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- May 31
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- Netflix Tudum Live Coverage – All the biggest Stranger Things season 5, Wednesday season 2, and more news as it happened
- Some of Cyberpunk 2077's immersive gun noises came from the most random places - including a KFC soda machine and boiling vegetables
- Chained Echoes and 13+ other awesome JRPGs collide in a totally free game that looks absolutely bonkers: "The first Avengers movie might be a decent comparison"
- CDPR aims to stay "focused" on RPGs like The Witcher 4 and Cyberpunk 2 – even if tempted by other genres: "We cannot do so many things we would love to do"
- Elden Ring Nightreign director says asset reuse is contentious, but FromSoft doesn't consider it a "one-to-one copy-paste" - it's just "an efficient way to build these games"
- Following The Witcher 3, CD Projekt Red wants to ensure it doesn't "copy our own tricks all over again and again"
- May 30
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- CDPR devs are so locked into The Witcher 4 that they're apparently using its new control scheme by accident while playing other games
- Elden Ring Nightreign producer thanks players for "bravely" embracing its "peculiar aspects" as it collects Mixed Steam reviews: "As with Demon's Souls or Sekiro, it may be confounding at first"
- GTA 5 dev says his new open-world game is 20 hours of no-filler content at a now-quaint $60 because players "worried about the price of eggs" want "value for money"
- Defying the British dev behind their MMO's "casual doubling of our taxes," Old School RuneScape player recreates the Boston Tea Party: "You think the British would have learned by now"
- 28 Years Later is the "opposite" of what you'd expect from a zombie apocalypse sequel, says director Danny Boyle: "There is a reflection in them, of where you are and what's happened to you"
- Netflix's new show from Money Heist creators gets an incredibly tense first trailer with shades of Lost and Severance
- Canceled EA Black Panther game reportedly had its own version of Monolith’s patented Nemesis System, which studio closures keep punting toward oblivion
- Stardew Valley creator can only say "interesting, thanks for the info" as he's presumably stunned, as I am, by one fan's devotion to accurate trains in games: "PLEASE add a tender to the locomotive in Stardew Valley"
- Hank Hill is back from Saudi Arabia, Bobby is all grown up, and Dale Gribble is running for mayor as King of the Hill reboot reveals release date and credits sequence
- "I want him to be my dad but I also want him to go away": REPO devs are losing it a little bit, but have cool new features for Update 1 and "are very excited to see how you might break the game"
- 50 years after Jaws hit theaters, a new documentary with never-before-seen footage and commentary from Steven Spielberg is headed to Disney Plus
- I was already obsessed with Fields of Mistria, and the princely Stardew Valley-like's big summer update adding everything from dating to greenhouses has grabbed me all over again
- Elden Ring Nightreign's creators are begging you: upgrade your flasks, stick together, and don't be afraid to use an ultimate for a revive
- "One day we were crossing our fingers for rent money and the next we had millions of players": REPO devs get candid, say the game "literally made semiwork as a studio survive" and insist future updates won't take so long
- 28 Years Later director Danny Boyle used a 20-iPhone rig to capture the film's "graphic" violence: "You feel like you're in the room with the unzipped spine and head"
- Splinter Cell remake hasn't been seen in years, but Ubisoft just teased fans with an ultra strange close-up of Sam Fisher's face right before Summer Game Fest
- F1 25 is here and these racing wheel discounts have arrived right in time
- Top Gun: Maverick director says he cast Brad Pitt over Tom Cruise in his new F1 movie because "Tom always pushes it to the limit" and "that terrifies me"
- Elden Ring Nightreign passes 2 million sales on its first day, despite a "Mixed" Steam rating and some of FromSoftware's lowest critic scores in years
- The Witcher 3 dev says "one of the longest email threads in our company history" was about "how naked Geralt should be" in the iconic bath scene: "When he gets up, how much butt should we show?"
- "The longer the game is, the less likely people are to finish": Fallout creator Tim Cain says 100+ hour RPGs are "deep" and all, but they're also intimidating money pits
- Netflix reigns supreme as Squid Game season 2 and surprise hit Adolescence top the list of most-watched shows of the past year
- Fantastic Four star teases Sue Storm and Reed Richards' baby Franklin will "have superpowers" in the Marvel movie
- Hideo Kojima reunited with The Batman star Robert Pattinson, but won’t reveal what they talked about: "There are things I can't really say here"
- Elden Ring Nightreign doesn't offer duos, so players are going online to ask for a third: "Hey we saw [you] from across the Roundtable and thought you looked cool"
- Borderlands and Horizon voice actor Ashly Burch says Metal Gear made her realise voice acting could be a job: "I think it did open up to me what the possibilities of performance in games could be"
- We have to go back: 15 years on, Lost star Matthew Fox reignites the debate over its controversial finale, declaring some fans are "missing the point a little bit"
- Elden Ring Nightreign Patch 1.02 will arrive next week, and it'll make things much easier for solo players
- After 10 years of updates and 60 million copies, The Witcher 3 is bowing out with "one more patch" to add mods to consoles for the first time ever
- Netflix is turning real-life $8 billion crypto fraud case into a TV series – and it's already found its leads in Fantastic Four and Masters of the Air stars
- Undertale creator Toby Fox has some indie recommendations while you wait for Deltarune Chapters 3 and 4, including a visual novel he "can't wait" to see more of
- "The Battle of Super Earth is won": Helldivers 2 grunts have officially ended the Illuminate invasion, defending our last 2 Mega Cities and forcing the squids "into hiding"
- Even though "it works for all FromSoft games," The Witcher 3 devs quickly discovered that forcing you to fight ridiculously strong enemies "was a bad idea"
- It took mere hours, but Elden Ring Nightreign already has duos in development thanks to the modding icon behind Dark Souls and Armored Core co-op
- The Nintendo Switch 2 will have new system unlock noises, and I'm devastated to report the clown honk is gone
- Terrifier creator says Art the Clown’s backstory will be revealed in "the first 15 minutes" of Terrifier 4: "It's not going to disappoint"
- Constantine actor reveals that Keanu Reeves is "not so happy with the scripts" for the sequel: "Don't turn it into big Marvel"
- Fantastic Four's Galactus actor went method for his Marvel role – by visiting tall buildings
- Helldivers 2 players are in mourning over the death of Super Earth's President, who "died heroically"
- Microsoft has reportedly pushed back the Xbox handheld as it prioritizes making Windows 11 better for gaming on the go
- EA cancelled the open-world Black Panther, but Marvel confirms its 3-game "long-term relationship" with the Iron Man publisher is still on
- The Elden Ring movie may have its lead – and it's an up-and-coming Netflix star
- The Last of Us season 2 finale aquarium fight wasn't game-accurate because "a physical struggle wasn't going to go well", says co-creator: "Ellie is not really capable of killing Owen"
- New horror movie from The Purge director gets first trailer featuring SNL star stuck in a sinister retirement home, and it's the scariest thing you’ll see today
- As $80 games become more common, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 team says there's room for "sensibly scoped" $40-50 titles following its own "win-win" price point
- Three Persona 4 actors have said they're not returning to the unannounced remake in the same order you recruit their characters in the JRPG, fuelling theories that they are, actually, coming back
- May 29
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- GTA 5 modder who spent 10 years and most of his 10,000-hour playtime making Los Santos photo realistic says "modding is going to be bigger than ever once GTA 6 eventually drops on PC"
- Elden Ring Nightreign Steam reviews are FromSoftware's second-lowest ever, as players hit back against its 60fps cap and lack of duos support
- FromSoftware has already suggested a fix for Elden Ring Nightreign's endless matchmaking error on PS5 - and it's super simple
- Elden Ring Nightreign player count surges to more than 300,000 players in just 60 minutes, eclipsing the entire Dark Souls trilogy combined
- Strategy RPG boss thanks furries for making his cult series a hit with over a half-million sales: "When it comes to furry games, there actually aren’t that many options"
- Darth Maul voice actor teases his new Star Wars animated show: "This isn't going to be a show where you find out Maul is a real teddy bear"
- Turns out 'Rocket League without cars' is a good idea: Rematch beta test from Sifu devs flies past 150k players on Steam, suggesting Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 publisher could have another hit on its hands
- FromSoftware reveals mysterious Elden Ring Nightreign character hours before the game comes out, singlehandedly ending the parrying debate with undead knights who do all the work for you
- CDPR boss tells The Witcher 4 hopefuls to "keep calm" as Summer Game Fest hype builds: "Remember that next week we are launching Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition on Nintendo Switch 2"
- If you can't wait for Borderlands 4, Gearbox is making Tiny Tina's Wonderlands free-to-keep on PC for the next week
- Helldivers 2 sees over 2,600 negative Steam reviews in one day, a 40x increase from 2 days ago, as players accuse Arrowhead of forging the Galactic War narrative and apparently forget how war works
- Ben Stiller has "two specific ideas" for potential Severance spin-offs – and a Lumon video game because "the show lends itself" to one
- Hideo Kojima rejected several celebrity appearances, but apparently made darn sure his favorite vtuber is in Death Stranding 2
- Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 celebrates 25 years of the best fighting game ever with action figures that perfectly recreate its art style
- The quest to preserve Japan's lost Final Fantasy 7 spin-off just gave us what might be the first-ever footage of its Chocobo racing minigame
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (May 30 - June 1)
- Very dead Sony game Concord is offline for good, but you can still buy this commemorative plaque that's already soaring past $3,000 at auction
- The first one-hit kill card was just added to Pokemon TCG Pocket in Extradimensional Crisis: it's a teddy bear that cuddles you to death, and it's terrible
- Even Yoko Taro says it was "more dangerous," and other devs tried to stop him, but Danganronpa's creator insisted on having 100 endings in his absurd new RPG
- After a string of losses, Helldivers 2 players tell the Illuminate "Not Today" in 'Super China' Mega City Equality-on-Sea, which is so dang defended our forces have "pushed the Illuminate to the edges"
- After 24 years, the Morrowind modders behind Tamriel Rebuilt aren't afraid of a Bethesda remake akin to Oblivion Remastered as it would "ruin the game entirely"
- First trailer for James Bond and Marvel stars' new murder mystery movie is the perfect mix of Knives Out and Prime Suspect
- Pokemon Scarlet and Violet's free Switch 2 update promises to steal hundreds more hours from me as shiny hunting looks easier than ever with more wild encounters
- Corsair refreshes its wooden gaming PC, this time with an RTX 5080 inside it
- Capcom may finally bring one of its greatest co-op games back to PC, but it also just deleted everyone's saves for it
- 12 years later, the legacy of NCAA 14 is still hanging over EA College Football 26, but fans are celebrating the overdue return of features like formation subs and trophy rooms
- Helldivers 2 players no longer think the bugdivers are threatening the chances of saving Super Earth as the latest Major Order is finally brokering peace with the squiddivers
- Oblivion Remastered player "took ONE step" and flew outside of the RPG's boundaries after using a trick that gave them over 222 million Speed: "See you in Elder Scrolls 6"
- The Psion is a new D&D class for mental magic, and it almost works
- Modder reviving dead Borderlands MMO turns to the community for help to make the long-forgotten game playable again: "This is genuinely history-making stuff"
- Homelander actor Antony Starr doesn't understand why some viewers of The Boys are "glorifying" his villain: "This guy is not the hero of any story"
- FromSoftware warns of potential "significant frame rate drops" in early Elden Ring Nightreign patch, especially for PC gamers "using the latest graphics cards"
- Elden Ring Nightreign patch 1.01 is out even if the game isn't – and welcome back FromSoftware, these patch notes don't tell us a darn thing
- Agatha All Along star reveals why his hit Netflix series is concluding with a movie rather than another season: "We realized that the only way to get it made this year is if we do a film"
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 producer wants to follow Valve and Nintendo's example with Half-Life 2 and Zelda: Ocarina of Time by keeping teams lean despite success
- New The Toxic Avenger trailer teases eye-popping gore and Robocop influences, as Game of Thrones star dispatches a band of rockstars
- Elden Ring Nightreign's latest trailer takes us right back to mid-2000s YouTube by becoming an Evanescence-scored AMV
- Pokemon Legends: Z-A seemingly features a returning X and Y character who has fans going feral after spotting her in the RPG's cover art
- The Office star Jenna Fischer defends the sitcom's later seasons after Steve Carrell's departure: "Some of my favorite episodes were in seasons 8 and 9"
- Former PlayStation boss says subscription services like Xbox Game Pass could become "dangerous" for devs, and that Sony delivers a "healthier" model with PS Plus
- Hideo Kojima had to start rejecting Death Stranding 2 cameos after featuring everyone from Conan O'Brien to Junji Ito in the first game
- Call me Benoit Blanc because I have just solved the cryptic teaser for Netflix's upcoming movie Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
- The Last of Us showrunner has broken down season 2's final scene with a comparison that is raising eyebrows: Abby is "not like Ellie" because she's "incredibly competent"
- EA's canceled Black Panther game was "amazing and stunning," and its devs are "so sad" it'll never be released
- The Penguin showrunner says other The Batman spin-offs are in the "early stages" of development, as she gets candid about a second season: "I arced everything"
- Former Persona 4 actors seemingly keep revealing a new JRPG remake from Atlus – by confirming they won't be in it: "I have not been asked to reprise my role"
- EA's canceled Black Panther game supposedly contained Skrulls and had you playing as T'Challa's son Azari
- Star Wars Battlefront 3 hopefuls pour one out as EA is reportedly “focusing on a small handful of franchises” after cancelling Black Panther: “EA fumbled one of the biggest IPs in existence”
- In the wake of Black Panther's cancelation, Star Wars Jedi dev says "morale has been at an all-time low" after EA scrapped 3 Respawn games in 2 years
- Game of Thrones star Rory McCann speaks out on joining Star Wars as Baylan Skoll in Ahsoka: "I think it's the right decision to carry on his storyline"
- The Fantastic Four runtime has been revealed and it's the longest Marvel movie since Guardians of the Galaxy 3
- Karate Kid: Legends star Jackie Chan looks back on the divisive Rush Hour 3, and agrees it's the weakest movie in the franchise: "Too much money is no good"
- Elden Ring: Nightreign release live coverage - everything we've discovered in the run-up to launch
- Will Thor die in Avengers: Doomsday? Chris Hemsworth just posted a tribute message to his Marvel character, and it sure sounds like a goodbye
- Horizon and The Last of Us 2 star says there's a risk game devs will say "let's just have AI" do voices for NPCs and minor characters: "We're gonna be losing out on our next generation of great performers"
- May 28
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- Elden Ring Nightreign release time – FromSoftware's new co-op roguelike is almost here
- Star Wars: Battlefront 2 fans are raising the game from the dead seemingly through sheer force of will, but that hasn't stopped hackers from trying to ruin the fun
- I said I wouldn't play anything until I beat Oblivion: Remastered, but this Elder Scrolls-inspired AA RPG with stellar Steam reviews is mighty tempting: "Skyrim in a world that looks like Elden Ring, without the Souls-like difficulty"
- James Gunn says the first call he made after getting the top DC Studios job was to Marvel boss Kevin Feige
- In a 557-word post to end all posts, Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford fully lays out the "misunderstanding" over Borderlands 4 $80 comments: "I don't want anyone to pay any more than they should"
- CD Projekt Red just called Project Orion Cyberpunk 2 for the first time but insists that isn't actually the title, and I think I heard this song before with The Witcher 4
- The longest Switch 2 launch leak yet shows the console setup process, its catchy startup jingle, and slick UI – at least until it gets nuked
- EA kills another single-player game: Black Panther is canceled and the studio that was making it is shutting down
- Dark Souls bosses are about to terrorize Elden Ring Nightreign players because the director wanted to "really embrace" the "chaos" of The Lands Between
- Asked about Cyberpunk 2 release date, CDPR boss reiterates "our journey from the pre-production to the final release takes 4 to 5 years on average" but "each project is unique"
- I never thought I'd have to issue a spoiler warning for the Switch 2 system menu, but Nintendo is already revealing hidden mouse control Easter eggs
- As The Duskbloods affirms FromSoftware's short multiplayer arc, Elden Ring Nightreign will "tell us how players feel about this kind of game and this kind of new challenge for us," director says
- Exec on former GTA 5 lead's new open-world game MindsEye says negative reactions have come from a "financed" and "concerted effort to trash the game and the studio"
- It's not looking good: Helldivers 2 players lost another Super Earth city, so now they've got reduced ammo and Stims – oh wait, they're back to normal and we've got free napalm too
- Keanu Reeves is a guardian angel in the first trailer for new body-swap comedy Good Fortune
- Switch N64 emulation is about to get a whole lot better, but only on Switch 2 because it takes the power of next-generation hardware to apply a basic CRT filter
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 publisher says GTA 6 and Rockstar can make ballooning AAA budgets and team sizes work, but "there's been a lot of irresponsible practices in the industry" from others who can't
- Cyberpunk 2 has entered pre-production, as The Witcher 3 leaps above Super Mario Bros to sell 60 million copies
- Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin hits back at demands he finish the next book: "You don't care about anything but Winds of Winter. You've told me so often enough"
- Wolfenstein studio MachineGames was apparently working on an unannounced game at the same time as Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, but it was canceled
- A Skyrim player has put their body on the line and proved High Hrothgar's 7,000 steps are actually just 3,600, but they still took 45 minutes to climb
- The Last of Us creator says season 2 finale's plot threads will eventually be tied up: "All of it will become clear"
- Jenna Ortega teases a "bigger, bolder, gorier, a bit darker" and "sillier" Wednesday season 2 as she continues to find her "footing" as the show’s producer
- Persona 4 Remake, Atlus' worst-kept secret, seemingly leaked in deleted post from Yosuke's voice actor, who says he won't return: "They don’t want me to come back"
- Elden Ring Nightreign Metacritic score sets it as the lowest-scored FromSoftware game in 7 years and ties a 25-year-old PS2 platformer nobody remembers, but that's before the multiplayer buff sets in
- Resident Evil 2 director Hideki Kamiya has no interest in returning to the series, but Dino Crisis on the other hand: "I'd love to give it a shot"
- Hideo Kojima reveals that a Death Stranding anime adaptation is in the works: "I want to pursue the expressive potential of cinema"
- Rick and Morty voice actors tease a more "badass" Jerry in season 8, as Chris Parnell says "it's fun to play someone that's put upon"
- Bleed builds dominated Elden Ring at launch, and now FromSoftware has specifically nerfed bleed and frost in Nightreign after they were "way too strong" in the network test
- For the first time, Epic's State of Unreal will take place during Unreal Fest, with presentations from CEO Tim Sweeney and more
- Oblivion Remastered player picks wrong quest at wrong time, spends 100 hours and counting running around Cyrodiil afflicted with The Elder Scrolls 4's most irritating curse
- Bayonetta creator Hideki Kamiya reckons he's a better YouTuber than Smash Bros boss Masahiro Sakurai: "My YouTube channel is much more interesting than Sakurai's"
- Pokemon Legends: Z-A just got an October release date, and we can look forward to another Pokemon Presents stream in July
- Borderlands 2 voice actor says watching the Borderlands movie was like a "weird fever dream": "It took me a solid 20 to 30 minutes to settle into the fact that it was a movie"
- Cult director of unreleased Michael Fassbender and Arnold Schwarzenegger movie announces next project: a "fantasy punk" film that's a "crazy mishmash" of Star Wars, Mad Max, and Lord of the Rings
- Switch 2 leakers beware, even former Nintendo marketing leads found it "surprising" how good the company was at tracking people down: "They will find who it is"
- It's not just Final Fantasy and Persona – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is also inspired by my favorite JRPG gem Shadow Hearts, confirming a theory I've been sitting on for weeks
- The Last of Us co-creator says one of the franchise's darkest moments was cut from the season 2 finale because violence is more "graphic" in live-action: "It's not like there's an animation between you and it"
- In honor of Until Dawn releasing on digital, Sony has unveiled the video game horror's "alternate" opening scene - and we're confused
- Our favorite horror doll M3GAN has the most hilarious response to The Conjuring’s Annabelle going missing
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs use Tekken 8 mod on a lunch break to figure out whether Verso or Renoir is stronger, attracting the attention of fighting series boss Katsuhiro Harada
- The Elden Ring movie gets its first top-tier fancasting choice – Game of Thrones' Charles Dance swapping Westeros for The Lands Between to play Gideon
- New Mario Kart World footage seems to confirm a new way to race that was originally planned for Double Dash 22 years ago
- Fallout's creator went so scorched earth when he was ordered to delete the RPG's source code that he even broke his "personal toy projects" forever because he deleted the Fallout libraries they referenced
- Netflix drama Adolescence set to become the streamer's second most-watched English-language show, beating out Stranger Things season 4
- New Avengers: Doomsday set photo could hint at a return to a key Deadpool and Wolverine location
- Chilling first teaser for new found footage horror movie starring paranormal influencers shows a ghostly investigation gone wrong
- Lilo and Stitch director addresses why a major character from the 2002 original was cut
- Kingdom Hearts 4 voice recording may be underway as one actor claims to have been involved in the RPG in the last year
- Andor fans have worked out that K-2SO had a really short lifespan, and it's pretty heartbreaking
- Arcane writer wants to explore "motherhood" and "how phases of life shift" in a possible spin-off: "What happens when Vi and Caitlyn are older?
- Borderlands 4 might not feature fan-favorite Tiny Tina, as her voice actor says they "haven't heard anything" about returning to the series
- New Daredevil: Born Again season 2 BTS photo has Marvel fans hoping one villain is here to stay: "He has so much potential"
- Karate Kid: Legends star Ben Wang on what he learned from working with Jackie Chan: "He's made 200 of these things, and it's like every movie is his first"
- May 27
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- Apple just bought its first game studio, and its new gaming app will reportedly be revealed at June WWDC 2025
- Lethal Company creator is about to unleash "maybe the most powerful creature in the game" with the co-op horror hit's first update in months
- Making a real Switch 2 cartridge instead of a game-key card was "not an easy decision" for the Rune Factory publisher, but "building up goodwill with our fans is always a good investment"
- The Last of Us season 2 showrunners say it was "important" to include a disturbing scene in the finale that was cut from the game: "It's as if the universe is telling [Ellie]: 'Stop, look how far you've come'"
- Formative '90s comic writer Peter David dead at 68
- Update: it's already gone – Early "Nintendo Switch 2 unboxing" video is literally 7 seconds of some dude opening the box, and later claiming the console is bricked until June 5 anyway
- Fantasy Life i will be "enhanced" as a Switch 2 launch title, and unlike Nintendo's $10 Zelda editions, the life sim RPG only costs $2.59 extra to upgrade
- Mario Kart World has rail-grinding, wall-riding, and a ska remix of a classic Super Mario Bros 3 song so I think it's an unofficial Tony Hawk's Pro Skater game now
- The director of Elden Ring Nightreign has been thinking about this game since Dark Souls 3, and "seeing the scope of Elden Ring" finally made it click in his mind
- Batman and Deadpool will come together this fall in the first official Marvel/DC crossover in over 20 years, with Grant Morrison, Greg Capullo, and more all-star creators on board
- After waiting over 20 years for Bloodlines 2, ex Dragon Age writer says "the hope is that we would get a new Vampire game in the same line as Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 or Baldur's Gate 3"
- Exclusive: Disney Villainous gets its first live action character in a new Pirates of the Caribbean expansion
- Disney Plus’ Vision TV show casts Fall of the House of Usher actor as Marvel comics hero with a direct link to Ultron
- Life imitates art: Clair Obscur Expedition 33 sold 3.3 million copies in 33 days – "Seriously. As of today. We couldn't make that up"
- REPO devs say "we've heard your feedback" and you can chill a bit: the Museum is "not finished," and the difficulty's going up with "Moon Phases" because "the game needs to keep up with you"
- After Borderlands 4 price comment backlash and a smoldering review bombing, series fans turn a new offer of golden keys from Randy Pitchford into the latest theater: "Surprised the code wasn't 'for the true fans'"
- You shall not pass, at least not until you behold this Lego Lord of the Rings book nook
- Monster Hunter Wilds' weakest weapon is probably my beloved hammer, but good news, bonk fans: Capcom is buffing it so hard that it can't fit it all in one patch
- 2 years into their roles, the new Rick and Morty voice actors say they're taking "more ownership" over the iconic characters in season 8
- Elden Ring Nightreign leads say FromSoftware is bracing servers for launch and working to "improve our multiplayer game" – "In the worst case, we want players to be able to keep playing"
- HBO has finally announced the new Harry, Ron and Hermione for the next 10 years of Harry Potter
- Fans want Star Wars Battlefront 3 so bad that they've pushed Battlefront 2 to an all-time Steam peak 8 years after launch and even mocked up a menu for a third game on their own
- After multiple PS5 price hikes in several regions, the console is now actually cheaper in some countries – but only for a couple of weeks
- The best new shows and movies streaming this week on Netflix, Prime Video, Disney Plus, HBO Max, and more
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 studio already has "great ideas for the next game" after its debut release "smashed our forecasts pretty fast"
- Palworld dev says Pocketpair could "mass hire" to help update its survival game faster, but it won't: "That's how game companies fall into the usual traps and become slimy"
- Star Wars fans have spotted a Death Star detail in Rogue One that makes a Princess Leia moment in A New Hope even more upsetting
- With just days to go, Elden Ring Nightreign director says it's "equal parts nerves and excitement" as FromSoftware polishes game balance "until the last minute"
- The oldest Elder Scrolls game might finally become more playable on modern machines thanks to a fan-made project giving the 31-year-old RPG the Oblivion Remastered treatment
- PowerA is launching the first officially licensed Switch 2 controller, and it's cheaper than Nintendo's
- Solo Leveling won big at the Anime Awards, but some fans think these other anime shows were "robbed"
- Helldivers 2 grunts suspect Illuminate interference as Automaton distractions and a last-minute update contribute to a Major Order failure: "Illuminate is controlling High Command"
- Final Destination 4’s most memorable scene almost happened in real life as a movie theater started to fall down during Final Destination Bloodlines screening
- James Gunn says Peacemaker season 2 has a "really, really, really big cameo" as he teases key connections between the HBO show and the upcoming Superman
- PS5 designer Mark Cerny has platinumed poker roguelike Balatro, making him part of an elite group of 0.1% of players
- Witcher 3 devs "knew it from the get go” that they wanted Ciri as protagonist for Witcher 4 back in 2014
- Mission: Impossible fans are convinced a dead character returns in the final few seconds of Final Reckoning – without anyone noticing until now
- Assassin's Creed Shadows is getting a much-needed parkour update, and the pre-order quest about a vengeful dog will be available to all later today
- Mission: Impossible director Christopher McQuarrie reveals his scrapped plans for a Superman movie, and I'm convinced Tom Cruise was meant to play Green Lantern
- Hideo Kojima says Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning is "a film about Tom Cruise putting his life on the line in a desperate struggle to save cinema itself"
- Mission: Impossible helmer says Top Gun 3 will be just as "emotional" as the first two movies, as he "already knows" what it will entail
- Lilo and Stitch might be proving Disney's live-action remakes still have juice after Snow White flopped, as the box office has already surpassed the original animated classic
- Dragon Quest 1&2 HD-2D Remake is coming to Switch 2 this October, but it looks like the JRPG is packed onto Nintendo's divisive game-key card
- The Last of Us season 2 finale suffered a 55 percent drop in viewers from season 1, but HBO says it's expected to grow
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 creative director is more pleased about his French JRPG's acceptance in Japan than he is about its "acclaim in any other country"
- Elden Ring fans have the perfect pick for the movie's protagonist – and it's not the Tarnished, Melina, or even Miquella
- Ralph Macchio says Karate Kid: Legends is "for today's generation," but part of the "beauty" of it is younger fans will leave "knowing a little bit about who Mr Miyagi was"
- May 26
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- "Even people in the studio had problems" with Cyberpunk 2077's most uncomfortable quest, but CDPR stood by it because "we don't do heavy things for the sake of edginess"
- "Valve never made a Portal 2 sequel. So we did," claims impossibly bold indie puzzler which actually reminds me more of a different puzzle game
- Hideo Kojima admits Death Stranding is "weird," which feels like it might be a pretty substantial understatement for his entire body of work
- With the caveat he got "really, really, really lucky," Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director shares classic advice: "You have to make a game that you will like"
- This dev's first game, a surreal trip based on a YouTube animated series, came out 3 days after Schedule 1 and is right on its heels for best-reviewed Steam release of the year
- 28 years later, Fallout creator wonders if all the effort he put in to scrubbing a minor graphics issue was actually worth it, especially because Diablo "had it in droves and no-one cared"
- Oblivion Remastered player spends 55,000 years in jail after a 2-billion bounty crime spree, breaking the in-game calendar in the process
- Metaphor: ReFantazio combat lead has crushing news for JRPG theorycrafters: lots of people think "I found a way to win that even the developers didn't anticipate!"' but "most of those methods are actually ones that we knew about"
- Kratos actor Christopher Judge says working on God of War "changed my whole perspective on the world" and "what it really means to be a man"
- Games made in 2 years are more exciting than games made in 8 years, indie boss says, because "6 years of that" is often "no man's land while some guy would come in and radically change the game because he played something really cool"
- Years before The Witcher 3, CDPR was just trying to survive: "How do we escape annihilation?"
- Hideo Kojima thought up Physint when he became sick during the pandemic and "realised that a lot of people wanted me to make something like Metal Gear"
- This post-apocalyptic farming sim might have the best pixel art and Steam trailer I've seen all year, but it's the Terraria vibes that really set the hook
- "It's terrifying": CEO behind ex-Helldivers, WoW devs' new studio says it's a "silly," "ridiculous" time to create a new studio, but someone needs to stop "ignoring 52% of the world population"
- Civilization 7's choice of leaders came down to "authenticity and not accuracy" - "The goal is not 'is wrong wrong?' But rather 'Does wrong feel wrong?'"
- Ralph Macchio says Daniel LaRusso is "in a place where I believed he would wind up, even back in the day" in Karate Kid: Legends
- Splinter Cell dev says the Chaos Theory team "couldn't have gotten more out of the hardware if we wanted to," thanks to a "paradigm shift" fueled by the original Xbox
- The Last of Us season 2 showrunner says he was both "eager" and "terrified" to recreate that harrowing Joel scene from the game: "What Bella did there was pretty shattering"
- The Last of Us season 2 showrunners say they were "open to a different ending" but decided on a cliffhanger instead: "We have to take risks as a television show"
- May 25
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- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead says what we all know is true: "Persona 5 is the best game in the world when it comes to battle depictions and UI"
- Ex Dragon Age writer pushes back on RPG casts who are all romanceable and instantly into you: "That limits the different types of stories you can do"
- Crunchyroll Anime Awards 2025 – all the winners
- Tom Cruise had to be carried off the plane for Mission: Impossible finale due to tiredness
- "After being rejected by over 50 publishers," stylish indie RPG smashes its $60,000 Kickstarter in less than 24 hours in a "defiant shout" to the industry
- Moon Knight producer gives update on hero's return to the MCU: "I think the ball's really in their court"
- The Witcher 4 director calls returning to the fantasy RPG "challenging" after Cyberpunk 2077, but CDPR is finally ready to have 2 franchises cook at once
- "We had failed as designers": Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory director says developing the original stealth game was "very difficult," but that it drove Ubisoft to do "much, much better"
- Hideo Kojima compares Death Stranding 2 to the East India Company: "It's represented by the prevalence of weapons"
- Ryan Reynolds admits that Deadpool and Wolverine almost saw the end of Wade Wilson
- Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 does have "vampire romance," but it's the weird, bitey kind of romance and it's "probably awful" to look at
- Doctor Who legend David Tennant admits to wanting Fantastic Four role before Pedro Pascal got the part
- May 24
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- I'm all in on the new edition of Horus Heresy now it's finally been revealed, and I love how nitty-gritty its rules are
- After Clair Obscur's hype, another J-inspired RPG with timing-based combat just launched a massive, free, and acclaimed new expansion
- Death Stranding and Metal Gear Solid mastermind Hideo Kojima has always wanted to make a film, but Guillermo del Toro told him not to
- Dragon Age maestro says EA always spoke about a hypothetical 'nerd cave' full of diehard RPG fans who would "always show up," so you "didn't have to try and appeal to them"
- Splitgate 2 confirms a 1-in-100 chance you might fart when crouching in the new Halo meets Portal FPS, and it needs to be seen to be believed
- Former Dragon Age lead writer says being at BioWare was "glorious," but under EA it "surrendered more and more of its independence until we got to where we got to"
- Dragon Age legend says even if he didn't leave BioWare 9 years ago, he still would have dipped over EA's live service Dragon Age push: "What a devil's contract that would have been"
- Charlie Cox asks fans to write letters to get a Daredevil MCU movie
- Hayley Atwell got in a fight while eight months pregnant for latest Mission: Impossible
- Ryan Reynolds had an R-rated Star Wars story he pitched to Disney that might've gotten emotional
- Assassin's Creed Hexe director and Far Cry 2 veteran says he "would not, and could not" work as hard as he did on Splinter Cell ever again
- Former Black Widow star Scarlett Johansson might not have any plans to play her MCU role again, but she thinks it "would be fun" to direct a Marvel movie
- After a $2 billion box office haul, Avatar: The Way of Water is making another splash in theaters for a "limited engagement"
- May 23
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- Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time is getting free DLC with new recipes and other cozy goodness due to "the game's global success and the warm support from players around the world"
- Mortal Kombat 1 dev confirms "there will not be additional DLC characters or story chapters" so that it can "shift focus to the next project"
- The Wheel of Time stops turning at Prime Video as Amazon cancels the fantasy series a month after the season 3 finale
- Rick and Morty's Dan Harmon says "nothing's off the table" – including "a well-done musical episode"
- Switch 2 also supports USB mice "seamlessly," and a video with 500 views beat Nintendo to the punch on the hardware reveal I've been waiting for
- Elden Ring live action movie director Alex Garland previously said he was "on NG+6" and loves Shadow of the Erdtree: "Don't even want to think about the hours I've clocked up. Can't seem to stop playing"
- Frank Castle is back in a new R-rated comic that Marvel promises is the "most violent in Punisher history"
- Ex Dragon Age writer worries more fans are tying their identity to games and hoping to see games fail to prove a point: "See what happened to them? See how their game sold?"
- "A new island in Palworld, that's half a year's work": Helldivers 2 and Palworld leads agree people can "misunderstand how long it takes to make things," and you can't just "add this or do that"
- A FromSoftware mech game that's been dead since 2010 is suddenly back thanks to unofficial servers: "Just seeing the multiplayer hanger again after 15 years was a really emotional thing for me"
- Despite being the father of Mario, Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto has once again affirmed Pikmin is his favourite child: "I spent a lot of time the past 5, 6 years really wanting to grow Pikmin"
- Lost and Yellowstone star says his Mission: Impossible fate was originally very different, and very gory - and involved being cut open by Paula Patton: "They said, 'It's just too harsh'"
- Delay GTA 6 again, this one-frame lighting mistake that eagle-eyed fans found in the new trailer simply will not stand: "Literally unplayable"
- Millions recoil as Zenless Zone Zero tells Wuthering Waves, Genshin Impact, and Honkai Star Rail to hold my beer, giving out free S-rank characters and weapons for its anniversary
- Schedule 1 dev teases a small feature people have wanted for ages, and fans already love it
- Daredevil star Charlie Cox has "no idea" what it would take to bring Matt Murdock to the big screen, but urges fans to "write letters": "You have to ask the grown-ups"
- As calls for Star Wars Battlefront 3 grow stronger, an ex-Pandemic dev explains why the original games never got a third entry: "We started working on it and then negotiations just didn’t take off"
- The creator of Moon Knight still doesn’t know if the character will return for future Marvel projects: "I'm as curious as the rest of you guys"
- Before The Witcher 3 smashed its "super ambitious" lifetime sales goals in just 3 months, CDPR's CEO was convinced Batman: Arkham Knight was going to "roll over us"
- Helldivers 2 players survived the Super Earth invasion and put a 10% dent in the Illuminate, but the real heroes are the new NPCs: "My glorious king SEAF soldier charging the Overseer to save my life"
- Hideo Kojima doesn't want more than 150 people working on games like Death Stranding 2 thanks to a sheep herding tip from Mad Max director George Miller
- New Final Destination Bloodlines footage shows how the film executed what fans are calling "the most traumatizing death of the whole movie," and it's highly impressive
- Andor's creator has a unique gripe about Marvel movies and why they "fail": "All you're doing is just trying to get the Tesseract"
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's story mode is down to Maelle actor and Baldur's Gate 3 favorite Jennifer English: "I really want to play this game and I don't think I can without it being on easy mode"
- "There's nothing about JRPGs that requires them to be made in Japan," says ex Dragon Age writer, speaking nothing but facts – and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 just proves it again
- Despite being brutally murdered by Ghostface, Sarah Michelle Gellar still wants to reprise her Scream 2 role: "I'm waiting for my call"
- After Thunderbolts, Marvel fans are desperate for two unlikely characters to share the screen again in Avengers: Doomsday
- Former Star Wars Battlefront 2 dev says "we want to get the gang back together" for a potential sequel as the game surges in popularity once more
- The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson still wants to make his Star Wars trilogy, even though there's been no update for 8 years
- Iron Fist and Luke Cage actors are now in New York and it's hard not to jump to the same conclusion: the Defenders are reuniting in Daredevil: Born Again season 2
- After Deadpool & Wolverine, Marvel's longest serving superhero finally addresses whether he will return alongside the OG X-Men in Avengers: Doomsday
- Marvel delays mean Spider-Man: Brand New Day will now be released before Avengers: Doomsday – and fans are wondering what it could mean for Peter Parker
- Baldur's Gate 3 dev says it's "too early to tell" if Larian's next RPG will be a new Divinity game
- Oblivion Remastered streamer gets every single NPC in the game high on Skooma - and it turns out Uriel Septim cannot handle his drink
- Marvel delays both upcoming Avengers movies, Doomsday and Secret Wars, 7 months each
- May 22
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- The live-action Elden Ring movie is officially official at A24, with Civil War and Warfare director Alex Garland at the helm
- Simon Pegg has slain zombies and defused bombs, but the "strangest" prop he owns is a fake nose he stole from the set of Star Wars: "It's in a little glass case at my house"
- Marvel Rivals season 2.5 adds Ultron to the roster, a new map, a limited time auto chess mode, new and retired team-ups, and a Sharknado move for ol' Jeff
- Netflix's new animated movie where K-pop stars fight boy band demons gets a wild trailer as the creator says she "wanted to see something different from the Marvel female superheroes"
- Our favorite film critic Hideo Kojima is back with positive reviews for sci-fi thrillers Companion and A Quiet Place: Day One
- Hank Pym actor Michael Douglas says he's done with the MCU: "I'm enjoying my hiatus and enjoying my life"
- Bond fans are convinced that Marvel star Aaron Taylor-Johnson has been cast as the next 007, and it's all because of a watch
- If you loved Space Marine 2, great news: it's getting a horde mode, the original is getting a remaster, and 5 more promising Warhammer games were just announced – including a big CRPG
- In its 3-player push, Elden Ring Nightreign boss admits FromSoftware "kind of overlooked and neglected the duos aspect," but is considering it for "post-launch support"
- Testing lab for Battlefield 6 takes its "first big L" as it removes weapon restrictions, meaning your medics might be sitting behind you sniping instead of healing on the front lines
- Why is Death Stranding 2 more combat-heavy? Kojima has the most Kojima explanation possible: an obscure gameplay theory he cooked up 8 years ago
- The highest-rated Batman film on Rotten Tomatoes is leaving Netflix later this month
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's Collector's Edition "sold out way faster" than expected, so all its cool merch is getting re-released without the base RPG for $119
- Avengers: Doomsday leaker who claims to have snuck onto the top secret Marvel set says they "might be cooked" after allegedly receiving "formal threat"
- It looks like Elden Ring Nightreign's install size is less than 50% of the OG Elden Ring despite having a Smash Bros amount of FromSoftware bosses in it
- One of The Last of Us season 2's most surprising moments was actually lifted straight from the game, but it's so subtle you probably didn't notice it
- Tom Cruise's next movie couldn't be further from Mission: Impossible: a "wild comedy of catastrophic proportions"
- Cyberpunk 2077 ads teased Chicago for years and after comments from the OG TTRPG's creator, we might also know when the sequel takes place: "Coming in 2080"
- The Nintendo Switch 2 Pro Controller has a one-up on the Xbox Elite and DualSense Edge, as Nintendo confirms you don't need to leave your game to remap the bumper buttons
- Scrubs reboot confirms Zach Braff will reprise his role as J.D.
- The threat of Helldivers 2's Super Earth collapsing still isn't enough to tempt its most reviled groups to join the fight and complete a Major Order: "We need everyone on Super Earth, literally"
- Rick and Morty season 8 release schedule: what time is episode 4 on Adult Swim?
- Peter Molyneux's new game shares more than just the Albion name with Xbox's RPG - playtesters apparently said "Oh my god, I'm playing Fable"
- After the Andor season 2 finale, Star Wars fans are calculating how long the Death Star was actually fully operational – and it was probably only a matter of days
- As Star Wars Battlefront 2 surges in popularity once more, Andor star joins the chorus of fans begging EA for a sequel: "Give us Battlefront 3 ASAP"
- A new movie from Worst Person in the World director has debuted to a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score and a massive 19 minute standing ovation at Cannes
- Crunchyroll's Anime Awards is honoring "visionary creators and groundbreaking works" with a new award – and the first recipient is Attack on Titan
- Embracer spins off Coffee Stain and 250 game studios under it, including devs of Satisfactory and Deep Rock Galactic, while rebranding The Lord of the Rings group
- Philippou brothers tease "horrific" Talk to Me 2 as they hype up specific scene as "one of the best things" they'll ever shoot
- 12 years after The Last of Us' ambiguous ending sparked a decade of debate, creator Neil Druckmann has settled it: "Our intent was that they could have made a cure"
- Reacher star Alan Ritchson says season 4 could be the "best season yet" as he gets back into Reacher shape
- Lies of P is adding difficulty options for free alongside the Overture DLC, despite the director previously saying "We believe soulslike games shouldn’t have difficulty options"
- Ted Lasso season 4 begins filming this summer as one star praises the scripts: "It's just so beautifully drawn"
- Snow White lost Disney at least $35 million, but it's reportedly already considering sequels to its live-action Lilo and Stitch remake
- Borderlands 4's Randy Pitchford sorta kinda apologizes over $80 "real fan" comment: "Nobody likes being taken for granted and it was not my intent"
- Ahead of the new spin-off show, you only have less than one month to watch Dexter on Netflix
- Where to pre-order the Death Stranding 2 Limited Edition DualSense controller
- Naughty Dog's Neil Druckmann responds to Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet backlash: "Stick to your guns and do what you believe in"
- May 21
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- Nintendo embraces "that look of mild despair" on your friend's face as you test your friendship with items in Mario Kart World while watching them on Switch 2 GameChat
- Continuing to do anything but publish The Winds of Winter, Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin is taking on Greek mythology: "We're reimagining a timeless classic"
- Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto says game devs should "try to do something that nobody's done before" because chasing trends is "going to be stressful"
- Simon Pegg says a Shaun of the Dead sequel or reboot is "best left alone" because "sometimes, when you sequelize a film like that, you can end up spoiling the original"
- Rick and Morty season 8 showrunner explains that sometimes, an idea is just too good to not be an episode: "You can't unhear it once you've heard it"
- 2 months after being pulled from its 2026 release, the live-action Street Fighter movie is still alive and Jason Momoa and WWE superstar Roman Reigns are in talks to star
- "9 months to finish the whole game": Years before The Great Circle, Indiana Jones was dropped on the Monkey Island creator when another studio "wasn't actually making the game"
- "This game took over my life": The Fantasy Life sequel, an RPG-heavy life sim 13 years in the making, is a hit on Steam with record numbers for its publisher and 92% positive reviews
- Game of Thrones' Jason Momoa reunites with his Aquaman co-star in first trailer for the passion project he's been trying to make for 10 years
- Death Stranding 2 was written before the pandemic, but illness and isolation had a heavy impact on Hideo Kojima and pushed him toward games that "don't already exist in the world"
- For Mario Kart World, Nintendo had to dig out the oldest Mario lore like dusty books in an ancient library: "Does Mario, in fact, eat mushrooms?"
- Nintendo says Mario Kart World isn't called Mario Kart 9 because simply adding more courses wasn't the plan "this time" – "We wanted to take the series to the next level"
- Ubisoft casually confirms its best series is coming back with job postings for "a prestigious AAA title for the Rayman brand"
- Andor fans are paying tribute to the show's saddest death: "True unsung hero, nobody will ever know what he sacrificed"
- Mario Kart World devs who "aren't that good at Mario Kart" are "favorites" in the Nintendo office because they can be the best playtesters: "Oh, so you don't get that. Interesting!"
- 3 years later, Sony kills PlayStation Stars loyalty program where redeeming a single 'free' game could require over $1,000 in other purchases: "We've learned a lot"
- Doctor Who royalty Matt Smith is almost unrecognizable opposite Dune 2 star Austin Butler in a criminal underworld thriller from director who guided Brendan Fraser to his Oscar
- Donkey Kong creator Shigeru Miyamoto explains the big ape's redesign was all in service of making him "more expressive"
- My favorite GTA 6 trailer is now this fan-made PS2 demake that uses San Andreas to show off just how far graphics have come in 21 years
- The Last of Us star confirms Kaitlyn Dever's Abby will be the focus in season 3
- CD Projekt recruited a Game of Thrones actor to save The Witcher 3 from an embarrassing countdown to nothing
- Mario Kart World started development as an OG Switch game in 2017, but went open-world because MK 8 Deluxe perfected "the formula that we'd been following" for 25 years
- 2 years after its announcement Dr Strange star and The Penguin's Golden Globe-nominated Sofia Falcone are in talks to lead the weirdest horror movie adaptation out there
- While you were worried about $100 GTA 6, Rockstar has quietly bumped up the price of both Red Dead Redemption games in some countries
- Fallout: New Vegas-inspired FPS Atomfall added to the "rise of the mid-tier game" along with Clair Obscur and did so "incredibly well," sequels are already in consideration
- Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto reveals which Switch 2 game he's most excited for - and it's not Mario Kart World
- Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning director likes to "let the location" tell him the story, so "nothing's written in stone" according to the cast
- Marvel fans are wondering what ever happened to Hercules from Thor: Love and Thunder's post-credits scene
- Take a dance with death with killer AI M3GAN in the latest issue of SFX
- Gearbox CEO's $80 Borderlands 4 controversy has even some of the series' biggest fans distancing themselves: "Absolute lose-lose situation for him"
- James Bond's Daniel Craig and Oppenheimer's Cillian Murphy are in the spotlight for a new prison drama from the director of La La Land
- An hour of Battlefield 6 has leaked, and I'm trying to contain my hype but even a former producer thinks it looks like Bad Company 2
- Konami says Silent Hill f is "independent" from the rest of the series: "People who have never played the series before can enjoy it"
- "For the price of one copy of Borderlands 4," Devolver says you can get 4 copies of its own co-op shooter – which Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford inexplicably says is "cheaper than a point of meth - probably has fewer side effects, too!"
- How to Train Your Dragon director talks helming both the animated movie and live-action remake: "I want to make sure that we don’t lose the spirit of it"
- Parks and Recreation's cast filmed an entire fake TV show over a decade ago – but it's taken until 2025 for the trailer to be released
- Hunger Games has found the perfect young Effie, and fans cannot wait to see her on the big screen: "This movie is stacked"
- Borderlands 4 boss Randy Pitchford responds to "real fans" backlash by doubling down on the fact he doesn't set the price: "If you want the truth, here it is"
- As Jessica Jones prepares to hit the MCU in Daredevil: Born Again season 2, star Krysten Ritter has begun her "superhero training" with Matt Murdock's Charlie Cox
- Marvel fans quickly debunk a Disney event's "first look" at Robert Downey Jr.'s Doctor Doom in Avengers: Doomsday
- This absurdly OP water gun "packs as much power as legally possible," is basically a grenade launcher
- A magic experiment gone wrong in The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered led to a player paralyzing themself for 66 years, "longer than Uriel's reign"
- Crunchyroll says Solo Leveling will "continue" on the anime streamer, but can't commit to a season 3 date: "We’re not sure exactly when, but it will be here"
- "We wanted to do live service right": With 2.5 million players a week 1.5 years after launch, Helldivers 2 boss says it's down to "great free updates, optional paid, and long-term commitment"
- Baldur's Gate 3 dev calls Randy Pitchford's $80 Borderlands 4 comments "gross" because it implies the FPS is more important than "making it day to day"
- "We're ahead of Indiana Jones already!": The Office star John Krasinski explains what sets his archeological adventure movie apart, but really doesn't want you to tell Harrison Ford
- Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning star Pom Klementieff left her co-star covered in bruises: "I just forgot how strong a Pom kick can be"
- Cult director says his shark horror movie "takes its lead from Jaws," and brings back "classic edge-of-your-seat suspense" rather than "videogamey" underwater spectacle
- The biggest Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning references and Easter eggs – including The Rabbit's Foot
- May 20
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- Paramount officially renews "cultural juggernaut" Yellowjackets for season 4
- After 12 years bringing RPGs like The Outer Worlds and Pillars of Eternity to life, Avowed director leaves Obsidian for a beloved former indie that's now part of Netflix
- "The games industry is on fire" so this open-world game with witch "motorbroom" drifting has turned to Kickstarter for a 2026 launch: "Please don't get delayed again GTA 6"
- Cyperpunk 2 goes beyond Night City to a new location that "feels more like Chicago gone wrong," according to the creator of the original tabletop RPG
- The Predator: Killer of Killers trailer might be hiding a totally hardcore Alien crossover
- Ex Dragon Age writer says Baldur's Gate 3 and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 prove publishers wrong on how successful RPGs can be "when the game is good," and "what's possible when a game is given time to cook"
- On her second day on the House of the Dragon set, Supergirl star Milly Alcock said "someone very high up" said she needed an acting coach: "I can't do this [...] this is a big mistake"
- Rick and Morty co-creator and showrunner describe it as a "limitless sandbox" with "as much freedom as an anthology show"
- Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment devs say the power of Switch 2 "made it possible to include lots of enemies," and it was "important that you could play with higher frame rates"
- Pokemon logo designer speaks up after 27 years, shares unused designs and says Nintendo gave him a month to draft one of the most iconic logos in history before Red and Blue reveal
- Death Stranding 2 technical director says that the jump from PS4 to PS5 "isn't so great," it's just "more efficient"
- Nintendo files new trademarks for 2 Metroid classics and a beloved 2007 DS game, sparking hopes of remakes: "Never say never"
- Super Mario 64 can now play Minecraft, thanks to a mod that recreates the 2011 sandbox game's building and world generation systems inside the 1996 Nintendo 64 classic
- Andor's Tony Gilroy doesn't know whether Star Wars creator George Lucas has seen the Disney Plus show: "I've only spoken to him once, after Rogue One"
- Jurassic World Rebirth goes for the unexpected with this nightmare fuel popcorn bucket
- Oblivion Remastered player pours 15,000 points into Athletics and Acrobatics, letting them leap across the entire map in a single bound
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs had an internal competition to see who could hit for the most damage – and players broke their record "in like 1 week"
- Stellar Blade 2 is in the works and will likely launch before 2027, developer Shift Up reveals
- A Clash of Clans series is coming to Netflix as game developer promises "more details" to come: "We just couldn't keep it a secret any longer"
- Riot inducts its second-ever player into League of Legends’s Hall of Fame, awarding them a custom Mercedes and possibly their own version of Faker’s controversial $400 skin
- Hideo Kojima says the final Death Stranding 2 trailer will be shorter and won't have story details, which is fine as I'm not sure I'd understand them anyway
- Star Wars fans have spotted a neat parallel between the beginning and end of Andor season 2, and it explains a late season plot hole
- New Wednesday season 2 teaser promises Addams Family lore, a fencing Catherine Zeta-Jones, and a mystery to "top" season 1's
- Final trailer for Jurassic World Rebirth shows water is just as dangerous as land, as Scarlett Johansson and Jonathan Bailey face off against new dinosaur foes
- Frankie Muniz marks end of Malcolm in the Middle sequel filming with heart-warming post: "I wish it could go on forever”
- Nobody 2's director once wrote a "short treatment" for a video game movie we never knew we needed until now: Kane and Lynch, starring Stranger Things' David Harbour
- American Psycho author's '80s-set horror novel The Shards is getting a TV adaptation from Ryan Murphy
- "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books"
- Thanksgiving star shares her hopes for the upcoming sequel: "I would like to get covered in blood"
- Hideo Kojima doesn't really listen to feedback when it comes to Death Stranding or Metal Gear Solid's stories: "I'm not interested in making something that appeals to everyone"
- Andor season 2's biggest breakout stars wants to play Lara Croft - but she might have to go through a Game of Thrones legend to get the part
- Genevieve O'Reilly breaks down the "beautifully human" first meeting between Mon Mothma and Cassian in Andor season 2: "We played the moment so vitally different"
- 28 years after Buffy first aired, Sarah Michelle Gellar says that the children of her former co-stars are auditioning for roles in the reboot
- Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning star Hayley Atwell doesn't think there can be spin-offs without Tom Cruise: "It's his baby, he's been doing it for 30 years"
- Naughty Dog's Neil Druckmann reaffirms the Last of Us studio is working on another game alongside Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, but he's "more of a producer" on it
- Stephen King spin-off IT: Welcome to Derry finally reveals Bill Skarsgard's Pennywise (and its new Losers Club) in hair-raising first trailer
- "The scores plummeted": Longstanding Mission: Impossible director once cut just 5 extra minutes from Fallout, but audiences completely hated it
- GTA 5 Michael actor gives GTA 6 trailer 2 the stamp of approval after the copious amount of big butts in the first trailer caught him by surprise: "That's proportionate, see?"
- The Boys cast tease an unpredictable and shocking final season: "There are some things that are coming in season 5 that you’re not going to have in your bingo card"
- Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford says it's "not my call" if Borderlands 4 costs $80, but "if you're a real fan," you'll find a way to buy it anyway
- Mon Mothma actor Genevieve O'Reilly breaks down how a conversation with Andor creator Tony Gilroy created one of season 2's most tragic moments: "He's so deeply collaborative and curious"
- Nintendo could sell upwards of 20 million Switch 2 units, as the company reportedly turns to Samsung to help manufacture chips for the new console
- New Avengers: Doomsday set photos reveal the return of a surprising MCU location
- The Last of Us showrunner now says there's "no way" the series wraps up within three seasons
- "Super Earth has been invaded": Helldivers 2 players failed their last Major Order, so now they have to fight to save their homeworld in the new Heart of Democracy update
- The MCU is missing its Tony Stark, so Ironheart star Dominique Thorne explains how not having a mentor affects Riri Williams: "It does set the stage for a very interesting journey ahead"
- Corsair's new gaming mouse has a secret weapon that could make it an insta-hit with streamers
- May 19
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- Super Mario Bros speedrunners spend 16 months and "hundreds of hours" doing "things that have never been done before in this 40-year-old game" to finally build the perfect 000000 point run
- After flopping at the box office, Lisa Frankenstein director offers hope that the cult movie will be re-animated with a new R-rated cut
- Infinity Nikki devs issue another 1,000-word apology as backlash continues after disastrous update blamed on "insufficient preparation," but the community doesn't seem to buy it
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director says the studio itself is "like an RPG party" of people who came together randomly, and treating "stupid ideas" seriously is essential
- Amazon cancels its Kevin Bacon-starring supernatural crime show The Bondsman after just one season
- Guillermo del Toro says his "emotional" Frankenstein adaptation for Netflix isn't a horror movie: "I'm not trying to do that"
- New Jurassic World Rebirth teaser finally shows the iconic T-Rex river chase that was cut from the original Jurassic Park
- Kingdom Hearts' legendary composer was as shocked as everyone else by the direction it went: "Wait, it’s a Disney game, but you want that kind of song there?"
- Predator: Killer of Killers trailer has the ultimate hunter taking on Vikings, samurai, and WWII soldiers in new animated film from Prey director
- Nintendo has finally shown us a real-life Mario Kart World Switch 2 cartridge, and it sure does look like a Switch 1 cart, but red
- Steam users are review bombing the Borderlands games following Take-Two's new user agreement: "I don't feel comfortable with the terms of service"
- "It is a mistranslation regarding a Chrono Trigger Remake" says Square Enix, further dashing hopes of a new version of the iconic RPG 30 years after its release
- The best new shows and movies streaming this week on Netflix, HBO Max, Disney Plus, and more
- Marvel Rivals executive producer agrees that a "harsher penalty" is needed for players who rage quit ranked, but the controversial Chronos Shield Cards won't make things worse
- Final Destination fans think a hidden detail in Bloodlines could link back to a character from the fourth movie with the most unfortunate death
- The new Razer Blade 14 is the brand's slimmest to date and it's available now
- Tom Cruise says Ana de Armas' John Wick spin-off Ballerina "kicks ass"
- Hideo Kojima says the "loss of my father was a major theme in the Metal Gear series," but Death Stranding "looks in the other direction"
- After that shock Doctor Who reveal, Russell T Davies teases that one more villain is "lying in wait, exactly 160 years away": "Stand by! This is the big one!"
- The Witcher 4 director wants tough choices in RPGs, "even if the emotion in the end is sadness," because "we want players to feel rewarded"
- Hideo Kojima shares his verdict on Better Man: "I have no idea why Robbie Williams is portrayed as a chimpanzee the whole time, but I was in tears by the end"
- Lego shuts down Bionicle fan game 8 years into development, and the team thinks it knows why: "Our project was too easy to mistake for an official product"
- Naughty Dog's Neil Druckmann was so impressed by this The Last of Us season 2 actor, he offered him a role in Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet "on the spot"
- Square Enix considered shutting down the original Final Fantasy MMO years ago, but the devs received "a lot of support" to keep it going
- James Gunn confirms the impossibly straightforward DCU timeline (which is way less complicated than the MCU)
- A Jyn Erso cameo in the Andor season 2 finale would've been "disrespectful," says Tony Gilroy: "I'd rather honor Rogue and keep it straight"
- Tom Cruise says he "will never stop" acting: "I’m going to make movies into my 80s, actually... my 100s"
- Superman's wildest theory yet suggests the mystery trailer character is actually a secret Supergirl cameo
- The Andor season 2 finale features a deep-cut Easter egg referencing George Lucas' debut movie from 1971
- The Witcher 4 lead is "pretty confident" about the series' new saga: "We know how to handle it [...] we made it popular"
- Corsair just launched its first DIY keyboard but this barebone kit sure is pricey
- Those behind the cursed Baldur's Gate 3 models offer "sincerest apologies" and promise to make it right
- Naughty Dog is keeping actors in the dark with Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet: "Is this Last of Us Part 3 that we’re doing?"
- Skyblivion modders fly out to Bethesda HQ to meet Todd Howard, mere weeks after getting free Oblivion Remastered keys and assurances that Bethesda has "no intention" of shutting their 13-year project
- Super Smash Bros. Melee pro loses $2k tournament final to a glitch after falling through the stage: "There's just no way"
- The Last of Us showrunner explains why the Joel flashbacks were all in episode 6 instead of spread out over season 2: "It was nice that the viewers could really miss this character"
- From zombie tieflings to a 1-in-64 million ending, Baldur's Gate 3 sleuths are still digging deep to find the content Larian never wanted you to see
- Final Destination producer isn’t too shy to let fans know which movie is his least favorite: "I don’t think the fourth one is good at all"
- A new MSI Claw has arrived, and I'm hyped about the handheld's AMD chip
- The Running Man star Glen Powell says Tom Cruise was "so stoked" after watching the teaser for the Stephen King adaptation: "It's a memory I will never forget"
- 32 years after their last Doctor Who appearance, the actor behind a shock returning character says "fan power" brought her back
- "That was me at three in the morning trying to come up with something": Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's silliest moment came to its writer when she was very, very tired
- Hideo Kojima says Metal Gear spiritual successor Physint is still "another five or six years" away, and that he may finally direct a movie after
- M3GAN 2.0 may be veering into "action-comedy territory", but the sequel's director says "the horror DNA is absolutely still there"
- One blink and you'll miss it moment in the new Superman trailer has DC fans wondering if the James Gunn movie is linked to The Batman after all
- Fantastic Four leaks aren't stopping and they're getting even more bizarre – with Galactus being fully revealed in a Snapple promotion
- The Last of Us season 2 episode 6 quietly reveals the origin of Joel's watch with a heartbreaking extra detail
- M3GAN 2.0 will be "bigger and bolder" than the original, promises director: "To do a movie that was very small didn't feel like we would be listening to the audience"
- A Marvel star makes a surprise cameo as a key role in Joel and Tommy's lives in The Last of Us season 2
- May 18
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- Take-Two's CEO is probably the world's only person to refuse the chance to play GTA 6 because "I'm not a gamer" - his role is to "get out of their way"
- God of War Kratos star Christopher Judge on watching Atreus' actor grow up alongside the boy: "He's a whole new mother****er"
- Cult RPG sequel Fantasy Life i's early access was due today, but delayed on Xbox at the last minute "due to an ongoing technical issue"
- Morale at Bungie reportedly at an all-time low as the iconic FPS dev investigates stolen assets in Marathon: "The vibes have never been worse"
- Star Fox dev wasn't too upset that its 'canceled' sequel was delayed by 22 years, because he didn't want the SNES game to be compared to the "obviously far superior" PlayStation
- Netflix is losing a Star Trek show, but it "has little to do with lack of viewership or anything nefarious" – and the showrunners are hopeful it will find a second life elsewhere
- Borderlands 3 player beats every last bit of the FPS at the highest difficulty, without getting downed a single time: "The most tense run I've done"
- Red Hulk almost had a gun in Captain America: Brave New World
- Andor season 2 features a well-hidden Star Wars Easter egg with links to Ahsoka
- Captain America: Brave New World star Danny Ramirez has joined in on the Thunderbolts vs. Avengers battle
- May 17
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- Death Stranding 2 is Hideo Kojima's answer to James Cameron's Alien sequel: "We've introduced battles to give it this new dimension"
- REPO's "most powerful weapon" yet is a cannon that turns the cart into a tank, and this thing's friendly fire is absolutely going to destroy relationships
- Space Invaders creator says devs are "increasingly expected to listen to the sales team," but game creation "needs to be creatively led first"
- Death Stranding 2 feels a bit like Metal Gear Solid 5, Hideo Kojima says: "When you return to your bed on the Magellan, it's the same feeling as returning to the plant"
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 actors tripped up over French words a lot, but "if you don't like the way we say it, you can just go and play it with the amazing French cast"
- Take-Two boss makes lofty GTA 6 promises, despite sky-high hype: "Rockstar Games is trying to create the best thing anyone's ever seen in entertainment"
- BioShock director announces new writer for upcoming movie
- Oblivion Remastered player spends 10,000 gold on a cocktail of spells and buffs, all to keep one troubled NPC alive through his murderous rampage
- Brie Larson might be a monstrous mom in the new J.J. Abrams-produced movie
- Tom Cruise and Ana de Armas are prepping to go down to the depths in a sci-fi horror
- A "gruesome throwback" horror movie about a lice outbreak in an '80s high school is in the works, and it sounds absolutely sickening
- Ralph Fiennes is President Snow in Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, and a former tribute had some choice words on the casting
- May 16
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- 3 years later, these JRPGs from genre veterans are stuck in purgatory despite raising nearly $2.6 million in a combined Kickstarter campaign
- "The game has been thoroughly massacred": Infinity Nikki manages a reverse No Man's Sky, destroying a good game with a single update that might be the biggest mess of 2025 so far
- Bungie runs an hour-long Marathon "PlayMA" with zero gameplay footage while scrubbing the art for plagiarism as the game's art director offers a "personal apology" to the artist whose work was lifted
- Death Stranding and The Walking Dead's Norman Reedus doesn't think "anybody can understand" what's going on in Hideo Kojima's brain
- Longlegs star Maika Monroe replaces Margaret Qualley as the villain in gothic horror movie Victorian Psycho
- Wanda Maximoff meets God and takes on a gang of demonic bikers in Vision and Scarlet Witch #1
- Former PlayStation exec says "$70 or $80" games are a "steal": "As long as people choose carefully how they spend their money, I don't think they should be complaining"
- REPO devs "always take a look at glitches that become popular or even mods" as a sign of what needs changing in the game, starting with a response to the "dearly missed" health glitch
- Another GTA 6 delay is unlikely as "historically" Rockstar is "very good" at meeting solid release dates like with Red Dead Redemption 2, says Take-Two boss
- New Rambo origin story movie from Sisu director and Black Adam writers takes the franchise to the Vietnam War, predating events of first film
- The Simpsons has officially found its new Milhouse voice actor
- OG God of War Kratos actor says all that rage was real: "At the time I was very angry. There were a lot of things going on that had me in a real nasty place"
- Rockstar's arguably "been putting out a new GTA release a couple of times a year," says Take-Two CEO who reckons GTA Online updates could count as "standalone" games
- As GTA 6 hype builds, GTA 5 is continuing to sell 5 million copies every 3 months, and Red Dead Redemption 2 is now the "best-selling title of the past 7 years in the US"
- Brutal survival game Kenshi developer says "too many games let the player succeed," which is "mind-numbingly boring"
- Superman enters the world of "existential superhero fantasy/horror" as Ice Cream Man creators expose him to The Kryptonite Spectrum
- Borderlands and GTA publisher has "great optimism" for the Nintendo Switch 2, even if "historically being a third-party in the Nintendo business has been a bit challenging"
- Sony is prioritizing monthly active users over direct sales now, but the company's live-service games aren't doing too hot
- Nintendo finally clears up Switch 2 VRR confusion, confirming the console "supports VRR in handheld mode only"
- Andor creator Tony Gilroy has a hidden cameo during the Star Wars show's final episodes
- Norman Reedus would "for sure" star in A24’s Death Stranding movie: "I don't know what's happening with it"
- Stellar Blade devs seem as confused as everyone else as the action RPG's PC port gets region locked in over 100 countries despite no PSN requirements: "May I ask where you live?"
- Fortnite adds a generative AI Darth Vader that uses James Earl Jones' voice, which immediately began swearing and talking about skibidi toilets, and not everyone is happy
- Every new trailer for Talk to Me directors’ supernatural horror follow-up is more disturbing than the last – and I will be seated
- After being MIA from Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza trailers, Nintendo confirms Diddy Kong is still kicking with a new design his original creator says looks "better than ever"
- As Switch 2 fans worry about price increases, Nintendo of America president isn't too reassuring as he admits tariffs make for "a very fluid situation"
- Hideo Kojima once considered he might only "have 10 years" left to create new things, and he's given his assistant "a USB stick with all my ideas" as a kind of "will"
- Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is going to be the first ever movie to be completely shot on IMAX cameras
- Wednesday star Jenna Ortega's new movie is the lowest-rated 2025 release on Rotten Tomatoes – but it's still an improvement after it debuted to a 0% score
- Lucasfilm uses AI to explore a "new Star Wars planet", but fans aren't convinced: "It's not impressive if a 14-year-old can do it on their smartphone"
- 45 years after the first film hit screens, Jason Voorhees has debuted a new look, but fans are not too keen on it
- Nintendo lifts the lid on the Switch 2 upgrades available for Super Mario Odyssey, Pokemon Scarlet & Violet, and Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
- Bungie's Marathon alpha includes designs lifted from an indie artist without pay: "Clearly my work was good enough to pillage for ideas"
- Fortnite was supposed to release on the App Store in the US last week, but Apple has "blocked" the battle royale's submission, and the iOS version "will be offline worldwide" until further notice
- Take-Two's CEO says GTA 5 is the "standard-bearer for our industry," but even he found the GTA 6 hype "pretty astonishing"
- Funko continues its tradition of Marvel spoilers by revealing one major under-wraps Fantastic Four character months ahead of time
- As fans fear $100 GTA 6 but Mafia is only $50, Take-Two CEO says "we've always had variable pricing," because if a game's a hit "the revenue is going to take care of itself"
- Assassin's Creed creator leaves studio she founded 4 years ago, without releasing the live-service shooter she was working on
- Oblivion Remastered player spends "6-7 hours" in the RPG "carefully and painfully" lining up countless books like dominoes in what might be the best Bethesda physics showcase yet
- May 15
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- Tom Cruise is working on "numerous other films," but confirms Top Gun: Maverick sequel is still happening
- Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii lead avoided ship-based games like Sea of Thieves and Assassin's Creed to make "something uniquely Yakuza-like"
- You're not imagining things: Andor season 2 snuck in an iconic Star Wars prequel location by filming in the same place as a deleted scene
- Despite Switch 2's controversial game-key cards, Nintendo president says "physical games are still a key part of our business"
- GTA 6 fans think a blurry screenshot proves the game will be the first in the series to feature children: "That's gotta be a kid FR"
- Netflix's Gears of War movie is reportedly moving ahead with The Fall Guy director and Dune screenwriter
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director is more than just a Devil May Cry fan: his YouTube channel is nothing but impressive DMC 5 challenge runs, which absolutely tracks
- Helldivers 2 CEO says "there would be no Helldivers" without PlayStation, but Arrowhead's next game will be "100% funded by ourselves"
- Sticking it to Nintendo, Palworld modder rebuilds the glider mechanic that Pocketpair cut to appease Mario's lawyers: "Patch 0.5.5? What? That didn't happen!"
- The Buffy reboot has its new slayer: Star Wars Skeleton Crew's Ryan Kiera Armstrong
- Saints Row 2 "glitch" that sets your entire body on fire is actually an intentional human torch mechanic that was removed from the game
- Charlie Cox says Daredevil: Born Again season 2 includes a flashback to a 10-year-old scene from 2015: "Makes me feel pretty old"
- Switch 2 launch could be "significantly bigger" than the OG Switch's, but only if Nintendo can keep up: "When in history [...] did a launch for a popular new console go smoothly?"
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (May 16 - 18)
- GTA 6 fan theories are now focusing on the smallest details, from a potential Manhunt tattoo to a background film made by GTA 5's Michael
- Cookie Clicker is coming to consoles, including Switch 2, and after 734 hours on PC it's about to ruin me
- After 3 months and 1 viral Reddit post, No Man's Sky player who caught the attention of Hello Games' boss has "finally escaped" the planet he thought would end his permadeath run
- Stellar Blade devs confirm PS5 players will get the PC version's new boss fight and 25 extra costumes in a "free update" as the action-RPG escapes console exclusivity next month
- The First Berserker: Khazan missed sales targets, but Nexon says the Soulslike RPG was still a success because it got us to care about the 20-year-old action series it wants to globalize
- Tribe Nine, an action RPG with worldbuilding by Danganronpa's creator, announces end of service 3 months after launch, with an already announced story chapter now canceled
- Hideo Kojima wanted Death Stranding 2 to have "a clearer focus on combat," giving players a "range of approaches" including Metal Gear Solid-style stealth
- Robert Downey Jr. shares another Avengers: Doomsday behind the scenes picture – and he might be teasing a Galactus showdown
- Canceled Amazon MMO Blue Protocol was as dead as it gets, but it's now getting a gorgeous reboot this year – rideable capybara included
- Ghost of Yotei devs know "how ignorant we were about Japanese culture," but as with Ghost of Tsushima they've had "cultural advisors" to help "deliver a respectful representation" of Japan
- God of War dev remembers getting "so angry" during play tests before admitting players were right: "Why can't you just get on this climb wall here?"
- Win a Blu-ray of Captain America: Brave New World
- The Last of Us, The Legend of Zelda, and D&D royalty will host the Future Games Show Summer Showcase next month
- Win a pair of Doctor Who books!
- Andor showrunner Tony Gilroy says a Princess Leia cameo was considered for season 2, but it didn't happen: "It became a distraction"
- Stranger Things star will play one of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’s best characters in upcoming prequel Sunrise on the Reaping
- After a year of living vicariously through translated screenshots, Persona 5 fans are going feral as The Phantom X finally has a global release date – but there are already gacha concerns
- Nintendo Switch 2 is arguably "the most important product launch in video game history," analysts say, who reckon it will have sold 100 million in its first 5 years
- Tourists visiting Ghost of Yotei's namesake mountain in Japan airlifted out after getting stranded in the cold
- Hideo Kojima says 60% of Death Stranding playtesters thought it "was a terrible game," but he thinks that's "a good balance"
- Marvel fans prove that Thunderbolts* deserves a second watch as they point out hidden details you may have missed the first time around
- DC changed my favorite detail from the first Superman trailer in new version, and I think I know why
- The latest gaming chair from Boulies looks like a Herman Miller killer, and that's before seeing its price
- Legendary Metal Gear Solid artist Yoji Shinkawa pens exclusive Death Stranding 2 art for the latest issue of Edge Magazine
- Scarlett Johansson thinks Avengers: Endgame should have been nominated for Best Picture: "It was an impossible movie that should not have worked"
- Marvel Rivals players slam a new item that skips losses in ranked, but NetEase tries to calm everyone down by promising it "will not be for sale"
- I regret to inform you that the unofficial Smash Bros. dating app has been shut down, a day before its open beta
- Dragon Quest 12 creator is still "putting lots of work" into the JRPG despite there being hardly any news for the last 4 years, promises it will "be great"
- New horror movie from The Monkey director Osgood Perkins is using the Longlegs marketing technique with a cryptic and terrifying teaser
- Baldur's Gate 3 dev points out that many of this decade's best RPGs so far, from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 to Elden Ring, feature something in common: Shadowheart's actor
- Marvel enters the YouTube reacts game with Daredevil and Kingpin actors giving their thoughts on the Ironheart trailer: "That's gonna be great"
- The Kingdom Hearts 4 drought is over after 1,131 days as new screenshots of the RPG reveal another Keyblade, playable Mickey Mouse, and more
- No, your Steam info isn't being sold on the dark web: Valve confirms the Steam leak was just a bunch of old, harmless texts and "you do not need to change your passwords"
- May 14
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- Wednesday season 2 full cast reveal includes Christopher Lloyd's Professor Orloff, the new Lurch, and a total mystery character
- Diablo season 8 is still getting roasted, but Blizzard did manage to slip a major quality-of-life feature in that skipped the patch notes: more Ravens, less inventory clutter
- After 19 months and $162 worth of DLC, Mortal Kombat 1 is finally komplete and all included in a single $70 package, but fans are lamenting that "it's over" so soon
- 6 years before Batman: Arkham, Saints Row developer Volition kept working on a stealth Batman game even after its original idea got scrapped for being worse than GTA 3
- Watch in horror and awe as Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director uses early builds of characters like a vtuber model in the only video on Sandfall's old YouTube channel
- King of the Hill is back with a first look that has everyone but Hank living in the 21st century
- Ms. Marvel and Bad Boys directors are adapting extreme sports video game Riders Republic into a feature-length movie
- Baldur's Gate 3 companions got official $50 D&D minis, and I am casting Vicious Mockery because what in the Nine Hells is this
- Daredevil's new bad guy is a Last of Us-style fungus monster who just might have a connection to one of Matt Murdock's creepiest villains
- Final Destination Bloodlines directors didn't know that it would be Tony Todd's final film but they "wanted him to be able to say goodbye"
- After several rough years, Ubisoft says "the launch of Assassin’s Creed Shadows was a defining moment" and its Tencent deal to basically make Ubisoft 2 is coming along
- Assassin's Creed Shadows "has clearly outperformed Assassin's Creed Odyssey" in sales and player count, Ubisoft says
- Get your exclusive first look at new WizKids miniatures that bring three iconic D&D monsters to your table
- Switch 2 specs have finally been confirmed after Nintendo spent months playing coy, and it's running a "miniaturised version" of a 30-series GPU
- After God of War's success, the overlords said "you're gonna make the second one and you're gonna do it in half the time and it's gonna be twice as long with more bosses and enemies"
- Danganronpa dev behind new tactical RPG with 100 endings says "there's still a need for unique games" that aren't quite indie or AAA – and if his "sells well," fans can expect an anime
- Death Stranding 2 isn't weird enough: Hideo Kojima has an idea for a game where your character forgets everything if you stop playing
- PS5 prices could rise again as Sony considers passing US tariff impacts on to players
- The next Game of Thrones spin-off A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms delayed to 2026
- Clark Kent and Lois Lane are at odds in new Superman trailer that features tons of city-shaking action and some super cameos
- A Pokemon prophecy has come to pass as former world champ gets his own distribution event, so you too can own "Wolfe's Incineroar"
- Andor creator says the season 2 finale's poignant twist is meant to end the series on a "hopeful note"
- Final Destination Bloodlines directors reflect on the absolutely wild Zoom call that got them the gig: "Blood exploded all over the place"
- Andor creator explains why a major season 1 question was left unanswered in the Star Wars show: "I didn't know how I was going to resolve it"
- Max finally rebrands to HBO Max, and even the streaming service's announcement knows it's the right move: "The plot twist everyone's been waiting for"
- Marvel Rivals is bringing back its Season 0 Battle Pass, but only for two weeks, so get it before it's gone again
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 player proves you can finish the entire RPG without dodging or parrying anything, so don't worry about your reflexes: "This is not Elden Ring"
- Mario Kart World isn't even out yet, but dedicated modders have already made some of the Switch 2 game's tracks playable in Mario Kart Wii
- Stalker: Legends of the Zone Trilogy Enhanced Edition announced – it's out next week, promising visual "overhaul," expanded mod support, and a free upgrade for some
- Diego Luna was right – the Andor season 2 finale is already making us see Rogue One in a new light
- Marvel star Elizabeth Olsen joins cast of upcoming vampire movie, also starring Kristen Stewart and Oscar Isaac
- Thailand's record-breaking hit with an almost perfect Rotten Tomatoes score is getting an English-language remake
- Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon co-writer says they've got "very detailed outlines" for another four films, but isn't sure if they'll reach Netflix: "With some luck, we'll get to go back to that world"
- Robert Downey Jr. shares a photo from the Avengers: Doomsday set – and it might reveal a controversial detail about the Doctor Doom costume
- Riri Williams wants to become an MCU icon in first trailer for Marvel's Ironheart
- The MCU might be scaling back on TV, but "big Avengers names" can "still make appearances," confirms Marvel's TV head
- Sandisk has finally revealed WD Black's first Gen 5 gaming SSD, and my PC is quivering in fear of this new "world's fastest" drive
- Not content with a massive update and a new Warbond, Helldivers 2 may be getting another patch next week as a deleted post points to an invasion of Super Earth itself
- New Baldur's Gate 3 update addresses Patch 8 bugs and reworks its subclasses, and Larian Studios isn't done with the RPG yet: "We're still fixing a few things"
- Doom: The Dark Ages FAQ warns that barrel-stuffing demons might not work as "expected," suggests you try stuffing bigger demons instead
- Super Mario Bros. Movie sequel accidentally drops official title, and it's a direct call back to one of the best Mario games
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 isn't coming to Nintendo Switch 2 yet, but its director reportedly seems interested in it
- Tom Cruise recalls doing a major Mission: Impossible stunt with a broken foot: "What's the point? You just keep going"
- "Can they get her a new f***ing jacket" Marvel fans joke, as Jessica Jones star shares behind the scenes look at her outfit before Daredevil: Born Again season 2 return
- Borderlands 4 has found a "perfect" platform with Switch 2, Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford says: "We don't feel like we're fighting the system"
- Audeze just released a floral limited edition of one of my favorite gaming headsets
- Sony has sold almost as many PS5s as it did PS4s in the same time frame, but expects its sales to worsen, and analysts reckon GTA 6's delay won't help
- After 4 months of waiting, Netflix unveils first action-packed trailer for part 2 of hit anime series Sakamoto Days
- Rosario Dawson pays tribute to Star Wars creator George Lucas from Ahsoka season 2 set: "I couldn't be more grateful"
- Andor season 2 finale has a musical callback to the Star Wars movies that's making fans emotional
- Will there be an Andor season 3? Creator Tony Gilroy puts the Star Wars series to bed once and for all: "What would it be?"
- As work on Kingdom Hearts 4 continues, Square Enix cancels Missing-Link: "It would be difficult for us to offer a service that players would find satisfactory over a long period of time"
- Final Destination Bloodlines is the highest-rated movie in the horror franchise with an almost-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score
- One of the biggest surprises in the Andor season 2 finale gives Cassian a poignant way to live on – and makes Rogue One even more heartbreaking
- The most upsetting part of the Andor season 2 finale isn't what you think it is
- How does Andor season 2 set up Rogue One?
- May 13
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- Krysten Ritter says "there is much more in store for Jessica Jones" as she officially joins the MCU in Daredevil: Born Again season 2
- Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Game is done getting new updates less than 2 years after launch
- Super Mario 64 hacker discovers in-game sound effect you can only hear in full if you leave the N64 classic running for 14 months straight
- Marvel's new Ironheart featurette offers up a first look at Tony Stark's posthumous protege Riri Williams in action along with the series villain The Hood
- Lawless Oblivion Remastered player earns 19 years in prison after stealing 2,900 items and murdering a measly 7 people: "Is the Oblivion crisis still going or...?"
- Andor showrunner Tony Gilroy reveals that the first episode of the Star Wars series had to be reshot because it was "really boring": "I was like, what the f**k is this?"
- Behold, the Monster Hunter Wilds effect: Capcom's old Monster Hunter games sold even better in the past year despite 10 million copies of Wilds eating the fandom's time and money
- Final Destination Bloodlines directors on coming up with innovative yet "relatable deaths" that haven't been done before: "You’re just constantly looking at everything like, 'Could this kill me?'"
- Get your exclusive first look at one of the new Daggerheart settings, which crosses Legend of Zelda with Princess Mononoke
- 8 years in, Nintendo president admits Switch 1 just isn't powerful enough for "new gameplay experiences" so it's time to move onto a "new standard" with Switch 2
- Helldivers 2 adds "500+ hours" of progression with its big "s**t your pants" update, and Arrowhead's CEO wants to know: "What is the pant situation like?"
- Bob Odenkirk's vacation plans can't stop getting ruined in the first trailer for Nobody 2
- Final Destination Bloodlines directors talk making an "unusual" sequel focused on family and "heart": "It gave an extra weight to each death"
- Jackie Chan says CGI stunts are a "double edged sword" and actors are "missing" a "sense of reality"
- Oblivion Remastered subreddit bans "Sexy Flame Atronach" because moderators "cannot take any more" thirstposting: "Divines forgive us"
- Lego Simpsons is finally back with a fan-pleasing new set, but why did it take 10 years?
- Daredevil: Born Again season 2 star is already hoping that Marvel brings back his character "in some capacity": "Hopefully people like it"
- Nintendo president acknowledges "Switch 2 is priced relatively high" compared to the original, says bundles will help "get off to the same start we did with Nintendo Switch"
- New Palworld update Tides of Terraria is a survival game collab "full of new Pals, new islands, new things to do" coming this summer
- Mario Kart 64 could be the next N64 game in line for an unofficial PC port as the classic racer has been fully decompiled, following in the footsteps of Zelda and Star Fox
- SteelSeries just launched a brand new limited edition GameBuds design, that looks like it stepped straight out of the late 90s
- Avengers: Doomsday may have started filming 15 days ago, but one of its stars still hasn't seen a script: "I've had a preliminary introduction to the idea"
- John Wick spin-off Ballerina gets its final trailer and it's full of fighting, fire, and Keanu Reeves
- Alien: Earth gets a premiere date – and it's just a few months away
- Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra gets delayed to "early 2026" as devs say the extra time will allow for "more polish" and "the best possible experience"
- Creed TV show spin-off in the works at Amazon with Sinners star Michael B. Jordan on board to produce
- Schedule 1 has disappeared from Steam in Australia but the dev behind the game assures players it isn't banned
- Check out the stunning Victorian-inspired world of Silver Palace, a brand new ARPG built in Unreal Engine 5
- Nobody could have seen it coming: Helldivers 2's Illuminate emerge from the black hole players stopped from crashing into Super Earth, with "larger, more powerful enemies within their fleet"
- Jujutsu Kaisen’s upcoming Hidden Inventory / Premature Death movie will contain a brand new "mini anime" starring series leads
- Demon Slayer issues strong legal warning against leaking its Infinity Castle movie trailer included in the Mugen Train re-release
- Tom Cruise makes a surprising reflection on one of his first career failures: "It was the first time I realized that some people didn’t know how to make movies"
- Beat it, buster: Nicolas Cage is a Spidey gumshoe in first look at Spider-Noir – and Amazon is going all out and releasing every episode in black-and-white
- Final Destination Bloodlines played the cruellest trick on some unsuspecting movie fans
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 draft trailer from 5 years ago surfaces online, and it looks like a completely different RPG with no final visuals and "terrible robotic voices"
- Alexader Skarsgård's "brisk and propulsive" new Apple TV sci-fi comedy lands perfect Rotten Tomatoes score
- GTA 4 "should be remastered" says veteran Rockstar dev as modern port rumors surface: "It's a great game"
- Leaked Fallout season 2 trailer teases New Vegas location, and fans are over the moon about it
- Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning's first reactions are as big and bold as Tom Cruise's stunts: "Kind of a beautiful chaotic mess"
- Suits L.A. was canceled because it "has not resonated" with fans: "It's just not really showing the potential to grow"
- Space Marine 2 devs give modders the "exact same editor we use internally," daring the community to build new cinematic campaigns and game modes
- Fallout TV show renewed for season 3 ahead of season 2's December premiere
- May 12
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- A zillion years before Hogwarts Legacy, pre-Saints Row Volition was making a Baldur's Gate-style Harry Potter RPG and "it's never been seen by the public before"
- After 16 years dormant, Friday the 13th returns from the bottom of Crystal Lake with a new Jason mask marking the iconic horror series' 45th anniversary
- Leaked Stellar Blade PC trailer shows June 11 release date, every graphics setting I could ask for, a new boss fight, and 25 new costumes that look pretty good
- Nintendo Switch 2 adds a feature that I want on basically every device I own: battery charging settings that limit your juice and reduce "deterioration"
- Hayley Atwell "would love" to return as Captain Carter in Avengers Doomsday or Secret Wars: "She's very much an underserved character"
- The Office spin-off gets release window and first look featuring a fan-favorite character from the original series
- It's "more of an action RPG," but Eric Barone says Haunted Chocolatier is still "a life sim" and "similar to Stardew Valley in many ways" but with more "dark and mysterious" vibes
- Star of Naughty Dog's Intergalactic says Neil Druckmann has been "bootcamp-ing" her after The Last of Us backlash: "I know Laura Bailey's experience"
- The First Descendant devs reveal Nier: Automata collab and hoverbike at PAX East as live audience politely claps for anime butt
- CD Projekt Red exec says Ciri is a great choice for The Witcher 4, and she opens up new possibilities for the series after more than a decade of RPGs
- Legendary programmer credited with saving "lost" Fallout source code confirms it was never lost in the first place: "If I do get permission from Bethesda to release the source code, I will do so"
- "I make one stupid pant s**t joke and it all goes ballistic": Helldivers 2 CEO fears "Reddit did what it always did" after he teased new updates, so now "we better deliver"
- Taking the sting off that GTA 6 delay, Rockstar leaker says GTA 4 could get a modern port this year, with Max Payne 3 to follow
- Wicked's Michelle Yeoh will play a retired surgeon fighting for her life in a new action movie from John Wick producers
- After Suicide Squad's $200 million flop and a massacre of studios, Warner Bros acknowledges it has "no releases" out, it's spending 66% less on game content, and the Hogwarts Legacy boom is wearing off
- James Gunn announces filming has wrapped on Supergirl in the most nonchalant way
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 features "ultra hard" minigames inspired by the RPG director's time in Final Fantasy 10's infamous chocobo races
- Don’t mind the 12-year wait — ex Rockstar dev suggests GTA 6 production really started in 2018
- The trailer for the next episode of The Last of Us season 2 features tons of Pedro Pascal, and it looks like it will break your heart
- Andor emulates a key plot point from Game of Thrones with one small detail in season 2 episode 9
- The Last of Us season 2 director on why episode 5's surprising ending delivered: "It was the right tonal gear shift"
- Director of cult horror comedy says Warner Bros. boss "put the final nail in the coffin for Tucker and Dale" by scrapping a TV spin-off
- The Last of Us fans think Bella Ramsey "bodied" the brutal showdown in season 2 episode 5: "Stone cold vengeance mode"
- It might be price hike season, but Sony just dropped a new PS Plus PS5 bundle that's actually a bargain
- Assassin's Creed Shadows devs "just couldn't wait" to sneakily add some parkour improvements ahead of a bigger Title Update with some much smoother freerunning
- The New Avengers are here in new Thunderbolts poster, which mimics an iconic piece Avengers: Endgame art
- As 'knife meta' dominates Dune Awakening's beta weekend, the MMO's developers promise they've finally fixed it in a new build
- One Piece star offers promising update on season 3 of the Netflix adaptation: "I'll be heading back later on this year"
- One of the year's biggest ongoing anime is taking a surprise break, but fans are getting a "special episode" to make up for it
- Persona 5 spin-off The Phantom X is finally releasing in Japan "this summer," available on both PC and mobile platforms
- James Gunn debunks a rumor that Matt Reeves is no longer directing The Batman 2
- Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford says "F balance" for Borderlands 4, before affirming that weapons and skills will get nerfs if they need them
- Hideo Kojima gives his verdict on Thunderbolts – and he liked it more than Captain America: Brave New World
- Tom Cruise surprises fans with unexpected stunt on the roof of the UK's biggest cinema screen
- One Fallout star says he knows the "endpoint" of the series, and thinks it could take six seasons to get there
- Ori and the Blind Forest studio is "not in immediate financial danger," CEO clarifies after suggesting it could shut down after negative reviews on action RPG No Rest for the Wicked
- Nier: Automata might've never happened as the producer considered "a very famous title that everyone knows" before the action RPG series: "But I chose Yoko Taro!"
- Tom Cruise said he was asked to make Top Gun sequels "over and over" before Maverick, but wanted to prove himself elsewhere: "I wanted more challenges"
- The Last of Us season 2 episode 5 just introduced an even scarier effect of the Cordyceps virus
- May 11
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- The Wii Homebrew Channel drama sounds scary, but in 2025 it might not actually matter for anyone using the hack
- For a free update, The First Berserker: Khazan devs cooked up a Soulslike challenge so brutal that even a lead designer said "I probably wouldn't play that"
- Kingdom Hearts 4 looks 100 years away, but this 3D action platformer with its own sort-of Keyblades and Heartless might scratch that itch
- Xbox is giving away $214 worth of its PC games for just $10, including a Metroidvania banger and the best game from Marvel's Spider-Man devs
- Gearbox's Randy Pitchford says "sometimes we're white-knuckling to the landing," but with Borderlands 4 they've never "been in a better spot this far from launch"
- No Man's Sky lead jokes GTA 6's impressive flip-flop physics might be why the game is delayed, is immediately met by Light No Fire hopefuls desperate for an update of their own
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director's first experience playing a JRPG was getting stuck on Final Fantasy 8's first boss because he and his brother "couldn’t read"
- "Quicksave, then fly": Oblivion Remastered wizard jumps across all of Cyrodiil with the perfect cocktail of broken spells and a cool 1,994 Magicka
- Final Destination: Bloodlines directors asked horror legend Tony Todd to speak directly to fans in his final performance
- Highlander director confirms shooting schedule for this year
- Netflix is removing its interactive specials very soon, including Black Mirror's Bandersnatch
- John Wick director added one game-changing detail that transformed the franchise
- May 10
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- The platformer trilogy we all knew was mediocre even in the '90s is back with a $200 collector's edition featuring artwork from Final Fantasy legend Yoshitaka Amano
- Dev Patel's medieval action thriller The Peasant has found a home at A24
- Former PlayStation exec Shuhei Yoshida says the Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive he's most excited for is FromSoft's The Duskbloods: "Especially after Elden Ring"
- Solo dev who lives on a boat made a $6 game about a boat, and it's sold 50,000 copies in a month with 95% Steam positive reviews
- Director of new Evil Dead movie wants the horror film to be a "a visceral, sensory experience" that leaves people "physically drained"
- Baldur's Gate 3 Lae'zel actor had no idea the RPG has nudity filters, which she definitely needed for the Minthara romance: "You see quite a lot"
- After "nearly a decade" of work, devs of brilliant roguelike FPS Roboquest call it quits: "It was never meant to be what is called today a 'game as service'"
- Don't judge Borderlands 4's lack of minimap just yet - Gearbox boss says using it would be "extremely confusing" in the FPS' "big freaking world"
- Michael Fassbender and Arnold Schwarzenegger help kill Nazis in leaked Kung Fury sizzle reel
- Hello Games boss joins No Man's Sky community saluting the end of one fan's permadeath run: "All I can do is sit in my ship, watch the lightning storms, and wait for my oxygen to run out"
- The Odyssey stunt performer says the Christopher Nolan film will be "an epic of all epics"
- With 100 endings and a script big enough to fill 60 books, "many countries declined to localize" Danganronpa creator's massive new strategy RPG
- Andor showrunner Tony Gilroy explains that shocking season 2 death: "It's so elementally Greek and dramatic"
- May 9
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- Almost 200 members of Blizzard's Overwatch 2 team have unionized: "The biggest issue was the layoffs at the beginning of 2024"
- Fortnite promises 20% back on V-bucks as long as you promise to give your money to Epic and not Apple
- Suits spin-off cancelled at NBC after just one season
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day casts The Bear star in mystery role
- Rogue punches out a dragon in Uncanny X-Men #14 as a "never before shown" part of X-history is revealed
- "I don't know" how much Borderlands 4 will cost, Gearbox boss says, but it had "more than twice the development budget for Borderlands 3" and "it might be" $80 like some Nintendo and Xbox games
- The creator of XCOM has high hopes for Switch 2's mouse Joy-Cons and strategy games: "Mouse control RTS might work really well here"
- Borderlands 4 boss raises Todd Howard's 'you can climb that mountain' Skyrim promise: "You see something anywhere on the screen, a mile away, up in the sky, you will be able to get there"
- Peacemaker season 2 trailer seems to embrace the Multiverse as John Cena's antihero meets his doppelganger
- 28 years later, Lego Island's lost source code has been rediscovered – but the fans who spent nearly two years painstakingly decompiling it by hand "can't have it"
- Next Godzilla x Kong movie announces title with a dramatic new teaser – and it's already in production
- REPO is making a big change to Overcharge "that makes the game harder every 10th level" and it won't just be "a gimmick for no reason"
- Taskmaster could have been a very different character as Black Widow star reveals he originally auditioned for the role: "He was this kind of maniacal-like character"
- The Witcher 3 is getting the asymmetrical horror treatment as Geralt, Triss, Yennefer and Ciri cosmetics come to Dead by Daylight
- REPO dev has been joining and questioning players "incognito, in secret, through the random matchmaking" in the big update beta
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 gets its first big patch, as the RPG's devs say "this is the first in a series of patches we are looking to do over the coming months"
- Jeremy Renner says "some" of Hawkeye season 2's most interesting rumors are true, but they've "still gotta figure things out" before it happens
- The Witcher 3's deadliest foe might just be The Bloody Baron's Gwent deck, which has spent 10 years kicking our collective butts across 458 million matches
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's big Maelle nerf is even worse than we thought, as it turns out one of her best weapons was never meant to be so powerful in the first place
- A new Netflix sci-fi show that's storming up the charts has a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score, and it has Hideo Kojima's approval: "This is really good"
- Behold, all 5,000-plus frames of GTA 6's latest trailer, which have been uploaded online as detectives work to uncover all of Rockstar's secrets
- Andor star reveals there were "three or four" other options for what Cassian says to them in this week's long-awaited showdown
- Switch 2 games like Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza "could not be realized" on Switch 1, says Nintendo president to hardware doubter
- In true Undertale fashion, the Deltarune website now features various mysterious pages fans are scrambling to decipher: "What the f*** does this mean?"
- This limited edition glow-in-the-dark PS5 skin is giving me serious 90s bedroom vibes
- 10 years before Thunderbolts, Sentry actor Lewis Pullman auditioned for a very different Marvel role
- In a world of jetpacks and mechs, Helldivers 2 players are losing their mind over a sword, and yeah, I get it
- Baldur's Gate 3 Lae'zel actor had a little chair in the booth because she was still recording 2 days before giving birth: "My waters broke after the session"
- Warhammer spoils its biggest 2025 reveal with a fun, tongue-in-cheek teaser
- Nintendo of America might turn your Switch into an expensive paperweight if you mod your console or install any "unauthorized" games, new policy warns
- Devil May Cry creator Hideki Kamiya would love to remake the first game: "Capcom – please leave it to me"
- My new favorite detail in GTA 6 trailer 2 is best-in-class cloth animation that rivals an acclaimed scene from The Last of Us 2
- The publisher that saved Attack on Titan is hosting a competition to rescue previously rejected manga ideas
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 boss clarifies no DLC is planned – instead, they're focusing on improving the base game
- Toby Fox confirms Deltarune Chapters 3 and 4 release time and says they'll be "cross-buy," so you get PS4 and PS5 or Nintendo Switch 1 and 2 copies "for one price"
- Tom Cruise reveals the one Mission: Impossible stunt that couldn't be done – and he made the Final Reckoning director try it himself to prove it
- Prolific trailer maker thinks GTA 6 looks "amazing," but says its second trailer tells us almost nothing about its main characters
- Surprisingly touching Final Destination: Bloodlines featurette says the franchise’s most beloved character’s purpose will finally be revealed
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 could "top 8-10 million" sales, says Baldur's Gate 3 publishing lead as he shouts out his fellow RPG's "incredible achievement"
- Nintendo website sparks hope Donkey Kong Bananza might have multiplayer, which would be even more evidence that the Mario Odyssey team could be making it
- Thunderbolts' Jake Schreier is reportedly the "top choice" to direct Marvel's new X-Men movie
- Death Stranding 2: On the Beach has gone gold, so Hideo Kojima can finally work on the several other projects he's announced
- May 8
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- Silent Hill 2 movie from the director behind the controversial 2006 Silent Hill will be a "faithful adaptation" of the "masterpiece of a game" that is the PS2 classic
- FPS legend John Romero says it's a "huge honor" for Quake to join the World Video Game Hall of Fame alongside GoldenEye, the inescapable Tamagotchi, and an iconic '80s arcade classic
- Amid Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's turn-based hype, Square Enix asks JRPG fans "what's the best combat system" in its catalog and shares "some games with brilliant battles"
- JRPG sickos, I hate to get your hopes up again, but Yuji Horii says he's "starting to contemplate" a Chrono Trigger remake
- Fallout season 2 wraps filming and celebrates with video of Walton Goggins ripping his skin off
- Xbox is hiring to "secure the future of game preservation," and this time it's no AI Quake nightmare
- 23 years and 3 sequels later, Mafia: The Old Country is abandoning its open-world roots, but a $50 "linear, narrative-driven" game sounds like heaven in 2025
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (May 9 - 11)
- Doctor Doom's son locks lips with Killmonger as the secret of the Superior Avengers heats up
- John Walker was originally the Thunderbolts villain, but "it didn't work the same"
- Andor showrunner had to scrap an episode of the Star Wars show that was "like a horror movie": "We could not afford to do it"
- After "abrupt actions by Valve," Counter-Strike mod in development for 8 years gets canceled – modders deny using leaked Source code and say others should "reconsider how they see Valve"
- Destiny 2 lead insists divisive Star Wars-inspired expansion Renegades "is in-canon for the Destiny universe" as players worry the MMO is pulling a Fortnite
- Lego bounces into Pixar territory to bring the iconic lamp and ball animation to your home
- Razer wants to put your headset inside your gaming chair, and I have questions
- Marvel's upcoming Thunderbolts comic has officially been retitled New Avengers, following in the movie's footsteps
- First haunting trailer for The Conjuring: Last Rites sees Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga take on their final case
- Some players swear by it, but Oblivion Remastered test finds that performance mod with 650k downloads seemingly does next to nothing: "After testing it A/B... it runs the same"
- Cozy sandbox RPG mash-up from former Dragon Age, Skyrim, and Witcher talent raises over $100k on Kickstarter in just 1 day
- Nintendo Switch 2's huge third-party support is something "we haven't seen" from Nintendo "maybe ever, but at least for a long time, maybe even since the GameCube," analyst says
- Andy Serkis' new Gollum-centric Lord of the Rings movie gets a precious December 2027 release date
- Oblivion Remastered player clears the RPG's Dark Brotherhood "murder mansion" quest in 8.75 seconds using only his fists, leaving no witnesses
- Former PlayStation boss blames AAA "production costs" for $80 games, says titles with "tighter teams" like Clair Obscur could be the way forward
- Razer's new gaming keyboard looks perfect for Steam Deck fans
- Dark Souls 3 helps explain the papal conclave to Spanish TV viewers, who may be wondering where the cardinals got all those fireballs
- Uma Thurman goes full Kill Bill as she faces off against Charlize Theron in first trailer for Netflix fantasy-action sequel The Old Guard 2
- John Wick director says Donnie Yen "had concerns" about his Rogue One character not living up to full potential: "It's hard when you're doing Star Wars as there's so many other things going on"
- Mafia: The Old Country won't be $80 when it drops this August, but it's still a "premium experience in the vein of earlier Mafia entries"
- New Nintendo of America policy asks users to give up their rights to a class-action lawsuit and call customer service instead: "Most matters can be quickly resolved in this manner"
- One of Andor season 2's most shocking moments has a haunting parallel with the final act of Rogue One
- PUBG creator's nails-hard survival game flips genre staples on their heads: "Have you tried chopping down a tree?"
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs warn players have "1 more day to enjoy" the JRPG's most broken skill before it's nerfed, after they "clearly overdid it" with a last-minute damage boost
- Alienware launches new Aurora gaming laptops, but I'd steer clear of the base spec
- GTA 6 mapping community is already "connecting the dots" from Rockstar's new trailer to accurately draw the game's map a full year in advance
- Switch 2 price could still rise, as Nintendo president says the company is racing to beat new tariffs
- From jiggle physics to individually modeled blades of grass, this game dev proves how GTA 6 is taking Red Dead Redemption 2's visuals to the next level
- After failing to sell for $100,000, one of the rarest GameCubes ever is up for auction - and its price is climbing fast
- Hideo Kojima prefers casting actors he vibes with irl, and that's not going to change for his upcoming horror or spy games
- Ms. Marvel star Iman Vellani calls Thunderbolts "The Breakfast Club in tactical gear"
- Deep Blue Sea director ditches sharks for orcas in upcoming ocean horror movie
- Andor season 2 includes the highest-rated live-action Star Wars TV episodes of all time
- Death Stranding 2 will "allow players that want to fight to do so more freely," Hideo Kojima says, like how Metal Gear Solid 2 "made it a little easier to use weapons"
- Death Stranding 2 devs worried it was "getting a little Metal Gear-ish," but Hideo Kojima himself says you don't have to be sneaky: "I don't even use stealth myself"
- Anime's summer season just got even more crowded with this new isekai series from the studio behind Fire Force and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
- Borderlands 4's lead writer is desperately trying to keep a lid on the toilet humor: "the rejected names for this system would make a dockworker blush"
- Hideo Kojima already has a Death Stranding 3 pitch that could relate to a DS2 plot device, but "I am not going to make it myself"
- Palworld studio makes "yet another compromise" amid Nintendo lawsuit by changing the survival game's gliding mechanic
- The Last of Us season 3 will "definitely" provide answers about a season 2 mystery, promise showrunners: "We just didn't know if we were getting canceled"
- GTA 6's new trailer has a blink-and-you'll-miss-it reference to Red Dead Redemption 2, further proving they're set in the same universe
- Elden Ring DLC and Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero made up for Bandai Namco's disastrous 2024, spiking profits nearly 1000%
- Nintendo predicts Switch 2 will sell 15 million units and 45 million games in its first year, so it's "working to strengthen our production to meet demand"
- Andor's Tony Gilroy said he "hijacked canon" to retcon Mon Mothma's big moment from Star Wars Rebels: "Do I have to stick to this speech?"
- Final Destination: Bloodlines’ new marketing tactic has just given us another bizarre way of dying to worry about
- Pokemon Scarlet and Violet's performance woes didn't hold back its sales, as Gen 9 overtakes Sword and Shield to become the series' all-time runner-ups
- May 7
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- Eric Barone can't say if Haunted Chocolatier will be out by 2030, but "that's the goal" and "it has to be better" than Stardew Valley
- Eric Barone says "if there was gonna be another" Stardew Valley update after 1.6, he wouldn't announce it until it was "completely finished" on all platforms
- "EA said make this a live service": Dragon Age veteran says the fourth game's multiplayer pivot was a "rationalization" to move devs onto Anthem, and "I wish that pivot had never occurred"
- Disney boss Bob Iger admits Marvel "lost a little focus by making too much," and says Thunderbolts is "the first and best example" of "better quality" after refocusing on movies
- "I might eventually make a Stardew Valley 2," says Eric Barone, but "I just don't care about money" and it's "so much easier" to update the original
- Avengers: Doomsday actor may have confirmed one of the movie's biggest twists: "You're hitting Pedro Pascal against the head or something"
- "Stats in Souls don't matter": Ori studio founder and No Rest for the Wicked lead says the "attribute system has to die" in the ARPG inspired by Dark Souls since players don't get it
- Rockstar says GTA 6 trailer 2 was "equal parts gameplay and cutscenes," and I'm wondering where the gameplay was
- DC is sending a "perfect heist crew" of villains to rob the Justice League in a new title from superstar creators Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott
- Ex Rockstar dev says GTA 6 would be worth the "$80 bucks or whatever" for its detail and realism: "You think Mario Kart competes with a game like this"
- Hideo Kojima says "everyone would move out of the way" of GTA 6, but Death Stranding 2 is 95% complete and its release date was decided a long time ago
- $475 for one character in a video game: Genshin Impact adds new gacha disclaimers after FTC orders it to make costs and currencies less confusing
- First trailer for dystopian horror movie from Hunger Games director based on an underrated Stephen King novel features the contest from hell
- FromSoftware warns "the same strategy won't always work" in Elden Ring Nightreign, which is bad news for me because I used the same strategy in all the Souls games
- Undeterred by Concord, Sony expands its live service army: PlayStation Studios adds new dev making a "team-based action game" targeting "years" of support
- Oblivion Remastered lets you wipe out entire taverns of NPCs with ease, and I don't know how I missed this playing the original RPG for 19 years
- The League of Legends MMO gets its yearly mention, as Riot's co-founder offers another tiny hint as to its continued existence
- After reportedly laying off more than 300 people, EA CEO says "AI is powering our future" and is already being used "in design, animation, and storytelling"
- FromSoftware had to adjust the difficulty in Elden Ring Nightreign after the beta to make sure it's "challenging as you progress, but still manageable," and yes, some things are harder now
- Donnie Yen's upcoming John Wick spin-off is officially a sequel to Chapter 4, as another returning cast member is confirmed
- Oblivion Remastered streamer creates real-life version of the RPG's persuasion minigame and commands Twitch viewers to "try to convince me to do what they want"
- Netflix is rolling out an "elevated" and "more personal" update for subscribers that’ll make it easier to find what to watch
- While GTA 6 fans try to figure out who's voicing Jason, Sonic the Hedgehog and Assassin's Creed actor denies his involvement: "NOT my voice"
- Daredevil: Born Again season 2 has "some of the best writing" they’ve had on the show, says star Charlie Cox: "I don’t want to oversell it"
- "Chat did we cook?": GTA 6 devs are "so proud" as Rockstar drops trailer 2, saying that "working hard pays off"
- Other versions of the Thunderbolts post-credits scene included Baron Zemo and Kang
- Talk To Me director’s new horror movie Bring Her Back is being called "terrifying" and "dread inducing" in overwhelmingly positive first reactions
- As Oblivion Remastered gets all the love, Starfield's biggest modders are in the process of abandoning Bethesda's latest RPG for good
- Cardinals are reportedly watching Oscar-winning drama Conclave for guidance on the real-life event
- Dragon Age veteran says his team was "jerked around" because EA didn't care about big RPGs like Mass Effect: Andromeda, just Anthem
- Rockstar impresses Baldur's Gate 3 dev with new GTA 6 trailer: "I really like the GTA series because it humbles an industry that constantly argues about everything all the time"
- Hades 2 devs are getting "closer to the finish line" as the roguelike sequel celebrates its first early access anniversary
- New horror D&D subclasses are on the way, and I can't wait to use this especially gross one
- Star Wars fans are calling Andor season 2 episode 8 "absolutely gutting" and "one of the best TV episodes ever"
- Sebastian Stan reveals the Bucky moment that was cut from the Thunderbolts post-credits scene: "I thought it was genius"
- The Xbox handheld just leaked, and it looks more like the PlayStation Portal than I was expecting
- Monster Hunter Wilds gets its first time-limited Free Challenge Quest, and reactions from fans of the action RPG range from "too forgiving" to "frustratingly hard"
- DC enlists Drive scribe to rewrite Mike Flanagan’s Clayface script
- Spider-Man: No Way Home stopped Sentry getting a comic-accurate MCU entry, Thunderbolts director jokes
- Following Red Dead Redemption 2's realistic horse anatomy, Rockstar doubles down with dedicated beer tech for GTA 6
- Charlie Cox "pushed back" against a Daredevil: Born Again episode that became a fan favorite: "Everyone's taste is different"
- Andor season 2 reveals the surprise origins of Rogue One's most iconic line
- Andor season 2 episode 8 finally introduces a familiar Star Wars character from Rogue One
- May 6
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- EA CEO won't call out the GTA 6 delay by name, but says the new Battlefield release window is "clearer than it was before"
- EA says "it hasn't always" understood what Battlefield players want, but the response to the new entry has "far exceeded our expectations" after "thousands of hours" of playtests
- Marvel brings the MCU's Avengers Vs. New Avengers conflict into the real world by adding a copyright to Sam Wilson's Avengers social media
- Walton Goggins says collaborating with his wife for the first time on indie comedy The Uninvited "was difficult" at first: "If I’m an omega, she’s definitely an alpha"
- GTA 6 map returns to Vice City and explores the riches of the Florida-lite state of Leonida: "Malt liquor, painkillers, and truck stop energy drinks"
- CD Projekt exec says "the right thing to do" is release a real Nintendo Switch 2 cartridge for Cyberpunk 2077, not a game-key card, in message to other studios: "Do not underestimate the physical edition"
- "Oh, you don't like hentai on your Switch?": Dev says Switch 2 needs to fix Nintendo's "pathetic" eShop, and he's not the only one who thinks so
- Walton Goggins says Fallout season 2 is on a "whole 'nother level": "I wasn’t prepared for where the story was gonna go"
- It sure seems like Rockstar is still salty over that GTA 6 mega leak as trailer 2 opens with protagonist Jason "just fixing some leaks"
- The best new shows and movies streaming this week on Netflix, Prime Video, Disney Plus, and more
- The Boys season 5's Supernatural reunion will indeed be on-screen: "I will confirm that Jared, Jensen, and Misha are all in the same frame together"
- GTA 6 brings back a classic location from Vice City, this time even more ridiculously American
- Black Cat is going "full-fledged superhero" in her own comic from Ms. Marvel co-creator
- With 19 million views, 312k comments, and 3 million likes in 4 hours, I think it's safe to say GTA 6 trailer 2 has broken YouTube
- Bungie reveals what's next for Destiny 2: "Multiyear" Fate Saga starts with Edge of Fate expansion in July, "Star Wars-inspired" Renegades expansion with LucasFilm in December
- 3 years later, Elden Ring is getting two new starting classes with the Nintendo Switch 2's Tarnished Edition
- "Grand Theft Auto 6 looks like a AAA game from the future": Game devs react to GTA 6 trailer 2, wowed by Rockstar's "incredible graphical fidelity"
- Pokemon TCG is dropping another split expansion, and resellers are gonna have a field day
- 85 new GTA 6 screenshots and images drop alongside new trailer, providing an in-depth tour of Vice City and all its surrounding locations
- Liberty City lives on in spirit as GTA 6 reveals new protagonist Lucia is from GTA's New York
- Anthony Mackie seemingly shares the first footage from the Avengers: Doomsday set, and Marvel fans think it's got something to do with Doctor Doom
- John Wick 5 director says the film is "not a continuation" and will have a new story: "It will be really different"
- "We got a PS6 tease before GTA 6": Everyone's making the same joke about this 5-second shot in Rockstar's new Grand Theft Auto trailer, which features a mysterious new console
- Grand Theft Auto creator reacts to GTA 6 trailer 2: "Now that's more like it. That environment is lovely, and things are moving much better"
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake co-director drops more hints that Rebirth and Part 3 could be coming to Switch 2, which he immediately thought "would have enough power" to handle the trilogy
- New horror sequel Final Destination: Bloodlines takes gore to the next level by breaking one of the strangest world records we have ever heard of
- "IS THAT PHIL CASSIDY": New GTA 6 trailer seems to resurrect a fan-favorite GTA 3D loser years after he disappeared from the franchise
- Rockstar gives us our best look at the GTA 6 characters yet, from a beer-loving, conspiracy-believing hermit to a rap duo with a "relentless social media presence"
- Robert Downey Jr gave "two thumbs up" to Ironheart star Dominique Thorne: "He's rooting for it, too"
- GTA 6's Lucia and Jason get full names and backstories as trailer 2 drops and Rockstar shares loads more details about its protagonists
- Wyatt Russell admits he "didn't want to say" the Captain America Easter egg in Thunderbolts
- Dark Souls 2 speedrunner was "on the cusp of a World's First" hitless saxophone run – right until he walked into a death pit in the middle of the final boss room
- GTA 6 trailer 2 live coverage - all the analysis and reactions
- After studying them for 40 years, Tom Cruise says Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning features an underwater scene "unlike any other"
- GTA 6 trailer 2 drops out of nowhere, putting Lucia and Jason in the spotlight once again
- You can get some of Oblivion Remastered's best weapons and armor sets at level 1, if you can outsmart the RPG's infamous scaling system
- Backbone's long-awaited "Pro" model is finally here, but I hope you've been saving for it
- "I hate it": Former Assassin's Creed, Far Cry lead says that with Switch 2 game-key cards, "we're losing some of what made the business special"
- Stardew Valley creator ConcernedApe worries follow-up Haunted Chocolatier might "ruin the teeth of a whole generation": "I'm thinking about doing it so you can only eat like two chocolates per day"
- Upcoming horror movie from the studio behind Longlegs and The Monkey reveals weird and bloody new trailer
- Lady Gaga included Thing in a recent performance to tease her Wednesday season 2 role, and Netflix has responded in the best way
- Thunderbolts screenwriter didn't know Marvel cut his original Taskmaster arc until he watched the movie
- Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones stars' strange upcoming horror movie contains "ultra violent content" and "mutant nudity," and it's heading into theaters unrated
- Warner Bros. has seen an early cut of Superman and James Gunn has "really understood the assignment"
- Games almost never pull this off, but Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 managed a JRPG miracle: hitting an even higher Steam player peak weeks after launch
- Kevin Feige reportedly has a long-term vision for X-Men in the MCU – including a "10-year plan"
- Borderlands fan determined to bring back dead MMO gets past the first hurdle – the login screen: "I'll make sure the community gets to experience this game one way or another"
- Rosario Dawson reveals serious bruises after only one week of filming Ahsoka season 2: "Not a weak one"
- Marvel boss Kevin Feige reportedly feels that recent MCU shows and movies "feel more like homework than entertainment"
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 hits 3 million players, who in 3 months have collectively made Henry kill almost 500 million humans and spend 387 million hours drunk
- After completing 220,000 frames of animation so far, one Solo Leveling producer wants years of "breathing room" before starting season 3
- Thunderbolts director reveals scrapped idea for Bucky's unseen shame room, and it's absolutely nothing like what you'd expect
- Netflix drops the first Squid Game season 3 teaser, and one blink and you'll miss it moment has everyone convinced a major character survived season 2 after all
- It took Oblivion Remastered a single week to become the third best-selling game of 2025 behind Assassin's Creed Shadows and Monster Hunter Wilds
- May 5
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- Your eyes do not deceive you, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has penis jiggle physics
- Russo Brothers confirm they directed the Thunderbolts post-credits scene on the set of Avengers: Doomsday - "We left you a little something"
- Fanmade Zelda: Majora's Mask PC port can now run Doom, and as mod support comes to the N64 classic there's already dabbing, quality-of-life upgrades, and a playable CJ from GTA: San Andreas
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 head was "bored" at Ubisoft and hungry for a JRPG, and made the highest-rated game of 2025 – "Somehow it worked, which still makes no sense to me"
- From The White Lotus to The Righteous Gemstones, Fallout star Walton Goggins sees himself in every character he plays: "There are similarities there"
- After 25 years, a weird Sega icon is back with a new game from the "entire original team," remasters, and a countdown website that only has 8,529 hours to go
- Marvel reveals the meaning of the Thunderbolts asterisk by changing the name of its own movie
- Nintendo Switch 2 anticipation partly fueled by "palpable desperation" in the world, analyst says, and people wanting "something to bring joy" no matter the launch games
- Fans can get a sneak peek at Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle when they go to see the 4k re-release of Demon Slayer: Mugen Train
- After playing Ghost of Yotei "at several stages of its development," former Sony exec Shuhei Yoshida swears it's "even better" than Ghost of Tsushima
- The Last of Us season 2 episode 4 director stole a script-writing tip from the show for her live-action The Sims movie: "It's such a good idea"
- Ex PlayStation boss says $50 Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is the "perfect balance" of AAA ambition, AA budget, and "independent vision" – "This is the path the industry should be pursuing"
- James Gunn's dog has a wild reaction to seeing himself as Superman's Krypto: "Every time he sees himself come on screen, he tries to murder himself"
- Switch 2 fans so desperate for news they've already decoded Donkey Kong Bananza's secret banana alphabet, which I didn't even know existed
- The first post-Rise of Skywalker Star Wars project won't be the Ryan Gosling movie, but a new novel starring Finn and Jannah
- That Gears of War remaster is also coming to PS5, and it's out this August for $40 – or free for some "longtime fans"
- Even John Romero is worried about Joy-Con drift on Nintendo Switch 2, so here's hoping those "not Hall effect sticks" hold up better than the originals
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead writer was first hired as a voice actor after she "saw a post on Reddit" calling for auditions: "I've never done that, it sounds kinda cool"
- The Last of Us season 2 episode 4 director compares Josh Peck’s cameo to Drew Barrymore in Scream: "People just wouldn’t see it coming"
- Fallout star Walton Goggins on the real-life complicated relationships that form the "genesis" of brutally honest new indie comedy The Uninvited: "It was so important to tell this story"
- LocalThunk shouts out "4th person to join the Balatro Discord" as their new deckbuilding tactics game gets rave reviews: "I TOLD YALL THIS GAME WOULD SLAP"
- Naughty Dog won't do it, so this AAA dev and his wife made their own Jak & Daxter-inspired retro platformer – it feels great and crushed its Kickstarter goal
- A Persona and Shin Megami Tensei artist trained an AI model to draw like him, and look at that, it wasn't worth it
- After nailing his first JRPG, Metaphor: ReFantazio lead UI designer has one piece of advice for his old self: "Your PC is going to break in 2021. Do something about it!"
- Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone says Disney's farming RPG got him to take notice by its title alone: "Wait, it's called Dreamlight Valley? What's going on here?"
- The Last of Us managed to keep a major cameo secret – and it's the perfect surprise
- May 4
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- Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone "assumed people wouldn't like Pierre," but thinks he's "not as bad as some people think"
- Titanfall dreams are shattered after EA cancels next game, so this studio raised $500,000 on Kickstarter to make its own mech survival game
- Modders behind Skyrim's co-op are now bringing a Dark Souls-style "social mod" to Oblivion Remastered
- Nintendo is suing an accessory maker over "infringement, unfair competition, and false advertising" for releasing Switch 2 mock-ups weeks before reveal
- Star Wars fans think they've debunked a potential Andor plot hole
- Solo Leveling's voice actor "snuck in" a line from the manhwa that was way too good not to include
- Say "hello there" to my new favorite Star Wars lightsaber, which blew my mind with a neat trick
- Marvel fans are discussing who they think should have been in the Thunderbolts line-up
- Someone has ranked every single one of Tom Cruise's running scenes on screen, and you'll be shocked by how many there are
- May 3
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- Super Mario 64, a forgotten Dreamcast JRPG, classic Jet Li films, and more all inspired Tim Schafer while working on Psychonauts
- The Black Series 212th Clone Trooper helmet is testing my willpower
- "If I made Stardew Valley again, I would try to be a little more nuanced": Eric Barone says the Community Center versus JojaMart battle was too black and white
- Danganronpa creator would love to port his acclaimed strategy RPG to more consoles, but the studio is "still on the brink of going under"
- Warfare stars Will Poulter and Kit Connor are heading to the Rapture to fight zombies
- Dragon Quest's Yuji Horii didn't actually reveal a Chrono Trigger remake after all, despite reports the JRPG classic was making a comeback
- Robert Downey Jr. may have just spoiled Thunderbolts and fans aren't happy
- Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock plan third screen reunion in romantic thriller for Amazon
- Ryan Reynolds is planning a Deadpool team-up movie with X-Men
- The Last of Us season 2 star has shared the moment that gave her the worst "video game PTSD"
- May 2
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- This Oblivion Remastered Easter egg is forcing me to confront a difficult truth about early 2010s meme culture: It was never funny, actually
- "Even though I worked on Oblivion Remastered, I'm still excited for Skyblivion": Bethesda shows more love to the modders who've been remaking Elder Scrolls 4 for 12 years
- Square Enix is "probably kicking itself" seeing the success of realistic turn-based JRPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, analyst says, after being "reticent to do it with the Final Fantasy series"
- Jurassic World: Rebirth goes full fantasy with a new crop of mutant dinosaurs including one that looks like a T-rex "designed by HR Giger" which then "had sex with a Rancor"
- Chrono Trigger remake reportedly revealed by Dragon Quest and JRPG pioneer Yuji Horii, who seemingly didn't know it was a secret: "You have heard nothing"
- Solo Leveling producer says one 24-minute episode of the hit anime can take "up to 12 months" to make
- The Devourer of Worlds faces penance for every life he's taken as he squares off with the Spirit of Vengeance in Ghost Rider Vs. Galactus #1
- "Yesterday was probably one of the worst days of my life": New No Rest for the Wicked update was such a mess, its lead dev and the Ori studio's founder immediately issued a 23-point hotfix
- Avatar 3 shares first look at Zoe Saldaña’s Neytiri as James Cameron says she’s "incandescent" in the new movie
- With GTA 6 delayed to 2026, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 star celebrates: "We're in with a shot" to win Game of the Year 2025
- Ghost of Yotei is the latest in a long line of Collector's Editions that doesn't come with a physical game, and I'm starting to think nobody understands what game collectors actually want
- Mouse: P.I for Hire just revealed some of its experimental new weapons, including a 'Self-Aware Attitude Changer' that could come in handy in real life
- Revenge of the Savage Planet drops launch trailer that's equally as bizarre as all the others
- Elden Ring Nightreign outfits resurrect our favorite sun knight with their bucket load of Dark Souls references: "SOLAIRE IS BACK"
- "We really getting Silksong before GTA 6": Hollow Knight fans can hardly believe their eyes as Rockstar's biggest game ever slips past the indie Metroidvania to rule them all
- GTA 6 delay is a "bummer," former Rockstar technical lead says, but the release date announcement shows the devs are "clearly confident" in the new deadline
- Marvel fans are praising Lewis Pullman's "perfect casting" as Sentry in Thunderbolts, after the character was almost played by a completely different actor
- An unexpected Netflix thriller movie just beat out Tom Hardy's long-delayed action hit for the number one most-watched spot
- Analysts react to GTA 6 delay: "2025 will clearly be the year of Nintendo now" and "the delay isn't a stumble – it's Rockstar doing what it always does"
- Marvel star Jeremy Renner won't be back for Hawkeye season 2 because Disney reportedly tried to cut his salary in half: "I had to defend myself"
- REPO's first big update is now available in beta and "on the home stretch" for full launch: "We want to involve you guys directly wherever we can"
- You can get an actual Star Wars droid that follows you around, but you don't wanna know how much it'll cost
- GTA 6 delay was reportedly inevitable: "Nobody I've talked to at Rockstar has believed fall 2025 was a real window for a very long time now"
- "I don't think anyone benefits in 2025 from this": GTA 6 delay is bad news for the games industry, analyst says, adding to "nightmare scenario territory" following Xbox price hike
- X-Files star Gillian Anderson thinks Ryan Coogler is the "perfect person" to reboot the show and teases if she'll return: "Call me"
- Upcoming clown movie takes horror movie marketing up a notch by letting its crazed killer loose on the streets
- Ghost of Yotei pre-orders are now live, including a stacked Collector's Edition
- Cult of the Lamb publisher wants its own Barbenheimer moment, doubles down on plans to launch a game on GTA 6's new release date: "You can't escape us"
- Jurassic World Rebirth star explains how the new movie differs from the recent reboots: "It's welcoming people to really celebrate the original film"
- Take-Two CEO "fully" supports Rockstar's GTA 6 delay, promises "a groundbreaking, blockbuster entertainment experience that exceeds audience expectations"
- ConcernedApe regrets making Stardew Valley's fishing minigame "too hard" when you start out, but still thinks it's good overall: "I know it's controversial"
- Sarah Michelle Gellar debunks "fake" leaks about her Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot and praises Eternals director Chloé Zhao's "passion" for the project
- GTA 6 2026 release delay live blog - All the information and reactions live
- Unlike Animal Crossing, house decoration in the Lord of the Rings life sim game doesn't operate on a grid because Hobbits also love "clutter-core"
- Deadlock streamer accidentally unveils 10 new heroes on the way to Valve's MOBA, as well as updated character designs for multiple existing favorites
- This streaming service has become an anime fan's dream thanks to 800 hours of free additions – including a Bleach movie marathon
- GTA 6 release date set for May 2026 as Rockstar's long-awaited open-world blockbuster is delayed out of this year
- Marvel fans have realized that other MCU characters could have been caught up in the events of Thunderbolts, with heartbreaking consequences
- Bethesda fans briefly panic as Todd retires – but not Todd Howard, so you can get back to calmly playing Oblivion Remastered: "They really shouldn't have allowed two Todds to work there"
- Mission: Impossible fans will have to channel their inner Tom Cruise to open the new The Final Reckoning popcorn bucket
- Thunderbolts director reveals the big post-credits scene was so last minute that it was filmed on the set of Avengers: Doomsday
- Mission: Impossible director says they would "not have done" one of Final Reckoning's most dangerous stunts if they "knew what it took to do it"
- Nintendo swiftly rolls out another Switch update after the last one trapped some users on an error screen when loading up their consoles
- The Thunderbolts cast were given "ownership," over their characters, which meant Florence Pugh could change that death-defying opening scene for the better
- Overwatch 2's new third-person mode wasn't a reaction to Marvel Rivals - the director's son actually "created the first pitch" well before Blizzard's sequel
- May 1
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- JRPG legend Yuji Horii is teaming up with the Blue Lock manga writer for a new Nintendo Switch game literally designed to ruin your friendships
- Epic rushes to dunk on Apple after App Store court ruling, announces Epic Game Store update promising options "where Apple, Google, and others charge exorbitant fees"
- Marvel's new Star Wars #1 enters the post-Return of the Jedi era with new adventures for Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, and Princess Leia
- "An entirely new department is spinning up at Larian" focused on the Baldur's Gate 3 studio's greatest strength: RPG storytelling
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs admit "we were wrong" about "practice is everything" advice for the RPG's difficult parries: "The true strategy is dying over and over until you land a counter"
- Thunderbolts actor wanted to change his character's name but was told no: "It's in the comics, you can't change that"
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 publisher says Oblivion Remastered "didn't seem to harm us at all," it just "drew attention to quality RPGs"
- Hollow Knight: Silksong devs released dozens of Hornet sprites, and of course all anybody can focus on is the nude one: "HORNET PUT YOUR CLOAK BACK ON"
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (May 2 - 4)
- Andor embraces podracing with an Easter egg that calls back to a Star Wars Episode 1 video game from 1999
- 125GB!? Oblivion Remastered is a storage killer, but these SSD deals are here to help
- Nintendo makes a big change to the eShop ahead of Switch 2, pushing down shovelware but potentially hurting good indies too
- Star Wars actor's new movie with a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score gets new trailer – and it looks like a mix between Perks of Being a Wallflower and Frances Ha
- $80 Switch 2 and now Xbox games aren't a big shock, analyst says, and games haven't really been $70 for a while: "The average price people are paying ... is much higher"
- To mark 27 years of the DC character, James Gunn shares BTS look at Mr Terrific’s big screen debut in Superman
- Former Bethesda designer says the studio's infamous loading screens are "a necessary bane" of how it makes RPGs, whether you're playing Oblivion Remastered, Starfield, or Skyrim
- Hollow Knight: Silksong is going to be "playable" at an Australian museum in September, but nobody knows what that means for the release date
- "Nothing has changed" with the new game from Nier Automata leads that might be Nier 3, producer says, and it might even be announced in 2027 if they're still "alive by then"
- An Xbox Series X now costs $600 as Microsoft raises prices on hardware, with "some" first-party games also jumping to $80 this year
- House of the Dragon star’s Netflix show with perfect Rotten Tomatoes score has been renewed for season 2 amid cancellation rumors
- Retro remake dev calls Switch 2 game-key cards "disheartening," says you'd hope a company as big as Nintendo "would take preservation a little more seriously"
- Bethesda giving out Oblivion Remastered keys to Skyblivion modders is "exactly what I'd like to see more of," says CEO of retro remaster studio as devs reflect on game preservation
- Blizzard says it isn't using AI-generated voices in Overwatch 2 and Diablo 4, a bug just accidentally left "robotic temp voices" in the RPG
- A sequel to the Road House reboot starring Jake Gyllenhaal will be directed by Guy Ritchie
- Solo Leveling season 3 doesn't sound like a guarantee as producers ask fans for "energy" to "help make it happen"
- Chris Hemsworth marks the start of Avengers: Doomsday filming in the most Thor way possible
- Baldur's Gate 3 is done with updates, but it's still getting hotfixes - a new one says "it's only fair" drunk monk kills "count toward the Punch Drunk achievement"
- Game of Thrones star Kit Harington recalls a "humiliating" moment on set when Bella Ramsey helped him with his lines: "Oh god, I’ve got to up my game"
- After more than 4 years, Fortnite is coming back to iOS in the US, and Epic has a "peace proposal" for Apple which could see the battle royale return to the App Store worldwide
- At 174 seconds, Thunderbolts features the longest Marvel movie post-credits scene
- Gearbox boss doubles down on Borderlands 4's new release date being unrelated to GTA 6, insists he has no "insider information" despite working under Take-Two
- When does Thunderbolts take place on the Marvel timeline?
- Thunderbolts director defends "big decision" to kill off major character: "It needed a bit of shock or surprise"
- When is Thunderbolts on streaming? Speculation on the potential Disney Plus release date
- 19 years later, Todd Howard is still a secret NPC in Oblivion Remastered, and he'll call you a bastard if you piss him off
