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- March 31
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- Divinity "is coming alive," Baldur's Gate 3 boss Swen Vincke teases, and "from here onwards" Larian's eagerly anticipated RPG "can only improve"
- Homelander sentences Billy Butcher to death by Soldier Boy in The Boys season 5 teaser
- Former Overwatch lead Jeff Kaplan has "over 5,000 hours" in Rust and calls it "the pinnacle of PvP games," but his own survival game takes cues from World of Warcraft
- The Boys' final season is officially finished as creator Eric Kripke says farewell to "the best professional experience of my life"
- Pokemon Pokopia player decides Animal Crossing: New Horizons-style banishment isn't enough for their least favorite 'mons, straight-up jails them instead: "They are (mostly) comfortable"
- Even Elden Ring legend Let Me Solo Her can't always solo her, as he admits defeat to Malenia: "Bro has sometimes known defeat"
- "That is an $11,000 gold texture": Steam researcher says "supporter packs" make a lot of free money because PC gamers love to spend on their favorite games
- The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is on track to beat Project Hail Mary for the biggest opening weekend of 2026 so far
- Marathon just buffed the best loot you can find outside Cryo Archive and nerfed the Thief movement exploit that sweaty players were abusing into the ground
- Square Enix announces "Nier: Cosmic Horror" on April 1, chaos ensues, Yoko Taro last seen wishing he had cilantro for his pho noodles
- Elder Scrolls Online will feel like an entirely new MMO, with Sea of Thieves-style naval combat, solo dungeons, revamped PvP, and an exciting return to Skyrim underway: "We still want to do new zones"
- Ubisoft sued again over The Crew shutdown, this time by French consumer group backed by Stop Killing Games alleging misleading ownership rules
- AI "upgraded" versions of the 1989 Super Mario Bros. cartoon are airing now on MeTV, and the results aren't pretty
- Mario Kart World's Bullet Bill power-ups "actually work like they're supposed to" following Nintendo's buff, players say
- Faces of Death is shaping up to be the scariest movie of 2026, as new film stills look like The Poughkeepsie Tapes meets Manhunter
- GTA 4 cut content restored after 18 years, bringing back ferry transport and a playable Xbox 360 pre-release build: "Craziest leak I have ever seen"
- Milly Alcock says she hasn't spoken to previous Supergirl actors like Melissa Benoist and Sasha Calle about playing Kara Zor-El: "They're just people living their lives"
- Arc Raiders players shocked by Legendary loot showing up in their Scrappy inbox after Flashpoint update: "Did Scrappy take down a Matriarch!?"
- I went hands on with a new Star Wars lightsaber replica unlike any other I've seen
- Disco Elysium studio's new RPG Zero Parades is coming out in May, the developer's first release since several key creatives left the company
- Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen devs found that "the programming sucks" in the original RPGs, but needed Nintendo's help on the remakes because they "hadn't gotten any better at programming since then"
- Zelda: Ocarina of Time fans share hopes for its rumored remake – not just "prettier graphics," Nintendo, just "swing for the fences" but don't make "Ocarina of the Wild"
- Kara Zor-El goes full John Wick in new Supergirl trailer all about her mission to save Krypto the adorable pup
- Dr. Stone Science Future Part 3 release schedule: when is episode 32 on Crunchyroll?
- New trailer for A24 horror Backrooms is a terrifying trip through liminal space with the same found footage vibes from the viral horror Youtube series
- Former Rockstar lead debunks GTA 4 zombies rumor as "probably an experiment that didn't work out" as "artists were always trying to put zombies in things"
- We're finally getting a Jedi Temple Guard mask replica this Star Wars day, and it's about time
- First teaser for Apple TV's Cape Fear is an eerie fever dream – and not just because of Javier Bardem's uncanny blue contacts
- Cursed Palworld dating sim "is real" and just got another trailer as Pocketpair publishing boss says it's our fault for asking for it: "You will carry this burden for the rest of your days"
- Ayaneo is already planning to discontinue one of its latest handhelds thanks to RAMageddon, and I fear the worst for future projects
- House of the Dragon star Milly Alcock "bullied" herself into accepting the role of Supergirl after swearing off big franchises after the Game of Thrones spin-off
- Marathon boss cryptically suggests the game is too hard, outright confirms "we have some iterations / big balance changes brewing right now"
- The Alien franchise is coming to HBO Max – including the brilliant and terrible director's cuts and special editions
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 studio working on an open-world Lord of the Rings RPG, industry veteran claims, and one backer is reportedly putting $100 million into it
- First ever Riftbound ban list kills off popular cards that have become so ubiquitous they're hurting the game
- An Astro Bot Mini Fridge exists, and you too can let Astro's decapitated head keep your drinks cool
- The Evercade Nexus is a brand new cartridge-based retro handheld with a newfound focus on 3D games
- Tom Holland, King of Marvel spoilers, also managed to ruin the Avengers movies for Zendaya: "I was like... 'Why did you tell me that?!'"
- GTA 6 maker Rockstar excels at open-world games because it looks at would-be "creative constraints" and just says "go nuts," says former GTA 5 audio dev
- Amazon confirms that Fallout season 2 was its second-most-watched returning show ever with 83 million viewers
- I put together a tiny Animal Crossing room thanks to these adorable Re-ment blind boxes, and now I'm obsessed
- FromSoftware owner Kadokawa sees Sony passed as its biggest investor, but the high house of Elden Ring says its "policies are not influenced" by any one shareholder anyway
- The new Masters of the Universe trailer is here, and its colorful, epic-looking action is warming my millennial heart
- Avatar: The Last Airbender season 2 unveils release date, Toph in action, and a perfect recreation of Ba Sing Se
- Pokemon Pokopia sends monthly Switch 2 sales flying by 154% in the UK as the cozy Animal Crossing-like hands Nintendo a needed system seller
- Horror fans have already found nods to the original 4chan post and internet lore in new Backrooms tweets and posters
- Newly spotted Clone Wars Easter egg in Ahsoka season 1 might be a huge hint at the season 2 plot
- Matthew Lillard says he landed The Walking Dead role of Negan for "10 minutes" before Jeffrey Dean Morgan accepted: "We would have had very different takes"
- Some of our favorite Lego sets are retiring soon, including the Legend of Zelda Deku Tree
- The PS5 just gained a 50% sales rank at Amazon as shoppers flock to beat the price rises
- The Last of Us Part 3 hopefuls are convinced Naughty Dog head Neil Druckmann is hinting at another sequel as he teases "the few stops that remain on the road ahead"
- Jack Black may have accidentally revealed that The Super Mario Movie 3 is on the way – and when we can expect it
- Mario Kart World suddenly gets a new game mode after Nintendo ruined its own surprise, alongside buffs for blue shells, Bullet Bills, and lightning
- The Housemaid 2 release date just sparked its own unlikely Barbenheimer and Dunesday with Lord of the Rings and Avengers: Secret Wars
- Arc Raiders' biggest Flashpoint change sees players with custom loadouts "more likely to join fresh servers," and everyone couldn't be happier: "F***ing FINALLY"
- First reactions to The Super Mario Galaxy Movie are overwhelmingly positive, calling the sequel a "100-minute sugar rush" with "breathtaking animation"
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure fans are responding to Steel Ball Run's disastrous release by trying to curse Netflix
- This is the best Warhammer model of the year so far, if you ask me
- Start worrying for your favorites as Jack Quaid says The Boys season 5 isn't going to be a "fairytale ending in any regard": "We really do mean that"
- March 30
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- Baldur's Gate 3 actor and prominent gen-AI critic Neil Newbon gives Arc Raiders dev "props" for replacing AI voices with humans
- Palworld funny guy John Buckley threatens more April Fool's shenanigans, but I'm not joking when I say we need that Palworld dating sim
- Undertale's Toby Fox doesn't want to do translations in languages he doesn't speak: "I want it to match my vision"
- Supergirl director says the new movie will "thoroughly investigate" Krypton and Kara's home Argo City: "It's so fundamental to who she is as a person"
- InZOI boss made his "untalented" son play the successful life sim to "learn game development" as "he did not have the talent for it"
- Arc Raiders' big Flashpoint update is bad news for raiders as vaporizer drones arrive and shredders escape into the Rust Belt, but 3 high-powered weapons should help even the odds
- The real-life F1 car's new boosting feature is "like the mushroom in Mario Kart," drivers say: "I swapped the simulator for my Nintendo Switch"
- New Peak update adds custom runs and those campfire autosaves everyone was desperate for: "Oh now this is peak"
- Eidos Montreal continues 3 straight years of layoffs as the Deus Ex studio fires 124 devs and 12-year studio head departs: "Today is a difficult day"
- Supergirl director says there are 9 distinct worlds in the new DC movie, with 5 "original" languages spoken: "There is quite a lot of traveling involved"
- PvP indie golf game with 93% "very positive" reviews hits 1 million copies sold on Steam in just over a month: "So many friendships ended"
- Crimson Desert is "a cynical amalgamation of borrowed mechanics," says Baldur's Gate 3 publishing lead: "Expect a lot more of this in premium"
- Baldur's Gate 3 keeps 4 invisible, naked clones of Gale in your camp just in case you decide to have sex with him someday
- Shigeru Miyamoto knows about Star Fox's infamous amputation theory according to ex-Nintendo PR lead, and his reaction was somewhere between "wait, what" and "are you nuts"
- Project Hail Mary directors showed off an "embarrassing" 225-minute cut to fellow filmmakers and received blunt feedback: "We thought everything was charming"
- Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen's recaps, new Pokedex and lower difficulty were all designed to bring in more girls and elderly players, director of the remakes says in resurfaced interview
- Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion actor says to trust in Craig Mazin's HBO sequel: "I really hope people give them space to make the show that they want to make"
- Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream might have a significantly lower Mii limit than the 3DS game, leaving some disappointed as the Switch is a "more powerful" console
- Marvel Rivals threatens bans for players with "superhuman APM" who are "achieving action beyond normal human hand speed"
- This might be the most valuable Pokemon card ever made, and it just sold for over $1m
- The 6 best new shows and movies streaming this week on Netflix, Prime Video, Disney Plus, and more (March 30–April 5)
- Garry's Mod creator partners with Valve in deal that ensures games made in his sandbox gem's new successor can be sold royalty-free on Steam: "It's just waiting for us now"
- Blizzard is finally giving World of Warcraft fans an official Pride event in a new Midnight update, after 12 years of a community-led run: "Sounds gay, I'm in"
- Despite all but confirming Mayor Fisk's reign will come to an end in season 2, Daredevil: Born Again showrunner says "it's not the end of Fisk's story in any way, shape, or form"
- My excitement for Rosalina's big screen debut has reached galactic proportions thanks to her new Switch 2 controller
- Xbox adding Copilot AI to consoles is "horrible in so many different ways," says former Valve dev who worked on Half-Life and Left 4 Dead
- Resident Evil Requiem suspiciously references Dreamcast classic Code: Veronica as remake rumors begin cautiously: "My neighbour who recently moved in is also called Veronica"
- Even Crimson Desert's lead actor knows you're not here for the story: "The boon of this game is clearly the size of the open world, and, you know, the fact that you can pick up a cat"
- Xbox Games Showcase in June to be followed by Gears of War: E-Day Direct, promising a "deep-dive" into the publisher's return to the franchise after 6 years
- The new Ork models for Warhammer 40K are great, but fans are more obsessed with their teeny pets
- HBO boss says there are no plans to turn the Harry Potter universe into "a DC or a Marvel"
- Scream 7 exclusive featurette goes behind the scenes as director Kevin Williamson breaks down Ghostface's most gruesome kill
- VisionQuest hasn't premiered yet, but its showrunner is already teasing a possible season 2: "You could very much see these characters again"
- After 6 years, The Elder Scrolls Blades is shutting down in June, and Bethesda's made everything in the RPG super easy to unlock for the remaining time: "Thank you for playing"
- Interview with the Vampire spin-off becomes the latest 2026 TV casualty as Talamasca: The Secret Order canceled after just 1 season
- It's not just the PS5 getting price hiked; Intel's new gaming processors are already more expensive after less than a week on the shelves
- A Nintendo Switch 2 price hike "could be likely" after PS5's increase, game analysts suggest: "I would be very surprised if the Switch was still $450 in the US at the end of 2026"
- Smaller Minecraft updates like Tiny Takeover and Chaos Cubed "feel more sustainable" for Mojang, says lead: "There's always another one right around the corner"
- Marvel fans can't believe which show is beating Daredevil: Born Again as the MCU's highest rated live-action series
- AI strikes again as Sony Japan announces it's suspending memory card production
- "Nintendo is absolutely furious" about Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake leaks, former marketing lead assures, who says dealing with leakers will likely become a "major priority"
- Super Mario Galaxy Movie star Charlie Day supports bringing Luigi's Mansion to the big screen: "It does seem like it would make a great movie"
- The Anbernic RG Vita is now available, but I'd be tempted to pick up an original PS Vita handheld instead
- GTA 4 "ditched" ferries because there were "too many issues," former Rockstar lead explains after a development build surfaces online from someone who accidentally bought it at a car boot sale
- Despite already being Bowser in the Super Mario movies, Jack Black wants to star in a live-action Yakuza adaptation: "I'm going to throw my hat in that ring"
- As Kingdom Hearts 4 fans eagerly await an update, director Tetsuya Nomura celebrates the classic JRPG's 24th anniversary by telling everyone to check in next year
- Despite the Gen V lot being in the trailer, The Boys' Eric Kripke ensures you don't have to do "homework" to watch season 5: "It becoming a chore is something we're trying to avoid"
- Filming on Amazon's Tomb Raider series has been put on pause after Lara Croft star Sophie Turner sustains injury on set
- Daredevil star Charlie Cox has an unhinged theory on how to bring Foggy Nelson back to life
- Crimson Desert hits a new Steam peak of over 276,000 players on its second weekend as Pearl Abyss removes AI art and continues to improve divisive controls
- GTA 6 sleuths deduce that Rockstar North's likely spent over $2 billion making the long-awaited game after snooping through its financial documents
- Dave Filoni suggests Maul – Shadow Lord will honor George Lucas' scrapped Star Wars ideas
- Epic Games "will solve the insurance" for a terminally ill employee impacted by mass layoffs, Tim Sweeney says: "Sorry to everyone for not recognizing this terribly painful situation"
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Steel Ball Run release plans get even more bizarre as Netflix confirms at least one more episode in 2026
- HBO boss says Harry Potter show is "not going to be annual," but goal is to "not have a huge gap" between seasons
- Crimson Desert update targets pesky movement bugs and more as reviews rise to "Very Positive" on Steam, with fans praising Pearl Abyss for "working fast"
- Introducing Boris, star of ‘Adorable Adventures’ and one of the most unique heroes in gaming history!
- March 29
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- "You can't build clever little games anymore," says RPG legend, unless you get lucky like Clair Obscur Expedition 33: "That doesn't please the stock market"
- Arc Raiders lead was surprised The Last of Us players really liked the game, "they just didn't like to have PvP all the time"
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 devs were "experimenting" for the first game, but came armed with knowledge and about 100 more staff members for the sequel: "It had to stand taller"
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's Maelle actor recorded her audition at 2am while in bed because "she forgot to do it"
- Crimson Desert replaces AI-generated assets left in the game by accident "as part of ongoing visual improvements," alongside improvements to loading and controls
- God of War's pale hero Kratos is covered in ash because a lead dev saw unfinished concept art on white paper and thought it was "really cool"
- March 28
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- How to watch the Japan Grand Prix online from anywhere – and where to watch it for free
- Steam made him "radioactive," but the creator of banned horror game Horses wants his next project to be just as disturbing: "I need to stay loyal to the vision"
- Nintendo 64 gets a Skyrim-sized open-world game as dev busts the infamous fog that's defined the console for 30 years
- The Stanley Parable creator and Minecraft composer's indie studio is shutting down after one cozy sim because "it's a particularly tough time for raising game funds"
- Arc Raiders devs now force themselves to act nice in playtests to better understand friendly players: "One day I'm playing as a Care Bear, the other day I'm very aggressive"
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 dev says he was "fired" and replaced with AI: "I feel incredibly betrayed by the management of the company I've come to care about"
- Should Japanese game devs focus on a Japanese style? Nioh 3 leads say it's "one of our strengths," but blindly "sticking with that Japanese style isn't good" on its own
- Long-rumored Final Fantasy 9 remake is apparently on ice with "no new movement" on Square Enix's JRPG classic, according to reliable insider
- New Steam update finally addresses huge disparity in regional prices between countries "to help developers price games in 35 currencies and 4 region groups worldwide"
- 3 essential new to Prime Video movies you need to watch this weekend (March 27–March 29)
- March 27
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- Mojang hired a "cow whisperer" and "real animal voice actors" to record new Minecraft animal noises: "The cows started to speak to him immediately"
- 3 new to Netflix movies I recommend you watch this weekend (March 27–March 29)
- With Crimson Desert out, Pearl Abyss is reportedly focusing on open-world Pokemon-like game DokeV
- Super Mario Galaxy Movie stars Chris Pratt and Charlie Day refuse to confirm or deny whether Wario and Waluigi will show up
- Star Wars Zero Company exists because late Call of Duty co-creator Vince Zampella wanted to know about an XCOM veteran's dream game: "Do you think you can make a Star Wars game with this?"
- After appearing in 5 projects in 2026, Spider-Man: Brand New Day star Zendaya says she'll be taking a break from acting
- Borderlands 4 performance issues have been "pretty stressful," admits dev, but Gearbox has done "a pretty good job" fixing them
- Doom co-creator John Romero is "not going to stop making games" despite the state of the industry because "there's too much cool stuff to make"
- Fallout London devs had "moments of uncertainty" whether Bethesda would let the mod live, but they know AAA studios "increasingly rely on user-generated content"
- Who needs a Nintendo Direct with ratings boards leaking multiple Switch 2 titles, seemingly including a new version of Devil May Cry 5
- "Mojang can never win": Minecraft fans split after update 26.1 and underwhelming Chaos Cubed reveal, with some dubbing it "a low-effort marketplace add-on"
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake could be launching this year on Switch 2, prominent Nintendo leaker claims, but don't expect a new 3D Mario until 2027
- PS6 and Xbox Project Helix "will start at a 50% higher price" than PS5 and Xbox Series X, predict analysts following Sony price hike – and $999 "is not impossible"
- 3 essential new to Prime Video shows to binge this weekend (March 27–March 29)
- After 15 years, I still use my Nintendo 3DS regularly, but there are plenty of new ways to enjoy the handheld
- I found the Sonic the Hedgehog Switch 2 Joy-Cons of my dreams, and I'm willing to learn how to mod to make them mine
- Marvel has confirmed where Daredevil: Born Again season 2 falls on the MCU timeline, and it makes Kingpin and Val's "team-up" all the more curious
- Glen Powell goes from Top Gun to space pilot as the voice of Fox McCloud in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
- New inZOI patch dubbed the "GTA 6 update" by eager fans, adding everything from cozy flower shops to car theft to the Sims 4 competitor
- Crimson Desert boss admits its story needs work, but it can't be fixed now so future updates will only focus on gameplay
- Crimson Desert devs are looking into bringing the massive open-world game to Switch 2, says Pearl Abyss CEO, which sounds like a tall task
- Time is against you, but there's still a chance to grab a PS5 or PS5 Pro before the price increases get you in their clutches
- Hollow Knight just fixed a bug that's plagued the final boss fight for 9 years, and I don't know if I want to celebrate or cry: "The amount of deaths to this is insane"
- Slay the Spire 2 devs walk back the nerf that sparked 10,000 negative Steam reviews, and shovel buffs at The Regent after fans determine he's the worst class by a mile
- The Boys' Jensen Ackles teases "disgusting... outrageous" reunion with Supernatural co-stars in season 5
- Long-awaited fantasy anime Witch Hat Atelier is getting a same-day English dub and a double-episode premiere
- New Maul – Shadow Lord clip proves that Star Wars music doesn't get better than Duel of the Fates
- Square Enix unveils new 40th Anniversary Dragon Quest figures, but there's one problem
- Meta sends more mixed signals about its future in VR with more layoffs at Reality Labs, while its director of games told GDC, "We've a lot going on – new hardware, new audiences, new games"
- Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream demo leaves Miis "lobotomized" after you progress too far, fans warn to steer clear unless you want to hear "ad lines" on loop
- I just spotted the Steam Deck in a big horror movie sequel, and its film debut highlights the handheld's biggest caveat
- Former Half-Life 2 writer calls out Epic CEO Tim Sweeney over layoffs, says Valve boss Gabe Newell is "better" than him at making "as much money as possible," anyway
- Original Solo directors Lord and Miller seemingly confirm they were signed on for more than one Han Solo Star Wars movie
- PS5 consoles are getting even more expensive next week, so a PS5 Pro will soon cost you $900
- After topping the box office with Project Hail Mary, Ryan Gosling joins Daniels' first movie since Everything Everywhere All at Once
- If Evil Dead Rise was a "rocket ship fuelled by blood" then Lee Cronin's new Mummy movie is "more of a maze", says the director: "There's a hard-boiled detective streak"
- After getting Resident Evil fans excited, The Boys' Antony Starr shuts down Albert Wesker casting hopes: "The only thing I have in common is blonde hair"
- Resident Evil Requiem's photo mode has been added in a new patch as Capcom tweaks certain cutscenes "to better convey emotion" of characters
- Jujutsu Kaisen actor responds after viewers point out Culling Game error: "We'll fix it"
- Despite being mocked over Maui's wig in the first live-action Moana trailer, Dwayne Johnson says the hair is "crucial" to the "integrity of the character"
- Cyclops star James Marsden says that Hugh Jackman "was missed" on the set of Avengers: Doomsday, but no one believes that Wolverine won't appear
- Could the new sci-fi movie from It Follows director secretly be a Cloverfield sequel? Fans think yes
- Stardew Valley 1.7 update leaks "are fake," confirms ConcernedApe – and he has "no plans to ever add" Harvest Moon-style romance rivalries to the farming sim
- 3 new to Netflix shows I recommend you binge-watch this weekend (March 27–March 29)
- March 26
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- Crimson Desert inexplicably changes the name of its fat cats to "loafy cats," and I might be the only person 100% on-board with this: "Litterally unplayable"
- Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion actor has avoided roles that were "just like" the iconic vampire, as that's what David Bowie would do: "Extreme repetition breeds stagnation as an artist"
- Steam's new "golden age" is special because so many genres are popping off at once, indie expert says: "It's almost like the player base was drinking and their inhibitions lowered"
- Legendary fan translator is now officially helping bring back a mascot platformer that couldn't escape the '90s
- Former Diablo devs left in limbo after $65,000 in fake Kickstarter pledges overwhelm new ARPG Darkhaven: "We are taking a few more days to consider the best course of action"
- Project Hail Mary 2 reportedly "not out of the question" after the sci-fi film had the biggest non-franchise opening at the box office since Oppenheimer
- Minecraft devs say anything is possible in the sandbox game's future as they start to dip into old ideas for new updates: "You always have more ideas than you can realize"
- As Arc Raiders gets stale for some, lead dev says players "reaching the end of our content" are a top focus: "We want more for them"
- Former Overwatch lead Jeff Kaplan says he wants to put "Rust-like mechanics" in his new survival game "someday," but for now base-building is more like "Valheim and Subnautica"
- Invincible season 4's hell episode is currently the lowest-rated installment of the entire show on IMDb
- Queen of roguelikes Hades 2 gets "bonus content and quality-of-life improvements" alongside PS5 and Xbox versions next month
- 6 best new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (March 27–29)
- The Expanse: Osiris Reborn devs "do not think of ourselves as a successor to the Mass Effect series," even if the Owlcat team "really enjoyed" and take "great inspiration" from BioWare's sci-fi RPGs
- Mass Effect-inspired sci-fi RPG The Expanse: Osiris Reborn gets a spring 2027 release window, and it has a closed beta coming next month
- Manor Lords publisher announces Vaunted, a new strategy game from ex-StarCraft devs inspired by a classic PS3 tactics RPG
- "Game Grandpa" obliterates Resident Evil Requiem by making handwritten copies of its maps and puzzles in his notebook: "It's not about being fearless, but about moving forward"
- The Witcher 4 and Cyberpunk 2077 dev would've loved to playtest the original Dark Souls or Demon's Souls: "Where do you draw the line between challenge that motivates you?"
- Pokemon Pokopia players turn to "broken" Minecraft tactics to make gathering one of the game's rarest materials a breeze: "I mined 1,200 Pokemetal in about 90 minutes"
- "Pretend we kept patching Oblivion. What would we have done if we kept supporting it?" – Todd Howard explains the "thought exercise" Bethesda went through for its remaster
- "If we focus too much on casual players, that would take away the bite": Nioh 3 may be an easier Soulslike, but Team Ninja considers "really good" players when testing
- Stardew Valley-like farming sim with a romanceable "supernatural serial killer" gets an August release date, with a demo coming soon
- Crimson Desert's quarry is giving players "PTSD," probably because they keep missing the key secret: "You don't need to kill hundreds of enemies"
- Diablo Cody shares cryptic clues about Jennifer's Body 2, says it's bolder than the original and "a response" to it becoming a cult classic
- Dinosaurs take over suburbia in first trailer for It Follows director's intriguing new sci-fi movie
- "Slay the Spire 2 is the obvious call" for March's biggest banger, Palworld publishing boss says, but "don't sleep" on this cute open-world survival game quietly crushing it on Steam
- World of Warcraft guild known for raid-busting exploits disqualified from new Midnight Mythic race by Blizzard after hitting 1 boss for 300 million damage: "Absolute gamers"
- "I didn't expect them to have the same impact as Final Fantasy 16": Clair Obscur Expedition 33's Ben Starr thought "being an idiot with Balatro" would be his biggest role of 2025, not Sandfall's surprise-hit RPG
- The 3DFX Voodoo add-in card that revolutionised 3D PC gaming is getting an FPGA remake, and with the way things are going, I'd choose it over a next-gen Nvidia GPU
- After that controversial first look, God of War TV show casts its Freya
- Even as prices continue to climb, Teamgroup is launching a Gen 5 SSD for "high-stability performance for the AI creation era" and not gaming
- After selling 100,000 Steam copies in a week, publisher behind 8-year-old horror game says continued investment is key: "In 30 years, we've had 30 Resident Evil games"
- Peaky Blinders creator says Arthur Shelby wasn't in The Immortal Man because "Tommy needed to have done something that he couldn't forgive himself for"
- New AAA games could cost $300 million or "much more" to make, insider says, which might help "explain the current state of the industry" amid layoffs and studio closures
- Baldur's Gate 3 hotfix irons out "several crashes" Larian may or may not have accidentally introduced when fixing corrupted saves last month
- Evil Dead Rise director says he turned down a sequel in order to take a "risk" on a new installment in the Mummy franchise: "It's definitely going to surprise people"
- Everything announced at Warhammer AdeptiCon 2026, from a new 40K edition to the most gloriously silly vehicle I've ever seen
- Nintendo legend had "high hopes" for a Star Fox movie, and after today's Super Mario Galaxy Movie reveal he's full of gratitude: "Thank you, Miyamoto-san"
- Crimson Desert streamer discovers the incredible truth: you can one-shot bosses with an actual tree as your weapon
- New Stranger Things: Tales from '85 trailer is giving us serious Scooby-Doo: Monsters Unleashed vibes, as Netflix confirms cool new casting
- How to watch March Madness free online, the best streams for Sweet 16 in the US, UK, and around the world
- In pursuit of the ideal roguelike, Saros runs are shorter than Returnal's as Housemarque wanted to "keep the feeling of danger" and "reduce the feeling of helplessness"
- Masters of the Universe's Sorceress has been revealed via an unlikely source: Uno cards
- How to watch the World Cup Qualifiers 2026: where to stream and watch for free
- Even the Star Wars Zero Company devs have spent a lot of time "going on Wookieepedia" to get the deep cut lore right
- Dying Light: The Beast's Restored Land update isn't DLC, lead says – it's "another chapter" in the survival horror that's adding permadeath, New Game+, a hunger meter, and more
- Jak and Daxter fans, look away – a remake concept made in the hope of PlayStation greenlighting the project resurfaces years later, and it looks absolutely perfect
- Fox McCloud joins The Super Mario Galaxy Movie roster, intensifying Super Smash Bros. movie speculation
- Star Wars Zero Company lets you explore like it's a third-person action game outside of combat, and it sounds like the same kind of X-factor that helped Baldur's Gate 3 break out beyond the CRPG nerds
- Star Wars Zero Company will kill story characters, Fire Emblem-style: Narrative lead says "I lost an argument about permadeath, and it was good that I did"
- Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream demo is already producing some of the wildest Miis I've ever seen, from Pokopia's Ditto to Resident Evil Requiem's Leon
- Andy Muschietti confirms an It supercut is going to happen, but we're not likely to see it until after Welcome to Derry season 2: "Now we are happily committed"
- The gray 8Bitdo N64 controller is a thing of beauty, but if you don't share my dorky passion for retro colors, you'll want to grab the cheaper white version
- Pokemon Champions producer had a "heated discussion" with one of Game Freak's original battle designers about removing a complicated mechanic after 30 years to make PvP more accessible
- Duffer Brothers' new Netflix horror show called "captivating" and "a blood-soaked, dread-filled nightmare" in first reviews, as it's compared to a Mike Flanagan series
- First came RAMageddon and storage inflation, now a CPU shortage could be on the cards as PC makers report limited supplies
- Daredevil star Charlie Cox says that Born Again season 3 feels like a "new dawn" for the show as it "sheds the skin of the Mayor Fisk era"
- The Amazing Spider-Man's Andrew Garfield wants to see Emma Stone as Spider-Gwen: "She could do anything"
- As Tomodachi Life demo players push its lack of filter to the limit, former marketing lead says Nintendo may be "rethinking" its approach after being caught out by the internet again
- "Oh hi Switch 2": Mewgenics port looks imminent as The Binding of Isaac co-creator shows off the new roguelike running on Nintendo's hardware
- Daredevil: Born Again fans can't get enough of one hilarious moment in season 2 episode 1: "I love when villains have enough free time to do theatrical stuff like this"
- Fortnite producer says "we cannot even fully understand what kind of impacts this will have" amid mass layoffs at Epic Games: "What comes next is very hard and painful"
- "Nobody wants their games to look like Italian brainrot" - Indie publisher New Blood CEO urges devs to push back against DLSS 5 just like they did with NFTs and crypto games
- Super Mario Galaxy Movie star Brie Larson says it's "time for us in cinema to recognize what we can take from video games"
- Nintendo says "the cost of physical games is not going up" in the US, digital Switch 2 games are getting cheaper, instead
- Harry Potter HBO trailer is "uncanny" and " looks like a live action version of a live action movie," according to reactions: "You're a cash cow, Harry"
- Resident Evil Requiem doesn't reunite Leon and the Merchant, likely because the shopkeeper was left 3 trillion in debt after their last encounter in Resident Evil 4 Remake
- Fan-favorite Steel Legion returning to Warhammer 40K after Armageddon book closes out current edition
- Warhammer 11th Edition officially revealed, and your old Codex army books will still work
- "F*** me, I guess": Hades 2 actor Ben Starr "hated" himself while playing the roguelike because his character Prometheus is a "hard boss"
- March 25
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- Disgaea dev's spooky new Stardew Valley-like is finally confirmed for a western release months after its Japanese announcement
- Black Ops vet says his mystery PlayStation project wasn't a live-service game, and even if Sony shutting down his studio "f***ing sucked" he reckons it's just because "times change"
- Charlie Cox says the shock ending of Daredevil: Born Again season 2 episode 1 will lead to "interesting conversations and very unexpected revelations"
- The Sims creator blew 10 years and millions of dollars on his new game, laid off his whole team in 2024, and still isn't done: "I'd much rather have a glorious failure than a mild success"
- New Faces of Death trailer is even grosser than the first, introduces Stranger Things star as villain
- After 37 years, cult classic NES Friday the 13th game has a fan remake made "from scratch" for Game Boy Color, and this time around you can actually take down Jason Voorhees
- I asked about Arc Raiders' mystery ships and a dev told me the same thing Embark is now teasing online: "I think you'll have to keep an eye on the sky for now"
- First trailer for HBO's new Harry Potter TV series looks familiar, but feels nothing like the films, and that's a good thing
- Nintendo changing prices of Switch 2 exclusives in the US this spring: digital will be $10 cheaper than physical for Yoshi and the Mysterious Book
- Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney says latest layoffs will result in "a stream of resumes of once-in-a-lifetime quality folks" because the downsizing "wasn't a performance-based 'rightsizing'"
- Fallout: New Vegas praise felt "a little unfair" to one Bethesda veteran at first, but Obsidian "did a great job" of channeling the series' spirit: "In some ways better than we did"
- Finally, CRKD is launching a pro controller that's shaped like a regular gamepad, and it promises TMR thumbsticks, six extra buttons, and a sub-$100 price tag
- Gillian Anderson urges X-Files fans to "have an open mind" over Ryan Coogler's upcoming reboot, as she shares reaction to first episode's script
- Dune: Awakening update adds new overland location, Landsraad missions, bug fixes, and more to Chapter 3 ahead of the survival MMO's upcoming server merges
- Razer's brand new Blade 16 gaming laptop manages to swerve RAMageddon with the same MSRP as last year
- "How wrong I was" – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's Ben Starr told friends to keep expectations "in check" before the RPG's launch because "this isn't going to be a smash hit"
- 5 reasons why you need to pay attention to AnimeJapan 2026, including possible Steel Ball Run answers
- Star Trek legend William Shatner shares his "sorrow" at Starfleet Academy cancellation, says the franchise "should exist for a long time"
- Palworld dev reluctantly goes back to work instead of playing more Crimson Desert, after sinking dozens of hours into its open world: "I love this game"
- John Wick spin-off star Donnie Yen wants to make it "the most definitive martial arts-infused action film ever made"
- "No way haters will stop this": Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 lead says AI tech like Nvidia DLSS 5 will "replace expensive raytracing" someday, and "this is just a little uncanny beginning"
- Razer goes a step further than SteelSeries, offering five different speeds of its latest gaming mouse pad, and that's the kind of detail an FPS setup control freak like me wants
- 6 months after Borderlands 4 launch, Gearbox admits "we have more to do" to fix ongoing PC performance issues but promises "we're in it for the long haul!"
- For the first time ever, Square Enix is crowned top publisher on Metacritic thanks to its 2025 run of remakes like Final Fantasy Tactics and Dragon Quest 1+2
- Blaze is teasing a new Evercade Nexus console, and the retro gaming glutton in me is hoping it'll be a PS2 era powerhouse
- "You lost $40 million": Dev had Mortal Kombat rights yanked away because he went on a family vacation when the publisher believed he "should have been" chained to the studio
- The Mummy director defends the new Universal movie's "domestic setting" as he suggests the franchise's unique horrors shouldn't "be limited to tourists in Cairo"
- Project Motor Racing overhauls "every layer" of the sim with massive Update 2.0 ahead of Japan-themed DLC
- Pokemon Champions could run "forever" if the series does, producer says, even if that means cramming "10,000 Pokemon" into the PvP battler as part of the process
- KPop Demon Hunters 2 may still be a way off yet, but at least we have this new short to quite literally whet our appetite
- Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream demo drops seemingly out of the blue, and fans are already going "feral" over it: "We're so hyped"
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day's Michael Mando joins Sydney Sweeney in the Gundam movie, calls it a "love letter to anime"
- Robert Pattinson jokes "no one" was Team Jacob at the height of Twilight's success: "That was just a marketing thing"
- As Crimson Desert becomes the latest game to see AI art slip through the cracks, Mewgenics co-creator says concept art is "one of the worst" places to use it: "That's where you want to be the most creative"
- Jimmy Olsen's mystery comedy show will feature things that haven't "been seen in the superhero genre" before, says showrunner
- Doom co-creator John Romero worked on a Pokemon-like MMO that taught you maths, but "felt like you were playing World of Warcraft"
- The Harry Potter show won't release a season a year, and everyone is united in saying that's a bad idea
- Avengers: Doomsday star James Marsden says he was "very proud" to wear comics-accurate Cyclops costume after the "restrictive" black leather of the X-Men films
- Speculation over DLSS 5 originally being an RTX 6090 feature is growing, but I wouldn't even want it near my future GPU
- Chainsaw Man fans share their reaction to manga's "pointless" ending: "Left me feeling complete indifference"
- Death Stranding 2 dev says Hideo Kojima "wanted more people to enjoy" the sequel "all the way to the end" after complaints that the first game "might've been a little bit slow"
- Fortnite art lead behind iconic characters like Jonesy has been laid off by Epic Games, and fellow devs are paying tribute: "Fortnite looks like Fortnite because of you"
- Half-Life 2 writer says Valve devs have "been looking" at gen AI for help with video game writing: "It's the one place where I feel like AI is worth investigating"
- Daredevil: Born Again season 2 debuts to near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score, higher than season 1
- New Lord of the Rings movie takes place after Frodo's death and could feature Tom Bombadil
- Clean Up Earth is a massive ecological adventure for all your friends that also does real-world good for the planet
- Invincible season 4 has Iron Man in its sights as it pokes fun at MCU's superhero costume "problem"
- Daredevil: Born Again season 2 sets up a connection between Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine and Kingpin, and it could have something to do with the Thunderbolts
- March 24
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- EverQuest is the next legacy MMO to get the "classic" treatment after WoW Classic and Old School RuneScape, but with a genius twist: it knows all of us olds don't have time for MMOs anymore
- Disney quashes $1 billion deal with OpenAI after Sora video app shutters, vows to "continue to engage with AI platforms"
- Open-world pirate games are so back: Windrose hits 1.5 million Steam wishlists as 800,000 players convince devs to leave the bangin' demo up until launch
- Marathon sold just 1.2 million copies with nearly 70% on Steam, analyst estimates: "It hasn't exactly made the splash Sony and Bungie wanted"
- "Weird and bats**t" Steam launch of two different indie games with the same name ended in 3x more sales than expected: "It all absolutely popped off"
- "We've sportified Steam charts" according to Warframe boss, who sees gamers obsessing over player counts the way "baseball freaks" dig into batting averages
- Arc Raiders once had an Arc called The Cylinder of Pain, so I asked Embark about The Cylinder of Pain, and it turns out The Cylinder of Pain was a proto-Bastion with a big cylinder – of pain
- Former God of War dev thinks "the plan was to do Egyptian at some point," but Sony Santa Monica went with Norse mythology for the reboot as it was "familiar but not familiar"
- PlayStation reportedly closes another first-party studio weeks after Bluepoint, killing Black Ops vet’s AAA project and laying off 50 devs
- Even the Crimson Desert marketing lead with 400 hours in the open-world game is stunned to learn this neat cooking tip: "I'm so excited to learn things from the community"
- Masahiro Sakurai is definitely thinking of Super Smash Bros as he asserts "it would be utterly impossible to grant every request" from fans in Kirby Air Riders
- Todd Howard defends "VO line flub" in Oblivion Remastered since "it's part of the game’s character," but some bugs only stick around because they're "so complicated"
- When is The Super Mario Galaxy Movie on streaming? Speculation on the Peacock release date
- Daredevil: Born Again season 2 showrunner holds back on saying whether Luke Cage and Iron Fist will join a Defenders reunion in the MCU: "That's not really up to me"
- The Destiny gacha game is cutting the gacha garbage because "wolves do not beg for scraps, and they certainly do not 'pull' for what should be theirs"
- Epic kills 3 Fortnite modes amid mass layoffs, including the Rocket League devs' Mario Kart-like which helped kick off the multi-game metaverse era to begin with
- Baldur's Gate 3 Shadowheart actor was "fully expecting" Larian to cut her "finger-guns" gag about deadly poison, but "it ended up being in the game"
- Surprisingly emotional new Devil May Cry season 2 teaser goes back to Dante and Virgil's childhood and fills in the blanks on why the brothers are so different
- BB-8 puppeteer says the Star Wars sequels are "no more polarizing than the prequels were" and "in 10 years' time" they'll be loved like the prequels, too
- Assassin's Creed Shadows players sunk 334 million hours into the endless Ubisoft sandbox, killing 4 billion targets but paying their karma by petting 26 million cats
- Black Mirror star's new horror movie pulls in strong Rotten Tomatoes score as it's called "batsh*t crazy" and "Kill Bill meets Ready or Not" in first reviews
- The Razer Viper V4 Pro refreshes the line with "faster and more consistent aim," lower weight, super-fast sensor, and boosted battery
- Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Steel Ball Run and Frieren are fighting it out for the top spot on the highest-rated anime ranking
- The Boys showrunner says that Homelander is "more miserable than ever" in season 5, despite being more powerful than the president
- This amazing Legend Zelda figure recreates my favorite game in the series, but costs almost double the Switch 2
- Epic Games lays off "over 1,000" people, CEO Tim Sweeney says "I'm sorry we're here again" and blames "the downturn in Fortnite engagement"
- Pokemon Champions releases on Switch in 2 weeks, but a battle pass and extra purchases already loom over the F2P launch
- Marvel's upcoming Punisher special is set to be the MCU's longest one yet
- Crimson Desert's Steam reviews recover from 'Mixed' launch as the open-world game crosses 3 million copies sold 5 days after launch, devs promise more fixes to go with the fixes they just fixed
- The long-awaited Punisher special gets a new title, and is set to release just one week after the Daredevil: Born Again season 2 finale
- "The graphics device is currently not supported" - After seemingly ghosting Intel, Crimson Desert devs are now "working on compatibility" for Intel Arc GPUs
- Embark knows Arc Raiders fans are questioning "the size of our weekly patches," but they're not meant to be any bigger: "These updates are focused on smaller quality-of-life improvements"
- Nvidia CEO says "I don't love AI slop myself" after giving Resident Evil Requiem's Grace a DLSS 5 makeover that was swiftly labelled AI slop
- One Piece viewership was down for season 2, and now the 12-season plan doesn't seem all that likely
- Crimson Desert "does rivers better" than Red Dead Redemption 2, says former Rockstar artist in praise of the open-world game's attention to detail: "I couldn't be more pleased to see this"
- I'm obsessed with this party card game that feels like Dune crossed with Game of Thrones
- Star Trek: Starfleet Academy has been canceled 11 days after its season 1 finale and will end with season 2
- One Piece remake will have "flawless pacing" instead of filler and aims to fix creator Eiichiro Oda's one "regret" from the original
- Despite "complicated rights issues", Kingpin actor Vincent D'Onofrio hopes he gets to fight Spider-Man someday: "If Sony and Marvel ever get their s*** together maybe"
- Pokemon Pokopia once again overtakes Resident Evil Requiem on Metacritic as the best game of 2026, with a score of 90 that's going to be hard to beat
- "GURL IT'S HAPPENING": A Shadowheart Nendoroid figure is on the way, and Baldur's Gate 3 fans are losing it
- Daredevil star goes full Kingpin as he says Punisher isn't in Born Again season 2 because Jon Bernthal is busy "hangin with that insect"
- The Boys star says showrunner Eric Kripke didn't have a plan for A-Train after season 4, but season 5 will find the Supe in the "most dangerous place that he's ever been"
- Nintendo is reportedly cutting Switch 2 console production by a third after not hitting expected sales over the holidays
- Jujutsu Kaisen season 3 will come to an end with a "special extended episode"
- Arc Raiders dev makes good on its threat, will unleash Shredders on multiple maps in Flashpoint update coming next week
- Thanks, I hate it: Resident Evil Requiem's terrifying stalker sounds that way because its actor "went through two jugs of milk" as Capcom "wanted a very thick consistency to my spit"
- March 23
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- Red Dead Redemption 2 modder creates the perfect open-world game by turning Rockstar's masterwork into Elden Ring
- Truck driver replaces passenger seat with $6,000 sim driving rig, uses it to kill time while "stuck in traffic"
- Marvel greenlights Wonder Man season 2 with Simon Williams and Trevor Slattery confirmed to return
- With 100,000 Steam wishlists after 3 days, Cat Parents devs "never imagined" this response, and I'm surprised they're surprised: it's a game where you "save cats, give them love, care, and a place to call home"
- Palworld devs are "still bad at spending money and we're still bad at saving money" according to Pocketpair publishing head, as the studio "can take risks others can't"
- "Gabe cannot buy yachts with wishlists": Steam expert begs devs to make the most of their hit games, because to Valve "you're like a little goblin that has a magical power to turn straw into gold"
- Marvel fans discuss their wishlists for Captain America 5, and the top choice is "competent writing and dialogue"
- OG God of War devs didn't expect the PS2 classic to take 4 years to make, but they "didn't know any better" and "crunched like motherf***ers"
- Project Hail Mary directors say Steven Spielberg pitched that Close Encounters of the Third Kind Easter egg: "He's like, 'Wouldn't that be funny?'"
- As The Boys' final season approaches, Eric Kripke slams sci-fi shows that end with no casualties: "I keep yelling at the screen, 'Things cost things! You can't get away with this!'"
- Crimson Desert players say they feel "misled" after learning most mounts aren't permanent: "I got this game thinking I could ride bears, raptors and dragons any time I want"
- The Boys showrunner says Vought Rising spin-off is "really graphic, really profane" and is "a lurid, pulpy detective story"
- Overwatch creator tries showing off his new Rust-like open-world game but finds fellow dev stuck in a T-pose instead: "Don't show that on stream!"
- The Boys showrunner Eric Kripke says that Butcher is "committed to being a true monster" to achieve his goals in the final season
- A Pokemon Pokopia player built a working calculator and the game's not even 3 weeks old: "The countdown to a playable version of Doom begins now"
- Resident Evil Requiem proves fans yearn for more Leon Kennedy as his previous games get major Steam player count boosts, along with most of the other installments in the series
- Crunchyroll provides update on data breach claims as the investigation remains "ongoing": "We are continuing to monitor the situation closely"
- The Super Mario Galaxy Movie might actually be making a years-long fan theory about Rosalina and Princess Peach canon
- Arc Raiders guns totally changed after one "guerilla" dev at Embark said hold my beer, "I think I can do better," and remade the entire reload system "himself"
- 6 of the best new shows and movies streaming this week on Disney Plus, Netflix, Prime Video, and more (March 23-March 29)
- "I can't wait to not be able to get my hands on any," fans joke as new Pokemon card tins are announced amidst stock challenges
- The Game Boy Advance turned 25 this weekend, these are the retro handhelds that help it shine in 2026
- The Boys creator Eric Kripke says there aren't "full battle scenes" in the final season "because we still don’t have Game of Thrones’ budget"
- Over 10 years later, Spider-Verse's Phil Lord and Chris Miller are still hoping to make their "very elaborate" Flash movie at DC
- Spider-Verse producing duo Phil Lord and Chris Miller reveal they were offered a live-action movie in the Spider-Man universe: "We'll leave it at that"
- "We are not ignorant of the feedback" - Intel seems to be planning AMD-style support for its CPU sockets, and that could make the red vs blue battle a lot closer in the years to come
- Fortnite's Peak skin is nearly 3 times the price of Peak itself after V-Bucks price hike: "That's actually a slap in the face to the Peak developers"
- 77% of US Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth players were 30 or older, analyst says, as Square Enix fights to get young people to care about the JRPG series again
- Amazon wanted The Boys to run longer than five seasons, so Eric Kripke wrapped up season 4 in a way where he could "end it on our terms"
- The Boys showrunner suggests Marie Moreau won't kill Homelander: "People should be prepared for the Gen V kids to not come in and save the season"
- Overwatch co-creator Jeff Kaplan says Breath of the Wild is "the greatest game ever made" – "How can Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time exist and somebody make an even better Zelda game?"
- Square Enix plans to add Google gen AI to Dragon Quest 10 so a chatbot called "Oshaberi Slimey" can call your outfit ugly in real time: "No thanks"
- It's time to grab your popcorn, as Directive 8020 showcases its Movie Night multiplayer mode
- Assassin's Creed is "so great" because it's "based on historical knowledge," Shadows art director says: "It's a way to revisit places that no longer exist"
- "Honestly looks official": Fan-made Lego Pokemon Magnemite gets community seal of approval
- Amazon's new James Bond movie is "moving along quite nicely," says screenwriter
- "Man up": Former Microsoft and Blizzard exec calls out Crimson Desert devs for apologizing over AI art, because it'll "be in every single video game" someday
- Lenovo's listings appear to confirm RTX 5070 mobile GPU upgrade, but will it be enough to make 2026 gaming laptops worth it?
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 makes you "complicit" in moments like the RPG's first big twist, lead writer says, so you can "experience what grief feels like in this world"
- 9 years after it was first announced, Robert Kirkman says there's "movement" behind the scenes on the live-action Invincible movie
- Xbox Partner Preview showcase coming Thursday with "updates from" Mass Effect-like RPG The Expanse: Osiris Reborn, Stalker 2, and Yakuza dev's Stranger Than Heaven
- After closing the Crucial brand, Micron's revenues are soaring in the RAMpocalypse: "In the AI era, memory has become a strategic asset for our customers"
- Dragon's Dogma 2 expansion hopes have arisen once more as fans think Capcom is teasing DLC in the RPG's anniversary artwork
- The Last of Us season 3 has found its Lev and Yara, as Skeleton Crew star joins the cast
- Crimson Desert developer apologizes for AI-generated assets slipping into the RPG's final release: "This is not in line with our internal standards, and we take full responsibility for it"
- As Sony removes over 700 shovelware games from the PlayStation Store, one impacted publisher pledges to continue using Xbox, Nintendo, and Steam: "This was just as unexpected for us as it was for you"
- New Supergirl teaser reveals how Kara and Krypto meet and, yes, Krypto is an adorable puppy
- Andrew Garfield only watched the Spider-Man: Brand New Day trailer with the sound off, but says it looks "very very cool"
- Resident Evil developer Capcom "will not be implementing any AI-generated assets into our video game content," but plans to "actively" utilize the tech to "improve efficiency"
- Peaky Blinders creator was "having trouble" figuring out Tommy Shelby's fate in The Immortal Man until "about a minute before I wrote it"
- Great Scott, someone made a levitating Lego DeLorean from Back to the Future
- John Boyega says he's been "on the phone" with Lucasfilm president Dave Filoni about coming back to Star Wars
- Crimson Desert patch kicks off Pearl Abyss's attempt to smooth out the RPG's rough controls, with boosted responsiveness and more as dev promises "this is not the end"
- Project Hail Mary has a massive opening weekend at the box office
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure director shares disappointing update on Steel Ball Run episode 2's release
- Turn up the heat on Tactical SWAT team FPS Ready or Not, as its Boiling Point DLC threatens the soul of an entire city
- March 22
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- Palworld publishing boss thinks "we're a few years away" from a AAA survival crafting game, and he was "super excited" for the one Blizzard canceled
- Todd Howard wanted Bethesda's original RPGs to be playable before worrying about remasters: "You can play Morrowind, you can play Fallout 3"
- Assassin's Creed Shadows lead is simply "proud" the game launched because "shipping a game nowadays is a small miracle"
- Baldur's Gate 3 writer says the RPG's reputation system exists because Larian can't just let players "break" party members: "We would be working on the game forever"
- New Star Wars show Maul - Shadow Lord's animation mixes CG and traditional techniques, like the Spider-Verse movies and Arcane
- How to watch the Carabao Cup final: full details of where to stream Arsenal v Man City
- Minecraft Dungeons 2 takes another stab at Mojang's surprisingly great Diablo-inspired action-RPG spin-off later this year
- Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord showrunner says the former Sith is "a bad guy fighting worse guys"
- Fallout season 3 will incorporate "a few things from the game that we've wanted to do since season one," says showrunner Geneva Robertson-Dworet
- March 21
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- Daredevil: Born Again season 2 release schedule: when is episode 8 on Disney Plus?
- Baldur's Gate 3 Shadowheart writer had to sit down with his Lae'zel counterpart to make sure that their joint romance would actually make sense: "That allowed us to reframe their initial clash"
- "We have no desire to be a media empire," says Palworld publishing head, but Pocketpair would be stupid to let the survival game die out
- Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet's been away from the spotlight, but Neil Druckmann's teasing the return of a The Last of Us actor in the sci-fi game
- Todd Howard says "leaks don't help" Bethesda or players, especially when it comes to Oblivion: "Everyone is gonna have a different version"
- Slay the Spire 2 devs respond to a flurry of bad Steam reviews aimed at its first balance patch: "This progress will not be linear, and no change is necessarily permanent"
- How to watch Wicked: For Good, the highly anticipated and surprisingly dark sequel to the smash hit movie Wicked
- 3 new to Netflix movies I recommend you watch this weekend (March 21–March 22)
- March 20
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- "This is my dream game": After 7 hours, Palworld publishing chief delivers a glowing Crimson Desert verdict: "This game is made for me"
- "The biggest time save in nearly a decade of Pokemon speedrunning" has been discovered thanks to the new FireRed and LeafGreen Switch ports, and all it takes is the press of a button
- Marathon's Cryo Archive is locked to weekends partly because you're going to "lose a lot of gear" and you need time to grind during the week, director says
- Arc Raiders devs tortured each other during playtests, at one point juicing Arc into unstoppable Elden Ring bosses: "All of a sudden you're playing a Souls game"
- Tom Holland compares Jon Bernthal's Frank Castle to Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark in Spider-Man: Brand New Day: "The relationship between Spider-Man and the Punisher is so funny"
- Two indie games with the same name accidentally launched days apart, so the devs averted disaster by working together: "I made back what I put into the game in the first 24 hours"
- Final Fantasy 14 boss man Yoshi-P says younger players "haven't really had the chance to connect" with the JRPG series as "the release intervals for new titles have gotten longer"
- Marvel Studios pushes back one of its upcoming MCU release dates while revealing two more
- Slay the Spire 2 gets inundated with bad reviews on Steam as players decide they hate an optional balance patch: "ROLLBACK PLZ"
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's lead writer "never even considered" a true, happy ending for the hit RPG
- This is one of the most exciting new wargames right now, but you've probably never heard of it
- "The underlying geometry is unchanged" - turns out DLSS 5 really is just a filter over 2D images, as Nvidia employee reveals: "Materials are inferred from the rendered frame"
- After Prime Video's live-action adaptation was canceled, The Wheel of Time is returning as a series of animated movies and shows, and a video game
- A revised model Nintendo Switch 2 with a replaceable battery might be on the cards, but the US will have to wait
- Lords of the Fallen breaks even after 2.5 years, selling 2.5 million copies as the Soulslike RPG's sequel is underway
- Baldur's Gate 3 writer admits "I wish I could have done more" with the RPG's least-appreciated party member, like a dedicated friendship system and inter-party dates
- Assassin's Creed and The Hunger Games prequel screenwriter will pen the script for the long-awaited final Fast and Furious movie
- Crimson Desert PR head insists the weird controls are "like riding a bike," as veteran Dishonored lead suggests it's "a rewarding mental gymnastic"
- 3 new to Netflix shows I recommend you binge-watch this weekend (March 20–March 22)
- Fallout 3's GOTY Edition was a bit of a misfire, admits Bethesda veteran, but "we've gotten better at that" ahead of the Starfield DLC
- As The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion turns 20 years old, Bethesda creative lead says the RPG is "what Bethesda games are" in the "rawest form"
- Resident Evil Requiem fan won’t wait for Capcom, whips up nasty VR mod on behalf of freak-kind: "NO WAY IT’S ALREADY IN 6DOF WHAT THE HELL!?"
- Resident Evil Requiem beats Village launch by 60%, becomes the best-selling US game of 2026 in just 24 hours
- Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge gets a Marvel tie-in comic featuring Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Chewie, Boba Fett, Darth Vader, and more that sets up the new story of the Disney attraction
- Tom Cruise arrived to direct a Star Wars: Starfighter action scene in typical Tom Cruise fashion: by landing a helicopter in the middle of set
- Leave comments, play quizzes, earn badges: Join the GamesRadar+ community
- Assassin's Creed Shadows features "will make their way to other games," franchise lead says: "We've improved parkour, and a lot of stealth, and the fighting"
- Xbox says Copilot on consoles provides "coaching," but it actually talks to you like a baby with a controller: "It's a bit of a grind, but hey, you're already on Torment 4"
- As Crimson Desert hits 2 million copies sold, Pearl Abyss vows to "make improvements quickly" to remedy mixed reviews
- Project Hail Mary screenwriter says his unmade Spider-Man spin-off movie didn't happen because of the 2014 Sony hack: "I saw the FBI swarm in and the helicopters fly over the studio"
- Reinstated Subnautica 2 leadership say Krafton's release date announcement is "further damaging the game and sowing additional confusion"
- An indie accessory brand has created an original PlayStation dock cover for the Switch 2 that I never knew I needed
- 3 new to Prime Video shows I recommend you binge-watch this weekend (March 20–March 22)
- "We sincerely apologize": Crimson Desert devs fix missing pre-order bonuses, instruct Steam players to "restart your game" to find them
- A gargantuan 16TB M.2 SSD has been discovered, and its price tag is bigger than my house deposit
- Netflix's Assassin's Creed show confirms all-new time period, but will return to a fan-favorite location
- Anya Taylor-Joy says "there's never been anybody like" her Dune 3 character: "She is one of a kind"
- Ahead of GTA 6, Take-Two CEO says "It’s hard for me to imagine" including ads in a $70-$80 game: "It would seem unfair"
- First big Slay the Spire 2 patch aims "to make infinites harder to achieve" and calms down the creepiest crawlies in the roguelike with a Phobia Mode
- A Minecraft Movie 2 finds its Alex in Kirsten Dunst, after the star previously said she'd happily sign up "to make a pile of cash"
- Arc Raiders Steam reviews wobble as players bemoan "very frustrating" meta and say it's "become stale" due to cheating and lack of big updates
- New sci-fi movie Project Hail Mary debuts to best previews of 2026 and could become Amazon's biggest movie at the box office
- James Gunn confirms that Supergirl is set between the events of Superman and Man of Tomorrow
- In just 24 hours, Death Stranding 2's PC port has already surpassed the Steam concurrent player peak of both versions of the original game combined
- "Jack of all trades, master of none": Crimson Desert launches to "Mixed" Steam reviews, with players praising the RPG's visuals but calling its story "bland" and controls "ridiculously bad"
- Ryan Gosling says "discussions have been had" with Kevin Feige about Ghost Rider, but it's a "complicated situation"
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day is so popular that it's officially doubled the trailer views of No Way Home
- Crimson Desert's Day 1 patch rolls out with promises of stability optimization, an update to the RPG's divisive fast-forward feature, and more
- 3 new to Netflix movies I recommend you watch this weekend (March 20–March 22)
- March 19
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- Diablo 4 game director admits it's "really hard for players to keep up" with the ever-changing ARPG, especially if you aren't "at the cutting edge of everything all the time"
- Resident Evil Requiem Leon actor recognizes fan thirst spans age, gender, and time itself as he vows to keep hitting the gym to "live up to this": "I bet you got a body pillow"
- Donkey Kong Bananza programmer suggests using the Switch 2 platformer as destructive meditation: "Focus on your thinking as you're just mindlessly destroying the game"
- 6 best new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (March 20–22)
- Mysterious "new IP" from CD Projekt Red is now in early pre-development stages: "We are designing specific elements that might be included in the game, creating multiple prototypes"
- Marathon's Cryo Archive goes live Friday as a weekends-only "raid-style" PvPvE map: "So please, do scream"
- New Disney CEO hits the ground running with Lilo and Stitch 2 and The Incredibles 3 release dates
- "Apologies, Palworld gamers," but Pocketpair communications lead says an underwater level will never happen: "You're pushing the game to its absolute limits"
- The Witcher 4 is "steaming ahead" as CD Projekt rapidly expands with 220 new developers in the past year, and nearly 500 in total working on the RPG
- Ascended Heroes doesn't revolutionize Pokemon cards, but I still think it's an essential purchase you need to see
- Zelda Breath of the Wild actor didn't even know what game she was auditioning for, let alone that it was for the title role: "I'm grateful I didn't know"
- If you buy one water gun for the sunny weather, I beg you to try this
- There's no rush on The Elder Scrolls 6, Todd Howard says, because Bethesda has the "benefit of having so many millions of people playing our other games"
- KPop Demon Hunters may be coming to a city near you as Netflix is reportedly planning a Huntr/x stage show world tour
- Altered TCG shuts down due to missing the €2 million needed "to guarantee the future of the game"
- The Payday games are being adapted for the screen, and Starbreeze boss wants it to "own the heisting genre"
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 star worries the industry will learn the wrong lessons from the J'RPG's success: "Capitalism is unwilling to ask the why because they’re interested in the how"
- Marvel Rivals fans mourn Captain America after nerfs, but NetEase says "only a fraction of mechanically flawless players" could pull off his best combos
- Mortal Kombat, Hogwarts Legacy, and more could be under threat, experts say, as part of $6 billion in cuts following Paramount Skydance merger
- "We all have not forgotten Cyberpunk 2077": Crimson Desert fans worry for the RPG's console editions after review no-show joins disappointing 30fps PS5 showcase
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs bet on the RPG's Metacritic score, but bet so low that "everybody lost," resulting in forfeits like gobbling whole roast chickens
- Warhammer 40K Ork bikers, Blood Angels, and more get teased ahead of next week's Adepticon livestream, so here's everything we've found so far
- Overwatch was originally called "Monetized Shooter" because you had to buy each of its heroes, says co-creator Jeff Kaplan: "F***ing terrible, but at the time, I actually thought that was a good idea"
- Dark Souls and Elden Ring owner gets massive investment with "important proposals" from a company that gave Nintendo some infamous advice: "Just think of paying 99 cents just to get Mario to jump a little higher"
- New Exit 8 poster teases the anomalous indie horror game's big screen adaptation
- Ubisoft guts OG Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon studio, laying off 105 developers as Red Storm transitions from game development to tech support
- Palworld and Ori devs offer Crimson Desert support, suggesting players give it "some time" and remember "one man's 77 is another man's 100"
- Stranger Things is getting a 25-disc physical media release, with the Duffer brothers calling it a "way to preserve the show for decades to come"
- Will you be turning Nvidia DLSS 5 off?
- Peak is coming to Fortnite in what could be the collab of the century depending on the amount of Bing Bong: "If there is no Bing Bong back bling, we're rioting"
- Marathon streamer goes viral after finding a high school best friend through proximity chat he hadn't seen in over 10 years: "Bro, I have goosebumps"
- You can now watch all 10 entries in one of the biggest horror movies franchises of all time on Netflix
- First Sonic 4 teaser confirms the return of Jim Carrey as Robotnik, despite dying in the last film
- "No reruns. No second chances" - Maingear is launching a $4,500 Crimson Desert gaming PC, but there will only ever be 30 made, so good luck locking one down
- Crimson Desert "could" challenge GTA 6 for Game of the Year, claims Grand Theft Auto 5 dev – but only if Rockstar "drop the ball"
- New open world, action-survival shooter from the creator of Overwatch gets its first public Steam playtest next week
- Shaun the Sheep races against the clock to save Halloween in new trailer for the next movie from the studio behind Wallace and Gromit
- Sorry Microsoft, but I've shoved your handheld onto a Steam Deck dock and started playing 2000s games using an Xbox 360 controller
- Arc Raiders is banning people for using accessibility peripherals, so Embark is "working hard" to resolve the issue "as soon as possible"
- Valve thinks reloading in Counter-Strike 2 needed "higher stakes" after 27 years, so early reloads now delete all leftover ammo in a clip
- Daredevil actor Charlie Cox definitively says he's not in Spider-Man: Brand New Day
- I think Curse of Strahd is still the best D&D campaign 10 years after it first launched
- Anime will be "done for" if it focuses on adaptations over original ideas, says Code Geass director
- Train sim sickos push new Thomas the Tank Engine game to breaking point by obliterating world records with an unlikely candidate
- World of Warcraft hit with FOMO complaints once again as Blizzard slams the doors shut on delve Hall of Fame after just 9 hours: "Huge day for the unemployed"
- Crystal Dynamics is still "fully committed" to Tomb Raider Catalyst despite going through its fourth round of layoffs in under a year
- Sarah Michelle Gellar says the Buffy reboot script leak is "not correct" and fans shouldn't read it: "That stuff is really unfortunate"
- Crimson Desert's Metacritic score sinks Pearl Abyss share prices by 30% over the cardinal sin of being perfectly fine
- 8Bitdo has finally revealed the N64 Retro Receiver I've been asking for, but it's trolling me with its new 2.4GHz OG console gamepad
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day pulls a No Way Home by clearly editing spoilers out of the trailer
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day dethrones GTA 6 by having the first trailer in history to surpass 500 million views in one day
- March 18
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- Overwatch co-creator Jeff Kaplan's new open-world FPS probably won't be free-to-play because "you need 8 billion players and 2 thousand devs cranking out f***ing keychains like a sweatshop"
- Ex-Fallout and Skyrim artist says the Resident Evil remakes are "super cool" but giving the same treatment to Bethesda RPGs isn't "viable"
- The writer of Netflix's Daredevil series wanted to make two MCU movies instead, but admits a streaming show was the "right fit": "I think there was concern that it was too adult"
- Nearly a year later, Nintendo has finally fixed the Switch 2 GameCube emulator's terrible analog stick mapping
- Daredevil: Born Again season 2 showrunner says Matthew Lillard's mysterious new villain is "evil and scary" but just seems "like a totally regular guy"
- One Piece season 2's Tony Tony Chopper actor didn't watch the anime ahead of playing the fan-favorite character: "To copy the anime would have been a disservice"
- A "simple test" of Baldur's Gate 3's modding tools has "snowballed" into a full-blown remake of the first Baldur's Gate, and you can play the demo now
- Death Stranding 2 developer offers nuanced take on Resident Evil Requiem's DLSS 5 makeover: "No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no"
- Deltarune Chapter 5 is closer than ever as Toby Fox confirms "most of the development team has moved on"
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead writer doesn't use AI for work because "writing is part of the joy," and "it's also part of the pain"
- Studio Ghibli producer says 85-year-old Hayao Miyazaki wants to keep making movies: "He's still active and working hard"
- Hideo Kojima says a Hawaiian proverb led to the new Death Stranding 2 trailer, because what else did you expect: "I gave it the special title 'No Rain, No Rainbow'"
- Minecraft griefing returns in Pokemon Pokopia as player ruins "public island for co-op building" with 0 guilt: "Very sad to see the efforts of around 100 people go to waste"
- Street Fighter 6 hits new all-time peak player count on Steam thanks to the protagonist who failed to take the series lead role from Ryu almost 30 years ago
- 8Bitdo's gray N64 controller pays a perfect tribute to Ninty's colorful '90s gamepad, but I really wish it came with a dongle
- Starfield gets its answer to Fallout 3 and 4's Vault Boy bobbleheads, complete with a playset to display the whole collection
- While Valve jokingly asked the industry for spare RAM at GDC, Markiplier was streaming Resident Evil Requiem with 192GB of memory and 96GB of VRAM
- GTA 6 prankster comes clean after response to viral 'leak' was "way bigger than I expected"
- World of Warcraft update lifts flying restrictions on mounts in Midnight, even if Blizzard acknowledges "the ability to fly trivializes a challenge" for some
- "Every appropriate individual" will play GTA 6, says Take-Two CEO, who can’t imagine anyone over the age of 17 being uninterested: "I just don’t see it"
- Todd Howard says the only thing wrong with paid mods for Skyrim and Fallout is that people don't buy them: "Our issue now actually is getting that content in front of more people"
- Mass Effect veterans roll out gameplay teases for new Mass Effect-like RPG Exodus ahead of a big summer reveal
- New Dumbledore actor says he almost quit HBO's Harry Potter show over J.K. Rowling's controversial opinions
- Hollow Knight: Silksong patch 5 is here, and Team Cherry says it's "the last significant update" before the Sea of Sorrow DLC drops
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day's recreation of an iconic comic book cover might reveal which surprising villain is in Punisher's crosshairs
- Assassin's Creed Shadows players protest Nvidia's controversial DLSS 5 "AI slop" filter: "It's only gonna tank the franchise's reputation even further"
- If you want to collect Pokemon cards again like me, this is the best place to start
- Resident Evil Requiem lead will end shipping wars "someday," but you're free to "imagine the peaceful moments" Leon Kennedy spends as a husband until then
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day's trailer subtitles may have spoiled a character with ties to the X-Men – and no, it's not Jean Grey
- If you've spent three years credit farming in Starfield, Bethesda finally has something worthwhile for you to spend all that cash on: "Who doesn't want a player house inside of a hollowed out asteroid?"
- MSI has collaborated with Frieren Beyond Journey's End to create the PC accessories of my dreams
- "Just pretend we didn't announce it": Todd Howard knows The Elder Scrolls 6 teaser has haunted RPG fans for nearly 8 years, but its early reveal was about "informing our audience"
- "Make friendslop games before the fad dies": Peak co-creator encourages indie games to free themselves from traditional dev practices
- Resident Evil Requiem DLC "very likely" features series icon everyone wanted in the base game, prominent leaker claims, and shippers are in bits: "Leon's sugar mama"
- Stranger Things: Tales From '85 is following in the footsteps of the main show and heading to theaters
- "It’s content-control generative AI" - Nvidia has DLSS'd too close to the sun, and I'm not convinced Jensen Huang will listen to anyone's DLSS 5 AI slop concerns
- Where to buy Riftbound Unleashed, the latest set for the hit new card game
- A live-action Yakuza gets a surprise release 18 months after Amazon's divisive series, and fans know which one they prefer
- After 5 years, the Final Fantasy 9 animated series is actually in production, but when we'll actually see it is still anyone's guess
- 20 years on, V for Vendetta director says Alan Moore still doesn't like the adaptation because it's "not a page-by-page turn of his graphic novel"
- You weren't hearing things – that is Timothée Chalamet chanting over the Dune 3 trailer
- Marathon takes cues from Helldivers 2, as a cryptic message tells players to kill 500 million UESC to unlock its mysterious Cryo Archive map: "Clankers are back on the menu boys"
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day trailer brings in Punisher and Mark Ruffalo's Hulk as Tom Holland's Peter Parker faces iconic villains and personal heartbreak
- Death Stranding 2's PC port reportedly leaks through Steam, but at least the pirates playing it early aren't complaining about performance
- One of the Maul – Shadow Lord episode titles is an amazing, deep-cut Revenge of the Sith Easter egg
- The Hulk may be hiding in plain sight in one of the Spider-Man: Brand New Day teasers
- New Pokemon Pokopia update addresses early-game softlocking and more, because we all deserve to meet Mosslax ASAP
- Sim racing innovator MOZA unveils new AI-powered tools designed to make you feel a professional driver
- A new Spider-Man: Brand New Day trailer clip seems to contain a major spoiler for Daredevil: Born Again season 2
- March 17
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- Resident Evil Requiem's Grace actor "would love" to act in more video games: "I had so much fun"
- Dune 3 is co-written by the writer of one of the best comics of the 21st century, Saga's Brian K Vaughan
- After a star turn in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Daredevil actor Charlie Cox says he's acting in another video game: "It has seemingly opened up a new avenue for my professional work"
- Arc Raiders has a hidden "magic" system: you've never noticed it because you're not supposed to, but it helps Arc do their job
- After 4 years of work, solo dev breaks down in tears after opening Steam and learning his game made $250,000 in a week: "I feel like I really don't deserve this"
- New The Super Mario Galaxy Movie teaser seems to confirm that Pikmin will appear in the new movie in what will be their first meaningful crossover in Nintendo history
- Nintendo producer can't say if there will be another 3D Donkey Kong game, but Bananza's positive reception helps him "communicate the potential for that character"
- Subnautica 2 early access release date set for May despite lawsuit disaster: "We have passed KRAFTON's milestone review last week and are now ready to start our open development journey"
- Resident Evil Requiem is “better” with Nvidia DLSS 5, says Epic Games producer, and people worried about "detracting from art direction" are "absolutely insane"
- "We referenced Elden Ring" on Nioh 3 and "the Soulslike label is correct," says lead dev, but it's not a "response to or interpretation" of FromSoftware's work
- 3 years after the series ended, Prime Video drops first trailer for a feature-length Jack Ryan movie starring John Krasinski
- Beloved Mario RPG hides a secret "'Toads ramming each other rapidly' test room" where "talking to Peach causes the Toads to ram each other rapidly"
- The Last of Us sparked "internal fight" at Naughty Dog, says veteran designer: "We had to tell the team 'it's not just another zombie game'"
- Invincible creator Robert Kirkman says MCU-style superhero storytelling isn't "novel" anymore, which is why box office is down "The audience is a little bit more discerning"
- Daredevil: Born Again showrunner says they took "what worked and didn't work" from season 1 and used it to "build a story that satisfies" for season 2
- AI making something to GTA 6's scale is "laughable," Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick says, but the tech isn't as awful as you think: "I don't believe machines have the ability to be good or evil"
- What do you do as the billionaire king of gacha with "tens of millions" of players each month? Plot to "build a virtual world for 1 billion people by 2030," says Genshin Impact maker
- Ghost of Yotei dev says cutting features from games is "really important," so Sucker Punch had weekly meetings where "people would clap" every time something got deleted
- Stream all of the Oscars 2026 Best Picture nominees – and the winner
- "I just love her character": Resident Evil Requiem's Leon actor wants a team-up with an "underutilized" RE5 character, and no, it's not Claire Redfield's famous relative
- If you were hoping for Destiny raid loot from Marathon's Cryo Archive map, these exclusive mods ought to do it: "This weapon deals significantly increased damage against [REDACTED]"
- "Welcome back ACNH treasure islands": Pokemon Pokopia fan creates Cloud Island you can use to get some of the cozy game's rarest goodies, and it's reminding us all of our Animal Crossing days
- First reactions to Daredevil: Born Again season 2 are calling the Marvel show an "upgrade" from season 1 and "the season of television Daredevil fans have been waiting for"
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Steel Ball Run release schedule: when is episode 2 releasing on Netflix?
- Helldivers 2 gives in after 2 years, releases first roadmap for Machinery of Oppression: new enemies, biomes, missions, vehicles, and more as Arrowhead once again says "this is just beginning"
- When is Project Hail Mary on streaming? Speculation on the Prime Video release date
- First Dune 3 trailer teases an older Paul Atreides, Robert Pattinson's new villain, and battles aplenty on Arrakis and beyond
- Unofficial Animal Crossing PC port is here, offering the widescreen 4K experience the 24-year-old GameCube classic deserves
- Acer's Arrow Lake gaming laptops are heading our way this July, but it's going to take a lot to drag me away from last year's models
- Daredevil: Born Again season 2 showrunner talks reuniting the Defenders for the first time in 7 years: "Bringing [Jessica Jones] back in this season was top of the checklist"
- "It's all going to change": Palworld devs aren't "force wiping anyone" for the survival game's big 1.0 update, but they "softly recommend you start from scratch"
- "The majority of this building is working on The Elder Scrolls 6": Todd Howard says Bethesda's full focus is on the RPG it announced in 2018, and "it's so different than Starfield, so different than Fallout"
- Arc Raiders boss says Marathon has "done a really good job" fixing things after "heavily criticized" technical test: "That's unusual. So credit to that team"
- "We were never going to make Mass Effect": Skyrim and Fallout artist says when it came to Starfield, the sci-fi RPG had to adapt
- With The Elder Scrolls 6, Todd Howard says Bethesda has "handled" the Creation Engine "better than we ever have" thanks to lessons learned from Starfield
- New trailer for Maul – Shadow Lord teases more lightsaber duels, more action sequences, and a detective hot on the former Sith's heels
- Todd Howard was "really, really sorry" to see former Xbox chief Phil Spencer retire, but says new CEO Asha Sharma "is great"
- "There's more to come for Starfield": Bethesda says the Terran Armada DLC and Free Lanes update aren't the end of the line for RPG
- Starfield PS5 release date confirmed as the price of the base game falls by $20 for all platforms
- Starfield expansion Terran Armada coming this April alongside Free Lanes update with new planetary travel, Todd Howard says Bethesda knew "we needed to do something that affects the game flow on a meta level"
- Arc Raiders update nerfs notorious Il Toro shotgun from basically every angle: pellet damage, fire rate, dispersion, reload time, and damage falloff
- Fresh off his Best Actor win, Michael B. Jordan says his favorite film is this Studio Ghibli classic in a post-Oscars street interview
- Lanterns co-creator Damon Lindelof says he was "sloppy and careless" after mocking the 'Green' in Green Lantern
- Arc Raiders dev Embark Studios confirms co-founder is gone after allegations of misconduct with The Finals streamer: "We found the situation unsustainable and mutually agreed to part ways"
- Logitech G is finally launching a new gear shifter for its sim racing ecosystem, and it took so long to make because "it underwent months of rigorous stress testing on every gear transition"
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day live 24-hour trailer launch – all the clips posted throughout the day from Spider-Man 4, as they dropped
- Nintendo really just silently dropped the biggest backwards compatibility update in the Switch 2's life, and I need to upgrade my setup
- Nintendo casually releases Switch 2 update that makes almost every OG Switch game run better, so you can take any of your favorites on the go without sacrificing performance
- Mckenna Grace opens Pokemon cards at the Oscars, and it's one hell of a vibe
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer star Sarah Michelle Gellar says a Hulu exec who is "not a fan of the original" is to blame for the spin-off being axed
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day's 24-hour trailer launch is making Avengers: Doomsday's cast reveal look small scope: "It's never been done before"
- Weeks after the Steam Deck disappeared, Retroid discontinues Pocket G2 "due to ongoing fluctuations in memory pricing"
- Invincible co-showrunners Robert Kirkman and Simon Racioppa say it won't go the way of Stranger Things and end with a feature-length finale
- "We need to push back harder": Nvidia's DLSS 5 "AI slop" filter is being torn apart by industry veterans from Baldur's Gate 3, Palworld, and many more
- Dune 3 star Robert Pattinson describes his shapeshifting villain Scytale as "unusual" and "interesting": "You can't really tell whose side he's on"
- Vincent D'Onofrio could be Marvel TV's spoiler king as he reveals something dramatic happens to Kingpin at the end of Daredevil: Born Again season 2
- Death Stranding 2's PC port adds a harder difficulty mode, new live-action scenes, and much more, Sony confirms – and PS5 players are getting them too
- Crimson Desert finally gets a PS5 showcase, but not everyone is abandoning their Cyberpunk 2077 launch fears just yet: "It's so hard to actually see quality at this resolution"
- Zendaya has seen a "good amount" of Spider-Man: Brand New Day and "feels very good about it"
- Dune 3 character posters reveal the first look at Robert Pattinson's shapeshifting villain, a strange new look for Florence Pugh's Irulan, and official confirmation that Jason Momoa's Duncan Idaho is back from the dead
- Sekiro: No Defeat trailer is everything I could possibly want from a Sekiro anime
- March 16
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- Bethesda says Nvidia's controversial new DLSS 5 AI filter "will all be under our artists' control, and totally optional for players"
- Daredevil: Born Again season 2 star Matthew Lillard says there's "Cheshire Cat" energy to his new villain, but he doesn't have any scenes with Daredevil
- GTA Wiki editors cite "a reportedly pro-AI CEO," "terrible" ads, and restrictive censorship as they go independent from Fandom
- Bethesda fans are petitioning for The Elder Scrolls 6 to add a tribute to a late TES lore legend: "He helped countless gamers delve deeper into the world of Tamriel"
- The Last of Us season 3 adds Lanterns and The Conjuring stars to cast, including your favorite exorcist Patrick Wilson in a crucial role
- Subnautica 2 owner constantly relied on ChatGPT for legal strategy, judge says in scathing order: "Krafton followed most of ChatGPT’s recommendations"
- Bungie is filling the biggest hole in Marathon: duos mode rolling out as an "experimental feature" this week on Perimeter only, but that's a start
- Assassin's Creed director says "Black Flag reused like 80% of Assassin's Creed 3," and the games industry should rely on asset reuse even more: "Maybe the future is, to use the dirty word, AI vibe-coding"
- Green Lantern legend Grant Morrison also isn't a fan of the Lanterns trailer: "What is this jockish dismissal of superhero conventions intended to prove anyway?"
- Mortal Kombat 2 star Lewis Tan further fuels the Street Fighter beef by responding to new dig from Cody Rhodes: "Almost spilled my drink laughing"
- Nvidia announces DLSS 5 in uncanny video putting games through obvious AI filter, Bethesda's Todd Howard joins devs hyping it up: "We got it running in Starfield, it was amazing how it brought it to life"
- Bethesda veterans "wouldn't be surprised" if Fallout 5 went to another company, because the devs "have their hands full" with The Elder Scrolls 6
- Exclusive: Jhin joins Riftbound with absurdly powerful cards
- Resident Evil Requiem's Leon actor doesn't know who he's married to either: "That's a Capcom question"
- 1,200 hours in, Final Fantasy 14 player trying to beat the MMO under RuneScape's Ironman rules clears biggest obstacle yet thanks to a backup strategy that took 300 hours to prepare
- 6 of the best new shows and movies streaming this week on Netflix, Prime Video, HBO Max, and more (March 16–March 22)
- PSSR 2 is finally here, and the tech that made Resident Evil Requiem look so good promises a big PS5 Pro upgrade for Crimson Desert this week
- Fired Subnautica 2 CEO must be reinstated, judge rules, and "may proceed with the early access release of Subnautica 2 when he deems it appropriate"
- Ash voice actor rewatched Pokemon's saddest episode and thinks it could be improved: "I think it takes you out of it"
- John Wick creator says the Hitman TV show is "dead in the water": "It's a little bit of a dagger in the chest"
- Monster Hunter Stories 3 hits a record player count on Steam for Capcom's cozier spin-off RPG series
- Pokopia players say its water physics are "just as bad" as they are in Minecraft, prompting all sorts of liquid chaos: "How do I even begin to fix this"
- World of Warcraft would've been a first-person MMO in the EverQuest-inspired world of Overwatch's Jeff Kaplan: "I argued a lot for that"
- New Warhammer 40K teaser isn't the 11th Edition reveal I was expecting, but I have a theory about why
- Animated spin-off Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord is the franchise's first "cops and robbers" story
- Invincible stars Steven Yeun and Gillian Jacobs on the dark days ahead for Mark and Eve in season 4 "You're watching Mark as he's coming to understand the loss of his idealism"
- Netflix's Assassin's Creed show adds Mission: Impossible and Prometheus stars, and we'd put money on one of them being a Templar
- New Marathon update takes players closer to finally unlocking the Cryo Archive map, once they figure out more mind-bending puzzles
- With over 30 billion images logged, Pokemon Go is using players' activity to train its spinout AI company to help GPS pinpointing: "I'm very focused on trying to re-create the real world"
- Marathon designer shuts down claims that nobody who worked on Halo was involved in Bungie's latest FPS: "Damn i'll have to tell this to Chris Butcher, and Jason Jones, and Tom Gioconda, and..."
- One Piece's creator was "worried" about how Netflix was handling the live-action Chopper, so gave his advice on getting the fan favorite character right
- Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan initially planned for the Pluribus cast to be naked, but "we're not working for HBO"
- Halloween final girl Jamie Lee Curtis says she wouldn't have returned for the Blumhouse legacy sequel if she'd known it was a trilogy
- Former Overwatch director has sage advice for those who complain about games they don't play: "Shut the f**k up"
- Ahead of GTA 6, Rockstar-owned GTA 5 RP mega mod FiveM breaks its own Steam record with 200,000 concurrent players
- Buffy revival star reveals first look at the show we'll never get to see as Chloe Zhao reveals she is "not surprised" by its cancelation
- The Mandalorian and Grogu runtime may have been revealed by a UK theater chain listing, but take it with a pinch of salt
- 24 years after it was canceled, Firefly is back – this time as an animated series
- Resident Evil movie director Zach Cregger proves he's the right person for the job after revealing he's beaten Requiem twice already
- Resident Evil Requiem hits 6 million sales in 17 days, Capcom reveals, "the fastest that a title in the series has reached this milestone"
- After missing out on Best Animated Feature to KPop Demon Hunters, Disney has made surprising Oscars history with its unlikely losing streak
- Hament star Jessie Buckley wins Best Actress at the 2026 Oscars, to the surprise of no one
- Here's how many Oscars KPop Demon Hunters won
- One Battle After Another wins Best Picture at the Oscars 2026
- 2026 Oscar winners in full and in order: One Battle After Another sweeps the Academy Awards with 6 wins, including Best Picture
- After a record-breaking number of Oscars 2026 nominations, Sinners takes home one of the night's big awards as star Michael B. Jordan wins Best Actor
- One Battle After Another's Paul Thomas Anderson wins Best Director at the Oscars 2026, his first Academy Award after 14 nominations
- Sean Penn won Best Supporting Actor at the 2026 Oscars and, unsurprisingly, didn't turn up
- March 15
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- Weapons star Amy Madigan wins Best Supporting Actress at the Oscars 2026 in a big move for horror recognition in awards season
- Oscars 2026 live coverage: All the winners, red carpet, and the 98th Academy Awards' biggest moments – as it happened
- How to watch The Oscars for free, your guide to live streaming the Academy Awards around the world
- Donkey Kong Bananza devs want to make sure Mario and DK's games feel different: "Is there perhaps a slightly different kind of person that might prefer one character over the other?"
- Creator of acclaimed retro-style RPG Chained Echoes prepares a lawsuit against physical game publisher, and looks to compensate Kickstarter backers
- Nacon just unveiled the RIG R5 Spear Max HD headset, and I'm ecstatic the snap-lock feature is here to stay
- "Palworld is going to be the survival crafting game everyone always wanted" and "people will be shocked" at how big 1.0 is, says Pocketpair publishing lead
- "I really enjoy watching people die to this": Ghost of Yotei devs know you hate "super boss" Takezo "with every fiber of your being," but they think it was a roaring success
- "If I told you, I'd have to kill you": Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 writer can't say where she wants the series to go next, even though she'd "love to"
- My new favorite retro controller for Game Boy games launches today, but Amazon might show you Mexican taco kits
- March 14
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- Invincible creator Robert Kirkman says fans are "finally going to get what they're asking for" in season 4, as Thragg escalates the Viltrumite threat
- Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man villain Tim Roth starred in The Incredible Hulk and Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes remake to "embarrass" his kids
- "Some ideas from Donkey Kong Bananza" may inform Nintendo's next big project, producer says, but "the standard is really what will feel fresh to a player in a new title"
- Dragon Age 2 lead wanted players to have strong opinions about every character in the RPG: "If some people are ambivalent […] I guess I didn't really do my job"
- A Fallout 4 QA tester nuked the RPG so hard that Zenimax executives got emails about it: "I was running around super-nuking the entire wasteland and found 4 crashes in a single morning"
- "You have a vocal minority screaming the loudest": Marvel Rivals devs are careful with balancing because players found Jeff the Land Shark OP until they discovered a quick fix
- Project Hail Mary works because "very few people can give you the range" that Ryan Gosling does, say Lord and Miller: "What a lucky thing for us"
- Bethesda will have "more to share next week" on Starfield as Todd Howard modestly says his "only visionary power is seeing running lanes in EA College Football 26"
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 writer says picking an ending is like choosing "my favorite child," but ultimately the finales are "two sides of the same coin"
- 3 new to Prime Video shows I recommend you binge-watch this weekend (March 13–March 15)
- March 13
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- Resident Evil Requiem fans are taking a break from thirsting over Leon Kennedy to imagine all of the quips he'd say in other games: "'Guess that's The Last of Him'"
- "Slay the Spire 2 has been out for merely a week and we have already hit 3 million units sold with more than 25 million runs," says a stunned Mega Crit after becoming Steam's biggest roguelike
- "What if we could just drop 30 new heroes into Overwatch?": Marvel Rivals "definitely had an impact" on Blizzard, says Overwatch boss, and a big factor was the response to new heroes
- Overwatch director celebrates no longer being "the lowest-rated game on Steam," but admits he's "not sure what it would take for us to move up to a positive score at this point"
- "They're not good enough," joke devs behind the "self-feeding" horror giant still in the Steam Top 50 while Friday the 13th, Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and Evil Dead multiplayers rot
- Donkey Kong Bananza devs admit the blatantly OP elephant transformation "probably went too far," but "it's fun" and "that's what matters most"
- The best narrative designers – from Call of Duty writers to BioWare vets – are being inspired by the "excellent" design of your uncontrollable horniness: "I've been reading a lot of fanfiction"
- 3 new to Netflix movies I recommend you watch this weekend (March 14–March 15)
- X-Men '97 season 2 gets a comic book prequel that Marvel promises is "vital" to the next chapter of the animated series
- The Simpsons showrunner is a maybe on a Hit & Run revival: "If we know people want it, never say never"
- Epic Games defends Fortnite's controversial V-Bucks price hike, insisting it's in "direct correlation to the operating costs" and teasing "amazing things" are coming that'll make you "understand what's been going on"
- Daredevil: Born Again season 2 sees New York City turn against Kingpin in explosive new TV spot
- Baby Reindeer creator's upcoming show gets new look featuring his drastic physical change
- "AI is not a shiny new feature," Xbox AI lead says, and "our games industry has been building AI systems for decades" from cheat detection to pathfinding
- Arc Raiders dev uses clip of FPS streamer Shroud summing up "game dev in a nutshell" to reinforce how Embark "failed" during development: "We really did - twice"
- Pokemon Pokopia seemingly hints at a tragic fate for a specific NPC from FireRed and LeafGreen: "The sea is really rough today"
- Palworld publishing lead is "more determined than ever" to make things "a little less sh*t" for cool devs struggling to find funding: "The West continues to stumble"
- How many episodes are in Invincible season 4?
- 3 new to Prime Video movies you need to watch this weekend (March 13–March 15)
- Crimson Desert dev says not to worry about Denuvo, because the impressive PC preview builds they've shown already had the DRM and are "representative of the final consumer's experience"
- Here's where you can buy Pokemon TCG Chaos Rising, the highly anticipated new set
- Starfield composer has "no doubt" Bethesda's RPG will eventually "be legendary," but "people were just not ready" for Todd Howard's vision of space
- The Boys prequel show Vought Rising will feature the return of a major Gen V season 2 villain
- We asked Nintendo point-blank about Donkey Kong Bananza's biggest mystery: They wouldn't tell us who Pauline really is
- Pocketpair lead says "apologies to all the professional Palworld haters," but "it's not really our problem" – the studio is going to continue "doing what the players want"
- Ex-Blizzard exec commands others to stop taking devs for granted as EA, Ubisoft, and too many more drown the industry in layoffs: "The thing that made the game special in the first place is the people who built it"
- Frieren actor says the response to "wholesome" low angle Frieren meme was "beautiful": "I was just having the best day ever"
- Pokemon Pokopia's storage system is more complicated than it needs to be, and players hope it copies Animal Crossing: New Horizons 3.0 in a future update
- Project Hail Mary directors think it was important to make sure their end of the world sci-fi drama was funny: "That's part of the human experience"
- Resident Evil Requiem's unintentional Half-Life YouTuber ad was bought for only $15, but the content creator responsible will give the website "'back' for free" if Capcom wants it
- Lost Doctor Who episodes, featuring one of the earliest Dalek appearances, have been found after over 60 years - and they're airing very soon
- Street Fighter game director teases "very smart" movie adaptation in new behind-the-scenes featurette: "This is the Street Fighter I know"
- Bo-Katan actor Katee Sackhoff plays coy about whether or not her Star Wars character is in The Mandalorian and Grogu, but assures fans they haven't seen the last of her
- Crimson Desert blocks spoilers by locking down the RPG's physical copies that shipped early, but some players worry it's a "slippery slope" for game preservation
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 remains on course to match Baldur's Gate 3's GOTY record as it secures GDC win and 12 BAFTA nominations
- Dwayne Johnson's Doom was so bad that one of his co-stars is surprised it didn't end their own career: "Probably one of the worst films ever made"
- Ghost of Yotei isn't bigger than Ghost of Tsushima, but "it feels larger" because Sucker Punch tricked you into thinking so
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead writer says it's "crazy" to see Final Fantasy legends who are "essentially our heroes" praising Sandfall's game after the JRPG series was such a "huge influence"
- VisionQuest star Paul Bettany says the upcoming MCU show realizes that "Marvel gets rewarded when it takes really big swings"
- Lego PlayStation 1 leak suggests a 1,900-piece mega build and December release date
- Anime legends Hayao Miyazaki and Hideaki Anno reunite, though it doesn't sound like the Studio Ghibli founder is working on a new movie anytime soon
- Nier Automata's Yoko Taro thinks his generation of directors has "a lot of weirdos", himself included, because "games weren't mainstream like they are now"
- The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is on track for the biggest opening weekend of the year, but it might not 1-UP the 2023 original
- Diablo 4's endgame is about to look a lot more like Diablo 2's with low-level loot that can become legendary
- 3 new to Netflix shows I recommend you binge-watch this weekend (March 13–March 15)
- March 12
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- Xbox just revealed Gaming Copilot is coming to "current-generation consoles" later this year
- Huntrix is officially returning to the stage as Netflix greenlights KPop Demon Hunters 2: "There's so much more to this world we have built"
- Arc Raiders devs spent 3 years fighting "on a daily basis" over whether it was "a battle royale," "a hero looter shooter," "a co-op Soul game," or "a co-op Shadow of the Colossus game"
- 10 years later, one of the only live-service horror games still standing learned how to win the "hellish" attention war: "We didn't create a live game. We created a game that sort of lived"
- Everything announced at FGS Live From GDC 2026
- Use the souls of animals and creatures to transform in hand-drawn 2D Metroidvania Barbarian Saga: The Beastmaster, coming Fall 2026
- Ride your dragon into battle then fight over air and land when Sagas of Lumin launches in Summer 2026
- Better to rule in Bullet-Hell than serve in Bullet-Heaven is the apparent mantra of action roguelike DeeSicks, and you can try the demo right now
- Open-world survival game Permafrost will pit you against a frozen apocalypse when it hits early access later this year
- Plug and spray in frantic roguelike retro shooter Hyperwired, where your cable is your greatest weapon
- If you're a fan of post-apocalyptic train heists, crafting, and PVP, Enginefall is the game for you, and there's an open playtest coming up in April
- Blood-soaked turn-based strategy game Ex Sanguis will launch into early access in May, but you can try the demo right now
- Master weapon manufacturing and logistics in WW2 strategy game Firearms Factory, coming to Steam Early Access this year
- Ride the rails and try not to freeze to death in this nail-biting new trailer for survival sci-fi train-driving sim, EverRail
- Anomaly President campaigns for an August release date in this new FGS Live From GDC trailer
- Everything announced at the Future Games Show Spring Showcase 2026
- Yerba Buena is a game within a game where you're in charge of fixing world-breaking glitches and it's out in two months
- This stylish 3D roguelike action platformer might give Dead Cells a run for its money
- Remothered: Red Nun's Legacy has been exclusively announced to complete the survival horror trilogy
- Throw fists and firepower in neon-soaked gun-fu action game The 9th Dragon
- Samson: A Tyndalston Story brings God of War heft to a GTA-style city in its new trailer
- A new trailer for Hulu's Malcolm in the Middle revival proves life is still unfair – and I can't wait to reunite with my favorite dysfunctional sitcom family
- New Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection gameplay shows there'll be as much monster conservation as there is carving
- Season 3 of Killing Floor 3 is out now, and you can wield Wolverine claws in an icy hellscape
- Protect your castle stronghold with paperwork and punishment in Gate Guard Simulator
- Our latest look at Life is Strange: Reunion sees Max and Chloe try to infiltrate a mysterious party
- A creature-collecting Metroidvania where rainbow bridge dogs live on as space-faring robots was not on my bingo card for today
- Deep Dish Dungeon is giving me Kings Field comedy co-op vibes and I'm here for it
- Upcoming roguelite FPS Shelf Heroes just got a new gameplay trailer, showing off more modular, miniaturised mayhem
- Quite a Ride has you cycling through a Stranger Things-like mystery, but beware, "If you stop moving for too long, the fog and what hides inside it catches up to you"
- Life is Strange creators head to a whole new frontier with a new trailer for sci-fi adventure Aphelion
- Co-op open-world crafting and roadtrip game Outbound finally gets a release date, and it's soon
- The Dungeon Experience entirely dismantles the very concept of the 4th wall in its new RPG-lampooning trailer
- Green Lantern John Stewart is joining the cast of Man of Tomorrow as Aaron Pierre signs on for the Superman sequel
- Peak co-creator loves the term friendslop, because "what's so bad about hanging out with your friends and playing games like this?"
- Humanity's last output is under threat in the new trailer for sci-fi survival crafter Atmosfar
- Papa Needs a Headshot is a great name for a game that's basically a western-steampunk Bioshock FPS
- Adventure puzzle game Will: Follow the Light gets a release date, and it's soon
- Hello Sunshine is a survival game that takes place in the shadow of a giant robot, and you can sign up to test it soon
- ReVamp is a new tower defense and roguelite game for Castlevania fans, because you get to defend Dracula's castle as the vampire lord himself
- A decapitated demon sets out for revenge in a roguelike that's already racking up near-perfect reviews
- Piece a crumbling spaceship back together in isometric sci-fi tactics game AstroTechs, available to wishlist on Steam now
- Damon and Baby is a cute but tough RPG shooter from the last developer you'd expect to be making one
- Drive to survive through a post-apocalyptic wasteland in cinematic action racer Anarchy Road
- From Imagine Dragons' lead singer and manager, Last Flag kicks the classic capture the flag mode up a notch, and it's coming to PC this April and consoles in the summer
- See all new gameplay for Silver Pines, a metroidvania survival horror that's definitely too cool for you
- Bandai Namco reveals new Little Nightmares VR: Altered Echoes trailer, featuring a release date and enough nightmare fuel to last me the year
- New 1-4 player tactics roguelite Shadowstone gets a closed playtest to try out your unique abilities
- "It's not a full game mode, but here": Resident Evil Requiem gets kawaii makeover as Capcom tries to appease Resident Evil 2 director, who's been begging for a scare-free game since 1998
- 1348 Ex Voto is out now, and its new launch trailer shows off Aeta's martial mastery in stunning historical environments
- Directive 8020 shows off its Movie Night couch co-op, letting you and four friends decide who lives and dies in space
- This online co-op clean-'em-up lets you contribute to real environmental projects, and there's a Steam demo you can check out right now
- CALX looks like pure spacefaring sci-fi vibes, and it just got a release date for early June
- Adorable Adventures is the aptly-named upcoming cosy game about playing as a precious piglet out to find his family
- Swordfight, joust, and siege your way to victory in Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns
- Ready or Not shows off gameplay for the SWAT FPS' new DLC Boiling Point, teasing a tense stand-off with a mysterious group
- "Truly a celebration of all things Batman" - New developer commentary for Lego Batman takes us through gameplay, action, and so very many costumes
- Sneak through the kingdom performing daring heists in retro immersive sim Project Shadowglass
- After more than 30 years, pioneering puzzle game The 7th Guest returns with a ground-up remake
- Dave the Diver's In The Jungle DLC gets a release date, plus a complete physical edition is revealed
- Dragon’s Dogma and Devil May Cry vets show off their pop-punk action RPG, where you play as a lowly zombie trying to bring the frozen love of their life back to, well, life
- "Break in, take it, get out" - Cordura is the new psychological survival horror that looks like Dishonored by way of Little Nightmares, and I'm creeped out already
- A new era of HyperX begins as OMEN joins the family, with three big hitting gaming laptops
- "Typical hubris" led to one of WoW's "s**ttiest" quests, admits creator Jeff Kaplan, who thought he was a clever designer but was "actually a dips**t"
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (March 13–15)
- Win one of 5 HyperX Cloud Alpha 2 Wireless headsets thanks to the Future Games Show
- 2 words were all it took for the Octopath Traveler team's new Zelda-like action RPG throwback to shoot to the top of my most wanted list: "Cat collecting"
- Family Guy is getting a Stewie spin-off that sounds a lot like The Magic School Bus, and we're as confused as you are
- Hannibal creator says his "dream" Silence of the Lambs adaptation is "still out there in the universe" and that Zendaya remains his top pick for Clarice Starling: "[She'd] bring a completely different temperature"
- Console and PC players trade hope and despair while they await Crimson Desert, as first PS5 Pro footage looks promising but Steam suddenly warns of Denuvo DRM
- You'll wish you'd been ghosted after watching the new trailer for upcoming horror movie Obsession
- Fans agree that new Lego Tintin set is an "Instant-buy"
- "I don't think we've seen anything like this in any other survival game": Subnautica 2 devs say new base-building system uses "techniques that haven't been used in games in this way before"
- "We're 2 different beasts": Studio behind CRPG Solasta 2 bought their dev team copies of Baldur's Gate 3 and they "love" it, but devs say comparisons to Larian's game aren't entirely accurate
- Pedro Pascal was as surprised as everyone else when Lucasfilm unceremoniously announced The Mandalorian and Grogu on social media
- Starlight actor is already anticipating "mixed" reactions to The Boys season 5 finale: "The emotional gravity of it kind of caught me by surprise"
- Genre-hopping Hades 2 studio doesn't want to make a game that's bigger and better than the last: "We're trying to make a game that has the potential to be someone's favorite game from us"
- Slay the Spire 2 players can't decide if they love or hate the Spectral Knight, who can break your deck, but whose "debuff will be more of a buff" once you understand the fight
- Universal movies like The Super Mario Galaxy Movie and The Odyssey will play exclusively in theaters for five weeks, up from a current minimum of just 17 days
- 22 years later, Star Wars fans are reassessing one 2004 Special Edition Return of the Jedi change
- Nine years later, the Hyperkin Retron HD is nowhere near as crummy as I remember, and it's a solid starting point for playing physical NES carts on any screen
- "A lot of games would be canceled": Arc Raiders lead recalls cutting all but 25 people in "desperation" when Nexon "gave us one more try" to salvage the flailing shooter
- The first thing Arc Raiders testers told Embark after the game pivoted to PvP was "they didn't like the PvP," and they didn't feel any better about its looting: "They were not very happy"
- "Trying to build a skyscraper with hand tools": Minecraft devs swore off yearly updates after giant Caves and Cliffs patch pushed them to the brink
- As horror fans call for more continuity across the series, Evil Dead's Bruce Campbell explains why he hasn't played Ash in a movie since 2013
- Jeff Kaplan calls Overwatch 2 "one of my biggest mistakes," names devs who "didn't like PvP" and executive pressure as reasons for troubled development
- Blizzard's canceled World of Warcraft follow-up was a "1 server, 1 world" MMO with GTA and Animal Crossing influences, ex dev says, but it was so big it "could never ship"
- Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day gets a new trailer full of alien possession, psychic powers, and all manner of high strangeness
- After Jujutsu Kaisen's flowchart-geddon, Yuji's actor says "not grasping" the Culling Game rules is perfectly fine
- After stepping down from Scream 7, Happy Death Day director sets horror return with supernatural pic that may or may not be set on an airplane
- Lord and Miller explain how their work on the Spider-Verse movies inspired their new sci-fi film Project Hail Mary: "People want a visual experience they've never seen before"
- The next Pokemon TCG set is Chaos Rising, with "Mega Floette ex wreaking havoc" across Lumiose City
- One Piece star fought for a manga-accurate Nami costume "for the fans" despite shooting in "the dead of winter": "She was really, really badass"
- Nier Automata-inspired indie includes a system that Yoko Taro "stopped" being added to his own action RPG, and one of his fellow lead devs is "honestly a little jealous"
- Stay clear of the water this summer as yet another shark horror movie is on the way, and its first trailer is terrifying
- Palworld devs would be "happy to hand the IP over" to the right studio for a spin-off, unless it was a Balatro or Clair Obscur-like: "As long as it's something that the players want"
- Microsoft's weird "This is an Xbox" marketing appears to be getting quietly swept under the rug amid leadership changes
- Star Wars fans are discussing one major moment in The Rise of Skywalker: "There were a lot of ideas in the sequel trilogy that – if adequately explored – would have made for a good story"
- Out of nowhere, the Chainsaw Man manga is ending – and its final chapter is publishing in less than two weeks
- Scream's Kevin Williamson won't direct Scream 8, and admits "no one is talking" about making a new Scream movie just yet
- There's a new exclusive Hello Kitty Razer gaming headset in the wild, and I can't have it
- The Oscars 2026 will feature a "Marvel reunion," and MCU fans are wondering if it means an Avengers: Doomsday trailer is coming
- Pokopia sold 2.2 million copies in less than a week, already making it one of the best-selling Switch 2 games and Pokemon spin-offs ever
- The Steam Machine promises a 4K 60fps experience, but I'd pair it with a 1440p monitor if you're sensitive to disappointment
- Soldier Boy star Jensen Ackles confirms The Boys spin-off show Vought Rising has wrapped filming: "It’s been an absolute thrill ride"
- "It felt surreal": Overwatch co-creator allegedly left Blizzard after a former exec said he'd be responsible for 1,000 layoffs if the shooter didn't hit financial targets
- Stranger Things season 5 Netflix views are behind season 4, with no real chance of overtaking
- Netflix One Piece star says there's "incredible pressure" to make new seasons of the anime adaptation "as quickly as humanly possible"
- The Arc in Arc Raiders have multiple "brains," and they all love pursuing you because Embark gives them "rewards" in real-time via machine learning: "I learned to walk on my own"
- Valve peels back the curtain in rare Steam presentation: "More games are finding success" than ever, and nearly 6,000 made over $100,000 last year
- Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man director explains how the Netflix movie differs from the show: "Inherently, it is more cinematic in its conception"
- March 11
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- The Dispatch leads had "a mix of arrogance and stupidity" as they faced down publishers telling them single-player narrative games were "niche, or worse, dead"
- Xbox lead thinks "we have been in a golden age for indies" since 2008, and it's "a fantastic time to be a developer" if you ignore all the smoke: "The present is awesome"
- The Future Games Show returns this week - here's how to watch
- Xbox teases "some iconic games from the past" to be re-released in 2026, after its "game preservation team" spent years "working very hard in the background"
- Steam expert advises devs stick to the "Little League" section of idle games and friendslop before attempting anything like Binding of Isaac or Mewgenics: "Then you can make your dream"
- Nintendo knew Donkey Kong Bananza wouldn't be nearly as fun if you were destroying basic blocks: "It is more fun to destroy that which is beautiful"
- Severance star Adam Scott's new horror movie Hokum just got an intensely creepy first trailer, and it already has my skin crawling
- Dispatch is lying to you about RNG for your own good, just like XCOM: "Those guys are pretty smart, so we thought we'd do the same"
- Valve pleads "if you have a line on a bunch of RAM, we are in the market and would like to buy it," as AI and data centers make building Steam Machines a Herculean challenge
- The final Trails game will be announced in 2031 and released in 2032, Falcom president confirms, so you have 6 years to catch up on 1000 hours of JRPGs
- Early Xbox Project Helix specs promise "next-generation" AI upscaling and an "order of magnitude leap in ray tracing performance" as Microsoft tries to win the next-gen console war before it even starts
- Resident Evil Requiem Grace actor might be even more scared playing Capcom's horror game than her character is while living it: "AHHH!"
- Valve says loot boxes are just like "Pokemon, Magic the Gathering, and Labubu" as it pushes back against New York lawsuit, claims it's being pressured to "collect more personal data" for "additional age verification"
- Xbox Project Helix dev kits to roll out in 2027, narrowing possible launch window as Microsoft doubles down on PC integration: "An increasingly important part of the Xbox experience"
- Pocketpair publishing head reacts to Pokemon and Palworld ripoff Pickmon for the first time: "Someone is a fan of the genre, I guess"
- Xbox lead says the "return to fun" we've seen from games like Peak makes him "hopeful" for the industry, and he "loves seeing the success" of them
- Garry's Mod creator expected to only "make about $30,000" on the sandbox game – but some 25 million copies later, it's one of Steam's most iconic smash hits
- Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry's son says Star Trek will "get better" under new Paramount leadership: "Not that they were bad, but I think there's a fresh perspective"
- James Wan is set to direct his first movie since the Aquaman sequel, and it's a remake of a hit Korean crime thriller
- Slay the Spire 2 has delayed Palworld 1.0 "at least a whole day," jokes publishing head: "Pocketpair is dominated by two games – Rimworld and Slay the Spire"
- Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum casts Kate Winslet as female lead, with Ian McKellen's Gandalf and Elijah Wood's Frodo seemingly confirmed
- Nier creator Yoko Taro thinks the indie game dev scene is "too intimidating for me to even think of entering": "It's not something an old man like me should be attempting"
- There's a "TV apocalypse" in video game preservation as CRTs go extinct, expert says, and that's just the tip of the iceberg as work continues to save retro hardware
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 studio withdraws legal action against graphic novel that shares the RPG's name, wishing its creators success
- Steam Machine could be partly to blame for PlayStation's reported plans to step back from PC, Bluepoint dev suggests, and it'd be ironic if "Valve ultimately ended up winning the console war"
- Peak devs originally borrowed from Zelda Breath of the Wild's climbing, but "everything changed" 1 week into development: "At this point, the game kind of made itself"
- Rick and Morty takes aim at "AI slop" as it confirms season 9 release date: "Grade A organic slop, made by real humans"
- Valve has shared new Steam Machine Verified guidance at GDC, but I've no idea why hitting Steam Deck performance levels is part of the requirements list
- Super Mario minifigures are on the way in 2027, but what does it mean for the rest of the range?
- "Parrying was not easy": Clair Obscur Expedition 33 devs had to turn to sound to fix an integral part of the J'RPG's combat
- "It can't even be Pokemon Minecraft, you can't even craft": Pokopia leaves co-op fans disappointed, saying GameShare between Switch 2 and its predecessor "might as well not exist"
- Intel confirms Core Ultra refresh rumors, announcing "the fastest desktop gaming processors" the brand "has ever built," and I hope this means long-term support for its current motherboard socket
- I feel like I can't escape Xbox drama, as even new retro handheld emulators are causing a stir over app charges
- New Marathon patch seemingly makes the whole game a touch easier as Bungie nerfs UESC enemies, to fans' relief: "One of the best patch notes I've ever read"
- After 16 years in development hell, live-action Tinker Bell is a "high priority" for Disney Plus as the show sets screenwriters
- New Mandalorian and Grogu TV spot doesn't give much away about the new Star Wars movie, but it does show Baby Yoda sneezing everywhere
- Star Wars fans are discussing why two major characters barely interacted, but I think it makes total sense
- Overwatch's Nier Automata collab is here, but with no voice lines and a price higher than the action RPG it's based on, players aren't happy: "Hello Kitty got more than these folks"
- Capcom, where the hell are my Resident Evil Requiem amiibo?
- Rachel Weisz's new Netflix thriller is one of the streamer's biggest flops of the year so far
- Resident Evil Requiem now inadvertently features an in-game ad for a Half-Life YouTuber thanks to Capcom leaving in a fake website domain without registering it itself
- Scream 7's Ghostface star still doesn't know who she kills in the new horror sequel: "I'm going to leave that up to the audience"
- After One Piece creator dropped the answer to the anime's biggest mystery 600m underwater, streamer iShowSpeed seems set on finding it: "Looking for 30-50 good men"
- Brie Larson knows "every detail" of Super Mario Galaxy, so trust her when she says "every frame" of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is "filled with references"
- One Piece's Chopper actor thought it was a voice-only role so initially turned it down, but it ended up being "similar to what I've seen Andy Serkis do"
- Project Hail Mary debuts to near-perfect 96% Rotten Tomatoes score, as critics call it "an early contender for film of the year"
- "It's almost as if they're trying to kill off the game": Fortnite faces fan backlash over V-Bucks price increase, while Epic lead argues "paying the bills" helps devs keep "building stuff you love"
- Marvel Rivals devs couldn't help but "panic" at the thought of going into the live-service graveyard that just claimed Highguard: "It's not guaranteed"
- March 10
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- "It's going to be really f***ing hard": Diablo 4 is getting 8 new difficulty tiers in Lord of Hatred because Blizzard wants OP builds to actually have to try
- Marvel fans are debating whether Dafne Keen should become Wolverine or stay as X-23, and I've already chosen a side
- "I wouldn't rule out a Palworld 2.0," says Pocketpair publishing head, but don't expect a "No Man's Sky situation" with a "decade of continuous, massive updates"
- "Whoever sells more copies pays for the other's therapy": Peak came about after a bet between Content Warning and Another Crab's Treasure leads, and ironically the friendslop collab that followed sold more than both games combined
- Samurai Champloo is returning as a live-action Netflix series from One Piece adaptation team, and the original creator is on board: "We've learned" after Cowboy Bebop
- It: Welcome to Derry season 2 is definitely in the works, as showrunner promises to "deliver something that is greater" than season 1
- 14 years later, former EA exec is still mad about getting the "Worst Company in America" award over BP and Bank of America just because "f***ing Colonel Shepard dies in Mass Effect 3"
- 55-year games industry vet helped make the first CRPG, got laid off, went bankrupt, but said "I don't care" as long as he got to keep crafting games: "A business does not love you back, unless you are a business person"
- I thought nothing could replace Animal Crossing for my nightly cozy vibes, but Pokopia's delightfully unhinged dialogue is very tempting: "It's a pretty nice butt, don't you think? So shiny!"
- Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii says English is "a simple language," so "the flavor tends to get lost in many ways" when translating games from Japanese
- One Piece season 2 answers a near 30-year-old manga mystery in surprisingly straightforward fashion
- Resident Evil Requiem is too scary for series veteran Hideki Kamiya, who argues Capcom "should make a 'non-scary' mode" because "look, I just want to enjoy the puzzles"
- The wait for the first proper Nintendo Direct of 2026 continues as the next big Switch 2 exclusive, Yoshi and the Mysterious Book, gets a May release date out of nowhere
- MMO raises subscription prices less than 2 months after ditching microtransactions, causing a RuneScape fan revolt: "Way to show appreciation to your loyal players"
- One Piece season 2 is a live-action adaptation to treasure as it debuts to perfect Rotten Tomatoes score
- Overwatch senior dev says using Steam player counts to dunk on multi-platform releases like Marathon is "big unemployed, maidenless behavior"
- Nier: Automata creator Yoko Taro sees it "as a form of respect" when devs "say outright that they copied" his action RPG, but he's not sure "how Square Enix would feel about that"
- D&D's most annoying rule helped Fallout co-creator Tim Cain get his big break at legendary RPG studio Interplay after he flexed on the job interview
- Resident Evil Requiem director acknowledges the Leon thirst and marriage debate all in one as he jokingly lets slip a mock-up of the hot unc starring in The Bachelor: "Whoops..."
- RPG legend advises new devs to be like Hideo Kojima and create their own style – or if all else fails, "have a rich daddy"
- You can now use an OG Virtual Boy controller wirelessly with the Switch, and I'm hoping it inspires Nintendo to create its own new pad
- After the first two movies were written by franchise creator Scott Cawthon, Five Nights at Freddy's 3 reportedly has new screenwriters
- Epic Games needs Fortnite players to "help pay the bills" as the multi-billion-dollar company raises V-Bucks prices while making Battle Passes and Crew way worse in value
- Arc Raiders turns down electromagnetic storm lightning despite some players preferring the chaos, as Embark promises compensation for folks impacted by recent server issues
- Game of Thrones creators' beleaguered, big-budget Netflix sci-fi show reportedly getting a reduced episode count for seasons 2 and 3
- Ghost of Yotei devs tried to add Zelda: Breath of the Wild-style rock climbing, but discovered "rock climbing is not a core aspect of being a wandering ronin"
- Oh crap, Lego Luigi is coming to deliver his Mario Kart Death stare
- Jujutsu Kaisen actor offers perfect response to why AI should stay out of anime
- "Max and Chloe have always stayed in people's hearts because we can see parts of ourselves in them": Life is Strange Reunion update in the Future Games Show this week might tug at your heart strings
- Pokemon fan artist alleges new Palworld clone Pickmon "stole one of my designs," saying "they didn't even try to change something and make it a bit less obvious"
- Mortal Kombat 2 star Lewis Tan joins in with Street Fighter movie beef after Game Awards dig because he "loves a good rivalry: "Andrew Schulz is the last person that should be talking s*** on that stage"
- My favorite budget Switch 2 headset just got a makeover for Mario Day, and it's pretty super
- One Piece season 2 actor Mackenyu says he learned the choreography for Roronoa Zoro's 15-minute 1 vs 100 fight in just 6 hours
- I never played with Scalextric as a kid, so I'm making up for it with this Mario Kart set
- Live-action adaptation of Chainsaw Man creator's Look Back will escape Japanese cinemas and come to the west
- Helldivers 2 devs "underinvested" in the shooter's engine, Arrowhead CEO admits, who pledges "things can/will get better" despite recent improvements
- Evangelion studio admits leaking its own 30th anniversary short after "insufficient understanding of X’s takedown request system"
- More hopium for Fallout 3 Remastered emerges as the unannounced RPG is named in a new product listing for an upcoming figure
- Resident Evil Requiem is getting a story expansion to "delve deeper into the world," director reveals, as well as photo mode and a new minigame that had better be Mercenaries
- As One Piece season 2 hits Netflix, you can now catch up on 13 seasons of the original anime for free
- The Mario Game and Watch isn't my favorite version, but it does at least have the real sequel you potentially missed
- Wait a minute, I think this is our first look at Warhammer 40K 11th Edition
- Certified Nintendo fangirl and Rosalina actor Brie Larson says Super Mario Galaxy is one of her favorite games
- Aang director confirms the next Avatar movie has wrapped but seems to be still fighting for a theatrical release: "This movie deserves to be seen on a big screen"
- A Nintendo Nostradamus somehow predicted Donald Glover's Yoshi casting in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie over a year ago: "I just thought it was a good casting"
- Valve hit with yet another lawsuit over the Steam market, with a class-action complaint claiming loot boxes "satisfy every element" of gambling by definition
- Despite that supersized Avengers: Doomsday cast list, Marvel star Lewis Pullman puts cameo overload fears to rest: "Every character has their moment"
- Where to read in the manga and what episodes to watch after Netflix's One Piece season 2
- March 9
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- "The fundamentals of FPS should drive our decision": Battlefield 6 designers say developers have a "responsibility" to make games intuitive
- "The first track spoils the whole game": Clair Obscur Expedition 33 devs confirm they were filling your ears with spoilers the entire time
- The Super Mario Galaxy Movie reveals Donald Glover as the voice of Yoshi and more new casting in a star-spanning trailer that sends the entire Mushroom Kingdom to another planet
- Reacher star Alan Ritchson says season 4 is coming this year: "It's by far the best season we've had yet"
- Clair Obscur Expedition 33 took inspiration from a surprising anime - Soul Eater creator's Fire Force: "Because it was a JRPG, we tried to find a mix"
- "The God of War sex mini-games were designed by women," former Sony Santa Monica writer says, which is why Aphrodite's bed looks "like a labia"
- Resident Evil Requiem leads let actors re-do "technically" perfect scenes if it made them happy, says Grace actor: "'If you didn't feel it, we need to do it again'"
- If Sony thinks "dynamic" pricing won't prompt me to shun new-gen consoles and go back to the PS1, it should think again
- Spider-Noir showrunner says the goal is "to make a version of Spider-Man that no one had seen before," clarifying it's the "same character, different universe" from the Spider-Verse variant
- Helldivers 2 support agent says "there's no balance team" at Arrowhead because "it's all a team effort": "No dev gets to just change whatever they want without oversight"
- Resident Evil director Shinji Mikami has been working on a new AAA action RPG for at least 1 year after Microsoft closed his last studio, and no one noticed
- Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen have been on Switch for over a week, but many players are still stuck in Oak's Lab trying to get shiny starters: "I'm going to cry"
- James Cameron says Avatar 4 is still "very likely", despite Fire and Ash making almost a billion dollars less than The Way of Water
- "Complicated feelings on our end": Indie devs behind new Peak-like co-op understand you think it's friendslop, but "it's a slight bummer that the other half of the term is the 'slop'"
- "Mark my words. You cannot win without 4 players," Ghost of Yotei multiplayer lead warns of Legends' "hardcore content," all but guaranteeing a flood of players trying to prove Sucker Punch wrong
- Dragon Age 2 was originally planned to be "much bigger" before EA made other demands, former series lead says, even though BioWare "did not know how to make a small game"
- Arnold Schwarzenegger says he'll be in Dan Trachtenberg's next Predator movie, and Mission: Impossible director is making a Conan the Barbarian sequel
- I'm still using the Hatsune Miku Asus TUF collection this Miku Day, and that's never going to change
- Battlefield 6 devs reportedly hit with layoffs after what EA called "the biggest launch in franchise history" and an estimated 20 million units sold
- Pokemon and Palworld clones are officially out of hand, as fans react to "lawsuitmaxxing" new game Pickmon and its "straight up rip-offs" of iconic 'mons like Charizard
- After years of torturing myself over NES color accuracy, it turns out there is no consensus for how the retro console should look
- Kinda sounds like Elijah Wood WILL be in Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, as he admits he "wouldn't want anybody else to play Frodo"
- Resident Evil Requiem Grace actor says Capcom wanted more "cinematic performances" to keep pace with the devs "leveling up" the technical side of the horror game
- 6 of the best new shows and movies streaming this week on Netflix, Prime Video, Hulu, and more (March 9–March 15)
- Bungie doesn't want Marathon to repeat Destiny 2's vaulting controversy: "It doesn't matter when you join, you'll still be able to play through the established questlines"
- "Slay the Spire 2 has taken over his life": Palworld CEO gets a telling off from staff after staying up "all night" to play the long-awaited follow-up to Mega Crit's influential deckbuilding roguelike
- The next generation of GamesRadar+ is here
- Star Wars fans are debating an iconic Revenge of the Sith scene that's now one of the saga's biggest 'what if' moments
- Slay the Spire 2 has a "very worrying" OP character, and one player with over 10,000 hours in the original is certain Silent's "numbers need tweaking"
- Fallout 4 was "missing something" at first, but lead dev says Todd Howard helped confirm "there should be this overriding sense of paranoia" so players "don't know who to trust"
- First revealed at CES, Asus's first open-back ROG Cetra earbuds are finally available in the US
- Move over Mario, this Rosalina Switch 2 controller is so stellar that it deserves its own day too
- "Bro am I talentless": Pokemon Pokopia players are already blowing fellow fans' minds with their builds, proving they're just as creative as the Animal Crossing and Minecraft community
- Microsoft CEO says "we'll always" keep investing in gaming amid Xbox's major leadership shakeup and announcement of mysterious Project Helix
- One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda has a "specific arc" he wants the Netflix live-action anime adaptation to reach
- After landing a low Rotten Tomatoes score, The Bride bombs at the box office with $13.6 million opening against a $90 million budget
- Some of GTA 6's big ideas are likely hiding in GTA 5, ex-Rockstar dev predicts – and you only need to look at GTA 4 to see why: "I'd be incredibly surprised if they don't do anything like that"
- Despite Lilo and Stitch's $1 billion box office haul, Disney's live-action remake of beloved classic Robin Hood has been scrapped: "It's dead sadly"
- Nintendo doesn't want Switch 2 eShop to "become a giant slop fest," New Blood CEO claims, so "they're still pretty choosy about who gets to launch their games"
- Valve keeps doubling down on a Steam Machine 2026 release date, and I honestly respect that
- Despite some curious gurgles in The Mandalorian and Grogu trailer, Kathleen Kennedy insists Baby Yoda won't speak in the new Star Wars movie
- Resident Evil Requiem Leon x Ada shippers in shambles as director says he's been "called out for screenshots of edited messages," days after fans took them as confirmation of their marriage
- New Pixar movie Hoppers debuts to a record-breaking $88 million at the box office, the best opening weekend for an original animated movie since Coco
- Kathleen Kennedy says Dave Filoni taking over as Lucasfilm co-president has "been a 10-year mentoring process"
- March 8
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- Shigeru Miyamoto believed games chasing realism "were pretty much failures" 40 years ago, which is why Tom and Jerry's cartoon reality was "vital fuel" for Nintendo's early games
- Slay the Spire 2 dev "totally blown away" as the roguelike enters Steam's top 20 most-played games ever with over 573,000 concurrent players: "We'll getcha one day Silksong"
- Marvel Rivals implements a "Victim Compensation Protocol" for players affected by "malicious match-losing" and people getting paid to throw
- Old-school The Legend of Zelda-inspired game mimics the GameBoy to GameBoy Color transition, goes from retro handheld to PC and Switch
- Slay the Spire 2 devs are "microtransaction haters," even if some fans "threaten to buy all and any cosmetics we may ever release"
- March 7
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- Dark Souls and Elden Ring studio FromSoftware was "worried" how its OG RPG King's Field would be received, but the studio wasn't going to be "constrained by existing games"
- These Super Mario Nendoroid figures deserve a comeback, but I'll settle for the SH Figuarts re-release
- Putting FromSoftware challenge sickos to shame, one fan smashes Final Fantasy 9's infamous skip rope challenge entirely blindfolded
- "The CRPG I didn't know I needed": Ridiculously pretty Baldur's Gate-like with a beat 'em up twist and 91% positive Steam reviews finally hits 1.0
- Marvel Rivals publisher reportedly cuts funding for Yakuza co-creator's new studio just three months after revealing its first game
- Slay the Spire 2's Steam domination was always written in the stars, according to Palworld dev who is "genuinely surprised by how many people" are blindsided
- Resident Evil Requiem's Grace actor says Leon's performer is such an RE sicko that everyone brought their A-game in the studio: "If there are millions of Nicks out there who adore this franchise ... we cannot let them down"
- 3 new to Netflix movies I recommend you watch this weekend (March 7–March 8)
- March 6
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- After a plane and a train, the showrunner of Apple's Hijack jokes season 3 could be set "on a boat", "on an e-bike", "in the back of a limo," or even "a submarine"
- War Machine star Alan Ritchson says the film's most dangerous stunt was "pretty terrifying," as he ziplined over rapids without a blue screen: "There's just no way to fake that"
- "Slay the Spire but better": roguelike Slay the Spire 2 continues Steam domination with over 6,000 Overwhelmingly Positive reviews as early access players decree "10/10 best game"
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake director reveals new part 3 details: Rocket Town is back, Wutai is "one of the main locations," and the Highwind airship is "a very large part" of the JRPG finale
- Rotta the Hutt becomes Rotta the cut in our best look yet at Jeremy Allen White's surprisingly jacked Mandalorian and Grogu villain
- Overwatch's 69.1% ban rate for Jetpack Cat will surprise "absolutely no one," Blizzard admits, but the devs have a "bonus hint" for everyone banning Domina: get good
- Nintendo sues US government over "illegally collected" tariffs that delayed Switch 2 pre-orders, demands refund "with interest"
- New Bandai Namco Sword Art Online action RPG is "not a Soulslike," dev says, but it's still "very easy to die" which is bad news if you're playing on the mode that deletes your save when you die
- 3 new to Prime Video shows I recommend you binge-watch this weekend (March 7-March 8)
- Pedro Pascal says it makes "perfect sense" for Din Djarin to remove his helmet in The Mandalorian and Grogu
- Marathon's battle pass slammed as the "worst value for your money" as limits on cosmetics remind players of Bungie's past failings: "Welcome back launch Destiny 2 shaders"
- WWE 2K26 replaces traditional DLC with battle passes, and fans are already worn out with the grind: "I paid $150 for extra content and they want me to burn myself out just to use it?"
- I review board games for a living and think Sky Team is an essential purchase for two-player game night
- Corsair's on a roll, this Stream Deck-toting deck is now officially the best full-sized gaming keyboard I've tested so far
- The next-gen Xbox is basically being pitched as a Steam Machine rival, but I need Project Helix to embrace its console roots if it's chasing PC games
- "What the f*** are these prices?": World of Warcraft fans question Blizzard's $7.50 trees, prompting swift discounts – but some say the MMO's new housing decor is "still comically overpriced"
- "Fans should brace for an expensive machine": Xbox Project Helix might arrive in 2028, analyst suggests – and it "could be priced at $900" at minimum
- New Super Mario Galaxy Movie poster unveils first look at Super Mario Bros. 2 villain Wart
- Marvel Rivals dev knows players are getting paid to "deliberately sabotage matches" in a "disturbing trend," threatens permanent bans for people "maliciously idling"
- Wikipedia's been turned into a Pokemon TCG-like gacha game where you collect its pages, because the random article button wasn't distracting enough already
- After fake Mandalorian and Grogu image of Rotta the Hutt brandishing knives took off online, ILM animator debunks the picture: "It's BS"
- Creators of Dark, one of Netflix's best shows, are reuniting for a new "cruel reality" thriller that sounds like a mix of Black Mirror and True Detective
- Not content with stopping the avalanche of Resident Evil Requiem, Pragmata, Onimusha, and Monster Hunter Stories 3, Capcom teases even more unannounced games before April 2027
- 5 years after it was revealed, KOTOR remake is "still in development," Saber boss confirms, as we await any morsel of info on the reimagined BioWare Star Wars RPG
- Smiling Friends, Monty Python, and a whole lot of milk all helped shape the comedy stylings of this upcoming RPG parody
- Pokopia players can't fathom just how big the Pokemon spin-off is so far: "More feature rich and wider in scope than Animal Crossing has ever been"
- "2 cakes!": Arc Raiders players lay down their weapons and show support for Marathon, saying they "want this competition" and "2 beautiful games can coexist without all this hate"
- After 30 years, Pokemon Pokopia finally answers an important question for "the hardcore lore freaks" – whatever happened to that one NPC builder in Vermillion City?
- The Peaky Blinders spin-off show has officially started filming, with leaked set pictures ushering the franchise into a new era
- The Wild Robot is officially getting a sequel, with the director of Netflix's Nimona at the helm
- Resident Evil Requiem Leon actor says the new horror game "could have been just a solo Grace" outing, but the dual protagonists make it feel "like 2 different games"
- Netflix's new Peaky Blinders movie debuts to rave reviews and a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score
- Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle is back in theaters – and we're still no closer to finding out when it'll drop on Crunchyroll
- Former Ubisoft vet says the Assassin's Creed developer is "hated" by the public and "many of their own" devs, but it's "far from impossible" for it to make great games after restructure
- Twisters star joins movie adaptation of bestselling novel about two game devs founding their own studio
- Slay the Spire 2 surpasses Elden Ring Nightreign as Steam's biggest roguelike, as early access sequel sees launch players rise 162,000% over the original game
- Mike Flanagan's Exorcist movie adds 11 familiar faces from the Flana-verse
- "This seems a bit meaner than it was intended": Slay the Spire 2 lead backtracks on Marathon "small indie passion projects" joke as the roguelike unexpectedly dominates Steam
- New Daredevil: Born Again season 2 TV spot is packed full of new footage, including another look at returning villain Bullseye
- Lucasfilm boss Dave Filoni says The Mandalorian and Grogu is "a big celebration" of the duo and "a completely different era of Star Wars" compared to The Force Awakens
- Mario Kart World content update seemingly leaked by Nintendo itself as players reckon a fan-favorite mode is on track to return to the Switch 2 racer
- Project Helix "might be Microsoft's last attempt to make their hardware business work," analyst suggests: "There is nobody in this industry who believes there will be another Xbox if this next machine fails"
- Marathon stays competitive with Arc Raiders, hits Steam with 91% 'Very Positive' reviews as fans let out a sigh of relief: "Bungie cooked"
- Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man star Rebecca Ferguson says the Netflix movie works as a "standalone film" even if you haven't seen the show
- 3 new to Prime Video movies you need to watch this weekend (March 7–March 8)
- Cillian Murphy says Netflix's Peaky Blinders movie is the "natural conclusion" for Tommy Shelby
- March 5
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- Superstar writer Jonathan Hickman is bringing Spider-Man 4 stars Spidey, Hulk, and Punisher together for a story that's "unrestrained by continuity"
- 15 years after Dark Souls, Nioh 3 devs faced the exact same design problem: "That might be one reason some people felt that the game was a little bit easier"
- For the first time in Diablo history, the Butcher will be a playable character in Diablo 4's new Season of Slaughter
- Resident Evil Requiem Leon actor says he's "cautiously optimistic" about upcoming film adaptation from Weapons director Zach Cregger
- Xbox Project Helix announced, "next generation console" will "play your Xbox and PC games," Microsoft says
- Slay the Spire 2 flies past 165,000 concurrent Steam players, instantly nearly tripling the all-time peak for the original roguelike icon and dethroning Marathon as Steam's top-selling game
- As death threats derail Helldivers 2's wholesome D10 challenge, Sony and Arrowhead address “increasing hostility in the community”: “We do not tolerate threats of violence, harassment, or doxxing”
- War Machine director says practical FX was "paramount" to make the sci-fi action movie feel as real as possible: "We set off a bomb in the quarry that was 550 feet high"
- Resident Evil fans would "go ballistic" for a Code Veronica remake, says Leon Kennedy's actor, spitting 100% facts
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (March 6-8)
- 21 years after its unceremonious end, Firefly fans are hoping that teasers for a March announcement mean the show is finally returning
- I've been interviewing devs for 13 years, and it's rare to hear someone say this about their own critically acclaimed RPG weeks after release: "Nioh 3 is a great game but it's not perfect"
- War Machine star Alan Ritchson says Reacher was the most physically demanding role he'd ever played before signing on to the new Netflix sci-fi film: "Every day was a unique challenge"
- "The more things that can break when you pull the trigger, the better": Helldivers 2 veterans stole Arrowhead's "fantasy approach" to action while making stunning new horror Metroidvania
- The Last of Us is amazing, but "I wouldn't want to play another game set in small town USA," says indie dev behind unique Polish survival horror: "It might get a little repetitive"
- "Where does Xbox fit all of a sudden?": Former Microsoft VP says it "maybe" should have taken "full advantage of Minecraft" while it had a chance instead of getting distracted by Bethesda exclusives
- Christian Bale on exploring the more "comedic" sides of Frankenstein's monster in new sci-fi horror The Bride: "He's rotting, he stinks to high heaven, and he can't die"
- World of Warcraft players beg Blizzard to "turn down" the "noisy af" Sunwell after Midnight, but others surrender their ears to the light: "Please turn it up"
- Arc Raiders was recording private Discord DMs in plain text, engineer claims in report on "serious privacy and security violations," which prompted a hasty hotfix from Embark
- The Boys season 5 trailer teases an immortal Homelander, as Billy Butcher plots to use the virus to "kill every f***ing Supe on the planet"
- Shigeru Miyamoto had to "force" in Super Mario Bros 3's iconic Frog Suit because he thought it was fun even though it sucked
- Oblivion multiplayer "coming soon," claim creators of platform that transformed Black Myth: Wukong with the same co-op treatment
- Marathon is already the top-selling new game on Steam, dethroning Resident Evil Requiem
- Season 2 of hit Netflix show with 98% Rotten Tomatoes score unveils its White Lotus-esque first trailer
- Highguard lead says "everyone has their thoughts on why the game failed" and "many are way off," as director admits "when you're out of time and money – you have to release a game with the runway you have"
- Pokemon Winds and Waves hints might have been hiding in Scarlet and Violet all along, fans theorize, and now folks reckon we may have an unsolved mystery on our hands
- Wolfenstein fans better "get psyched," because a tabletop RPG is on the way
- Nearly 20 years later, Nirvanna the Band the Show stars reveal the iconic Wii Shop song only took 5 hours to write, perform, and edit
- Decades before Dark Souls and Elden Ring, FromSoftware's first dark fantasy RPG was built "from a kind of ignorance": "It was the type of challenge a first-time game developer naively takes on"
- Helldivers 2 retires gratuitous 154GB Steam build this month in favor of "slim" PC version after Arrowhead confirms players are still "having a great experience" on "smaller build"
- Dismissing Pokemon comparisons would make us "hypocrites," devs of creature-collecting RPG say after $186,000 Kickstarter, but it's less of a "competitor" and "more like an alternative"
- This 1TB PNY microSD Express Card has solved my Switch 2 storage woes for the better
- The "oldest" Nintendo PlayStation add-on now lives at the National Videogame Museum, and it almost looks like one of my weird SNES accessories
- Move over, Slay the Spire 2 and Mewgenics – the self-proclaimed "best roguelike in 2026" is a stylish dungeon-crawler with 94% "Very Positive" Steam reviews, and it launches into 1.0 in April
- Crimson Desert impresses some RPG fans with its dialogue fast-forward feature, but leaves others questioning "why" it's even a thing: "TikTok has ruined this generation"
- More Kirby Air Riders amiibo are incoming, and I'm still trying to budget for the first ones
- Project Hail Mary director clarifies that "'no green screen' doesn't mean 'no VFX'" and confirms that the sci-fi movie's spaceship was a practical set
- Before Pokemon Winds and Waves, adorable spin-off Pokopia seemingly crushes hopes for a new Type fans have been begging to see for years: "Sound type is DEAD"
- Resident Evil's Leon Kennedy has been "babygirl with the cat ears" for a few years, but he's in his "hot unc" era in Requiem, actor agrees
- Undertone releases another creepy and cryptic teaser, and it looks like there's more to the upcoming horror movie than we thought
- One Piece season 2 release schedule: when are new episodes streaming on Netflix?
- With 1 week to live, Highguard is going out kicking with a final update adding a new character, speedy account progression, and more as devs thank "everyone who has played" the FPS
- Jamie Lee Curtis says The Bear is ending with season 5 but admits she may have "completely blown" an under-wraps announcement
- New horror-romance The Bride earns mixed first reviews, as critics call it everything from "a modern classic" to a "wokified, Jokerfied Folie-a-deux"
- "I don't even want to be here": Resident Evil Requiem's Leon actor was so unnerved performing next to the main villain he would "start giggling"
- Suikoden anime trailer proves it's a pitch-perfect adaptation of the legendary PS1 RPG's sequel, but we're not sure it will fit in all 108 companions
- DC fans aren't impressed with the suit in the new HBO Lanterns trailer: "Guys, I think we may have been too harsh on Ryan Reynolds' Green Lantern suit"
- Despite being 23 years old and having Final Fantasy 14 to contend with, Final Fantasy 11 is locking off one of its biggest servers due to overpopulation
- It's no Steam Machine, but if you've got a grand to splash on a tiny rig, I'd check out this NES-inspired mini PC
- Boba Fett star all but confirms his Star Wars bounty hunter won't show up in The Mandalorian and Grogu: "[I’m] shelved, that’s all, like a jar of peaches"
- We won guys, the pixel Pikachu plush everyone went nuts for is coming to the US and UK
- One Piece fans have kickstarted a mission to retrieve the real-life One Piece – but it will cost $100,000 a day
- Peak devs say "we have no plans to go to mobile" as fans spot another "fake" version, this time on the App Store: "They take FOREVER to get removed"
- GTA 6 devs "must be quaking" over so much fan expectation, Hell Let Loose lead says: "The more excited people get, the more you get worried"
- OG Pokemon devs struggled to fit their iconic RPG onto a Game Boy cartridge: "It was a fight against capacity, a fight against what we could fit onto the cartridge"
- This week's Netflix top 10 shows and 3 you need on your watchlist right now (March 7–8)
- March 4
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- Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto saw games in the '80s becoming like "pornography": "I think the world of 'hidden secrets' in games has almost reached that same grotesque level"
- This $8 indie game blowing up on Steam is like Mario Golf mixed with Super Smash Bros., and it's already sold 500,000 copies with 95% positive reviews: "Less like friendslop and more like friendsoufflé"
- 26 years ago today, the PS2 arrived and changed console gaming forever, and I'm gifting Sony's legendary system modern gadgets for its birthday
- After being unceremoniously pulled from the release schedule, M3GAN spin-off SOULM8TE sparks back to life with an R-rating by the MPAA
- Game Freak can't add hundreds of new Pokemon and more Types every generation or else new games would take too long to make, director says: "If you added like 300 or so new monsters, that'd just be too many"
- "Overwhelming evidence of organized espionage": MindsEye CEO blames flop launch on "corporate sabotage" and commits to "prosecution" amid more layoffs
- New Invincible season 4 trailer teases the debut of ultimate Viltrumite villain Thragg
- Resident Evil Requiem's Leon actor doesn't care about who the hero is married to, would rather see the guy "open an ice cream parlor": "Settle down for once"
- Crimson Desert was announced "too early," devs admit, and now has to prove it's not "too good to be true" without "over-promising"
- Scream 7 takes franchise over $1 billion, joining the likes of The Conjuring, Alien, and Resident Evil
- Ex-Diablo 2 lead designer says his "whole career" has been "chasing Diablo 2," but his team of Blizzard veterans have "a great shot again for a big success" with new ARPG Darkhaven
- The first trailer for DC's Lanterns is here and it has a surprising lack of Green Lantern in it
- Overwatch Season 1 is the "beginning of a comeback," Blizzard says as the hero shooter claws back fans: "You dream of these type of things"
- "Let us cook": Crimson Desert devs aren't "hiding anything," will show console versions of the RPG "ahead of launch," says PR lead
- Castlevania: Belmont's Curse "is not a roguelike or roguelite game" despite the developer's Dead Cells heritage, it's bringing us right back to the classics
- Resident Evil Requiem out of bounds sleuths uncover a horrifying truth about Grace Ashcroft: she uses Reddit
- "EA is basically reheating Bethesda's nachos": The Sims 4 Marketplace sparks angry fan reactions and comparisons to paid Fallout and Skyrim mods
- Marathon is asking a lot of my reflexes, so I'm hunting down the best high refresh rate gaming monitors for the new extraction shooter
- Pokemon Pokopia's Animal Crossing comparisons get even stronger as devs reveal "special limited-time in-game events" starting with a Gen 2 picnic collection
- Assassin's Creed Shadows to enter "final phase of support," Unity gets 60fps patch tomorrow, and PvP multiplayer game Invictus is "progressing steadily"
- Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced finally out in the open as Ubisoft acknowledges its worst-kept secret: "Keep your spyglass on the horizon"
- Assassin’s Creed Hexe will be a "darker" installment "set during a pivotal moment in history," but Ubisoft says it's "taking the time to deliver"
- Yoda would have covered up Jedi deaths in The Acolyte, and its showrunner has brought the Clone Wars receipts to prove it
- The Bride's violence was "pulled back" after test screenings, but director Maggie Gyllenhaal stands by what was kept in: "This isn't the Stormtrooper version of killing people"
- Christian Bale says it's a "bold choice" to remake American Psycho: "Whoever wants to give it a shot, give it a pop!"
- Directive 8020 devs Supermassive Games drops a multiplayer tease ahead of its appearance in the Future Games Show Spring Showcase
- PowerA is rolling out a Mario Kart World Switch 2 controller in time for Mario Day, and I wheely like it
- Games like Highguard are just "gambling by investors" who "know ahead of time a flop is likely," says indie legend: "Sucks for the developers who get caught in the churn"
- Sony reportedly ending PC ports of PlayStation games like Ghost of Yotei, valuing console sales over what one ex Sony boss called "printing money" on PC
- D&D finally gives up and agrees to call 2024 rules 5.5e after insisting it wouldn't
- Seth MacFarlane says an entire new season of The Orville has been written, but Ted could be dead
- "Our vision for what creator audio should be" - Elgato launches Wave Next, a new generation of powerful audio hardware with software that's free for everyone
- It's officially your last chance to pre-order Pokemon Pokopia and get your hands on some free Ditto-themed gifts
- You can ride around on Arc Raiders' new Fireflies, but you probably shouldn't: "Straight to the backrooms"
- Pokemon Pokopia features a riff on Minecraft's iconic Redstone system, and fans are already dreaming up the possibilities: "This is like super advanced"
- Penelope Cruz says it was "a pleasure" to "express a lot of rage" in new horror-romance The Bride: "Through a character like that, you can release so many things"
- If you can stomach second-hand gaming handhelds, I'd look at refurbed Asus ROG Ally and Lenovo Legion Go to survive RAMageddon
- If you're gripped with Pokemon Pokopia fever, you need to see these delightfully derpy Ditto toys
- Matthew Lillard has addressed his rather confusing Scream 2 cameo, all but confirming that it's not Stu Macher
- Activision shuts down popular Call of Duty leaker, rubs salt in the wound by saying they weren't always right anyway: "Even when leaks are wrong, they still hurt the people building the game and mess with player expectations"
- Resident Evil Requiem has sold over 5 million copies in less than a week, but is still a few million off of slaying Monster Hunter Wilds as the fastest-selling Capcom game
- Adam Driver accidentally "invented this thing that changed animation forever" while playing Kylo Ren: the Adam Driver bar
- Ryan Gosling's upcoming sci-fi film Project Hail Mary is reportedly Amazon's most expensive movie ever
- The Super Mario Galaxy Movie runtime has been revealed, and it's almost exactly the same length as a world record 120 star Super Mario 64 speedrun
- Pokemon being "a game for children" is "a misunderstanding," Game Freak veteran once said – and it rings more true than ever as the RPG series turns 30
- A Walking Dead revival series that would reunite Rick, Michonne, Daryl, Carol, and more has been in discussion for a "couple years"
- One Piece fans think they've found the real-life location of the One Piece in under 12 hours, despite Oda burying it 600m underwater
- Highguard boasted numbers "similar to what we saw at launch with Apex," says the doomed shooter's lead – but they didn't hold to create "enough revenue to keep anyone employed"
- "Every AAA single player game since Bioshock is basically the same collection of fetch quests," says ex-Square Enix suit, while Roblox games evolve "as fast as Tiktok trends" and create "overnight millionaires"
- March 3
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- "An aggressive copyright troll" spent years abusing DMCAs to turn a bizarre Japanese PC game into lost media, until "they f***ed with" preservation-focused historians with a legal team
- Yellowjackets enters production on its fourth and final season with a cryptic, cannibalistic teaser that hints at long-awaited answers
- Apple TV cancels Emmy-nominated '60s housewife comedy drama starring Kristen Wiig after 2 seasons
- Fallout New Vegas hopes dead again as potential remake studio says loading screen tease was just "a BTS look at our company meeting": "Pardon us as we retreat back into our vault"
- Helldivers 2 CEO seemingly accepts fans' $1,000 challenge to play on the nastiest difficulty, but it might already be backfiring: "Quite a few rupture strain a**holes"
- Scream 7 writer/director is bringing Frankenstein, the Wolf Man, Dracula, and more Universal monsters to Netflix in a show that's described as an "adult Vampire Diaries"
- Nicolas Cage says he wanted to play his 1930s superhero detective in Spider-Noir like a "spider pretending to be a person"
- Bandai Namco teaser gives JRPG fans real hope for a new Tales game as Elden Ring 2 holdouts put their clown makeup on
- Highguard will "permanently shut down" next week after "one final game update," dev confirms: "We have not been able to build a sustainable player base"
- Ex-Diablo 2 lead character artist says "there's no way you could ever" give the iconic ARPG a new act: "Would it be in a location that Diablo 3 or Diablo 4 has already fleshed out?"
- Life is Strange TV show from Prime Video and Margot Robbie has found its Chloe and Max
- Wonder Man episode 1 is now free on YouTube, so you can see what all the fuss is about
- Resident Evil Requiem inadvertently lets you become the evil resident and use an infected enemy's blindness to your advantage: "Its incredible"
- Replacing actors with AI is "dumb as hell," says Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Baldur's Gate 3 star Jennifer English, because "humanness" is what makes these RPGs "so beloved"
- Marathon's seasonal updates will make everyone "start fresh" every season, and Bungie promises there'll be new features, events and gear that are "free for all"
- The Sims 4 Marketplace is coming with paid mods – because if there's one thing fans of EA's life sim want after spending over $1,500 on DLC, it's definitely costly custom content
- When is Zootopia 2 on streaming? Disney Plus release date revealed
- Christian Bale promises Heat 2 will be "something great", as he reveals he's come close to sharing the screen with Leonardo DiCaprio before: "Never ended up working together"
- A new Game of Thrones movie from the writer of the best Star Wars show is on the way
- After 16 years, Red Dead Redemption's John Marston actor completes Rockstar's epic Western, breaks down crying during the end credits: "Oh my goodness"
- Canceled Cyberpunk 2077 DLC might have been better than Phantom Liberty, Cyberpunk 2 creative director says: "We try to never tread the same path twice"
- Frozen star denies reports of $60 million paychecks: "That's somebody making a lot of things up"
- Marathon Server Slam stats are in, and players aren't as impressed by the 9,152,844 PvP deaths as they are by the fact that they extracted 384,866 drinkable cheeseburgers
- After 29 years and over 1100 chapters, One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda has finally written down what the One Piece actually is
- One of our favorite horror board games is getting a legacy version in 2026, and I can't wait
- As Pokopia ties for the series' best game according to Metacritic, fans are left confused by its competition: "…Pokemon Y was the highest-rated Pokemon game?"
- "Seriously mind boggling": Resident Evil 4 remake dumps controversial DRM on Steam after 1 month and a ton of performance issues
- Magic The Gathering director Matt Johnson says MTG is "my Star Wars", even though a 2006 tour loss still scars him: "I'm never going to be a pro Magic player"
- D&D is finally paying off a decade-long storyline with its new "Wizard War" books
- Move over Baldur's Gate, Ravenloft: The Horrors Within is bringing back my favorite D&D setting
- Everything revealed for D&D 2026 GAMA show, from Ravenloft return to wizarding war
- Two years later, Shure is relaunching its XLR-USB converter as a fully fledged digital audio interface, and discontinuing the original
- Another Final Fantasy 14 news blog shuts down as admin cites "weight of responsibility" following accusations of defamatory content towards the MMO's devs
- The Boys star says he "would love to reprise" the role of Judge Dredd, but is "all good" if he's not a part of it: "I just want to see more"
- Bonkers beaver comedy Hoppers earns Pixar's highest Rotten Tomatoes score in almost 10 years
- The Mummy 4 directors say the panned Tomb of the Dragon Emperor threequel isn't canon to them because Rachel Weisz wasn't in it
- After the Scary Movie 6 trailer ruthlessly parodied Scream 6, the iconic slasher franchise hits back
- Arc Raiders patch nerfs Hurricane Caches so you can't just "walk away from every session" with an armful of blueprints, but "you'll be getting better materials in return"
- The Analogue Pocket and its portable peers are all creeping up in price, and I'm worried that tariffs and RAMageddon are double-teaming the retro handheld scene
- Scream 7 director crushes the fan theory that Stu Macher is still alive and will return as the main antagonist in Scream 8: "That's a big stretch"
- Marathon's self-appointed "fontslop merchant" says "don't think for a second we'll remove the sauce" from the new shooter's controversial UI, even if "there's plenty of work" to do
- New Spider-Noir character art gives us our best look yet at the spin-off's rogues' gallery, from an unlikely source
- "I really wanted to bring that to Fallout 3 as much as I could": Fallout 4, Skyrim, and Starfield lead says Deus Ex was a "huge influence" on him and his RPGs at Bethesda
- Christian Bale "cherry-picked" his version of Frankenstein's monster from the bits Mary Shelley and Boris Karloff "got right" for The Bride: "'Oh, apparently he's got a flat head'? That's wrong"
- Passenger horror movie trailer leaks online, and it looks like the scariest movie of 2026
- After Monster Hunter Wilds' performance struggles, Capcom says it'll apply lessons learned from the action RPG to future games as it aims to "further strengthen our PC development framework"
- God of War game creator doesn't hold back, says Prime Video series first look is "terrible", but he has "no doubt it is going to be a good show"
- KPop Demon Hunters producer reveals what relationships they want to explore in a sequel
- Even Nintendo is thirst-posting about Resident Evil's Leon Kennedy on main: "A strong sense of justice, ruggedly handsome, AND absolutely jacked"
- March 2
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- Sonic 4 director announces start of filming with a behind-the-scenes look at Amy Rose's iconic Piko Piko hammer
- Community movie got "very close" to filming, but one star's schedule caused a delay: "We don't want to do an Arrested Development Netflix season situation"
- 15 years later, infamous Konami producer shocked to discover his 3DS Frogger revival is now a collectible in the high-priced retro market: "Every price for everything gets ruined"
- Marvel supported Wonder Man despite bad test screenings, but it "almost didn’t survive" the big MCU Disney Plus strategy shift: "I just held on and hoped and prayed"
- Resident Evil Requiem's ungodly final puzzle has been solved after stumping players for days, and it all came down to a toilet: "Ridiculously convoluted"
- Microsoft tried to ban the word "Microslop" in its Discord amid criticism of its dive into AI, predictably causing the internet to Microslop even harder
- Resident Evil Requiem seemingly confirms Leon Kennedy is married, and everyone wants to know who's the lucky gal or guy: "We all know it's Chris"
- Path of Exile dev sighs, informs the saddest action RPG player that "the last 6 weeks" of their life were wasted and they never had a chance at the sword they're farming
- Marathon is the third-best-selling game on Steam after its big server slam, only trailing Resident Evil Requiem and Valve's eternal Counter-Strike
- Warzone gets back-to-basics battle royale dubbed "Blackout 2" by Call of Duty fans
- God of War show casts four new Norse gods with important connections to Odin and Thor
- Coyote vs. Acme star felt "white hot anger" at the Looney Tunes live-action movie being shelved: "I don't think we needed this crazy journey"
- No Man's Sky player mods in the third-person camera customization fans have wanted for almost 10 years: "Hello Games should implement this, right now"
- Stellar Blade studio will expand its "self-publishing capabilities" – which could include the sequel to the ridiculously popular action game
- A total lunar eclipse will cause a real blood moon tonight, exactly 9 years after Zelda: Breath of the Wild unleashed blood moons on Hyrule – "Better hurry killing all Lynels"
- Scary Movie 6 may skewer Gen Z and play the hits, but it's not nostalgia bait: "This is for the old heads and the new school"
- HBO Max and Paramount Plus could merge into a single streaming platform, but the two services would "operate with independence," Paramount CEO proposes
- Cities: Skylines gets its first proper expansion in 3 years as its disastrous sequel once again settles for smaller DLC packs
- Marathon server slam leaves fans convinced a multi-colored shellfish is Bungie's next big community puzzle, throwing back to some of Destiny 2's best moments
- "I've waited 15 years for this moment": Minecraft modders behind the sandbox game's most popular unofficial dimension unveil its sequel, flying mounts and all
- Fallout: New Vegas remaster rumors get fresh ammo as Iron Galaxy, Fallout 76 support studio and co-creator of Skyrim Switch port, posts a familiar loading screen
- Resident Evil Requiem actor had to film in almost complete darkness because Capcom wanted to "make the situation" as horrifying as the game
- There's still time to grab the limited edition Marathon PS5 headset, but the controller is a prettier sight to behold
- 6 of the best new shows and movies streaming this week on Netflix, Prime Video, Hulu, and more (March 2–March 8)
- Resident Evil Requiem's Leon actor has seen the thirst trap memes and thinks they're "funny as hell," but also completely gets it: "He's a handsome, charming guy"
- Subnautica's rare cozy moments meet my favorite Windows 98 screensaver in this relaxing new life sim, and I just hope my Steam Next Fest demo reef isn't lost to the seas forever
- Pokopia Metacritic score not only makes it 2026's highest-rated game, but the best Pokemon title of all time
- Harrison Ford thanks Star Wars creator George Lucas for giving him "a part in a wildly successful film" during emotional SAG awards speech
- Pico's next VR headset will launch against Valve in 2026, but it doesn't look like the Steam Frame rival I was hoping for
- I'd probably enjoy the Game Boy Jukebox more if Nintendo released a proper retro handheld remake first
- Smart Play might be the most talked-about new Lego sets in March 2026, but I think this Zelda set has them beat
- "Hopefully Blizzard will put a stop to this": WoW Midnight sees MMO history repeat itself as players slaughter legions of frogs for skins
- Scream 7 baits fans into thinking an underrated horror icon was finally getting his due – and I'm not happy about it
- Nintendo Indie World Showcase announced for tomorrow with "15 minutes of news and updates" for upcoming Switch 1 and 2 games
- Starfield reportedly gets its long-rumored PS5 release next month for £45 as Bethesda's divisive RPG waves goodbye to two years of Xbox console exclusivity
- Scary Movie 6 "joke scientist" Marlon Wayans is taking a different approach to the horror spoof's humor compared to the originals: "Less is more"
- Scary Movie 6 trailer takes a stab at modern horror – and none of your favorites are safe
- One Piece season 2 pokes fun at anime fans' biggest season 1 complaint in cheekily meta new clip
- Resident Evil Requiem's final puzzle is so elaborate there's an entire subreddit dedicated to solving it – and the one person who has says "I don't even know how it's supposed to be done"
- Zack Snyder didn’t think Batman v Superman needed Dawn of Justice in the title: "You don't have to tell people who they are"
- Cillian Murphy "categorically" denies rumors he's playing Voldemort in the HBO Harry Potter show: "Can you make that the headline?"
- "We sincerely apologize": Final Fantasy 14 news blog goes down as Square Enix takes action against its admin for allegedly defamatory content against the MMO's devs
- Helldivers 2 fan intent on challenging Arrowhead to beat the game's toughest challenge for $1,000: "Show us how it's done and how well the game's balance is"
- Balatro's legacy has spawned yet another time-devouring roguelike, and I'm starting to think I've irrevocably ruined Steam Next Fest for myself
- Just in time for Resident Evil Requiem, speedrunner sets world-first record by beating 27 games in the series in one long, 55-hour run
- 22 years later, Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen's Switch re-releases patch out a glitch that could make certain legendary 'mons disappear from your game permanently
- The new Lenovo Legion Tab has a hidden spec detail that could change the game
- Scream 7 actor apologizes after sharing post that says "critic hate" and "pathetic leaks" didn't harm the movie's box office
- Scream 7 doesn't actually use the real Stu Macher house, but the crew did burn the set down for real
- James Gunn's R-rated version of the live-action Scooby-Doo was "very funny", says Matthew Lillard – but parents rejected it
- Seth Green says his unseen Star Wars series would need to be "upgraded" for streaming: "I just don't think they're willing to commit the spend"
- The Acolyte showrunner defends one of the most controversial aspects of the scrapped Star Wars show, but jokes "I'll take the L"
- Bungie wants more feedback on Marathon's controversial UI to make sure players can "read what's happening mid-fight," which seems like the bare minimum for an FPS
- After Pokemon Winds and Waves reveal, series boss has a very straightforward plan for future releases: "I believe what we must continue to do is keep making fun games"
- "I lost 5 hours of progress because of this": Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen Switch releases include an extremely easy way to reset your game, which is amazing or terrible news depending on who you ask
- Lenovo just teased a big silly folding handheld concept, and it's far from the Steam Deck rival I keep begging for
- Despite mixed reviews and a poor Rotten Tomatoes score, Scream 7 opens to franchise best $97.2 million worldwide
- God of War's Ryan Hurst tells everyone "not to believe everything they see on the internet" after sub-par Kratos first look
- "Clint this, Sandy that": Stardew Valley fans have bigger things on their mind than the 1.7 marriage candidates, like the goblin villages ConcernedApe "completely scrapped"
- Resident Evil Requiem ties with Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 to score as the best-rated game of all time on Metacritic according to players
- A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms blooper reel proves no better stars could have brought the George R.R. Martin story to life
- Despite its low Rotten Tomatoes score, Scream 7 breaks franchise box office record with a $7.8 million preview-night pull
- March 1
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- PlayStation's allegedly making "a new franchise within the God of War universe," according to former Sony Santa Monica dev
- Pokemon and Balatro-inspired roguelike with an unexpected horror twist doubled its Kickstarter goal in 20 minutes and is now 570% funded
- Dev of acclaimed Persona-like says he "could find you 10 companies" that have pitched Bloodborne games, but it won't happen until FromSoftware thinks it's time
- Pokemon Winds and Waves' best 'mon looks an awful lot like a different Fire-type pomeranian from a rival indie creature collector, and even the devs noticed
- "I don't know what I was thinking": Stardew Valley creator went through hell 6 months before launch, and the game didn't come together until "the last moment"
- Zack Snyder explains why Ben Affleck is the best big-screen Batman we ever had: “Of anybody who’s played Batman, Ben is the best Bruce Wayne”
- Princess Zelda actor thought Twilight Princess' version of Hylian was "so beautiful" so she "started practicing that over coffee" and is now fluent
- Original Scream 7 directors reveal plans they had to “f*** you up” with the sequel they never got to make
- Wonder Man showrunner reveals Hawkeye went through massive changes and was told, "We start shooting in New York in a week and a half, and we want to rewrite the whole thing"
- Matrix 5 gets a brand new update from writer and director Drew Goddard
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