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- September 16
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- Blizzard confirms the Diablo 4 season 10 changes that'll be permanent, and thank Inarius, getting rid of boss invulnerability phases is one of them
- After 5 years of work, Sony's cult classic PS1 JRPG trilogy is now fully playable in English as the roguelike spin-off finally gets its fan translation patch
- Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined takes the original JRPG's bloated story and cuts "subplots that have little or no direct relevance" to the main quest, but also adds "entirely new scenarios"
- "Everything I touch turns to poop": Actor says starring in former GTA lead's faux-open world flop made him think he'd "never work in a game again"
- Fallout co-creator Tim Cain had a "10-year period where I didn't do anything but make games," to the point where he asked a co-worker if Britney Spears was a "new weapon" in their RPG
- Paid DLC for Donkey Kong Banaza Switch 2 expansion is just too small to be "worth $20," players say: "I like my bananas without scum and greed"
- Nintendo's tiniest console ever was a Pokemon handheld the size of a Tamagotchi, and after 24 years it's suddenly a wildly impractical way to play Game Boy games
- The Sims movie starring Margot Robbie will exist "somewhere between both The Lego Movie and Barbie," says producer: "It's going to be unique"
- Borderlands 4 boss Randy Pitchford says "we just don't worry about the hate" online because "that's actually a different form of love" and "if someone's commenting, they're invested, man"
- Best Borderlands 4 Amon build to become a freezing Forgeknight
- Battlefield 6 nearly broke the Xbox Series S, which devs say had "less memory than even our mid-spec PC": "A lot of our levels were crashing on Xbox Series S"
- After 4 quiet years, Ubisoft keeps some hope alive for its Splinter Cell revival as it asks for some parts of the Netflix show to be cut because of "other plans" for the dormant stealth series
- Morrowind lead explains origin behind the third Elder Scrolls RPG's journal and how his initial concepts could've "been the foundation of something cool" – but "never got made and shouldn't have been made"
- Basketball Zero codes (September 2025) for Lucky Spins
- The best new shows and movies streaming this week on Netflix, Disney Plus, Amazon Prime Video, and more
- PSA: Borderlands 4 has a progress-erasing bug with players reporting lost skill points upon crashes and multiplayer disconnections, but Gearbox is looking into it
- Marvel reveals The Fantastic Four: First Steps deleted scenes that you'll soon be able to watch at home, including Thanksgiving and birthday moments
- Fede Alvarez says he never planned to direct Alien: Romulus 2, but he was adamant about writing it: "We want to make sure no one kills them right at the beginning"
- Borderlands 4 does what Destiny couldn't: I'm finally back on the looter shooter train, and it feels like reliving my 60 hours in Borderlands 2
- Arrowhead has fixed the Helldivers 2 bug that had Rupture Warriors destroying host players – now they destroy everyone instead: "You've got to be joking right?"
- Apple CEO says a sequel to the Brad Pitt box office hit F1: The Movie is "definitely" being discussed: "We can't wait to bring it to the surface"
- Team Cherry was "callous" to drop the "GTA 6 of indie" Hollow Knight: Silksong on gaming like a bug-shaped bomb, says Hell is Us director: "When you know you're that big, I think a shadow drop is like, 'Wow'"
- I briefly mistook the new Lego Batman for modded Arkham footage, genuinely bamboozling me while making me more excited for the game than ever
- Jeremy Renner says his Knives Out 3 character "has no idea" who Jeremy Renner is, confusing us even more following Glass Onion's hot sauce gag
- Are there any Roblox Steal a Brainrot codes in September 2025?
- After 14 years and nearly $500,000 raised for charity, one dedicated Minecraft player is finally set to reach the fabled end-of-world Far Lands – a feat that may just be "one of the single greatest achievements" in gaming
- Lock your doors: Final Fantasy 7 Remake is coming to Switch 2 as a monster game-key card that will eat around 90GB of storage
- All Borderlands 4 bank locations so you can offload your guns
- No amount of cuteness can distract me from these Kirby Air Riders amiibo prices
- Super Mario Bros' legendary themes have ensured they're unforgettable after 40 years: "Koji Kondo wrote Mario music with such light-hearted joy"
- Hollow Knight: Silksong's second patch is live on Steam's public-beta branch with bug fixes and more, and Team Cherry says we can "expect a few more additions and tweaks before full release"
- Seven years on from Avengers: Infinity War, and Marvel fans are still keen for a movie or TV show set during the Blip: "It's weird they barely acknowledge it"
- "You have to design with the time you have": Assassin's Creed Shadows Claws of Awaji had to be a tighter, more focused expansion than anything its devs had made before
- Beating kung fu action RPG Phantom Blade Zero is "pretty achievable," says combat director, but only if you're willing to do so "in a mediocre, not-as-beautiful way"
- Star Trek: Strange New Worlds showrunner says season 4 is "the best work we've done" and gets candid on why it'll be better than season 3: "We just had more time"
- Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director feels "bad" for Borderlands 4 devs "who are just trying really hard to make players happy" as Randy Pitchford fights back against performance criticism
- All Borderlands 4 elemental damage types and status effects explained
- Marvel star Jennifer Garner suits up as Elektra in new behind-the-scenes snap, and fans think she's returning for Avengers: Doomsday
- Borderlands 4 cheats and how to use them
- Five Nights at Freddy's 2 star Matthew Lillard teases his Scream co-star Skeet Ulrich could return again "if the movie's successful"
- Even HBO's boss is "surprised" by The Penguin star Colin Farrell's snub at the Emmys
- Palworld 1.0 release scheduled for "next year" with "a truly massive amount of content planned" despite Nintendo's ongoing lawsuit – and Pocketpair is "also working on some other things"
- In a strange turn of events, Jason Voorhees will appear in The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon season 3... kind of
- Pokemon's cute, cozy life sim spin-off may be hiding some deeply tragic lore as fans question the backstory of our Ditto protagonist: "What happened to their trainer?"
- Street Fighter movie's Balrog gets an exciting first look, as 50 Cent unveils his game-perfect haircut in new training video
- The Batman 2 features things that have "never been done before in this way" for Batman or Bruce Wayne
- Silksong Bellhart walkthrough and map location
- Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes
- Demon Slayer Infinity Castle has a character detail hiding in plain sight that makes its villain's backstory even more tragic
- 2026 is the year of Game of Thrones spin-offs at HBO, with A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms premiering in January, and House of the Dragon season 3 arriving shortly after
- Can you change FOV in Borderlands 4?
- The Batman director Matt Reeves says making the DC sequel is "a journey that is taking longer than I would have wanted"
- September's Nintendo Direct told us a lot about the Switch 2's future, and I fear 2026 is the year I crack and buy another handheld
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 actors have also been in other hits like Baldur's Gate 3 and Final Fantasy 16, but assure "we're going to be a part of some absolute stinkers, too"
- September 15
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- Rejected Nintendo applicant says the company doesn't need to filter out candidates by education because the very first test is so brutal almost no one gets through
- Battlefield 6 devs abandoned the chaos of Battlefield 4's destruction mechanic because they thought "the game wouldn't be fun" if everything in it was dust: "We want it to serve a gameplay purpose"
- Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford claims "less than one percent of one percent" of Borderlands 4 PC players reported "valid performance issues" via customer support, says "I have personally helped users go from 30FPS to 90FPS+"
- There is no Chinese GTA, veteran dev says, but Black Myth: Wukong was the starting shot for a stampede of AAA games made in China: "We have to make the games ever better"
- Team Cherry accidentally left a mouse cursor on-screen in a Silksong cutscene, earning its very own Game of Thrones coffee cup moment
- "Nowadays there are too many Souls games," says Phantom Blade Zero director, and you probably won't know the difference in this "kung fu action game" until you play it
- The Mario Kart World shade couldn't be any more obvious as Sega tells you to "leave the open road behind" and play Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds in a throwback to the '90s console wars
- My favorite moment in Hollow Knight: Silksong recreates a Bloodborne classic, and I know it's not guaranteed because none of my friends have seen it
- Assassin's Creed Shadows lead admits Valhalla was a "monster game" even at the start, and became unwieldy with all the DLC piled on: "It was getting more messy"
- Final Fantasy legend Nobuo Uematsu says video game music is getting more boring, and Baldur's Gate 3 publishing lead agrees: "Nothing is made for anyone in particular anymore. (Except shareholders)"
- Nintendo might be charging $40 for its second Super Mario Galaxy remaster on Switch, but at least this time it's adding new textures and fixing the AI-upscaled cutscenes
- Devil May Cry creator Hideki Kamiya says Microsoft-canceled action RPG Scalebound would have gone differently under a Japanese publisher: "They understand the struggle of trying to give birth to something new"
- GTA 6 dubbed "the largest game launch in history" by Rockstar in job listing, surprising absolutely nobody who has been waiting 12 years for the new Grand Theft Auto to release
- Ultramarines fans, you might finally get a 10th edition supplement for the Warhammer 40K faction
- Silksong Savage Beastfly boss fight weaknesses, guide and strategy
- Best Borderlands 4 Harlowe build and strongest Gravitar abilities
- Gen V season 2 review: "As strong as the first season, if not stronger"
- Stop Killing Games' EU hearing is seemingly "all but guaranteed" as verification shows "around 97% of signatures being valid": "It looks like my worrying in July was for nothing"
- "Seth's soul lives on in a video game": A Silksong boss kicking butts in the endgame was designed by a young Hollow Knight fan 6 years ago before he died of cancer
- Death Stranding gets its own Twitch Plays Pokemon moment as streamer turns the whole game into cargo that chat has to keep balanced: "Eyes forward, Sam"
- Netflix unveils weird and twisted full trailer for upcoming serial killer series, full of body parts, murder, and a warped mother and son relationship
- The Bear broke an Emmys record in 2024, but went home empty handed this year
- Battlefield 6 uses the same destruction systems for both Multiplayer and Battle Royale mode, but you'll have to think wisely before smashing: "Just destroying everything isn't a good idea"
- How to respec in Borderlands 4 and reset your skill points
- I must pre-order the real-life Rosalina's Storybook from Super Mario Galaxy and inflict it on my toddler
- X-Men star James Marsden says you can "feel" that Avengers: Doomsday is "something special": "The world is ready for this movie and these worlds to collide"
- New Assassin's Creed Shadows update lets you dress up as series icon Ezio – if you can stomach grinding "for weeks" to complete his full set, that is, but "at least it's free"
- Super Mario Galaxy Switch pre-orders have landed, and I've got all the US and UK links you need
- This $28 wired headset is the new contender for my favorite Switch 2 budget pair of cups
- Fate/strange Fake anime finally gets a release date – almost 300 days after its world premiere
- Silksong Bilewater map location
- Gen V season 2 release schedule: when is episode 1 out?
- Lego Voyagers review: "A carefully crafted, playful, and earnest adventure"
- Super Mario Bros' legendary jump helped define 40 years of platforming, Donkey Kong Country programmer says: "You had more control... There was risk/reward"
- 8Bitdo's N64 controller keeps getting better, and I just found one for a damn good price
- Mario Tennis Fever pre-orders are live and some retailers already look better than others
- A new Texas Chainsaw Massacre TV show may be in the works from A24 and The Long Walk screenwriter
- Toby Fox doesn't think Deltarune Chapter 5 "will be released in the first half of 2026" but there's some good news: "we don't have any external factors surrounding the release date this time. We'll release it when it's done"
- How to reroll in Destiny Rising
- As Borderlands 4 players dub Vex "the strongest vault hunter in the entire series," Gearbox responds to worries regarding potential nerfs: "Chill guys, we're not going to knee-jerk react to anything"
- The Penguin standout Cristin Milioti won't return as Sofia Falcone in The Batman 2, director Matt Reeves confirms
- Best Borderlands 4 Vex build and Siren powers
- Pokemon Legends Z-A locks the Mega Evolutions for the Kalos starters to ranked seasons, making them impossible to get without paying for Nintendo Switch Online
- The Mandalorian & Grogu seemingly has a new synopsis that describes Baby Yoda as "the Force's heir in the galaxy"
- Ice Cube says he shot Amazon's infamous War of the Worlds movie completely alone during the pandemic: "the director wasn’t in there, none of the actors was in there"
- One Marvel actor "had to look up what MCU meant" after joining the cast of Vision Quest: "Now I am fully immersed, I've watched all the movies"
- Superman actor reveals a neat location connection to Captain America: The Winter Soldier that bridges the gap between the MCU and the DCU
- The Witcher season 4 first teaser gets a divisive reaction from fans as Liam Hemsworth replaces Henry Cavill as Geralt of Rivia: "It's hard to imagine anyone else with those swords"
- Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford says Borderlands 4 performance isn't bad, your expectations are just too high: "If you’re not 4k stubborn and just want to have a great, fun time with higher perf, please consider running at 1440p resolution"
- Todd Howard told Bethesda designers that "humor has no place in games," a rule they didn't follow in RPGs like Elder Scrolls: Oblivion and Morrowind: "If Todd doesn't catch it..."
- The Batman director Matt Reeves says The Penguin season 2 is "in discussions," even though it was meant to be a limited series
- Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle English dub voice actor Channing Tatum says his daughter has been his "anime inspiration from the start"
- James Gunn has a "hard time believing" Clayface's The Batman tease is part of the DCU movie but admits "I don't have time to ok every piece of set dressing"
- Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle has broken even more box office records than was originally projected and it might surpass Mugen Train as the highest-grossing anime movie ever
- September 14
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- "I felt like playing 30 hours of story mode was actually the tutorial": Too many RPGs and JRPGs end after their combat really gets good, Vampire Survivors creator says, which is where the roguelike formula is so great
- "They did not want to allow this to happen": Battlefield 6 lead says the controversial Battlefield 2042, which once had just 21% positive Steam reviews, even disappointed its devs
- Battlefield 6 goes back to 64 players per match because 2042's 128-person matches "just didn't catch on," design director admits: "Look, we try stuff. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't"
- Free-to-play League of Legends fighting game 2XKO "went back into R&D mode" after the initial reveal, producer says, which was both "awkward" and "the right call"
- The "elegant design" of Super Mario Bros levels has inspired devs for over 40 years, but it was Super Mario 64's 3D leap that was a "watershed moment"
- Cillian Murphy addresses Voldemort rumors for Harry Potter TV series
- DC fans are debating whether one iconic aspect of Batman's suit works in live-action
- Star Wars fans are discussing what makes Palpatine such a good villain: "He's just evil. And it is damn entertaining"
- The Witcher returns as Liam Hemsworth in new teaser for season 4
- September 13
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- "I see a lot of publishers I don't like": Vampire Survivors creator made his own publisher to "share the luck" and says too many companies "try to exploit the platforms just to make money"
- Baldur's Gate 3 Shadowheart actor says "I really like doing morally questionable things in video games" as a performer, but Dark Urge is too challenging as a player: "I'm trying so hard to be evil"
- Battlefield 6 devs say don't get too comfortable with classes, even if you think you know everything about Assault and Support: "The class system has already moved beyond what's in open beta"
- Battlefield Labs helped developers keep "an open mind" while creating Battlefield 6 after 2042's colossal failure, but "you can't just let players design for you"
- I played Deadpool VR and its creative combat is excellent but I'm not sure it's good enough to make me tolerate the Merc with the Mouth's constant talking
- 40 years later, Mario is still the ultimate gaming mascot: "He's got that Mickey Mouse effect"
- Mark Hamill admits he thought Luke Skywalker returning in The Force Awakens "would be a mistake" at first
- How well do you know the Super Mario series?
- Eric Kripke teases a very different story with The Boys: Mexico: "It’s our world but a totally different tone"
- James Gunn confirms he has plans for Peacemaker beyond season 2
- Helsmiths of Hashut review: Fear this new Warhammer Age of Sigmar army, because it's gonna kick ass
- Neil Druckmann says his hope for The Last of Us season 3 is "to make sure it's as deeply faithful as season 1"
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake director takes a hammer to difficulty discourse as the JRPG reveals ultimate god mode, says he's played games where he "gave up because of the time it takes to level up characters or traverse the game"
- September 12
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- BioWare realized late in Anthem's development that "this game was coming in on fire" after EA told the devs "we were targeting a game in the 70s" on Metacritic
- Activision doubles down on Call of Duty skins problem, makes Black Ops 7 skins less goofy "after receiving community feedback specifically related to the Black Ops 7 Vault Edition"
- Gearbox and Randy Pitchford aim a fire hose at the Borderlands 4 PC port, share "optimization guide" and a tip to "boost your performance" which is, big surprise, enabling DLSS performance with frame gen
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake gets 2026 release date on Switch 2 and Xbox with Rebirth and Part 3 to follow
- Almost 90 years after Superman was first called the Man of Tomorrow, James Gunn is reviving the name for his big sequel
- For 33 years, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past fans have chased a mystery man named in the SNES classic – turns out he's some guy with "very little interest or excitement about having his name in a video game"
- Dying Light: The Beast is launching 1 day early because Techland is super jazzed about hitting 1 million pre-orders: "We pushed ourselves to make the impossible possible"
- Metroid Prime 4 is starting to look like an open-world game, and that release date trailer is building as much concern as excitement: "Samus bike will either be incredible or the worst decision they've ever made. No in between"
- The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman is taking over Transformers with plans to "methodically" expand the Energon Universe, but don't worry about buying "567 monthly titles" to keep up: "We're not looking to blow up anyone's budget"
- How to beat the Silksong Widow boss fight
- After a 12-year wait, Nintendo's weird life sim sequel Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream just got a spring 2026 release window with a new trailer showing off deeper Mii customization and more
- When is Dying Light: The Beast out? Release date and times updated
- Superman fans are discussing who should play Brainiac in James Gunn's DCU, and they're looking at actors who embody the character's "cold calculating voice" and "alien intelligence"
- Clayface Easter egg could be yet another hint at Robert Pattinson in the DCU, and fans are going wild
- Pokemon Pokopia: everything we know about the Pokemon game that looks a lot like Animal Crossing
- Nintendo announces Pokemon Legends Z-A DLC before the game's even out: Mega Dimension expansion adds "spatial distortions" and makes Raichu the third Pokemon to ever get two Mega Evolutions
- I tried a foldable Bluetooth keyboard for more desk space, but its range and flimsy build outweighed its practicality
- Dark Souls gets a new comic that expands the mythos of the game with a new quest to revive a dead saint with magical powers: "We're going to give everyone all the thrills, chills and YOU DIED moments they'd expect from a Dark Souls story"
- Balatro creator says "I'm slow" and "I am sorry" and update 1.1 is not coming this year for good reason: "The prospect of rushing the work and going back into crunch mode to get it out this year just felt terrible"
- Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave – Everything we know about the strategy game's Switch 2 debut
- Unprecedented Resident Evil Requiem Switch 2 trailer shows spooky mansions and rotten stalkers while Nintendo reveals Gold Edition RE7 and RE8, and I've never been happier to be shocked
- Downton Abbey helped me through the toughest times, but The Grand Finale feels like the perfect time to wrap things up
- This limited-time Newegg PS Store gift card deal has arrived just in time for Borderlands 4
- Jackie Chan meets his match in the trailer for a new action thriller that has been leading the Chinese box office for three weeks
- Where to continue reading in the manga after Demon Slayer Infinity Castle – confirmed chapter numbers and where to read the manga
- After 105 runs in Hades 2, I suddenly unlocked three huge side stories I thought were bugged and I guess I'll be here 'til launch
- Where to pre-order the Virtual Boy for Nintendo Switch 2: retailers I'd hit for the cursed retro console remake
- These new Super Mario Galaxy amiibo are out of this world, and pre-orders are live
- The Super Mario Galaxy movie title was actually leaked months ago – thanks to a Yoshi bottle of Old Spice
- Nintendo reveals replica Talking Flower from Super Mario Wonder that chats to you, just like in the game
- Silksong tips and tricks for beginners to help you get started
- Want the best laptop screen I've played on yet? The Razer Blade 16 is up to $600 off right now
- 2 years after Engage, Nintendo graces us with brand-new Fire Emblem game Fortune's Weave – and the tactical RPG coming in 2026 looks like a direct sequel to Three Houses
- Super Mario Bros. Wonder's Switch 2 edition is coming next Spring, alongside a multiplayer expansion with tons of co-op games to play
- Mr and Mrs Smith season 2 reportedly delayed indefinitely due to cast issues
- Super Mario Galaxy Movie release date, cast, plot, and everything else you need to know about The Super Mario Bros. sequel
- Nintendo finally wises up to Palworld, announces Pokemon crafting and building game Pokopia – starring a Ditto that thinks it's a real human
- Square Enix reveals another classic JRPG getting a remake: Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined announced, coming February 2026 to consoles and PC
- Donkey Kong Bananza is getting DLC that lets you explore DK Island, complete with a new roguelike mode that's available today
- Stardew Valley is getting a major upgrade on Switch 2 with mouse controls, as well as 4-player co-op with just 1 copy of the farming sim thanks to GameShare
- Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment gets November 2025 release date, so you'll soon get to experience its ridiculously cool split-screen co-op
- Super Mario Galaxy movie "aspires to earn its place" in Mario's history, according to Illumination head, and "hold surprises for fans" of every game
- After 30 years, Nintendo's celebrating its most famous failure with zero irony as Virtual Boy comes to Switch complete with a full console replica
- Metroid Prime 4 is finally ready: Nintendo confirms December release date on Switch 2
- Hades 2 finally leaves early access later this month with a timed exclusive console release on Switch 2 and OG Switch
- It isn't a sequel to the best Mario game, but Nintendo announced Yoshi and the Mysterious Book for Switch 2 and it looks pretty good
- John Boyega wants to appear in the sequel to Star Wars parody Spaceballs: "Let me make Spaceballs legit"
- Super Mario Galaxy movie officially announced with the first teaser for the intergalactic sequel
- Mario Tennis Fever brings Nintendo's sports series back with some Super Mario Bros Wonder flavor and a story mode worthy of Dragon Ball spin-off
- Silksong The Slab walkthrough and Apostate Key location
- Nintendo confirms Super Mario Galaxy 2 is finally coming to Nintendo Switch next month with the original game returning from its 3D All-Stars purgatory
- The perfect video game still hasn't reached its final form, and Drop Duchy shows that "Tetris as a Civilization roguelike" is one heck of a twist
- This new PS5 headset is only $60, but it sounds as premium as it gets
- No Man's Sky's latest update "stretched our engine limits" on the 9-year-old game, but Hello Games dev says it's "satisfying to see the fruits of that labour"
- The 32 greatest movies about food that will make you hungry
- Bloober Team just teased its unannounced Switch-only horror game for maybe the first time since 2024, and my dream of seeing Nintendo get NSFW has been reignited
- Oblivion Remastered gets its physical release soon, but it seems Bethesda's revamped RPG might come as just a "code in a box" after all – and fans aren't pleased: "You will own nothing and be happy"
- Battlefield 6's anti-tank and anti-air damage has been "tuned" since open beta, lead producer confirms, so your helicopters won't be so easily destroyed by Engineers going forward
- Borderlands 4 "may be in a whole new level here," Randy Pitchford declares as the action RPG sets a series Steam concurrent player record within 24 hours of launch despite 'Mixed' reviews
- Fans may have to wait even longer to see Henry Cavill's Highlander remake, as an injury pushes back the film's schedule
- The Office star Rainn Wilson says NBC would "probably have another billion dollars in the bank" if they'd made the Dwight Schrute spin-off, but admits it probably wouldn't have been as good
- "The world's first affordable FPGA gaming console" - I'm mesmerised by this new Superstation One PS1 system snapshot
- Mark Hamill says Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni are "speaking the same language that George [Lucas] did," in a way he "questioned in the sequels"
- The Long Walk ending explained: Who dies? Who wins the contest?
- All Borderlands 4 Shift Codes and how to redeem them for Golden Keys (September 2025)
- James Gunn had to mute himself while directing Eagly's voice actor for Peacemaker season 2 because he "cannot stop laughing" at his "ridiculous" performance: "You never think that's a human being"
- Borderlands 4 narrative lead is "ridiculously proud" of the action RPG's story team, celebrating a whole "lot of f***ing people" who helped create a mercifully less stupid plot
- Bruised Hollow Knight: Silksong fans discover Team Cherry already explained why the Metroidvania is so hard years ago – and it's all because of Hornet's healing
- Everything announced at the Nintendo Direct September 2025
- 5 years after Animal Crossing: New Horizons, fans of the cozy sim want more – so naturally they're using a literal "summoning circle" to make it happen at today's Nintendo Direct
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Steel Ball Run is officially coming to Netflix, despite viewers' past issues with the streamer
- Mark Hamill says the "major change" in The Long Walk made him "nervous," but Stephen King loved it: "I thought, oh good, I've done my job correctly"
- Where to buy Helsmiths of Hashut, the new Warhammer Age of Sigmar army
- Mark Hamill reveals why he returned as a de-aged Luke Skywalker in The Mandalorian: "Luke had a beginning and an end. There was no middle"
- Borderlands 4 devs assure Steam users that "Take-Two does not use spyware in its games" as Gearbox tries to avoid another review bombing over the parent company's unpopular new user agreement
- Ahead of the Nintendo Direct, The Super Mario Bros. Movie sequel title might have leaked
- First full look at Doctor Doom's costume for Avengers: Doomsday may have just been revealed in unlikely fashion – at a Disney light show
- Demon Slayer Infinity Castle 2: release date speculation, story, and everything else we know about the sequel
- Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle continues an unfortunate trend for the anime series, and lets down one of its most important characters
- Demon Slayer Infinity Castle ending explained: who died, will there be a sequel, and what's next for Tanjiro?
- Does Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle have a post-credits scene?
- Who is Kokushibo in Demon Slayer Infinity Castle? The Upper Moon 1 and Muzan's right-hand man explained
- The Long Walk screenwriter says that major ending change was made "for fans of Stephen King" and to honor the horror author's work: "When we heard back that he liked the idea, it was off to the races"
- September 11
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- Slay the Spire 2's early access launch is delayed to March 2026, and the devs insist it has nothing to do with that other indie juggernaut that just came out: "On the bright side, everyone can keep busy playing Silksong during the wait"
- Sony's Sucker Punch made "one joke about a Yotei six pack" and now Ghost of Yotei has a partnership with one of Japan's biggest beer brands
- Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says the one thing he'd like to see from the series moving forward is an "actual good faction": "Fallout trains you that everything's gray"
- The Last of Us creator Neil Druckmann says he left season 3 of the HBO show because it didn’t "serve all" his responsibilities: "That was a good time to reassess"
- Former BioWare exec says Anthem's storytelling failed because it was "treating everyone as if they were the same protagonist," but Borderland succeeds because "the storytelling spreads" across all players when they split up
- Borderlands 4 Steam reviews start at 41% positive as early players report performance issues and crashes: “Randy I sold my car for this”
- Ubisoft CEO says AI will make open-world games "your world" with fewer "pre-scripted things," and screw it, maybe for Assassin's Creed an AI Socrates that will definitely give you a historically accurate philosophy lesson maybe
- Silksong is huge, but it's way huger on PC: Steam was Team Cherry's biggest US platform, analyst says, and the game didn't even break top 50 on PlayStation
- Neil Druckmann says Naughty Dog is "firing on all cylinders" with new project Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet and the reveal trailer "doesn't even scratch the surface of what this game actually is"
- "When I explained to her that everyone at Zeke was a real player who came to pay their respects, she burst out in tears": Parents of late baby son overwhelmed by huge in-game MMO tribute
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (September 12 - 14)
- Valve billionaire Gabe Newell says "people talk s*** at me in chat, and about once a week people say, hey noob, uninstall the game" but "that's really about their enthusiasm" so he still plays Dota 2 "every day"
- Ubisoft says it has creative control over the Assassin's Creed Mirage DLC, which is set in Saudi Arabia, was announced in Saudi Arabia, and which even employees fear might be funded by Saudi Arabia
- After 43 years, one of the world's greatest horror movies lives on in so many games – from Among Us to Cronos: The New Dawn
- Borderlands 4 isn't even out yet and fans are already speculating about Borderlands 5, but Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford says "We don't show how the sausage is made!"
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 congratulates Team Cherry on launching Hollow Knight: Silksong, which coincidentally might include a nod to the French JRPG and GOTY rival
- Fallout co-creator Tim Cain acknowledges Bethesda made the franchise bigger, but he would have done things differently: "Did they expand it the way I would have? No, not at all, that's OK"
- How to join the Monopoly Go Tycoon Club for extra benefits
- There's now a real version of the Witcher Gwent card game, and it's just as engrossing as the original
- Palworld developer's publishing arm signs a new horror game that doesn't sound creepy at all – a retro-style fishing adventure which definitely has "absolutely no eerie mysteries" whatsoever
- Borderlands 4 seemingly throws shade at former owner Embracer with an AI toilet and rundown town ruled by a king in a hot tub
- The Clayface movie just can't get enough of Batman-related Easter eggs, as a new on-set photo reveals another nod to the Dark Knight
- Even Pokemon's former chief legal officer thinks Nintendo's controversial new patent is unenforceable: "I wish Nintendo and Pokemon good luck"
- Dune: Awakening devs apologize for "created expectations" surrounding new Lost Harvest DLC after Chapter 2 update, promise "to rectify" things with more content this fall
- Where to pre-order the Astro Bot Joyful DualSense controller
- This stunning Marvel Rivals art book has me hyped and ready for a weekend full of season four
- This Disney Halloween decoration makes my desk so much cozier, and I'm obsessed with it
- Get the perfect gaming chair at Curry's with the best selling ADX range
- Can you guess the iconic game from just one screenshot?
- Lara Croft's French actor pursues legal action against developer Aspyr over alleged AI replications of her work in Tomb Raider 4-6 Remastered
- New Pokemon Legends Z-A Mega Evolution Malamar will call you dumb and hypnotize you "if it disagrees with an order," as if having the weirdest evolution method wasn't enough
- How to farm Silksong Rosaries and the best farming locations
- Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle Rotten Tomatoes score is near-perfect, and it's currently one of the best-reviewed anime movies of all time
- When is The Long Walk on streaming?
- The Rings of Power season 3 drops new sneak peek at a very important sword in Lord of the Rings history
- I've played 100s of hours of Soulslikes, and I think Hollow Knight Silksong is harder than Elden Ring – but what makes games difficult anyway?
- Steven Spielberg says he thought his "career was virtually over" during the making of Jaws: "Everybody was saying to me, 'You are never going to get hired again'"
- This Borderlands 4 Xbox controller costs more than the game, but it's actually pretty good value
- The Conjuring: Last Rites prologue was originally "kind of a joke" scene involving the Warrens, a concerned mother, and a misplaced D&D book, says director
- CDPR finally gives Cyberpunk 2077 players the option to remove its weirdest graphical feature years after modders already responded to fan requests
- Former Nintendo marketing leads explain the company is "very good" at curbing leaks – unless they're from third-party games, "then it becomes much harder for Nintendo to control"
- Borderlands 4 Metacritic score ties it as the second-highest rated entry in the looter shooter's mainline series, only losing out to Borderlands 2
- Sigourney Weaver says her Star Wars movie The Mandalorian & Grogu is "a different world" to Andor
- Borderlands 4 review: "Undeniably an excellent looter shooter, but one that requires a bit of tunnel vision to fully enjoy"
- 8 Borderlands 4 tips to help you conquer Kairos
- Forget Nosferatu, film fans are discussing which mythical creature should get the horror movie treatment next
- Stop what you're doing Vocaloid fans, this Hatsune Miku headset just got its first discount
- Silksong Last Judge boss guide, strategy and weaknesses
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- Wallace and Gromit creator teases Feathers McGraw prequel: "Watch this space"
- Get ready for the Borderlands 4 release – live build-up, reactions, and launch info as we count down to Gearbox's open-world looter shooter
- Assassin's Creed Shadows' DLC wraps up 2 storylines left open in the base RPG, but devs aren't closing the door completely: "You can always reopen things"
- Battlefield 6 community lead reminds everyone "NDA applies" as the long-rumored battle royale mode heads to Labs, trying to get ahead of the leaks I'm sure are already brewing
- This behind-the-scenes Demon Slayer video might not answer the eternal debate of subbed vs. dubbed anime, but it will make you appreciate the English voice talents even more
- Deadpool and Wolverine star Channing Tatum says turning down Guillermo Del Toro's Beauty and the Beast was "one of the biggest mistakes of my career"
- The Borderlands 4 whack-a-mole begins as Gearbox takes down streams ahead of release, while onlookers eyeball performance
- I'm thrilled to report the Vectrex Mini is coming to Kickstarter this November, and the price isn't horrendous
- James Gunn says Milly Alcock as Supergirl "might be the best bit of casting I've done in my entire life"
- Star Wars voice actor says his fan favorite Clone Wars character is "not done yet," but won't reveal when he'll be back: "You're going to have to stay tuned"
- Witch Hat Atelier producer reveals the fantasy anime has been in the works for 6 years with the goal to make "something profound like Lord of the Rings"
- Severance and Oppenheimer stars are rattled by a shocking discovery in the chilling first trailer for new true crime series
- Demon Slayer Infinity Castle's early box office outlook says it's going to topple Pokemon and break a 26-year-old anime record
- Palworld publishing director teases something "you might just like" is coming soon, but for now "Palworld posting" is on pause until they beat Silksong
- Baldur's Gate 3 publishing lead says patents like the controversial ones Nintendo has secured amid its Palworld lawsuit "are too often used in bad faith"
- September 10
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- EA finally unveils Battlefield 6's battle royale mode: testing begins this week, the shrinking ring insta-kills you, and "destruction will be everywhere"
- James Gunn says John Cena was not his first pick for Peacemaker, but he loves the series "more than anything I've ever done" and has more plans for the actor after season 2
- Daily Silksong News is dead, long live Daily Silksong DLC News: "This individual is quite familiar, don't you think?"
- Dead Space creator Glen Schofield "would love to make an Alien game," but he has to completely "own the creative" side of it
- "Bankrupt EA" was on the list of fears at BioWare as it weighed up Mass Effect servers, says former exec: "There's a point at which you are optimizing for an unlikely or virtually unfathomable situation”
- Team Cherry decided an early Silksong boss wants a nerf, so of course players are debating if it actually needs one while also claiming their 'I beat it pre-nerf' trophies
- The Long Walk screenwriter says he had to "go through the motions" to adapt the upcoming dystopian horror thriller: "We had to ask Stephen King if he was OK with it, and thank God he was"
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 TTK is similar to Black Ops 6 to stop it "feeling overly spongy," devs "hope to" have Cold War-style health bars ready for the beta
- New Assassin's Creed Shadows update lets you skip time, level up to 100, and dress up as Ezio, which is more than enough for me to reinstall this game before its Claws of Awaji DLC
- Anime is more mainstream than ever, and Demon Slayer stands out as the franchise to beat
- DC boss James Gunn says Superman sequel Man of Tomorrow will begin filming soon: "Lex Luthor and Superman have to work together against a much bigger threat"
- Assassin's Creed Shadows' expansion has a Metal Gear Solid-inspired boss fight that officially made me the best assassin in Awaji
- Hundreds of MMO players show up to support a father mourning his infant son, who shares a name with an NPC in Old School RuneScape: "We have such an incredible community with the biggest hearts"
- "I never stop thinking about adventure games," Monkey Island legend Ron Gilbert says, but as his roguelike nears release he doesn't want to make another point-and-click simply "for nostalgic reasons"
- Former BioWare producer says a lot of Anthem's problems "come from a misunderstanding about multiplayer games," which the Mass Effect leadership team weren't equipped to deal with
- "Less poo, more Shakespeare": Baldur's Gate 3 boss Swen Vincke had to ask the RPG's writing team for more variety over Vicious Mockery's many silly insults
- After 14 years of requests, legendary roguelike The Binding of Isaac finally adds item descriptions in new update: "You can finally read stuff while playing a video game, like some kinda nerd"
- Hannibal creator wants to bring back the cult series for a Silence of the Lambs sequel season – and cast Zendaya as Clarice Starling
- You can adjust this controller's thumbstick height by twisting them, and that might be the coolest feature of any gamepad in 2025
- I chose this D&D board game to kick off spooky season, and it got me in the Halloween mood
- How to connect your retro console to a modern TV or monitor
- Elden Ring Nightreign's Deep of Night mode is out today, and it's "high-difficulty" even by FromSoftware standards: new red-tier gear, 3 more relic slots, and uber-buffed enemies
- Claws of Awaji is an ambitious expansion that hides a little too much of its shine behind Assassin's Creed Shadows' familiarity
- BioWare veteran says "flying is Anthem's best feature" but also its "worst feature" because it broke the game, and reckons Monster Hunter is a great example of how to add "really crazy things" without the broken part
- Stranger Things and Rebel Moon stars join new psychological thriller movie from the director of cult horror hit Session 9
- Less than a day after the Dune: Awakening Chapter 2 launch, Funcom rolls out a quick hotfix addressing "the mother of all bugs" that saw Deep Desert loot respawning "every 0.5 seconds"
- New Daredevil: Born Again helmet replica looks like it was stolen from the set of the show
- Hollow Knight: Silksong will kick your teeth in, but one adorable singing bug makes up for it: "Sherma swimming and singing in the hot springs gives me the energy to get through the day"
- The iPhone 17 makes one screen change that could be big news for gamers
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's Legacy of the Forge DLC adds a new secret ending that fixes an infamous, immersion-breaking moment from the open-world RPG's main quest
- Olaf actor Josh Gad has had a "preview" of Frozen 3, but he hasn't heard any songs yet: "It's pretty extraordinary what they're doing"
- Netflix's BioShock movie is "definitely" based on the first game says producer – and the script is still being worked on
- Anime Vanguards codes (September 2025) for rerolls and more
- Silksong Blasted Steps walkthrough and map location
- Andor creator Tony Gilroy approves of a spin-off idea that would involve Dedra Meero in a "Hannibal Lecter-esque role"
- Elden Ring Nightreign just got its biggest patch ever, and it's probably the most generous batch of buffs FromSoftware has ever given – even if the community's favorite OP legendaries got wrecked
- Explore the territory of Predator: Badlands with the latest issue of SFX
- Silksong walkthrough for the best start and where you should go first
- The Naya Create is the most cursed keyboard I've tried so far, but persistence could be key
- GameStop just dropped some big amiibo deals, and my savings are in danger
- Nintendo finally confirms the first proper Nintendo Direct of the Switch 2 era is coming this Friday
- Hollow Knight: Silksong borrows The Last of Us and Death Stranding's cruelest trick by making safe zones unsafe, and it's breaking fans more than any boss could: "This is the most anger I have ever felt for any game ever"
- Valve just gave Steam a much-needed glow-up, with a client update finally adding users' long-requested features like UI scaling and more: "Thank you, Lord Gaben"
- After Last Rites lands the biggest horror opening in movie history, The Conjuring TV show at HBO Max adds Jessica Jones writer as showrunner
- Kingdom Come Deliverance 2's Legacy of the Forge patch notes reveal Henry can cook eggs again and "fewer drunken NPCs now wander Kuttenburg," but fans find the best changes have gone unannounced
- Ben Affleck and Matt Damon reunite in tense first trailer for Netflix thriller The Rip
- GTA Online has resisted years of cringe celebrity cameos in live service games and emerged looking uniquely classy
- I'm celebrating 30 years of PlayStation by giving the OG retro console an upscaling birthday treat
- Until Dawn director and The Conjuring: Last Rites writers teaming up for "reimagining" of 1979 classic The Amityville Horror
- Andor showrunner Tony Gilroy says he "loved" The Mandalorian, but stopped watching because he "didn’t find it helpful to know what happened after" his Star Wars show
- Pulp Fiction star John Travolta joins upcoming horror movie following a killer AI chauffeur bot
- Wazzup? Marlon Wayans reveals the "great horror films" that could be spoofed in Scary Movie 6: "We plan on having a field day"
- Early look at Borderlands 4 disappears and reappears after fans spot "a huge spoiler" about a returning character, but somehow Conan O'Brien crashing the game was kept in
- The Switch 2 is getting a charging stand, but US Nintendo fans might have to sit this one out
- Wednesday star confirms an Uncle Fester spin-off is in the works at Netflix
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- Clayface sure looks like it's setting up Joker in the DCU – with a modern twist on the iconic Batman villain
- Glen Powell says Chris Pratt in Guardians of the Galaxy allowed leading men in action movies to be "sillier" and not "brooding" like Christian Bale
- Seven years after first being announced, Netflix's live-action My Hero Academia movie finally lands a writer – and they have history with superhero movies
- Metroid Prime 4 gets rated in yet another country as rumors of a Nintendo Direct continue to pick up pace
- As the Palworld lawsuit rumbles on, Nintendo claims two new patents that could change the way non-Pokemon creature collectors work for good
- When is Demon Slayer Infinity Castle on streaming? Release date speculation
- September 9
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- Arrowhead CEO says a Helldivers 2 Fortnite crossover is "not a priority" right now, "but who knows one day. FN is cool. And quite big"
- Ghost of Yotei co-director says only 10% of Sucker Punch would be really excited to develop a new Sly Cooper game: "It's been a long time since Sly Cooper's come out"
- Hollow Knight: Silksong
- Hideo Kojima says he makes games because an HR person told him to be creative after he decided job-hunting is "a place where lies meet lies": "I was a Showa era detective trying to solve a murder case"
- Beefy Borderlands 4 system requirements promise "solid performance on older PC hardware," but after Randy Pitchford's warnings about "realistic expectations" I'm starting to feel a little scared
- Hannibal creator and Marvel star re-team for family-friendly horror about a hitman hired to take out a monster
- "I'm here to interrupt the Silksong": Peak devs echo Team Cherry by telling players the game is just "that evil," tease "the next biome" already in the works
- Deep Silver, you cannot just tease Dead Island 3 in a tiny Steam post on a random afternoon
- Assassin's Creed Shadows was supposed to get a major quality-of-life update in the "beginning of September," but Ubisoft has been silent for weeks, so fans decided it's coming out today
- Mark Hamill says The Long Walk is a "faithful" adaptation of the Stephen King book, and that it was a "thrill" to have the author approve of his casting: "That was motivation and validation for me"
- The Man in My Basement director reveals the challenges behind turning the haunting novel into a feature-length horror thriller: "Take what you need, leave everything else behind"
- Bungie remembers Destiny 2 is an MMO just in time for Star Wars expansion Renegades: "Destiny's feeling lonely right now because all you do is spend time in the mines"
- After 53 years of acting, Mark Hamill says he's only motivated to take on "interesting" and "atypical" roles: "I'm not on the phone to my agent saying, I gotta be in a Marvel movie"
- Helldivers 2 players are blaming everything from bugs, to the other kind of bugs, to Arrowhead itself for them failing the latest Major Order: "The caves did things and it was not pretty"
- Battlefield 6 producer says devs are "actively working on" balancing vehicles, but playing with open weapon classes "isn't really a problem"
- Tomb Raider TV show: release speculation, cast, plot, and everything else we know
- The new Marvel Rivals Vanguard Angela has a real-world history that's even wilder than her comic book story
- Gearbox let one lucky gamer play Borderlands 4 days before the rest of us: Conan O'Brien, who hated Claptrap after exactly one minute – "He's my least-favorite trash can I've ever met"
- Despite directing Resident Evil 2, Hideki Kamiya says "I hate horror," but he still wants to see Hideo Kojima make a game "in the same style" as P.T.
- After just 4 days, a Hollow Knight: Silksong speedrunner has already completed the smash-hit Metroidvania sequel in under 2 hours – and he's not stopping there: "I can't wait to do more runs"
- The new D&D Starter Set solves problems I didn't even know I had, and overcomes some of the game's most daunting systems
- Spider-Man 4 star Tom Holland says he wants "to do justice to Peter Parker's character" in the Marvel movie: "I love standing up for the character"
- Tanjiro actor once "picked on" for liking anime says Demon Slayer becoming a worldwide sensation is "truly mind blowing": "It's turned into something phenomenal"
- Black Mirror creator teaming up with Game of Thrones and Barbarian stars for new Netflix crime thriller that "contains blood and frowning"
- How to get through Hunter's March in Silksong
- "This is an Xbox that goes vroom": Microsoft's quest to make everything an Xbox extends to the road thanks to an LG partnership that brings cloud streaming to vehicles
- As PlayStation reaches its 30th anniversary, I probably shouldn't be shocked that 11 of its 20 best-selling games in the US are Call of Duty, topped only by the likes of GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2
- Millions of gamers on Steam and beyond gather to mourn famously untalented horse who inspired the beloved anime girl in Umamusume, Haru Urara: "May she get all the grass and carrots in heaven"
- Oscar Isaac wouldn't mind returning as Resistance pilot Poe Dameron alongside Ryan Gosling in Star Wars: Starfighter: "I'm ready for it. Let me know when"
- This $28 Switch 2 headset is selling out fast, and I'm not surprised in the slightest
- This 60% gaming keyboard has all others beat with one feature, and it just dropped to a record-low price
- The Road to Battlefield 6 battle pass in Battlefield 2042 is now quicker to grind through if you're willing to spend the money, and fans don't know how to feel about that: "There's the EA I remember!"
- How to solve the Indiana Jones DLC shrine maze
- Turtle Beach is taking the fight to Logi and Thrustmaster with a new modular sim racing wheel that only costs $449
- Guillermo del Toro is already writing his next collaboration with Frankenstein star Oscar Isaac – and it's a "very cruel, very violent" thriller
- Hollow Knight Silksong has made me realize how much the Steam Deck has changed the way I play games
- Dune: Awakening Chapter 2 goes live, making the survival MMO's desert a little more welcoming by making sandworms less erratic, reducing quicksand, and introducing "a multitude of bug fixes"
- 3 reasons to stop overlooking mobile gaming
- Star Wars fans still think one moment in The Force Awakens was a missed opportunity for the sequel trilogy: "Tragedy that it didn't lead to anything"
- All Silksong major abilities and where to get them
- First look at Avengers: Doomsday is deliberately blurry, but we're sure it's hiding a Fantastic Four tease
- 3 months later, these are the top 4 Nintendo Switch 2 accessories I refuse to go without
- The Walking Dead boss says "there's nothing but possibility" for the franchise as he teases new spin-offs: "Robert Kirkman pitched the comic as 'the zombie movie that never ends', we want to keep doing that"
- I've been waiting 20 years for a spiritual successor to Peter Jackson's King Kong game, and it might just be Ferocious
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- Super Mario and Legend of Zelda veteran says "implementing and playtesting is precisely what matters" at Nintendo, where devs don't just "make decisions based on what they see on paper"
- Helldivers 2 CEO hasn't even unlocked the latest Warbond because he's "a man of the people" who chooses not to get it all for free: "I walk in the same shoes you do"
- I didn't realize there were Hollow Knight toys so now am making up for that by yelling about it
- "This device combines nostalgia with innovation" - I can't believe how hard this new Atari handheld goes
- Stephen King names his favorite movies of all time, excluding his favorite Stephen King adaptations
- Dwayne Johnson's dramatic physical transformation is for the role of a lifetime: a 70-year old who is best friends with a chicken
- Predator: Badlands director teases "fun" new Predator movie, as he likens its lead characters to Chewbacca and C-3PO: "There's nothing like a laugh amidst all the violence"
- Alien: Earth may be too scary for Sigourney Weaver to watch alone, but the new show has Ellen Ripley's seal of approval: "I can't believe it's television, frankly"
- Silksong Moorwing weakness, boss fight strategy and cheese (while it lasts)
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- GTA 6 continues a 17-year tradition with in-game parodies like What-Up and Ryde me, according to domains reportedly registered to publisher Take-Two
- Avengers: Doomsday star hails the Russos' "special sauce" after admitting he was originally "not convinced" that the Marvel crossover could juggle its massive cast
- Legendary director Steven Spielberg praises Leonardo DiCaprio's new "bizarre" action thriller at early screening: "What an insane movie, oh my God"
- Ghost of Yotei won't be too caught up in which Tsushima ending you chose, director says, because "both endings are valid" and the open-world sequel is set over 300 years later
- After a record-breaking opening for Last Rites, a Conjuring prequel is reportedly in the works, but there's a chance producer James Wan may not be involved
- Dwayne Johnson is going back to the jungle as the star confirms Jumanji 3 will start filming this November
- Pokemon Emerald master beats the game while taking "the fewest steps possible" using "every trick" around, is immediately told he could have taken even fewer steps
- An almost entirely AI-generated animated movie is in the works, and it's aiming to debut at Cannes next year
- Nintendo reaches settlement with accessory manufacturer behind viral pre-reveal Switch 2 mock-up in a "confidential" agreement
- Director of new Jordan Peele-produced horror movie says it's a mix of Nosferatu and Ex Machina "just with two quarterbacks"
- Team Cherry agrees Hollow Knight: Silksong is a bit too hard in places, with nerfs to a duo of early-game bosses coming in an update "next week"
- Chris Evans is back in Captain America shape, and everyone is jumping to the same conclusion about Avengers: Doomsday
- After petitioning to play Batman, Reacher star Alan Ritchson says he has "a feeling" that he'll be "exploring new horizons" in the DCU soon
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- September 8
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- "We're all still hungover": Ghost of Yotei director says the GTA 6 delay prompted Sucker Punch to party like rockstars - "That was a great day"
- Nintendo legend Satoru Iwata "burst out in laughter" when he heard Animal Crossing would be translated to English: "I don't know how you're going to do this"
- After 10 years, Vin Diesel's back with a sequel to his 18% Rotten Tomatoes film The Last Witch Hunter and 92-year-old Michael Caine is coming out of retirement to join him
- A canceled NES multiplayer game and SNES RTS have been saved "and preserved" from the unflinching incinerator of gaming history, and a new "cart release" might be on the horizon
- Borderlands 4 fan decides life is long, might as well spend the next 950 years cataloguing some of the looter shooter's 30 billion guns
- No one knows how Cyberpunk 2 is going to go after Cyberpunk 2077's ending, but Keanu Reeves wants to be part of it: "I'd love to play Johnny Silverhand again"
- I gotta admit, the Borderlands 4 endgame actually sounds pretty darn good: Gearbox showed a bunch of raid boss and loot details, and my RPG brain is locked in
- "I don't think there's such a thing as a good game": Fallout's Tim Cain says "the same people will complain" about a game with bad reviews while praising a game with good reviews even if they have the "exact same problem"
- After 45 years of acting, Willem Dafoe says he's "looking to be disturbed" by new roles as The Man in My Basement approaches: "I'm looking to tap into a sense of wonder"
- Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo manga spin-off hits Shonen Jump, original creator Gege Akutami says it's "compact" and will be "about a half-year of work (if not canceled)"
- Hideo Kojima reveals secret Death Stranding 2 cutscene was only half of the motion capture shoot, which ended with him surprising Elle Fanning with a cake on her actual birthday
- Arrowhead CEO says he wasn't talking about Helldivers 3 in recent tease, but "our next game" – which raises a whole other question
- If 20 years and a Metal Gear Solid Delta playthrough have taught me anything, it's that Snake Eater remains one of the greatest, stupidest games ever made
- Nintendo veteran says an "ad agency" created the alternate Princess Peach name that confused US fans for years, and it was only fixed for Super Mario 64 because Miyamoto liked "Peach" so much
- New Gen V season 2 teaser reveals another major crossover character from The Boys
- The most popular Silksong mods tone down Team Cherry's cruelty, and this Elden Ring-inspired solution to ridiculous boss runbacks makes a very fair point
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was inspired by JRPG greats like Final Fantasy, but its director loves gaming because of an old-school 1988 beat 'em up
- The Life is Strange TV show fan-casting has begun, and this Wednesday star is a clear frontrunner to play Max
- How to beat the Silksong skull ant boss Skarrgard
- Metal Gear star David Hayter thinks Solid Snake is "misunderstood": "What really draws me to him, and I think what subconsciously draws the audience to him, is his inability to turn away from anybody who needs help"
- Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles lead hopes it "will appeal to people who aren't particularly good at tactical RPGs," since devs "hopefully reduced some of the frustration"
- Sci-fi action RPG The Expanse: Osiris Reborn is taking inspiration from Mass Effect 2's suicide mission and making sure companions help even when they're left on the ship
- Marvel Rivals loot boxes could be on the way according to datamine, and after nearly 10 years of post-Overwatch controversy you may be stunned to learn some players think it's a good thing
- Netflix drops brutal first trailer for Last Samurai Standing, which sees warriors fighting to the death in an epic battle royale for a massive cash prize
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- Where to pre-order the MSI Claw A8: The premium handheld is now available in the UK
- Dune: Awakening lead says some "people love the game, some people hate the game," but Funcom is "hoping more" will get into it now after "things slowed down over the summer" in the survival MMO
- Hollow Knight Silksong has beat my ass for 11 hours, but it's not too hard – we just have a problem with instant gratification
- What to watch before Demon Slayer Infinity Castle – all essential and skippable episodes
- One of this year's best horror sequels is heading to Netflix in less than 2 weeks
- Helldivers 2 players were already getting obliterated, so now it just feels like game master Joel is taking their lunch money, kicking their teeth in, and spitting in their eyes
- Legendary former F-Zero and Star Fox dev says Nintendo focuses on small mechanical details that feel "good to play" because "it's all about that direct connection between you and the game"
- FC 26 best players list and top 40 ratings
- The good news is Silksong has a true cheat code for a different difficulty setting, the bad news is it makes the whole game exponentially harder
- After debuting to a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score, Knives Out 3 early reactions say it's "Rian Johnson's best and most ambitious Benoit Blanc installment yet"
- Pokemon Legends Z-A pre-orders have the best free gifts I've seen in years, and here's where to get them
- Set phasers to fun because a Lego Star Trek set is on the way, and fans can't wait
- Elden Ring maestro takes talents to Hollow Knight: Silksong with saxophone controller that goes "doot," immediately puts all our pogo abilities to shame and "doots" to glory
- PSA: One of Hollow Knight: Silksong's hardest early-game skill checks is an enemy cosplaying a boss that's destroying everyone too stubborn to come back later
- Final Fantasy 14 is getting a "big update" to bring out the "uniqueness of each job" in battle content, Yoshi-P says, before confusingly adding "that nothing is going to change" for those who like things the way they are
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- First Knives Out 3 trailer sees Daniel Craig's Benoit Blanc return to solve a "holy" and "unsolvable" mystery
- Tanjiro's English dub actor says Demon Slayer Infinity Castle is the "best thing I've ever done": "I have given everything – every scream, every bit of emotion"
- Star Wars fans are just now discovering the narrator of The Clone Wars turned into a bad guy who shows up in Andor
- Tron: Ares director addressed the "lack of heart" in previous movies by putting emotion at the center of the sci-fi threequel "I need to connect with the emotional core of the movie"
- X-Men star Alan Cumming confirms he's already finished filming Nightcrawler's scenes in Avengers: Doomsday
- How to solve the Indiana Jones wine puzzle in the Order of Giants DLC
- Former Xbox exec says Game Pass causes "weird inner tensions" due to the subscription model usually coming at "the expense of retail revenue"
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- Switch modder landed with a $2 million fee after settling lawsuit with Nintendo over selling modded consoles and piracy-enabling flash carts
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- Lord of the Rings star Orlando Bloom says he hasn't heard anything about reprising his role as Legolas in The Hunt for Gollum, but would "hate" to see another actor take on the role
- A popular fantasy anime has been suddenly delayed until 2026 to ensure it has the "highest possible quality"
- True Detective star Matthew McConaughey says he'd return as Rust Cohle if the script had the "fire and originality" of season 1: "We nailed that first season"
- Cillian Murphy finally reacts to everyone thinking he was the zombie in 28 Years Later trailer: "That's great people think I look like a zombie cadaver"
- Here are the Borderlands 4 release times and dates
- Borderlands 4 boss Randy Pitchford wants "everyone to have realistic expectations for performance" ahead of launch: "This is a big, open AAA game and lower end and older hardware may not perform as well"
- After rallying DC fans to get his job back, reports suggest Teen Titans actor was fired due to 'performance issues' rather than his health
- Helldivers 2 CEO assures divers he doesn't "have any say in AR balancing" over their beloved Coyote as they suffer through the Oshaune meat grinder
- House of the Dragon star Olivia Cooke addresses the show's backlash: "Some of the fans have been ****ing horrible to our cast"
- No Man's Sky's biggest Steam player count boom in 9 years sees it topple behemoths Banana and Bongo Cat, and Hello Games boss Sean Murray is delighted: "God sends his toughest battles for his strongest soldiers"
- Original Life is Strange developer speaks out against the new Amazon series: "The only people not involved are the creators"
- After 4 months, Oblivion Remastered falls to "Mixed" reviews on Steam after reports of "poor and unstable" performance on PC: "It is still well and truly a Bethesda game"
- The Conjuring: Last Rites has biggest global opening ever for a horror movie with massive $194 million total
- Dread it, run from it, Hollow Knight: Silksong gets hit by the difficulty discourse as players can't decide if they should "git gud" or acknowledge "legitimate issues" Team Cherry has with the Metroidvania
- Chainsaw Man studio decided to make a movie over a second season to reach a "broader audience" because "subscribers of Crunchyroll may not necessarily go to theaters"
- New Clayface set photo appears to confirm which version of the Batman villain from the comics will appear in the DCU horror movie
- Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival – Everything we know so far about the gory new game
- Ryan Reynolds finally admits to what we suspected all along: he leaked the original Deadpool test footage and is now "grateful that I did the wrong thing"
- Andor showrunner reveals Lucasfilm is developing "really unusual" Star Wars projects, and offers advice to new creators: "Let your freak flag fly"
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- The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon showrunner breaks down that London-based twist in season 3, episode 1: "We had this idea of the only living human in England, and we wanted to tell that story"
- September 7
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- Silksong is way harder than Hollow Knight, and my theory is that Team Cherry became evil masterminds without even realizing it
- 26 years after dead MMO was left to rot, YouTuber spends 30 days reviving it through sheer will: "You reignited a fire that never went out, now it burns brighter than ever," devs say
- OG Hollow Knight technical director says Team Cherry remain silent because their "work ethic is off the charts" and they're probably "over at the office working" right now
- Bethesda's studio buying spree was fueled by wanting to work with likeminded devs: "If you have a chance to work with [Resident Evil creator] Shinji Mikami, you should always say yes"
- I played Invincible VS against the game's combat designer and loved every minute, despite getting my ass kicked
- Silksong takes a Steam review beating, falling to 'Mostly Positive' after a sterling launch thanks to a Chinese localization so bad Team Cherry has already promised to "improve it"
- Cillian Murphy is glad he's not in Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey: "I have ROMO: 'Relief of missing out'"
- Channing Tatum warns just how massive Avengers: Doomsday is: "I’m not good enough with words to explain how big this movie will be."
- MCU's Wonder Man star describes the new show as a "love letter to acting"
- Luke Cage's Mike Colter teases a return to the MCU and facing off against The Kingpin
- The Boys creator teases "darker", "more confident" Gen V season 2, says it'll give us our "first solid peek" at how Homelander has changed the world
- Tron: Ares director explains why Jeff Bridges' Kevin Flynn is the new film's only returning character: "We wanted to take this into a new direction"
- September 6
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- Predator Badlands director explains how Steven Spielberg's Jaws and the video game Shadow of the Colossus influenced the upcoming sci-fi movie: "The Predator's gotta be badass and ferocious, but also sincere and have a pulse of its own"
- "She is lovingly bats***": Baldur's Gate 3 Orin actor says the antagonist provided her with some of the weirdest lines of dialogue she's ever had to record
- The DCU doesn't need to look to Marvel for pointers on building a cinematic universe – horror movies like The Conjuring have always done it best
- After Overwatch 2's best year ever, the FPS' director admits past updates were "too conservative" and 2026 is starting with "something huge" that "blows your minds"
- Sega's crunch was so bad, offices came equipped with nap rooms and showers until 2012: "It was basically expected that people would be sleeping over at the office"
- NBA 2K26 locker codes guide to free MyCareer and MyTeam items
- Onimusha: Way of the Sword is becoming my most anticipated game of 2026 but Sekiro fans should know it's not a difficult game – and that's OK
- "We cannot charge $300 for this, it's f***ing insulting": Bethesda's Pete Hines says Fallout 76's infamous Collector's Edition was "probably the dumbest thing I ever did at Bethesda"
- Marvel fans are predicting which characters will die in Marvel Zombies
- Director of The Evil Dead and Doctor Strange 2 teaming up with Weapons producer for remake of underrated 1970s ventriloquist horror
- PS5 EE Game Day sales have returned, but you only have 24 hours to grab them
- Black Panther may have a new look in Avengers: Doomsday according to Letitia Wright
- Highlander gets a Gladiator reunion as Djimon Hounsou joins Russell Crowe in the new remake
- Ex-Nintendo developer says the company doesn't make new IP often because "there's no real need" when it's more "about creating a new way to play" instead of fussing over "the skin or wrapper"
- September 5
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- REPO devs "want to be a bit more secretive" with the next big update, threatening to unleash a load of new monsters at once: "Some will be there to make your life a living hell"
- Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker speedruns just got cut in half by the same kind of massive glitch that revolutionized Ocarina of Time years ago, but now the community's biggest challenge is rewriting the rulebook
- Alien: Romulus director says the sequel script is done, but a "new filmmaker" will take the reigns as he steps back to produce alongside Ridley Scott: "We just want to find a director that really wants to go for the jugular"
- Yet another JRPG behemoth is making me confront my mortality as Octopath Traveler 0 reveals 100-hour main story with 30-40% new content compared to the prequel it's remaking
- Final Fantasy Tactics devs originally considered making a famously powerful character weaker when he levels up because that's how getting old works: "His strength actually becomes lower"
- Through dark magic, one dev looks to have captured the magic of Sekiro in a gorgeous 2D game – I've followed it for a year, it finally has a Steam page, and I hammered the Wishlist button into dust
- Drink up a double dose of Blade absolutely destroying vampires in this preview of Marvel: Black, White & Blood and Guts #1
- Wizards of the Coast boss and ex WoW dev would love a new D&D MMO, but says "the traditional model" Blizzard used "could use updating"
- Star Trek: Strange New Worlds almost ended with a 2-hour movie before the compromise of a shorter final season: "We get to wrap up all of our storylines"
- Borderlands 4 boss Randy Pitchford says Stop Killing Games "comes from the same heart that I have" and is "a metaphor, I think, for life" in the face of the inevitable heat death of the universe
- "The great Todd Howard says that great games are played, not made," according to Bethesda's Pete Hines, so Elder Scrolls devs changed Oblivion combat three times and no one spoke about it
- Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare director came up with Private Military Companies because he wanted to stop making real-life countries the enemy for his own security: "I don't want to have this problem anymore"
- "Cultural touchstone" Life is Strange is getting a TV show on Prime Video from Margot Robbie's production company and a "thoughtfully assembled dream team"
- Despite being weeks into filming, Mark Ruffalo says he's "still waiting to hear" if the Hulk is in Spider-Man 4: "I haven't read a script yet"
- Helldivers 2 has a new and brutal meat grinder: Oshaune has killed over 156 million Divers so far with one of the worst mission failure rates in the game's history
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer revival will "revisit the past" but star Sarah Michelle Gellar says there's more of a focus on "honoring the show's original DNA"
- Bethesda was told "Skyrim can't survive going up against Call of Duty," but Pete Hines knew the RPG could launch against Modern Warfare 3: "They're a big brand, but they're not a better game"
- "We wanted to actually show Hitler's penis," Wolfenstein 2 devs say, but a Bethesda producer said "I don't advise doing that": "We all need to be saved from ourselves sometimes"
- Former Bethesda exec Pete Hines "hated the confusion" around The Elder Scrolls studio "making a new game, and everybody thinking, 'Oh, it's Todd Howard's team'"
- This enormous exploration board game won't be for everyone, but it's a masterclass in narrative and sandbox gameplay
- The Insta360 Link 2 is a webcam for every scenario, even if you only use it for one
- Pokemon Legends: Z-A fans are getting hypnotized by the next likely Mega Evolution candidate, a psychic squid amassing an army for its "my friend Malamar" hype: "GREATEST POKEMON OF ALL TIME!"
- "I hope that we're not done with Wolfenstein yet": MachineGames has plans for BJ Blazkowicz in Wolfenstein 3 because the FPS devs "have always seen this as a trilogy"
- Starfield anniversary post sends starving Bethesda fans to the whiteboard to find the formula for rumored new DLC
- Silksong Double Jump location and Faydown Cloak
- "We were scared as hell when Silksong was announced to release on our day," indie dev says, but "now it seems it was a blessing in disguise"
- How to solve the Serpent water puzzle in the Indiana Jones DLC
- Word Play is a spelling roguelike that feels like the final boss of Wordle and it made me feel like an angry genius
- Jaws may be 50 years old, but Steven Spielberg's shark thriller is still a blockbuster in a league of its own
- Final Fantasy-style RPG Lost Soul Aside gets extensive new patch players hope will bring a Cyberpunk 2077 "moment" and melt away some of those Mixed Steam reviews
- "Look at the wittle baby": Silksong players are struggling with an early boss, but that's fine because they love him
- Legendary Japanese racing game dev goes under the radar for 18 years, quietly emerges to drop the best-rated Steam racer of 2025, and gives fans 20 days to grab it at a hefty discount before the price jumps to $50
- I regret not picking up the Sega Astro City Mini sooner, as it's one of the only ways to play my favorite arcade exclusive sequel
- Using Bluetooth earbuds with the Meta Quest 3 still sucks, but here's why that isn't a dealbreaker
- The Razer Clio made me fall in love with my gaming chair, but I wouldn't run out and buy one
- Demon Slayer's Hashira, explained: the full list of every elite demon hunter
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 is "going very smoothly" and the "announcement timing has been decided," Square Enix's Tetsuya Nomura says, and Kingdom Hearts 4 is also "progressing well"
- 2 hours in, and Hollow Knight Silksong is already making me feel like I'm playing Dark Souls for the first time again
- GTA 6 has been "a black cloud that looms over everything," according to a marketing veteran, and thanks to roleplay servers it "competes with Silent Hill somehow"
- Close enough, welcome back Anthem – I'm loving that Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion has shifted gears to smaller, nimbler mech suit action
- The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon season 3 release schedule: when is episode 3 out?
- Silksong Bell Beast boss fight guide
- Hollow Knight fans, driven to madness by the Silksong wait, are still fighting a war that already ended and pretending the Metroidvania sequel isn't out yet
- Fans say Team Cherry was wrong and Silksong is actually "noticeably harder" than Hollow Knight, with movement and bosses pummeling you from the Metroidvania's first hour
- How to pogo jump in Silksong
- The Walking Dead boss says there's "no discernible reason" why so many TV shows have such long gaps between seasons nowadays, and says he wants fans to "set their watch by" when Daryl Dixon is on
- The best Lego Mario Kart set just got a rare discount, and I'm sorely tempted
- Silksong release pushes Kingdom Hearts 4 fandom over the edge after 3 years with few updates, leaving fans to invent their own form of silkposting fueled by Genie memes and nonsense
- Metal Gear Solid veteran David Hayter says Snake is responsible for the strangest line he's had to read, all because of a farting Super Smash Bros fighter
- I love Elden Ring Nightreign but I'm not sure if it's good for my mental health
- The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon star defends season 2's shock death, says "everything's cause and effect" going into season 3: "It was always planned to be a big part later"
- After 14 years, Nintendo ends repairs for 2DS and 3DS systems in Japan due to a lack of parts
- How to solve the Mediterranean map mural puzzle in the Indy DLC
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- Hollow Knight Silksong review: "Worth the wait and then some, this isn't just more Hollow Knight but an evolved, spindly beast all its own – even if it's fiddly at times"
- Former Nintendo marketing lead says rumored Direct "is probably a sure thing" given the Switch 2 games still set to release this year: "Some sort of an update on Metroid Prime 4, hopefully, please, my god"
- 007 First Light officially casts Dexter actor Patrick Gibson as James Bond, months after everyone already figured that out
- A brand-new PS5 bundle just dropped, and the saving is actually worthwhile for NBA 2K26 fans
- Silksong Mossberry locations and Berry Picking Wish guide
- Helldivers 2 devs have heard our complaints and "have escalated the priority" of addressing the absurd 140GB PC file size, but there's no word on when changes are coming
- How to find the safe code for A Collegial Mystery in the Indy DLC
- Helldivers 2 CEO knows "we're not getting a passing grade on performance and stability" right now, but another 60-day action plan wouldn't be enough to fix everything
- George Lucas cut a Clone Wars scene because he didn't want Sith ghosts in Star Wars: "They cannot conceive of anything beyond death"
- How to get maps in Silksong and see where you're going
- Dune: Awakening devs reveal new Chapter 2 changes, from the removal of pesky quicksand to the addition of donkey petting – but reactions from the survival MMO's fans range from "awesome" to "tragic"
- The new Lego Star Wars show features the most bizarre crossover yet in a galaxy far, far away: Obi-Wan and Knights of the Old Republic's Darth Revan
- Marvel star still waiting on a sequel to their 92% Rotten Tomatoes-rated debut movie has the perfect response to the Man of Tomorrow announcement
- Star Wars Outlaws is a controversial Switch 2 game-key card release, but one Ubisoft dev says that's because the standard cartridges "simply didn't give the performance we needed"
- Steven Spielberg reportedly wanted to direct the new Call of Duty movie, but Activision was "spooked" because he wanted full control
- Pokemon fan finds holy grail that's been "sat in the closet for decades" – an immaculate, sealed copy of Pokemon Blue with a rare error that makes the RPG even more valuable
- The Lenovo Legion Go 2 is now official with a price I can't remotely vibe with
- Subnautica 2 takes the crown on Steam's Top Wishlists chart after Hollow Knight Silksong finally releases, despite its $250 million lawsuit
- Peacemaker season 2 is a "prequel" to Man of Tomorrow, which means there's a non-zero chance Superman turns up soon
- Frankie Muniz says it will be difficult to put 20 years of history in just four episodes of the Malcolm in the Middle sequel, but viewers will be "surprised" and "very happy" with the end result
- The Conjuring: Last Rites director talks going "back to basics" with the final movie in the horror franchise: "We make these movies for fans"
- Is The Conjuring: Last Rites the last Conjuring movie?
- September 4
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- Eric Barone says he wants to "take a more 'creative director' role" on Stardew Valley 1.7 so that he can "focus the vast majority" of his attention on Haunted Chocolatier, but he'll eventually have to spend more time on his "1st game"
- Rematch crossplay is delayed after devs found "a major matchmaking issue" during its "final tests" before Patch 3's launch
- Sony CEO says KPop Demon Hunters has the "right home" on Netflix: "Could it have been theatrical? I don't think it's so simple"
- Weeks after BioShock layoffs, 2K axes employees at Civilization and XCOM developer Firaxis for "adaptability, collaboration, and creativity," which is a pretty cold way of acknowledging the reported dozens of job losses
- Street Fighter movie delays release date as it invites everyone to choose their fighter with retro character select cast announcement
- Following the news of Prime Video's live-action Tomb Raider show, Netflix's animated Lara Croft series is set to end after two seasons
- Destiny 2 is a mess right now but it's still one of the best-feeling shooters ever, so I'm encouraged to hear it was a "guiding light" for The Outer Worlds 2 gunplay
- "Silksong's price is Team Cherry being cool and giving their game away": Metroidvania devs wonder if $20 is unrealistic for their games after Silksong, but "can't afford" to go super low
- Elder Scrolls Online steals Halo: The Master Chief Collection's crown as the Xbox game with the highest obtainable Gamerscore thanks to the MMO's Feast of Shadows DLC
- Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone voices somebody in Hollow Knight: Silksong, but he won't say who "so as not to spoil any surprises for anyone"
- Hollow Knight: Silksong breaks 535,000 concurrent players on Steam, making it one of the biggest launches of all time and nearly 8x bigger than the first game
- Helldivers 2 players are getting rocked by Hive Lords, but grunts are begging for Arrowhead not to nerf them: "The game was lacking a fear element"
- With a DRM-free version and a low $20 price tag, Silksong has won many pirates over: "This is a time where if we can afford to support them, we should"
- "A lot of RPGs have adopted more action gameplay elements," says Dragon Quest remake producer, making old-school turn-based JRPGs "actually rare nowadays" and "considered fresh again"
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- Superman, Fantastic Four, and the rest of 2025's big superhero stories are bringing the death of cynicism and the rebirth of sincerity
- After modernizing the first three Dragon Quest games, remake producer says if the HD-2D games are "really well regarded," then "that would definitely create a movement within the company to want to do more remakes"
- How to start the Indiana Jones DLC Order of Giants
- The Witcher 4 will feature ideas from the latest Witcher novel, just like The Witcher 3 did 12 years ago – but CD Projekt Red "can't reveal how exactly" they'll take form yet
- When is The Conjuring: Last Rites on streaming? Speculation on the potential HBO Max release date
- Chainsaw Man and Look Back creator's underappreciated short stories are being adapted into an anime anthology
- "Every day we stray further from god": No Man's Sky boss Sean Murray faces the consequences of his actions as players attack his eyes with cursed ships in the Voyagers update
- Hollow Knight: Silksong has been out for 120 minutes and already has over 1,500 "Overwhelmingly Positive" Steam reviews, so either y'all are really fast or those reviews don't actually mean much
- Both seasons of the Halo TV show are coming to Netflix very soon
- I rebuilt my gaming PC because of thermal throttling, and this case made it so much easier
- Team Cherry was not kidding: achievements suggest Silksong is somehow 50% bigger than Hollow Knight, which was already one of the biggest Metroidvanias of all time
- New Lego Death Star is one of the biggest and most expensive sets ever made
- Silksong launched two hours ago in the middle of the workday and it's already eclipsed Hollow Knight's all-time concurrent Steam player record
- GTA 6 apparently pushes us beyond AAA and into "AAAAA" territory, industry veteran claims: "It's just bigger than anything else"
- I'm finally playing Persona 4 after 17 years, and I can already see where the JRPG's remake should step in with improvements
- Tom Holland says he's been "actively sifting through the internet" to figure out what fans want to see in Spider-Man 4: "That's been my driving force in these pitch meetings"
- Hollow Knight: Silksong, a single-player 2D Metroidvania, became the biggest game on Twitch minutes after launch – at over 360k viewers, it beat giants like Dota 2 and GTA 5
- Pokemon seems to be teasing Mega Malamar for Legends: Z-A in a series of bizarre live-action videos featuring people proclaiming their love for one of X and Y's strangest 'mons
- After 11 years, Elder Scrolls Online lead says the MMO is still "flying under the radar" of potential fans – with some even asking devs, "when does this come out?"
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- Dragon Quest 1 & 2 HD-2D Remake producer says "getting the balance right" is crucial when modernizing a classic, so you don't have fans complaining, "'We've got the original one, we don't need the new game'"
- 39 years after the legendary JRPG series began, Dragon Quest 1 & 2 HD-2D Remake includes a "new twist" that'll be a "really big surprise" for veteran fans
- Dragon Quest 1 & 2 HD-2D Remake reminded me why I love turn-based battles, but after 40 minutes with the game, I'm desperate to know what "really big surprise" the devs are hiding
- Upper Moon demons, explained: the fates of Demon Slayer's Twelve Kizuki villains after Infinity Castle
- Over 12,300 people turned up to watch "John Silksong" release one last Hollow Knight: Silksong news update, and it was kind of a beautiful moment: "All of this truly has been my, no, our daily Silksong news"
- 007 First Light devs went through "all the source material" to create their James Bond and really nail his "Bondliness," but without doing "a retelling"
- Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles devs blur the line between remake and remaster further, say the new strategy RPG is neither
- Blue Lock Rivals codes (September 2025) for Lucky Spins
- Steam and the Switch eShop are down, or at least struggling, the very second Hollow Knight: Silksong has launched, and you couldn't write better chaos
- Win a book about the making of The Search for Spock!
- The new Assassin's Creed Mirage DLC is a blunt reminder that maybe we've outgrown the series' old-school formula once and for all
- Hollow Knight: Silksong is now live, and with no leaks or review codes everyone is playing it for the first time after waiting more than 6 years
- Win a Blu-ray of Dangerous Animals
- I want to love the Hyperkin Retron GX, but the retro console seemingly dislikes my PC Engine games
- The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon season 3 reviews promise "one of the best seasons of The Walking Dead franchise ever" after the disappointing Book of Carol
- After 13 long years, The Binding Of Isaac creator's new tactical RPG Mewgenics finally gets a proper gameplay reveal showing off all the horrifying atrocities your kitties will be a part of
- 007 First Light contains some of "the largest" missions Hitman developer IO Interactive has "ever done" before, which could make it one of the studio's biggest games yet
- "You want to keep some of those iconic places, even if it's not necessarily realistic": Capcom is bringing us an "updated" Raccoon City in Resident Evil Requiem that shows off the extent of its destruction
- The Conjuring: Last Rites director says now is the right time to say goodbye to Ed and Lorraine Warren: "We don't want this to be a series that gets run into the ground"
- Helldivers 2 patch goes live "ahead of schedule" to calm angry divers, but it doesn't seem to address Into the Unjust update's biggest problems
- How to get Warbond Tokens in Helldivers 2
- Marvel Rivals gets another Overwatch 2 staple as NetEase adds placement matches to combat smurf accounts, but don't expect it at Season 4's launch
- The Conjuring: Last Rites debuts to an average Rotten Tomatoes score, but it's still one of the best-rated movies in the franchise
- All Silksong bosses we've discovered so far
- The Office spin-off The Paper debuts to a higher Rotten Tomatoes score than the original show, but has left critics divided
- Nacon's first attempt at sim racing hardware is so good that I'm not sure it's charging enough for it
- Where to buy Pokemon TCG Mega Evolution before resellers get their hands on it
- These new Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle popcorn buckets are the best yet – with a perfect tribute to the anime's most popular fighters
- Helldivers 2 may be a Sony-published game, but it's got off to a way better start on Xbox than it did on PS5 after selling almost 1 million copies in less than a week
- "We actually did put Daniel Craig in there": Hitman developers secured the 007 First Light license by modelling James Bond's face onto Agent 47's body
- Silksong is one of the most anticipated indie releases ever, but 10 years ago a friend of Team Cherry's couldn't even drum up hype for Hollow Knight's trailer on Reddit: "Oh great, another side scroller indie"
- Stephen King isn't a fan of the "pornographic" violence in superhero movies: "Man, that's wrong"
- "You just delayed Silksong another year thanks to this idea": As the 6-year wait for the Hollow Knight sequel finally ends, the community says goodbye in the most absurd ways
- It looks like the Justice Gang will return in James Gunn's Superman sequel as Hawkgirl teases her return in Man of Tomorrow: "See you soon"
- 007 First Light's James Bond is "certainly handsome" but "he isn't a Ken doll," says IO Interactive: "The human aspect of him is something we were really trying hard to give you"
- Valve just trademarked the term "Steam Frame", but I'm not convinced it's just a Steam Deck console
- One-Punch Man season 3's director says he had to hide his identity because he is "relatively unknown" and that might leave a "bad impression" with fans: "I sincerely apologize for keeping quiet about this"
- Metal Gear Solid 2's big Raiden twist was a surprise to Solid Snake's voice actor, who only found out while he was recording for the game: "Okay... well, we'll see how people feel about that"
- September 3
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- Gearbox's Randy Pitchford says everyone expects Nintendo to do something "really interesting," and sometimes you get "brilliant" things like the Wii and Switch 2, and other times you get the Wii U, which "didn't work as well"
- Marvel Rivals season 4 launches in September with Angela, Daredevil, and a PS4 release
- For the first time in 4 years, there's a new Super Mario Bros speedrun world record holder: "We are now only 15 frames away from a perfect speedrun"
- Lady Gaga follows up her Wednesday season 2 debut as Rosaline Rotwood by joining Tag Team and MC Hammer in the long legacy of Addams Family songs with a creepy new music video directed by Tim Burton
- Weapons director Zach Cregger is making a Resident Evil movie without ever having seen a Resident Evil movie: "I think the people that are fans of the of the games are probably going to be stoked"
- Team Cherry had to go back to the drawing board for Hollow Knight: Silksong for one simple reason: "Hornet being taller changes everything"
- Blizzard wakes up and chooses fun: the "wacky and crazy" powers of past Diablo 4 seasons could come back as "permanent" features
- 007 First Light is "not a reskin" of Hitman, IO Interactive says again, and the team brought in "amazing fresh talent" including devs with "specific driving expertise" to help build car missions
- Final Fantasy 14 boss Naoki Yoshida might not have become a Square Enix dev if it weren't for a "jerk" childhood friend that accidentally taught him PvP by tricking him into being bad at 1983 Mario Bros.
- 007 First Light Collector's Edition is $300, and there isn't enough nostalgia in the world to convince me that Golden Gun is worth it unless it literally transforms me into Christopher Lee
- The ROG Xbox Ally X offers an early glimpse into Xbox's plans for AI, but I'm starting to worry that we're all going to be priced out of ever trying them
- 007 First Light, the Hitman dev's James Bond game, launches 2 months before GTA 6 with the Deluxe Edition as a pre-order bonus
- Despite cancellation rumors, Amazon's new Tomb Raider TV show from Fleabag helmer Phoebe Waller-Bridge with Game of Thrones star Sophie Turner as Lara Croft is moving ahead with a 2026 filming date
- "Everyone knows GoldenEye, it's a legendary game": 007 First Light boss says his goal is to make an all-timer James Bond game, even if the result is "very different" to Hitman
- For the Hitman devs, 007: First Light felt like "coming home" because James Bond has been an "inspiration" for so long
- 007 First Light is more than just Hitman: James Bond edition, and I'm over any fears I might have had that IO couldn't deliver
- "Mario Kart World won't have any influence" on Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, but like everyone else, Sega was "somewhat expecting a new Mario Kart to be released soon" even before its reveal
- Superman 2 is coming sooner than you think as James Gunn announces the official title and release date while teasing a Superman/Lex Luthor team-up
- Alien: Earth production designer on creating the Nostromo-mirroring Maginot "There was definitely a certain amount of geeking out"
- Days before Silksong, speedrunner manages "perhaps one of, if not the grandest achievements in Hollow Knight history" with a 2 hour and 49 minute 112% world record
- Where to buy Pokemon TCG Phantasmal Flames pre-orders, according to our expert
- I hope you're ready for more Mega Evolution cards in Pokemon TCG, because this new expansion goes all in on the idea
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- Silent Hill 2 remake studio boss says new game Cronos is on Switch 2 because he wants to bring back the "gold time" of GameCube horror classics like Resident Evil 4
- Square Enix has a crucial day-one patch for Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles that restores an essential trick from the original 1998 version of the strategy JRPG
- Where to pre-order Ghost of Yotei PS5 DualSense, bundles, and console covers: US and UK stock is still going strong
- Newegg just dropped the perfect Xbox gift card deal just in time for Hollow Knight Silksong
- Where to buy Kill Team Tomb World, the hard-to-find Deathwatch vs Necrons box set
- The Conjuring: Last Rites review: "Not bold or memorable enough for the Warrens' final chapter"
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- Helldivers 2 CEO just comes out and says it: "The technical debt is crippling" and "we didn't hit the mark" with Into the Unjust update, so Arrowhead is "trying to get our s*** in order"
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- James Gunn says DC's Superman title sequence won't change from movie to movie, with one exception: "He's our MGM Lion"
- Nintendo reportedly kept delaying Switch 2 because first-party devs wanted more time to perfect games like Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza
- The Conjuring: Last Rites director was a paranormal skeptic until he had the "spookiest experience" while filming the new horror movie: "I am totally a believer after it"
- Hollow Knight Silksong release live coverage – Steam and eShop outages, early hands-on impressions, and more
- Christopher Nolan, you've done it again: Tom Holland describes The Odyssey's script as the "best" he's ever read
- I'm playing The Outer Worlds for the first time because my friend told me it was better than Fallout, and now I'm hyped for the sequel to push it even further
- Former Devil May Cry and Dragon's Dogma 2 director says he can't make "the kind of games I'd most like to" as "they'd be too out there" and "probably wouldn't sell"
- The Batman 2 star Colin Farrell says the script for Matt Reeves' sequel is "extraordinary", but confirms the Penguin only has a small role: "I haven't got much to do on it"
- The GATER in Helldivers 2 and Conducting Mobile Substance Extraction explained
- Dan Da Dan anime voice actors are "very" influenced by the original Japanese cast, but Momo talks like her English-speaking grandma on purpose: "You could definitely see that she was raised by Seiko"
- Battlefield 2042's Road to Battlefield 6 battle pass short-changed some players, but 4 hours of double XP will have to do
- While other brands forget this area of the market exists, Thrustmaster is doubling down with a new flagship racing wheel that's $349
- A Super Smash Bros. Melee modder has finally added the most powerful Nintendo character of all: a cease and desist notice
- The best upgrades to get in Cronos The New Dawn
- How to open sealed doors in Cronos with a Traveller's Seal
- Where to get bolt cutters and open chained doors in Cronos
- Where to find the Cronos door code in the dressmakers
- Where to find the shop key in Cronos The New Dawn
- 9 Cronos the New Dawn tips to help you stay alive in this time travelling survival horror
- Looking for the flashlight in Cronos? It's there, you just have to wait
- How to find the key to open the locked door in Cronos The New Dawn
- Cronos: The New Dawn review: "An unabashed mash-up of survival horror greatest hits, from Dead Space to Silent Hill, with plenty of its own gory ideas"
- Weapons director Zach Cregger says his rumored DC movie is "getting blown out of proportion online": "It's not a Joker and Harley Quinn script"
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Verso actor thanks fan fic writers for "taking very specific license with this classic masterpiece" – "We see you, we hear you, we appreciate how detailed you can truly get"
- Octopath Traveler 1 and 2 are two of my favorite turn-based RPGs, but I'm not sure how I'm going to go back to them after falling in love with Octopath Traveler 0's town-building mode
- The hideous Metal Gear Solid Delta Snake Eater statue is why I have rules for collectors' editions
- No Man's Sky's new update gave players the ultimate spaceship sim, so of course they immediately built a space forklift, Lord of the Rings' iconic tower, and an entire castle
- The 32 greatest animated movies that aren't for kids
- How to destroy the Hive Spore Lung in Helldivers 2
- DC star all but confirms which supervillain they're playing in upcoming DCU show Lanterns, and he's one of Green Lantern's biggest enemies
- Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles director open to revisiting the series' Game Boy Advance sequels if the remaster does well, but thinks the strategy RPG playerbase is currently a "bit small"
- Battlefield 6 is set to be extra grisly compared to most of the previous entries in EA's FPS series, as it's only the third to mention "gore" in its ESRB rating
- I would lay down my life for this Lego Gizmo figure, I just hope those eyes don't haunt me
- Now could be your last chance to grab the OG MSI Claw, but I'd still pass on the Intel handheld
- First trailer for 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple makes the horror sequel look even more violent and bonkers than its predecessor
- Avengers: Doomsday actor Channing Tatum opens up on his failed Thor audition – and the main lesson he learned from the underwhelming experience
- "The Mega Drive deserves better" - A Lego Sega Genesis Controller is coming soon, but it won't be easy to get
- Stellar Blade sequel will feature an "expanded" world and "enhanced gameplay" as developer Shift Up believes it'll "result in even greater success than the original
- Wednesday season 3 release date speculation, cast, plot, and more news
- Spider-Man 4 star Tom Holland says filming Brand New Day on the streets of Glasgow with real tanks felt "fresh" and "exhilarating"
- Final Fantasy Tactics remaster makes Cloud easier to use, Square Enix promises, and even gives him the Materia Blade right off the bat, so you'll want to see the secret hiding where it was in the original RPG
- Helldivers 2 players are down but not out – the new Hive Lords can apparently eat 15 Hellbombs before finally going down, but divers aren't giving up: "It can bleed, it can die"
- One-Punch Man season 3 finally lands a release date after a six-year hiatus, but some fans think the animation needs improving
- As Metal Gear Solid turns 27 years old, Hideo Kojima says "there are only a handful of people who participated" on the seminal classic who are "still a part of the new 'Kojima Productions'"
- Stardew Valley 1.7 update may delay ConcernedApe's new cozy sim Haunted Chocolatier "a little," but "not as much as you might think"
- How to watch Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle early – tickets, dates, and screening locations
- Wednesday season 2 part 2 ending explained: Who is Slurp, who dies, and how does it set up season 3?
- Wednesday season 2 part 2 review: "Ortega shines, but it's a zombie who steals the entire show"
- Alien: Earth episode 5 isn't quite feature-length, but I think it's the best Xenomorph movie since Aliens
- September 2
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- Channing Tatum says he'll "drop the Mardis Gras mask" and tone down his Gambit accent for Avengers: Doomsday - "I'm not gonna go full Cajun"
- Outer Worlds 2 bosses "think it's funny" they've made an RPG about evil mega-corporations with Microsoft as their new owner: "It'd be ridiculous to say we don't notice that"
- Helldivers 2 players fume over performance issues, Arrowhead CEO admits "it's not good enough" but promises "a fix for some of the most immediate things is being prepped"
- An uber-rare Nintendo cartridge worth $1,000 sat in a Las Vegas retro shop for months until it sold for $12, and the store's owners aren't even mad about it: "Score! Our f*** up their gain"
- I've been skeptical of the Marvel Zombies animated series, but the hilariously violent first trailer just convinced me to watch it
- The best moment in the Dan Da Dan anime was also the hardest for Okarun and Momo's voice actors to record: "'I have to take a break.' I was like, 'I can't do it'"
- A new Destiny 2 event is giving players bugged 8-year-old loot from content so deleted that Bungie literally could not come up with it to show in court
- Call of Duty eases the grind with 20 free skips for the battle pass mess it created, but you only have 2 weeks to claim them
- After Ubisoft's shutdown of The Crew spawned the Stop Killing Games movement, a group of fans are finally ready to release a server emulator to keep the racer alive: "No one will ever be able to take this away from you now"
- Gambit actor Channing Tatum has to sit out of Avengers: Doomsday filming due to injury, so his double will take on a "big fight" with Robert Downey Jr's Doctor Doom
- $112 million Borderlands movie was a critical and commercial disaster, but Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford just wants you to know "it would have been way worse if I directed it"
- Call of Duty movie officially heading to theaters with new Paramount chief comparing the film to Top Gun: Maverick - "We're approaching this film with the same disciplined, uncompromising commitment to excellence"
- Team Cherry hoped Silksong could be anyone's "first Hollow Knight game," and one reason it took 7 years is they were "comfortable" not knowing what's gonna happen: "The really interesting things are the things you sort of discover along the way"
- How to kill a Hive Lord in Helldivers 2
- This gorgeously weird monster board game warms my Halloween-loving heart, and it's a delight
- No Man's Sky boss Sean Murray turns the meme tables and begs Silksong developer Team Cherry to let him pay more than $20 for the upcoming Metroidvania
- Final Fantasy 14 might follow in World of Warcraft's footsteps with its own housing system, as Square Enix is "heavily discussing the possibility" of adding "special techniques for decorating"
- 28 Years Later: Bone Temple star says it's the "weird, deranged cousin" to Danny Boyle's movie, reveals the infected won't be "purely antagonists" in the horror sequel
- Helldivers 2 rivals Call of Duty's notoriously chunky file sizes as its latest update takes the shooter above 140GB on Steam: "This is getting beyond ridiculous"
- It took 3 years but Xbox has finally delivered on its Silksong promise: Team Cherry's latest hits Game Pass day one, exactly one day after an amazing Metroidvania you shouldn't miss
- This PS5 controller has dropped to a record low price, but its camo print is giving me the ick
- A decade later, discounts like this mean the Logitech G920 is still worth considering for beginner racing setups
- Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle review: "Roars past Mugen Train as Demon Slayer's best adventure yet"
- Channeling big Fallout energy means The Outer Worlds 2 could be the Starfield I always wanted
- With the future of Doctor Who still up in the air, former showrunner Steven Moffat says there's a "national duty" to keep making the long-running sci-fi show
- Losing Final Fantasy Tactics' source code meant The Ivalice Chronicles devs had to use any available resources to rebuild the remaster, "whether that be the retail copy of the game or the smartphone version"
- "FromSoftware was my very first job after graduating": Legendary Bloodborne and Elden Ring composer says she'd watch the games in debug mode "partly because I couldn't beat the boss myself"
- After report on MMO's bot problem, players bait piles of "clankers" to their doom like they're poisoning AI: ask "how many" and armies of bots reply in eery unison
- My favorite ever Disney Halloween decoration is available again, so don't miss it
- Helldivers 2 Into the Unjust update comes with "one of the funniest patch notes yet," preventing our own democratic gear from turning enemies into unstoppable menaces
- This Nintendo Switch 2 controller has finally crept to a price I can recommend
- Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles devs "haven't made any changes to characters that were powerful," because they "didn't really want to disappoint" OG fans with nerfs
- Knives Out 3 gets a limited 2-week run in theaters, despite director Rian Johnson pushing Netflix to put the film in "as many theaters for as long as possible”
- I'm still concerned about Battlefield 6's map sizes, but there's no denying it gets chaotic urban warfare right
- Hideo Kojima's overlooked cyberpunk adventure game is one of the three games Atari's CEO would love to remaster: "I don’t know if it would do well, but I’d probably push it through"
- Clayface set photos contain way more DCU world-building than we expected, thanks to this complete map of Gotham
- Wednesday season 2 part 2 reveals first look at Lady Gaga's Rosaline Rotwood, and fans are convinced she's part of the Addams Family
- 6 fonctionnalités secrètes du Samsung Galaxy S25 pour une expérience de gaming optimisée
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- EA and DICE tried to stop them, but Battlefield 6 players keep leaking maps and content from closed tests and Labs experiments – but at least the leaked news is good news
- Upcoming Persona-inspired tactics RPG Demonschool was delayed due to Silksong, even though it doesn't share the Hollow Knight sequel's genre – and it's all thanks to our "capitalist society"
- Lost Rift is bringing FPS expertise with an innovative twist on the survival game
- The Long Walk review: "One of the best Stephen King adaptations ever made"
- 45 minutes of Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles has me certain that Square Enix "rebuilding" the remaster after losing the original source code was worth the effort
- 20 years on from the original, The Descent director reveals he's "got a few ideas" for a prequel to the hit horror movie
- The weirdest ever Warhammer game is back with a new edition, and I think you need to see this
- The cutest Razer headset has never been cheaper, and I'm finding it impossible not to add it to my cart
- Nobody 2 is now available to watch on digital, just 18 days after the action movie was released in theaters
- Everyone's freaking out at the rumored $650 Lego Pokemon set, but here's why I wouldn't panic just yet
- 40 years later, The Goonies' long-awaited sequel is "moving in the right direction," says writer: "This is the movie I want to see as one of its biggest fans"
- Dwayne Johnson opens up over frustrations on being "pigeon-holed" as a blockbuster star: "This is what Hollywood wants you to be"
- Where to catch a Tsuchinoko in Metal Gear Solid Delta
- Star Wars' only female starfighter pilot in The Phantom Menace says she was "told off" by George Lucas for wearing lipstick
- Former Assassin's Creed director who also worked on Arkham Origins joins Rocksteady, sparking more hopes for a new Batman game
- Agents of SHIELD star says she should have been in poorly received Marvel show Secret Invasion, even though they're not "considered canon": "It would have probably been better"
- Lenovo Legion Go 2 leak reveals full specs, and I'm cautiously hyped for the handheld sequel
- No Man's Sky hits a Steam player high it hasn't seen since the survival game's disastrous launch 9 years ago, thanks in part to yet another free update
- Marvel star says filming Avengers: Doomsday "feels like a dream", as he hypes up Robert Downey Jr's Doctor Doom: "Everyone will be blown away"
- Monster Hunter Wilds' struggles aren't just down to PC optimization issues, Capcom boss says – the PS5's lofty costs are also to blame
- Hollow Knight: Silksong will have a free Nintendo Switch 2 edition upgrade at launch, meaning you don't have to pay extra to get the 120hz mode
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer revival series pilot has wrapped filming, as director Chloé Zhao confirms a 25-year time jump
- DC fans chime in with their picks for The Batman 2 villains after Robert Pattinson said he likes "all the really fantastical ones"
- I played Where Winds Meet and fell in love with the RPG's open world so fast I could barely pay attention to any of the missions
- Borderlands 4 could have looked very different – the OG RPG initially had realistic visuals that were too similar to Fallout 3, so Gearbox "rebuilt the whole game" after 2 weeks of experimenting led to its iconic comic style
- September 1
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- Clayface set photos tease a connection to The Batman, and fans are hoping that Matt Reeves' Elseworlds movies will merge with the DCU
- Ghostrunner devs abandon parkour for Valor Mortis, a first-person soulslike that might explain why the rest of the genre follows Dark Souls' lead
- Solo star Alden Ehrenreich hasn't completely ruled out a Star Wars return, but it sounds like it would take a lot to convince him: "It would have to really, really be the right version of it"
- Infinity Nikki devs "sincerely apologize" yet again – this time for "frustration and confusion" caused by furniture pricing, but at least we're getting freebies in return
- From passing on Lord of the Rings to Cleopatra's infamous budget, film fans are debating some of the worst mistakes in movie history
- Skyrim player marries a literal dragon with the help of a mod, giving "Dragonborn" a whole new meaning as he breaks the RPG and makes it run as "buggy as Oblivion"
- "We tend to commit to the bit": Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford talks Borderlands 4, the evolution of looter-shooters, and $80 game discourse
- Helldivers 2 studio CEO says the "vast majority" of people "silently play" the shooter, which means the devs can't just look at Reddit and what streamers are saying for feedback: "This is a challenge for all games"
- Battlefield 6 won't have ray tracing at launch and devs "don't have any plans in the near future for it either" because "our effort was focused on making the game as [optimized] as possible"
- This gaming chair has a lumbar support belt, and a month later I'm still getting used to it
- 10 years later, Metal Gear Solid 5 remains a masterpiece that was never going to live up to its own hype
- The best new shows and movies streaming this week on Netflix, Disney Plus, Paramount Plus, and more
- I've been a Lego reviewer for over 5 years, and these are the Lego Harry Potter sets I'd recommend in the Back to Hogwarts sale
- Borderlands 4 can't even win in its own ads, as WWE has cosplaying wrestlers take the L in their own championship match
- CD Projekt Red is teasing something Cyberpunk 2077-shaped with a mysterious new message, and fans are desperately trying to work out if it could be sequel news, DLC, or something else entirely
- Pirates of the Caribbean and Arkham Asylum are the best new Lego sets in September 2025, if you ask me
- Hideo Kojima will give a "glimpse into future projects" at his "Beyond The Strand" anniversary event for Kojima Productions' 10th birthday this month
- Lost Soul Aside review: "We (don't) have Final Fantasy Versus 13 at home"
- Hori Piranha Plant Camera for Nintendo Switch 2 review - "no amount of cute can distract from its horrendous video quality"
- Analogue 3D footage finally just surfaced online, and I'm hoping the 4k N64 is as slick as it looks
- Call of Duty drops a whopping 100 GB on PS5, and fans think it's due to Battlefield 6: "Competition is always good for gaming"
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- Chloé Zhao's first movie since Eternals is already getting Oscars buzz as critics call it "the most devastating movie I've seen in years"
- Menace is an XCOM-Warhammer hybrid that makes turn-based strategy feel like an immersive sim, and for the first time in my life I'm playing a game that seems made for me
- Battlefield 6's battle royale mode is looking very promising if these alleged leaks are anything to go by, and FPS fans are already excited: "This made me uninstall Warzone"
- I lost my Switch 2 controller straps, but this small Labor Day saving has come to save the day
- 007 First Light is getting its own dedicated PlayStation State of Play this week, with "over 30 minutes of gameplay" including James Bond's "first mission as an MI6 recruit"
- This Balatro-like take on Breakout trades a paddle for a revolver, and I've had a lot of fun combo'ing bullet configurations even if I wish this was more on target
- Frankenstein star Christoph Waltz is in favor of Guillermo del Toro's use of practical effects: "CGI is for losers"
- Final Fantasy 14 devs have "quite a big plan for jobs moving forward," Yoshi-P teases, cooking up "major changes" for the MMO to "make jobs more interesting for players to use"
- Final Fantasy 16 Clive actor Ben Starr was "quite nervous" about voicing a villain in Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles because he didn't want to "soil" his contribution to the series
- After Final Fantasy Tactics' source code was lost, the remaster's devs looked at fan-made websites' preservation efforts: "We know you guys do such a good job of keeping all of that up to date"
- When does the Helldivers 2 Into the Unjust update release?
- A new behind-the-scenes Thunderbolts photo is making fans even more disappointed with one character death: "She showed her face for like two seconds for absolutely no reason"
- Hollow Knight: Silksong price is $20, Team Cherry confirms, laughing in the face of $80 games as it cements one of the most anticipated indies of all time as just $5 more than its predecessor
- You can watch Jujutsu Kaisen season 3 early – if you see this new compilation movie
- Stranger Things creator teases "logistically insane" season 5 episode, which is "as big as any finale we've ever done"
- The MSI Claw A8 arrives this month for £850, but I'm fearful of its US price
- When is Hollow Knight Silksong out? Release date and time
- After 3 years, Terraria devs confirm the sandbox game's long-awaited 1.4.5 update is "well into the final push" with devs "ready to push this over the line" once and for all
- Jujutsu Kaisen season 3 releases an epic trailer as Crunchyroll confirms a January release
- After 13 years, the fan-led Oblivion remake developed in Skyrim's engine – Skyblivion – is right around the corner: "Recent developments made us come closer to a potential date announcement"
- Borderlands 4 boss Randy Pitchford says "Nintendo just had the most successful new console launch in the history of video game consoles" with the Switch 2, so of course he wants to "bring more games to it"
- The Fantastic Four: First Steps has finally crossed a major box office milestone over 1 month after release, but only just
- Resident Evil Requiem's director was always curious to return to Raccoon City: "It was like rice I'd left forgotten in the rice cooker for a week... eventually curiosity makes you lift the lid"
- Avengers: Doomsday directors tease it's even bigger than Endgame as Paul Rudd hints at more practical, "jaw dropping" sets in the MCU crossover
- The Office creator reveals why only one main character returns for The Paper spin-off, and it's a decision that stems from the comedy classic's finale
- Hell is Us review: "The lack of waypoints and explicit objectives is a double-edged magical sword that pulls me deep into its harsh world"
