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- June 14
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- We finally know when A Minecraft Movie will be streaming, and it's in just a few days
- The Stellar Blade PC release finally convinced me to try it out, but after its Steam Next Fest demo I'm going straight back to Elden Ring Nightreign
- Marvel's Eyes of Wakanda series will be set a thousand years in the past and is four episodes long
- New rom-com starring Marvel actors was inspired by legendary romance movies like Pride & Prejudice and The Graduate
- Kill Team: Typhon introduces an unexpected twist to its competitive gameplay, and I think it might be a game-changer
- Andor isn't just the most critically acclaimed live-action Star Wars project, it's also a streaming hit
- June 13
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- Sony seems to have removed the Helldivers 2 region lock in most countries, players erupt in celebration with their own Major Order: "Give them the positive reviews they've earned"
- IOI says the hero in 007 First Light isn't the "classy Bond with the martini" we know and love, but thankfully Q will teach him "why he needs to wear a nice watch and things like that"
- Matthew McConaughey is set to play an iconic private investigator in a new movie from True Detective creator
- Soulslikes are getting easier, and I'm not complaining: The First Berserker Khazan renames "Easy" to "Normal," adds "Beginner" for good measure, and introduces "Hardcore" for sickos
- With over 6,600 hours on PS5 alone, Elden Ring player claims to have more Malenia and Consort Radahn kills than nearly anyone – and has quietly been uploading videos for years
- Madame Web star Dakota Johnson says Hollywood is "a bit of a mess" because of constant remakes: "When something does well, studios want to keep that going"
- Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour review: "Mostly a fancy toy and not much more"
- The Witcher 4 is coming together with the same "scrappy energy" CDPR used to get The Witcher 3 over the line: "Get it done. Do it dirty"
- This is your last chance to grab the Meta Quest 3S at a record-low price in its current sale
- FC 25 Shapeshifters guide grants position changes for Vieira, Kompany and Kane
- This Balatro-style roguelike is Localthunk's nightmare, because it swaps Poker for a literal slot machine to really simulate that gambling feel and its Steam Next Fest demo is dangerously addictive
- A new Hong Kong drama about three d/Deaf friends brings sign language to the big screen in a different way
- REPO devs apologize for teasing cosmetics we'll never get, confirm other cosmetics are actually coming and "old levels will get updated" eventually
- Elden Ring Nightreign's notorious Bell Bearing Hunter mini-boss is more trouble than some Day 3 bosses, but one player has found a classic cheese: body blocking
- Obsidian explains Grounded 2 was born from technical limitations of the Xbox One: "This is our opportunity to build the world from the ground up"
- "I want Hundred Line to be like Shonen Jump – a single game packed with all kinds of stories": Danganronpa creator isn't done with his new tactical RPG, even after 100 endings
- Elden Ring Nightreign's worst character is The Guardian, or he might be one of the best depending on who you ask: "Guardian is top 3 you can’t change my mind"
- Hollow Knight: Silksong has its own GTA 6-like release date blast zone – "I hope Silksong will release this year coz we are avoiding them," says boss of lovely JRPG-flavored Metroidvania
- Oblivion Remastered player escapes a special kind of torture, but not without scars: "My Adoring Fan has asexually reproduced and my game is now a waking nightmare"
- MindsEye review: "An uninspired and forgettable sci-fi action adventure that feels like a Netflix movie you watch while on your phone"
- MindsEye dev says new performance hotfix is "the first in a series of patches," but with 40% positive reviews and just over 500 players on Steam, it would take a miracle to turn this train around
- Nintendo Switch 2 is too powerful for asses to handle: 1v1 butt swordfighting game Ketsu Battler is having issues with literal backwards compatibility
- Pokemon makes its funniest in-game event even better with a meme reference hidden in its distribution code: "This is quite possibly the best special event code in the history of ever"
- I played 30 minutes of the new game from the original Little Nightmares devs, and it turns out a twin-stick survival horror Metroidvania is a recipe for spooky heaven
- This Oblivion Remastered mod lets you keep everything from mudcrabs to trolls as pets, making Bethesda's RPG a little less lonely and a lot more Pokemon-y
- "I would have done things differently": Splitgate 2 director would be "less controversial" if given the opportunity to repeat his Summer Game Fest antics
- Deltarune fans think they've found the boss fight Toby Fox's family described as a "cry for help," and yep, it's the stuff nightmares are made of
- Hollow Knight: Silksong dev simultaneously backtracks and doubles down on possible DLC, thinks "DLC is likely" despite his last apparent teaser being a joke
- The chaos of Hotline Miami meets the intricate planning of Payday in this hostage-saving Steam Next Fest demo that's absolutely riffing on Die Hard
- From Zelda-likes to Batman-style action, here's the 20 Steam Next Fest demos you have to play this June before they disappear
- "Everyone in the industry said it's not possible" – The Witcher 3 at 10: diving into the legendary RPG's creation, legacy, and secret sauce that makes CDPR's quests so special
- 6 scary movies to watch this Friday the 13th on Netflix, Apple TV Plus, Shudder, and more
- I've sacrificed millions of imps in my new favorite roguelike city-builder, but it's still not enough
- This Steam Next Fest demo mixes Journey with The Last Guardian, having me run through gorgeous fields with my fluffy herd
- PlayStation boss Hermen Hulst wants to develop Astro Bot into an enduring series, calling it one of the consoles "most exciting recent successes"
- PlayStation is still "continuing to invest in new live services," and has "reviewed our processes" following Concord's failure
- Ex-PlayStation boss says Stellar Blade's combat is what's made it so successful, but the 95 "adult" mods on Nexus tell a different story
- The Rock had a bizarre request for his Black Adam action figure: "Can you make me more ripped?"
- Dune: Awakening's endgame "unfairly favors large guilds," so the survival MMO's community is asking developer Funcom to "fix the Landsraad" and not leave solo players and small guilds behind
- PlayStation insists Marathon has "strong early engagement," even after a very public art scandal and divisive playtests
- Reacher star Alan Ritchson confirms the lone hero is heading to New York City in season 4 – and it could be his most dangerous mission yet
- Sony isn't worried about the Switch 2 being the fastest-selling piece of Nintendo hardware ever, because you need the PS5 for "a great experience on big screens"
- Pirates of the Caribbean star says there have "been talks" about reuniting the original cast for another movie: "We'll have to see where it lands"
- This ridiculously adorable Kirby controller works with Switch 2, and it'll provide pink puffball goodness for under $30
- Pixar is bringing back iconic animated blooper reels for new movie Elio, just like in A Bugs Life and Toy Story, and the 90s nostalgia is real
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle has quickly become one of favorite adventure games of all-time, and the DLC promises to give me exactly what I want - more of it
- American Psycho reboot has another potential Patrick Bateman: The White Lotus and Gen V star Patrick Schwarzenegger
- The "first print" of Star Wars just screened for the first time in decades: "There's so much tinkering that's gone on over the years [...] and then everybody kind of lost track of what it was"
- Fans worry Xbox Game Pass could be due another price increase after evidence seemingly surfaces on the Xbox website, just a month after the latest console price hike
- Sony is "really thoughtful" about bringing PlayStation franchises like God of War and The Last of Us off console, and PS5 games going to PC is a matter of "if", not when
- GTA 5, Call of Duty, Genshin Impact, and 5 other games alongside 2 subscription services make up 53% of PlayStation Store revenue, more than the other 12,000+ combined
- Nier: Automata creator shoots down rumor Square Enix forced the RPG's devs to alter character designs to avoid outrage: "I've never heard of such a thing"
- Sony knows "there's a huge interest" in PlayStation's "next-generation console strategy" after the PS5, and "the future of the platform is top of mind" for the company
- Live-action adaptation of Your Name director's underappreciated anime classic gets a trailer that might break your heart all over again
- After weeks of speculation, EA officially unveils new Sims 4 expansion Enchanted by Nature – and all fans can think is how it'll up their challenge game: "Rags to Riches is gonna go crazy in this world"
- The 32 Greatest Animated Movies of the 2010s
- Monster Hunter Wilds recent reviews on Steam drop to 'Mostly Negative' as performance issues persist months after launch, with some players saying new updates made it worse
- Win a copy of VE Schwab’s new novel
- Win a Blu-ray of In the Lost Lands
- June 12
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- Deltarune's hardest achievement is the most Toby Fox thing ever: A secret message on PlayStation for whoever somehow dodges every trophy in the game
- Star Trek: Strange New Worlds fans get the best and worst news as it's renewed for season 5 and simultaneously canceled
- Disney and Universal call AI "bottomless pit of plagiarism" in lawsuit against Midjourney
- Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is the hardcore Soulslike you'd get if you tried to turn Sekiro into Chinese Dark Souls 3, and that devotion to FromSoftware is exactly why I like it
- One day after launch, the top 30 "adult" Stellar Blade mods have over 350,000 downloads on Nexus Mods, which isn't far off what Nier Automata has after 8 years
- 'Zelda but a life sim' RPG Fantasy Life i sells 1 million copies, and there's a new update with improved graphics for Switch 2 and the improved camera everyone's been hoping for
- New Netflix murder mystery series starring hot Sauron from Rings of Power comes out of nowhere with 100% Rotten Tomatoes score and rave reviews
- This co-op platformer was a "boyhood dream" for the self-taught stop-motion animator now directing it, and it might just rival It Takes Two with a more earnest story and action less likely to destroy your relationships
- Turns out you can ruin some of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's most impactful moments and fights with a funny costume secret – or enhance them, depending who you ask
- Microsoft has reportedly killed its in-house Xbox handheld to focus on its new ROG Ally platform
- Almost 40 years later, Spaceballs is getting a sequel that brings star Rick Moranis out of retirement
- Marvel stars' A24 rom-com Materialists has great reviews, but many are repeating the 'elevated horror' mistake of the 2010s – and we need to dump it before it's too late
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (June 13 - 15)
- Bandai Namco's first-ever roguelike is an entertaining, direct descendent of Hades with anime girls, but I wish it really was "unlike any roguelike" the way its devs promised me
- DC's Mister Miracle will get his own adult animated series from the writer of the comics
- Twin Peaks co-creator says he and David Lynch talked before his death about bringing back the hit cult mystery drama for another season: "We had a little bit of a recipe forming"
- Among Us devs find their shoutout in Deltarune, Toby Fox immediately responds with "removed Among Us" patch notes
- Mario Kart World is outselling Switch 1 launch title Zelda: Breath of the Wild by over 4x in Japan, Switch 2 physical launch estimates show
- Mario Kart World could be due a Donkey Kong-themed expansion, fans theorize, with the bizarre lack of DK love in the Switch 2 racer leaving players suspicious
- Final Fantasy 14 devs once thought Field Operations would only "resonate" with select fans of the MMO, but now "it feels like even more players than we expected are looking forward to the next piece"
- Shiny Pokemon are absolutely raining in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet after Nintendo Switch 2 upgrades: "I legit couldn't believe this many spawned"
- Arnold Schwarzenegger explains how the new remake of Stephen King's Running Man can improve on his 1987 movie: "[Ours] was great, but it could've been better"
- Persona 5 and Hatsune Miku aren't enough – Sega confirms Mario Kart World rival Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds will get new characters every month
- The best Rainbow Six Siege X Operators for beginners
- Razer Joro review: "a fantastic travel companion"
- Cyberpunk 2077 on Switch 2 is not without its flaws, but this is the best portable trip to Night City so far
- Razer launches a new range of mobile pro controllers that's ideal for gamers with larger hands, and even larger devices
- Seagate's new 4TB Storage Expansion Card is a win for Xbox owners, but it costs more than a Switch 2
- Silent Hill f game director says "it was absolutely critical" for the game set in Japan to not simply "copy" previous titles – it had to "really understand" that horror atmosphere
- Dune: Awakening patch fixes bugs and improves server stability after the survival MMO's full Steam launch dumped 142,000 peak players on those poor servers
- Another Suikoden game is coming to PC as Konami continues the JRPG's resurgence, but the monkey's paw curls: it's a free-to-play mobile gacha game
- MindsEye is getting 3 hotfixes this month to remedy its rough launch as devs explain those viral bugs "were caused by a memory leak" that "impacted roughly 1 in 10 of our players"
- Switch 2 is Nintendo's fastest-selling console despite high prices, former Nintendo marketing leads say "you're basically teaching them that they can continue to do this"
- The original Silent Hill is getting a remake from Bloober Team following the horror studio's success bringing Silent Hill 2 into the modern day
- "Cowardly and disgusting": RuneScape veteran joins players laying into Jagex CEO for cancelling Pride events over reported fear of backlash, which has created backlash
- Switch 2 docks require a "20V power input to activate TV mode," according to accessory maker Jsaux
- Malcolm in the Middle's Hal actor Bryan Cranston reveals that the OG Dewey actor was asked to return for the sequel series, but they politely declined
- Razer Kishi V3 Pro review: “Razer’s stubborn pricing throws a big green spanner in the works”
- The Batman 2 gets a promising update from DC chief James Gunn following delays, says the sequel is "still really important"
- Elden Ring sicko who beat Shadow of the Erdtree on NG+ 1,000 is now tackling Nightreign solo using only his bare fists: "This s**t's not that bad"
- Colin Farrell says The Penguin finale makes a second season "more difficult": "It’s not impossible, but it's a tougher hill to climb"
- Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is getting online in the form of Fox Hunt – which Konami wants you to know isn't Metal Gear Online: "The landscape of multiplayer games has changed a lot"
- Not stopping with WipeOut or Doom 64, this prolific Dreamcast modder is bringing Mario Kart 64 to Sega's long-forgotten console
- Moonlighter 2 is one of the biggest roguelikes at Steam Next fest, but I might prefer its shop management sim gameplay to be an arcane adventurer
- Forget blindfolded runs, a Switch 2-exclusive challenge emerges as fan proves you can play Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom with your Joy-Con attached the wrong way
- "Basically everything in our store was way overpriced until 2 months ago," admits Splitgate 2 director, who says he "would never have allowed" unpopular $80 bundle to go live
- The latest Middle-earth mystery: The Rings of Power season 3's latest incoming characters are a big secret, but one actor will be a "series regular"
- The Outer Worlds 2 is fixing the first RPG's biggest weakness by improving guns "in every way", and the sci-fi nerd in me is already screaming about the Shrink Ray
- The mystery of Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart's final Easter egg has finally been revealed, but Insomniac had to show us itself
- Ninja Gaiden 4 devs say "Soulslikes have kind of taken center stage" since the last installment in the series, but "we are going against the trend in that way"
- 10 The Alters tips and tricks to help you get ahead in the early game
- How to increase Qubit Level in The Alters
- The Alters Fundamentals mission – how to gather 60 Metals, build a Workshop, and craft a scanner
- The Alters Cooked Meals – how to get Raw Food and make meals for your crew
- The Alters Minerals location – where to mine Minerals
- How to increase Base Level in The Alters so you can expand
- The Alters review: "More tactile and story-heavy than the Frostpunk dev's earlier games, but the fight for survival is just as fierce"
- Smiling Friends' newly renewed seasons 4 and 5 may be the last hurrah for the adult animation as creators are worried the show will "overstay its welcome or get stale"
- Sponsored streams for former GTA dev's new game MindsEye aren't going to plan - sponsor apparently cancels one stream and another creator actually laughs while promoting it
- Elden Ring Nightreign players found one boring answer to the mystery of the game's 0.035% drop rate oddity, but insist there has to be more to the impossibly rare item
- Mario Kart World repeats Mario Kart 8's most annoying problem as Nintendo's seemingly hiding all-important stats for characters and vehicles
- Nosferatu director Robert Eggers is swapping bloodsuckers for Scrooge with A Christmas Carol reboot, and Willem Dafoe is rumored to star
- SpyraThree review: "Makes all other water guns look ridiculous"
- Superman star says his first comic book role in an X-Men movie was a "missed opportunity": "There was a lot they could have done with the character"
- Superman has a Krypto-themed pup-corn bucket ready for its big release, including a literal dog bowl for your snacks
- My dream The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time successor is finally playable in Steam Next Fest, and I'm pleased to report it nails the Nintendo 64 vibes
- Superman star to lead new season of Jake Gyllenhaal's Apple TV crime drama
- Final Fantasy 14 devs know some fans found Field Operations "boring," but it's helped make Occult Crescent better: "We hope those kinds of players will be sure to try it out"
- My favorite Steam Next Fest city-builder so far is a chill sequel to Plague Inc, but I still ended up feeding dogs to my citizens
- Hollow Knight: Silksong dev deals psychic damage, hinting at future "DLC" for the Metroidvania which fans aren't convinced won't "turn into a full-fledged game that takes 8 years to develop"
- SAG-AFTRA suspends video game actors strike after reaching a "tentative agreement" with major game publishers over AI protections and better wages
- Apple takes inspiration from controller haptics as it rolls out new F1 trailer that makes your phone vibrate with the race cars – but you need an iPhone to get the full experience
- The previews for Death Stranding 2 are so good, Hideo Kojima's worried too many people will like it: "Maybe this is a problem"
- Stellar Blade beats God of War and Ghost of Tsushima to become PlayStation's most-popular single-player Steam launch
- The structural perfection of this fan-made Lego Xenomorph is matched only by its hostility, and I need an official set yesterday
- As Splatoon 3 gets a Switch 2 upgrade, Switch 1 players see a visual downgrade to "reduce differences in game operation speed as much as possible"
- Splitgate 2 review: "A slick and enjoyable free-to-play FPS, but a disappointing sequel"
- As Stellar Blade PC gets booted off the Steam Next Fest charts, a sci-fi FPS that's everything I actually wanted from Starfield is rising up to take its place
- Stranger Things spin-off showrunner reveals the '80s animated series that was his "north star" when making the new Netflix show
- Death Stranding 2's Norman Reedus calls Hideo Kojima "one of the most brilliant people" even if his ideas are wild: "OK, pick up the baby doll and cry"
- All P-Switch locations and missions in Mario Kart World
- MindsEye's launch "hasn't been without its challenges," says ex-GTA lead's studio, and the action game is set to get a "series of updates aimed at enhancing your experience"
- June 11
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- Indie Sims-like Paralives is getting everything from modding tools to cooking and house fires right at its early-access release, but stuff like weather and pets will be added in free updates
- "Games and studios are being cancelled because of content that is perceived to be 'woke' or representative," new RuneScape CEO reportedly said in internal meeting explaining decision to stop or shrink the MMO's Pride events
- Grounded 2 adding mounts was such a big change that Obsidian had to "rethink how the world works"
- Director James Gunn says everyone knows Superman is an alien in the new DCU: "He's sort of this terrifying creature"
- Capcom's android apocalypse Pragmata is such a genius mix of shooters and puzzle games, both of which I normally hate, and I'm starting to rethink my entire existence
- New Superman trailer sees Lex Luthor's hatred burn bright while the Man of Steel is at odds with the Justice League
- Capcom says Resident Evil Requiem's Grace Ashcroft is "the new main character," which I'm sure will totally stop everyone from theorizing it's secretly Leon Kennedy
- A24 movie based on viral found-footage horror videos adds Worst Person in the World actor to cast, taking the previously reported role of The Penguin star
- Capcom worked with real-life Japanese temple officials to build a major temple in Onimusha: Way of the Sword and make sure it was realistic for "the time setting that the game is in"
- With Haunted Chocolatier still miles away, farming sim with serial killers Grave Seasons is here to scratch that cozy horror itch until it bleeds
- Starving husband collectors declare victory as Zenless Zone Zero adds a buff furry guy with pecs so big they jiggle like pudding: "I’ll take 6 of them, thank you"
- This super-hard survival game is the most unforgiving Steam Next Fest demo I've played so far, and I completely failed to get revenge for the last time it kicked my ass
- Razer Pro Click V2 Vertical Edition review: "supreme comfort"
- Multiplayer shooter Mecha Break has working toilets because you aren't a mech, you're a squishy person in a mech, and sometimes you gotta go
- Oblivion Remastered player nears day 50 of threatening the Imperial Palace Guards with "re-opening every Oblivion Gate" for the RPG's coolest armor
- Dune: Awakening players are really getting into the spirit of things by hoarding water and blocking critical routes, but some have had a change of heart
- Asus ROG Strix G16 (2025) review: "a jack of all trades"
- The Outer Worlds 2 director reveals Obsidian "did a full breakdown on Destiny" and sought advice from the Halo team for the sequel's shooting
- As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG
- Everything in the GTA Online Money Fronts update
- Dan Da Dan has beaten Marvel's Thunderbolts at the box office this week, and it could be a sign of anime's cinema domination in the rest of 2025
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard dialogue was reportedly rewritten to be more serious after BioWare worried it would face the same backlash as Forspoken for being too snarky
- Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse star Shameik Moore may have just revealed that there are three versions of Miles Morales in the upcoming threequel
- Even after EA let Dragon Age: The Veilguard out of multiplayer hell, BioWare reportedly still had to rush to target "as wide a market as possible," which feels like the opposite approach of great RPGs
- Argylle star Bryce Dallas Howard isn't surprised by her movie flops: "You can always see it coming while you're making it"
- Onimusha: Way of the Sword looks like an incredible PS2 throwback in all the right ways, but with a modern feel and a swaggering protagonist I already love
- The Last of Us composer seemingly confirms previous comments from Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann that a season 4 will be needed to finish Ellie and Abby's story: "There'll be at least two more seasons, no question"
- The Blood of Dawnwalker's protagonist is "equally engaging, fun, and meaningful to play" in both his human and vampire forms, say the ex-Witcher 3 devs behind the RPG
- Yoko Taro jokes maybe he shouldn't have done the Nikke x Nier: Automata collab after all as cosplayers are now dressing up as Shift Up's characters instead of his own
- Resident Evil Requiem lead thinks the game is even better than Resident Evil 7 and Revelations, which he also directed: "I think this title will make fans the happiest"
- In just 30 minutes, Resident Evil Requiem scared me more than anything in the series' 29-year history
- The Electric State Roleplaying Game review: "The quintessential road trip movie turned TTPRG"
- Intel Core Ultra 7 265K review: "Not the best, but a lot better than when it launched"
- Resident Evil Requiem is playable in first and third-person, letting you toggle between perspectives whenever you want in the options menu
- Resident Evil Requiem's demo tops the series' scariest moments with what might be the most upsetting monster Capcom’s ever devised, and as a horror baby I'm afraid of how much I want to play it
- James Gunn says he's working on something that's "in some way" a Superman follow-up, but it's not "a straight-up Superman sequel"
- Frenched-out Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 cast takes psychic damage watching speedrunner skip the cutscenes they worked so hard on: "Thank you so much"
- Sandra Bullock sent a supportive text message to Dakota Johnson after she won the Razzie Award for Worst Actress Award for Madame Web: "We should have brunch"
- Flanked by The Duskbloods and The Blood of Dawnwalker, Code Vein 2 swoops into the vampire game renaissance by "improving" the lovably janky Soulslike RPG we got 6 years ago
- First trailer for new Stephen King sci-fi drama The Institute feels like X-Men: New Mutants meets Stranger Things – and some fans believe it has an eerie connection to another King story
- One week of Switch 2 backwards compatibility: The good, the bad, and the bilinear-filtered ugly
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 – Everything we know so far about the upcoming shooter
- The PS5 Pro's latest firmware finally addresses its VRR problems, and this is your last chance to get it $50 off in Days of Play
- Batman Arkham combat is reimagined as a disco nightmare in this Steam Next Fest demo – and yes, you can already import your own songs
- Xbox boss Phil Spencer shouts out "Nintendo's amazing track record" and the Steam Deck when promoting the ROG Xbox Ally
- Incredibles 3 will be the first movie in the Pixar superhero series not directed by Brad Bird, but he's still involved
- Don't ask legendary former Mario actor Charles Martinet to say anything weird, because he still wants to "maintain the integrity of the character"
- Hideo Kojima has been hard at work editing the final Death Stranding 2 trailer – one he says will make people go, "What?!"
- Date Everything review: "A masterclass in character design full of wonderful faces I love meeting, but juggling so many means sacrificing depth"
- I've played 200 hours of Street Fighter 6, and the Switch 2 version is a perfectly fine companion piece – even if it could never be the ideal platform
- Mario Kart World's new Rewind feature can be used in Time Trials to set wild records, like this 13-second lap
- Vampire horror movie based on Van Helsing story by the son of Stephen King gets eerie first trailer
- Marvel star Scarlett Johansson "asked to have [her] credit removed" from Thunderbolts because she "wasn't involved"
- Switch 2's controversial game-key cards come on a physical cartridge, but Capcom is still counting its sales of them as digital
- One CGI Transformers character used up so much data during its creation that Google complained about it
- Elden Ring Nightreign player beats the final boss solo using nothing but a bell, after presumably giving the guy tinnitus by ringing it so many times
- I almost missed this Switch 2 HDR setting, and your TV will thank you for the fix
- James Gunn told Marvel he wouldn't put Thor in Guardians of the Galaxy 3: "I don't understand how to write that character"
- After 10 years, Stranger Things star David Harbour is more than ready to say goodbye to his character Jim Hopper: "How much more story is there?"
- "MindsEye definitely needed a delay": GTA 5 veteran's new action game is here with 'Mixed' Steam reviews and "bugs galore," as players share spaghettified NPCs and cars with lives of their own
- Switch 2 sells 3.5 million units in just 4 days to become the "fastest-selling Nintendo hardware ever," and it's already a quarter of a way to the Wii U's lifetime sales
- How strong is Superman and does James Gunn even know? What the comic history of the Man of Steel's powers tells us
- James Gunn's DC universe is handling its superheroes very differently to the MCU – because their world has known about them for 300 years
- If Death Stranding and Metal Gear Solid ever crossover, Kojima knows who should be a porter, even though they "won't be able to carry things so much"
- Deltarune review: "This Undertale successor is an unapologetically weird RPG epic, where each chapter is a new canvas that doesn't have to conform to any rigid rules, style, or logic"
- I carved through my first dangerously addictive Steam Next Fest demo with the power of 'shotgun magic' in this mystical twist on Hotline Miami
- Stardew Valley creator ConcernedApe says the "world of Haunted Chocolatier" will somehow be even "larger" than his farming sim – the same one I already have over 1,000 hours in
- All Dune Awakening trainer locations to unlock every skill tree
- The 32 Greatest Alien Invasion Movies
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege X review: "Bigger, better, and more user friendly than it's ever been – it's the perfect time to dive in"
- June 10
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- Microsoft's Phil Spencer says the Xbox Ally is "the tightest collaboration" he's seen between the gaming and Windows teams "in my 3 decades at the company"
- Hollow Knight: Silksong appearance in ROG Xbox Ally reveal was "a good partnership," says Phil Spencer, who seems to know he's being watched by countless Skong devoted
- Days Gone studio Sony Bend reportedly lays off 30% of its staff as it works on new game following live service cancelation
- Splitgate 2 CEO apologizes again, says "I'm not an idiot" and expected "some" controversy, but wasn't being political with his hat at Summer Game Fest: "We needed something to grab attention"
- A new Wonder Woman movie is "being written right now," DC Studios boss James Gunn confirms, but no one has been cast yet
- Amazon adds Star Wars and Haunting of Hill House actors to already stacked cast of Mike Flanagan's Carrie TV show
- Hideo Kojima says "I always think of other, more weird stuff to make" but he can't just do that when it also has to sell or "my studio will go bankrupt"
- The Last of Us TV show creator confirms Kaitlyn Dever's Abby will lead season 3: "I was sure [HBO] wouldn't let us do this"
- Replaced Embracer CEO wins understatement of the year, says "the road has not always been straight" after billions burned, thousands of layoffs, dozens of games canceled, and multiple studios closed
- Ninja Gaiden 4 hands-on: PlatinumGames and Team Ninja are cooking up something pretty special in this bloody and brutal return to form
- Pedro Pascal slaps Joaquin Phoenix during a heated standoff in first trailer for Hereditary director's pandemic drama that critics are calling "the first truly modern western"
- Fortnite Supernova Gear: What is it and where to get it
- Best Mario Kart world setup to win at any cc
- Lies of P's Overture DLC is crushing players so hard that the devs are making it easier: "We identified areas that did not turn out quite as we intended"
- Helldivers 2 designer outlines Arrowhead's "trainwreck in slow-motion" design philosophy, and another essential guiding star: "The tingle in the ass"
- Playing Gears of War: Reloaded on PS5 is exceptionally surreal, especially in online co-op with a player on Xbox Series X
- Razer just released a barebones kit for its first hot-swappable keyboard
- Intrepid Mario Kart World explorer spends 1 day mapping the "202 unique routes between tracks" in the new Switch 2 game: "If you raced on all of them, it would take over 10 hours"
- Fans briefly panicked after Hideo Kojima's account shared "The life and death of Hideo Kojima" piece, but he's fine – he's just thinking about death and the things he still wants to make
- MCU star Scarlett Johansson gets candid about her time as Black Widow, saying some movies had "so much plot" that "you start to feel like you’re a device to move it along"
- "It looks like Nintendo did a good job" – Sonic boss Takashi Iizuka says Mario Kart World looks more like an action game, whereas Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds "really" focuses on racing and competitive play
- The Walking Dead's Maggie actor says one dramatic scene with Glenn still doesn't sit right with her over a decade later: "It was strange timing"
- Nintendo Switch 2 review: "We're in for an excellent generation"
- The biggest strategy game in Steam Next Fest is a medieval siege MMO from cult devs - but it's impossible to play it most the time and I have to wait 5 hours to get in
- I struggle to learn board game rules, but this RPG tactics Steam Next Fest demo has shown me the power of digital versions to teach
- You aren't supposed to ride Dune: Awakening's sandworms, but the survival MMO's community has figured out a daring way to do it regardless
- Jennifer’s Body star Amanda Seyfried has some ideas for the cult horror sequel – and she won’t do it without Megan Fox
- The Boys creator is "in a fair amount of terror" about the season 5 finale, because "the graveyard is literally filled with terrible [series finales]"
- Halo dataminers uncover evidence of a PS5 release coming, days after Phil Spencer hinted at the return of "a classic that's been with us since the beginning"
- Helldivers 2 finally gives bugdivers something to do now the Illuminate and Automaton attacks are over, as "massive Terminid outbreaks have erupted simultaneously" across 5 planets
- MindsEye continues to project confidence: ex-GTA 5 lead's new game is available physically, but the devs ask folks to delay streams until official launch time – meanwhile a 7-hour "100% walkthrough" is already on YouTube
- Schedule 1 patch arrives alongside its solo dev apologizing for taking "a bit longer than usual," while teasing the drug dealing sim's upcoming "first major update"
- All Mario Kart World Outfits and all food locations for unlocking them
- Death Stranding creator Hideo Kojima is passing ideas onto his staff for after he dies, but he doesn't want them to copy him, because they "will go out of business": "I am not going to pass the baton to anyone"
- David Lynch's unmade Netflix series was a "really interesting mystery" but definitely wasn't a Twin Peaks sequel: "It's too bad. Because it would've been good"
- Major board game publisher snaps up the Zombicide franchise, saving it from an uncertain future
- You can play the RPG that inspired Undertale during Steam Next Fest and it even features the work of Toby Fox himself
- Moon Knight creator says the character’s return to the MCU is up to Kevin Feige and Oscar Isaac: "I would be shocked if we didn’t see him again at some point"
- How to Train Your Dragon director is already thinking about the sequel, wants Cate Blanchett to return in live-action
- Elden Ring Nighreign patch makes the Nightlords fight fair, stopping one from tanking your framerate and another from performing a combo of "72 consecutive attacks"
- Fantastic Four co-writer tried to have "a classic Galactus" as the "big bad" in the 2015 Marvel movie, but "internal push back" stopped it
- No Pikmin games got Switch 2 upgrades, and fans say Pikmin 3 Deluxe is "borderline broken" thanks to crashes, bizarre visual bugs, and screen flickering
- The Switch 2 has a big dock compatibility problem, and I need Nintendo to fix it before it ruins my summer plans
- The Stellar Blade PC release was briefly the biggest demo at Steam Next Fest, but it's been overtaken by a controversial soulslike MMORPG revival that shares at least one thing with Stellar Blade itself
- Lost in Random: The Eternal Die review: "This sequel's roguelike shift squanders the potential of its Burton-like world, yet I can't stop rolling the die for one more go"
- Fortnite on Nintendo Switch 2 is a huge upgrade, and the mouse mode controls are my new favorite way to play
- Nintendo announces Switch 2 exclusive Splatoon spinoff via its official app, proving it's very serious about getting you to download Nintendo Today
- Mortal Kombat 2 writer heaps praise on the video game sequel, says test screenings have been getting Avengers Endgame-style reactions: "Every joke is landing"
- Blood of Dawnwalker director says the vampire RPG's story is so non-linear that "you can align with the human rebellion or finish the game without ever meeting them”
- Elden Ring sleuth cracks Nightreign open to prove FromSoftware is still being very weird about stat scaling and hitting level 15 really doesn't matter that much
- Everything we know about Valve Deckard, the long-awaited sequel to Valve's Index VR headset
- Cult sci-fi movie from 28 Years Later filmmakers was supposed to be the first in an "interplanetary" trilogy
- Hideo Kojima shares the secrets behind his movie reviews, and it's adorably low-key: a Notes app filled with thumbs up and heart emojis
- Star Wars icon Mark Hamill says George Lucas never considered killing any of the main characters, unlike the sequels: "In the new ones, they pop us off one at a time"
- Persona 4 Revival: Everything we know so far about the new Persona 4 remake
- I broke this roguelike FPS Steam Next Fest demo wide open once I combined its gritty freerunning with a gun that spams pandas
- 007 First Light leads say James Bond is no Agent 47: "If Hitman is a single-minded killer and basically the bad guy of the game, Bond is the hero"
- Splitgate 2 director says it was "news to me" that the FPS launched with $80 bundles, blames former monetization head "who happened to come from Call of Duty"
- Snow White ends its box office run as one of Disney's worst performing live-action remakes in almost a decade, proving a rare misfire
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 update lets you rematch the RPG's most punishing boss – and why stop there? New challenge modifiers let you multiply enemy HP x100
- The Last of Us showrunner knows some of Neil Druckmann's ideas for The Last of Us Part 3, but he's not sure Naughty Dog will make any of them: "I don't know if he's zeroed in on one"
- Ryan Reynolds jokingly responds to new Deadpool VR actor Neil Patrick Harris voicing his Marvel hero: "People who steal your signature roles are the biggest buttholes of all"
- ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X "have access to all the games you can play on Windows PCs," so you'll be able to play PlayStation games like The Last of Us and God of War
- Captain Marvel star Brie Larson headlining new creature feature from the director of 2024's most surprising horror-thriller
- Mario Kart World players have found the optimal way to unlock every vehicle, and it involves driving slowly behind a pedestrian car for 25 minutes
- Survival Kids review: "A largely unambitious but extremely accessible My First Survival Game for Switch 2"
- Ayaneo just announced a new handheld homage to the 3DS, and it could outpace the ROG Xbox Ally X
- Ex-Witcher 3 devs' new vampire RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker features "combat that feels authentic" because they "studied medieval fighting styles and even have a few trained swordsmen on the team"
- I lost all my progress in a single catastrophic fall in this impossibly hard open-world Steam Next Fest demo, and I'm not even a tiny bit mad about it
- June 9
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- Dying Light: The Beast dev says "we are not Call of Duty" and the series has a "complicated relationship" with guns, but The Beast's firearms should finally be "on par" with melee
- After handing out millions, Among Us dev says its indie fund has a signing rate roughly 8x higher than most publishers, most of its games are under $500k, just 6 are $1 million or more, and RPGs are king
- Captain America actor Chris Evans says he's definitely, really, totally not coming back for Avengers: Doomsday, but he talks to directors the Russo Brothers "all the time"
- "For us, it really is Dying Light 3": Techland admits Dying Light 2 "lost the horror, lost the tension," but says The Beast is "the best Dying Light that we have ever made"
- "We are going to do CRPGs that are going to be as serious as BG3," says Wizards of the Coast president, but Star Wars Jedi director's D&D action game is very different to Larian's RPG
- After 2 years and 10 episodes, Twisted Metal season 2 finally gives us the high-octane tournament everyone's been expecting
- What if Spot the Difference was evil? This bizarre Steam Next Fest demo has cursed me to keep replaying it, and I'm getting Five Nights at Freddy's vibes
- Marvel's Ironheart isn't just Iron Man meets Wakanda tech as the latest trailer reveals an unexpected third ingredient: magic
- Official Helldivers 2 world map puts Super Earth's destruction into perspective, and oops we just turned our last remaining rainforests into "massive tactical airstrips"
- I thought only needing two buttons would make this Steam Next Fest rhythm demo easier... I couldn't have been more wrong
- Caves of Qud dev says they "made enough from launch" to work on this roguelike RPG for "a couple more years at minimum, so we're using the time to get up to some extreme bulls**t"
- Ninja Gaiden Ragebound is a perfect distillation of the series' 37-year legacy and an absolute highlight of Summer Game Fest
- "I bet they didn't crunch this in a year or 2": As Switch 2 gives Pokemon Scarlet and Violet a needed FPS boost, fans blast GameFreak one last time as it unveils its gorgeous new action RPG
- PXN P5 review: “Buying cheap might mean buying twice."
- Elden Ring Nightreign player becomes "world's first" to solo all 8 main bosses, back to back, without dying once: "We did it"
- Gears of War: Reloaded isn't coming to PS5 in Japan because of "regional rating restrictions and platform policies," despite its Xbox and PC releases going ahead
- The best new shows and movies streaming this week on Netflix, Prime Video, Disney Plus, and more
- Dune Awakening Third Trial location and guide
- Mario Kart World has Mirror Mode after all, and you can even explore it in Free Roam thanks to this Super Mario 64 Easter egg
- Everything we know about the Asus ROG Xbox Ally
- Creators of Splinter Cell's Netflix series namecheck its wildest inspirations, from Ghost in the Shell to Tom Cruise – and respond to Sam Fisher's "important" recasting
- Aluminum location in Dune Awakening
- Resident Evil Requiem's Grace Ashcroft has me theorizing on the next REmake – and it's not Code Veronica
- Deltarune has already been patched 3 times in its opening weekend, with Toby Fox and the team fixing crashes, freezes, and maybe a Geneva Convention violation
- The sandworm in Dune: Awakening mysteriously vanished from the MMO and nobody knows why, but I have good news: it's back
- As another year passes with no Elder Scrolls 6 news nearly 14 years since Skyrim, Bethesda fans gather to mourn what could've been at Summer Game Fest 2025: "I feel like giving up"
- The Witcher 3 almost ended on a Mass Effect 2-inspired "suicide mission," but CD Projekt Red "decided to make this more personal ending" instead
- Some of the best Lego Star Wars sets just hit a record low price
- Bethesda-approved Skyblivion is suddenly more than just an exciting remake – it's a poster child for a potential game-changer for mods: one-click modding on GOG
- I played Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds for an hour and its chaotic item-based destruction reminded me of how fun it is to be bad at a kart racer
- The Legend of Zelda movie has been delayed, but creator Shigeru Miyamoto says it’s so they can "make the film as good as it can be"
- A new Netflix crime thriller series is climbing the streamer's charts, but you probably haven't heard of it
- How to unlock Mirror Mode in Mario Kart World
- This wireless Razer headset is perfect for Nintendo Switch 2 and it's just returned to its lowest ever price
- How to rewind in Mario Kart World
- Mario Kart World Kamek item explained - All Mario Kart World Kamek unlocks
- Mario Kart World is "completely broken," speedrun legend declares as players demolish the racing game's time trials with its wild new movement mechanics
- Marvel's animated Black Panther anthology will feature Iron Fist, but "not the Iron Fist you expect"
- Martin Scorsese thought his cameo in Apple TV Plus show with great Rotten Tomatoes score was being filmed "wrong," but he didn't want to "be a backseat director" and point it out
- Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 trailer introduces a new slew of adventures as Spock and the crew leap into the unknown – and teases Kirk’s promotion to Captain
- Less than two weeks after release, prolific Elden Ring challenge runner beats Nightreign using only a shield, and he's not done yet: "We could’ve got hitless"
- After 19 years, D&D fans can finally play Neverwinter Nights 2 on Steam again, thanks to the Enhanced Edition releasing this summer
- Dead Cells co-dev's slick Prince of Persia action roguelike gets a full release this August, and you'll "finally meet the Prince's father, the King of Persia"
- Nioh 3 completely changes the formula, allowing me to transform from samurai to ninja with a single button press as I take on its 'masocore' world
- Where to buy Nintendo Switch 2: all the latest restocks as they happen
- After 9 years of deadly new Hitman updates, the hardest part about designing new Elusive Targets like James Bond villain Le Chiffre is "actually keeping the target alive"
- Hitman dev says 007 First Light isn't "just shooting and shooting and shooting," and spy gadgets will allow for "varied and spread out" approaches to missions in the James Bond game
- Marvel is so secretive that one Avengers star didn't even know he was in the movie until he was on set: "I almost passed out"
- Andor fans think the Star Wars show recontextualizes a Cassian and Jyn moment in Rogue One: "Andor has truly increased the depth and meaning of anything it touches"
- Jurassic World Evolution 3: Everything we know so far about the new dinosaur management sim
- I've been playing Switch 2 using a DualSense, and it's all thanks to a GameCube controller adapter
- The Walking Dead boss clarifies that Dead City's grizzly is "just a regular bear" because "if a zombie bites a bear, it does not turn into a zombie bear"
- Death Stranding 2 director Hideo Kojima came away from Summer Game Fest with praise for this handcrafted co-op platformer: "It's the kind of game we need in an age where we've lost the true meaning of 'words' on social media"
- While Hollow Knight Silksong fans rejoice after getting actual news, Starfield fans are in shambles as Bethesda's space RPG skips Xbox Games Showcase: "The game looks so dead"
- Three years after it was announced, Henry Cavill talks up his "dream come true" Warhammer series at Amazon: "It is a very complex IP, and that's what I love about it"
- From serial killer to bad knees, The Outer Worlds 2 has some ridiculous perks even by RPG standards, including one that just "makes the game pretty unplayable if you happen to choose that"
- The Office spin-off's star says his character is not like Ricky Gervais and Steve Carrell's iconic roles: "I hope people will find a reason to love him as well"
- Is Mario Kart World on Switch 1?
- Mass Effect 5 director reacts to The Expanse: Osiris Reborn, a new sci-fi action RPG reminiscent of BioWare's own beloved series: "Looking pretty awesome"
- Fast Fusion review: "Futuristic racing from the same mold as Wipeout and F-Zero shines on Switch 2"
- Fantastic Four producer teases the new Marvel movie's villain and says Galactus is "the most epic of the most epic that you can imagine"
- Loki star Tom Hiddleston says he "didn't know until the rest of the world knew" about Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom: "I texted Kevin Feige with just like exclamation marks"
- If you're still upset about Joel in The Last of Us season 2, the co-creator wants you to remember that Pedro Pascal is actually "alive" and he's "in literally everything else"
- Borderlands 4 is "turning out to be better" than Borderlands 3 "by every measurement we have, including subjective ones," Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford teases
- Does Mario Kart World have Game Share?
- Fantastic Four director is evoking 2001: A Space Odyssey with 14-foot miniatures and "depending less and less" on green screen: "A lot of our inspiration is what Stanley Kubrick did in the 60s"
- Persona 4 Revival trailer uses Golden-exclusive content, suggesting we might be getting a remake of Atlus' expanded JRPG – unlike with Persona 3 Reload
- Carbon Ore location in Dune Awakening
- June 8
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- Sims competitor Paralives secures a December early access release, hopefully giving life sim enjoyers something fresh after inZOI's mixed reception and Life by You's cancellation
- Legendary roguelike dev behind The Binding of Isaac finally reveals the release date for his cat-eugenics strategy game, 13 years after it was originally announced
- Hollow Knight: Silksong is releasing "before" the Holiday season, Team Cherry says, and isn't "tied to a console release" like the Xbox ROG Ally
- Microsoft insists its Xbox handheld is a "breakthrough moment," but it kind of sounds like an ROG Ally with an Xbox sticker and Game Pass to me: "It looks like an Xbox, it feels like an Xbox, it plays like an Xbox"
- The Outer Worlds 2 devs have already shown the background I'll be using in this RPG: the Roustabout, a talentless loser who is "not quite sure what happened" to get them here
- Persona 4 Revival is finally confirmed, but the JRPG's lead has me excited for the possibility of Persona 6: "We are actively preparing for the future development of the Persona series"
- Ninja Gaiden 4 boss misses "classic" action games in the Soulslike era and thinks he's not alone: "The types of games we grew up playing have become a lot less common"
- Grounded 2 will follow its survival game predecessor's early access window, but the downside is "the game's not done and it's out to the world," which makes for horrifying bugs like this reverse face
- You simply will not guess the main character of the Psychonauts studio and Brutal Legend art director's new mind-bending adventure
- Xbox boss Phil Spencer says the next Forza game releases in 2026, and that we'll also see "the return of a classic that's been with us since the beginning"
- The game that Invincible's creator said made him "the most excited I've been about anything" in the franchise just got announced at Xbox Game Showcase
- The Outer Worlds 2 "basically borrowed" Fallout: New Vegas' excellent Perks system, and I'm already spinning up an amazing stealth RPG build
- Gears of War: E-Day is being pitched as the ultimate 20th anniversary present as The Coalition locks in a 2026 release window
- Gears of War Reloaded is getting several weekend-long betas for pre-order buyers "to really test at scale the cross-platform play experience" and "make sure that the servers are ready for big numbers"
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 announced: the first consecutive release in the series gets a 2025 release window, is set 40 years after Black Ops 6, and brings back campaign co-op
- Spiritfarer and 33 Immortals developer, a team that seems allergic to bad games, just announced a gorgeous new action game for 2026
- Sea of Thieves season 17 is called Smugglers' Tide, and it brings on board a new faction, new "smuggling voyages," and "explosive new loot"
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade and Final Fantasy 16 are both coming to Xbox - and one of them is available today
- Aha, this is our chance: After 17 years, Persona 4 Revival brings back the stone-cold classic PS2 JRPG with a gorgeous new visual treatment that looks way more lavish than Persona 3 Reload
- Step aside, Pokemon and Palworld – an adorable new open-world creature collector ARPG mashup called Aniimo is coming to PC and Xbox next year
- Bioshock-esque RPG Clockwork Revolution continues to look promising in new trailer, but we'll have to wait as the release date will be unveiled in "due time"
- Pokemon developer Game Freak's new "one-person, one-dog action RPG" looks like Nier and Sekiro had a gorgeous baby, and it's coming next year to PC, Xbox, and PS5
- Ex Witcher 3 devs reveal first gameplay trailer for vampire RPG Blood of Dawnwalker, complete with decapitations and a 2026 release window
- Grounded 2: Everything we know so far about the upcoming survival game
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle: Order of Giants DLC is out this September with more of everyone's favorite fedora-wearing archaeologist
- Surprise! Obsidian is making Grounded 2, and it's launching into Steam Early Access and Xbox Game Preview next month
- 15 years later, Super Meat Boy 3D gives one of the best platformers of all time a whole new dimension, and it's out early 2026
- Ninja Gaiden 4 finally makes its 13-year overdue debut this October: "We often joke that 'we’ve made something that really doesn’t feel like a modern game—it’s just too hard'"
- 3 years after telling us Hollow Knight Silksong would release in 1 year, Xbox once again hints vaguely at a release date, this time linked to its new handheld
- The Outer Worlds 2 gets an October release date as Obsidian opens pre-orders and confirms that 2 story expansions are on their way
- Don't tell Microsoft it's the Nintendo Switch 2 launch week, because it just announced two Xbox handhelds
- High on Life 2 announced during Xbox Games Showcase, an out-of-this-world FPS sequel that looks just as wildly trippy as the original
- I'm not saying I regret buying a Nintendo Switch 2, but the ROG Xbox Ally X is almost everything I want from an Xbox handheld
- Jurassic World Evolution 3 is the "next frontier" for the series with baby dinosaurs, new creative tools, and a globe-trotting campaign
- Splitgate 2 devs slash microtransaction prices and promise to refund the difference as the FPS looks to bounce back from 'Mixed' Steam reviews: "We hear you loud and clear"
- Everything announced at the Xbox Games Showcase 2025
- Mads Mikkelsen says his roles in Death Stranding and Hitman both had "one thing" in common: "I had no idea what was going on"
- I didn't know how badly I needed a PvPvE Dark Souls in my life until Mistfall Hunter threw one in my lap
- Dan Da Dan director admits "expectations are high" for season 2 ahead of the supernatural anime's return: "We are trying to make a better season"
- Predator: Killer of Killers clears up jaw-dropping ending and fan theories of an Alien presence
- Daredevil: Born Again almost used Loki's laws of variants to bring him into the MCU
- Kieran Culkin advises fans "lower their expectations" for his performance in The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
- 6 years later, Marvel fans are debating one of the biggest "what ifs" of the MCU involving Thanos
- June 7
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- Explore an abandoned tourist haven to investigate a first-person mystery in Dimhaven - The Lost Source
- Terrifier: The ARTcade Game announces a demo for its bloody, retro beat em up action and it's live now
- Antro is a rhythm-action platformer all about starting a revolution to sick beats, and it's coming out at the end of June
- Moonlighter 2: The Endless Dungeon is Hades meets Zelda: Wind Waker and is coming this summer
- Delve into the tales of King Arthur's knights in Legends of the Roundtable, an RPG with a striking medieval art style that has a demo you can play now
- Upcoming puzzle game from The House of Da Vinci devs shows up at Future Games Show Summer Showcase to tease never-seen-before levels
- Explore the alien caverns of Mars in Blind Descent, a subterranean survival game that's giving Subnautica via Jules Verne
- If you've ever wanted a PS1-esque Soulslike, then you'll totally be into Prison of Husks
- Hotline Miami meets Payday in tactical top-down shooter Phantom Squad
- Fantasy city-builder Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown gets its full release date later this month
- Mixtape sent a sherpa up a mountain to get the rights to use a song, and Grand Theft Auto has "nothing on our toilet paper tech"
- Berserk B.I.T.S is an idle-RPG that's shaping up to be a major threat to my productivity, and there's a new Steam demo you can try now
- Moros Protocol is a splashy mash-up of Hotline Miami and Dead Space, with a new trailer revealing more gameplay and the upcoming release window
- Mini Motorways becomes the super-chill city builder it was always meant to be with a new Creative Mode update coming this summer
- Everything announced at the Future Games Show Summer Showcase 2025
- Former GTA and Red Dead dev's ritualistic horror game is expanding on its planned PC-only launch, and is now releasing on consoles too
- Crisol: Theater of Idols is a game so bloody you're literally loading your guns with the stuff
- This fighting game lets you give your opponents a time-bending beat-down across three timelines at once
- See all new Mafia: The Old Country footage in a Future Games Show exclusive scene
- Jinkies! There's a Scooby-Doo DLC expansion for House Flipper 2 coming this October
- Hercule Poirot hits the dancefloor in this 70s spin on a classic Agatha Christie novel
- Rhythm roguelike Ratatan shows off its colorful world and chaotic combat in a new trailer
- Brand new nDreams VR title gets honored introduction and "groundbreaking" endorsement from Shuhei Yoshida himself
- Psychological horror Luto gets an official release date and chilling new trailer, featuring one of the creepiest dolls I've seen in a while
- Play as an adorable mouse with a magical froggy backpack in Hela, a co-op puzzle adventure
- Hark the Ghoul is a low poly Soulslike-style explore-em-up that throws in a few immersive sim ideas to sweeten the deal
- If you’re after a retro Resident Evil fix, upcoming survival horror game Ground Zero will scratch that terrifying itch
- Climb anywhere as you try to summit the unforgiving Mount Kami in survival-climber Cairn
- Supermassive makes death in space a little easier with Directive 8020's all new Turning Points rewind system
- A trio of classic SNES platforming games is making a comeback after 30 years, and you can support the project on Kickstarter this week
- Lynked: Banner of the Spark is a robo-arm swinging 'rogue-life RPG', where you fight robots for the parts you need to build the town of your dreams
- Spaceship bullet-hell shoot-'em-up Truxton soars onto modern platforms with Truxton Extreme and you can play it during Steam Next Fest
- SacriFire is an HD-2D ode to 90s JRPGs you can wishlist on Steam now
- Put your water-bending skills to the test in action adventure Fading Echo
- Upcoming dark action-adventure game Hell is Us is channeling "old Zelda games" by giving you "just enough to know where to go but not too much"
- SCUM celebrates its long-awaited 1.0 release with a 100 key giveaway at the Future Games Show
- Lead your army of cultist followers to incite the end of the world in Pikmin-inspired roguelite Worship
- Save the world in just 30 seconds in this time-bending roguelike that has a Steam demo you can play now
- Create your perfect golf club with Under Par: Golf Architect
- Line up the perfect shot to launch your hero spinning through their enemies in Flick Shot Rogues
- Trade goods and mastermind ferocious naval battles in this historically accurate sea-faring adventure game set in the late 18th-century Caribbean
- Formula Legends has a new trailer and a new demo you can play right now, revealed in the Future Games Show
- The MMO icons behind EVE Online are lifting the lid on their upcoming sci-fi survival MMO
- Origami action platformer Hirogami looks stunning in its latest trailer and the best part is there's a new Steam demo available right now
- WTF: Waifu Tactical Force is the upcoming PVP shooter fever dream that just made its first open playtest available for all
- Set the stage for the hero in narrative-driven exploration game The Bureau of Fantastical & Arcane Affairs
- Firefighting Simulator: Ignite shows off co-op gameplay for the first time at Future Games Show Summer Showcase
- Team up with friends and platform across an unknown planet in Popucom, a cute co-op puzzle game
- Assemble a party and fight for survival in the turn-based tactics of Lost Eidolons: Veil of the Witch
- Adapt or die on dynamic battlefields while capturing biocores in dystopian PvPvE shooter Ascendant
- Lovecraftian puzzle game Call of the Sea is getting a sequel that's coming out soon and there's even a trailer for it
- Titan Quest 2 is Diablo 4 for fans of Greek mythology, and with its early access launch coming soon, it's one to watch
- 2D indie painterly platformer Constance gets a new trailer and release date reveal
- Take an atmospheric journey beneath the ruins of Atlantis to find priceless treasures in The Explorator
- Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream developers on making a game with 16 people: "We do these things not because they're easy, but because we thought they'd be easy"
- New horror game Sleep Awake from Spec Ops the Line director, Nine Inch Nails' Robin Finck, and Blumhouse Games gets release window
- Gather your pack of mysterious creatures and lead them on a fantastical journey in Herdling
- The Finals returns for another chaotic season, with new gear, gadgets, and some crazy weapons
- The Seven Deadly Sins: Origin gets a new trailer revealing that pre-registration is live now!
- Listen to the voices in Whispers in the Fog, to solve the mystery of its cursed Japanese forest
- Echoes of the End is a new Iceland-inspired, sword-and-sorcery action game and it's out this summer
- The Expanse: Osiris Reborn is basically Mass Effect: Expanse edition
- 007: First Light isn't an Uncharted-style action game, but it's not just another Hitman game either: "We are leaning a lot on what IOI does best"
- I've never felt as much camaraderie as I did with the Resident Evil 9 hopefuls absolutely crashing out over Capcom's SGF prank: "Not gonna trust this dude anymore ever"
- "It was not 'one guy', look at the dang in-game credits": Balatro's Localthunk joins team size discourse after Geoff Keighley fumbled it at Summer Game Fest by saying Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was made by "under 30" people
- After 26 years, a gorgeous PS1 cult classic is being officially released in English for the first time, and one of the best fan translation groups around helped make it happen
- Every new indie game that shadowdropped during Wholesome Direct 2025: From a Sims-like decorating game to a chaotic cooking roguelike
- Ghost of Yotei's M ESRB rating reveals the best part of Tsushima is back in the sequel: "Exposed buttocks is depicted in a hot spring"
- "I got to shag his wife and kill him, so let's see what happens in the game": 26 years before becoming David Bateson's target in Hitman, Mads Mikkelsen worked with the Agent 47 actor on a Danish short film
- Don't feel bad if you fell for Final Fantasy Tactics' viral "penalty for a crime" meme, the OG strategy RPG's director says "it certainly sounds like something I would have written"
- 007 First Light is "a distinct and separate universe," says IO Interactive, despite Mads Mikkelsen's Le Chiffre coming to Hitman
- Splatoon 3 has a Switch 2-exclusive bug that's giving squid fans an advantage on the new console, even without an update: "Pay to win"
- Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom player finishes the entire game with 100% completion in a single 136+ hour stream, and "only burst blood vessels in both my eyes" doing it
- Step aside, Super Horn: Mario Kart World's "exploitable" new Rewind feature is the best way to dodge blue shells in single-player or bring the CPU racers down with you
- Splitgate 2 launches to "Mixed" Steam reviews as players call out pricey microtransactions, right after the game's creator said the "state of multiplayer FPS games is tragically stale"
- Toby Fox urges streamers to "PLEASE dispute" any copyright claims they get over Undertale and Deltarune content, because his RPG music is so popular "it hit a threshold for increased copyright strike aggression. Not kidding"
- Patapon's creator raised $1.5 million on Kickstarter to fund the PSP classic's spiritual successor, and the roguelike now has an early access date after two years
- Stranger Than Heaven: Everything we know about the new Project Century game
- 007 First Light: Everything we know so far about IO Interactive's new Bond game
- 007: First Light devs chose a James Bond origin story to help be "more relatable" to a "younger audience maybe than the Bond franchise is used to"
- Resident Evil 9 Requiem references have been spotted in Resident Evil 7, a game that came out 8 whole years ago
- Splitgate 2 dev doubles down on flaming an entire genre with an unpopular hat: "The state of multiplayer FPS games is tragically stale"
- "This is completely insane. I didn't even think that was possible?": Minami Lane dev stunned to see his new cute $5 Steam game gather over 1,000 flawless reviews
- From a Stardew Valley-like with a horrifying twist to an adventure from the artist behind Journey, these are the Day of the Devs SGF Edition 2025 games I need in my life
- Ballerina almost crossed over to John Wick with one iconic Chapter 3 fight scene
- Star Wars: Starfighter has Mia Goth in its tractor beam as the big movie villain
- Daredevil star Charlie Cox acknowledges there's a massive cliffhanger looming over Jessica Jones reunion in Born Again season 2 – and how the Marvel show might handle it
- GDT's Frankenstein gets an R-rating for "bloody violence and grisly images"
- It turns out there's a reason the Red Hulk was spoiled in Captain America: Brave New World marketing
- Day of the Devs Summer Game Fest Edition 2025 brought us 7 new reveals - here's what they were
- Splitgate 2 dev snatches defeat from the jaws of victory, channeling Borderlands 4's Randy Pitchford by upsetting fans even when his FPS is looking pretty good
- The devs behind one of our favorite Metroidvanias are making an action RPG with a Hades look to it, and I'm convinced this studio just cannot miss
- I was sad it wasn't Judgment 3 at first, but RGG has officially sold me on its gritty, time-hopping, jazzy action game now officially titled Stranger Than Heaven
- Resident Evil Requiem: Everything we know about Resident Evil 9
- Gearbox finally responds to series-wide Borderlands review bomb after 19 days, says its owner "does not use spyware" and it's actually OK with most mods
- The title of Gachiakuta roughly translates as "legit trash" but this new trailer for the Crunchyroll anime is pure gold, and the release date is just around the corner
- June 6
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- Gears of War creator admits he can't explain a key event within one of his games: "Sometimes ya just put stuff in a game you think is cool"
- REPO and Schedule 1 receive the highest honor an indie game can possibly get outside 2 seconds in a Nintendo sizzle reel: Geoff Keighley telling the world they're outselling some genuine AAA juggernauts
- Street Fighter 6's third DLC season is a banger with possibly the weirdest DLC pick to date – announced by AEW's Kenny Omega playing dress-up
- Splitgate 2 dev says he made his FPS because he hates Call of Duty, loves Halo, and wants Titanfall 3 – and his new battle royale is "f***ing awesome"
- Killer Inn is a new murder mystery game that sounds a lot like Among Us, but looks a lot more like a chaotic, 24-player version of Hitman
- Jurassic World Evolution 3 officially announced with an adorable trailer filled with dinosaur families and Jeff Goldblum, and it's coming this October
- Lies of P: Overture's mutant kangaroos and new difficult settings give the long-awaited DLC a Resident Evil 4 vibe, and I wouldn't have it any other way
- Ill looks like a gnarly cross between Half-Life and The Thing, and its developer has just one goal: delivering "a good f**king horror game*
- Lies of P: Overture's mutant kangaroos and new difficult settings give the long-awaited DLC a Resident Evil 4 vibe, and I wouldn't have it any other way
- Capcom finally reveals first trailer for Resident Evil 9 at Summer Game Fest a year after its announcement
- After 6 years and 88,000 reviews in Steam early access, open-world survival craft game Scum finally has a 1.0 release date
- PvP mech shooter Mecha Break finally has a release date, and it's coming to PC and Xbox Series X next month
- Nostalgic new Mixtape trailer demonstrates the impossible power of a Life is Strange-like: I now want to attend my high school reunion
- You can get a unique 007: First Light reward if you kill Mads Mikkelsen's Casino Royale character in Hitman in the next 30 days
- Ex-GTA 5 dev remembers he's about to launch a game, announces Mindseye collab with Hitman's Agent 47
- A new Scott Pilgrim beat 'em up is coming from the developers of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge
- 2 years after getting too big to be Dying Light 2 DLC, Dying Light: The Beast finally launches this August
- This seriously pretty couch co-op platformer looks like a stop motion It Takes Two where "everything has been crafted by hand," and I need it in my veins yesterday
- Hollow Knight: Silksong disappointment hits its peak as Team Cherry gets a mention at Summer Game Fest, only to be replaced by Deadpool VR
- Deadpool VR stars Neil Patrick Harris as the merc with a mouth, and its super slick combat has impressed me so far
- Geoff Keighley can't help himself, pours gasoline on the memes as he unveils a real-time boxing game starring puppets: "You guys all know I love my puppets"
- Shovel Knight devs unveil the demo and release date for the Castlevania meets Zelda: Link's Awakening game I've wanted for years, and I can tell you it's every bit as good as that pedigree suggests
- The 8th most wishlisted game on Steam, Arc Raiders, is still the extraction shooter to watch, and it's coming this October
- Lego Voyagers is a co-op follow-up to a critically underrated puzzle game, and it's just as adorable as its predecessor
- It's Bucky fan service galore in a New Avengers #1 preview that has the Winter Soldier effortlessly exploding his enemies before a steamy hook-up with Black Widow
- This new Game of Thrones strategy game will let you change one of the final season's biggest moments, and it's coming next year
- New strategy game Chronicles Medieval has you fight third-person battles with Tom Hardy narrating in a surprisingly normal accent for once
- Bandai Namco unveils Code Vein 2, a stunning follow-up to the 2019 anime action RPG that still has one of the best character creators ever
- Sonic's Takashi Iizuka dunks on Mario Kart World as Sonic Racing: Crossworlds unveils Hatsune Miku, Persona 5, and Minecraft Steve
- Death Stranding 2 shows a surprisingly normal new clip, starring the Metal Gear Solid doppelganger who Kojima's a massive fan of
- That's another Soulslike RPG for my list: Mortal Shell 2 is coming to consoles and PC next year, and I'm a big fan of the gigantic gross stuff in its trailer
- "Is this the best Nintendo could do?": Repair expert gives Switch 2 a 3/10 for repairability, citing "probably still drifty" Joy-Cons and "tamper-proofing hidden in plain sight"
- Black Panther 3 director Ryan Coogler confirms Denzel Washington is joining the film in a special role: "There's no fiction out there about that"
- Nintendo, what have you done: Moo Moo Cow has completely overtaken Mario Kart World lobbies as Switch 2 players embrace the best new character
- Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles will have a free Nintendo Switch 2 upgrade, which is great because the separate new version is just a code in a box
- How to the watch the Future Games Show Summer Showcase 2025
- Half-Life 3 obsessives put Valve boss Gabe Newell under the microscope, tracking his yacht as it gets kind of, sort of, actually not at all near the Summer Game Fest venue
- A live-action Care Bears movie is in the works from cult comedy director and Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves producers
- Silent Hill f actor spent so long playing her role that "I almost felt my own sanity slipping," and I'm starting to see a pattern here
- Amazon's Mass Effect TV show is moving forward with Star Trek writer as showrunner
- Nintendo Switch 2 has been out for a single day and there's already a Schedule 1 ripoff on the eShop
- Hollow Knight: Silksong fans are less OK than ever after Team Cherry confirmed a 2025 launch, with fresh Steam updates pre-Summer Game Fest provoking doubters and believers: "We've come full circle"
- Marvel boss Kevin Feige confuses all of us by saying the Fantastic Four ship in the Thunderbolts post-credits might not be "the same ship" as the Excelsior
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Maelle actor and her real-life partner play the French JRPG for themselves, immediately hunt down the notorious "sex hotel" – "a perfect way to balance out the darkness"
- Don't write off a Red Dead Redemption 2 remake or remaster, Arthur Morgan actor says: "We've already started to see it for GTA 5 and the original"
- How to beat the Elden Ring Nightreign Night Aspect boss Heolstor the Nightlord
- Nintendo says it'll "be able to meet that demand" for Switch 2 through 2025, so don't worry about another PS5 situation
- I'm busy testing over 16 Switch 2 accessories but here are the top 4 that have already impressed me so far
- Scream and Ant-Man stars' horror sequel Ready or Not 2 gets 2026 release date, as they announce end of filming in the most on-brand way
- No Man's Sky boss assures fans Hello Games "did not have a secret room hiding deaf kids" following the survival game's unfortunately auto-captioned Switch 2 trailer
- How long is MindsEye?
- After looking through Bring Her Back's viral black market website, I need Danny and Michael Philippou to make a V/H/S-style found footage movie about its creepy, cursed objects
- How to unlock new outfits in Mario Kart World
- You can play Cyberpunk 2077 on Switch 2 with a mouse and keyboard, and it makes the console feel like a handheld PC
- Lies of P Overture DLC seems to be closer than we thought - an Xbox leak points to a shadow drop coming very soon
- How to unlock new Mario Kart World karts and bikes
- Jaipur review: "Lightning in a bottle"
- Nintendo Switch 2 vs PS5: A battle of the console giants
- If you’re having Nosferatu withdrawals, there’s a new Dracula movie coming this summer from The Fifth Element director Luc Besson
- How to charge jump in Mario Kart World
- Mario Kart World recast Princess Peach, but Nintendo apparently only told her actor of 17 years yesterday: "I truly would have wanted to voice Peach and Toad forever"
- You need these 7 board games from the UK Games Expo 2025 in your collection
- Is MindsEye on Game Pass?
- One of my favorite Switch 2 features is super boring, but it makes traveling with the handheld a dream
- As GTA 6 looms, Suda51's new action game Romeo is a Dead Man is only "probably" launching in 2026: "Every publisher wants to make sure to steer clear of That One Game's release date"
- 50 years on, new shark horror movie Dangerous Animals puts to rights many of the mistakes Steven Spielberg confessed to making in his epic Jaws
- Everything announced at Summer Game Fest 2025
- Tencent reportedly snaps up 16% of Helldivers 2 studio Arrowhead, continuing a prolific spree of share buying that includes Ubisoft, FromSoftware, and more
- Our chests are bursting with excitement: Alien: Romulus director Fede Alvarez says the sequel begins filming in October
- New animated Predator movie with perfect Rotten Tomatoes score just gave Dan Trachtenberg's Prey a twisted new meaning
- You win, Switch 2 – I guess I paid over $400 to play The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker again
- Mario Kart World geniuses are already using the racing game's new mechanics to create incredible shortcuts and land some nefarious green shell snipes
- Dan Da Dan: Evil Eye co-director "didn't know" it was going to be a movie, but hopes anime continues the trend of big-screen releases
- The SteelSeries Arctis Game Buds are Switch 2 compatible and now I'm more obsessed with them than ever
- AMD Ryzen 9 9900X review: "Is it just too darn expensive for its own good?"
- Mario Kart World smart steering explained and how to turn it off
- How to unlock and use Mario Kart World stickers
- Fallout and Five Nights at Freddy's attractions set for Universal Studios' Halloween Horror Nights 2025
- Mario Kart World's intermissions are a fun novelty, but I'm already sick of them detracting from more time in the circuits
- Predator: Killer of Killers director Dan Trachtenberg says playing video games informed his filmmaking style: "How to [...] pull people through a journey they feel primally connected to"
- After Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Mario Kart World is the latest Nintendo game to feature cannibalism because, yes, the cow happily chomps down beef burgers
- Superman is locked and ready to go as director James Gunn confirms Superman is "100%" done: "Our last visual effect shot has been finished"
- The Wheel of Time showrunner reacts to "devastating" cancellation: "These fans deserve to see the story finished"
- Borderlands games are still being review bombed on Steam following Take-Two terms of service backlash, but modders say "the main clause everyone's freaking out about was already there"
- Mario Kart World rarely lets you play classic 3-lap races online, but players have found a workaround to avoid the divisive intermission tracks altogether
- This is probably the reason Switch 2's Joy-Cons aren't immune to stick drift
- How to play Mario Kart World online with friends
- Predator: Killer of Killers directors toyed with making it a TV series, but ultimately decided it would be "special" if the sci-fi horror was an anthology movie
- New horror movie Bring Her Back launches in-universe black market website all but confirming Talk To Me connection, and its contents will terrify you
- After Thunderbolts underperformed, Fantastic Four could be on track to disprove Marvel fatigue with massive start at the box office
- Your Switch 2 will happily use a webcam without USB-C, and I feel like Nintendo should be telling you that
- The 32 greatest cinematic legal thrillers ever made
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs say "our game was crafted with love," and don't want anyone using their RPG "to spread hate"
- John Wick director gives The Continental spin-off both barrels for ignoring his and Keanu Reeves's ideas: "A group of individuals thought they had the magic sauce"
- Borderlands 2 is temporarily free on Steam and Randy Pitchford is even throwing in free loot keys, inviting even more negative reviews as Take-Two privacy policy backlash continues
- Death Stranding 2 hands-on: An emphasis on combat and vehicles feels like an evolution of Metal Gear Solid 5, while continuing to push the first game's in-depth hiking physicality
- Predator: Killer of Killers director wanted to make sure the sci-fi anthology movie wasn't "going to just smash action figures together"
- Dune: Awakening launched to "Mostly Negative" reviews thanks to server frustrations, but it seems fans of the survival MMO are content now: "I don't hate it"
- Black Myth: Wukong is coming to Xbox a full year after hitting PS5 and PC, alongside the breakout action game’s first-ever discount
- Ballerina director says it was important that the new John Wick movie's action scenes "make you go, 'Okay, well, I haven't seen that [before]"
- Predator: Badlands director explains why the upcoming sci-fi movie is an "inversion" of the franchise: "This time, the Predator is the one being hunted"
- Ballerina ending explained: Is John Wick in the new action movie? Is there a post-credits scene?
- The big Zenless Zone Zero 2.0 interview: buffing old characters, standing up to Miyabi, the missing idol faction, and the "undeniable" Yixuan
- June 5
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- Epic's Tim Sweeney declares "the long national nightmare of the Apple tax is ended" as appeals court officially denies Apple's emergency motion
- Tom Cruise's death-defying stunts in Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning have earned him an impressively specific Guinness World Record
- How to wall ride in Mario Kart World
- How to grind rails in Mario Kart World
- How to unlock characters in Mario Kart World
- Marvel's new summer event harkens back to one of the publisher's last great eras, and the villain will actually surprise you
- Full Mario Kart World track list for Grand Prix Cups and Knockout Tour Rallys
- Confirmed: Nintendo has freed the F bomb and you can swear in Switch 2 speech-to-text GameChat
- FC 25 Season 8 Ladder Players list and how to unlock them all
- This gorgeous free-to-play pirate RPG from the studio behind one of the longest-running asymmetrical horror games stole the show in a State of Play that already wowed me with Silent Hill f and Ghost of Yotei
- Marvel Tokon devs want to push the whole tag-team fighting game genre forward with 4v4, and insist it's not that overwhelming: "Wait, do I have to practice four characters just to win?"
- It belongs in a museum: Indiana Jones' actual whip is up for auction, and it could be yours for the low, low price of $500,000
- A GameStop reportedly ruined new Nintendo Switch 2 consoles with receipts stapled to the screen, but hey, Walmart is giving out free chips and soda "to celebrate launch day"
- The White Lotus star wants to reprise her iconic Scream 3 character – and she already pitched her idea to the studio: "Can I just be in another dimension and come back?'"
- Some Oblivion Remastered players were shocked to find Oblivion gates inside other Oblivion gates, but this is one of the RPG's old quirks that thankfully survived the remastering
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (June 6 - 8)
- CDPR can't help itself, channels Terraria with yet another Cyberpunk 2077 update coming this month: "We have been cooking for you in secret for a bit"
- Baldur's Gate 3 player tragically loses 50-hour Honor Mode save in Act 3 to some rain that Larian added in just to screw with us: "Hate my favorite game so much"
- Mario Kart World roster: The complete Mario Kart World character list
- Nintendo Switch 2 GameShare explained
- A Final Fantasy Tactics remaster appeared in the Nvidia giga-leak nearly 4 years ago, so with The Ivalice Chronicles announced I'm staring extra hard at the Final Fantasy 9 Remake that was also mentioned
- The Witcher 4 devs are inspired by RPGs like Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 and Baldur's Gate 3, but "definitely are not going to make a game like Larian did"
- Mike Flanagan says his Exorcist film is going to miss its release date and, hours later, Universal pulls it from the schedule – but it's "nothing to worry about"
- Lego One Piece was just revealed, and it's so much more ambitious than I expected
- After surviving 3 robberies, a dead game, and burnout, crabby indie studio says 'oops' and makes 2 more games: "You can't stop us, we're gonna keep making s**t"
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate on Nintendo Switch 2 has fixed the most annoying bit of loading the fighting game has to offer, even without a proper next-gen update
- Nintendo Switch 2 Pro Controller vs Switch Pro Controller
- From Batman: Arkham Knight to Bayonetta 3, Switch 2 is already improving the performance of several OG Switch games without a next-gen update
- Mario Kart World review: "A glorious road trip that embraces the open road"
- All Mario Kart World items and what they do
- By bringing Cyberpunk 2077's density to The Witcher 4, CDPR is finally bridging the tech gap between its biggest RPGs
- Elden Ring scared me away for a year, but returning to the FromSoftware classic has convinced me its movie adaptation needs to be a horror
- Pragmata: Everything you need to know about Capcom's new sci-fi adventure game
- You can stop pretending you played Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 now – they're on Game Pass, a year after a leak predicting this, so now you have no excuse not to try them
- Ridley Scott thinks his and James Cameron's Alien movies were good, but "the rest were not very good": "F*ck, that’s the end of a franchise which should be as important as bloody Star Trek or Star Wars"
- In a week, Elden Ring Nightreign players have turned the Revenant class into the new FromSoftware mascot, all but worshipping her as a tiny gremlin god
- After breaking Steam, Deltarune dev Toby Fox appears to aim to break the internet: "After you finish Chapter 4, make sure to load up your save file one more time afterwards"
- Oblivion Remastered player absolutely dunks on the Dark Brotherhood's most annoying target with a parkour kill that would put Assassin's Creed to shame
- Switch 2 marks the end of an era as Mario Kart World is the first time in 20 years Donkey Kong's voice actor has changed, and the replacement seemingly comes straight from the Mario movie
- The Witcher 4 doesn't just rival Red Dead Redemption 2 in hyper-realism – one equestrian expert says the RPG has "one of the overall most impressive and well-put-together game horse animations ever seen"
- Pokemon Scarlet and Violet speedruns are in a different league on Switch 2, with a day-one attempt already coming in around half an hour faster than the old world record
- Horizon Zero Dawn star Ashly Burch says she had no idea if she'd actually been cast as Aloy until she was suddenly in the recording booth: "It really hit me in that moment, like, oh this is a big deal"
- Undertale's Toby Fox offers "temporary workaround" for a Deltarune bug preventing people from loading demo save files into the full RPG
- Borderlands 4 boss Randy Pitchford wants to know what makes a game bigger or better, and he's using Borderlands 2 and 3 to find out
- The best Nintendo Switch 2 cameras
- After losing "eight or nine teeth" on season 1, Squid Game creator says he's lost two more making season 3 of the Netflix show: "I haven't put them back in yet"
- Which Nintendo Switch 2 accessories do you need from day one?
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's Nintendo Switch 2 journey isn't going too smoothly as Nintendo asks "please avoid using Mii Fighter in online play as much as possible"
- F1 first reactions are calling it the "coolest and most entertaining movie you’ll ever see", and it's already being compared to Top Gun: Maverick
- Two months ahead of its premiere, the Alien TV series has finally released its first full trailer – and it's not just Xenomorphs you need to be afraid of
- Queen by Midnight review: "Saddled by excess that would make a real princess shudder"
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs "knew within seconds" that Baldur's Gate 3's Shadowheart actress was the perfect pick for Maelle
- Nintendo Switch 2 owners are ripping apart their new Joy-Cons in record time to check the stick drift situation
- My least favorite Elden Ring Nightreign character just became one of my top choices by stopping a collapsing universe with a sword
- Nioh 3 isn't trying to be an Elden Ring behemoth: producer says with a true open-world map "it would no longer be Nioh 3," but tighter "open-field" design makes it shine
- Nintendo Switch 2 vs Asus ROG Ally
- Wildcard Wishlist: These are the games we've pinned our hopes and dreams on turning up at Summer Game Fest 2025
- Nintendo Switch 2 setup guide
- Nintendo Switch 2 game upgrades explained
- How to turn on Nintendo Switch 2's battery preservation mode
- Despite 123,000 fans signing a petition to save the canceled Amazon series, The Wheel of Time is reportedly not being shopped around to other streamers
- The best Nintendo Switch 2 Micro SD Express Cards
- Everything in the Helldivers 2 Force of Law Warbond
- Nintendo Switch 2 vs Nintendo Switch OLED: how does the new console shape up against its predecessor?
- Oblivion Remastered's first patch is out now in beta to iron out the RPG's janky charm, and Bethesda is already working on another one that "will focus on performance"
- Nintendo Switch 2 GameChat explained: how to use the handheld's new social hub
- A new Helldivers 2 cape is in the works to "honor the service and victory of those who fought to defend Super Earth against the Illuminate invasion"
- After helping Nintendo with Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, Xenoblade devs brought their open-world expertise to Mario Kart World as well
- Madame Web star Dakota Johnson says the Marvel movie "started out as something and turned into something else," but she's not bothered that it flopped: "Who cares?"
- Anora star Mikey Madison in talks to play two roles in upcoming adaptation of the Edgar Allan Poe story that inspired a Mike Flanagan series and Wednesday season 2
- Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls was initially more faithful to the comics, but Marvel encouraged the Guilty Gear Strive and Granblue Fantasy Versus studio to lean into its signature style
- 007 First Light's James Bond actor hasn't been confirmed, but fans are convinced it's someone who only recently starred in Dexter: Original Sin
- Superman's runtime is just over 2 hours long, but director James Gunn denies rumors that the studio stopped it from being longer: "Zero truth to that"
- Final Fantasy 16's creative director is leading Final Fantasy Tactics' remaster, almost 30 years after working on the original JRPG at the start of his career
- The most memeable horror movie is finally getting a sequel, and fans are over the moon: "This might be the best day of Ma life"
- Seafaring adventure Tides of Tomorrow includes Dark Souls-style ghosts of previous players that can influence your own story
- Tom Cruise and Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning director have high praise for "very beautiful, very human" Godzilla Minus One: "You reinvented the genre"
- A Minecraft speedrunner nearly smashed a world record by one whole minute, but then an Enderman ruined everything: "This is the most depressing thing I've ever seen in my life"
- Sinister and M3GAN studio looks to acquire rights to Saw franchise, meaning original creator James Wan might make Saw 11
- Blumhouse has heard your complaints that Five Nights at Freddy's "lacked blood" and wasn't scary enough, promises it's going to fix that for the sequel
- The first Wicked: For Good trailer doesn't feature the new songs, but it has already made me cry
- Lords Mobile launches Pacific Rim collaboration and celebrates 19th anniversary of developer IGG
- How to transfer Nintendo Switch save data to the Nintendo Switch 2
- 007: First Light also includes other big screen James Bond regulars, and "players will choose how to utilize" the agent's "relationships"
- Ballerina star Ian McShane thinks there may be more to his John Wick character than meets the eye, but "the ambiguity keeps it nice"
- The 15 best Switch 2 games to play right now
- Future Games Show
- Switch 2 vs Xbox Series S: How does Nintendo's handheld compare?
- Predator: Killer of Killers review: "Great characters, thrilling action, and gorgeous Arcane-esque animation"
- June 4
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- "The will to resist is in your hands": Final Fantasy Tactics writer puts capitalism on blast as the strategy RPG returns nearly 30 years later to a world still filled with "inequality and division"
- The new Ghost of Yotei trailer is really just one big teaser for the "gameplay deep dive coming in July," but it's still pretty cool and has a wolf
- Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is getting a prequel in 2026, and with the "largest and deadliest" map yet it's somehow even more Castlevania-coded
- Move over Marvel vs. Capcom, PlayStation invited Arc System Works out for drinks and now we're getting a new tag fighter in the absolutely gorgeous Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls
- From the World of John Wick: Ballerina review: "Brilliant action, even if the plot gives you a sense of déjà vu"
- Abzu and The Pathless studio's stunning new adventure game Sword of the Sea gets a release date, and it's right around the corner
- 11 years since the last stealth title, Thief returns with a VR game this year called Legacy of Shadow
- Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection isn't just modern fighting game rerelease, it's an interactive documentary with 20 different versions and even includes the completely awful GBA game
- 007: First Light brings Casino Royale energy to the Hitman devs' James Bond game
- Nioh 3 announced for 2026: Team Ninja's genuinely great Soulslike series is back with a bigger open world, and there's a demo out today
- Silent Hill f is coming in September, and after watching its twisted gameplay reveal trailer, I'm ready to let it dominate my Halloween season
- Metal Gear Solid 3 teases what certainly looks like a Metal Gear Online homage, complete with its adorable Kerotan frog figurines
- After 28 years, the Final Fantasy Tactics remaster is real: The Ivalice Chronicles is coming this September with original and enhanced versions included
- Suda51 reveals his new "ultra-violent science-fiction" action game, featuring an FBI agent tracking down and defeating criminals "across spacetime"
- PSP banger Lumines is making an overdue comeback in a Tetris Effect-style "synesthetic sensory wonderland"
- Digimon Story: Time Stranger lends a hefty chunk of Persona to its massive turn-based JRPG, which launches this October
- Capcom says "sorry" again, confirms Pragmata is "real" and coming in 2026 – and it looks a lot more like Dead Space than I remember from 2020
- Elden Ring Nightreign recovers faster than a two-phase boss, hitting Mostly Positive reviews on Steam as FromSoftware drops patches to improve the solo and duo experience
- Over 30 years later, the Street Sharks are back in a comic that continues their original animated series
- Deltarune launches to 12,865% more Steam players than Undertale had on day one, becoming the top-selling game on Steam after apparently crashing Valve's servers
- Hits like Schedule 1 are a dangerous bar for indies, Steam expert says: "That top potential has completely warped people's brains about what they should be making"
- Marvel's hot new swimsuit comic comes with a Marvel Rivals skin, but here's The Thing
- Localthunk says Balatro doesn't have microtransactions "because when I play other games that have those things it makes me want to put my computer in the dishwasher"
- Martin Scorsese "went all Raging Bull" when asked why he doesn't watch movies in theaters anymore, but his answer is sadly relatable
- The Witcher 4 design lead says the problem with yellow paint in games is subtlety: "Someone went into this specific spot and painted a yellow line ... at that point it's not necessarily believable"
- With hours to go until launch, Switch 2 has its very first firmware update enabling some of its core features
- Street Fighter 6 sees Capcom follow the road Nintendo abandoned in Animal Crossing by adding a collection of stone-cold NES bangers
- Nintendo Switch 2's Welcome Tour is not only a $10 version of PS5's free Astro's Playroom, you also have to buy extra peripherals to 100% it
- Everything announced at the PlayStation State of Play June 2025
- Move over, Barbie! Universal lines up M3GAN director to helm new movie based on Monster High dolls
- New Sims 4 teasers have fans convinced one of the most hotly anticipated features from The Sims 3 is finally making a return: "Yep, it's definitely fairies!"
- Mark Hamill once tried to hide his Star Wars credit, but Carrie Fisher talked him out of it: "Hey, get over yourself. You're Luke Skywalker. I'm Princess Leia. Embrace it."
- Fantastic Four unveils its epic Galactus-themed popcorn bucket, and it's going to turn audiences into the Devourer of Snacks
- Mario Kart World's Metacritic review score could be impacted by people who are still "big mad about the price," former Nintendo marketing lead predicts ahead of Switch 2 launch
- Nintendo workout enthusiasts rejoice: sleuth finds patents suggesting Ring Fit Adventure could get a Switch 2 sequel
- Palworld studio is releasing a psychological horror game so terrifying, even Pocketpair's own publishing manager has been "too scared to play it"
- Battle for the Deep review: "A new and unique take on the long-running, beloved Axis & Allies franchise"
- If you want to avoid Deltarune chapter 3 and 4 spoilers, developer Toby Fox warns you to stay off social media, don't look up the soundtrack titles, and steer clear of anyone from New Zealand for a few hours
- With Ubisoft Forward looking unlikely this year, here's what I'm still expecting from the publisher at Summer Game Fest 2025
- Palworld devs making "certain compromises" in the survival game amid Nintendo lawsuit doesn't mean Pocketpair is admitting to patent infringement, expert explains
- Incredible things are happening in Oblivion Remastered's Mage's Guild, where one player has spent 6,000 gold on the spider-summoning 'Alone Time with Mommy' spell
- This sale on Pokemon cards, plushies, and more is the most super-effective bargain I've seen in a while
- Fantastic Four: The First Steps drops a new trailer that's all about family – and a Marvel comics-accurate catchphrase
- Mario Kart World devs had to approach track changes with the entire world in mind, but "we don't call this world an open world"
- Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin doesn't like Hollywood screenwriters changing the source material because in "the majority of cases" they don't improve it
- No Man's Sky's new free update adds robot settlements you can be mayor of, and it'll be on Switch 2 day 1: "A huge leap forward"
- From arduous to glorious: How Oblivion Remastered saved the Siege of Kvatch
- New Battlefield 6 leak shows the tank-on-tank combat, and it looks raw as hell: "Destruction and audio are back"
- Rick and Morty writer's new animated comedy show is headed to Netflix, and it looks like Scooby Doo meets Hazbin Hotel
- Mario Kart World almost cut iconic items like the banana peel and green shell, because Nintendo wasn't sure if they still made "sense" in the Switch 2's new generation
- Elden Ring's legendary no-hit saxophone player is having a tough time with Nightreign, which he says is "one of the hardest games I've ever dooted"
- The Witcher 4 dev says the tools behind its PS5 tech demo "unlock me as an artist," and that CDPR will use them "to create much bigger things" in future
- The 32 greatest biopics of all time
- Final instalment in beloved found footage horror franchise Hell House LLC confirms release date with clown-tastic creepy teaser
- Crunchyroll's Anime Expo plans are here, and it involves exclusive episode premieres and a look ahead to "what's next" for Frieren: Beyond Journey's End
- The Witcher 4 is "shaping up to be something special" with "some of the best" devs working on the RPG, says CD Projekt Red: "Our team is full of wizards!"
- Pokemon Scarlet and Violet's Switch 2 update footage shows the "notorious frame drop lake" running at 60fps, and fans say it might be "the best possible advertisement" for the new console
- Team behind Netflix's Cyberpunk: Edgerunners tease follow-up announcement ahead of Anime Expo 2025: "The next datadrop's almost here!"
- With creators of Cyberpunk 2077, Frostpunk 2, and award-winning indies under one roof, Digital Dragons is helping Polish game developers "catch up to the West"
- Witcher 4 tech demo shows swapping to Unreal Engine was "worth it," CDPR says, and that "it's not like we lost things because of the transition" away from Cyberpunk 2077's RED Engine
- Jack Black's Tenacious D nearly soundtracked a film based on cult adventure game MediEvil, and one producer says it came "very close" to happening
- Vampire horror movie Sinners is now available to buy, and fans are rediscovering their favorite moments, from its killer soundtrack to Remmick’s line delivery
- Former GTA 5 lead's new studio sees 2 execs leave just 1 week before the launch of its debut Cyberpunk-flavored action-adventure MindsEye
- Fantastic Four director appears to rule out a Robert Downey Jr. Doctor Doom cameo before Avengers: Doomsday: "Doom is not part of my film"
- The Witcher 4 lead says CD Projekt Red's State of Unreal stream "showcases both our ambition for the game and the in-engine capabilities," but "isn't a demo" of the RPG
- Lego Twilight The Cullen House (21354) review: "An Easter egg filled set that's a must for any Twihard"
- Helldivers 2's "ongoing merriment and sanctioned frivolity" following our victory over the Illuminate cut short with a new Major Order to defend from incoming Automaton attacks
- Ballerina star Norman Reedus hopes his character returns for a sequel, and thinks his arc mirrors John Wick's: "He's willing to fight everybody in the world"
- Phasmophobia movie in the works from Paranormal Activity and The Conjuring studio Blumhouse: "We never could've imagined the incredible heights this game would reach"
- June 3
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- "For the first time in ESO's history," the MMO is moving past the events of the base game with Seasons of the Worm Cult: "We've never really moved time forward"
- After 4 years of rumors, Final Fantasy Tactics remaster hopes reach an absolute frenzy as director Yasumi Matsuno shares and hastily deletes PlayStation State of Play announcement
- CDPR barely mentioned my favorite part of The Witcher 4's new tech demo: this RPG is absolutely overflowing with medieval stank
- Elden Ring Nightreign wizard accidentally discovers 4-perk stack that turns the game into Vampire Survivors bullet heaven
- Steam expert points to the games you never see quietly "making hundreds of thousands of dollars for small devs" as a key sign "Steam is doing okay"
- As the third and final season approaches, Squid Game creator says a potential spin-off would "show that they did" between season 1 and 2
- Jagex lays off RuneScape staff and indefinitely pauses Old School RuneScape's Project Zanaris private servers, but says the MMOs won't be hurt in the long run
- CDPR says Ciri's face in the new Witcher 4 trailer is "a direct copy of The Witcher 3 model" despite "two subtle changes"
- Nintendo and Nvidia bosses say Switch 2 is the ultimate realization of late president Satoru Iwata's dream: "It is wonderful to see Mr. Iwata's vision come full circle"
- "It's not only chaos but an absolute clown show": Switch 2 price could still rise after launch in the US, analysts warn amid tariff uncertainty
- Mario Kart World won't have fan-favorite 200cc at launch, but the game's producer is being coy about it being added later: "I'm afraid I can't say just yet"
- Netflix unveils episode titles for The Sandman season 2 and reveals an unexpected surprise for fans
- Where is The Witcher 4 setting Kovir? Everything we know about the little-known kingdom that got a minor shout-out in The Witcher 3
- M3GAN 2.0 takes on the female Terminator in the upcoming horror sequel's final trailer, full of bodyswapping, explosions, and already meme-able moments
- Monopoly Go Carnival Games Fortune Flip minigame explained
- "They pressed the AI button, it might have been a bad idea, but in truth there's no un-pressing that button," says Epic CEO, immediately after Epic shows a "conversation" with an AI that embarrasses us all
- Elden Ring Nightreign players finally discover where the game's most mysterious key item leads, and it's humiliating
- How to watch the PC Gaming Show – and what to expect this year
- Rode Wireless Go Gen 3 review: “I never thought a wireless mic like this would win me over”
- The Penguin and Barbie stars new futuristic fantasy romance is giving Suzume vibes in first trailer
- How to complete the Elden Ring Nightreign Duchess Remembrance quest
- Desperate to fight Steam, Epic burns money like firewood – but admits the Epic Games Store kind of sucks and "there's still a ton of work to be done" with "long overdue features"
- The Witcher 4 finally features manticores, and it sounds like protagonist Ciri might be able to fight one herself over 10 years after they were reportedly cut from the last RPG
- "We can't fully imagine all the types of ways that people will play": Like Tears of the Kingdom, Mario Kart World is going to thrive on player imagination
- The Witcher 4 sees Red Dead Redemption 2's horse anatomy and submits "realistic muscles moving and stretching" under the skin of Ciri's horse Kelpie
- The Acolyte creator had one "guiding principle" for their canceled Star Wars show: "What would George [Lucas] do?"
- Helldivers 2 grunts afraid of what's next following 5 days without a Major Order after saving Super Earth: "Those f***ers are up to something"
- New Lego sets for June 2025 include my favorite Fortnite kit and mega-Hogwarts
- The Witcher 4 is targeting 60 FPS on current-gen consoles and will "bring in a new generation of open-world RPGs" with its Unreal Engine 5 tech, CDPR says
- 28 Years Later director confirms Cillian Murphy will appear in Nia DaCosta's The Bone Temple sequel: "I shouldn't give away too much, I’ll get killed"
- The Witcher 4 showcase literally tosses Ciri a coin in a valley of plenty and that damn Netflix song is about to be stuck in my head for the next 6 months
- Elden Ring Nightreign's top modder claims the game could theoretically support "up to 127 players" somewhere down the line
- The SteelSeries Arctis Nova 3 Wireless is on track to become my favorite budget headset, and it's available today for just over $100
- New The Witcher 4 screenshots show Ciri in a beautiful, bustling location, and a truly horrible monster
- Apple announces release date for Slow Horses season 5 and unveils first-look images with Gary Oldman and Jack Lowden
- The Witcher 4 setting could be the never-before-seen region of Kovir, as Ciri journeys to the far north in CD Projekt's new tech demo
- PlayStation State of Play confirmed for tomorrow with 40+ minutes of "news and updates on must-play" PS5 games, right before Summer Game Fest kicks off
- New thriller with great Rotten Tomatoes score is storming up Netflix's TV chart, and it's getting rave reactions from subscribers: "One of the best shows I've watched"
- Predicting the games of Summer Game Fest 2025: What we expect to see from each of the 20 major publishers in attendance
- Helldivers 2's Illuminate invasion brought players from around the world together, and our defence of Super Earth's Shanghai even made the news in China
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs held blind auditions, so they didn't know they landed talent from Final Fantasy and Baldur's Gate 3 until after they picked them
- Scream and Prey stars join Mike Flanagan's Carrie TV series, completing the Stephen King adaptation's main cast
- Reviving the long-lost Borderlands MMO may be one modder's "biggest challenge ever," but they're already eyeing up another that's even "harder to obtain" – a web browser game killed in 2012 called Mount Jackmore
- Fantastic Four director "delved into the 60-plus years of comics history" to make the Marvel movie, and he's revealed the run that made it into the film in "small and large ways"
- Marvel Rivals Vanguard mains say "there’s nothing we can do except hope a DPS can kill them" as the flyer meta dominates Season 2.5: "A tank exodus is probably not far from happening"
- Weapons director says the upcoming horror movie is "fun, scary" and even "weirder than Barbarian"
- As fans reject Switch 2 game-key cards, former Nintendo marketing leads say it's unlikely that physical games will ever "100% go away," because "they realize the importance of that"
- Tom Cruise's most dangerous Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning moment involved being "trapped" by real torpedoes: "Tom does not want an audience disconnected"
- A big Hollow Knight: Silksong Steam update has Metroidvania hopefuls daring to believe once again as Summer Game Fest and Xbox's Summer Showcase nears: "Doubters in shambles"
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director found something that "makes the game feel 10 times better" mid-development, then painfully realized they had to apply it to "like 1,100" different attacks
- Thunderbolts looks set to lose Disney $100 million, despite being the best-reviewed Marvel movie since Spider-Man: No Way Home
- New single-location horror movie with in-tree-guing premise unveils nail-biting first trailer
- Elden Ring Nightreign director has soloed every boss "without relics," and he wants fans "to know that this is very possible" despite concerns over difficulty
- Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin throws his support behind Elden Ring movie: "Alex Garland is a first rate director"
- Godzilla Minus One director has incredibly wholesome response to hearing his movie inspired James Gunn's Superman
- Death Stranding 2 devs are taking a break after release, but Hideo Kojima is already working on his next game: "Everyone dislikes it when I submit the project plans at this point in time"
- I’m sad to see Ncuti Gatwa go but a surprise Doctor Who regeneration is something I’ve always wanted
- Skyrim Grandma is "still learning" the ropes in Oblivion Remastered after 10 years of The Elder Scrolls 5 – and it's not easy: "This stupid thing won't die!"
- How to beat the Sentient Pest in Elden Ring Nightreign, aka Gnoster, Wisdom of Night
- The Witcher 4 first look - State of Unreal 2025 Live Coverage
- Ballerina director says it was "wonderful" to work with John Wick star Keanu Reeves: "Stepping back from it, you could feel that this is iconic"
- RoboCop: Rogue City – Unfinished Business finally puts me in control of the series' iconic ED-209 bot, and it's as silly as it is violent: "Realism is not a part of RoboCop at all"
- An Elden Ring Nightreign two-player mode is coming later this year, as FromSoftware changes course after criticism over its lack of duos support
- June 2
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- Viral FPS dev hits back at "dead on arrival" comments and says it will never add microtransactions: "We don't need to sell millions of copies. We don't need millions of players online at once"
- Mass Effect 5 director hints that the sci-fi RPG series' notorious lens flares will be back in the next game, as BioWare apparently goes head-to-head with JJ Abrams
- Bring on the Bad Guys: Green Goblin #1 reveals Norman Osborn's secret pact with Mephisto
- Nintendo finally shows gameplay footage of Pokemon Scarlet and Violet on Switch 2, and the frame rate boost is honestly a lot nicer than I expected
- "I might have exhausted all my luck": Balatro God-King hits lucky streak so powerful that 1-in-1 billion odds don't even begin to describe it
- Zynga suddenly shuts down studio from Diablo and Torchlight creators before they even had a chance to reveal its first original IP
- The Witcher 3 devs "toyed with" making Geralt drown if he tried to swim with his armor on: "Immersive or just a bit too realistic?"
- Stellar Blade already has mods thanks to its Steam demo, and you simply won't believe this: the top 3 are all nude mods
- Mike Flanagan says he's working closely with Stephen King on his Dark Tower adaptation: "I'm not gonna let him down"
- James Cameron is set to adapt a fantasy novel described as "Suicide Squad meets Hammer Horror" as he finishes work on Avatar: Fire and Ash: "It will be a joyful new challenge for me"
- "600 Deaths & 54 Hours spent on this mod": Elden Ring's Let Me Solo Her takes on "lore accurate Promised Consort Radahn," the most absurd boss FromSoftware never made
- "Long time no see": Lethal Company update V70 is out now after several quiet months, adding a radar face cam and "the most powerful creature in the game"
- "Has that been announced?": Assassin's Creed Black Flag remake seemingly leaked by statue maker who said "you should be aware that there is something going on with Edward"
- Stellar Blade dev's game reveal sparks AI art accusations, sounds like its own take on Genshin Impact, and surprises nobody with art so horny I can't show you the whole thing here
- CDPR "thought it was going to be more of a challenge" porting Cyberpunk 2077 to Nintendo Switch 2, but beefier specs and microSD made it "surprisingly fast"
- Stellar Blade is already the third top-selling game on Steam more than a week before launch, and just its demo has reviews and players most full games would kill for
- The best new shows and movies streaming this week on Netflix, Apple TV Plus, HBO Max, and more
- Xbox Games Showcase 2025 needs to build on Microsoft's momentum, but it may need to go beyond The Outer Worlds 2 to pull it off
- One of Elden Ring Nightreign's many Dark Souls throwbacks also has players thinking about a very different action RPG: "What in the Monster Hunter?"
- 007 First Light is officially the name for Hitman studio's James Bond game, and it looks to be an origin story
- Before James Gunn took over, Warner Bros reportedly wanted a Henry Cavill Superman film directed by Michael Bay
- After splitting with Larian following Baldur's Gate 3, Dungeons & Dragons publisher signs God of War 3 and Star Wars Jedi director's new studio for a "single-player action-adventure" D&D game
- Tiny Tina's Wonderlands is free, but Borderlands boss Randy Pitchford has somehow found a way to make fans mad about it: "Dude's milking people for hate clicks at this point"
- Daredevil: Born Again season 2 behind-the-scenes photo sets up return of another major Marvel character
- Nintendo indirectly confirms the Switch 2 will have a glass screen, and asks you "do not peel" the film on it
- Move over, Galactus: Fantastic Four's Joseph Quinn confirms there's another unannounced villain in the Marvel movie
- After years of asking, Elder Scrolls Online fans hear the 3 words they've dreamt of since playing WoW and Lord of the Rings Online: Difficulty options are "in the works"
- Deep Sleep: Labyrinth of the Forsaken puts an Inception spin on PS1-era survival horror games, and I totally get why it's winning pre-launch awards
- How to get your gaming setup ready for Elden Ring Nightreign
- Nintendo "won't know" if the Switch 2 eShop will crash on launch day as everyone rushes to download Mario Kart World, former marketing leads warn, but "they're prepared"
- Helldivers 2 players come together to "restore the game's rating to its original state" after the Equality-On-Sea debacle sank Steam reviews down to "Mixed"
- In this rat-filled city builder, one wrong move can change everything - and in my case it was forgetting to add a toilet
- Elden Ring Nightreign player channels their inner Sekiro to parry the co-op roguelite's final boss to death – completely solo – just 2 days after launch
- Marvel fans are realizing that one Captain America: Brave New World character had an impact on past MCU movies, despite not being on screen for 17 years
- Upcoming horror sequel Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 releases first poster, potentially teasing the return of one of the game’s most terrifying characters
- Nintendo denies Switch 2 report claiming that Japanese retailers are getting a bigger cut of each sale following a timely drop in stocks and shares
- Elden Ring Nightreign patch 1.01.1 is here now that maintenance is over, offering better rewards if you can make it to Day 3
- Star Wars fans are debating a story detail that has never been fully explained about Uncle Owen
- Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul recalls the cruel but hilarious prank Bryan Cranston used to play on him: "He would not stop, and he would get everybody in on it"
- Hideo Kojima has offered his thoughts on the best horror movie of 2024: "It felt like being in a dream the entire time, utterly spellbinding"
- 15 years later, Red Dead Redemption's John Marston is playing the open-world cowboy game for the first time and reveals why "John is screaming at people for no reason" when riding a horse
- Death Stranding 2 may have "a man's hands and legs sliced off by a robotic samurai" but its ESRB rating just revealed the most shocking detail of all: "The word 'f**k' is heard in the game"
- Superman director James Gunn says the DC film is inspired by the best Godzilla movie in decades: "At its core it's a human story"
- Despite saying it was "always the plan" to leave after two seasons, Doctor Who fans are convinced that Ncuti Gatwa's regeneration was a last-minute change – all thanks to an old promo image
- First trailer for upcoming horror sequel The Black Phone 2 reveals its masked killer is back from the dead, and about to go full Jason Voorhees
- Stranger Things season 5 first look revealed some new characters, and fans are debating what it means for the Netflix show
- After Disney told him "streaming is dead," Andor creator had to fight for season 2 of the $650 million Star Wars show to get the budget it needed
- "We didn't start off by saying, 'let's aim to build a roguelike'": Elden Ring Nightreign director says FromSoftware wasn't really aiming for a roguelike feel, it just kind of happened
- Undertale dev Toby Fox tests jokes from RPGs like Deltarune on his friends – but "if none of my friends think something is funny," he "may try to improve" them
- 3 years since we last saw Luke Skywalker, Mark Hamill definitively rules out a Star Wars return: "There's no way I'm gonna appear naked as a Force ghost"
- June 1
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- Doctor Who season 2, episode 8 spoiler review: 'The Reality War' is "a mix of the good, the bad, and the truly baffling"
- Not content with his new strategy RPG having 100 endings, Danganronpa's creator wants to add even more in a DLC
- After 10 years, iconic streamer Skyrim Grandma is now Oblivion Remastered Grandma: "Sorry guys, you know I have to look at everything. I've never been here before"
- Sinners director Ryan Coogler says 2025's best horror movie won't be getting a sequel anytime soon: "I wanted to get away from that"
- Clayface writer reveals he was inspired by one of DC's most iconic animated series: "That two-parter knocked me out"
- Doctor Who season 2 finale shock twist seemingly introduces a familiar face as the new Doctor, but it might not be that simple: "You’ll just have to wait and see"
- Remember 2017's Star Wars Battlefront 2? It’s good now – like, really good
- Elden Ring Nightreign director had concerns "about not necessarily being able to play slow like previous titles," but FromSoftware "wanted to create something new"
- Gen V season 2 confirms release date with an action-packed first trailer that addresses Chance Perdomo's death
- With The Witcher 4, Cyberpunk 2 and way more on the horizon, having multiple projects on the go gives CDPR "more opportunities to be more creative"
- Dexter: Resurrection unveils star-studded first trailer as Dexter Morgan meets New York's most lethal serial killers
- Wednesday season 2 doesn't drop a trailer at Netflix Tudum, but does reveal 6 minutes of footage of Jenna Ortega trying to trap a serial killer
- Stranger Things season 5 is coming in three parts this holiday season – and a terrifying first look at Netflix Tudum teases the highest stakes yet
- First trailer for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein revealed at Netflix Tudum is a gothic fever dream with an obsessed Oscar Isaac and monstrous Jacob Elordi
- One Piece season 2 casts Superman actor as fan-favorite character Tony Tony Chopper – and introduces the reindeer in the most adorable way
- The Last Jedi director's Knives Out 3 gets cryptic first teaser at Netflix Tudum – and finally confirms a release date
- Squid Game season 3 trailer unveiled at Netflix Tudum teases two more deadly games, as star Lee Jung-jae promises the show "will shock the world one last time"
