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- August 14
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- Uncharted 4 and The Last of Us 2 dev's new Japan-based studio aims to make a multiplayer game with Naughty Dog-level cinematic action and a Breaking Bad-style story, and it's already playable
- One of Marvel's most anticipated new shows gets an earlier release date as Marvel Zombies will gnaw its way onto Disney Plus sooner than expected
- Harley Quinn has a hot dog eating "showdown" with the Hulk, Laura Kinney Wolverine meets Nightwing, legendary writer Grant Morrison returns to the Caped Crusader, and more in DC and Marvel's Batman/Deadpool crossover
- These indie devs gave their co-op roguelite away for free for 24 hours – 2 million people claimed it, and now it's relaunched at $5 with the backing of the Deep Rock Galactic studio
- First look at The Boys spin-off Vought Rising set in the 1950s shows us a side of Soldier Boy we've never seen before
- "Of all the problems to have in the world, too many players is one of the best": The 2025 summer MMO migration was huge for WoW players, and for Old School RuneScape devs
- "They say that, in space, no one can hear you scream": Devs of hit space sim Hardspace Shipbreaker "reacquire full ownership" of the series, announce "multiple" follow-ups in development
- With censorship swirling, devs of polarizing anime RPG Blue Archive say Steam delay "was unrelated to the game's content" and there were "no modifications or censorship of the content specifically for Steam approval"
- After 50 hours and over 3,000 attempts, Mario Kart speedrunner proves a "humanly impossible" trick is actually doable, and absolutely destroys a 2-year-old world record in the process
- If you wish Baldur's Gate 3 had more ghoulish dungeons and old school D&D vibes, this cosmic horror RPG might be the one: "Did I just see a Rust Monster in a modern game?"
- First look at Fallout season 2 teases a long walk to New Vegas and reveals December 2025 release date
- They'll do anything but make Titanfall 3: Respawn adds wall-running to Apex Legends for its next limited time event
- Bizarre Wuchang: Fallen Feathers patch un-murders historical Chinese characters in massive retcon, makes the game way easier, and breaks a whole chapter: "Faint from exhaustion? Are they Pokemon?"
- Ex-DayZ boss says survival games should give players as much power as developers and "expose damn near every single variable" they can mod: "Expose as much as possible"
- I've spent 32 years dreaming of a game that looks like Jurassic Park: Survival, and this slice of pre-alpha footage and the devs' work on Space Marine 2 have me more hopeful than ever
- Borderlands 4 designer points to Baldur's Gate 3 as an RPG inspiration for Gearbox's new and improved buildcrafting: "I want to hit the end game and be doing billions of damage"
- Metal Gear Solid's OG Snake voice actor finally told himself to "stop being a baby" and play The Phantom Pain after he was recast, and now thinks it has "my favorite gameplay of the series"
- Chainsaw Man movie unveils its killer ending song with sneak peek, as it confirms involvement of Kingdom Hearts legend Hikaru Utada
- Battlefield 6's second open beta weekend is off to a poor start, with players saying the return of Rush is so bad "it's like [EA] never played it"
- Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies gives hilariously cryptic response when asked about the sci-fi show's future: "Behave!"
- Coral Island is the best farming game I've played since Stardew Valley with over 300 hours so far, but a new update adding multiplayer and more romance means I'm not done with the cozy gem just yet
- People didn't like the face plate on Corsair's Nautilus liquid cooler, so now there's a fancy LCD screen upgrade instead
- Leonardo DiCaprio says there is only one movie of his that he will rewatch, and reveals his biggest career regret
- As Mario Kart World and The Outer Worlds 2 grapple with $80 price tags, the much-expanded PowerWash Simulator 2 sticks with the original's price: "Clean out the dirt, not your wallet"
- After months of radio silence, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure director breaks Steel Ball Run silence in typically bizarre fashion: "I want an Emmy Award for Best Sound. What should I do?"
- Doctor Strange 2 star's confusing response to Avengers: Doomsday questions has Marvel fans thinking they're in the movie
- Indie devs in shambles but "still laughing" after translation error turns their dungeon roguelite into "Crap Dungeon" on Steam: "Please give our game a try, I'm hoping it's not actually crap"
- Monster Hunter Wilds' new update splits the community like never before: performance issues remain, and now difficulty complaints are back with some players saying fellow fans don't "know what the f*** they want"
- After 2 years, Diablo 4 fans might finally be getting the Paladin class they've been asking for since launch
- After promising more re-releases, Bandai Namco seemingly leaks a remaster of one of my all-time favorite JRPGs, which still has some of the best combat in the genre
- New Fantastic Four: First Steps concept art gives us a better look at that deleted Super-Apes scene, and more of Reed Richards’ stretchy powers
- Battlefield 6 "offers things that no one else really can," says series lead, so it's not a major Call of Duty rival even if one ex-Blizzard boss is rooting for it to "boot stomp" Black Ops 7
- NetEase offers sage advice to Marvel Rivals players who can't log in on PC: keep hitting "Continue" while devs work "with Steam to resolve" the issue
- Original Clone Wars animated series creator suggests he would return to Star Wars for a live-action Asajj Ventress project: "That would be an interesting conversation"
- KPop Demon Hunter singer defends Huntr/x's chart success, lashes out at viral tweet suggesting AI is taking over the music industry: "Are you b****** dumb?"
- After Weapons' gory ending, fans are discussing the most disturbing final lines in horror movies
- Assassin's Creed Shadows developers are focusing on improving "what we already have," but they're adding at least one new open-world activity in post-launch updates
- First Wednesday season 2 part 2 trailer teases dark secrets, a Halloween ball, and the return of Game of Thrones star as Principal Weems – and we think we can hear Lady Gaga's voice
- Steam dropping PayPal support for all but 6 currencies is "related" to pressure from banks and card companies to remove NSFW games, Valve confirms as censorship controversy continues
- The Battlefield 6 beta is going strong, but one dataminer thinks EA is lining up new content for controversial predecessor Battlefield 2042 to ensure fans aren't without new content for long
- Horror icon Jason Voorhees makes officially return to screen for the first time since 2009's Friday the 13th reboot – but it's not for a movie or TV show
- GTA 5 sleuths finally work out the infamous Mount Chiliad mystery after 12 years in the most anticlimatic way possible, right before GTA 6 likely gives them another mystery to solve
- Mission: Impossible standout Tramell Tillman only got the Final Reckoning script 1 day before filming: "I was shaking in my boots"
- The Lenovo Legion Go S is cheaper than the cheapest Steam Deck in the UK right now, and I'd seriously consider it over the ROG Xbox Ally
- Paramount says streaming movies are "not a priority" at the studio and is instead going all-in on Top Gun 3, Star Trek and a new World War Z movie
- Battlefield 6's much-requested Server Browser "is not being tested this week," but the beta is getting a cool Custom Search to prioritize your favorite maps and modes
- Just in case a Helldivers 2 and Halo collab didn't seem likely enough following 2 blatant hints, Xbox itself weighs in
- Keen to see where the DCU will go after Superman? Well, James Gunn says you'd better (conveniently) tune in to Peacemaker season 2
- James Gunn wants to bring Idris Elba's Bloodsport back in the DCU, but stays tight-lipped on Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn: "That will be revealed down the line"
- James Gunn says production on the "next story" in the newly-titled 'Superman Saga' is happening soon: "I've already finished the treatment"
- James Gunn knows whether Peacemaker will get his own movie, but says he will have to face "Safran punishment" from DC co-boss if he reveals anything else
- Ever fancied eating one of Death Stranding 2's fleshy blobs? PlayStation says go wild, here's a recipe
- Former PlayStation boss says Xbox Game Pass developers are "not creating value" and subscription models are a "danger"
- Battlefield 6's second beta weekend opens to DLSS and matchmaking issues as 270,000 concurrent players cram through the door on Steam alone, but EA is "actively" working towards a solution
- August 13
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- Battlefield 6 dev says the beta's small maps are "to make sure we hit the full-octane version of Battlefield on the head" and, don't worry, "large maps exist" too
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 savant proves parry haters right by beating the RPG on expert with an "all hit" run allowing zero parries or dodges
- Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion actor says his new dating sim character sounded too much like his iconic vampire voice, so he had to base his performance on a fictional sex symbol from an '80s British sitcom instead
- GTA 6 has scared off publishers all year, but Rockstar has been doing this for at least 18: In 2007, Saints Row 2 devs held a meeting to panic over the GTA 4 release date
- HBO Max is getting some anime classics that will break your heart, including one never-before-seen on streaming
- After 20 years, the $200 Nintendo cult classic that anchored GameCube collectors' retirement plans gets a modern release on Switch 2
- Assassin's Creed Shadows canon mode doesn't include romance because it's too "personal": "It was better to not make it canon"
- Dune: Awakening players report disappearing items, devs tell the MMO's community to try standing around for "up to 10 minutes" while they work on an actual fix
- Original Hytale studio founder "in active discussions with Riot Games about acquiring" the Minecraft-inspired survival game after offering "10x what the true market value is"
- King of the Hill revival debuts to 4.4 million views, beating out X-Men 97 for the title of Disney Plus and Hulu’s most popular animated series in the past 5 years
- Kingpin actor Vincent D'Onofrio has already debunked Charlie Cox's claim that Daredevil: Born Again season 2 is the end: "Good chance there will be a third"
- Welp, another JRPG is coming to devour my whole entire life as Trails in the Sky remake dev says you'll need about 80 hours to beat the game – twice as much as the original game
- Dragon Age: Origins was "intended as a standalone game" rather than the first in a series of RPGs, former dev says, meaning BioWare left "a lot of threads" it wasn't expecting to "come back to"
- As Battlefield 6 cheats already infest the open beta, study estimates that as many as 80 sites make up to $73 million selling them for the FPS and many others
- What if Apple made a gaming headset? I've just unboxed the Fractal Scape, and I'm already obsessed with its sleek and simple look
- Hideo Kojima excitedly reports another 0.1% growth in Death Stranding 2 players who kept playing after the credits rolled, and I'm really starting to think he just wants y'all to get it to 80%
- A new animated Addams Family movie is in the works from Wednesday creators, but it won't have anything to do with the hit Netflix show
- There's nothing quite like fishing in the virtual waters of your favorite video games, and this Nintendo patent could hint at the future of this serene hobby
- Konami confirms that Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater's online Fox Hunt mode won't support cross-play
- Not even The Batman 2 actor Jeffrey Wright has read the script yet, but he's "liking what [he's] hearing" about the DC sequel
- Baldur's Gate 3 fans can expect more "premium games" from the D&D license holder going forward, but it won't rely solely on veteran devs, and will instead "make some bets on up-and-coming talent"
- Avengers: Doomsday's 'leaked' X-Men design for Nightcrawler is actually just fan art
- Helldivers 2's Terminid Jurassic Park went horribly wrong, so obviously Super Earth wants to try "Tyranny Park 2," claiming it will be "safer, larger, and have significantly greater merchandising potential"
- Borderlands 4 laughs in the face of Borderlands 3's 1 billion guns as Gearbox says there's 30 billion this time, which the devs kept track of using a Matrix-style "wall" of weapons
- Mission: Impossible director reveals a deleted scene from Final Reckoning’s dangerous submarine sequence with Tom Cruise and explains why it didn’t make it into the film: "It just didn't work"
- I've waited literal months for these Monster Hunter Wilds changes, and I don't say this lightly, but I think we might actually be back
- I just bought the best bit of Marvel Rivals merch, and it's not a Funko Pop
- Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford says Wolfenstein 3D and Diablo influenced the OG Borderlands as the devs aimed to "blend the moment-to-moment fun of a shooter" with the satisfaction of progression
- Battlefield 6 players did $70 billion of damage in the last beta weekend, but EA wants us to get those rookie numbers up, offering a cool weapon skin if we hit $1 trillion in the next one
- I can't decide if Razer's 8K polling, TMR controller is overkill, or the one PC gamers like me have been waiting for
- Hogsmeade just got a makeover with this Harry Potter Lego set, and it's everything I wanted
- Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle fans are not too happy about Channing Tatum being cast in the English-language version of the anime film
- This new Switch 2 case is $129, but it looks like it's been run over by a truck
- Minecraft fans are convinced that Mojang has accidentally leaked its next Live event date, but don't get your hopes up – it looks like it might actually be the remains of an old typo
- One year later, this Steam Deck SSD mod is still keeping my new gaming handheld envy at bay
- Wednesday season 2 debuts to 50 million views on Netflix, which is slightly lower than season 1
- Weapons standout Aunt Gladys may be the focus of a surprise prequel
- Daredevil star Charlie Cox calls Born Again season 2 the "final season" while teasing that his "favorite" suit is still to come in the Marvel series
- Good news Battlefield 6 pilots – helicopter controls are getting a "large pass," but they won't be reverting back to Battlefield 3 or 4
- Superman home release will include deleted scenes and, more importantly, an original Krypto short
- The Boys actor Antony Starr says goodbye to his iconic Supe Homelander in farewell post: "We created a monster... and I will miss him"
- Baldur's Gate 3 actor Neil Newbon has turned down "Astarion-like" roles because he "wouldn't necessarily enjoy" them, but he "would love to play" the iconic vampire again
- Ubisoft explains why Assassin's Creed Shadows ditched social stealth, but says it's likely not gone for good: "Our stealth team chose to put 100% of their energy on the moment-to-moment tactical shinobi experience"
- Helldivers 2 grunts think they've found more evidence of a Halo crossover thanks to a very familiar "unknown signal" detected by the Galactic Warning System: "Is that... THE SUPERINTENDENT?"
- Get some great Wednesday goodies with the latest issue of SFX
- Astarion actor Neil Newbon says method acting makes it hard to shake off characters after playing them, and still laughs a little like the Baldur's Gate 3 Vampire to this day
- When does Alien: Earth take place on the Alien timeline?
- August 12
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- We get a lot of cozy life sims, but not many of them crack Steam's top 20 best-sellers in 4 days with 95% positive reviews, and thank goodness this adorable bookshop management sim has nothing to do with a farm
- KPop Demon Hunters gets a sing-along theatrical release as it hits number 2 on the all-time Netflix streaming charts
- A month after Death Stranding 2's launch, we're all still trying to figure out the open-world game's deepest mystery: "Why you guys make meaningless bridges?" "Because Sam Porter BRIDGES"
- The Subnautica 2 drama intensifies as Krafton accuses former Unknown Worlds leadership of pushing to release an unfinished game and secretly downloading "massive amounts of confidential information"
- Phantom Blade Zero director says playing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 "reminded me of Final Fantasy 10" and "I'd love to bring back some vibes from the PlayStation 1 and PlayStation 2 era"
- Assassin's Creed has gone a bit off the rails, but Ubisoft says it hasn't forgotten about the whole Assassins versus Templars thing, with a "deep dive" on the conflict coming "in the near future"
- Mare of Easttown creator's new show starring Hulk actor Mark Ruffalo gets a sappily sentimental trailer that's also chock full of drugs and guns
- The Long Walk director Francis Lawrence "wasn't going to buckle" on making an R-rated adaptation and says Stephen King approves of the changes: "To be truthful to the book, it has to be violent, intense, sad"
- Blizzard narrative team votes in favor of union one week after Call of Duty workers did the same, pushing back against mass layoffs at Microsoft that saw 9,000 jobs lost in favor of AI
- Fans have discovered that one of Weapons' funniest gags is actually a moving tribute to director Zach Cregger's late creative partner and close friend
- Mass Effect 5 devs should use Dragon Age: The Veilguard as a "scapegoat" so they can "get what they need" from EA, says former BioWare exec
- Evil otome game that tracks my period adds rail shooter where you murder Pokemon-style pets for love, and everyone's a lot more shirtless than you'd think
- "Many people are making games for money, but we make money for games": CEO says all the studio's releases were stepping stones to the "end goal" of its big kung fu action RPG
- God of War 3 and Star Wars Jedi director is making a D&D game because his new studio wanted to "sink our teeth into something that's legendary, that's mythical"
- After failing to capture The Sims 4 market, inZOI pushes the panic button and goes for Stardew Valley instead with a new DLC filled with crafting, farming, fishing, and mining
- Simon Pegg says Quentin Tarantino's unmade Star Trek movie was "bat-s*** crazy" but isn’t sure "how would've it would've gone over" with fans: "It was everything you’d expect a Tarantino Star Trek script to be"
- Takopi's Original Sin becomes first anime to have each episode rated over 9 on IMDb
- Assassin's Creed Shadows abandons one of the best features of Valhalla, Odyssey, and Origins, as Ubisoft confirms that Discovery Tour won't be heading to Japan
- Wednesday season 2 features a new Tim Burton stop-motion short, and Netflix has released an amazing behind-the-scenes look at how it was made
- The minds behind the Nintendo DS emulation handheld I'm testing are working on a portable N64, but I'm not sure how I feel about the timing
- The Thing actor Michael Chiklis defends "underrated" OG Fantastic Four films despite 28% Rotten Tomatoes score: "There were a lot of people critically who got it wrong"
- Don't make my Disney Halloween mistake, grab this merch before it's gone
- A Stardew Valley player got their mom into the farming sim, only for her to spend 1,000 hours in-game divorcing "everyone possible to intentionally become enemies" with the entire town
- Elden Ring streamer says to hell with challenge runs, plays the open-world game alongside Street Fighter 6 while DJing at a club instead
- We could've gotten a Banjo Kazooie cartoon in the '00s, but Xbox was breaking fans' hearts even then: "Microsoft did not see this as something that they wanted to invest in"
- "Of course" Baldur's Gate 4 is going to happen, Wizards of the Coast boss says, but that's not the D&D game Star Wars Jedi and God of War 3's director is working on
- The new Airlite Fit is a perfect pickup for those who want a Switch 2 headset without breaking the bank
- Behold, the unlikely but 95% positively reviewed challenger to Steam's anime horse girl empire: "A roguelite training game where you raise a dragon girl who eats anything"
- When is Weapons on streaming? Speculation on the potential HBO Max release date
- Superman star Alan Tudyk says he was dropped from I, Robot press because audiences liked his motion capture robot more than Will Smith’s human protagonist: "My name was not mentioned"
- Helldivers 2 teases Halo 3: ODST crossover as the PlayStation-published hit finally comes to Xbox, studio CEO once again threatens brown trousers: "Please prepare your pants"
- Battlefield 6's first open-beta weekend had plenty of cheaters, but the "most locked-in catgirl" VTuber insists she wasn't one of them after playing "even better" with a handcam
- One Piece cast comes out in support of Charithra Chandran after backlash: "Perceived 'canon' does not excuse blatant racism or hate of any kind"
- Ewan McGregor confirms a Star Wars urban legend about Obi-Wan's duel with Darth Maul being slowed down: "[George Lucas] was worried that people wouldn’t believe it"
- I wouldn't be obsessed with Marvel Rivals if it weren't for this match-saving $30 PS5 accessory
- I didn't expect this new board game to become my summer obsession, but now I've dropped everything else
- Monster Hunter Wilds update expands endgame content as Capcom addresses negative Steam reviews regarding optimization and commits "to delivering a more enjoyable and satisfying gaming experience"
- Not content with pulling in a 500K peak Steam player count, the Battlefield 6 beta is coming for other FPS games, with an anti-cheat message advising players to uninstall Valorant
- Hayden Christensen says there's still "good, meaty stuff" to explore in the Darth Vader era of Star Wars, and I really want to see that spin-off
- Viral co-op climbing game Peak gets hit with a wave of rip-offs on PS5, but this isn't the devs' first rodeo as they've been "reporting a bunch" of "AI slop things for the past year"
- Weapons star Josh Brolin thinks the new horror movie is the cure for streaming movie hell: "It's all the same s**t"
- James Cameron says "confronting" generative AI is the most important issue in movies right now: "There are some very dangerous things ahead of us"
- With the Palworld lawsuit rumbling on in the background, the Nintendo Switch welcomes "Palland" – a survival game that looks a whole lot like Pocketpair's creature collector
- Hytale co-founder has "made my final counter offer" to Riot in what's "the ONLY chance" to see the canceled sandbox RPG return, and he's feeling "optimistic"
- Wednesday creators worked on a pre-Robert Downey Jr. Iron Man script for a year – and the studio wanted Tom Cruise to play Tony Stark
- Battlefield 6 is getting a new map and 2 more modes for its second beta weekend, like the fan-favorite Rush mode that's set to dominate my weekend
- Star Wars actor John Boyega thought Finn and Rey "would turn against each other" after The Force Awakens, just like "Obi-Wan and Darth Vader"
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot adds The Studio star, as a first look at Sarah Michelle Gellar's return leaks
- 1 year after joining the MCU with Deadpool and Wolverine, Ryan Reynolds might be teasing a Deadpool return in Avengers: Doomsday or Secret Wars
- Viral co-op game of the moment hits a new all-time high on Steam after Peak update finally adds second biome to the "stupid jam game"
- After 2,000 hours of Baldur's Gate 3, I might finally be ready for something other than Larian's D&D gem – and this isometric RPG sale on Steam is the perfect place to look
- Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle shows off more of its main battle as it gets closer and closer to making box office history in Japan
- As Channing Tatum joins the anime movie, one of Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle's other cast newcomers is "humbled" for the "opportunity of a lifetime"
- August 11
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- REPO devs blown away by world record level 10 speedrun ponder adding "official speedrun seeds" – "I know that Lethal Company did"
- SomeBODY once told me the world was gonna roll the Shrek 5 release date back to 2027
- Superman star says she'd instantly say yes to a solo Hawkgirl movie with James Gunn, who's "prioritizing" quality over "the most money": "And I'm not just saying that to get my own movie"
- Somehow it took an MMO's entire community more than 2 years to find an impossibly rare, 1 in 500,000 fishing drop – and after all that, it's basically worthless
- Marvel Rivals devs say those horny skins are based on "classic comic designs," thank you very much, and they're simply glad to "gain players' appreciation"
- Even Helldivers 2 studio CEO agrees Fortnite's new bug-squashing season "feels very democratic," but only God and General Brasch know if that makes an official collab more or less likely
- The Black Myth: Wukong vibes are off the charts in the gorgeous and unnerving reveal trailer for this action game from The First Berserker: Khazan's Nexon and the Squid Game composer
- Elden Ring does it again: Bandai Namco lights a cigar with digital profits up ¥7 billion partly thanks to 5 million+ Nightreign players, and doubles down on Sony collaboration
- Marvel Rivals devs say "matchmaking is a complex system" as debates about SBMM versus EOMM rage, but they're going to "talk about all the matchmaking things" in a video this month
- Battlefield 6 dev responds to aim assist comparison with Call of Duty, says "you are the skill," and assist doesn't play for you
- Finally, The RPG is on Steam – "Minimalistic Skyrim" where you shove bread into open wounds to heal, and the dragon villain "constantly glitches"
- A bruised Capcom escapes "Overwhelmingly Negative" Steam hell as Monster Hunter Wilds' recent user reviews climb to 20% positive
- Marvel Rivals creative director admits there are too many DPS characters, says the team is "gradually working to solve it"
- Battlefield 6 lead says "skill is a factor" in matchmaking, "but far down the list," so please lower your pitchforks and torches
- The GameSir G7 Pro is finally available to buy, bringing TMR thumbsticks to the Xbox masses for under $100
- Pepsi asks if it should make a video game, gets inundated with so many reminders of PS1 cult classic Pepsiman that even Hundred Line director Kotaro Uchikoshi is trying to put the company in touch with the original devs
- The best new shows and movies streaming this week on Netflix, Prime Video, HBO Max, and more
- Wednesday fans think they might have figured out who Lady Gaga is playing in the Netflix show
- Oblivion Remastered player chooses peace, beating the RPG "without assaulting any innocents or stealing anything" despite one quest almost ruining the whole thing
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is "a strong signal" that players don't just want live-service games, BioWare veteran says, but GTA 6's success will be a real indicator of the industry
- People are reappraising just how weird Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is "Like a Muppet movie if Charlie and his mom are the only humans"
- Enraged Dragon Age fans are punishing EA for rejecting BioWare's remaster pitch by covering pixel art map Wplace in adorable threats
- Meet the Echoes of the End characters and cast – the compelling foundation of the new action-adventure game set in a fantastical world inspired by Iceland
- Mario Kart 64 just got an unofficial Dreamcast port in the year of our lord 2025, which somehow feels like perfect timing after Mario Kart World
- "Comparisons like this are why we never get open-world GTA-style games anymore": Mafia: The Old Country is the latest new release to be compared to Rockstar's commitment to realism, and fans are getting tired of it
- Denzel Washington cryptically addresses his Black Panther 3 Marvel role
- The fact that you can still buy 19 inches of Venom with the Spider-Man 2 Collector's Edition has my Spidey sense tingling
- James Gunn's Superman just beat a domestic DC box office record set by Zack Snyder's Batman v Superman in 2016
- King of the Hill showrunner reveals Disney made them remove F-bombs, but admits it wasn't a "big loss" because he's "not a huge fan of shows pushing the envelope in that way anyway"
- Battlefield 6 beta players pray for nerfs as the M87A1 shotgun becomes a sniper rifle, dev says it's already fixed "in a different build"
- Mario Kart World banana snipers beware: that MKTV helicopter watching you race can apparently obliterate your chances at winning
- Two of Alien: Earth's new Synthetic characters were influenced by a foundational Alien android, say stars Timothy Olyphant and Babou Ceesay: "Morrow has a desire to be more like Ash"
- As the industry waits for GTA 6 to land like a meteor, analyst highlights the widening gap in games: "The winners are winning bigger, and everyone else is scrambling for a smaller piece of the pie"
- Hori's adorable Piranha Plant Switch 2 camera just got its first-ever discount, but I still don't want it
- Simon Pegg says Paramount's new boss is a "big Star Trek fan" and could make Star Trek 4 finally happen: "I think it's about time"
- Jamie Lee Curtis calls out "harsh" Freakier Friday review: "SOME people love it"
- As the dust settles on Battlefield 6's first beta weekend, devs confirm they're looking into "unexpectedly fast" kill times in the FPS
- Doom designer John Romero could have been "System Shock designer John Romero," but the FPS legend got the offer to set up id Software "the week before" another offer to set up what would become Looking Glass
- The Acolyte star Manny Jacinto says he's "always hopeful" that he could return as his Star Wars Sith the Stranger someday
- Family Guy creator says we need more hopeful stories: "That's the only thing that Hollywood can do that is worthwhile"
- "The very best produced in recent years" - I can't believe I've got a reason to buy another C64 Mini, and it's not just because it's "back in black"
- BioWare considered paying a team to "do a remake" of Dragon Age: Origins, former executive producer reveals, and "there were lots of pitches" around upgrading the old RPG
- Hideo Kojima clears up "misunderstanding" around Death Stranding 2, says cutscenes "are not pre-rendered, they're basically all in real-time" and that's been the case since Metal Gear Solid
- In a summer filled with box office surprises, here's another: F1 becomes Brad Pitt's highest-grossing film as a lead
- Star Wars has finally answered a major timeline question about The Mandalorian, and it tells us more about Din Djarin's history
- Fantastic Four: First Steps is now the highest-grossing Marvel movie of the year, but still falls short of the $500 million mark
- New War of the Worlds adaptation starring Ice Cube has made it into Rotten Tomatoes' 100 worst movies of all time list, even though its score has risen above 0%
- The much-requested Battlefield 6 server browser is on the way, and while it is still "under the Portal umbrella," it'll be accessible directly from the main menu
- Baldur's Gate 3 publishing lead defends Mafia: The Old Country's lack of swimming after clips go viral, says "endlessly layering on mechanics maketh a good game not"
- Hideo Kojima initially had other ideas for Death Stranding 2's peculiar mannequin Charlie, including making them an invisible man, glowing silhouette, or "a 2D anime-style figure"
- Weapons director Zach Cregger's Resident Evil could be a Resident Evil movie in name alone as he says the cast will be "outside the characters of the games"
- Helldivers 2 studio CEO says Arrowhead's eventual next game will start pre-production with a smaller team: "HD2 started with a big team and that was baaaaad"
- Move over Mark Ruffalo and Tom Holland, as Fantastic Four star Paul Walter Hauser admits he told "70 or 80" random people about his role in the Marvel movie
- Lucasfilm has denied Ewan McGregor is making a Star Wars return as Obi-Wan Kenobi in Ahsoka season 2 after a misquote set social media on fire
- August 10
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- As the wait for Haunted Chocolatier continues, this magical new shop sim with Dreamlight Valley and Hogwarts Legacy vibes is here to tide us over in a post-Stardew Valley world
- Subnautica 2 dev says people like survival games so much because they speak to our "little monkey brains" and "we're all little monkeys"
- "How do you even do this to a leaderboard of a popular game like Super Mario Bros?": Speedrunner beats the platformer's world record by 5 seconds, the biggest jump in over a decade
- Subnautica 2 designer isn't alarmed by people taking a break, because survival games aren't as "monogamistic" as MMOs like World of Warcraft: "I know what they're doing"
- BioWare apparently wanted to make a Mass Effect-style remaster collection for Dragon Age, but EA's not too keen: "It's strange for a publicly traded company to basically be against free money"
- Official Spider-Man 4 behind-the-scenes video gives us our best look yet at Tom Holland's wall-crawler in action "Putting the suit on... it feels different this time"
- DC fans are sharing who they'd want the Thanos of the DCU Chapter One to be
- Eddie Murphy says one of his worst-rated movies on Rotten Tomatoes deserves less hate
- One Piece season 2 teaser released by Netflix and confirms season 3 is on the way
- Alien: Earth release schedule: when is episode 3 on Disney Plus and Hulu?
- James Gunn clips the wings of Robin reports in The Batman 2
- Battlefield 6 stomps Call of Duty's Steam record with 520,000 concurrent players, but EA promises it's still working on those long "entry times"
- August 9
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- Battlefield 6's anti-cheat system has already blocked over 330,000 bad apples, but with more flooding the FPS' Open Beta, EA says it "was not intended to be a silver bullet"
- The Outer Worlds 2 dev says "it was quite a shock" to get bought by a giant corporation like Microsoft while making a game about how evil giant corporations are
- The Outer Worlds 2 was helped along by Fallout co-creator Tim Cain, but Obsidian is switching up RPG history by going "much bigger and deeper" with its sequel
- Marvel Rivals season 3.5 has landed, and I'm already prepared thanks to these 4 fantastic PS5 accessories
- Alien: Earth star Sydney Chandler on following in Sigourney Weaver's footsteps as the franchise's new figurehead "I held on to the strength that her character gave to me when I was younger"
- Final Destination 7 gets the green light after the success of the latest movie
- Weapons director Zach Cregger has a DC Universe script finished starring Batman and Joker as background characters
- Weapons director Zach Cregger has plans for a sequel, but not before he gets to work on Resident Evil
- Legendary Mario and Tetris composer "specifically" made Metroid's iconic ending tune to impress one older debugger on the Nintendo team
- Weapons star Josh Brolin turned down Avatar's Quatrich: "I’m a big believer in things happen like they should.”
- Prolific Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 actor who played 5 major roles may be an integral part of the RPG, but she doesn't care for its parrying: "I need to work on my inner peace"
- Good news, fishing game sickos: Nintendo has filed a patent for what looks like a reel to attach to your Switch 2 Joy-Con
- August 8
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- 10 days after Sony sued over Tencent's allegedly "slavish" Horizon Zero Dawn clone, its Steam page has been scrubbed of robot mastodons and Aloy lookalikes
- I have a new top anime to watch in 2026 as the adaptation for one of my favorite manga, with one of Shonen Jump's best-ever female leads, already looks incredible and I've only seen 100 seconds
- An anti-FOMO approach would be unthinkable for most MMOs and live service games, but it's the secret to Old School RuneScape's new peak of 240,000 players: "Everything you earn matters forever"
- Former Gears of War boss becomes former Diablo boss as Rod Fergusson leaves Microsoft a third time, "sword in hand," after 5 years overseeing the ARPG series: "I'm proud of what we've built"
- James Gunn may be teasing Martian Manhunter casting by hinting Peacemaker star Chukwudi Iwuji could return in a new role that "isn’t so humanoid"
- Fool me 6 times, shame on me, but I think this leaked Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 release date might actually stick
- Action RPG devs at The First Berserker: Khazan studio take on the ultimate final boss, capitalism, striking to protest alleged bonus bias for executives over the people who make the games
- Randy Pitchford and his "big personality" may have caused Gearbox some controversy with all that $80 Borderlands 4 banter, but his boss wouldn't have it any other way: "I still love him to death"
- 43-year CRPG veteran behind Fallout and Wasteland "worried about job loss" from AI, which seems justified now that his parent company Microsoft laid off 9,000 in exchange for more slop
- An official Sims board game just dropped seemingly out of nowhere, and it's thrown me for a loop
- Pokemon fans revive old, official "Rescue Team" initiative to help players free 23-year-old GBA 'mons from their Gen 3 prisons – and beyond – and get them on Switch
- Hideo Kojima is currently "checking the data" on your favorite Death Stranding 2 routes and weapons, and I hope he's personally counting every road I've restored without help from the ceramics-hording jerks I've been paired with
- After 13 years away from The Sims limelight, Katy Perry returns to the community with a live Simlish performance of Last Friday Night that I can't stop watching
- Hideo Kojima is making his Metal Gear spiritual successor Physint "all by myself" while Kojima Productions is busy on OD
- Scream 4 actor Alison Brie says the “current era” of the horror franchise lets "too many people live," but disagrees with one iconic death: "That was a mistake"
- Jim Carrey almost starred in a live-action adaptation of an anime classic as Hellboy screenwriter reveals he worked on a scrapped Lupin III script in the '90s
- Umamusume players hold a digital funeral for Grass Wonder, the real, 30-year-old racehorse behind one of the game's beloved anime horse girls: "May you eat dandelions in heaven"
- Just when I think I've seen everything, Nintendo breaks out wooden amiibo baby toys
- Dune: Awakening player says "there IS sandwalking" in the survival MMO to avoid the big ol' worm – and "if you do it just right, you can cross any distance" in Arrakis
- Square Enix down ¥11 billion in game sales because it can only re-release Kingdom Hearts so often, but says don't worry boss, we've got some great JRPGs in the chamber
- After two years of being asked "nearly every day" for Steam Deck OLED 32GB RAM upgrades, one modder says it's finally possible, and I'm now even more concerned for the ROG Xbox Ally
- Death Stranding 2 director Hideo Kojima says "DLC is not a trendy space because if you start doing that, you'll never finish the project"
- Silent Hill 2 composer Akira Yamaoka says making the game's soundtrack "felt almost like touching something divine" because he got to design sound for the game's many "smells"
- Macaulay Caulkin has a refreshingly honest answer behind why Home Alone 2 is better than Home Alone: "I got paid more"
- Alien: Earth team says the new show’s Xenomorph is "an animal in an ecosystem" with other "predatory" creatures, and explains the subtle design differences
- Battlefield 6's beta has only been running for a day, but it's already suffering from a FPS curse with cheaters breaking out the wallhacks
- Deltarune's beloved Spamton is everywhere and Persona 3 fans are turning Japan's real-life Port Island into a JRPG mural in this viral web app that's seeing pixel artists literally take over the world
- Instead of Made in Abyss season 3, the hit anime is getting a series of sequel movies
- John Cena says he was "run out of the movie business" 15 years ago for "doing bad movies where I wasn't present"
- Transformers director Michael Bay may return to helm a "new version" of the franchise after leaving Netflix crime thriller Fast and Loose
- Mafia: The Old Country debuts to the second-best reviews in the series, but has been beaten in Steam player count by a version of every past entry so far
- Fortnite players do Helldivers 2 grunts proud, squash 100 million of the new season's bugs in 12 hours even without a Major Order propelling them: "An incredible start to repelling this invasion"
- New Dune: Awakening update axes "exploit used to get NPCs to destroy other players' building pieces" following fans' reports of "base raiding" and griefing in the survival MMO
- Despite Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle making millions, Sony says its anime business is only just getting started: "It’s in a phase roughly equivalent to the period between the launch of the PS1 and PS2"
- The Batman 2 script reportedly features Robin and is said to be a "big swing" for director Matt Reeves
- Thanos actor Josh Brolin says he'd "be there tomorrow" if Marvel asked him to return in Avengers: Doomsday
- X-Men star James Marsden teases how Cyclops will return in Avengers: Doomsday "I'm dead. Well, maybe not"
- Death Stranding 2 might've featured Twin Peaks mastermind David Lynch, as Hideo Kojima "always hoped to cast" the "director I've admired for so long"
- Konami quietly confirms Metal Gear Solid Delta's online Fox Hunt mode isn't actually coming until "fall 2025"
- "CoD won't be lazy anymore": Ex Blizzard boss predicts a beating for Call of Duty at the hands of Battlefield 6, says Activision's FPS "has gone downhill for years"
- August 7
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- "We are looking over our shoulders. We are running scared": Take-Two CEO says the GTA publisher's success isn't guaranteed and "we need to innovate to make sure we continue to be a leader"
- King of the Hill's new Dale voice actor talks about leaving behind his original series role of Khan: "I think it's a much better place to be as a society and as a culture"
- Take Two boss says Borderlands 4 is $70 instead of $80 because "we want to put out the best entertainment on Earth and we want to deliver more value than what we charge for"
- After 10 years of rumors, Guardians of the Galaxy star Dave Bautista may finally be signed on to play the villain in Henry Cavill's Highlander remake
- Take-Two boss says good games are the new bad games: "Some of our competitors have realized maybe a little late in the day that consumers are not okay with okay"
- RIP to Goosebumps, as Disney Plus cancels the kids' horror show after 2 seasons
- BioShock 4 has "had some ups and downs along the way," but Take-Two CEO promises "hand on heart, without question" that the immersive sim is "going to come out"
- Take-Two boss dodges GTA 6 pricing as $80 games loom: "We've had variable pricing at the company forever"
- Doom: The Dark Ages update 2 looks like a massive improvement across the board, and a horde mode and slow-motion toggle are just the start: "This ain’t an update… This be a BUFFET!!!"
- Final Fantasy 10 dev reminds players obsessed with retro-style PS1 graphics in modern games that, back in my day, those graphics were a problem
- 30 years later, Doom-era FPS cult classics Heretic and Hexen get "definitive re-release" on PC and consoles complete with 2 new episodes from id and retro powerhouse Nightdive
- As shooting on the Punisher special wraps up, star Jon Bernthal gives a memorable speech: "The impossible really is possible, and this motherf***er was impossible"
- Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion actor says he "physically, mentally just shut down" while working on the RPG and "other projects simultaneously" – "I don't know what you're asking me to do"
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (August 8 - 10)
- Microsoft bloodbath continues 9,000 layoffs later with the death of Contraband, the '70s co-op game from the studio behind open-world hit Just Cause, and it seems Hideo Kojima's OD is the only thing that's safe
- The open-world Star Wars RPG of our dreams might be here in the form of a massive Starfield mod project that fixes the "many, many, many fundamental issues that make it a bad game"
- Battlefield 6 open beta is already Steam's most popular Battlefield game with a peak of 330,000+ concurrent players, doubling the record of the 2042 beta and tripling 2042 itself in just hours
- The Xbox ROG Ally will apparently launch on October 16, but I'm starting to feel like it will miss the premium party
- The biggest JRPG news today somehow missed the Nintendo Indie Direct: Persona-inspired tactics RPG Demonschool is out in just a few weeks
- The Office spin-off The Paper gets first trailer, featuring Domhnall Gleeson's new editor-in-chief and a familiar face from Scranton
- After 17 years as the butt of every bad joke about girl games, Barbie Horse Adventures is back with a generation of grown-up horse girls ready to give it the love it deserves
- Baldur's Gate 3 mocap actors were so dedicated to the RPG's romance that they really kissed, so Larian had to make sure nothing too garlicky was nearby: "We were very careful at lunches"
- We can thank Valve and Team Fortress 2 for the best weapon in Crysis 3: Crytek lead says "I was playing a lot" of TF2 using the Sniper and his bow, and wanted a composite bow of his own
- You can now pre-order Atari's 2600+ Pac-Man Edition console, but I find its price just as scary as its release date
- Forget Virtual Console, the greatest tribute to NES gaming ever made is giving Nintendo Switch the retro library it deserves
- Grounded 2 update improves the survival game's stability by around "40%-60%" while devs warn the "various performance improvements" aren't expected to fix the "problems as a whole"
- The PS3 store has been down for over a day, and people are worried Sony has quietly killed the last way to get Metal Gear Solid 4
- Alien: Earth creator Noah Hawley hopes the show’s new earth-bound backstory is adopted by other Alien projects going forward: "There's a surprising paucity of mythology in the seven films"
- The future of DC gets a very promising update, with James Gunn directing "the next chapter in the Super-Family" and The Batman 2 set to start filming in months
- Dragon Ball and One Piece veteran director says "predictable Disney-style works" are to thank for anime's increasing popularity outside Japan
- "Yo this isn't Mass Effect, my guy, put the flirt gun down": Devs behind sci-fi survival game The Alters shoot down thirsty fans' requests to romance their clones
- Now that Lucy is coming to Guilty Gear, can we talk about how nothing surpasses these Edgerunners gaming chair covers?
- Spooky Stardew Valley vibes put this "nightmarish life sim RPG" co-directed by Celeste's artist on my radar, and I can't wait until it launches next year to start my new rural life on a twisted farm
- My most anticipated indie game, a Game Boy-style mashup of Zelda, Dark Souls, and Castlevania from the Shovel Knight devs, just brought its excellent demo to Nintendo Switch 2
- There was a predictable lack of Hollow Knight: Silksong at today's Nintendo Indie Direct, but one of the other best Metroidvania devs in the biz announced a new one, and it looks great
- New horror movie produced by Get Out's Jordan Peele gets a startling first trailer that teases the deadly cost of fame
- Tom Hardy explaining how he convinced Christopher Nolan on his unique Bane voice for The Dark Knight Rises has resurfaced
- New budget headsets come and go, but you can't force the SteelSeries Arctis Nova 3 Wireless off my head
- Amid Marathon's ongoing struggles and Concord's closure after just 2 weeks, Sony admits the whole PlayStation live service strategy thing isn't "entirely going smoothly"
- Fortnite's new season looks a lot like Helldivers 2, with bugs to fight, precision air strikes to launch, and even a very democratic-looking emote, but "there's literally no sign" of a collab, leaker says
- You can now play as Hideo Kojima, Adam Sandler, and Link in Castle Crashers as new DLC finally opens up the Steam Workshop after 17 years, with results as chaotic as you'd expect
- A whole year later, the Anbernic RG Cube is still the retro handheld that lives on my bedside table, and it's nothing to do with its square screen
- Win Marvel Studios’ THUNDERBOLTS* on Blu-ray™
- Weapons star Josh Brolin says he "loved" working on Knives Out 3 and previews his eclectic year to come, including Edgar Wright's Running Man remake: "When a good script comes along, it doesn't really matter to me what genre it is"
- Win Doctor Who crochet book Amiguwhomi
- James Cameron thinks AI "superintelligence" is one of three "existential threats": "I do think there's still a danger of a Terminator-style apocalypse"
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's possible endings aren't particularly cheery because the French JRPG's creative lead likes "really sad stories" and wanted to give players "an impossible choice"
- Wednesday and Daredevil: Born Again actor says Marvel is so secretive he had no idea he was even auditioning for Marvel villain Muse
- Despite 3 previous adaptations, Disney boss Bob Iger considers Fantastic Four: First Steps an "original property" because "we're introducing those characters to people who are not familiar with them at all"
- Weapons stars Julia Garner and Alden Ehrenreich tease the horror movie’s goriest scene involving a kitchen utensil: "You scared me in real life"
- Jurassic World Rebirth studio Universal Pictures is cracking down on AI in a big way with a warning threatening legal action at the end of all its new movies
- As Battlefield 6 beta queues surge past 200,000 players, devs promise a "substantial increase" in server capacity to reduce wait times
- After Donald Trump, South Park sets its sights on Superman with a grisly Krypto cameo
- This Final Fantasy 10 Easter egg is a reference to the JRPG the 2001 installment never became, and it's so obscure that even Square Enix forgot to include it in its remaster
- Sony says Bungie's "independence is getting lighter" as it aims to launch the Destiny 2 studio's troubled new FPS Marathon before April 2026: "We are now fixing the problems, so we believe this launch will happen"
- August 6
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- Mass Effect veteran says open-world bot flop Anthem gained momentum within EA because the pitch was "what if BioWare game but it could do FIFA numbers?"
- New Warner Bros. Humble game bundle has some good superhero games, some not as good superhero games, and one of the best action horror games ever made - all for $12
- Conan O'Brien, Rose Byrne, and A$AP Rocky take the lead in A24's stressfully hectic drama If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
- Helldivers 2 CEO says you should thank Sony for the game's Xbox port even though "we were all in support," and "we get a lot of help from PlayStation" with bug fixing
- Legally distinct Final Fantasy 15, better known as the PlayStation-published anime action RPG Lost Soul Aside, has gone gold ahead of its PS5 and PC launch this month
- Daredevil and Punisher will become embroiled in a war on crime - and each other - that Marvel promises will be the "most violent and visceral confrontation yet"
- Resident Evil 1 devs were so insistent on having action mechanics like charged attacks and sidesteps that director Shinji Mikami let them do a test run, but it just made killing zombies look silly and not scary
- 20-year Rockstar vet Lazlow has been Grand Theft Auto's radio host since GTA 3, but he doubts he'll appear in GTA 6: "It was an amazing journey"
- 2 years of Sekiro anime rumors suddenly look a lot more believable: a new web domain from FromSoftware owner Kadokawa points to "Sekiro-Anime"
- Wednesday showrunner promises "no one is officially * dead * dead" as fans reel from one of season 2's biggest casualties
- When your MMO's community is "practically forming a religion" based on a big crab, you just go with it: "Oh, the Gemstone Crab's taken another life. And it's funny"
- South Park will only be on a single streaming service as Paramount Plus becomes the "definitive destination" for the returning animated comedy
- Andor viewership increased by almost half during its run, but The Acolyte and Ahsoka both suffered declines of around 30%
- Battlefield 6 open beta hopefuls are reporting 48,000-player queues before the beta's even started, but Secure Boot errors and shader compilations mean PC players probably should be getting an early start
- "It isn't Destiny. It isn't Borderlands. It isn't Mass Effect": Ex BioWare lead says Anthem's vision for "the future of storytelling" struggled to come together because it had "no one really clearly saying what it is"
- The director of Amazon's War of the Worlds remake with 0% on Rotten Tomatoes previously made an Eminem music video for Marvel and Sony's Venom – and it's just as ridiculous as it sounds
- This may be the only Super Mario Bros review that landed with the NES launch, and the magazine that called it a "special hall of fame" classic in 1986 is helping set a new standard for game preservation
- The new Borderlands 4 Vault Hunter that I knew the least about suddenly looks like one of the most interesting characters, and I didn't expect him to remind me of the modern God of War games
- Baldur's Gate 3 devs throw a bone to advocates of what would be the RPG's weirdest romance option - by shaming us for not keeping her alive
- 43-year CRPG veteran behind Fallout and Wasteland knew Baldur's Gate "could be huge" decades before Larian's RPG threequel: "You're sitting on something that's going to at least do $50 million"
- Upcoming sci-fi comedy movie Cold Storage starring Naked Gun and Stranger Things stars reveals new trailer – and you might want to finish eating before you watch it
- Kirby Air Riders should be delayed to 2026 if anything is "not going perfectly," former Nintendo marketing leads say, because it's not worth burning out Smash Bros creator Masahiro Sakurai
- We really got an unofficial "lore-friendly GTA 5 remaster" before GTA 6, as one fan combines 138 mods into the ultimate package of visual enhancements, police AI improvements, and more
- 15 years later, the Guitar Hero studio that Activision acquired and killed is back and teasing a spiritual successor to the rhythm game that put it on the map: "They said the era of 5-fret music games was over"
- R.I.P. the Hulu app – the streaming home of Shogun and Alien: Earth will be "fully integrated" into Disney Plus in 2026
- "I'd rather quit with dignity than drop it down to Easy": Soulslike boss on The First Berserker: Khazan says many players will quit a game before lowering the difficulty, so they had to add and change some options
- "All of this would roughly cost $4,000" - Don't make these mistakes when assembling your next gaming PC
- Battlefield 6 isn't filling servers with bots after all: during the open beta, "AI soldiers" will only appear in training grounds playlists
- New Pocketpair-published horror game turns Balatro's live-action Jimbo actor into a jester again, devs insist it's "accidental," really: "No one will believe that we genuinely didn't mean to do this"
- My power level of disappointment was over 9000 when I realized this wasn't a Dragon Ball Z gaming headset
- Wednesday season 2, part 2 trailer resolves that big part 1 cliffhanger quicker than we expected
- Stormgate, the RTS from ex-Starcraft and Warcraft devs, launches out of Steam Early Access with perfect balance, by which I mean with 50% positive user reviews: "We plan to be in active development for a long time"
- Weapons director had "a whole different cast" for the horror movie before the Hollywood strikes but Pedro Pascal's scheduling conflicts "threw them into turmoil": "I had to recast the entire movie"
- Square Enix team behind JRPG gems like Octopath Traveler is trading turn-based combat for Zelda-like action with The Adventures of Elliot in hopes of reaching "a new audience"
- Now that the Switch 2 has been blessed with Mario Paint, I finally have an excuse to use this NES-inspired mouse
- I have an adult job with adult money, but why are there still no Marvel Rivals PS5 accessories to spend it on?
- Weapons stars Josh Brolin, Alden Ehrenreich, and Julia Garner share their first reactions to Barbarian director’s wild new horror movie: "I had no idea where it was gonna go"
- Palworld dev and Pocketpair publishing manager says "big things" have happened that he can't talk about for "at least a year or 2," and keeping the secret is "gonna kill me"
- Early concept art for Superman's costume proves David Corenswet was right about the trunks all along
- Hollow Knight Silksong won't be in the Indie World Nintendo Direct according to the YouTuber who leaked it: "Ah s**t, here we go again"
- 40 years later, Josh Brolin says he "ruined the first half day of filming" The Goonies because he was so nervous: "I had no idea what I was doing"
- Fallout "was a sequel" to Wasteland, says Interplay co-founder, and "we did everything we could not to be sued by Electronic Arts" after the devs "had to pivot out" of the follow-up
- Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls devs plan to keep the 4v4 tag fighter alive "for the next 10 years," with hopes of "making this game the best experience ever" over the next decade
- Wednesday season 2 debuts to solid Rotten Tomatoes score, but it's only slightly up from season 1
- Fancast favorite for rumored Spider-Man 4 villain Mister Negative says he isn't in the Marvel movie: "I'm happy to be included in that conversation, but I haven't heard anything"
- Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle is about to pass a Studio Ghibli classic on its march up the list of highest-grossing movies in Japan
- Chris Hemsworth's tribute to Thor was "misconstrued" as a farewell to the Avenger as the Marvel actor confirms it was actually an emotional "moment of gratitude" before Doomsday
- Baldur's Gate 3 performance director says it's a "shame" video game actors are "not being considered" for adaptations: "Why was Doug Cockle not in the TV series, The Witcher?"
- Starfield patch sparks hope among fans that Bethesda is finally adding "proper space travel" to the RPG, 2 years after it originally launched: "Todd my life is yours again"
- KPop Demon Hunters has finally landed in Netflix's all-time top 10 after 45 days, and it's on track to beat Red Notice
- Metal Gear Solid 5 finally cements itself as Peace Walker 2 as a co-op mod brings back the PSP game's best feature
- August 5
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- Battlefield 6 recoil emerges as the FPS' first big hullabaloo thanks to a "zero recoil" gun that, according to pew pew nerds, is actually just super realistic
- Doctor Who and House of the Dragon star Matt Smith will reportedly play the franchise's "next great villain" in Ryan Gosling's Star Wars: Starfighter movie
- Nintendo forces Japanese charity speedrun event to pull its games from the lineup after claiming "unauthorized use," now organizers have to ask permission for every single game in the future
- It's not Portal 3 but this fan-made dating sim with enough of Valve's approval for a Steam launch might be as close as it gets, and its solo dev says it's canon: "There's nothing you can do about it"
- "Literally never seen this before in 120 hours": Elden Ring Nightreign player shares hidden castle treasure chests so handy I'm about to boot the game up just to loot them
- Horror dev says her FMV game contains "no pornography whatsoever" but still got banned on Steam for NSFW content: "What this actually results in is taking power and storytelling away from women"
- Fortnite's Power Rangers crossover goes above and beyond with a morphenomenal live-action tokusatsu trailer apparently filmed at an iconic location from the show
- Beaver-collecting mastermind behind 13,000-hour MMO account suggests things got a bit out of hand: "I sort of realized it would be possible to do something unique and stupid and get the most beavers"
- $80 games have retreated for now, but analyst says the old $60 or $70 pricing model is dead in the "Wild West" of 2025: "I know a lot of people don't like it, but people still buy these games at these high price points"
- Skyblivion is giving us a whole city that was cut from Oblivion 19 years ago and shaking up my least favorite part of the original RPG with a new Elder Scrolls Online-inspired landscape
- The only Stranger Things star to correctly predict what the long-awaited spin-off would be, according to the Duffer brothers, says it could be an anthology "tied together through this mythology of the Upside Down"
- Microsoft, EA, and other publishers should give up on artificial intelligence: We peaked 21 years ago, when Resident Evil 4 devs were thrilled AI enemies could think "like a smart person" by using "weapons, of course"
- Black Panther star Daniel Kaluuya will co-write a Spider-Verse spin-off movie for his ultra-cool character Spider-Punk
- Kirby and the Forgotten Land was my 2022 GOTY over Elden Ring, and the Switch 2 upgrade DLC is giving fans flashbacks to the most notorious challenges in the series
- I was contacted by probably the best fisherman in World of Warcraft, if not any MMO ever, and I was not prepared for how deep the waters went: "It's literally been an almost 10-year battle"
- The tide is turning - over 40% of Steam users now have AMD CPUs, according to the latest Hardware Survey
- Star Wars fans are debating the series' second most iconic character, because everyone agrees that Darth Vader is number one
- Alien: Earth debuts to the franchise's third-highest Rotten Tomatoes score, with only Ridley Scott's original movie and James Cameron's Aliens ranking ahead
- Almost 11 years since launching Destiny 1, former Bungie CEO says live service isn't right for all games: "It's pretty clear that we can't just pick a business model and say that's a reason to make a game"
- Battlefield 6 really wants Assault players to stop lone-wolfing, so they've taken the Spawn Beacon from snipers to place "greater emphasis on team play"
- The Naked Gun director fought to keep the silliest part of the movie: "At one point I did have to threaten to quit"
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead says "prejudice against turn-based RPGs isn't completely gone," even if fellow JRPGs like Persona and Dragon Quest sell millions of copies
- I own over 150 amiibos, but the recent Nintendo price increases might be the end of my collection
- Dune: Awakening player manages a sandworm escape so jaw-dropping even the MMO's devs are impressed: "Yes, I pissed my pants, yes, my stillsuit saved the piss"
- Heat 2 is getting so expensive that Warner Bros. wants a streaming service to co-finance the movie, and Leonardo DiCaprio is reportedly in talks to star
- Battlefield 6's beta doesn't start for another 2 days, but fans clearly don't mind the wait as the FPS has already hit a peak of almost 10,000 concurrent players on Steam
- Oblivion Remastered joins the pantheon of Red Dead Redemption 2 and The Witcher 4 for its attention to animal anatomy: "The deer have buttholes"
- Resident Evil names "AI-first" affront to humanity Duolingo bird its newest biological weapon, making it canon that Leon Kennedy has only learned Spanish by force
- I don't know what's worse - the 4,000 Baldur's Gate 3 sicko who beat the RPG's Honour Mode at level 1, or the 30,000 who did it with an objectively terrible build
- Helldivers 2 devs stay true to their word, immediately roll out a patch full of fixes after the studio's "Super Earth sanctioned vacation," but one major issue still remains
- I double dare you not to fall in love with this adorable Fantastic Four merch by Loungefly
- After 5 million sales, dev of hit underwater Soulslike tells people to just pirate its new viral mounting climbing game Peak instead of wasting time and money on "microtransaction-riddled Roblox slop" ripoffs where you can buy a win
- Cyberpunk 2077 was a challenge for CDPR as V has "more freedom" in how they tackle the open-world, whereas it's "very difficult" to see The Witcher 3's Geralt "go GTA style"
- The Long Walk and Strange Darling screenwriter says he's written a "nasty, passionate horror role" for Meryl Streep "like nothing she's ever played"
- Check in on the Hollow Knight: Silksong fans in your life, because Nintendo just announced a new 15-minute Indie World showcase for this week
- League of Legends' very bad year continues as Riot pulls sloppy AI video offline amid fan criticism: "WTF how is this real"
- This brand-new 4TB PS5 SSD has given my old Sony console a Lexar-shaped lifeline
- Amazon's new War of the Worlds adaptation, which stars Ice Cube and is filmed entirely on a computer screen, debuts to 0% on Rotten Tomatoes
- The Straw Hat Pirates are reunited in first look at One Piece season 2, ahead of the first trailer – which we think is due to drop in a matter of days
- Former Stardew Valley dev decides against adding a "stink gun" to his new life sim, but offers a compromise by allowing you to torment cityfolk with pungent fruit
- Palworld studio's publishing arm signs another "very exciting game" to add to its list of "bangers," not long after helping release a new horror game featuring Baldur's Gate 3 and Final Fantasy talent
- Apex Legends could get a film or TV adaptation that "really respects and upholds the brand and the franchise", says EA entertainment boss
- As Mister Miracle showrunner teases the new DC series, fans are sharing their dream casting ideas
- Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director is "so insanely excited" for Larian's next RPG, but don't expect it any time soon: "This s**t ain't cooked in an air fryer bro sorry got nothing for you right now"
- The Punisher’s full costume for upcoming special has been revealed, and fans are hoping that the characters in Spider-Man 4 will look just as comic book accurate
- Boba Fett actor says there are no plans to bring the Star Wars character back: "You need to send a fax, or a letter, or an email, to those powers that be at Lucasfilm"
- Battlefield 6 dev says the magic words: Bad Company 2 is a "huge inspiration" for the upcoming FPS, and my excitement for the beta is now at an all-time high
- August 4
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- Konami says Silent Hill f is more combat focused because young players like challenging action games, and with Soulslike fatigue seeping into my bones, I really don't like the sound of that
- Helldivers 2 CEO says "we know the game isn't in tip top shape right now" and Arrowhead devs are back from vacation to focus "100% on bug fixing and optimization"
- "Pirated ROMs hurt small indie teams": Legendary Japanese dev asks gamers to "please support us through official channels" after a "hacked ROM" of new 16-bit shooter appears following Steam release
- "Stop Killing Games has actually changed the timeline": As EU petition comes to successful close, founder says "unending overtime" has him ready to "take a break for the next 10 years," but he's sticking around until it's done
- Elden Ring Nightreign players sick of Everdark Augur boss can't even pretend to be sad there's a glitch that makes it jump off the edge of the map: "Nightlord felled… off the map"
- Analyst says "I expect a $100 price point" for GTA 6, estimates Rockstar's development cost is over $1.5 billion, and predicts it will earn "$10 billion lifetime and another $500 million annually from GTA Online"
- Steam founder Gabe Newell predicts AI will be "10 times as significant as the impact of CGI," tells film directors to act more like 19-year-olds with chatbot girlfriends and "actually use this tool"
- Capcom announces yet more great Monster Hunter Wilds changes that really won't matter at all until the PC port is fixed
- Disney wanted to create a generative AI character for Tron: Ares and explored putting The Rock's head on a different body using deepfake tech for the live-action Moana remake
- "Are you folks doing okay?" Larian asks the 350 Baldur's Gate 3 players responsible for one of the weirdest class choices I've ever seen in an RPG
- Weeks after canceling Everwild and laying off developers, Xbox puts on a smile to celebrate Rare's 40-year legacy with a red hat in Sea of Thieves and a swanky controller
- Battlefield 6 beta preload is live, and at 35GB you might actually get it downloaded in time to play the FPS this weekend
- With a new record 240,000 players online, Old School RuneScape is roughly 8x bigger than its sister MMO and would be the fourth-biggest game on all of Steam if not for a technicality
- "Grand Theft Auto, Duke Nukem, and Saints Row" are "at risk" amid pressure to remove adult games from Steam and Itch, retro platform worries
- Barbie star Margot Robbie is being eyed for the lead role in Tim Burton's remake of a 1950s B-movie, sci-fi classic
- Modders behind one of Final Fantasy 14's most beloved third-party tools are making their own "cozy crafting roguelite," and it looks a whole lot like Moonlighter
- If you've had enough Diablo 4, new historical action RPG Titan Quest 2 came out 3 days ago, and it's become an instant hit on Steam 19 years after the first game
- As Switch price increases go live, former Nintendo marketing manager says it could be "really good news" for the Switch 2 and that Nintendo "found a way to stay winning, no matter how much it stinks for all of us"
- Shadowheart is the most-respecced Baldur's Gate 3 companion and it's not even close: everyone knew to make her a Life or Death Domain Cleric, which Larian says "checks out"
- Hideo Kojima corrects himself with a flex, says actually 79.5% of Death Stranding 2 players "are continuing to play" past its ending instead of the 79% he first reported: "Please keep enjoying the game"
- A Diablo tabletop RPG aims to fix a D&D problem with "no inexperienced and squishy 1st level" characters
- The best new shows and movies streaming this week on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney Plus, and more
- "This is a monumental moment": Weeks after Microsoft laid off 9,000, Call of Duty devs vote to ratify union contract guaranteeing raises as the publisher pushes AI
- Battlefield 6 follows Call of Duty in letting you "pick and choose which components of the game you install" to help suffering hard drives, but fans worry a day-one patch will leave them full regardless
- Spider-Man: Homecoming and Better Call Saul star teases his villain’s return for Brand New Day with just one simple word: "Sting"
- “Do not f****ing do that”: Deus Ex actor reacts to Cyberpunk 2077 mod using AI to add Adam Jensen's voice, and it isn't pretty
- Despite the two shows' decades-long feud, Family Guy creator Seth Macfarlane praises South Park: "Any show that lasts that long is pretty astounding"
- 33 hotfixes later, the infamous Baldur's Gate 3 bug Larian said it "probably" squashed lives on, and the RPG's fans can't help but keep rooting for it: "I don’t want them to fix this particular bug"
- Despite positive reviews and a great Rotten Tomatoes score, Fantastic Four: First Steps had a massive second weekend drop at the global box office
- James Cameron warns that his first post-Avatar 3 movie could be the "most challenging film" he'll ever make, and the director "might not even be up to the task"
- Hideo Kojima shares a lengthy review of Fantastic Four, and it's safe to say he's a fan of the new Marvel movie
- From price to portability, here's everything I look for when picking the best Nintendo Switch 2 headset
- Oblivion Remastered isn't comparable to Skyblivion as the 13-year project is "a full-scale remake" reimagining Bethesda's game "from the ground up, bringing it in line with modern RPG standards"
- The Naked Gun reboot got greenlit thanks to a test sequence where Liam Neeson mocked Paramout executives: "He basically talks s**t to them and leaves"
- Turtle Beach is re-releasing my favorite controller with a higher price tag and even I'm struggling to see what's been improved
- Battlefield 6 won't have a server browser, but the game's producer believes the current system "answers all these wants"
- MSI's new AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme handheld beats the Intel version in early benchmarks, but I'm not exactly impressed
- Netflix subscribers can't get enough of anime with over 4.4 billion hours watched so far in 2025, and a classic show beat the likes of Attack on Titan and Demon Slayer to take the number 1 spot
- Stranger Things creator teases the final season’s "eventful" premiere with the "craziest cold open we’ve ever done"
- Battlefield 6 will apparently have some skill-based matchmaking according to EA, and not everyone is happy: "Just let me hang with the boys"
- As the Spider-Man 4 set photo deluge continues Tom Holland shares first official pictures, and fans are loving the new costume
- Fantastic Four has a Stan Lee 'cameo' that includes a 62-year-old reference to one of Doctor Doom's first stories
- Sarah Michelle Gellar is back in the gym ahead of Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot in new behind-the-scenes video featuring new Slayer Ryan Kiera Armstrong
- Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls is getting an closed beta on PS5 next month after a successful debut at EVO which had a Marvel Vs Capcom legend saying "I just want to play more, it's cracked bro"
- Nintendo gives Switch 2 users a platform for their game-key card complaints with a survey about physical and digital games, and yes, you can say you "definitely would not buy" them
- DC boss James Gunn shuts down The Batman 2 and Teen Titans rumors saying "everything" you've heard is either a "guess" or "made up"
- Baldur's Gate 3 lead says the D&D RPG is "what allowed us to do our next crazy thing," assuring Larian Studios is "working hard to ensure you'll have plenty of fun" with its new game
- Peacemaker star John Cena says his Superman cameo was decided at the "final hour" during season 2 costume fittings: "James asked me if I wanted to be involved, and my answer was 'Heck yes'"
- James Gunn says DC Studios' opening logo sequence isn't a big "Marvel-esque" intro because they can sometimes be "too long" and "became too much a part of the movie"
- The Sandman showrunner addresses Superman references in the Netflix show and reveals a Batman cameo was "briefly" discussed for the finale: "Does Robert Pattinson want to come to the funeral?"
- August 3
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- 8 years after release, a stunning new Dark Souls 3 speedrun world record has been set, and I started scratching my head about 75 seconds into watching it
- "We don't want CoD movement, we want Battlefield": Battlefield 6 hopefuls are already asking DICE to rein in its slide as preview streamers fly around the map on ice skates
- One of my favorite 8-bit retro consoles is getting an HD remake this month, and it could be killer for casual players with physical collections
- Star Wars star Liam Neeson says his death scene in The Phantom Menace was "a bit namby-pamby" as he criticizes Qui-Gon's fighting: "Hardly a Master Jedi"
- Spider-Man star Tom Holland downplays speculation that he could be the next James Bond while being grilled by Gordon Ramsay
- For the first time since the original Dark Souls, Elden Ring Nightreign sleuth finds FromSoftware significantly changed how grab attacks work – creating a 0.2-second window for one old boss
- Star Trek: Strange New Worlds spent half a year turning its cast into puppets for one of its wildest episodes yet: "We had to have a lot of conversations about making puppets"
- Monster Hunter Stories 3 fan threatens to "s**t [their] pants" if it was revealed, now Capcom says "sorry about your pants"
- Henry Cavill offers an exciting update on his long-awaited Highlander reboot as filming is set to start soon: "That is taking all of my focus"
- Tom Holland reveals first full look at Spider-Man's new suit ahead of Brand New Day: "Are we ready?"
- August 2
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- Capcom decides now is the time to release a Monster Hunter Wilds digital soundtrack that costs $75 on Steam and only comes with MP3 files, which is so bad it feels like a mistake
- Wednesday season 2 release schedule: when is part 2 on Netflix?
- Helldivers 2 players ask for better UI with in-game info but joke it "would break 50% of the game," director says "that's mean... and also sadly true" but "we are working on an improved system"
- Acclaimed indie dev properly reveals his solarpunk open-world comedy featuring a naughty grandpa and sex robots releasing "whenever GTA 6 comes out, whatever that is"
- Stardew Valley with animal people and a lot more depression is an instant hit on Steam: "The plague is coming. The community must work together if everyone is to survive"
- South Park fans in the US only have a few days left to watch the show on HBO Max before it moves to a new streamer
- OG Reed Richards actor still isn't over a Wolverine 'cameo' being cut from 2005's Fantastic Four: "Paying homage to the great Hugh Jackman was quite a thrill"
- From InuYasha to Spirited Away, fans are discussing their favorite "gateway anime," and it's a perfect list of recommendations for beginners
- A Quiet Place 3 confirms release date and John Krasinski's return as writer and director
- Marvel confirms a major Avengers actor is joining Tom Holland's Spider-Man in Brand New Day along with a returning villain
- August 1
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- I spent 15 years waiting for Darksiders to fulfill the best cliffhanger of the PS3 era, and now the M-rated Zelda-like is finally poised to deliver in Darksiders 4
- Elden Ring Nightreign's big new challenge is one of the most hated, polarizing bosses in FromSoftware history: "I wish it was longer and he traveled a full zip code away with every attack"
- GOG preservationists hit back at "censorship in gaming" by making a bunch of notable NSFW games free-to-own for a limited time: "If a game is legal and responsibly made, players should be able to enjoy it"
- Original Plants vs Zombies artists say nobody at EA contacted them about the new Replanted remake: "I'd be down to help with it... whatever, I guess"
- BioShock publisher 2K reportedly shelves remake, dumps BioShock 4 leaders after failed internal review: "We have a good game, but we are committed to delivering a great one"
- Deadpool meets Batman, Jeff the Land Shark and Krypto the Super Dog frolic, and Green Arrow and Daredevil are locked in bloody combat in first look at new Marvel/DC crossover
- Analyst says stumbles like Monster Hunter Wilds' PC fiasco are only getting uglier with intense competition: "A prominent streamer or YouTuber can single-handedly, by showing one screenshot, really impact what the perception of a game is"
- Weapons lead Josh Brolin was drawn to Barbarian director's queasy new project "because psychologically, you want to keep confronting things like" toxic masculinity: "This staunch masculinity, I get very sickened by"
- Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection has a $150 Kollector's Edition with a delightfully stupid Goro statue, but I think the $80 Deluxe Edition might be even better for '90s arcade nostalgia
- Former Nintendo marketing lead says it's "not normal" we still don't have release dates for Elden Ring, Metroid Prime 4, and more Switch 2 games: "That's not the Nintendo that I know"
- Final Fantasy 14 director Yoshi-P knows the MMO isn't in "perfect" shape after Dawntrail, but Patch 7.3 marks a new beginning for Square Enix
- One of the best Super Smash Bros. players of all time tried a new indie platform fighter and immediately got destroyed without landing a single hit: "What the f*** just happened!"
- Need a camera to play Super Mario Jamboree? These are the Switch 2 cameras I'd grab right now
- Does new MCU show Eyes of Wakanda tie into the Black Panther movies?
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 leads predict rise in "AA-class games" as production costs reach ridiculous heights, say only GTA 6 maker Rockstar "is able to meet that demand"
- Alt-pop princess Pinkpantheress snuck sound bites from Nintendo's cult Wii hit Rhythm Heaven Fever into her music ahead of its new Switch game: "It’s the game that got me through my teens"
- New 007 screenwriter says his James Bond movie will be "different and better and stronger and bolder", but can't say whether he knows who's been cast in the lead role
- "Terraria 1.4.5 continues unabated," but still no release date for the sandbox game's 6th final update – "We are doing our very best to get to that day as quickly as possible"
- The Analogue 3D's controller launches today, but the new N64 gamepad failed to show up on my doorstep
- Deadpool co-creator is already on the outs with Marvel and has now slammed "impossibly dull and boring" Fantastic Four
- The Pokemon Company begs TCG Pocket fans not to blame artist behind plagiarized Ho-Oh, takes full responsibility after removing it
- I need to know what the 190,000 people who bought a Switch 2 at launch without Mario Kart World were doing, because I refuse to believe Welcome Tour was a system seller
- Switch price increases leak early as Nintendo bumps consoles by up to $50 in the US, makes Joy-Con 2s $5 more expensive, and slaps another $10 on my beloved Alarmo
- WoW Classic's new raid race stumbles off the starting line as Blizzard accidentally releases Mogu'shan Vaults early, then temporarily bans players for its own mistake
- Octopath Traveler 0 is "inspired by story elements and gameplay ideas" from the JRPG series' mobile game, but even returning fans are "getting a new experience"
- Tom Holland's new Spider-Man suit has been partially revealed ahead of Brand New Day, and the first look is giving us Sam Raimi vibes
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day leaks are here already as filming begins – and they might have just confirmed Mister Negative as the film's villain
- Baldur's Gate 3 and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 actor hates being called a "voice actor" as it "negates" other work that goes into roles, like motion capture: "It makes me really angry"
- There are no plans for a Battlefield 6 port on Switch 2, even though Battlefield Studios' head is a self-proclaimed "huge Switch fan"
- Sony's "Canis" PlayStation handheld should "beat the Xbox Ally X in performance," but I'm convinced it's really gunning for the Switch 2
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 studio is "just the right size" for a "full-priced turn-based RPG," so don't expect its success to lead to AAA ambitions: "I'd prefer working as a small team"
- I hosted a gaming podcast for years, and Rode's latest free feature would have made it so much easier
- After filming The Odyssey and Spider-Man 4 back-to-back, Tom Holland knows his limits – and plans to take a break from acting: "You can't do your best work when you're burnt out"
- Battlefield 6 producers stress it's "really important to us" that cosmetics "feel grounded" and "authentic to the franchise," so don't expect to see the likes of Peter Griffin and Hatsune Miku here
- Dying Light: The Beast dev defends $60 price because "in every metric" the DLC-turned-game is "bigger, denser, and more advanced than we initially assumed"
- A Fantastic Four trilogy was planned in the '00s, according to Reed Richards actor Ioan Gruffudd: "The mindset was that we were going to do three"
- Hostel series from original director Eli Roth is officially in development, with Oscar-nominated The Holdovers actor set to star
- Steam founder Gabe Newell is investing his $9.5 billion fortune in his new passion, big ass boats, because he's "a hands-on visionary who respects the sea"
- "This will be faster than the PS5 Pro" - leaks suggest the PS6 will be cheaper thanks to its AMD chip and could be here by 2028
- After rumors of a current-gen Kingdom Come: Deliverance, developer Warhorse is blatantly hinting at a PS5 version
- New Dune: Awakening update will cause certain bases to "collapse when the patch goes live," and fans of the survival MMO can't wait for "the chaos" to ensue come version 1.1.20
- The Batman writer's Spider-Man 4 pitch makes me want Sam Raimi to return for one last reunion with Tobey Maguire's Spidey
- Battlefield 6 players on Steam won't need to use the divisive EA App in order to play, and fans are thrilled: "We cannot stop winning right now"
- Ubisoft allegedly "threatened to sue" Assassin's Creed: Black Flag's Edward Kenway for hinting at the open-world game's remake
