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- August 31
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- After announcing Escape From Tarkov is finally leaving early access, the extraction shooter dev has confirmed a "page on Steam will be available soon"
- Hideo Kojima used "an AI machine learning rig" to painstakingly download his celebrity friends to Death Stranding 2, but he wasn't happy with it: "I think I want to make it more realistic"
- A new "chaotic roguelike" inspired by genre top dog Balatro quietly came out months ago, but still has 100% positive Steam reviews and its free demo totally proves why
- I built a home and ran a business in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's next DLC, and the added role-playing guarantees I'll spend another 70 hours in my current game of the year
- To celebrate Final Fantasy 9's 25th anniversary, Nier producer remembers how he thought "they should have made the loading faster"
- Haunted Chocolatier was announced almost 4 years ago, but don't worry, Eric Barone says Stardew Valley 1.7 won't "hinder" the development of his next life sim
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle director says gameplay has been one of the most "challenging aspects" of development because even Wolfenstein was "very linear"
- Square Enix would rather ask all its legendary JRPG devs the meaning of life than announce an FF9 remaster, and Final Fantasy 14 director Naoki Yoshida says he's found no meaning "at all"
- As AAA games try to push $80 price tags, Hollow Knight Silksong leaks suggest it'll only be $5 more expensive than the first game
- Top Gun: Maverick star Glen Powell does Mrs. Doubtfire with football in new hilarious Chad Powers trailer
- Hell Let Loose: Vietnam devs say their new shooter isn't a replacement for the OG World War 2 game, and don't want fans to "feel like we've abandoned them in any way"
- James Gunn provides update on Amanda Waller series
- Chris Hemsworth says Thor 5 happening depends on one important detail
- Marvel fans are shocked that one of the most exciting new MCU characters has only had two appearances
- August 30
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- Lego Batman devs have "never" adapted older movies, TV shows, and comics before, but Legacy of the Dark Knight will create "one definitive, essential, epic story of Batman"
- The FromSoftware modder who put Halo maps into Dark Souls is back with an equally absurd but exciting mod: "I ported Morrowind to Elden Ring"
- Final Fantasy 14's Yoshi-P is "a maniac about One Piece," but his dream collab is still the RPG he's spent 1000s of hours in: "I love Diablo so much that I would want to make a Diablo game myself"
- "There will be a Stardew Valley 1.7 update": Creator ConcernedApe confirms another update to the immortal life sim hot off a new Haunted Chocolatier tease
- The PS5 Slim is still at its original price this Labor Day, but it won't stay this cheap for long
- Frankenstein review: "A classy, if somewhat safe, adaptation"
- I'm obsessed with this Switch 2 headset, and now it's cheaper than ever this Labor Day
- We asked Obsidian about romance in The Outer Worlds 2, and now I'm a little hopeful the RPG may follow Avowed's example: "It truly does need to be something that's organic"
- 8 years on, Hollow Knight is still an extraordinary achievement – but can Silksong live up to the hype?
- New "bad trip" movie from Longlegs and The Monkey director taps The Last of Us and The Summer I Turned Pretty stars as leads
- Mortal Kombat 2 gets a big release date delay, but ends up in a promising spot
- Disney pulls plug on The Aristocats remake according to director Questlove who says it "just wasn’t meant to happen"
- How to watch The Conjuring movies in order (release and chronological)
- The Goonies 2 writer has a promising update: "This is the movie I want to see as one of its biggest fans.”
- Summer isn't over yet, but I've already picked out three retro handhelds I'll be cozying up with this Autumn
- Borderlands 4 endgame and post-launch roadmap revealed: You can start new characters at level 30 after beating the campaign, there are weekly challenges, and the first story pack is "cosmic horror" with "a bloodier, darker tone"
- August 29
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- This Final Fantasy Tactics-inspired indie strategy RPG with anime fish and lizard people was fully funded on Kickstarter in less than a week, and after that banger of an elevator pitch, are we even surprised?
- Helldivers 2 creative director wishes he could make a sequel to the chaotic co-op game that launched Arrowhead, but returning to it "scares" him: "I would like to do it at some point though"
- The first pages from Marvel's Fantastic Four/Gargoyles #1 are everything I hoped they would be as a fan of both franchises
- After Battlefield 6 beta players spent a week roasting the Netflix-style menus, dev says "we're not going to rebuild our menu from scratch" in time for launch, but "we are looking to improve"
- Marvel and The Last of Us star will lead a new Scarface movie based on the original 1930 novel: "I think in 2025, it's more relevant now than ever"
- Elijah Wood says sequel to underrated horror movie picks up almost immediately after the first and "enriches everything you love about the original film": "It really deepens the mythology"
- The Sims 4's colorful competitor Paralives lets you be a passive aggressive king and give backhanded compliments or just straight up diss characters for being bad cooks or because "they have a lower paying job than you"
- Metal Gear Solid Delta replaces the original game's bikini model posters with new pictures and family photos of the same women 21 years later
- EA says "a substantial number" of Battlefield 6 beta players were running the FPS on PCs that didn't meet the minimum specs
- "It's not just paywalled, IT'S WHALEWALLED!": Genshin Impact's new level 100 cap has players terrified of a pay-to-win endgame even as MiHoYo celebrates its own generosity
- Shuten Order review: "The Danganronpa creator's new multi-genre mystery feels like a forgotten DS cult classic I would have been obsessed with"
- Will romantasy be the next great crossover for Dungeons & Dragons? Fourth Wing could be the perfect D&D setting, if you ask me
- Jurassic Park: Survival has quietly been 35 years in the making, and it's taking us back to where it all began
- Most chaotic Oblivion Remastered mage conquers the Arena with wild sorcery that costs a whopping 9,000 magicka: "That 100ft destruction spell really speeds these matches up..."
- New Final Fantasy-style action RPG Lost Soul Aside is "unintentionally one of the funniest games of the year," players declare, which takes the sting of its Mixed Steam reviews away somewhat
- The Sims competitor Paralives is fixing one of the biggest sins of its life sim rival, as Parafolk will actually wash their hands immediately after going to the toilet – most of the time
- Former FPS pro Shroud says Valve's Deadlock is already "one of the best games ever made" and it's "just a matter of time" until people realize
- War of the Worlds producer defends the Ice Cube-led movie despite being one of the worst reviewed films of all time: "We made a really good movie for the money we had"
- The new Yorgos Lanthimos movie is getting rave first reactions out of Venice Film Festival, but I think it's worth revisiting his breakout feature Dogtooth before Bugonia hits theaters this fall
- Reacher star Alan Ritchson says "I strongly don't think that Batman is in my future," but admits "words have been exchanged" about the DCU role
- Peacemaker season 2 newcomer reveals she auditioned for key Superman role – but lost out to a long-time friend: "I couldn't be happier"
- Out of 18 quintillion planets, No Man's Sky has just one paradise – an Earth-like refuge for aliens too horny for this headline: "I was not prepared for when you started riding it"
- After nine years searching for the perfect N64 joystick replacement, I've finally found a controller mod worth doing
- Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater's $200 collector's edition comes with "awful imitation moss" and the jankiest looking Snake figure I've ever seen
- Severance's Adam Scott looks like he's had better days in curious first look at Oddity director's new horror movie
- Cancelled Call of Duty: Fog of War would have had you playing hide and seek with a B52 bomber crashing in "a scary version of Vietnam"
- In the face of countless live service shutdowns, Danganronpa creator believes devs should be "taking responsibility" to give "players a sincere conclusion"
- Playing Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era has turned me into a Dungeon devotee, and I can't help but feel like I'm already seeing a strategy classic in the making
- Upcoming Stephen King movies and TV shows
- Call of Duty might be getting a movie adaptation from the studio behind Sonic the Hedgehog
- Out and About is a very cozy foraging adventure that's taking me back to my fish obsession in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
- I've been covering gaming PC deals for years, and these are the Newegg Labor Day sales I'd recommend to any PC gamer
- I'm on the hunt for the best Dragon Ball Z gaming accessories, and these PS5 thumb grips might be it
- Ridley Scott turned down $20 million to make Terminator 3: "I couldn't do it. It's not my thing"
- On the 5th anniversary of Chadwick Boseman's death, Marvel fans are remembering the Black Panther star: "Amazing actor. Even more amazing man"
- Herdling is a serene, peaceful joy about finding a family in a herd of funny little guys, and I can't get enough
- The 32 box office hits you've probably forgotten about
- Battlefield 6 devs are polishing up the beta's missing larger maps in Labs alongside the server browser and Hardcore mode ahead of the FPS's eagerly anticipated launch
- Battlefield 6 devs "were pretty happy" with the beta's anti-cheat performance, even though it "really sucks" that "it does prevent some players from playing"
- Nintendo has more than Palworld to deal with – IP expert says Genshin Impact dev's new Pokemon-style game "clearly infringes" on a hard-to-avoid patent Pocketpair is accused of infringing
- Pokemon goes gacha in Genshin Impact devs' new adventure strategy game Honkai: Nexus Anima, with pudding-themed puppies and bunnies peddling "tainted donuts"
- Battlefield 6 will have free custom, persistent servers at launch and fans are ecstatic: "That's a big W right there"
- We might now know when to expect more Jujutsu Kaisen season 3 news – but we've still got a long wait ahead
- House of the Dragon star says season 3 starts "with a bang" and is "bigger and more ferocious" than the first two seasons
- The BBC is once again trying to outrage retro nerds, so I'd advise checking in on the Apple and Windows fans in your life
- First reactions to horror sequel The Conjuring: Last Rites call it "the best in the franchise" and "the scariest and most emotional chapter" of the long-running series
- Upcoming Dune: Awakening update feels like the survival MMO's biggest patch yet, adding everything from more story missions to character recustomization
- The Batman 2 writer believes the DC sequel can "top what came before"
- Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater already has a mod that "brings dad back home" as you can now play as Hideo Kojima
- Peacemaker rejects the "perfect" female badass trope because James Gunn says "allowing flaws" in those characters is the "coolest thing you could do"
- PlayStation's Final Fantasy-style action RPG launches after 11 years to 'Mixed' Steam reviews, so Lost Soul Aside devs are "actively working on optimizations"
- 15 years ago James Gunn made the darkest superhero movie I've ever seen, but one scene from Peacemaker season 2 might have just topped it
- August 28
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- Elden Ring, Baldur's Gate 3, and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 actor Jennifer English says she's appeared in "sh*t games," too - but they're not on her CV, so good luck finding them
- Ghost of Yotei has gone gold, and Sucker Punch is celebrating with 74 seconds of brutal, bloody, John Wick-worthy gun fu
- James Gunn was the on set stand-in for Eagly in Peacemaker season 2, including his dance solo in the new intro
- The internet bullied Blizzard into reversing an Overwatch 2 change 72 hours after it released, but the studio says it's "still invested in creating new and unique features"
- CD Projekt said ditching game-key cards for Cyberpunk 2077 on Switch 2 was "the right thing to do," and it's apparently paid off because 75% of that version's sales were physical
- I can't wait for a KPop Demon Hunters sequel, but I'm still not convinced Netflix is actually going to learn anything from the original's success
- Bloober dev says Cronos: The New Dawn is a "treat" with Resident Evil-style action and, screw it, cats as the team moves past Silent Hill 2: "No more James Sunderland, running around the place with his wooden plank"
- "You could go and keep beating up people on top of buildings" forever in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, but devs say "we're not making GTA" because even vampires need to sleep
- Hideo Kojima thinks video games are in the middle of a major shift: there was 2D, then 3D, and now "we have not just ChatGPT," but also extensive AI tech for devs to "take advantage of"
- Hideo Kojima only plays "maybe one game a year" because "games take a lot of time" and "what's happening outside the game world is more important to me to incorporate into my game"
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (August 29 - 31)
- "No amount of hard work is enough to protect us": Over 450 Diablo devs sick of "the constant pressures of layoffs, passion tax, and crunch" under AI-obsessed Microsoft vote to unionize
- You can put Dragon's Dogma 2 alongside Space Marine 2 and Helldivers 2 as a sterling example of what happens when you stop trying to make AAA games for everyone: "It’s normal if some people outside that target audience don't like the game"
- Thunderbolts has hit Disney Plus like lightning becoming the streamer's most popular movie in the US, and third place globally after just 1 day
- Deadpool and Wolverine director's Star Wars movie Starfighter shares first look and confirms new casting, including Amy Adams and a Lanterns star
- I can't get enough of the cute cat-like companion in this puzzle platformer, even if some block pushing is a little business as usual
- "Super cozy" Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar shoots to 94% positive Steam reviews 1 day after launch as fans of the series that inspired Stardew Valley sing its praises: "It's not just a simple remake"
- How long does it take to beat Metal Gear Solid Delta?
- Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight is set in "a much more immersive city than we were ever able to do before" thanks to the tech built for The Skywalker Saga
- Destiny Rising codes (September 2025) and how to redeem them
- Elden Ring Nightreign answers your unholy prayers with extreme "Deep of the Night" challenge mode, and it even has an endless option
- Baldur's Gate 3 Shadowheart actor was in "a lot of debt" before the breakout RPG, a "really classist" reality for many industry performers: "How on Earth do you do it?"
- Longlegs star Maika Monroe's new remake of a 33-year-old thriller gets a creepy first look
- I'd normally say wait for the Labor Day sales, but Sony's 4K PS5 monitor is back down to its lowest price right now
- As Final Fantasy 14 Fan Fest dates leave fans worried the MMO's next expansion might not release until March 2027 at the earliest, Yoshi-P drops an ominous tease: "Rest assured you won't have to wait long"
- JRPG lovers are "migrating away from Fandom" to unite the Trails and Ys communities in an independent wiki, following in the footsteps of Zelda and Silksong fans before them
- "We refuse to fold": As multiple games scramble out of the way of Hollow Knight: Silksong's release, one platformer stands firm despite launching just 1 day before the Metroidvania
- The Thursday Murder Club director says new Netflix murder mystery’s idealistic manor home is like Hogwarts for retirees
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle devs love feedback, but will stick to their guns when it comes to game direction: "Yeah, but no thanks, because we already have a very good idea that we believe in"
- "The shorthand is New Vegas in space": The Outer Worlds 2 directors double down on Fallout comparisons, and Obsidian isn't worried about setting expectations too high: "It's our pedigree"
- War of the Worlds producer says none of the Amazon product placement was intentional in the 2% Rotten Tomatoes disaster
- James Gunn continues to build hype for Peacemaker season 2's secret cameos: "We have big stars from the DC universe… those are big surprises"
- Schedule 1 update adds a shotgun and rival cartel to Steam's viral drug-dealing simulator following a player vote, and I'm sure that doesn't have any harrowing implications
- Andor writer Dan Gilroy says Emperor Palpatine probably would have appeared in the Star Wars show eventually if it had stuck to the original 5-season plan
- Knives Out 3 release date, plot, trailer, cast, and everything we know so far about Wake Up Dead Man
- Harry Potter's Emma Thompson goes full Liam Neeson in snowy Taken-esque thriller
- Just when I thought Kirby and the Forgotten Land couldn't get any better, Star-Crossed World on Switch 2 proved me wrong
- Pokemon Legends: Z-A buffs up one of X and Y's best 'mons as it introduces Mega Hawlucha, which might have the RPG's coolest new form yet
- After 16 JRPGs across 37 years, the long-running Ys series is finally localizing the Nintendo Switch remaster of its overlooked PS Vita gem next year
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead says the RPG went up against "one of the biggest remasters" with Oblivion Remastered – but it worked out: "I feel like it makes us even more deserving in a way"
- Todd Howard apparently "rolled his eyes" at the thought of Troy Baker playing Indiana Jones and the Great Circle's protagonist, but the game's lead says it "wouldn't have been what it is" without the Last of Us star
- Beyond These Stars is the weirdest city-builder I've ever seen, thanks to a giant space whale that can go rogue if it gets too hungry
- The Asus ROG Falcata seems absurdly expensive, but it does solve one of my only issues with Hall effect switches
- Nearly 30 years ago, an RPG veteran walked away from Fallout 2 after just a few conversations – with The Outer Worlds 2, he's finally "doing a sequel to a game that I created the IP for"
- As Xbox fans discover just how brutal Helldivers 2 can be, Arrowhead's CEO thanks "gigachad" veterans for being "being so nice to all the new divers"
- Before Gen V season 2, you'll be able to watch season 1 for a limited time for free – but there's a catch
- The stealthy spirit of Arkham Knight returns in Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, and I never believed a Lego game could pull this off
- Horror fans are discussing when they have to draw the line when it comes to the grossest, most extreme movies in the genre
- Andor accidentally created a Rogue One plot hole involving K-2SO, but Tony Gilroy has explained why it still works
- I've been playing Kirby games for 30 years, but you won't catch me with Kirby and the Forgotten Land on Switch 2
- Delicious in Dungeon season 2 release date speculation, story, and everything else we know so far
- Original Gremlins writer Chris Columbus says they "haven't cracked" Gremlins 3 yet: "There's a bunch of scripts, nothing has been approved"
- The Twilight Saga teases re-release with cryptic post, and fans are losing their mind: "Hoa Hoa Hoa season is back"
- Arrowhead CEO humbly asks Helldivers 2 fans to "stop s****ing your pants" as servers wobble under the weight of 500,000 concurrent divers following Xbox recruits joining the fight and a new Halo ODST Warbond
- A major anime company knows what American audiences want: more shows with "vampire and zombie themes"
- Battlefield 6 won't actually boot stomp Black Ops 7, analyst says, because Call of Duty fans on "autopilot" will "buy it even if they complain about it"
- Final Fantasy 14's Yoshi-P breaks silence following latest add-on drama, says Square Enix has no choice but to act if mods threaten the MMO itself as costs rise and regulations grow stricter
- 46 years later, Stephen King says he was able to fix one mistake he made in his original novel in upcoming horror movie The Long Walk
- Fantastic Four's Pedro Pascal may replace Joaquin Phoenix in Todd Haynes' gay romance drama, following Joker star's abrupt exit
- James Gunn says Chris Pratt won't play Batman in the DCU, but the Guardians of the Galaxy star could still play another DCU role
- Ahsoka season 2 star says the Star Wars show is "in the middle of filming," and hints that Shin Hati and Baylan Skoll will reunite
- Metal Gear Solid Delta is so faithful that Konami seemingly kept all of the original's assets in the game's files
- PS5 exclusive horror game bucks the trend, announces a delay to get out of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7's way instead of Hollow Knight: Silksong
- Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford feels like "we're just getting started" with Borderlands spin-off Tiny Tina's Wonderlands: "I would bet that we are going to spend more time on that"
- The Last of Us star Bella Ramsey fires back at season 2's critics: "You don't have to watch it"
- Harry Potter director says he was fired from the original Fantastic Four for having "too much of an opinion"
- Retro Gamer magazine celebrates the history of Shinobi
- August 27
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- Resident Evil 7 was "possibly too scary" and "some people couldn't handle it," says director Koshi Nakanishi, and that's why Resident Evil 9 has a third-person mode to "make it slightly easier to deal with"
- After 14 years in development and $860 million racked up in crowdfunding, Star Citizen director hopes single-player spin-off Squadron 42 will be "an event almost as important" as GTA 6
- 10 Metal Gear Solid Delta tips for new MGS players
- What's the best MGS game to pick at the start of Metal Gear Solid Delta to get the best camo
- How to kill The End early in Metal Gear Solid Delta
- As Perfect Dark gets canceled and the next Tomb Raider's development stumbles on, Crystal Dynamics lays off even more developers while blaming "evolving business conditions"
- Unreasonably good Xbox FPS featuring Vin Diesel was so under the radar, not even the studio noticed when it got canceled: "They basically forced the publisher to restart the game"
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs denied DLC plans, but now the French JRPG's director admits that may have changed: "We may be cooking"
- Ken Levine's new BioShock-like game Judas carries the torch of Monolith's Nemesis System: "They can bribe you, save you in battle, talk s*** about the other characters, and share with you their darkest secrets"
- Oh good, Resident Evil Requiem director says "there are similarities" to the scariest scene in Resident Evil history, but on "another level" of "claustrophobic, unarmed" tension
- A gacha RPG is cutting all the gacha garbage so it can just be a better game: "We're completely removing all character and weapon banners"
- The guy who played Al Pacino on TV is now playing Sylvester Stallone in Green Book director's Rocky movie
- Final Fantasy 9 translator admits some references to older games "slipped by us completely," and he'd love to see "a new team" tackle the JRPG: "I wish we'd been sharper about the nostalgia"
- Musicians Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton are making a "music-infused YA retelling" of the Wizard of Oz for Amazon
- After their Black Panther game got killed, 14 EA devs are fleeing to D&D house Wizards of the Coast to "incubate a new game" under Monolith vet and Shadow of Mordor boss
- Marvel's Spider-Man officially has its first working multiplayer mod, and it's probably the closest thing we've got to Insomniac's canceled Great Web project
- Sisu sequel gets a blood-soaked trailer that pits the Finnish murder machine against the Red Army officer who killed his family
- Retro JRPGs are suddenly getting pulled from the Switch eShop, and it looks like a probably unlicensed version of OG operating system MS-DOS is to blame
- Gears of War: Reloaded hammered in Steam reviews for missing splitscreen co-op and Microsoft accounts seemingly crashing everyone's fun, including mine
- Stardew Valley becomes truly inescapable as it joins the September PlayStation Plus games lineup alongside an impeccable indie puzzler and one of the best platformers of the modern era
- Final Fantasy 14 Dawntrail left the MMO's community fatigued and fed up, so Yoshi-P says devs are "planning to upgrade" new content that "can be enjoyed by a wide variety of different players"
- Jackie Chan's team is advising the action on Marvel's Spider-Man: Brand New Day, and the star has visited the set himself: "The director was so excited"
- This new WD Blue SSD is designed with creators in mind, but its $56.99 price is calling my name
- A giant exclamation point appears over Komani's head as it investigates Metal Gear Solid Delta causing some of the weirdest bugs and crashes of 2025, with not one, but two crocodile issues
- Austin Butler's Caught Stealing stunts didn't faze New York City locals, despite "hanging out of a window of a real building" 6 stories up
- The first co-op multiplayer game from horror publisher Blumhouse is like REPO after a long, hot day in an Agatha Christie novel, and it just launched in early access
- After 92 hours with Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar, I can safely confirm 2025 is indeed the year of the cozy game and the beloved farming sim series that inspired Stardew Valley is so back
- The Boys season 5 and Gen V season 2 are closely connected, Eric Kripke says: "There's a lot in Gen V that really helps set up the climax of this final confrontation"
- Roblox is reportedly bigger than the entirety of Steam with a whopping 47.4 million concurrent users, almost exclusively thanks to two games: Steal a Brainrot and Grow a Garden
- Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight's combat was inspired by the Arkham series: "We also wanted to bring our own Lego approach to that foundation"
- Intel says "this is fine" to fallen stock prices, tells gamers they can get Battlefield 6 bundled with its hardware for no extra cost
- 2 years in, Bethesda answers player hopes and says it's improving Starfield space travel: "Part of the team has been focused on space gameplay to make the travels there more rewarding"
- Switch 2 is selling 75% faster than the original Switch in the US, analyst reports, and that's probably because Nintendo actually made enough consoles this time
- Everything we know about the Helldivers 2 Dragonroach
- Capcom says that Resident Evil 9 will be "so-called 'old school Resident Evil'" in style, but its director teases a "new system" that creates a "complete roller coaster ride between the different aspects of the series"
- Red Dead Redemption 2 modder discovers the strongest weapon in the Wild West: 4-year-old Jack Marston, who packs a surprising punch as a thrown weapon
- "Earth-sized" survival game Light No Fire has "real oceans to traverse, needing large boats and crews," says Hello Games boss Sean Murray: "Much of the technology we're introducing" for No Man's Sky is "shared with our next game"
- After resurrecting The Karate Kid, Cobra Kai creators are bringing another 80s classic back
- The Office spin-off star recalls the heartwarming advice Steve Carell gave her before he and John Krasinski crashed the set on the first day of filming: "You are going to have the best experience of your life"
- I button-mashed my way through 30 minutes of Scott Pilgrim EX, but I'm already longing to dive back in and learn each character's "very complex combos"
- The Outer Worlds 2 leads say RPGs like Baldur's Gate 3 helped prove "people really, actually want these kinds of games" at a time where even Obsidian "had to prove ourselves all over again"
- Obsidian is not screwing around with The Outer Worlds 2's Fallout New Vegas comparisons: "The critical path is maybe 10 or 15% of the total content"
- I played Kirby Air Riders and it's the perfect racer for players who've had enough of Mario Kart
- I've played The Outer Worlds 2, and forget what you know about the first game because this silly sequel already feels like a bigger and better RPG
- New No Man's Sky update is so big "the game has had to be reworked" for its features, including "huge" interactive spaceships that are basically buildings with wings
- DC fans are debating which actor has the best live-action Batman suit, and it’s not Christian Bale
- Lexar's 1TB Switch 2 SD Card is back in stock just in time for Labor Day
- It looks like Battlefield 6's battle royale mode can be customized in Portal, and I can only apologize for what I might create
- RPG veteran behind Devil May Cry and Dragon's Dogma wants his next game to combine "the best of everything he’s worked on," but does not want it to be a Soulslike
- The 32 greatest revenge thrillers ever made
- 8 years later, Spider-Man fans are praising their favorite Homecoming scene: "Best twist in any Marvel movie"
- Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle unveils latest popcorn bucket design, and it might just be our favorite one yet
- "Built to game with Xbox" - Microsoft says these handhelds will get the same features as the ROG Xbox Ally, but I've got beef with its picks
- How to farm Medals in Helldivers 2
- Good news Mindhunter and Monster fans, a new crime series based on real events is coming to streaming, and it’s first trailer is positively horrifying
- I'm sorry to inform anyone trying to save money that this perfect replica Wolverine helmet is up for pre-order now
- GameSir basically just remade the Backbone controller for half the price, and says it works with Switch 2 as well
- Fortnite Precision Air Strike: How to get it
- Chainsaw Man is taking the Solo Leveling route with two "feature-length" recap movies arriving before the Reze Arc film, complete with bonus original content
- New Pokemon Legends: Z-A gameplay shows off how the RPG's trainer stealth attacks work, and they look so brutal that we're going to feel like we're part of Team Rocket
- After becoming the biggest Netflix movie ever, KPop Demon Hunters 2 is reportedly in the works
- ConcernedApe is bringing Stardew Valley's most infamous minigame to Haunted Chocolatier, and fans are already lining up to ask if fishing will be "as ridiculously hard"
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever star only found out he was returning for Avengers: Doomsday five hours before the cast reveal livestream
- Atari has picked up five Ubisoft games to bring to modern platforms, including its attempt at Resident Evil's crown
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead says the hit French JRPG is just "one of the stories that we want to tell in this franchise," but thinks "the only way" to succeed "is to ignore the first game completely"
- Wednesday season 2 fails to live up to season 1's success as one of Netflix's biggest shows ever, with viewership dropping by 50% in its third week
- Nintendo announces that the company in charge of Kirby IP will be working on future films
- The MagicX Zero 40 is one of the weirdest retro handhelds I’ve tested, but it solves my Nintendo DS dilemma
- Bloodlines 2 publisher says it's "making adjustments ahead of launch" in response to "feedback about the Lasombra and Toreador" clans being locked behind paid DLC
- August 26
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- Return to Silent Hill's first teaser trailer shows Silent Hill 2's James Sunderland confronting Pyramid Head in live-action glory, or terror, depending on how you look at it
- Former Superman actor Tyler Hoechlin says Robert Pattinson is a "fantastic" Batman, but "selfishly" wants DC Studios to "leave the door open" for him to play the role in James Gunn's DCU
- High on Life 2 is about to be the only legal way to play notorious NES anti-classic Bible Adventures
- John Williams, the legendary composer behind Star Wars, Jurassic Park, and the original Superman theme admits he "never liked film music very much"
- KPop Demon Hunters is officially Netflix's most popular movie of all time as the global sensation continues like a freight train
- Final Fantasy 14 patch 7.3 "finished that story" devs wanted to tell with Dawntrail, and Yoshi-P is "kind of glad and relieved" it's over as the MMO once again puts "the fate of the world" on your shoulders
- Thunderbolts director says he's started work on Marvel's X-Men reboot, and that he "learned a lot from his previous MCU movie": "That's obviously very, very exciting"
- Hollow Knight: Silksong has now delayed at least 8 indie games in the 5 days since its September release date was announced: "I feel like a little krill trying to not get eaten by a blue whale"
- Silent Hill f director says, alright, you got your Silent Hill 2 remake, which was "basically for the classic fans," but moving forward things are going to look different: "Future titles will probably carry their own flavour"
- Activision owns up to ugly Call of Duty skins, reverses course on Black Ops 6 skins transferring and promises "authentic" skins for Black Ops 7 – a game that is already selling cyborgs and murder robots
- Elden Ring movie’s 160-page script was written on spec by 28 Days Later scribe Alex Garland to win over game creator Hidetaka Miyazaki
- Hideo Kojima says "I won't" play the Metal Gear Solid Delta remake from Konami, but its devs still "would love" if he did: "We want to deliver this game whilst being very respectful"
- PlayStation refunds are now a bit easier than before, but Sony still won't match the Steam refund policy that should be the minimum for digital game purchases
- World of Warcraft has always asked us to call Azeroth home, but Midnight's new player housing is the first time you'll have one to call your own – and it's the best feature to come to the MMO in years
- Fortnite Hammerhead Choppas: Where to find the helicopters
- The Razer Kitty headset just got a purrr-fect V3 upgrade
- Obsidian's Fallout: New Vegas probably has one of the lowest NPC unemployment rates among all RPGs, gaming scientist finds, but yeah, it still "sucks s***" to live there
- The Punisher special release date, cast, plot, and everything else we know about the Marvel Studios Special Presentation
- Framework's modular gaming laptop finally gets an Nvidia GPU upgrade kit, and the whole thing is starting to make sense
- Japanese government auction for used Nintendo DS listing suddenly disappears as the internet realizes, oops, those bundled games are actually flash carts and likely packed with pirated titles
- This new wargame is a revelation because it mixes some surprising games together, but there's still room to improve
- The Rogue Prince of Persia review: "I roguelike but don't roguelove this freerunner – there's just not enough to stand out"
- Netflix releases first trailer for Keira Knightley's new thriller, and it's like The Girl on the Train but on a luxury yacht
- 31 years later, XCOM creator Julian Gollop says strategy games are still "where my heart lies" and he wants to make them "more accessible and immersive" – his latest attempt is out today with co-op and Pikmin vibes
- "$250 for this is diabolical" - Corsair wants you to forget about a second monitor and buy its new touch screen Stream Deck instead
- Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford admits Borderlands has gone "too far" in the past, but promises Borderlands 4 has hit the sweet spot
- Rockstar veteran says GTA 4 PS5 port wouldn't "be easy," but the effort "would be tiny compared to building a new game"
- I can finally share meat-tastic cover shooting bliss with my PS5 friends thanks to Gears of War Reloaded
- A24 head wanted Hideo Kojima to helm their upcoming Death Stranding movie: "Are you sure you don’t want to direct?”
- New Lego Pirates of the Caribbean set makes sure you'll never forget the time they almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow
- I bought the Hori Piranha Plant Switch 2 camera so you don’t have to
- All Helldivers 2 Dust Devils Warbond rewards and release date details
- "Customization shouldn't be locked behind a paywall" - Glorious's latest gaming keyboard has one feature few budget decks can rival
- Supermassive Games' new sci-fi horror game Directive 8020 doesn't just let you redo your worst mistakes, it also speaks to my completionist heart
- Next week, Helldivers 2 is getting Terminid Hive Worlds with huge underground caves where your Stratagems don't work, a new Dust Devil Warbond with a harpoon gun, and it sure looks like Hive Lords are back
- Final Fantasy 14 director says "there's no real need" for new consoles right now, because "people are happy with the Xbox Series X, the PS5, or the Switch 2" already
- Silksong delayed a game so hard its devs made an entire trailer featuring a giant statue of Hollow Knight character Hornet
- This webcam is the reason I've never felt the need for a DSLR, and its current price at Amazon makes me think a sequel might be coming
- Battlefield 6 developer explains there's no visual filter, every level in the new FPS simply has "the actual atmospheric vibe of each particular location"
- I was already nervous about playing gory survival horror Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival, and then I saw the stack of vomit bags provided by the devs
- 1 year after it was canceled, Star Wars fans are reassessing The Acolyte, and everyone can agree that Manny Jacinto's Qimir was the highlight: "One of the coolest Sith in the franchise"
- Hollow Knight: Silksong speedruns have already begun and the game isn't even out yet, as world record holder for the limited Gamescom demo modestly calls his sub-3-minute run "pretty OK"
- Stephen King says "there's a case to be made for Mike Flanagan being the Quentin Tarantino of horror" after finally watching The Fall of the House of Usher
- Terrifier creator says that although he’ll "never be on the same level as David Lynch," Terrifier 4 will explore Art the Clown’s origins the "Lynchian way"
- Switch 2 amiibo have hit record-low prices, but you gotta be fast to grab them
- I hope you're hungry for 3DS handhelds, as two new dedicated emulation devices are on the way with dual screens
- Two years before release, Star Wars fans are hoping Shawn Levy and Ryan Gosling's Starfighter movie explores past the Skywalker saga: "Tell new stories about new characters"
- Final Fantasy 14's Yoshi-P says "it could be" that new content for the MMO "goes down," as Square Enix hopes "many more players" would then be able to enjoy the content it does implement
- It looks like cute dogs are the key to success as upcoming horror movie Good Boy is getting wider theatrical release due to pawfect first trailer going viral
- One of the worst Battlefield games has more players on Steam than the two most recent Call of Duty games, and it's all because of some Battlefield 6 freebies
- DC fans are debating Peacemaker season 2's new opening credits and while some are "underwhelmed," others love the change: "James Gunn doesn't miss with music"
- Even though it would break the timeline, Ewan McGregor wants to return as Obi-Wan Kenobi in Andor season 3: "There's always a chance if Disney is listening"
- Gears of War: Reloaded release time – here's when you can dive into the remastered 2006 shooter on PS5, PC, and Xbox Series X|S
- Dan Da Dan staff issue apology after the anime is embroiled in unexpected controversy
- Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is filling the Mario Kart-shaped hole in my life that World isn't, and I'm as shocked by that as anyone
- Netflix cancels crime drama from Scream creator after just one season, even though it spent 3 weeks at number 1
- David Corenswet's Superman audition has gone viral, and DC fans say he was "born to play" Clark Kent: "The spirit of Christopher Reeve possessed him"
- August 25
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- Path of Exile 2's first free weekend lets you check out everything the ARPG has to offer for the low, low price of nothing
- Decepticon leader Megatron becomes the Worst Bot Ever as he does a Freaky Friday mind-swap with Ballpoint, the Transformer who is literally just a pen
- "Hulk is a perfect character," and he's going to prove it by smashing "everything," including "dinosaurs, planets, gravity, and cosmic forces" in a "pretty sweet" new comic
- I've been playing Super Mario 64 for nearly 30 years and I somehow never noticed the 1/256 Easter egg when Mario jumps out of the water, which at one point in development created a "bountiful fountain of fish"
- The beautiful, sad cyberpunk game I've had my eye on for 4 years has sad, less beautiful news: it's delayed again, this time to spring 2026 - "It's no secret that it's taken longer than we initially thought"
- After 20 years, the Japan-only PS2 adaptation of legendary anime Cowboy Bebop has finally gotten an English translation from the modder known as SONICMAN69
- "We aren't trying to make a game for everyone": Dev knows its first-person Soulslike is weird, says it's "much closer to Dark Souls" but "we love Dishonored and it has definitely influenced us"
- World of Warcraft takes home decorating in MMOs like Final Fantasy 14 and adds the freedom of The Sims 4 building to it, letting you "resize and rotate stuff" using 3D software made to look more "WoW-like"
- Paying Valve $108,000 just to be on Steam is "totally worth it," says dev of roguelike strategy game made in 10 months which has now earned over $360,000
- James Gunn would "love to George Lucas the sh** out of" Peacemaker season one but doesn't want to pay for it: "I'd rather just give that money to a few more CGI shots in Supergirl"
- "Dropping the GTA of indie games with 2 weeks notice makes everyone freak out": Devs wanted to "fight Silksong," but it's added another body to its kill count with delay of Persona-inspired tactics RPG
- Netflix star is unrecognizable in first look at Ken Masters in live-action Street Fighter movie
- Keeper is quintessential Double Fine, a strange creative concept with a truly wondrous execution: "We wanted to make something that we could probably never have gotten signed and published"
- Borderlands 4 writers say the previous game "sometimes felt like parody," and while there's at least one meme in the new loot shooter "it does not involve a Skibidi Toilet"
- Jumanji 3: Release date, cast, plot speculation, and everything else we know about the upcoming adventure sequel
- Hideo Kojima says he's already written a concept for Death Stranding 3, but he wants someone else to make it
- Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford is "a little nervous" about Borderlands 4 because it can be harder than previous games and not everyone wants a big challenge
- Battlefield 6 beta beat Counter-Strike 2, Peak, Marvel Rivals, and Helldivers 2 to be the biggest game on Steam in North America, but it couldn't top Call of Duty on console
- Brutal new clip from Stephen King adaptation The Long Walk suggests the movie will earn its R-rating
- James Gunn says Blue Beetle "fits in very nicely" with the new DCU along with Peacemaker, though "maybe we have to retcon a couple things"
- Deadpool 2 and The Fall Guy producers are writing their live-action Gears of War movie for Netflix right now with Dune scribe: "We're really excited about it"
- The Balatro hivemind absorbs another victim as Super Smash Bros. modder is compelled to add Joker king Jimbo to Melee, and there hasn't been a new character this scary since 2001
- Left 4 Dead has held the horde shooter crown for 17 years, but John Carpenter's Toxic Commando is the best challenger yet
- Peacemaker season 2 has sparked another debate about whether Robert Pattinson's Batman should join the DCU: "The worlds are so obviously incompatible"
- Pokemon Go level cap increases to 80 in October with huge "rebalance," so you've got less than 2 months to get the level 50 legacy rewards
- The Penguin star Colin Farrell says he "doesn't have many scenes" in The Batman 2, but he trusts that director Matt Reeves has made "something special": "I'll be there for whatever"
- Great, now I'm desperate for Pokemon to make a Resident Evil-like – and it had better go full Lavender town
- Just when I thought things couldn't get any better for JRPG fans, now we've gotten launch info for expanded action RPG Ys X: Proud Nordics in English
- It took Nintendo devs a year of "squashing and crushing watermelons" to record sound effects for Donkey Kong Bananza: "There were no more good watermelons"
- Elvis and Dune star Austin Butler says it would be "sacrilegious" to play James bond, but wouldn't mind being a villain: "No calls as far as that goes, but I love that man"
- KPop Demon Hunters singalong version is now available on Netflix after becoming an unexpected box office hit
- I still wake up sweating because of Driver's parking garage, but there's no denying this PS1 classic changed open world gaming forever
- Architect of Sony's disastrous 'live-service push' says failures are good actually, because now there's "more rigorous and more frequent testing"
- Baldur's Gate 3 dev says AAA is "perversely fascinated" by indie games, because those devs still understand how to make good ideas that aren't reliant on data
- Shinobi: Art of Vengeance review: "So close to being to a pitch-perfect revival of a classic series, but just can't quite line up the killing blow"
- Eternals director says it was "actually quite dangerous" that the divisive Marvel film had an "unlimited amount of money and resources"
- Hideo Kojima says he wants to "take it easy" as he gets older, but he still "intends to continue creating things for as long as I live"
- CD Projekt Red veteran behind The Blood of Dawnwalker says time isn't just a "resource" in the RPG but a currency, which players are in control of "fully" as they contend with the vampire game's unique 30 day limit
- The Switch 2's controversial game-key cards prove to be a preservation nightmare as Japan's national library refuses to use them
- Dexter fans are "devastated" as prequel series is unexpectedly cancelled after being renewed four months ago: "We were robbed"
- As Microsoft gets set to launch the Xbox ROG Ally, former PlayStation boss says one of the biggest mistakes they made with the PS Vita was trying to bring the console experience to handheld
- One of the reasons Hollow Knight: Silksongs developers got to have so much fun making it despite taking 6 years is that it's a 2D game
- Dune: Awakening dev says "when we do bring stuff like sandworm riding into the game, it'll feel like an epic moment like in the movies," but you can't "trivialize the sandworm" because that breaks Dune
- Pedro Pascal shares "unforgivably late" praise to a fan-favorite Star Wars show: "The best political thriller series maybe ever?"
- The latest Nintendo Switch 2 deal on eBay brings the console down to AU$630, and you can also get the Mario Kart World bundle for less than the standalone console
- The best new shows and movies streaming this week on Netflix, Prime Video, Hulu, and more
- August 24
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- The impending Silksong release date drives droves of fans back to the OG Hollow Knight, which has doubled its Steam player peak 8 years after launch
- Dune: Awakening dev says player retention has been "extremely good" and the MMO's 10-year plan still has "so much to pull from" in the lore: "We'll go to new planets eventually"
- I did not expect a revival of the most obscure 1990s mascot platformer to have moves that rival Mario Odyssey, but that's what the Demon Turf devs are doing
- Anno 117 Pax Romana is ticking off a lot of series' firsts
- Street Fighter movie release date speculation, cast, plot, and everything else we know about the upcoming video game movie
- New multiplayer FPS Active Matter is "multidimensional combat at its finest"
- Lego Voyagers is a Lego co-op game about two little bricks just having fun
- James Gunn's new DCU is doing whatever the hell it wants, and that's shaking up the MCU house style in a very good way
- Former PlayStation boss says "no one is in touch with their fan base more than Nintendo" and even Sony "was never this in touch" with what players wanted
- Madden 26 rookie ratings guide to the NFL best young prospects
- One of the best tabletop games I’ve played this year is already getting a sequel, and I can’t wait to see how it shakes up gameplay
- Yakuza Kenzan remains a Japan exclusive, but Like a Dragon fans like me shouldn't skip this historical adventure for the ages
- New Knives Out 3 plot details tease what could be a matter of death and life for Benoit Blanc
- James Gunn clarifies what kind of future Maxwell Lord has in the DCU, and it's not the one you expect
- Longlegs and The Monkey director Osgood Perkins' next horror is revealed to be a coming-of-age movie
- Eternals star Kumail Nanjiani has spoken out about the MCU future for Kingo that never happened: "I signed on for six movies. I signed on for a video game"
- August 23
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- New Dan Da Dan season 2 teaser reveals beloved Attack on Titan character as voice of Kinta as it marches on toward "chaotic" kaiju battle climax
- Peacemaker season 2 proves there's still something to say about the multiverse
- Fate of the Fellowship is the most anticipated board game of the year, and it's a thing of absolute genius
- Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 is not the faithful sequel I'd hoped to see, but maybe that's a bigger marker of progress than it seems
- Don't cry because The Order 1886 is over, smile because blasting werewolves with Nikola Tesla's high-tech weapons happened
- Former PlayStation boss says he greenlit Ratchet and Clank on PS4 despite Sony saying "no one wants to play that old game"
- Two years and one Assassin's Creed Shadows later, Ubisoft is giving AC Mirage a "surprise" free DLC after saying it was done with the game
- Valve's new Deadlock character places doors on walls to teleport across the map, and yes, it's also reminding me a bunch of Portal
- Peacemaker's Frank Grillo wants his old MCU character recast
- The Blood of Dawnwalker "isn’t that big" because its small team with Witcher 3 vets would rather prioritize "layers" and "didn't want to make an open world for, like, 400 hours"
- A Thunderbolts star has shared her hopes for a super-powered future in the MCU
- As a new 007 movie gets closer, one actor has taken himself out of the running in the funniest way: "A Texan should not play James Bond"
- The Office star Rainn Wilson wants to be James Gunn's Plastic Man in the DCU
- World of Warcraft design lead says the upcoming housing feature is a "challenge" for performance and accessibility because it's not "anything like existing zones and the kinds of content that we've had before"
- August 22
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- Marvel Rivals now lets you pet Jeff the Shark in an apparent attempt to make him look cute and not like the big dopey menace he'll be for the rest of his dumb life
- Daredevil drops in on Marvel's most skilled thief in Black Cat #2
- Star Wars: Visions season 3 returns for more anime this October with 9 new stories, including "something nobody's ever seen before" in the Star Wars franchise
- What is GAD in Madden 26?
- 35 years ago, the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie became a global phenomenon and the defining comic book movie of a generation with a shoestring budget and only weeks to shoot
- Ubisoft brings back one of its best ideas: The Division 2 Survivors mode in the works, promising "updated take" on survival extraction with "clear communication and community involvement"
- Dune: Awakening is a bit more “like a Dune survival RPG” than a full MMO, with multiplayer driving "that feeling of the universe being alive”
- New Stephen King sci-fi drama The Institute has been renewed for season 2 ahead of its season finale - and the author himself couldn't be happier
- Resident Evil Requiem monsters will throw furniture at you, which isn't even scary, it's rude
- Silksong is powerful, but a new foe emerges at Gamescom: over 70 million horny otome game players – "Today is truly a momentous day"
- Randy Pitchford says Borderlands 4 finally exists in a world where technology "caught up to the ambition of what our game is" and praises the '80s double-jump: "Where in the rules of physics can I leap into the air and, out of mid-air, jump again?"
- "One of those emails was an invitation from Sony": PlayStation's new Final Fantasy-style action RPG started with one dude screwing around with Unreal Engine 4 in 2014
- I love turn-based RPGs, but 20 minutes of Pokemon Legends: Z-A has convinced me that real-time combat could be the way forward for the series
- EA has had enough of the Battlefield 6 beta memes: welcome to the FPS's largest map in Battlefield Labs, which really is that big
- As scholars analyze every frame of Donkey Kong Bananza for lore implications, the game's director says "please enjoy it without thinking too deeply about it"
- Ex-Sony boss would consider bringing back PlayStation All-Stars as it's "important" for the brand, even if it didn't live up to Nintendo's Super Smash Bros
- World of Warcraft ends 21-year drought and adds housing with MMO's new Midnight expansion – but Blizzard has a good reason it took so long: "We couldn't just check off a box and do the minimum"
- I've just played 30 minutes of Pragmata, and if you ignore the piggybacking child, this is Capcom bringing its classic shooter formula to the very front
- Harley Quinn actor Margot Robbie reveals the Penguin was the original villain in Birds of Prey, until The Batman director Matt Reeves got involved: "'I'm gonna use him in my thing'"
- Konami veteran says the goal with Metal Gear Solid Delta was to let new devs "figure out" how to make a Metal Gear so they can eventually "carry on the legacy on our behalf"
- Forget Star Wars and Marvel, Disney is reportedly looking for fresh IPs that will lure a Gen Z male audience to the brand
- James Gunn clears up why one member of the Justice Gang is missing in Peacemaker season 2
- Studios behind new Sekiro anime adaptation confirm it's "fully hand-drawn" following accusations of AI use: "Fans can look forward to the same artistry and precision that defined the original game"
- Samsung is showing off its 3D monitor at Gamescom using the one game I'd feel weird playing in a room full of people
- "We want to stay true to Dune": After the dragon flamethrower ruffled some feathers, Dune: Awakening producer promises fans "you won't be running around in pink pool floaties"
- The Blood of Dawnwalker dev says comparisons to The Witcher 3 are inevitable, but it's OK because "we are not compared to a bad game" and "we are making our own kind of beasts"
- Acer has turned its obnoxiously loud gaming PC into a stealthy RTX 5080 assassin, but it doesn't come cheap
- The new Resident Evil Requiem gameplay reveal has left me with more questions than answers, so here are the 5 biggest mysteries I can't wait to solve
- 'Hide from Silksong' delays hit indie roguelike and Metroidvania, devs say "we like a gamble, but this one is too risky" while another fears "competing with a phenomenon of that scale"
- Fractal Design's Scape proves that an RGB gaming headset doesn't need to be all about style over substance
- Bandai Namco released a short clip of Elden Ring running on Switch 2, and if I was trying to make a reportedly terrible port look decent I'd also avoid all combat and large areas
- Metal Gear Solid Delta is so accurate that the guards will still give you secret codes for a PSP game you can't officially buy anymore
- New indie thriller Lurker is a tense, cautionary tale about celebrity obsession — and it made me question my own morale
- Infinity Nikki devs call their crossover with Stardew Valley "a free love letter" to the farming sim following ConcernedApe's statement that he does such collabs as "a fan," not for money
- I'm begging Ghost of Yotei to learn these 5 lessons from Assassin's Creed Shadows if it wants to become the open world Japan champion
- 1,679 days in, the strongest Silksong fan celebrates the release date after years of daily update videos with a fittingly dramatic speech: "Count that number and think about it"
- Peacemaker season 2 features a surprise cameo from DC boss James Gunn, but you'd have to be criminally online to know it
- Life sim RPG Discounty has put me under the same "one more day" spell as Stardew Valley as I build my supermarket empire and get caught up in the drama of the locals
- Is Hollow Knight Silksong on Game Pass for Xbox and PC
- This is the perfect cozy board game for Fall with its compelling mix of Redwall and city-building
- Battlefield 6 lead assures fans that upcoming movement and sliding changes "are far from drastic" as the FPS aims to be less Call of Duty and more of a "traditional Battlefield experience"
- Bubsy 4D is a 100% legit platformer for genre sickos like me thanks to the dev's surprisingly stacked portfolio of bangers
- Longlegs star Nicolas Cage is in talks to star in True Detective season 5, and fans are psyched: "Now we're f****** talking!"
- Netflix sensation KPop Demon Hunters could be going up (up up) all the way to the top spot at the box office, thanks to its singalong screenings
- "We hope you enjoy Peak for the next two weeks": Co-op comedy devs acknowledge the incoming Hollow Knight Silksong-shaped black hole in style
- Metal Gear Solid Delta contains a remake of a minigame not seen since the PS2 releases, with Metal Gear Rising developer Platinum Games taking charge of it
- After 42 years, someone has finally worked out a way to make a mini version of my favorite '80s console, and it involves an AMOLED screen
- Battlefield 6 beta changes are a mixed bag: Movement and shotgun nerfs are welcome, but Rush is staying small and open weapons remain the default
- Vocaloid fans are eating good, as a new Hatsune Miku headset has landed
- DC fans react to that major Peacemaker season 2 retcon: "A clever and surprisingly easy fix"
- Marvel Rivals dev denies using EOMM, explains that an Overwatch-like role queue won't work because the game's tank and support heroes aren't interesting enough
- Final Fantasy 14's premier mod for fashionistas and roleplayers "winding down" following a "legal enquiry," and the MMO's community is in shambles: "So many night club owners just dropped to their knees"
- During development, Hollow Knight devs kept costs low with leftover lunches at their tiny office, and then the game sold 15 million copies: “My dad would sometimes pop up and give me $20"
- Final Hell House LLC film is a horror disaster, with fans apparently walking out of a screening and a producer asking viewers not to leave bad reviews on Rotten Tomatoes
- The Mandalorian star Katee Sackhoff says playing Bo-Katan "broke" her: "I never identified with her. I didn't know how to find her"
- The 32 greatest female action movie characters of all time
- Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater review: "Little surprised me in this rigid remake, but it's still one of my favorite games of all time"
- Is Peacemaker season 2 in the DCU and is season 1 canon? Let's break down the HBO Max show's confusing place in James Gunn's DC universe
- Peacemaker season 2 reminds us that the DCU is a very different place to the MCU by breaking one of Kevin Feige's hard and fast rules in episode 1
- Justice League out, Justice Gang in: James Gunn breaks down Peacemaker season 2's big DCU retcon: "I just had to make it fit"
- DCU timeline: all DC movies and TV shows in chronological order
- When does Peacemaker season 2 take place in the DCU – and is it a sequel to Superman?
- Peacemaker season 2 Easter eggs – Every cameo and reference in episode 1 of the returning DC series
- Peacemaker's new opening credits was "the only thing" James Gunn was "nervous" about in season 2: "You can't one-up the first season"
- Peacemaker season 2 post-credits scenes: Does every episode have a post-credits scene?
- After 9 years, Escape From Tarkov finally, actually has a 1.0 release date, and it's only a few months away
- Devil May Cry season 2 trailer sees Dante face off against his not-dead brother, just like in the video games
- Splinter Cell: Deathwatch Netflix adaptation from John Wick writer gets first look trailer that's so full of moody anime spies, you might forget there hasn't been a new game in 12 years
- Netflix's Blue Eye Samurai returns for season 2 with an appropriately bloody, blade-clashing first look that teases the return of "some people maybe you thought died"
- August 21
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- As Stardew Valley fans reel from the farming sim juggernaut's Infinity Nikki crossover, Eric Barone says "I never receive any money from these collabs" and "I've only done them because I was a fan of the other games"
- HBO's hit medical drama The Pitt season 2 gets a tense and traumatic first teaser
- Atari aims to be "best in the world at retro games," CEO says, which is why it's put its money into keeping brilliant retro studios like Nightdive and Digital Eclipse from having to worry about making payroll
- Former Witcher 3 devs behind The Blood of Dawnwalker want the vampire RPG to set "a new standard" for the genre with a "hybrid" combat system influenced by Batman: Arkham Asylum, For Honor, and Kingdom Come: Deliverance
- Predator: Badlands director Dan Trachtenberg will contribute to a new Marvel Comics prequel story for the upcoming movie
- Bungie CEO Pete Parsons is out, new studio head steps up with Destiny 2 flailing, Marathon in limbo, and the eye of Sony burning
- The Hollow Knight: Silksong arc needs to be studied and remembered: a small team of happy devs were just "having fun" making their game, not burning out, while the internet imploded
- Indie devs' weirdly promising Bubsy 4D wouldn't exist if the clouds hadn't parted and blessed the Atari CEO with a revelation: "I was like, 'Is this a nationally known IP?'"
- 21 years later, remake of beloved JRPG classic Trails in the Sky gets first playable demo – it's 5-7 hours long, and fans say it's a certified banger: "Oh my god it's phenomenal"
- After 28 years as a legend among Mortal Kombat fans, "the holy grail of MK lost media" has been preserved and made playable for Legacy Kollection
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (August 22 - 24)
- 8 years since his Oscar-winning drama, Daniel Day-Lewis ends his retirement with an intense first trailer for a new supernatural horror featuring Game of Thrones and Walking Dead stars
- Premier fighting game tournament Evo has a new co-owner, but Sony's continuing to invest alongside Saudi Arabia's tourism project and WWE's parent company
- Fallout season 2 is giving the spotlight to Mr. House, and I can't wait to see this adaptation of the best villain from the series' most beloved game
- All Black Ops 7 rewards explained
- Record-breaking Battlefield 6 beta stats confirm two universal truths: the new revive system is great, and that shotgun was ridiculous
- "For five months there was one programmer fixing bugs": Valheim devs were not prepared for their Viking survival game's explosive success
- UK TV boss says Netflix hit Adolescence "wouldn't have happened" without Channel 4, as she accuses the streamer of being "TV tourists"
- The Blood of Dawnwalker lead says the new vampire RPG is a "more immersive game" with consequences – not like others where "you can do whatever you want for 80 hours and nothing happens"
- You probably saw it coming: Persona 5 announces its 107th gaming crossover, this time with an Overwatch 2 event that's sure to bring some sick cosmetics
- Dune: Awakening dev says the survival MMO's goofy new dragon flamethrower makes sense if you play the game, actually: "You'll (potentially) be more understanding of its place once you see the context"
- "There's no update" on Doctor Who's future, says BBC commissioners, but the sci-fi show will continue "with or without Disney"
- This tabletop RPG is shaping up to be a true D&D rival, and I can't wait to see where it goes next
- I'm relieved to see the Disco Elysium successor is just as strange and dark – I've had my fill of fantasy RPGs for the year
- Silksong devs tempt fate, tease "ambitious" DLC plans to add content to the long-awaited Metroidvania: "Hopefully we can achieve some of it"
- Bloodlines 2 devs rush to reattach foot blown off by day-one DLC paywalling 2 factions in an RPG about factions: "As you know, the date has pushed back, but that has been to fatten it out"
- Hollow Knight: Silksong devs never read YouTube or Reddit comments, but they're aware a community of increasingly desperate Silkposters is out there: "Feels like we’re going to ruin their fun by releasing the game"
- Palworld suddenly has Overwhelmingly Positive reviews on Steam after Valve introduces language-based scoring: "As always, we're so incredibly grateful"
- Silksong devs say there was no dev hell, only dev heaven: they've been quiet to avoid "bugging people," once thought it would be out in "a year or two," and "could have kept going" but also want to see this thing finished
- Black Ops 7 lead says FPS fans are "eating" thanks to the head-to-head release with Battlefield 6, "but if you want maximum variety..." play the new Call of Duty game
- Is Black Ops 7 on Game Pass?
- Sony's console is getting pricier, but this new PS5 headset is just $60
- James Gunn says he received "nightmare" notes that turned his Scooby Doo script from an R-rated, "more risque" comedy into a family movie: "Everything had to be adjusted to be for kids"
- OG Scream star Neve Campbell wants Scream 7 to "go back to" Wes Craven's original, and "find the suspense and really concentrate on scary and not bloody"
- "We feel it too" - Analogue's FPGA N64 just got delayed for a third time, but I'd argue it's still worth the wait
- Hollow Knight Silksong release date set for September, for real this time, ending a 6-year wait that's seen the Metroidvania fandom melt down into puddles of "Silksanity"
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 sicko beats the French RPG 33 times in New Game Plus, gets a run down to just 7 hours, and confirms "there's nothing new here – no hidden secrets"
- You've just moved into your new dorm room - here's how to tech out your desk setup
- Ex-CDPR dev behind The Witcher 3 says new vampire RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker is all about how players "shape their own way of play," just as "pen and paper refugees" did in tabletop games like D&D
- Thor star and The Marvels director's new Prime Video movie unveils its first trailer – and it looks like a deliciously queer mix of Saltburn and The Great Gatsby
- Resident Evil Requiem's new trailer makes a great case for Grace Ashcroft, not boring old Leon Kennedy, being the anxiety-riddled hero we need for the series' scariest entry yet
- I've tested more accessories than I can count, but this $30 Switch 2 case is never leaving my Nintendo handheld
- I've fallen out of love with Destiny, but this new tabletop RPG captures what I adored about it in the first place
- This open-world game where you're a 13th-century Mongolian horse courier immediately proved more hardcore than anything Death Stranding 2 could offer
- The design of Asus' previous controller made no sense, and the updated version revealed at Gamescom proves it
- Nier Automata’s infamously quirky creator Yoko Taro has been an enigma for years, and now the legendary RPG veteran is getting an entire book filled with interviews that are sure to be unmissable
- I thought Date Everything was a silly little romance game about flirting with PC desks, but it's actually the best representation of love I've seen in games
- Baldur's Gate 3 boss Swen Vincke shares the RPG love, predicts the long-awaited Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 "is going to be big"
- The Battlefield 6 beta may be over, but EA is still testing new customization options, weapons, and gadgets in Battlefield Labs ahead of October's launch
- A full-size Amiga 1200 remake is hiding out at Gamescom, and it could solve my retro microcomputer woes
- Anime fans are accusing Sekiro: No Defeat animation artists of using AI: "Oh that’s really bad"
- I just spotted the PS5 Slim for its cheaper price, but you need to be fast to grab one
- Infinity Nikki's "cozy" collab with Stardew Valley is so out of the blue that most of the open-world dress-up game's players didn't think it was real: "I seriously thought this was a troll post"
- Forza Horizon 6's Japan open world seems likelier than ever as a car import company mistakenly sheds some light on the Xbox sequel
- Even Ethan Hunt would be proud of the way Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning was streamed for free on YouTube – and it involves Morse code
- James Gunn reveals his philosophy to recasting in the DCU: "If an actor can't continue a role, I'll change the actor"
- Luke Skywalker was originally called Luke Starkiller, and Mark Hamill says he "hated" the name change
- Pokemon Legends Z-A's latest Mega evolution revealed in the most kid-friendly found-footage horror way imaginable, just pretend you didn't see that leak earlier
- Superman 2 may not officially be Superman 2, but James Gunn assures fans that the Man of Steel will still be "an important element" in the follow-up: "It's within the group of characters we've already met"
- Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle voice actors left in "tears" after watching the movie for the first time: "I felt like my heart was being crushed"
- One X-Men actor doesn't know who is in his Avengers: Doomsday scenes: "They even gave characters fake names"
- Metroid Prime 4 has been rated by the ESRB, sparking hopes Nintendo is announcing a release date soon
- August 20
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- Severance star Tramell Tillman is joining Tom Holland in Spider-Man: Brand New Day cast
- Gearbox's Randy Pitchford says Borderlands "ushered in a whole new genre" of looter shooters, and imitators get it wrong when they "twist it too far," unlike Gearbox: "We tend to commit to the bit"
- The Penguin showrunner says there won't be a season 2 till after The Batman 2, if ever: "The intention of our first season always was, we’re launching Oz into the second film"
- Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford says the game industry once expected a genre experiment like Borderlands to "die," but it actually became "one of the leading video game franchises in the world": "It's kind of humbling"
- Stalker meets SCP Foundation in Active Matter, a brand-new online shooter that blends gritty realism with spine-tingling sci-fi for an unforgettable FPS experience
- Hell Let Loose returns with a brand-new action-packed FPS set in Vietnam – this time featuring new warfare, weapons, and more
- Baby Reindeer creator's new series about an "explosion of violence" between a pair of estranged brothers gets a first look showing off the main characters
- The new vampire RPG from The Witcher 3 devs is slowly revealing its vampire powers, and it's starting to sound like the medieval Dishonored I didn't know I wanted until now
- "RTS will not be the big genre again," Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 4 lead predicts, but it can still be a big niche: "RTS won't kick shooters from the top of the food chain anytime soon, but that's fine, right?"
- BioShock 4 layoffs have reportedly hit over 80 people, delaying planned late 2026 or early 2027 release and extending 11 years of development hell
- Former Witcher 3 devs' new vampire RPG lets you go straight to the final boss just like in Breath of the Wild, but it's "extremely difficult"
- Seamlessly switch from crewing your ship to first-person exploration and combat in Jump Space
- Call of the Elder Gods gives us a first look at gameplay in a new trailer that showcases its puzzles – and eldritch creatures far beyond mortal logic
- A crow and a cabybara team up in this amazing adventure game, and to be honest I'm already sold
- Co-op survival horror game Dark Hours is getting a 1.0 launch this fall, but it's cosmic horror-themed Cruise Into Madness update is out now!
- There's something nasty lurking in deceptively cute foody hack-and-slash Town of Zoz, and suddenly my appetite has disappeared
- Spider-Verse filmmakers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller join forces with Batman writer Tom King for an Archie movie
- Check out a flaming hot mission tease for Firefighting Simulator: Ignite ahead of its gamescom reveal
- Son of Thanjai takes you to 11th century India to master the whip like Surulvaal sword, in an action-adventure about King Rajendra Chola
- This card battler has you beating the Devil at his own game, accompanied by the vocal talents of Baldur's Gate 3's Emma Gregory
- Anno 117: Pax Romana demo confirmed, giving you an early slice of "the premier builder game of 2025"
- Try to escape from under the watchful gaze of a colossal policeman in Militsioner
- Dungeon crawling RPG Fellowship sets its early access release date
- Survival game The Last Caretaker gets 2025 launch window and new trailer that highlights its peaceful loneliness
- Metroid and Ghostrunner combine in the electrifying new trailer for parkour FPS Metal Eden
- Dune: Awakening devs announce Chapter 2 update and Lost Harvest DLC, promise "no significant advantage" over people who don't buy as players worry goofy skin sickness has already started: "Dune doesn't need stupid skins like this"
- Help a weird jellyfish to navigate his marriage crisis in bizarre action-adventure NetherWorld
- Norse: Oath of Blood gets a new trailer showcasing BG3-style combat, base building, and a whole lot of axes
- The Berlin Apartment is a cozy narrative adventure that takes you through the last century, and it's out this November
- Hell Let Loose Vietnam "isn't just about the new theatre of war", creative director says, "we're introducing a bunch of new mechanics that really push the boundaries"
- Everything announced at the Future Games Show at Gamescom 2025
- Become purely and simply evil with the Halloween video game, unmasking in 2026
- Sci-fi action-adventure Pragmata shows off android companion Diana's hacking skills in combat
- Fight other players, monsters, and reality, in Active Matter's PvPvE extraction shooter, releasing on September 9th
- League of Legends, Overwatch 2 contributor announces a game of its own, an adorable survival-crafting adventure called Witchspire
- Peacemaker season 2: The comic history of Rick Flag, Sr., the secret agent who's out for Peacemaker's blood
- Phantom Blade Zero director crafts enormous boots for himself, suggesting his action RPG is a blend of Dark Souls, The Witcher 3, and Baldur's Gate 3
- This quirky roguelike JRPG brings some deck building to the Pokemon formula I didn't know I needed until now
- Despite being a Netflix release, Frankenstein stars Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi say seeing the upcoming horror movie in theaters would “be ideal”: "It'd be nice to have a communal experience"
- Lost Hellden channels talent from Final Fantasy XI, XII, Tactics and Valkyria Chronicles into its old school JRPG action
- Here's a look at the twisted Carnevale level in Little Nightmares 3 which looks like it might pack peak Little Nightmares creepiness
- Grab your VR headset and make the leap into cinematic action-adventure Reach
- Use past memories to develop your character and defeat enemies in the otherworldly Shape of Dreams
- Towa and the Guardians of the Sacred Tree is a Japanese spin on a Hades style roguelite and you can play a demo now!
- Bounty Star, the upcoming sci-fi western that's all about being a mechsuit cowboy, gets a new trailer and release date reveal
- Smash hit kickstarter open-world game Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori shows off the beauty of its Mongolian setting
- Get ready to blast off in Wild Blue, a reimagining of classic on-rail adventures from the '90s
- After more than 10 years, some of the biggest driving games ever made are coming to consoles
- Morsels is a cursed Pokemon roguelike for sewer-enjoyers, and it's out this November
- My favorite anime series gave us one of the best Alien homages ever, and Alien: Earth gave me the perfect excuse to revisit it
- Styx's stealth action goblin tricks get shown off in the first gameplay trailer for Styx: Blades of Greed
- Accept Death's invitation to team up and restore balance to shattered realms in Gods, Death & Reapers
- Sequel to Resident Evil and Alone in the Dark throwback Tormented Souls gets October release date
- Supermarket sim Discounty opens its doors tomorrow but not before teasing some strange stuff going on downtown
- One of my favorite recent roguelikes is finally getting a multiplayer mode, and I can't wait
- Fellowship is "all dungeons, all the time" – and you can play the RPG when it launches in Early Access in October
- Beautiful city-builder Town to City sets its early access release date, and it's very soon
- Bloober Team spills its guts on Cronos: The New Dawn's body horror, resource management and monster combat
- BPM: Bitcrushed pixelates the rhythmic rock-and-roll action of roguelike FPS BPM: Bullets Per Minute for another high tempo genre mashup
- One of our most-anticipated roguelikes is still on its way to 1.0, and it just dropped a massive update
- Join the housekeeping team and start uncovering a new mystery in Servant of the Lake
- High on Life 2 release date set for February, but you can watch 42 minutes of gameplay right now
- Channel the wrath of Ramsay in Pizza Bandit as you kill things for money to open a restaurant
- Fight for celestial glory with your animal spirit in roguelike action adventure 13Z: The Zodiac Trials
- Ever-moving tower defense rogue-lite Monsters Are Coming! Rock and Road gets a new release window and demo
- EverSiege: Untold Ages is a co-op rogue-like where the horde comes to you, and it's launching into early access later this year, but you can play it right now
- Gears of War: Judgement, Outriders dev's FPS survival game Lost Rift hits Early Access in September
- DarkSwitch is an eldritch survival city builder where you hold back the darkness at all costs
- BRB just crying over this adorable new trailer for a platformer about a boy and his adopted deer friend, called, you guessed it, Deer and Boy
- Peacemaker star John Cena says James Gunn "broke his rule" to bring him back to DC after planning to kill him off 4 years ago in The Suicide Squad: "That’s one hell of a day at the office"
- The new vampire RPG from The Witcher 3 devs promises "three layers of choices," but while that might "sound intimidating," there's actually still plenty of freedom
- Dark RPG Hell is Us teases what drives its story forward with a new trailer
- Resident Evil Requiem reveals a new enemy, channeling some serious Alien Isolation and Amnesia: The Bunker stalker energy
- Upcoming historical epic 1348 Ex Voto just got an ominous new reveal trailer, and I'm already getting KCD2 flashbacks
- Skate releases new gameplay footage and progress update, detailing verticality and parkour that's "light years ahead of where we were in the previous game"
- Rob vaults and hack minds with your squad in techno-thriller heist shooter Den of Wolves
- Upcoming JRPG Edge of Memories gets a new trailer, a new release window, and a masked villain who's clearly not going to hold back
- Hideo Kojima is very serious about the Death Stranding harmonica, but with only 1,000 units available worldwide I feel like I need to save my efforts for a Higgs guitar replica
- "The future of Hell Let Loose" is Vietnam, and you can play it next year
- "You have a dodge, people are like, 'Ah, that's a Soulslike'": Silent Hill f leads "disagree" melee combat makes it a Soulslike, say "the most authentic" way to play is story mode
- After Halo crossover reveal, Helldivers 2 director says Arrowhead learned from the Killzone collab and will "reprise it," find "how to reimburse players" so "everyone will have a chance to get the content"
- Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 has "been through a lot," Paradox says as fans revolt against day one DLC, which is "a way to get additional players in that have been asking for that content"
- When are the Black Ops 7 beta times and dates
- How to access the Black Ops 7 beta
- Donkey Kong Bananza's baffling default button settings were suggested by Shigeru Miyamoto himself
- DC fans have a theory about how Lex Luthor will escape prison after the events of Superman and well, they've convinced me
- If you're wondering how Call of Duty's Black Ops 7 trailer is going down, the top comment on YouTube by some way is "this actually made me pre-order Battlefield 6"
- The essential DC movies and shows to watch before Peacemaker season 2
- Following a drop in players, Sims 4 competitor inZOI snags "Very Positive" Steam reviews for its free Stardew Valley-esque expansion featuring island farming and more: "A step in the right direction!"
- Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford says "I think they could charge $200" for Borderlands 4, "you can't find a better value in the world for any type of entertainment," then adds: "I wish they'd give it away, because then everyone would play it"
- Some of Disco Elysium's best ideas are still around in Zero Parades, but the CRPG thriller has an almost impossible task ahead of it
- Asus has unveiled more Hatsune Miku PC tech at Gamescom, and my bank account is about to have an existential crisis
- Genius Legend of Zelda fan recreates the King of Red Lions from Wind Waker in real life using an "extremely old and slightly suspicious" boat that actually sails
- After a year in early access, The Rogue Prince of Persia finally hits 1.0 with a surprise shadow drop bringing the roguelike into Xbox Game Pass
- I still haven't forgiven Square Enix for this name, but the legitimately good strategy RPG Triangle Strategy just got a surprise launch on PS5 and Xbox Series X with a 30% discount
- Hollow Knight: Silksong's Nintendo Switch 2 performance is staggering, with a 120Hz TV Mode that lets you carve your way through Hollownest like a hot knife through butter
- All PS5 prices are going up $50 in the US starting tomorrow, Sony announces: "We continue to navigate a challenging economic environment"
- Angel Beats, Umamusume anime studio founder feels "sense of crisis" original anime may disappear amid "rapidly" rising costs: "Even if we all want to, we might forget how to make an original work"
- After the series riffed on Pokemon Go and Minecraft, former Dragon Quest producer says he left Square Enix after growing frustrated with "safe" spinoff proposals that were "copying others"
- I don't know which one of you sickos asked for a 750Hz OLED gaming monitor, but Asus now has you covered
- New Stephen King adaptation called "one of the year's best" movies, with "flawless" performances from Licorice Pizza and Alien: Romulus stars: "Left me visibly shocked"
- Final Fantasy 14 director hints the MMO and Final Fantasy 16 may come to Switch 2, as Square Enix had "positive" talks with Nintendo: "We are putting in our best efforts to ensure that this happens"
- James Gunn was blown away by John Cena's leap in acting ability in Peacemaker season 2: "This guy has gotten so much better over the past two years"
- The Blood of Dawnwalker lead say the medieval vampire RPG is a "narrative sandbox" with quests that "can be completed in any order, skipped entirely, or even never discovered at all"
- Microsoft's ROG Xbox Ally handhelds will officially arrive on October 16, but I really need to see a price
- Kirby Air Riders is available to pre-order, but the lack of bonuses has got me down
- Fortnite Boons: How to collect them
- Star Wars fans are reconsidering one of the least-watched Disney Plus spin-offs: "Exactly what I needed as an Andor counterweight"
- The way The Blood of Dawnwalker plays with time itself is making it one of my most anticipated RPGs of 2026, especially now that Rebel Wolves has changed how closely the camera sticks to your shoulder
- The 32 greatest Los Angeles movies of all time
- Zack Snyder is reteaming with Rebel Moon stars for 'passion project' he's been working on for almost 20 years
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 dev doesn't care about former Blizzard president calling the series "lazy" or saying it'll get "boot stomped" by Battlefield 6: "You just don't worry about it, right?"
- What are TMR thumbsticks?
- Stop us if you've heard this before, but a new Sims 4 update bringing long-awaited features has broken the game once more: "Bravo EA"
- Rogue One star Riz Ahmed says Tony Gilroy considered giving him a cameo in Andor season 2, but "it would've thrown all the timeline off": "Everyone gets a cameo apart from your old pal, Riz"
- Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight's website says it'll only have "seven playable characters" but I wouldn't worry just yet
- Horror fans are placing their bets on which movies they think will be parodied in Scary Movie 6, and many suggest Midsommar and Hereditary
- Resident Evil Requiem has third-person "exclusive animations" that turn protagonist Grace into a real horror movie final girl
- Fallout season 2's release changes makes me hopeful that we're finally moving away from Netflix-style all-at-once episode drops
- I played Resident Evil Requiem and kept shouting at the protagonist, but the fact that she’s a bit useless is kind of the point
- The most Lego Star Wars set ever has literally never been cheaper
- Gamescom Day 1 live coverage – all the news, interviews, and previews as they happen
- Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 4's four campaigns are all "bigger than the campaign in the first Dawn of War," and thanks to the RTS's branching missions you won't even see all of it in one run
- Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle's latest record-breaking achievement might be its most impressive yet – and almost guarantees a success at the US box office
- As Battlefield 6 keeps skins grounded, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 goes the other way by carrying over all of Black Ops 6's goofy skins as devs are still "figuring out" how to keep everyone happy
- James Gunn says companies like Luther Corp and Wayne Enterprises are "equally important" as Superman and co in the DCU: "They aren't evil corporations, they're just f****** amoral"
- James Gunn confirms what his behind-the-scenes role is at DC Studios, and it doesn't involve taking meetings about popcorn buckets: "My job here is truly as a creative force"
- Final Fantasy 14 fans can't get enough of the MMO's wonderfully simple instructions on how to access the Monster Hunter Wilds crossover's content: "Create a character, play roughly 600 hours"
- Sorry anime fans, new episodes may be arriving later this week as streamer Crunchyroll is having serious issues with its schedule
- JBL just unveiled new headsets at Gamescom, but I'm more interested in the new QuantumENGINE software that comes with them
- Hollow Knight Silksong hands-on: 2,379 days after its reveal I finally played the elusive Metroidvania, and it is absolutely worth the wait
- James Gunn says his DCU is less like the MCU and more like Game of Thrones and Star Wars: "We’re building a universe and then picking out little pieces of it"
- Help me, Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War 4 is so good I've been replaying the same mission for 3 hours and pestering its devs who have "been studying the blade and bolter"
- August 19
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- The Last of Us showrunner Craig Mazin says he avoids Reddit unless it's to find a good bow for his Oblivion: Remastered archer, and honestly, hell yeah
- Under the shadow of the $80 game controversy, Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 is technically only $60, it’ll cost you $90 for a Premium Edition with two more playable classes
- Dune: Awakening devs apologize for a lack of communication and say it's due to "state mandated" vacations, but now we have a new roadmap and 10-months worth of updates to look forward to
- "If the reception was negative, we'd just blame it on [Todd Howard]": Fallout executive producer jokes Bethesda boss was the perfect meat shield, showrunner says season 2's trip to New Vegas will see "some of our favorite locations from the game"
- Saw producer says his scrapped horror sequel would've started "30 seconds" after Saw 10 ended but was ultimately cancelled because of "inter-squabbling" between the studio and producers
- The Last of Us showrunner Craig Mazin says season 3 will be "longer than season 2," but will be "more on par" with season 1: "More bang for your buck"
- Dead Space creator says the devs put posters in EA toilets to fight for funding and get exec attention: "Whenever they went to the bathroom, they were seeing Dead Space"
- With "over one million" customization combos, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's second story DLC will turn the RPG into a city builder that looks like the Sims Medieval remake I'll never get
- Black Myth: Wukong dev announces new action RPG Black Myth: Zhong Kui, admits it's "little more than an empty folder at this stage" and it has "absolutely no idea" when it's coming out, then teases more Wukong to come
- The best part of Ghost of Tsushima is back: Sony confirms Ghost of Yotei Legends DLC is coming next year with 4 classes and new co-op missions
- New Bloober game trailer at Gamescom seems to include a secret Silent Hill 2 cameo, unless I'm as confused as James Sunderland
- Cult of the Lamb's new DLC is cooling us down in the snowy mountains after the roguelike's steamy "sex update" from last year
- Hades meets Wind Waker action-RPG sequel Moonlighter 2 gets October early access release date
- Monkey Island designer and point-and-click legend Ron Gilbert moving to the roguelike mines feels like my personal hell, but the trailer looks fun enough that I'm trying to keep an open mind
- The Outer Worlds 2 shows off its roster of companions and ruins the day of many a RPG fan by immediately saying "no, you can't sleep with them"
- I didn't dare to dream, but playing Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 has convinced me this gloomy RPG is still worth waiting for
- After 21 years and various delays, Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 finally gets a solid release date during Gamescom Opening Night Live
- Fallout season 2 trailer takes us to New Vegas, teases the Ghoul's tragic backstory, and sees Walton Goggins fight off a Deathclaw
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is gracing Nintendo Switch 2 with its presence next year
- Control 2 fans in shambles after mysterious, psychological Gamescom trailer is revealed to be an advertisement for more Gamescom: "Step on legos for eternity"
- The new CRPG from the Disco Elysium studio actually looks kind of cool, but after a biblically messy breakup with the original devs it's hard to get invested
- I guess we're riding Chocobos now: Monster Hunter Wilds and Final Fantasy 14 reveal huge crossover with some of the action RPG and MMO's best boss battles and characters changing games
- The best-worst Soulslike of 2023 is getting a sequel: Lords of the Fallen 2 announced for 2026, and it sure looks like an Epic exclusive on PC
- Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight is coming in 2026 and Matt Berry voicing Bane is something I never knew I needed
- Sekiro: No Defeat is the FromSoftware anime that's been rumored for years, and it's coming to Crunchyroll as a crimson-soaked trailer details "a tale of loyalty and blood"
- Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 4 – Everything we know about the new RTS game
- Geoff Keighley breaks straight through the bottom of the barrel, shows 30 seconds of Hollow Knight Silksong gameplay at Gamescom ONL before re-announcing the Team Cherry reveal we already knew about
- Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 4 is real, and the devs seem keen to wash the bad taste of the last RTS out of everyone's mouths "with classic Dawn of War gameplay"
- Yes, those leaks were true: Black Ops 7 is out this November, it's still coming to PS4 and Xbox One, and there's an open beta right around the corner
- Black Ops 7 is fighting franchise fatigue in the most unexpected of ways with an ambitious co-op adventure which Treyarch believes can "redefine what campaign can be in Call of Duty"
- The Ghostrunner devs have cooked up a first-person Soulslike that looks like BioShock meets Bloodborne, and oh yeah, it's set in fictional 19th century Europe during the Napoleonic Wars
- They let me play as a radical frog wizard in a roguelike fusion of Golden Axe and Capcom's classic D&D brawlers, and suddenly its October launch is even more exciting
- You know and hated Bubsy 3D, now get ready for Bubsy 4D from Atari: a bit of '90s "platforming purrfection" that might signal the End Times
- I spent 2 hours making every wrong decision I possibly could in Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes, and as my fleet burns around me I'm never going to figure out who the Cylon was
- Sony just unveiled a full PC Inzone suite at Gamescom, including its first ever keyboard and mouse duo
- Dying Light 2 has removed stamina use from the game's parkour, and I'm just wondering why this wasn't the case all along
- 2K lays off unspecified number of BioShock 4 devs, brings in ex-Diablo boss Rod Fergusson 12 years after he helped save BioShock Infinite to show its "commitment to deliver the best game in franchise history"
- It may seem strange to some that Gears of War will be on PS5 this month, but the game's OG designer is "thrilled that more people are going to get to experience a big part of my legacy"
- A Netflix thriller starring Fantastic Four's Vanessa Kirby has stormed up the charts, and viewers are praising her performance as "perfection"
- Scream 7 star Jasmin Savoy Brown hopes the horror franchise's Core Four are reunited on screen someday "even if it's 20 years from now"
- Black Widow star Ray Winstone says "all of" his scenes had to be reshot, and he wanted to be recast rather than film them again: "I'm not doing it now. I've done it"
- I don't know how you re-release a PS3 JRPG in 2025 and make it run worse, but at least on non-Nintendo platforms I'm still happy to see one of my all-time favorites get a remaster
- This Lego Animal Crossing set may be "solid and functional," but one thing took me by surprise
- Razer finally launched the hauntingly cool Gengar headset in the US, but where's the rest of it?
- Beyerdynamic just added two new headsets to its MMX lineup, and I'm so glad they're wireless
- I've been testing this $40 PowerA Advantage Nintendo Switch 2 Controller, here's what you actually lose compared to the Pro
- It's happening: a Hollow Knight: Silksong "Special Announcement" is coming this Thursday from Team Cherry
- A spooky new Pokemon Legends Z-A video has been teased, and it looks like a Blair Witch Project-inspired nightmare
- Everything in the Helldivers 2 Halo Warbond and is it worth it?
- Nintendo confirms Kirby Air Riders is out in November, and it's only $70, leaving no question which Switch 2 racer is better
- An official GTA 6 police car that "was 3D scanned directly" by Rockstar Games has been put up for auction, with a current bid of just $3,250
- This popular Lego Star Wars set just got a rare discount, and it's almost never this cheap
- Kirby Air Riders director Masahiro Sakurai says those who haven't already played the GameCube racer might ask themselves "if it's basically Mario Kart," and, uh, yeah, "it basically is like Mario Kart"
- The Penguin star Colin Farrell gambles his life away in the first trailer for Netflix's Ballad of a Small Player
- Everything announced at Gamescom Opening Night Live 2025
- Peacemaker season 2 release schedule: when is episode 3 on HBO Max?
- Helldivers 2's Halo: ODST crossover is also its first Legendary Warbond, focusing on stealth "for the first time" and adding 4 guns, 2 armor sets, a new armor passive, and cosmetics
- Mashiro Sakurai says he's making Kirby Air Riders because, well, Nintendo asked him to while he was working on Smash Bros. DLC, ending speculation it was his own doing
- 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple director reveals the biggest difference between shooting the zombie horror sequel and making The Marvels and Candyman: "You don't really have to change it, although I did..."
- GuliKit just launched a TMR controller for Switch 2 that costs less than $30
- Jurassic World Evolution 3 is adding hot air balloons, and I can't imagine a worse place to be when my pteranodons break containment
- Nintendo fans rejoice - even during price hikes, these Switch 2 games have never been cheaper
- Ben Stiller won't direct any episodes of Severance season 3, but he says he's "not going anywhere": "I feel like season 3 is going to be the best yet as we continue to evolve"
- Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin was confronted over not finishing The Winds of Winter at a convention, and fans are rallying behind the author
- The re-release of this critically-acclaimed Godzilla movie just grossed more than its entire original domestic box office run in only one weekend
- Hollow Knight Silksong hopefuls spiral as Gamescom Opening Night Live host Geoff Keighley asks "first time?" while dressed as a clown: "DAMN YOU, GEOFFFFF"
- Despite Superman now being available on digital, James Gunn says you don’t have to watch it before Peacemaker season 2 because the series will "explain everything"
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 ad goes live early, showcasing stompy mechs, Goliath foes, and yet another November release date
- Fantastic Four's Vanessa Kirby has been researching near-death experiences to help get into character for Avengers: Doomsday
- The Acolyte star hopes the scrapped Star Wars show one day "finds new life" like the prequels
- Blade is finally making his MCU debut in Marvel Zombies, but the character won't be voiced by Mahershala Ali
- Ed Helms recalls seven-day working weeks while simultaneously filming The Office and The Hangover: "I was drinking six Red Bulls a day or something to get through it"
- It's pooch vs poltergeist in the first trailer for unique new horror movie Good Boy – and it's already clear why the film has a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score
- James Gunn reveals an alternate ending for Peacemaker season 1, and it involved killing off a major character
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- New Deadlock update adds six heroes and more to Valve's MOBA shooter, a mere month after the Steam dev said a patch "won't be coming for some time" to the limited-access game
- After years of silence, DC boss James Gunn teases DCU's gaming plans: "[There's] one thing in particular I'm excited about, but it does take time"
- Marvel fans are discussing an overlooked MCU show that's coming soon, and it just highlights the bloat: "Lol I keep forgetting about it"
- One of Netflix's biggest 2025 hits with a great Rotten Tomatoes score has been renewed for season 2, and fans are thrilled
- August 18
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- Marvel Rivals devs are allowed to make their own original characters, NetEase threatens: "Stay tuned"
- Capcom has good news and bad news: it's aware Monster Hunter Wilds kinda sucks on PC and has "a multifaceted plan" to fix it with CPU and GPU optimizations, but it's targeting "this winter"
- The Walking Dead creator explains the creative process that led him to chart new territory in an alien fantasy epic: "I was trying to get out of the way as much as possible"
- What is wrong with Monster Hunter Wilds? Another debate burns besides difficulty and PC performance: has Capcom removed too much of the classic charm?
- Final Fantasy 10 and Kingdom Hearts writer Kazushige Nojima is "delighted" to learn his games have made you all cry: "There's nothing more joyful"
- Valve founder Gabe Newell is doing billionaire things again with the $300 million purchase of a ship the size of an NFL football field designed to explore the deepest parts of the ocean
- Valve makes major change to Steam user reviews with new "language-specific" scores enabled by default – which could explain or minimize review bombs
- "This dude’s gonna single-handedly delay GTA 6 for several years": Bold truth seeker asks if GTA 5 street signs are actually legal, commissions a mod that corrects Rockstar's many mistakes
- The Conjuring: Last Rites popcorn bucket features everyone's favorite haunted doll – and I don’t want that thing in my house
- Longlegs director's new psychedelic horror movie traps She-Hulk star in a cabin with her husband and a load of dark secrets
- Spider-Man swings into the winter holidays with a one-shot that teams him up with the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, and more
- "Quite often, and which felt very Zelda side-questy, we just have Japanese people who are so welcoming and surprised to see you": How finding The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild locations in real life led fans up and down Japan for 2 years
- GTA 5 sleuth finally has an explanation for this 12-year-old Easter egg, and it turns out it has roots in a GTA 4 urban myth
- One of the best JRPGs ever may have its remaster unveiled tomorrow as Bandai Namco prepares an official announcement following months of speculation and a supposed leak
- Battlefield 6 dataminers uncover launch map that's nearly four times larger than Siege of Cairo, days after beta players kept clowning on Dice for saying "large maps exist"
- As Anthem faces shutdown amid Stop Killing Games movement, producer says maybe we want to "sacrifice some things in order to get it so that games don't just vanish one day"
- I'm not normally a fan of crossovers, but this horror board game is the perfect fit for IT
- More "Japanese companies seem to realize the value" of releasing old games without DRM, GOG staff say, so top "Dreamlist" game Final Fantasy 7 might actually, eventually happen
- The best new shows and movies streaming this week on Netflix, Prime Video, HBO Max, and more
- James Gunn says Peacemaker season 2's alternate dimension is "not a multiverse" and will be used "much differently" to other superhero properties
- Lanterns release date speculation, cast, plot, and everything else we know about the new DCU TV show
- Battlefield 6 lead responds to complaint it's "not how Battlefield should be," says "I'd urge everyone to go and play some smaller/medium map BF3 and BF4" to get a feel for "the intensity curve"
- This D&D-style board game "pairs gentle strategic fun with tempting press-your-luck mechanics" for a very good time
- Coral Island shows pulling off Stardew Valley's multiplayer isn't easy, as the farm sim's devs "sincerely apologize" for the single-player bugs and other issues that crept into its latest update
- James Gunn clears up one small detail in Superman and explains why Clark Kent doesn't have the same accent as his parents
- Pokemon Scarlet and Violet may be getting replaced in VGC tournaments, but the notoriously buggy RPGs had one last, hilarious glitch left for their final World Championships
- Sword of the Sea review: "Joyous, fluid hoverboarding connects together everything I loved about Journey and The Pathless"
- DC fans have ideas about how they want Batman introduced in the DCU, and James Gunn should take some notes
- Years after a terrible launch, Dice loads Battlefield 2042 onto the BF6 hype train, revealing "Road to Battlefield 6" update reviving fan-favorite BF5 map Iwo Jima
- Yeah, Elden Ring Nightreign's new giga-boss Everdark Libra is 100% getting nerfed, and if FromSoftware doesn't do it soon I'll delete my best relic
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 leaves CD Projekt Red co-CEO "absolutely blown away," even if he has "sadly" not beaten the French JRPG's toughest challenge
- After Vincent D'Onofrio debunked the rumor, Charlie Cox himself says that he "does not believe" that Daredevil: Born Again season 2 will be the show's last
- Assassin's Creed Shadows beats Mario Kart World and Elden Ring Nightreign to be the top-selling 2025 game in Europe this year, but EA Sports FC 25 has still managed to sell more
- Pokemon voice actor Tomo Sakurai, who voiced Cynthia for 15 years, dies aged 53
- Reddit reckons Logitech has the top gaming mouse, but I've been testing a rodent that could knock the Superlight off its throne
- Pokemon Legends Z-A has made me realize what I miss about the series, and it's up to Gen 10 to fix it
- How to watch The Future Games Show at gamescom 2025 – and what to expect
- Nintendo confirms a Kirby Air Riders Nintendo Direct is coming tomorrow and it's going to have 45 minutes of new info on the Switch 2 racer
- My gaming headset needed a simple ear cushion replacement, but SteelSeries broke my brain with color options instead
- Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto spent an entire New Super Mario Bros. Wii test demo just sliding around with the Penguin power-up, former Nintendo marketing leads recall: "That's all he was doing"
- Pokemon Stadium-like battling game Pokemon Champions is "free-to start," but a "paid digital version" is coming to Switch 2 and OG Switch too
- The original Final Fantasy launched with a game-breaking bug that Square noticed too late to fix, so devs had to slip a warning into 500,000 copies of the JRPG: "Do not delete this..."
- Weapons creator Zach Cregger says Dune director’s hit thriller Prisoners starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Hugh Jackman served as a huge inspiration for the horror movie
- Quentin Tarantino has plenty of new opinions on his filmography, but there's only one he considers his "masterpiece"
- Pokemon Champions is replacing Scarlet and Violet as the new place for official VGC tournaments, with devs calling the spiritual Stadium successor "the one-stop shop for everyone interested in Pokemon battles"
- League of Legends leadership just got a crash course in horniness when "someone started explaining what 'gooning' meant: "I shouldn't tell you this"
- This shadow is the first 'look' we have of WWE champion Cody Rhodes as Guile in the Street Fighter movie and, yes, the haircut is on point
- "I think it should be left alone": Home Alone director on why a reboot would be a "mistake"
- Gandalf and Frodo are returning in the new Lord of the Rings film according to Ian McKellen: "Apart from that, my lips are sealed!"
- Mole Man actor gives Fantastic Four a 3.5 star rating: "I wish they hadn't cut my scene with Vanessa Kirby, but I'm stoked that I got to be in a Marvel movie"
- A DC fan predicted James Gunn's exact Superman and Lois casting 1,721 days ago, because sometimes even mere mortals have the gift of prophecy
- The Pokemon Company confirms that you've probably been pronouncing one legendary Pokemon's name wrong for 20 years
- EA reportedly has big plans beyond Battlefield 6, wants to take on Call of Duty with a yearly release but it'll be "five or six years before we get two-in-a-row"
- Pokemon Legends: Z-A introduces chaotic 4-player battles that play out in real time, making up for Legends: Arceus ditching multiplayer fights entirely
- The Avengers: Doomsday cast just got even more chaotic, as it turns out Ryan Reynolds might not show up as Deadpool after all
- Nightcrawler actor says it was "really healing" to return as his X-Men character after "terrible experience" the first time he played the role
- Sorry, Studio Ghibli: Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle is now the highest-rated original anime movie of all time on IMDb
- Want the best gaming on the go? Why Samsung Galaxy Phones are your best option for mobile gaming
- August 17
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- The First Descendant's under fire for using uncanny AI ads claiming it's "the world's most popular shooter RPG," and at least one of them seems to imitate an actual streamer
- Superman star Terence Stamp has died at age 87
- The new Star Wars Lego sets for August are some of this year's best kits from a galaxy far, far away
- Everything in the world must be converted into a roguelike, and not even chess is safe with a new game "that changes all the rules"
- Former PlayStation boss says "the impact of AI on gaming" is basically the same "as the impact of Excel on certified public accountants" as "you still had to have enough knowledge"
- "READ IF YOU'RE AT EPIC": Fortnite player takes matters into their own hands, writes out bug fixes for over 350 problems "for the developers of OG"
- Battlefield 6 multiplayer is taking inspiration from Bad Company 2, but I hope its single player campaign looks further back to the series' best story
- Simon Kinberg cites Andor as his inspiration for the new Star Wars trilogy
- In the run up to Spider-Man 4, Marvel fans are discussing the best Spidey moments in the MCU: "One of the best moments in superhero history"
- Emma Stone says Amazing Spider-Man press tours made her feel "truly psychotic the entire time"
- Game of Thrones' Sophie Turner describes kissing former co-star Kit Harington for new horror as "another really bad moment in my career”
- August 16
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- World of Warcraft fans don't appreciate having to complete 19 quests about bees, for some reason: "I thought for sure I was done and then I'd get another quest to photograph 10 bees"
- After 16 years, Jason Voorhees' official comeback is either a soulless hard cider commercial or the setup for the goriest, most experimental Friday the 13th to date, and I can't decide which it is
- The new D&D Stranger Things crossover is all about continuing "Eddie's legacy" with max '80s "faux-stalgia"
- Madden 26 best playbooks for elite offense and defense
- Ex PlayStation boss says "we've plateaued" on gaming tech, so hardware companies could at the very least make it all "cheaper and simpler"
- Baldur's Gate 3 performance director praises Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 for being a "beautiful" RPG "that 100% knows what it is"
- Revenge of the Savage Planet dev says "if just the people who have already wishlisted" the game buy it in the next month, "you would get more DLC"
- As if playing Astarion in Baldur's Gate 3 wasn't enough, Neil Newbon's latest performance in Dead Take is the best acting I've seen in gaming
- Battlefield 6 beta's real hero was one streamer who ran around rubbing his evil hands together and gleefully defibbing entire lobbies
- Scary Movie stars Regina Hall and Anna Faris set to reunite for new sequel
- Masters of the Universe adds Bridesmaids' Kristen Wiig as Roboto
- Quentin Tarantino is happy with David Fincher taking on Once Upon A Time In Hollywood spin-off
- Deadpool confirmed to join Avengers: Doomsday
- August 15
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- Japanese gamers vote Final Fantasy 10 the most tear jerking JRPG of all time, but it seems the emotional appeal of Western indies like Undertale and Omori is universal
- James Gunn says he's keeping the last three Peacemaker season 2 episodes "close to the chest" so they don't get spoiled early: "I won't even let my publicist see them"
- Assassin's Creed 3 director says Ubisoft put "a lot of pressure" on devs to "add play time" and "bulk" out games with RPG elements "to delay resale as GameStop was the only one making any money on that transaction"
- Ex PlayStation boss believes developers are tired of "doing the same thing for so long" and welcomes a new era of "AA gaming, with a wide variety of content and games" like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Battlefield 6 players' complaints about UI are sinking in as devs promise main menu will be "constantly tweaked and refined," plus bigger maps than the beta will definitely arrive at launch
- "The biggest competitor to Grand Theft Auto 6 will be Grand Theft Auto 5," says industry analyst, because AAA is struggling against the live-service behemoths it created years ago
- The Jason Bourne franchise will remain at Universal "in perpetuity," with plans to expand it into an entire "universe"
- Peacemaker season 2 debuts to 100% on Rotten Tomatoes with critics calling it a "standout in superhero television" and "blood-spattering, bone-crunching fun"
- Ubisoft vets releasing free demo for Metroidvania couch co-op Revenge of the Savage Planet because "we know that money is tight," and they hope you'll say "this 4 years of effort and 30 people" that made the full game "is worth 2 lattes"
- Former PlayStation boss is convinced more console generations will come, but doesn't know if Microsoft will be part of them: "Watching what Xbox has been doing recently, I do get Dreamcast flashbacks"
- Fan of Steam's latest gacha craze Umamusume: Pretty Derby sacrifices brand new fridge to his sociopathic horse girl who's only winning third place: "She's a late bloomer"
- A KPop Demon Hunters sequel could be on the way as Sony is reportedly in negotiations with directors of the hit Netflix movie
- The Walking Dead star rents his basement out to Willem Dafoe and comes to seriously regret it in intense trailer for new horror movie
- Palworld might be making another play for Pokemon's crown, snapping up shares in a Japanese card game publisher while Nintendo's lawsuit rumbles on in the background
- These top 5 Dragon Ball gaming accessories have me questioning if my setup needs to have a makeover of Super Saiyan proportions
- Mysterious Black Myth: Wukong tease has fans of the action RPG hoping for a DLC reveal at Gamescom next week
- Baldur's Gate 3 Shadowheart actor "didn't want" to record 1 of the RPG's most iconic lines at first "because I'm avoidant," but "just like God's favorite princess, I did it in my own time"
- Denzel Washington says he's "not that interested in Oscars," despite winning 2: "On my last day, it ain’t going to do me a bit of good"
- Peacemaker season 2 review: "Darker and sadder than the first year, but there's still a lot of fun to be had with the 11th Street Kids."
- As cult classic GameCube release Chibi-Robo finally makes its way to Switch 2, co-director says he made the platformer "while imagining a 'Zelda but without the battles'"
- Monster Hunter Wilds 1.021 is already getting a second hotfix just days after launch, as Capcom confirms that stealth Long Sword nerf was accidental
- All the Madden 26 X-Factors and Superstars in one guide
- Minecraft "is actually a hardcore action RPG in disguise," says former Path of Exile co-creator, "more hardcore than even Path of Exile," in fact, because there's lava
- Fallout: New Vegas fans don't have a remake, but they have claimed Goodsprings, Nevada, on viral app of the moment Wplace: "Everyone liked that"
- 8 months after it was pulled from Paramount's 2025 theatrical slate, Dakota Johnson's mysterious new horror movie confirms surprise streaming release
- Mafia: The Old Country's divisive linearity is telling me everything I need to know about action-adventure games in 2025, and it all comes back to Indiana Jones
- Ice Cube swaps fighting aliens with the power of Amazon Prime in War of the Worlds for processing Minecraft insurance claims in bizarre new commercial
- Metal Gear Solid Snake actor says "there's no way" Konami can replicate Hideo Kojima's style, but don't write off another series entry yet: "Will it be the same? No; Could it be amazing? Sure"
- It's the 30th anniversary of Warhammer Quest, and there's never been a better time for a nostalgic reissue of the beloved dungeon crawler
- After working on an indie between Cyberpunk 2077 and a new vampire RPG from The Witcher 3 leads, veteran writer says indies have more "constraints" than AAA, but that makes them even more "original and unique"
- Skyrim modder says to hell with it, goes full Mirror's Edge by giving Bethesda's RPG an impressive new parkour system that has convinced me to do yet another stealth archer playthrough
- The best Madden 26 sliders and how to use them
- Former FPS pro Shroud says he didn't truly appreciate how good Battlefield 6's beta was until he returned to Battlefield 2042: "Either 2042 is that bad or 6 is that good"
- Nearly 30 years after its release, Princess Mononoke is headed back to theaters – and it’s still a timeless, heartbreaking classic
- Oblivion Remastered wizard concocts chaotic "Pegasus spell," admits he might have taken it "a little too far" after making his horse fly across Cyrodiil at lightning speed
- Supergirl director opens up on DCU boss James Gunn's open-minded approach to revamped cinematic universe: "Each movie is its own graphic novel"
- CrisisX is a zombie survival-crafting game with serious PvP chops and an eye for immersion – and it just shot to the top of my wishlist
- Forget Elden Ring Nightreign or Expedition 33, the toughest boss fight I've faced this year is a slippery rock face on an empty stomach
- What is Battlefield 6 Secure Boot and how to enable it
- The new Warhammer 40K Kill Team box set shakes things up with an Indiana Jones-style dungeon delve
- Metal Gear Solid Delta producer views the remake as "both" a companion and a replacement to the OG Snake Eater, but Konami "would like to leave that decision up to the players themselves"
- Pokemon Legends: Z-A hands-on: With overhauled battles and denser exploration, I'm shocked at how fundamentally fresh this could feel
- The incredible broadcast-quality mic on the G522 has changed the way I look at Logitech PC headsets
- I've been a diehard Lego nerd for years, but even I'm turned off by the new Death Star's rumored $1K price
- New Spider-Man 4 set photos reveal the big-screen debut of the Punisher's iconic Battle Van
- New fairy-filled horror movie with Black Mirror and Monkey Man stars looks like an outdoorsy take on The Innkeepers – and I couldn't be more in
- Battlefield 6 fans won't stop dunking on the beta's teeny tiny maps, especially after Dice's lead producer promised them that "large maps exist"
- "There's got to be a game in here somewhere": How Felt That: Boxing quietly became one of the most innovative games in development
- Baldur's Gate 3 Shadowheart actor says she "would respec" the Trickery Domain Cleric companion while playing the RPG "personally," as she just "ain't that"
- Now we understand why upcoming superhero horror movie The Toxic Avenger is rated R for "p*ss play" as new graphic image gets leaked online
- Madden 26 best teams list and all team ratings
- Five years later, I can't believe Nintendo's Game & Watch tribute handhelds are available to buy new, and I still use one to spontaneously play Link's Awakening
- Blizzard pumps the breaks on eating Marvel Rivals' lunch with attractive Overwatch 2 heroes, says the team still "loves oddballs" like Bastion and Winston
- Cal Kestis is finally appearing outside of the Star Wars Jedi games in an unexpected way
- It's no Dune sandworm, but Demon Slayer is getting in on the popcorn fun with this Infinity Castle bucket
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 release date reportedly leaks, and it looks like the FPS is the latest to escape Microsoft's $80 price hike
- "We will for sure lose money": League of Legends developer is finally cracking down on account boosting after 15 years, even at the cost of the game's revenue
- The Duffer Brothers might be leaving Netflix for Paramount Plus, and we're worried about what that means for the Stranger Things spin-offs
- Crunchyroll is set to livestream the entirety of Demon Slayer for free on YouTube ahead of new movie Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle
- Battlefield 6's second open beta has only been live for 24 hours, but EA is already rolling out the Rush changes after fans said it felt like "an utter clusterf**k"
- Solo director Ron Howard shares the one piece of advice George Lucas gave him about making a Star Wars movie: "Don't forget – it's for 12-year-old boys"
- Kirby Air Riders is still slated for 2025 on Switch 2 despite no gameplay footage, but game director Masahiro Sakurai says we'll probably see some "soon"
- Animal Crossing co-creator and longtime Mario Kart programmer are the leads behind the Nintendo Switch 2's newest exclusive, a Rocket League-esque basketball game
- New Elden Ring Nightreign Everdark boss is all about balance, so it only seems right the Soulslike community is perfectly split on the fight: "This is what he would've wanted"
- Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle is releasing early in the US, but with a catch – and it involves the highest tiers of Crunchyroll subscriptions
- James Gunn says Superman is releasing on digital after just 1 month in theaters because he thought Peacemaker season 2 was originally releasing in September: "There was a lot of things that are beyond our control"
- GTA San Andreas tech lead busts a widely believed myth, says the "Suicidal Pedestrians" are simply unaware of the water between them and their destination
- My favorite Warhammer game just teased the return of a fan-favorite, and they're going up against an iconic 40K foe
- The 32 greatest movie trilogies of all time
- August 14
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- Uncharted 4 and The Last of Us 2 dev's new Japan-based studio aims to make a multiplayer game with Naughty Dog-level cinematic action and a Breaking Bad-style story, and it's already playable
- One of Marvel's most anticipated new shows gets an earlier release date as Marvel Zombies will gnaw its way onto Disney Plus sooner than expected
- Harley Quinn has a hot dog eating "showdown" with the Hulk, Laura Kinney Wolverine meets Nightwing, legendary writer Grant Morrison returns to the Caped Crusader, and more in DC and Marvel's Batman/Deadpool crossover
- These indie devs gave their co-op roguelite away for free for 24 hours – 2 million people claimed it, and now it's relaunched at $5 with the backing of the Deep Rock Galactic studio
- First look at The Boys spin-off Vought Rising set in the 1950s shows us a side of Soldier Boy we've never seen before
- "Of all the problems to have in the world, too many players is one of the best": The 2025 summer MMO migration was huge for WoW players, and for Old School RuneScape devs
- "They say that, in space, no one can hear you scream": Devs of hit space sim Hardspace Shipbreaker "reacquire full ownership" of the series, announce "multiple" follow-ups in development
- "He's the greatest superhero you've never heard of," with a rogues gallery "right up there with Batman or Spider-Man": Dynamite's smash hit Space Ghost comic gets new volume that takes the '60s hero to a new level
- With censorship swirling, devs of polarizing anime RPG Blue Archive say Steam delay "was unrelated to the game's content" and there were "no modifications or censorship of the content specifically for Steam approval"
- After 50 hours and over 3,000 attempts, Mario Kart speedrunner proves a "humanly impossible" trick is actually doable, and absolutely destroys a 2-year-old world record in the process
- If you wish Baldur's Gate 3 had more ghoulish dungeons and old school D&D vibes, this cosmic horror RPG might be the one: "Did I just see a Rust Monster in a modern game?"
- First look at Fallout season 2 teases a long walk to New Vegas and reveals December 2025 release date
- They'll do anything but make Titanfall 3: Respawn adds wall-running to Apex Legends for its next limited time event
- This D&D board game could be the magic item needed to refresh your game nights, but it won't be a critical hit for everyone
- I dove deep into Steam's 4X Fest, and these are the six best games on discount you should grab before the sale is over
- Bizarre Wuchang: Fallen Feathers patch un-murders historical Chinese characters in massive retcon, makes the game way easier, and breaks a whole chapter: "Faint from exhaustion? Are they Pokemon?"
- Neon Genesis Evangelion animator's debut film combines Studio Ghibli whimsy with fairy-tale timelessness, and I hope this is the future of anime
- Mass layoffs, studio closures, and the live-service graveyard are no match for the legally distinct Nightmare Kart arcade cabinet
- Ex-DayZ boss says survival games should give players as much power as developers and "expose damn near every single variable" they can mod: "Expose as much as possible"
- I've spent 32 years dreaming of a game that looks like Jurassic Park: Survival, and this slice of pre-alpha footage and the devs' work on Space Marine 2 have me more hopeful than ever
- Borderlands 4 designer points to Baldur's Gate 3 as an RPG inspiration for Gearbox's new and improved buildcrafting: "I want to hit the end game and be doing billions of damage"
- Metal Gear Solid's OG Snake voice actor finally told himself to "stop being a baby" and play The Phantom Pain after he was recast, and now thinks it has "my favorite gameplay of the series"
- Chainsaw Man movie unveils its killer ending song with sneak peek, as it confirms involvement of Kingdom Hearts legend Hikaru Utada
- Battlefield 6's second open beta weekend is off to a poor start, with players saying the return of Rush is so bad "it's like [EA] never played it"
- Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies gives hilariously cryptic response when asked about the sci-fi show's future: "Behave!"
- Coral Island is the best farming game I've played since Stardew Valley with over 300 hours so far, but a new update adding multiplayer and more romance means I'm not done with the cozy gem just yet
- People didn't like the face plate on Corsair's Nautilus liquid cooler, so now there's a fancy LCD screen upgrade instead
- Leonardo DiCaprio says there is only one movie of his that he will rewatch, and reveals his biggest career regret
- Razer brings low-profile mechanical switches to the BlackWidow line for "maximum battlestation impact"
- Star Wars: Starfighter release date, cast, plot, and more news
- As Mario Kart World and The Outer Worlds 2 grapple with $80 price tags, the much-expanded PowerWash Simulator 2 sticks with the original's price: "Clean out the dirt, not your wallet"
- If "good is the new bad" in games, flawed experiments won't have time to grow into future GOTYs
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure director breaks Steel Ball Run silence in typically bizarre fashion: "I want an Emmy Award for Best Sound. What should I do?"
- Doctor Strange 2 star's confusing response to Avengers: Doomsday questions has Marvel fans thinking they're in the movie
- Indie devs in shambles but "still laughing" after translation error turns their dungeon roguelite into "Crap Dungeon" on Steam: "Please give our game a try, I'm hoping it's not actually crap"
- Monster Hunter Wilds' new update splits the community like never before: performance issues remain, and now difficulty complaints are back with some players saying fellow fans don't "know what the f*** they want"
- How to slide in Battlefield 6
- I turned a Rockstar PS2 classic into a cozy game and it proved that the Steam Deck's greatest strength is in being the anti-Switch 2
- After 2 years, Diablo 4 fans might finally be getting the Paladin class they've been asking for since launch
- After promising more re-releases, Bandai Namco seemingly leaks a remaster of one of my all-time favorite JRPGs, which still has some of the best combat in the genre
- New Fantastic Four: First Steps concept art gives us a better look at that deleted Super-Apes scene, and more of Reed Richards’ stretchy powers
- Battlefield 6 "offers things that no one else really can," says series lead, so it's not a major Call of Duty rival even if one ex-Blizzard boss is rooting for it to "boot stomp" Black Ops 7
- NetEase offers sage advice to Marvel Rivals players who can't log in on PC: keep hitting "Continue" while devs work "with Steam to resolve" the issue
- Original Clone Wars animated series creator suggests he would return to Star Wars for a live-action Asajj Ventress project: "That would be an interesting conversation"
- KPop Demon Hunter singer defends Huntr/x's chart success, lashes out at viral tweet suggesting AI is taking over the music industry: "Are you b****** dumb?"
- After Weapons' gory ending, fans are discussing the most disturbing final lines in horror movies
- I wouldn't dare set sail in Sea of Thieves season 17 without this PC headset as my first mate
- Assassin's Creed Shadows developers are focusing on improving "what we already have," but they're adding at least one new open-world activity in post-launch updates
- Best Battlefield 6 Engineer class build and loadout
- After spending hours with the Battlefield 6 beta, these are the 5 games that are helping me fill the hole it's left behind
- First Wednesday season 2 part 2 trailer teases dark secrets, a Halloween ball, and the return of Game of Thrones star as Principal Weems – and we think we can hear Lady Gaga's voice
- Steam dropping PayPal support for all but 6 currencies is "related" to pressure from banks and card companies to remove NSFW games, Valve confirms as censorship controversy continues
- The Battlefield 6 beta is going strong, but one dataminer thinks EA is lining up new content for controversial predecessor Battlefield 2042 to ensure fans aren't without new content for long
- Horror icon Jason Voorhees makes officially return to screen for the first time since 2009's Friday the 13th reboot – but it's not for a movie or TV show
- GTA 5 sleuths finally work out the infamous Mount Chiliad mystery after 12 years in the most anticlimatic way possible, right before GTA 6 likely gives them another mystery to solve
- Forget price hikes - the Nintendo Switch OLED is finally on sale and, honestly, it might just be the right call for new players
- Mission: Impossible standout Tramell Tillman only got the Final Reckoning script 1 day before filming: "I was shaking in my boots"
- The Lenovo Legion Go S is cheaper than the cheapest Steam Deck in the UK right now, and I'd seriously consider it over the ROG Xbox Ally
- Paramount says streaming movies are "not a priority" at the studio and is instead going all-in on Top Gun 3, Star Trek and a new World War Z movie
- Battlefield 6's much-requested Server Browser "is not being tested this week," but the beta is getting a cool Custom Search to prioritize your favorite maps and modes
- Best Battlefield 6 Support class build and medic loadout
- Just in case a Helldivers 2 and Halo collab didn't seem likely enough following 2 blatant hints, Xbox itself weighs in
- Keen to see where the DCU will go after Superman? Well, James Gunn says you'd better (conveniently) tune in to Peacemaker season 2
- James Gunn wants to bring Idris Elba's Bloodsport back in the DCU, but stays tight-lipped on Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn: "That will be revealed down the line"
- James Gunn says production on the "next story" in the newly-titled 'Superman Saga' is happening soon: "I've already finished the treatment"
- James Gunn knows whether Peacemaker will get his own movie, but says he will have to face "Safran punishment" from DC co-boss if he reveals anything else
- Ever fancied eating one of Death Stranding 2's fleshy blobs? PlayStation says go wild, here's a recipe
- Former PlayStation boss says Xbox Game Pass developers are "not creating value" and subscription models are a "danger"
- Battlefield 6's second beta weekend opens to DLSS and matchmaking issues as 270,000 concurrent players cram through the door on Steam alone, but EA is "actively" working towards a solution
- OFF review: "Undertale fans need to play this RPG that inspired it – I can't believe it took this stellar remake to get me to step up to the plate"
- August 13
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- Battlefield 6 dev says the beta's small maps are "to make sure we hit the full-octane version of Battlefield on the head" and, don't worry, "large maps exist" too
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 savant proves parry haters right by beating the RPG on expert with an "all hit" run allowing zero parries or dodges
- Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion actor says his new dating sim character sounded too much like his iconic vampire voice, so he had to base his performance on a fictional sex symbol from an '80s British sitcom instead
- GTA 6 has scared off publishers all year, but Rockstar has been doing this for at least 18: In 2007, Saints Row 2 devs held a meeting to panic over the GTA 4 release date
- HBO Max is getting some anime classics that will break your heart, including one never-before-seen on streaming
- After 20 years, the $200 Nintendo cult classic that anchored GameCube collectors' retirement plans gets a modern release on Switch 2
- Assassin's Creed Shadows canon mode doesn't include romance because it's too "personal": "It was better to not make it canon"
- Here's a PSA to all Battlefield 6 beta players: Please don't ignore your medic duties, I promise it'll make this explosive FPS even more enjoyable for everybody
- Dune: Awakening players report disappearing items, devs tell the MMO's community to try standing around for "up to 10 minutes" while they work on an actual fix
- Original Hytale studio founder "in active discussions with Riot Games about acquiring" the Minecraft-inspired survival game after offering "10x what the true market value is"
- King of the Hill revival debuts to 4.4 million views, beating out X-Men 97 for the title of Disney Plus and Hulu’s most popular animated series in the past 5 years
- Kingpin actor Vincent D'Onofrio has already debunked Charlie Cox's claim that Daredevil: Born Again season 2 is the end: "Good chance there will be a third"
- Welp, another JRPG is coming to devour my whole entire life as Trails in the Sky remake dev says you'll need about 80 hours to beat the game – twice as much as the original game
- MTG Spider-Man designers aren't worried about diluting the brand, because "the beauty of Magic is play with what you enjoy, do what you want"
- Best Battlefield 6 Recon class build and loadout
- Dragon Age: Origins was "intended as a standalone game" rather than the first in a series of RPGs, former dev says, meaning BioWare left "a lot of threads" it wasn't expecting to "come back to"
- As Battlefield 6 cheats already infest the open beta, study estimates that as many as 80 sites make up to $73 million selling them for the FPS and many others
- Keychron's full sized mechanical monster bucks the luxury trend but feels all the better for it
- What if Apple made a gaming headset? I've just unboxed the Fractal Scape, and I'm already obsessed with its sleek and simple look
- Hideo Kojima excitedly reports another 0.1% growth in Death Stranding 2 players who kept playing after the credits rolled, and I'm really starting to think he just wants y'all to get it to 80%
- A new animated Addams Family movie is in the works from Wednesday creators, but it won't have anything to do with the hit Netflix show
- There's nothing quite like fishing in the virtual waters of your favorite video games, and this Nintendo patent could hint at the future of this serene hobby
- Konami confirms that Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater's online Fox Hunt mode won't support cross-play
- Not even The Batman 2 actor Jeffrey Wright has read the script yet, but he's "liking what [he's] hearing" about the DC sequel
- Baldur's Gate 3 fans can expect more "premium games" from the D&D license holder going forward, but it won't rely solely on veteran devs, and will instead "make some bets on up-and-coming talent"
- How does Battlefield 6 destruction work?
- Avengers: Doomsday's 'leaked' X-Men design for Nightcrawler is actually just fan art
- Helldivers 2's Terminid Jurassic Park went horribly wrong, so obviously Super Earth wants to try "Tyranny Park 2," claiming it will be "safer, larger, and have significantly greater merchandising potential"
- Borderlands 4 laughs in the face of Borderlands 3's 1 billion guns as Gearbox says there's 30 billion this time, which the devs kept track of using a Matrix-style "wall" of weapons
- Mission: Impossible director reveals a deleted scene from Final Reckoning’s dangerous submarine sequence with Tom Cruise and explains why it didn’t make it into the film: "It just didn't work"
- I've waited literal months for these Monster Hunter Wilds changes, and I don't say this lightly, but I think we might actually be back
- After smashing through Donkey Kong Bananza I've run out of things to play on my Nintendo Switch 2 – so here are 5 games that better get release dates at Gamescom 2025
- Best Battlefield 6 Assault class build and loadout
- I just bought the best bit of Marvel Rivals merch, and it's not a Funko Pop
- Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford says Wolfenstein 3D and Diablo influenced the OG Borderlands as the devs aimed to "blend the moment-to-moment fun of a shooter" with the satisfaction of progression
- Battlefield 6 players did $70 billion of damage in the last beta weekend, but EA wants us to get those rookie numbers up, offering a cool weapon skin if we hit $1 trillion in the next one
- I'm an Alice Madness Returns stan, so this dark, classic Disney-tinged roguelike might be my next obsession after Hades 2
- Elden Ring Nightreign finally let me get revenge against two bosses that nearly ruined my original Elden Ring playthrough, and victory has never felt sweeter
- I've been playing wargames for over a decade, and I think this might be one of the best introductions to the hobby
- I can't decide if Razer's 8K polling, TMR controller is overkill, or the one PC gamers like me have been waiting for
- Hogsmeade just got a makeover with this Harry Potter Lego set, and it's everything I wanted
- The AMD Radeon RX 9070 lacks the RTX 4070's AI chops, but I'd recommend it to 4K PC players looking for a backlog boost
- All vehicles in Battlefield 6 and how they work
- Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle fans are not too happy about Channing Tatum being cast in the English-language version of the anime film
- This new Switch 2 case is $129, but it looks like it's been run over by a truck
- Drag x Drive review: "I'm left craving Arms' sauce from Nintendo's twitchy yet shallow basketballer, which feels like a tech demo"
- Minecraft fans are convinced that Mojang has accidentally leaked its next Live event date, but don't get your hopes up – it looks like it might actually be the remains of an old typo
- One year later, this Steam Deck SSD mod is still keeping my new gaming handheld envy at bay
- Wednesday season 2 debuts to 50 million views on Netflix, which is slightly lower than season 1
- Weapons standout Aunt Gladys may be the focus of a surprise prequel
- Daredevil star Charlie Cox calls Born Again season 2 the "final season" while teasing that his "favorite" suit is still to come in the Marvel series
- Good news Battlefield 6 pilots – helicopter controls are getting a "large pass," but they won't be reverting back to Battlefield 3 or 4
- Superman home release will include deleted scenes and, more importantly, an original Krypto short
- The Boys actor Antony Starr says goodbye to his iconic Supe Homelander in farewell post: "We created a monster... and I will miss him"
- Baldur's Gate 3 actor Neil Newbon has turned down "Astarion-like" roles because he "wouldn't necessarily enjoy" them, but he "would love to play" the iconic vampire again
- Ubisoft explains why Assassin's Creed Shadows ditched social stealth, but says it's likely not gone for good: "Our stealth team chose to put 100% of their energy on the moment-to-moment tactical shinobi experience"
- Helldivers 2 grunts think they've found more evidence of a Halo crossover thanks to a very familiar "unknown signal" detected by the Galactic Warning System: "Is that... THE SUPERINTENDENT?"
- The 32 greatest Disney animated movies ever made
- Get some great Wednesday goodies with the latest issue of SFX
- Astarion actor Neil Newbon says method acting makes it hard to shake off characters after playing them, and still laughs a little like the Baldur's Gate 3 Vampire to this day
- When does Alien: Earth take place on the Alien timeline?
- Alien: Earth Easter eggs – Every cameo and reference in episodes 1–4 of the new series
- August 12
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- We get a lot of cozy life sims, but not many of them crack Steam's top 20 best-sellers in 4 days with 95% positive reviews, and thank goodness this adorable bookshop management sim has nothing to do with a farm
- KPop Demon Hunters gets a sing-along theatrical release as it hits number 2 on the all-time Netflix streaming charts
- A month after Death Stranding 2's launch, we're all still trying to figure out the open-world game's deepest mystery: "Why you guys make meaningless bridges?" "Because Sam Porter BRIDGES"
- The Subnautica 2 drama intensifies as Krafton accuses former Unknown Worlds leadership of pushing to release an unfinished game and secretly downloading "massive amounts of confidential information"
- Phantom Blade Zero director says playing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 "reminded me of Final Fantasy 10" and "I'd love to bring back some vibes from the PlayStation 1 and PlayStation 2 era"
- Assassin's Creed has gone a bit off the rails, but Ubisoft says it hasn't forgotten about the whole Assassins versus Templars thing, with a "deep dive" on the conflict coming "in the near future"
- Mare of Easttown creator's new show starring Hulk actor Mark Ruffalo gets a sappily sentimental trailer that's also chock full of drugs and guns
- The Long Walk director Francis Lawrence "wasn't going to buckle" on making an R-rated adaptation and says Stephen King approves of the changes: "To be truthful to the book, it has to be violent, intense, sad"
- Blizzard narrative team votes in favor of union one week after Call of Duty workers did the same, pushing back against mass layoffs at Microsoft that saw 9,000 jobs lost in favor of AI
- Fans have discovered that one of Weapons' funniest gags is actually a moving tribute to director Zach Cregger's late creative partner and close friend
- Mass Effect 5 devs should use Dragon Age: The Veilguard as a "scapegoat" so they can "get what they need" from EA, says former BioWare exec
- Evil otome game that tracks my period adds rail shooter where you murder Pokemon-style pets for love, and everyone's a lot more shirtless than you'd think
- "Many people are making games for money, but we make money for games": CEO says all the studio's releases were stepping stones to the "end goal" of its big kung fu action RPG
- God of War 3 and Star Wars Jedi director is making a D&D game because his new studio wanted to "sink our teeth into something that's legendary, that's mythical"
- CyberPowerPC's custom builder feels like choosing burger toppings at Five Guys, and I think I want all of them
- After failing to capture The Sims 4 market, inZOI pushes the panic button and goes for Stardew Valley instead with a new DLC filled with crafting, farming, fishing, and mining
- I finally got to play Mario Kart World after hundreds of hours in Mario Kart 8, but Knockout Tour was so stressful that I immediately went back to its predecessor
- Learning EA passed on a Dragon Age Remaster "soft-pitch" has ruined me, because Mass Effect Legendary Edition proved how much it could do for the RPG series
- Simon Pegg says Quentin Tarantino's unmade Star Trek movie was "bat-s*** crazy" but isn’t sure "how would've it would've gone over" with fans: "It was everything you’d expect a Tarantino Star Trek script to be"
- Takopi's Original Sin becomes first anime to have each episode rated over 9 on IMDb
- Assassin's Creed Shadows abandons one of the best features of Valhalla, Odyssey, and Origins, as Ubisoft confirms that Discovery Tour won't be heading to Japan
- Wednesday season 2 features a new Tim Burton stop-motion short, and Netflix has released an amazing behind-the-scenes look at how it was made
- The minds behind the Nintendo DS emulation handheld I'm testing are working on a portable N64, but I'm not sure how I feel about the timing
- The Thing actor Michael Chiklis defends "underrated" OG Fantastic Four films despite 28% Rotten Tomatoes score: "There were a lot of people critically who got it wrong"
- Don't make my Disney Halloween mistake, grab this merch before it's gone
- A Stardew Valley player got their mom into the farming sim, only for her to spend 1,000 hours in-game divorcing "everyone possible to intentionally become enemies" with the entire town
- Elden Ring streamer says to hell with challenge runs, plays the open-world game alongside Street Fighter 6 while DJing at a club instead
- We could've gotten a Banjo Kazooie cartoon in the '00s, but Xbox was breaking fans' hearts even then: "Microsoft did not see this as something that they wanted to invest in"
- Grounded 2 Northern Scorpion locations, drops and strategies
- "Of course" Baldur's Gate 4 is going to happen, Wizards of the Coast boss says, but that's not the D&D game Star Wars Jedi and God of War 3's director is working on
- Fellow Gundam fans, you need to see this new card game because it's "simply too potent to ignore"
- The new Airlite Fit is a perfect pickup for those who want a Switch 2 headset without breaking the bank
- Tips for flying jets and helicopters in Battlefield 6
- I'm not being funny, but the Asus ROG Ally is virtually an Xbox handheld that's available now for under $500
- Behold, the unlikely but 95% positively reviewed challenger to Steam's anime horse girl empire: "A roguelite training game where you raise a dragon girl who eats anything"
- When is Weapons on streaming? Speculation on the potential HBO Max release date
- Superman star Alan Tudyk says he was dropped from I, Robot press because audiences liked his motion capture robot more than Will Smith’s human protagonist: "My name was not mentioned"
- Helldivers 2 teases Halo 3: ODST crossover as the PlayStation-published hit finally comes to Xbox, studio CEO once again threatens brown trousers: "Please prepare your pants"
- Madden 26 review: "The finest entry in a decade by some margin"
- Battlefield 6's first open-beta weekend had plenty of cheaters, but the "most locked-in catgirl" VTuber insists she wasn't one of them after playing "even better" with a handcam
- One Piece cast comes out in support of Charithra Chandran after backlash: "Perceived 'canon' does not excuse blatant racism or hate of any kind"
- Ewan McGregor confirms a Star Wars urban legend about Obi-Wan's duel with Darth Maul being slowed down: "[George Lucas] was worried that people wouldn’t believe it"
- 6 Hidden Samsung Galaxy S25 features that improve your gaming experience
- Walmart just ripped and tore $25 off the price of the DOOM: The Dark Ages Xbox controller
- I wouldn't be obsessed with Marvel Rivals if it weren't for this match-saving $30 PS5 accessory
- I didn't expect this new board game to become my summer obsession, but now I've dropped everything else
- Monster Hunter Wilds update expands endgame content as Capcom addresses negative Steam reviews regarding optimization and commits "to delivering a more enjoyable and satisfying gaming experience"
- Not content with pulling in a 500K peak Steam player count, the Battlefield 6 beta is coming for other FPS games, with an anti-cheat message advising players to uninstall Valorant
- Hayden Christensen says there's still "good, meaty stuff" to explore in the Darth Vader era of Star Wars, and I really want to see that spin-off
- Viral co-op climbing game Peak gets hit with a wave of rip-offs on PS5, but this isn't the devs' first rodeo as they've been "reporting a bunch" of "AI slop things for the past year"
- Weapons star Josh Brolin thinks the new horror movie is the cure for streaming movie hell: "It's all the same s**t"
- Best Grounded 2 weapons and all unique weapon locations
- James Cameron says "confronting" generative AI is the most important issue in movies right now: "There are some very dangerous things ahead of us"
- I swear by these gaming laptops for college, and this RTX 5060 configuration is now $400 off
- With the Palworld lawsuit rumbling on in the background, the Nintendo Switch welcomes "Palland" – a survival game that looks a whole lot like Pocketpair's creature collector
- Hytale co-founder has "made my final counter offer" to Riot in what's "the ONLY chance" to see the canceled sandbox RPG return, and he's feeling "optimistic"
- Wednesday creators worked on a pre-Robert Downey Jr. Iron Man script for a year – and the studio wanted Tom Cruise to play Tony Stark
- Battlefield 6 is getting a new map and 2 more modes for its second beta weekend, like the fan-favorite Rush mode that's set to dominate my weekend
- Star Wars actor John Boyega thought Finn and Rey "would turn against each other" after The Force Awakens, just like "Obi-Wan and Darth Vader"
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot adds The Studio star, as a first look at Sarah Michelle Gellar's return leaks
- 1 year after joining the MCU with Deadpool and Wolverine, Ryan Reynolds might be teasing a Deadpool return in Avengers: Doomsday or Secret Wars
- Viral co-op game of the moment hits a new all-time high on Steam after Peak update finally adds second biome to the "stupid jam game"
- After 2,000 hours of Baldur's Gate 3, I might finally be ready for something other than Larian's D&D gem – and this isometric RPG sale on Steam is the perfect place to look
- Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle shows off more of its main battle as it gets closer and closer to making box office history in Japan
- As Channing Tatum joins the anime movie, one of Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle's other cast newcomers is "humbled" for the "opportunity of a lifetime"
- August 11
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- REPO devs blown away by world record level 10 speedrun ponder adding "official speedrun seeds" – "I know that Lethal Company did"
- SomeBODY once told me the world was gonna roll the Shrek 5 release date back to 2027
- Spider-Man 4 could finally bring Venom to the MCU, as the Scorpion's comic book history hints at the Spidey versus Symbiote battle we've always deserved on the big screen
- Superman star says she'd instantly say yes to a solo Hawkgirl movie with James Gunn, who's "prioritizing" quality over "the most money": "And I'm not just saying that to get my own movie"
- Somehow it took an MMO's entire community more than 2 years to find an impossibly rare, 1 in 500,000 fishing drop – and after all that, it's basically worthless
- Marvel Rivals devs say those horny skins are based on "classic comic designs," thank you very much, and they're simply glad to "gain players' appreciation"
- Even Helldivers 2 studio CEO agrees Fortnite's new bug-squashing season "feels very democratic," but only God and General Brasch know if that makes an official collab more or less likely
- The Black Myth: Wukong vibes are off the charts in the gorgeous and unnerving reveal trailer for this action game from The First Berserker: Khazan's Nexon and the Squid Game composer
- Elden Ring does it again: Bandai Namco lights a cigar with digital profits up ¥7 billion partly thanks to 5 million+ Nightreign players, and doubles down on Sony collaboration
- Marvel Rivals devs say "matchmaking is a complex system" as debates about SBMM versus EOMM rage, but they're going to "talk about all the matchmaking things" in a video this month
- Battlefield 6 dev responds to aim assist comparison with Call of Duty, says "you are the skill," and assist doesn't play for you
- Finally, The RPG is on Steam – "Minimalistic Skyrim" where you shove bread into open wounds to heal, and the dragon villain "constantly glitches"
- A bruised Capcom escapes "Overwhelmingly Negative" Steam hell as Monster Hunter Wilds' recent user reviews climb to 20% positive
- Marvel Rivals creative director admits there are too many DPS characters, says the team is "gradually working to solve it"
- Battlefield 6 lead says "skill is a factor" in matchmaking, "but far down the list," so please lower your pitchforks and torches
- The GameSir G7 Pro is finally available to buy, bringing TMR thumbsticks to the Xbox masses for under $100
- Pepsi asks if it should make a video game, gets inundated with so many reminders of PS1 cult classic Pepsiman that even Hundred Line director Kotaro Uchikoshi is trying to put the company in touch with the original devs
- The best new shows and movies streaming this week on Netflix, Prime Video, HBO Max, and more
- Wednesday fans think they might have figured out who Lady Gaga is playing in the Netflix show
- Elden Ring Nightreign duos mode should have been the perfect update, but it's lacking both the challenge and the chaos that make the base game so good
- Oblivion Remastered player chooses peace, beating the RPG "without assaulting any innocents or stealing anything" despite one quest almost ruining the whole thing
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is "a strong signal" that players don't just want live-service games, BioWare veteran says, but GTA 6's success will be a real indicator of the industry
- People are reappraising just how weird Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is "Like a Muppet movie if Charlie and his mom are the only humans"
- Enraged Dragon Age fans are punishing EA for rejecting BioWare's remaster pitch by covering pixel art map Wplace in adorable threats
- Meet the Echoes of the End characters and cast – the compelling foundation of the new action-adventure game set in a fantastical world inspired by Iceland
- Mario Kart 64 just got an unofficial Dreamcast port in the year of our lord 2025, which somehow feels like perfect timing after Mario Kart World
- "Comparisons like this are why we never get open-world GTA-style games anymore": Mafia: The Old Country is the latest new release to be compared to Rockstar's commitment to realism, and fans are getting tired of it
- Denzel Washington cryptically addresses his Black Panther 3 Marvel role
- Where to find and use the Frostbitten Key in Grounded 2
- I love Red Dead Redemption 2 more than any other Rockstar game, and after 7 years it still has an important lesson to teach GTA 6
- The fact that you can still buy 19 inches of Venom with the Spider-Man 2 Collector's Edition has my Spidey sense tingling
- James Gunn's Superman just beat a domestic DC box office record set by Zack Snyder's Batman v Superman in 2016
- I'm pretty sure you won't have heard of this amazing RPG before, but it's a great D&D alternative thanks to "cataclysmic session endings and epic moments"
- King of the Hill showrunner reveals Disney made them remove F-bombs, but admits it wasn't a "big loss" because he's "not a huge fan of shows pushing the envelope in that way anyway"
- Your Hall effect keyboard might be lying to you - here's how to make sure you're buying the right switches
- Battlefield 6 beta players pray for nerfs as the M87A1 shotgun becomes a sniper rifle, dev says it's already fixed "in a different build"
- Mario Kart World banana snipers beware: that MKTV helicopter watching you race can apparently obliterate your chances at winning
- Two of Alien: Earth's new Synthetic characters were influenced by a foundational Alien android, say stars Timothy Olyphant and Babou Ceesay: "Morrow has a desire to be more like Ash"
- Will Battlefield 6 have a server browser?
- As the industry waits for GTA 6 to land like a meteor, analyst highlights the widening gap in games: "The winners are winning bigger, and everyone else is scrambling for a smaller piece of the pie"
- Hori's adorable Piranha Plant Switch 2 camera just got its first-ever discount, but I still don't want it
- Simon Pegg says Paramount's new boss is a "big Star Trek fan" and could make Star Trek 4 finally happen: "I think it's about time"
- Doomsday: Last Survivors just got a titanic Godzilla x Kong crossover, and the King of Monsters is bringing the game's first-ever 3D Shelter skin
- Jamie Lee Curtis calls out "harsh" Freakier Friday review: "SOME people love it"
- As the dust settles on Battlefield 6's first beta weekend, devs confirm they're looking into "unexpectedly fast" kill times in the FPS
- Doom designer John Romero could have been "System Shock designer John Romero," but the FPS legend got the offer to set up id Software "the week before" another offer to set up what would become Looking Glass
- The Acolyte star Manny Jacinto says he's "always hopeful" that he could return as his Star Wars Sith the Stranger someday
- Family Guy creator says we need more hopeful stories: "That's the only thing that Hollywood can do that is worthwhile"
- "The very best produced in recent years" - I can't believe I've got a reason to buy another C64 Mini, and it's not just because it's "back in black"
- I've been reporting on board games and tabletop RPGs for years, and I think these upcoming projects need to be on your wishlist
- BioWare considered paying a team to "do a remake" of Dragon Age: Origins, former executive producer reveals, and "there were lots of pitches" around upgrading the old RPG
- Hideo Kojima clears up "misunderstanding" around Death Stranding 2, says cutscenes "are not pre-rendered, they're basically all in real-time" and that's been the case since Metal Gear Solid
- In a summer filled with box office surprises, here's another: F1 becomes Brad Pitt's highest-grossing film as a lead
- Star Wars has finally answered a major timeline question about The Mandalorian, and it tells us more about Din Djarin's history
- Fantastic Four: First Steps is now the highest-grossing Marvel movie of the year, but still falls short of the $500 million mark
- New War of the Worlds adaptation starring Ice Cube has made it into Rotten Tomatoes' 100 worst movies of all time list, even though its score has risen above 0%
- The much-requested Battlefield 6 server browser is on the way, and while it is still "under the Portal umbrella," it'll be accessible directly from the main menu
- Baldur's Gate 3 publishing lead defends Mafia: The Old Country's lack of swimming after clips go viral, says "endlessly layering on mechanics maketh a good game not"
- Hideo Kojima initially had other ideas for Death Stranding 2's peculiar mannequin Charlie, including making them an invisible man, glowing silhouette, or "a 2D anime-style figure"
- Weapons director Zach Cregger's Resident Evil could be a Resident Evil movie in name alone as he says the cast will be "outside the characters of the games"
- Helldivers 2 studio CEO says Arrowhead's eventual next game will start pre-production with a smaller team: "HD2 started with a big team and that was baaaaad"
- Move over Mark Ruffalo and Tom Holland, as Fantastic Four star Paul Walter Hauser admits he told "70 or 80" random people about his role in the Marvel movie
- Lucasfilm has denied Ewan McGregor is making a Star Wars return as Obi-Wan Kenobi in Ahsoka season 2 after a misquote set social media on fire
- August 10
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- As the wait for Haunted Chocolatier continues, this magical new shop sim with Dreamlight Valley and Hogwarts Legacy vibes is here to tide us over in a post-Stardew Valley world
- Alien: Earth is shaping up to be great, but the decision to ignore Prometheus and Covenant is a mistake
- Subnautica 2 dev says people like survival games so much because they speak to our "little monkey brains" and "we're all little monkeys"
- "How do you even do this to a leaderboard of a popular game like Super Mario Bros?": Speedrunner beats the platformer's world record by 5 seconds, the biggest jump in over a decade
- Subnautica 2 designer isn't alarmed by people taking a break, because survival games aren't as "monogamistic" as MMOs like World of Warcraft: "I know what they're doing"
- BioWare apparently wanted to make a Mass Effect-style remaster collection for Dragon Age, but EA's not too keen: "It's strange for a publicly traded company to basically be against free money"
- Official Spider-Man 4 behind-the-scenes video gives us our best look yet at Tom Holland's wall-crawler in action "Putting the suit on... it feels different this time"
- Now that The Wind Waker is on Switch 2, I'm begging Nintendo to revive the Dark Souls of Zelda games
- DC fans are sharing who they'd want the Thanos of the DCU Chapter One to be
- Eddie Murphy says one of his worst-rated movies on Rotten Tomatoes deserves less hate
- One Piece season 2 teaser released by Netflix and confirms season 3 is on the way
- Alien: Earth release schedule: when is episode 5 on Disney Plus and Hulu?
- James Gunn clips the wings of Robin reports in The Batman 2
- Battlefield 6 stomps Call of Duty's Steam record with 520,000 concurrent players, but EA promises it's still working on those long "entry times"
- August 9
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- Battlefield 6's anti-cheat system has already blocked over 330,000 bad apples, but with more flooding the FPS' Open Beta, EA says it "was not intended to be a silver bullet"
- Fred Armisen's Uncle Fester is one of my favorite parts of Wednesday season 2, and proof that the extended Addams Family member deserves his own spin-off
- The Outer Worlds 2 dev says "it was quite a shock" to get bought by a giant corporation like Microsoft while making a game about how evil giant corporations are
- The Outer Worlds 2 was helped along by Fallout co-creator Tim Cain, but Obsidian is switching up RPG history by going "much bigger and deeper" with its sequel
- Marvel Rivals season 3.5 has landed, and I'm already prepared thanks to these 4 fantastic PS5 accessories
- Alien: Earth star Sydney Chandler on following in Sigourney Weaver's footsteps as the franchise's new figurehead "I held on to the strength that her character gave to me when I was younger"
- Final Destination 7 gets the green light after the success of the latest movie
- Weapons director Zach Cregger has a DC Universe script finished starring Batman and Joker as background characters
- Weapons director Zach Cregger has plans for a sequel, but not before he gets to work on Resident Evil
- Legendary Mario and Tetris composer "specifically" made Metroid's iconic ending tune to impress one older debugger on the Nintendo team
- Weapons star Josh Brolin turned down Avatar's Quatrich: "I’m a big believer in things happen like they should.”
- Prolific Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 actor who played 5 major roles may be an integral part of the RPG, but she doesn't care for its parrying: "I need to work on my inner peace"
- Good news, fishing game sickos: Nintendo has filed a patent for what looks like a reel to attach to your Switch 2 Joy-Con
- August 8
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- Marvel Zombies returns with a new R-rated Red Band comic: "This is a love letter to the Marvel U while also having the Marvel U eat itself"
- 10 days after Sony sued over Tencent's allegedly "slavish" Horizon Zero Dawn clone, its Steam page has been scrubbed of robot mastodons and Aloy lookalikes
- I have a new top anime to watch in 2026 as the adaptation for one of my favorite manga, with one of Shonen Jump's best-ever female leads, already looks incredible and I've only seen 100 seconds
- An anti-FOMO approach would be unthinkable for most MMOs and live service games, but it's the secret to Old School RuneScape's new peak of 240,000 players: "Everything you earn matters forever"
- Former Gears of War boss becomes former Diablo boss as Rod Fergusson leaves Microsoft a third time, "sword in hand," after 5 years overseeing the ARPG series: "I'm proud of what we've built"
- James Gunn may be teasing Martian Manhunter casting by hinting Peacemaker star Chukwudi Iwuji could return in a new role that "isn’t so humanoid"
- Wednesday season 2’s biggest missed opportunity is that it overlooks Enid and the fandom's number one ship in the process
- Fool me 6 times, shame on me, but I think this leaked Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 release date might actually stick
- Action RPG devs at The First Berserker: Khazan studio take on the ultimate final boss, capitalism, striking to protest alleged bonus bias for executives over the people who make the games
- Randy Pitchford and his "big personality" may have caused Gearbox some controversy with all that $80 Borderlands 4 banter, but his boss wouldn't have it any other way: "I still love him to death"
- 43-year CRPG veteran behind Fallout and Wasteland "worried about job loss" from AI, which seems justified now that his parent company Microsoft laid off 9,000 in exchange for more slop
- An official Sims board game just dropped seemingly out of nowhere, and it's thrown me for a loop
- Pokemon fans revive old, official "Rescue Team" initiative to help players free 23-year-old GBA 'mons from their Gen 3 prisons – and beyond – and get them on Switch
- Hideo Kojima is currently "checking the data" on your favorite Death Stranding 2 routes and weapons, and I hope he's personally counting every road I've restored without help from the ceramics-hording jerks I've been paired with
- After 13 years away from The Sims limelight, Katy Perry returns to the community with a live Simlish performance of Last Friday Night that I can't stop watching
- Disney's renaissance began with The Little Mermaid – but its foundations were laid with this underappreciated 1988 hidden gem
- Hideo Kojima is making his Metal Gear spiritual successor Physint "all by myself" while Kojima Productions is busy on OD
- Scream 4 actor Alison Brie says the “current era” of the horror franchise lets "too many people live," but disagrees with one iconic death: "That was a mistake"
- Jim Carrey almost starred in a live-action adaptation of an anime classic as Hellboy screenwriter reveals he worked on a scrapped Lupin III script in the '90s
- Umamusume players hold a digital funeral for Grass Wonder, the real, 30-year-old racehorse behind one of the game's beloved anime horse girls: "May you eat dandelions in heaven"
- "If everything is the same, nothing stands out" – How lead devs for Silent Hill f and Dying Light: The Beast are putting the horror back in survival horror
- This Lexar PS5 SSD has saved me from making the error of buying an entirely new Sony console, but I wish it was available in the UK
- Just when I think I've seen everything, Nintendo breaks out wooden amiibo baby toys
- Dune: Awakening player says "there IS sandwalking" in the survival MMO to avoid the big ol' worm – and "if you do it just right, you can cross any distance" in Arrakis
- Together stars Alison Brie and Dave Franco think "there's no place for vanity" in either comedy or horror: "We're not worried about how we look when we're in these crazy positions"
- Square Enix down ¥11 billion in game sales because it can only re-release Kingdom Hearts so often, but says don't worry boss, we've got some great JRPGs in the chamber
- After two years of being asked "nearly every day" for Steam Deck OLED 32GB RAM upgrades, one modder says it's finally possible, and I'm now even more concerned for the ROG Xbox Ally
- Death Stranding 2 director Hideo Kojima says "DLC is not a trendy space because if you start doing that, you'll never finish the project"
- Silent Hill 2 composer Akira Yamaoka says making the game's soundtrack "felt almost like touching something divine" because he got to design sound for the game's many "smells"
- I've been playing Need for Speed Underground 2 and Midnight Club 3 – 20 years later, they're still awesome
- All Battlefield 6 game modes in the beta multiplayer and full launch
- Macaulay Caulkin has a refreshingly honest answer behind why Home Alone 2 is better than Home Alone: "I got paid more"
- Alien: Earth team says the new show’s Xenomorph is "an animal in an ecosystem" with other "predatory" creatures, and explains the subtle design differences
- I'm convinced that this is still one of the best team board games around, and it deserves to be on your shelf
- Battlefield 6's beta has only been running for a day, but it's already suffering from a FPS curse with cheaters breaking out the wallhacks
- 5 hours into Silent Hill f, I've picked out the 10 biggest details you need to know
- Deltarune's beloved Spamton is everywhere and Persona 3 fans are turning Japan's real-life Port Island into a JRPG mural in this viral web app that's seeing pixel artists literally take over the world
- I accidentally played 10 hours of Magic Inn and it's already the most hands-on management sim I've played since Two Point Campus
- The DualSense is great, but the DualShock 4's comfort was unmatched until I tried this $69 spiritual successor
- Instead of Made in Abyss season 3, the hit anime is getting a series of sequel movies
- John Cena says he was "run out of the movie business" 15 years ago for "doing bad movies where I wasn't present"
- This Alienware 4K QD-OLED gaming monitor blew me away with its sharp visuals during testing, but now it's winning me over with its price
- Transformers director Michael Bay may return to helm a "new version" of the franchise after leaving Netflix crime thriller Fast and Loose
- Mafia: The Old Country debuts to the second-best reviews in the series, but has been beaten in Steam player count by a version of every past entry so far
- Fortnite players do Helldivers 2 grunts proud, squash 100 million of the new season's bugs in 12 hours even without a Major Order propelling them: "An incredible start to repelling this invasion"
- New Dune: Awakening update axes "exploit used to get NPCs to destroy other players' building pieces" following fans' reports of "base raiding" and griefing in the survival MMO
- How to use the Battlefield 6 Range Finder
- Despite Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle making millions, Sony says its anime business is only just getting started: "It’s in a phase roughly equivalent to the period between the launch of the PS1 and PS2"
- The Batman 2 script reportedly features Robin and is said to be a "big swing" for director Matt Reeves
- Thanos actor Josh Brolin says he'd "be there tomorrow" if Marvel asked him to return in Avengers: Doomsday
- The 32 greatest action movie quotes of all time
- Is Mafia The Old Country on Game Pass?
- X-Men star James Marsden teases how Cyclops will return in Avengers: Doomsday "I'm dead. Well, maybe not"
- Death Stranding 2 might've featured Twin Peaks mastermind David Lynch, as Hideo Kojima "always hoped to cast" the "director I've admired for so long"
- Konami quietly confirms Metal Gear Solid Delta's online Fox Hunt mode isn't actually coming until "fall 2025"
- "CoD won't be lazy anymore": Ex Blizzard boss predicts a beating for Call of Duty at the hands of Battlefield 6, says Activision's FPS "has gone downhill for years"
- Gamescom 2025 schedule: all of the showcases and biggest reveals
- August 7
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- "We are looking over our shoulders. We are running scared": Take-Two CEO says the GTA publisher's success isn't guaranteed and "we need to innovate to make sure we continue to be a leader"
- King of the Hill's new Dale voice actor talks about leaving behind his original series role of Khan: "I think it's a much better place to be as a society and as a culture"
- Take Two boss says Borderlands 4 is $70 instead of $80 because "we want to put out the best entertainment on Earth and we want to deliver more value than what we charge for"
- After 10 years of rumors, Guardians of the Galaxy star Dave Bautista may finally be signed on to play the villain in Henry Cavill's Highlander remake
- Take-Two boss says good games are the new bad games: "Some of our competitors have realized maybe a little late in the day that consumers are not okay with okay"
- 6 hours in, Ninja Gaiden 4 has pushed me to my limit while giving me the tools to push beyond them – we are so back
- RIP to Goosebumps, as Disney Plus cancels the kids' horror show after 2 seasons
- BioShock 4 has "had some ups and downs along the way," but Take-Two CEO promises "hand on heart, without question" that the immersive sim is "going to come out"
- Take-Two boss dodges GTA 6 pricing as $80 games loom: "We've had variable pricing at the company forever"
- Doom: The Dark Ages update 2 looks like a massive improvement across the board, and a horde mode and slow-motion toggle are just the start: "This ain’t an update… This be a BUFFET!!!"
- Final Fantasy 10 dev reminds players obsessed with retro-style PS1 graphics in modern games that, back in my day, those graphics were a problem
- 30 years later, Doom-era FPS cult classics Heretic and Hexen get "definitive re-release" on PC and consoles complete with 2 new episodes from id and retro powerhouse Nightdive
- As shooting on the Punisher special wraps up, star Jon Bernthal gives a memorable speech: "The impossible really is possible, and this motherf***er was impossible"
- A bunch of "nerds" are turning Risk of Rain and Diablo into a roguelike with a secret ingredient I'd never expect, and I can't get it out of my head
- Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion actor says he "physically, mentally just shut down" while working on the RPG and "other projects simultaneously" – "I don't know what you're asking me to do"
- After Amazon's War of the Worlds, I watched all the 0% rated movies on Rotten Tomatoes and here are the five brilliantly awful ones I'd recommend you stream next
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (August 8 - 10)
- Microsoft bloodbath continues 9,000 layoffs later with the death of Contraband, the '70s co-op game from the studio behind open-world hit Just Cause, and it seems Hideo Kojima's OD is the only thing that's safe
- I visited a video game archivist trying to preserve some of the world's most forgotten history against all odds, and sometimes even other gamers
- The open-world Star Wars RPG of our dreams might be here in the form of a massive Starfield mod project that fixes the "many, many, many fundamental issues that make it a bad game"
- Lego The Simpsons Krusty Burger (10352) review: "A fun return to Springfield but slightly disappointing compared to previous offerings"
- Is Battlefield 6 crossplay and how does it work
- Battlefield 6 open beta is already Steam's most popular Battlefield game with a peak of 330,000+ concurrent players, doubling the record of the 2042 beta and tripling 2042 itself in just hours
- The Xbox ROG Ally will apparently launch on October 16, but I'm starting to feel like it will miss the premium party
- The biggest JRPG news today somehow missed the Nintendo Indie Direct: Persona-inspired tactics RPG Demonschool is out in just a few weeks
- The Office spin-off The Paper gets first trailer, featuring Domhnall Gleeson's new editor-in-chief and a familiar face from Scranton
- After 17 years as the butt of every bad joke about girl games, Barbie Horse Adventures is back with a generation of grown-up horse girls ready to give it the love it deserves
- Baldur's Gate 3 mocap actors were so dedicated to the RPG's romance that they really kissed, so Larian had to make sure nothing too garlicky was nearby: "We were very careful at lunches"
- We can thank Valve and Team Fortress 2 for the best weapon in Crysis 3: Crytek lead says "I was playing a lot" of TF2 using the Sniper and his bow, and wanted a composite bow of his own
- Is This Seat Taken? review: "I can't believe organizing seating charts can be this charming"
- I tried Hori's Steam controller, and it feels almost as quirky as Valve's original version - for better or worse
- You can now pre-order Atari's 2600+ Pac-Man Edition console, but I find its price just as scary as its release date
- All Battlefield 6 maps in the beta and full launch
- Forget Virtual Console, the greatest tribute to NES gaming ever made is giving Nintendo Switch the retro library it deserves
- Grounded 2 update improves the survival game's stability by around "40%-60%" while devs warn the "various performance improvements" aren't expected to fix the "problems as a whole"
- The PS3 store has been down for over a day, and people are worried Sony has quietly killed the last way to get Metal Gear Solid 4
- Alien: Earth creator Noah Hawley hopes the show’s new earth-bound backstory is adopted by other Alien projects going forward: "There's a surprising paucity of mythology in the seven films"
- The future of DC gets a very promising update, with James Gunn directing "the next chapter in the Super-Family" and The Batman 2 set to start filming in months
- Dragon Ball and One Piece veteran director says "predictable Disney-style works" are to thank for anime's increasing popularity outside Japan
- "Yo this isn't Mass Effect, my guy, put the flirt gun down": Devs behind sci-fi survival game The Alters shoot down thirsty fans' requests to romance their clones
- Spooky Stardew Valley vibes put this "nightmarish life sim RPG" co-directed by Celeste's artist on my radar, and I can't wait until it launches next year to start my new rural life on a twisted farm
- My most anticipated indie game, a Game Boy-style mashup of Zelda, Dark Souls, and Castlevania from the Shovel Knight devs, just brought its excellent demo to Nintendo Switch 2
- There was a predictable lack of Hollow Knight: Silksong at today's Nintendo Indie Direct, but one of the other best Metroidvania devs in the biz announced a new one, and it looks great
- 33 years later, Alone in the Dark still deserves recognition as the survival horror that bridged the gap between Cthulhu and Resident Evil
- Battlefield 6 multiplayer is faster than ever, and while I'm having fun being a speedy soldier, it's playing against the shooter's most iconic feature
- I've waited 13 years to be excited about Silent Hill again, and Silent Hill f has me hopeful for the series' future
- New horror movie produced by Get Out's Jordan Peele gets a startling first trailer that teases the deadly cost of fame
- Tom Hardy explaining how he convinced Christopher Nolan on his unique Bane voice for The Dark Knight Rises has resurfaced
- New budget headsets come and go, but you can't force the SteelSeries Arctis Nova 3 Wireless off my head
- Amid Marathon's ongoing struggles and Concord's closure after just 2 weeks, Sony admits the whole PlayStation live service strategy thing isn't "entirely going smoothly"
- Fortnite's new season looks a lot like Helldivers 2, with bugs to fight, precision air strikes to launch, and even a very democratic-looking emote, but "there's literally no sign" of a collab, leaker says
- You can now play as Hideo Kojima, Adam Sandler, and Link in Castle Crashers as new DLC finally opens up the Steam Workshop after 17 years, with results as chaotic as you'd expect
- A whole year later, the Anbernic RG Cube is still the retro handheld that lives on my bedside table, and it's nothing to do with its square screen
- Win Marvel Studios’ THUNDERBOLTS* on Blu-ray™
- Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War part 4 release date speculation, trailer, and everything we know so far about The Calamity
- Weapons star Josh Brolin says he "loved" working on Knives Out 3 and previews his eclectic year to come, including Edgar Wright's Running Man remake: "When a good script comes along, it doesn't really matter to me what genre it is"
- Win Doctor Who crochet book Amiguwhomi
- James Cameron thinks AI "superintelligence" is one of three "existential threats": "I do think there's still a danger of a Terminator-style apocalypse"
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's possible endings aren't particularly cheery because the French JRPG's creative lead likes "really sad stories" and wanted to give players "an impossible choice"
- Wednesday and Daredevil: Born Again actor says Marvel is so secretive he had no idea he was even auditioning for Marvel villain Muse
- Despite 3 previous adaptations, Disney boss Bob Iger considers Fantastic Four: First Steps an "original property" because "we're introducing those characters to people who are not familiar with them at all"
- Weapons stars Julia Garner and Alden Ehrenreich tease the horror movie’s goriest scene involving a kitchen utensil: "You scared me in real life"
- Jurassic World Rebirth studio Universal Pictures is cracking down on AI in a big way with a warning threatening legal action at the end of all its new movies
- As Battlefield 6 beta queues surge past 200,000 players, devs promise a "substantial increase" in server capacity to reduce wait times
- After Donald Trump, South Park sets its sights on Superman with a grisly Krypto cameo
- This Final Fantasy 10 Easter egg is a reference to the JRPG the 2001 installment never became, and it's so obscure that even Square Enix forgot to include it in its remaster
- Sony says Bungie's "independence is getting lighter" as it aims to launch the Destiny 2 studio's troubled new FPS Marathon before April 2026: "We are now fixing the problems, so we believe this launch will happen"
- Battlefield 6 beta game server issues and error codes explained
- August 6
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- Mass Effect veteran says open-world bot flop Anthem gained momentum within EA because the pitch was "what if BioWare game but it could do FIFA numbers?"
- New Warner Bros. Humble game bundle has some good superhero games, some not as good superhero games, and one of the best action horror games ever made - all for $12
- Conan O'Brien, Rose Byrne, and A$AP Rocky take the lead in A24's stressfully hectic drama If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
- Helldivers 2 CEO says you should thank Sony for the game's Xbox port even though "we were all in support," and "we get a lot of help from PlayStation" with bug fixing
- Legally distinct Final Fantasy 15, better known as the PlayStation-published anime action RPG Lost Soul Aside, has gone gold ahead of its PS5 and PC launch this month
- Daredevil and Punisher will become embroiled in a war on crime - and each other - that Marvel promises will be the "most violent and visceral confrontation yet"
- Resident Evil 1 devs were so insistent on having action mechanics like charged attacks and sidesteps that director Shinji Mikami let them do a test run, but it just made killing zombies look silly and not scary
- 20-year Rockstar vet Lazlow has been Grand Theft Auto's radio host since GTA 3, but he doubts he'll appear in GTA 6: "It was an amazing journey"
- 2 years of Sekiro anime rumors suddenly look a lot more believable: a new web domain from FromSoftware owner Kadokawa points to "Sekiro-Anime"
- Wednesday showrunner promises "no one is officially * dead * dead" as fans reel from one of season 2's biggest casualties
- When your MMO's community is "practically forming a religion" based on a big crab, you just go with it: "Oh, the Gemstone Crab's taken another life. And it's funny"
- South Park will only be on a single streaming service as Paramount Plus becomes the "definitive destination" for the returning animated comedy
- Andor viewership increased by almost half during its run, but The Acolyte and Ahsoka both suffered declines of around 30%
- Battlefield 6 open beta hopefuls are reporting 48,000-player queues before the beta's even started, but Secure Boot errors and shader compilations mean PC players probably should be getting an early start
- King of the Hill is one of the few TV reboots that gets it right, and these three episodes prove it
- "It isn't Destiny. It isn't Borderlands. It isn't Mass Effect": Ex BioWare lead says Anthem's vision for "the future of storytelling" struggled to come together because it had "no one really clearly saying what it is"
- The director of Amazon's War of the Worlds remake with 0% on Rotten Tomatoes previously made an Eminem music video for Marvel and Sony's Venom – and it's just as ridiculous as it sounds
- This may be the only Super Mario Bros review that landed with the NES launch, and the magazine that called it a "special hall of fame" classic in 1986 is helping set a new standard for game preservation
- The new Borderlands 4 Vault Hunter that I knew the least about suddenly looks like one of the most interesting characters, and I didn't expect him to remind me of the modern God of War games
- Baldur's Gate 3 devs throw a bone to advocates of what would be the RPG's weirdest romance option - by shaming us for not keeping her alive
- 43-year CRPG veteran behind Fallout and Wasteland knew Baldur's Gate "could be huge" decades before Larian's RPG threequel: "You're sitting on something that's going to at least do $50 million"
- Legend in the Mist challenges D&D with "incredible flourishes on press-your-luck mechanics to incentivise tough decisions"
- Upcoming sci-fi comedy movie Cold Storage starring Naked Gun and Stranger Things stars reveals new trailer – and you might want to finish eating before you watch it
- Kirby Air Riders should be delayed to 2026 if anything is "not going perfectly," former Nintendo marketing leads say, because it's not worth burning out Smash Bros creator Masahiro Sakurai
- We really got an unofficial "lore-friendly GTA 5 remaster" before GTA 6, as one fan combines 138 mods into the ultimate package of visual enhancements, police AI improvements, and more
- A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms – Everything we know about the new Game of Thrones show
- Silent Hill f's combat is about feeling on edge: "You need to know how close your candle is to going out to really have it feel tense"
- Wednesday season 2’s mystery Avian actor filmed the shock reveal on their very first day on set: "I had to understand their motivations very quickly"
- 15 years later, the Guitar Hero studio that Activision acquired and killed is back and teasing a spiritual successor to the rhythm game that put it on the map: "They said the era of 5-fret music games was over"
- I can't help being disappointed that Pokemon TCG Black Bolt and White Flare ends this era of the card game with a whimper instead of a bang
- I was ready for the PS1 and PS2 era nostalgia this survival horror game would bring, but I never expected it to remind me of the most divisive Silent Hill
- R.I.P. the Hulu app – the streaming home of Shogun and Alien: Earth will be "fully integrated" into Disney Plus in 2026
- "I'd rather quit with dignity than drop it down to Easy": Soulslike boss on The First Berserker: Khazan says many players will quit a game before lowering the difficulty, so they had to add and change some options
- "All of this would roughly cost $4,000" - Don't make these mistakes when assembling your next gaming PC
- Battlefield 6 isn't filling servers with bots after all: during the open beta, "AI soldiers" will only appear in training grounds playlists
- New Pocketpair-published horror game turns Balatro's live-action Jimbo actor into a jester again, devs insist it's "accidental," really: "No one will believe that we genuinely didn't mean to do this"
- My power level of disappointment was over 9000 when I realized this wasn't a Dragon Ball Z gaming headset
- Wednesday season 2, part 2 trailer resolves that big part 1 cliffhanger quicker than we expected
- I'm not saying PowerWash Simulator 2 is already my GOTY, but I just spent 2 hours using Witcher Senses to find dirt and it was the most satisfying experience of my life
- Stormgate, the RTS from ex-Starcraft and Warcraft devs, launches out of Steam Early Access with perfect balance, by which I mean with 50% positive user reviews: "We plan to be in active development for a long time"
- August might be the busiest and best month for new Lego sets in 2025 thanks to One Piece models, perfect Spider-Man fan-service, and more
- Weapons director had "a whole different cast" for the horror movie before the Hollywood strikes but Pedro Pascal's scheduling conflicts "threw them into turmoil": "I had to recast the entire movie"
- Square Enix team behind JRPG gems like Octopath Traveler is trading turn-based combat for Zelda-like action with The Adventures of Elliot in hopes of reaching "a new audience"
- Now that the Switch 2 has been blessed with Mario Paint, I finally have an excuse to use this NES-inspired mouse
- I have an adult job with adult money, but why are there still no Marvel Rivals PS5 accessories to spend it on?
- Weapons stars Josh Brolin, Alden Ehrenreich, and Julia Garner share their first reactions to Barbarian director’s wild new horror movie: "I had no idea where it was gonna go"
- Palworld dev and Pocketpair publishing manager says "big things" have happened that he can't talk about for "at least a year or 2," and keeping the secret is "gonna kill me"
- Early concept art for Superman's costume proves David Corenswet was right about the trunks all along
- Hollow Knight Silksong won't be in the Indie World Nintendo Direct according to the YouTuber who leaked it: "Ah s**t, here we go again"
- "An insane amount of power" - my favorite gaming tablet of 2025 has finally hit Amazon
- 40 years later, Josh Brolin says he "ruined the first half day of filming" The Goonies because he was so nervous: "I had no idea what I was doing"
- Fallout "was a sequel" to Wasteland, says Interplay co-founder, and "we did everything we could not to be sued by Electronic Arts" after the devs "had to pivot out" of the follow-up
- Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls devs plan to keep the 4v4 tag fighter alive "for the next 10 years," with hopes of "making this game the best experience ever" over the next decade
- Wednesday season 2 debuts to solid Rotten Tomatoes score, but it's only slightly up from season 1
- Fancast favorite for rumored Spider-Man 4 villain Mister Negative says he isn't in the Marvel movie: "I'm happy to be included in that conversation, but I haven't heard anything"
- Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle is about to pass a Studio Ghibli classic on its march up the list of highest-grossing movies in Japan
- Chris Hemsworth's tribute to Thor was "misconstrued" as a farewell to the Avenger as the Marvel actor confirms it was actually an emotional "moment of gratitude" before Doomsday
- Baldur's Gate 3 performance director says it's a "shame" video game actors are "not being considered" for adaptations: "Why was Doug Cockle not in the TV series, The Witcher?"
- Starfield patch sparks hope among fans that Bethesda is finally adding "proper space travel" to the RPG, 2 years after it originally launched: "Todd my life is yours again"
- KPop Demon Hunters has finally landed in Netflix's all-time top 10 after 45 days, and it's on track to beat Red Notice
- Metal Gear Solid 5 finally cements itself as Peace Walker 2 as a co-op mod brings back the PSP game's best feature
- The 32 greatest movies about dads ever made
- Wednesday season 2 part 1 review: "Complex and exciting but weighed down by too many subplots"
- Wednesday season 2 part 1 ending explained: Who is the Avian, who dies, and how does it set up part 2?
- August 5
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- Battlefield 6 recoil emerges as the FPS' first big hullabaloo thanks to a "zero recoil" gun that, according to pew pew nerds, is actually just super realistic
- Doctor Who and House of the Dragon star Matt Smith will reportedly play the franchise's "next great villain" in Ryan Gosling's Star Wars: Starfighter movie
- Nintendo forces Japanese charity speedrun event to pull its games from the lineup after claiming "unauthorized use," now organizers have to ask permission for every single game in the future
- It's not Portal 3 but this fan-made dating sim with enough of Valve's approval for a Steam launch might be as close as it gets, and its solo dev says it's canon: "There's nothing you can do about it"
- "Literally never seen this before in 120 hours": Elden Ring Nightreign player shares hidden castle treasure chests so handy I'm about to boot the game up just to loot them
- Horror dev says her FMV game contains "no pornography whatsoever" but still got banned on Steam for NSFW content: "What this actually results in is taking power and storytelling away from women"
- Fortnite's Power Rangers crossover goes above and beyond with a morphenomenal live-action tokusatsu trailer apparently filmed at an iconic location from the show
- Beaver-collecting mastermind behind 13,000-hour MMO account suggests things got a bit out of hand: "I sort of realized it would be possible to do something unique and stupid and get the most beavers"
- $80 games have retreated for now, but analyst says the old $60 or $70 pricing model is dead in the "Wild West" of 2025: "I know a lot of people don't like it, but people still buy these games at these high price points"
- Skyblivion is giving us a whole city that was cut from Oblivion 19 years ago and shaking up my least favorite part of the original RPG with a new Elder Scrolls Online-inspired landscape
- The only Stranger Things star to correctly predict what the long-awaited spin-off would be, according to the Duffer brothers, says it could be an anthology "tied together through this mythology of the Upside Down"
- Microsoft, EA, and other publishers should give up on artificial intelligence: We peaked 21 years ago, when Resident Evil 4 devs were thrilled AI enemies could think "like a smart person" by using "weapons, of course"
- Black Panther star Daniel Kaluuya will co-write a Spider-Verse spin-off movie for his ultra-cool character Spider-Punk
- Kirby and the Forgotten Land was my 2022 GOTY over Elden Ring, and the Switch 2 upgrade DLC is giving fans flashbacks to the most notorious challenges in the series
- I was contacted by probably the best fisherman in World of Warcraft, if not any MMO ever, and I was not prepared for how deep the waters went: "It's literally been an almost 10-year battle"
- The tide is turning - over 40% of Steam users now have AMD CPUs, according to the latest Hardware Survey
- Star Wars fans are debating the series' second most iconic character, because everyone agrees that Darth Vader is number one
- Alien: Earth debuts to the franchise's third-highest Rotten Tomatoes score, with only Ridley Scott's original movie and James Cameron's Aliens ranking ahead
- Almost 11 years since launching Destiny 1, former Bungie CEO says live service isn't right for all games: "It's pretty clear that we can't just pick a business model and say that's a reason to make a game"
- Battlefield 6 really wants Assault players to stop lone-wolfing, so they've taken the Spawn Beacon from snipers to place "greater emphasis on team play"
- The Naked Gun director fought to keep the silliest part of the movie: "At one point I did have to threaten to quit"
- After starting a second playthrough of Red Dead Redemption 2, I've trapped myself in Chapter 2 and I'm not emotionally ready to move past it
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead says "prejudice against turn-based RPGs isn't completely gone," even if fellow JRPGs like Persona and Dragon Quest sell millions of copies
- The Analogue 3D might be delayed, but I can confirm its 8Bitdo N64 controller is worth the hype
- I own over 150 amiibos, but the recent Nintendo price increases might be the end of my collection
- Dune: Awakening player manages a sandworm escape so jaw-dropping even the MMO's devs are impressed: "Yes, I pissed my pants, yes, my stillsuit saved the piss"
- How to repair vehicles in Battlefield 6
- Heat 2 is getting so expensive that Warner Bros. wants a streaming service to co-finance the movie, and Leonardo DiCaprio is reportedly in talks to star
- I thought the scariest thing about Dead Take would be its Final Fantasy and Baldur's Gate 3 stars doing American accents, but no horror game has stunned me like this since 2022
- Battlefield 6's beta doesn't start for another 2 days, but fans clearly don't mind the wait as the FPS has already hit a peak of almost 10,000 concurrent players on Steam
- Oblivion Remastered joins the pantheon of Red Dead Redemption 2 and The Witcher 4 for its attention to animal anatomy: "The deer have buttholes"
- Resident Evil names "AI-first" affront to humanity Duolingo bird its newest biological weapon, making it canon that Leon Kennedy has only learned Spanish by force
- I don't know what's worse - the 4,000 Baldur's Gate 3 sicko who beat the RPG's Honour Mode at level 1, or the 30,000 who did it with an objectively terrible build
- Helldivers 2 devs stay true to their word, immediately roll out a patch full of fixes after the studio's "Super Earth sanctioned vacation," but one major issue still remains
- How to get a Jet or Helicopter in the Battlefield 6 beta
- I double dare you not to fall in love with this adorable Fantastic Four merch by Loungefly
- After 5 million sales, dev of hit underwater Soulslike tells people to just pirate its new viral mounting climbing game Peak instead of wasting time and money on "microtransaction-riddled Roblox slop" ripoffs where you can buy a win
- Cyberpunk 2077 was a challenge for CDPR as V has "more freedom" in how they tackle the open-world, whereas it's "very difficult" to see The Witcher 3's Geralt "go GTA style"
- The Long Walk and Strange Darling screenwriter says he's written a "nasty, passionate horror role" for Meryl Streep "like nothing she's ever played"
- Check in on the Hollow Knight: Silksong fans in your life, because Nintendo just announced a new 15-minute Indie World showcase for this week
- League of Legends' very bad year continues as Riot pulls sloppy AI video offline amid fan criticism: "WTF how is this real"
- Silent Hill has been terrifying me for over 25 years, so here's my beginner's guide for the series ahead of Silent Hill f
- The games industry might be built on borrowed ideas, but new ones have to come from somewhere – even if Fumito Ueda says "the era of game mechanics is over"
- Alien: Earth review: "Arguably the franchise's strongest outing since James Cameron's Aliens"
- What are the Battlefield 6 beta rewards and Twitch Drops you can earn
- This brand-new 4TB PS5 SSD has given my old Sony console a Lexar-shaped lifeline
- Amazon's new War of the Worlds adaptation, which stars Ice Cube and is filmed entirely on a computer screen, debuts to 0% on Rotten Tomatoes
- The Straw Hat Pirates are reunited in first look at One Piece season 2, ahead of the first trailer – which we think is due to drop in a matter of days
- Former Stardew Valley dev decides against adding a "stink gun" to his new life sim, but offers a compromise by allowing you to torment cityfolk with pungent fruit
- Palworld studio's publishing arm signs another "very exciting game" to add to its list of "bangers," not long after helping release a new horror game featuring Baldur's Gate 3 and Final Fantasy talent
- How to revive in Battlefield 6 beta multiplayer
- Apex Legends could get a film or TV adaptation that "really respects and upholds the brand and the franchise", says EA entertainment boss
- As Mister Miracle showrunner teases the new DC series, fans are sharing their dream casting ideas
- Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director is "so insanely excited" for Larian's next RPG, but don't expect it any time soon: "This s**t ain't cooked in an air fryer bro sorry got nothing for you right now"
- The Punisher’s full costume for upcoming special has been revealed, and fans are hoping that the characters in Spider-Man 4 will look just as comic book accurate
- Boba Fett actor says there are no plans to bring the Star Wars character back: "You need to send a fax, or a letter, or an email, to those powers that be at Lucasfilm"
- Battlefield 6 dev says the magic words: Bad Company 2 is a "huge inspiration" for the upcoming FPS, and my excitement for the beta is now at an all-time high
- August 4
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- Konami says Silent Hill f is more combat focused because young players like challenging action games, and with Soulslike fatigue seeping into my bones, I really don't like the sound of that
- Helldivers 2 CEO says "we know the game isn't in tip top shape right now" and Arrowhead devs are back from vacation to focus "100% on bug fixing and optimization"
- "Pirated ROMs hurt small indie teams": Legendary Japanese dev asks gamers to "please support us through official channels" after a "hacked ROM" of new 16-bit shooter appears following Steam release
- "Stop Killing Games has actually changed the timeline": As EU petition comes to successful close, founder says "unending overtime" has him ready to "take a break for the next 10 years," but he's sticking around until it's done
- Elden Ring Nightreign players sick of Everdark Augur boss can't even pretend to be sad there's a glitch that makes it jump off the edge of the map: "Nightlord felled… off the map"
- Analyst says "I expect a $100 price point" for GTA 6, estimates Rockstar's development cost is over $1.5 billion, and predicts it will earn "$10 billion lifetime and another $500 million annually from GTA Online"
- Steam founder Gabe Newell predicts AI will be "10 times as significant as the impact of CGI," tells film directors to act more like 19-year-olds with chatbot girlfriends and "actually use this tool"
- Capcom announces yet more great Monster Hunter Wilds changes that really won't matter at all until the PC port is fixed
- Disney wanted to create a generative AI character for Tron: Ares and explored putting The Rock's head on a different body using deepfake tech for the live-action Moana remake
- "Are you folks doing okay?" Larian asks the 350 Baldur's Gate 3 players responsible for one of the weirdest class choices I've ever seen in an RPG
- Weeks after canceling Everwild and laying off developers, Xbox puts on a smile to celebrate Rare's 40-year legacy with a red hat in Sea of Thieves and a swanky controller
- Battlefield 6 beta preload is live, and at 35GB you might actually get it downloaded in time to play the FPS this weekend
- With a new record 240,000 players online, Old School RuneScape is roughly 8x bigger than its sister MMO and would be the fourth-biggest game on all of Steam if not for a technicality
- "Grand Theft Auto, Duke Nukem, and Saints Row" are "at risk" amid pressure to remove adult games from Steam and Itch, retro platform worries
- Barbie star Margot Robbie is being eyed for the lead role in Tim Burton's remake of a 1950s B-movie, sci-fi classic
- Modders behind one of Final Fantasy 14's most beloved third-party tools are making their own "cozy crafting roguelite," and it looks a whole lot like Moonlighter
- If you've had enough Diablo 4, new historical action RPG Titan Quest 2 came out 3 days ago, and it's become an instant hit on Steam 19 years after the first game
- As Switch price increases go live, former Nintendo marketing manager says it could be "really good news" for the Switch 2 and that Nintendo "found a way to stay winning, no matter how much it stinks for all of us"
- Shadowheart is the most-respecced Baldur's Gate 3 companion and it's not even close: everyone knew to make her a Life or Death Domain Cleric, which Larian says "checks out"
- Hideo Kojima corrects himself with a flex, says actually 79.5% of Death Stranding 2 players "are continuing to play" past its ending instead of the 79% he first reported: "Please keep enjoying the game"
- When are the Battlefield 6 beta times and dates
- A Diablo tabletop RPG aims to fix a D&D problem with "no inexperienced and squishy 1st level" characters
- Hold the foam, did my favorite budget gaming chair just reach a new low price?
- Best weapons in Battlefield 6
- This PS5 headset is down to its lowest ever price, and it makes all the difference in my Marvel Rival matches
- The best new shows and movies streaming this week on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney Plus, and more
- "This is a monumental moment": Weeks after Microsoft laid off 9,000, Call of Duty devs vote to ratify union contract guaranteeing raises as the publisher pushes AI
- Battlefield 6 follows Call of Duty in letting you "pick and choose which components of the game you install" to help suffering hard drives, but fans worry a day-one patch will leave them full regardless
- Spider-Man: Homecoming and Better Call Saul star teases his villain’s return for Brand New Day with just one simple word: "Sting"
- “Do not f****ing do that”: Deus Ex actor reacts to Cyberpunk 2077 mod using AI to add Adam Jensen's voice, and it isn't pretty
- I've been using Darktide's new Arbitrator class for a month, laying devious traps and mauling heretics as a grimdark Wallace and Gromit
- Despite the two shows' decades-long feud, Family Guy creator Seth Macfarlane praises South Park: "Any show that lasts that long is pretty astounding"
- 33 hotfixes later, the infamous Baldur's Gate 3 bug Larian said it "probably" squashed lives on, and the RPG's fans can't help but keep rooting for it: "I don’t want them to fix this particular bug"
- Despite positive reviews and a great Rotten Tomatoes score, Fantastic Four: First Steps had a massive second weekend drop at the global box office
- All Battlefield 6 classes: Assault, Engineer, Support and Recon explained
- Donkey Kong Bananza is the best Hulk game ever and makes me wish for the return of destruction-oriented sandboxes
- James Cameron warns that his first post-Avatar 3 movie could be the "most challenging film" he'll ever make, and the director "might not even be up to the task"
- Hideo Kojima shares a lengthy review of Fantastic Four, and it's safe to say he's a fan of the new Marvel movie
- From price to portability, here's everything I look for when picking the best Nintendo Switch 2 headset
- Oblivion Remastered isn't comparable to Skyblivion as the 13-year project is "a full-scale remake" reimagining Bethesda's game "from the ground up, bringing it in line with modern RPG standards"
- Silent Hill f's writer views the series as a "pie crust" that hides "its true colors beneath a layer of horror and fog," and I say let him cook
- How to access the Battlefield 6 beta
- The Naked Gun reboot got greenlit thanks to a test sequence where Liam Neeson mocked Paramout executives: "He basically talks s**t to them and leaves"
- Turtle Beach is re-releasing my favorite controller with a higher price tag and even I'm struggling to see what's been improved
- Battlefield 6 won't have a server browser, but the game's producer believes the current system "answers all these wants"
- MSI's new AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme handheld beats the Intel version in early benchmarks, but I'm not exactly impressed
- Netflix subscribers can't get enough of anime with over 4.4 billion hours watched so far in 2025, and a classic show beat the likes of Attack on Titan and Demon Slayer to take the number 1 spot
- Stranger Things creator teases the final season’s "eventful" premiere with the "craziest cold open we’ve ever done"
- Battlefield 6 will apparently have some skill-based matchmaking according to EA, and not everyone is happy: "Just let me hang with the boys"
- As the Spider-Man 4 set photo deluge continues Tom Holland shares first official pictures, and fans are loving the new costume
- Fantastic Four has a Stan Lee 'cameo' that includes a 62-year-old reference to one of Doctor Doom's first stories
- Sarah Michelle Gellar is back in the gym ahead of Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot in new behind-the-scenes video featuring new Slayer Ryan Kiera Armstrong
- Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls is getting an closed beta on PS5 next month after a successful debut at EVO which had a Marvel Vs Capcom legend saying "I just want to play more, it's cracked bro"
- Nintendo gives Switch 2 users a platform for their game-key card complaints with a survey about physical and digital games, and yes, you can say you "definitely would not buy" them
- DC boss James Gunn shuts down The Batman 2 and Teen Titans rumors saying "everything" you've heard is either a "guess" or "made up"
- Baldur's Gate 3 lead says the D&D RPG is "what allowed us to do our next crazy thing," assuring Larian Studios is "working hard to ensure you'll have plenty of fun" with its new game
- Peacemaker star John Cena says his Superman cameo was decided at the "final hour" during season 2 costume fittings: "James asked me if I wanted to be involved, and my answer was 'Heck yes'"
- James Gunn says DC Studios' opening logo sequence isn't a big "Marvel-esque" intro because they can sometimes be "too long" and "became too much a part of the movie"
- The Sandman showrunner addresses Superman references in the Netflix show and reveals a Batman cameo was "briefly" discussed for the finale: "Does Robert Pattinson want to come to the funeral?"
- August 3
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- 8 years after release, a stunning new Dark Souls 3 speedrun world record has been set, and I started scratching my head about 75 seconds into watching it
- Donkey Kong Bananza's horrific poison swamp channels Dark Souls' Blighttown, but its biggest sin is making me realize how underused DK's transformations are
- "We don't want CoD movement, we want Battlefield": Battlefield 6 hopefuls are already asking DICE to rein in its slide as preview streamers fly around the map on ice skates
- One of my favorite 8-bit retro consoles is getting an HD remake this month, and it could be killer for casual players with physical collections
- Star Wars star Liam Neeson says his death scene in The Phantom Menace was "a bit namby-pamby" as he criticizes Qui-Gon's fighting: "Hardly a Master Jedi"
- Spider-Man star Tom Holland downplays speculation that he could be the next James Bond while being grilled by Gordon Ramsay
- For the first time since the original Dark Souls, Elden Ring Nightreign sleuth finds FromSoftware significantly changed how grab attacks work – creating a 0.2-second window for one old boss
- I wrote this Resident Evil beginner's guide after 23 years of being a Capcom superfan, and it's all you need to get into the series before Requiem
- Star Trek: Strange New Worlds spent half a year turning its cast into puppets for one of its wildest episodes yet: "We had to have a lot of conversations about making puppets"
- Monster Hunter Stories 3 fan threatens to "s**t [their] pants" if it was revealed, now Capcom says "sorry about your pants"
- Henry Cavill offers an exciting update on his long-awaited Highlander reboot as filming is set to start soon: "That is taking all of my focus"
- Tom Holland reveals first full look at Spider-Man's new suit ahead of Brand New Day: "Are we ready?"
- August 2
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- Capcom decides now is the time to release a Monster Hunter Wilds digital soundtrack that costs $75 on Steam and only comes with MP3 files, which is so bad it feels like a mistake
- Wednesday season 2 release schedule: when is part 2 on Netflix?
- Helldivers 2 players ask for better UI with in-game info but joke it "would break 50% of the game," director says "that's mean... and also sadly true" but "we are working on an improved system"
- "Most players have no idea" how much games cost to make and "everything's more expensive than people think," devs say, as indie hits like Balatro are "the exception"
- Acclaimed indie dev properly reveals his solarpunk open-world comedy featuring a naughty grandpa and sex robots releasing "whenever GTA 6 comes out, whatever that is"
- Stardew Valley with animal people and a lot more depression is an instant hit on Steam: "The plague is coming. The community must work together if everyone is to survive"
- "The very idea of making a prequel to Silent Hill wasn't good," says Origins and Shattered Memories designer: "That game told its story brilliantly through flashbacks, and there weren't really any unanswered questions"
- South Park fans in the US only have a few days left to watch the show on HBO Max before it moves to a new streamer
- OG Reed Richards actor still isn't over a Wolverine 'cameo' being cut from 2005's Fantastic Four: "Paying homage to the great Hugh Jackman was quite a thrill"
- From InuYasha to Spirited Away, fans are discussing their favorite "gateway anime," and it's a perfect list of recommendations for beginners
- A Quiet Place 3 confirms release date and John Krasinski's return as writer and director
- Marvel confirms a major Avengers actor is joining Tom Holland's Spider-Man in Brand New Day along with a returning villain
- August 1
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- I spent 15 years waiting for Darksiders to fulfill the best cliffhanger of the PS3 era, and now the M-rated Zelda-like is finally poised to deliver in Darksiders 4
- King of the Hill season 14 review: "Hank Hill himself has evolved into a much more open and accepting person"
- Elden Ring Nightreign's big new challenge is one of the most hated, polarizing bosses in FromSoftware history: "I wish it was longer and he traveled a full zip code away with every attack"
- GOG preservationists hit back at "censorship in gaming" by making a bunch of notable NSFW games free-to-own for a limited time: "If a game is legal and responsibly made, players should be able to enjoy it"
- Original Plants vs Zombies artists say nobody at EA contacted them about the new Replanted remake: "I'd be down to help with it... whatever, I guess"
- BioShock publisher 2K reportedly shelves remake, dumps BioShock 4 leaders after failed internal review: "We have a good game, but we are committed to delivering a great one"
- Deadpool meets Batman, Jeff the Land Shark and Krypto the Super Dog frolic, and Green Arrow and Daredevil are locked in bloody combat in first look at new Marvel/DC crossover
- Analyst says stumbles like Monster Hunter Wilds' PC fiasco are only getting uglier with intense competition: "A prominent streamer or YouTuber can single-handedly, by showing one screenshot, really impact what the perception of a game is"
- Weapons lead Josh Brolin was drawn to Barbarian director's queasy new project "because psychologically, you want to keep confronting things like" toxic masculinity: "This staunch masculinity, I get very sickened by"
- Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection has a $150 Kollector's Edition with a delightfully stupid Goro statue, but I think the $80 Deluxe Edition might be even better for '90s arcade nostalgia
- 7 years after Netflix canceled Iron Fist, I wasn’t expecting Marvel to fix the Living Weapon in a new Black Panther animated series
- Former Nintendo marketing lead says it's "not normal" we still don't have release dates for Elden Ring, Metroid Prime 4, and more Switch 2 games: "That's not the Nintendo that I know"
- The first FPS from horror publisher Blumhouse is an unexpected blend of Resident Evil, Bloodborne, and mermaid folk horror, and it shouldn't work – but it does
- Late Shift is like Boiling Point or The Bear, but set in a hospital, and it's one of the most tense movies I've watched this year
- Final Fantasy 14 director Yoshi-P knows the MMO isn't in "perfect" shape after Dawntrail, but Patch 7.3 marks a new beginning for Square Enix
- One of the best Super Smash Bros. players of all time tried a new indie platform fighter and immediately got destroyed without landing a single hit: "What the f*** just happened!"
- Need a camera to play Super Mario Jamboree? These are the Switch 2 cameras I'd grab right now
- Does new MCU show Eyes of Wakanda tie into the Black Panther movies?
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 leads predict rise in "AA-class games" as production costs reach ridiculous heights, say only GTA 6 maker Rockstar "is able to meet that demand"
- Alt-pop princess Pinkpantheress snuck sound bites from Nintendo's cult Wii hit Rhythm Heaven Fever into her music ahead of its new Switch game: "It’s the game that got me through my teens"
- New 007 screenwriter says his James Bond movie will be "different and better and stronger and bolder", but can't say whether he knows who's been cast in the lead role
- "Terraria 1.4.5 continues unabated," but still no release date for the sandbox game's 6th final update – "We are doing our very best to get to that day as quickly as possible"
- The Analogue 3D's controller launches today, but the new N64 gamepad failed to show up on my doorstep
- Deadpool co-creator is already on the outs with Marvel and has now slammed "impossibly dull and boring" Fantastic Four
- This RTX 5070 gaming PC might rely on "fake frames", but it's cheaper than any 9070 build I'm seeing right now
- After 857 hours spent playing 8 RPGs this year, I'm finding solace from open world burnout in the most curious of genres
- The Pokemon Company begs TCG Pocket fans not to blame artist behind plagiarized Ho-Oh, takes full responsibility after removing it
- I need to know what the 190,000 people who bought a Switch 2 at launch without Mario Kart World were doing, because I refuse to believe Welcome Tour was a system seller
- Switch price increases leak early as Nintendo bumps consoles by up to $50 in the US, makes Joy-Con 2s $5 more expensive, and slaps another $10 on my beloved Alarmo
- WoW Classic's new raid race stumbles off the starting line as Blizzard accidentally releases Mogu'shan Vaults early, then temporarily bans players for its own mistake
- Octopath Traveler 0 is "inspired by story elements and gameplay ideas" from the JRPG series' mobile game, but even returning fans are "getting a new experience"
- Tom Holland's new Spider-Man suit has been partially revealed ahead of Brand New Day, and the first look is giving us Sam Raimi vibes
- I finally tried Minami Lane after seeing over 5,000 positive reviews, and within 4 hours it's already the chillest management game I've ever played
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day leaks are here already as filming begins – and they might have just confirmed Mister Negative as the film's villain
- The 32 greatest sci-fi movie quotes
- Baldur's Gate 3 and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 actor hates being called a "voice actor" as it "negates" other work that goes into roles, like motion capture: "It makes me really angry"
- There are no plans for a Battlefield 6 port on Switch 2, even though Battlefield Studios' head is a self-proclaimed "huge Switch fan"
- Sony's "Canis" PlayStation handheld should "beat the Xbox Ally X in performance," but I'm convinced it's really gunning for the Switch 2
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 studio is "just the right size" for a "full-priced turn-based RPG," so don't expect its success to lead to AAA ambitions: "I'd prefer working as a small team"
- I hosted a gaming podcast for years, and Rode's latest free feature would have made it so much easier
- After filming The Odyssey and Spider-Man 4 back-to-back, Tom Holland knows his limits – and plans to take a break from acting: "You can't do your best work when you're burnt out"
- Battlefield 6 producers stress it's "really important to us" that cosmetics "feel grounded" and "authentic to the franchise," so don't expect to see the likes of Peter Griffin and Hatsune Miku here
- Dying Light: The Beast dev defends $60 price because "in every metric" the DLC-turned-game is "bigger, denser, and more advanced than we initially assumed"
- A Fantastic Four trilogy was planned in the '00s, according to Reed Richards actor Ioan Gruffudd: "The mindset was that we were going to do three"
- Hostel series from original director Eli Roth is officially in development, with Oscar-nominated The Holdovers actor set to star
- Steam founder Gabe Newell is investing his $9.5 billion fortune in his new passion, big ass boats, because he's "a hands-on visionary who respects the sea"
- "This will be faster than the PS5 Pro" - leaks suggest the PS6 will be cheaper thanks to its AMD chip and could be here by 2028
- After rumors of a current-gen Kingdom Come: Deliverance, developer Warhorse is blatantly hinting at a PS5 version
- New Dune: Awakening update will cause certain bases to "collapse when the patch goes live," and fans of the survival MMO can't wait for "the chaos" to ensue come version 1.1.20
- The Batman writer's Spider-Man 4 pitch makes me want Sam Raimi to return for one last reunion with Tobey Maguire's Spidey
- Battlefield 6 players on Steam won't need to use the divisive EA App in order to play, and fans are thrilled: "We cannot stop winning right now"
- Ubisoft allegedly "threatened to sue" Assassin's Creed: Black Flag's Edward Kenway for hinting at the open-world game's remake
- I'm already obsessed with Silent Hill f after 5 hours thanks to its incredible story and atmosphere, but I'm anxious about the parry-heavy combat
- Eyes of Wakanda review: "A creative premise shortchanged by the runtime and Marvel bloat"
