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- October 31
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- Sea of Thieves players are roasting Rare like Captain Flameheart for delaying season 18: "Seasons may be delayed but these 'season delayed' drops are always on time"
- After 47 years, Halloween: The Game answers "burning questions" about John Carpenter's 1978 classic in a "sandbox-driven" single-player story with multiple endings designed to "prepare" you for multiplayer
- The indie horror I've been raving about for 2 years headlines an incredible $13 Halloween games bundle that includes 12 other spooky treats
- Stranger Things creators say they've known the final scene for "six or seven years," and "always knew what the last 40 minutes were going to be"
- Rockstar accused of "ruthless" firing ahead of GTA 6, cutting over 30 employees tied to dev union: Take-Two claims "gross misconduct," labor group says "we won't back down"
- Arc Raiders roadmap confirms new map Stella Montis, expanded quests, 2 new Arcs to fight in November, and a new Raider Deck battle pass for December
- It: Welcome to Derry's cast of child actors had to face their fears when joining the Stephen King spin-off, and meeting Bill Skarsgard's Pennywise: "I think I almost crapped my pants"
- Death Stranding 2 just got another themed controller, and this one's going to be really hard to buy
- Even the original Deus Ex art director isn't happy with the controversial remaster: "Oh, what the f*ck. No. This did not need to happen"
- Square Enix finally says the words Final Fantasy 14's MMO fashion devotees have waited years to hear: "From Patch 7.4 onward, you'll be able to equip any glamours regardless of your class/job!"
- Studio Ghibli, Square Enix, Bandai Namco and more Japanese companies demand OpenAI avoid unauthorized use of their IP: "There is no system allowing one to avoid liability"
- Dune: Awakening addresses the issue that made me and many players quit the survival MMO with a Base Backup Tool to stop your home blowing up and breaking down if you take a break
- It: Welcome to Derry finale is going to leave you "destroyed," tease creators, who say there's a "trick" that’s tied to "the reason we're telling the story backwards"
- This is why I'm keeping a watchful eye on Switch 2 SD card deals this Black Friday
- Pokemon TCG Pocket reportedly made $245 million more than Pokemon Go managed in its first year
- EA insists it "will maintain a thoughtful, steady approach to AI" and calls it "a tool to empower our people" after its CEO said generative AI is "the very core of our business"
- Cyberpunk creator Mike Pondsmith got to play Cyberpunk 2077 before the RPG's infamous launch, only to see his V randomly T-pose pantsless: "We're fixing that, right?"
- Aladdin star debunks rumors the live-action Disney sequel will film next year as "completely fake"
- Dressed in their best digital pigeon cosplay, Fall Guys devs reunite after Epic layoffs to serve up REPO and Peak-style "tasty friendslop"
- Arc Raiders lead says no goofy skins here as Battlefield 6 and Call of Duty players push for visual realism: "I don’t think the novelty is worth the trade"
- Helldivers 2 is "starting to break at the seams," game director admits, since Arrowhead kept choosing new content over bug fixes: "Now we're paying the price"
- EA claims "our creative freedom and player-first values will remain intact" after buyout, and "even with the new debt" of $20 billion it will work to grow the company
- Netflix, Amazon, and Apple are reportedly getting ready to bid on DC and Harry Potter studio Warner Bros
- M3GAN 2.0 may have bombed theatrically, but the sequel is the most-watched horror movie this Halloween
- 10 Horror movies to stream this Halloween on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, HBO Max, and more
- Sony is stepping up its plans for more live-action movie adaptations of anime and manga properties
- Nintendo's surprise Animal Crossing: New Horizons update isn't winning over everyone: "Isn't this just more Happy Home Paradise?"
- Nintendo wins $17,500 lawsuit against Switch pirate who reportedly told the company he "can do this all day" and "I run the streets" after streaming unreleased games
- Lanterns is no longer set to premiere before Supergirl, according to DC report
- The Social Network 2 will be "wonderful," says Jesse Eisenberg, whose reasons for not returning are "completely unrelated" to how good it'll be
- Mike Flanagan's adaptation of Carrie, one of Stephen King's shortest novels, might be getting more than one season
- Horror fans are discussing which beloved scary movies are actually not that great
- Horror hit Talk to Me is getting a bizarre TV spin-off: a "fully immersive XR experience" that's only available to watch on Meta headsets
- The Witcher showrunner explains why season 4's standout episode went full Wicked for its Jaskier flashback: "Part of the fun of television is to mess around with it"
- The Scream 7 killer might be hiding in plain sight in the new trailer, as horror fans notice a key detail
- Otherwise excellent Borderlands 4 patch accidentally brings back the infamous crit knife: "How does this go through testing?"
- IT: Welcome to Derry's premiere pulled in 5.7 million viewers, making it HBO's third-best series debut behind House of the Dragon and The Last of Us
- Battlefield 6 devs quietly remove controversial "blue crayola" skin after sparking a backlash from fans who felt it went against EA's promise of grounded and realistic skins
- The Witcher season 4 earns series low Rotten Tomatoes score as Liam Hemsworth's Geralt arrives on Netflix
- Mark Hamill says Star Wars: Starfighter's Ryan Gosling doesn't need any advice from him: "I had my time. I'm going to ask for advice from them"
- Avengers: Doomsday writer says he's only ever had one idea rejected by Marvel: a deep-cut X-Men Easter egg in Loki
- It's official: Anime is good for your health – as Crunchyroll is being used to treat lazy eye
- Silksong has been sent back in time to the N64 era with a fan-made demake, and I shudder to think of how hard it would be with 5th-gen controls
- October 30
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- Team Cherry are "healthy workaholics," Silksong voice actor says: "They were working a lot" but understand "people have lives and need to have a good quality of life"
- Helldivers 2's 150GB PC install is "unacceptably large," and Arrowhead hopes to work out a solution that could "theoretically slice the size in half"
- Arc Raiders launches to over 260,000 concurrent players and 88% positive early reviews on Steam, outdoing The Finals even at $40
- After 22 games over 22 years, the live-action Call of Duty movie is finally moving forward with Deepwater Horizon director and Yellowstone creator at the helm
- Strip club DJ returns to a truly inescapable MMO, accidentally becoming a community legend and real-life GTA character: "Stripper saw me playing, I have been deeply judged"
- You can finally play the Ghost of Yotei animator's dinosaur Soulslike, where you carve through dinos with a giant sword between your teeth, thanks to a Steam demo I can't believe I'm recommending
- Stranger Things season 5 trailer has fans convinced that Will Byers will be the one to defeat Vecna in a wild full circle moment
- The revived King of the Hill is renewed for seasons 16 and 17 alongside the upcoming season 15
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (October 31 - November 2)
- Assassin's Creed 3's controversial, hours-long opening was meant to solve a classic game narrative problem, but the team didn't realize it was "too long" until "the last two months" of development
- The Aliens game from Borderlands studio Gearbox ended up a flop, but Tiny Tina and Horizon actor Ashly Burch was just "excited" to be involved: "Are people even going to remember that I was in this?"
- After winning fans back with Stardew Valley-like DLC, inZOI continues its redemption arc by following in The Sims 4's footsteps with a focus on the afterlife
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Baldur's Gate 3 are leading a turn-based renaissance, and it's leaving games like Pokemon Legends: Z-A far behind
- Fallout co-creator Tim Cain remembers buying Super Nintendo games "for $59 in the '90s," but while digital games saved publishers money "those cost savings for digital weren't passed on to consumers"
- The Stealth 700 Gen is my Halloween headset of choice, and it just got a spooky rare discount
- My new Steam obsession is this love letter to Metal Gear Solid which nails the PS1 aesthetic in a shoot-'em-up inspired by '90s games and anime
- As Amazon kills New World, League of Legends co-creator and Riot co-founder puts a call out for "star devs" from the MMO: "We’re always on the lookout for S-tier talent"
- Mojang is finally revealing all of Minecraft: Java Edition's code after 16 years to "make it quicker and easier for modders to create and improve mods"
- KPop Demon Hunters songwriter and Rumi singing voice EJAE confirms she used no AI to write the Netflix film's songs, and says Huntr/x AI comparisons are "hurtful"
- With James Wan back in charge of Saw, star of the original says he'd be keen to return to the horror franchise
- Doctor Who spin-off The War Between the Land and the Sea confirmed to launch on the BBC in December – but Disney Plus viewers will have a longer wait
- Indie horror hit REPO's "Monster Update" lives up to its name by being absolutely huge, with 10 new freaks to contend with
- The Witcher creator reveals why Liam Hemsworth 'replaced' Henry Cavill in season 4's opening montage of iconic scenes
- After breaking box office records, a prequel to the Conjuring is officially underway – but stars Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson may not return
- Dragon Age's The Inquisitor actor knows the character is "probably not coming back," but sees a world where BioWare brings back all protagonists "Avengers Assemble-style"
- Deltarune fans spent 2 years recreating Chapter 1 "in its entirety" inside SNES RPG Earthbound, which feels like the ultimate tribute to Toby Fox's romhacking start
- Road House director Doug Liman is making his own, separate sequel from the Jake Gyllenhaal remake, following a dispute with Amazon
- Konami sounds pleased with Metal Gear Solid Delta Snake Eater and Silent Hill f as it reports a jump in game sales: "Beautiful yet terrifying"
- Corsair's new Tardis-looking controller argues that the joystick is on the way out
- Netflix viewers are convinced the Stranger Things season 5 trailer spells doom for Steve Harrington
- After 23 years, Animal Crossing: New Horizons brings back the feature old-school Nintendo nerds like me have missed since the GameCube – retro games
- Nobody told Octopath Traveler 0 devs they'd make an extreme town building system, so they guessed it was a mistake before the JRPG's producer said it "absolutely" wasn't: "I thought it would be only logical"
- Stranger Things creators say there are shots from the final episode of the Netflix show in the latest trailer, and that one blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment "plays a very important role on the show"
- "Truly, accidental marketing at its finest": Indie dungeon RPG mistranslated as "Sh**ty Dungeon" actually got a huge boost from Japanese Steam users sharing the joke
- Arc Raiders devs "don’t use generative AI," CCO says AI text-to-speech is used to help "make rich worlds" while keeping the studio small but "there's no end goal in replacing any actors"
- "I'm not sure if I should go into this": Helldivers 2 nerfs the beloved Coyote, devs say "we tried to keep it as intact as we possibly could" but didn't want one "obviously" best gun
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director says "basically nothing" from the original JRPG's development survived: "We're talking about the mid '90s... There's almost no documentation left"
- First Scream 7 trailer sees Ghostface return to terrorize Neve Campbell's Sidney and this time, anyone could be behind the mask
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons gets a $5 Switch 2 upgrade and a big free update with co-op islands and an NPC resort – 4 years after we thought Nintendo abandoned it
- The Switch 2 Pro controller just got a Resident Evil Requiem Edition makeover - here's where to buy yours
- Resident Evil: Requiem pre-orders are live: here's where to buy standard and deluxe editions
- Knives Out 3 earns a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score, but it just falls short of the original murder mystery film
- Pokemon Legends Z-A is sending players to an IRL Pokemon Center in Japan to show off their best Slowpoke mimicry, all for a special version of the pocket pal
- Demogorgons take on the military, Mike rallies the Hellfire Club, and Vecna demands Will's help in the epic new trailer for Stranger Things season 5
- Bully Online modder isn't worried about Rockstar's lawyers, but all the hype for the GTA Online-like mod is "a clear sign that Bully 2 wouldn't be such a bad idea"
- Amazon's Lord of the Rings MMO looks doomed as former dev says we "would have loved it" amid thousands of layoffs
- Celebrate the best Star Wars video game with a new Kyle Katarn action figure, up for pre-order now
- Colin Farrell once took 46 takes to film a Minority Report scene, and co-star Tom Cruise's reaction was exactly what you would expect
- Wicked: For Good director says the sequel will not show Dorothy's face: "[This] is still Elphaba and Glinda's journey"
- Tencent defends "slavish" Horizon Zero Dawn clone from Sony, claiming that "fame does not create a trademark" as it tries to bat legal claims away from survival game Light of Motiram
- Wednesday's Emma Myers makes her Star Wars debut in Visions season 3 and marks the occasion with a wholesome throwback photo
- New World devs leave heartfelt tribute for players after Amazon starts sunsetting the fantasy MMO, and now I'm crying: "Thank you for so many stories"
- Pokemon Legends Z-A's first update eases the grind for its best Mega Evolution stones, and flattens a nasty bug that stops players from catching Pokemon entirely
- Ahsoka star Rosario Dawson shares then deletes a season 2 wrap post for the Star Wars show, promising we'll "meet again"
- Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin has taken OpenAI to court, and he's winning
- The first reactions to Predator: Badlands are in, and critics are calling it "a pretty badass expansion of the Predator franchise," but "legacy fans may be left disappointed"
- Netflix dropped a surprise Witcher movie that fills in the gaps from season 4's best storyline
- Halo MMO from OG Age of Empires and Halo Wars devs was canceled because a former Xbox boss wanted a bonus, says dev, despite Microsoft projecting it'd make $1 billion
- Resident Evil Requiem lets you dress up as Lady Dimitrescu from Resident Evil Village if you spring for the Deluxe Edition
- October 29
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- Final Fantasy 14's lovably polygonal grapes have snuck their way into Pokemon Legends: Z-A
- Microsoft reports Xbox hardware revenue down 29%, and 1% growth in content and services like Game Pass blunted by "a decline in first-party content"
- Japanese patent office casts doubt on 2 Nintendo Pokemon-catching patents in the Palworld lawsuit, saying Monster Hunter, Ark, and Pocketpair's own Craftopia all did it before
- It: Welcome to Derry showrunners say adding The Shining's Dick Hallorann to the new Stephen King spin-off was "all about staying authentic to the book": "We became amateur Derry historians"
- The fate of one of the oldest living MMOs, and one of the worst microtransaction shops ever, is up for a vote
- Fallout leads debated making the original game 3D like Tomb Raider, but couldn't get "the amount of detail" they wanted – something Bethesda eventually achieved in Fallout 3
- Deadpool & Wolverine writer rebooting Buck Rogers for Dune studio Legendary
- The Outer Worlds 2 launch derailed by Microsoft Azure outage on Xbox, Game Pass, and PC: "All titles may be temporarily unavailable to purchase or install"
- Monster Hunter Wilds is barely hanging onto Capcom's top 10 current best sellers and officially lost to Monster Hunter Rise, which notably didn't wait months for PC fixes
- You can finally buy the new smelly mouse from Asus, and a keyboard to accompany it
- Former World of Warcraft and League of Legends MMO lead says replacing devs with AI is "a little bit premature" - "AI may one day accelerate game development. But it's not happening today"
- The Outer Worlds 2 won't let you respec your character, even if you break your build, because the RPG's director "wouldn't let you respec your story" either
- Penguin star Colin Farrell says the cancelled DC Sgt Rock film had a "fantastic script" and "should be made"
- Catch me screaming, crying, and throwing up as ex Rune Factory leads team up for a new farming sim RPG that beat its Kickstarter goal in 1 day
- "I can't even find the motivation to play": 13,000-hour veteran leads the charge as New World players mourn their MMO by absolutely nuking its Steam reviews
- The Finals is still going strong and Arc Raiders is about to release, but Embark Studios has two other projects it hasn't even announced yet: "One of the concepts we have has a lot more edge to it"
- The Outer Worlds 2 director is already watching streamers create bad character builds, but that's part of the "true RPG" experience that "the Baldur's Gate 3s of the world" are helping bring back
- Square Enix says no spoilers for the remakes of 38-year-old NES JRPGs Dragon Quest 1 and 2, please – there's a "big surprise" in store
- Corsair just added two speedy Gen 5 drives to its SSD catalog with the new MP700 Pro XT and MP700 Micro
- DDR5 RAM is on the brink of 2020 GPU-style price inflation, and AI is to blame
- Palworld lead "very sad" fantasy MMO New World is coming to an end: "That said, if Amazon want to slip me the files for the 2019 version…"
- The Witcher's final season has just wrapped filming, and some of its cast were reduced to tears: "There's a little bit of relief, there's a little bit of loss and sorrow"
- Silksong "was much harder when I did it," says Team Cherry tester who also voiced Trobbio: "It was almost entirely nerfs to bosses that I got put in"
- If you're too impatient for Black Friday, one of my favorite Switch 2 headsets is down to an almost record low
- The Witcher showrunner defends controversial line from the season 4 trailer: "It's what our Geralt would say"
- Take-Two CEO says AI is "going to be really, really bad" at making video games and probably couldn't even come up with the GTA 6 marketing plan
- Jeff Bridges channels the Dude in response to fans rejecting Tron: Ares after underwhelming opening weekend: "That's just like your opinion, man"
- FBC Firebreak died on impact, Remedy just lost its CEO, and isn't "satisfied" with revenue down 32% – but finds "positive sides" anyway: "Our first multiplayer product launch was technically successful"
- As New World dies thanks to Amazon, ex World of Warcraft lead thanks the devs who made it for "trying to keep the MMO dream alive" as he struggles with his own new MMORPG
- With over 9,000 people laid off, Xbox more expensive than ever, and several studios closed, Microsoft's pro-AI CEO says the "best way to innovate is to have good margins"
- Watch this, Turkelton! Hulu's Scrubs reboot, starring Zach Braff and the original cast, finally has a release date
- Razer's new esports keyboard is going to give you deja vu
- If you fit in the Venn diagram of Zelda fan and audiophile, boy do I have news for you
- Minecraft is adding two new desert-based mobs in its next update: undead camels and even spookier skeletons that don't catch fire during the day
- Battlefield 6 Season 1 and Battle Royale RedSec rollout leaves fans feeling that EA is turning the FPS into a "soulless" Call of Duty clone: "I feel disgusted and downright sad!"
- YouTube smacks down Valve's beloved Counter-Strike 2 skins and potentially crushes GTA 6 videos in new content restrictions against gambling, "mass violence," and "realistic human characters"
- HBO gives It: Welcome to Derry's poster a redesign following episode 1's shock ending – and well, our hearts are breaking all over again
- The Boys season 5 is "coming (reasonably) soon", says showrunner Eric Kripke
- KPop Demon Hunters could end 2025 with a record-breaking half a billion views on Netflix
- "A lot of companies" are interested in reviving Doom icon John Romero's new FPS that Microsoft reportedly pulled funding on: "If you move and start working with somebody else, they get $50 million for free"
- New Chainsaw Man movie includes a tribute to anime series Attack on Titan, which was brought to a close by the same animation studio
- The Witcher cast praise the "energy" Liam Hemsworth brought to the show as Geralt in season 4: "The man is relentless… he turned up fully formed"
- Battlefield 6 lead defends RedSec performance, says what the battle royale can do at 30hz "beats most of the competition" like Warzone and Fortnite
- Steven Spielberg's new UFO movie will be scored by legendary composer John Williams, marking their 30th collaboration
- No time to rewatch The Witcher before season 4 hits Netflix? The streaming service saves the day with beautifully illustrated recap
- Former Microsoft exec slams Xbox lead's "social network envy," says gaming's biggest rival isn't TikTok – it's time
- Nintendo icon Shigeru Miyamoto says the Mario series will still be around for its 100th anniversary "as long as we don’t forget" what the platformer is all about – "running and jumping"
- James Gunn will stay on as head of DC Studios if Paramount buys Warner Bros
- Lanterns showrunner says the new DC series is is "as much of a buddy cop show as a superhero show"
- Loki writer reveals the absurd Kang fight he pitched to Marvel for the Avengers movie that never was
- Hideo Kojima says "no one ever told me" Konami turned down a Matrix game – but maybe there "could’ve been a way to make it work" despite Metal Gear Solid 2
- Valve has done a "very good job" of building a "massive marketplace" on Windows with Steam, but Microsoft and Xbox are looking to go one step further: "We're going to be everywhere"
- October 28
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- Amazon is killing one of the only good games it's released, fantasy MMO New World: "The recently launched Season 10 and Nighthaven update will serve as the final content release"
- A truly gonzo sounding thriller about an MRI machine and a hitman has cast The Raid star as its lead
- TimeSplitters revival died because "bigger forces were in play," co-creator of the classic FPS says: "I'm not up for it any more"
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director knows there's a debate around yellow paint in games, but says "there is definitely a need for that kind of thing" and the only real question is "about how it's done"
- I just died and went to Rhythm Heaven: Slay the Princess publisher reveals visual novel inspired by Nintendo's cult rhythm game series and cute puppies
- 26 years later, stunning PS1 cult classic gets an official English launch with help from a legendary fan translator, making it a lot cheaper than tracking down the original
- Wednesday producer is leading an animated movie for timeless Halloween hit The Monster Mash
- "Mad Max ... Payne": Former Just Cause boss's new studio channels Max Payne in apocalyptic teaser trailer showing a grungy open world
- After 16 years, a Mario Kart-style Dragon Ball game once considered lost media is back and playable thanks to an archived version from fans
- Amazon Games gutted amid 14,000 layoffs: work on first-party games and MMOs in particular scaled back, "casual and AI-focused games" a continued focus
- Exciting news in the Halo archives: a new lore revelation continues a tradition that series creator Bungie started in 1994 with the original Marathon
- Baldur's Gate 3 publishing lead says what we're all thinking about Microsoft's supposed new Xbox: that's just a gaming PC
- Once an icon of intrusive EA DRM, The Sims studio's classic life sim Spore will "live forever" in the GOG Preservation Program alongside Splinter Cell, Tomb Raider 2013, and more
- Disney is no longer teaming up with the BBC for Doctor Who, as a new Christmas Special is confirmed for 2026
- Legendary horror director John Carpenter says he disliked "everything" about Oscar-winning genre hit The Substance
- One Piece is slowing down: early 2026 anime hiatus will lead to a new schedule with a "maximum" of 26 episodes a year to better match the pacing of Eiichiro Oda's manga
- If Metroid Prime 2 "is remade," series producer wants more people to play the GameCube classic's forgotten splitscreen multiplayer: "Retro finished the multiplayer mode without compromising on quality"
- Arc Raiders lead knows launching between Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 and Battlefield 6 is "insanity," but "this is the start of a long journey" and "it needs to start somewhere"
- Hideo Kojima pitched OD as a "really scary game" to Xbox boss Phil Spencer – and he was right, this looks terrifying
- Forget lookalike contests, Now You See Me 3 star Jesse Eisenberg has launched the next viral marketing gimmick: impromptu magic shows
- As the first The Witcher game turns 18, CDPR co-CEO remembers "the uphill battle" to get Geralt's first action-RPG noticed, teases "more adventures ahead"
- Ex PlayStation lead was "a little concerned" when Naughty Dog first ditched Uncharted for The Last of Us: "We may be going too niche"
- When is Freakier Friday on streaming? The Disney Plus release date revealed
- As the PS2 turns 25, its top 20 best-selling US games are revealed: GTA is still on top, and Kingdom Hearts beats Final Fantasy 10
- Battlefield 6 players rain chaos by literally taking a sledgehammer to the game, devs respond with weapons-grade exploit hunting: "Yeah. It won't work anymore"
- These new Call of Duty Black Ops 7 thumbsticks come packed with an in-game weapon charm
- Corsair has given some of its best gaming tech a Witcher 3: Wild Hunt makeover
- First Wicked: For Good reactions call the sequel "an epic and heartbreakingly tender conclusion" and praise Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo
- Outer Worlds 2 isn't taking one of Avowed's most helpful features because its creative director believes it would "rob the world of some of its mystery"
- Former Microsoft and Blizzard exec says new Xbox consoles are "just PCs," and that might be why World of Warcraft is "killing addons"
- Battlefield Redsec is out now, and I'm relieved to say EA's battle royale stays true to Battlefield instead of pinching too much from Warzone or Fortnite
- 35 years on, It miniseries composer reveals the unlikely inspiration behind one of his most sinister tracks: Disneyland
- Even under $20 million in debt, EA reportedly pushes 15,000 employees to use AI as a "thought partner" for everything from character art to playtesting
- Netflix's One Piece season 2 finally has a release date after weeks of new location reveals and character teases
- PUBG creator's roguelike survival game with machine learning-generated worlds hits Steam early access next month – the first step toward "realistic Minecraft" for "millions of players"
- More PC builders need to know about this internal USB hub as coolers and RGB demand more from our motherboards
- OG Halo CE dev reacts to the remake's new sprint: "If you make a game mechanic optional you have abandoned your post, thrown up your hands and admitted you have no vision"
- Despite having two all-time classics on his resume, Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul creator Vince Gilligan says new mystery sci-fi show Pluribus is "bigger than anything I've ever made"
- The Chainsaw Man movie actors thanks audiences for their "incredible support", after the anime movie hits #1 at the box office: "One of the greatest weekends of my life"
- Reach is the next greatest VR game, and this trailer just proves it
- Comic artist behind Batman's most talked about series in years would "love" the Cyberpunk: Edgerunners studio to turn it into an anime
- An animated Crash Bandicoot show is reportedly in the works at Netflix from the same studio as its Sonic adaptation
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake lead looked to "story-driven" PlayStation hits like God of War and The Last of Us to help shape the JRPG remake's first entry
- Ciri actor Freya Allan says The Witcher season 4 has "some of her favorite Ciri storylines" so she dived back into the books to do them justice
- As Battlefield 6's battle royale mode looms, lead assures fans worried that vehicles will ruin RedSec that there are "ways to handle it" and "you'll see" soon enough
- "Valve does not get anywhere near enough criticism about" gambling in its video games, says DayZ creator after $6 billion Counter-Strike 2 market crashes
- Jeremy Allen White suggests Rotta the Hutt might have a bigger role in The Mandalorian and Grogu than we (or he) originally thought
- Rockstar isn't making Bully 2, so fans are taking matters into their own hands with a GTA Online-inspired mode with "minigames, free-roaming, and roleplay"
- Sorry to disappoint, but Chainsaw Man movie's "ultra-intimate" deleted scene is actually a translation error
- October 27
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- God of War star Christopher Judge says, at 61, his "dexterity's not what it used to be," which sucks, but his family's Tekken tournaments and choice of fighter are just wholesome enough to turn this emotional rollercoaster around
- "In Breath of the Wild, they give you a little golden turd": Animal Crossing: New Horizons fan spends 2 years designing every DLC vacation home, gets nothing
- Yet another PlayStation icon that Sony is content to leave in its grave is getting revived by an entirely different publisher
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director says the team could do a "completely new IP" or maybe "something new within the Final Fantasy series" after finishing Part 3 of the JRPG remake
- Civilization 7 update brings pirates and "powerful" Ocean Tiles, but developer Firaxis won't say much more: "You'll notice smaller, less frequent updates while the team shifts into testing"
- Hundreds of thousands of MMO fans show up to watch the first video from a game dev who made an entire app just to make Old School RuneScape stupidly hard
- Masters of the Universe star says the live-action He-Man reboot has the "perfect balance of comedy and heart": "I'm really, really proud of what we did"
- Firaxis says Civilization 7 is getting "dramatic changes" as it tests a way to basically bypass its divisive Ages system and let you play as one faction the whole game
- After games like Hades, players expect more from Steam early access games than they did even 5 years ago, Dead Cells creators say: "But that's fair, because, in a way, they are buying the game"
- The Batman Part 2 takes place "a few weeks" after The Penguin, according to star Colin Farrell
- Pokemon Legends Z-A had the biggest physical game launch in the US since 2023's Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
- Forgotten for nearly 20 years, Nintendo DS exclusive Silent Hill-like is back with an inexplicable PC remaster creeping up Steam horror charts: "I'm surprised someone still remembers this franchise"
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director says defying industry norms and keeping the dev team together for the whole RPG trilogy was key to its success: "That's quite a rare thing"
- Well, I have to play Silksong again because of this impressive voiced mod that lets Hornet sing Sherma's song in place of the needolin
- Ex Skyrim lead says Bethesda never "even tried to put a bucket on anyone's head" during development, setting players up for one of the most iconic exploits in RPG history
- An original Simpsons writer has stepped down after more than two decades as showrunner and fans are calling it the "end of an era"
- Battlefield 6 battle royale mode Redsec is real, totally free-to-play just like Warzone, and launching October 28: "Eyes up. Plates on"
- From The Witcher season 4 to Star Wars: Visions, these are the best new shows and movies streaming this week on Netflix, Prime Video, Disney Plus, and more
- Game dev hard mode discovered as solo indie releases Metroidvania-inspired roguelike right between Silksong and Hades 2: "I had zero awareness that they were dropping"
- Helldivers 2 players accept the win and the free cape after Arrowhead miraculously finds millions of extra Liberty Day kills under a rug: "We can only track" melee or bullets and "we went with bullet kills"
- Hideo Kojima supposedly had "strong interest" in making a Matrix game adaptation after the Wachowskis asked him to, but Konami said "no"
- The Boys star Karl Urban says we'll finally learn the origin of Butcher's forehead scar in season 5, even though the actor wanted to keep it "enigmatic"
- Arc Raiders devs tell players to chill about gear score matchmaking because it doesn't actually exist: "The focus is on maintaining the split between solos and squads"
- Set for life after a megaton Steam hit, Lethal Company creator gets back to what really matters: releasing weird retro horror games like this text-and-audio adventure
- Black Friday is still weeks away, but Woot just dropped record-low deals on Switch 2 games
- Silksong voice actor behind Shakra says Team Cherry would give the same advice players shared: if something feels really hard, "maybe that's a sign" you should explore more
- Minecraft creator weighs in on the Creeper debate sparked by Mojang CCO's recent comments, says he "tried to fix" it years ago because it was "anti-fun"
- Halo co-creator says Campaign Evolved "looks and feels genuine": "It's gorgeous in a way I wish we could have built it originally back in 2001"
- Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc topped the US box office this weekend with over $17 million, proving Demon Slayer dominance wasn't a one-off for Crunchyroll
- Avengers: Doomsday may feature the return of Gwyneth Paltrow's Pepper Potts, according to the Iron Man star: "I might be in another Marvel movie"
- The Witcher creator reveals the moment they knew they had "made the right choice" casting Liam Hemsworth as Geralt
- Despite fears that Stop Killing Games' 1.4 million signatures were plagued by fakes, organizers "are confident we have surpassed the required thresholds"
- Helldivers 2 performance is still many months away from "more meaningful improvement," admits Arrowhead CEO, but there are "more patches coming"
- God of War and Dark Knight Rises star Christopher Judge says Christopher Nolan is a "true genius," but his directing style is "disconcerting" for an actor
- Predator: Badlands director dispels popular fan theory that the new film's Yautja is secretly the Dark Horse comics character Broken Tusk
- The Amiga A1200 remake officially arrives in June 2026, but I'm starting to worry about modern retro console pricing
- Project Sigil is officially dead, and I can't believe D&D fumbled its best idea in years
- Halo: Campaign Evolved leads call AI "a tool in a toolbox" comparable to others like Photoshop, but assure "the people are the ones who are creating the game"
- David Corenswet's Superman costume has been marked as "currently being used in production," and DC fans are trying to work out what he could be filming
- Duck-based extraction shooter Escape From Duckov was one of the biggest games on Steam over the weekend, beating the likes of Battlefield 6 thanks to a peak of 300,000 concurrent players
- These 1-month-old Xbox Series X/S controllers are enjoying their first big discount ahead of Black Friday
- The Haunting of Hill House creator Mike Flanagan calls his new TV adaptation of Stephen King's Carrie "one of my favorite projects ever" as filming wraps
- Gen V's Marie isn't overpowered and won't solo Homelander in The Boys season 5: "She's not Neo from the end of The Matrix"
- I'm obsessed with the Traitors so can't wait for this new Warhammer 40K hidden role board game
- Leaked images from canceled God of War live-service game tease surprising return of an old villain and use of Norse mythology
- Despite KPop Demon Hunter's box office victory, Netflix boss has no plans in changing strategy, saying the movie was a success "because it was released on Netflix first"
- Star Wars actor Rosario Dawson says Ahsoka Tano will continue "getting back into her joy" in Ahsoka season 2
- Sony announces it won't be bidding to buy Warner Bros. because it's focused on "growth markets", like anime
- Internet favorite comedy Smiling Friends has no plans on staying around as long as The Simpsons: "We don't want it to be a show that outstays its welcome and goes on forever"
- Pokemon Legends: Z-A beat Battlefield 6 to become the best-selling game in Europe last week, but it's still the smallest Pokemon RPG launch for 7 years
- The Outer Worlds 2 fans punished by Obsidian with hilarious debuffs for everything from dialogue skipping to "consumerism" if they purchase the $100 Premium Edition
- The next episode of Stephen King prequel series IT: Welcome to Derry will hit air two days earlier this week, just in time for Halloween
- Chainsaw Man movie is now the second highest-rated anime of all time, and it's closing in on first place
- Director of cancelled Hunt for Ben Solo movie reveals this is the first time Disney has said no to a Star Wars film with a finished script
- The Witcher season 4 episode count: how many episodes are there on Netflix
- The Batman writer is pushing to work on a Spider-Man 4 movie for Tobey Maguire
- October 26
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- New Acolyte book reveals that the Stranger was the first Knight of Ren in Star Wars
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director's GOTY pick, and not just because it features JRPG-inspired combat: "It gets all of the elements in it right"
- After Randy Pitchford had a game cancelled by EA, he was called by Gabe Newell out of nowhere to ask if he wanted to work on Half-Life: "I don't believe in manifestation - I believe in coincidence"
- Nintendo Switch 2's game-key cards are "part of a larger trend that we can't avoid," Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director says, as physical media is becoming "less and less part of the industry"
- With a peak of 100,000 concurrent players sending it straight into Steam's best-sellers chart, the latest indie hit is a silly physics-based co-op game about driving an RV
- Borderlands boss Randy Pitchford says the games industry is "just getting started": "We haven't even had our Citizen Kane yet, let alone Jurassic Park or Star Wars. We're just figuring this s**t out"
- New Bob Odenkirk action movie from Ben Wheatley gets a release date
- This is not a drill: the ghost of WarioWare returns in the form of this bizarre minigame free-for-all on Steam
- Original Hocus Pocus star is open to return for Hocus Pocus 3: "I’d like to know what they land on for how Dani wound up."
- OG Halo: CE dev says the remake's changes are "like the dance remix of a classic song that skips the intro and the bridge and just thumps the chorus over and over"
- October 25
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- Brave genius takes on the ultimate gamer challenge: converting an elliptical "from the side of the road" into a controller and working out while playing Elden Ring
- Xbox exclusives are heading to Nintendo and PlayStation because Microsoft's biggest competition is "everything from TikTok to movies," not Switch 2 and PS5, Matt Booty says
- James Gunn says he has "no clue" when the first Lanterns teaser will arrive: "In terms of the scheduling, I'm not as knowledgeable as I am with film"
- Palworld dev advises players to stop defending games online and play them instead: "Pop open Megabonk or something and just have fun"
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake director promises Part 3 news "in the not too far future" and tells fans he's "running straight to my hotel room and back to checking some of the levels"
- "Halo is on PlayStation going forward, starting with Halo: Campaign Evolved": As Xbox's most iconic FPS hits PS5, devs hint that the days of exclusivity are over
- Blumhouse bag big deal to adapt Something is Killing the Children comic series
- 16 years after the release of cult classic horror Jennifer's Body, the "fun and crazy" potential sequel gets an update
- Despite seemingly dying in Multiverse of Madness, Elizabeth Olsen wants to return as Scarlet Witch in the MCU: "I'd jump at the opportunity to be in her shoes again"
- October 24
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- God of War actor Christopher Judge says he hopes a potential sequel will take place in Egypt, but "I have no doubt that no matter what pantheon it is, it will be great"
- Ex-PlayStation boss says the games industry is "littered" with Fortnite clones and "people trying to do Overwatch with different skins," but keep dreaming if you're just trying to get "big sacks of money"
- Silent Hill f's Hinako actor is playing her own game on stream and I feel bad for how hard I'm laughing at her terror
- "A live-service game to me isn't really a game," former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden says: "I need a story, I need a character, and I need a world"
- 24 years later, Halo's most infamous level is getting fixed as the remake devs try to bring "better wayfinding, navigation, and diversity in enemy encounters" to The Library
- The Halo remake will reignite the debate that's plagued the series for 15 years, because "you can sprint now"
- "This is Halo for everyone": Halo Campaign Evolved officially coming to PC, Xbox, and PS5 next year with a new 3-mission prequel arc and 4-player co-op
- Fortnite devs think removing guns from new proximity chat mode was a weird move, so now they're back in custom Delulu matches with up to 80 players – but players don't want guns: "Who is gonna tell him"
- The Celestials arrive in the Ultimate Universe to rain down destruction as the alt-reality turns 2 years old
- Palworld publishing lead ramps up his crusade against AI games, says "you're huffing pure copium if you think this is going anywhere" and "games like Megabonk will continue to body this for the next 50 years"
- One Piece season 2 star David Dastmalchian says the live-action Netflix anime adaptation "nailed it" when it comes to new villain Mr. 3: "The people making it are so truly dedicated to Oda's world"
- One Japanese school is using Hideo Kojima's unfinished Silent Hill game PT to teach students English, and it sounds like a great way to memorize the words "murder his entire family"
- Noctua is celebrating its 20th anniversary in the most Noctua way possible - with a brown deskmat that's also a history lesson
- Meet the hungriest MMO player, an Old School RuneScape legend who's been eating 500,000 trout for the past week, impressing even the devs with their achievement: "What an absolute unit"
- Nintendo celebrates Mario's 40th anniversary not with a new 3D platformer for Switch 2, but a Thanksgiving Parade balloon one exec insists is "sure to have fans everywhere cheering 'Wahoo!'"
- After 26 years, virtual pet gem Neopets re-enters the limelight with a brand-new game collection containing some of my favorite childhood flash games enhanced for PC, PS5, and Nintendo Switch
- Commander Shephard actor would love to return in Mass Effect 5 to play "anyone," not just FemShep – but BioWare hasn't picked up the phone
- Woot has whipped up a big discount on the Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Collector's Edition for PC
- Hey you guys, star Ke Huy Quan just revealed a Lego Goonies set in nostalgic tribute to beloved '80s movie
- MMO ends 19-year-wait for new skill with sailing finally washing ashore next month, expanding the Old School RuneScape map by 190%
- After 27 years, a new cheat code has been discovered in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night's most controversial port, and it might've just created the dumbest speedrun category in Metroidvania history
- After 2 years, one of the most unique horror games of 2023 returns with a co-op spin-off that sounds like a chaotic mix of Dead by Daylight and REPO: "Get ready to test the bonds of your friendship!"
- Fallout season 2 posters give us our best look yet at two key New Vegas factions, with a notable change from the games
- Sarah Michelle Gellar thought she was "too old" to play Buffy the Vampire Slayer again: "It’ll be Buffy with a walker"
- We desperately needed that Hades 2 update, since a roguelike warrior just beat one of the game's most challenging runs without taking a single hit: "Untouchable"
- Fallout co-creator warns studios amid rising layoffs and focus on AI that devs are not replaceable: "You're left with a company where nobody knows anything"
- Xbox's Phil Spencer leaves it up to developers to decide if they want to use AI, and any top-down mandate "is not really a path to success"
- After Shelby Oaks director "literally ran out of money" for the new horror movie, he recalls emotional response to extra funding from Longlegs studio Neon: "I was in tears, man"
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director says "however much AI might try and intrude and take part in the creative side of things," his team would want to be "good enough creators" that "we could do better than AI"
- Assassin's Creed was supposed to be a "trilogy" and end with Desmond Miles' death in Assassin's Creed 3, but Ubisoft released Brotherhood and Revelations before it released: "The problem with success is it drags it out"
- A House of Dynamite stars discuss Netflix's terrifyingly plausible nuclear thriller "The film is really well researched, down to a documentary level of detail"
- Pokemon Legends: Z-A sells over 5.8 million copies in its first week, cementing the real-time RPG as a success even if it's still lagging behind Legends: Arceus
- Art the Clown actor gives promising update on Terrifier 4, saying although the director is keeping certain plot points hidden, the ending is "batsh** insane"
- Battlefield 6 devs are waging war on XP farms because they've "made it harder" to find "experiences Portal was created for," but they know some feel "farming servers are necessary"
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day won't be getting an IMAX release, according to the planned 2026 schedule
- Next-gen Xbox console will focus on "connecting all your devices in one place," Phil Spencer teases, with the handheld ROG Xbox Ally a sign of things to come
- 2 years after it officially ended, DC fans are appreciating the DCEU's best moments: "When the DCEU got things right man was it beautiful"
- Director of cult horror hit Prevenge is turning one of Shakespeare's most famous comedies into a scary movie: "I don’t see why it couldn’t be revisited with how terrifying and odd everything happens in it"
- Netflix's Monster: The Ed Gein Story called "devoid of context" by horror director and son of Psycho star Anthony Perkins: "I wouldn’t watch it with a 10-foot pole"
- A new child-friendly horror movie from Goosebumps creator R.L. Stine is being called the bleakest of the year: "I'm 30 years old and the ending of this movie left me deeply unsettled"
- "Someone go tell Nintendo that": Former Blizzard president responds to Xbox boss saying exclusives are "antiquated," says "Nintendo has continually dominated with outstanding games"
- Malcolm in the Middle's Frankie Muniz was told not to post a reunion photo for the upcoming sequel series, but remembered no one's the boss of him now
- Hit '90s graphic novel series is getting turned into a TV show by I Saw the TV Glow director – and we're ready for all the NSFW body horror
- Letterboxd hits major milestone and reveals the unexpected movie that has become the three billionth title watched on the app
- It's the Snyder Cut all over again as Star Wars fans fly a banner over Disney demanding the Ben Solo movie
- Stranger Things showrunner says the Netflix finale's theatrical release is something he's "dreamed about for years", but only recommends going if "you don't mind crying in front of strangers"
- Borderlands 4's Halloween event is being torn apart by disappointed players who call it a "huge step down" and one of the "worst" content drops in the looter shooter series
- John Boyega says he will always prefer Star Wars, but thinks the franchise could learn one thing from Star Trek
- Hasbro has 45-50 movies and TV shows in development, and we're not even sure we can name that many toys
- Hades 2 devs are changing the true ending so much you're going to have to beat the Underworld a few more times to see it all
- Chainsaw Man dub actor reveals which Reze Arc scene he was warned would be his "hardest performance" to date – and it involves no blood at all
- Take-Two CEO calls generative AI "the future of technology" that "will increase employment," months after saying GTA 6's "creative genius is human"
- Is there a Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc post-credits scene?
- Where to continue reading in the manga after watching Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is adding fan-favorite weapon Maddox and the Standoff map, and FPS fans are let's gooo-ing all over the place: "They are way too good at roping us back in every. damn. time"
- October 23
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- As desperate fans lament Fallout 5's no-show during the Fallout Day broadcast, Todd Howard himself promises Bethesda is "working on even more"
- Get over here and marvel at this unhinged Red Dead Redemption 2 mod that turns it into Mortal Kombat and lets you Fatality Micah by pushing him in front of a train
- After a year of silence, Paranormal Activity game from Mortuary Assistant dev finally gets a trailer, and it's a found footage freakshow that makes Lethal Company look like Saturday morning cartoons
- Guillermo del Toro compares Frankenstein to a careless "tech bro," says he would "rather die" than use generative AI
- EA triples down on AI tech with $20 billion in debt looming, partnering with the Stable Diffusion devs to "creatively direct the generation of game content"
- "The plan was to make a bigger game than Dead Cells": The roguelike experts at Motion Twin are "having quite a lot of fun" making Windblown, and hope to support it "for a really long time"
- "I do not know how the guys did Silksong for so many years without this": Dead Cells creators say Steam early access was "always the plan" for new roguelike Windblown because that's just how they make games
- Gearbox drops Borderlands 4 patch with "major balance tuning" including some skills it "didn't want to nerf" and others it totally did: "It had to happen, you knew it was going to happen!"
- The most mid Square Enix game in existence, Balan Wonderworld, shocks the nation and sells a single copy in the US this September: "Somebody made the conscious decision to pick up that game"
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (October 24-26)
- Bethesda's Fallout Day stream reveals Fallout 4 Anniversary Edition, confirms the 2015 RPG is coming to Switch 2, and no New Vegas remake, but here's a collectors bundle instead
- Assassin's Creed Shadows finally hits Switch 2 in December, but you can probably already guess the bad news: Ubisoft is sticking with game-key cards over real physical releases
- Between "spider/bee stacking" to "independently realize dogs exist," the latest major update from Manor Lords indie publisher's sci-fi strategy RPG includes some of the best patch notes I've ever seen
- Despite having a 97% Rotten Tomatoes score, The Boys animated spin-off has been quietly cancelled at Prime Video for "low viewership" – and fans don't seem too upset about it
- Kirby Air Riders main menu takes cues from the Super Smash Bros desk – and after being shown in the latest Nintendo Direct, its weirdly beautiful design may already be my favorite ever
- The old-school garbage-themed JRPG love letter I've had my eye on for months "created by real janitors" finally has a release date
- Mario Galaxy and Astro Bot-inspired 3D platformer demolishes its Kickstarter funding goal in just 47 minutes, now smashing through multiple stretch goals
- Elden Ring's Switch 2 port delayed into 2026 by FromSoftware for "performance adjustments," and people are surprisingly OK about it: "I'd rather it releases in a better state"
- "I've thrown everything I have into this game from the start": After giving Smash Bros. Ultimate fans almost 3 years of DLC, Masahiro Sakurai says "everything is here" already in Kirby Air Riders
- My latest obsession is this "slot-driven, Wordle-style roguelike battler" with Balatro vibes, and its new demo might just eat up all of my free time
- Marvel stars Chris Hemsworth and Mark Ruffalo reunite in the first trailer for new thriller Crime 101
- Beware the "lion pride from hell" guarding Pokemon Legends: Z-A's most dangerous area, Wild Zone 17: "Nothing in Pokemon has pained me this much"
- 2 Kirby Air Riders beta weekends will give you an early preview of 3 tracks and 3 modes in the Switch 2 racing game, including City Trial, in November
- New HeroQuest expansion is all about old-school wizards, and I'm living for the '90s vibe of it all
- This keyboard has a touchpad built on top of the keys, and I was so ready to hate it
- The SteelSeries Arctis Game Buds never leave my Switch 2's side, and now they're back to a record low price
- Switch 2's next big racing game Kirby Air Riders doubles the number of tracks from Super Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai's GameCube classic, with all 9 original courses returning
- Ex Nintendo marketing leads say Pokemon devs "were very shellshocked" and "freaking out" about Pokemon Sword and Shield 'Dexit' controversy: "It wouldn't go away"
- I track PS5 deals for a living, and this 24 month PS Plus bundle at GameStop is still my absolute favorite
- The Outer Worlds 2 Metacritic score matches the impressive reviews for the original 2019 RPG, with the two tied as Obsidian's fifth-best games
- Still embroiled in Subnautica 2 drama, PUBG and Hi-Fi Rush owner Krafton announces it's an "AI first" company now as it plans to spend $70 million on the tech
- Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc bests Demon Slayer by debuting with a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score
- Critical Role 4 DM Brennan Lee Mulligan confirms the D&D campaign's big bad, and I've got a feeling no amount of natural 20s is gonna beat this one
- Dev behind smash-hit "demonic lovechild of Balatro and Buckshot Roulette" tunes into fan's stream just to lovingly roast them: "You are completely clueless and probably OUR worst player so far"
- Helldivers 2 patch fixes the notoriously annoying Rupture Warriors by debuffing attacks and armor, as Arrowhead aims to actually "make them fun" and "less unfair"
- A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 director says Robert Englund is the "only" Freddy Krueger for him, but thinks Jim Carrey could pull off the iconic horror villain
- Director of the Rey Star Wars movie has posted a cryptic quote online, and fans are convinced it has something to do with the scrapped Ben Solo movie
- Longlegs director Osgood Perkins is on a serious roll, with his 2026 horror movie starting filming before new film Keeper has even hit screens
- Welcome to Derry showrunner confirms his Friday the 13th spin-off show Crystal Lake has wrapped
- Super Mario Bros speedrunner is now just 11 frames away from the absolute perfect playthrough of the 40-year-old classic, after beating the world record for the third time this year
- 11 years on from the original, star of hit horror It Follows teases "grounded" and "very different" sequel
- "So much for realistic and grounded": New Battlefield 6 outfits under fire by some FPS players for being too "flashy," with annoyed fans dubbing the overly colorful cosmetics "meme skins"
- Sorry Black Friday, my dream Switch 2 amiibo sale has already kicked off at Best Buy
- Counter-Strike 2 community left in shambles along with Steam marketplace after Valve's new "Trade Up" update turns $10 skins into $1,000 skins and vice versa: "This update has made some collectors very rich"
- One of the few third-party Switch 2 docks that works is back down in price, but I'm still furious at Nintendo
- The Flash director Andy Muschietti promises updates on his DCU Batman movie The Brave and the Bold are coming soon
- Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds has sold 1 million copies in under a month while the "overwhelmingly positive" Steam rating holds strong
- As Battlefield 6 cracks down on Portal bot farms with XP caps, rules for in-game activity and more, dev says "a curated list of community servers" will have progression enabled as a test
- Guillermo del Toro would love to adapt The Phantom of the Opera after Frankenstein, but he'd "do it differently"
- New anime movie Chainsaw Man unveils its popcorn bucket design, and it's surprisingly adorable
- Despite previous reports suggesting James Bond was worth $1 billion, Amazon only paid $20 million for the rights to the 007 franchise
- Helldivers 2 patch "marks a big step forward" for Arrowhead, which "made a bunch of changes behind the scenes" to fix over 200 bugs and finally tackle the game's performance woes
- Critical role 4 newcomer says she's in "a race to the bottom" with one of her co-stars: "I made the mistake of thinking I could out-troll him"
- October 22
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- EA hits like Battlefield 4 and The Sims 4 were given time to bounce back from rough launches because they were "too big to fail," whereas with BioWare's Anthem, it wasn't "a given that it was going to be that big"
- A year later, Persona 3 Reload gets a fresh update bringing back the PS2 JRPG's original vocalist: "I'm truly overjoyed and grateful to be reunited with everyone again"
- Metroid Prime developer struggled to find common ground with Nintendo "many" times, leading to one clash that went from morning until "the sun was setting"
- After 30 million rounds and 816,162 rubber ducks, Arc Raiders celebrates successful Server Slam open beta with some prompt bug squashing: "We took immediate action"
- Exclusive games are "antiquated," Xbox president says, because everyone's just going to go play Call of Duty, Minecraft, Roblox, and Fortnite anyway: "That's actually what's really driving community in gaming"
- HBO Max has raised prices across all plans
- Arrowhead thanks Helldivers 2 fans begging for optimization for their "restraint from calling in orbital strikes," promises to fix everything from snow distribution to NPC eyeballs
- Gen V season 2's finale scene contains a heartwarming tribute to late Andre actor Chance Perdomo that you may have missed
- Pokemon Legends: Z-A has an on-screen day night cycle timer and people are beating the game without ever knowing it's there
- In just 5 years, the PS5 has outsold a full decade's worth of the PS3 in the US, even without a new Valkyria Chronicles, MotorStorm, or LittleBigPlanet
- "The most simple, yet effective way to keep your setup effortlessly neat" - Meet the new Secretlab Magnus model that could finally destroy the spaghetti monster under my desk
- Proudly offensive Japanese video game receives sequel after 30 years in which players destroy hot dogs and Taylor Swift tacos in fictional "Amurikkka," and it's going straight to my wishlist
- After disappointing Star Wars Outlaws sales, Ubisoft studio Massive says "voluntary career transition program" is just "ongoing evolution," but it's sometimes known as soft layoffs
- "It did great": Ghost of Yotei sales are matching the famously efficient Ghost of Tsushima in the US, analyst says
- "They just keep winning": Steam was already beating every store at finding games, and it just got better with custom calendars showing recent and upcoming games Valve thinks you'll like
- Somewhere at Sonic Team is a whole "roadmap of Sonic titles," says head honcho Takashi Iizuka, and the devs "think about which game to release in which year"
- Anthem lead says it deserved bad reviews, and Mass Effect and Dragon Age had better stories in part because you weren't playing with three "randos" who made everything "worse"
- Baldur's Gate 3 director Swen Vincke is "happy" Larian devs talk about "what they did wrong" with their RPGs, but says "they should just chill out" and remember the good things too
- One-Punch Man season 3 director calls out "rage-baiters" and bad fans before deleting social media account: "Such despicable behavior is unforgivable"
- The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson says "it would be the most wonderful thing in the world" to return to Star Wars: "That cog will be turning the rest of my life"
- Nintendo randomly reveals a big update for Pikmin 4, adding new difficulties and special Pikmin, but bizarrely no Switch 2 enhancements
- Stars of The Marvels director's new movie say it was like watching a dream come true on set of the Prime Video period drama: "She's made bigger things, but she always had a yearning to make this"
- After 18 weeks on Netflix, KPop Demon Hunters has surpassed 400 million views
- Missing Helldivers 2 performance and balance patch was delayed by "last-minute" issue, Arrowhead says – now targeting "end of this week, with staff ready to work over the weekend if needed"
- "The darker side of the universe": No Man's Sky adds "spooky" Breach Expedition update with new solar systems as devs celebrate last big patch hitting 110,000 concurrent PC players
- Say hello to Bois, a Pokemon Legends: Z-A Heracross who's carrying RPG fans through Lumiose City: "If nobody else got me, I know Bois got me"
- Borderlands 4 set multiple US records for Gearbox as the fastest-selling game in the series, the first to debut as the best-selling game of its month, and becoming the third-best seller of 2025, analyst says
- James Gunn says he's spoken to Keanu Reeves about Constantine 2, but hasn't read a script yet
- 19 years later, Scarface game mysteriously resurfaces on Steam and Epic, but not for long: "We’ve recently entered urgent discussions with multiple parties concerning the project’s status"
- Google's terrible AI Overview thought GTA 6 has a twerk button because one dedicated soul spent 3 months lying about it: "I didn’t even try to make anything with convincing evidence"
- IMDb finally gets another 10/10 'episode' alongside Breaking Bad's Ozymandias classic – an iShowSpeed Fortnite stream that launched a thousand memes
- Konami dev responds to Hideo Kojima's thoughts on AI, claiming that Silent Hill f contains "the kind of bold choices AI would never be able to make"
- Corsair launches the world's first triple chamber PC case, and I don't blame you for not knowing what that means
- 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple director praises Danny Boyle and Alex Garland for "really letting me do my thing" with the horror sequel: "I feel so protective of that legacy"
- Following a "profit warning" that multiplayer gamble FBC: Firebreak isn't hitting targets, Remedy CEO steps down after 9 years as the Alan Wake studio continues to work on Control 2 and Max Payne 1 & 2 Remake
- Crunchyroll just removed this classic 2000s anime and it now can't be streamed anywhere online
- KPop Demon Hunters is taking over the world with "unprecedented" merch deal as Netflix aims to capitalize on "global fan frenzy"
- James Gunn says the DCU's story arcs go "significantly further" than Superman sequel Man of Tomorrow
- Samsung's new VR headset is half the cost of Apple Vision Pro, but gamers could get an RTX 5070 Ti gaming PC for the same price
- Hideo Kojima made Higgs sing more in Death Stranding 2 because he enjoyed watching Troy Baker perform on Instagram during the pandemic: "he really honored me in that"
- Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 is finally here 21 years after the original RPG, but its 'Mixed' Steam reviews prove it's not love at first bite: "It's not a Bloodlines sequel"
- New potentially spoiler-heavy Stranger Things LEGO set hints at Max's fate and an unusual team-up in season 5
- As Ubisoft makes The Crew 2 playable offline, Stop Killing Games lead takes a moment to celebrate: "This is due to pressure from Stop Killing Games early on"
- Lanterns star says the Green Lanterns Corps characters are "extremely relatable" because they "embrace their flaws in a way that is beautiful"
- The Apothecary Diaries returns next year for season 3 and a surprise movie release after Chainsaw Man and Demon Slayer's anime box office success
- Battlefield 6 has started phasing out XP farms with latest update designed to "support healthier matchmaking" and make Portal "more enjoyable"
- "I'll sell both my kidneys if there's a cosmere set:" Brandon Sanderson just visited MTG HQ, and fans are all saying the same thing
- James Gunn breaks down why Darkseid won't be appearing in the DCU just yet – and it's because of Zack Snyder and Marvel
- Warner Bros. Discovery, which owns HBO, DC Studios and more, is reportedly up for sale
- Borderlands 4's nerf-heavy patch misses its already delayed release window as Gearbox still has "a few things we're tidying up," but it'll finally launch tomorrow
- Director of X-Men flop New Mutants slams "unfulfilling" and "traumatic" experience: "We made half the movie we wanted to make"
- Palworld dev's new publishing label isn't interested in AI slop: "If you're big on AI stuff ... we're not the right partner for that"
- October 21
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- The physical Xbox edition of remastered JRPG darling Tales of Xillia seemingly canceled a week before release: "All preorders will be canceled and refunded"
- Netflix is planning a "slate" of projects based on strategy board game Catan, promising fans will "lose their minds"
- Bungie is once again "doing what we can to rebuild some trust" as it amputates Destiny 2's latest terrible currency and gives the MMO a pretty generous replacement
- Treyarch admits Black Ops 7 "controller players are winning slightly more in close-range" thanks to aim assist, says it's reworking it while Raven eyes similar changes for Warzone
- Microsoft says the next Xbox console "will be a very premium and high-end curated experience," and you can see "some of the thinking" in the Xbox Ally handheld
- MMO vet picks through the games industry carnage and blames "gigantic investments" in games that were "burning money": "A fraction of that could have created a lot of smaller games"
- Call of Duty Black Ops 7 will now let players aim down sights "while sliding, diving, and wall jumping" without hated dexterity perk, and it's also adding louder footsteps
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead says "it would be harder to embrace our Frenchness even more" unless Sandfall "put snails and frogs everywhere in the next game"
- Seemingly determined to make Xbox less appealing and affordable in every way, Microsoft reportedly raises the price of dev kits to $2,000
- Tired of making "many, many Battlefield titles," former DICE devs started innovating with upcoming extraction shooter Arc Raiders and help from the past: PS2 classic Shadow of the Colossus
- "1 week ago we had 3 players": Steam notifies surprised dev their demo was one of the most-played during Steam Next Fest
- As the Steam Next Fest wraps up, Valve shares some of the seasonal event's most-played demos – and they range from chaotically comedic co-op games to brutal Braveheart-inspired roguelikes
- Steven Soderbergh may have been working on his Ben Solo movie with Adam Driver as recently as 10 months ago as fans spot Star Wars rewatches on the director's viewing diary from December 2024
- Pokemon Legends: Z-A might have overhauled combat even more than I thought, with an entire set of strategies sacrificed on the real-time altar
- Final Fantasy Tactics director suggested new routes for The Ivalice Chronicles remake that let you save characters who die – but thinks if they could do that, they should just make a new game
- The PS5 "really brought something special," says AstroBot lead, like a powerful SSD that cut down load times for people who die a lot in Souls games
- Over 5,000 games released on Steam this year didn't make enough money to recover the $100 fee to put a game on Valve's store, research estimates
- Former DICE lead says he'll play Battlefield 6 until his new extraction shooter comes out: "And then I will play Arc Raiders instead"
- Starfield designer admits Bethesda's space epic isn't "the same caliber" as Fallout and Elder Scrolls because it's full of procedural generation: "The planets start to feel very samey"
- Norse mythology's most frightening monsters go head to head in first trailer for upcoming sequel to Netflix's most popular non-English-language movie
- From Valkyrie to Westworld's Charlotte Hale, Tessa Thompson "hopes" her fresh take on Ibsen's Hedda is nothing like her previous characters: "I'm always trying to break new ground"
- Battlefield 6 players keep making maps unplayable by whacking drones with sledgehammers, and it's funny, but broken: "Ban the sledgehammer until it's fixed"
- This 4TB SSD gave my chonky old PS5 a new lease of life, and it's down to a record-low price at Costco
- The original artist of The Walking Dead is diving into western horror with a comic that "may not be suitable for the eyes of the weak or cowardly"
- A new Nintendo Direct as long as the Switch 2 reveal is coming this week, but this one is dedicated to Super Smash Bros creator Masahiro Sakurai's true love: Kirby Air Riders
- "Delivery will be delayed" for the latest installment in Cthulhu: Death May Die board game after Asmodee acquires the franchise
- Star Wars fans are all saying the same thing about the scrapped Ben Solo movie: what about Palpatine?
- Square Enix is "actively considering" Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 DLC, Naoki Hamaguchi says, or maybe even another installment entirely: "Things are really up in the air"
- Scream's Melissa Barrera has signed on for new horror movie about killer orcas – and with Deep Blue Sea's director on board, I reckon we're in for a whale of a time
- 11 years after fan-favorite action thriller The Guest was first released, its star still wants to make a sequel: "I'm very willing"
- Square Enix is remaking Dragon Quest 7 next as "nowadays, players are much more accustomed to games with darker stories," and the JRPG is "often said to have more dark and sorrowful episodes"
- "It really was Asus, because this is their hardware" - I feel like Microsoft is pinning the ROG Xbox Ally X's $1,000 price tag on its creator
- Despite earlier reports, it looks like the Stranger Things season 5 finale will now get a theatrical release
- Sinners director Ryan Coogler reveals his mom has read his X-Files script and gave the perfect response: "She's fired up"
- Oldboy director and Squid Game star's new black comedy thriller is now certified fresh with a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score
- Splinter Cell Death Watch star reveals outlandish advice the director shared when voicing fan-favorite villain
- Despite that No Way Home cameo, Marvel star Charlie Cox denies he's returning as Daredevil in Spider-Man: Brand New Day
- Following performance complaints over Persona 3 Reload's Switch 2 demo, Atlus promises "future patches" are on the way but they won't be "in time" for the JRPG's launch
- The Conjuring: Last Rites director reveals the one major cameo that didn't pan out: "It was too complex once you did the math"
- Former Battlefield 6 campaign lead is "disappointed" he and other devs "were not properly credited" in the new FPS after working "tirelessly for 1 to 2.5 years, building the foundation"
- Adam Driver got close to making a Ben Solo sequel movie, but Disney "didn't see" how the Star Wars character could still be alive
- Ninja Gaiden 4 Metacritic score places it as the second-best 3D entry, but it's not even the highest-rated Ninja Gaiden of 2025
- Despite this year's horror sequel The Strangers: Chapter 2 scoring a measly 14% on Rotten Tomatoes, number 3 is still on the way and its first teaser is already here
- Palworld is getting a spooktacular new Halloween update featuring costumes and "mystery" just like in 2024, despite Pocketpair saying "things will be a little quiet" in preparation for 1.0
- October 20
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- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director thinks "Nintendo will put more effort into popularizing" the Switch 2's controversial game key cards, which he calls "a really amazing new idea"
- After asking for $50,000 and getting almost $4 million, the Don't Starve board game is running out of stretch goals on Kickstarter: "With a community like yours, is anything impossible?"
- My Hero Academia manga creator Kōhei Horikoshi is "very involved" in the live action movie's development, with "nothing" in the script he doesn't give notes on
- Silksong fans discover how to put Hornet in jail for life and ruin their saves, which no one should do willingly unless they love suffering
- Clever roguelike Ball x Pit sold 300,000 copies on Steam and consoles in 5 days, forever proving mankind yearns for 1976 Atari icon Breakout
- Bethesda's Fallout bundle is 70% off and gets you every main Fallout game and all DLC for $43 in one of the best Steam RPG deals of the season
- Co-op survival game Necesse is like Terraria but top-down with an "infinite" world – it just left early access and flew up the Steam charts with Palworld's blessing: "Absolute banger"
- Nier creator Yoko Taro says he includes "small unknown features in my real autographs," so you might be getting scammed: "Nearly half of the autographs being resold are actually fake"
- A brave Alpha Magikarp in Pokemon Legends Z-A is getting revenge by blasting unsuspecting players with Hydro Pump instead of the usual Splash attack
- Screw up too hard in The Outer Worlds 2 and your companions may fight you "to the death" because Obsidian wanted the RPG's cast to feel "like they're their own people"
- Stranger Things showrunners confirm Eddie Munson is well and truly dead: "He's fully under that ground"
- The Steam store just added a feature I didn't know I needed until Valve pointed it out: a dedicated page for every bundle containing a game
- Ex PlayStation exec says Sony can't keep "increasing the graphics power" with new consoles after tech plateau, but PS5 has already "made almost every game a better game"
- This Japanese Switch 2 accessory is finally making its way to the US
- A new shooter is gaining on Battlefield 6 and Arc Raiders on Steam's top sellers, and it's only $18: Escape from Duckov is a PvE riff on Escape from Tarkov with 180,000 peak players
- The Elder Scrolls fans rebuilding the entirety of Morrowind "cut from the original game" are now adding "one of the holy grails" of Bethesda lore fans have wanted "for more than 20 years"
- Silent Hill series producer says Konami announcing SH2 remake, f, and Townfall all at once was so fans could "feel how serious we were" about reviving the horror series
- KPop Demon Hunters' action scenes had a very unlikely inspiration: an ultra-violent 2017 Korean action film
- Arc Raiders lead says games "can't be built by an AI" and "I hope they never can," but also "I want us to build content a hundred times faster" and AI might help with that part
- Pokemon Legends: Z-A's real-time combat changes make one of the series' best non-damaging moves basically redundant and one of the coolest Gen 6 Pokemon "utter garbage"
- Pokemon Legends Z-A and this Switch 2 case are a match made in cozy gaming heaven, and it's never been cheaper
- From IT: Welcome to Derry to Weapons, these are the best new shows and movies streaming this week on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, HBO Max, and more
- Sigourney Weaver reveals one version of the stalled Galaxy Quest sequel involved Benedict Cumberbatch playing a version of Alan Rickman's character
- Tron: Ares is on track to become a box office bomb, projected to lose Disney over $132 million at the box office
- Hocus Pocus star Bette Midler says "a lot of" the script for the third movie is "brilliant"
- Gorgeous new Warhammer models are a reminder that you shouldn't sleep on this lesser-known game
- Former PlayStation boss praises Microsoft’s publishing strategy, but can’t get his head around Xbox's Game Pass price hike: “I don’t understand”
- DC star reveals he auditioned to play Reed Richards in The Fantastic Four: First Steps, but doesn't begrudge Pedro Pascal winning out: "To be fair, he's not in much"
- Ex-Blizzard president Mike Ybarra says awkward Microsoft "this is an Xbox" campaign is the "wrong idea, wrong time": "Whoever came up with this clearly doesn't play games"
- Minecraft devs explain "players have a different appetite for challenge and difficulty" which is why the Ender Dragon isn't allowed on the overworld: "That's not a great game experience"
- A resurfaced Gen V Easter egg in The Boys proves Hughie is almost certainly the most luckless character in recent TV history
- Arc Raiders players are split over nerfing drone enemies after the server slam for the new multiplayer shooter from ex-Battlefield devs: "That's a you issue not a game issue"
- IT: Welcome to Derry release schedule: when is episode 7 out on HBO?
- Legendary Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu has "never used AI and probably never will" because it's "more rewarding to go through the hardships of creating something myself"
- Dead Cells 2 isn't happening right now because the studio behind the legendary OG roguelike is driven by "what we want to make" and not pressure from fans
- Fallout's Walton Goggins joins Prey star in new action movie executive produced by James Cameron
- As Mark Ruffalo starts shooting Spider-Man 4, Marvel fans have realized that Bruce Banner hasn't Hulked out on-screen in 13 years
- 10 years after the first trailer for The Force Awakens, everyone still agrees that the Star Wars teaser is the best ever
- Simpsons fans are raving over the animated series' most recent star-studded Halloween special, Treehouse of Horror XXXVI: "So much better than last year's"
- Pokemon Legends: Z-A has an enormous, unavoidable grind if you want the shiny-boosting Shiny Charm, but fans are already finding ways to avoid doing the work
- "We received a lot of 'JRPGs are back' comments," says Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director, but the success of a turn-based game like Clair Obscur: Expeditition 33 isn't going to warp Square Enix's plans
- Black Phone 2 beats out flagging Tron: Ares at the box office in much-needed box office win for Blumhouse
- Sleeping Dogs movie hits a major milestone as Shang-Chi star Simu Liu says "studios don't seem to understand how important this IP is"
- Marvel fans have a new theory about who Sadie Sink is playing in Spider-Man 4, and it's not Gwen Stacy
- One Piece animator defends studio behind fellow anime show One-Punch Man, following backlash over season 3's lackluster animation
- Horizon Zero Dawn live action movie gets release window along with an exciting filming update
- Xbox ditching hardware and exclusive games "makes sense," former Microsoft exec and Blizzard boss says, as "only a moron would continue" making consoles as games go third party
- Spy x Family actor is temporarily stepping back from playing one character after going through "voice therapy"
- "We're doing just fine:" Palworld dev addresses hate surrounding the survival game, says it's just "an easy 500k views" that "doesn't actually have any impact on the game"
- Hideo Kojima gives his verdict on Tron: Ares, and he's most struck by the Depeche Mode references
- The Mandalorian and Grogu star gives us our best hint yet at the Star Wars film's plot, revealing Mando and Rotta the Hutt are "running around for a lot of the movie together"
- Fortnite, Roblox, Wordle, and other popular games down as Amazon Web Services outage sends the internet toppling
- When is Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc on streaming? Crunchyroll release date speculation
- October 19
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- GTA 6 theory crafting reaches the next level as one fan thinks the next trailer's release date has been under our noses for months
- Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto says Nintendo's new fascination with movies is because "Ultimately what people remember are the IPs"
- I've been covering games for years and I think this is the first time I've seen a developer add an "Embarrassing" section to patch notes to call themselves out
- Pokemon Legends: Z-A can keep 10 ultra-rare shiny Pokemon spawned on the map at any time, and it's impossible to lose them unless you knock them out or are silly like me and scare them away
- The Boys spin-off gets devastating update from Eric Kripke as season 2 seems unlikely: "It’s not for lack of us pushing"
- A co-op open-world crafting game with a road trip twist is rising up the Steam charts and with 1 million wishlists already, this might be a monster at launch
- Last Rites director leaves no room for "other Conjuring movies" even after the success of the latest film: "It is absolutely the end"
- Simpsons: Hit & Run might be stuck in rights purgatory, but fans of the classic open-world game can dry their tears with a beautiful Futurama conversion mod
- Netflix is making another period romance drama, and it could be the next Bridgerton
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director defends the JRPG's overlong filler, but says he’s "striking a balance" with Part 3: "Players just have too much to do and too much to play"
- Mark Ruffalo reveals why a Hulk movie might not happen any time soon: "Does anyone really want another one?"
- Don't Starve but now you're a cute little mouse is the pitch for the hit Steam Next Fest demo that's about to give me another survival game obsession
- The sequel to one of the best horror comedies has a trailer and, yes, the inflatable dinosaur suit is back
- October 18
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- Help, I fed the black hole in A Game About Feeding A Black Hole and now I can't stop the approaching galactic entropy of its Steam Next Fest demo
- Timothée Chalamet shares behind the scenes picture from Dune: Messiah set as he teases the next chapter: "Dun3 loading"
- Former Nintendo of America lead says leaving to help set up Sega of America is "probably the biggest mistake I ever made"
- Ahsoka star offers exciting update about her character in season 2: "I'm definitely in on the action quite a bit more"
- After that shocking Peacemaker season 2 finale, DC fans are sharing their best theories on how Chris can survive Salvation
- Pokemon Friends sure does look like another game from the same developer, as fans accuse the puzzler of being a 2016 reskin
- Helldivers 2 players defended a Halo Reach-esque planet so hard that Arrowhead has declared a new "Avengement Day" annual holiday to honor the brave Beach warriors
- Doctor Who producer denies the sci-fi show is "dead": "That's really rude, actually... and really untrue"
- The next Evil Dead movie celebrates production wrap with a brutal first teaser that promises a new bloodbath
- After 7 long snowless years, the League of Legends Winter map is coming back this year "because you really asked for it"
- October 17
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- David Dastmalchian wants to be Morbius in the MCU, but he'll settle for a villain or two in James Gunn's DCU: "I could see me just charging through Gotham on a dark Halloween night"
- The original Little Nightmares devs basically made their own Little Nightmares 3, and I had more fun playing its Steam Next Fest demo than I did reviewing the actual sequel from Supermassive
- "We were looking at the Zelda Oracle games," says Shovel Knight dev, but the gorgeous Mina the Hollower actually feels more "like a Castlevania or a Bloodborne"
- I found the co-op roguelike I've been looking for: picture Risk of Rain 2 with more melee and MMO raid bosses, and it's no wonder it's one of the biggest games in Steam Next Fest
- It: Welcome to Derry star says his role in the upcoming Stephen King spin-off gave him "a chance to play somebody that I relate to" after playing the "exact opposite" in 3 Body Problem
- OG Modern Warfare 3 director is "immensely" worried about what will happen to Call of Duty under Xbox: "What's happening to Gears of War, where's Halo… you know what I mean?"
- Some Chinese devs played Stardew Valley and loved it, but wanted something more "carefree" – now their anime life sim RPG is tearing up Steam Next Fest, and it's hard to put down
- It: Welcome to Derry director says they had full support from HBO for the show's terrifying opening scene, despite it being a NSFW bloodbath: "I thought, 'They're not gonna let us air this'"
- God of War Ragnarok lead says AAA studios should "diversify into double-A and single-A, and then perhaps indie" even if blockbuster releases result in "potentially really large" payoffs
- 10 years later, legendary platformer gets a big surprise update as the devs tease a new game: New "super hard super-secret" levels are "so challenging that it'll take you 10 more years to beat them"
- Star Wars creator George Lucas says he's not thinking about managing the franchise since Disney took over: "Of course I've moved past it. I've got a life"
- After adding a sprinkle of sex in its last big update, Cult of the Lamb does a 180 and goes cozy game mode with a "massive expansion" that brings a bit of Stardew Valley vibes to the roguelike's mix
- "Every game has a parry now," but Shovel Knight dev wants to keep things simple for upcoming Game Boy Zelda-like Mina the Hollower: "I played that new Doom, and even Doom has Dark Souls stuff in it"
- Repeating it "a bajillion times," Helldivers 2 studio CEO insists Gameguard anticheat isn't behind the game's performance issues: "We see no evidence of it"
- 2 years ago, a Genshin Impact player declared their loyalty to a dead character – after 806 videos and 1,700 pulls saved, they've finally stopped preparing for her banner
- Pokemon Legends Z-A has successfully united fans around the world under one cause: laughing at Mega Starmie, because what the heck is that
- Sales exec who helped launch the NES says Donkey Kong Jr. Math is "the worst game we released" and Nintendo "thought it'd be great for kids' education, but we couldn't give it away"
- This translucent Razer headset looks like it stepped straight out of the early 2000s, and I'm obsessed
- Arc Raiders devs already patch Server Slam disconnect errors as Steam players queue to get in: "This time around, it's a full redownload of the game"
- Nintendo's iconic NES Zapper could have been called something else if "a third" of a housewife focus group hadn't walked out of a Duck Hunt preview: "No guns are coming in my house"
- As Red Dead Redemption 2's reveal trailer turns nine years old, fans look back at the worst reactions to it: "The main character seems completely tasteless"
- "The system that sparked a console war!" - I can't believe Atari is bringing Intellivision back from the dead
- Helldivers 2 players melt down, accuse Arrowhead of becoming a real-life Ministry of Truth over YouTube drama, and get a response from the CEO: "We work with a partner for the propaganda commanders"
- Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Metacritic score lives up to its messy development cycle, failing to beat the original cult RPG thanks to divided reviews
- New movie from The Monkey's Oz Perkins called "skillful horror origami" and "a terrifying descent into madness" by genre faves Guillermo del Toro and James Wan
- Pokemon Legends Z-A includes music from a super fan who's posted excellent covers to YouTube for 13 years, earning a nod from Undertale beats master and fellow Poke-musician Toby Fox
- Rumored Pokemon Winds and Waves budgets are likely much larger than leaks, former Nintendo marketing leads say, because they don't cover "significant" marketing costs
- Battlefield 6 players asked for changes and the devs brought a sledgehammer: Conquest changes rolled back, and progression is much easier to ward off XP farms
- The 7 scariest horror movies to stream this week on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, HBO Max, and more
- Minecraft devs "want to avoid treating players in a way that feels unfair," so Mojang's guiding principle is that "bad things happen, but they're technically the player's fault"
- Gen V season 3 won't happen unless fans tune in to season 2 as it's airing, says The Boys' Eric Kripke: "Don't watch in a year, turn on Prime now"
- 1 year later, Deadpool and Wolverine fans are still getting emotional at a major scene from the Marvel movie
- Dead Space creator and ex Call of Duty boss Glen Schofield says AI is "the right investment" and downplays theft concerns: "Picasso said 'good artists always borrow, great artists steal'"
- Batgirl star thinks the shelved DC movie could still be released one day: "If enough people want it, it can happen"
- Twin Peaks actor joins star-studded cast of Apple TV's remake of one of Martin Scorsese's creepiest movies
- It looks like we've found this year's Terrifier 3, as upcoming Christmas horror movie Silent Night, Deadly Night debuts first bloody trailer
- Marvel Rivals pulls another Overwatch, adds PvE "Marvel Zombies-inspired" mode in time for its first Halloween event with 5 playable heroes
- Former Call of Duty director Glen Schofield says "I hate doing this, but since I left Sledgehammer, none of the games have been very good"
- Fans are debating the best trailers of all time: "May even be better than the film itself"
- Eric Kripke says he's "irritated" fans figured out that big Gen V twist, as he reveals when The Boys season 5 picks up after the upcoming finale
- Nintendo reportedly ramps up Switch 2 production to meet new target of 25 million consoles made by March 2026, with analysts forecasting they'll sell 20 million by then
- Borderlands 4 update that aims the nerf cannon at its most broken builds delayed into next week, so enjoy your crit knife until then
- The Flash director Andy Muschietti says the film got a negative reception because "a lot of people did not see it" and "like to talk s***"
- Five Nights At Freddy's 2 director promises better animatronics in the horror sequel, and says it will include even more Easter eggs that fans of the game are "going to appreciate"
- Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard says the cast feared a Game of Thrones-style backlash to the final season: "We hope to not have that happen"
- Star Wars actor throws doubt on a potential The Mandalorian season 4 and confirms she won't be joining The Mandalorian and Grogu on the big screen
- Former Assassin's Creed boss says he "did not make that choice" to leave Ubisoft after 20 years – the company "decided to transfer the leadership… to someone closer to its new organizational structure"
- Black Phone 2 stars says that while there are "so many layers" to the upcoming horror sequel, the true heart of the film is the "unique" bond between Finney and Gwen: "You get to watch these characters grow up"
- Game dev union blasts EA buyout, asks the government to scrutinize the daylights out of it: "If jobs are lost or studios are closed due to this deal, that would be a choice, not a necessity"
- October 16
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- A Short Hike dev's free "seasonal pumpkin carving MMO" with "new areas and new secrets" now supports 800 players at once and it's hard to think of a better way to get into the Halloween spirit
- Black Phone 2 director says there was "a lot of pressure" when creating the Grabber's backstory, and that going more into his history "felt disrespectful to the true mystery of evil"
- Black Phone 2 director says the upcoming sequel is more than just another horror allegory for trauma: "What's more interesting to me are people who've been traumatized"
- Pokemon Legends: Z-A's Lumiose City apparently exists in a nightmare realm that pulls you back if you try to leave, and it's already getting the Skyrim meme treatment
- Dead Space creator hopes a $20-billion-in-debt EA will be keener on his Dead Space 4 pitch: "I think there’s an opportunity. I’m already making calls"
- I played the top-rated Soulslike in Steam Next Fest to see what the fuss is about – turns out it's not a Soulslike but a boss rush with amazing combat, and I see what the fuss is about
- Yoda was originally supposed to be blue in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
- 29 years later, cult classic horror game I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream gets "definitive update" from retro powerhouse Nightdive with bonus content, achievements, and "modern menu options"
- The Crew 2 will be "accessible for years to come" thanks to its new offline mode, which Ubisoft attributes to "player feedback" – a low-key way to acknowledge 1.4 million signatures worth of Stop Killing Games pressure
- Gen V season 2 showrunner says the biggest twist in The Boys spin-off was hiding in plain sight: "We were worried that everyone's going to guess"
- Battlefield 6 Conquest tickets get reduced, players revolt: "If I wanted ten-minute chaos with zero teamwork and no room for tactics, I’d go play COD"
- You'd need a heart of stone not to be excited by these new Disney Lorcana Gargoyles cards
- Indie dev hatches the ultimate can't-fail game, combining Minecraft mechanics and Skyrim combat in a co-op RPG that's topping charts at Steam Next Fest for good reason
- Mortal Kombat co-creator says the movie sequel's opening has made him cry every single time he's watched it: "It punches you in the face"
- An Assassin's Creed or Uncharted-style Predator game is something Prey and Predator: Badlands director Dan Trachtenberg is "desperate for" and no, he hasn't forgotten the series' PS2 game rated 47 on Metacritic
- A group of friends learn why you should never have a pet chimp in this terrifying trailer for Primate
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (October 17-19)
- Creative Assembly teases "new historical and fantasy" Total War games to be revealed this year, promises it will fix Total War: Warhammer 3 in the meantime: "We’re sorry that the game entered this state"
- Team Ico pitched Shadow of the Colossus to Sony with placeholder music from Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man: "Later on, we found out that was actually the theme music"
- 30 years of strategy games later, Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era flies to 1 million wishlists on Steam thanks to a killer demo: "A truly incredible achievement"
- The last time I was this obsessed with a Balatro-like, it sold 750,000 copies in 2 weeks – and this one has a D&D twist so it's easily my favorite roguelike in Steam Next Fest
- After conquering YouTube, Kirby and Super Smash Bros' Masahiro Sakurai is now getting a 160-page manga about his life and art
- Dying Light: The Beast gets New Game+ and Nightmare difficulty in Techland's roadmap for the hit zombie game, with 11 weeks of special challenges starting right now
- Battlefield 6 has sold 7 million copies, EA says it's "the biggest launch in franchise history" and immediately imagines "a connected Battlefield universe"
- Pokemon Legends Z-A delivers deep lore, but maybe not the lore we wanted: Pokemon do poop, and Lumiose City is overflowing with it
- Beating Hades 2, Megabonk, Dying Light: The Beast, and everyone else, the most powerful Steam release of the past month is an open-world physics sandbox with 27,000 gilded reviews
- After Sony rejected a Horizon Zero Dawn collab, Tencent tried to pitch a new The Last of Us game instead: "I was confused"
- Another studio known for single-player games takes the live service gamble: Heavy Rain dev is making a competitive multiplayer game even as "development of Star Wars: Eclipse continues"
- Balatro but with dice has me hooked, Dice A Million keeps me rolling in this Steam Next Fest demo
- Pokemon Legends: Z-A only needs to sell 200k units to break even, former Nintendo marketing leads estimate, so "they should inject a bit more money into these things"
- System Shock and PowerWash Simulator combine in Ambrosia Sky, an exploration sci-fi FPS with immaculate vibes and a Steam Next Fest demo you can play now
- Stranger Things showrunners reveal the iconic horror villains that inspired Vecna
- I'm hyped for Pokemon Legends Z-A, but I'm more excited to play it with this gorgeous $50 Switch 2 controller
- South Park season 28 release schedule: when is episode 2 out on Comedy Central and Paramount Plus?
- "The damage is done": Sony slams Tencent's "nonsense" response to lawsuit over Horizon Zero Dawn-like Light of Motiram, calling the open-world survival game a "knock-off"
- That Switch 2 and Pokémon Legends Z-A bundle is selling fast, some retailers are already out of stock
- The Duffer Brothers had to tell Stranger Things actor not to be "too emotional" while filming the final scenes: "We're like, 'You're not supposed to be upset!'"
- Razer created the best webcam ever made, but its AI-powered Kiyo V2 seems like a step backwards
- Team Ninja, Smash Bros' Masahiro Sakurai, and "rival" Tekken boss Katsuhiro Harada pay tribute to iconic Dead or Alive creator Tomonobu Itagaki
- Stranger Things season 5 will finally explain the Netflix show's biggest mystery: what the Upside Down is
- Hideo Kojima tried to give away free Death Stranding 2 tissues to market the game, but nobody wanted them until he tweeted about it: "Some went out of their way to avoid us"
- Final trailer lands for upcoming true crime series based on America's most terrifying killer, and it looks much scarier than Netflix's Monster
- The Rock pays tribute to Brendan Fraser for helping kickstart his acting career 24 years ago in The Mummy Returns: "I love that man for that"
- Team behind The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon season 3 on how Clint Eastwood's Man with No Name movies and The Revenant influenced the horror show's latest chapter
- Hideo Kojima thinks "of AI as more of a friend," but one he'd only let "handle the tedious tasks" of development "that would lower cost and cut down on time"
- Jim Carrey is set to star in a live-action adaptation of a classic '60s animation from Jurassic World director
- Battlefield 1942 was the unlikely inspiration behind PS2 classic Shadow of the Colossus back when it was a game "where you cooperate to defeat giant monsters"
- Controversial $55 billion EA buyout sparks "profound concern" from US senators "about the foreign influence and national security risks"
- Star Wars: Starfighter villain Mia Goth says the movie is pushing her "in a way that I've never been pushed before" – and it's "a completely separate film, not a prequel"
- Battlefield 6 lead downplays upcoming movement changes following community blowback, says the team is just fixing "rough case scenarios"
- The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon EP explains how one of the original show's most heartbreaking storylines inspired season 3: "It was four episodes of him out on his own, looking for this little girl"
- Keanu Reeves' worst on-set injury wasn't from John Wick or The Matrix, but from his angelic new comedy: "The pain was banana cakes"
- Nintendo downplays claims of another hack, days after Pokemon Winds and Waves and Gen 10 'leaks' hit the web following GameFreak's alleged breach last year
- Silent Hill's original game composer says he was "incredibly happy" when he saw the new movie, claims it keeps "the spirit of Silent Hill intact"
- After topping the box office and becoming Netflix's most popular release, KPop Demon Hunters is returning to theaters
- The Battlefield 6 movement saga reaches new heights as players find glitch that lets you fly into the clouds on a drone, preferably with a sniper for taking out enemies from the sky
- October 15
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- GTA 6 "deserves to be $100," says original Saints Row designer: "The scope and magnitude of this production deserves that price tag"
- Game of Thrones actor leads a lovingly vulgar tribute to "those old point and click adventure games that people gave a sh*t about in the 1990s" with a Steam Next Fest demo custom-built for Monkey Island fanatics
- The Black Phone 2 director says he didn't actually want to make a sequel, but his mind was changed by a short-and-sweet phone call from Stephen King's son Joe Hill
- Stranger Things creators studied legendary TV finales like Six Feet Under, Friday Night Lights and The Sopranos for the show's final episode
- With no new game in sight, Netflix is keeping Splinter Cell alive with a second season of its Deathwatch animated series
- Elder Scrolls Online devs make their bets on the world-first clear of the MMO's Writhing Wall event, watching entire servers fight a rift in the world map itself
- I endured physical pain to keep playing this Shadow of the Colossus meets Mirror's Edge action-platformer in Steam Next Fest, which is about the highest praise I can give
- The Outer Worlds 2 game director campaigned to have Fallout: New Vegas-style factions that tie into the RPG's main story
- After 10 years of Stranger Things, Ross and Matt Duffer say Netflix's patience was "wearing a little thin" when it came to ending the supernatural series: "I wish we had gotten it done a little faster"
- Battlefield 6 devs locked in a tug-of-war with players are "looking at adjustments" to movement "to find a good in-between" following nerfs and exploits
- "I literally feel like I just got my life back": To escape MMO prison after 1,200 hours, one player resorted to an army of Discord ninjas and divorced dragon fan fiction
- New sci-fi RPG from ex Mass Effect devs shares "some DNA" with BioWare's beloved series, but also Sony's Horizon and Nintendo's Metroid
- Kings of infuriating brutal games now heading Ninja Gaiden 4 say fairness is the secret ingredient to difficulty: "Enemies are on equal footing with the player"
- Pillars of Eternity and Fallout: New Vegas lead Josh Sawyer says RPGs are "more interesting" grounded in reality: "Once things get too magical… it's impossible to bring it back down to Earth"
- Eat fur, Super Mario Odyssey – my heart has been stolen by the '90s flavored Bubsy 4D thanks to a generous Steam Next Fest demo
- Stranger Things season 5 finale won't get a theatrical release after all, says Netflix content chief: "Releasing it on Netflix is giving the fans what they want"
- Stranger Things spin-off will "live in a bit of a different world" rather than deepen the Netflix show's "increasingly convoluted mythology"
- Stranger Things season 5's final episode confirmed to be feature-length, but is shorter than the season 4 finale
- First teased in 2016, Stardew Valley-esque magic school RPG Witchbrook hits the 10-year mark with a delay to 2026, but the devs say it's "taking shape exactly as we hoped"
- VisionQuest appears to be more like WandaVision than we thought, as showrunner reveals that each episode of the upcoming Marvel show is "a different type of movie"
- Minecraft devs "probably would not add" the Creeper to the game today, admits Mojang CCO, because "it would be so controversial"
- The biggest roguelike in Steam Next Fest is a Braveheart-inspired musou fighter with almost perfect reviews
- Where to buy the ROG Xbox Ally: live stock updates for the new handheld PC
- Some of Skyrim's iconic bugs are "less than ideal," ex-Bethesda dev admits, but "you're going to lose some of that magic" if you try and "smooth everything out"
- Ghost of Yotei and Tsushima actor says the time leap from the original open-world game "certainly was surprising" even to him, but was "also the right move," even if it disappointed fans
- New adult animation starring Brendan Fraser and Sarah Michelle Gellar asks: what if Tony Soprano was a bear?
- Dbrand promises it's learnt from past mistakes with its Killswitch ROG Xbox Ally X case
- As Pokemon Winds and Waves rumors swirl after huge leak, ex-Nintendo marketing lead says "Nintendo and Pokemon really need to rethink their approach to information security"
- The Outer Worlds 2 wasn't going to have a third-person view until Obsidian saw the demand from fans: "We actually didn't start doing it until two years ago"
- I never really vibed with XCOM 2, but this Steam Next Fest demo is a turn-based strategy RPG I can finally get behind
- When is The Black Phone 2 on streaming? Speculation on the potential Peacock release date
- The Hyrule Warriors Age of Imprisonment pre-order gift is pretty dull, but the Zelda nerd in me wants it anyway
- 3 years after Werewolf by Night, MCU fans have realized it's hiding the debut of a Marvel comic book character
- Samsung's VR headset will finally be unveiled on October 21, and it could right the wrongs of Apple Vision Pro
- These Jsaux Switch 2 accessory savings have arrived just in time for Pokemon Legends Z-A
- Agents of SHIELD fans are convinced the show might finally become MCU canon in VisionQuest after Marvel TV head says he rewatched all 7 seasons last year: "That show really holds up"
- Prepare to try the world's first idle, RPG, auto-battler as Berserk B.I.T.S launches November 20th, with a Next Fest demo you can try now
- Silent Hill f actor didn't just feel her "sanity slipping" while recording for the horror game, "there were times when I would burst into tears" during production: "I felt like I was going crazy"
- All You Need is Kill anime adaptation starring Demon Slayer and Dan Da Dan voice actor gets a trippy new trailer
- Rockstar pays tribute to singer D'Angelo, whose contribution to Red Dead Redemption 2 "will forever be an enduring part" of its legacy
- The Matrix star Laurence Fishburne wants to be Professor X in the X-Men reboot and, yeah, we want to see that happen now
- Leonardo DiCaprio is making an Ed Wood-style biopic about the man who played Dracula
- If you weren't already convinced a new Halo game is being announced this month, Master Chief's voice actor has teased "BIG NEWS A’COMIN!"
- Tron: Ares' $33m opening weekend may have threatened the likelihood of a sequel, a new report claims
- Christopher Nolan calls The Rock's new movie The Smashing Machine "incredible" and "heartbreaking": "I don't think you'll see a better performance this year"
- The Bear star Jeremy Allen White shares first word on Star Wars casting as he says he didn't know exactly who Rotta the Hutt was: "In the moment, almost, I discovered the weight of the character I was voicing"
- Borderlands 4 creative lead promises fans "more options are coming soon" as the crit knife build dominates the meta, and offers a warning: "We will be adjusting it"
- Ghost of Yotei is Sony's best-selling PlayStation release in Europe since Marvel's Spider-Man 2 in 2023, beating Death Stranding 2 and Helldivers 2
- Battlefield 6's 'bloom' problem isn't caused by a beta bug, DICE lead clarifies – that issue was fixed, but two more have emerged in its place
- Fresh off leaking the Daredevil: Born Again season 2 trailer, Krysten Ritter just said too much about making a new Jessica Jones project
- A zombie apocalypse sim that puts you on the front lines of a The Last of Us-style outbreak is tearing up Steam Next Fest
- October 14
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- Battlefield 6 players are using ladders to fly around maps in defiance of movement nerfs, and EA already says "we will" patch this out too
- Blade star Mia Goth says "it's for the best" that the Marvel reboot has gone back to the drawing board "They want to do it right"
- This cosmic horror action RPG basically turns my home state of Arizona into the Upside Down from Stranger Things, and it's my first must-play Steam Next Fest demo
- Dante's Inferno with '90s Sailor Moon aesthetics got me to play this Vampire Survivors-like demo in Steam Next Fest, and the second I realized it was a deckbuilding roguelike with Hades storytelling I couldn't smash the wishlist button fast enough
- Japanese government officials say manga and anime are "irreplaceable treasures," ask OpenAI to prevent copyright infringement, and insist Japan should "take the lead" in regulating AI
- Better hurry and finish your 100% Silksong playthrough, because I've found another must-play Metroidvania coming next month, and it has one of the best demos in Steam Next Fest
- Capcom didn't want to re-release the classic Resident Evil games because "we have all of those remakes" which provide "the superior experience"
- Gearbox's Randy Pitchford is pretty happy with Borderlands 4 story feedback: "Isn't it weird to ship a game where the biggest complaint isn't how we f***ed up the story?"
- New It: Welcome to Derry trailer gives us a terrifying new look at Bill Skarsgard's Pennywise – and reminds us that we'll float, too
- Battlefield 6 dev confirms the ghost bullet problem is very real amid 'bloom' debates: "It is commonly observed with the target being visibly hit but no damage is confirmed"
- Facing backlash and worst-ever player counts on Steam, Bungie decides to remove ill-conceived Destiny 2 currency it just added in the MMO's Edge of Fate expansion
- Megabonk creator faces a moral dilemma as the roguelike heads to the moon: Robinette is a broken character, but "I don't really wanna nerf her because it's fun af"
- Drew Struzan, the legendary artist behind the iconic posters for Star Wars, Indiana Jones and more, dies at 78
- GTA 6 might feature one of the biggest meme songs of 2025, as rapper Skrilla seemingly confirms it'll be in the new Rockstar game: "Gonna have 6 7 on there, too"
- Elgato just threw a lot of shade at gaming chairs while revealing its new "studio" chair, and I'm still not sure what the difference is
- Battlefield 6 custom search issues are "by design in some ways" because the devs don't want you sitting through "a long timer"
- I'm going full CSI on this very blurry image from Warhammer Quest: Darkwater
- It's 2025 and we're still digging up new finds in the original Dark Souls: FromSoftware expert reckons cut boss attack "likely to be just a typo" that was resolved in the Artorias DLC
- 5 months before season 2 hits our screens, the Daredevil: Born Again season 3 writers' room is already underway
- "Share this to scare Team Cherry": Dev of gorgeous roguelike with bosses "built like MMO raid encounters" declares war on contact damage, quickly adds "Silksong is great, and so is Team Cherry"
- Woot just rolled out a radical deal on the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 Collector's Edition that comes with a real life board
- After 20 years at Ubisoft, Assassin's Creed boss departs right as Ubisoft launches a new Tencent-backed company now handling the franchise
- Assassin's Creed Shadows leaks keep pointing to a Switch 2 release in early December, but Ubisoft doesn't have the best timing as Metroid Prime 4 releases a mere one day earlier
- One death in Superman had a bigger knock-on effect than expected as James Gunn reveals Rick Flag's motivations behind his Salvation plan
- New Lego Back to the Future set is so much more affordable than I'd expected
- Doctor Strange's Rachel McAdams gets stranded on an island with the worst boss ever in the first trailer for Spider-Man director's new horror-thriller
- After a live-service God of War game was reportedly canceled, Demon’s Souls remake studio Bluepoint appears to be making another third-person action game
- Former Nintendo marketing leads theorize the company is finding a "backdoor angle" to use while suing AI creators over fake Pokemon content, "kind of like with Palworld"
- I dropped dogs onto other dogs to create even bigger dogs in Dogpile's hefty Steam Next Fest demo
- SteelSeries just refreshed the most underrated Arctis Nova headset, and it looks pretty in pink
- X-Men star Evan Peters would "love" to play Quicksilver again to properly explore the mutant's backstory: "I always sort of played it like a guest spot"
- Pokemon Legends Z-A Metacritic score marks it as the second-best Pokemon game of the Nintendo Switch era, only behind Legends: Arceus
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs love to see players "outsmarting" them with obscene builds that break the French JRPG wide open: "The best reward you can get"
- Donkey Kong: King of Swing's spirit returns in Turnip Mountain's arcadey cliff-clambering Steam Next Fest demo
- Stranger Things star has been cast in upcoming Netflix sci-fi series produced by Superman actor, and it sounds spooky
- I've been a professional writer for 8 years, but that didn't stop Steam Next Fest's weirdest battle royale - a terrifying typing game - from completely humbling me
- Battlefield 6 fans cheer as popular cheat maker tells users to pause "for now" following a swift banning spree from EA: "They deserve zero second chances"
- Paul Bettany says his Marvel show VisionQuest is set "a year or so" after the events of WandaVision
- Helldivers 2 updates take a pause as Arrowhead commits to sorting out widespread performance issues "to make sure that we can get to a much more stable state that we can believe in"
- House of the Dragon season 3 wraps filming ahead of 2026 release, but fans are frustrated by the production schedule: "Any hype is long dead"
- Despite stealing the show in No Way Home, Andrew Garfield doesn't think The Amazing Spider-Man 3 will ever happen
- One of Steam Next Fest's biggest survival games was a supremely zen rock-climbing experience - right up until I fell to my death
- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker's true budget was almost $600 million, making it the third most expensive movie of all time
- Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford said we'd have to wait at least 5 years to see Borderlands 4 get a major discount, but we've only had to wait 1 month for its first smaller discount as it's already 20% off on Steam
- Call of Duty creator and current Battlefield 6 head Vince Zampella says "The only reason that CoD exists is because EA were d**ks"
- Ghost of Yotei studio Sucker Punch "can only do one thing at a time," admits co-founder – and that's why the "really important" decision of its next game is so hard: "It kind of has to be your best idea, right?"
- Horror legend Stephen King compares Shaun of the Dead director's upcoming adaptation of his sci-fi novel The Running Man to Die Hard: "I've seen it and it's fantastic"
- Supergirl is a "space adventure" like Guardians of the Galaxy, James Gunn says
- Stranger Things showrunner officially reveals season 5, volume 1 episode runtimes, and they're not as long as I was expecting
- New Silksong patch nerfs my favorite Hornet Silk Skill but makes up for it with bug fixes aplenty, including out-of-bounds issues and a softlock
- Steam Next Fest's first big hit is a brutal medieval combat sim where I bludgeoned three other peasants with a candlestick
- James Gunn loves the Peacemaker season 2 finale but says it's "completely fair" if you didn't like it
- Pokemon Legends: Z-A may get an even "lower than Arceus" Metacritic score as "people are very resistant to change," predict ex-Nintendo marketing leads: "Some of the things that they're introducing might be a little bit divisive"
- Marvel TV Head teases Scream star's new Daredevil: Born Again character Mr Charles: "He’s a bit of a new antagonist… but he’s as influential as Fisk is"
- October 13
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- Silent Night, Deadly Night cast and crew talk turning the reboot into a holiday slasher rom-com: "I wanted there to be a love story, but I wanted it to be a challenging one"
- A player before me destroyed a bridge in this Steam Next Fest demo, so I had to build it again in this narrative adventure where your choices have consequences for others
- One-Punch Man fans aren't impressed with season 3 animation quality, comparing it to a "slideshow": "I'm scared how they'll handle the fights"
- Wrong Turn reboot director talks taking on a tonally different IP with Silent Night, Deadly Night remake: "You're laughing, you're disgusted, you're like, 'I shouldn't be watching this right now'"
- KPop Demon Hunters co-directors don't want to see a live-action remake of their Netflix hit: "It's really hard to imagine these characters in a live-action world"
- Former Doctor Who writer says the beloved sci-fi show is "probably as dead we've ever known it" and Ncuti Gatwa's season 2 finale "put a full stop on things"
- Silent Hill 2 remake actor's "most difficult scene" is an iconic moment from the horror game: "I was really making sure I didn't cry"
- 20 years later, cult classic PS2 JRPG Tales of Rebirth is finally fully playable in English thanks to a fan translation that's been in the works for nearly 4 years
- Undertale comes full circle as the JRPG creator who inspired it says his new game is inspired by Undertale
- Former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida has one regret from the PS1 era: the US and Europe missed out on too many Japanese classics
- It took 14 weeks for Marvel fans to discover Simon Williams' powers were hiding in an old Wonder Man trailer
- Borderlands 4 butcher slaughters 3,000 bosses over 150 hours to prove just how bad the shooter's drop rates are: "I am pretty much done"
- Get your first look at a devastating Pokemon Phantasmal Flames card in this exclusive reveal
- Skyrim's longevity shocked Bethesda devs as the RPG was thriving "still, ten years later" thanks to its unique open world: "By all rights, a year later, some other game should have eclipsed it"
- The best new shows and movies streaming this week on Netflix, Disney Plus, HBO Max, and more
- After 47 hours, Palworld lead finally hits 100% in Megabonk on Steam and has "tried a world record run," catching the eye of the roguelike's solo dev himself: "Well bonked"
- Pokemon Legends: Z-A is the latest victim of a major Nintendo breach, as more than 70GB of information is reportedly shared online in huge 'Freakleak'
- 18 years later, Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles explains what Cloud Strife is actually doing there thanks to newly discovered secret dialogue
- James Gunn is officially in the DCU after this sneaky Peacemaker season 2 cameo
- EA is apparently playing whack-a-mole as Battlefield 6 fans keep using the FPS game's new Portal mode to set up XP farms to bypass the sluggish progression grind
- Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin admits he's "always had trouble with deadlines," but he "doesn't feel happy breaching contracts or missing a deadline" over Winds of Winter
- Borderlands 4's loot grind is good for your brain, Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford says, and that the studio would "be dead" if other competitors understood that better
- Channing Tatum doesn't think 23 Jump Street will ever be made, and is blaming one person in particular
- Despite the massive launch, Battlefield 6 players are once again slamming the FPS game's map sizes: "It really feels like five maps, not nine"
- Everwild might've been canceled by Xbox after 11 years of development, but new screenshots show a stunning game that might've proven a true adventure game genre gem
- The Outer Worlds 2 lead says players want "deeper RPGs," and that the team has looked to "older Obsidian games" to deliver just that: "How can we bring that back to the forefront"
- Jar Jar Binks and Kelleran Beq actor Ahmed Best is co-writing a Star Wars comic that will feature a "team-up for the ages" between his two characters
- Frieren manga going on indefinite break ahead of the anime's season 2 release due to author's health issues
- Invincible season 4's teaser has a NSFW connection, and it's led to an unlikely request from fans
- Channing Tatum says his unmade Gambit movie had something "Marvel and Disney would never do": mutants having sex
- Battlefield 6 fixes coming "one step at a time" as devs fix missing rewards, movement bugs, and more within 48 hours of launch, and eye up "other elements of the core loop" next: "Thanks for all the feedback!"
- Marvel fans are wondering if the MCU will ever acknowledge Agents of SHIELD again: "I want it expressly made canon"
- Hideo Kojima enjoys the trip of a lifetime to Brazil to promote Death Stranding 2, meeting a doppelganger of himself, probably eating a cake modeled after himself, and more
- New anime movie Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle is now the highest-grossing international movie ever in the US, beating out an Oscar-winning movie in the process
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is only 85% of its creative director's original vision for the French JRPG, and he "would have loved" to do more with a specific fan-favorite character
- Krysten Ritter unveils first look at Jessica Jones return in a leaked Daredevil: Born Again season 2 trailer
- October 12
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- Square Enix announces the first new Dissidia Final Fantasy in 8 years, but fighting game fans are dismayed it's only on mobile: "I have little faith this will be anywhere near as good"
- Mortal Kombat III confirmed by writer as well as new footage of Baraka in Mortal Kombat II
- Left for dead by Amazon and revived by Tencent, free anime MMO Blue Protocol: Star Resonance launches to over 90,000 Steam players but only 48% positive user reviews
- 007 First Light might have its own James Bond, but the Hitman studio is borrowing from "the Daniel Craig era" in one major way: his physicality
- Ghost of Yotei creative director says "the cognitive overload of all of the systems and all the buttons on the controller can be quite intense"
- We saw new IT: Welcome to Derry footage behind closed doors and we can't wait to float again
- October 11
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- The Godfather and Oscar-winning Annie Hall star, Diane Keaton, dies at 79
- Daredevil: Born Again season 2 release date confirmed after NYCC trailer shows the return of Jessica Jones
- Wonder Man trailer teases what if The Studio was set in the MCU?
- 007 First Light studio "didn't want to create this superman from day one" with its fresh-faced James Bond: "It's not very relatable"
- Ghost of Yotei has so much climbing because the devs wanted to focus on the "idea of freedom," and because Hokkaido really is that steep and "epic"
- Borderlands 4 boss Randy Pitchford channels Hideo Kojima, hopes to make "an NPC or a gun or a side quest" based on a guy who told him he looks like Randy Pitchford
- EA makes amends with Battlefield 6 players shut out at launch with 24 XP boosters and up to two Battle Passes: "We wanted to offer an apology… with perks"
- Yellowjackets will come to an end at its fourth season
- The Vampire Lestat returns in a bloody new extended look at AMC's incredible horror series
- Running Man star Glen Powell got told last-minute he needed Stephen King's nod after taking the role
- Sigourney Weaver could return for another Alien movie after reading a 50-page script
- Sandfall says Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 winning GOTY "isn't something we aim for," and even though it would be a "nice little bonus," it's rooting for Megabonk
- October 10
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- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director says "there are still a few" secrets players have yet to find in the JRPG
- Invincible season 4 trailer and release date revealed
- Final Fantasy Tactics player puts in the grind to prove once and for all that "Chocobos can believe in monster Jesus" and will "leave your party to go find God" if their Faith stat gets too high
- As EA app blocks Battlefield 6 owners from playing by charging for imaginary DLC, series boss Vince Zampella says it's "honestly embarrassing" and suggests you "refund and buy on Steam"
- REPO dev says its big monster update turns it into more of "a proper horror game" and "reinvigorates the entire gameplay loop"
- "Nintendo created their big competition": Shuhei Yoshida says Super NES ditching PlayStation at the last minute was "almost helpful"
- Wonder Man trailer tackles the concept of superhero fatigue head-on with a show about a remake of a movie that no one wants
- Battlefield 6 "purchase to play" error tells players to buy DLC just to play the multiplayer or campaign, EA says it's patching it out
- Baldur's Gate 2 writer was unconvinced anyone would care about romance in an RPG: "People don't come here to romance, they come here to fight s**t and battle dragons"
- RPG legend Josh Sawyer says the reason classics like Baldur's Gate disappeared in the '00s was "because retailers told us no one wanted to buy them"
- James Gunn plans to direct "a couple more" DCU movies, unless he gets "so f***ing tired I can't do it"
- MTG Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set announced with "pizza lands" and totally tubular throwbacks, man
- Former Skyrim dev praises Baldur's Gate 3 for the RPG's faithfulness to Dungeons & Dragons: "That's as close as we've gotten to tabletop role-playing on a computer"
- Fantastic Four and one-time Assassin's Creed actor reacts to Ubisoft's cancellation of a post-Civil War era game in the most appropriate way possible: "F**k off"
- Battlefield 6 is EA's biggest Steam launch ever, passing 700,000 concurrent players in under an hour and finally dethroning Apex Legends as the king
- Rumor has it that Valve could be planning to unearth not one but two new VR headsets later in 2025
- GTA lead's big gamble turned worst game of 2025 contender was such a disaster that nearly 100 devs are demanding change and apologies for "unbearable levels of overtime" and "mishandled" layoffs
- Baldur's Gate 3 director wishes indie dev behind "impossible" RPG reminiscent of The Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall the "best of luck" as it hits 58k wishlists on Steam
- Battlefield 6 queue system will keep players in line and servers stable at launch and "peak moments," devs hope: "We anticipate many of you to login at the same time"
- New horror sequel The Black Phone 2 just unveiled its popcorn bucket – and it might just be the weirdest (and creepiest) one we've seen yet
- Genshin Impact takes a shot at Roblox with its own game creator: Miliastra Wonderland is a new permanent UGC mode with PvP and the first fully customizable character
- Battlefield 6 lead calls generative AI "very seducing," but says it was only used in the game's earliest stages "to allow for more time and more space to be creative"
- I might be going mad, but Turtle Beach's new gaming keyboard has the weirdest space bar I've used yet
- Deadpool was considered for a Peacemaker season 2 cameo, and even Ryan Reynolds was down with the unlikely Marvel and DC crossover
- Star Wars actor Cameron Monaghan is "barely" in Tron: Ares, and disappointed fans want answers: "I need to know how much was left on the cutting room floor"
- This $100 Switch eShop gift card deal has arrived just in time for Pokemon Legends Z-A
- The Outer Worlds 2 gets its own Xbox controller just weeks before the game's release date
- Fortnite dataminers find sus game files that say "PriceChange," but Epic Games denies a price hike for its subscription: "Those rumors aren't true and the price changes aren't happening"
- World of Warcraft and League of Legends MMO veteran says his new studio will "likely close" if it's "unable to find a publisher soon" for fantasy MMORPG Ghost: "We're doing everything we can"
- The Silent Hill 2 remake probably isn't getting the long-rumored Born from a Wish DLC anytime soon, as Maria's voice actor confirms "we have not recorded anything"
- A Knight of the Seven Kingdom's six episodes reportedly run "roughly 30 minutes" each, and fans aren't impressed: "30-minute episodes for a Game of Thrones TV show? Good lord"
- Tron: Ares producers say there was never a point where Jeff Bridges wasn't in the movie: "He *is* the franchise"
- Original Fantastic Four stars Michael Chiklis and Ioan Gruffudd are keen to join the Avengers: Secret Wars cast: "It's clobberin' time"
- Peacemaker season 3 might not be happening after all, according to James Gunn "This is about the future of the DCU"
- American and Euro Truck Simulator devs have some "hidden cards" on the roadmap after the PS5 and Xbox Series X ports, but they won't be launching until 2026 at the earliest
- After 17 years, veteran Halo developer leaves series, says "our industry seems dire" and promises to share more details about his departure "when it is absolutely safe to do so"
- Despite its 26% Rotten Tomatoes score and low box-office takings, The Conjuring spin-off The Curse of La Llorona is getting a sequel
- Borderlands 4 lead gives fans "7 days notice" as Gearbox aims the nerf cannon at broken builds with fixes to "unintended interactions in certain Vault Hunter skills" arriving next week
- After Spider-Man: No Way Home, Andrew Garfield is adamant he's not returning to the MCU for Avengers: Doomsday: "Unequivocally f***ing no"
- I want to root for the ROG Xbox Ally, but the Lenovo Legion Go is making it look bad at Best Buy
- The best horror movies of 2025 have already been announced, and 28 Years Later didn't even make it into the top 10
- Battlefield 6 release live coverage – all the patch note highlights, launch information, and more that you need to know
- James Gunn reveals Peacemaker season 2 originally ended without the gut-punch final scene
- Demon Slayer and One-Punch Man better watch out, Duolingo is getting a five-part anime starring Duo as a Sailor Moon-inspired villain
- Battlefield 6 devs say Labs will "probably be a staple of development for us" going forward after being "a big part of dev" on the new FPS game
- Battlefield 6 devs say the plan was to launch with bigger maps "all along," and that the beta's notoriously smaller maps "were intentionally smaller than the ones we know are coming" in the full FPS
- Ghost of Yotei lead says the "easier" Sucker Punch made the Tsushima sequel, "people liked it less" – but devs didn't want to "alienate a bunch of people" with its Lethal difficulty, either
- Does Tron: Ares have a post-credits scene?
- Tron: Ares director already has an idea for Tron 4, and says that the post-credits scene is the key: "It's hinting on something to come"
- Dragon Quest 1 & 2 HD-2D Remake adds "numerous" new scenarios "that connect to the overall Erdrick Trilogy" as well as "encounters with people not featured in the original title"
- October 9
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- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 studio's next game won't necessarily be an RPG: "We don't want to be constrained by story, art style or gameplay"
- Mortal Kombat 2 is as much about Kitana as it is about Johnny Cage: "They go in and out of each other throughout the movie"
- A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms showrunner talks casting the perfect Dunk and Egg for the new Game of Thrones spin-off: "It was the least stressful decision we've ever had to make"
- The unlikely heroes of The Mighty Nein are here in living color as the first trailer for the Critical Role animated series arrives
- For 19 years, this Ratchet & Clank game was "a holy grail for probably 14 people," but after 6 years of preservation efforts it's no longer lost media
- Ed Gein actor Charlie Hunnam will be on the other side of the ax in Monster season 4 as the murdered father of Ella Beatty's Lizzie Borden
- Alien: Isolation writer originally thought Ellen Ripley's daughter as protagonist was too "Son of Frankenstein" and "convenient," but was sold after realizing "everything had so much more weight and heart"
- "This is going to be horrible": BioWare's classic D&D RPG Baldur's Gate 2 looked like a "hacked-up monstrosity that was still full of bugs" as the devs crunched to get it finished in time for launch
- Minecraft movie sequel release date set for 2027
- Full Battlefield 6 day one patch is 2,800 words long, taking a huge pass at movement, vehicles, and some of the best guns
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (October 10-12)
- Battlefield 6 Metacritic score is the best the FPS series has had in years, but still can't match the likes of Battlefield 3
- Super Mario Bros speedrun legend returns to the most competitive category after $5,000 bounty and sets 2 world records in a day: "If this isn't proof that I'm him, I don't know what is"
- "It saved my life": Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion actor says performance capture acting in games pulled him out of "£34,000 worth of debt" and "years of not doing very well"
- "We need something bigger" - Elgato is launching a larger version of its best accessory, now designed for professional studios
- The Binding of Isaac creator Edmund McMillen says he only made the genre-defining hit to try a "basic roguelike" and "get my feet in the water" before his real magnum opus
- Blizzard says removal of popular World of Warcraft combat mods "needs to happen" in Midnight to "level the playing field" for the long-running MMO
- The Game of Thrones spin-off George R.R. Martin loves gets its first trailer – and it shows off a different side to Westeros
- The upcoming G'AIM'E Time Crisis light gun console is now up for pre-order, and my trigger fingers are twitching with excitement
- Turtle Beach has unveiled the best looking Switch 2 cases yet and they're only $30 each
- Almost 10 years later, indie dev accidentally makes their 10-player co-op platformer free on Steam: "I forgot that once you switch from paid to free, I can never go back"
- The Elder Scrolls 6 will feature an NPC made in memory of a beloved fan, all thanks to the RPG community's most dedicated lorekeepers – and $85,000: "We just finished up a meeting with Bethesda"
- Activision finally gives in and confirms Call of Duty Black Ops 7 will not use SBMM: "At launch, Open Matchmaking with minimal skill consideration will be the default"
- May I Ask For One Final Thing? release schedule: when is episode 3 on Crunchyroll?
- Creative Assembly wanted to make Alien: Isolation 2 for years, but Disney buying Fox is what "made it a lot more possible," says former dev
- PS6 release date speculation soars as PS5 architect Mark Cerny teases "future console" and says "current approach" to lighting and graphics has "reached its limit"
- As Steam's unfair regional pricing comes under fire, hit JRPG Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter joins Arc Raiders in updating costs for international gamers
- Sonic the Hedgehog's Takashi Iizuka said Sonic Adventure remakes aren't happening, but Sega just filed a trademark that's fueling hopes for a Shadow the Hedgehog revival
- Behind the scenes GTA 5 camera work reveals Rockstar's trickery, featuring transforming NPCs, random T-poses, and a half-built plane
- It looks like Steven Spielberg's Jaws is still the gold standard as upcoming shark horror movie opts to use practical models instead of CGI
- Where to buy the Icon Blue Special Edition DualSense controller
- Nintendo's mystery Pikmin video was nothing more than a showcase for Nintendo Pictures, which will "continue to explore new creative possibilities through video content"
- The fabulously spooky Razer Gengar Collection has evolved in the best possible way
- GTA 6 price tag of $100 "would actually leave money on the table" for Rockstar, study suggests, as too many fans would be unwilling to buy
- Hyper Light Drifter dev is ending development on its open-world roguelike sequel and going through layoffs: "This was not our ideal path, but rather the only one available"
- After rising to "Mostly Positive" Steam reviews following chill Stardew Valley-like DLC, inZOI devs know you want "realistic tragedy, the darker sides of life, and unpredictable dramatic events" and more in future updates
- Critical Role 4 fans are celebrating an easily-missed piece of D&D expertise that helped manage the 13-player chaos of the campaign's first episode
- Over 32 years later, Nintendo has finally released the obscure Mario game from the creators of Pokemon outside of Japan
- Good news Dexter fans, despite canceling Original Sin, Paramount has renewed Dexter: Resurrection for season 2
- Gillian Anderson and Evan Peters on what makes Tron: Ares "feel like it's all new" while still honoring the original franchise: "It's a race against time"
- "Greed over gaming": Game Pass price hike slammed by Xbox co-founder as a "betrayal" to fans, says the company "threw away one of their last advantages"
- Veteran Elder Scrolls Online devs set up new worker-owned studio after Xbox cancelled their last game: "We only answer to people who are passionate about games"
- Hulu launches on Disney Plus in the UK, saying goodbye to four years of Star
- Ghost of Yotei devs "like having a clean screen" free of mini maps and yellow paint: "Why would we muck it up with all this stuff on the screen if we can figure out other ways to guide you?"
- Blumhouse aims to reinvent Saw by getting the original talent "hugely involved" in the new movies
- Andrew Garfield wants to appear in Beyond the Spider-Verse but doesn't have an answer for whether he is showing up in Avengers: Secret Wars
- Roguelike breakout Megabonk has released a patch which reworks the final swarm: "The current meta required you to wear sunglasses and watch a slideshow / lightshow at 1.5fps for 5 hours to get a WR"
- Mad Max: Fury Road director George Miller disappoints everyone by taking part in an AI film festival: "AI is here to stay"
- Assassin's Creed fans react to reports of canceled Civil War-era game that would've had players take on the Ku Klux Klan, saying Ubisoft shouldn't be "caving to the 1% of people who got in their fe-fes about Shadows"
- Borderlands 4 creative director says "It’s way more involved and riskier than it appears" as fans call for a popular dialog skip mod to become official, warns it may "lead to broken mission states that might not be recoverable"
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director wants the French RPG to be open to interpretation, but thinks "we failed as writers" if you don't connect to its cast as humans
- Crunchyroll is releasing all five hours of Chainsaw Man for free on YouTube so everyone can catch up before the Reze Arc movie
- This ridiculously blatant Animal Crossing somehow made its way onto the PlayStation Store, but I have a hunch it won't be there long
- October 8
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- Marvel Rivals Daredevil actor is actively encouraging players to be the worst versions of themselves: "The devil doesn't switch off, even when he's going negative"
- If Stranger Things season 5 was a movie, it would reportedly be one of the most expensive movies ever made
- One of the best and most popular anime on Crunchyroll for fall 2025 is not from Japan, and I like it way more than I thought I would
- "Feels like I'm shooting pebbles": Gearbox is planning Borderlands 4 patches to buff legendary pistols, help assault rifles, and improve the beloved Hellwalker
- Chainsaw Man movie opening credits are as weird and wild as I hoped: catch up with Denji, Aki, and Power with a great new theme song and even better animation than the anime series
- Hey Pokemon fans, Razer's Pokemon Edition set is cheaper than ever this Prime Day
- "The beaches will dry before the Helldivers do": Helldivers 2 players made Seyshel Beach the new Malevelon Creek, complete with propaganda and a stunned response from Arrowhead
- Canceled Assassin's Creed game was set in post-Civil War America, but was reportedly axed due to Assassin's Creed Shadows Yasuke backlash and US political climate: "Too political in a country too unstable"
- Monster star Charlie Hunnam "never felt like we were sensationalizing" Ed Gein, says the Netflix series is "a very sincere exploration of the human condition" where we should be asking who the real monsters are
- If your ideal Christmas present is 'more Pokemon cards,' check this festive box set out
- Genshin Impact is giving out free 5-star Constellations for the first time in 5 years, but FOMO beckons: after today, you'll miss out on one
- Super Mario Galaxy has a "horribly inefficient" secret: the credits are always loaded in the background while you play, which has the "inadvertently heartwarming" side effect of making sure the platformer always remembers the Nintendo legends who made it
- My go-to Switch 2 travel case has never been cheaper, but you have to be quick to grab it
- PlayStation immediately outperformed Nintendo and Sega in Europe at launch because neither had a "consistent marketing strategy," and Sony "didn't say no to things"
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director says AAA-sized "scope and budget" might have made it worse, actually, because "not artificially padding out the game time excessively" was key to the RPG's success
- I picture Rockstar and Nintendo lawyers locking eyes as one bold dev creates slick Zelda meets GTA action game Vice: Magic City Mayhem – "You ain't gettin nowhere without yo s***. Take this"
- Cutscene haters beware, Baby Steps is hiding a secret 28-minute cutscene where the characters chat about Uncharted, Game of Thrones and more, and you'll only see it if you skip too many
- Switch 2 microSD Express cards are finally cheaper thanks to Prime Day
- Mario Kart 8 has outsold Mario Kart World for 2 months straight in the US, but since "over 80%" of Switch 2 owners already have World via console bundle, that "kind of makes it impossible" to outdo the 11-year series GOAT
- Sony was so desperate for video games and the PS1 to look "f***ing cool" that marketing execs say they'd take games to "places that were almost quite dangerous" to be "associated with alcohol, drug taking… anything"
- Dropping PS4 and Xbox One was a "magic trick" for Battlefield 6 and its improved destruction, technical director says: "We've kind of raised the floor of what we have"
- As games face censorship on Steam and beyond, Japanese site says fine, we'll make our own dang payment method, and actually pulls it off
- Return to Silent Hill's James Sunderland actor teases a "wild, chaotic" movie that forced him to check into a Swiss spa after being "exhausted" by "playing scared"
- The Witcher season 4 shows a very different Ciri – one that fans say is the "spitting image" of her video game counterpart in CD Projekt Red's RPG series
- Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director joins Palworld dev, FPS legend Shroud, and thousands of positive players on Steam on the Megabonk hype train: "It's the perfect brain rot"
- Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds has Sega's "secret sauce" thanks to the devs combining "the essence" of multiple other "legendary" racing games like OutRun and Initial D
- Pikmin fans are vindicated as Nintendo reuploads its mysterious baby short film with visible Pikmin, but still refuses to elaborate on what it's actually teasing
- You're running out of time to get the 2025 Lego Advent Calendars at their lowest price
- Chainsaw Man pulls a Demon Slayer and is putting on early Reze Arc movie screenings for some Crunchyroll subscribers
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is getting a whole new location, extra late-game bosses, and more to celebrate the French JRPG hitting 5 million copies sold: "We hope the update we're working on will act as a 'thank you'"
- Stephen King teases It: Welcome to Derry's "terrifying" first episode, as he gives the horror spin-off his public seal of approval
- Just in case you thought Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds wasn't chaotic enough, its next online event has a mode rotation dedicated to throwing items at fellow racers to earn Minecraft prizes
- Activision is kicking off a Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 free trial when the Black Ops 7 beta ends, just in case you were thinking about getting Battlefield 6
- Kingdom Hearts actor auditioned for the role of Cloud in Final Fantasy 7 Remake "a very long time ago" after Square Enix asked him: "He's the Riku of Final Fantasy"
- The Witcher fans still aren't sure about the Netflix show's new Geralt thanks to one line in the season 4 trailer: "He doesn't have a squad like Call of Duty"
- Dune star Rebecca Ferguson confirms that Lady Jessica will return for Part 3, despite not appearing in the book: "I wasn't reckoning on it"
- Lord of the Rings star Elijah Wood's verdict on Hunt for Gollum's script should reassure all Middle-earth fans
- The Outer Worlds 2's first open biome is "pretty big and meaty" because Obsidian "wanted to see how far we could push things," but the RPGs other areas "are not much smaller"
- As Steam, PlayStation Store, and more get slammed over regional pricing, upcoming extraction shooter from ex-Battlefield devs, Arc Raiders, reduces price in 10+ countries: "We want to ensure a more fair price point for all"
- Hideo Kojima says Metal Gear Solid and Death Stranding wouldn't exist without the Osaka World's Fair he attended 55 years ago
- Here's how to watch Jujutsu Kaisen season 3 early, but US fans might be frustrated by their release date
- When is Tron: Ares on streaming? Speculation on the potential Disney Plus release date
- Get some great It: Welcome to Derry gifts with the latest issue of SFX
- Self-proclaimed "immersive" actor Jared Leto opens up on the "difficult challenge" of playing a Program with no backstory in new sci-fi sequel Tron: Ares
- Alien: Isolation writer says the game "is too scary" for a lot of people and "we probably could've sold more if we'd watered it down," and speaking for the scaredy cats, I'm so glad they didn't
- October 7
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- Blizzard says Diablo 4's next PTR "will be important" and "a lot will be changing," with big updates to loot, combat, Renown, and "more"
- "Holy s***, jumping is back": After 11 years, Assassin's Creed Mirage brings back the parkour feature fans have been missing since Unity – a jump button
- After shooting two episodes of Ahsoka season 2, Bryce Dallas Howard now has more Star Wars live-action directing credits than any other filmmaker: "If I can be of service to Lucasfilm, I will"
- Prime Day Switch deals like these are music to my physical game-collecting ears
- DICE confirms final Battlefield 6 PC system requirements that "a substantial number" of beta players did not meet, and gets bonus points for actually breaking it down by FPS, resolution, and settings
- Battlefield 6 players fear Closed Weapons mode was unfairly buried in the beta, but DICE lead says "we did measure" how many people picked it based on where it was in menus
- Marvel Rivals gives Daredevil next-level wallhacks: true to his character, he can even 'see' invisible enemies
- Microsoft delays Xbox Game Pass price hike for existing subscribers in "certain countries," but only "for now" and not for the US or UK
- Skyrim player 3D scans himself into the game, executes himself immediately, and invades Dark Souls for good measure: “Wanted to get a video of me decapitating myself”
- Original Freddy Kreuger actor reveals his choice for a successor, says a Nightmare on Elm Street reboot should skip the first movie: "I don't know if they should ever reboot Part 1 again"
- 7 of my favorite Halloween board games have been slashed in price for Prime Day
- Price increases be damned, here's how you can get a PS5 Pro for just over $600 this Prime Day
- "This is sacrilegious!": Final Fantasy 7 Remake's new cheat mode is controversial even at Square Enix, but the JRPG's co-director Naoki Hamaguchi believes "the player should have the choice"
- [Update: We're so back] Steam is down, with store errors and strong lag hitting the web and client version: "An error occurred while processing your request"
- Sony was "very close close to getting the FIFA license," former PlayStation exec says, and nearly bought Peter Molyneux's studio before losing it to EA: "It was easier and cheaper to buy them"
- "I don't know why I subject myself to this level of torture": Oblivion Remastered player spends 100 hours spamming the RPG's most basic spell in the sewers, all to achieve a goal they set themselves as a child
- New Sims 4 Adventure Awaits expansion features "a really crappy design choice" fans wish wasn't intentional on EA's part: "This has got to be a bug, right?"
- Director of snubbed 2024 game of the year Dragon's Dogma 2 says potato chips were key to the development and pacing of Devil May Cry 5 – and I'll be damned, Hideaki Itsuno, you've got a point
- These Game Buds are a more permanent feature of my ears than my piercings, and now they're super cheap this Prime Day
- Dwayne Johnson addresses The Smashing Machine debuting to a career-worst $5.9 million over its opening weekend: "In our storytelling world, you can't control box office results"
- Tron: Ares star says he "watched a lot of DEF CON conferences and lock picking" videos to channel the new sci-fi sequel's "manic" villain: "I think a big part of it, too, is his relationship with his mother"
- Vampire Survivors is finally getting online co-op as the beloved roguelike turns 4, with another surprise coming soon
- PS1-era Sony nearly fell out with one of its most legendary studios because the "traitors" put Wipeout on Nintendo 64: "What the f*** was Psygnosis doing on the N64?"
- Silksong modders beat Team Cherry at sadism, lay the groundwork for the quest to beat the whole game as naked Hornet: "Her kick damage is like, 1/5 of a default nail"
- "My apologies for the screaming": Hades 2 magician beats most difficult Max Fear challenge after earth-shattering "lock in" that shouldn't be possible
- Liam Hemsworth's Geralt assembles a ragtag team to save Ciri and fight Vilgefortz in Netflix's first full-length trailer for The Witcher season 4
- After over 830,000 boss kills, nearly triple the goal, Borderlands 4 players "crush" latest challenge with Amon to earn another 5-year Shift Code
- Tron: Ares producers say Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross "love Disney", so it was a no brainer that they collaborate with the House of Mouse on the sci-fi sequel
- Mysterious Nintendo teaser film has Pikmin fans like me who spent a decade waiting for the series' Switch comeback ready to lose it
- To celebrate Critical Role 4, Matt Mercer hid an important message to new DM Brennan Lee Mulligan inside a gifted pair of hand-forged swords
- Demon Slayer and Solo Leveling anime star "thrilled" to be in Sony's Ghost of Yotei since "Tsushima is one of my favorite games of all time," says he's given a character "very Saul Goodman-like energy"
- "Nintendo is so wrong, it hurts" – US IP expert says Nintendo claiming mods don't invalidate its Pokemon patents is "just a loser argument" and a "Hail Mary" in its ongoing legal fight with Palworld
- Final Predator: Badlands trailer has fans even more convinced it's setting up an Alien vs Predator movie – and their theory could explain why 20th Century Studios is bringing out a tie-in comic
- Borderlands 4 datamine suggests Ava was replaced in Gearbox's new looter shooter, and now fans want the divisive character back: "We were robbed of a generational story"
- Ghost of Yotei lead says the Ghost of Tsushima sequel allows for "more freedom than any game we've ever had," so devs "don't care too much" how you play – "as long as you're having fun"
- In a win for physical game collectors, Battlefield 6's PS5 disc apparently includes the entire shooter, meaning no massive extra downloads unless EA's day-one patch is particularly large
- Avengers: Doomsday star Channing Tatum says he wants "good movies," but sometimes it feels like "you're incentivized to make bad things to get paid"
- Benedict Cumberbatch is tormented by a giant crow in The Thing with Feathers – see the exclusive first poster
- Battlefield 6 lead tempts fate, says servers "should be" ready for launch after numerous betas across PC and consoles
- Baldur's Gate 3 publishing lead sees Elon Musk's new AI-generated game, says "AI has its place as a tool" but won't "solve the big problem of the industry, which is leadership and vision"
- Black Ops 7 beta brings back SBMM in a new playlist to "get solid feedback," and everyone still hates it
- Sabine Wren actor celebrates Ahsoka season 2 wrap with behind-the-scenes picture, which might feature a major Star Wars Easter egg
- Mixed first reactions to Tron: Ares praise the sci-fi sequel's "stunning" visuals but criticize "vapid and inept storytelling" and "nostalgic pandering"
- Dark Atlas: Infernum is one of 2025's must-play horror games, blending cosmic and psychological horror for a uniquely narrative-driven experience
- I think Sega is sneak dissing Mario Kart World again, says Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds races are won by "players who think strategically and race skillfully, not just those who get lucky"
- October 6
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- Arc Raiders dev has the jokes after game title is seemingly censored, and then uncensored, in Call of Duty Black Ops 7 lobby chat: "We're still on track to release *** ******* on October 30th!"
- Five years on from the hit original, Elisabeth Moss shares positive update on sequel to Universal Monsters horror The Invisible Man: "It's going to have to be as good, if not better"
- Digimon Story Time Stranger "is the monster-taming game frustrated Pokémon fans have been waiting for," fans say ahead of Pokemon Legends Z-A, but as always "you can like both"
- The actual biggest game of October, the Shovel Knight devs' Zelda-like Mina the Hollower, gets delayed as devs say it's "so close to being done"
- Ghost of Yotei only lets you pet the fox because of its "proper" research into Japanese history, says expert, but you might get a tapeworm if you tried it today
- "Steam rejected the build" at the finish line, the "last 3 months were intense crunch," and the story was finished 3 days before launch: How one dev scraped together a horror hit that "accidentally" sold 150,000 copies
- My first must-watch anime for fall 2025 is also the highest-rated new season on Crunchyroll so far: one girl pummeling dudes into mush, and with better animation than I ever expected
- Predator: Badlands final trailer teases "the most dangerous planet in the universe" and gives first look at Elle Fanning's android twin
- Best Buy's anti-Prime Day PS5 deals have got me seriously reevaluating my current backlog
- Bungie pushes the indefinitely delayed Marathon back on stage, announcing a closed test for this month and promising a "public update" on its development coming soon
- After 92 million hours of open beta testing, Battlefield 6 dev says "requests for naval warfare have not gone unnoticed" and it has "over 200 changes" coming in a day one patch
- Horror fans should expect to see Jason Voorhees "return in unexpected ways" over the coming years, as producer teases more projects beyond new movie and video game
- Former Marvel TV head praises Daredevil: Born Again, but says don't call the Defenders the "Netflix" heroes: "I'm not sure if anything like that has happened before – especially across two networks"
- Valve marches over to its desk to remove a Counter-Strike 2 map after just 2 days, seemingly over a "gamer word" hidden in a file
- The best new shows and movies streaming this week on Netflix, Disney Plus, HBO Max, and more
- This Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall-esque indie game proves viral AI posts wrong with its stunning pixel graphics and classic RPG vibes: "Who was the person who made a tweet saying a game like this is impossible?"
- Assassin's Creed Mirage's free Valley of Memory DLC has "more than six hours of gameplay," and Ubisoft says making it was a challenge because most of the setting's historical record has been "lost to time"
- Nintendo requests $4,500,000 in court judgement against alleged Switch pirate, but its lawyer says the price tag "is nowhere near" a fair compensation for the "seriousness" of the issue
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 devs say that you can blame the Black Ops timeline for the wall jump not being a wall run: “Black Ops 2 really gave us a foundation for the technology available”
- Survive "a near-death studio experience," rally to make a hit game, and get laid off anyway: 10-year studio The Outsiders shut down by Dune: Awakening house Funcom
- Square Enix changed one line in Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles, and nearly 30 years later it's sent Cloud and Aerith shippers into overdrive
- New Warhammer Quest: Darkwater board game revealed
- Splinter Cell: Deathwatch creator reveals the two "guardrails" Ubisoft had for the Netflix series: "Love the character, respect the IP"
- Final Fantasy 14 might not be on the Switch 2 just yet, but fans of the iconic Square Enix MMO have already brought it to Nintendo's best handheld console: the 2DS/3DS
- I love this tiny Switch controller so much I have four of them, and now it's less than $20 at Amazon
- Despite having a great Rotten Tomatoes score and reaching number 1 on Disney Plus, the animation studio behind Marvel's Eyes of Wakanda TV show has filed for bankruptcy
- GameStop blames Pokemon Company for botched Scarlet and Violet shiny giveaway: "Not our decision"
- Ray Winstone auditioned to play Padmé's father in the Star Wars prequels, but showed up drunk: "Why don’t we both have a 15-minute sleep and then I'll f*** off?"
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 beta players say the Dexterity perk should be the standard, Treyarch says there's a reason it isn't: "We're being a bit more intentional with our combat"
- Indie roguelike breakout Megabonk hit a new player record over the weekend, charting higher than Call of Duty, Borderlands 4 and Marvel Rivals
- James Bond game 007: First Light "would not have happened" unless it was an origin story: "We weren't interested in pushing pixels on how good we could make Pierce Brosnan look"
- Ghost of Yotei fans tap the sign on new open-world games – you don't have to compare it to Red Dead Redemption 2
- "The very first video game champion" and co-founder of Interplay, pivotal in the history of Baldur's Gate and Fallout, opens GoFundMe for "aggressive" cancer – already raising over $50,000
- Black Ops 7 Beta playlist "where skill is minimally considered" gets stamp of approval from noted CoD disliker and former FPS pro Shroud: "It's actually kind of enjoyable"
- Crunchyroll botches My Hero Academia season 8 premiere weekend with hours-long delay and missing subtitles
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead writer "did not play any video games" before joining the hit French JRPG, but now she's speedrunning the hits: "I have Platinumed Elden Ring, God of War, God of War Ragnarok"
- Sega's Astro City Mini arcade machine is back for Prime Day, and the shoot 'em up fan within me is ecstatic
- Alien: Isolation writer admits its Xenomorph got too smart for the devs, which is why the horror game runs longer than most
- Listen up, the Sony Inzone H9 gaming headset has never been cheaper and Prime Day hasn't even started yet
- Microsoft reportedly had Gears of War devs work on a project that was "Uncharted with spies" to rival Sony's PlayStation series, but it was scrapped for Gears of War 4
- Early concept art for KPop Demon Hunters has resurfaced, and the Netflix movie originally had a very different, but very cool, art style
- The final Fast & Furious movie reportedly won't happen unless the budget is cut by $50m, despite Fast X ending on a huge cliffhanger
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead writer says "there is no correct ending" to the French JRPG: "Both are heartbreaking in their own ways"
- Ghost of Yotei earns praise from legendary developers behind Ninja Gaiden and Devil May Cry, with Team Ninja's Fumihko Yasuda saying he's always wanted to make a game based in Hokkaido
- James Gunn says Peacemaker's "foulest" post-credits scene was originally "way, way worse"
- Xbox isn't going anywhere despite rumors, as Microsoft confirms it's "actively investing in our future first-party consoles" – for now, at least
- Elizabeth Olsen wasn't told Scarlet Witch would be a villain in Doctor Strange 2 until three weeks before filming: "I thought I was one of the good guys"
- Ridley Scott, legendary director of Alien, Blade Runner and Gladiator, says "we're drowning in mediocrity" today so he only watches his own movies: "They’re really good! And also, they don’t age"
- The Black Ops 7 beta introduced a mode without SBMM and Call of Duty players are psyched: "We need Battlefield 6 to come out every year"
- After 14-and-a-half years and over $500k raised for charity, Minecraft YouTuber KurtJMac finally reaches the Far Lands
- A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms showrunner says not having an opening title sequence was "probably the most stressful decision" they made on the Game of Thrones spin-off
- Despite critical acclaim, The Smashing Machine breaks an unwanted record for The Rock after going up against Taylor Swift at the box office
- Tron: Ares star Greta Lee says some people "may be surprised" by the familial love story at the heart of the new sequel and that it's a "really special thing" to include
- October 5
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- "Nintendo has not had any contact with the Japanese government about generative AI": The Switch maker shoots down rumors, but insists it'll keep fighting "infringement of our intellectual property"
- Fable lead Peter Molyneux will "admit now that I did overpromise on things," refuses to call his next game "great," but says upcoming city builder Masters Of Albion "is a redemption title for me"
- I've always thought the Pokemon Nuzlocke formula would make a great standalone roguelike - now an indie dev's made almost exactly that and it's off to a flying start on Steam
- Fable 2 lead Peter Molyneux had to fight hard to save the iconic RPG's dog because "the initial implementation was absolutely s**t," and "a yappy little c**t
- Stephen King sent a sweary email to the producers of It: Welcome to Derry – but it was for a positive reason
- A mandate came in from the Rockstar head office," Bully artist recalls, and "the art team pretty much purged itself from the studio" – which ended up giving the cult classic "its own identity"
- Fable's Peter Molyneux was happy to become a Microsoft partner as he's "absolutely motivated by praise," especially from Xbox boss Phil Spencer: "He's someone that absolutely loves the game industry"
- Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford can only say "well, s***" after learning a bug is blocking some Borderlands 4 players from sharing loot the way he recommended, but the devs are on it
- Capcom gave Monster Hunter Wilds a cool raid boss from Final Fantasy 14, but its recent Steam reviews have tanked since the update over new apparent performance and driver issues
- Star Wars' Oscar Isaac says filming Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein was "the most fun" he's ever had: "It's such dark material, but was approached with so much joy"
- Paul Bettany can no longer watch A Knight's Tale because he misses Heath Ledger "too much"
- From the Avengers assembling to "I am Iron Man," Marvel fans are discussing the MCU's biggest goosebump-raising moments
- It: Welcome to Derry director jokes that the new Stephen King horror series will both "ruin and explain" all the cryptic elements of Pennywise: "What does It want? Why is It there?"
- MCU star Elizabeth Olsen is aware of superhero fatigue, and argues that "these movies aren't for critics, these movies are for fans"
- Daredevil: Born Again promises a more "singular vision" for season 2
- October 4
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- It: Welcome to Derry director says fans are going to have to wait to see Pennywise in the new horror spin-off: "When he appears, he appears in a big way"
- HIM director says there "were so many conversations" about the new supernatural horror movie's ambiguous ending: "I have about 300 different edits of that final scene"
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 writer warns against a classic game hangup: "deus ex machina" power creep that makes you wonder "why didn't they just do this from the beginning"
- Iconic voice behind Donkey Kong's "oh banana" says he only did it because he "got so sick of asking" others to do the voice acting, and he "never thought" Nintendo would still be using it 25 years later
- The Black Phone 2 director says the horror sequel is more intense because "the teenagers who grew up really loving" the first movie are now "the kids who paid to see Terrifier"
- Humanity ascends as the latest Nier: Automata collab has 2B sit on your desktop in DLC for a Steam app that thousands of people use every second
- Fable 3 lead Peter Molyneux says he "should have fought for more time" to deliver the divisive RPG, and there's a Lionhead battle royale we'll never see as Xbox killed the studio
- Kirsten Dunst is open to returning as Mary-Jane in Spider-Man 4
- Amid Xbox layoffs and a 50% Game Pass price hike, former FTC chair slams "too-big-to-care" Microsoft's Activision-Blizzard buyout that's "harming both gamers and developers"
- 13 years later, Breaking Dawn director recalls horrifying Twilight fans with that "incredibly cruel" fake-out ending: "I've never, ever heard a scream as loud and last as long"
- Final Destination 7 finds a new director
- Following his "very dark" roles in John Wick and Nosferatu, Bill Skarsgård "was a little hesitant" to play Pennywise again in It: Welcome to Derry
- Edgar Wright's adaptation of The Running Man will change the book's ending, but it got Stephen King's seal of approval: "I think you did a great job"
- October 3
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- Borderlands 4 launch "not as explosive as its predecessors," analyst reports, but "strong" Steam start and "steady console sales" make it "positioned for long legs" - especially once the discounts start flowing
- Weapons director Zach Cregger's Resident Evil reboot adds Severance, True Detective, and Twisted Metal stars to cast
- Predator: Badlands director says the prequel comic is a "perfect companion" to the film: "Dek kicking ass in his very own comic book is a dream come true"
- Fable creator Peter Molyneux remembers his first board meeting at EA as a "school playground" filled with "idiots" and says 2001 decision to close Dungeon Keeper studio "was a dreadful mistake"
- Silksong player pops the hood, checks the gauges, and determines the best silk skill is one you get very early on: "This should surprise absolutely nobody"
- Years before Fable, Peter Molyneux finished making proto-city builder Populous in 12 hours because he "forgot" to do it sooner: "There was no end of the game"
- After 13 years, $320 worth of DLC, and also Brexit, Euro Truck Simulator 2 teases long-awaited UK update the only way that seems right: teaching you how to make a "proper cup of tea"
- "I can't shake the feeling that…": Hades 2 fan gifted with the most holy of Boons somehow predicts major plot twist a year before its reveal
- The first game from a tiny crew of Korean college kids has sold 500,000 copies on Steam in its first month, so now they're patching it like mad to keep up with hungry roguelike fans
- Donkey Kong 64 composer who went uncredited in the Super Mario Bros Movie was "so pissed" that he still hasn't watched the film, even if he has "seen that bit" with the DK Rap
- Echo returns in a new comic co-written by Taboo of the Black-Eyed Peas which gives her a new power that will "redefine her adventures in the Marvel Universe"
- Silksong is crushing Hollow Knight sales with 6 million downloads after 4 weeks, analyst reports – 4 million on Steam alone
- "We set out to push the Unreal Engine 4 codebase to its absolute limits" with 60 FPS on midrange PCs "without the need for fake frames," says dev delaying its "incredibly ambitious" shooter with "tens of thousands" of enemies
- "We don't need a gacha system": Like a man boldly arguing fire burns, dev says gacha garbage is not fun and "getting rid of gacha" in their anime action RPG "is beneficial for developers too"
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 devs hear your door hate, immediately respond with a list of changes like "forcing specific automatic doors to remain open from the start of the match"
- After 16 years, the wait for a new Mega Man game is nothing compared to the wait fans have had for the next act of the rock opera based on Capcom's legendary action series, but The Protomen's third album is finally upon us
- "Non-believers will be re-educated" in a new Cult of the Lamb story that puts a schism between the Lamb and their flock
- Hulk actor and notorious spoiler-spiller Mark Ruffalo jokes that he's not in Avengers: Doomsday so he couldn't blow the ending: "They decided that it was better to get rid of me"
- After Halo 5 had the iconic series on thin ice, Halo Infinite's big bad was created in Halo Wars 2 to "get back to" the FPS' "dark" past
- The 5th most-wishlisted game on Steam, ex-Battlefield devs' extraction shooter Arc Raiders, was delayed 3 years because they realized it sucked: "This game is not fun"
- Rockstar used GTA: Vice City's code to craft cult classic open-world game Bully, but immediately found the choreography "hard" because "you're getting into fistfights with other kids"
- The Rock hasn't cared about a single Donkey Kong game in 44 years because "none of them matter" – it's all about the arcade original that put Nintendo on the map
- Sorry Prime Day, these $6 Nintendo amiibo deals at GameStop are the best Switch savings around
- Knights of the Old Republic remake screenshots surface from the scrapped original version of the troubled Star Wars RPG that's somehow still in development
- Stealthy new Kill Team box set pits Tau mechs against Space Wolves, and fans are already hyped
- Emily Blunt teases Dwayne Johnson's "terribly exciting role" in Martin Scorsese's new mob movie: "It's the last great American mob story, and I can't believe it hasn't been told yet"
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake series devs knew JRPG fans wanted to know "what's gonna happen to Aerith," so they tried to make sure players "won't be able to tell… until the very end"
- Palworld dev has been "consumed" by Steam's newest roguelike megahit and can't even return to Borderlands 4: "Back on the Megabonk now"
- These new KontrolFreek x CaseOh Kitty thumbsticks are so cute, even my own cat can't help but stan
- After a Fortnite player's post about their late sister "saying hello to me in my favorite game" went viral, Epic Games added a statue in her honor: "I will forever cherish this"
- 3 years on from Margot Robbie saying her Pirates of the Caribbean movie had been scrapped, producer Jerry Bruckheimer says she's "still involved" with the franchise
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 leads the Golden Joystick Award 2025 charge for most nominations, nudging out Death Stranding 2, Ghost of Yotei, and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
- Rockstar "laughed at all the controversy" surrounding Bully's name before the cult classic open-world game launched: "They were freaking out over something they didn't really know anything about"
- Marvel Rivals' Daredevil continues the trend of caked up heroes in NetEase's shooter, and his actor says it's so the attorney can "distract the supports," obviously
- The Backrooms star says working with the 20-year-old director of A24's viral horror video adaptation was "very exciting": "I love that he hasn't really watched that many movies. His references are totally different"
- Wasting no time, Dying Light: The Beast players have killed over 2 billion zombies in the first 2 weeks of release after racking up a collective 2,943 years of playtime
- So long, video store! Robin and Steve have new jobs in Stranger Things season 5, according to the Netflix show's latest Funko Pops
- Atlus considered a Persona 3 Reload port for both the OG Nintendo Switch and Switch 2, but opted for only the latter as the JRPG's devs couldn't manage both "without any significant delay"
- Cal Kestis actor says the Jedi is "easily one of my favorite characters, if not my favorite character" that he's played
- Out-of-nowhere roguelike hit Megabonk has sold 1 million copies in 2 weeks, solo creator says "I'll be eating spaghetti with EXTRA sauce tonight"
- Call of Duty cheaters arrive day 1 to the early access Black Ops 7 beta, much to the FPS community's dismay: "This can't be happening… ALREADY"
- Stephen King shares high praise for new horror-Western Killing Faith, which has "an authentic shocker" for a first scene
- Following its latest Xbox Game Pass price jump, Microsoft immediately tries to justify the decision with more day one releases and increased "value"
- Keanu Reeves remains hopeful about Constantine 2 as "another draft" of the script comes in: "Fingers crossed"
- James Cameron doesn't like to rewatch his movies too soon after release, but he had to break his own rule with Avatar: The Way of Water: "It's a pretty good ride, I have to say!"
- Digimon Story Time Stranger launches to bigger player counts than any Persona or single-player Final Fantasy JRPG in Steam history
- Peacemaker season 2 finale trailer teases a Willy Wonka world, giant skeleton spiders, and more multiverse mayhem
- Xbox quietly cuts Call of Duty discount for Game Pass Ultimate subscribers despite raising the price by $10
- Helldivers 2 dev says "there are no easy solutions" to fix the massive 150GB PC file size, but Arrowhead is "sure to find a better balance between loading times and installation size soon"
- Oblivion Remastered's "physical" console releases will "require content download," and fans of the RPG aren't happy: "Why make something physical that still requires a download?"
- Peaky Blinders will get two more brand new shows after the release of the upcoming movie starring Cillian Murphy: "It will be a hell of a ride"
- James Gunn details the "too cartoony" Peacemaker season 2 gag cut from the latest episode that would have further hinted at the nature of Earth X
- October 2
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- The beautifully chill startup screen in Baldur's Gate 3 came "pretty late" in development after "SO MANY versions" were tested, says publishing lead
- GameStop straight-up says it'll ignore the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate price hike and keep selling subscriptions for $20 instead of $30 "in-store and online"
- After one of 2025's biggest surprise hits, Peak devs announce a new co-op online game: "Peak is still being worked on internally but now it's time to glaze Crashout Crew"
- Star Wars: The Phantom Menace game for PS1 was a "nightmare" to make: The PS2 was delayed, the devs got unintelligible blue screen shots from George Lucas, and they "could not compete" with Jedi Knight
- Persona studio has "several projects in development" beyond Persona 4 Revival, Atlus wants the JRPG series' 30th anniversary next year to let fans "enjoy the series even more" – and what better time to finally announce Persona 6?
- Xbox has a problematic "lack of memory," but Final Fantasy 7 Remake director says Square Enix's "multiplatform approach" doesn't hurt Part 3 development "whatsoever"
- Fable lead Peter Molyneux was so excited about selling his first game that he cut a hole in his mailbox so all the orders would fit – it sold 2 copies and "one was almost certainly from my mum"
- Daredevil: Born Again almost featured a bottle episode about Punisher and Echo "spending an interesting night together": "Who knows, maybe it comes back again"
- That gorgeous Lego Game Boy has been converted to a fully functioning replica with extremely satisfying button clicks, and it'll be released "in full" shortly
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (October 3-5)
- The Borderlands 4 buff patch is here: Gearbox juices Amon and boosts "underperforming skills," says it's now targeting "unintended interactions" that "trivialize content"
- 66-year-old Fable lead Peter Molyneux doesn't sound happy about it, but upcoming god game Masters of Albion might be his last ever: "I just haven't got the life energy left to do this again"
- Microsoft continues reading anything but the room with a full-page Xbox Game Pass advertisement on console startup a day after hiking prices by 50%
- As Spider-Man fights Cloud from Final Fantasy 7, Magic the Gathering pro laments the card game's slop-ification: "I am a pig and I eat slop"
- "It's not over yet": As the Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero roster reaches 208 characters, Bandai Namco teases that "the next DLC is already in the pipeline" with details to come in January
- Win a Blu-ray of M3GAN 2.0
- Monster Hunter Wilds fan artist who served pearls before swine thanks black hole hammer appreciators for their support after another great sword wins Capcom weapon design contest
- This Pokemon glitch has gone undocumented for 19 years, and I'm betting the one player who was told they were wrong about it 15 years ago is feeling pretty smug right now
- Where to pre-order the God of War 20th Anniversary Limited Edition DualSense controller
- Red Dead Redemption 2 now has NPCs with "actual memories you are forced to watch when they die" thanks to a modder with too much power, and what's worse is his Twitch chat wrote the script
- The perfect John Wick spin-off is here: a samurai western – but its writer is sworn to secrecy
- Discovering new Super Mario Bros levels that have "secretly been accessible" for over 30 years, "legendary Mario scientists" find themselves in a psychedelic cyberpunk hellscape hiding on their childhood SNES cartridges
- Resident Evil: Requiem "conveys the romanticism of a delicate girl fighting with a rugged revolver," director says, but its RE2-style boss battles prioritize subtlety over "gun shooting action"
- Win TRON and TRON: Legacy on 4K
- "I am rethinking what went wrong to ensure it won't happen again": Manor Lords creator ends months of silence and reveals a huge update to the city builder's AI towns
- Bungie brings in a new Destiny 2 global franchise director as its MMO bleeds – a Dragon Age, Starfield, and Elder Scrolls veteran who only just left Mass Effect 5
- Matt Damon "literally" went through The Odyssey to make Christopher Nolan's new epic, says co-star: "He would always have this incredible excitement about what we were doing"
- Kill Bill Parts One and Two are being released as one four-hour movie, including a never-before-seen animated sequence
- "EA has a huge repository of dormant IPs that are just sitting there" after $55 billion buyout, says former Dragon Age and Anthem producer, so it could make better "financial sense" to sell studios instead of shutting them down
- Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles launches to 88% 'Very Positive' Steam reviews as fans call the JRPG remaster a "beautiful recreation of an already beautiful game"
- Yes, Ghost of Yotei has brought back the hot springs, causing the exact reaction you’d expect: "Jin’s butt is still unsurpassed"
- Scuf's new flagship Xbox controller feels like redemption, and TMR sticks and wireless support make me excited to try it out
- HIM director reveals the unusual influences behind the trippy new horror movie, from 90s Nike campaigns and Busta Rhymes to Mozart and Goya: "I had a reference for everything"
- PSA: I swear by Amazon wishlists every Prime Day, and here's why
- Amid EA's unpopular $55 billion buyout, Baldur's Gate 3 director takes time "to remind people that making games faster and cheaper while charging more has never worked before"
- James Gunn says he checked Adebayo actor Danielle Brooks was comfortable with the Peacemaker season 2 twist: "We had a big conversation"
- Supergirl screenwriter couldn't get her head around the "sunny" version of Kara until she read Tom King's Woman of Tomorrow: "I was like, 'There she is'"
- One-Punch Man season 3 release schedule: when is episode 9 on Hulu and Crunchyroll?
- 5 years later, Ghost of Yotei finally reveals what happened to Jin Sakai after Ghost of Tsushima in a secret side quest
- Starfield and Deus Ex actor has done "a lot" of work with EA, but isn't sitting idly by as rumored AI-powered cost-cutting plans surface following controversial $55 billion buyout: "F*** you"
- "A couple of people had mental breakdowns": Forget GTA 6, Bully's "brutal" 120-hour development weeks might be Rockstar's worst-ever crunch - "the office started to feel like a prison"
- KPop Demon Hunters star reveals a "very personal" Rumi song was cut from the Netflix movie: "It was powerful and something that I love to sing"
- The "MCU movie drought" isn't going away after Spider-Man: Brand New Day, as Marvel fans notice another year-long gap after Avengers: Doomsday
- James Cameron says he's included a scene in Avatar: Fire and Ash that he was originally "saving" for "a later film": "F*ck that! He should get the bird"
- First major Hades 2 update fixes all sorts of glitches and makes one of the most annoying minibosses easier
- After 28 years, Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles finally makes the JRPG's ending less ambiguous and leaves the door open for a sequel
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake series lead doubts that "the exact same battle system" from the revamped JRPG trilogy will make it into his future games: "We want to keep it surprising"
- Persona 4 Revival is "shaping up nicely" – but it's "not just about adding more" content, because the JRPG devs "have to create an experience that's enjoyable in a new and different way"
- Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle beats Superman at the box office, a seismic achievement that also guarantees Marvel won't have a top 10 grossing movie for the first time since 2011
- After months of speculation, Capcom confirms the mysterious hooded guy from Resident Evil Requiem trailers is "a newly created character for this storyline" because "we don't always want to just lean on surprise comebacks"
- Treyarch devs say "we welcome all constructive feedback" as Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 readies for launch: "This is why we do a beta, so that we can make sure there are no blind spots"
- October 1
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- "Two words: cancel now" – Xbox Game Pass cancelations seemingly surge following Microsoft's tone-deaf post praising "more rewards" amid 50% price hike, and even GameStop's got jokes: "$29.99 every month. Own nothing"
- David Harbour is in talks to join fellow Marvel star Pedro Pascal in Andor showrunner Tony Gilroy's enigmatic new movie
- Warzone is getting a Blackout-inspired mode in 2026 and a dev who also worked on Call of Duty's original battle royale promises "that mode is going to be fun"
- Analysts say EA buyout "doesn't add up," expect the company to double down on live services and sports at expense of "new ideas and innovation" with layoffs looking inevitable
- Is Black Ops 7 at risk of cannibalizing its own audience with Endgame and Zombies? Treyarch says that "player-driven pacing" is a key difference between the two co-op game modes
- BioShock director Ken Levine isn't as worried while working on upcoming FPS Judas, but he used to find it "really depressing" to decide if he should stick to one style like Hideo Kojima: "Games are so hard to make"
- Dying Light: The Beast's "360 approach" to stealth combat is "maybe better" suited to this series than Far Cry, according to Techland's ex-Ubisoft game director
- James Gunn confirms Marvel exists in the DCU just as the DC Universe exists in the MCU, says Edgar Wright would have directed DC reality's Guardians of the Galaxy films
- After the September Silksong Stampede, now October has too many games: dev delays sequel to a lovely roguelike because "it has become too crowded" and "even the most precious gem can be overlooked"
- "Insanely hard" Silksong true ending speedrun world record is somehow already under 4 hours: "We have to do the entire game with 5 masks and 2 needle upgrades"
- GTA and Spider-Man are big shoes to fill, but Ananta producer decides to raise expectations even higher with Marvel Avengers comparisons: "They are the protagonists of their own stories"
- Charlie Hunnam's prep for Monster: The Ed Gein Story led him to some "crazy s***," including somehow discovering a recording that Netflix's "best researchers couldn't get"
- Former GTA boss and Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser's "own childhood" shaped "a lot" of Rockstar's cult classic open-world game Bully, former dev says, but it also "touched on all our childhood memories"
- The team behind Riverdale will turn Archie's world into a zombie-fueled nightmare with a Disney Plus adaptation of the Afterlife With Archie horror comic
- Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles follows Super Smash Bros and Mario Kart in suffering a major preservation loss – Ramza's ass is too powerful for Square Enix in 2025
- As Skyrim Grandma retires, I beg you to turn your attention to this iconic, retired JRPG superfan, who loves Persona, Xenoblade, Atelier, the PS Vita, and a lot more
- World of Warcraft: Midnight's riff on Monolith's The Lord of the Rings Nemesis System was spurred on by a War Within feature Blizzard doubted: "We weren't sure how people would react"
- World of Warcraft housing finally launches in early access this December for Midnight expansion owners, giving Blizzard's MMO a feature seen in the likes of Final Fantasy 14 for years
- Shigeru Miyamoto's cult classic Game Boy game gets a Link's Awakening DX-style release from fans, finally letting the world play as a mole fighting a Mario lookalike in color
- James Gunn says there are two DCU movie scripts he's "hoping to take to the next level" and a TV show he's "excited" about but hasn't been greenlit yet
- Spy x Family season 3 release schedule: when is episode 10 on Crunchyroll?
- My Hero Academia season 8 release schedule: when is Final Season episode 10 on Crunchyroll?
- "This is a crime against gaming": Rock Band 4 celebrates a bitter 10-year anniversary as its delisting begins on PlayStation and Xbox stores along with all DLC
- This Godzilla merch feels like a rad retro throwback, and it's only available from NYCC 2025
- Metal Gear Solid 5's unfinished mission has finally had its cutscene partially ported into the game, adding what's arguably the true ending after 10 years
- Dune: Awakening dev Funcom released a very successful MMO, so of course it is laying off staff: "This difficult process is starting now, and we cannot yet determine the exact impact"
- Ubisoft and Tencent's new Assassin's Creed and Far Cry studio has a name, and it's reportedly already making games
- If you want to play Xbox Game Pass games like The Outer Worlds 2 or Black Ops 7 on day one, you're going to have to pay a full $30 a month for Ultimate
- The Smashing Machine director Benny Safdie says acting for Christopher Nolan and Paul Thomas Anderson made him a better filmmaker: "You want somebody to say you did okay"
- Resident Evil and Street Fighter veteran faces backlash after saying "please don't buy" Palworld, claiming Pocketpair "crossed a line that should not be crossed," and admitting he has not played Palworld
- Diablo co-creator and Blizzard co-founder says it's a "brutal" time for AAA games, and it's "really stressful to do anything" with Diablo 4 out of fear of players with big expectations
- The Smashing Machine star Emily Blunt talks Dwayne Johnson's transformation in the hard-hitting MMA biopic: "I'd been waiting for my friend to get the chance to disappear"
- Splinter Cell: Deathwatch creator responds to fan uncertainty over Michael Ironside's Sam Fisher replacement: "Give him a chance, because he made me a believer"
- Borderlands 4 director shoots down conspiracy theory about loot drops: "RNGesus is a spiteful god at times"
- Xbox president says Game Pass is profitable and good for creators, despite alleged division over the subscription model
- Netflix drops new trailer for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein, teasing Jacob Elordi's Creature on a violent, vengeful quest to find Oscar Isaac's Victor Frankenstein
- Ghost of Yotei PS5 bundles are miraculously still in stock, and my bank account is not prepared
- Star of new sports horror HIM may have a football background but it was actually an old Instagram reel that lead to his casting, says director: "He had an innocence to lose"
- Star Wars fans are wondering what Dawn of the Jedi director's big new Paramount deal means for the future of his Jedi origin movie
- Toy Story 5 is a "Jessie story" with a Buzz and Woody reunion, according to Tim Allen
- Keychron's new keyboard is entirely ceramic, but it's the switches that will change the game
- Sonic Racing: CrossWorld's cross-play was "leagues more difficult" than any other part of development, but including it was crucial for good matchmaking
- Former Dragon Age director says it's "hard to imagine" BioWare pivoting from "very progressive messaging to having the reverse" following EA's $55 billion buyout, and public perception not being "apocalyptically bad" if it did
- Marlon Wayans explains why his new horror movie HIM has made him "desperate" for "heavier" roles post-Scary Movie 6: "These are my Denzel years"
- Ex-BioWare veteran says EA's $55 billion buyout is "likely going to mean layoffs and studio closures and a dramatic reduction in people" thanks to that looming $20 billion of debt
- New Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 wallhack killstreak leaves fans in shambles after former 2-time champion goes on a tear and cleans house: "This game is cooked"
- The Witcher author favors his books over live-action adaptations, Netflix or otherwise: "The original stands alone"
- I never use Amazon for Prime Day 3D printer deals, and this sale is an example of why
- KPop Demon Hunters breaks yet another Netflix record with 15 consecutive weeks in the top 10
- The Witcher 4's biggest mystery comes from an accident, says series creator Andrzej Sapkowski, who "deemed it unworthy of development and narratively incorrect"
- Marvel pulling its mystery 2027 movie means Phase 6 could break a surprising MCU record
- As Silent Hill f's combat divides fans, series producer stresses the new horror game isn't the blueprint for future titles: "We want to keep experimenting and be ambitious"
- Palworld dev is "worried many of you haven’t played" Core Keeper, "one of the best games on Steam," so now the two survival games are bundled together and even cheaper in the Steam Autumn Sale
