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- November 30
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- Michael B. Jordan's Thomas Crown Affair reboot gets new cast members including a future Harry Potter villain
- Baldur's Gate 3 Karlach actor says cast members are still underrated by video game developers, who see them "as outsources for a lot of the time": "There's a weird disconnect"
- Fallout co-creator says fan theories are too often decided by "the most entitled people on the internet" – only IP owners determine what's canon: "They say something, that's canon"
- Hytale's returning owner has hatched a genuinely ingenious marketing strategy: repeatedly telling everyone the game "isn't good," but like, only for now
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's Jennifer English says it was "hard" playing two characters in the RPG: "I had to find the subtlety of it being the same but different"
- Ghost in the Shell director and Death Stranding 2's pizza guy has "deep respect" for Hideo Kojima games, but hasn't been able to pull himself off Fallout 4 for 8 years
- Team Cherry finally answers to the crimes of Silksong's Bilewater: "We just love a big swamp. We wanted some kind of poison status for ages"
- These are the best Cyber Monday deals for gamers 2025: PS5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, and PC discounts live now
- The best Cyber Monday PS5 deals in 2025: second-chance console, game and accessory discounts live right now
- The best Cyber Monday Nintendo Switch deals 2025: big last chance console, game, and accessory discounts
- Noah Schnapp reveals a Stranger Things poster almost gave away the big episode 4 reveal
- Rian Johnson has his dream pick cast member for his next Knives Out Mystery
- Chloé Zhao reveals the original Marvel movie she got offered before taking up Eternals
- November 29
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- Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser left the studio because of how long GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 took to make: "I don't know if I had another one of those games in me"
- "After Baldur's Gate 3, I didn't think we'd be in this position": The team behind Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 can't quite believe they've matched Larian's award wins
- After almost 10 years, a Dead Rising sequel is reportedly happening with Capcom bringing back time limits and trapping Frank West in a zombie-infested Hollywood
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director doesn't think sales and awards success should change the studio: "What we want to do is exactly what we wanted to do when we started"
- I've been waiting 10 years for Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era, so here's the five biggest updates I'm already loving, and the development choices behind them
- Silksong devs say it's "unfortunate" their release date caused so many panicked indie delays: "We didn't even know the date until basically a week or two before"
- Saints Row creator admits he took Grand Theft Auto's design "wholesale," but feels there were "enough differentiating factors" overall; "Am I playing a GTA game? No! But I kinda feel like I am"
- Cyber Monday retro deals 2025: console, handheld, and accessory discounts still around
- Wicked: For Good director kept the final shot secret from studio executives so it couldn't be spoiled
- Predator: Badlands VFX team reveal final fight was originally nowhere near as epic
- Warhammer Quest: Darkwater feels leaner, meaner, and a lot of fun, so I hope fans can actually get their hands on it this time
- The Duffer Brothers cast their own childhood teacher for a new role in Stranger Things
- Surprise returning Stranger Things cast member talks about future in season 5
- November 28
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- Pokemon archeologist travels 12 hours to reunite a 17-year-old Diamond save file with the player who was forced to sell the barely functional, chewed cartridge after his partner's car wreck
- Despite having a script, James Cameron says his upcoming World War II movie has been put on the backburner: "I have 10 other projects"
- I was informed of what seems to be the only game on Steam with this many 100% positive reviews, and I need you to see it with me
- Michael B Jordan says Creed 4 is "eventually, definitely" happening: "I still might be able to get a couple of really good swings at the franchise"
- Silksong devs "have other games that we plan to make" that aren't just Hollow Knight, but their own deaths weigh on them: "It’s not that far off if you spend 7 years per project"
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 actors Ben Starr and Jennifer English worry the J’RPG wouldn’t be “as sexy” if it wasn’t French: “French people are just sexier”
- The first Strangers: Chapter 3 trailer is here, reminding us that they actually did make three of these films
- Stranger Things fans are wondering why a central character from season 4 is absent from season 5: "Bro went to pick some mushrooms and never came back"
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 actor Ben Starr is still ready to "lose to Megabonk" at The Game Awards, since one "person's game of the year is going to be another person's worst game of all time"
- James Cameron "almost" directed Wicked 15 years ago, but he "couldn't find the song"
- Team Cherry teases Silksong DLC and the return of a character revealed 7 years ago: "We've noticed that people would like an expansion" like Hollow Knight's Pantheon
- These Pokemon cards have been a nightmare to find, but they just got an unreal discount
- Silksong devs "maybe" aren't going to The Game Awards and think they're "safe" from a GOTY win because of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, which is "exceptional and broadly palatable"
- This nautical take on the boomer shooter is filled with 90s cartoon absurdity, and it's already one of my favourite games of the year after only playing an hour
- Silent Hill f owes its popularity to fan art, theories, memes, and more, say leads: "Games that do get talked about even months after release are the ones that are fun to theorize about"
- Stranger Things creator reveals exactly when we'll finally learn the truth about the Upside Down: "This is something that has been planned for 10 years now"
- GOG shades Steam in support for horror game banned by Valve: "We've always believed that players should be able to choose the experiences that speak to them"
- Old copy of Fortnite from before it went free-to-play sells for $42,500, and while you might think that's weird, remember that the person who bought it probably won't play it anyway
- How well do you know Star Trek?
- Modretro finally just revealed its 4K N64, and I really wasn't expecting a transparent 2000s console get-up
- Palworld dev isn’t impressed by "so-called" AAA, prefers indies since they "include the kind of systems you can’t find in other games": "AAA titles are overwhelmingly about graphic quality and fidelity"
- Demon Slayer's Tanjiro actor and manga diehard says Infinity Castle sequel fights could surpass the Akaza showdown: "It's gonna blow some minds, for sure"
- I'm not a fan of rom-coms or romantic fantasy – but the delightfully queer 100 Nights of Hero made me a believer
- GTA 6 might've won the "Most Wanted Game" award at the Golden Joysticks, but The Witcher 4 wasn't far behind
- Quentin Tarantino says The Hunger Games "ripped off" Battle Royale and fans clap back: "He would know – his entire career is built on ripping off other IPs"
- Helldivers 2 ramps up the authoritarian satire as High Command takes action against civilians who make too much eye contact, and fans think a new rebel faction is on the way
- Elden Ring Nightreign Scholar abilities and build guide
- "Hope is not lost" for Assassin's Creed Shadows to follow Mirage's lead and add the fan-favorite manual jump in a post-launch update
- Police confirm Arc Raiders fan got a visit from officers in real life after a concerned motel guest heard him plead for a revive: "I got shot, please get me up!"
- As Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era soars, Hooded Horse boss Tim Bender says passion-publishing trumps chasing money: "Why would anyone want to work with you if not for total lack of choice?"
- Fan-made Rogue One archive is a treasure trove of information on the Star Wars movie, including over 35 deleted scenes and moments
- James Cameron says if Avatar: Fire and Ash doesn't make money, he's "absolutely" ready to walk away – but he might write a book to wrap up the plot
- Hytale early access release date set for January 2026 just weeks after it's reacquired by original founders, following 5 years and cancellation at Riot: "If you don’t feel comfortable pre-ordering, please don't"
- Cyberpunk: Edgerunners actor has spoken to CD Projekt Red about season 2 and "what they have planned next for the franchise" but "truly" doesn't know if that involves David
- MMO player endures "heavy chest pains" and struggles "to stay awake" as his girlfriend brings him food during 4-day grind to become first in the world to reach max level
- Valve artist says that's "like saying food products shouldn't have their ingredients list" as Epic's Tim Sweeney and more call on Steam to drop the 'Made with AI' label
- Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says "leaving some mystery" and undeveloped lore in games is important so players are keen to play follow-ups and sequels: "If you tell everything, players will want nothing"
- How Dispatch helped me to see my father's death in a new light
- Stranger Things fans are divided about maligned season 2 episode after the return of a key character in season 5: "It was pointless"
- The Outer Worlds 2 director's stance on AI is that "Obsidian should never outsource the things that it's amazing at," like the famed RPG dev's knack for good writing
- Kingdom Hearts writer says the series "freed me from the despair I felt at the time" as video games pushed for photorealism
- The Outer Worlds 2 lead says his RPG isn't a critique of capitalism, but Baldur's Gate 3's publishing lead isn't so sure: "Expression in video games is cooked"
- Fallout: New Vegas fans uncover an early build for the iconic RPG, featuring the original Mr House design and a steamy romance to go alongside it
- Daredevil: Born Again fans are worried season 2 will be delayed after a recent update: "A 1-year turnaround in this day and age was too good to be true"
- Despite working on Star Wars since The Phantom Menace, Lucasfilm design director Doug Chiang says "only George [Lucas] truly knows what Star Wars design is... I don’t always get it 100 per cent right”
- Assassin's Creed Shadows lead says microtransactions pay for free updates: "It allows us to do the Isu stuff, the quest stuff, the parkour updates"
- Superman scene-stealer Skyler Gisondo has joined the cast of Shrek 5 as one of the "brogres"
- Stranger Things fans have noticed that Steve and Will didn't interact until season 5: "Acting like coworkers on different shifts"
- Palworld publisher vows to "keep leveraging" the success of the survival game to "help cool people make cool games," like this fantasy looter-shooter made by a small team
- With The Game Awards weeks away, new Remedy trademark for what could be Control 2 surfaces
- Final Fantasy 7 writer says Dragon Quest taught him that protagonists should be "self-insert for the player", but realized "I shouldn't be so set on the idea that a silent protagonist is the only way"
- Vecna's master plan is way more terrifying than we first thought as fans spot a major clue in season 5 volume 1
- Robert Downey Jr. shares cryptic new Marvel art of Doctor Doom and Iron Man for Thanksgiving, adding fuel to the theory they'll be connected in Avengers: Doomsday
- The Odyssey IMAX prologue is rumored to hit theaters in a matter of weeks attached to screenings of two of the best movies of the year
- Stranger Things has a new best episode according to IMDb – thanks to this season 5 banger
- Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney doubles down on his critique of Steam's AI disclosures: "I just hate to see Valve confiscate ever more opportunity from small developers…"
- Troll 2 director on the kaiju-sized sequel to Netflix's most-watched non-English language movie: "We wanted the troll to feel very different to the first movie"
- Anticipation for GTA 6 isn't enough to overshadow Rockstar Games' alleged union-busting scandal as a Scottish councillor calls for political action
- Star Wars: Starfighter director Shawn Levy says he was "forced to come up with a new idea" for the film's third act and it's "so much better than the original idea would have been"
- November 27
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- The Big Preview for Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era – Exclusive dev access and hands-on with the strategy RPG revival
- Don't waste time hunting Black Friday video game deals: I've found them for you
- Skyrim fan works his 9-5 job from within the RPG, battling bandits while tackling emails and facing dragons during PowerPoints: "Work from home became work from Whiterun"
- Embark's "very hot fix" for Arc Raiders' door exploit problem lives up to its name as players who dare try it combust into literal flames: "THIS is the way you deal with issues you can't fast-fix"
- Over 2 hours of new Marathon footage leaks as Bungie's answer to the likes of Arc Raiders shows how far it's come since Sony indefinitely delayed the troubled extraction shooter earlier this year
- On a budget? These are the best Black Friday TV deals I'd buy under $300 in 2025
- Despite the JRPG love letter dominating award shows, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 creative lead insists the game really was "not supposed to be big"
- After Apple originally announced the first version of Halo in 1999, Xbox apparently called Bungie and said "'Steve Jobs can't have that. We're going to buy you.'"
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (November 28-30)
- Where Winds Meet players find a way to skip side quests by manipulating the MMO's AI chatbot NPCs into just giving over the goods instead
- New Assassin's Creed Shadows update includes a big Odyssey Easter egg and the devs have an entire Kassandra-focused story under wraps: "We might reveal it at some point"
- Cyberpunk 2077 and Witcher 3 veteran says superhero smash hit Dispatch is "my game of the year" – and it certainly wouldn't be replicable with AI
- The best Black Friday soundbar deals in 2025: upgrade your audio for less
- Sega is delisting Yakuza 0 in favor of its divisive Director's Cut, risking locking PS4 and Xbox One users out of the RPG entirely
- After telling fans not to "expect hundreds of hours of gameplay" and delaying their indie life sim, Paralives devs unveil new footage that leaves the community worried: "Oh boy"
- Stranger Things season 5 cave explained: what is it, how does it connect to the Upside Down, and why is Vecna scared of it?
- James Gunn debunks supposed new look at DC show Lanterns: "Nope. That's AI"
- Valve's "final decision" is that surreal horror game Horses will not be sold on Steam, despite the acclaimed studio behind it "likely closing" after sinking 2 years and $100,000 into it
- The best Black Friday controller deals in 2025: PS5, Xbox, PC, and Switch picks from an expert reviewer
- As Valve confirms Steam Machine will be priced more like a PC than a console, Baldur's Gate 3 publishing lead says its decision not to sell at a loss "isn't stupid," but it is "peculiar"
- Black Ops 7's Endgame can't decide if it wants to be Destiny 2 or Call of Duty, and it's a muddy addition that makes me miss simpler co-op campaigns
- Avatar: Fire and Ash is tracking for a massive domestic opening, but below Way of Water
- Halo co-creator Marcus Lehto redesigned Master Chief 9 times before perfecting the Xbox mascot: "It took forever, but I wasn't going to stop"
- Millie Bobby Brown has ranked the Stranger Things seasons, and it might prove controversial
- Revisiting Heroes 3 after 20 years has made me realize that Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era may have already surpassed it
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Maelle actor Jennifer English chooses her favorite ending for the "delulu fantasy" JRPG, and I forgive her for siding with her own character
- inZOI tells The Sims 4 wait, I've got this – actual schools are coming to the life sim for free, in a move fans of EA's own game have waited 11 years for: "We aim to create a real school – not a rabbit hole"
- Some Battlefield 6 players still can't hear enemies creeping up on them, so devs are doing "a full pass" to fix niggling sound issues for good: "Hoping we can share more details on that soon"
- Quentin Tarantino begins his best movies of the 21st Century list with a nuclear hot take: "I don't think Scorsese has made a film this exciting [this century]"
- 18 years after it owned the Xbox 360 era, Crackdown deserves so much better – and should have one more chance to prove itself
- Desperate for more Stranger Things? This D&D Starter Set lets you play out Eddie's campaign, and it rocks
- Chatter over Call of Duty: Black Ops 7's skill-based matchmaking kicks up another notch after player runs the tests and finds it isn't quite as open as we'd hoped
- A new Mandalorian and Grogu trailer is currently playing in theaters, and it shows off more of Zeb Orrelios and Baby Yoda destroying a droid
- Pluribus lead Rhea Seehorn didn't know about the Better Call Saul actor cameo until it was happening: "I tried to cover and play the scene"
- Zootropolis 2 creators brought almost 200 characters to the screen for the sequel and drew inspiration from Disney's "incredible legacy," including Jungle Book and Robin Hood
- Nintendo announces plans to acquire a Bandai Namco studio long-rumored to be the original Metroid Prime 4 developers
- Arc Raiders devs drop "very hot fix" to finally stomp the door and weapon exploits that have been plaguing the game since launch
- Disney boss Bob Iger called Avatar 3 "magnificent" and even shot down executive notes, according to James Cameron
- Dispatch leads say the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 team's shout-out at the Golden Joysticks "means so much," and "I've never had a game make me cry so quickly before"
- Assassin's Creed Shadows director says the RPG won't get another expansion as big as Claws of Awaji, but Ubisoft is still working on "chunkier updates" for Year 2
- A year since The Witcher 4's big reveal at The Game Awards, CD Projekt Red lead confirms "we won't be bringing any new content" to this year's awards show
- Vecna better watch his back: Stranger Things creators say that one character's "incredible" power reveal "changes the game" for the rest of season 5
- Stranger Things season 5 debuts to strong but series-low Rotten Tomatoes score, and it's over 10% lower than season 1
- Stranger Things creator wants you to fix these "garbage" TV settings before watching season 5
- The best Black Friday retro gaming deals live: all the biggest savings across the generations
- Stranger Things season 5 volume 1 review: “Can the Duffer brothers stick the landing? It’s sure looking like they will”
- Stranger Things season 5 volume 1 ending explained: who dies and how those huge revelations set up volume 2
- Well darn, Hello Games' Sean Murray says the team working on No Man's Sky follow-up Light No Fire is "tiny" and working "in the background"
- November 26
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- The Outer Worlds 2 director bravely says Chrono Trigger is "the best JRPG ever and it's not even close" - and that it doesn't get enough credit for being one of the only ones where "you don't actually have to grind"
- Star Wars: Starfighter director says the biggest inspiration for his film is Return of the Jedi: "I know the cool answer would be Empire"
- Five Nights at Freddy's 2 star Matthew Lillard says he and his Scream "husband" Skeet Ulrich are "supposed to" do at least one more FNAF movie together: "I think where the relationship goes is really interesting"
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 star Charlie Cox is right to credit motion capture actor for Gustave, says Red Dead actor, since "it takes a village" just to "depict 1 character!"
- Arc Raiders gear tiers get even messier as one gunsmith finds low-rarity mods are by far the best bang for your buck, and suddenly I don't feel bad about my uncommon blueprints
- Logan: Black White & Blood #1 flashes back to the decades before Wolverine joined the X-Men in brutal stories of his most hardcore adventures
- GTA 6 fans grab their spare pitchforks and torches as AI "leak" gets out of hand, turning 8 million views into an angry mob: "I wouldn't have thought it would go this far"
- Award-winning actor Ben Kingsley is taking his MCU imposter Trevor Slattery to the next level, offering acting lessons ahead of his return in Wonder Man
- Destiny 2 game director says "we don't want to be a dead live game" as Renegades arrives at a low for the MMO, admits "relatively few [new] people come" in and Edge of Fate pivot "didn't work"
- After miracle revival, Hytale head "now assembling a dedicated team" to satisfy fans of a key genre that's only grown since the Minecraft-inspired game's reveal: cozy and farming games like Stardew Valley and Animal Crossing
- The backbone of Arc Raiders, Scrappy the rooster, is based on a real bird who crashed a dev Zoom meeting and was photoscanned in as something "we'll definitely replace later"
- Rockstar topples $100,000 GTA 5 server "for no reason" according to creator who also denies any copyright infringement: "We have NOTHING TO DO with Harry Potter"
- The Outer Worlds 2 director doesn't want games to be "preachy," but the RPG's capitalist satire strikes a nerve "because this thing happens all the damn time, and we're just seeing it over and over on a loop"
- Bungie and Star Wars owner hashed out the tone of new Destiny 2 expansion Renegades together, realized it can't "feel like a side quest": "What’s the bad version of this?"
- Sega is willing to take risks on "highly volatile" new games, and can do so using the "stable foundation" created by its strong free-to-play revenue
- Baldur's Gate 3 players are breaking the RPG's D&D-fueled initiative order thanks to a German law that makes orphaned children "the strongest summons in the game"
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- "It's like a Sega Saturn pad on steroids" - Meet the only PC and Switch controller I'd buy this Black Friday
- "If you leave AI to its own devices, your work won't be exceptional" EA reportedly tells devs, despite a massive AI push following its $55 billion Saudi Arabian buyout
- This 4TB PS5 SSD deal is the perfect tool to breathe new life into your ageing Sony console
- 007 fans will have a licence to stream this December as every James Bond movie becomes free to watch in the US and UK
- Cyberpunk 2077 is CD Projekt Red's "main source of revenue," outpacing The Witcher 3's 5-year sales with 35 million copies sold
- On a Game Pass rampage this holiday season? Seagate has the deals for you
- The Zootropolis 2 team on bringing reptiles into the Disney sequel, and why new character Gary De'Snake is the movie's Yoda
- Calling all Lego Star Wars fans, UCS Jango Fett's ship just got its first major price cut
- Opposing Steam's AI disclosures, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says game stores should drop "the AI tag" because "it makes no sense" when "AI will be involved in nearly all future production"
- I just turned my living room into a '90s amusement centre using six arcade machines, and they're not all monstrously expensive
- Rapid-release "Definitive" editions like Persona 5 Royal could put people off buying games at launch, Sega worries, with players "hesitant to make purchases" when their version could become outdated
- "Digimon and Pokemon are fundamentally different" according to Digimon Story: Time Stranger producer, who hopes the new RPG will "serve as an opportunity" for the franchise to distinguish itself
- "Players should be able to see themselves": Witchbrook, the magical Stardew Valley-like life sim, unveils detailed character customization and clothing options that don't have "any limitations"
- Despite the success of Rebel Moon, Netflix has reportedly cancelled two upcoming Zack Snyder projects
- Former Stardew Valley dev has to delay adorable new life sim for the second time, shortly after adding the most perfect piles of snow: "I've been working very hard on the game"
- Warframe studio reveals Founder packs with exclusive equipment for new fantasy MMO Soulframe as Digital Extremes starts "planting some of our biggest roots yet for the future"
- Escape from Tarkov review: "An extraction shooter that will make you truly miserable if you let it, but can offer dizzying highs you won't find elsewhere"
- Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii says Final Fantasy protagonists "speak a lot," forming a "key difference" between the two iconic JRPG series: "You're not necessarily becoming the protagonist"
- Vin Diesel buries the hatchet with Fast and Furious co-star Dwayne Johnson for good in emotional post: "[We] created something unforgettable"
- When does Fortnite Chapter 7 start?
- Helldivers 2 studio CEO says despite improvements, there's "more work to be done" with performance patches: "The intent is that new releases don't bork quality but build on it"
- I hate the pathetic storage of the Switch 2, but I love to see these SD card deals
- Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era's huge demo feels like Early-Early Access because its strategy champion devs are constantly working off your feedback: "The philosophy here is transparency"
- 5 months after a launch so bad it was un-released and put back into beta, Splitgate 2 tries again as devs insist the FPS is now in "the best place it's ever been"
- Graphics card deals are actually dropping below MSRP for Black Friday
- RPG maestro Josh Sawyer admits "there's a lot to criticize" in D&D 4e, but not because it's "like an MMO" or other reasons "parroted" by folks "with little direct knowledge"
- I turned every Oblivion NPC into a sheep and broke the game, but I can only blame myself
- New Apple TV crime series due to release next week shelved indefinitely over plagiarism allegations
- Nintendo sent a crack team of unimaginably talented developers including Shigeru Miyamoto to the Mario's Picross studio to "personally" teach the plumber's aura
- Assassin's Creed Shadows' Attack on Titan crossover gets a kicking over lack of Titan fights, "atrocious" cutscenes, and an ending pop-up "telling you to go to the store and buy the outfit instead"
- Black Friday gaming PC deals LIVE: All the best deals and stock updates as I find your next desktop
- Brass: Birmingham review - "Fans think this is the best strategy board game ever made, and I have to admit that they've got a point"
- Rian Johnson says he doesn't see Knives Out "as IP," so no one else will ever direct one: "Each Knives Out film is something I want to make"
- Pixar 20-year veteran reveals the unlikely animation feat on The Incredibles that "almost killed him"
- Palworld gets a nod of approval from No Man's Sky lead as Pocketpair devs celebrate "both Steam ratings" finally becoming overwhelmingly positive: "We'll keep on trying our best"
- Home Alone star Macaulay Culkin has the perfect idea for a legacy sequel, and it involves Kevin and his son: "He’s the one setting traps for me"
- Barely 4 years after buying them, Embracer Group sells Remnant publisher and Star Trek Online developer in a deal that'll net it $30 million
- Stranger Things star Sadie Sink hints that she's not playing Mary Jane in Marvel's Spider-Man 4: "I'm excited for it to be put to rest"
- Lanterns trailer has been revealed behind closed doors, and it references a character that makes Rocket Raccoon look normal
- Anakin Skywalker actor Hayden Christensen says Rogue One "captured the essence of what Star Wars is meant to be" and he loves "how they portrayed Darth Vader"
- It looks like Death Stranding 2 is set for PC as Hideo Kojima's latest appears on a ratings board ahead of The Game Awards
- 9 years after the first movie made $1 billion, Zootopia 2 debuts to near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score
- I adore using OG gamepads, but I'd recommend these retro controller alternatives for under $50
- The best and weirdest Where Winds Meet character creation codes
- As Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 star Charlie Cox insists "any nomination" should go to Gustave's mocap actor, Baldur's Gate 3 performance director says awards should include motion capture category
- Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii says Final Fantasy 10 is "the ultimate perfection" of the beloved JRPG series, and we're sure stans will be completely normal about it
- Stranger Things creators say you need to rewatch four specific episodes before season 5 drops: "That’s where we started to really plant the seeds for the mythology"
- Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery review: "Brings Knives Out back to its roots for a sequel that's almost on a par with the original"
- Here are all our highly recommended products that our experts are searching for Black Friday savings on this week
- Star Fox spiritual successor from one of the SNES classic's original creators gets "re-reveal" gameplay trailer, and it looks even better than before
- November 25
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- Wednesday season 3 has finally found its mysterious Aunt Ophelia in another Tim Burton collaborator
- Modder who first put Thomas the Tank Engine into Skyrim flips the bird at the lawyers, does it again in Morrowind: "I fundamentally do not view toy company CEOs or media CEOs as people"
- Arc Raiders dev answers one big question about what counts toward bonus skill points for Expeditions, but Embark still won't say how much cash you actually need
- After 2 years and $100,000 invested, acclaimed indie studio is "likely closing" due to Steam ban, says it was "tricked and betrayed" by Valve: "A system that allows that is broken"
- After 11 grueling years and 6 different versions of the game, management sim devs decide they've finally made something that doesn't suck: Tavern Keeper "wasn't fun for ages"
- After 25 years, an unreleased Star Fox-style N64 shooter has been saved from the fires of lost media hell
- "There was only 1 game on all of Steam with more reviews than us at 100%," roguelike dev says, and now 54 clown emojis adorn the troll who broke the streak: "Game is amazing. I just like to be different"
- After a massive opening weekend for Wicked: For Good, Universal teases the possibility of more sequels: "We have a responsibility to figure out how we can continue in this universe"
- Assassin's Creed Netflix show casts Euphoria newcomer as co-lead
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 performance actor says Charlie Cox is "generous" to credit him for Game Awards nomination, explains "bringing Gustave to life was a team effort"
- Black Friday Paramount Plus deals are live, grab two months for $2.99/mo
- New speedrun discovery "will change Super Mario 64 forever" by making "one of the hardest tricks in the entire game" completely trivial to pull off
- Arc Raiders has a weird problem for a shooter: the worst guns in the game are really good
- Genshin Impact fans rush to defend femboy god Venti and crop-topped male lead Aether after they're criticized on Turkish news channel: "They think he is a girl lmao"
- Apple's cheapest iPad just hit a brand new record-low price for Black Friday
- I'm a massive D&D nerd, and I can't help loving this epic Lego set
- Super Mario 64's fanmade PS1 port was just one volley in the renewed '90s console war, as Spyro the Dragon fans are also taking Insomniac's legendary platformer to N64
- Getting into Pokemon cards? These Black Friday booster deals will kick-start your collection
- Creator of drug lord hit Schedule 1 had a backup plan so that "if Steam wouldn't take it for whatever reason, I could just pivot it to be a farming game" and "strip all the drug stuff out"
- These massive PS5 game deals are about to make my backlog way worse, and I'm 100% okay with that
- Hytale is "coming together at last" according to dev, who says 60 playtesters have just given the Minecraft-inspired game their stamp of approval: "Long way to go but momentum is key"
- I used these Black Friday deals to assemble a 1440p gaming PC with all-modern components, and it costs a lot less than I thought it would
- Supports win games, so Elden Ring Nightreign's new Scholar class looks like a must-play – and like a direct counter to the infamous gank boss Libra
- Binge-watching the whole of Stranger Things before season 5 hits Netflix may not have been the best idea, as now I have to watch my favorite characters die
- Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2's new Reclamation update is not only free but adds new weapons, stratagems, and even a boss
- "I will not disappoint you": Lies of P director promises "the most fun" as Neowiz prepares a sequel to one of the best Soulslikes ever made, says the Overture DLC was treated "almost as a sequel" anyway
- I can't believe it was Alienware that just matched the cheapest RTX 5060 gaming laptop deal I've seen so far
- Disney animation boss says Moana is "almost like an action hero first," and the live-action movie brings a "human versus the elements angle"
- Following a subtle Space Marine 2 cameo, Baldur's Gate 3 Lae'zel actor would "absolutely" be down to voice a Sister of Battle in a Warhammer game
- After securing a $55 billion deal to acquire Battlefield 6 and EA Sports FC publisher EA, Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund is reportedly "unable to allocate any more money" for the time being
- Christmas comes early for Helldivers 2 players as Arrowhead adds a minigun, flamethrower drone, and a chain sword all in one glorious Warbond
- Everything in the Helldivers 2 Python Commandos Warbond and is it worth it?
- Palworld lead gently reminds players the next update is not "massive," since "mammoth sized 1.0" is still a long way off: "I think you've misunderstood"
- The Witcher 3 director says "everything is optional" in his upcoming RPG Blood of Dawnwalker, as there's "no main quest" just like the original Fallout
- Project Hail Mary author isn't worried about spoiling a major plot reveal in the new trailer for Ryan Gosling's upcoming sci-fi movie: "This is not a Darth Vader is Luke's father kind of situation"
- This is my go-to 3D printer recommendation for beginners who want to print awesome nerd sh**
- Dispatch's success shows a way forward for a struggling AA narrative genre
- I got tired of clutter on my desk, but this $50 storage solution changed all that
- At the cost of his "sanity," Battlefield 6 player hits max rank with what is by far the worst vehicle in the game, sagely concludes: "It's a bad vehicle"
- Bless him, Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii says "warmth" and "accessibility" are key to the almost-40-year-old JRPG series' enduring success
- 40 years later, Goonies star Ke Huy Quan shares why he thinks the '80s adventure is still so loved: "We didn't know it was going to become this classic that it is today"
- WWE superstar AJ Lee is writing a secret anime movie for the studio behind Dragon Ball
- Arc Raiders door exploit makes keycards useless, and players demand the banhammer for those using it: "The sooner Embark bans people doing this, the sooner it will stop"
- 6 of the best new shows and movies streaming this week on Netflix, Disney Plus, Prime Video, and more (November 24–November 30)
- I'm usually a Dungeon disciple in Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era, but after 2 hours with the latest build, I'm feeling oddly fond of insects
- I keep pestering my friends to grab this Switch 2 case, and I'll do it again
- Less than $10 per terabyte, grab this massive hard drive for a record-low price at Walmart
- Baldur's Gate 3 publishing lead says it's not "true that big budget = s**t" and it's "easier than ever" to "find an audience" for games, but "the public company model is broken in entertainment"
- My favorite Lego Star Wars set for adults and kids is now under $40 for Black Friday
- One of the most authentic Game Boy remakes I've tested just dropped under $170
- After leaving Fire Emblem studio, Donkey Kong veteran and Mario's Picross creator couldn't hire his former co-workers or he'd face Nintendo's wrath: "It shows a lack of decency"
- Baldur's Gate 3 and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 star Jennifer English says "mistakes are beautiful," so "use your beautiful, creative, human brains" and not AI
- The Nacon Revolution X Unlimited controller is getting a stunning Xbox 360 colorway, but you can get the regular model for $50 cheaper right now
- Netflix's One Piece season 3 has started filming, all but confirming which arc the live-action show will adapt next
- Save almost $100 in this ridiculously good Disney Plus discount for Black Friday
- The best budget wireless headset I've tested all year has dropped below $100
- The IT: Welcome to Derry opening credits have slowly been getting even more horrifying, and you probably didn't even notice
- You can grab a new gaming keyboard, mouse, and headset all for less than $70 this Black Friday
- James Cameron slams Netflix's "fundamentally rotten" approach to theatrical releases: "The Academy Awards mean nothing if they don't mean theatrical"
- The Steam Deck LCD just got Black Friday'd, and I'd use the discount to make a low-spec Steam Machine
- Ghost of Yotei's latest update brings New Game+, replayable missions and more, but players are still hoping for Tsushima-style loadouts and more fashion freedom with transmog
- Arc Raiders' most dedicated players say "there is not enough content," but others beg to differ: "I sweated at the game 24 hours a day… Why no content?"
- Marvel star Scarlett Johansson joins Blumhouse's "all-new" Exorcist movie – and director Mike Flanagan "couldn't be happier"
- It: Welcome to Derry showrunner promises "unexpected" things from Bill Skarsgård's Pennywise in the rest of the horror spin-off: "[He] has opportunities with this character that the films did not present"
- Stranger Things director Shawn Levy says Netflix took a "huge swing" with the sci-fi show, because "on paper, this made not a lot of sense"
- Hugh Jackman is "never saying never" about returning to the MCU as Wolverine, but also jokes "they have enough for an AI version of me"
- Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser says GTA is so successful because of its "sense of freedom," and because it "smashed together" shooting, driving, and simulation genres in a way games hadn't done before
- No, it's not just you – Dune: Awakening NPCs really did become harder as Funcom admits to "undocumented changes" in the survival MMO's last big update, says "we will revert it"
- Far Cry is being turned into an anthology TV show with a "new cast", "new setting" and creative powerhouse Noah Hawley involved
- November 24
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- Five Nights at Freddy's 2 star Matthew Lillard says Mike Flanagan's upcoming Carrie TV show is "brilliant": "The only thing that sucks is you have to wait a year to see it"
- Forget Amazon or JB Hi-Fi — the best place to buy a PS5 in Australia this Black Friday is on eBay
- Five Nights at Freddy's 2 star Matthew Lillard isn't picky, but would love to be in Star Wars: "If I could be Han Solo, that'd be incredible"
- Kim Kardashian's all-time terrible lawyer show All's Fair is experiencing the Morbius effect as Hulu renews it for season 2
- "Naked Man" Arc Raiders scientist conducts diligent "social experiment" on player greed for loot, reports no one wants to see you naked and will kill you 63 out of 75 times
- The Witcher 3 star Doug Cockle says "I really don't care" about GTA 6, regardless of whether Rockstar's long-awaited game beats CDPR's opus on award count or not
- Team Cherry demonstrates the evolution between Hollow Knight and Silksong: "If the Last Judge had existed in the previous game, it would have probably been more of a big, round blob"
- Presumably praying people have room for another extraction shooter after Arc Raiders, Bungie opens Marathon signups for December playtest
- Arc Raiders was going to be a cross "between Shadow of the Colossus, Left 4 Dead, and PUBG" according to dev, who says Embark initially had no idea "what kind of game loop we were supposed to have"
- KPop Demon Hunters, Demon Slayer, and Chainsaw Man are all eligible for Oscar nominations
- The median price of best-selling new games on Steam has dropped in the past 2 years, research finds: "Charging >$25 is getting trickier, as players compare value to the $10-$15 indie titles"
- Studio lead reviving legendary turn-based strategy RPG after 10 years borrows Civ creator Sid Meier’s advice, says perfect sequel is “one-third old stuff, one-third improvements, and one-third something new”
- Thumbstick grips could be the best $10 you spend this Black Friday, and these are the three brands you need to watch
- This PCSpecialist PC hit 4K 200fps in Battlefield 6, thanks to the RTX 5070’s DLSS wizardry
- This 36g wireless gaming mouse was already too cheap, now it's even cheaper
- After a lackluster launch and "Mixed" reviews on Steam, the Stardew Valley-esque medieval life sim RPG I wanted to adore in 2024 redeems itself with a massive free update
- A few hundred employees working on "self-directed projects" has made Valve one of the world's most profitable-per-person companies, on track to top $17 billion this year and shame the likes of Google and Meta
- Super Mario 64 runs on PS1 now, because nothing is sacred to modders: "The best reason to do something is simply because you can"
- Battlefield 6 lead says recoil will be "100% fixed," but "it's a pretty complex issue" that'll take some time to resolve: "We're already cooking some improvements"
- Sony's latest DualSense deals include the first real savings on some of its funkiest PS5 controllers
- Baldur's Gate 3 provided "a lot of inspiration" for CD Projekt Red, but The Witcher 4 devs are sticking to their own RPG formula: "We definitely are not going to make a game like Larian did"
- 2 years since Baldur's Gate 3 sicced me on real-life D&D, my favorite video games of 2025 prove I've become truly obsessed
- Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era fans have already spent over 200 hours in the free Steam demo because there's an "unlimited amount of replayability"
- "Many AAA titles have been exploiting players in ways that resemble the mechanics of casinos": Dev of hit roguelike slot machine says "it’s debatable" games offer a safe space for those with gambling issues
- I'm building a cozy gaming setup this Black Friday, here's what's in my cart right now
- Xbox Game Pass and PlayStation Plus Black Friday deals are here, with very different discounts
- The best cheap PBT keycaps to upgrade your keyboard for under $50 this Black Friday
- Can I interest you in 420 MTG cards for a record low price in this trying time?
- Legendary One Piece animator defends One-Punch Man season 3: "They're not trying to make something poorly done"
- 007: First Light's developers "don't really think about" the hype around the 13-year wait since the last James Bond game
- "We can't make Bloodlines 2, we can't make Skyrim, but we can make Dishonored" – After Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines sequel's critical flop, studio co-founder says "you couldn't get away with it now"
- Helldivers 2 players are suspicious of their Citizen Surveillance Center as divers start getting marked as dissidents after a recent Major Order
- The Fractal Scape gaming headset has just taken its first major discount
- Analogue 3D restocks are happening today, but I'd try to save on N64 accessories to combat its higher price
- Deadpool and Wolverine director Shawn Levy says his "freedom" on his Star Wars movie Starfighter is "equal to any other movie [he's] made"
- Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era is a "great pleasure" and a "great responsibility" for its superfan CEO, and he's governed by one guiding principle: "Heroes is for everyone"
- You won't ever need to buy storage again with Samsung's Black Friday deals on SSDs and SD cards
- "We inherited a true hardcore engineering and design challenge": Hytale co-director "genuinely" means it when he says the sandbox RPG is "not good enough" right now
- Hytale will feature a "meaningful tribute" to Minecraft legend Technoblade: "He was a big part of our journey"
- Get your exclusive first look at a devious new Riftbound Spiritforged card
- I wasn't in the market for a new PS5 until I saw there's $100 off the limited edition Ghost of Yotei console bundles
- Stephen King's son Joe Hill is adapting one of his own unpublished stories for the big screen, and it's for the most heartwarming reason
- Now that the Xbox Full Screen Experience is available to other handhelds, I'd consider picking up this Windows 11 alternative
- This Lego Spider-Man 2 set recreates my favorite ever superhero movie scene, and it's perfect
- Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser says "no one" was excited for GTA 3 outside of the studio, but the devs believed there was "something really magical" about it
- Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser is making a game set in the same world as his new novel about devs who create a "self-loathing" AI, and is "dabbling" with using real AI in its development
- Palworld's collaboration with ultraviolent retro FPS Ultrakill was spurred on by the survival game's weapon designer, who is a huge fan, so Pocketpair "asked nicely"
- Stranger Things creators say the casts' aging throughout the series is "not as dramatic as people think" and the only issue is the deeper voices: "We’re still dealing with that"
- I'm thankful for the GameSir G7 Pro this year, but at $60, I'm not sure stock will hold until Cyber Monday
- This iconic gaming laptop just hit its lowest price ever at Best Buy, but the Razer Blade is lurking
- Hideo Kojima pays tribute to veteran actor Udo Kier, who appeared in over 200 movies and featured in upcoming project OD before passing away: "He was truly an 'icon' of his time"
- After 21 years of feeling at home in World of Warcraft, Midnight finally gives me a real place to call home
- X-Men actor Kelsey Grammer says too much and reveals the MCU heroes and villains he will be sharing scenes with in Avengers: Doomsday
- Arc Raiders karma doesn't get any sweeter than this: extract camper gets a spoonful of justice from bots, accidentally saves his would-be victim, and misses his own extraction
- My most-wanted Zelda amiibo are down to just $10 this week, but the sales won't be around for long
- James Cameron says that although he almost directed Jurassic Park, Steven Spielberg was the "right guy" for the job: "I would have made it too terrifying and R-rated"
- Steve, Dustin, Nancy, and Jonathan head into the Upside Down in the official trailer for Stranger Thing season 5 volume 1, and we're even more worried now
- I don't care if you think the Xbox 360 isn't retro, treat it to an upscaler this Black Friday
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Gustave actor Charlie Cox is "thrilled" about his Game Awards nomination, but insists "any credit I get" should go to his character's motion capture actor instead
- Steam Machine price "more in line with what you might expect from the current PC market," confirms Valve – but "ideally we'd be pretty competitive with that and have a pretty good deal"
- Despite playing Jesse Pinkman in Breaking Bad, Aaron Paul found his Invincible role "too grueling" so he turned down season 4
- It: Welcome to Derry showrunner says one of the cruelest moments in episode 5 was originally supposed to be in It: Chapter Two: "It felt like an interesting idea that was wrong"
- It: Welcome to Derry showrunner breaks down the Stephen King spin-off's scariest episode yet: "This is the beginning of a descent into the depths of darkness, terror, and madness"
- November 23
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- Baldur's Gate 3 and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 actor Jennifer English is moving on to her "dream part" – a fairy empress with a Welsh accent in the Warframe devs' new MMO
- Silksong devs say "it's very difficult to preserve mystery these days," and Zelda 2-era inspirations pushed them toward a world you can explore "divorced from the internet"
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's Verso actor prefers Maelle's ending to his own "because I really like my acting in it" – "choose the Maelle ending and you'll see why I won this award"
- Former Rockstar and GTA lead Dan Houser says gaming can "either go somewhere really interesting or somewhere that gets overly focused on making money"
- 5 games like Moonlighter 2, from roguelike adventures to superb shopkeeping
- Pocketpair dates Palworld's second collab, this time with hugely-acclaimed FPS Ultrakill, and again teases a Legendary Pal first shown off years ago for 1.0
- Bethesda returned to its 2006 RPG with Oblivion Remastered after deciding "what to modernize and what not to modernize," and it just "makes sense"
- Christopher Nolan almost came close to directing an ancient epic before The Odyssey, but got Batman Begins instead
- Nintendo's Black Friday Switch game deals just dropped, and my collection is gonna need a bigger shelf
- Buffy star Sarah Michelle Gellar praises director Chloé Zhao's involvement in the revival
- Two excellent gaming chairs, two deep Black Friday discounts - which is right for you?
- Noah Centineo close to boarding Gundam movie with Sydney Sweeney
- Daredevil: Born Again season 2 newcomer Matthew Lillard shares more details on his secret character that will be causing Fisk trouble
- Eddie Murphy has three iconic movies he regrets turning down
- Stranger Things creators The Duffer Brothers used the Game of Thrones snowball effect in their storytelling
- November 22
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- I love a narrative reason for roguelike loops, and Moonlighter 2 making it your literal job is one of the best
- Before Banjo-Kazooie's mascot was a bear and after he was a human, the N64 icon was actually a rabbit, according to a former Rare developer
- Hollow Knight devs highlight a big difference between their sequel and most Metroidvanias: "The player's choice about where to go in Silksong is not dictated by what power-ups you currently have"
- I can't afford to keep up with the best games of 2025, so I went back to Astro Bot for a shot of unadulterated joy
- I hate to break it to you, but there are huge discounts on Super Pocket and Evercade consoles that will give you yet another reason to expand your retro collection
- "If you're trying to send people to Mars, you're going to crash a bunch of rockets. We crashed a bunch of rockets": Arc Raiders devs explain how failed ideas led to one of 2025's biggest hits
- After Oblivion Remastered and Hi-Fi Rush, Bethesda Game Studios director wants more shadowdrops because "we all have short attention spans now"
- Where Winds Meet weapons tier list for the best offensive options
- Brendan Fraser describes the shelved Superman film he came close to starring in as "Shakespeare in space"
- Benedict Cumberbatch says he feels "pretty depressed" about AI in the film industry and thinks we're "vanilla-fying" the "thing that makes us human"
- Ex Valve designer reveals the door and big toe that retroactively broke Half-Life 2: "This isn't a normal bug - it appears to have traveled backwards in time and infected the original!"
- November 21
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- One of the rarest Superman comics in existence just sold for over $9 million at auction, making it the most valuable comic of all time
- Silksong is shockingly cheap at just $20, but Team Cherry says it just tries to "price the games at a reasonable level for people," man
- Minecraft player redefines sadness with the world's worst challenge, living in an inhospitable wasteland with only one Bonus Chest of items: "I think we can work with this"
- Hytale is priced so "aggressively low" that its returning owner is "taking on a considerable personal risk," but "charging more didn't feel right" because "I don't think the game is good yet"
- After 4 years, Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail dev's mystery game seemingly revealed to be the open-world game Varsapura, in a trailer that screams Control so loud I'd bet Remedy heard it in Finland
- Captain America #6 will send Steve Rogers and Nick Fury Jr's new SHIELD into the "powder keg" of a war-torn Latveria where they'll have to "reckon with the ghost of Doom" as well as the rampaging Red Hulk
- Stellar Blade Eve actor Rebecca Hanssen says she was "totally wowed" by the game's success: "When I was recording it, I had no idea how big it was going to become"
- FC 26 FC Pro Live Tracker and linked pros list
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 actor is "optimistic" about "opportunities" in generative AI acting: "My hope is that that power will come to the creator"
- Ubisoft makes a big bet on "generative AI-driven gameplay" leading to "more interactive and engaging games," CEO says "this work reflects the direction we want to take"
- I'm Terrified Of Firebending In Magic: The Gathering's Avatar: The Last Airbender Set, and you should be too
- It sounds like Stranger Things will avoid a Game of Thrones style finale disaster, as one star says she's "extremely happy with where they took the characters at the end"
- I review board games for a living, and I think these ones need to be on everyone's shelf for Thanksgiving
- Best Black Ops 7 M15 Mod 0 build and loadout
- The Sims 4 legend behind piracy tool rendering nearly $1,500 of DLC totally free quits town and takes his loot with 'em, players pay tribute as copycats immediately try to charge for alternatives
- How to find and kill Bastions in Arc Raiders
- Wednesday creators are reteaming with Netflix for animated series based on supernatural horror comic
- How to solve the Resident Evil Survival Unit clock puzzle
- Joining Valve's Gabe Newell at the altar of AI, Ubisoft CEO says the controversial tech will be "as big a revolution for our industry as the shift to 3D"
- Hitman and 007 First Light studio admits there were "many, many mistakes" made with Agent 47, but that Telltale veterans' new game is teaching them some lessons
- On the Radar with Moonlighter 2 – delving beyond the early access launch of this roguelike RPG with exclusive developer access
- Leave your expectations for Alexander Skarsgård's new movie Pillion at the door: it's steamy and sexy, but it's so much more than a rom-com
- Moonlighter 2’s shop system solves the age-old RPG issue of your bag being filled with useless tat
- 007 First Light CEO is glad GTA 6 got delayed since now "spring looks really good," but thinks Rockstar could help "the industry as a whole" once it finally ships its masterpiece
- Arrowhead's next game "won't be something that's too far off from" Helldivers 2, creative lead says: "We're looking to continue the legacy of what we've created"
- Stranger Things season 5 has the "most violent death" yet, so get ready to have your heart ripped out of your chest
- The First Omen director might have just found her eagerly anticipated next project, and it's an A24 horror movie eyeing up Five Nights at Freddy's, Fear the Walking Dead, and Weapons stars
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons' winter update isn't here yet, but this cozy Disney Dreamlight Valley DLC adds even more Stardew Valley flair to tide me over until Nintendo's release
- GTA 6 joins Cyberpunk 2077 in winning the Most Wanted Golden Joysticks award two years running, in what's not a worrying coincidence whatsoever
- Arrowhead creative lead agrees with Helldivers 2 players, calls the game "a never-ending ping pong between 'it's so over' and 'we're so back,'" but says "we're trying to get better with each update"
- Naruto live-action movie gets disappointing update from co-writer of the anime adaptation
- Remember when PSVR 2 was more expensive than a PS5? It's now only $299 for Black Friday
- After 4 years with Larian, Baldur's Gate 3 Alfira actor didn't know her character could immediately die until it had already happened: "I was like, 'What?! Did they just kill her off?'"
- Resident Evil Survival Unit codes (December 2025) and how to redeem them
- "Who tf bought the damn 40k $ boat": Where Winds Meet fans can only stand agape as one MMO whale drops enough money for a real car on an in-game mount within a week of launch
- New look at Bill Skarsgård's Pennywise in IT: Welcome to Derry proves the reveal was worth the wait
- All I want for Christmas is this limited edition Astro Bot PS5 hard drive, and I don't even like external storage
- A live-action TMNT movie is in the works from the producer behind the Sonic trilogy, but it spells the end for the adaptation of a beloved comic
- Arc Raiders players mourn their beloved Arc killer, the Hullcracker, after Embark nerfs it into the pavement: "No idea why they'd do this"
- The Witcher 4 Ciri actor "is going to do a great job," according to Geralt actor Doug Cockle who says he has no notes for the RPG's new star
- Former Xbox exec and Blizzard boss urges Valve to "please just let 3rd parties use SteamOS" to make their own Steam Machines: "SteamOS will take off and your Store revenue will only go up"
- The run-up to Marathon's release has been such a train wreck that it's easy to forget that the game might still be really good
- The lost episodes of Friends spin-off Joey are finally streaming 20 years after the show was canceled
- As Borderlands 4 developer Gearbox decides to make the looter shooter's first DLC pack free for everyone, Deluxe Edition players aren't too happy: "I'm calling bulls**t"
- A Lay of the Land walkthrough for Arc Raiders
- "The Assassin's Creed franchise exceeded our expectations": Assassin's Creed Shadows is "overperforming" according to Ubisoft, set to "reach a broader audience" soon thanks to its new Nintendo Switch 2 port
- As Dune: Awakening grapples with "Mixed" reviews and a dip in players, Funcom offers a free trial for the survival MMO alongside "the highest discount we've had yet"
- Three years on, I’m still exploring Horizon Forbidden West’s open world, which remains one of the best on PS5
- Rue Valley is a time looping RPG that's best off leaning away from Disco Elysium comparisons, and getting Monkey Island with it instead
- Constance review: "If Hollow Knight: Silksong seems too daunting, this wonderful paint powered adventure should do nicely"
- 8Bitdo has a grey N64 controller on the way with authentically colorful buttons, and I need it after failing to make my own
- Brendan Fraser finally breaks his silence on The Mummy 4: "I’ve been waiting 20 years for this call"
- How well do you know Animal Crossing: New Horizons?
- After just 4 hours, I'm impressed by Nioh 3's snappy action and samurai-to-ninja combo transformations: "We want the player to have a rich experience of mastery"
- PUBG: Black Budget is cashing in on the Arc Raiders and Escape from Tarkov extraction shooter hype, this time with a battle royale-style shrinking map
- Rust dev shoots down hopes of playing the hit survival game on Valve's Steam Machine: "There are no plans to support Proton or Linux"
- Sony's official Black Friday deals have landed, with up to $100 off limited edition bundles
- Arc Raiders is a hit, but the extraction shooter's pitch didn't impress one of the Embark devs' kids years ago: "Sci-fi game? Very original"
- How to find the Fracture door code in Black Ops 7
- Nintendo, cover your eyes: Kirby Air Riders players fight back as micro bikini vehicle gets removed from the Switch 2 racer, immediately replacing it with a newer, sexier version
- Brendan Fraser hits out over scrapped Batgirl movie: "The product – I'm sorry, 'content' – is being commodified to the extent that it’s more valuable to burn it down"
- The Mummy 4: Cast, plot, release date speculation, and everything else you need to know about the upcoming sequel
- Over a year after being canceled, The Acolyte creator speaks out over "completely valid" criticisms: "The first one through the wall is the bloodiest"
- The PlayStation Portal is down to a price I can vibe with for Black Friday, but I'd still leave your handheld options open
- New It: Welcome to Derry detail has fans convinced Marge is one of the original Losers' Club's mother, which could spell doom for one of the new characters
- New card-based Vampire Survivors game is "hopefully the first in a series of spinoffs," but the roguelike's dev is also "working on something" related to a proper sequel
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead uses award win to say play Dispatch, a superhero comedy from ex-Telltale devs with The Boys vibes: "It's very very cool and has a very good story"
- Ubisoft says Tencent's $1.3 billion investment in its new Assassin's Creed-focused Vantage Studios is "imminent," in a move that will "accelerate the growth of our 3 flagship IPs"
- Smash Bros creator Masahiro Sakurai was seemingly teasing his latest game Kirby Air Riders in plain sight for years, and I can't believe no one noticed until now
- The Acolyte creator says she was "not surprised" her Star Wars show got cancelled, but she was "surprised at the swiftness of it and the publicness" of the announcement
- "Most" of the Game of Thrones spin-offs in the works are prequels, but creator George R.R. Martin confirms "some" sequels are still in development
- This overlooked Lego Fortnite set might be your first Black Friday buy thanks to a big discount
- GTA 6 might be the "massive game with massive marketing," but The Witcher 3 director doesn't mind launching his next RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker at the same time: "I'm fine with it"
- Vampire Survivors studio reveals a roguelike deckbuilder spin-off threatening all my free time in 2026: "We're milking this bunch of pixels like there's no tomorrow"
- Jon Favreau confirms he was "planning on doing" The Mandalorian season 4 before The Mandalorian and Grogu moved forward
- Valve hasn't unleashed any Black Friday deals yet, so I'm glad Lenovo's souped-up Steam Deck is under $500
- Netflix reveals the most rewatched KPop Demon Hunters scenes, and number 1 is a Saja Boys surprise
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 wins 7 titles at Golden Joystick Awards, tying with Baldur's Gate 3 – and Larian boss Swen Vincke approves: "Definitely deserved"
- As Return to Silent Hill releases new trailer, some fans of the video game are confused by one major change
- Wicked: For Good ending explained: What happens to Elphaba and Glinda, how the Wizard of Oz affects the story, and more
- The 9 biggest changes Wicked: For Good makes to the Broadway show
- Knives Out 3 star heaps praise on Disney Plus series Only Murders in the Building as he explains cozy crime's growing popularity: "That juxtaposition is what people are into"
- November 20
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- Capcom says Resident Evil Requiem's "stalker" enemy will only be "a small part of the game," improving the worst thing about my favorite game franchise
- Tim Robinson's bizarrely awkward comedy masterpiece The Chair Company has been renewed for season 2 at HBO Max
- Three classic '80s cartoon franchises will crossover this spring as Transformers, GI Joe, and MASK collide in the Energon Universe
- Compared to Hollow Knight, Silksong "reworked how the bosses pick their attacks," and suddenly I realize why I got crushed so often
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 actor Jennifer English is shocked to win at Golden Joystick Awards, delivers hopeful speech that will make you cry for a week: "I chose queer joy"
- Gearbox finally fixes the most frustrating loot in Borderlands 4: "Class Mods have been adjusted to drop more for your current character"
- Team Cherry hopes "if there were ever" new Hollow Knight games after Silksong, they could "just exist alongside one another" so the order you play them doesn't matter
- "We are more effective than bigger teams": Ahead of Blood of Dawnwalker's release next year, Rebel Wolves lead says he doesn't want the studio to grow
- DC's Green Lantern show gets an official 2026 release window
- The Witcher legend Doug Cockle agrees "there's so many great games this year," but Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is the highlight: "It's such a beautifully written game, and beautifully conceived and achieved"
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (November 21-23)
- Geralt's game actor says he was "sad" to see Henry Cavill go, but that Liam Hemsworth "holds up pretty well" in The Witcher season 4: "He's made it his own character"
- Lady Dimitrescu actor Maggie Robertson is keen to return as the iconic villain in future Resident Evil games: "we really found something with her"
- GTA 6, Hollow Knight: Silksong, Peak, and Ghost of Yotei all win big after Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's mammoth Golden Joystick Awards haul
- RPGs reign supreme as Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 ties Baldur's Gate 3's record-breaking Golden Joystick Awards haul
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is your Ultimate Game of the Year at the Golden Joystick Awards 2025, because of course it is
- All the Golden Joystick Awards 2025 winners revealed
- New trailer at The Golden Joysticks teases plenty of vehicular combat in a dystopian world and a race to the finish line you might not survive
- Telltale Games veterans' superhero comedy game Dispatch uses a familiar system to track your choices, helping players painstakingly map out how to get every single ending
- The Witcher 3 director says his upcoming RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker isn't "going fully into the vampire fantasy," and expect some Dishonored vibes
- Best Black Ops 7 assault rifle for your loadouts
- Fruit Battlegrounds codes (December 2025) for Gems
- Nintendo Switch 2 loses out to the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D for Best Gaming Hardware at the Golden Joystick Awards 2025
- To get GTA on Xbox, Microsoft had to convince Rockstar that its console wasn't "going to be a flop," former exec says
- Even as Xbox drifts away from consoles and exclusives, former exec says the Xbox 360 set Microsoft up for success: "Look at them now, continuing to be the powerhouse – the global powerhouse"
- "I'm not going to recoup what I put into this for a long time," says returning Hytale owner, who previously said he'd offered Riot 10x what the dead Minecraft-inspired game is worth
- After five hours, Moonlighter 2 already has me hooked thanks to these five features
- Dive into a world of heroic brawler combat with the new playtest for Vaultbreakers on December 4
- The best SSD for PS5 in 2025: Why Samsung is the brand to beat
- Former Sega of America boss says leaving the console market was "traumatic" and "difficult": "We were in the eye of the storm of the PlayStation 2"
- World of Warcraft lead assures worried MMO raiders that Blizzard removing add-ons is "to set ourselves up for being able to build content that will better serve all of our players"
- Deal a winning hand against death when soulslike deck builder Death Howl releases December 9
- Arc Raiders Keeping the Memory walkthrough
- MMO players get a sailing skill, immediately become pirates channeling a famous 2006 disaster: "Piracy as emergent gameplay is honestly perfect"
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's record-high nominations at The Game Awards proves what I've been saying for the past 8 months
- The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping's first teaser promises Midsommar aesthetics, Haymitch's backstory, and a really weird David Bowie reference
- Got an Analogue 3D on the way? Grab this compatible N64 flash cart while it's cheap for Black Friday
- Arc Raiders players were already grumbling, and after another patch of nerfs a fierce debate brews: crafting UI is definitely a mess, but should the stash actually get buffed?
- The future of Westeros looks bright as House of the Dragon season 4 and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms season 2 get confirmed by HBO
- inZOI is getting multiplayer, and the Sims 4 competitor's director says it's all thanks to South Korea's president: "He suggested I make inZOI a multiplayer game"
- After Payday 3's fumbles, Fairgames just might turn out to be the heist game that I crave
- I just did a spit-take at the discount on this Iron Man helmet replica, because you can save a silly amount of cash right now
- EA claims Battlefield 6 is the "best selling shooter game of the year," but that's actually selling it short according to sales data
- Lenovo's Black Friday deals have begun, reducing monitors, laptops, desktops and more
- Asked about a $500 Steam Machine, Valve apparently wasn't impressed: "The energy in the room wasn't great"
- Here are 8 lore-heavy episodes you need to re-watch before Stranger Things season 5
- Stranger Things season 5 release schedule: when is episode 5 and Volume 2 on Netflix?
- New MMO on the block Where Winds Meet promises to never become pay-to-win, greeting players with the message "your legend is written by skill and choice, never by wallet size"
- This '90s retro toy has had a Wicked makeover, and its existence has changed me for good
- Everything announced at the Golden Joystick Awards 2025
- "We know that the players are the ones actually enjoying the game": Moonlighter 2 owes its existence to its devs' astonishingly in-depth approach to player feedback
- Krafton CEO confirms he "actually searched on ChatGPT" for "faster answers" amid legal battle with former Subnautica 2 leads, after the publisher dubbed accusations of chatbot use "a last-ditch effort"
- Frozen's leads are going to receive an eye-watering $60 million each for appearing in the Disney hit's third and fourth movies
- Like a playable Pixar film, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is still one of the best reasons to buy a PS5
- PUBG creator's brutal new survival game surprise drops into Steam Early Access with a roadmap promising "expanded construction," cooking, and equipment degradation
- 74 years after their on-screen debut, the first Superman movie villains have finally been made canon in DC Comics
- Fallout co-creator Tim Cain is behind The Outer Worlds 2's more "mathematical" and "derisive" radio lectures, and it might be because of his YouTube videos: "Wait, why are you asking me to do this?"
- Now that Kirby Air Riders is out, everyone is making the same joke about Nintendo immediately asking Masahiro Sakurai to work on Super Smash Bros 6: "Alright. We let you make Air Riders. You know what comes next…"
- Persona 6 might be MIA, but this new turn-based RPG featuring social systems, 95% positive Steam reviews, and college kids who beat up demons is the next best thing
- With an 'Overwhelmingly Positive' rating on Steam, Risk of Rain 2 fans finally get the DLC they deserve after the first Gearbox-led effort put the roguelike "in a really bad place"
- GTA 6 developer Rockstar is "a machine" in "an industry rife with work exploitation, unfair practice, and unreasonable working conditions," protesters say after recent firings
- For under $450, I can't think of a 27-inch OLED monitor I'd rather buy this Black Friday
- Hannibal showrunner gives promising update on season 4, saying "everybody wants to return," including Mads Mikkelsen and Hugh Dancy
- Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft season 2 trailer brings together some of my favorite Tomb Raider eras – but I'm mostly here for Lara's shark showdown
- Several Razer headsets have hit their lowest prices in Amazon's Black Friday deals
- Masahiro Sakurai maybe gave Kirby Air Riders players too much power as there already multiple scantily clad versions of Chef Kawasaki flooding the vehicle market
- Frieren: Beyond Journey's End season 2 trailer is a magical reminder that anime's new GOAT won't give up its crown anytime soon
- Daniel Craig doesn't show up until 40 minutes into Wake Up Dead Man, and there's a legit reason why Rian Johnson wrote it that way – even if he was a little scared to do so
- Battlefield 6's "awful" new Sabotage mode is being torn apart by FPS players who "cannot fathom how this mode was approved" outside of existing "to retain some CoD players"
- After 8 years of positive reviews, Fallout 4 drops back down to a "Mostly Negative" Steam rating – and it's all thanks to Bethesda's disastrous Anniversary Edition launch
- The Punisher won't return for Daredevil: Born Again season 2 because of his upcoming Disney Plus TV special
- An unfilmed Kill Bill short is seemingly launching in Fortnite with Quentin Tarantino's blessing
- I was on the fence about buying the Skyrim board game, but this Lightning deal is really worth watching
- How To Find The Best Weapons In Escape From Duckov
- 10 years later, Hytale co-creator says he's "locking down the release date ASAP" for the sandbox RPG, and the base cost won't be much different to Minecraft itself
- The best Hall effect keyboard I've tested this year just dropped to a new record-low price
- The clamshell handheld I tell the GBA SP not to worry about is under $60, but not at Amazon
- Arc Raiders update nerfs a gun "capable of outgunning full squads" and may answer a fan who asked Embark to let them show off 600+ rubber ducks: "Your Raider Den has been ducked out"
- Former Square Enix exec says "we would love to make more Yoko Taro games," but "the audience size isn't big enough for the costs" if you ignore the Nier games that are big enough for the costs
- Battered and bruised Where Winds Meet players rally together to rid the Wuxia open-world MMO of its demonic geese: "Yeet into the water. Every single one of them"
- Norman Reedus wraps filming on Daryl Dixon season 4, but it sounds more like a goodbye to his Walking Dead character
- PS5 Black Friday console deals will expire today in Australia – here's where to grab one from AU$479 before it's too late
- 2016's Tales of Berseria is getting remastered, leaving some JRPG fans puzzled as to why a mere 9-year-old game is getting this treatment before some much older entries
- November 19
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- Star Wars Rebels executive producer says Sabine being a Jedi was "absolutely not the plan" for the animated show as it would "step on Ezra's story" and be "overkill"
- Arc Raiders players try to learn who's the nicest in cross-play lobbies, and I promise you it isn't anyone with a console: "PC players seem to be way more relaxed"
- God of War 2018's boss fights were so good that they've been recreated almost one-for-one in a new Netflix Bollywood movie that feels like a tribute to Kratos as well as Mortal Kombat fatalities
- Wonder Man star says the series is "tongue-in-cheek" and "self-aware" about its place in the MCU: "There’ll be commentary about superhero fatigue"
- Microsoft shares study of gamers that reckons a whopping 79% are "open to help from AI," but let's all stop to consider the sample size: 1,500 people
- Gorgeous Dispatch criminal was apparently based on a popular soda ad, according to art director: "And the body type of LeanBeefPatty"
- Pluribus writer says he has no plans to reveal what the sci-fi mystery is a "metaphor" for anytime soon: "The show becomes meaningless"
- I tried an Arc Raiders community tip for hunting blueprints after 40 hours of next to nothing, and I found my most-wanted blueprint almost immediately
- Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says today's games could learn a lot from '80s games: "They add too many things thinking more of those things make the game better, when really what they do is dilute the game"
- Cult favorite '00s sci-fi show Stargate is getting a reboot at Amazon Prime
- Steam Machine is "Microsoft's worst nightmare" according to analysts, and one day Xbox games might be more beneficial to Valve than their own publisher: "Xbox console sales have really struggled"
- Baldur’s Gate 3 lead slams "insufferable" AI artists whose ideas are mere "LinkedIn Copypasta": "Every intellectual point they make on Twitter was made by a man with a toilet in the 1910s"
- The Sims 4 fans left baffled as rumors suggest EA's latest life sim entry could be getting a remaster, despite ongoing support: "What will they be remastering exactly?"
- As Arc Raiders shows no signs of slowing down, developer Embark confirms it's ending support on PS4 for its previous shooter, The Finals, as it's "focusing our support on current generation hardware"
- Half-Life 3 "would register on a GDP level" as a Steam Machine launch title, but "Valve doesn't need a Half-Life-sized spectacle to sell hardware," analyst says
- I'm not joking, this under-$30 gaming keyboard just became one of my favorites
- Best gaming keyboard 2025: The Apex Pro takes the throne this year
- "When I was growing up, games were designed to be fun, not manipulative": Path of Exile co-creator shines a blacklight on the "bulls**t" design tricks infesting all my live service games
- New on Netflix in December 2025: all the latest movies and shows streaming this month
- Wicked: For Good earns a lukewarm Rotten Tomatoes score that's almost 20% lower than the first movie's
- "The Bungie team is fantastic": Academy Award-winning artist behind Marathon cinematic says the shooter's stolen art "was genuinely a mistake," and "blown out of proportion"
- GTA 6 will launch in exactly one year, but some fans don’t believe it: "1 year from now we will be waiting for it to come out in a year"
- Pixar director says "nobody's being robbed" of the original Toy Story trilogy with Toy Story 5: "They can have that and never watch another if they don't want to"
- Among millions of Arc Raiders, Embark says 117 legendary players "somehow downed themselves" with rocks in the Breaking New Ground community event
- Where to find granite in Winter Burrow
- Arc Raiders player crowns themselves the "engineer of chaos," makes new Stella Montis map as evil as possible: "People spawning late were trapped in a maze I built, screaming"
- Josh O'Connor reveals the "most surprising" thing about making Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, as he describes teaming up with Daniel Craig as "a dream come true"
- Saros throws anything that slowed Returnal down out the door, meaning it'll be tough for other games to keep pace with my most anticipated PS5 game of 2026
- Ghost of Yotei New Game Plus mode explained
- If you're also enraged by $200 controller prices, you should know about this Razer Wolverine V3 discount
- This enthralling team board game is perfect for playing with family this Thanksgiving
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 actor Ben Starr can "sympathize" with Daredevil lead Charlie Cox's bewilderment over the French JRPG's success, because he "didn't expect it to be this big" either
- Ghost of Yotei is getting New Game+ next week in an update adding higher difficulties, accessibility settings, and more to Sucker Punch's open-world PS5 hit
- After 2 roguelikes, an acclaimed strategy game, and a League of Legends spin-off all in just 7 years, the Moonlighter 2 devs explain how new ideas are key to their survival
- First look at Jumanji 3 teases that the video game characters are coming to the real world
- Final Fantasy 14 actor speaks out after backlash for her Dawntrail role, says MMO director Yoshi-P apologized on behalf of Square Enix: "He was very kind"
- MMO players are unstoppable: Handed a new skill after 19 years, Old School RuneScape fans instantly force the devs to hotfix a Sailing XP flood over "Daddy's Special Water's special water"
- Here's how to watch the Golden Joystick Awards 2025, hosted by Lady Dimitrescu herself Maggie Robertson
- I had one big gripe with this gaming phone — and a Newegg Black Friday discount of $400 totally solves it
- I highly recommend these Warhammer 40K Battleforces if you want a new army for Christmas, and they're $37 off right now
- At 100+ hours, Dragon Quest 7 is an enormous JRPG, so in the Reimagined remake "a few of the stories which weren't 100% relevant to the main storyline have just been cut entirely"
- After just an hour playing Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined, I'm charmed and unsettled in equal measure – this JRPG remake has surprisingly ambitious storytelling goals
- Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined lead "had a lot of fun" playing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 while remaking the classic JRPG: "It really keeps what makes turn-based games great"
- Crucial has slashed its SSD prices in the lead-up to Black Friday, including its lightning-fast new Gen 5 drive
- Playground Basketball codes (December 2025) for Coins
- The Last of Us Part 2 is still bold, bleak, and the best stealth game on PS5
- Gears 5 lets you live out your '80s action movie dreams without feeling stuck in the past
- Guillermo del Toro's new Frankenstein movie is on its way to breaking into Netflix's top 10 most-watched movies ever
- As Half-Life 3 hopefuls convince themselves that an announcement is imminent, Geoff Keighley accidentally causes chaos with a screenshot of one wishlisted Steam game
- One of the greatest TV shows of all time is finally coming back to streaming in 4K next month
- Chaos hits Battlefield 6 as update leaves support players with "busted" defibrillators that only work some of the time: "I let at least 4 teammates die because I couldn't get the defib to register"
- I'm waiting for this controller to drop back under $30 on Black Friday - here's why you should too
- Super Smash Bros. and Kirby creator Masahiro Sakurai says "it's best to just play games, instead of looking at who made them," so please don't perceive him
- Writer of 1987's Running Man was "totally rooting" for Glen Powell's new movie despite disappointing box office opening: "Maybe the third version in 2045 will stick the landing"
- Fresh from bringing his canceled Minecraft competitor back from the dead, Hytale boss shares new gameplay footage as "a taste of things to come" – but there's still "a lot of work" to be done
- Squid Game US series from Fight Club director David Fincher looks to still be happening at Netflix, with potential plot and filming details unveiled
- PlayStation has unveiled its upcoming Black Friday deals, and the PS Portal is getting a rare saving
- The Outer Worlds and Fallout: New Vegas studio Obsidian Entertainment pays tribute to legendary RPG dev and Interplay co-founder Rebecca Heineman: "Her spirit will live on"
- Knives Out's Rian Johnson admits he usually "avoids" writing the murder mystery part "until I can't anymore" – and Wake Up Dead Man was no different
- The artist behind Frieren's 'difficult angle' drawing thanks fans for their unlikely support after reaching cult meme status: "I didn't even know that drawing would touch that many people's soul"
- Borderlands 4's "most insane glitch" yet lets you break every character's skill tree and changes "the build meta for every build," swiftly catching the attention of Gearbox: "We're on it"
- The ultimate Arc Raiders guide and survival handbook
- Palworld lead and Pocketpair founder says Megabonk dev is "one of the game developers I respect the most" as the solo indie creator withdraws his roguelike hit from The Game Awards
- Don't worry, former PlayStation president Shuhei Yoshida also finds Silksong difficult: "I need to quit"
- James Gunn shoots down Pierce Brosnan's suggestion that his Black Adam character could make a return in the DCU's Superman sequel
- Excuse me, princess: The notorious Legend of Zelda series is now free to watch on streaming
- Kirby Air Riders review: "This racer is also equal parts fighting game, minigame collection, and roguelike – and I'm shocked at how well that works"
- Early Black Friday sales on the OG Nintendo Switch will have you forgetting the Switch 2 even exists
- One-Punch Man season 3 plummets to new depths with one of the lowest-rated anime episodes of all time
- The Hidden Settings That Will Make You a Better Gamer
- Aussie Pokémon and Mario fans, take note - Nintendo Switch 2 Pokémon and Mario bundles are discounted for Black Friday
- Hytale creator says "right now, the game is not good enough" for an Early Access launch, but when that happens, it'll "feel real Early Access"
- November 18
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- Knives Out 3 director Rian Johnson says he and star Daniel Craig are "already starting to formulate" ideas for more sequels: "I don’t know why I would stop doing it"
- Roguelike superstar drops out of The Game Awards because Megabonk "is not my debut game," but fans beg solo dev to reconsider: "Wait until you hear about 'indie' games in the indie category that are backed by multi-billion-dollar corps"
- Dragon Quest creator wants to "oversee everything" in the legendary JRPG series until he dies: "I think the next goal for me is to witness the 50th Anniversary [2036]"
- Peacock renews Twisted Metal for season 3 with The Boys writer joining as showrunner
- Subnautica 2 studio was working on a secret game code named Project Labrador before Unknown Worlds leads were fired, and ex-CEO says he still hopes "to see that game come to light"
- A new Five Nights at Freddy's 2 clip brings the game's creepiest puppet to life – and I'm so excited
- Rust studio COO wants an official Delta Force collab after calling out the game for allegedly stealing assets: "Cinematic is great though, hopefully next time we see a Rust Hazmat in their next season"
- A new clip from Avatar: Fire and Ash has been released, featuring an intense chase from the Ash People
- I don't care if Intergalactic blasts past 2026, a new Naughty Dog cinematic action-adventure is reason enough to be excited
- I'm a sucker for Lego Botanicals and this early Black Friday deal has taken root
- This early Black Friday PSVR 2 bundle nets you one of the best VR games at its lowest price
- Valve accidentally smothers indie game with 138,000 wishlists by not telling anyone it existed, then apologizes to studio by accidentally revealing Steam Machine on the same day of promotion
- Hideo Kojima says he "binged" new Netflix samurai show with 100% Rotten Tomatoes score: "It was so good"
- The best PS5 headset 2025: SteelSeries holds onto the crown for another year
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead says "cult classic" Xbox 360 JRPG from Final Fantasy creator is "one of the best games of its kind" and "the last game that made me cry"
- Former PlayStation boss says that the indie scene is developing "creative uses for AI" and that it "can only take shape so quickly" thanks to their effort
- PUBG creator says he's "really heartened to see the community revolt against AI," but his studio is still using the tech in new games: "We're using it in the right way"
- Steam Machine price "will not be cheap," with analysts predicting anywhere between the "mid-five hundreds" and $1,000, as Valve "can basically do what it wants"
- inZOI was "far, far, far less developed than Subnautica 2" around the time publisher Krafton decided to fire Unknown Worlds leads, says former CEO: "There wasn't a ton of game present"
- When is Wicked: For Good on streaming? Speculation on the potential Peacock release date
- Here's how many people are playing Black Ops 7
- After 11 years and roughly 1500 hours, Dragon Age Inquisition is still the one BioWare RPG I replay the most
- Wicked: For Good review: "Builds to an incredibly cathartic conclusion, but isn't quite as captivating as Part 1"
- I'm glad Pennywise isn't in It: Welcome to Derry much; it cements the HBO show as the most loyal adaptation of Stephen King's original novel yet
- Minecraft was nearly sold to Activision Blizzard for $1.5 billion before Microsoft secured Mojang, says former CEO Bobby Kotick: "I almost bought it"
- Roblox set "to require facial age checks to access chat" much like Discord, mere months after the CEO told concerned parents to just not "let your kids be on Roblox"
- Ghost of Yotei lead was "saddened" he had to tone down the game's flashback mechanic, which was originally far more complex: "I knew it was the right choice"
- Rambo prequel director says his new action movie will feature a "different" version of the action hero as it explores how he became the character we see in First Blood
- Ghost of Yotei director says Sucker Punch didn't want to be violent for the sake of it in its open-world Japan epics, even if "in video games, you get a lot of pressure just to do it sometimes"
- Steam Machine is "a console that refuses to admit it's a console," analyst says, but "Valve isn't trying to beat Sony or Microsoft at their own game so much as rewrite the rules"
- The Analogue 3D solves my biggest issues with the original N64, and it sets a new bar for retro console remakes
- Demonschool review: "This Persona-inspired RPG is full of fun, flair, and ready to chomp away at your free time"
- 10 Arc Raiders tips and tricks to help you survive the surface
- Anno 117: Pax Romana city layout tips and tricks for building
- Hi-Fi Rush is the perfect Saturday morning cartoon game for some whimsical '90s chaos, but the bassline isn't the heaviest thing about it
- All Where Winds Meet codes (December 2025) and how to redeem them
- Escape from Tarkov lead admits 1.0 Steam launch was "rough for sure," and problems fixed in the latest version were "not enough"
- World of Warcraft's $90 dinosaur mount is back again for a limited time ahead of Midnight's launch, and WoW Tokens have already sold out: "Costs more than the expansion. Company is trash."
- Anno 117: Pax Romana production ratios and chains explained
- After launching Assassin's Creed Shadows and Star Wars Outlaws, Ubisoft dubs the market "more volatile" now amid rise of free-to-play titles and subscriptions: "Many new games are struggling"
- Gran Turismo 7 is the racing game that PS5 will be remembered for, and it's been quietly getting better and better over time
- Morsels review: "The Binding of Isaac style roguelike shooting gets somehow grosser, but struggles to set itself apart"
- As Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 surpasses Baldur's Gate 3 on Game Award nominations, Larian publishing lead says it's "intensely hopeful" to see a new IP from a fledgling team do so well
- Breaking Bad creator says he's "a weenie," and the show's notorious Gus Fring box cutter kill "looked so real" it made him feel "faint"
- Pluribus creator Vince Gilligan says testing an episode of his X-Files spin-off made him swear he would "never freaking do that again," and he still doesn't know how Breaking Bad tested
- Helldivers 2 drops a cryptic message with its latest patch notes asking us to draw a "'fiery' red circle" around early December for some "'buzzing' updates," immediately sparking speculation
- Avatar star Stephen Lang says he only has a "folk memory" of Avatar 5, having not read it for "8 or 9 years" – but remembers there's "not one scene I don't look forward to playing"
- How to fix the Black Ops 7 hueneme negev error in Call of Duty
- Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick says the industry is "moving towards PC" even if consoles are "never going away," but still hasn't confirmed if GTA 6 is coming to PC
- One Piece changing its release pattern is bittersweet, because the anime's filler episodes only add to the adventure
- Battlefield 6 update fixes aim assist by reverting it back to Open Beta settings, but some players want more drastic changes: "The whole game/weapons need to be rebalanced"
- Best Buy just dropped the cheapest RTX 5060 gaming laptop deal I've seen so far, now under $1,000
- Baldur's Gate 3 boss says Game Awards 2025 nominees like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 are "proof" the industry still recognizes "passion," regardless of the "budget or who is making it"
- The Mandalorian and Grogu director Jon Favreau says "we get to really have fun with" fan-favorite Star Wars Rebels character Zeb Orrelios in the new movie: "He's such a compelling character, even if you've never seen Rebels"
- Does Black Ops 7 have Skill-Based Matchmaking?
- Stranger Things star Sadie Sink has reportedly joined the cast of Avengers: Secret Wars, making her Spider-Man 4 character even more mysterious
- As Arc Raiders faces backlash for its AI voices, Dispatch leads call the tech "a production solution, not a creative one," saying it can only offer "something you've heard before"
- "Another rigged year:" Former FPS pro Shroud responds to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 getting a Game Awards GOTY nomination over Arc Raiders, says "the world is just not ready for AI in video games"
- All Anno 117: Pax Romana specialists explained
- Best Disney gifts 2025, recommended by a mega-fan
- Where to find Rusted Gears in Arc Raiders
- Avatar star Stephen Lang on battling the Finnish John Wick in Sisu sequel Road to Revenge: "This time we want two gnarly old f***ers fighting each other"
- Jenna Ortega says she'd like to see Wednesday "deal with the darker side of herself" in season 3
- November 17
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- Daredevil: Born Again season 2 plot details reveal Matt Murdock’s "vigilante army" as Wilson Fisk's Kingpin outlaws superheroes
- Amazon AU's Black Friday sale just unlocked a bevy of PS5 deals – these are the 5 best I'd recommend, including Battlefield 6 for just AU$59
- Ousted Subnautica 2 founders fight Krafton over ChatGPT records as the publisher accuses them of deleting and stealing data: "'Make sure there's nothing incriminating'"
- "Gen Z loves AI slop," says former Square Enix exec, which means that Arc Raiders' controversial AI usage is just "the tip of the spear"
- Christian Bale may be joining Leonardo DiCaprio in Michael Mann's long awaited Heat 2
- After Lilo and Stitch made $1 billion, Disney is back with a new live-action remake of Moana that looks and feels exactly like the animated movie
- "Hytale is saved": Riot sells Hytale back to Hypixel founders, who promise 10 years of support, an early access date soon, and a return to the "original vision"
- Not even Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs can believe it's the most-nominated Game Awards title in history: "There are so many deserving, precious games from this year"
- Dispatch dev says "there was no glitch" causing a bad ending, it's just you
- IT: Welcome to Derry mid-season trailer confirms we'll finally see more of Bill Skarsgård's Pennywise and IT's origins
- Dispatch review: "Critical Role fans rejoice – episodic gaming has been superheroically saved by this incredibly charming band of misfits"
- Assassin's Creed actor only found out his character died in a huge plot twist because he checked Twitter after the game released: "I'm thinking, 'what?'"
- After a rough launch, PlayStation-published Final Fantasy 15-style action RPG Lost Soul Aside woos players with "biggest free update yet," polishing combat and adding a 100-wave gauntlet
- New Five Nights at Freddy's 2 image all but confirms we will see William Afton's most brutal killing play out on screen
- Nier creator Yoko Taro says he isn't lazy like fans think, his "weird" new projects just keep getting canceled: "It never ended up seeing the light of day"
- James Cameron says he and Robert Rodriguez have "sworn a blood oath" to make "at least one more" Alita movie, but they want to make "an architecture that bridges to a third film"
- Pierce Brosnan says he's heard his Black Adam character is "going to have his own show, or his own movie" and is "going to be in the next Superman"
- The Last of Us' David actor Nolan North wishes he could have played his character in the HBO show, but no one reached out: "It would've been so great to have brought him to life"
- 6 of the best new shows and movies streaming this week on Disney Plus, Netflix, Prime Video, and more (November 17–23)
- Resident Evil Requiem producer calls Leon Kennedy DLC rumor "fake news," but tells fans they are "free to believe what they would like" even if "we can't give you any confirmation"
- The Game Awards 2025 has Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 as the most-nominated game in the show's history, while Arc Raiders is up for just one category
- Two Alienware gaming laptops are at the same $899.99 sales price right now - please make sure you get the right one
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 follows GTA 6 in controversies reaching government officials: amid gen AI backlash, US Congress rep argues real artists should "have a say"
- Assassin's Creed Mirage's free story DLC comes with custom difficulty and more quality-of-life changes despite the game being over 2 years old: "This feels incredibly generous"
- Best Black Ops 7 controller settings for PS5 and Xbox
- Goonies star Ke Huy Quan gives very positive update on the 40 years in the making sequel: "I feel quite good about it"
- Xbox Partner Preview stream coming this week with a new look at James Bond game 007 First Light confirmed
- Avowed bucks RPG expectations by offering a quick hit of fantasy action, and I don't want you to leave 2025 without playing it
- Where Winds Meet review: "Sekiro-style combat meets seemingly every videogame idea ever in this bloated but fun open-world martial arts adventure"
- Stranger Things season 5 may end different for some characters, as Lucas star Caleb McLaughlin says his finale "is different" from the rest of the cast
- After leaked set video, Nintendo unveils first look at Link and Zelda in costume as Legend of Zelda filming begins – and they couldn't look better
- This Hello Kitty Island Adventure Gift Box Switch set is the purr-fect early Black Friday deal for Sanrio fans
- Fan theory that links Metaphor: ReFantazio, the modern Persona games, and Catherine together is correct but completely unintentional, says director: "I didn't plan it at all"
- After Monster Hunter Wilds' year of performance woes, Capcom says Resident Evil Requiem won't share the same fate: "At present, we do not anticipate similar risks"
- An Editor’s Guide to Building the Ultimate Gaming Fortress
- Cities: Skylines 2 is getting a new developer as publisher Paradox turns to a new studio, 2 years after the city builder's messy launch with no console release in sight
- Where to find Mushrooms in Arc Raiders
- Valve says "the Steam Machine is equal or better than 70% of what people have at home," but I feel like that's missing the point
- Surprise! The DualSense Edge just dropped to its lowest price yet ahead of Black Friday
- Reacher creator says streaming TV "works so much better" than movies when it comes to book adaptations: "It's addictive for a novelist"
- Persona and Metaphor: ReFantazio creator says he wants to create "JRPG 3.0," fundamentally changing the genre's "structure and presentation"
- Concord fans bring Sony's infamous hero shooter flop back a year after it went offline, only for the PlayStation maker to smite the project down within days
- Ghost of Yotei finds peace in violence and is unquestionably PS5's most relaxing revenge story
- Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault review: "Dungeon delving, balancing sacks of loot, then hawking your wares is still a compelling loop – but the exchange rate between those pillars is wobbly in early access"
- Tom Cruise finally gets an (honorary) Oscar, promises to "do everything I can for this art form" but "hopefully without too many more broken bones"
- Baldur's Gate 3 publishing lead says Valve defeated Meta and Apple in VR by building "incredible spaces for actual geniuses" instead of worrying about non-existent shareholders
- Helldivers 2 boss argues Arc Raiders' AI use "actually makes gaming better" and that "people jump to extreme takes" about the tech: "Surely there's a middle ground here"
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is levelling up its watch game with a limited-edition Hamilton collaboration – and if you're quick, you can snag one this month
- Stranger Things creators hope they have "learned any possible lesson there is to learn and season 5 will be perfect," and fans won't have any issue with the ending: "I think that the chances of that are 0.5%"
- Open world action RPG Where Winds Meet tops 2 million players in its first weekend, with a concurrent peak of 190,000 on Steam alone as it rakes in Very Positive reviews
- The five best Escape From Duckov Totems and how to get them
- One of my favorite handhelds for PS2 games is back for under $200, but it might vanish before Black Friday
- The Boys-like superhero comedy Dispatch from former Telltale devs is set to hit a 3-year sales target in 3 months, to the surprise of its executive producer
- How to play Where Winds Meet multiplayer with friends
- After 9 years, Escape From Tarkov version 1.0 arrives on Steam full of bugs with obscene matchmaking queues: "I've played 11 hours that recorded on Steam. But I haven't entered the game yet"
- Now You See Me 3 beats The Running Man at opening weekend, becoming the number 1 movie in the world
- Clayface writer Mike Flanagan thinks there's a way to "harmonize" Robert Pattinson's Batman into the DCU, but says he "trusts" James Gunn: "He has not let me down as a fan"
- Despite Reacher star's new action movie only having 17% on Rotten Tomatoes, it's the number 1 movie on Prime Video
- Final Fantasy 14 lead Yoshi-P reportedly teases another "rebirth" for the MMO as Dawntrail continues to suffer "Mostly Negative" Steam reviews over 1 year on
- Arc Raiders sets another Steam record for a third weekend in a row, surpassing 481,000 concurrent players despite competition from Call of Duty and Escape from Tarkov
- Creator of popular Disney animated series tells fans to "unsubscribe" from Disney Plus and "pirate" her show over AI changes on the streamer
- JB Hi-Fi just discounted a bunch of 2025 PS5 games ahead of Black Friday - here are 5 I'd recommend
- November 16
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- Just 1 week after joining Disney Plus, The Fantastic Four: First Steps loses the number 1 spot as the service's most-watched movie to surprise 2025 film
- Timothée Chalamet just completed filming on Denis Villeneuve's Dune 3: "It's moving to me that something as out there as Dune has taken this personal resonance"
- This year's Family Guy Christmas special will be a Hallmark movie parody: "We just decided to give up trying to be original"
- Sinners director Ryan Coogler coming back to the MCU soon, confirms Black Panther 3 is his "next movie"
- We've been testing PS5 accessories for 5 years and this is our ultimate PS5 kit list
- Overcooked-like medieval fantasy game debuts with 90% positive Steam reviews and a kitchen full of anthropomorphic rats: "We’re rats, what did you expect?"
- I'm still obsessed with one of the PS5's best-kept secrets: Returnal is a twitchy roguelike shooter in a sci-fi nightmare that won't get out of my head
- "You cannot satisfy everyone": Heroes of Might and Magic leads are treating Early Access like a "full release," but "don't expect that everything works like a charm"
- GoldenEye 007 had a "strong influence" on Banjo-Kazooie's sequel because Rare devs spent "probably every lunchtime for a couple of years" playing the N64 FPS
- Indie single-player MMORPG that's not actually an MMO is still "on track" to hit its 1.0 launch target, but that might still be 2 years away
- Psychonauts 2 offered a sensitive approach to mental health when we needed it most, and shouldn't be forgotten
- It: Welcome to Derry episode 4 explained – What is the Galloo? How did Pennywise come to Derry?
- November 15
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- Disney Plus to start letting subscribers create user-generated AI content, CEO Bob Iger reveals, and Disney is "really excited" about it
- Baldur's Gate 3 and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 star "cannot wait" to join the cast of Warframe developer's new fantasy MMO Soulframe
- Zombieland director "hoping" to make Double Tap sequel with original cast in 2029: "We're starting to figure that out"
- Matt Damon calls Christopher Nolan's Odyssey "the best experience" of his career: "I saw the horse on the beach and I was just like, 'F***'"
- Lady Gaga "started laughing" as Joker: Folie à Deux reactions came in, because they were "just getting so unhinged"
- God of War: Ragnarok shows us the value of a slower pace and not playing by the rules – no PS5 game feels as definitively epic
- Once annualized royalty, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 makes it clear CoD campaigns can't keep up with the pace – like Modern Warfare 3, this feels like another 'point five' release
- Asked about adding multiplayer to his single-player MMORPG, indie dev says he doesn't want players getting co-op FOMO: "The solo gamer is very underrepresented"
- The Legend of Zelda movie leak shows Nintendo's princess in her Breath of the Wild outfit, hinting that the film might be an adaptation of the 2017 Switch game
- Minecraft is a testament to player creativity above all else – and 16 years later, no other game comes close
- "Rockstar delaying GTA 6 is a flex": Analyst says the studio's "most valuable currency" is anticipation, so Take-Two is strategically polishing its $2.7 billion project
- November 14
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- The inevitable has happened as a Labubu movie is reportedly in the works
- Ubisoft turned a new Splinter Cell game into the failed live-service shooter xDefiant in an effort to chase live service hits and Call of Duty, former devs say
- Now You See Me: Now You Don't director says hearing the audience gasp at the threequel's big twist made him feel like a real magician: "The movie as a whole works as a magic trick"
- After 17 years, Bethesda finally seems to be making good on Fallout 3's disappointing collector's edition with a "fully functional" $300 Pip-Boy replica
- Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves directors will helm a new Star Trek film that reportedly features an all-new setting and characters unrelated to previous movies or shows
- After 400 hours, Pokemon master beats "the hardest" Nuzlocke challenge run on his first try: "You can't tell me to do another one because it'll just be easier"
- "We really don't see any force that could stop GTA 6": Not even multiple delays and angry employees can prevent Rockstar from making GTA 6 the "gaming event of the decade," experts say
- Avatar: Fire and Ash director James Cameron says villain Quaritch is "undergoing an identity crisis" in the film, and teases a possible redemption: "Jake would rather have this guy on his side"
- Monster Hunter's iconic weapons and creatures are officially making the leap to Magic: The Gathering as part of the next Secret Lair drop, and yes, that does include Nergigante
- After 26 years, modders give PS1 racing game classic Gran Turismo 2 the overhaul it deserves, replacing all the race cars with minivans and used car dealerships
- It: Welcome to Derry episode 3 – How does The Shining connect to the Stephen King prequel series?
- Don't wait for Black Friday - this new Meta Quest 3S bundle gives you the VR headset at its cheapest-ever price, plus a free Walking Dead game
- "Embark, please fix": Arc Raiders player discovers glaring flaw after collecting over 600 rubber ducks in the extraction shooter, only to find they can only show off 9
- The cozy Don’t Starve-like survival game where you get to play as the cutest little mouse imaginable is already Very Positive on Steam
- How long does it take to finish Black Ops 7?
- Co-op horror game REPO gets a new arachnophobia setting as devs say "sorry" to the spider haters, plus plenty of new bug fixes and balance changes
- Elden Ring Nightreign's The Forsaken Hollows DLC teases a boss fight against 7 enemies, and the community is living in fear: "This fight is either gonna be one of the best, or one of the worst"
- New on Disney Plus in December 2025: all the latest movies and shows streaming this month
- Move over Mickey Mouse, Betty Boop is getting her own horror movie – and its first look is disgustingly bloody
- "Going against GTA 6 for such games would be suicide": GTA 6 delay is bad for everyone except Rockstar, as analysts predict major devs will avoid a 2026 winter release like it's rancid
- Arc Raiders players are divided after Embark Studios nerfed a perk that everyone was gunning for, but don't worry, the devs are thinking about "adding a skill reset mechanic"
- Paralives devs say the life sim "isn't up to the standard we wanted it to meet" for Early Access, so it's delayed 6 months into the new GTA 6 void
- Here's how many missions are in the Black Ops 7 campaign
- 8 years after Horizon Zero Dawn, developer Guerrilla Games reveals it "always thought about it as a multiplayer game" following Horizon MMORPG announcement
- Black Ops 7 meta and best guns to use in multiplayer
- Where to find 3 Androids in Arc Raiders
- Dan Trachtenberg worried "a little" about making Bud too cute in Predator: Badlands, but Marvel's Rocket and Groot convinced him she could be both "adorable and super badass"
- Streamer's GTA 5 mod takes you to court when you hit a pedestrian, and the paperwork asks some suspicious questions
- Nintendo, seemingly unfazed by how the same approach failed during the Wii U era, delivers a truly bizarre advertisement for its next big Switch 2 exclusive Kirby Air Riders
- The Newmen GM326 puts other gaming keyboards to shame with its sub-$30 price tag | Review
- Titane director Julia Ducournau's new movie is lighter on the body horror, but stays rooted in the same messy, moving family drama
- Five years after launching with PS5, Demon's Souls is still a glittering soulslike high bar and feels brand new
- Now that it's under $60, I'd say adding an Atari 7800+ to your retro console collection is a no-brainer
- Helldivers 2 CEO is just as surprised as you that hit game is on Xbox, but stresses that the move made sense: "It turns out if you give the players what they want, they'll be happy"
- The Witcher 3's love triangle was added "pretty late" into the RPG's development, but CDPR's CEO calls it "a great decision"
- The PlayTrek 2-in-1 case is the Switch 2 storage option my holiday plans were calling for | Review
- Winter Burrow is like a very cozy, laid back Don't Starve with a bittersweet edge that tugs at the heartstrings
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 gets "Mixed" Steam reviews as players share disbelief over the new FPS' ludicrous campaign, performance issues, and more: "This s*** is literally a playable Skibidi Toilet video"
- "We make touchpad controllers as well" - After Valve reveals the new Steam Controller, GameSir is teasing a new trackpad gamepad of its own
- Indie dev behind single-player MMO that sold 30,000 in its first month quit his job to make the game because he "would have forever regretted not trying" otherwise
- After 18 years, Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is a surprisingly magical return to Nintendo's legendary series, and I'm all in on psychic abilities and the power of friendship
- GTA 6 studio Rockstar Games' firing of "at least 30 employees" reaches the UK Parliament as MP questions "what steps can be taken" to support the former devs
- Red Dead Redemption 2 modders unveil "ambitious recreation of the Mexican territory from RDR1" that "stays true to the canon" of Rockstar's sequel – and it's basically "a full-fledged DLC"
- New Capcom sci-fi gem Pragmata gets official rating alongside one of 2026's other most exciting games, leading to release date speculation: "The Game Awards date announcements?"
- Can you name the Call of Duty game from the head on the box alone, in this impossibly hard quiz?
- Insidious 6 has wrapped filming, with franchise creator James Wan congratulating the horror sequel's director: "You’re now part of the family!"
- "The real money isn’t in the box" - Analysts are torn on Steam Machine pricing, but I'm hopeful it won't be $1,000
- Stranger Things and Barbarian stars battle a deadly zombie virus with the help of Liam Neeson in bloody, gloopy new trailer for horror sci-fi Cold Storage
- Two years later, Starfield remains the game Bethesda wanted to make all along – and it was never meant to be a crowd-pleaser
- Lucasfilm reportedly "much more involved" in upcoming animated series The Ninth Jedi than the Star Wars: Visions shorts: "It was such a big endeavor"
- Where to get Prickly Pears in Arc Raiders
- Helldivers 2 boss says GTA 6 is "going to blot out the sun in a way that is unimaginable for everyone else," and its latest delay means "6 more months of uninterrupted work" without Rockstar's game "looming over us"
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 7's Metacritic score narrowly beats Battlefield 6 based on early reviews, earns second-highest rating of the Black Ops series so far
- Despite fans' initial cries to "drop the price," Switch 2 "hardware was appropriately priced," actually, thinks former Nintendo icon Reggie Fils-Aimé
- Helldivers 2 CEO says Arrowhead chooses to "stick to our design guns" like Elden Ring developer FromSoftware: "They don't compromise, they go for the connoisseurs"
- Stranger Things season 5 cast and creators talk closing the door on the Upside Down: "It was important for us to resolve all storylines and tie up any loose ends"
- Five Nights at Freddy's 2 reveals new synopsis and character descriptions, and it sounds like Freddy Fazbear is now a celebrity
- Former Xbox exec Major Nelson praises Valve's Steam Machine as "choice is always good," but doesn't think it should be dragged into a console war: "Not everything needs a winner or loser"
- Best Star Wars gifts 2025 according to a lifelong fan
- Game of Thrones star Rory McCann was cast as a major Andor season 1 character, then replaced with face scanning due to an injury
- Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts fans' disappointment at Octopath Traveler 0's reveal as "Square Enix's beloved series" doesn't get the JRPG's producer down: "I'm not hurt"
- Rick Flag Sr. is a "big part" of Superman sequel Man of Tomorrow, according to star Frank Grillo
- Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution isn't for newcomers, but it's somehow the perfect way to convince non-fans to catch up before season 3
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 review: "I respect Treyarch's attempt to make the weirdest Call of Duty possible, but it results in a campaign misfire and multiplayer that's hardly revolutionary"
- Baldur's Gate 3 publishing chief says the Steam Machine isn't super high-spec because there's "genuinely no point" when people who want demanding PC performance on TV "know how to turn any PC into a Steam Machine"
- Silent Hill f's lead actor can't catch a break: As Konami announces new "casual mode," fans are naming it after Hinako's VO after she went viral for streaming the game in terror
- November 13
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- Christopher Nolan says he shot almost 400 miles of film for The Odyssey, including "four months" on the open sea
- Battlefield 6 devs say map size is "under review," and for now it looks like they're already cutting player counts on some of the biggest meat grinders
- Now You See Me: Now You Don’t star Rosamund Pike pulled from her James Bond roots to "deliver a villain" that’s "worthy" of the Four Horsemen
- Tomb Raider developer Crystal Dynamics continues to bleed out, laying off "under 30" more employees in third cut of the year: "The realities of the industry continue to evolve"
- Microsoft's seemingly first IP crossover with Activision Blizzard is giving a Minecraft spinoff to the Candy Crush dev
- Poker Face canceled ahead of season 3, but creator Rian Johnson wants to keep it going with Peter Dinklage taking over as lead character Charlie Cale from Natasha Lyonne
- Garry's Mod is, unbelievably, still kicking and just got a new update, improving some of the popular Half-Life mod's visuals, NPC behavior, and even bringing over some new weapons
- The new Steam Controller "puck" adapter was internally called "the chongle," says Valve employee: "I'm leaking that information come get me"
- New Red Dead Redemption port on the way to a bunch of new platforms, including Switch 2 and Netflix, promising "free upgrades" and "a number of enhancements"
- Now You See Me: Now You Don't director was excited to "join the family" and reunite with Jesse Eisenberg and Woody Harrelson: "They're truly the funnest people to work with"
- AAA games like the $70 Ghost of Yotei are really just for "more affluent people," says analyst, as soaring prices push players toward free games and Fortnite: "People just don't realize, because they're not paying attention"
- Margot Robbie's Cathy and Jacob Elordi's Heathcliff drive each other mad in moody new trailer for Saltburn director's Wuthering Heights
- PUBG and Subnautica 2 publisher Krafton, now an "AI first" company, asks devs to fire themselves in voluntary resignation program if they can't roll with "the era of AI transformation"
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (November 14-16)
- Valve's Steam Machine is "great news" for Microsoft because it means Xbox can just "make great games" and worry less about hardware, says former Blizzard exec: "All will go in the right direction"
- Where to find Apricots in Arc Raiders
- Undertale demo is transformed in "faithful" fan-made Game Boy Color demake, and you can play it right now
- Fallout co-creator and RPG mastermind Leonard Boyarsky could smack his former self "upside the head" for past comments on AI – and no, Obsidian isn't "using it at all"
- Season 2 of Netflix's Squid Game reality show suffers massive 80% drop in viewership
- "Every time someone accuses us of ripping off Expedition 33, we die a little bit inside": Indie studio hits back at people not understanding how long game development takes
- Baldur's Gate 3 doesn't give Karlach the ending she deserves, but new D&D lore unintentionally confirms a much more favorable canon for the beloved tiefling
- Pokemon Pokopia doubles down on its weird pseudo-post-apocalyptic setting where humans are "gone," but maybe that's a good thing as they seem better off without us
- All signs point to Marvel's Wolverine being the Logan simulator I've wanted for decades, and the next step toward PS5's superhero universe
- Final Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 DLC launches to a "mixed" response on Steam: "I really, really hope Warhorse doesn't leave this game on such a poor finishing note"
- Where to find a battery in Arc Raiders for the Trash into Treasure quest
- Fallout co-creator Tim Cain explains the biggest RPG sins, including annoying NPCs, bad exposition, and those terrible escort missions: "'This escort quest will be fun.' They'd be wrong."
- As Arc Raiders cuts skin prices, some players reckon Embark is still asking for too much on top of its $40 game: "This is still twice the price they showed in the beta tests"
- I'm going to hide under a blanket with this portable monitor over winter, and it's less than most new games
- How to complete Arc Raiders' Eyes on the Prize mission
- Dwayne Johnson had "an out-of-body experience" listening to Christopher Nolan praising his performance in The Smashing Machine: "All I could say was 'thank you'"
- New Fallout season 2 trailer sees Lucy and the Ghoul gear up for a civil war in New Vegas – and gives us a first look at Macaulay Culkin's "crazy genius"
- 65 attempts later, one Battlefield Redsec player pulls off a zero-kill win in the wildest way: hiding in a tube like a canned sardine
- Pokemon life sim Pokopia shows off 4-player multiplayer oozing with Animal Crossing vibes, and new Pokemon forms including this mossy Snorlax I'm already in love with
- "Rockstar want us to feel scared": GTA 6 studio staff plan international protests demanding Rockstar reinstate 31 employees it claims were leaking information
- Harley Quinn star Lady Gaga says she wasn't "unfazed" by the Joker: Folie à Deux backlash: "When it takes a while for something to kind of dissipate, that can be a little bit more painful"
- New Netflix show Last Samurai Standing will draw comparisons to Squid Game and Shōgun, but it’s so much more than that
- Five years later, PS5 is in the best place it's ever been, but after 8 years covering PlayStation, I've never seen a console generation like it
- Red Dead Redemption gets a new ESRB rating for Switch 2 and current-gen consoles, hinting at another re-release for Rockstar Games' cowboy epic
- Half-Life 3 copium goes into overdrive as fans convince themselves Valve's Steam Machine announcement is hinting at a reveal: "I don’t want to get anyone's hopes up"
- Apple TV unveils first creature-packed trailer for Monarch: Legacy of Monsters season 2, and confirms 2026 early release date
- Spider-Man 2 isn't just gaming's best superhero fantasy – it proves the PS5 is home for Marvel fans like me
- After 15 years at Nintendo of America, former president Reggie Fils-Aimé didn't get sent a free Switch 2 from the company so he experienced the launch "like a fan" instead
- Lies of P sequel isn't the only game that publisher Neowiz is working on, with another new soulslike in addition to a narrative RPG and life sim on the way
- Former Nintendo icon Reggie Fils-Aimé says there are sometimes signs that innovation in the games industry "isn't there" anymore, and "that concerns me"
- Penguin star Colin Farrell to play a priest hunted by the mob in comic book adaptation produced by the Russo brothers and penned by John Wick writer
- Replaying Halo: The Master Chief Collection has become my annual tradition, and co-op makes the classics hit as hard as they did 15 years ago
- The Wheel of Time star says the Prime Video show was "victim to the terrible churn factor" of TV – though agrees season 1 not being "good enough" could've played a part in its cancelation
- Arc Raiders players slam XP nerfs for making progression harder as leveling up now "takes forever," but some believe Embark is doing the right thing: "The nerfs are warranted"
- Fallout: New Vegas director and RPG maestro Josh Sawyer says it doesn't matter how good a game's writing is if the pacing is bad: "Players are going to get tired of it"
- How to catch Crayfish in Kingdom Come Deliverance 2
- 10 years on, Fantastic Four star says "one really important person f***ed up" the 9% Rotten Tomatoes flop
- Elizabeth Olsen denies she's in Avengers: Doomsday and says she has "no idea how or when" her Marvel character Scarlet Witch could return
- After its disastrous Fallout 4 Anniversary Edition launch, Bethesda promises to address the RPG's problems "as quick as we can" as it scrambles to release an upcoming hotfix and big updates
- Hideo Kojima is executive producing a "mind-blowing" Death Stranding anime show for Disney Plus – and it seems to be completely separate from the upcoming Mosquito film
- I'm not being funny, but you'll have a Steam Machine at home if you grab this docking station for Valve's handheld
- Long-rumored Horizon MMORPG is officially real, but the monkey's paw curls as it's not coming to PlayStation and is "built specifically for mobile"
- Slavek's purse location in Kingdom Come Deliverance 2
- 5 years into the PS5, PlayStation exec says "we're really hitting our stride now" as he teases the console's best-selling game isn't out yet, and with GTA 6 and Wolverine to come, that tracks
- Xbox boss Phil Spencer says "we welcome new options for players" as Valve unveils new rival hardware in the Steam Machine, saying new competition is how "gaming moves forward"
- Epic Games and Fortnite's billionaire boss Tim Sweeney plays devil's advocate in the Arc Raiders AI debate, argues the tech could create "an even bigger opportunity" for actors
- The Arc Raiders Stella Montis live event explained
- Now You See Me: Now You Don't lands the highest Rotten Tomatoes score of the series – but it's still only 60%
- Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution warns legal action against those recording the anime movie at Japanese screenings: "10 years imprisonment, a fine of up to 10 million yen, or both"
- Valve wants Steam Deck 2 to "truly be a next-gen performance" machine: "We're not interested in getting to a point where it's 20 or 30 or even 50% more performance"
- November 12
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- Deadpool and Wolverine director says Stranger Things series finale is "10 out of 10 perfect": "I have to say, it wrecked me"
- Battlefield Redsec devs are "watching all the videos" to figure out what to patch, and there are some "things that caught us by surprise"
- New Baldur's Gate 3 mod restores some very cute dialogue between Withers and a spunky Tiefling child, and I'm gonna need Larian to tell my why it was cut
- Over 120,000 microtransaction haters have successfully campaigned to remove the controversial feature from MMO by 2026, Jagex declares “the start of a new era”
- Pluribus standout Karolina Wydra didn't even have an agent when she was cast in Vince Gilligan's new show: "They looked for my character for a very, very long time"
- DC's Shazam star leads new horror movie about a haunted fridge
- The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask art director was a fan of the series since he was a student: "I have fond memories of working hard with my friends to beat the 'Second Quest'"
- "Delay game, disappoint fans, all in a week's work for Rockstar": Labor group issues legal claims against GTA 6 dev Rockstar for "simple union busting" after firing 31 staff
- Princess Rosalina voice actor and Nintendo mega-fan Brie Larson once threw her boyfriend out of the house over a Super Mario Galaxy argument: "He said that I was taking it too seriously"
- Forgotten Realms designer can't get over the fact that someone out there has a PhD in the D&D setting he created: "You do know I make this all up, you know?"
- "We would rather cut off our own arms": Indie devs react to Arc Raiders CEO saying people should assume everyone's using generative AI these days
- Pluribus is the antidote to 20 years of post-Lost mystery shows, and that's what makes it such a breath of fresh air
- The new Steam controller refuses to look normal, but it's hiding some innovation even Sony's DualSense doesn't have
- Valve Deckard has been officially revealed as the Steam Frame, and it looks like a combination of PSVR 2 and the Meta Quest 3's best features
- Ten years later, the Steam Machine is officially back, and it might steal your console's lunch money
- Former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida "canceled so many games," including a new IP from God of War dev Santa Monica Studio: "These days, a $25 million cancellation is nothing special"
- I've sifted through Newegg's early Black Friday deals, and these are the six offers that are so good you don't need to wait
- I've transformed HyperX's Pulsefire Saga Pro into my dream gaming mouse with the power of 3D printing, and you can too with this early Black Friday deal
- Battlefield Redsec devs wanted to create the "deadliest ring" a battle royale has ever had: "There's nothing that glorifies that destruction better than a massive wall of fire"
- Borderlands Online revival still a go, as modder leading the recreation of China's canceled Gearbox MMO says devs are on "one of the latest, if not final, builds of the game"
- Despite a 30-year run in charge of Star Fox and F-Zero, former Nintendo veteran Takaya Imamura "always wished I could have experienced developing for the NES at least once"
- Shawn Levy says making Netflix's Dungeons and Dragons TV show has been a "challenging process" because "you're adapting a world and a lexicon and a spirit"
- The Outer Worlds 2's Skyrim easter egg is one of its most useful items if you haven't invested in stealth points
- 7 years and 35,000 wishlists later, one of Steam's most popular city-builder demos failed miserably enough at Early Access for its creator to question everything: "None of this means we were owed anything"
- The Witcher 3 features large bodies of water, so CD Projekt CEO insisted we should be able to explore it all: "Where's swimming?"
- How to make the Plague Mask Kingdom Come Deliverance 2
- Nintendo will "never position" itself as a direct PlayStation competitor regardless of the Switch 2's third-party games, former Nintendo of America president says: "It's not in their DNA"
- Colman Domingo based his The Running Man character on "old school" TV hosts like Jerry Springer
- Razer's taking the edge off its prices with record breaking Blade gaming laptop deals ahead of Black Friday
- As Fallout 4 Anniversary Edition crashes and burns on arrival, Bethesda responds to reports of DLC "no longer being recognized as 'owned'" by the RPG's players
- Octopath Traveler 0 producer reacts to State of Play "beloved series" disappointment: "If you wonder why it's beloved, please give the demo a try"
- Xbox “has not yet fully embraced Switch 2” according to ex-Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aimé, who’s surprised Microsoft hasn’t “easily” ported more games
- "'I’ve never seen this kind of game before'": Ex PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida says AAA devs stick to a "proven formula" while indies are "always" the ones to explore something new
- The Super Mario Galaxy Movie adds more star power, including The Odyssey and Captain Marvel actors as Princess Rosalina and Bowser Jr.
- Secretlab just unleashed its Black Friday deals, with up to $250 off some of our favorite kit
- My most-wanted game of 2026 stars Shadowheart from Baldur's Gate 3 as a modern Arthurian knight with deadly Devil May Cry combat moves, and I swear it's going to be huge
- The Super Mario Galaxy Movie isn't just adapting the Wii classic, it's also taking inspiration from Super Mario Odyssey
- Midnight Chasers codes (December 2025) for Cash
- Florence Pugh candidly reveals the horror movie she regrets making: "It's probably the one movie that I wish I never did"
- Mario heads to the stars in first trailer for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, but we wish we could unsee Sexy Bowser
- I've tested a ton of ugly Switch 2 cases, but this $30 flip-to-reveal Mario hard shell passes the vibe check
- Battlefield 6's bouncy terrain and class active abilities glitches are getting fixed next update, lead says, but aim assist and hit registration problems are still being worked on
- Jumanji 3 has entered production, with star Dwayne Johnson confirming it will be the last film in the franchise: "What a massive, fun, heartfelt adventure"
- Octopath Traveler 0 gets new demo on all consoles and PC from Square Enix, "and yes – progress does carry over to the full game"
- Next Monster Hunter Wilds update sets December release date as Capcom promises more needed performance improvements and a monster we haven't seen in over a decade
- CD Projekt Red co-CEO wasn't confident The Witcher 3's tone would go down well, but Game of Thrones' success reassured him: "People understood that they really liked that dark fantasy"
- After taking a gap year to focus on PC screens, I'm pleased to see that Sony has a new PS5 monitor in the works that will charge your Dualsense
- Arc Raiders improves duo matchmaking and is reducing some cosmetic prices after backlash, with players to receive compensation if they already spent their hard-earned Raider Tokens
- First Toy Story 5 trailer has Pixar fans very confused: "Disney is basically saying Toy Story 4 is skippable"
- Fantastic Four: First Steps composer drops two MCU bombshells: there's a second F4 soundtrack we "probably won't ever hear" and he's working on a Werewolf by Night sequel
- Sabrina Carpenter will star and produce a musical new version of Alice in Wonderland with a Wicked producer onboard
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 lead teases "something new on the horizon" as the action RPG's final DLC goes live, sparking speculation about Warhorse's next project
- Huge Outer Worlds 2 patch includes over 350 fixes and changes, including a niche addition that may be a direct response to a disappointed player on Reddit: "Really cool they did that"
- Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts fans in shambles after "an announcement for Square Enix's beloved series" at PlayStation's State of Play stream was Octopath Traveler 0
- This stunning 2D roguelike with Hollow Knight vibes is the latest indie being published by Palworld developer's publishing arm, and it even includes 4-player online co-op
- Edgar Wright reveals how he knew it was "time to leave" his doomed Ant-Man movie
- After debuting to a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score and rave reviews, Alien: Earth has been officially renewed for season 2
- Pluribus nods to Better Call Saul's darkest moment with this incredible Gilligan-verse Easter egg
- Avatar: Fire and Ash is reportedly over 3 hours long
- News of the GTA 6 delay reaches the Polish parliament, as politicians hilariously flag the "very disturbing matter" on the stand: "This is a huge scandal"
- The Running Man ending explained: All your biggest questions answered on the Stephen King adaptation
- The Running Man Easter eggs: all the Stephen King references we spotted in the new film
- November 11
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- Elden Ring Nightreign DLC The Forsaken Hollows adds 2 new characters and 2 more bosses when it launches in December
- Dune: Prophecy season 2 expands with a higher episode count and multiple new cast members
- After Arc Raiders AI voice actor controversy, owner Nexon says people should just assume "every game company is now using AI"
- Now You See Me: Now You Don't popcorn bucket comes with an actual magic trick, and I love it so much
- Hi-Fi Rush director says "don't panic" as the soundtrack gets delisted and the rhythm action game disappears from third-party PC stores: "This is likely publisher transition related"
- Black Widow's death was supposed to feature "more aliens" in Avengers: Endgame, according to Hawkeye actor Jeremy Renner, but it was thankfully reshot to be "much simpler": "It was real enough for us to feel it"
- The Running Man review: "Some fun action and Glen Powell's star power aren't enough to energize this disappointing Stephen King adaptation"
- Former Bungie director spent their time on Marathon "dying to create a new genre name" because an extraction shooter is "the only genre where its name is a mechanic"
- Baldur's Gate 3 icon Maggie Robertson would love to voice the "silliest, goofiest" character after being Orin the Red: A squirrel
- Union leader says fired GTA 6 devs weren't leaking Rockstar secrets, they were talking about working conditions on a private Discord: "They should be legally protected to do that"
- Kirby Air Riders' fan-favorite racer is a hilariously fast, oversized hamster named Rick who's been dominating beta lobbies: "Why is THIS the face of carnage and destruction?"
- Playing Final Fantasy 7 "scared" Baldur's Gate 2's writing lead into adding romance to the RPG series: "These guys kicked our ass"
- "We are so back": Marvel Rivals Season 5 trailer leaves fans excited for Rogue and Gambit's arrival, with many praising its X-Men '97 vibes – and what sounds to be the OG voice actors
- The Witcher 2's momentous mid-game choice might've been "cool" for players, but CD Projekt's co-CEO now believes it was a "waste of resources"
- Possessor(s) review: "Smart ideas are quickly buried in this demonic Metroidvania that's far too mundane and dull in a sea of sharp competition"
- In a curious crossover of stuff I love, The Outer Worlds 2 improves one of Avowed's jankiest features – and the only game I can compare it to isn't even an RPG
- There's a terrifying face lurking in new Five Nights at Freddy's 2 behind-the-scenes photos, and everyone has a different fan theory: "That's just the puppet's true form"
- Former Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aimé says the console wars are over because Xbox needs "support from Sony for Microsoft’s software to reach the largest audience"
- Elder Scrolls 6 fans yearn for news as Skyrim turns 14, instead get Todd Howard saying it's "still a long way off" despite being announced 7 years ago: "Bethesda has had us hanging by a thread"
- Nintendo Switch 2's underwhelming opening lineup had former president Reggie Fils-Aimé stumped: "I scratched my head a bit"
- Former Pokemon caster creates the most funded Kickstarter video game of 2025, raising over $1.1 million for his creature collector, team thanks supporters for "helping us make this dream a reality"
- Demon Blade codes (December 2025) for Cash, Spins, Souls, and more
- The LED Mouse Duo transforms your Switch 2 Joy-Con into a fully-fledged gaming mouse, but not for US fans
- New Lego Legend of Zelda set teases epic Ganon showdown
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 devs want to "establish ourselves as the new kings of RPG," and the studio's future "will definitely be immersive RPGs"
- Baldur's Gate 3 villain Orin the Red is psychotic because she's a "sweet little thing" who was "never taught how to love," says her actor: "The only thing she knows is violence"
- How to open the Hidden Bunker in Arc Raiders
- When is The Running Man on streaming? Speculation on the potential Paramount Plus release date
- The PS5 has now outsold every Xbox in history as its latest 84.2 million sales milestone places it ahead of the Xbox 360
- KPop Demon Hunters 2 should be an "origin story" or a globetrotting world tour, according to its stars
- Pokemon's new Animal Crossing-like life sim Pokopia gets a March release date, but it looks like it might be a controversial Switch 2 Game-Key Card title
- The best PS5 controller just reached its lowest-ever price at Amazon, making it $80 cheaper than the DualSense Edge
- Official Nintendo Black Friday and holiday deals have been announced, and my wallet is not ready
- Lumines Arise review: "Just as effective as Tetris Effect, block matching to a beat becomes a transcendent experience"
- How to play all the Call of Duty: Black Ops games in order
- Rode's latest device for content creators looks like an ultra-powered Stream Deck, but there's a catch
- The Last of Us lead Troy Baker says he's still butting heads with Naughty Dog's Neil Druckmann on new project Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, despite not being the lead: "It's our vibe"
- Fallout 4 Anniversary Edition is here with new "Mostly Negative" DLC on Steam and an update RPG fans say "breaks the game and adds nothing more"
- Skate devs address problems from softlocks to cosmetics after rocky launch, offer up in-game goodies: "Things have not gone as smoothly for some of you as we would have liked"
- Nintendo drops its second ever Switch 2 update that offers more than "general system stability," with some nifty download improvements and quality-of-life features
- Predator: Badlands director explains how the sci-fi film's surprise Stranger Things cameo happened: "They had to very quickly learn Yautja"
- Psst, there's a cheaper version of my favorite retro handheld you should watch over Black Friday
- Pluribus star Rhea Seehorn says she has "no idea what's going on" in Breaking Bad creator's new sci-fi show
- James Gunn's DC Studios is making a V for Vendetta TV show – 20 years after the acclaimed film adaptation of Alan Moore's classic
- As Destiny 2 faces dwindling player counts, MIA roadmap, and another scrapped in-game currency, Sony admits the MMO has not met expectations following $3.6bn Bungie acquisition
- Forza Horizon 5 is one of gaming's greatest car modding games, and I'm flying like a Bulleit in my restomod monstrosities
- As the PS5 turns 5, Sony reveals it's sold close to the same number of units the PS4 did in the same timeframe, and that's with GTA 6 and Marvel's Wolverine still to come
- Ghost of Yotei hit 3.3 million sales in its first month, making it a PS5 best-seller and putting it on track to hit the 5 million sales milestone that took Tsushima 4 months
- Fallout 4's cinematic dialogue system failed to shine despite Bethesda spending "forever" working on it says Todd Howard: "It really did not resonate"
- Thanos star Josh Brolin says he would return to the MCU "pretty quickly" if Avengers: Endgame director Joe Russo asked him to, "which he may have"
- The inspiration for one character in The Running Man came from watching X Factor conspiracy videos on YouTube, says Edgar Wright
- A new Game of Thrones book has artwork that fans are suspicious is AI, but George R.R. Martin's team has denied the allegations
- Electromagnetic Storms in Arc Raiders explained
- Sony is "fully dedicated" to making sure Destiny 2 studio's troubled extraction shooter Marathon doesn't face another delay, with Bungie "still working on it" following more closed testing
- After waiting 6 years for a new season, One-Punch Man fans continue to be let down by the third installment: "This episode was janky, rushed, and unbelievably disappointing"
- REPO dev semiwork is going dark for a little bit after a "crazy" October leading up to the big monster update: "We'll be back very, very soon"
- Nintendo announces Super Mario Galaxy Movie Nintendo Direct where we'll see the sequel's first trailer
- November 10
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- Don't expect Switch 2 emulation to hit as fast as it did for Switch 1, as fan devs are already warning "THIS PROJECT WILL NOT BE READY FOR A DECADE MINIMUM"
- Jimmy Olsen gets his own Superman TV spin-off which focuses on one of the Flash's weirdest, wildest arch-enemies
- Finally, Battlefield 6 is putting an end to drone-surfing with sledgehammers as EA fixes "an exploit allowing players to ascend and access unintended areas"
- Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined aims to fix one of the only things I don't like about the original JRPG: "The amount of time it takes to get to the first battle in the game is much shorter"
- Arc Raiders Hidden Bunker map puzzle feels like the Mount Chiliad mystery all over again, and players are breaking the laws of physics to solve it: "I found a non-corporeal wall on accident and fell out of the map"
- Netflix's live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender wraps filming on third and final season, teases "exciting Season 2 updates" soon
- Arc Raiders hits 700,000 peak concurrent players on all platforms, proving console players are also very much into this massively successful extraction shooter
- Fallout 3 remaster reportedly in production as Bethesda boss Todd Howard confirms the developer is working on Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout 76, "and some other things"
- Todd Howard "hadn't had a break in 20 years" when Fallout 4 came out, so he took a 3-month sabbatical to "go touch some grass"
- Battlefield 6 tank skins might create weak points that kill you, but some fans think more bugs are the price of fashion: "They look cool. I'd rather die."
- I'm not sure who asked for a Super Pocket Capcom x Kith fashion collab, but it's a thing
- The best new shows and movies streaming this week on Netflix, Prime Video, HBO Max, and more
- Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto hopes he'll stay healthy until the series' 50th anniversary in 2035 and is looking forward to seeing how the current team takes on the challenge of improving on Odyssey
- "Devastated doesn’t even begin to cover it": Warhammer MMO got obliterated by NetEase shutdown before it could be announced, and devs can’t believe "no one will get to see the amazing work" now that it’s dead
- The Elder Scrolls 6 "might" get an Oblivion-style shadow drop if Bethesda leaves it up to increasingly mysterious Todd Howard: "I like to just announce stuff and release it"
- Death Stranding 2 art director helps turn a real-life $1,500 exoskeleton into "something Sam Porter Bridges himself might wear," and you can buy it for yourself
- "We wanted to do something new with Starfield": 14 years after Skyrim with no Elder Scrolls 6 in sight, Todd Howard finally admits it's been "too long" since the last RPG
- One of Pokemon Legends: Z-A's most important items may have first surfaced 12 years ago as unreleased content in X and Y, suggesting a certain Mega Evolution may have been in the works for over a decade
- This is the gaming laptop deal I was waiting for this Black Friday, and it's not even technically a laptop
- N7 Day 2025 could be hinting that Mass Effect 5 will make a specific Mass Effect 3 ending canon, but I can't tell which one
- Roger Rabbit creator is working on more projects after claiming rights back from Disney, and he's developing a live-action Jessica Rabbit movie
- I've been obsessed with this Switch 2 headset all year, and it just dropped under $90 for the first time at Woot
- Five years later, Star Wars fans are celebrating The Mandalorian's most unexpected moment: "I cried the first time I saw it"
- Anno 117: Pax Romana review: "Whether dealing with rivals through warfare or diplomacy, there's a great deal to like in this engrossing city builder"
- The Running Man director Edgar Wright says it felt like he was making the movie "for an audience of one" after getting Stephen King's seal of approval on his new ending
- Stellar Blade "represents more than just one successful title" says former PlayStation president Shuhei Yoshida, thinks it "could inspire many other Korean developers to pursue their ambitions"
- Helldivers 2 has "no plans to add cross progression" even though Arrowhead CEO says "we'd love to" as "other things take priority"
- Arc Raiders players plead with Embark Studios to "make a duos mode," but not all fans of the new shooter are convinced: "This game isn't meant to be a balanced team death match"
- Dune star Timothée Chalamet says he doesn't care if he's called "a try-hard" for caring about awards: "I'm the one actually doing it here"
- I doubled the battery life of my Quest 3 thanks to this charging belt, and wearing it for VR games wasn't as weird as I thought it'd be
- The Elder Scrolls 6 is "still a long way off," Todd Howard says, but Bethesda is working on it more often than Fallout 76: "We did a big play test yesterday"
- Full loot cheat sheet for all items in Arc Raiders
- PlayStation reveals State of Play Japan happening tomorrow and fans are hoping for Marvel Tokon, Phantom Blade Zero, and Kingdom Hearts 4: "I've got my clown outfit ready"
- Silksong's most-hated areas just became a little easier thanks to desperately desired Muckmaggot nerfs
- Deadpool and Wolverine director Shawn Levy says his Star Wars film "inherits legacy themes," but is "really trying" to be "something fresh, something new"
- "It's really fateful" – Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director on charting a new course for the JRPG series with a return to Nintendo, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and outdoing AI
- After selling 1 million copies in just 10 days, devs behind story-driven episodic superhero game Dispatch need to "think about" season 2: "That was a question mark 3 weeks ago"
- Guillermo del Toro reveals the iconic anime series James Cameron told him to watch in the early 90s
- The GTA 6 trailer 3 hopium is as strong as ever, with Grand Theft Auto fans gathering around a mysterious, missing Rockstar video on YouTube to speculate
- "This isn’t just another emulator" - I can't believe we're getting a new 8-bit console that's not a NES clone
- "Absolutely incredible" and "so unsettling": Warhammer fans have strong opinions on 2025 World Championship reveals
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's loss is The Witcher 4's gain as CD Projekt Red picks up the lead gameplay designer behind one of the best parts of the action RPG
- After backing Arc Raiders over Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 for GOTY, FPS legend Shroud says there should be different categories for multiplayer and single-player
- The Running Man star Glen Powell says Top Gun: Maverick prepared him to lead Edgar Wright's action-packed Stephen King adaptation: "Don't take any shortcuts"
- Euphoria star Sydney Sweeney's new boxing biopic with decent Rotten Tomatoes score bombs at box office, debuting to $1.3 million
- The Witcher season 4 star says he tried to be "faithful [to the] spirit of the books" as fans praise his performance: "Your Leo is the most accurate depiction of a witcher"
- Leonardo DiCaprio reveals his favorite Christopher Nolan film, but it's not Inception
- Arc Raiders climbs to new Steam peak of over 460,000 concurrent players, beating Helldivers 2's all-time record as the new extraction shooter from ex-Battlefield devs continues growing
- Nintendo icon Shigeru Miyamoto says while he's not as involved with making Mario games anymore, he always plays about 30 minutes during development to make sure they feel right
- Zelda and Link shippers are in shambles after Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment describes them as just friends, but after 39 years we can read between the lines
- Pentiment's medieval setting remains the perfect backdrop for a detective tale focused on faith and truth
- The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson is rooting for The Hunt for Ben Solo: "I want to see Adam [Driver] in another Star Wars movie, man"
- Millie Bobby Brown says she "channeled [her] inner Tom Cruise" for Stranger Things season 5: "I feel like Volume 1 only touches on what she's been training for"
- Frankenstein director Guillermo del Toro has seen Avatar 3 and knows where the franchise is "going": "I think it's going to surprise a lot of people"
- Just 5 months after launch, MMO Dune: Awakening sees its Steam player count drop below that of Funcom's 2017 survival game as it struggles with "Mixed" reviews
- Super Mario Galaxy Movie leak arrives via a box of cookies, revealing an iconic game location and possible new villain
- Predator: Badlands director teases what could happen after that "awesome" and "ironic" ending: "It would be a whole lot of fun"
- Hideo Kojima says Predator: Badlands "represents a new direction for Hollywood entertainment" inspired by "manga, anime, and gaming culture"
- November 9
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- We might be waiting 4 years for KPop Demon Hunters 2, but fans of the Netflix movie believe that's a good thing: "Quality content takes time to make!"
- The GTA 4 story is "really dark" because Rockstar's co-founder was "single and miserable" while making it: "We constantly thought we may be shut down"
- Vince Gilligan knows how he wants the Pluribus ending to go, but the Breaking Bad creator "isn't precious" about it either: "If we come up with a better way to end this thing, we will"
- Mario Kart and Super Mario Maker collide in this Steam racing game where you make your own courses while driving: "I've lost hours testing my game"
- Star Wars: Starfighter is now filming, and House of the Dragon star Matt Smith joins production very soon
- Predator: Badlands sets franchise record in opening weekend box office, overtaking original Schwarzenegger movie and Predators
- A blow to Nintendo's controversial Pokemon patent could "embolden some competitors" to fight back against future lawsuits or accusations after the Palworld mess, IP expert says
- As Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 gets snubbed at the 2026 Grammys, Assassin's Creed and Journey composer says he'd "happily trade places" with the RPG
- GTA 6 delay is not nearly powerful enough to kill fans' hope that somehow, somewhere, trailer 3 is coming soon: "Probably imminent"
- The Running Man star Glen Powell says Edgar Wright's new Stephen King adaptation has similarities to Braveheart and Gladiator: "Ordinary people who are trying to make up for terrible things that have happened"
- November 8
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- Red Dead Redemption 2's brutal opening was supposed to be worse, but Arthur Morgan was "very, very nasty," so Rockstar Games "ended up cutting it"
- Elle Fanning explains why she was "more nervous" to play villainous synth Tessa than "big personality" droid Thia in new sci-fi Predator: Badlands: "You can fall into a cliché"
- Introducing the first soulslike god game: Spore and Dark Souls collide in what might be the weirdest life sim on Steam
- Jennifer Lawrence calls Emma Stone the "Muppet-head" leading the way on their Miss Piggy movie: "I'm the ideas guy"
- Silent Hill 2 Remake's Xbox port release date leaked by Microsoft itself, and its imminent launch might be good news for the game's rumored Born From a Wish DLC
- "The delay for GTA doesn't change anything": Dev behind very canceled game Hytale thinks it has a better shot of resurrecting and launching before GTA 6
- Alan Ritchson wants a "messier" role in the DCU, as the Reacher star confirms talks are ongoing: "I want to play somebody a little dirtier than your typical clean-cut protagonist"
- Godzilla Minus Zero's logo has a hidden detail that might give away another kaiju joining the Godzilla Minus One sequel
- Public outrage amid Palworld lawsuit likely influenced new scrutiny of Nintendo's Pokemon patent, IP expert speculates, but it's debatable if giving that power to "people on the internet" who "scream loudly" is good
- Breaking Bad creator's new sci-fi show Pluribus has a "made by humans" disclaimer because Vince Gilligan can't stand AI: "AI is the world's most expensive and energy-intensive plagiarism machine"
- Kill Team: Dead Silence brings back something I've desperately missed in the Warhammer game
- 25 years later, the original $36,000 Xbox prototype that was shaped like an actual X has been rebuilt, and it's fully functioning
- November 7
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- Unless GTA 6 "comes out and it's terrible" no open-world dev can hope to top Rockstar, original Saints Row design lead says – but "there's nothing wrong with trying to be a #2"
- X-Men #23 brings back a beloved '90s X-artist for the end of 'Age of Revelation'
- "It's so hard to balance a game for 14 million players ok": Peak devs ask for mercy after overpowered zombies rip players apart
- Lore hero condenses all of Silksong, including a cut ending, into a lightweight 77 minutes: "THE SACRED TEXTS ARE HERE"
- Halo Infinite is finished with "major" updates after its next release as devs focus on Halo: Campaign Evolved, fans lament it's "going out on a whimper"
- For the first time in over a decade, Square Enix is teasing a brand-new zone for its OG MMO Final Fantasy 11
- Fans find Mass Effect 5 art of a Krogan civil war hidden in BioWare's N7 Day post, studio lead says "I want you to see stuff. But it's not the time…yet"
- Hideo Kojima says new sci-fi show Pluribus from Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan is "absolutely incredible" and "Vince really is a genius"
- I've been playing D&D for years, but I think this starter set is the best it's ever had
- Elden Ring Nightreign "performed well beyond initial expectations," FromSoftware parent company says, and DLC could take it even further
- Genshin Impact dev seemingly ditching anime art to take on the MMO money pit with a new game called Genesis packing an open world, PvP, and a whole load of AI
- Hyped Pokemon ROM hack gets its 1.0 release next week with a Greek region, 400+ cross-gen monsters, Mega Evolutions, mini games, side quests, and more
- The Mass Effect show will "explore a brand-new story" set after the original trilogy and "won't be a retread of Commander Shepard's story," according to BioWare
- Attention, Fortnite Festival fans: A drum kit controller is coming in 2026
- Konami's $26 million lawsuit against Umamusume devs settled for an undisclosed sum, but Cygames still says it never infringed any patents
- Predator: Badlands is great, but I'd kind of hoped some of those wild fan theories were true – and now I'm wishing that the marketing hadn't been so oddly mysterious
- Pokemon Legends: Z-A's DLC is making a change to the level cap Game Freak has "never dared touch," and a VGC World Champion thinks "there's no telling how difficult the game can get" now
- Arc Raiders already has an online market for blueprints, a rare one could cost you more than the game itself, and you might not even get to keep it
- "Don't expect hundreds of hours of gameplay": Sims 4 competitor Paralives unveils early access plans, showing what "won't be ready for launch" and what's coming "within the next 2 years"
- Best PlayStation gifts in 2025, according to a fan who's been playing on Sony's console since the start
- Dwayne Johnson says his string of early career flops was because he shied away from a challenge: "I don't think I was ready for anything other than easy, light, family films"
- Loki writer hints that one day we may get to see the original ending planned for the Marvel show's first season: "Never say never"
- Radiolight channels Twin Peaks and Alan Wake for a late night walk in the woods, and I'm amazed a solo developer crammed so much atmosphere into this secret horror game
- After a huge Animal Crossing: New Horizons patch was announced out of nowhere, Nintendo says it's "constantly considering" the balance of new Switch 2 games and big updates
- Mass Effect 5 remains in development amid $55 billion EA buyout, and BioWare is now "heads-down and focused exclusively on" the RPG, with "lots of romances to figure out"
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- Steam expert hails PC gaming "golden age" of rough-but-fun games that devs can make quickly and players love, from Peak to Megabonk: "Steam players want fun first"
- "I can't describe how happy this makes us": No Man's Sky celebrates Mass Effect Day with the return of Commander Shepard's ship
- Borderlands 4's latest patch brings welcome buffs, a challenging boss, and, most importantl,y a gun that shoots bees
- Red Dead Redemption 2 overtakes Mario Kart 8 as the 4th best-selling video game of all time, boasting 79 million sales
- How to complete A First Foothold in Arc Raiders
- Arc Raiders review: "The most memorable multiplayer experiences I've had all year – this shooter is tense but wonderfully approachable"
- On the Radar with The Outer Worlds 2 – going beyond our verdict with a deep dive on one of 2025's greatest RPGs
- Grand Theft Auto and Borderlands owner Take-Two has had "success" with using AI for "mundane tasks," but doesn't see it as a replacement for actual creativity: "We are not using this as an excuse to reduce headcount"
- Survival horror meets Squid Game in this chilling Steam demo that I've not been able to stop thinking about
- I adore my LG OLED TV, but I would have jumped on this Samsung deal if it popped up first
- Now that Skyrim Grandma's retired, you can occupy your time watching this Minecraft Grandma who yells "die, die, die" at every zombie and skeleton in the game
- I was emotionally disembowled by Train Dreams, an extraordinary movie about the ordinary life of a 20th-century logger
- Gremlins 3 release date, cast, plot speculation, and everything else you need to know about the upcoming sequel
- Baldur's Gate 3 publishing lead says there's a reason Steam is so popular: "It's almost as if it isn't providing a s**t service"
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- Battlefield Redsec review: "Ticks all the right boxes for a battle royale, but it's not especially unique"
- With big "this is fine" energy, Take-Two CEO says GTA 6 will be the "most extraordinary title anyone's ever seen in the history of entertainment" as latest delay sends Grand Theft Auto fans spiraling
- "I have to kill them before they kill me": In just one week, Arc Raiders has ruined my ability to trust, and the killer robots aren't even the problem
- As a 90s kid, there's nothing I want more this Black Friday than a retro Care Bears Digital Pet
- GTA 5 is reportedly returning to the PS Plus Game Catalog this month as Rockstar and Sony keep tradition for the third year running, right after GTA 6 gets delayed again
- Despite shifting its "primary development focus to Nintendo Switch 2", Nintendo still plans on making games for the original Switch, and hopes fans will continue to play old ones, too
- It's dangerous to go alone, take our Legend of Zelda quiz
- Alienware PCs aren't for everyone, but this Aurora RTX 5070 Ti early Black Friday deal instantly caught my eye
- GTA 6's delay reportedly had nothing to do with recent Rockstar Games firings and alleged union busting, but it could impact production further down the line
- Terminator legend Linda Hamilton was considering retiring from acting before she joined Stranger Things season 5
- The emotional story of World of Warcraft gamer Ibelin is being turned into a movie with Adolescence, The Long Walk, and The Last of Us stars attached
- Following another GTA 6 delay, Palworld lead says "expect to see many games (especially AAA ones) swerve to avoid the 2027 awards season"
- Predator: Badlands director Dan Trachtenberg's first idea for a Prey sequel involved a Yautja "kicking Nazi butt" in World War 2
- Best Arc Raiders blueprint farming method
- Take-Two CEO says they "take no victory lap" following $55 billion EA buyout news, and the company is "always running scared": "We wish our competitors well"
- Baldur's Gate 3 publishing lead slams Square Enix's push to automate 70% of debugging with AI: "The idea that QA people can be replaced at a large scale is stupid"
- Jujutsu Kaisen season 3 confirms premiere date – and we could be looking at the biggest anime month ever
- Netflix unveils the first five minutes of Stranger Things season 5, and rewrites history with a flashback of Will encountering Vecna in the Upside Down back in 1983
- Star Wars newcomer Sigourney Weaver thinks the franchise is more interesting now: "They're no longer trying to do the Star Wars to end all Star Wars"
- Devolver Digital tightens its grip on Rockstar, now threatening to launch a game on GTA 6's new November 2026 release date: "You can't escape us"
- Kate Winslet says her "extraordinary" reaction to a death in Avatar: The Way of Water is hiding a surreal scene partner – a giant metal grate: "It was easier imagining an iceberg passing by"
- BioShock 4 is "going to take the franchise to the next level," which is why publisher Take-Two is "shifting some things around" to make sure it exceeds expectations
- Weapons director Zach Cregger's next movie has reportedly been "stalled" due to Netflix not wanting to release it in theaters
- After 8 years of developing the Marvel movie, Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright didn't make Ant-Man because "the thing that attracted me about it had gone away"
- As if you needed another reason to watch Avatar: Fire and Ash, the Avengers: Doomsday trailer will reportedly play in front of James Cameron's threequel
- Take-Two CEO says "we've never regretted" a delay as GTA 6 slips again, and points to companies that ignored necessary delays "at their peril"
- Cyberpunk 2077 devs offer support to spiralling GTA 6 fans following delay by reminding them of their RPG's infamously terrible launch
- Breaking Bad creator's new show Pluribus debuts to a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score as viewers say its first episode is "one of the best pilots in recent memory"
- The G'AIM'E Time Crisis Lightgun console has gloriously revived my favorite arcade shooter, but I'm worried about the genre's future
- Avatar crew created a new style of swimming for The Way of Water and used James Bond-style jetpacks to make the Na'vi's underwater movements as 'accurate' as possible
- Predator: Badlands – Is there a post-credits scene?
- Predator: Badlands ending explained – Does Dek kill the Kalisk? What happens to Tessa, and will there be a Predator: Badlands 2?
- All the main differences between Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein and the original novel that you need to know
- Stranger Things still has "movie touch points" in season 5, but its creators were more concerned with doing justice to the story it began almost a decade ago
- Pluribus season 1 review: "Easily one of the year's best dramas"
- Borderlands 4's launch "was a bit softer than we would've liked" partly because of PC performance issues, Take-Two CEO says, but "we're immensely proud of Gearbox" anyway
- Don't sweat the GTA 6 delay, Take-Two CEO says GTA 5 is "still the most technologically advanced title in the marketplace" after 12 years
- November 6
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- Black Panther and Captain America team-up game Marvel 1943 delayed "beyond early 2026" to make sure it "meets the level of quality" the devs want
- Eleven and Will got competition! Holly Wheeler will be a "centerpiece" in Stranger Things season 5, say Duffer Brothers
- After another GTA 6 delay he called unlikely, Take-Two CEO says "bad things happen" when games are rushed and breaks out his favorite phrase: "I'm highly confident on the new date"
- "I counted every box in Baldur's Gate 3": The real Baldur's Gate 3 completionist is the person who dug through the RPG's code to find every last crate, chest, and barrel
- JRPG grind is dead, the advanced Dragon Quest 1 & 2 HD-2D Remake auto-battle system killed it – though devs say players may still "be in trouble if they get careless"
- Fallout: New Vegas was "the very first game" Outer Worlds 2 lead studied after the original, but don't expect the classic RPG to majorly influence "every single game" Obsidian does going forward
- "Of course, you must be on Steam. But Steam isn't the entire world": CEO of game distribution company says yes, some PC gamers prefer "local" stores to Valve's mega-shop, and China is a huge factor
- GTA 6 delayed 6 more months as Rockstar commits to November 2026 and says “sorry”
- Mass layoffs hit Square Enix hours after it shares plans to have AI handle "70%" of its quality assurance and debugging soon
- Kingdom Hearts 4 hopium is in overdrive thanks to a single image of Sora's voice actor in the studio: "YALL IS IT TIME??? IS IT FINALLY TIME????"
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (November 7-9)
- "Printing money": Rockstar reveals GTA+ membership will now let anyone play GTA Online – and it's not trailer 3, but it does bode well for GTA 6 Online
- 37 years after the last movie, Gremlins 3 is officially happening with Chris Columbus and Steven Spielberg on board
- With 11 million copies sold, Peak continues the Bing Bong divorced dad saga in latest update: "The divorce court has allowed Bing Bong to visit his kids"
- Super Mario World, Zelda: The Wind Waker, Mario Kart 8, and more return to Japan's biggest speedrun event after Nintendo cited "unauthorized use"
- Analysis of 260,000 Silksong Steam reviews shows what players love and hate about Team Cherry’s brutal sequel: 2 damage, long runbacks, and... Elden Ring?
- When is Predator: Badlands on streaming? Speculation on the potential Hulu release date
- When is the Call of Duty Black Ops 7 release time for you?
- The PS Portal just got a handy new upgrade, but should you buy one instead of a PS5?
- Battlefield 6 lead says "stick it out" on bots, because they're essential to avoid waiting "possibly forever" to get into "the playlist of your choice in regions with low population"
- Predator: Badlands almost centered on a team-up between Yautja protagonist Dek and Prey's Naru, but director Dan Trachtenberg wanted "no humans in the movie"
- Knights of the Old Republic's Bastila Shan actor Jennifer Hale was "gobsmacked" by the Star Wars RPG's big twist: "It completely shocked me"
- inZOI takes a page from The Sims' most beloved expansions with a store management system that'll let you "open stores anywhere"
- Baldur's Gate 3 and Dragon Age: The Veilguard are both "very LGBTQ+ friendly," former EA dev says, "but one handled it perfectly and one fumbled it"
- The Legend of Zelda movie is now filming in New Zealand, but good luck figuring out which game is being adapted from this vague synopsis
- MissingNo walked so Pokemon Legends: Z-A Mega Dimensions could run, as the new DLC lets you officially go beyond the Level 100 limit for the first time in the series' 29-year history
- The Witcher author says "there is no cooperation at all between me and the games," and he won't play The Witcher 4 because "it's not an entertainment for me"
- Star Wars: Visions features a full-circle nod to a famous Back to the Future moment
- Arc Raiders has made me fall in love with getting my ass kicked by giant robots
- The cheapest Alienware gaming laptop on the market just got Black Friday'd
- Helldivers 2 studio Arrowhead has an entire "Meta" team internally, but they aren't in charge of the best guns: "They define the rules of the whole game, and you’ll find your beloved Game Masters in this"
- The Simpsons showrunner says a revival of animated sitcom The Critic has "definitely been discussed" but there's "one thing standing in the way"
- Netflix wishes fans a Happy Stranger Things Day by releasing first look at upcoming animated spin-off Stranger Things: Tales From '85
- I've sat in this $9 million Kickstarter chair for two months now, and it's definitely worth the hype
- Soon-to-be-laid-off dev tells boycott-curious players to "please buy this game" he's about to be laid off from, because it still helps the folks getting cut
- I couldn't hack Marvel Rivals, but Marvel Snap taught me more about PvP etiquette in 6 months than any game has before it
- Palworld team announcement tease reminds us 2025 isn't over yet: "Thinking we should announce one final publishing game for the year"
- How to get Diancie in Pokemon Legends: Z-A and start the Shine Bright Like a Gemstone mission
- Battlefield 6 lead agrees "we need more of the large sandbox" maps but also defends small maps: "There are different types of Battlefield maps in all games"
- Helldivers 2 lead says "our features would be considered ready and implemented in the release build at the very last minute," so Arrowhead wants to "stop that" with the game cracking
- 2010's A Nightmare on Elm Street was "premature", says OG actor Robert Englund – but he'd be eager to see a re-do of Part 2 and a franchise-ending prequel soon
- "Rockstar, you're disgusting": Fired GTA 6 devs protest outside studio offices after dozens of unionizing employees were accused of leaking "confidential information"
- KPop Demon Hunters 2: everything we know about the Netflix sequel
- Pokemon Legends: Z-A's DLC expansion Mega Dimension launches next month, adding new Mega Evolutions, more returning Pokemon, and a familiar face from X and Y
- A new Star Wars comic reveals that Kylo Ren and Luke Skywalker met again after The Last Jedi
- Where to buy Lego Advent Calendars 2025 for the best price
- The Séance of Blake Manor review: "Like horror Clue come to life, this supernatural mystery against the clock is incredibly immersive"
- One day after adding them, indie co-op game Peak is nerfing its new zombie enemies: "We did playtest the zombies. I guess the playtesters were just too good"
- Prepare to engage your overdraft, because the Lego Star Trek Enterprise is incredible (but you can get one free if you're quick)
- The JSAUX EnergyFlow Joy-Con 2 charger isn't a necessity, but I don't want to imagine my setup without it | Review
- Former FPS pro Shroud says Arc Raiders should win GOTY over Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, even if he thinks "multiplayer gamers are the minority"
- Netflix and A24 are teaming up to adapt infamously stressful video game Overcooked into a reality cooking show
- Battlefield 6 has finally disabled those OP IFV missiles that turn any map into a no-fly zone, with a proper update coming next week
- The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson says he came out of making the film "loving Star Wars fandom more than I did even going into it"
- Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser says Red Dead Redemption 2's Arthur Morgan is his "best lead character," but it's a "toss-up" with GTA 4's Niko Bellic
- Vince Gilligan is avoiding one Breaking Bad mistake by plotting out a "general roadmap" for where Pluribus is going next
- Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto says one of the reasons Pokemon Red and Green were made was because creator Satoshi Tajiri joked Mario couldn't be surpassed unless fans were sold 2 copies of a game
- New Wonder Man trailer shows Simon Williams desperate to star in a superhero reboot – and teases his powers without solving the mystery of how he gets them
- Can you revive enemies and dead teammates in Arc Raiders?
- A popular Roblox game is next in line to get the movie adaptation treatment, but it's not the one you think
- Hideo Kojima, Fede Alvarez, and Bong Joon Ho are the latest names raving about Osgood Perkins' new movie Keeper: "He is the wizard of horror"
- I absolutely do not need a mini Burger Time arcade machine for my kitchen, but this discount is a threat to my air fryer
- Arc Raiders is now the highest-rated multiplayer shooter on OpenCritic, beating the likes of Overwatch and Quake 2 as positive reviews for the ex-Battlefield devs' new game pour in
- Avengers: Doomsday star Channing Tatum says the Marvel movie could be the biggest movie of the next decade: "Everyone in the world is going to see this movie"
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- Square Enix's multiplatform plan is already working, but it still wants to follow up a Dragon Quest roguelike and Dissidia Final Fantasy with more mobile games based on "major IPs" and "automate 70% of QA" with AI
- Pokemon Legends: Z-A has a new update, but don't worry – the Wild Zone 20 exploit that lets players hunt shiny Alpha Pokemon fast still works
- Stranger Things creators share the one thing they won't miss about the hit Netflix show: "It wasn't fun on a production level"
- After sending fans into a frenzy with a GTA 6 PlayStation Store update, Rockstar has removed the GTA+ ad that had hopefuls convinced trailer 3 was imminent
- Zach Cregger's Resident Evil movie is seemingly set in a wintry Raccoon City, and it's giving us Code Veronica vibes
- Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan says he was "getting a little weary of writing bad guys," so he was "ready to write something a little different" with new sci-fi show Pluribus
- Godzilla Minus Zero: everything we know about the monster movie sequel
- Stranger Things creators say season 5 will finally reveal "what the Upside Down actually is" after "purposely" holding back for "almost 10 years": "We really wanted the show to come full circle"
- Lord of the Rings superfan recreates Frodo's trek to Mount Doom in the world-accurate official MMO, and you can watch the whole journey in an Andy Serkis-narrated video that's as long as all 3 films combined
- November 5
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- GTA 6 dev Rockstar says recent firings were due to leaks of "confidential information" and were "in no way related to people's right to join a union"
- Fallout co-creator Tim Cain's long list of "nitpicky" D&D questions for Wizards of the Coast in 2002 might help explain why Larian wanted to move on from the tabletop license after Baldur's Gate 3
- DC and Cobra Kai star joins the cast of One Piece season 3 and, boy, did they get this one right
- As a Dragon Quest noob, Dragon Quest 1 & 2 HD-2D Remake honestly feels like the perfect introduction
- Another roguelike success story has hit Steam: D&D flavored slot machine Slots & Daggers sells 100,000 copies in 10 days, "a surreal number for a solo dev like me"
- Marvel Rivals seemingly teases one of the best X-Men power couples in obscured art that fans cracked in roughly 17 seconds
- After trying live service with the canceled Last of Us 2 Factions, Naughty Dog commits to making more "story-driven, character-based games"
- Assassin's Creed Shadows devs only found the confidence to rally against its "loudest haters" when Ubisoft realized "We had to stop focusing on those who hated us"
- In defiance of god and Team Cherry, players mod the Knight from Hollow Knight into Silksong: "Most bosses are pretty easy it turns out"
- KPop Demon Hunters 2 is reportedly happening, but we'll be waiting years for it
- Blizzard doesn't want to keep reworking Diablo 4 mechanics "just because we can," but it'll keep tweaking "some of the old things that just aren't doing their job"
- Bungie had an unspoken rule for Halo cinematics: "Never make the player in the cinematic feel more 'badass' than the actual game"
- Tim Robinson's darkly madcap comedy thriller The Chair Company is the perfect antidote to the most overused trope on TV
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 boss hands The Outer Worlds 2 a "7/10," hopes Obsidian spends "all of Microsoft's money" on RPGs more like Fallout New Vegas and, also, like Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
- The Logitech G515 Rapid TKL is one of the first magnetic low profile keyboards, and there's a reason there aren't more | Review
- Former Assassin's Creed and Far Cry lead says the Simpsons game they worked on "is underrated" and "being able to walk around a recreation of Springfield was pretty fun in of itself"
- The latest Sonic game is getting ripped apart on Steam: "In what world can you get a whole, fully featured, actually fun racing game for less than the price of 2 skins here"
- Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con are back to their lowest ever price at Woot
- Another win for story-driven single-player games as superhero comedy Dispatch sells a "pretty good" 1 million copies in 10 days
- From the moment development started on Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls, "the goal was to reinstate Marvel as a pillar of the fighting game community"
- Plant powers rule in Alruna: End of History, a grimdark Metroidvania about reclaiming industrial spaces, and I love the condensed approach to maps that still pack secrets
- My gaming laptop setup's secret weapon just took its first ever price cut
- BlizzCon 2026 tickets go on sale this week with a limited-time early bird offer making passes $40 cheaper
- Minecraft Mounts of Mayhem will finally let you give your horse the armor it deserves: a top-tier Netherite suit
- No, we don't need Red Dead Redemption 3, we need to learn that too much of a good thing will ultimately ruin it
- Frankenstein stars Jacob Elordi and Oscar Isaac say director Guillermo del Toro focuses on "the personal over the scientific" in the new Netflix movie: "It's a biography of Guillermo's"
- Remembering its MMO has an expansion out soon, Bungie addresses Destiny 2's missing roadmap as player counts hit a new low on Steam
- All The Outer Worlds 2 In Pursuit of Purloined Propaganda locations
- PlayStation Portal now lets you stream your own digital games to the handheld without a PS5, but you still need to have the most expensive version of PS Plus to do so
- How to complete Diabolical Drones of Doom in The Outer Worlds 2
- The Running Man director reveals the big way the action-packed thriller differs from the likes of Kill Bill and John Wick: "This was an opportunity to bring it down to a more relatable level"
- Battlefield 6 players rig their own anti-crossplay on PC to avoid controller players with the "massive advantage" of aim assist
- Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion actor Neil Newbon says the RPG's beloved vampire has "meant more than I ever realized he would," and "I'm not ready to let go of him"
- Obsidian wants to establish the "Obsidian RPG" with games like The Outer Worlds 2 and Avowed, not chase "what already exists" in competitors like Baldur's Gate 3 and Cyberpunk 2077
- Fans can watch Stranger Things season 5's premiere two weeks early, but ballot tickets are "extremely limited"
- Our team's favorite cheap Switch 2 headset just got even cheaper, and I can't recommend it enough
- How to get a free loadout in Arc Raiders
- How to claim Arc Raiders Twitch Drops and Discord Quests
- After a 2-year wait, Football Manager 26 becomes the 7th worst-rated Steam game ever as the bug-laden sequel is slammed for poor UI, missing features, and more: "This is the worst iteration ever"
- Star Trek 4 is reportedly dead at Paramount, though a new movie without Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto could still happen
- The Five Nights at Freddy's 2 popcorn bucket may have leaked, and fans are wondering where the popcorn even goes
- Stranger Things creators say "the book is closed" on Eleven, Will and co's storyline, insist future live-action spin-offs won't link to Hawkins: "We've said everything we want to say"
- Original Predator star Arnold Schwarzenegger could still return to the franchise, according to Predator: Badlands producer: "It would be really great to see him come back"
- "The highest airflow and static pressure of any fans we have ever designed" - NZXT launches a new range of performance fans for PC players
- Predator: Badlands stars praise director Dan Trachtenberg for "adding heart" to the sci-fi horror franchise and encouraging "play" on set: "Whenever there was an ad-lib, he had to learn it in Yautja"
- Xbox wants to know how fun Ghost of Yotei is in a new survey, and fans immediately have some questions of their own: "Does this mean the game will be available on Xbox?"
- Bucky Barnes actor Sebastian Stan talks about his Marvel experience in past tense, and fans are getting worried ahead of Avengers: Doomsday
- I don't know how I feel about the changes Wizards Of The Coast just made for Magic: The Gathering's Commander format
- Former GTA boss Dan Houser says Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears or the Kingdom are like Alfred Hitchcock films: "They're just speaking the language of video games"
- Battlefield 6's recoil is making aiming so inaccurate players want it "fixed immediately," but lead developer suggests it may be a skill issue: "I don't think it's a bug we're looking at"
- New Five Nights at Freddy's 2 trailer shows first look at Scream star Skeet Ulrich, and we think we know which FNAF game character he is playing
- Stranger Things season 5 star confirms a de-aged Will Byers will open the new season of the Netflix show in "a full circle moment"
- The Outer Worlds 2 Schemes of the Secret Smugglers walkthrough
- Kim Kardashian's new show is being dubbed one of the worst dramas ever as it debuts to 0% on Rotten Tomatoes
- The Witcher season 4 viewership is down over 50% on season 3 so far, with only 7.3 million views on Netflix
- Nintendo is shifting its "primary development focus to Nintendo Switch 2" as it looks to strengthen its development capabilities with plans to acquire new studios
- Knight of the Seven Kingdoms showrunner says he "did this [season] for George [R.R. Martin]," and the Game of Thrones creator has "only been a benefit to this show"
- Marvel wanted the new Wolverine game to bring Logan back in "spectacular and visceral fashion," and Insomniac was "the perfect choice" after the Spider-Man games
- More adaptations of Nintendo's hit games are on the way, teases president Shuntaro Furukawa: "We are continuing to prepare for the ongoing release of movies in the future"
- Nintendo wants Mario Kart World to be a Switch 2 game fans will "continue to choose for years to come" like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, and I hope that means DLC could be on the cards
- I love having quick access to Street Fighter 2 everywhere I go, and the handheld I use for on the go throwdowns is back under $60
- This gorgeous Lego Star Wars set is retiring soon, and you can save £104 on it right now
- Captain Marvel actor Brie Larson suspiciously tells everyone to "ignore the wig" in latest photo and we're convinced it's confirmation she will return in Avengers: Doomsday
- Stranger Things creators defend season 5's three-part split, and you'll be fine with it too once you hear their plans for Volume One's "mega-movie"
- Stranger Things creators tease Avengers: Endgame-style opening, as Eleven and co pick themselves up after losing to Vecna: "Normally, they've defeated whatever evil"
- Minecraft surprise drops a full-blown Dragon Ball Z fighting game with 1v1, 5v5, and co-op modes, voxelized Goku and buff Bulma, and skins for the main game
- Toby Fox is letting friends try out early versions of Deltarune chapter 5, and they sound pretty jazzed: "I am still thinking about it a lot and want to play it more"
- November 4
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- Nintendo has done the impossible: release a Metroid Prime 4 trailer that actually looks good, and coincidentally includes the Akira slide
- Pokemon Legends Z-A speedrunners are all using the same one Pokemon: a free, heroic Heracross named Bois
- John Romero awards John Romero "the most satisfying weapon in gaming history" award for Doom's Super Shotgun, and he's right
- Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined makes the original JRPG's choices actually matter with a brand new possible ending "that's never been seen before in previous iterations"
- We can all breathe a sigh of relief as Brendan Frasier and Rachel Weisz will return for a new Mummy movie from Scream directors
- There were two specific Alien movies that inspired Elle Fanning's Predator: Badlands character, and neither of them were Ridley Scott's 1979 original
- World of Warcraft director says Blizzard has no plans to bring the MMO to consoles: "Our focus remains on the PC-based experience"
- "In other words, 72% don't know what a monopoly is," analyst says of study that finds 72% of game devs "see Steam as a monopoly"
- In decades of watching anime, I have never wanted a season 3 more: My Dress-Up Darling season 2 was a huge step up, and the manga has so much more to give
- A Battlefield 6 bug is killing some players for committing the heinous crime of jumping, dev says "We don't break knees on purpose"
- The official Switch 2 SD card is out of stock, but this record-low SanDisk deal has come to the rescue
- Obsidian knows that "everyone on the internet" keeps asking for Fallout: New Vegas 2, but its devs are currently happy working on their own IP, and "Xbox has been pretty supportive" too
- Less than 3 months after NetEase shut it down, new studio from Dragon Age and Halo devs gets resurrected
- Best Nintendo gifts 2025, with recommendations from a fan of 30+ years
- Predator: Badlands review: "Die-hard fans may be disappointed, but as a blockbuster action-adventure, Badlands kills it"
- This is my formal apology to Battlefield 6's most misunderstood class: I'm sorry, I wasn't really familiar with your game
- After GTA 6 hopefuls convinced themselves trailer 3 would drop today, they're not taking Rockstar's Red Dead Online news very well: "DIABOLICAL work guys"
- RTX 5070 PCs have already been given the Black Friday treatment, but should you wait?
- The RedMagic 11 Pro storms the mobile gaming market with some of the highest benchmark scores I've seen
- Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser says rumored GTA 5 Trevor DLC was about "half-done" when it was canceled, but if it released, the devs "probably wouldn't have gotten to make Red Dead 2"
- Frankenstein star Oscar Isaac says the new movie doesn't approach the creation of the Creature "like your classic kind of horror" and working with Guillermo del Toro on the scene was "really, really beautiful"
- Stop everything, this vampire decorating sim screams dark romantasy and I can't wait to get my hands on it in 2026
- How to get a Pokemon Legends: Z-A Alpha Gogoat
- Should you crash the Vox Relay into Fairfield or Westport in The Outer Worlds 2?
- Solo dev behind one of Steam's biggest viral hits, Lethal Company, gives his new game away for free after 10 years of work: "I only want to sell a game if I'm very certain that most people will enjoy it"
- Vince Gilligan wrote sci-fi mystery Pluribus just so Better Call Saul standout Rhea Seehorn could lead it: "I feel like the smartest guy in the world for writing a show for her"
- Beloved Final Fantasy 14 catboy G'raha Tia is now Eorzea's "Sexiest Man Alive," fans declare, as actor Jonathan Bailey becomes the real-world equivalent
- Life after Lethal Company: solo creator Zeekerss says "weirdly, not a lot has changed" after one of the biggest indie hits in recent memory, and he still has "a good handful of ideas for games"
- Battlefield 6 lead confirms aim assist is getting nerfed, but the 25% recoil reduction is staying for now: "The stickiness straight up kills you if there's multiple enemies"
- Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment review: "Zelda is a fantastic lead in this action-packed Tears of the Kingdom prequel, but boring missions hold the magic back"
- Warhammer Survivors puts 40K and Age of Sigmar into the Vampire Survivors mold in a partnership with the devs behind the 2022 indie roguelite hit, and it's launching next year
- I'll be gutted if amiibo deals aren't a big thing during Black Friday, and here's why
- The Outer Worlds 2 is an RPG that's as much about what you can't do as what you can: "Everybody is going to have a different experience, and they may not see everything, and that's okay"
- Original Freddy Krueger star Robert Englund wants Freddy vs. Jason director to come out of retirement and make another horror movie
- Pokemon Legends Z-A Occa Berry locations
- Dan Trachtenberg says he wanted Predator: Badlands' connection to Alien to be "more elegant" than past universe movies, but that doesn't mean it won't "grow into a bigger thing"
- Sweet liberty, Helldivers 2 just fixed one of the most annoying glitches in crash-focused new update as Arrowhead continues to address the game's performance issues
- Horror fans are sharing which scary movie they watched first, and Scream, Alien, and Nightmare on Elm Street are top choices
- Nintendo's patent fight against Palworld over Pokemon mechanics "further" undermined, IP expert says, as US Patent and Trademark lead calls controversial summoning patent into question
- "Pays tribute to one of the most extraordinary consoles of the 1980s" - the Vectrex Mini kickstarter is now live, and I still can't believe it's a real thing
- Carimara: Beneath the Forlorn Limbs review: "Playing as a goblin thing to crack a gothic fairy tale mystery with magical cards has quickly become one of my favorite gaming short stories"
- Nintendo Switch 2's massive momentum continues as it surpasses 10 million sales in 4 months, hitting the milestone 5 months faster than the OG Switch
- How to learn Psycho Cut in Pokemon Legends Z-A
- Should you kill or spare Montelli in The Outer Worlds 2?
- Eternals director Chloe Zhao could be manga's answer to James Gunn as she launches new studio dedicated to "premium" live-action adaptations with the publisher behind Attack on Titan
- Red Dead Redemption 3 "probably will happen," says Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser, but he'd be "sad" about it: "It was a cohesive two-game arc"
- Solo Leveling season 3 has yet to be announced, but anime fans are hopeful following a cryptic tweet from one of its producers: "I know what the world is waiting for"
- Batman star Robert Pattinson finally confirms Dune 3 casting and reflects on filming the sequel in the desert: "It was so hot… I did not have a single functioning brain cell"
- Japanese content trade group whose membership includes Studio Ghibli calls for its work to stop being used to train AI without permission
- Nintendo Switch sales are almost neck and neck with the DS, just 10,000 units away from dethroning the beloved 2004 handheld as the company's best-selling console of all time
- Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle gets a surprise China release, meaning $1 billion at the box office is back on the table
- Do Battlefield 6 and Redsec have skill-based matchmaking?
- Stephen King reveals the IT: Welcome to Derry scene that "sticks in [his] mind" and it involves pickles
- Pluribus release schedule: when is episode 7 on Apple TV?
- Rockstar co-founder says the studio's PS3 exclusive spy game Agent was killed because, unlike GTA, spy games should be "very frenetic" - "I question if you can even make a good open world spy game"
- Soulja Boy is selling video game consoles again, and he's already being accused of ripping off an existing handheld: "He does not have permission to rebrand our products and sell them as his own"
- November 3
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- One Piece season 3 taps award-winning Broadway star to play fan favorite theatrical assassin Mister 2
- Playing Arc Raiders solo is shockingly chill for any PvP game, let alone an extraction shooter, players say: "They'll even take me there like I can't find the eggs in the supermarket"
- Arc Raiders gives players 500 free Raider Tokens to apologize for servers buckling under the weight of 350,000 Steam players alone over the weekend
- After 32 years, an NES horror JRPG thought to be lost media has suddenly leaked in fully playable form
- Avengers: Doomsday directors hint at a connection between Robert Downey Jr's Iron Man and Doctor Doom, and tease a bombshell Secret Wars twist
- Another MMO dead: ex-World of Warcraft and League of Legends lead's new studio "will close its doors" this month without releasing its flagship game Ghost
- Assassin's Creed is a "forever brand" because Ubisoft supported huge risks with it, ex director says: "Whereas, say, EA, you get these awful execs and they never made games and they came from toothpaste companies"
- Activision clears the air: no Call of Duty Black Ops 7 early access despite rumors
- Avengers: Doomsday star Simu Liu calls the Marvel movie a "love letter to the entire genre of superhero movies"
- RPG fans stay winning: 2025 has been a critical hit for the genre, though I'm anticipating a GOTY bloodbath
- Upgrading Hornet's weapon in Silksong always felt inconsistent, and now I know why: Team Cherry's special damage multipliers leave hits-to-kill all over the place
- Battlefield 6's new casual mode Breakthrough is stuffed with bots, leaving some players worried it's losing what "makes the franchise special" but others happy to have a less sweaty option
- How to watch the Predator movies in order (chronological and release date)
- OG Sims dev says it's "critical" the series embrace diversity during today's "reactionary cycle" echoing '00s censorship efforts: "We will always go through this"
- Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director says "this sort of feedback is a lot more useful during early access" as fans inexplicably ask Larian to "#showthegaleballs"
- "The greed on display is disgusting": Fortnite finally adds pets in the form of Sidekicks but finds a way to make everyone mad with "absurd" pricing
- I was one of the first to see Hades 2's true ending, and I don't know how I feel about Supergiant retconning the whole thing
- Star Wars Japan seems to say The Mandalorian and Grogu will be a story of "love and loss," and it's worrying fans
- My favorite new N64 controller just dropped to its lowest price, and it's not just for the upcoming Analogue 3D
- If you're an RGB fiend like me, then you need to check out this Corsair wireless headset deal
- Fortnite Hidden Gags locations and how to complete them all
- Frankenstein star Jacob Elordi had "complete liberty" in deciding how the Creature looked in Guillermo del Toro's new Netflix movie: "[It was] a lot of trial and error"
- From The Fantastic Four: First Steps to Pluribus, these are the best new shows and movies streaming this week on Netflix, Prime Video, Disney Plus, and more
- "If Gears 1 was Alien, the rest of the franchise was Aliens": Former Gears of War art director reckons the Xbox shooter franchise lost its horror edge over the years
- Where to find a Field Depot in Arc Raiders
- Fortnite Simpsons collab divides players with its cramped map, suggesting Small Map Syndrome is spreading through the air: "It feels like Reload, I want it to feel like Battle Royale"
- Cyberpunk series creator Mike Pondsmith says he's watching Cyberpunk 2 closely at CDPR, just like he did with 2077: "People have been showing me what they're doing"
- How to get Fireball Burners in Arc Raiders
- Hawkeye season 2 gets an update from star Jeremy Renner who says it would "continue that narrative" of season 1, but that it's "not really my decision to make"
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons' Switch 2 update trailer didn't bother to mention one of the biggest quality-of-life changes coming to the game, despite fans begging for it since launch
- New Lego sets in November 2025 surprised me, but not for the reason you might think
- How to request Supply Drops in Arc Raiders
- Battlefield 6 player goes to extreme lengths to prove the new maps are much smaller than in previous games, painstakingly scaling pixels to meters: "I've done nothing but work on this the entire weekend"
- Where to find hornets in Arc Raiders and take them down
- Just Cause 5 "would be a no-go" because of studio departures, Avalanche co-founder says, but he would've loved for Xbox's canceled Contraband see the light of day
- Palworld dev says "it's trendy to say 'eww UE slop'" but Arc Raiders "might be the new benchmark" for Unreal Engine games: "In awe of what they've achieved"
- The best skills to choose first in Arc Raiders
- Best Arc Raiders weapons and meta tier list (Dec 2025)
- Resident Evil royalty will host the Golden Joystick Awards 2025, with Ultimate Game of the Year voting now open
- Behold the world's first Godzilla RPG, revealed exclusively here
- I love that the Flaw system calls me out on my RPG behavior in The Outer Worlds 2's and then asks me to double-down on it: "Because flaws are optional, we knew we could actually push them a little bit harder"
- From Spirited Away to Cowboy Bebop, the internet is sharing the anime everyone needs to watch at least once, even if you're not an anime fan
- Best Buy's early Black Friday deals are legendary for Zelda fans
- Arc Raiders catches heat over expensive cosmetic bundles and lack of earnable premium currency: "Helldivers 2 should be the gold-standard for paid-game content"
- Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser couldn't kill GTA 4's Niko Bellic as fans needed to be able "to play forever," so he killed Red Dead Redemption's John Marston instead
- After 15 years, Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser reveals the meaning behind Red Dead Redemption's Strange Man: "He's a manifestation of your shadow, your karma, the devil"
- PlayStation bosses at Sony scrapping Days Gone studio's live service IP didn't come as a surprise to one dev: "We didn't make enough substantial progress over the 3 years I was there"
- "This is a Komplete FAILURE": Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection is off to a rough start with massive input lag and netcode issues ruining fighting game fans' experiences online
- KPop Demon Hunters stars are reuniting in a cutthroat new K-Pop thriller described as "Scream meets Black Swan"
- The Outer Worlds 2 takes the RP in RPG so seriously, some NPCs will call you out for walking around naked: "Should I be averting my eyes, or?"
- Marvel fans are discussing a wasted opportunity in What If...? with one specific character who is "completely underused in the MCU"
- New Scream 7 trailer seems to include another voice of a dead franchise character other than Matthew Lillard's Stu Macher
- Eat my shorts: The Simpsons is releasing four mini-episodes on Disney Plus to help explain its Fortnite crossover
- This year's October box office was the lowest in 28 years – and Halloween was the worst weekend of the year
- Best Sniper Rifles for Redsec and Battlefield 6
- Silent Hill 2 remake Born from a Wish DLC copium grows even stronger as Bloober Team writer acknowledges the expansion along with a potential Xbox release: "Born from a what?"
- Arc Raiders servers crash after hitting a peak of 337,000 concurrent players on Steam, and matchmaking may still take "longer than usual" while devs fix the extraction shooter
- Godzilla Minus One sequel is officially titled Godzilla Minus Zero, and a dramatic first teaser has already been released
- Dragon Quest creator and JRPG icon Yuji Horii becomes the first game designer to receive Order of the Rising sun award: "It's thanks to all the staff that helped create the games with me"
- Creating Red Dead Redemption 2 was "not that fun," Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser says, as it wasn't "coming together" and was "over budget so much I didn’t want to think about it"
- Despite Netflix still not confirming a sequel, KPop Demon Hunters star is ready to start making another movie: "I'm waiting for the call"
- Star Wars: Visions producer says the show isn't concerned about the franchise's established canon: "I don’t think we'd ever get things like The Duel if we tried to fit it into that"
- The Witcher showrunner aims to release the final season "a little bit sooner" than the two-and-a-half year gap between seasons 3 and 4
- November 2
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- It: Welcome to Derry shares an important similarity with some of the scariest horror movies ever made, and it's all thanks to Stephen King
- Arc Raiders' studio founder is an enemy health bar hater, saying they turn games into an "Excel sheet" and immersion is better than "answers served on a silver platter"
- Legendary programmer behind Super Nintendo emulator ZSNES had no idea how popular it had become until EA wanted to hire him: "Everyone here knows me"
- Dan Houser says Rockstar Games only attempted GTA London once in 26 years because the series is “so much about America” that “it wouldn’t really have worked in the same way elsewhere”
- Rockstar Games co-founder says GTA 6 is carrying so much hype “because they don’t come out that regularly” and the series has been “constantly innovating”
- Mod team's unhinged quest to port The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind into Elden Ring is "almost already at full parity" for NPCs: "Damn, this project has hands"
- RIG encourages you to customize this new $69.99 PS5 headset, and that makes me love it more
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director isn't weighing in on the OG JRPG's infamous Tifa vs Aerith shipping debate, but after 10 years of looking at Cloud, "I just want what makes him happy"
- The Witcher season 4 once again killed off characters who survived in the books, but their deaths weren't for shock value: "We always do it for a reason"
- "I don't know why, but it feels like fear has been my primary emotion ever since I was a kid": Lethal Company creator says horror games still feel like home as his 10-year project finally ends
- Iron Fist star Finn Jones' Instagram post teases he might be getting back into action
- Edgar Wright explains why Shaun of the Dead 2 would never happen: "It's very difficult to start the next movie when there's no obvious arc"
- The Running Man star Glen Powell isn't looking to be a comic book hero: "I don't feel, as a person, like a superhero"
- Keanu Reeves and Deadpool director plan to Shiver in a shark-infested time travel movie
- November 1
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- All Outer Worlds 2 gadgets explained including effects and locations
- I've seen every episode of The Witcher on Netflix and worked out who is the better Geralt – Henry Cavill or Liam Hemsworth
- Here's the Outer Worlds 2 Order Initiate Scavenger Hunt puzzle solution
- GDQ's first ever Games Done Queer event already raises over $11,000 thanks to Donkey Kong and hot dog-making speedruns, with Halo CE and Deltarune still to come
- How to cure Zyranium poisoning in Outer Worlds 2
- Keanu Reeves wants to find a way to play Cyberpunk 2077's Johnny Silverhand again, so series creator Mike Pondsmith quips "I have ways to do that, Keanu, contact me"
- All Outer Worlds 2 factions and how to join them
- "We proudly wear the friendslop badge": Peak studio unpacks one of the biggest trends on Steam and beyond after studying games like REPO to find out what makes them fun
- Saints Row devs had a debug NPC named Skinballs that helped the team light all skin tones correctly, but modders preferred to wear his literal skin as an outfit
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director "would love" to make a AA game with a similar scope to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 that's "really focused on one area"
- Woody Harrelson has some bad news for True Detective fans regarding his return to the groundbreaking TV show
- Lethal Company creator has thought about a sequel, but sees "a lot left to do" on the original: "As for Lethal Company 2, I have a vision for what that ought to be, and it surpasses my own ambition"
- Jean Grey actor says Marvel "never ever" asked her to return as her X-Men character after the Fox era
- Acolyte star Manny Jacinto says modern franchises are "missing the romance," and that's why he "loved the Qimir and Osha relationship" in his canceled Star Wars show
- The Witcher fans are "pleasantly surprised" by Liam Hemsworth taking over as Geralt from Henry Cavill in the Netflix show: "Honestly he is perfect"
