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- October 15
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- 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 though, 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 CEO, 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 ahead of the handheld's launch
- 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 pre-order 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 2 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: what time is episode 3 on Crunchyroll?
- My Hero Academia season 8 release schedule: when is episode 3 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
