketing leads warn, but "they're prepared"
- Helldivers 2 players come together to "restore the game's rating to its original state" after the Equality-On-Sea debacle sank Steam reviews down to "Mixed"
- In this rat-filled city builder, one wrong move can change everything - and in my case it was forgetting to add a toilet
- Elden Ring Nightreign player channels their inner Sekiro to parry the co-op roguelite's final boss to death – completely solo – just 2 days after launch
- Marvel fans are realizing that one Captain America: Brave New World character had an impact on past MCU movies, despite not being on screen for 17 years
- Upcoming horror sequel Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 releases first poster, potentially teasing the return of one of the game’s most terrifying characters
- Nintendo denies Switch 2 report claiming that Japanese retailers are getting a bigger cut of each sale following a timely drop in stocks and shares
- Elden Ring Nightreign patch 1.01.1 is here now that maintenance is over, offering better rewards if you can make it to Day 3
- Star Wars fans are debating a story detail that has never been fully explained about Uncle Owen
- Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul recalls the cruel but hilarious prank Bryan Cranston used to play on him: "He would not stop, and he would get everybody in on it"
- Hideo Kojima has offered his thoughts on the best horror movie of 2024: "It felt like being in a dream the entire time, utterly spellbinding"
- 15 years later, Red Dead Redemption's John Marston is playing the open-world cowboy game for the first time and reveals why "John is screaming at people for no reason" when riding a horse
- Death Stranding 2 may have "a man's hands and legs sliced off by a robotic samurai" but its ESRB rating just revealed the most shocking detail of all: "The word 'f**k' is heard in the game"
- Superman director James Gunn says the DC film is inspired by the best Godzilla movie in decades: "At its core it's a human story"
- Despite saying it was "always the plan" to leave after two seasons, Doctor Who fans are convinced that Ncuti Gatwa's regeneration was a last-minute change – all thanks to an old promo image
- First trailer for upcoming horror sequel The Black Phone 2 reveals its masked killer is back from the dead, and about to go full Jason Voorhees
- Stranger Things season 5 first look revealed some new characters, and fans are debating what it means for the Netflix show
- After Disney told him "streaming is dead," Andor creator had to fight for season 2 of the $650 million Star Wars show to get the budget it needed
- "We didn't start off by saying, 'let's aim to build a roguelike'": Elden Ring Nightreign director says FromSoftware wasn't really aiming for a roguelike feel, it just kind of happened
- Undertale dev Toby Fox tests jokes from RPGs like Deltarune on his friends – but "if none of my friends think something is funny," he "may try to improve" them
- 3 years since we last saw Luke Skywalker, Mark Hamill definitively rules out a Star Wars return: "There's no way I'm gonna appear naked as a Force ghost"
- June 1
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- Doctor Who season 2, episode 8 spoiler review: 'The Reality War' is "a mix of the good, the bad, and the truly baffling"
- Not content with his new strategy RPG having 100 endings, Danganronpa's creator wants to add even more in a DLC
- After 10 years, iconic streamer Skyrim Grandma is now Oblivion Remastered Grandma: "Sorry guys, you know I have to look at everything. I've never been here before"
- Sinners director Ryan Coogler says 2025's best horror movie won't be getting a sequel anytime soon: "I wanted to get away from that"
- Clayface writer reveals he was inspired by one of DC's most iconic animated series: "That two-parter knocked me out"
- Doctor Who season 2 finale shock twist seemingly introduces a familiar face as the new Doctor, but it might not be that simple: "You’ll just have to wait and see"
- Remember 2017's Star Wars Battlefront 2? It’s good now – like, really good
- Elden Ring Nightreign director had concerns "about not necessarily being able to play slow like previous titles," but FromSoftware "wanted to create something new"
- Gen V season 2 confirms release date with an action-packed first trailer that addresses Chance Perdomo's death
- With The Witcher 4, Cyberpunk 2 and way more on the horizon, having multiple projects on the go gives CDPR "more opportunities to be more creative"
- Dexter: Resurrection unveils star-studded first trailer as Dexter Morgan meets New York's most lethal serial killers
- Wednesday season 2 doesn't drop a trailer at Netflix Tudum, but does reveal 6 minutes of footage of Jenna Ortega trying to trap a serial killer
- Stranger Things season 5 is coming in three parts this holiday season – and a terrifying first look at Netflix Tudum teases the highest stakes yet
- First trailer for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein revealed at Netflix Tudum is a gothic fever dream with an obsessed Oscar Isaac and monstrous Jacob Elordi
- One Piece season 2 casts Superman actor as fan-favorite character Tony Tony Chopper – and introduces the reindeer in the most adorable way
- The Last Jedi director's Knives Out 3 gets cryptic first teaser at Netflix Tudum – and finally confirms a release date
- Squid Game season 3 trailer unveiled at Netflix Tudum teases two more deadly games, as star Lee Jung-jae promises the show "will shock the world one last time"
