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- October 20
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- Bethesda's Fallout bundle is 70% off and gets you every main Fallout game and all DLC for $43 in one of the best Steam RPG deals of the season
- Co-op survival game Necesse is like Terraria but top-down with an "infinite" world – it just left early access and flew up the Steam charts with Palworld's blessing: "Absolute banger"
- Nier creator Yoko Taro says he includes "small unknown features in my real autographs," so you might be getting scammed: "Nearly half of the autographs being resold are actually fake"
- A brave Alpha Magikarp in Pokemon Legends Z-A is getting revenge by blasting unsuspecting players with Hydro Pump instead of the usual Splash attack
- Screw up too hard in The Outer Worlds 2 and your companions may fight you "to the death" because Obsidian wanted the RPG's cast to feel "like they're their own people"
- Stranger Things showrunners confirm Eddie Munson is well and truly dead: "He's fully under that ground"
- The Steam store just added a feature I didn't know I needed until Valve pointed it out: a dedicated page for every bundle containing a game
- Ex PlayStation exec says Sony can't keep "increasing the graphics power" with new consoles after tech plateau, but PS5 has already "made almost every game a better game"
- This Japanese Switch 2 accessory is finally making its way to the US
- This USB microphone failed me, but I hope its rivals steal its best feature
- A new shooter is gaining on Battlefield 6 and Arc Raiders on Steam's top sellers, and it's only $18: Escape from Duckov is a PvE riff on Escape from Tarkov with 180,000 peak players
- The Elder Scrolls fans rebuilding the entirety of Morrowind "cut from the original game" are now adding "one of the holy grails" of Bethesda lore fans have wanted "for more than 20 years"
- Silent Hill series producer says Konami announcing SH2 remake, f, and Townfall all at once was so fans could "feel how serious we were" about reviving the horror series
- KPop Demon Hunters' action scenes had a very unlikely inspiration: an ultra-violent 2017 Korean action film
- Arc Raiders lead says games "can't be built by an AI" and "I hope they never can," but also "I want us to build content a hundred times faster" and AI might help with that part
- Pokemon Legends: Z-A's real-time combat changes make one of the series' best non-damaging moves basically redundant and one of the coolest Gen 6 Pokemon "utter garbage"
- Pokemon Legends Z-A and this Switch 2 case are a match made in cozy gaming heaven, and it's never been cheaper
- From IT: Welcome to Derry to Weapons, these are the best new shows and movies streaming this week on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, HBO Max, and more
- Sigourney Weaver reveals one version of the stalled Galaxy Quest sequel involved Benedict Cumberbatch playing a version of Alan Rickman's character
- Tron: Ares is on track to become a box office bomb, projected to lose Disney over $132 million at the box office
- Hocus Pocus star Bette Middler says "a lot of" the script for the third movie is "brilliant"
- Gorgeous new Warhammer models are a reminder that you shouldn't sleep on this lesser-known game
- Former PlayStation boss praises Microsoft’s publishing strategy, but can’t get his head around Xbox's Game Pass price hike: “I don’t understand”
- Don't underestimate Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era's arena mode – it taught me how to win a campaign after 5 failed attempts
- DC star reveals he auditioned to play Reed Richards in The Fantastic Four: First Steps, but doesn't begrudge Pedro Pascal winning out: "To be fair, he's not in much"
- Ex-Blizzard president Mike Ybarra says awkward Microsoft "this is an Xbox" campaign is the "wrong idea, wrong time": "Whoever came up with this clearly doesn't play games"
- Minecraft devs explain "players have a different appetite for challenge and difficulty" which is why the Ender Dragon isn't allowed on the overworld: "That's not a great game experience"
- A resurfaced Gen V Easter egg in The Boys proves Hughie is almost certainly the most luckless character in recent TV history
- Arc Raiders players are split over nerfing drone enemies after the server slam for the new multiplayer shooter from ex-Battlefield devs: "That's a you issue not a game issue"
- IT: Welcome to Derry release schedule: when is episode 1 out?
- Legendary Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu has "never used AI and probably never will" because it's "more rewarding to go through the hardships of creating something myself"
- Dead Cells 2 isn't happening right now because the studio behind the legendary OG roguelike is driven by "what we want to make" and not pressure from fans
- Fallout's Walton Goggins joins Prey star in new action movie executive produced by James Cameron
- As Mark Ruffalo starts shooting Spider-Man 4, Marvel fans have realized that Bruce Banner hasn't Hulked out on-screen in 13 years
- 10 years after the first trailer for The Force Awakens, everyone still agrees that the Star Wars teaser is the best ever
- Simpsons fans are raving over the animated series' most recent star-studded Halloween special, Treehouse of Horror XXXVI: "So much better than last year's"
- Pokemon Legends: Z-A has an enormous, unavoidable grind if you want the shiny-boosting Shiny Charm, but fans are already finding ways to avoid doing the work
- "We received a lot of 'JRPGs are back' comments," says Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director, but the success of a turn-based game like Clair Obscur: Expeditition 33 isn't going to warp Square Enix's plans
- Black Phone 2 beats out flagging Tron: Ares at the box office in much-needed box office win for Blumhouse
- Sleeping Dogs movie hits a major milestone as Shang-Chi star Simu Liu says "studios don't seem to understand how important this IP is"
- Marvel fans have a new theory about who Sadie Sink is playing in Spider-Man 4, and it's not Gwen Stacy
- One Piece animator defends studio behind fellow anime show One-Punch Man, following backlash over season 3's lackluster animation
- Horizon Zero Dawn live action movie gets release window along with an exciting filming update
- Xbox ditching hardware and exclusive games "makes sense," former Microsoft exec and Blizzard boss says, as "only a moron would continue" making consoles as games go third party
- Spy x Family actor is temporarily stepping back from playing one character after going through "voice therapy"
- "We're doing just fine:" Palworld dev addresses hate surrounding the survival game, says it's just "an easy 500k views" that "doesn't actually have any impact on the game"
- Hideo Kojima gives his verdict on Tron: Ares, and he's most struck by the Depeche Mode references
- The Mandalorian and Grogu star gives us our best hint yet at the Star Wars film's plot, revealing Mando and Rotta the Hutt are "running around for a lot of the movie together"
- Fortnite, Roblox, Wordle, and other popular games down as Amazon Web Services outage sends the internet toppling
- When is Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc on streaming? Crunchyroll release date speculation
- October 19
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- GTA 6 theory crafting reaches the next level as one fan thinks the next trailer's release date has been under our noses for months
- Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto says Nintendo's new fascination with movies is because "Ultimately what people remember are the IPs"
- I've been covering games for years and I think this is the first time I've seen a developer add an "Embarrassing" section to patch notes to call themselves out
- Pokemon Legends: Z-A can keep 10 ultra-rare shiny Pokemon spawned on the map at any time, and it's impossible to lose them unless you knock them out or are silly like me and scare them away
- The Boys spin-off gets devastating update from Eric Kripke as season 2 seems unlikely: "It’s not for lack of us pushing"
- A co-op open-world crafting game with a road trip twist is rising up the Steam charts and with 1 million wishlists already, this might be a monster at launch
- Last Rites director leaves no room for "other Conjuring movies" even after the success of the latest film: "It is absolutely the end"
- Simpsons: Hit & Run might be stuck in rights purgatory, but fans of the classic open-world game can dry their tears with a beautiful Futurama conversion mod
- Netflix is making another period romance drama, and it could be the next Bridgerton
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director defends the JRPG's overlong filler, but says he’s "striking a balance" with Part 3: "Players just have too much to do and too much to play"
- Mark Ruffalo reveals why a Hulk movie might not happen any time soon: "Does anyone really want another one?"
- Don't Starve but now you're a cute little mouse is the pitch for the hit Steam Next Fest demo that's about to give me another survival game obsession
- The sequel to one of the best horror comedies has a trailer and, yes, the inflatable dinosaur suit is back
- October 18
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- Help, I fed the black hole in A Game About Feeding A Black Hole and now I can't stop the approaching galactic entropy of its Steam Next Fest demo
- Timothée Chalamet shares behind the scenes picture from Dune: Messiah set as he teases the next chapter: "Dun3 loading"
- Former Nintendo of America lead says leaving to help set up Sega of America is "probably the biggest mistake I ever made"
- Ahsoka star offers exciting update about her character in season 2: "I'm definitely in on the action quite a bit more"
- After that shocking Peacemaker season 2 finale, DC fans are sharing their best theories on how Chris can survive Salvation
- Pokemon Friends sure does look like another game from the same developer, as fans accuse the puzzler of being a 2016 reskin
- Helldivers 2 players defended a Halo Reach-esque planet so hard that Arrowhead has declared a new "Avengement Day" annual holiday to honor the brave Beach warriors
- Doctor Who producer denies the sci-fi show is "dead": "That's really rude, actually... and really untrue"
- The next Evil Dead movie celebrates production wrap with a brutal first teaser that promises a new bloodbath
- Which Warhammer Helsmiths of Hashut models should you buy for your army? I've made all them, so here's what I think
- After 7 long snowless years, the League of Legends Winter map is coming back this year "because you really asked for it"
- October 17
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- David Dastmalchian wants to be Morbius in the MCU, but he'll settle for a DC villain or two: "I could see me just charging through Gotham on a dark Halloween night"
- The original Little Nightmares devs basically made their own Little Nightmares 3, and I had more fun playing its Steam Next Fest demo than I did reviewing the actual sequel from Supermassive
- "We were looking at the Zelda Oracle games," says Shovel Knight dev, but the gorgeous Mina the Hollower actually feels more "like a Castlevania or a Bloodborne"
- I found the co-op roguelike I've been looking for: picture Risk of Rain 2 with more melee and MMO raid bosses, and it's no wonder it's one of the biggest games in Steam Next Fest
- It: Welcome to Derry star says his role in the upcoming Stephen King spin-off gave him "a chance to play somebody that I relate to" after playing the "exact opposite" in 3 Body Problem
- OG Modern Warfare 3 director is "immensely" worried about what will happen to Call of Duty under Xbox: "What's happening to Gears of War, where's Halo… you know what I mean?"
- Some Chinese devs played Stardew Valley and loved it, but wanted something more "carefree" – now their anime life sim RPG is tearing up Steam Next Fest, and it's hard to put down
- It: Welcome to Derry director says they had full support from HBO for the show's terrifying opening scene, despite it being a NSFW bloodbath: "I thought, 'They're not gonna let us air this'"
- If you want to get into Disney Lorcana, Fabled is your golden ticket
- God of War Ragnarok lead says AAA studios should "diversify into double-A and single-A, and then perhaps indie" even if blockbuster releases result in "potentially really large" payoffs
- 10 years later, legendary platformer gets a big surprise update as the devs tease a new game: New "super hard super-secret" levels are "so challenging that it'll take you 10 more years to beat them"
- Star Wars creator George Lucas says he's not thinking about managing the franchise since Disney took over: "Of course I've moved past it. I've got a life"
- After adding a sprinkle of sex in its last big update, Cult of the Lamb does a 180 and goes cozy game mode with a "massive expansion" that brings a bit of Stardew Valley vibes to the roguelike's mix
- "Every game has a parry now," but Shovel Knight dev wants to keep things simple for upcoming Game Boy Zelda-like Mina the Hollower: "I played that new Doom, and even Doom has Dark Souls stuff in it"
- How to get past all Pokemon Legends: Z-A obstacles
- Repeating it "a bajillion times," Helldivers 2 studio CEO insists Gameguard anticheat isn't behind the game's performance issues: "We see no evidence of it"
- 2 years ago, a Genshin Impact player declared their loyalty to a dead character – after 806 videos and 1,700 pulls saved, they've finally stopped preparing for her banner
- The best Nintendo Switch 2 accessories 2025: my top gadgets for your every day carry
- Pokemon Legends Z-A has successfully united fans around the world under one cause: laughing at Mega Starmie, because what the heck is that
- The Mastermind is a brilliantly frustrating anti-heist movie that defies expectations, and it's one of my favorite movies of the year
- Pokemon Legends Z-A and Arceus are true successors to the classic Pokemon games I first fell in love with
- Sales exec who helped launch the NES says Donkey Kong Jr. Math is "the worst game we released" and Nintendo "thought it'd be great for kids' education, but we couldn't give it away"
- This translucent Razer headset looks like it stepped straight out of the early 2000s, and I'm obsessed
- Arc Raiders devs already patch Server Slam disconnect errors as Steam players queue to get in: "This time around, it's a full redownload of the game"
- How to access the Arc Raiders Server Slam and when it ends
- Nintendo's iconic NES Zapper could have been called something else if "a third" of a housewife focus group hadn't walked out of a Duck Hunt preview: "No guns are coming in my house"
- Step aside Duskbloods, Dawnwalker, and Bloodlines 2 – somebody give me a Buffy the Vampire Slayer RPG to commemorate the series' revival
- As Red Dead Redemption 2's reveal trailer turns nine years old, fans look back at the worst reactions to it: "The main character seems completely tasteless"
- "The system that sparked a console war!" - I can't believe Atari is bringing Intellevision back from the dead
- Helldivers 2 players melt down, accuse Arrowhead of becoming a real-life Ministry of Truth over YouTube drama, and get a response from the CEO: "We work with a partner for the propaganda commanders"
- Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Metacritic score lives up to its messy development cycle, failing to beat the original cult RPG thanks to divided reviews
- Keeper review: "One of the most wonderfully bizarre games I've ever played – a stunning slice of magic"
- The Corsair Sabre V2 Pro Ultralight should cost a hell of a lot more than this | Review
- All Eevee locations in Pokemon Legends: Z-A
- Does Pokemon Legends: Z-A have breeding or Eggs?
- New movie from The Monkey's Oz Perkins called "skillful horror origami" and "a terrifying descent into madness" by genre faves Guillermo del Toro and James Wan
- I spent an undisclosed but fireable amount of time playing games at work, and here are my 10 Steam Next Fest demos you shouldn't miss before they're gone
- Pokemon Legends Z-A includes music from a super fan who's posted excellent covers to YouTube for 13 years, earning a nod from Undertale beats master and fellow Poke-musician Toby Fox
- Rumored Pokemon Winds and Waves budgets are likely much larger than leaks, former Nintendo marketing leads say, because they don't cover "significant" marketing costs
- Battlefield 6 players asked for changes and the devs brought a sledgehammer: Conquest changes rolled back, and progression is much easier to ward off XP farms
- The 7 scariest horror movies to stream this week on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, HBO Max, and more
- Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 review: "My dream vampire RPG has been staked – this blunt-toothed sequel is just a boring, linear action brawler instead"
- I'm just as obsessed with Strange Antiquities as I was with Blue Prince, and it's easily one of the best detective puzzle games I've played this year
- How to get shiny Pokemon in Pokemon Legends: Z-A
- Minecraft devs "want to avoid treating players in a way that feels unfair," so Mojang's guiding principle is that "bad things happen, but they're technically the player's fault"
- How many Pokemon games can you name in 10 minutes?
- Gen V season 3 won't happen unless fans tune in to season 2 as it's airing, says The Boys' Eric Kripke: "Don't watch in a year, turn on Prime now"
- 1 year later, Deadpool and Wolverine fans are still getting emotional at a major scene from the Marvel movie
- How to choose a gaming handheld (by someone who tests the latest portables)
- Dead Space creator and ex Call of Duty boss Glen Schofield says AI is "the right investment" and downplays theft concerns: "Picasso said 'good artists always borrow, great artists steal'"
- Batgirl star thinks the shelved DC movie could still be released one day: "If enough people want it, it can happen"
- Twin Peaks actor joins star-studded cast of Apple TV's remake of one of Martin Scorsese's creepiest movies
- It looks like we've found this year's Terrifier 3, as upcoming Christmas horror movie Silent Night, Deadly Night debuts first bloody trailer
- Marvel Rivals pulls another Overwatch, adds PvE "Marvel Zombies-inspired" mode in time for its first Halloween event with 5 playable heroes
- Former Call of Duty director Glen Schofield says "I hate doing this, but since I left Sledgehammer, none of the games have been very good"
- Fans are debating the best trailers of all time: "May even be better than the film itself"
- All Legendaries in Pokemon Legends: Z-A and how to catch them
- Eric Kripke says he's "irritated" fans figured out that big Gen V twist, as he reveals when The Boys season 5 picks up after the upcoming finale
- Nintendo reportedly ramps up Switch 2 production to meet new target of 25 million consoles made by March 2026, with analysts forecasting they'll sell 20 million by then
- Borderlands 4 update that aims the nerf cannon at its most broken builds delayed into next week, so enjoy your crit knife until then
- The Flash director Andy Muschietti says the film got a negative reception because "a lot of people did not see it" and "like to talk s***"
- Five Nights At Freddy's 2 director promises better animatronics in the horror sequel, and says it will include even more Easter eggs that fans of the game are "going to appreciate"
- Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard says the cast feared a Game of Thrones-style backlash to the final season: "We hope to not have that happen"
- Star Wars actor throws doubt on a potential The Mandalorian season 4 and confirms she won't be joining The Mandalorian and Grogu on the big screen
- Former Assassin's Creed boss says he "did not make that choice" to leave Ubisoft after 20 years – the company "decided to transfer the leadership… to someone closer to its new organizational structure"
- Full Pokemon Legends: Z-A map and all locations
- Black Phone 2 stars says that while there are "so many layers" to the upcoming horror sequel, the true heart of the film is the "unique" bond between Finney and Gwen: "You get to watch these characters grow up"
- Game dev union blasts EA buyout, asks the government to scrutinize the daylights out of it: "If jobs are lost or studios are closed due to this deal, that would be a choice, not a necessity"
- October 16
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- A Short Hike dev's free "seasonal pumpkin carving MMO" with "new areas and new secrets" now supports 800 players at once and it's hard to think of a better way to get into the Halloween spirit
- Black Phone 2 director says there was "a lot of pressure" when creating the Grabber's backstory, and that going more into his history "felt disrespectful to the true mystery of evil"
- Black Phone 2 director says the upcoming sequel is more than just another horror allegory for trauma: "What's more interesting to me are people who've been traumatized"
- Pokemon Legends: Z-A's Lumiose City apparently exists in a nightmare realm that pulls you back if you try to leave, and it's already getting the Skyrim meme treatment
- Dead Space creator hopes a $20-billion-in-debt EA will be keener on his Dead Space 4 pitch: "I think there’s an opportunity. I’m already making calls"
- I played the top-rated Soulslike in Steam Next Fest to see what the fuss is about – turns out it's not a Soulslike but a boss rush with amazing combat, and I see what the fuss is about
- Yoda was originally supposed to be blue in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
- 29 years later, cult classic horror game I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream gets "definitive update" from retro powerhouse Nightdive with bonus content, achievements, and "modern menu options"
- The Crew 2 will be "accessible for years to come" thanks to its new offline mode, which Ubisoft attributes to "player feedback" – a low-key way to acknowledge 1.4 million signatures worth of Stop Killing Games pressure
- Gen V season 2 showrunner says the biggest twist in The Boys spin-off was hiding in plain sight: "We were worried that everyone's going to guess"
- Battlefield 6 Conquest tickets get reduced, players revolt: "If I wanted ten-minute chaos with zero teamwork and no room for tactics, I’d go play COD"
- You'd need a heart of stone not to be excited by these new Disney Lorcana Gargoyles cards
- Indie dev hatches the ultimate can't-fail game, combining Minecraft mechanics and Skyrim combat in a co-op RPG that's topping charts at Steam Next Fest for good reason
- Mortal Kombat co-creator says the movie sequel's opening has made him cry every single time he's watched it: "It punches you in the face"
- An Assassin's Creed or Uncharted-style Predator game is something Prey and Predator: Badlands director Dan Trachtenberg is "desperate for" and no, he hasn't forgotten the series' PS2 game rated 47 on Metacritic
- A group of friends learn why you should never have a pet chimp in this terrifying trailer for Primate
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (October 17-19)
- I've finally found desktop speakers that look as good as they sound
- Creative Assembly teases "new historical and fantasy" Total War games to be revealed this year, promises it will fix Total War: Warhammer 3 in the meantime: "We’re sorry that the game entered this state"
- Team Ico pitched Shadow of the Colossus to Sony with placeholder music from Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man: "Later on, we found out that was actually the theme music"
- How to evolve Inkay into Malamar in Pokemon Legends: Z-A
- How to increase friendship in Pokemon Legends: Z-A
- I audibly oo'd and ahh'd while testing this top of the line Sony Inzone H9 II headset, and I'll do it again
- 30 years of strategy games later, Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era flies to 1 million wishlists on Steam thanks to a killer demo: "A truly incredible achievement"
- The last time I was this obsessed with a Balatro-like, it sold 750,000 copies in 2 weeks – and this one has a D&D twist so it's easily my favorite roguelike in Steam Next Fest
- After conquering YouTube, Kirby and Super Smash Bros' Masahiro Sakurai is now getting a 160-page manga about his life and art
- Dying Light: The Beast gets New Game+ and Nightmare difficulty in Techland's roadmap for the hit zombie game, with 11 weeks of special challenges starting right now
- Build a Zoo codes (October 2025) for Lucky Tickets, Eggs, and cash
- Battlefield 6 has sold 7 million copies, EA says it's "the biggest launch in franchise history" and immediately imagines "a connected Battlefield universe"
- Sony's new PS5 deal includes three months PS Plus Premium for free — but it ends soon
- Pokemon Legends Z-A delivers deep lore, but maybe not the lore we wanted: Pokemon do poop, and Lumiose City is overflowing with it
- Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment's Zonai contraptions empowers Zelda's allies in the best way possible, and I'm excited by how much has changed
- I'm playing Hades 2 right after finishing the original, and it highlights how Supergiant Games wants players to "git gud" or get lost
- Beating Hades 2, Megabonk, Dying Light: The Beast, and everyone else, the most powerful Steam release of the past month is an open-world physics sandbox with 27,000 gilded reviews
- After Sony rejected a Horizon Zero Dawn collab, Tencent tried to pitch a new The Last of Us game instead: "I was confused"
- Another studio known for single-player games takes the live service gamble: Heavy Rain dev is making a competitive multiplayer game even as "development of Star Wars: Eclipse continues"
- Balatro but with dice has me hooked, Dice A Million keeps me rolling in this Steam Next Fest demo
- How to evolve Pokemon in Pokemon Legends: Z-A
- Pokemon Legends: Z-A only needs to sell 200k units to break even, former Nintendo marketing leads estimate, so "they should inject a bit more money into these things"
- System Shock and PowerWash Simulator combine in Ambrosia Sky, an exploration sci-fi FPS with immaculate vibes and a Steam Next Fest demo you can play now
- Stranger Things showrunners reveal the iconic horror villains that inspired Vecna
- I'm hyped for Pokemon Legends Z-A, but I'm more excited to play it with this gorgeous $50 Switch 2 controller
- South Park season 28 release schedule: when is episode 2 out on Comedy Central and Paramount Plus?
- "The damage is done": Sony slams Tencent's "nonsense" response to lawsuit over Horizon Zero Dawn-like Light of Motiram, calling the open-world survival game a "knock-off"
- That Switch 2 and Pokémon Legends Z-A bundle is selling fast, some retailers are already out of stock
- The Duffer Brothers had to tell Stranger Things actor not to be "too emotional" while filming the final scenes: "We're like, 'You're not supposed to be upset!'"
- Razer created the best webcam ever made, but its AI-powered Kiyo V2 seems like a step backwards
- Team Ninja, Smash Bros' Masahiro Sakurai, and "rival" Tekken boss Katsuhiro Harada pay tribute to iconic Dead or Alive creator Tomonobu Itagaki
- Stranger Things season 5 will finally explain the Netflix show's biggest mystery: what the Upside Down is
- Hideo Kojima tried to give away free Death Stranding 2 tissues to market the game, but nobody wanted them until he tweeted about it: "Some went out of their way to avoid us"
- Final trailer lands for upcoming true crime series based on America's most terrifying killer, and it looks much scarier than Netflix's Monster
- The Rock pays tribute to Brendan Fraser for helping kickstart his acting career 24 years ago in The Mummy Returns: "I love that man for that"
- How Battlefield 6 spotting works
- All Pokemon Legends Z-A Mystery Gift Codes and Rewards
- Team behind The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon season 3 on how Clint Eastwood's Man with No Name movies and The Revenant influenced the horror show's latest chapter
- Hideo Kojima thinks "of AI as more of a friend," but one he'd only let "handle the tedious tasks" of development "that would lower cost and cut down on time"
- Jim Carrey is set to star in a live-action adaptation of a classic '60s animation from Jurassic World director
- Battlefield 1942 was the unlikely inspiration behind PS2 classic Shadow of the Colossus back when it was a game "where you cooperate to defeat giant monsters"
- A Minecraft Movie 2 release date, cast, plot, and everything else we know so far about the block-tastic sequel
- Controversial $55 billion EA buyout sparks "profound concern" from US senators "about the foreign influence and national security risks"
- Star Wars: Starfighter villain Mia Goth says the movie is pushing her "in a way that I've never been pushed before" – and it's "a completely separate film, not a prequel"
- Battlefield 6 lead downplays upcoming movement changes following community blowback, says the team is just fixing "rough case scenarios"
- The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon EP explains how one of the original show's most heartbreaking storylines inspired season 3: "It was four episodes of him out on his own, looking for this little girl"
- Keanu Reeves' worst on-set injury wasn't from John Wick or The Matrix, but from his angelic new comedy: "The pain was banana cakes"
- Nintendo downplays claims of another hack, days after Pokemon Winds and Waves and Gen 10 'leaks' hit the web following GameFreak's alleged breach last year
- Silent Hill's original game composer says he was "incredibly happy" when he saw the new movie, claims it keeps "the spirit of Silent Hill intact"
- Full Pokemon Legends: Z-A Pokedex – every Pokemon you can find in Lumiose City
- After topping the box office and becoming Netflix's most popular release, KPop Demon Hunters is returning to theaters
- How to pick the best starter in Pokemon Legends: Z-A
- 13 things I wish I knew before starting Pokemon Legends: Z-A
- How to find all the Mega Stones in Pokemon Legends: Z-A
- The Battlefield 6 movement saga reaches new heights as players find glitch that lets you fly into the clouds on a drone, preferably with a sniper for taking out enemies from the sky
- October 15
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- GTA 6 "deserves to be $100," says original Saints Row designer: "The scope and magnitude of this production deserves that price tag"
- Game of Thrones actor leads a lovingly vulgar tribute to "those old point and click adventure games that people gave a sh*t about in the 1990s" with a Steam Next Fest demo custom-built for Monkey Island fanatics
- The Black Phone 2 director says he didn't actually want to make a sequel, but his mind was changed by a short-and-sweet phone call from Stephen King's son Joe Hill
- Stranger Things creators studied legendary TV finales like Six Feet Under, Friday Night Lights and The Sopranos for the show's final episode
- With no new game in sight, Netflix is keeping Splinter Cell alive with a second season of its Deathwatch animated series
- Elder Scrolls Online devs make their bets on the world-first clear of the MMO's Writhing Wall event, watching entire servers fight a rift in the world map itself
- I endured physical pain to keep playing this Shadow of the Colossus meets Mirror's Edge action-platformer in Steam Next Fest, which is about the highest praise I can give
- The Outer Worlds 2 game director campaigned to have Fallout: New Vegas-style factions that tie into the RPG's main story
- After 10 years of Stranger Things, Ross and Matt Duffer say Netflix's patience was "wearing a little thin" when it came to ending the supernatural series: "I wish we had gotten it done a little faster"
- Battlefield 6 devs locked in a tug-of-war with players are "looking at adjustments" to movement "to find a good in-between" following nerfs and exploits
- "I literally feel like I just got my life back": To escape MMO prison after 1,200 hours, one player resorted to an army of Discord ninjas and divorced dragon fan fiction
- New sci-fi RPG from ex Mass Effect devs shares "some DNA" with BioWare's beloved series, but also Sony's Horizon and Nintendo's Metroid
- Kings of infuriating brutal games now heading Ninja Gaiden 4 say fairness is the secret ingredient to difficulty: "Enemies are on equal footing with the player"
- Pillars of Eternity and Fallout: New Vegas lead Josh Sawyer says RPGs are "more interesting" grounded in reality: "Once things get too magical… it's impossible to bring it back down to Earth"
- Eat fur, Super Mario Odyssey – my heart has been stolen by the '90s flavored Bubsy 4D thanks to a generous Steam Next Fest demo
- Stranger Things season 5 finale won't get a theatrical release after all, says Netflix content chief: "Releasing it on Netflix is giving the fans what they want"
- Good Boy made me realize I've judged horror fans who fuss over furry on-screen stars too hard, and now I've found 9 more scary movie dogs that prove them right
- Stranger Things spin-off will "live in a bit of a different world" rather than deepen the Netflix show's "increasingly convoluted mythology"
- Stranger Things season 5's final episode confirmed to be feature-length, but is shorter than the season 4 finale
- Lego Jaws (21350) review: "An impressive homage to a cinematic masterpiece, though the original sets have a hidden issue"
- As The Legend of Zelda's 40th anniversary looms, I'm begging Nintendo to stop ignoring its greatest run of Zelda games and make this generation's Ocarina of Time
- Ball x Pit review: "Vampire Survivors and Breakout collide in this brilliant roguelike ball basher that struggles with repetition"
- First teased in 2016, Stardew Valley-esque magic school RPG Witchbrook hits the 10-year mark with a delay to 2026, but the devs say it's "taking shape exactly as we hoped"
- VisionQuest appears to be more like WandaVision than we thought, as showrunner reveals that each episode of the upcoming Marvel show is "a different type of movie"
- Minecraft devs "probably would not add" the Creeper to the game today, admits Mojang CCO, because "it would be so controversial"
- The biggest roguelike in Steam Next Fest is a Braveheart-inspired musou fighter with almost perfect reviews
- Where to buy the ROG Xbox Ally: live stock updates for the new handheld PC
- Sure, the ROG Xbox Ally X is impressive, but I still play this handheld every night (and it only costs $399)
- The Nintendo Switch 2 Pro Controller might be the best feeling gamepad I've held so far | Review
- Some of Skyrim's iconic bugs are "less than ideal," ex-Bethesda dev admits, but "you're going to lose some of that magic" if you try and "smooth everything out"
- Ghost of Yotei and Tsushima actor says the time leap from the original open-world game "certainly was surprising" even to him, but was "also the right move," even if it disappointed fans
- New adult animation starring Brendan Fraser and Sarah Michelle Gellar asks: what if Tony Soprano was a bear?
- Dbrand promises it's learnt from past mistakes with its Killswitch ROG Xbox Ally X case
- As Pokemon Winds and Waves rumors swirl after huge leak, ex-Nintendo marketing lead says "Nintendo and Pokemon really need to rethink their approach to information security"
- Punch Wall codes (October 2025) for Double Coins Potions
- The Outer Worlds 2 wasn't going to have a third-person view until Obsidian saw the demand from fans: "We actually didn't start doing it until two years ago"
- I never really vibed with XCOM 2, but this Steam Next Fest demo is a turn-based strategy RPG I can finally get behind
- When is The Black Phone 2 on streaming? Speculation on the potential Peacock release date
- The Hyrule Warriors Age of Imprisonment pre-order gift is pretty dull, but the Zelda nerd in me wants it anyway
- 3 years after Werewolf by Night, MCU fans have realized it's hiding the debut of a Marvel comic book character
- Samsung's VR headset will finally be unveiled on October 21, and it could right the wrongs of Apple Vision Pro
- These Jsaux Switch 2 accessory savings have arrived just in time for Pokemon Legends Z-A
- I regret to inform you that I've fallen for the $1,000 ROG Xbox Ally X
- No Man's Sky's biggest problem in 2025 is being too good, and now I'm trapped in a vicious cycle
- Agents of SHIELD fans are convinced the show might finally become MCU canon in VisionQuest after Marvel TV head says he rewatched all 7 seasons last year: "That show really holds up"
- Prepare to try the world's first idle, RPG, auto-battler as Berserk B.I.T.S launches November 20th, with a Next Fest demo you can try now
- Silent Hill f actor didn't just feel her "sanity slipping" while recording for the horror game, "there were times when I would burst into tears" during production: "I felt like I was going crazy"
- All You Need is Kill anime adaptation starring Demon Slayer and Dan Da Dan voice actor gets a trippy new trailer
- Rockstar pays tribute to singer D'Angelo, whose contribution to Red Dead Redemption 2 "will forever be an enduring part" of its legacy
- The Matrix star Laurence Fishburne wants to be Professor X in the X-Men reboot and, yeah, we want to see that happen now
- Leonardo DiCaprio is making an Ed Wood-style biopic about the man who played Dracula
- If you weren't already convinced a new Halo game is being announced this month, Master Chief's voice actor has teased "BIG NEWS A’COMIN!"
- Tron: Ares' $33m opening weekend may have threatened the likelihood of a sequel, a new report claims
- Christopher Nolan calls The Rock's new movie The Smashing Machine "incredible" and "heartbreaking": "I don't think you'll see a better performance this year"
- The Bear star Jeremy Allen White shares first word on Star Wars casting as he says he didn't know exactly who Rotta the Hutt was: "In the moment, almost, I discovered the weight of the character I was voicing"
- Borderlands 4 creative lead promises fans "more options are coming soon" as the crit knife build dominates the meta, and offers a warning: "We will be adjusting it"
- Ghost of Yotei is Sony's best-selling PlayStation release in Europe since Marvel's Spider-Man 2 in 2023, beating Death Stranding 2 and Helldivers 2
- Battlefield 6's 'bloom' problem isn't caused by a beta bug, DICE lead clarifies – that issue was fixed, but two more have emerged in its place
- Fresh off leaking the Daredevil: Born Again season 2 trailer, Krysten Ritter just said too much about making a new Jessica Jones project
- A zombie apocalypse sim that puts you on the front lines of a The Last of Us-style outbreak is tearing up Steam Next Fest
- The Nintendo Switch 2 kit guide: build a handheld setup that will last
- October 14
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- Battlefield 6 players are using ladders to fly around maps in defiance of movement nerfs, and EA already says "we will" patch this out too
- Blade star Mia Goth says "it's for the best" that the Marvel reboot has gone back to the drawing board "They want to do it right"
- This cosmic horror action RPG basically turns my home state of Arizona into the Upside Down from Stranger Things, and it's my first must-play Steam Next Fest demo
- Dante's Inferno with '90s Sailor Moon aesthetics got me to play this Vampire Survivors-like demo in Steam Next Fest, and the second I realized it was a deckbuilding roguelike with Hades storytelling I couldn't smash the wishlist button fast enough
- Japanese government officials say manga and anime are "irreplaceable treasures," ask OpenAI to prevent copyright infringement, and insist Japan should "take the lead" in regulating AI
- Better hurry and finish your 100% Silksong playthrough, because I've found another must-play Metroidvania coming next month, and it has one of the best demos in Steam Next Fest
- Capcom didn't want to re-release the classic Resident Evil games because "we have all of those remakes" which provide "the superior experience"
- Gearbox's Randy Pitchford is pretty happy with Borderlands 4 story feedback: "Isn't it weird to ship a game where the biggest complaint isn't how we f***ed up the story?"
- New It: Welcome to Derry trailer gives us a terrifying new look at Bill Skarsgard's Pennywise – and reminds us that we'll float, too
- Battlefield 6 dev confirms the ghost bullet problem is very real amid 'bloom' debates: "It is commonly observed with the target being visibly hit but no damage is confirmed"
- Facing backlash and worst-ever player counts on Steam, Bungie decides to remove ill-conceived Destiny 2 currency it just added in the MMO's Edge of Fate expansion
- Megabonk creator faces a moral dilemma as the roguelike heads to the moon: Robinette is a broken character, but "I don't really wanna nerf her because it's fun af"
- Drew Struzan, the legendary artist behind the iconic posters for Star Wars, Indiana Jones and more, dies at 78
- Blumhouse first-person horror game is a Silent Hill dystopia where nobody sleeps, and you need to stealth around like it's Alien: Isolation – which I might be better at if I weren't so scared
- The Razer Thunderbolt 5 Dock Chroma has plenty of tricks up its sleeve, and they're all exciting for laptop users | Review
- GTA 6 might feature one of the biggest meme songs of 2025, as rapper Skrilla seemingly confirms it'll be in the new Rockstar game: "Gonna have 6 7 on there, too"
- Elgato just threw a lot of shade at gaming chairs while revealing its new "studio" chair, and I'm still not sure what the difference is
- Battlefield 6 custom search issues are "by design in some ways" because the devs don't want you sitting through "a long timer"
- I'm going full CSI on this very blurry image from Warhammer Quest: Darkwater
- Need extra space for Pokémon Legends Z-A? This Switch 2 memory card is now at a record-low price
- It's 2025 and we're still digging up new finds in the original Dark Souls: FromSoftware expert reckons cut boss attack "likely to be just a typo" that was resolved in the Artorias DLC
- 5 months before season 2 hits our screens, the Daredevil: Born Again season 3 writers' room is already underway
- "Share this to scare Team Cherry": Dev of gorgeous roguelike with bosses "built like MMO raid encounters" declares war on contact damage, quickly adds "Silksong is great, and so is Team Cherry"
- Woot just rolled out a radical deal on the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 Collector's Edition that comes with a real life board
- After 20 years at Ubisoft, Assassin's Creed boss departs right as Ubisoft launches a new Tencent-backed company now handling the franchise
- Assassin's Creed Shadows leaks keep pointing to a Switch 2 release in early December, but Ubisoft doesn't have the best timing as Metroid Prime 4 releases a mere one day earlier
- I've been playing Heroes of Might and Magic since I was 6, and after putting 10 hours into Olden Era's huge Steam demo, the strategy series has never felt better
- One death in Superman had a bigger knock-on effect than expected as James Gunn reveals Rick Flag's motivations behind his Salvation plan
- New Lego Back to the Future set is so much more affordable than I'd expected
- Best Battlefield 6 controller and graphical settings for PS5 and Xbox
- Brainrot Evolution codes (October 2025) for Exp Potions, Crates, and more
- The cozy kit list: How to get the greatest cozy gaming setup this winter
- Doctor Strange's Rachel McAdams gets stranded on an island with the worst boss ever in the first trailer for Spider-Man director's new horror-thriller
- Breaking Bad's Aaron Paul has "always wanted" to be in a game, but The Boys-esque superhero comedy Dispatch was the first truly irresistible role: "Nothing really felt like the right fit"
- After a live-service God of War game was reportedly canceled, Demon’s Souls remake studio Bluepoint appears to be making another third-person action game
- One of my favorite 4K projectors skipped Prime Day, but it's back at a record-low price this week
- Former Nintendo marketing leads theorize the company is finding a "backdoor angle" to use while suing AI creators over fake Pokemon content, "kind of like with Palworld"
- I dropped dogs onto other dogs to create even bigger dogs in Dogpile's hefty Steam Next Fest demo
- I'm over WASD as a way to move in games, and if you are too, you need to try this keypad
- I swear by using TCG playmats as mouse pads, and that's never going to change
- SteelSeries just refreshed the most underrated Arctis Nova headset, and it looks pretty in pink
- X-Men star Evan Peters would "love" to play Quicksilver again to properly explore the mutant's backstory: "I always sort of played it like a guest spot"
- Pokemon Legends Z-A Metacritic score marks it as the second-best Pokemon game of the Nintendo Switch era, only behind Legends: Arceus
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs love to see players "outsmarting" them with obscene builds that break the French JRPG wide open: "The best reward you can get"
- Donkey Kong: King of Swing's spirit returns in Turnip Mountain's arcadey cliff-clambering Steam Next Fest demo
- Pokemon Legends: Z-A review: "Fast fluid real-time fights and a world worth exploring make this finally feel like the anime come to life"
- Stranger Things star has been cast in upcoming Netflix sci-fi series produced by Superman actor, and it sounds spooky
- I've been a professional writer for 8 years, but that didn't stop Steam Next Fest's weirdest battle royale - a terrifying typing game - from completely humbling me
- Battlefield 6 fans cheer as popular cheat maker tells users to pause "for now" following a swift banning spree from EA: "They deserve zero second chances"
- Wonder Man release date, trailer, cast, plot, and more news about the upcoming Marvel show
- Paul Bettany says his Marvel show VisionQuest is set "a year or so" after the events of WandaVision
- Helldivers 2 updates take a pause as Arrowhead commits to sorting out widespread performance issues "to make sure that we can get to a much more stable state that we can believe in"
- House of the Dragon season 3 wraps filming ahead of 2026 release, but fans are frustrated by the production schedule: "Any hype is long dead"
- Despite stealing the show in No Way Home, Andrew Garfield doesn't think The Amazing Spider-Man 3 will ever happen
- One of Steam Next Fest's biggest survival games was a supremely zen rock-climbing experience - right up until I fell to my death
- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker's true budget was almost $600 million, making it the third most expensive movie of all time
- Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford said we'd have to wait at least 5 years to see Borderlands 4 get a major discount, but we've only had to wait 1 month for its first smaller discount as it's already 20% off on Steam
- Call of Duty creator and current Battlefield 6 head Vince Zampella says "The only reason that CoD exists is because EA were d**ks"
- Ghost of Yotei studio Sucker Punch "can only do one thing at a time," admits co-founder – and that's why the "really important" decision of its next game is so hard: "It kind of has to be your best idea, right?"
- Horror legend Stephen King compares Shaun of the Dead director's upcoming adaptation of his sci-fi novel The Running Man to Die Hard: "I've seen it and it's fantastic"
- Supergirl is a "space adventure" like Guardians of the Galaxy, James Gunn says
- Stranger Things showrunner officially reveals season 5, volume 1 episode runtimes, and they're not as long as I was expecting
- New Silksong patch nerfs my favorite Hornet Silk Skill but makes up for it with bug fixes aplenty, including out-of-bounds issues and a softlock
- Steam Next Fest's first big hit is a brutal medieval combat sim where I bludgeoned three other peasants with a candlestick
- James Gunn loves the Peacemaker season 2 finale but says it's "completely fair" if you didn't like it
- Pokemon Legends: Z-A may get an even "lower than Arceus" Metacritic score as "people are very resistant to change," predict ex-Nintendo marketing leads: "Some of the things that they're introducing might be a little bit divisive"
- Marvel TV Head teases Scream star's new Daredevil: Born Again character Mr Charles: "He’s a bit of a new antagonist… but he’s as influential as Fisk is"
- Splinter Cell: Deathwatch review: "A pale imitation of the long-dormant stealth franchise"
- October 13
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- Silent Night, Deadly Night cast and crew talk turning the reboot into a holiday slasher rom-com: "I wanted there to be a love story, but I wanted it to be a challenging one"
- A player before me destroyed a bridge in this Steam Next Fest demo, so I had to build it again in this narrative adventure where your choices have consequences for others
- One-Punch Man fans aren't impressed with season 3 animation quality, comparing it to a "slideshow": "I'm scared how they'll handle the fights"
- Wrong Turn reboot director talks taking on a tonally different IP with Silent Night, Deadly Night remake: "You're laughing, you're disgusted, you're like, 'I shouldn't be watching this right now'"
- KPop Demon Hunters co-directors don't want to see a live-action remake of their Netflix hit: "It's really hard to imagine these characters in a live-action world"
- Former Doctor Who writer says the beloved sci-fi show is "probably as dead we've ever known it" and Ncuti Gatwa's season 2 finale "put a full stop on things"
- Silent Hill 2 remake actor's "most difficult scene" is an iconic moment from the horror game: "I was really making sure I didn't cry"
- 20 years later, cult classic PS2 JRPG Tales of Rebirth is finally fully playable in English thanks to a fan translation that's been in the works for nearly 4 years
- Undertale comes full circle as the JRPG creator who inspired it says his new game is inspired by Undertale
- Former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida has one regret from the PS1 era: the US and Europe missed out on too many Japanese classics
- It took 14 weeks for Marvel fans to discover Simon Williams' powers were hiding in an old Wonder Man trailer
- Borderlands 4 butcher slaughters 3,000 bosses over 150 hours to prove just how bad the shooter's drop rates are: "I am pretty much done"
- After careful consideration, I've decided to endorse these Jurassic Park games ahead of Jurassic World Evolution 3
- Get your first look at a devastating Pokemon Phantasmal Flames card in this exclusive reveal
- The Acer Predator Helios Neo 16S AI wants to do it all, and it just might | Review
- Skyrim's longevity shocked Bethesda devs as the RPG was thriving "still, ten years later" thanks to its unique open world: "By all rights, a year later, some other game should have eclipsed it"
- The best new shows and movies streaming this week on Netflix, Disney Plus, HBO Max, and more
- An RTX 5070 under $500? I'm not planning to wait for Black Friday with a discount this rare
- Ghost of Yotei's art director wanted the RPG to look like a "living painting," but the detail required stresses even me out: "When the wind blows, the trees know how strong the wind is"
- After 47 hours, Palworld lead finally hits 100% in Megabonk on Steam and has "tried a world record run," catching the eye of the roguelike's solo dev himself: "Well bonked"
- Pokemon Legends: Z-A is the latest victim of a major Nintendo breach, as more than 70GB of information is reportedly shared online in huge 'Freakleak'
- 18 years later, Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles explains what Cloud Strife is actually doing there thanks to newly discovered secret dialogue
- James Gunn is officially in the DCU after this sneaky Peacemaker season 2 cameo
- It took 8 hours of losing to find my favorite thing about Hollow Knight: Silksong
- Here are three ROG Xbox Ally accessories I'd grab before the handheld arrives
- EA is apparently playing whack-a-mole as Battlefield 6 fans keep using the FPS game's new Portal mode to set up XP farms to bypass the sluggish progression grind
- Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin admits he's "always had trouble with deadlines," but he "doesn't feel happy breaching contracts or missing a deadline" over Winds of Winter
- Anime Last Stand codes (October 2025) for Technique Shards, Pearls, and more
- Borderlands 4's loot grind is good for your brain, Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford says, and that the studio would "be dead" if other competitors understood that better
- Where to buy MTG Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, including the hard-to-find Pizza Bundle
- Channing Tatum doesn't think 23 Jump Street will ever be made, and is blaming one person in particular
- Even after 14 years of League of Legends, fighting game 2XKO can do little but make me think of the games I wish Riot was still making instead
- Despite the massive launch, Battlefield 6 players are once again slamming the FPS game's map sizes: "It really feels like five maps, not nine"
- Everwild might've been canceled by Xbox after 11 years of development, but new screenshots show a stunning game that might've proven a true adventure game genre gem
- The Outer Worlds 2 lead says players want "deeper RPGs," and that the team has looked to "older Obsidian games" to deliver just that: "How can we bring that back to the forefront"
- Jar Jar Binks and Kelleran Beq actor Ahmed Best is co-writing a Star Wars comic that will feature a "team-up for the ages" between his two characters
- Frieren manga going on indefinite break ahead of the anime's season 2 release due to author's health issues
- Invincible season 4's teaser has a NSFW connection, and it's led to an unlikely request from fans
- Channing Tatum says his unmade Gambit movie had something "Marvel and Disney would never do": mutants having sex
- Battlefield 6 fixes coming "one step at a time" as devs fix missing rewards, movement bugs, and more within 48 hours of launch, and eye up "other elements of the core loop" next: "Thanks for all the feedback!"
- Marvel fans are wondering if the MCU will ever acknowledge Agents of SHIELD again: "I want it expressly made canon"
- Hideo Kojima enjoys the trip of a lifetime to Brazil to promote Death Stranding 2, meeting a doppelganger of himself, probably eating a cake modeled after himself, and more
- New anime movie Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle is now the highest-grossing international movie ever in the US, beating out an Oscar-winning movie in the process
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- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is only 85% of its creative director's original vision for the French JRPG, and he "would have loved" to do more with a specific fan-favorite character
- Krysten Ritter unveils first look at Jessica Jones return in a leaked Daredevil: Born Again season 2 trailer
- October 12
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- Square Enix announces the first new Dissidia Final Fantasy in 8 years, but fighting game fans are dismayed it's only on mobile: "I have little faith this will be anywhere near as good"
- Mortal Kombat III confirmed by writer as well as new footage of Baraka in Mortal Kombat II
- Left for dead by Amazon and revived by Tencent, free anime MMO Blue Protocol: Star Resonance launches to over 90,000 Steam players but only 48% positive user reviews
- 007 First Light might have its own James Bond, but the Hitman studio is borrowing from "the Daniel Craig era" in one major way: his physicality
- Ghost of Yotei creative director says "the cognitive overload of all of the systems and all the buttons on the controller can be quite intense"
- We saw new IT: Welcome to Derry footage behind closed doors and we can't wait to float again
- October 11
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- The Godfather and Oscar-winning Annie Hall star, Diane Keaton, dies at 79
- Daredevil: Born Again season 2 release date confirmed after NYCC trailer shows the return of Jessica Jones
- Wonder Man trailer teases what if The Studio was set in the MCU?
- 007 First Light studio "didn't want to create this superman from day one" with its fresh-faced James Bond: "It's not very relatable"
- Ghost of Yotei has so much climbing because the devs wanted to focus on the "idea of freedom," and because Hokkaido really is that steep and "epic"
- Borderlands 4 boss Randy Pitchford channels Hideo Kojima, hopes to make "an NPC or a gun or a side quest" based on a guy who told him he looks like Randy Pitchford
- EA makes amends with Battlefield 6 players shut out at launch with 24 XP boosters and up to two Battle Passes: "We wanted to offer an apology… with perks"
- Yellowjackets will come to an end at its fourth season
- The Vampire Lestat returns in a bloody new extended look at AMC's incredible horror series
- If you love painting Warhammer, this aura farming Space Marine model is a must-have
- Running Man star Glen Powell got told last-minute he needed Stephen King's nod after taking the role
- Sigourney Weaver could return for another Alien movie after reading a 50-page script
- Sandfall says Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 winning GOTY "isn't something we aim for," and even though it would be a "nice little bonus," it's rooting for Megabonk
- October 10
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- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director says "there are still a few" secrets players have yet to find in the JRPG
- Invincible season 4 trailer and release date revealed
- Final Fantasy Tactics player puts in the grind to prove once and for all that "Chocobos can believe in monster Jesus" and will "leave your party to go find God" if their Faith stat gets too high
- Peacemaker season 2: The finale's comic book history could be hinting at one of DC's biggest villains
- As EA app blocks Battlefield 6 owners from playing by charging for imaginary DLC, series boss Vince Zampella says it's "honestly embarrassing" and suggests you "refund and buy on Steam"
- REPO dev says its big monster update turns it into more of "a proper horror game" and "reinvigorates the entire gameplay loop"
- After a six-year wait and middling second season, One-Punch Man desperately needs to prove itself again
- "Nintendo created their big competition": Shuhei Yoshida says Super NES ditching PlayStation at the last minute was "almost helpful"
- Wonder Man trailer tackles the concept of superhero fatigue head-on with a show about a remake of a movie that no one wants
- Battlefield 6 "purchase to play" error tells players to buy DLC just to play the multiplayer or campaign, EA says it's patching it out
- Baldur's Gate 2 writer was unconvinced anyone would care about romance in an RPG: "People don't come here to romance, they come here to fight s**t and battle dragons"
- As an '80s kid, MTG Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles just feels right... but why can Aunt May and a Pigeon beat Super Shredder?
- RPG legend Josh Sawyer says the reason classics like Baldur's Gate disappeared in the '00s was "because retailers told us no one wanted to buy them"
- Peacemaker’s season 2 finale: laughter, tears, and a lot of setup for the future of the DCU
- James Gunn plans to direct "a couple more" DCU movies, unless he gets "so f***ing tired I can't do it"
- I'm choosing to ignore that Xbox Game Pass Ultimate price hike thanks to this chunky discount
- MTG Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set announced with "pizza lands" and totally tubular throwbacks, man
- Former Skyrim dev praises Baldur's Gate 3 for the RPG's faithfulness to Dungeons & Dragons: "That's as close as we've gotten to tabletop role-playing on a computer"
- Fantastic Four and one-time Assassin's Creed actor reacts to Ubisoft's cancellation of a post-Civil War era game in the most appropriate way possible: "F**k off"
- 20 years after its release, watching Tim Burton's Corpse Bride as an adult hits so much harder in a world obsessed with relationships
- I already knew this gaming laptop was punching above its price weight, and now it's even cheaper this weekend
- Battlefield 6 is EA's biggest Steam launch ever, passing 700,000 concurrent players in under an hour and finally dethroning Apex Legends as the king
- Rumor has it that Valve could be planning to unearth not one but two new VR headsets later in 2025
- GTA lead's big gamble turned worst game of 2025 contender was such a disaster that nearly 100 devs are demanding change and apologies for "unbearable levels of overtime" and "mishandled" layoffs
- Baldur's Gate 3 director wishes indie dev behind "impossible" RPG reminiscent of The Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall the "best of luck" as it hits 58k wishlists on Steam
- Battlefield 6 queue system will keep players in line and servers stable at launch and "peak moments," devs hope: "We anticipate many of you to login at the same time"
- Best Battlefield 6 Training Paths and how to unlock them
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- The best part of Silent Hill f is also my favorite from Bloodborne, and it has nothing to do with "Soulslike" combat
- Best Battlefield 6 Attack Helicopter loadout for controlling the skies
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- New horror sequel The Black Phone 2 just unveiled its popcorn bucket – and it might just be the weirdest (and creepiest) one we've seen yet
- Genshin Impact takes a shot at Roblox with its own game creator: Miliastra Wonderland is a new permanent UGC mode with PvP and the first fully customizable character
- Battlefield 6 lead calls generative AI "very seducing," but says it was only used in the game's earliest stages "to allow for more time and more space to be creative"
- Dandy's World codes (October 2025) for free Ichor
- I might be going mad, but Turtle Beach's new gaming keyboard has the weirdest space bar I've used yet
- Deadpool was considered for a Peacemaker season 2 cameo, and even Ryan Reynolds was down with the unlikely Marvel and DC crossover
- Star Wars actor Cameron Monaghan is "barely" in Tron: Ares, and disappointed fans want answers: "I need to know how much was left on the cutting room floor"
- I tried a massage gun to see if it'd help my bad gaming posture, and I don't know why they aren't a bigger trend among gamers
- The Outer Worlds 2 gets its own Xbox controller just weeks before the game's release date
- Fortnite dataminers find sus game files that say "PriceChange," but Epic Games denies a price hike for its subscription: "Those rumors aren't true and the price changes aren't happening"
- How does ANC work, and why is it more than just a gaming headset gimmick?
- World of Warcraft and League of Legends MMO veteran says his new studio will "likely close" if it's "unable to find a publisher soon" for fantasy MMORPG Ghost: "We're doing everything we can"
- With plate Tetris, dog-spinning, and limb-tangling smooching, Consume Me perfectly merges narrative and mechanic design to warmly tackle heavy themes
- Can you list all the Resident Evil games in order?
- The Silent Hill 2 remake probably isn't getting the long-rumored Born from a Wish DLC anytime soon, as Maria's voice actor confirms "we have not recorded anything"
- A Knight of the Seven Kingdom's six episodes reportedly run "roughly 30 minutes" each, and fans aren't impressed: "30-minute episodes for a Game of Thrones TV show? Good lord"
- Tron: Ares producers say there was never a point where Jeff Bridges wasn't in the movie: "He *is* the franchise"
- HP apparently got its calendar confused because our top-rated Omen Max 16 laptop is even cheaper than over Prime Day
- Original Fantastic Four stars Michael Chiklis and Ioan Gruffudd are keen to join the Avengers: Secret Wars cast: "It's clobberin' time"
- Peacemaker season 3 might not be happening after all, according to James Gunn "This is about the future of the DCU"
- American and Euro Truck Simulator devs have some "hidden cards" on the roadmap after the PS5 and Xbox Series X ports, but they won't be launching until 2026 at the earliest
- After 17 years, veteran Halo developer leaves series, says "our industry seems dire" and promises to share more details about his departure "when it is absolutely safe to do so"
- Despite its 26% Rotten Tomatoes score and low box-office takings, The Conjuring spin-off The Curse of La Llorona is getting a sequel
- Borderlands 4 lead gives fans "7 days notice" as Gearbox aims the nerf cannon at broken builds with fixes to "unintended interactions in certain Vault Hunter skills" arriving next week
- How does the Peacemaker season 2 finale set up James Gunn's upcoming Superman sequel, Man of Tomorrow?
- After Spider-Man: No Way Home, Andrew Garfield is adamant he's not returning to the MCU for Avengers: Doomsday: "Unequivocally f***ing no"
- I want to root for the ROG Xbox Ally, but the Lenovo Legion Go is making it look bad at Best Buy
- Battlefield 6's campaign is rooted in silliness, but after playing through all 9 levels I wouldn't have it any other way
- The best horror movies of 2025 have already been announced, and 28 Years Later didn't even make it into the top 10
- Battlefield 6 release live coverage – all the patch note highlights, launch information, and more that you need to know
- James Gunn reveals Peacemaker season 2 originally ended without the gut-punch final scene
- Demon Slayer and One-Punch Man better watch out, Duolingo is getting a five-part anime starring Duo as a Sailor Moon-inspired villain
- Battlefield 6 devs say Labs will "probably be a staple of development for us" going forward after being "a big part of dev" on the new FPS game
- Battlefield 6 devs say the plan was to launch with bigger maps "all along," and that the beta's notoriously smaller maps "were intentionally smaller than the ones we know are coming" in the full FPS
- Ghost of Yotei lead says the "easier" Sucker Punch made the Tsushima sequel, "people liked it less" – but devs didn't want to "alienate a bunch of people" with its Lethal difficulty, either
- Tron: Ares ending explained - Does Ares use the permanence code? Where is Sam Flynn, and what does it mean for the future of the Grid?
- Does Tron: Ares have a post-credits scene?
- Tron: Ares director already has an idea for Tron 4, and says that the post-credits scene is the key: "It's hinting on something to come"
- Peacemaker season 2 ending explained: who dies, what is Salvation, and what is Peacemaker's fate?
- Dragon Quest 1 & 2 HD-2D Remake adds "numerous" new scenarios "that connect to the overall Erdrick Trilogy" as well as "encounters with people not featured in the original title"
- October 9
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- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 studio's next game won't necessarily be an RPG: "We don't want to be constrained by story, art style or gameplay"
- Mortal Kombat 2 is as much about Kitana as it is about Johnny Cage: "They go in and out of each other throughout the movie"
- A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms showrunner talks casting the perfect Dunk and Egg for the new Game of Thrones spin-off: "It was the least stressful decision we've ever had to make"
- The unlikely heroes of The Mighty Nein are here in living color as the first trailer for the Critical Role animated series arrives
- For 19 years, this Ratchet & Clank game was "a holy grail for probably 14 people," but after 6 years of preservation efforts it's no longer lost media
- Ed Gein actor Charlie Hunnam will be on the other side of the ax in Monster season 4 as the murdered father of Ella Beatty's Lizzie Borden
- Alien: Isolation writer originally thought Ellen Ripley's daughter as protagonist was too "Son of Frankenstein" and "convenient," but was sold after realizing "everything had so much more weight and heart"
- "This is going to be horrible": BioWare's classic D&D RPG Baldur's Gate 2 looked like a "hacked-up monstrosity that was still full of bugs" as the devs crunched to get it finished in time for launch
- Minecraft movie sequel release date set for 2027
- Full Battlefield 6 day one patch is 2,800 words long, taking a huge pass at movement, vehicles, and some of the best guns
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (October 10-12)
- Battlefield 6 Metacritic score is the best the FPS series has had in years, but still can't match the likes of Battlefield 3
- Super Mario Bros speedrun legend returns to the most competitive category after $5,000 bounty and sets 2 world records in a day: "If this isn't proof that I'm him, I don't know what is"
- "It saved my life": Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion actor says performance capture acting in games pulled him out of "£34,000 worth of debt" and "years of not doing very well"
- "We need something bigger" - Elgato is launching a larger version of its best accessory, now designed for professional studios
- The Binding of Isaac creator Edmund McMillen says he only made the genre-defining hit to try a "basic roguelike" and "get my feet in the water" before his real magnum opus
- Little Nightmares 3 review: "An overly safe, uneven, and half-baked follow-up where co-op is a hindrance instead of the evolution it should've been"
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle New Game+ explained
- Blizzard says removal of popular World of Warcraft combat mods "needs to happen" in Midnight to "level the playing field" for the long-running MMO
- The Game of Thrones spin-off George R.R. Martin loves gets its first trailer – and it shows off a different side to Westeros
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- Snap up this Super Mario Piranha Plant set while it's still at its lowest-ever price
- The upcoming G'AIM'E Time Crisis light gun console is now up for pre-order, and my trigger fingers are twitching with excitement
- Turtle Beach has unveiled the best looking Switch 2 cases yet and they're only $30 each
- I don't think I'm good enough at Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 to contend with the new update, so I'm heading back into the JRPG to face my biggest fear
- Almost 10 years later, indie dev accidentally makes their 10-player co-op platformer free on Steam: "I forgot that once you switch from paid to free, I can never go back"
- With a new season on the way, is Blood Bowl's second edition still worth a look?
- The Elder Scrolls 6 will feature an NPC made in memory of a beloved fan, all thanks to the RPG community's most dedicated lorekeepers – and $85,000: "We just finished up a meeting with Bethesda"
- Activision finally gives in and confirms Call of Duty Black Ops 7 will not use SBMM: "At launch, Open Matchmaking with minimal skill consideration will be the default"
- May I Ask For One Final Thing? release schedule: when is episode 3 on Crunchyroll?
- Evade codes (October 2025) for free Points and Cosmetics
- Creative Assembly wanted to make Alien: Isolation 2 for years, but Disney buying Fox is what "made it a lot more possible," says former dev
- PS6 release date speculation soars as PS5 architect Mark Cerny teases "future console" and says "current approach" to lighting and graphics has "reached its limit"
- As Steam's unfair regional pricing comes under fire, hit JRPG Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter joins Arc Raiders in updating costs for international gamers
- After 7 years, I can't believe people are still missing out on Red Dead Redemption 2 because of a little snow
- Battlefield 6 review: "More refined than innovative, this FPS is on target with multiplayer even if its campaign is just a big shrug"
- Sonic the Hedgehog's Takashi Iizuka said Sonic Adventure remakes aren't happening, but Sega just filed a trademark that's fueling hopes for a Shadow the Hedgehog revival
- Behind the scenes GTA 5 camera work reveals Rockstar's trickery, featuring transforming NPCs, random T-poses, and a half-built plane
- It looks like Steven Spielberg's Jaws is still the gold standard as upcoming shark horror movie opts to use practical models instead of CGI
- Where to buy the Icon Blue Special Edition DualSense controller
- Nintendo's mystery Pikmin video was nothing more than a showcase for Nintendo Pictures, which will "continue to explore new creative possibilities through video content"
- The fabulously spooky Razer Gengar Collection has evolved in the best possible way
- GTA 6 price tag of $100 "would actually leave money on the table" for Rockstar, study suggests, as too many fans would be unwilling to buy
- Hyper Light Drifter dev is ending development on its open-world roguelike sequel and going through layoffs: "This was not our ideal path, but rather the only one available"
- After rising to "Mostly Positive" Steam reviews following chill Stardew Valley-like DLC, inZOI devs know you want "realistic tragedy, the darker sides of life, and unpredictable dramatic events" and more in future updates
- Critical Role 4 fans are celebrating an easily-missed piece of D&D expertise that helped manage the 13-player chaos of the campaign's first episode
- Absolum review: "Classic beat 'em up systems pair beautifully with a run-based structure in this fleet-footed, wonderfully varied Hades-like"
- Remember Evolve? The studio behind Delta Force certainly does, because it's making an Escape From Tarkov-style shooter where one player is a very hungry monster
- Over 32 years later, Nintendo has finally released the obscure Mario game from the creators of Pokemon outside of Japan
- Good news Dexter fans, despite canceling Original Sin, Paramount has renewed Dexter: Resurrection for season 2
- Gillian Anderson and Evan Peters on what makes Tron: Ares "feel like it's all new" while still honoring the original franchise: "It's a race against time"
- Prime Day may be over, but these 8 gaming deals are still live and waiting for you
- "Greed over gaming": Game Pass price hike slammed by Xbox co-founder as a "betrayal" to fans, says the company "threw away one of their last advantages"
- Veteran Elder Scrolls Online devs set up new worker-owned studio after Xbox cancelled their last game: "We only answer to people who are passionate about games"
- Hulu launches on Disney Plus in the UK, saying goodbye to four years of Star
- Ghost of Yotei devs "like having a clean screen" free of mini maps and yellow paint: "Why would we muck it up with all this stuff on the screen if we can figure out other ways to guide you?"
- Blumhouse aims to reinvent Saw by getting the original talent "hugely involved" in the new movies
- Andrew Garfield wants to appear in Beyond the Spider-Verse but doesn't have an answer for whether he is showing up in Avengers: Secret Wars
- Roguelike breakout Megabonk has released a patch which reworks the final swarm: "The current meta required you to wear sunglasses and watch a slideshow / lightshow at 1.5fps for 5 hours to get a WR"
- Mad Max: Fury Road director George Miller disappoints everyone by taking part in an AI film festival: "AI is here to stay"
- Assassin's Creed fans react to reports of canceled Civil War-era game that would've had players take on the Ku Klux Klan, saying Ubisoft shouldn't be "caving to the 1% of people who got in their fe-fes about Shadows"
- Borderlands 4 creative director says "It’s way more involved and riskier than it appears" as fans call for a popular dialog skip mod to become official, warns it may "lead to broken mission states that might not be recoverable"
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director wants the French RPG to be open to interpretation, but thinks "we failed as writers" if you don't connect to its cast as humans
- Crunchyroll is releasing all five hours of Chainsaw Man for free on YouTube so everyone can catch up before the Reze Arc movie
- This ridiculously blatant Animal Crossing somehow made its way onto the PlayStation Store, but I have a hunch it won't be there long
- October 8
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- Marvel Rivals Daredevil actor is actively encouraging players to be the worst versions of themselves: "The devil doesn't switch off, even when he's going negative"
- If Stranger Things season 5 was a movie, it would reportedly be one of the most expensive movies ever made
- One of the best and most popular anime on Crunchyroll for fall 2025 is not from Japan, and I like it way more than I thought I would
- "Feels like I'm shooting pebbles": Gearbox is planning Borderlands 4 patches to buff legendary pistols, help assault rifles, and improve the beloved Hellwalker
- Chainsaw Man movie opening credits are as weird and wild as I hoped: catch up with Denji, Aki, and Power with a great new theme song and even better animation than the anime series
- Hey Pokemon fans, Razer's Pokemon Edition set is cheaper than ever this Prime Day
- "The beaches will dry before the Helldivers do": Helldivers 2 players made Seyshel Beach the new Malevelon Creek, complete with propaganda and a stunned response from Arrowhead
- Canceled Assassin's Creed game was set in post-Civil War America, but was reportedly axed due to Assassin's Creed Shadows Yasuke backlash and US political climate: "Too political in a country too unstable"
- L-shaped standing desks can be pricey, but there's still time to get this one for under $300
- Monster star Charlie Hunnam "never felt like we were sensationalizing" Ed Gein, says the Netflix series is "a very sincere exploration of the human condition" where we should be asking who the real monsters are
- The Meta Quest 3S is back to its lowest-ever price - should you buy it now or wait until Black Friday?
- If your ideal Christmas present is 'more Pokemon cards,' check this festive box set out
- Genshin Impact is giving out free 5-star Constellations for the first time in 5 years, but FOMO beckons: after today, you'll miss out on one
- Super Mario Galaxy has a "horribly inefficient" secret: the credits are always loaded in the background while you play, which has the "inadvertently heartwarming" side effect of making sure the platformer always remembers the Nintendo legends who made it
- My go-to Switch 2 travel case has never been cheaper, but you have to be quick to grab it
- My newest Crunchyroll obsession has filled the Summer Hikaru Died-shaped hole in my life
- PlayStation immediately outperformed Nintendo and Sega in Europe at launch because neither had a "consistent marketing strategy," and Sony "didn't say no to things"
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director says AAA-sized "scope and budget" might have made it worse, actually, because "not artificially padding out the game time excessively" was key to the RPG's success
- I picture Rockstar and Nintendo lawyers locking eyes as one bold dev creates slick Zelda meets GTA action game Vice: Magic City Mayhem – "You ain't gettin nowhere without yo s***. Take this"
- Cutscene haters beware, Baby Steps is hiding a secret 28-minute cutscene where the characters chat about Uncharted, Game of Thrones and more, and you'll only see it if you skip too many
- Gen V season 2 episode 6 explained: Is Annabeth a supe? Who is the burned-up man?
- Switch 2 microSD Express cards are finally cheaper thanks to Prime Day
- Mario Kart 8 has outsold Mario Kart World for 2 months straight in the US, but since "over 80%" of Switch 2 owners already have World via console bundle, that "kind of makes it impossible" to outdo the 11-year series GOAT
- Sony was so desperate for video games and the PS1 to look "f***ing cool" that marketing execs say they'd take games to "places that were almost quite dangerous" to be "associated with alcohol, drug taking… anything"
- Hurry — Apple's cheapest iPad is at its lowest price yet, but for just 12 hours (and counting)
- Dropping PS4 and Xbox One was a "magic trick" for Battlefield 6 and its improved destruction, technical director says: "We've kind of raised the floor of what we have"
- This upscaler is a key part of my retro console setup, and Prime Day just made it more affordable
- As games face censorship on Steam and beyond, Japanese site says fine, we'll make our own dang payment method, and actually pulls it off
- A controller with TMR thumbsticks doesn't need to cost a fortune, and this $40 Prime Day deal proves it
- Return to Silent Hill's James Sunderland actor teases a "wild, chaotic" movie that forced him to check into a Swiss spa after being "exhausted" by "playing scared"
- Pokemon Legends: Z-A has got the shiny hunting sicko in me cautiously optimistic, but I hope the RPG doesn't repeat one of Scarlet and Violet's biggest mistakes
- The Witcher season 4 shows a very different Ciri – one that fans say is the "spitting image" of her video game counterpart in CD Projekt Red's RPG series
- I can't game without a soundbar thanks to this one model, and Prime Day has it $100 cheaper
- Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director joins Palworld dev, FPS legend Shroud, and thousands of positive players on Steam on the Megabonk hype train: "It's the perfect brain rot"
- Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds has Sega's "secret sauce" thanks to the devs combining "the essence" of multiple other "legendary" racing games like OutRun and Initial D
- Anime Eternal codes (October 2025) for free Credits, Potions, and more
- Pikmin fans are vindicated as Nintendo reuploads its mysterious baby short film with visible Pikmin, but still refuses to elaborate on what it's actually teasing
- If Baldur's Gate 3 and Pentiment were blasted into space, you'd get Warhammer 40K: Dark Heresy – and after checking it out for an hour, I couldn't have plucked a better RPG from my dreams
- You're running out of time to get the 2025 Lego Advent Calendars at their lowest price
- Trust me, this tiny Game Boy Micro retro handheld is the best $40 you'll spend this Prime Day
- We've still got Black Friday to go, so here are the best Prime Day gaming deals under $100
- Chainsaw Man pulls a Demon Slayer and is putting on early Reze Arc movie screenings for some Crunchyroll subscribers
- PSA: These two hidden Ghost of Yotei settings give the action absurd levels of aura
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is getting a whole new location, extra late-game bosses, and more to celebrate the French JRPG hitting 5 million copies sold: "We hope the update we're working on will act as a 'thank you'"
- Stephen King teases It: Welcome to Derry's "terrifying" first episode, as he gives the horror spin-off his public seal of approval
- Just in case you thought Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds wasn't chaotic enough, its next online event has a mode rotation dedicated to throwing items at fellow racers to earn Minecraft prizes
- Activision is kicking off a Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 free trial when the Black Ops 7 beta ends, just in case you were thinking about getting Battlefield 6
- Kingdom Hearts actor auditioned for the role of Cloud in Final Fantasy 7 Remake "a very long time ago" after Square Enix asked him: "He's the Riku of Final Fantasy"
- The Witcher fans still aren't sure about the Netflix show's new Geralt thanks to one line in the season 4 trailer: "He doesn't have a squad like Call of Duty"
- Dune star Rebecca Ferguson confirms that Lady Jessica will return for Part 3, despite not appearing in the book: "I wasn't reckoning on it"
- Lord of the Rings star Elijah Wood's verdict on Hunt for Gollum's script should reassure all Middle-earth fans
- The Outer Worlds 2's first open biome is "pretty big and meaty" because Obsidian "wanted to see how far we could push things," but the RPGs other areas "are not much smaller"
- As Steam, PlayStation Store, and more get slammed over regional pricing, upcoming extraction shooter from ex-Battlefield devs, Arc Raiders, reduces price in 10+ countries: "We want to ensure a more fair price point for all"
- Hideo Kojima says Metal Gear Solid and Death Stranding wouldn't exist without the Osaka World's Fair he attended 55 years ago
- Here's how to watch Jujutsu Kaisen season 3 early, but US fans might be frustrated by their release date
- When is Tron: Ares on streaming? Speculation on the potential Disney Plus release date
- Get some great It: Welcome to Derry gifts with the latest issue of SFX
- Self-proclaimed "immersive" actor Jared Leto opens up on the "difficult challenge" of playing a Program with no backstory in new sci-fi sequel Tron: Ares
- Alien: Isolation writer says the game "is too scary" for a lot of people and "we probably could've sold more if we'd watered it down," and speaking for the scaredy cats, I'm so glad they didn't
- October 7
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- Blizzard says Diablo 4's next PTR "will be important" and "a lot will be changing," with big updates to loot, combat, Renown, and "more"
- "Holy s***, jumping is back": After 11 years, Assassin's Creed Mirage brings back the parkour feature fans have been missing since Unity – a jump button
- After shooting two episodes of Ahsoka season 2, Bryce Dallas Howard now has more Star Wars live-action directing credits than any other filmmaker: "If I can be of service to Lucasfilm, I will"
- Prime Day Switch deals like these are music to my physical game-collecting ears
- These cute Switch thumb grips are my favorite Halloween tradition, and they're now less than $10 this Prime Day
- DICE confirms final Battlefield 6 PC system requirements that "a substantial number" of beta players did not meet, and gets bonus points for actually breaking it down by FPS, resolution, and settings
- Battlefield 6 players fear Closed Weapons mode was unfairly buried in the beta, but DICE lead says "we did measure" how many people picked it based on where it was in menus
- Marvel Rivals gives Daredevil next-level wallhacks: true to his character, he can even 'see' invisible enemies
- Microsoft delays Xbox Game Pass price hike for existing subscribers in "certain countries," but only "for now" and not for the US or UK
- This Rode gadget was designed for streamers, but it's perfect for cozy gamers and you can get it for $100 less right now
- Skyrim player 3D scans himself into the game, executes himself immediately, and invades Dark Souls for good measure: “Wanted to get a video of me decapitating myself”
- Original Freddy Kreuger actor reveals his choice for a successor, says a Nightmare on Elm Street reboot should skip the first movie: "I don't know if they should ever reboot Part 1 again"
- You don't even need to be a gamer to appreciate this record-breaking Corsair mouse deal this Prime Day
- 7 of my favorite Halloween board games have been slashed in price for Prime Day
- Price increases be damned, here's how you can get a PS5 Pro for just over $600 this Prime Day
- The new Azeron Keyzen gaming keypad just got its first-ever discount, and it's arrived at Amazon right on time for Prime Big Deals
- "This is sacrilegious!": Final Fantasy 7 Remake's new cheat mode is controversial even at Square Enix, but the JRPG's co-director Naoki Hamaguchi believes "the player should have the choice"
- [Update: We're so back] Steam is down, with store errors and strong lag hitting the web and client version: "An error occurred while processing your request"
- Sony was "very close close to getting the FIFA license," former PlayStation exec says, and nearly bought Peter Molyneux's studio before losing it to EA: "It was easier and cheaper to buy them"
- "I don't know why I subject myself to this level of torture": Oblivion Remastered player spends 100 hours spamming the RPG's most basic spell in the sewers, all to achieve a goal they set themselves as a child
- The new Assassin's Creed Mirage DLC will have to wait, because I can finally play the Far Cry 3 expansion I missed out on 13 years ago
- New Sims 4 Adventure Awaits expansion features "a really crappy design choice" fans wish wasn't intentional on EA's part: "This has got to be a bug, right?"
- Director of snubbed 2024 game of the year Dragon's Dogma 2 says potato chips were key to the development and pacing of Devil May Cry 5 – and I'll be damned, Hideaki Itsuno, you've got a point
- Where to find the Ghost of Yotei undying armor set
- These Game Buds are a more permanent feature of my ears than my piercings, and now they're super cheap this Prime Day
- Tron: Ares review: "Misses out by swapping the Grid for the real world"
- Dwayne Johnson addresses The Smashing Machine debuting to a career-worst $5.9 million over its opening weekend: "In our storytelling world, you can't control box office results"
- Tron: Ares star says he "watched a lot of DEF CON conferences and lock picking" videos to channel the new sci-fi sequel's "manic" villain: "I think a big part of it, too, is his relationship with his mother"
- Vampire Survivors is finally getting online co-op as the beloved roguelike turns 4, with another surprise coming soon
- PS1-era Sony nearly fell out with one of its most legendary studios because the "traitors" put Wipeout on Nintendo 64: "What the f*** was Psygnosis doing on the N64?"
- Silksong modders beat Team Cherry at sadism, lay the groundwork for the quest to beat the whole game as naked Hornet: "Her kick damage is like, 1/5 of a default nail"
- This portable smart monitor saved me from boredom during a power cut in the Scottish Highlands, but it's also cheaper for Prime Day
- The complete Little Nightmares timeline and story recap
- "My apologies for the screaming": Hades 2 magician beats most difficult Max Fear challenge after earth-shattering "lock in" that shouldn't be possible
- Liam Hemsworth's Geralt assembles a ragtag team to save Ciri and fight Vilgefortz in Netflix's first full-length trailer for The Witcher season 4
- After over 830,000 boss kills, nearly triple the goal, Borderlands 4 players "crush" latest challenge with Amon to earn another 5-year Shift Code
- I liked this MMO mouse so much I bought it twice, and its Prime Day deal has me itching to get it again
- Tron: Ares producers say Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross "love Disney", so it was a no brainer that they collaborate with the House of Mouse on the sci-fi sequel
- Newegg is putting Prime Day GPU deals to shame with this RTX 5070 offer, but I'd stick with Amazon for its AMD rival
- Mysterious Nintendo teaser film has Pikmin fans like me who spent a decade waiting for the series' Switch comeback ready to lose it
- To celebrate Critical Role 4, Matt Mercer hid an important message to new DM Brennan Lee Mulligan inside a gifted pair of hand-forged swords
- Demon Slayer and Solo Leveling anime star "thrilled" to be in Sony's Ghost of Yotei since "Tsushima is one of my favorite games of all time," says he's given a character "very Saul Goodman-like energy"
- The 10 best Digimon games of all time, ranked
- "Nintendo is so wrong, it hurts" – US IP expert says Nintendo claiming mods don't invalidate its Pokemon patents is "just a loser argument" and a "Hail Mary" in its ongoing legal fight with Palworld
- Lego Legend of Zelda is my favorite gaming set, and it just hit a record low price for Prime Day
- When does difficulty become un-fun? Dev says their game has moments of "intentional bulls***" but the trick to difficulty is making the player feel it's their fault they failed
- Final Predator: Badlands trailer has fans even more convinced it's setting up an Alien vs Predator movie – and their theory could explain why 20th Century Studios is bringing out a tie-in comic
- Borderlands 4 datamine suggests Ava was replaced in Gearbox's new looter shooter, and now fans want the divisive character back: "We were robbed of a generational story"
- Ghost of Yotei lead says the Ghost of Tsushima sequel allows for "more freedom than any game we've ever had," so devs "don't care too much" how you play – "as long as you're having fun"
- In a win for physical game collectors, Battlefield 6's PS5 disc apparently includes the entire shooter, meaning no massive extra downloads unless EA's day-one patch is particularly large
- Lego UCS Millennium Falcon just got Prime Day'd, and you can save £184
- Avengers: Doomsday star Channing Tatum says he wants "good movies," but sometimes it feels like "you're incentivized to make bad things to get paid"
- With just 3 days until Battlefield 6 launches, DICE pleads its case in the Open vs Closed weapons debate one final time: "Open Weapons is the right path forward for Battlefield 6"
- Adopt Me codes (October 2025) for free Bucks and more
- Benedict Cumberbatch is tormented by a giant crow in The Thing with Feathers – see the exclusive first poster
- Battlefield 6 lead tempts fate, says servers "should be" ready for launch after numerous betas across PC and consoles
- Baldur's Gate 3 publishing lead sees Elon Musk's new AI-generated game, says "AI has its place as a tool" but won't "solve the big problem of the industry, which is leadership and vision"
- Black Ops 7 beta brings back SBMM in a new playlist to "get solid feedback," and everyone still hates it
- Sabine Wren actor celebrates Ahsoka season 2 wrap with behind-the-scenes picture, which might feature a major Star Wars Easter egg
- Mixed first reactions to Tron: Ares praise the sci-fi sequel's "stunning" visuals but criticize "vapid and inept storytelling" and "nostalgic pandering"
- Dark Atlas: Infernum is one of 2025's must-play horror games, blending cosmic and psychological horror for a uniquely narrative-driven experience
- I think Sega is sneak dissing Mario Kart World again, says Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds races are won by "players who think strategically and race skillfully, not just those who get lucky"
- October 6
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- Arc Raiders dev has the jokes after game title is seemingly censored, and then uncensored, in Call of Duty Black Ops 7 lobby chat: "We're still on track to release *** ******* on October 30th!"
- Five years on from the hit original, Elisabeth Moss shares positive update on sequel to Universal Monsters horror The Invisible Man: "It's going to have to be as good, if not better"
- Digimon Story Time Stranger "is the monster-taming game frustrated Pokémon fans have been waiting for," fans say ahead of Pokemon Legends Z-A, but as always "you can like both"
- The actual biggest game of October, the Shovel Knight devs' Zelda-like Mina the Hollower, gets delayed as devs say it's "so close to being done"
- Ghost of Yotei only lets you pet the fox because of its "proper" research into Japanese history, says expert, but you might get a tapeworm if you tried it today
- "Steam rejected the build" at the finish line, the "last 3 months were intense crunch," and the story was finished 3 days before launch: How one dev scraped together a horror hit that "accidentally" sold 150,000 copies
- 30 years after Age of Apocalypse, an "all-new, all-different" team of X-Men will travel to the Marvel Universe from the dystopian timeline with one of the original writers on board: "This time, it counts"
- Ghost of Yotei's creative director reveals the "philosophical challenge" of open world RPGs and the joy of letting fans play how they like: "As long as you're having fun, we don't care too much"
- My first must-watch anime for fall 2025 is also the highest-rated new season on Crunchyroll so far: one girl pummeling dudes into mush, and with better animation than I ever expected
- Predator: Badlands final trailer teases "the most dangerous planet in the universe" and gives first look at Elle Fanning's android twin
- Best Buy's anti-Prime Day PS5 deals have got me seriously reevaluating my current backlog
- Bungie pushes the indefinitely delayed Marathon back on stage, announcing a closed test for this month and promising a "public update" on its development coming soon
- Newegg's Fantastech sale is here to kick Prime Day's butt - these are the six deals PC gamers need to see
- Prime Day retro console deals are underwhelming right now, but I'd pick up these three gadgets before they vanish at Amazon
- After 92 million hours of open beta testing, Battlefield 6 dev says "requests for naval warfare have not gone unnoticed" and it has "over 200 changes" coming in a day one patch
- I smashed out a win on Haven's Hollow at Call of Duty: Next, so naturally the incoming Resurgence map is my new Warzone favorite
- I think this is the best D&D starter set ever made, and it's at a record low price for Prime Day
- Horror fans should expect to see Jason Voorhees "return in unexpected ways" over the coming years, as producer teases more projects beyond new movie and video game
- Betrayal at House on the Hill is one of my all-time favorite board games, and it just got a massive discount for Prime Day
- Former Marvel TV head praises Daredevil: Born Again, but says don't call the Defenders the "Netflix" heroes: "I'm not sure if anything like that has happened before – especially across two networks"
- Scuf's mobile controller is half the price of the Backbone ahead of Prime Day
- Valve marches over to its desk to remove a Counter-Strike 2 map after just 2 days, seemingly over a "gamer word" hidden in a file
- The best new shows and movies streaming this week on Netflix, Disney Plus, HBO Max, and more
- This Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall-esque indie game proves viral AI posts wrong with its stunning pixel graphics and classic RPG vibes: "Who was the person who made a tweet saying a game like this is impossible?"
- Assassin's Creed Mirage's free Valley of Memory DLC has "more than six hours of gameplay," and Ubisoft says making it was a challenge because most of the setting's historical record has been "lost to time"
- Whiteout Survival codes (October 2025) for free resources
- Assassin's Creed Mirage: Valley of Memory is a sleek DLC for die-hard fans, but it just might transform the whole game
- Nintendo requests $4,500,000 in court judgement against alleged Switch pirate, but its lawyer says the price tag "is nowhere near" a fair compensation for the "seriousness" of the issue
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 devs say that you can blame the Black Ops timeline for the wall jump not being a wall run: “Black Ops 2 really gave us a foundation for the technology available”
- Survive "a near-death studio experience," rally to make a hit game, and get laid off anyway: 10-year studio The Outsiders shut down by Dune: Awakening house Funcom
- Square Enix changed one line in Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles, and nearly 30 years later it's sent Cloud and Aerith shippers into overdrive
- New Warhammer Quest: Darkwater board game revealed
- Splinter Cell: Deathwatch creator reveals the two "guardrails" Ubisoft had for the Netflix series: "Love the character, respect the IP"
- Final Fantasy 14 might not be on the Switch 2 just yet, but fans of the iconic Square Enix MMO have already brought it to Nintendo's best handheld console: the 2DS/3DS
- LG's dual resolution OLED monitor has changed the way I game, and Prime Day is resolving my only real gripe with the screen
- Mistakes have been made - this gaming chair usually costs $949 but you can get it for $499 right now
- I love this tiny Switch controller so much I have four of them, and now it's less than $20 at Amazon
- Modern N64 setup guide: everything you need to get Ninty's retro console singing
- Despite having a great Rotten Tomatoes score and reaching number 1 on Disney Plus, the animation studio behind Marvel's Eyes of Wakanda TV show has filed for bankruptcy
- I can't believe you can get the new Lego Game Boy for its cheapest ever price this Prime Day
- GameStop blames Pokemon Company for botched Scarlet and Violet shiny giveaway: "Not our decision"
- Ray Winstone auditioned to play Padmé's father in the Star Wars prequels, but showed up drunk: "Why don’t we both have a 15-minute sleep and then I'll f*** off?"
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 beta players say the Dexterity perk should be the standard, Treyarch says there's a reason it isn't: "We're being a bit more intentional with our combat"
- If you're not building around casts in Hades 2, I'm sorry to report that you are playing this roguelike on hard mode
- Indie roguelike breakout Megabonk hit a new player record over the weekend, charting higher than Call of Duty, Borderlands 4 and Marvel Rivals
- James Bond game 007: First Light "would not have happened" unless it was an origin story: "We weren't interested in pushing pixels on how good we could make Pierce Brosnan look"
- Ghost of Yotei fans tap the sign on new open-world games – you don't have to compare it to Red Dead Redemption 2
- "The very first video game champion" and co-founder of Interplay, pivotal in the history of Baldur's Gate and Fallout, opens GoFundMe for "aggressive" cancer – already raising over $50,000
- Black Ops 7 Beta playlist "where skill is minimally considered" gets stamp of approval from noted CoD disliker and former FPS pro Shroud: "It's actually kind of enjoyable"
- New Lego AT-ST just chicken-walked its way to a record low price for Prime Day
- Crunchyroll botches My Hero Academia season 8 premiere weekend with hours-long delay and missing subtitles
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead writer "did not play any video games" before joining the hit French JRPG, but now she's speedrunning the hits: "I have Platinumed Elden Ring, God of War, God of War Ragnarok"
- Sega's Astro City Mini arcade machine is back for Prime Day, and the shoot 'em up fan within me is ecstatic
- Alien: Isolation writer admits its Xenomorph got too smart for the devs, which is why the horror game runs longer than most
- Listen up, the Sony Inzone H9 gaming headset has never been cheaper and Prime Day hasn't even started yet
- The 41 best Amazon Prime Day deals for gamers live: final hours for new PS5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox savings from day two
- Microsoft reportedly had Gears of War devs work on a project that was "Uncharted with spies" to rival Sony's PlayStation series, but it was scrapped for Gears of War 4
- Silent Hill f builds on the worst game in the series to make a far bigger statement, and I'm begging fellow Short Message haters to give it a chance
- Early concept art for KPop Demon Hunters has resurfaced, and the Netflix movie originally had a very different, but very cool, art style
- The final Fast & Furious movie reportedly won't happen unless the budget is cut by $50m, despite Fast X ending on a huge cliffhanger
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead writer says "there is no correct ending" to the French JRPG: "Both are heartbreaking in their own ways"
- Ghost of Yotei earns praise from legendary developers behind Ninja Gaiden and Devil May Cry, with Team Ninja's Fumihko Yasuda saying he's always wanted to make a game based in Hokkaido
- Digimon Story: Time Stranger review: "Finally in competition with Pokemon and Persona, this monster raising RPG is showing rapid evolution"
- James Gunn says Peacemaker's "foulest" post-credits scene was originally "way, way worse"
- When does Battlefield 6 go live?
- Xbox isn't going anywhere despite rumors, as Microsoft confirms it's "actively investing in our future first-party consoles" – for now, at least
- Elizabeth Olsen wasn't told Scarlet Witch would be a villain in Doctor Strange 2 until three weeks before filming: "I thought I was one of the good guys"
- Ridley Scott, legendary director of Alien, Blade Runner and Gladiator, says "we're drowning in mediocrity" today so he only watches his own movies: "They’re really good! And also, they don’t age"
- The Black Ops 7 beta introduced a mode without SBMM and Call of Duty players are psyched: "We need Battlefield 6 to come out every year"
- After 14-and-a-half years and over $500k raised for charity, Minecraft YouTuber KurtJMac finally reaches the Far Lands
- A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms showrunner says not having an opening title sequence was "probably the most stressful decision" they made on the Game of Thrones spin-off
- Despite critical acclaim, The Smashing Machine breaks an unwanted record for The Rock after going up against Taylor Swift at the box office
- Tron: Ares star Greta Lee says some people "may be surprised" by the familial love story at the heart of the new sequel and that it's a "really special thing" to include
- October 5
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- Black Ops 2, Treyarch's unexpectedly experimental shooter, still surprises and discomforts – though not always intentionally
- "Nintendo has not had any contact with the Japanese government about generative AI": The Switch maker shoots down rumors, but insists it'll keep fighting "infringement of our intellectual property"
- Fable lead Peter Molyneux will "admit now that I did overpromise on things," refuses to call his next game "great," but says upcoming city builder Masters Of Albion "is a redemption title for me"
- I've always thought the Pokemon Nuzlocke formula would make a great standalone roguelike - now an indie dev's made almost exactly that and it's off to a flying start on Steam
- Fable 2 lead Peter Molyneux had to fight hard to save the iconic RPG's dog because "the initial implementation was absolutely s**t," and "a yappy little c**t
- Stephen King sent a sweary email to the producers of It: Welcome to Derry – but it was for a positive reason
- A mandate came in from the Rockstar head office," Bully artist recalls, and "the art team pretty much purged itself from the studio" – which ended up giving the cult classic "its own identity"
- Fable's Peter Molyneux was happy to become a Microsoft partner as he's "absolutely motivated by praise," especially from Xbox boss Phil Spencer: "He's someone that absolutely loves the game industry"
- Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford can only say "well, s***" after learning a bug is blocking some Borderlands 4 players from sharing loot the way he recommended, but the devs are on it
- Capcom gave Monster Hunter Wilds a cool raid boss from Final Fantasy 14, but its recent Steam reviews have tanked since the update over new apparent performance and driver issues
- Star Wars' Oscar Isaac says filming Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein was "the most fun" he's ever had: "It's such dark material, but was approached with so much joy"
- 5 hours into Silent Hill f, I'm finally embracing its terrified heroine – and taking notes for Resident Evil Requiem
- Paul Bettany can no longer watch A Knight's Tale because he misses Heath Ledger "too much"
- From the Avengers assembling to "I am Iron Man," Marvel fans are discussing the MCU's biggest goosebump-raising moments
- It: Welcome to Derry director jokes that the new Stephen King horror series will both "ruin and explain" all the cryptic elements of Pennywise: "What does It want? Why is It there?"
- MCU star Elizabeth Olsen is aware of superhero fatigue, and argues that "these movies aren't for critics, these movies are for fans"
- Daredevil: Born Again promises a more "singular vision" for season 2
- October 4
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- It: Welcome to Derry director says fans are going to have to wait to see Pennywise in the new horror spin-off: "When he appears, he appears in a big way"
- HIM director says there "were so many conversations" about the new supernatural horror movie's ambiguous ending: "I have about 300 different edits of that final scene"
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 writer warns against a classic game hangup: "deus ex machina" power creep that makes you wonder "why didn't they just do this from the beginning"
- Iconic voice behind Donkey Kong's "oh banana" says he only did it because he "got so sick of asking" others to do the voice acting, and he "never thought" Nintendo would still be using it 25 years later
- I've been grappling with the AI future of humanity through playing D-topia, a cozy narrative mystery that asks us to consider just how much friction we need to thrive
- The Black Phone 2 director says the horror sequel is more intense because "the teenagers who grew up really loving" the first movie are now "the kids who paid to see Terrifier"
- Humanity ascends as the latest Nier: Automata collab has 2B sit on your desktop in DLC for a Steam app that thousands of people use every second
- Fable 3 lead Peter Molyneux says he "should have fought for more time" to deliver the divisive RPG, and there's a Lionhead battle royale we'll never see as Xbox killed the studio
- Kirsten Dunst is open to returning as Mary-Jane in Spider-Man 4
- Amid Xbox layoffs and a 50% Game Pass price hike, former FTC chair slams "too-big-to-care" Microsoft's Activision-Blizzard buyout that's "harming both gamers and developers"
- 13 years later, Breaking Dawn director recalls horrifying Twilight fans with that "incredibly cruel" fake-out ending: "I've never, ever heard a scream as loud and last as long"
- Final Destination 7 finds a new director
- Following his "very dark" roles in John Wick and Nosferatu, Bill Skarsgård "was a little hesitant" to play Pennywise again in It: Welcome to Derry
- Edgar Wright's adaptation of The Running Man will change the book's ending, but it got Stephen King's seal of approval: "I think you did a great job"
- October 3
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- Borderlands 4 launch "not as explosive as its predecessors," analyst reports, but "strong" Steam start and "steady console sales" make it "positioned for long legs" - especially once the discounts start flowing
- Weapons director Zach Cregger's Resident Evil reboot adds Severance, True Detective, and Twisted Metal stars to cast
- Predator: Badlands director says the prequel comic is a "perfect companion" to the film: "Dek kicking ass in his very own comic book is a dream come true"
- Fable creator Peter Molyneux remembers his first board meeting at EA as a "school playground" filled with "idiots" and says 2001 decision to close Dungeon Keeper studio "was a dreadful mistake"
- Silksong player pops the hood, checks the gauges, and determines the best silk skill is one you get very early on: "This should surprise absolutely nobody"
- Years before Fable, Peter Molyneux finished making proto-city builder Populous in 12 hours because he "forgot" to do it sooner: "There was no end of the game"
- I had more fun exploring Ghost of Yotei than I have in any other open-world game – not just this year, but ever
- After 13 years, $320 worth of DLC, and also Brexit, Euro Truck Simulator 2 teases long-awaited UK update the only way that seems right: teaching you how to make a "proper cup of tea"
- "I can't shake the feeling that…": Hades 2 fan gifted with the most holy of Boons somehow predicts major plot twist a year before its reveal
- The first game from a tiny crew of Korean college kids has sold 500,000 copies on Steam in its first month, so now they're patching it like mad to keep up with hungry roguelike fans
- Donkey Kong 64 composer who went uncredited in the Super Mario Bros Movie was "so pissed" that he still hasn't watched the film, even if he has "seen that bit" with the DK Rap
- Echo returns in a new comic co-written by Taboo of the Black-Eyed Peas which gives her a new power that will "redefine her adventures in the Marvel Universe"
- Silksong is crushing Hollow Knight sales with 6 million downloads after 4 weeks, analyst reports – 4 million on Steam alone
- "We set out to push the Unreal Engine 4 codebase to its absolute limits" with 60 FPS on midrange PCs "without the need for fake frames," says dev delaying its "incredibly ambitious" shooter with "tens of thousands" of enemies
- Where should you start with the Atelier JRPG series? This cozy, witchy, crafting series is one I'm always eager to share with more people
- "We don't need a gacha system": Like a man boldly arguing fire burns, dev says gacha garbage is not fun and "getting rid of gacha" in their anime action RPG "is beneficial for developers too"
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 devs hear your door hate, immediately respond with a list of changes like "forcing specific automatic doors to remain open from the start of the match"
- After 16 years, the wait for a new Mega Man game is nothing compared to the wait fans have had for the next act of the rock opera based on Capcom's legendary action series, but The Protomen's third album is finally upon us
- This Star Wars board game is an excellent introduction to a whole galaxy of gaming
- "Non-believers will be re-educated" in a new Cult of the Lamb story that puts a schism between the Lamb and their flock
- Hulk actor and notorious spoiler-spiller Mark Ruffalo jokes that he's not in Avengers: Doomsday so he couldn't blow the ending: "They decided that it was better to get rid of me"
- After Halo 5 had the iconic series on thin ice, Halo Infinite's big bad was created in Halo Wars 2 to "get back to" the FPS' "dark" past
- The 5th most-wishlisted game on Steam, ex-Battlefield devs' extraction shooter Arc Raiders, was delayed 3 years because they realized it sucked: "This game is not fun"
- Don't wait until Prime Day, the best Meta Quest 3 alternative is already £100 cheaper
- Rockstar used GTA: Vice City's code to craft cult classic open-world game Bully, but immediately found the choreography "hard" because "you're getting into fistfights with other kids"
- The Rock hasn't cared about a single Donkey Kong game in 44 years because "none of them matter" – it's all about the arcade original that put Nintendo on the map
- Sorry Prime Day, these $6 Nintendo amiibo deals at GameStop are the best Switch savings around
- Knights of the Old Republic remake screenshots surface from the scrapped original version of the troubled Star Wars RPG that's somehow still in development
- Silent Hill f revives the horror series' 26-year-old debate: can combat be so bad it's good?
- The best Silent Hill movie is the underrated '90s horror that originally inspired the games, and it's now back in theaters with a terrifying new restoration
- All weapons in Ghost of Yotei and where to get them
- Stealthy new Kill Team box set pits Tau mechs against Space Wolves, and fans are already hyped
- Emily Blunt teases Dwayne Johnson's "terribly exciting role" in Martin Scorsese's new mob movie: "It's the last great American mob story, and I can't believe it hasn't been told yet"
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake series devs knew JRPG fans wanted to know "what's gonna happen to Aerith," so they tried to make sure players "won't be able to tell… until the very end"
- Palworld dev has been "consumed" by Steam's newest roguelike megahit and can't even return to Borderlands 4: "Back on the Megabonk now"
- Halloween: The Game – Everything we know so far about Michael Myers' new game
- These new KontrolFreek x CaseOh Kitty thumbsticks are so cute, even my own cat can't help but stan
- Zelda, Okami, and Jak & Daxter inspired Demi and the Fractured Dream, its devs tell me, and I can feel it after playing only one dungeon
- After a Fortnite player's post about their late sister "saying hello to me in my favorite game" went viral, Epic Games added a statue in her honor: "I will forever cherish this"
- This Xbox Game Pass deal feels like the perfect middle finger to the recent wave of price hikes
- 3 years on from Margot Robbie saying her Pirates of the Caribbean movie had been scrapped, producer Jerry Bruckheimer says she's "still involved" with the franchise
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 leads the Golden Joystick Award 2025 charge for most nominations, nudging out Death Stranding 2, Ghost of Yotei, and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
- Gloomy Eyes is the perfect Tim Burton-esque scarytale to usher in October, and I was immediately charmed by its creepy yet chill puzzles
- Don't wait for Prime Day, Best Buy just dropped a brand new record-low price on one of my top picks of 2025
- Rockstar "laughed at all the controversy" surrounding Bully's name before the cult classic open-world game launched: "They were freaking out over something they didn't really know anything about"
- Marvel Rivals' Daredevil continues the trend of caked up heroes in NetEase's shooter, and his actor says it's so the attorney can "distract the supports," obviously
- The Backrooms star says working with the 20-year-old director of A24's viral horror video adaptation was "very exciting": "I love that he hasn't really watched that many movies. His references are totally different"
- Wasting no time, Dying Light: The Beast players have killed over 2 billion zombies in the first 2 weeks of release after racking up a collective 2,943 years of playtime
- So long, video store! Robin and Steve have new jobs in Stranger Things season 5, according to the Netflix show's latest Funko Pops
- Atlus considered a Persona 3 Reload port for both the OG Nintendo Switch and Switch 2, but opted for only the latter as the JRPG's devs couldn't manage both "without any significant delay"
- Cal Kestis actor says the Jedi is "easily one of my favorite characters, if not my favorite character" that he's played
- All Black Ops 7 guns in the beta explained
- Out-of-nowhere roguelike hit Megabonk has sold 1 million copies in 2 weeks, solo creator says "I'll be eating spaghetti with EXTRA sauce tonight"
- Call of Duty cheaters arrive day 1 to the early access Black Ops 7 beta, much to the FPS community's dismay: "This can't be happening… ALREADY"
- Stephen King shares high praise for new horror-Western Killing Faith, which has "an authentic shocker" for a first scene
- Following its latest Xbox Game Pass price jump, Microsoft immediately tries to justify the decision with more day one releases and increased "value"
- Keanu Reeves remains hopeful about Constantine 2 as "another draft" of the script comes in: "Fingers crossed"
- James Cameron doesn't like to rewatch his movies too soon after release, but he had to break his own rule with Avatar: The Way of Water: "It's a pretty good ride, I have to say!"
- Digimon Story Time Stranger launches to bigger player counts than any Persona or single-player Final Fantasy JRPG in Steam history
- Peacemaker season 2 finale trailer teases a Willy Wonka world, giant skeleton spiders, and more multiverse mayhem
- Xbox quietly cuts Call of Duty discount for Game Pass Ultimate subscribers despite raising the price by $10
- Helldivers 2 dev says "there are no easy solutions" to fix the massive 150GB PC file size, but Arrowhead is "sure to find a better balance between loading times and installation size soon"
- Oblivion Remastered's "physical" console releases will "require content download," and fans of the RPG aren't happy: "Why make something physical that still requires a download?"
- Peaky Blinders will get two more brand new shows after the release of the upcoming movie starring Cillian Murphy: "It will be a hell of a ride"
- James Gunn details the "too cartoony" Peacemaker season 2 gag cut from the latest episode that would have further hinted at the nature of Earth X
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- October 2
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- The beautifully chill startup screen in Baldur's Gate 3 came "pretty late" in development after "SO MANY versions" were tested, says publishing lead
- GameStop straight-up says it'll ignore the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate price hike and keep selling subscriptions for $20 instead of $30 "in-store and online"
- After one of 2025's biggest surprise hits, Peak devs announce a new co-op online game: "Peak is still being worked on internally but now it's time to glaze Crashout Crew"
- Star Wars: The Phantom Menace game for PS1 was a "nightmare" to make: The PS2 was delayed, the devs got unintelligible blue screen shots from George Lucas, and they "could not compete" with Jedi Knight
- Persona studio has "several projects in development" beyond Persona 4 Revival, Atlus wants the JRPG series' 30th anniversary next year to let fans "enjoy the series even more" – and what better time to finally announce Persona 6?
- Xbox has a problematic "lack of memory," but Final Fantasy 7 Remake director says Square Enix's "multiplatform approach" doesn't hurt Part 3 development "whatsoever"
- Fable lead Peter Molyneux was so excited about selling his first game that he cut a hole in his mailbox so all the orders would fit – it sold 2 copies and "one was almost certainly from my mum"
- Daredevil: Born Again almost featured a bottle episode about Punisher and Echo "spending an interesting night together": "Who knows, maybe it comes back again"
- That gorgeous Lego Game Boy has been converted to a fully functioning replica with extremely satisfying button clicks, and it'll be released "in full" shortly
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (October 3-5)
- The Borderlands 4 buff patch is here: Gearbox juices Amon and boosts "underperforming skills," says it's now targeting "unintended interactions" that "trivialize content"
- 66-year-old Fable lead Peter Molyneux doesn't sound happy about it, but upcoming god game Masters of Albion might be his last ever: "I just haven't got the life energy left to do this again"
- Microsoft continues reading anything but the room with a full-page Xbox Game Pass advertisement on console startup a day after hiking prices by 50%
- The Sims 4 Adventure Awaits is fun whiplash from childhood to adulthood, with Animal Crossing-esque bug catching, My Little Pony-like imaginary friends, a playable recreation of Love Island, and more
- As Spider-Man fights Cloud from Final Fantasy 7, Magic the Gathering pro laments the card game's slop-ification: "I am a pig and I eat slop"
- "It's not over yet": As the Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero roster reaches 208 characters, Bandai Namco teases that "the next DLC is already in the pipeline" with details to come in January
- Win a Blu-ray of M3GAN 2.0
- Monster Hunter Wilds fan artist who served pearls before swine thanks black hole hammer appreciators for their support after another great sword wins Capcom weapon design contest
- Here are all the new Lego sets for October 2025, including a truly massive Death Star kit and adorable throwbacks
- This Pokemon glitch has gone undocumented for 19 years, and I'm betting the one player who was told they were wrong about it 15 years ago is feeling pretty smug right now
- Best Hades 2 Keepsakes and how to unlock them
- Where to pre-order the God of War 20th Anniversary Limited Edition DualSense controller
- Red Dead Redemption 2 now has NPCs with "actual memories you are forced to watch when they die" thanks to a modder with too much power, and what's worse is his Twitch chat wrote the script
- The perfect John Wick spin-off is here: a samurai western – but its writer is sworn to secrecy
- Discovering new Super Mario Bros levels that have "secretly been accessible" for over 30 years, "legendary Mario scientists" find themselves in a psychedelic cyberpunk hellscape hiding on their childhood SNES cartridges
- Resident Evil: Requiem "conveys the romanticism of a delicate girl fighting with a rugged revolver," director says, but its RE2-style boss battles prioritize subtlety over "gun shooting action"
- Win TRON and TRON: Legacy on 4K
- "I am rethinking what went wrong to ensure it won't happen again": Manor Lords creator ends months of silence and reveals a huge update to the city builder's AI towns
- Bungie brings in a new Destiny 2 global franchise director as its MMO bleeds – a Dragon Age, Starfield, and Elder Scrolls veteran who only just left Mass Effect 5
- Matt Damon "literally" went through The Odyssey to make Christopher Nolan's new epic, says co-star: "He would always have this incredible excitement about what we were doing"
- 18 years after it initially released, I finally played Super Mario Galaxy for the first time on Switch 2, and I'm completely obsessed with one power up
- Kill Bill Parts One and Two are being released as one four-hour movie, including a never-before-seen animated sequence
- "EA has a huge repository of dormant IPs that are just sitting there" after $55 billion buyout, says former Dragon Age and Anthem producer, so it could make better "financial sense" to sell studios instead of shutting them down
- Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles launches to 88% 'Very Positive' Steam reviews as fans call the JRPG remaster a "beautiful recreation of an already beautiful game"
- Can you guess the iconic horror movie from just one frame?
- Yes, Ghost of Yotei has brought back the hot springs, causing the exact reaction you’d expect: "Jin’s butt is still unsurpassed"
- Scuf's new flagship Xbox controller feels like redemption, and TMR sticks and wireless support make me excited to try it out
- HIM director reveals the unusual influences behind the trippy new horror movie, from 90s Nike campaigns and Busta Rhymes to Mozart and Goya: "I had a reference for everything"
- The Turtle Beach Atlas 200 headset is proof that you can still find high-quality tech at cheap prices
- The "JRPG renaissance" has empowered this musical game about using sick beats in battle: "I love musicals, and I'm a massive fan of Hamilton"
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- Amid EA's unpopular $55 billion buyout, Baldur's Gate 3 director takes time "to remind people that making games faster and cheaper while charging more has never worked before"
- James Gunn says he checked Adebayo actor Danielle Brooks was comfortable with the Peacemaker season 2 twist: "We had a big conversation"
- Supergirl screenwriter couldn't get her head around the "sunny" version of Kara until she read Tom King's Woman of Tomorrow: "I was like, 'There she is'"
- One-Punch Man season 3 release schedule: when is episode 3 on Hulu and Crunchyroll?
- 5 years later, Ghost of Yotei finally reveals what happened to Jin Sakai after Ghost of Tsushima in a secret side quest
- Starfield and Deus Ex actor has done "a lot" of work with EA, but isn't sitting idly by as rumored AI-powered cost-cutting plans surface following controversial $55 billion buyout: "F*** you"
- "A couple of people had mental breakdowns": Forget GTA 6, Bully's "brutal" 120-hour development weeks might be Rockstar's worst-ever crunch - "the office started to feel like a prison"
- KPop Demon Hunters star reveals a "very personal" Rumi song was cut from the Netflix movie: "It was powerful and something that I love to sing"
- The "MCU movie drought" isn't going away after Spider-Man: Brand New Day, as Marvel fans notice another year-long gap after Avengers: Doomsday
- James Cameron says he's included a scene in Avatar: Fire and Ash that he was originally "saving" for "a later film": "F*ck that! He should get the bird"
- All Black Ops 7 maps in the beta and full launch detailed
- First major Hades 2 update fixes all sorts of glitches and makes one of the most annoying minibosses easier
- After 28 years, Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles finally makes the JRPG's ending less ambiguous and leaves the door open for a sequel
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake series lead doubts that "the exact same battle system" from the revamped JRPG trilogy will make it into his future games: "We want to keep it surprising"
- Persona 4 Revival is "shaping up nicely" – but it's "not just about adding more" content, because the JRPG devs "have to create an experience that's enjoyable in a new and different way"
- Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle beats Superman at the box office, a seismic achievement that also guarantees Marvel won't have a top 10 grossing movie for the first time since 2011
- After months of speculation, Capcom confirms the mysterious hooded guy from Resident Evil Requiem trailers is "a newly created character for this storyline" because "we don't always want to just lean on surprise comebacks"
- Treyarch devs say "we welcome all constructive feedback" as Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 readies for launch: "This is why we do a beta, so that we can make sure there are no blind spots"
- October 1
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- "Two words: cancel now" – Xbox Game Pass cancelations seemingly surge following Microsoft's tone-deaf post praising "more rewards" amid 50% price hike, and even GameStop's got jokes: "$29.99 every month. Own nothing"
- David Harbour is in talks to join fellow Marvel star Pedro Pascal in Andor showrunner Tony Gilroy's enigmatic new movie
- Warzone is getting a Blackout-inspired mode in 2026 and a dev who also worked on Call of Duty's original battle royale promises "that mode is going to be fun"
- Analysts say EA buyout "doesn't add up," expect the company to double down on live services and sports at expense of "new ideas and innovation" with layoffs looking inevitable
- Is Black Ops 7 at risk of cannibalizing its own audience with Endgame and Zombies? Treyarch says that "player-driven pacing" is a key difference between the two co-op game modes
- BioShock director Ken Levine isn't as worried while working on upcoming FPS Judas, but he used to find it "really depressing" to decide if he should stick to one style like Hideo Kojima: "Games are so hard to make"
- Dying Light: The Beast's "360 approach" to stealth combat is "maybe better" suited to this series than Far Cry, according to Techland's ex-Ubisoft game director
- James Gunn confirms Marvel exists in the DCU just as the DC Universe exists in the MCU, says Edgar Wright would have directed DC reality's Guardians of the Galaxy films
- After the September Silksong Stampede, now October has too many games: dev delays sequel to a lovely roguelike because "it has become too crowded" and "even the most precious gem can be overlooked"
- "Insanely hard" Silksong true ending speedrun world record is somehow already under 4 hours: "We have to do the entire game with 5 masks and 2 needle upgrades"
- GTA and Spider-Man are big shoes to fill, but Ananta producer decides to raise expectations even higher with Marvel Avengers comparisons: "They are the protagonists of their own stories"
- Charlie Hunnam's prep for Monster: The Ed Gein Story led him to some "crazy s***," including somehow discovering a recording that Netflix's "best researchers couldn't get"
- Former GTA boss and Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser's "own childhood" shaped "a lot" of Rockstar's cult classic open-world game Bully, former dev says, but it also "touched on all our childhood memories"
- The team behind Riverdale will turn Archie's world into a zombie-fueled nightmare with a Disney Plus adaptation of the Afterlife With Archie horror comic
- Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles follows Super Smash Bros and Mario Kart in suffering a major preservation loss – Ramza's ass is too powerful for Square Enix in 2025
- Which Ghost of Yotei horse should you choose?
- As Skyrim Grandma retires, I beg you to turn your attention to this iconic, retired JRPG superfan, who loves Persona, Xenoblade, Atelier, the PS Vita, and a lot more
- 13 Ghost of Yotei tips and tricks to defeat the Yotei Six
- World of Warcraft: Midnight's riff on Monolith's The Lord of the Rings Nemesis System was spurred on by a War Within feature Blizzard doubted: "We weren't sure how people would react"
- World of Warcraft housing finally launches in early access this December for Midnight expansion owners, giving Blizzard's MMO a feature seen in the likes of Final Fantasy 14 for years
- Shigeru Miyamoto's cult classic Game Boy game gets a Link's Awakening DX-style release from fans, finally letting the world play as a mole fighting a Mario lookalike in color
- James Gunn says there are two DCU movie scripts he's "hoping to take to the next level" and a TV show he's "excited" about but hasn't been greenlit yet
- Spy x Family season 3 release schedule: what time is episode 4 on Crunchyroll?
- My Hero Academia season 8 release schedule: when is episode 4 on Crunchyroll?
- "This is a crime against gaming": Rock Band 4 celebrates a bitter 10-year anniversary as its delisting begins on PlayStation and Xbox stores along with all DLC
- This Godzilla merch feels like a rad retro throwback, and it's only available from NYCC 2025
- Gen V season 2 episode 5: What are Marie's powers? How does that major cameo from The Boys change the entire show?
- Metal Gear Solid 5's unfinished mission has finally had its cutscene partially ported into the game, adding what's arguably the true ending after 10 years
- Dune: Awakening dev Funcom released a very successful MMO, so of course it is laying off staff: "This difficult process is starting now, and we cannot yet determine the exact impact"
- Ubisoft and Tencent's new Assassin's Creed and Far Cry studio has a name, and it's reportedly already making games
- If you want to play Xbox Game Pass games like The Outer Worlds 2 or Black Ops 7 on day one, you're going to have to pay a full $30 a month for Ultimate
- The Smashing Machine director Benny Safdie says acting for Christopher Nolan and Paul Thomas Anderson made him a better filmmaker: "You want somebody to say you did okay"
- Capcom's committed to returning to JRPGs in a big way with Monster Hunter Stories 3: "As Capcom developers, we're able to add our interpretation of what a JRPG is today"
- Resident Evil and Street Fighter veteran faces backlash after saying "please don't buy" Palworld, claiming Pocketpair "crossed a line that should not be crossed," and admitting he has not played Palworld
- Diablo co-creator and Blizzard co-founder says it's a "brutal" time for AAA games, and it's "really stressful to do anything" with Diablo 4 out of fear of players with big expectations
- The Smashing Machine star Emily Blunt talks Dwayne Johnson's transformation in the hard-hitting MMA biopic: "I'd been waiting for my friend to get the chance to disappear"
- How to get more mon in Ghost of Yotei and what to spend your coin on
- Splinter Cell: Deathwatch creator responds to fan uncertainty over Michael Ironside's Sam Fisher replacement: "Give him a chance, because he made me a believer"
- Borderlands 4 director shoots down conspiracy theory about loot drops: "RNGesus is a spiteful god at times"
- Newegg's own early Prime Day deals are already here, with $1000s off gaming PCs and accessories
- How long does it take to beat Ghost of Yotei?
- I'm begging you not to sleep on the Hades 2 boon that single-handedly carried me all the way to the top of Mount Olympus
- "Not much has been done in that region in Fallout lore… So why not?": Fallout 76 is heading to Ohio for its biggest expansion in 5 years, and it's bringing Walton Goggins' The Ghoul along
- How to remove the black bars in Ghost of Yotei while on your horse
- Xbox president says Game Pass is profitable and good for creators, despite alleged division over the subscription model
- Netflix drops new trailer for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein, teasing Jacob Elordi's Creature on a violent, vengeful quest to find Oscar Isaac's Victor Frankenstein
- Ghost of Yotei PS5 bundles are miraculously still in stock, and my bank account is not prepared
- Star of new sports horror HIM may have a football background but it was actually an old Instagram reel that lead to his casting, says director: "He had an innocence to lose"
- Serial World is Pokemon meets Slay the Spire, meaning another roguelike deckbuilder JRPG is already vying for my heart
- Star Wars fans are wondering what Dawn of the Jedi director's big new Paramount deal means for the future of his Jedi origin movie
- Toy Story 5 is a "Jessie story" with a Buzz and Woody reunion, according to Tim Allen
- Keychron's new keyboard is entirely ceramic, but it's the switches that will change the game
- Sonic Racing: CrossWorld's cross-play was "leagues more difficult" than any other part of development, but including it was crucial for good matchmaking
- Roblox Rivals codes (October 2025) for free Keys, Wraps, and more
- Former Dragon Age director says it's "hard to imagine" BioWare pivoting from "very progressive messaging to having the reverse" following EA's $55 billion buyout, and public perception not being "apocalyptically bad" if it did
- Marlon Wayans explains why his new horror movie HIM has made him "desperate" for "heavier" roles post-Scary Movie 6: "These are my Denzel years"
- Ex-BioWare veteran says EA's $55 billion buyout is "likely going to mean layoffs and studio closures and a dramatic reduction in people" thanks to that looming $20 billion of debt
- New Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 wallhack killstreak leaves fans in shambles after former 2-time champion goes on a tear and cleans house: "This game is cooked"
- The Witcher author favors his books over live-action adaptations, Netflix or otherwise: "The original stands alone"
- I never use Amazon for Prime Day 3D printer deals, and this sale is an example of why
- KPop Demon Hunters breaks yet another Netflix record with 15 consecutive weeks in the top 10
- The Witcher 4's biggest mystery comes from an accident, says series creator Andrzej Sapkowski, who "deemed it unworthy of development and narratively incorrect"
- Marvel pulling its mystery 2027 movie means Phase 6 could break a surprising MCU record
- As Silent Hill f's combat divides fans, series producer stresses the new horror game isn't the blueprint for future titles: "We want to keep experimenting and be ambitious"
- Palworld dev is "worried many of you haven’t played" Core Keeper, "one of the best games on Steam," so now the two survival games are bundled together and even cheaper in the Steam Autumn Sale
