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- November 9
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- We might be waiting 4 years for KPop Demon Hunters 2, but fans of the Netflix movie believe that's a good thing: "Quality content takes time to make!"
- The GTA 4 story is "really dark" because Rockstar's co-founder was "single and miserable" while making it: "We constantly thought we may be shut down"
- Vince Gilligan knows how he wants the Pluribus ending to go, but the Breaking Bad creator "isn't precious" about it either: "If we come up with a better way to end this thing, we will"
- Mario Kart and Super Mario Maker collide in this Steam racing game where you make your own courses while driving: "I've lost hours testing my game"
- Star Wars: Starfighter is now filming, and House of the Dragon star Matt Smith joins production very soon
- Predator: Badlands sets franchise record in opening weekend box office, overtaking original Schwarzenegger movie and Predators
- A blow to Nintendo's controversial Pokemon patent could "embolden some competitors" to fight back against future lawsuits or accusations after the Palworld mess, IP expert says
- As Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 gets snubbed at the 2026 Grammys, Assassin's Creed and Journey composer says he'd "happily trade places" with the RPG
- GTA 6 delay is not nearly powerful enough to kill fans' hope that somehow, somewhere, trailer 3 is coming soon: "Probably imminent"
- The Running Man star Glen Powell says Edgar Wright's new Stephen King adaptation has similarities to Braveheart and Gladiator: "Ordinary people who are trying to make up for terrible things that have happened"
- November 8
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- Red Dead Redemption 2's brutal opening was supposed to be worse, but Arthur Morgan was "very, very nasty," so Rockstar Games "ended up cutting it"
- Elle Fanning explains why she was "more nervous" to play villainous synth Tessa than "big personality" droid Thia in new sci-fi Predator: Badlands: "You can fall into a cliché"
- Introducing the first soulslike god game: Spore and Dark Souls collide in what might be the weirdest life sim on Steam
- Jennifer Lawrence calls Emma Stone the "Muppet-head" leading the way on their Miss Piggy movie: "I'm the ideas guy"
- Silent Hill 2 Remake's Xbox port release date leaked by Microsoft itself, and its imminent launch might be good news for the game's rumored Born From a Wish DLC
- "The delay for GTA doesn't change anything": Dev behind very canceled game Hytale thinks it has a better shot of resurrecting and launching before GTA 6
- Alan Ritchson wants a "messier" role in the DCU, as the Reacher star confirms talks are ongoing: "I want to play somebody a little dirtier than your typical clean-cut protagonist"
- Godzilla Minus Zero's logo has a hidden detail that might give away another kaiju joining the Godzilla Minus One sequel
- Public outrage amid Palworld lawsuit likely influenced new scrutiny of Nintendo's Pokemon patent, IP expert speculates, but it's debatable if giving that power to "people on the internet" who "scream loudly" is good
- Breaking Bad creator's new sci-fi show Pluribus has a "made by humans" disclaimer because Vince Gilligan can't stand AI: "AI is the world's most expensive and energy-intensive plagiarism machine"
- Kill Team: Dead Silence brings back something I've desperately missed in the Warhammer game
- 25 years later, the original $36,000 Xbox prototype that was shaped like an actual X has been rebuilt, and it's fully functioning
- November 7
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- Unless GTA 6 "comes out and it's terrible" no open-world dev can hope to top Rockstar, original Saints Row design lead says – but "there's nothing wrong with trying to be a #2"
- X-Men #23 brings back a beloved '90s X-artist for the end of 'Age of Revelation'
- "It's so hard to balance a game for 14 million players ok": Peak devs ask for mercy after overpowered zombies rip players apart
- Lore hero condenses all of Silksong, including a cut ending, into a lightweight 77 minutes: "THE SACRED TEXTS ARE HERE"
- Halo Infinite is finished with "major" updates after its next release as devs focus on Halo: Campaign Evolved, fans lament it's "going out on a whimper"
- For the first time in over a decade, Square Enix is teasing a brand-new zone for its OG MMO Final Fantasy 11
- Fans find Mass Effect 5 art of a Krogan civil war hidden in BioWare's N7 Day post, studio lead says "I want you to see stuff. But it's not the time…yet"
- Hideo Kojima says new sci-fi show Pluribus from Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan is "absolutely incredible" and "Vince really is a genius"
- I've been playing D&D for years, but I think this starter set is the best it's ever had
- Elden Ring Nightreign "performed well beyond initial expectations," FromSoftware parent company says, and DLC could take it even further
- Genshin Impact dev seemingly ditching anime art to take on the MMO money pit with a new game called Genesis packing an open world, PvP, and a whole load of AI
- Hyped Pokemon ROM hack gets its 1.0 release next week with a Greek region, 400+ cross-gen monsters, Mega Evolutions, mini games, side quests, and more
- The Mass Effect show will "explore a brand-new story" set after the original trilogy and "won't be a retread of Commander Shepard's story," according to BioWare
- Attention, Fortnite Festival fans: A drum kit controller is coming in 2026
- Konami's $26 million lawsuit against Umamusume devs settled for an undisclosed sum, but Cygames still says it never infringed any patents
- Predator: Badlands is great, but I'd kind of hoped some of those wild fan theories were true – and now I'm wishing that the marketing hadn't been so oddly mysterious
- Pokemon Legends: Z-A's DLC is making a change to the level cap Game Freak has "never dared touch," and a VGC World Champion thinks "there's no telling how difficult the game can get" now
- Arc Raiders already has an online market for blueprints, a rare one could cost you more than the game itself, and you might not even get to keep it
- "Don't expect hundreds of hours of gameplay": Sims 4 competitor Paralives unveils early access plans, showing what "won't be ready for launch" and what's coming "within the next 2 years"
- I've been playing with Sony consoles since the beginning, and I think these are the best PlayStation gifts in 2025
- Dwayne Johnson says his string of early career flops was because he shied away from a challenge: "I don't think I was ready for anything other than easy, light, family films"
- Loki writer hints that one day we may get to see the original ending planned for the Marvel show's first season: "Never say never"
- Radiolight channels Twin Peaks and Alan Wake for a late night walk in the woods, and I'm amazed a solo developer crammed so much atmosphere into this secret horror game
- After a huge Animal Crossing: New Horizons patch was announced out of nowhere, Nintendo says it's "constantly considering" the balance of new Switch 2 games and big updates
- Mass Effect 5 remains in development amid $55 billion EA buyout, and BioWare is now "heads-down and focused exclusively on" the RPG, with "lots of romances to figure out"
- The Glorious Model O 3 Wireless has some slick ideas, but those numbers need to fall fast | Review
- Steam expert hails PC gaming "golden age" of rough-but-fun games that devs can make quickly and players love, from Peak to Megabonk: "Steam players want fun first"
- "I can't describe how happy this makes us": No Man's Sky celebrates Mass Effect Day with the return of Commander Shepard's ship
- Borderlands 4's latest patch brings welcome buffs, a challenging boss, and, most importantl,y a gun that shoots bees
- Red Dead Redemption 2 overtakes Mario Kart 8 as the 4th best-selling video game of all time, boasting 79 million sales
- How to complete A First Foothold in Arc Raiders
- Arc Raiders review: "The most memorable multiplayer experiences I've had all year – this shooter is tense but wonderfully approachable"
- Currys has just unloaded a ton of Switch 2 bundle deals just in time for the holidays
- On the Radar with The Outer Worlds 2 – going beyond our verdict with a deep dive on one of 2025's greatest RPGs
- Grand Theft Auto and Borderlands owner Take-Two has had "success" with using AI for "mundane tasks," but doesn't see it as a replacement for actual creativity: "We are not using this as an excuse to reduce headcount"
- Survival horror meets Squid Game in this chilling Steam demo that I've not been able to stop thinking about
- I adore my LG OLED TV, but I would have jumped on this Samsung deal if it popped up first
- Now that Skyrim Grandma's retired, you can occupy your time watching this Minecraft Grandma who yells "die, die, die" at every zombie and skeleton in the game
- I was emotionally disembowled by Train Dreams, an extraordinary movie about the ordinary life of a 20th-century logger
- Gremlins 3 release date, cast, plot speculation, and everything else you need to know about the upcoming sequel
- Baldur's Gate 3 publishing lead says there's a reason Steam is so popular: "It's almost as if it isn't providing a s**t service"
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- Battlefield Redsec review: "Ticks all the right boxes for a battle royale, but it's not especially unique"
- With big "this is fine" energy, Take-Two CEO says GTA 6 will be the "most extraordinary title anyone's ever seen in the history of entertainment" as latest delay sends Grand Theft Auto fans spiraling
- "I have to kill them before they kill me": In just one week, Arc Raiders has ruined my ability to trust, and the killer robots aren't even the problem
- As a 90s kid, there's nothing I want more this Black Friday than a retro Care Bears Digital Pet
- GTA 5 is reportedly returning to the PS Plus Game Catalog this month as Rockstar and Sony keep tradition for the third year running, right after GTA 6 gets delayed again
- Despite shifting its "primary development focus to Nintendo Switch 2", Nintendo still plans on making games for the original Switch, and hopes fans will continue to play old ones, too
- It's dangerous to go alone, take our Legend of Zelda quiz
- Alienware PCs aren't for everyone, but this Aurora RTX 5070 Ti early Black Friday deal instantly caught my eye
- GTA 6's delay reportedly had nothing to do with recent Rockstar Games firings and alleged union busting, but it could impact production further down the line
- Terminator legend Linda Hamilton was considering retiring from acting before she joined Stranger Things season 5
- The emotional story of World of Warcraft gamer Ibelin is being turned into a movie with Adolescence, The Long Walk, and The Last of Us stars attached
- Following another GTA 6 delay, Palworld lead says "expect to see many games (especially AAA ones) swerve to avoid the 2027 awards season"
- Predator: Badlands director Dan Trachtenberg's first idea for a Prey sequel involved a Yautja "kicking Nazi butt" in World War 2
- How to get Blueprints in Arc Raiders
- Take-Two CEO says they "take no victory lap" following $55 billion EA buyout news, and the company is "always running scared": "We wish our competitors well"
- Baldur's Gate 3 publishing lead slams Square Enix's push to automate 70% of debugging with AI: "The idea that QA people can be replaced at a large scale is stupid"
- Jujutsu Kaisen season 3 confirms premiere date – and we could be looking at the biggest anime month ever
- Netflix unveils the first five minutes of Stranger Things season 5, and rewrites history with a flashback of Will encountering Vecna in the Upside Down back in 1983
- Star Wars newcomer Sigourney Weaver thinks the franchise is more interesting now: "They're no longer trying to do the Star Wars to end all Star Wars"
- Devolver Digital tightens its grip on Rockstar, now threatening to launch a game on GTA 6's new November 2026 release date: "You can't escape us"
- Kate Winslet says her "extraordinary" reaction to a death in Avatar: The Way of Water is hiding a surreal scene partner – a giant metal grate: "It was easier imagining an iceberg passing by"
- BioShock 4 is "going to take the franchise to the next level," which is why publisher Take-Two is "shifting some things around" to make sure it exceeds expectations
- Weapons director Zach Cregger's next movie has reportedly been "stalled" due to Netflix not wanting to release it in theaters
- After 8 years of developing the Marvel movie, Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright didn't make Ant-Man because "the thing that attracted me about it had gone away"
- As if you needed another reason to watch Avatar: Fire and Ash, the Avengers: Doomsday trailer will reportedly play in front of James Cameron's threequel
- Take-Two CEO says "we've never regretted" a delay as GTA 6 slips again, and points to companies that ignored necessary delays "at their peril"
- Cyberpunk 2077 devs offer support to spiralling GTA 6 fans following delay by reminding them of their RPG's infamously terrible launch
- Breaking Bad creator's new show Pluribus debuts to a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score as viewers say its first episode is "one of the best pilots in recent memory"
- The G'AIM'E Time Crisis Lightgun console has gloriously revived my favorite arcade shooter, but I'm worried about the genre's future
- Avatar crew created a new style of swimming for The Way of Water and used James Bond-style jetpacks to make the Na'vi's underwater movements as 'accurate' as possible
- Stranger Things still has "movie touch points" in season 5, but its creators were more concerned with doing justice to the story it began almost a decade ago
- Predator: Badlands – Is there a post-credits scene?
- All the main differences between Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein and the original novel that you need to know
- Predator: Badlands ending explained – Does Dek kill the Kalisk? What happens to Tessa, and will there be a Predator: Badlands 2?
- Pluribus season 1 review: "Easily one of the year's best dramas"
- Borderlands 4's launch "was a bit softer than we would've liked" partly because of PC performance issues, Take-Two CEO says, but "we're immensely proud of Gearbox" anyway
- Don't sweat the GTA 6 delay, Take-Two CEO says GTA 5 is "still the most technologically advanced title in the marketplace" after 12 years
- November 6
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- Black Panther and Captain America team-up game Marvel 1943 delayed "beyond early 2026" to make sure it "meets the level of quality" the devs want
- Eleven and Will got competition! Holly Wheeler will be a "centerpiece" in Stranger Things season 5, say Duffer Brothers
- After another GTA 6 delay he called unlikely, Take-Two CEO says "bad things happen" when games are rushed and breaks out his favorite phrase: "I'm highly confident on the new date"
- "I counted every box in Baldur's Gate 3": The real Baldur's Gate 3 completionist is the person who dug through the RPG's code to find every last crate, chest, and barrel
- JRPG grind is dead, the advanced Dragon Quest 1 & 2 HD-2D Remake auto-battle system killed it – though devs say players may still "be in trouble if they get careless"
- Fallout: New Vegas was "the very first game" Outer Worlds 2 lead studied after the original, but don't expect the classic RPG to majorly influence "every single game" Obsidian does going forward
- "Of course, you must be on Steam. But Steam isn't the entire world": CEO of game distribution company says yes, some PC gamers prefer "local" stores to Valve's mega-shop, and China is a huge factor
- GTA 6 delayed 6 more months as Rockstar commits to November 2026 and says “sorry”
- Mass layoffs hit Square Enix hours after it shares plans to have AI handle "70%" of its quality assurance and debugging soon
- Kingdom Hearts 4 hopium is in overdrive thanks to a single image of Sora's voice actor in the studio: "YALL IS IT TIME??? IS IT FINALLY TIME????"
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (November 7-9)
- "Printing money": Rockstar reveals GTA+ membership will now let anyone play GTA Online – and it's not trailer 3, but it does bode well for GTA 6 Online
- 37 years after the last movie, Gremlins 3 is officially happening with Chris Columbus and Steven Spielberg on board
- With 11 million copies sold, Peak continues the Bing Bong divorced dad saga in latest update: "The divorce court has allowed Bing Bong to visit his kids"
- Super Mario World, Zelda: The Wind Waker, Mario Kart 8, and more return to Japan's biggest speedrun event after Nintendo cited "unauthorized use"
- Analysis of 260,000 Silksong Steam reviews shows what players love and hate about Team Cherry’s brutal sequel: 2 damage, long runbacks, and... Elden Ring?
- When is Predator Badlands on streaming? Speculation on the potential Hulu release date
- When does Black Ops 7 release?
- The PS Portal just got a handy new upgrade, but should you buy one instead of a PS5?
- Battlefield 6 lead says "stick it out" on bots, because they're essential to avoid waiting "possibly forever" to get into "the playlist of your choice in regions with low population"
- Predator: Badlands almost centered on a team-up between Yautja protagonist Dek and Prey's Naru, but director Dan Trachtenberg wanted "no humans in the movie"
- Knights of the Old Republic's Bastila Shan actor Jennifer Hale was "gobsmacked" by the Star Wars RPG's big twist: "It completely shocked me"
- inZOI takes a page from The Sims' most beloved expansions with a store management system that'll let you "open stores anywhere"
- Baldur's Gate 3 and Dragon Age: The Veilguard are both "very LGBTQ+ friendly," former EA dev says, "but one handled it perfectly and one fumbled it"
- The Legend of Zelda movie is now filming in New Zealand, but good luck figuring out which game is being adapted from this vague synopsis
- MissingNo walked so Pokemon Legends: Z-A Mega Dimensions could run, as the new DLC lets you officially go beyond the Level 100 limit for the first time in the series' 29-year history
- The Witcher author says "there is no cooperation at all between me and the games," and he won't play The Witcher 4 because "it's not an entertainment for me"
- Star Wars: Visions features a full-circle nod to a famous Back to the Future moment
- Arc Raiders has made me fall in love with getting my ass kicked by giant robots
- The cheapest Alienware gaming laptop on the market just got Black Friday'd
- Helldivers 2 studio Arrowhead has an entire "Meta" team internally, but they aren't in charge of the best guns: "They define the rules of the whole game, and you’ll find your beloved Game Masters in this"
- The Simpsons showrunner says a revival of animated sitcom The Critic has "definitely been discussed" but there's "one thing standing in the way"
- Netflix wishes fans a Happy Stranger Things Day by releasing first look at upcoming animated spin-off Stranger Things: Tales From '85
- I've sat in this $9 million Kickstarter chair for two months now, and it's definitely worth the hype
- Soon-to-be-laid-off dev tells boycott-curious players to "please buy this game" he's about to be laid off from, because it still helps the folks getting cut
- I couldn't hack Marvel Rivals, but Marvel Snap taught me more about PvP etiquette in 6 months than any game has before it
- Palworld team announcement tease reminds us 2025 isn't over yet: "Thinking we should announce one final publishing game for the year"
- How to get Diancie in Pokemon Legends: Z-A and start the Shine Bright Like a Gemstone mission
- Battlefield 6 lead agrees "we need more of the large sandbox" maps but also defends small maps: "There are different types of Battlefield maps in all games"
- Helldivers 2 lead says "our features would be considered ready and implemented in the release build at the very last minute," so Arrowhead wants to "stop that" with the game cracking
- 2010's A Nightmare on Elm Street was "premature", says OG actor Robert Englund – but he'd be eager to see a re-do of Part 2 and a franchise-ending prequel soon
- "Rockstar, you're disgusting": Fired GTA 6 devs protest outside studio offices after dozens of unionizing employees were accused of leaking "confidential information"
- KPop Demon Hunters 2: everything we know about the Netflix sequel
- Pokemon Legends: Z-A's DLC expansion Mega Dimension launches next month, adding new Mega Evolutions, more returning Pokemon, and a familiar face from X and Y
- A new Star Wars comic reveals that Kylo Ren and Luke Skywalker met again after The Last Jedi
- Where to buy Lego Advent Calendars 2025 for the best price
- The Séance of Blake Manor review: "Like horror Clue come to life, this supernatural mystery against the clock is incredibly immersive"
- One day after adding them, indie co-op game Peak is nerfing its new zombie enemies: "We did playtest the zombies. I guess the playtesters were just too good"
- Prepare to engage your overdraft, because the Lego Star Trek Enterprise is incredible (but you can get one free if you're quick)
- The JSAUX EnergyFlow Joy-Con 2 charger isn't a necessity, but I don't want to imagine my setup without it | Review
- Former FPS pro Shroud says Arc Raiders should win GOTY over Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, even if he thinks "multiplayer gamers are the minority"
- Netflix and A24 are teaming up to adapt infamously stressful video game Overcooked into a reality cooking show
- Battlefield 6 has finally disabled those OP IFV missiles that turn any map into a no-fly zone, with a proper update coming next week
- The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson says he came out of making the film "loving Star Wars fandom more than I did even going into it"
- Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser says Red Dead Redemption 2's Arthur Morgan is his "best lead character," but it's a "toss-up" with GTA 4's Niko Bellic
- Vince Gilligan is avoiding one Breaking Bad mistake by plotting out a "general roadmap" for where Pluribus is going next
- Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto says one of the reasons Pokemon Red and Green were made was because creator Satoshi Tajiri joked Mario couldn't be surpassed unless fans were sold 2 copies of a game
- New Wonder Man trailer shows Simon Williams desperate to star in a superhero reboot – and teases his powers without solving the mystery of how he gets them
- Can you revive enemies and dead teammates in Arc Raiders?
- A popular Roblox game is next in line to get the movie adaptation treatment, but it's not the one you think
- Hideo Kojima, Fede Alvarez, and Bong Joon Ho are the latest names raving about Osgood Perkins' new movie Keeper: "He is the wizard of horror"
- I absolutely do not need a mini Burger Time arcade machine for my kitchen, but this discount is a threat to my air fryer
- Arc Raiders is now the highest-rated multiplayer shooter on OpenCritic, beating the likes of Overwatch and Quake 2 as positive reviews for the ex-Battlefield devs' new game pour in
- Avengers: Doomsday star Channing Tatum says the Marvel movie could be the biggest movie of the next decade: "Everyone in the world is going to see this movie"
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- Square Enix's multiplatform plan is already working, but it still wants to follow up a Dragon Quest roguelike and Dissidia Final Fantasy with more mobile games based on "major IPs" and "automate 70% of QA" with AI
- Pokemon Legends: Z-A has a new update, but don't worry – the Wild Zone 20 exploit that lets players hunt shiny Alpha Pokemon fast still works
- Stranger Things creators share the one thing they won't miss about the hit Netflix show: "It wasn't fun on a production level"
- After sending fans into a frenzy with a GTA 6 PlayStation Store update, Rockstar has removed the GTA+ ad that had hopefuls convinced trailer 3 was imminent
- Zach Cregger's Resident Evil movie is seemingly set in a wintry Raccoon City, and it's giving us Code Veronica vibes
- Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan says he was "getting a little weary of writing bad guys," so he was "ready to write something a little different" with new sci-fi show Pluribus
- Godzilla Minus Zero: everything we know about the monster movie sequel
- Stranger Things creators say season 5 will finally reveal "what the Upside Down actually is" after "purposely" holding back for "almost 10 years": "We really wanted the show to come full circle"
- Lord of the Rings superfan recreates Frodo's trek to Mount Doom in the world-accurate official MMO, and you can watch the whole journey in an Andy Serkis-narrated video that's as long as all 3 films combined
- November 5
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- GTA 6 dev Rockstar says recent firings were due to leaks of "confidential information" and were "in no way related to people's right to join a union"
- Fallout co-creator Tim Cain's long list of "nitpicky" D&D questions for Wizards of the Coast in 2002 might help explain why Larian wanted to move on from the tabletop license after Baldur's Gate 3
- DC and Cobra Kai star joins the cast of One Piece season 3 and, boy, did they get this one right
- As a Dragon Quest noob, Dragon Quest 1 & 2 HD-2D Remake honestly feels like the perfect introduction
- Another roguelike success story has hit Steam: D&D flavored slot machine Slots & Daggers sells 100,000 copies in 10 days, "a surreal number for a solo dev like me"
- Marvel Rivals seemingly teases one of the best X-Men power couples in obscured art that fans cracked in roughly 17 seconds
- After trying live service with the canceled Last of Us 2 Factions, Naughty Dog commits to making more "story-driven, character-based games"
- Assassin's Creed Shadows devs only found the confidence to rally against its "loudest haters" when Ubisoft realized "We had to stop focusing on those who hated us"
- In defiance of god and Team Cherry, players mod the Knight from Hollow Knight into Silksong: "Most bosses are pretty easy it turns out"
- KPop Demon Hunters 2 is reportedly happening, but we'll be waiting years for it
- Blizzard doesn't want to keep reworking Diablo 4 mechanics "just because we can," but it'll keep tweaking "some of the old things that just aren't doing their job"
- Bungie had an unspoken rule for Halo cinematics: "Never make the player in the cinematic feel more 'badass' than the actual game"
- Tim Robinson's darkly madcap comedy thriller The Chair Company is the perfect antidote to the most overused trope on TV
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 boss hands The Outer Worlds 2 a "7/10," hopes Obsidian spends "all of Microsoft's money" on RPGs more like Fallout New Vegas and, also, like Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
- The Logitech G515 Rapid TKL is one of the first magnetic low profile keyboards, and there's a reason there aren't more | Review
- Former Assassin's Creed and Far Cry lead says the Simpsons game they worked on "is underrated" and "being able to walk around a recreation of Springfield was pretty fun in of itself"
- The latest Sonic game is getting ripped apart on Steam: "In what world can you get a whole, fully featured, actually fun racing game for less than the price of 2 skins here"
- Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con are back to their lowest ever price at Woot
- Another win for story-driven single-player games as superhero comedy Dispatch sells a "pretty good" 1 million copies in 10 days
- From the moment development started on Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls, "the goal was to reinstate Marvel as a pillar of the fighting game community"
- Plant powers rule in Alruna: End of History, a grimdark Metroidvania about reclaiming industrial spaces, and I love the condensed approach to maps that still pack secrets
- My gaming laptop setup's secret weapon just took its first ever price cut
- BlizzCon 2026 tickets go on sale this week with a limited-time early bird offer making passes $40 cheaper
- Minecraft Mounts of Mayhem will finally let you give your horse the armor it deserves: a top-tier Netherite suit
- No, we don't need Red Dead Redemption 3, we need to learn that too much of a good thing will ultimately ruin it
- Frankenstein stars Jacob Elordi and Oscar Isaac say director Guillermo del Toro focuses on "the personal over the scientific" in the new Netflix movie: "It's a biography of Guillermo's"
- Remembering its MMO has an expansion out soon, Bungie addresses Destiny 2's missing roadmap as player counts hit a new low on Steam
- All The Outer Worlds 2 In Pursuit of Purloined Propaganda locations
- PlayStation Portal now lets you stream your own digital games to the handheld without a PS5, but you still need to have the most expensive version of PS Plus to do so
- How to complete Diabolical Drones of Doom in The Outer Worlds 2
- The Running Man director reveals the big way the action-packed thriller differs from the likes of Kill Bill and John Wick: "This was an opportunity to bring it down to a more relatable level"
- Battlefield 6 players rig their own anti-crossplay on PC to avoid controller players with the "massive advantage" of aim assist
- Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion actor Neil Newbon says the RPG's beloved vampire has "meant more than I ever realized he would," and "I'm not ready to let go of him"
- Obsidian wants to establish the "Obsidian RPG" with games like The Outer Worlds 2 and Avowed, not chase "what already exists" in competitors like Baldur's Gate 3 and Cyberpunk 2077
- Fans can watch Stranger Things season 5's premiere two weeks early, but ballot tickets are "extremely limited"
- Our team's favorite cheap Switch 2 headset just got even cheaper, and I can't recommend it enough
- How to get a free loadout in Arc Raiders
- How to claim Arc Raiders Twitch Drops and Discord Quests
- After a 2-year wait, Football Manager 26 becomes the 7th worst-rated Steam game ever as the bug-laden sequel is slammed for poor UI, missing features, and more: "This is the worst iteration ever"
- Star Trek 4 is reportedly dead at Paramount, though a new movie without Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto could still happen
- The Five Nights at Freddy's 2 popcorn bucket may have leaked, and fans are wondering where the popcorn even goes
- Stranger Things creators say "the book is closed" on Eleven, Will and co's storyline, insist future live-action spin-offs won't link to Hawkins: "We've said everything we want to say"
- Original Predator star Arnold Schwarzenegger could still return to the franchise, according to Predator: Badlands producer: "It would be really great to see him come back"
- "The highest airflow and static pressure of any fans we have ever designed" - NZXT launches a new range of performance fans for PC players
- Predator: Badlands stars praise director Dan Trachtenberg for "adding heart" to the sci-fi horror franchise and encouraging "play" on set: "Whenever there was an ad-lib, he had to learn it in Yautja"
- Xbox wants to know how fun Ghost of Yotei is in a new survey, and fans immediately have some questions of their own: "Does this mean the game will be available on Xbox?"
- Bucky Barnes actor Sebastian Stan talks about his Marvel experience in past tense, and fans are getting worried ahead of Avengers: Doomsday
- I don't know how I feel about the changes Wizards Of The Coast just made for Magic: The Gathering's Commander format
- Former GTA boss Dan Houser says Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears or the Kingdom are like Alfred Hitchcock films: "They're just speaking the language of video games"
- Battlefield 6's recoil is making aiming so inaccurate players want it "fixed immediately," but lead developer suggests it may be a skill issue: "I don't think it's a bug we're looking at"
- New Five Nights at Freddy's 2 trailer shows first look at Scream star Skeet Ulrich, and we think we know which FNAF game character he is playing
- Stranger Things season 5 star confirms a de-aged Will Byers will open the new season of the Netflix show in "a full circle moment"
- The Outer Worlds 2 Schemes of the Secret Smugglers walkthrough
- Kim Kardashian's new show is being dubbed one of the worst dramas ever as it debuts to 0% on Rotten Tomatoes
- The Witcher season 4 viewership is down over 50% on season 3 so far, with only 7.3 million views on Netflix
- Nintendo is shifting its "primary development focus to Nintendo Switch 2" as it looks to strengthen its development capabilities with plans to acquire new studios
- Knight of the Seven Kingdoms showrunner says he "did this [season] for George [R.R. Martin]," and the Game of Thrones creator has "only been a benefit to this show"
- Marvel wanted the new Wolverine game to bring Logan back in "spectacular and visceral fashion," and Insomniac was "the perfect choice" after the Spider-Man games
- More adaptations of Nintendo's hit games are on the way, teases president Shuntaro Furukawa: "We are continuing to prepare for the ongoing release of movies in the future"
- Nintendo wants Mario Kart World to be a Switch 2 game fans will "continue to choose for years to come" like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, and I hope that means DLC could be on the cards
- I love having quick access to Street Fighter 2 everywhere I go, and the handheld I use for on the go throwdowns is back under $60
- This gorgeous Lego Star Wars set is retiring soon, and you can save £104 on it right now
- Captain Marvel actor Brie Larson suspiciously tells everyone to "ignore the wig" in latest photo and we're convinced it's confirmation she will return in Avengers: Doomsday
- Stranger Things creators defend season 5's three-part split, and you'll be fine with it too once you hear their plans for Volume One's "mega-movie"
- Stranger Things creators tease Avengers: Endgame-style opening, as Eleven and co pick themselves up after losing to Vecna: "Normally, they've defeated whatever evil"
- Minecraft surprise drops a full-blown Dragon Ball Z fighting game with 1v1, 5v5, and co-op modes, voxelized Goku and buff Bulma, and skins for the main game
- Toby Fox is letting friends try out early versions of Deltarune chapter 5, and they sound pretty jazzed: "I am still thinking about it a lot and want to play it more"
- November 4
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- Nintendo has done the impossible: release a Metroid Prime 4 trailer that actually looks good, and coincidentally includes the Akira slide
- Pokemon Legends Z-A speedrunners are all using the same one Pokemon: a free, heroic Heracross named Bois
- John Romero awards John Romero "the most satisfying weapon in gaming history" award for Doom's Super Shotgun, and he's right
- Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined makes the original JRPG's choices actually matter with a brand new possible ending "that's never been seen before in previous iterations"
- We can all breathe a sigh of relief as Brendan Frasier and Rachel Weisz will return for a new Mummy movie from Scream directors
- There were two specific Alien movies that inspired Elle Fanning's Predator: Badlands character, and neither of them were Ridley Scott's 1979 original
- World of Warcraft director says Blizzard has no plans to bring the MMO to consoles: "Our focus remains on the PC-based experience"
- "In other words, 72% don't know what a monopoly is," analyst says of study that finds 72% of game devs "see Steam as a monopoly"
- In decades of watching anime, I have never wanted a season 3 more: My Dress-Up Darling season 2 was a huge step up, and the manga has so much more to give
- A Battlefield 6 bug is killing some players for committing the heinous crime of jumping, dev says "We don't break knees on purpose"
- The official Switch 2 SD card is out of stock, but this record-low SanDisk deal has come to the rescue
- Obsidian knows that "everyone on the internet" keeps asking for Fallout: New Vegas 2, but its devs are currently happy working on their own IP, and "Xbox has been pretty supportive" too
- Less than 3 months after NetEase shut it down, new studio from Dragon Age and Halo devs gets resurrected
- Best Nintendo gifts 2025, with recommendations from a fan of 30+ years
- Predator: Badlands review: "Die-hard fans may be disappointed, but as a blockbuster action-adventure, Badlands kills it"
- This is my formal apology to Battlefield 6's most misunderstood class: I'm sorry, I wasn't really familiar with your game
- After GTA 6 hopefuls convinced themselves trailer 3 would drop today, they're not taking Rockstar's Red Dead Online news very well: "DIABOLICAL work guys"
- RTX 5070 PCs have already been given the Black Friday treatment, but should you wait?
- The RedMagic 11 Pro storms the mobile gaming market with some of the highest benchmark scores I've seen
- Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser says rumored GTA 5 Trevor DLC was about "half-done" when it was canceled, but if it released, the devs "probably wouldn't have gotten to make Red Dead 2"
- Frankenstein star Oscar Isaac says the new movie doesn't approach the creation of the Creature "like your classic kind of horror" and working with Guillermo del Toro on the scene was "really, really beautiful"
- Stop everything, this vampire decorating sim screams dark romantasy and I can't wait to get my hands on it in 2026
- How to get a Pokemon Legends: Z-A Alpha Gogoat
- Should you crash the Vox Relay into Fairfield or Westport in The Outer Worlds 2?
- Solo dev behind one of Steam's biggest viral hits, Lethal Company, gives his new game away for free after 10 years of work: "I only want to sell a game if I'm very certain that most people will enjoy it"
- Vince Gilligan wrote sci-fi mystery Pluribus just so Better Call Saul standout Rhea Seehorn could lead it: "I feel like the smartest guy in the world for writing a show for her"
- Beloved Final Fantasy 14 catboy G'raha Tia is now Eorzea's "Sexiest Man Alive," fans declare, as actor Jonathan Bailey becomes the real-world equivalent
- Life after Lethal Company: solo creator Zeekerss says "weirdly, not a lot has changed" after one of the biggest indie hits in recent memory, and he still has "a good handful of ideas for games"
- Battlefield 6 lead confirms aim assist is getting nerfed, but the 25% recoil reduction is staying for now: "The stickiness straight up kills you if there's multiple enemies"
- Warhammer Survivors puts 40K and Age of Sigmar into the Vampire Survivors mold in a partnership with the devs behind the 2022 indie roguelite hit, and it's launching next year
- Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment review: "Zelda is a fantastic lead in this action-packed Tears of the Kingdom prequel, but boring missions hold the magic back"
- I'll be gutted if amiibo deals aren't a big thing during Black Friday, and here's why
- The Outer Worlds 2 is an RPG that's as much about what you can't do as what you can: "Everybody is going to have a different experience, and they may not see everything, and that's okay"
- Original Freddy Krueger star Robert Englund wants Freddy vs. Jason director to come out of retirement and make another horror movie
- Pokemon Legends Z-A Occa Berry locations
- Dan Trachtenberg says he wanted Predator: Badlands' connection to Alien to be "more elegant" than past universe movies, but that doesn't mean it won't "grow into a bigger thing"
- Sweet liberty, Helldivers 2 just fixed one of the most annoying glitches in crash-focused new update as Arrowhead continues to address the game's performance issues
- Horror fans are sharing which scary movie they watched first, and Scream, Alien, and Nightmare on Elm Street are top choices
- Nintendo's patent fight against Palworld over Pokemon mechanics "further" undermined, IP expert says, as US Patent and Trademark lead calls controversial summoning patent into question
- "Pays tribute to one of the most extraordinary consoles of the 1980s" - the Vectrex Mini kickstarter is now live, and I still can't believe it's a real thing
- Carimara: Beneath the Forlorn Limbs review: "Playing as a goblin thing to crack a gothic fairy tale mystery with magical cards has quickly become one of my favorite gaming short stories"
- Nintendo Switch 2's massive momentum continues as it surpasses 10 million sales in 4 months, hitting the milestone 5 months faster than the OG Switch
- How to learn Psycho Cut in Pokemon Legends Z-A
- Should you kill or spare Montelli in The Outer Worlds 2?
- Eternals director Chloe Zhao could be manga's answer to James Gunn as she launches new studio dedicated to "premium" live-action adaptations with the publisher behind Attack on Titan
- Best Buy's early Black Friday deals end on Sunday, these are the 24 PS5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, and PC deals I wouldn't miss
- Red Dead Redemption 3 "probably will happen," says Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser, but he'd be "sad" about it: "It was a cohesive two-game arc"
- Solo Leveling season 3 has yet to be announced, but anime fans are hopeful following a cryptic tweet from one of its producers: "I know what the world is waiting for"
- Batman star Robert Pattinson finally confirms Dune 3 casting and reflects on filming the sequel in the desert: "It was so hot… I did not have a single functioning brain cell"
- Japanese content trade group whose membership includes Studio Ghibli calls for its work to stop being used to train AI without permission
- Nintendo Switch sales are almost neck and neck with the DS, just 10,000 units away from dethroning the beloved 2004 handheld as the company's best-selling console of all time
- Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle gets a surprise China release, meaning $1 billion at the box office is back on the table
- Do Battlefield 6 and Redsec have skill-based matchmaking?
- Stephen King reveals the IT: Welcome to Derry scene that "sticks in [his] mind" and it involves pickles
- Pluribus release schedule: when is episode 3 on Apple TV?
- Rockstar co-founder says the studio's PS3 exclusive spy game Agent was killed because, unlike GTA, spy games should be "very frenetic" - "I question if you can even make a good open world spy game"
- Soulja Boy is selling video game consoles again, and he's already being accused of ripping off an existing handheld: "He does not have permission to rebrand our products and sell them as his own"
- November 3
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- One Piece season 3 taps award-winning Broadway star to play fan favorite theatrical assassin Mister 2
- Playing Arc Raiders solo is shockingly chill for any PvP game, let alone an extraction shooter, players say: "They'll even take me there like I can't find the eggs in the supermarket"
- Arc Raiders gives players 500 free Raider Tokens to apologize for servers buckling under the weight of 350,000 Steam players alone over the weekend
- After 32 years, an NES horror JRPG thought to be lost media has suddenly leaked in fully playable form
- Avengers: Doomsday directors hint at a connection between Robert Downey Jr's Iron Man and Doctor Doom, and tease a bombshell Secret Wars twist
- Another MMO dead: ex-World of Warcraft and League of Legends lead's new studio "will close its doors" this month without releasing its flagship game Ghost
- Assassin's Creed is a "forever brand" because Ubisoft supported huge risks with it, ex director says: "Whereas, say, EA, you get these awful execs and they never made games and they came from toothpaste companies"
- Activision clears the air: no Call of Duty Black Ops 7 early access despite rumors
- Avengers: Doomsday star Simu Liu calls the Marvel movie a "love letter to the entire genre of superhero movies"
- RPG fans stay winning: 2025 has been a critical hit for the genre, though I'm anticipating a GOTY bloodbath
- Upgrading Hornet's weapon in Silksong always felt inconsistent, and now I know why: Team Cherry's special damage multipliers leave hits-to-kill all over the place
- Battlefield 6's new casual mode Breakthrough is stuffed with bots, leaving some players worried it's losing what "makes the franchise special" but others happy to have a less sweaty option
- How to watch the Predator movies in order (chronological and release date)
- OG Sims dev says it's "critical" the series embrace diversity during today's "reactionary cycle" echoing '00s censorship efforts: "We will always go through this"
- Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director says "this sort of feedback is a lot more useful during early access" as fans inexplicably ask Larian to "#showthegaleballs"
- "The greed on display is disgusting": Fortnite finally adds pets in the form of Sidekicks but finds a way to make everyone mad with "absurd" pricing
- I was one of the first to see Hades 2's true ending, and I don't know how I feel about Supergiant retconning the whole thing
- Star Wars Japan seems to say The Mandalorian and Grogu will be a story of "love and loss," and it's worrying fans
- My favorite new N64 controller just dropped to its lowest price, and it's not just for the upcoming Analogue 3D
- If you're an RGB fiend like me, then you need to check out this Corsair wireless headset deal
- Fortnite Hidden Gags locations and how to complete them all
- Frankenstein star Jacob Elordi had "complete liberty" in deciding how the Creature looked in Guillermo del Toro's new Netflix movie: "[It was] a lot of trial and error"
- From The Fantastic Four: First Steps to Pluribus, these are the best new shows and movies streaming this week on Netflix, Prime Video, Disney Plus, and more
- "If Gears 1 was Alien, the rest of the franchise was Aliens": Former Gears of War art director reckons the Xbox shooter franchise lost its horror edge over the years
- Where to find a Field Depot in Arc Raiders
- Fortnite Simpsons collab divides players with its cramped map, suggesting Small Map Syndrome is spreading through the air: "It feels like Reload, I want it to feel like Battle Royale"
- Cyberpunk series creator Mike Pondsmith says he's watching Cyberpunk 2 closely at CDPR, just like he did with 2077: "People have been showing me what they're doing"
- How to get Fireball Burners in Arc Raiders
- Hawkeye season 2 gets an update from star Jeremy Renner who says it would "continue that narrative" of season 1, but that it's "not really my decision to make"
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons' Switch 2 update trailer didn't bother to mention one of the biggest quality-of-life changes coming to the game, despite fans begging for it since launch
- New Lego sets in November 2025 surprised me, but not for the reason you might think
- How to request Supply Drops in Arc Raiders
- Battlefield 6 player goes to extreme lengths to prove the new maps are much smaller than in previous games, painstakingly scaling pixels to meters: "I've done nothing but work on this the entire weekend"
- Where to find hornets in Arc Raiders and take them down
- Just Cause 5 "would be a no-go" because of studio departures, Avalanche co-founder says, but he would've loved for Xbox's canceled Contraband see the light of day
- Palworld dev says "it's trendy to say 'eww UE slop'" but Arc Raiders "might be the new benchmark" for Unreal Engine games: "In awe of what they've achieved"
- The best skills to choose first in Arc Raiders
- The best Arc Raiders weapons and tier list
- Behold the world's first Godzilla RPG, revealed exclusively here
- Resident Evil royalty will host the Golden Joystick Awards 2025, with Ultimate Game of the Year voting now open
- I love that the Flaw system calls me out on my RPG behavior in The Outer Worlds 2's and then asks me to double-down on it: "Because flaws are optional, we knew we could actually push them a little bit harder"
- From Spirited Away to Cowboy Bebop, the internet is sharing the anime everyone needs to watch at least once, even if you're not an anime fan
- Best Buy's early Black Friday deals are legendary for Zelda fans
- Arc Raiders catches heat over expensive cosmetic bundles and lack of earnable premium currency: "Helldivers 2 should be the gold-standard for paid-game content"
- Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser couldn't kill GTA 4's Niko Bellic as fans needed to be able "to play forever," so he killed Red Dead Redemption's John Marston instead
- After 15 years, Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser reveals the meaning behind Red Dead Redemption's Strange Man: "He's a manifestation of your shadow, your karma, the devil"
- PlayStation bosses at Sony scrapping Days Gone studio's live service IP didn't come as a surprise to one dev: "We didn't make enough substantial progress over the 3 years I was there"
- "This is a Komplete FAILURE": Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection is off to a rough start with massive input lag and netcode issues ruining fighting game fans' experiences online
- KPop Demon Hunters stars are reuniting in a cutthroat new K-Pop thriller described as "Scream meets Black Swan"
- The Outer Worlds 2 takes the RP in RPG so seriously, some NPCs will call you out for walking around naked: "Should I be averting my eyes, or?"
- Marvel fans are discussing a wasted opportunity in What If...? with one specific character who is "completely underused in the MCU"
- New Scream 7 trailer seems to include another voice of a dead franchise character other than Matthew Lillard's Stu Macher
- Eat my shorts: The Simpsons is releasing four mini-episodes on Disney Plus to help explain its Fortnite crossover
- This year's October box office was the lowest in 28 years – and Halloween was the worst weekend of the year
- Best Sniper Rifles for Redsec and Battlefield 6
- Silent Hill 2 remake Born from a Wish DLC copium grows even stronger as Bloober Team writer acknowledges the expansion along with a potential Xbox release: "Born from a what?"
- Arc Raiders servers crash after hitting a peak of 337,000 concurrent players on Steam, and matchmaking may still take "longer than usual" while devs fix the extraction shooter
- Godzilla Minus One sequel is officially titled Godzilla Minus Zero, and a dramatic first teaser has already been released
- Dragon Quest creator and JRPG icon Yuji Horii becomes the first game designer to receive Order of the Rising sun award: "It's thanks to all the staff that helped create the games with me"
- Creating Red Dead Redemption 2 was "not that fun," Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser says, as it wasn't "coming together" and was "over budget so much I didn’t want to think about it"
- Despite Netflix still not confirming a sequel, KPop Demon Hunters star is ready to start making another movie: "I'm waiting for the call"
- Star Wars: Visions producer says the show isn't concerned about the franchise's established canon: "I don’t think we'd ever get things like The Duel if we tried to fit it into that"
- The Witcher showrunner aims to release the final season "a little bit sooner" than the two-and-a-half year gap between seasons 3 and 4
- November 2
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- It: Welcome to Derry shares an important similarity with some of the scariest horror movies ever made, and it's all thanks to Stephen King
- Arc Raiders' studio founder is an enemy health bar hater, saying they turn games into an "Excel sheet" and immersion is better than "answers served on a silver platter"
- Legendary programmer behind Super Nintendo emulator ZSNES had no idea how popular it had become until EA wanted to hire him: "Everyone here knows me"
- Dan Houser says Rockstar Games only attempted GTA London once in 26 years because the series is “so much about America” that “it wouldn’t really have worked in the same way elsewhere”
- Rockstar Games co-founder says GTA 6 is carrying so much hype “because they don’t come out that regularly” and the series has been “constantly innovating”
- Mod team's unhinged quest to port The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind into Elden Ring is "almost already at full parity" for NPCs: "Damn, this project has hands"
- RIG encourages you to customize this new $69.99 PS5 headset, and that makes me love it more
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director isn't weighing in on the OG JRPG's infamous Tifa vs Aerith shipping debate, but after 10 years of looking at Cloud, "I just want what makes him happy"
- The Witcher season 4 once again killed off characters who survived in the books, but their deaths weren't for shock value: "We always do it for a reason"
- "I don't know why, but it feels like fear has been my primary emotion ever since I was a kid": Lethal Company creator says horror games still feel like home as his 10-year project finally ends
- Iron Fist star Finn Jones' Instagram post teases he might be getting back into action
- The Running Man star Glen Powell isn't looking to be a comic book hero: "I don't feel, as a person, like a superhero"
- Edgar Wright explains why Shaun of the Dead 2 would never happen: "It's very difficult to start the next movie when there's no obvious arc"
- Keanu Reeves and Deadpool director plan to Shiver in a shark-infested time travel movie
- November 1
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- All Outer Worlds 2 gadgets explained including effects and locations
- I've seen every episode of The Witcher on Netflix and worked out who is the better Geralt – Henry Cavill or Liam Hemsworth
- Here's the Outer Worlds 2 Order Initiate Scavenger Hunt puzzle solution
- GDQ's first ever Games Done Queer event already raises over $11,000 thanks to Donkey Kong and hot dog-making speedruns, with Halo CE and Deltarune still to come
- How to cure Zyranium poisoning in Outer Worlds 2
- Keanu Reeves wants to find a way to play Cyberpunk 2077's Johnny Silverhand again, so series creator Mike Pondsmith quips "I have ways to do that, Keanu, contact me"
- All Outer Worlds 2 factions and how to join them
- "We proudly wear the friendslop badge": Peak studio unpacks one of the biggest trends on Steam and beyond after studying games like REPO to find out what makes them fun
- Saints Row devs had a debug NPC named Skinballs that helped the team light all skin tones correctly, but modders preferred to wear his literal skin as an outfit
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director "would love" to make a AA game with a similar scope to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 that's "really focused on one area"
- Woody Harrelson has some bad news for True Detective fans regarding his return to the groundbreaking TV show
- Lethal Company creator has thought about a sequel, but sees "a lot left to do" on the original: "As for Lethal Company 2, I have a vision for what that ought to be, and it surpasses my own ambition"
- Jean Grey actor says Marvel "never ever" asked her to return as her X-Men character after the Fox era
- Acolyte star Manny Jacinto says modern franchises are "missing the romance," and that's why he "loved the Qimir and Osha relationship" in his canceled Star Wars show
- The Witcher fans are "pleasantly surprised" by Liam Hemsworth taking over as Geralt from Henry Cavill in the Netflix show: "Honestly he is perfect"
