News archive
December 2025
Filter
259 articles
- December 8
-
- After beating Superman, Zootopia 2 has now outgrossed Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle and Jurassic World Rebirth with a massive $915.8 million
- Not even Hideo Kojima knows what his new horror game OD will be like, but it'll be different from Metal Gear Solid and Death Stranding: "I can't say exactly what it is yet, nor do I know if it will work out"
- Fallout season 3 expected to start filming next summer as director Jonathan Nolan criticizes TV's "unfortunate trend" of widening the gap between seasons
- Tekken boss Katsuhiro Harada is leaving Bandai Namco after 31 years: "I felt this was the most fitting moment to bring one chapter to a close"
- James Gunn wanted to make one change to David Corenswet's Superman performance that the actor refused to back down on: "I was like, 'No!'"
- Stephen King fans say It: Welcome to Derry has the "greatest depiction of Pennywise in any media format," making up for It: Chapter 2: "Mr. Muschietti, I’m sorry for doubting you"
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 lead says the Highwind is an important part of the upcoming RPG, and it sounds like Square Enix is close to deciding on a name
- Five Nights at Freddy's 2 had the second-biggest opening weekend of the year for a horror movie at the box office, but fell short of the first film
- Some KPop Demon Hunters fans have noticed mysterious "bonus content" coming soon on Netflix
- James Gunn shares the first Supergirl teaser ahead of the full trailer, and it already looks very different to Superman
- The Witcher star Freya Allan is glad the show relied on the books to adapt the slaughter of the Rats: "There are sometimes certain things that Netflix is afraid to bring to life"
- Fallout season 2 will "avoid" outright confirming which New Vegas ending is canon because "we didn't want to contradict anyone's experiences playing the games"
- It: Welcome to Derry episode 7 finally settles Stephen King fans' 40-year Bob Gray debate
- December 7
-
- Spider-Verse star Daniel Kaluuya gives update on his standalone Spider-Punk movie
- Jon Bernthal promises a seamless switch between Spider-Man: Brand New Day and Punisher Special Presentation
- Resident Evil Requiem's GameStop listing seemingly leaks a second playable character and, no, it sadly isn't Leon Kennedy
- Assassin's Creed Shadows backlash won't stop Ubisoft from going down the dual-protagonist route in the future "if we have a good reason to do it"
- Halo's Cortana actor says the direction Bungie gave her for the FPS was to sound like "the girl next door" that you "wanted to hang out with, but you're not in love with"
- Assassin's Creed Shadows lead teases "things that are set up" in the open-world RPG "should keep happening in other projects and evolve" thanks to the Animus Hub
- Alien star Sigourney Weaver gives another intriguing update on potential return as Ellen Ripley
- The Boys Season 5 teaser trailer hints at a horrific Homelander beatdown
- December 6
-
- Fallout and The Elder Scrolls boss Todd Howard's GOTY pick just so happens to be the current game of the year frontrunner Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Assassin's Creed Shadows associate director has a hot tip for the next Ubisoft studio taking on the franchise: "Pay more attention to parkour as its own pillar"
- Avatar: Fire and Ash producer seems to hint at unlikely alliance between Jake Sully and Quaritch, as Oona Chaplin's more villainous Varang takes on the Na'vi: "It's not as clear cut and dry for him"
- Arc Raiders devs had ambitions for "boss fights in that same arena of Dark Souls, Monster Hunter" but quickly realized the Arc are too unpredictable
- Slay the Spire 2 devs literally flipped a coin to decide between a new game or a sequel to their genre-defining roguelike deckbuilder: "The rest is history"
- New Avenger Sebastian Stan teases that some might not survive Avengers: Doomsday
- Homer Simpson breaks the bad news that The Simpsons Movie sequel is getting delayed
- Avengers: Secret Wars will include the appearance of Black Panther hero
- James Gunn shares thoughts on the DCU following the Netflix Warner Bros. deal
- We got a Rockstar doormat before GTA 6: Rockstar drops new merch for GTA, Red Dead Redemption, and Bully ahead of the holidays
- December 5
-
- After the success of Fallout, Bethesda boss Todd Howard says an Elder Scrolls TV series "can't be ruled out"
- The sequel to the one of the worst games of all time failed its Steam review and hasn't gotten a response from Valve, so it's been delayed: "Come on Steam, you guys are busting my balls here"
- "This still does not compare to the kind of audience we would have on Steam": Horses lead says ban virality helped sales "but we're not out of the woods," and he fears "self-censorship" with future games
- Xbox breaks my heart every day there's no Banjo-Threeie announcement, but this Banjo-Kazooie fan game fills the gap and even has praise from Rare and the OG devs: "Incredible work"
- The original 1977 Star Wars returns to theaters for a "once-in-a-generation event" to remind everyone who shot first
- Hulk "smashes history" as he faces off with dinosaurs in his quest to defeat literally everything in a fight
- Fallout boss Todd Howard reassures New Vegas fans that the Amazon TV show built an "incredible" set for season 2: "Their ability to pull it off on the scale, so much of it practical, it was incredible"
- The Duffer Brothers say that surprise character return in Stranger Things "immediately changes the tone" in season 5 Vol. 2: "I think it'll be surprising for people to see how she ultimately fits into the story"
- Elder Scrolls and Fallout boss Todd Howard says AI is a useful "tool" in game dev, but "not in generating things" because "the human intention of it is what makes our stuff special"
- Tomb Raider creator teases "more stories" beyond Netflix's two-season order: "It's never a closed book"
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Gustave actor Charlie Cox says he was "nervous" to play the RPG, which might be why he still hasn't touched it: "I don't actually know what the story is"
- Manor Lords publisher is "very delay-friendly" because "we don't ever want to push a game out too early"
- There's a new Men in Black movie in the works and the producers want Will Smith to return
- New D&D Loungefly range asks you to roll initiative with bags, pins, and hidden secrets
- Rockstar slams the emergency button and announces big GTA Online update with a mission creator starring Michael that arrives next week
- Publisher kills a game over gen AI accusations, leading its developer to shut down while insisting it was "mistakenly accused": "Everything we built over the past 6 years, was canceled in just a few days"
- Stranger Things and Welcome to Derry fans are discussing who'd win in a fight between Vecna and Pennywise, and the consensus is surprisingly decisive
- Baldur's Gate 3 Shadowheart actor says she would have "absolutely f***ing floundered" if she were cast in Larian's RPG at the start of her career: "It's so overwhelming"
- Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion actor thinks putting "the player first over profit" is why the RPG is so successful, urges other devs to do the same: "You're probably gonna sell a s***-ton of copies"
- 6 years since BioShock 4's announcement, South of Midnight star thinks she might have had a role in the long-awaited FPS but there were so many NDAs she's not actually sure
- Final Fantasy 14's Yoshi-P was inspired by mobile RPGs to lift glamour restrictions: "If you look at any of these games, you won't really see the same restrictions on fashion that FF14 has"
- The Batman director Matt Reeves comes out in defense of Paul Dano after Quentin Tarantino's mauling
- Digimon Story: Time Stranger DLC features a deep cut from the manga's early years that fans have wanted to see for ages, and it arrives in just a few days
- This new Hori Kirby case looks like they just gobbled up my Switch 2, and they're so cute that I'm gonna let them
- Netflix boss says the streamer will "continue to support" theatrical releases for Warner Bros. titles, but he's not a fan of "the long exclusive windows"
- Looks like the Asus ROG Ally just got discontinued, but it's at least down to a price I'd pay
- The next Suda51 game, Romeo is A Dead Man, is coming February 2026, and the man himself says a Switch 2 port is "something that we'd definitely like to do"
- Metroid Prime 4: Beyond players are finding Samus' sidekick so annoying they are sharing hints for how to lessen the cringe: "I shut off voice volume completely and instantly felt better"
- Fallout co-creator Tim Cain rejoins Obsidian, tells everyone to not bother guessing what game he's working on: "You're not gonna guess right"
- As part of its Warner Bros. acquisition, Netflix is adding the "deep film and TV libraries" of HBO to its library
- James Cameron says Avatar: Fire and Ash is a movie "grief," "loss," and "trauma," and how you "break the cycle of violence"
- Baldur's Gate 3 Karlach actor begs people to "please play the indies" as they gear up to star in 7 games coming at the start of 2026 thanks to GTA 6: "You're going to be sick of me"
- James Cameron says the Avatar films are "always trying to deal with very, very human, relatable themes"
- Hytale owner calls Minecraft "one of the greatest" games of all time, but his own sandbox is going in a "different direction" with crafting more like Terraria
- Pokemon Pokopia pre-orders have dropped, but I'm waiting for this adorable Ditto plush bonus
- This new motherboard has DDR4 and DDR5 RAM support, and it took an AI-pricing surge for that to finally become a thing
- Avatar: Fire and Ash star Sigourney Weaver says she's glad to work with James Cameron "again and again and again," even if they "didn't really have fun" on Aliens: "But that wasn't our fault"
- Fallout 5 could take a lesson from Starfield and its ship-building says former Fallout 4 dev, who really wants Bethesda to push power armor and settlement customization in the next RPG
- Metroid Prime 4 continues an unfortunate trend of locking major features behind amiibo, with the new $30 Samus figure a requirement if you want a radio for your bike
- Spider-Man Noir was "designed" to be filmed in black and white, but it's also getting a "period-inspired" color version
- Monster Hunter Wilds' next big update and turn-based spin-off RPG Monster Hunter Stories 3 get a dedicated showcase set for next week
- When is Five Nights at Freddy's 2 on streaming? Speculation on the horror sequel's release date
- Hideo Kojima has picked his favorite TV show of 2025, and it's a surprise hit Netflix limited series
- Path of Exile 2 director doesn't think his action RPG will leave early access in March 2026 after all, and while "I certainly wouldn't want to slip into 2027," he doesn't want to "promise anything"
- "Dare you to turn this into a working console" - Lego's latest Creator 3-in-1 build is begging to join my functioning retro handheld collection
- Hytale lead isn't putting his Minecraft competitor on Steam at launch because "everything is wrong" with it, and Palworld lead "totally" understands his hesitance
- Fallout season 2 isn't taking the green screen route with its Deathclaw: "There are puppeteers manning this thing"
- Fallout star Ella Purnell says she gets asked a lot about a potential romance between Lucy and The Ghoul: "You guys need therapy"
- Fallout's TV adaptation is "way more" popular than Todd Howard expected, so the RPG series' devs have had to ensure "the games are ready for all the players who are coming into them"
- Fallout and Wasteland veteran calls his new time-hopping RPG Clockwork Revolution "the most complex game I've ever worked on," teases we've only seen "a tiny glimpse" of what it's about
- Netflix has officially bought Warner Bros and HBO for $82.7bn, and people are scared of what it means for the future of theatrical movies
- Pluribus' A-list cameo actor was approached after Vince Gilligan came up with "the most random" and "most interesting" person to deliver horrifying exposition to Carol
- A major Stranger Things Vecna spoiler might have just been revealed by the cast on Hot Ones (and immediately taken down)
- Fallout TV show is "holding back" on bringing in some game "creatures, characters, places, and factions" but one producer promises "we'll get there eventually"
- Stranger Things producer Shawn Levy says that although season 5 volume 1's reveal gave him "goosebumps," nothing prepared him for the finale: "What they've achieved floored me"
- After a 97% "Very Positive" Steam launch for his platformer about a tortoise and a duck, indie dev says it took fans 1 week to pay for his wedding and dog's future medication, but it's barely been enough to break even
- Helldivers 2 boss says morale at Arrowhead is "much better now" following Into the Unjust blowback as "Steam score is trending upwards" and "development is progressing"
- Vecna actor Jamie Campbell Bower explains how Stranger Things: The First Shadow play "informed" and "qualified" his work in season 5: "This is a child screaming for love"
- December 4
-
- Vin Diesel is doing the most Vin Diesel thing possible by writing, producing, and starring in a Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots movie
- Romancing Saga, a Square Enix JRPG released in 1992, remade in 2005, and remastered in 2022, gets yet another re-release: "I had always wanted to make a grand fantasy RPG in the style of The Lord of the Rings"
- World of Warcraft Midnight "brought me to the verge of tears," says MMO's production director, and it's not only "our best expansion ever," but maybe one of the most important ones in 10 years
- Baldur's Gate 3 actor reveals Shadowheart's pal Nocturne was more of a "sexy demon" until she "found Nocturne on the spot" in a "girl next door" vibe
- FromSoftware, you appear to have broken Elden Ring Nightreign: the new DLC class Undertaker is an ult-spamming, boss-melting monster
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (December 5-7)
- The Witcher Ciri actor says she considered quitting the show with former star Henry Cavill: "He's the Geralt I grew up with"
- Arc Raiders players exploited the Hidden Bunker so hard that Embark has turned it off entirely
- The Doom Slayer voice actor is in Metroid Prime 4, and he's down for a Samus crossover: "I wouldn't be mad at that pairing. Neither one of us say much"
- Wuthering Heights director wants her adaptation starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi to be "this generation's Titanic"
- Elden Ring Nightreign DLC Forsaken Hollows faces storm of negative Steam reviews over lacking content, becoming FromSoftware's worst-rated PC release at 46% positive
- Creative Assembly confirms that a new Total War game will be revealed at The Game Awards 2025
- Future Total War games can come to PlayStation and Xbox, Creative Assembly confirms
- After almost 20 years, Creative Assembly announces the long-awaited Total War: Medieval 3
- Bethesda's Todd Howard tips his hat to Obsidian, says he invited the Fallout: New Vegas devs to the Fallout Season 2 set to relive the iconic setting
- An immortal-looking Todd Howard thinks GTA 6 will be out before The Elder Scrolls 6, calls Rockstar "some of the absolute best" at world design
- Open-world RPG Wuthering Waves pulls a Breath of the Wild, adds a motorbike in 3.0 expansion
- Final Fantasy 14's Yoshi-P says it's "time to go back to school" as the MMO builds to its next expansion and turns away from the "summer vacation" that was its mixed Dawntrail expansion
- Left 4 Dead co-creator is directing a mysterious co-op shooter for JJ Abrams' production company, and Sony's going to publish it: "We hope to deliver a bold, innovative experience"
- The CRKD Atom controller is my top pick for the best under $20 gaming gift for the holidays
- I'm convinced Nintendo might be gearing up for a Mario Kart World DLC announcement as it prepares to spotlight a Donkey Kong Bananza character it's been refusing to publicly acknowledge since launch
- Hytale won't be on Steam at launch as devs "do not see the necessity of it" and want to avoid bad reviews from "people that aren't as well-informed"
- Everyone's "free time is dwindling," so Final Fantasy 14's Yoshi-P wants players to feel rewarded no matter how much time they invest in the MMO
- Battlefield 6 adds more vehicles to Breakthrough, but players have one specific demand for the mode: "Bring back 64 player Breakthrough you cowards!"
- These Nintendo Switch game deals at Woot are perfect presents in the making
- These sim racing wheels are getting a performance boost in today's Gran Turismo 7 update
- Destiny 2's Star Wars-themed expansion pulls in series-low Steam numbers while fans debate if Renegades is "pretty great" or a "$10 season disguised as a $30 Campaign"
- I did some detective work and I think I've figured out when The Chair Company season 2 is coming out on HBO Max
- One of my favorite '90s N64 games that happens to be a precursor to GTA just arrived on an emulation console I can't afford
- As if Hellmire wasn't fiery enough, Helldivers 2 just added magma planets so you can 'accidentally' push friends into lava pools: "Arrowhead spent so long cooking they overheated the planet"
- Baldur's Gate 3 performance director doubles down on the need for award shows to implement a motion capture category, because "mocap performers just disappear" and "nobody knows about them"
- James Cameron had the perfect response for splitting an Avatar sequel into two films after studio pushback: "What part of you getting a chance to make two billion dollars is in question here?"
- Controversial anti-cheat software Denuvo is being removed from Hi-Fi Rush to "provide a more stable and efficient service environment," but Krafton's anti-tamper features remain
- Metroid Prime 4 recasts Samus as a Hades 2 and Dispatch actor replaces Mass Effect's Jennifer Hale, continuing the Nintendo Switch 2 era's trend of introducing new talent
- In just 7 days, Zootopia 2 has already outgrossed Superman with a $616.7 million global box office
- Helldivers 2 creative director gives a shoutout to new fan film he "really enjoyed," and the movie's producer is "honored" by the Arrowhead lead's support
- Zack Snyder and Army of the Dead star are teaming up to write a "hot lesbian action" movie – and apparently it'll be set in "old-timey days"
- Amidst a pricing apocalypse, one of gaming's best memory and storage brands "has made the difficult decision" to abandon its consumers
- Five Nights at Freddy's 2 debuts to scathing reviews from critics, calling the horror sequel "overstuffed" and "worse than the first film"
- Amazon's Tomb Raider series is suddenly a huge deal as it promises to "reinvent the franchise on a massive scale" and connect to the games in "a unified storytelling universe"
- Robert Downey Jr. says Gwyneth Paltrow is "forever confused by the basic tenets of the Marvel Universe," and that she once forgot who Tom Holland is
- As Splitgate 2 prepares to release for a second time, design director says the team has handled "a challenging situation with honesty, humility, and grit"
- The Witcher 4 isn't just hiring Baldur's Gate 3 talent – CD Projekt Red is still expanding to "strengthen" its team, with various job openings for the RPG as well as Cyberpunk 2
- Scarlett Johansson is joining the cast of The Batman 2 – and Zoë Kravitz's Catwoman is not expected to return
- Metroid Prime 4: Beyond was made with the help of more than 20 other studios including Luigi's Mansion and Oblivion Remastered devs
- A machine you've almost certainly never heard of just spent a week beating the PS5 as the second best-selling games console in the US behind the Switch 2
- December 3
-
- After 4 years, there's a new Paranormal Activity movie in the works, it's a "rebirth" for the series, and The Conjuring and Insidious creator James Wan is producing: "Do not see it alone"
- Banned horror game Horses now topping GOG's best-seller charts amid censorship controversy, and it's back on Humble even as Steam and Epic refuse to carry it
- This NES horror JRPG spent 32 years as lost media, but once it was preserved it only took 33 days to get a complete fan translation
- As Octopath Traveler 0 launches to great reviews, the JRPG's producer says "we may have truly delivered what we set out to create" and "it feels as though I've finally returned to my hometown"
- Red Dead Redemption 2 is "slightly more novelistic" than GTA 5 because Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser "binged on Victorian novels" for inspiration
- Fallout season 1 will soon be free to watch on Prime – but only if you have the right TV
- James Gunn can't share his whole Spotify Wrapped because "ALL" the top songs are in Man of Tomorrow
- Former Nexon boss who took a risk on Arc Raiders says "the AAA industry is structurally at its end" and "it’s going to end in more disaster than it has already" without a "serious rewrite"
- Gory, tongue-in-cheek Ready or Not 2 trailer sees Samara Weaving face off against a scheming Elijah Wood and a killer Sarah Michelle Gellar
- Devs behind sci-fi survival game Once Human promise to "replace the asset in question" after No Man's Sky comparisons reach Sean Murray
- Skyblivion delayed to 2026 as devs behind the unofficial Oblivion project made using Skyrim's engine say their "initial goal" of launching this year "is no longer possible"
- Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser says GTA games are "not as good as" Charles Dickens books, "but they are similar" in their world-building
- PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted returns this week – here's how and when to watch it
- One week after an acclaimed indie studio said it faces closure following a Steam ban for its surreal horror game, Humble joins Epic in banning Horses at the last minute
- Creepy experimental FPS gets re-released on Steam after a "former friend" got it taken down, devs plead for support after weeks of lost sales: "We're unsure if we will be able to recover"
- Monster Hunter Wilds director admits his action RPG's "difficulty curve was a little lacking" at first, but he'd love it if anyone who dropped it at launch gave it another try
- No Man's Sky lead says Sony has a "KNACK for this kind of thing" as people try and riddle out the viral Game Awards teaser – that, or "Geoff is simply opening a hell portal"
- After more AI English anime dubs were removed from Prime Video, the studios say it wasn't approved in "any form" and they are "looking into it with Amazon"
- Fortnite star Ninja urges Arc Raiders devs not to make the same mistake as Epic's battle royale: "Keep it as casual as possible"
- World of Warcraft lead thinks the MMO will still be "kicking" in 10 years, but despite having ideas for "the very long run," Blizzard is currently focusing "on the next 5 years"
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead says Xbox Game Pass "lowered that barrier of entry" for his turn-based RPG, a genre that "might put people who prefer more real-time action games off"
- Marvel star Elizabeth Olsen says she "doesn't mean to pick" movies about grief since WandaVision, but thinks her new afterlife rom-com Eternity offers something different: "This felt more about a continued life"
- These Switch 2 Twin Controller grips are finally back in stock, and should be first up on your holiday shopping list
- First teaser for new horror movie with 97% Rotten Tomatoes score sees a music store employee get more than he bargained for after making a mysterious wish
- Palworld lead says "a very story-based" spin on the survival game is possible, as he knows "a lot of creature collector fans are used to story games" more like Pokemon
- The Elder Scrolls 6 probably isn't making an appearance at The Game Awards, and once again, the RPG community is begging Bethesda for literally anything: "Please, Todd"
- Ralph Fiennes is experimenting on the infected and Jack O'Connell is wreaking havoc in new trailer for horror sequel 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
- Red Dead Redemption's free Xbox Series X upgrade is currently broken with fans baffled after being asked to buy the whole game again, but Rockstar is "working with Microsoft to resolve it"
- The Chainsaw Man author's manga one-shot that broke my heart is getting a surprise live-action adaptation
- Bioshock creator Ken Levine's new narrative FPS Judas was shaped by a "stream of consciousness" where an anti-social character prefers vending machines to people: "Conversation is a prelude to failure"
- The Boys star Karl Urban teases major deaths as early as the season 5 premiere: "Anybody's fair game"
- Mario Kart World update makes playing with friends easier, one intermission track less pathetic, and finally allows you to turn that soundtrack up to the only option you need: "Loud"
- EA's $55 billion buyout will reportedly see Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund own 93.4% of the EA Sports FC and Battlefield 6 company
- Helldivers movie director may not be a gamer, but Arrowhead boss says he trusts Justin Lin because he "did a great job on the Star Trek movie"
- Stranger Things season 5 pulls in 59.6 million views in 6 days, making it the biggest English-language premiere week "in the history of Netflix"
- No Man's Sky lead responds to reports of stolen assets in fellow open-world survival game Once Human, says the "joke's on them" because they're actually unfinished
- James Gunn denies that Supergirl has a $200m budget: "Not even a little bit true"
- Former Battlefield devs had "something to prove" with Arc Raiders and The Finals, ex-Nexon boss says, and that's why they succeeded where other veteran-led studios failed
- December 2
-
- James Cameron says he's "not negative" about generative AI, but reassures fans it won't be used on any Avatar movies: "It's the existential threat from big AI that worries me more than all that stuff"
- Return to Silent Hill gets a new trailer that brings in fan favorite villains including Pyramid Head and the Bubble Head Nurses
- Escape From Tarkov streamer becomes first to escape from Tarkov: "You survived. But at what cost"
- Aerith does not want to see your fanfic – Final Fantasy 7 Remake actor reminds fans "the meaning of the word inappropriate," asks them to stop tagging her in "smut"
- Stolen Marathon art issue "resolved" with Bungie and Sony "to my satisfaction," original artist says
- AI has an "unbelievable ability to create a lot of slop," says ex-Nexon boss who signed Arc Raiders, predicting the industry will "triple" in size in 7 years due to players "rejecting slop and bad product"
- "This award can f*** itself": Clair Obscur Expedition 33 Verso actor would rather give up Best Supporting Performer than go without "the thrill of that sweet, sweet banana" Joker in Balatro
- Stranger Things fans have resurrected a rather sinister season 2 theory involving Mike and Nancy's do-nothing dad – and the evidence in season 5 is overwhelming
- Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii isn't saying there's a Chrono Trigger remake, but he's not saying there isn't one: "I can't say ... I'll get told off!"
- Banned by Steam, $100,000 in the hole, and facing shutdown, graphic horror game dev now dropped by Epic Games Store "roughly 24 hours before launch"
- The Stranger Things finale runtime has been officially confirmed, and it's only the second longest episode of the show
- After trying Unreal Engine, new fantasy RPG led by ex-Elder Scrolls leads goes back to its Bethesda roots with a unique proprietary engine that's "already more than doubled our development speed"
- As Sony's lawsuit against "slavish clone" of Horizon series continues, Tencent agrees not to promote open-world survival game Light of Motiram, at least for the time being
- FromSoftware owns up to its swamp addiction as Elden Ring Nightreign adds yet another, director insists it just kind of happens: "It's just sort of taken a life of its own"
- 6 of the best new shows and movies streaming this week on Netflix, Disney Plus, Prime Video, and more (December 2–December 7)
- After a quiet flop and some very loud industry-wide implosion, Shovel Knight dev really needs its new Game Boy-style soulslike to break through: "If we sold, like, 100,000, that's not so good"
- Player count collapse? Roadmap? Buddy, we've got bigger problems, Dune: Awakening player decides, making it his life's goal to get the MMO's "useless" melee combat fixed
- After an agonizing 7-year wait, Metroid Prime 4 Metacritic score is just barely above black sheep like Other M and Prime Pinball
- In the nick of time, Helldivers 2 rolls out a "slim version" shrinking file sizes by a whopping 85% on PC: "It's a low-risk way to save ~131GB of space on your drive"
- Fortnite channels its inner Helldivers 2, adds ragdoll-like tumbling, which is either very funny or incredibly embarrassing depending on who you ask
- PS5 architect Mark Cerny says an intense Nintendo rivalry turned Sega into a "sweatshop" when he worked there: "Three people. Three months. That's a game"
- PS5 architect Mark Cerny had a "transformative" experience playing Pikmin on the Nintendo GameCube: "I'm a sucker when it comes to story"
- Vecna returns with new Lego Stranger Things set that features the first ever transforming Lego house
- Horror titans Jordan Peele and Sam Raimi are teaming up to turn spooky short film into a feature-length frightfest
- After releasing a lost Kill Bill chapter in Fortnite, Quentin Tarantino wants to make a prequel origin story and an animated Vega Brothers movie
- The Witcher 4 seems stronger than ever, as ex-Baldur's Gate 3 dev joins the team behind CD Projekt Red's new RPG: "Time to trade in my Baldur's Gate dice for some Polish steel"
- Helldivers 2 patch brings balance changes and bug fixes, but fans are devastated that "Factory Striders will no longer be launched to sky erratically" now: "Worst change ever"
- Five Nights at Freddy's 2 director Emma Tammi says she did feel pressure going into the sequel after the first movie's success, but feels the team has made something "special" packed full of "surprises"
- Toby Fox teaches translators the meaning of "caked up" in Deltarune Chapter 5 tease as we eagerly await our big booty worm
- Mad Men fans spot edit issues with HBO Max's 4K release, including crew members and visible vomit machines
- After widespread criticism for the use of AI voice actors, Amazon removes AI dub from anime series Banana Fish
- 2025's most underappreciated anime movie is coming to Netflix this month
- Helldivers 2 fan film removed from YouTube at 500k views by a "faulty AI system" gets reinstated, director thanks fans for "showing up to support Indie Animation"
- Final Fantasy creator finds plans for his first-ever game with Square while "decluttering," featuring detailed instructions like "give apple" to get a "kiss" and "kill lion with revolver"
- Avatar: Fire and Ash premieres to rave first reactions that call the new James Cameron movie "pure blockbuster filmmaking at its finest" and "the best one yet"
- Fallout season 2 gets festive in new teaser trailer with fresh looks at The Ghoul, a Deathclaw, and a Radroach attack
- Citizens of Super Earth, rejoice: Helldivers movie moves forward with Fast and Furious director
- We can apparently cross God of War and Diablo 4 DLC off the list of things The Game Awards host Geoff Keighley could be teasing, and I'm sure The Elder Scrolls 6 fans are feeling very normal about that
- Hideo Kojima's new film role is not at all what we expected, but it's somehow perfect
- December 1
-
- "Unforgivable" Stranger Things season 5 NES blooper has retro game fans fuming, albeit mostly jokingly
- Sonic the Hedgehog is getting a new spin-off movie in 2028
- REPO is adding cosmetics, and they can only be unlocked by playing the dang game: "If you happen to love microtransactions, I'm going to disappoint you deeply"
- Amazon's God of War TV show enlists veteran director of Shogun, The Boys, and Fallout as it starts casting Kratos and Atreus
- With Baldur's Gate 3 still in Steam's top 20 after 2 years, Larian ends 2025 with love for the best mods keeping the RPG thriving: "Give yourselves a pat on the back, have a shot of whiskey"
- Megabonk dev dropped out of The Game Awards on a technicality, but now the roguelike is back with a Player's Voice nomination: "We're more back than ever"
- Monkey Island legend Ron Gilbert had big plans for a retro Zelda-style open-world RPG, but publishers said no: "They didn’t look at it as 'we're gonna make $100 million and it’s worth investing in'"
- Fans are begging James Gunn for a blue-and-grey Batman costume with white eyes, but he's doubling down that it's "less important" than the writing and the actor who takes the role
- These are my top 10 favorite gaming stocking fillers on sale this Cyber Monday
- "'Here is existential pain, live with it'": Expedition 33 actor Ben Starr says the JRPG's powerful story "represents so much of the reason why I continue to play games"
- Want the perfect intro to Warhammer 40K, or a great gift for fans? Try these books
- Elden Ring Nightreign stats reveal FromSoftware survivorship bias, suggesting its "most deadly" world bosses had their numbers padded by bruised loot goblins
- Battlefield 6 revives Labs playtest program, reminds the inevitable leakers they are under NDA, and teases tests for "map layouts, pacing, and alternative team compositions such as smaller player counts"
- I highly recommend these great family board games, and I think they are essential purchases
- Five Nights at Freddy's 2 star Josh Hutcherson says the sequel is "top secret" but promises "double the amount of animatronics," "more jump scares," and an "exciting twist"
- Dispatch maker AdHoc says the episodic business model is "an insane thing to do," immediately after selling 2 million copies through the episodic business model
- Minecraft lead says "I'm looking forward to Hytale" personally, but tells curious fans "there are many Minecraft-like games, so I doubt it will change much for us"
- Valve still won't say how much the Steam Machine will cost, so tech experts made their own version and estimate a $700 price
- Fallout star explains that season 2 will address the "different perspectives" of New Vegas' multiple endings: "It's a really beautiful thing"
- Veteran Metal Gear Solid producer says "given our age" it was now or never for an MGS3 remake: "Because it's such an incredible series, I decided that now was the time"
- Save $130 on this Meta Quest 3S VR gaming bundle
- The US government "nearly shut us down," former GTA lead says: "They decided we were the only people on the internet peddling pornography, apparently"
- New KPop Demon Hunters art book confirms a tragic theory about Rumi's mom
- Embark makes free-to-play Arc Raiders sound like a nightmare, says its $40 price let it cut a lot of un-fun crap: "Crafting no longer has timers on it that you have to wait out"
- Fortnite Chapter 7 was designed to take the game "back to its battle royale roots," even though it didn't actually start as one, and one lead is "both in awe and hugely proud of this team"
- New open-world MMO Where Winds Meet hits 9 million players in 2 weeks, with Steam reviews soaring at a "Very Positive" rating
- GTA 6 trailer 3 is nowhere in sight, but fans have still managed to uncover a few more seconds of behind-the-scenes footage thanks to a leak from an apparent dev demo reel
- Two Avatar: Fire and Ash actors have seen the James Cameron movie early, and their tear-stained faces say it all
- After 3 years and a brief tenure on Battlefield 6, former Splinter Cell: Remake game director rejoins Ubisoft for Sam Fisher's big comeback: "A very special team and project to me"
- Stranger Things fans spot huge clue in season 5 that may finally anwser why Vecna kidnapped Will Byers in the first place
- Metal Gear Solid 4 remake would be "pretty difficult" says series veteran, admitting the team used "quite unique solutions" when developing the stealth game's code
- Frankenstein director Guillermo del Toro reveals he shot all the scenes with Jacob Elordi's Creature and Mia Goth's Elizabeth at a higher frame rate: "You can feel that effect leaning on every emotional beat"
- Baldur's Gate 3 and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 star Jennifer English on her real-life partner being an antagonist in her upcoming project: "Just reflecting real life, really"
- A Stranger Things fan has assembled all the trailer footage that didn't appear in Volume 1, and it's full of epic moments
- Actor behind 2004's The Punisher flop says he was "miscast" as Frank Castle: "I'm not that guy"
- Cyber Monday Meta Quest deals LIVE: Here are the best headset and accessory deals to get while they're discounted
- Fortnite Chapter 7 kicks off with artist defending their work from AI allegations, probably not helped by Epic CEO's recent prediction that "AI will be involved in nearly all future production" of games
- 6 months after Lilo and Stitch, Disney has another billion-dollar hit on its hands after Zootopia 2 debuts to a record-breaking $556 million opening weekend
- Rockstar co-founder and former GTA lead writer Dan Houser says "AI is eventually going to eat itself," and that the people behind chatbots and AI models "aren’t fully rounded humans"
- Stranger Things creator explains why there were no deaths in season 5, volume 1: "Vecna taking these children was the low point we needed"
- Mass Effect star Jennifer Hale would "love to play Bayonetta again," despite being "thrown under the bus" during controversy around the third game's casting
- The Elder Scrolls 6, Half-Life 3, or new God of War reveals could be imminent according to hopeful fans who've been sent spiralling over a cryptic Geoff Keighley post – or, "most likely a Diablo 4 expansion"
- Netflix releases free KPop Demon Hunters digital art book filled with 142 pages of Huntr/x secrets and never before seen concept art
- Zootopia 3 hasn't been confirmed yet, but an Easter egg hidden in Zootopia 2 might reveal what the Disney threequel would be about
- Avengers: Doomsday production designer says 80% of interior set backdrops were practical as they didn't want to "presume you can always put it in visual effects"
- An Ahsoka villain won't return for season 2 of the Star Wars show because Disney "could not pay [her] what [she] needed to be paid"
- Flap for honor as an all new Lords Mobile and Angry Birds collaboration takes flight from now until December 24th
