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- May 9
- May 8
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- Silent Hill 2 movie from the director behind the controversial 2006 Silent Hill will be a "faithful adaptation" of the "masterpiece of a game" that is the PS2 classic
- 10 Dune Awakening tips we wish we'd known earlier
- Best Dune Awakening skills, abilities and skill trees
- How to escape Dune Awakening Sandworms
- How to get the Sandbike vehicle in Dune Awakening
- Best Dune Awakening Character Creation choices for Homeworld, Caste and Mentor
- Dune Awakening Griffin's Reach Tradepost location
- FPS legend John Romero says it's a "huge honor" for Quake to join the World Video Game Hall of Fame alongside GoldenEye, the inescapable Tamagotchi, and an iconic '80s arcade classic
- Amid Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's turn-based hype, Square Enix asks JRPG fans "what's the best combat system" in its catalog and shares "some games with brilliant battles"
- JRPG sickos, I hate to get your hopes up again, but Yuji Horii says he's "starting to contemplate" a Chrono Trigger remake
- Fallout season 2 wraps filming and celebrates with video of Walton Goggins ripping his skin off
- Xbox is hiring to "secure the future of game preservation," and this time it's no AI Quake nightmare
- 23 years and 3 sequels later, Mafia: The Old Country is abandoning its open-world roots, but a $50 "linear, narrative-driven" game sounds like heaven in 2025
- Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4's new levels impress me as much as the rebuilt classics: "This needs to feel like we found this on a hard drive for THPS4 and we revitalized it"
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (May 9 - 11)
- Doctor Doom's son locks lips with Killmonger as the secret of the Superior Avengers heats up
- John Walker was originally the Thunderbolts villain, but "it didn't work the same"
- Andor showrunner had to scrap an episode of the Star Wars show that was "like a horror movie": "We could not afford to do it"
- After "abrupt actions by Valve," Counter-Strike mod in development for 8 years gets canceled – modders deny using leaked Source code and say others should "reconsider how they see Valve"
- Destiny 2 lead insists divisive Star Wars-inspired expansion Renegades "is in-canon for the Destiny universe" as players worry the MMO is pulling a Fortnite
- Helldivers 2: The Board Game is a mighty fine cup of liber-tea, and I can't wait to play more
- Lego bounces into Pixar territory to bring the iconic lamp and ball animation to your home
- Razer wants to put your headset inside your gaming chair, and I have questions
- Marvel's upcoming Thunderbolts comic has officially been retitled New Avengers, following in the movie's footsteps
- First haunting trailer for The Conjuring: Last Rites sees Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga take on their final case
- Some players swear by it, but Oblivion Remastered test finds that performance mod with 650k downloads seemingly does next to nothing: "After testing it A/B... it runs the same"
- Cozy sandbox RPG mash-up from former Dragon Age, Skyrim, and Witcher talent raises over $100k on Kickstarter in just 1 day
- Nintendo Switch 2's huge third-party support is something "we haven't seen" from Nintendo "maybe ever, but at least for a long time, maybe even since the GameCube," analyst says
- Andy Serkis' new Gollum-centric Lord of the Rings movie gets a precious December 2027 release date
- The Hunt For Gollum release date, plot, cast, and more news
- Oblivion Remastered player clears the RPG's Dark Brotherhood "murder mansion" quest in 8.75 seconds using only his fists, leaving no witnesses
- Former PlayStation boss blames AAA "production costs" for $80 games, says titles with "tighter teams" like Clair Obscur could be the way forward
- Razer's new gaming keyboard looks perfect for Steam Deck fans
- Dark Souls 3 helps explain the papal conclave to Spanish TV viewers, who may be wondering where the cardinals got all those fireballs
- Sennheiser HD 550 review - a feast for the ears, but not enough to make me put down my favorite wireless gaming headsets
- Uma Thurman goes full Kill Bill as she faces off against Charlize Theron in first trailer for Netflix fantasy-action sequel The Old Guard 2
- John Wick director says Donnie Yen "had concerns" about his Rogue One character not living up to full potential: "It's hard when you're doing Star Wars as there's so many other things going on"
- Marvel Rivals' nerfs to Doctor Strange have turned him into a punching bag, and its taking me back to my nightmarish days as a Reinhardt main in Overwatch
- Mafia: The Old Country won't be $80 when it drops this August, but it's still a "premium experience in the vein of earlier Mafia entries"
- Everything in the Helldivers 2 Masters of Ceremony Warbond
- New Nintendo of America policy asks users to give up their rights to a class-action lawsuit and call customer service instead: "Most matters can be quickly resolved in this manner"
- One of Andor season 2's most shocking moments has a haunting parallel with the final act of Rogue One
- PUBG creator's nails-hard survival game flips genre staples on their heads: "Have you tried chopping down a tree?"
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs warn players have "1 more day to enjoy" the JRPG's most broken skill before it's nerfed, after they "clearly overdid it" with a last-minute damage boost
- GTA 6 mapping community is already "connecting the dots" from Rockstar's new trailer to accurately draw the game's map a full year in advance
- Monopoly Go Tatooine Treasures minigame explained
- Switch 2 price could still rise, as Nintendo president says the company is racing to beat new tariffs
- Pair the latest MSI MPG QD-OLED monitors with Nvidia's new RTX 50 series for stunning 4K UHD visuals and a top-of-the-line gaming experience
- From jiggle physics to individually modeled blades of grass, this game dev proves how GTA 6 is taking Red Dead Redemption 2's visuals to the next level
- Quit acting like somebody stole your sweetroll, the Skyrim adventure board game is down to its lowest price since last year
- Forget Fortnite Festival – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 on Expert difficulty is secretly the rhythm game I've been waiting years for
- After failing to sell for $100,000, one of the rarest GameCubes ever is up for auction - and its price is climbing fast
- Hideo Kojima prefers casting actors he vibes with irl, and that's not going to change for his upcoming horror or spy games
- Ms. Marvel star Iman Vellani calls Thunderbolts "The Breakfast Club in tactical gear"
- Deep Blue Sea director ditches sharks for orcas in upcoming ocean horror movie
- Andor season 2 includes the highest-rated live-action Star Wars TV episodes of all time
- Death Stranding 2 will "allow players that want to fight to do so more freely," Hideo Kojima says, like how Metal Gear Solid 2 "made it a little easier to use weapons"
- Death Stranding 2 devs worried it was "getting a little Metal Gear-ish," but Hideo Kojima himself says you don't have to be sneaky: "I don't even use stealth myself"
- Anime's summer season just got even more crowded with this new isekai series from the studio behind Fire Force and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
- Borderlands 4's lead writer is desperately trying to keep a lid on the toilet humor: "the rejected names for this system would make a dockworker blush"
- Halfoween may have passed, but $20 off the best horror board game means it can always be Halloween in your house
- Hideo Kojima already has a Death Stranding 3 pitch that could relate to a DS2 plot device, but "I am not going to make it myself"
- Palworld studio makes "yet another compromise" amid Nintendo lawsuit by changing the survival game's gliding mechanic
- The Last of Us season 3 will "definitely" provide answers about a season 2 mystery, promise showrunners: "We just didn't know if we were getting canceled"
- GTA 6's new trailer has a blink-and-you'll-miss-it reference to Red Dead Redemption 2, further proving they're set in the same universe
- Elden Ring DLC and Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero made up for Bandai Namco's disastrous 2024, spiking profits nearly 1000%
- Nintendo predicts Switch 2 will sell 15 million units and 45 million games in its first year, so it's "working to strengthen our production to meet demand"
- Andor's Tony Gilroy said he "hijacked canon" to retcon Mon Mothma's big moment from Star Wars Rebels: "Do I have to stick to this speech?"
- Final Destination: Bloodlines’ new marketing tactic has just given us another bizarre way of dying to worry about
- Pokemon Scarlet and Violet's performance woes didn't hold back its sales, as Gen 9 overtakes Sword and Shield to become the series' all-time runner-ups
- Empyreal review: "This looter slasher's often beautiful, hand-designed levels and robust challenge kept pulling me back to go one more round"
- I Am Legend 2 release date speculation, cast, plot, trailer, and everything we know about the upcoming horror sequel
- May 7
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- Eric Barone can't say if Haunted Chocolatier will be out by 2030, but "that's the goal" and "it has to be better" than Stardew Valley
- Eric Barone says "if there was gonna be another" Stardew Valley update after 1.6, he wouldn't announce it until it was "completely finished" on all platforms
- "EA said make this a live service": Dragon Age veteran says the fourth game's multiplayer pivot was a "rationalization" to move devs onto Anthem, and "I wish that pivot had never occurred"
- Disney boss Bob Iger admits Marvel "lost a little focus by making too much," and says Thunderbolts is "the first and best example" of "better quality" after refocusing on movies
- "I might eventually make a Stardew Valley 2," says Eric Barone, but "I just don't care about money" and it's "so much easier" to update the original
- Avengers: Doomsday actor may have confirmed one of the movie's biggest twists: "You're hitting Pedro Pascal against the head or something"
- "Stats in Souls don't matter": Ori studio founder and No Rest for the Wicked lead says the "attribute system has to die" in the ARPG inspired by Dark Souls since players don't get it
- Rockstar says GTA 6 trailer 2 was "equal parts gameplay and cutscenes," and I'm wondering where the gameplay was
- DC is sending a "perfect heist crew" of villains to rob the Justice League in a new title from superstar creators Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott
- Ex Rockstar dev says GTA 6 would be worth the "$80 bucks or whatever" for its detail and realism: "You think Mario Kart competes with a game like this"
- Hideo Kojima says "everyone would move out of the way" of GTA 6, but Death Stranding 2 is 95% complete and its release date was decided a long time ago
- $475 for one character in a video game: Genshin Impact adds new gacha disclaimers after FTC orders it to make costs and currencies less confusing
- First trailer for dystopian horror movie from Hunger Games director based on an underrated Stephen King novel features the contest from hell
- FromSoftware warns "the same strategy won't always work" in Elden Ring Nightreign, which is bad news for me because I used the same strategy in all the Souls games
- New D&D Frankenstein subclass jolts the Artificer back to life
- Undeterred by Concord, Sony expands its live service army: PlayStation Studios adds new dev making a "team-based action game" targeting "years" of support
- Oblivion Remastered lets you wipe out entire taverns of NPCs with ease, and I don't know how I missed this playing the original RPG for 19 years
- The League of Legends MMO gets its yearly mention, as Riot's co-founder offers another tiny hint as to its continued existence
- After reportedly laying off more than 300 people, EA CEO says "AI is powering our future" and is already being used "in design, animation, and storytelling"
- Solo Leveling season 3 release date speculation, story, and everything else we know so far
- FromSoftware had to adjust the difficulty in Elden Ring Nightreign after the beta to make sure it's "challenging as you progress, but still manageable," and yes, some things are harder now
- Donnie Yen's upcoming John Wick spin-off is officially a sequel to Chapter 4, as another returning cast member is confirmed
- Oblivion Remastered streamer creates real-life version of the RPG's persuasion minigame and commands Twitch viewers to "try to convince me to do what they want"
- Netflix is rolling out an "elevated" and "more personal" update for subscribers that’ll make it easier to find what to watch
- Fortnite X-Wings and TIE Fighters: Where to find them
- While GTA 6 fans try to figure out who's voicing Jason, Sonic the Hedgehog and Assassin's Creed actor denies his involvement: "NOT my voice"
- Daredevil: Born Again season 2 has "some of the best writing" they’ve had on the show, says star Charlie Cox: "I don’t want to oversell it"
- I walked an hour in the rain to play horse girl gacha game Umamusume: Pretty Derby at the actual Kentucky Derby
- "Chat did we cook?": GTA 6 devs are "so proud" as Rockstar drops trailer 2, saying that "working hard pays off"
- Other versions of the Thunderbolts post-credits scene included Baron Zemo and Kang
- Acer Predator Aethon 330 review: "a tough sell"
- The 32 greatest characters from fantasy movies
- In Oblivion Remastered I returned to a village that has haunted me for years to relive one of the best side quests in the RPG
- MX Creative Console review: “Feels clunkier than a typical keyboard in almost every way”
- Talk To Me director’s new horror movie Bring Her Back is being called "terrifying" and "dread inducing" in overwhelmingly positive first reactions
- As Oblivion Remastered gets all the love, Starfield's biggest modders are in the process of abandoning Bethesda's latest RPG for good
- Cardinals are reportedly watching Oscar-winning drama Conclave for guidance on the real-life event
- Dragon Age veteran says his team was "jerked around" because EA didn't care about big RPGs like Mass Effect: Andromeda, just Anthem
- Rockstar impresses Baldur's Gate 3 dev with new GTA 6 trailer: "I really like the GTA series because it humbles an industry that constantly argues about everything all the time"
- Hades 2 devs are getting "closer to the finish line" as the roguelike sequel celebrates its first early access anniversary
- New horror D&D subclasses are on the way, and I can't wait to use this especially gross one
- I hate making Warhammer cavalry, but I'm all in on the new Gloomspite Gitz Gitmob models
- Star Wars fans are calling Andor season 2 episode 8 "absolutely gutting" and "one of the best TV episodes ever"
- Sebastian Stan reveals the Bucky moment that was cut from the Thunderbolts post-credits scene: "I thought it was genius"
- The Xbox handheld just leaked, and it looks more like the PlayStation Portal than I was expecting
- Monster Hunter Wilds gets its first time-limited Free Challenge Quest, and reactions from fans of the action RPG range from "too forgiving" to "frustratingly hard"
- DC enlists Drive scribe to rewrite Mike Flanagan’s Clayface script
- Spider-Man: No Way Home stopped Sentry getting a comic-accurate MCU entry, Thunderbolts director jokes
- Following Red Dead Redemption 2's realistic horse anatomy, Rockstar doubles down with dedicated beer tech for GTA 6
- For $10 less than Mario Kart World, you can buy this portable monitor for your Switch 2 and race your pals in the garden
- Charlie Cox "pushed back" against a Daredevil: Born Again episode that became a fan favorite: "Everyone's taste is different"
- How does that huge Mon Mothma moment in Andor season 2, episode 9 match with Star Wars Rebels? The similarities and differences explained
- Andor season 2 reveals the surprise origins of Rogue One's most iconic line
- Andor season 2 episode 8 finally introduces a familiar Star Wars character from Rogue One
- May 6
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- EA CEO won't call out the GTA 6 delay by name, but says the new Battlefield release window is "clearer than it was before"
- EA says "it hasn't always" understood what Battlefield players want, but the response to the new entry has "far exceeded our expectations" after "thousands of hours" of playtests
- Marvel brings the MCU's Avengers Vs. New Avengers conflict into the real world by adding a copyright to Sam Wilson's Avengers social media
- GTA 6 map returns to Vice City and explores the riches of the Florida-lite state of Leonida: "Malt liquor, painkillers, and truck stop energy drinks"
- CD Projekt exec says "the right thing to do" is release a real Nintendo Switch 2 cartridge for Cyberpunk 2077, not a game-key card, in message to other studios: "Do not underestimate the physical edition"
- "Oh, you don't like hentai on your Switch?": Dev says Switch 2 needs to fix Nintendo's "pathetic" eShop, and he's not the only one who thinks so
- Walton Goggins says Fallout season 2 is on a "whole 'nother level": "I wasn’t prepared for where the story was gonna go"
- It sure seems like Rockstar is still salty over that GTA 6 mega leak as trailer 2 opens with protagonist Jason "just fixing some leaks"
- The best new shows and movies streaming this week on Netflix, Prime Video, Disney Plus, and more
- The Boys season 5's Supernatural reunion will indeed be on-screen: "I will confirm that Jared, Jensen, and Misha are all in the same frame together"
- GTA 6 brings back a classic location from Vice City, this time even more ridiculously American
- Black Cat is going "full-fledged superhero" in her own comic from Ms. Marvel co-creator
- With 19 million views, 312k comments, and 3 million likes in 4 hours, I think it's safe to say GTA 6 trailer 2 has broken YouTube
- Bungie reveals what's next for Destiny 2: "Multiyear" Fate Saga starts with Edge of Fate expansion in July, "Star Wars-inspired" Renegades expansion with LucasFilm in December
- 3 years later, Elden Ring is getting two new starting classes with the Nintendo Switch 2's Tarnished Edition
- "Grand Theft Auto 6 looks like a AAA game from the future": Game devs react to GTA 6 trailer 2, wowed by Rockstar's "incredible graphical fidelity"
- Every GTA 6 location revealed so far
- Pokemon TCG is dropping another split expansion, and resellers are gonna have a field day
- 85 new GTA 6 screenshots and images drop alongside new trailer, providing an in-depth tour of Vice City and all its surrounding locations
- Liberty City lives on in spirit as GTA 6 reveals new protagonist Lucia is from GTA's New York
- All the GTA 6 characters we know of right now
- Anthony Mackie seemingly shares the first footage from the Avengers: Doomsday set, and Marvel fans think it's got something to do with Doctor Doom
- John Wick 5 director says the film is "not a continuation" and will have a new story: "It will be really different"
- "We got a PS6 tease before GTA 6": Everyone's making the same joke about this 5-second shot in Rockstar's new Grand Theft Auto trailer, which features a mysterious new console
- Grand Theft Auto creator reacts to GTA 6 trailer 2: "Now that's more like it. That environment is lovely, and things are moving much better"
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake co-director drops more hints that Rebirth and Part 3 could be coming to Switch 2, which he immediately thought "would have enough power" to handle the trilogy
- New horror sequel Final Destination: Bloodlines takes gore to the next level by breaking one of the strangest world records we have ever heard of
- "IS THAT PHIL CASSIDY": New GTA 6 trailer seems to resurrect a fan-favorite GTA 3D loser years after he disappeared from the franchise
- Rockstar gives us our best look at the GTA 6 characters yet, from a beer-loving, conspiracy-believing hermit to a rap duo with a "relentless social media presence"
- Robert Downey Jr gave "two thumbs up" to Ironheart star Dominique Thorne: "He's rooting for it, too"
- Blue Prince is the most non-stressful roguelike I've ever played, and that makes it perfect for bedtime
- GTA 6's Lucia and Jason get full names and backstories as trailer 2 drops and Rockstar shares loads more details about its protagonists
- Wyatt Russell admits he "didn't want to say" the Captain America Easter egg in Thunderbolts
- Dark Souls 2 speedrunner was "on the cusp of a World's First" hitless saxophone run – right until he walked into a death pit in the middle of the final boss room
- GTA 6 trailer 2 live coverage - all the analysis and reactions
- After studying them for 40 years, Tom Cruise says Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning features an underwater scene "unlike any other"
- GTA 6 trailer 2 drops out of nowhere, putting Lucia and Jason in the spotlight once again
- You can get some of Oblivion Remastered's best weapons and armor sets at level 1, if you can outsmart the RPG's infamous scaling system
- Backbone's long-awaited "Pro" model is finally here, but I hope you've been saving for it
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's brilliant parry system solves a classic JRPG problem: I can win any match-up on skill alone, so being under-leveled is just a state of mind
- "I hate it": Former Assassin's Creed, Far Cry lead says that with Switch 2 game-key cards, "we're losing some of what made the business special"
- Stardew Valley creator ConcernedApe worries follow-up Haunted Chocolatier might "ruin the teeth of a whole generation": "I'm thinking about doing it so you can only eat like two chocolates per day"
- Upcoming horror movie from the studio behind Longlegs and The Monkey reveals weird and bloody new trailer
- Lady Gaga included Thing in a recent performance to tease her Wednesday season 2 role, and Netflix has responded in the best way
- Thunderbolts screenwriter didn't know Marvel cut his original Taskmaster arc until he watched the movie
- Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones stars' strange upcoming horror movie contains "ultra violent content" and "mutant nudity," and it's heading into theaters unrated
- Warner Bros. has seen an early cut of Superman and James Gunn has "really understood the assignment"
- Games almost never pull this off, but Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 managed a JRPG miracle: hitting an even higher Steam player peak weeks after launch
- Kevin Feige reportedly has a long-term vision for X-Men in the MCU – including a "10-year plan"
- Borderlands fan determined to bring back dead MMO gets past the first hurdle – the login screen: "I'll make sure the community gets to experience this game one way or another"
- Uperfect Umax 24 review: “pushes the definition of a portable monitor in the best way possible”
- Rosario Dawson reveals serious bruises after only one week of filming Ahsoka season 2: "Not a weak one"
- Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders live: UK and US stock updates when they happen
- Marvel boss Kevin Feige reportedly feels that recent MCU shows and movies "feel more like homework than entertainment"
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 hits 3 million players, who in 3 months have collectively made Henry kill almost 500 million humans and spend 387 million hours drunk
- After completing 220,000 frames of animation so far, one Solo Leveling producer wants years of "breathing room" before starting season 3
- Thunderbolts director reveals scrapped idea for Bucky's unseen shame room, and it's absolutely nothing like what you'd expect
- Netflix drops the first Squid Game season 3 teaser, and one blink and you'll miss it moment has everyone convinced a major character survived season 2 after all
- It took Oblivion Remastered a single week to become the third best-selling game of 2025 behind Assassin's Creed Shadows and Monster Hunter Wilds
- May 5
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- Your eyes do not deceive you, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has penis jiggle physics
- Russo Brothers confirm they directed the Thunderbolts post-credits scene on the set of Avengers: Doomsday - "We left you a little something"
- Fanmade Zelda: Majora's Mask PC port can now run Doom, and as mod support comes to the N64 classic there's already dabbing, quality-of-life upgrades, and a playable CJ from GTA: San Andreas
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 head was "bored" at Ubisoft and hungry for a JRPG, and made the highest-rated game of 2025 – "Somehow it worked, which still makes no sense to me"
- After 25 years, a weird Sega icon is back with a new game from the "entire original team," remasters, and a countdown website that only has 8,529 hours to go
- Marvel reveals the meaning of the Thunderbolts asterisk by changing the name of its own movie
- Nintendo Switch 2 anticipation partly fueled by "palpable desperation" in the world, analyst says, and people wanting "something to bring joy" no matter the launch games
- Fans can get a sneak peek at Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle when they go to see the 4k re-release of Demon Slayer: Mugen Train
- After playing Ghost of Yotei "at several stages of its development," former Sony exec Shuhei Yoshida swears it's "even better" than Ghost of Tsushima
- The Last of Us season 2 episode 4 director stole a script-writing tip from the show for her live-action The Sims movie: "It's such a good idea"
- Ex PlayStation boss says $50 Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is the "perfect balance" of AAA ambition, AA budget, and "independent vision" – "This is the path the industry should be pursuing"
- James Gunn's dog has a wild reaction to seeing himself as Superman's Krypto: "Every time he sees himself come on screen, he tries to murder himself"
- Switch 2 fans so desperate for news they've already decoded Donkey Kong Bananza's secret banana alphabet, which I didn't even know existed
- The first post-Rise of Skywalker Star Wars project won't be the Ryan Gosling movie, but a new novel starring Finn and Jannah
- That Gears of War remaster is also coming to PS5, and it's out this August for $40 – or free for some "longtime fans"
- Even John Romero is worried about Joy-Con drift on Nintendo Switch 2, so here's hoping those "not Hall effect sticks" hold up better than the originals
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead writer was first hired as a voice actor after she "saw a post on Reddit" calling for auditions: "I've never done that, it sounds kinda cool"
- Does size really matter? The difference between 40mm and 50mm gaming headset drivers explained
- The Last of Us season 2 episode 4 director compares Josh Peck’s cameo to Drew Barrymore in Scream: "People just wouldn’t see it coming"
- Fallout star Walton Goggins on the real-life complicated relationships that form the "genesis" of brutally honest new indie comedy The Uninvited: "It was so important to tell this story"
- LocalThunk shouts out "4th person to join the Balatro Discord" as their new deckbuilding tactics game gets rave reviews: "I TOLD YALL THIS GAME WOULD SLAP"
- Naughty Dog won't do it, so this AAA dev and his wife made their own Jak & Daxter-inspired retro platformer – it feels great and crushed its Kickstarter goal
- A Persona and Shin Megami Tensei artist trained an AI model to draw like him, and look at that, it wasn't worth it
- Now that the Series S costs even more, I can't help but feel Microsoft wants us to look at handhelds and say, "this is an Xbox"
- Revenge of the Savage Planet review: "An underrated sci-fi platformer gets a beautiful third-person sequel, but I'm left cold by shallow busywork and an over-reliance on toilet humor"
- "It's a big first": Debut horse MMORPG from former World of Warcraft devs' studio is a Twin Peaks murder mystery unlike anything you've ever seen
- After nailing his first JRPG, Metaphor: ReFantazio lead UI designer has one piece of advice for his old self: "Your PC is going to break in 2021. Do something about it!"
- Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone says Disney's farming RPG got him to take notice by its title alone: "Wait, it's called Dreamlight Valley? What's going on here?"
- The Last of Us season 2 episode 4 just introduced a Part 2 character much earlier than expected
- The Last of Us managed to keep a major cameo secret – and it's the perfect surprise
- The Last of Us season 2, episode 4: The biggest changes between the HBO show and the PlayStation game
- May 4
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- Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone "assumed people wouldn't like Pierre," but thinks he's "not as bad as some people think"
- Titanfall dreams are shattered after EA cancels next game, so this studio raised $500,000 on Kickstarter to make its own mech survival game
- Modders behind Skyrim's co-op are now bringing a Dark Souls-style "social mod" to Oblivion Remastered
- "The eShop needs to be better. MUCH better": 28 game devs, from the creator of XCOM to indie legends, explain what they want from Nintendo Switch 2
- Nintendo is suing an accessory maker over "infringement, unfair competition, and false advertising" for releasing Switch 2 mock-ups weeks before reveal
- Star Wars fans think they've debunked a potential Andor plot hole
- Solo Leveling's voice actor "snuck in" a line from the manhwa that was way too good not to include
- Say "hello there" to my new favorite Star Wars lightsaber, which blew my mind with a neat trick
- Naruto and Naruto Shippuden filler list: All the episodes you can skip
- Marvel fans are discussing who they think should have been in the Thunderbolts line-up
- Someone has ranked every single one of Tom Cruise's running scenes on screen, and you'll be shocked by how many there are
- It took five years, but Thunderbolts' post-credits surprise finally fixed my big problem with the MCU before Avengers: Doomsday
- May 3
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- Super Mario 64, a forgotten Dreamcast JRPG, classic Jet Li films, and more all inspired Tim Schafer while working on Psychonauts
- The Black Series 212th Clone Trooper helmet is testing my willpower
- "If I made Stardew Valley again, I would try to be a little more nuanced": Eric Barone says the Community Center versus JojaMart battle was too black and white
- Danganronpa creator would love to port his acclaimed strategy RPG to more consoles, but the studio is "still on the brink of going under"
- Warfare stars Will Poulter and Kit Connor are heading to the Rapture to fight zombies
- Dragon Quest's Yuji Horii didn't actually reveal a Chrono Trigger remake after all, despite reports the JRPG classic was making a comeback
- Robert Downey Jr. may have just spoiled Thunderbolts and fans aren't happy
- After years of despising JRPGs, Clair Obscur has finally brought me around by ditching the standard cast of tedious teenagers
- Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock plan third screen reunion in romantic thriller for Amazon
- I review Lego Star Wars for a living, and these are the discounted sets I would buy myself for May 4
- Ryan Reynolds is planning a Deadpool team-up movie with X-Men
- Doctor Who season 2, episode 4 spoiler review: 'Lucky Day' has a "genuinely surprising" mid-episode reveal
- The Last of Us season 2 star has shared the moment that gave her the worst "video game PTSD"
- May 2
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- This Oblivion Remastered Easter egg is forcing me to confront a difficult truth about early 2010s meme culture: It was never funny, actually
- "Even though I worked on Oblivion Remastered, I'm still excited for Skyblivion": Bethesda shows more love to the modders who've been remaking Elder Scrolls 4 for 12 years
- Square Enix is "probably kicking itself" seeing the success of realistic turn-based JRPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, analyst says, after being "reticent to do it with the Final Fantasy series"
- Jurassic World: Rebirth goes full fantasy with a new crop of mutant dinosaurs including one that looks like a T-rex "designed by HR Giger" which then "had sex with a Rancor"
- Chrono Trigger remake reportedly revealed by Dragon Quest and JRPG pioneer Yuji Horii, who seemingly didn't know it was a secret: "You have heard nothing"
- Solo Leveling producer says one 24-minute episode of the hit anime can take "up to 12 months" to make
- The Devourer of Worlds faces penance for every life he's taken as he squares off with the Spirit of Vengeance in Ghost Rider Vs. Galactus #1
- "Yesterday was probably one of the worst days of my life": New No Rest for the Wicked update was such a mess, its lead dev and the Ori studio's founder immediately issued a 23-point hotfix
- Avatar 3 shares first look at Zoe Saldaña’s Neytiri as James Cameron says she’s "incandescent" in the new movie
- With GTA 6 delayed to 2026, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 star celebrates: "We're in with a shot" to win Game of the Year 2025
- Ghost of Yotei is the latest in a long line of Collector's Editions that doesn't come with a physical game, and I'm starting to think nobody understands what game collectors actually want
- Mouse: P.I for Hire just revealed some of its experimental new weapons, including a 'Self-Aware Attitude Changer' that could come in handy in real life
- Revenge of the Savage Planet drops launch trailer that's equally as bizarre as all the others
- Elden Ring Nightreign outfits resurrect our favorite sun knight with their bucket load of Dark Souls references: "SOLAIRE IS BACK"
- "We really getting Silksong before GTA 6": Hollow Knight fans can hardly believe their eyes as Rockstar's biggest game ever slips past the indie Metroidvania to rule them all
- GTA 6 delay is a "bummer," former Rockstar technical lead says, but the release date announcement shows the devs are "clearly confident" in the new deadline
- This Xbox controller might be the sturdiest I've ever tested and did I mention it comes with a free reel of RGB lighting?
- True blockbuster filmmaking with real sets, practical effects, and big stunts will save us from superhero fatigue – and Thunderbolts, Superman and Fantastic Four have given me hope
- Marvel fans are praising Lewis Pullman's "perfect casting" as Sentry in Thunderbolts, after the character was almost played by a completely different actor
- An unexpected Netflix thriller movie just beat out Tom Hardy's long-delayed action hit for the number one most-watched spot
- Analysts react to GTA 6 delay: "2025 will clearly be the year of Nintendo now" and "the delay isn't a stumble – it's Rockstar doing what it always does"
- Do you need a gaming chair with massage features?
- Marvel star Jeremy Renner won't be back for Hawkeye season 2 because Disney reportedly tried to cut his salary in half: "I had to defend myself"
- With GTA 6 delayed to 2026, prepare for this year's floodgates to burst as publishers scramble to fill the empty space left by their biggest fear
- 20 years later, The Revenge of the Sith re-release proves that Star Wars prequels fever is going nowhere
- REPO's first big update is now available in beta and "on the home stretch" for full launch: "We want to involve you guys directly wherever we can"
- You can get an actual Star Wars droid that follows you around, but you don't wanna know how much it'll cost
- GTA 6 delay was reportedly inevitable: "Nobody I've talked to at Rockstar has believed fall 2025 was a real window for a very long time now"
- "I don't think anyone benefits in 2025 from this": GTA 6 delay is bad news for the games industry, analyst says, adding to "nightmare scenario territory" following Xbox price hike
- X-Files star Gillian Anderson thinks Ryan Coogler is the "perfect person" to reboot the show and teases if she'll return: "Call me"
- Upcoming clown movie takes horror movie marketing up a notch by letting its crazed killer loose on the streets
- Ghost of Yotei pre-orders are now live, including a stacked Collector's Edition
- Cult of the Lamb publisher wants its own Barbenheimer moment, doubles down on plans to launch a game on GTA 6's new release date: "You can't escape us"
- Spend 60 hours in Super Mario Odyssey and you'll see why it's one of the best games Nintendo has ever made
- Jurassic World Rebirth star explains how the new movie differs from the recent reboots: "It's welcoming people to really celebrate the original film"
- Take-Two CEO "fully" supports Rockstar's GTA 6 delay, promises "a groundbreaking, blockbuster entertainment experience that exceeds audience expectations"
- ConcernedApe regrets making Stardew Valley's fishing minigame "too hard" when you start out, but still thinks it's good overall: "I know it's controversial"
- The Winds of Winter release date speculation, plot, and everything else we know about George R.R. Martin's new book
- D&D is the secret ingredient in my new deck-building strategy game obsession, and it's got me going John Wick on evil wizards
- Sarah Michelle Gellar debunks "fake" leaks about her Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot and praises Eternals director Chloé Zhao's "passion" for the project
- Keychron M5 review: "vertical value at its best"
- GTA 6 2026 release delay live blog - All the information and reactions live
- Unlike Animal Crossing, house decoration in the Lord of the Rings life sim game doesn't operate on a grid because Hobbits also love "clutter-core"
- Deadlock streamer accidentally unveils 10 new heroes on the way to Valve's MOBA, as well as updated character designs for multiple existing favorites
- This streaming service has become an anime fan's dream thanks to 800 hours of free additions – including a Bleach movie marathon
- GTA 6 release date set for May 2026 as Rockstar's long-awaited open-world blockbuster is delayed out of this year
- The Switch 2 will send my OG handheld into retirement, so I'm giving it this discounted upscaler as a leaving gift
- Marvel fans have realized that other MCU characters could have been caught up in the events of Thunderbolts, with heartbreaking consequences
- I've learned nothing from horror, so when this Lovecraftian RPG asked me to hold a ritual in a spooky mansion, I was ready and waiting with candles
- The 32 greatest DC Comics movies of all time
- Bethesda fans briefly panic as Todd retires – but not Todd Howard, so you can get back to calmly playing Oblivion Remastered: "They really shouldn't have allowed two Todds to work there"
- Mission: Impossible fans will have to channel their inner Tom Cruise to open the new The Final Reckoning popcorn bucket
- Thunderbolts director reveals the big post-credits scene was so last minute that it was filmed on the set of Avengers: Doomsday
- Call of Duty Blaze of Glory event and rewards explained
- Mission: Impossible director says they would "not have done" one of Final Reckoning's most dangerous stunts if they "knew what it took to do it"
- Nintendo swiftly rolls out another Switch update after the last one trapped some users on an error screen when loading up their consoles
- The Thunderbolts cast were given "ownership," over their characters, which meant Florence Pugh could change that death-defying opening scene for the better
- Overwatch 2's new third-person mode wasn't a reaction to Marvel Rivals - the director's son actually "created the first pitch" well before Blizzard's sequel
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- JRPG legend Yuji Horii is teaming up with the Blue Lock manga writer for a new Nintendo Switch game literally designed to ruin your friendships
- Epic rushes to dunk on Apple after App Store court ruling, announces Epic Game Store update promising options "where Apple, Google, and others charge exorbitant fees"
- Marvel's new Star Wars #1 enters the post-Return of the Jedi era with new adventures for Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, and Princess Leia
- "An entirely new department is spinning up at Larian" focused on the Baldur's Gate 3 studio's greatest strength: RPG storytelling
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs admit "we were wrong" about "practice is everything" advice for the RPG's difficult parries: "The true strategy is dying over and over until you land a counter"
- Thunderbolts actor wanted to change his character's name but was told no: "It's in the comics, you can't change that"
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 publisher says Oblivion Remastered "didn't seem to harm us at all," it just "drew attention to quality RPGs"
- Hollow Knight: Silksong devs released dozens of Hornet sprites, and of course all anybody can focus on is the nude one: "HORNET PUT YOUR CLOAK BACK ON"
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (May 2 - 4)
- All Borderlands 4 characters and Vault Hunters and what we know so far
- Andor embraces podracing with an Easter egg that calls back to a Star Wars Episode 1 video game from 1999
- New Lego sets in May 2025, from a Star Wars avalanche to an awesome Mario Kart tribute
- Forget Amazon gaming week, these sub-$1,000 gaming PC deals at Walmart are perfect for first-time buyers
- 125GB!? Oblivion Remastered is a storage killer, but these SSD deals are here to help
- Nintendo makes a big change to the eShop ahead of Switch 2, pushing down shovelware but potentially hurting good indies too
- Star Wars actor's new movie with a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score gets new trailer – and it looks like a mix between Perks of Being a Wallflower and Frances Ha
- $80 Switch 2 and now Xbox games aren't a big shock, analyst says, and games haven't really been $70 for a while: "The average price people are paying ... is much higher"
- I tried to become a sewer-dwelling rat boy in Oblivion Remastered, but please move past that because I just realized I've been playing Oblivion wrong for 15 years
- To mark 27 years of the DC character, James Gunn shares BTS look at Mr Terrific’s big screen debut in Superman
- Former Bethesda designer says the studio's infamous loading screens are "a necessary bane" of how it makes RPGs, whether you're playing Oblivion Remastered, Starfield, or Skyrim
- Hollow Knight: Silksong is going to be "playable" at an Australian museum in September, but nobody knows what that means for the release date
- "Nothing has changed" with the new game from Nier Automata leads that might be Nier 3, producer says, and it might even be announced in 2027 if they're still "alive by then"
- An Xbox Series X now costs $600 as Microsoft raises prices on hardware, with "some" first-party games also jumping to $80 this year
- House of the Dragon star’s Netflix show with perfect Rotten Tomatoes score has been renewed for season 2 amid cancellation rumors
- Retro remake dev calls Switch 2 game-key cards "disheartening," says you'd hope a company as big as Nintendo "would take preservation a little more seriously"
- Bethesda giving out Oblivion Remastered keys to Skyblivion modders is "exactly what I'd like to see more of," says CEO of retro remaster studio as devs reflect on game preservation
- Hyper-rare Pokemon Journey Together Elite Trainer Box is back in stock, and it's for a normal price
- Blizzard says it isn't using AI-generated voices in Overwatch 2 and Diablo 4, a bug just accidentally left "robotic temp voices" in the RPG
- A sequel to the Road House reboot starring Jake Gyllenhaal will be directed by Guy Ritchie
- T-Force A440 Lite 2TB review: "Kept its cool under strain"
- Solo Leveling season 3 doesn't sound like a guarantee as producers ask fans for "energy" to "help make it happen"
- Chris Hemsworth marks the start of Avengers: Doomsday filming in the most Thor way possible
- After playing Indiana Jones and the Great Circle on PS5 for 12 hours, I'm convinced it's the small details that make this an adventure for the history books
- Baldur's Gate 3 is done with updates, but it's still getting hotfixes - a new one says "it's only fair" drunk monk kills "count toward the Punch Drunk achievement"
- Game of Thrones star Kit Harington recalls a "humiliating" moment on set when Bella Ramsey helped him with his lines: "Oh god, I’ve got to up my game"
- After more than 4 years, Fortnite is coming back to iOS in the US, and Epic has a "peace proposal" for Apple which could see the battle royale return to the App Store worldwide
- Call of Duty High Art event and rewards explained
- At 174 seconds, Thunderbolts features the longest Marvel movie post-credits scene
- Gearbox boss doubles down on Borderlands 4's new release date being unrelated to GTA 6, insists he has no "insider information" despite working under Take-Two
- Thunderbolts* Easter eggs: all the Marvel references you might have missed
- Thunderbolts ending explained: Who dies? What the asterisk means? How does it set up Avengers: Doomsday?
- When does Thunderbolts take place on the Marvel timeline?
- What does the Thunderbolts* asterisk mean? The big MCU mystery unpacked with what the Marvel comics tell us
- Thunderbolts director defends "big decision" to kill off major character: "It needed a bit of shock or surprise"
- Thunderbolts post-credits scenes: how many are there and what does it mean for the future of the MCU?
- When is Thunderbolts on streaming? Speculation on the potential Disney Plus release date
- 19 years later, Todd Howard is still a secret NPC in Oblivion Remastered, and he'll call you a bastard if you piss him off
