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- April 30
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- Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced lead says Ubisoft could "never replace the GOAT" with the remake: "You only hope to do it justice"
- Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet brings "a different side of Naughty Dog," lead actor says, which sounds great after 100 years of The Last of Us
- Supernatural fans agree that the long-awaited reunion was upstaged by all those surprise actor cameos in The Boys season 5 episode 5
- Deleted leak of next Tales remaster does Bandai Namco's job for it, unexpectedly bringing a 26-year-old JRPG back from the dead
- Brutal difficulty? Crushing bosses? Don't let them scare you off Saros, pleads PlayStation studios lead: "If this video game looks cool to you then IT IS FOR YOU"
- The new Resident Evil movie may be set "parallel" to Resident Evil 2, but Zach Cregger confirms the Nemesis won't feature
- "A single-player MMO is almost like cheating": Crimson Desert is "awesome," former Elder Scrolls Online director says, even if "I don't know what the hell I'm doing"
- King of TV recommendations Hideo Kojima reviews your next Netflix binge watch – and it's a horror show with a killer premise
- Weapons star has the night from hell in first trailer for Zach Cregger's Resident Evil movie
- Behold, the perfect game for isekai anime and manga fans, The Simpsons: Hit & Run believers, and anybody fantasizing about "being anywhere" but Earth right now
- Marvel star's desert epic with a 25% Rotten Tomatoes score on track to be one of the biggest box office flops ever
- Yoshi and the Mysterious Book pre-orders come with cracking bonus gifts, but only for UK fans
- After Slay the Spire 2 update led to negative Steam review spike, Mewgenics lead jokes releasing balance patches for popular games is "the scariest thing a human can experience"
- Xbox studio accidentally gave away the RPG that led to OG Fallout for free, so now it's giving everyone a way to play it legitimately
- The C64 and ZX Spectrum are back as 3DS-style handhelds
- Robert Kirkman has ranked all four seasons of Invincible, and you might be surprised by his #1
- New Xbox head Asha Sharma says "we know we have work to do" as quarterly hardware sales sink another 33%
- Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced lets you turn off the HUD as Ubisoft baked all the information you need into its animations, like enemies who lose their hats when their defense is broken
- Amazon announces Prime Day 2026 is coming sooner than you think
- Valve boss Gabe Newell set up Hideo Kojima with a SpaceX tour after Death Stranding showcase because "he was talking about how much he wants to go into space"
- Dbrand has launched a Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con holder that's "more comfortable than a Pro controller" but far cheaper
- James Gunn plans to rewatch The Suicide Squad and Blue Beetle to decide what is DCU canon
- Sony finally clarifies PlayStation DRM situation that set alarm bells ringing after users noticed new PS5 and PS4 digital games come with 30-day lockout timers
- Pokemon card resellers get their comeuppance with a cunning yet simple trick
- Eric Kripke says Gen V fans won't stop messaging him about the cancelation: "I was fighting to keep the show"
- Atomfall TV show announced which will "expand" the game's mythology
- The Steam Controller is all the rage, but I've been distracted by a modern Dreamcast controller that's more like Valve's original pad
- Ubisoft further distances Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced from Shadows and Valhalla's RPG combat as it confirms no levels and no gear stats
- 15 years later, Thor's original director has an idea for Chris Hemsworth's final Marvel movie that sounds way better than all the sequels
- April 29
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- Neverness to Everness gives out S-class character selector after devs get "an incredible amount of feedback and suggestions" from launch players
- Diablo 4 streamer pulverizes new Lord of Hatred expansion's difficulty tier in 17 hours, complains about lack of "aspirational content"
- Final Fantasy 14 players mourn the cute otter backpacks they were briefly given in error, but Square Enix hopes they'll grab it again "when it is released through the intended method"
- Meet the Assassin's Creed dev who left Ubisoft to make the weirdest city-builder you need to play, which is quietly funding his whole career
- Peter Parker has "no more Stark money or gadgets" in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, but he does have a "3D printer on steroids"
- Elder Scrolls Online director still secretly plays the MMO, even after he left the studio when Microsoft killed his dream game: "I'm in guilds, and they don't know who I am"
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day gives Peter Parker a new Spidey suit inspired by Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield
- "Whatever, Michael Crichton": One of EA's best games only exists in part because the Jurassic Park creator told ex-Doom dev American McGee to make it
- "Live service is tricky as hell": Helldivers 2 boss says updates are "not an exact science" because the "community changes" constantly
- DC Studios co-CEO disagrees superhero fatigue was ever a thing, instead calls it "mediocre movie fatigue"
- I'm not seeing any Crimson Desert-branded controllers yet, but two years later, GameSir has randomly launched a special edition of its best gamepad dedicated to a completely different fantasy RPG with less than 3,000 concurrent players
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 boss sympathizes with "struggle for survival" of GTA-inspired crime game from Just Cause lead, says it "could easily have happened" to Warhorse's RPG
- Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced art changes raise concerns as fans question why a cutscene following a massive storm is now "bright and sunny for no reason"
- One of the year's most controversial films, with a 58% critic's score on Rotten Tomatoes, is streaming on HBO Max from this weekend
- Sony's "lack of marketing push" on Marathon "speaks to the lack of faith from the platform holder," says former Square Enix exec
- Amazon has seemingly included a huge spoiler for The Boys season 5 on its homepage
- Arc Raiders players complain Riven Tides update took a hammer to weapon durability and their beloved anti-Arc cloak, giving me Helldivers 2 flashbacks
- Resident Evil Requiem devs cut an entire chapter from the game like they did with Resident Evil 7
- As Garry's Mod successor quickly becomes overrun with gen-AI after launching on Steam, Garry himself commits to "taking action to promote human creativity"
- Daredevil: Born Again season 2 Avengers Tower Easter egg might be a Fantastic Four reference
- Diablo 4 hotfixes squash bugs blocking Lord of Hatred quest progression and stop Necromancers from using broken skills to tear through Sanctuary
- Logitech jumps on the TMR keyboard trend, but does so in the smartest way I've seen yet
- Stranger Things: Tales From '85 showrunner compares it to Star Wars: Clone Wars, as he teases season 2: "These [are] their own unique adventures"
- The Boys season 5 just made a perfect dig at Spider-Man and the MCU in its latest episode
- Take-Two CEO eases GTA 6 delay fears, says "a lot of people will be calling in sick on November 19"
- The Boys season 5 episode 5 is a Supernatural reunion, but who are the new Supes played by Jared Padalecki and Misha Collins?
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day is about "relearning how to connect with people," and now I'm worried about Peter Parker
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director has "no intention" of altering the OG JRPG writer's "overarching story," but small adjustments are needed for your "emotional engagement"
- EA CEO says 85% of the Battlefield 6 and The Sims publisher's QA work uses AI, but it's not taking jobs, it's making them: "We hire more QA people than we ever have"
- New 12GB RTX 5070 gaming laptops should start shipping this summer, fortifying mid-range QHD performance
- Lego HERBIE is here with coffee and general bemusement that speaks to my soul
- Ryan Reynolds says Deadpool "works best on scarcity and surprise," so he's not planning on playing the Marvel character again any time soon
- The GTA 6 price remains in the air, but Take-Two's CEO assures "our job is to charge way way way less of the value" as fans worry about a $100 fee
- Daredevil: Born Again star says his character death almost didn't happen
- Five episodes in, The Boys season 5 finally delivers another major death, but fans are questioning if the Supe could survive
- As the wait for GTA 6 trailer 3 approaches 1 year, Take-Two boss reassures that Rockstar will spin up marketing "soon"
- April 28
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- Fallout co-creator hopes to "make one more game" before his second retirement from RPG development
- Indie dev discovers nuclear fusion of Steam marketing, flies up wishlist charts thanks to bashful anime girl with freckles who parries machine giants with a chainsaw
- Netflix renews Stranger Things animated spin-off Tales From '85 for season 2
- Diablo 4 needs "aspirational content" to challenge players, director agrees, but don't discredit more casual gameplay like fishing
- The Witcher 3 director says Crimson Desert clearly isn't "story heavy," but it "can achieve totally different emotions" by focusing on exploration and "RPG things"
- Bungie makes Marathon's Cryo Archive map less brutal, blocking spawn rush strats and giving out one free sponsored kit every weekend
- A new Nintendo animated movie is seemingly releasing in 2028, and signs are pointing to the rumored Donkey Kong spin-off
- Valve chief Gabe Newell saw today's consoles coming a long time ago: "All the consoles are using PC graphics hardware now"
- Slay the Spire 2 devs wanted to keep updating the original instead of making a sequel, but then their publisher shut down: "I guess we were a little naive"
- Windrose players are getting destroyed by alpha wolves, so like all survival game experts, they've come up with a plan: "Walking on the ground is for suckers"
- With The Blood of Dawnwalker release date locked in for September, the countdown is officially on for the new vampire RPG from The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 veterans
- PlayStation triggers game preservation alarm bells as users find new PS5 and PS4 digital purchases have a 30-day lockout timer: "This can screw customers now AND in the future"
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 actor was "nervous" to see its Metacritic score after appearing in notorious The Lord of the Rings: Gollum and witnessing "the occasional zero"
- A24's Texas Chainsaw Massacre will focus on the "uncomfortability of the family," says director: "There's some messed up stuff happening at that farm"
- Steam hit Windrose won't get a major update for "at least 6 months" as devs focus on fixing the problems their open-world pirate survival game already has
- Doctor Doom actor Robert Downey Jr. says he did "dream work" with Fantastic Four star Vanessa Kirby to help get into character for Avengers: Doomsday
- 28 years later, Resident Evil 2 director Hideki Kamiya casually confirms that fans were right about where Leon Kennedy's name comes from
- Turns out the OG Xbox has a hidden USB port, and it will help add wireless controllers, Wi-Fi, and more to the retro console
- Mortal Kombat 2 star Karl Urban really did one of Johnny Cage's iconic moves, but it was "the most difficult physical challenge" of his career
- Former PlayStation boss says "we did not want to make fun of Xbox" in PS4 game-sharing video that quite obviously seemed to make fun of Xbox
- It turns out the MCU is actually pretty terrifying, as Marvel fans share their favorite scary moments
- A Warhammer-style XCOM miniatures game is on the way from developer of Fallout Factions
- Starfield devs faced "a lot of pressure" to use Unreal Engine 5, former Bethesda artist says, but the Creation Engine won because of its modding capability
- Yoshi-P hoped we wouldn't notice, but Final Fantasy 14 Evercold is indeed inspired by Norse mythology
- First Ted Lasso season 4 trailer sees Ted take on his biggest challenge yet and reveals release date
- As Diablo 4 Lord of Hatred gets off to a poor start with login issues, queues, and bugs, Blizzard promises to get the fixes out as fans lose patience
- Mike Myers is as confused as we are that he's never done a horror movie before: "My name is Michael Myers"
- Despite Crimson Desert's popularity, almost 80% of Steam players haven't made it halfway through the story yet, proving how massive Pearl Abyss's open world is
- The Boys fans thinks season 5 is being "too scared" so far when it comes to killing off major characters: "Someone needs to die this week"
- I'm gassed that Valve is "hard at work" on Steam Deck 2, but let's get the Steam Machine out of the way first
- Soldier Boy never being an actual soldier may be a focal point in upcoming spin-off Vought Rising, as The Boys fans spot clues hidden in the show's first look
- House of the Dragon season 3 trailer cleverly sets-up a major tragedy to come from George R.R. Martin's book
- Wolverine star Hugh Jackman breaks his Rotten Tomatoes record… with a talking sheep movie
- Star Wars fans double down on call to bring back canceled show after it briefly returns to Disney Plus' top 10
- Arc Raiders guns will finally repair when upgraded, but Embark counters by making them break way faster as it encourages PvP and ensures "all players are challenged by weapon attrition"
- 14 years ago, Valve boss Gabe Newell thought Steam would be replaced by something else in "2 or 3 years" because things always "change dramatically"
- "Memory costs will impact pricing, and will impact availability" of Xbox's Project Helix console, Asha Sharma warns
- Final Fantasy 14 Evercold promises to scrap the MMO's 2-minute meta and change its jobs for the better, and we're all thanking the Twelve: "Nobody will miss it"
- House of the Dragon season 3 trailer gives a Rhaenyra line to Aegon, and fans of the Game of Thrones spin-off aren't pleased: "Never order Rhaenyra from Temu"
- Move over, Mark Ruffalo: Andy Serkis may have just revealed a secret Avengers: Doomsday cast member
- Resident Evil Requiem director teases more "rampaging" in the game's upcoming mini game DLC, and it sure sounds like we're getting Mercenaries
- James Gunn seemingly answers a Clayface mystery about if we've seen him in the DCU before
- The Commodore 64 Ultimate is getting a C64C sibling with an Amiga-style case that uses the original mold
- Spider-Noir's release just got even more confusing, as all episodes will now stream on MGM+ 2 days ahead of the Prime debut
- Positive Mortal Kombat 2 first reactions say it's pure fan service but a "gory good time"
- April 27
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- We finally know what happened to the original Star Fox puppets – the Godzilla Minus One studio destroyed them
- Yoshi-P teases new Final Fantasy 14 Evercold jobs, says fans have already guessed the weapon for one
- Marathon boss says extraction shooters are like The Lord of the Rings and that's why they need PvP
- Letterboxd might be up for sale, because we can't have nice things
- Nier master Yoko Taro became a director because he wouldn't stop yapping: "It wasn't that I had some great ambition"
- New The Boys season 5 episode 5 trailer teases the Supernatural reunion we’ve all been waiting for
- Steam Deck 2 still in the works, Valve says, but Steam Machine and Steam Controller come first: "A lot of what we're doing here will be learnings that build up to it"
- Valve says it can sell the Steam Controller while the Steam Machine is in AI limbo because "this doesn't have RAM in it"
- Valve's new Steam Controller launches May 4 at $99, and it will be a zoo without pre-orders
- After 20 years, ZSNES is back as original devs return to give a 3D, widescreen treatment to Nintendo's best 16-bit games
- An under-the-radar horror show that's set to end after 5 seasons has just been rated as one of the best shows of the decade on Rotten Tomatoes
- Alien Isolation 2 uses Unreal Engine 5 instead of Creative Assembly's custom engine, and fans are starting to worry: "This completely ruins any enthusiasm I have for the game"
- Todd Howard seemed "a bit of a fanboy" for Naughty Dog's Neil Druckmann, former Last of Us and Starfield artist says
- The Last of Us Online was "the best multiplayer game" many Naughty Dog devs had "ever played," ex game director says
- Assassin's Creed 1 remake could be next after Black Flag Resynced, leaker says
- Helldivers 2 lead promises "meaningful changes" after "painful to read" criticism of Arrowhead and the state of the game fills uncensored Reddit AMA
- Zombie board game series is dredged back up after its publisher sank, now with a pirate theme
- The 6 best new shows and movies streaming this week on Netflix, HBO Max, Hulu, and more (April 27–May 3)
- Arc Raiders gets biggest update in months with Riven Tides: Embark reveals new beach map and a massive flying bot called the Arc Turbine
- OLED monitor prices still upset me, but the fact there's a QHD panel for under $400 signals change
- Slay the Spire 2 "may not be perfectly balanced yet," Half-Life writer and Valve veteran Erik Wolpaw says, but with 1,500 hours in the first game he has no doubt Mega Crit will pull it off
- Hulk is pissed in the first Spider-Man: Brand New Day action figures from Marvel Legends
- Severance star Adam Scott already knows how the Apple TV show ends and teases "so many surprises" still to come in season 3
- Turtle Beach's new mouse is giving me the ick, and it's not just the obnoxious touchscreen
- Seth MacFarlane wants Ted season 3 or a live-action movie, but says it's up to Peacock "with their vast amounts of big Scrooge McDuck money"
- Intel namedrops Arc G3 while hinting at a longer Panther Lake handheld PC shelf life
- Splatoon Raiders pre-orders have landed, and the discounts are already making a splash
- House of the Dragon season 3 trailer is a moody warning that doom and ruin is coming for our favorite Targaryens
- Despite months of radio silence, James Gunn says that Booster Gold and the Wonder Woman-adjacent show compared to Game of Thrones are still happening at DC
- Doctor Who star Peter Capaldi says the sci-fi show has become "a bit too big" and he doesn't know "why people take it so seriously"
- PSA: A lot of retailers want to sell you gaming laptops that just won't work right now
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 actor Ben Starr says live-action Street Fighter or God of War adaptations aren't necessary, since "I don't think video games need to justify their existence by being TV shows"
- A new Minecraft mob might have leaked thanks to a holiday decoration, and I already love it based on its name alone
- Henry Cavill and Stranger Things' Millie Bobby Brown feature in fiery new look at Enola Holmes 3
- A leaked Steam Controller review claims Valve will charge you $99 for it, which is both too expensive and good value for money, depending on who you ask
- Call of Duty movie director once said people who play war video games are "weak" and "pathetic"
- 007: First Light actor says Amazon "would be mad not to consider" the video game's James Bond star for the upcoming live-action reboot
- Pennywise is one step closer to returning, as Andy Muschietti confirms "we're now working" on IT: Welcome to Derry season 2
- Assassin's Creed: Black Flag lead writer "wrote 2 new scenes" for Resynced, and "one of them is now a top 5 favorite" for him
- The Splatoon Raiders amiibo trio is up for grabs, but collecting all three will cost you more than the actual game
- I've been waiting years for this new Star Wars Force FX lightsaber based on Darth Maul
- Crimson Desert is still reaching impressive player numbers on Steam over a month after launch, despite being a single-player game
- After 11 years, first Alien Isolation sequel teaser trailer warns us not to let our guard down, and fans are more than ready: "Back into the nightmare"
- The Boys fans think they know what "the worst thing" Homelander does in season 5, as teased by Antony Starr – and it involves The Deep
- New Spider-Noir trailer gives first look at Man-Spider and impressive taste of Nic Cage in action
- The Last of Us Part 2's major death "was controversial internally too," says former Naughty Dog dev: "The studio was pretty split"
- Superman star David Corenswet gave Supergirl's Milly Alcock advice on "everything", including how to fly
- Valve could sell the Steam Machine at a loss, and that would be a win for everyone
- Call of Duty watch your flank – a Battlefield movie has been announced and Michael B. Jordan may star
- Far Cry showrunner believes "games are built in a way that doesn't make for the best drama," so he's not adapting a specific game
- Gen V star speaks out on surprise cancelation: "There's so much I wanna (and will) say"
- The Maul – Shadow Lord team break down the episode 8 visions sequence that brought Sam Witwer to "tears"
- April 26
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- Nintendo had the Zelda timeline planned out in an "enormous document" as far back as 2003, but Shigeru Miyamoto said it's actually "not that important to us"
- Metal Gear Solid Snake actor David Hayter didn't understand all of Hideo Kojima's story while recording, but says he didn't need to: "That's what makes Metal Gear, Metal Gear"
- The Legend of Zelda and World of Warcraft shaped Fable 2's no-death system, but Peter Molyneux had to fight for it
- "Butt slider?": Final Fantasy 14's Yoshi-P promises to pester devs about the highly-requested feature, but warns fans of the dangers of a big booty
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a "great example" of a subscription service like Xbox Game Pass likely helping sales, analyst says
- Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced's parkour "builds on the latest design improvements from recent Assassin's Creed games," says Ubisoft
- After 13 years, Final Fantasy 14 is finally letting healers be healers by removing cast times for attack spells and changing GCD heals: "We want healing to be a healer's main priority"
- April 25
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- When Grand Theft Auto started to blow up, Shigeru Miyamoto figured it was Nintendo's "duty to produce alternatives to GTA"
- Final Fantasy 14's Yoshi-P has considered a single-player version of the MMO because some fans think "an online Final Fantasy is not a Final Fantasy"
- Final Fantasy 14 boss Yoshi-P "can't really imagine" the MMO coming to an end, hopes in 10 years time there's a conclusion that rivals Endwalker
- Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced doesn't bother with the original's DLC or multiplayer because Ubisoft is focusing on a "pure, story-driven adventure"
- Assassin's Creed Hexe game director leaves Ubisoft just two months after the game's creative director also quit
- Final Fantasy 14's battle system planner got his start at Square Enix when he interviewed producer Yoshi-P as a journalist and "used the opportunity to ask him for a job"
- April 24
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- Yoshi-P won't tell Final Fantasy 14 players what the new tank and ranged physical DPS jobs are, but he will dare you to look at his T-shirt for clues
- Diablo 4 Lord of Hatred is so big that Blizzard decided the new season doesn't need its own theme, but it will include "major system upgrades"
- Slay the Spire 2 devs say the Doormaker boss that sparked so many negative Steam reviews is actually "slightly weaker than the other Act 3 bosses"
- The Boys spin-off Gen V is cancelled after two seasons as prequel Vought Rising gets release date
- Scooby-Doo: Origins gets first look from Netflix as filming begins and the kids are alright
- Final Fantasy 14 Evercold promises to respect your "limited free time" as Yoshi-P teases the death of tomestones and daily roulettes, alongside shared item levels across every job
- Final Fantasy 14 Switch 2 officially confirmed for August after free 1-month trial to show us how the MMO runs on Nintendo's new handheld
- Final Fantasy 14 is getting an Evangelion raid series, and shamelessly I'm even more excited for it than anything else in the MMO's Evercold expansion
- Final Fantasy 14 Evercold is the MMO's next big expansion, and it's coming early next year
- I'm losing track of Crimson Desert patches at this point: rapid-fire hotfix targets broken difficulty settings and horse gear as players say "Pearl Abyss, rest is allowed"
- Halo lead mocks rumors that the studio is chasing Arc Raiders and Marathon with a PvE extraction shooter spin-off
- EA asked former Doom dev American McGee to make his next game "'more sexy,'" so he pasted "dildos onto the head of a giant snail" and "they stopped making those requests"
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs "won't be announcing any new major DLC or expansions" amid 1-year anniversary, but did announce lowest-ever Steam price for their RPG
- Resident Evil Requiem was already the fastest-selling game in the series, so for 7 million copies sold in under 2 months, Capcom had to break out the cake
- 1.5 million Steam wishlists later, Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era publisher says the strategy series "defined our childhoods"
- Nacon's new headset looks pretty value-packed, but you'll need to buy extra dongles to get its best feature
- 7 years later, Star Wars fans are still mourning one huge missed opportunity with Rey in the sequels
- World of Warcraft "will continue to decline" unless the MMO gets a "reset," says former Blizzard boss
- Larian keeps a framed reminder of Baldur's Gate 3 breaking Steam in its office, hopes Divinity will "absolutely demolish" Valve's storefront
- New Slay the Spire 2 patch makes some terrible cards and relics actually good, Mega Crit agrees the game "is quite hard" and wants lower Ascensions to be "more accessible"
- Invincible changed the gender of Tech Jacket because Robert Kirkman wanted to fix a major comic book "shortcoming"
- Metal Gear Solid's Snake actor didn't want to sound like the character Hideo Kojima took so much inspiration from it reportedly nearly got him sued
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 sells another 3 million copies during its undisputed GOTY sweep as total sales top 8 million
- Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced pre-orders are now live, and the Collector's Edition even includes sea shanty sheet music
- Overwatch Season 2's first balance patch targets Roadhog and Sombra yet again to players' dismay: "Just change after change every 2 minutes"
- Get your first look at some of the cutest Pokemon cards I've ever seen in this exclusive reveal
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's Gustave actor Charlie Cox thinks the money people would prefer Glen Powell play his role in the film, but he'd take "a smaller role" instead
- Palworld lead finally completes Crimson Desert after 189 hours, says only The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind comes close to making him feel the same "sense of wonder and adventure"
- Despite being canceled 2 years ago, Star Wars show The Acolyte has surprisingly entered the Disney Plus top 10 again
- Saros Metacritic score makes it one of the best games of the year, putting the cosmic roguelike right behind Resident Evil Requiem and Pokemon Pokopia
- Resident Evil Requiem's Leon actor may have been "let down" by past Resident Evil movies, but he's fully behind director Zach Cregger for his 2026 movie
- Hideo Kojima and Dark Souls creator Hidetaka Miyazaki's games have something other AAA titles don't, former PlayStation boss says: "You can tell it's their visions"
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 gets a surprise update for the RPG's first anniversary and, my god, Monoco has braids now: "This expedition WILL be strutting around"
- "We will do better" – Blizzard apologizes for the World of Warcraft bugs after the MMO's latest patch leaves fans annoyed and concerned for the future
- Game of Thrones fans have "long term-expectations" and "don't really want to wait a couple years for every installment," Warner Bros. exec says
- Over 7 months after it hit theatres, Chainsaw Man Reze Arc finally sets a streaming release date
- Daredevil: Born Again season 3 set photos reveal bold new look for Kingpin
- Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced will have enough blood to quench a pirate come July, Ubisoft producer promises after its trailer was oddly clean
- Jacksepticeye isn't planning on asking fellow YouTuber Markiplier for tips on the Bloodborne movie after Iron Lung success: "I have to figure it out on my own"
- With Diablo 4's Lord of Hatred DLC, Blizzard "intentionally" added at least one "basically useless" item just for the new Horadric Cube
- April 23
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- After laying off 15,000 employees in a year, Microsoft will now reportedly pay yet more employees to quit voluntarily in historic first
- Xbox will "reevaluate" its approach to exclusive games and AI, new CEO and CCO say "our new north star will be daily active players"
- Quake 2 dev felt "breathless" when he saw how Valve was using id Software's engine, and it led to one of my favorite games of the '00s: "26 years later and I can still say 'Wow'"
- Cashing in 10 years of irony, Ubisoft taps Skull & Bones studio to lead Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced development
- Garry's Mod follow-up S&box will launch on Steam with "sustainable" payout for people using it to make games, as devs say with a wink: "We don't have to fire 1000 people to keep it working"
- Microsoft goes back to Xbox and ditches Microsoft Gaming as new leaders admit "players are frustrated" with the console and pricing: "We have to be honest about where we are"
- A new Studio Ghibli short is releasing in July, but there's a major catch if you want to see it
- Bloodborne movie producer Jacksepticeye wants to "celebrate a win" for the beloved action RPG after Demon's Souls remake studio Bluepoint shutdown killed hopes for a remaster
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, HBO Max, Disney Plus, and more (April 24-April 26)
- "Those folks came to Bethesda and said, 'We're gonna have a fun lawsuit'": Fallout New Vegas devs "got in trouble" after forgetting about trademarks for some material, says Obsidian veteran
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 star fan-casts himself as Aragorn in rumored Lord of the Rings game, would "nudge it away" from being anything like RPG hero Henry
- Hope you saved room after Slay the Spire 2, because the Vampire Survivors deckbuilder is already Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam after 4,000 reviews
- Fans make their own Crimson Desert patch notes after Pearl Abyss forgets to mention improvements to teleporting, enemy drops, focus recharge, and a lot more
- Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced releases in July and has been "rebuilt from the ground up" with a reworked combat system, new quests and storylines, and more
- Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced "remains a solo adventure and character-driven experience," says Ubisoft lead: "It is not an RPG"
- Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced Collector's Edition comes full circle with an Edward Kenway statue that helped leak the game months ago
- After 6 games in 15 years, dev loses it as over 10,000 Steam players flock to his new co-op game that looks like It Takes Two on the moon
- Nintendo kept finished games in a "vault" while it waited for a "gap in the calendar" to release them, says former marketing lead
- Clayface may be more important to the DCU than we realized as James Gunn confirms it's set before Superman and "very connected" to the wider universe
- World of Warcraft's new Prop Hunt mode descends into chaos as Blizzard forgets to stop players from finding each other using their minimaps, immediately defeating the whole point
- GTA 6 sickos in a frenzy as Rockstar owner Take-Two finally announces delayed financial call, fueling speculation a big reveal will fill the gap
- Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced star says "this ship has had more leaks than a worn-out hull" ahead of Ubisoft reveal showcase, but he was part of the problem
- Project Hail Mary author reveals the one cut book scene he wished they'd squeezed into the movie
- First ever Lego Shrek sets revealed, and just like ogre, they have layers
- Jacksepticeye says his Bloodborne movie producer role is not about making money, but ensuring the "tone, vibe, and atmosphere" of FromSoftware's classic remains intact
- Crimson Desert's latest patch steals your dragons, but Pearl Abyss is working to fix it "as quickly as possible"
- Mewgenics co-creator says "it's crazy" there are secrets that people still haven't found even after playing the roguelike for months
- As Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 further proves Jennifer English is a GOTY magician, one of her co-stars is "happy to follow" her to whatever she does next
- Hasbro's first Marvel Rivals action figures are now up for pre-order, including that awesome Punisher
- New Yoshi game on Switch 2 follows Tomodachi Life down a dark path, gives fans the sort of creative control Nintendo will probably regret
- Steam blocked this Factorio homage's early access release 5 times, so its developer threw caution to the wind with a full release instead - and now he's sold 2 million copies
- Mortal Kombat 2 set to make a killing at the box office with double the opening weekend of the first movie
- Leaked copies of The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender are being so widely viewed that it's currently in Letterboxd's popular this week list
- Baby Yoda gets eaten in new Mandalorian and Grogu TV spot
- The Boys fans are not happy with season 5's latest 'filler' episode
- Releasing PlayStation games day one on PC isn't "a good strategy" for its AAA titles, former Sony head says, but he hasn't seen proof its abandoning the platform altogether
- Fantastic combo! Street Fighter cast tease movie's Easter eggs, as they say there's "like, a hundred" for game fans to spot
- PS6 release date rumors are spiralling, but it looks like things could kick off in 2028
- Iron Man director admits he was "wrong" about not wanting Tony Stark to die in Avengers: Endgame: "They did a wonderful job"
- Mass Effect 5 hasn't been shown off more because BioWare is simply "just busy workin'" on the eagerly anticipated RPG, lead says: "Not a lot of time for tease"
- Vampire Survivors developer working on 15 projects, not 15 games, after the hit roguelike reached 27 million players and spawned a whole subgenre
- Stranger Things: Tales From '85 boss says "more adventures" are on the cards, as he teases What If?-style future for the animated spin-off
- Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day finally shows the alien in new teaser, but it's more A.I. than E.T.
- Jon Favreau says Martin Scorsese did a "lot of improv" on Star Wars movie The Mandalorian and Grogu: "It's a highlight"
- The creator of Alone in the Dark is remaking a DOS game for Sega Genesis with its own paddle controllers, but it has less than a week to become a reality
- Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced price leaks ahead of official reveal, and if you were hoping this 2013 title's remake would be cheaper, I've got some bad news
- The new Clayface trailer might have retconned Creature Commandos, and DC fans are very confused – but there's a simple explanation
- Seagate has unveiled the FireCuda X Vault, a huge external hard drive with up to 20TB of storage
- Clayface trailer doesn't address Batman, but there are enough Gotham nods to suggest the Caped Crusader will show up
- Jessica Jones almost appeared in Daredevil: Born Again season 1, according to Krysten Ritter
- Crimson Desert's "largest update yet" brings countless changes, but it all pales in comparison to cats now being able to stay on your shoulder for longer
- New Jessica Jones Marvel action figure is so accurate it's giving me the creeps
- DC's new Clayface trailer features a really "unsettling" detail you almost definitely missed
- April 22
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- Hades 2 lead doesn't think about the roguelike's legacy much because he just wants "to make things that don't get forgotten right away"
- Baldur's Gate 3 lead Swen Vincke "is an unstoppable machine" who "will have engines re-written to make sure that the quality is there," says Fallout: New Vegas dev
- Capcom repeats its Resident Evil Requiem mistake, leaves another fake URL in Pragmata that now points to an absurd Wesker fansite
- Escape from Tarkov boss says Arc Raiders is "an extraction shooter for casual people," but he wants "the most painful" experience possible
- Celebrate Delta Force's first anniversary with a major update and an iconic Tomb Raider collaboration
- Crimson Desert players keep losing boss fights to a haunted book that forces you to read it over and over again: "I'm gonna blow my top"
- The most expensive open-world game that isn't GTA 6 will finally reveal its last confirmed region as Genshin Impact teases "Snezhnaya and the future" after 6 years
- Chilling Clayface trailer teases the DCU's first full-blown horror movie
- Fallout co-creator says too many gamers "like hating things," which "doesn't lead to a better game" for devs: "I just tapped out, and that's sad"
- Bethesda showed the Fallout: New Vegas team a "powerpoint about all the things Obsidian did wrong," dev says: "Hugely morale-boosting"
- Slay the Spire 2 almost had fewer new cards because of the co-creator's love for Dark Souls, but testers "were not jiving with that at all"
- Valve designer says "you should make a good game" if you want attention on Steam, there's no "secret thing you have to know"
- Slay the Spire 2 plummets to 66% positive lifetime Steam reviews as players seethe after first major update: "Preventing players from deckbuilding in a deckbuilder"
- Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto wants to keep The Super Mario Galaxy Movie's Princess Peach backstory changes canon in Nintendo's future games
- Ubisoft responds to "unfortunate" Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced leaks, says they're from "an old internal version of the game"
- After just 2 months, Resident Evil Requiem is already one of the top 5 best-selling games in US series history
- The Last of Us star Troy Baker says "we've not seen the last of Joel," teases more could come from Naughty Dog "or somebody else"
- Hideo Kojima said Half-Life had a "kind of soul" which Japanese games lacked, and Metal Gear Solid 2 was directly inspired by Valve's classic FPS
- Former director of famously successful Google Stadia says the whole games industry is "in trouble," but don't worry, AI will help by letting small teams "actually compete" with AAA
- Surrounded by layoffs, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Lune actor hopes the next game from Sandfall sticks to what made its debut RPG a hit: "Value the amazing people who made this"
- The Boys season 5 episode 4 sparks a theory fans are saying would be "the craziest twist of the series" so far
- The Elden Ring movie's reported budget of $100 million makes it A24's most expensive film ever
- Miyamoto felt negative Super Mario Movie reviews were "understandable" but doesn't agree with the Galaxy sequel backlash
- Wile E. Coyote goes to court in long-awaited first trailer for the movie shelved by Warner Bros. for a $30 million tax write-off
- Halo TV series producer and Xbox veteran Kiki Wolfkill announces departure from Microsoft after 28 years: "I couldn't be more inspired to climb the next mountain"
- "We knew refining it wouldn't be easy" - Maingear has redesigned its flagship gaming PC from the ground up, and it's now available with AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 processor
- Final Fantasy 7 icon Tifa is rumored to join the Street Fighter 6 roster, stealing Tekken fans' most-requested guest fighter away from the already miserable fanbase
- Palworld lead defends launch rival Enshrouded, says Pocketpair didn't eat the survival game's lunch and was fortunate to stand out in a "stacked" time for the genre
- Assassin's Creed Origins actor Abubakar Salim can't recommend The Last of Us star Troy Baker follow in his footsteps and open a game studio: "It's a ruthless space"
- Fox thought the first X-Men movie was a "disaster" and didn't think turning a Marvel comic into a movie would work
- The Boys season 5 just demolished The Last of Us franchise with one sentence
- Daredevil: Born Again showrunner is fooling no one with his excuses about why the Luke Cage and Iron Fist actors were on set: "They came by to say hi"
- Hideo Kojima sparks Xbox Project Helix speculation as he meets execs to pose with a mysterious box – but the reality probably isn't that exciting
- King of Marvel spoilers Mark Ruffalo is at it again, letting slip that Spider-Man will be "fighting an alien in the future"
- Pragmata "feels like a spiritual successor to the Xbox 360 and PS3 era of third-person action games," analyst says, and its "staggering" 1 million sales in 2 days come as no surprise
- First clip from The Mandalorian and Grogu released, and it shows Grogu being a menace
- Avengers: Doomsday composer spoils an upcoming location, then deletes it faster than you can say 'Latveria'
- Who is Bombsight in The Boys season 5 and why has he taken the V-One?
- The Boys season 5 just debunked a major Black Noir theory, and I'm relieved
- Can't wait for more Invincible? Here's where to pick up in the comics after season 4
- Fallout: New Vegas 2 was real at one point before Obsidian's plans "quickly evaporated," says senior designer, but a revival "will not happen in the next six years at least, if ever"
- April 21
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- The pirate game renaissance continues as Manor Lords publisher announces new nautical city builder "that challenges you to think tall"
- Koei Tecmo expects record-breaking financial year more thanks to its massive tech investments than the launch of Pokemon Pokopia and Nioh 3
- Elden Ring movie set photos suggest the Loathsome Dung Eater and Raya Lucaria will appear in the A24 adaptation
- Silo season 3 trailer teases the beginning of the end for one of Apple's best sci-fi shows
- Arc Raiders players all sigh with relief as Embark extends new Expedition challenge window from 5 days to 13, and confirms it's "approximately equivalent to destroying 20 Bastions"
- Fallout 5 rumored setting New Orleans was originally discussed at New Vegas studio Obsidian, and veteran dev still believes "there's a lot of potential there"
- Pragmata director and former Nier: Automata weapon artist Cho Yonghee gets a shoutout from Yoko Taro as the new IP holds its own among a golden Capcom lineup
- Diablo 4 will get updates until the day it dies because players keep finding new problems "over the course of 10,000 hours," says Blizzard
- Former GTA lead Dan Houser's new "AAA story-driven open world video game" and animated series unveils its first cast-members, featuring stars of 30 Rock and Billions
- Marathon's secretly been telling you to "kill for mommy," community lead salutes the first thirsty players to discover the hidden message
- Former Microsoft exec and Blizzard boss completes Death Stranding 2, praises Hideo Kojima's sequel as one "hell of an experience" – even if the first game's story was better
- Windrose players thank the devs for avoiding item durability, a divisive survival game feature: "Possibly the most un-fun mechanic in any video game"
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance devs are donating $1 of every copy sold on Steam this week to the real-life Pirkštejn Castle, preserving the actual history behind Henry's home
- The price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is falling, and all it cost was day one access to new Call of Duty games
- The 6 best new shows and movies streaming this week on Netflix, HBO Max, Disney Plus, and more (April 21–April 26)
- Your next Xbox could come in Asus and MSI flavors, but Microsoft has confirmed an in-house Project Helix
- New Devil May Cry season 2 trailer teases a brother vs. brother showdown as Dante takes on Vergil
- Final Fantasy 14 "can't afford another failed expansion," fans say, as unofficial census reports significant player drop ahead of the MMO's big 8.0 reveal
- Crimson Desert's Kliff mocap actor thinks your sexy mods are "hilarious," gives modders his blessing to go wild "as long as no one is actually being hurt"
- Embark tells Arc Raiders players to expect "significant changes" to the skill tree, admitting many skills kind of suck: "I don't think by any means we nailed it"
- Badass Ultimate Wolverine gets an equally badass Marvel Legends action figure, and you can pre-order it now
- Splatoon Raiders launches in July, but the single-player Switch 2 exclusive leaves a mysterious gap in Nintendo's 2026 line-up
- FPGA dev claims the Neo Geo AES+ is "basically the MiSTer core" broken up into separate chips
- We still have no word about the Steam Machine and Steam Frame, but a Steam Controller unboxing video has emerged that could point to Valve's new gamepad launching soon
- Despite using Unreal Engine 5, the Rogue Trooper movie team wanted to avoid an "uncanny-valley video game aesthetic"
- Windrose's first mods are already adding quality-of-life improvements "for captains who'd rather be chasing horizons than managing menus"
- Where does Stranger Things: Tales From '85 take place on the Stranger Things timeline?
- Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced footage leaks days ahead of its official reveal, just in case you doubted Ubisoft calling the open-world remake "gaming's worst kept secret"
- We're not in Nevermore, anymore! Latest look at Wednesday season 3 teases interesting new location for the our favorite Addams
- First look at DC Studios' Clayface is more face than clay
- Look mom, new Intel Arc G3 handhelds that no one can probably afford are inbound
- One of the most infamous Star Wars lines was added in reshoots, Oscar Isaac says
- Marvel to return to San Diego Comic-Con's Hall H in 2026 for the first time since Robert Downey Jr.'s Doctor Doom casting was revealed
- "This game sucks": Former Uncharted 4 dev says a mystery Naughty Dog project was torn apart by corporate, leading to threats of pulled funding and a huge leadership shake-up
- The Last of Us and Death Stranding actor Troy Baker has worked with Neil Druckmann, Hideo Kojima, and many more – Now he wants to create a studio and "tell my own stories"
- AMD could be readying up Multi-Frame Generation, even though the AI tool's absence is arguably a Radeon selling point
- This is my favorite denial on the Citadel: Mass Effect showrunner says he was never told to rewrite the Amazon series for "non-gamers"
- Kevin Feige got his Marvel start on X-Men, so reusing old sets for Avengers: Doomsday made him "emotional"
- Capcom knows it's on a roll, threatens another banger after Resident Evil Requiem, Monster Hunter Stories 3, and Pragmata: "We're not done with 2026 yet"
- April 20
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- Ghost of Yotei star says Sucker Punch is "bold" to "leave behind safety and comfort" to tell new stories with fresh characters, but the actor doesn't know "what might come next"
- Maybe some N64 games are better left forgotten, but don't tell that to the reconstituted Star Fox studio seemingly teasing a Buck Bumble revival
- Blizzard lawsuit kills huge private World of Warcraft server as a cease and desist ends another
- Meet the dev who quit Rockstar Games during GTA 6 fever to make his own game, a single-player MMO-like where you tank for NPCs
- Square Enix slaps Final Fantasy 14 content creator with lawsuit over alleged harassment, continuing its crackdown on the MMO's bullies
- Starving Kingdom Hearts 4 hopefuls lap up tiny breadcrumbs from actor James Woods: "I can't comment, but I wish I could!"
- Talk to Me directors have an impossibly cool cameo in the new Street Fighter trailer despite dropping out of the film
- Superman sequel Man of Tomorrow begins filming as James Gunn gives us a sneak peek at Lex Luthor's mind games and the Brainiac logo
- New horror movie Hokum may be about a haunted hotel, but director Damian McCarthy promises it's nothing like Stephen King adaptation The Shining
- Gamers obsess over Valve boss Gabe Newell telling critically ill Half-Life and Portal writer Erik Wolpaw to "get better" instead of resigning, but the full story is even better
- Xbox Game Pass gets "grim prognosis" from former PlayStation CEO, new Xbox head Asha Sharma tells him they should "chat sometime"
- Star Wars is "about families," so The Mandalorian and Grogu will explore what it's like for Rotta to be Jabba the Hutt's son, says Jon Favreau
- EarthBound creator says Mother 3 is still a cutting-edge RPG, even as fans continue their 20-year wait for an official translation
- "We need to adjust our pricing" - The cost of the Meta Quest 3 and 3S is rising by up to $100, and that plays right into Valve's hands if the Steam Frame ever launches
- I went hands-on with the worst disguise in all of Star Wars
- They weren't "distributed on Steam," but Hades 2 lead who oversaw that true ending change says myths are also "told and retold" by design
- Starfield "was the best-selling video game of the week" in US for first time in nearly 3 years, reports analyst, despite Bethesda's rough PS5 port of the RPG
- Ubisoft confirms Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced reveal showcase as it clowns on its own "worst-kept secret"
- Slay the Spire 2 won't get an endless mode like Balatro because it limits "infinite strategies," but creator says "maybe a modder will think of a way to make it work"
- After over 1,000 hours in Baldur's Gate 3, I'm scared to hear Larian say Divinity might be an even bigger RPG: "There is no limitation anymore on how big an act can be"
- Commodore is gearing up to block custom C64 Ultimate firmware, but it's exploring ways to balance "user freedom with user protection"
- Hideo Kojima flexes on NASA, shows Death Stranding 2 players traveled further than the Artemis 2 mission in the same time span
- Stranger Things: Tales From '85 showrunner promises the upcoming animated series won't just be a throwaway "Monster of the Week" adventure
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Gustave actor had no idea fans could love video game characters as much as they do those in TV and film: "It didn't occur to me"
- Evil Dead Burn trailer unleashes bloody one-shot carnage with levitating Deadites – and I couldn't be more excited
- Take-Two CEO says if AI replaces anyone, it should be Elon Musk after his claim GTA 6 could come from gen-AI before Rockstar: "The richest guy on Earth, wouldn't that be job number one for AI to take?"
- It all makes sense: GameSir's bizarrely discontinued TMR controller is being resurrected as an officially licensed Xbox peripheral, but a new 8K polling model is perfect for PC players
- Elden Ring movie sets 2028 release date, full cast, and confirms it will be filmed for IMAX
- Stranger Things: Tales From '85 boss has a perfectly valid explanation as to why new kid Nikki isn't in season 3 of the main show: "It wasn't like it is now"
- The actor behind one of Game of Thrones' most legendary characters is in talks to join the cast of The Batman 2
- Roblox safety chief knows age checks are "unpopular," but "the cost of not acting is greater than the friction of acting"
- Amid the search for writers and directors, Bloodborne producer says he's feeling "all the pressure in the world" to get the movie adaptation right: "Gamers need it"
- "After 11 years leading the first-party development," PlayStation veteran Shuhei Yoshida says he was "fired" from the role for not listening to ex-Sony boss Jim Ryan
- New rumors suggest PS6 will massively out-perform the Steam Machine, but I'm not sure that's what we need right now
- Mortal Kombat 2 will embrace the more "outrageous" side of the fighting franchise: "It's a purposeful swing into the crazy"
- Marvel fans are convinced the Avengers: Doomsday trailer will be officially released soon after cryptic social media tease
- ChatGPT code snuck onto the Playdate, but don't worry, handheld creators Panic are now barring AI games
- Hunger Games star Josh Hutcherson addresses Peeta's "silly" rock camouflage scene: "Why didn't someone stop it?"
- OG Avatar actor tells fans to "stop talking" about The Last Airbender movie leak and "watch it when it comes out"
- Avengers: Endgame re-release will include Doomsday footage and be a "critical companion story"
- Windrose sells 1 million copies in less than a week, and as the open-world pirate game passes 220,000 concurrent Steam players, devs say the support is "absolutely astonishing"
- Jon Favreau explains how The Mandalorian and Grogu's unlikely Martin Scorsese cameo came to be
- Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero's next DLC will add over 30 characters, and Shenron is finally answering my wish by fixing the biggest problem with the original roster
- The Last of Us season 3's latest casting hints at a chunkier backstory for Yara and Lev
- The new Dragon Ball game that everyone thought was Xenoverse 3 has finally been confirmed as Dragon Ball Xenoverse 3
- Ryan Reynolds has "some stuff kind of written" for Deadpool 4, but it won't be centered around himself: “I think he’s a supporting character"
- Disney accused of "sequel erasure" after new Star Wars merchandise only covers the original trilogy and prequels
- Crimson Desert's Kliff mocap actor says "what it lacks in narrative it more than makes up for in other aspects"
- Link's leaked look from The Legend of Zelda movie is Twilight Princess-coded, with a bold new design choice
- Capcom praises Pragmata's "strong start" as the sci-fi game sells 1 million copies in just 2 days, despite not having the brand power of Resident Evil or Monster Hunter
- Spider-Noir showrunner says season 2 could throw the Marvel hero in the midst of World War 2: "Geopolitical struggle would be an amazing canvas"
- Jon Favreau wants to "pull out all the stops" with the "level of spectacle" in The Mandalorian and Grogu to prove it's not "just the TV show" on a big screen
- Ahsoka season 2 is dealing with a "higher level" of Star Wars compared to the "ground-level experience" of The Mandalorian and Grogu, Jon Favreau says
- April 19
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- The original Mandalorian season 4 scripts helped set up Ahsoka season 2, but Jon Favreau had to "start from scratch" for The Mandalorian and Grogu
- Spider-Noir showrunner says there are other unannounced Spider-Man variant projects in the works
- After surprise Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 explosion, Daredevil actor Charlie Cox's next game is "in the very early stages"
- After 2 years in Steam Early Access and almost 2 million copies sold, ARPG No Rest for the Wicked is "not slowing down" on its way to 1.0
- Fallout: New Vegas designer says don't hold your breath for an Oblivion-style remaster: "I don't think Bethesda has the engineering knowhow"
- Slay the Spire 2 avoids becoming "Sloppy Spire 2" by keeping the roguelike's roadmap light on dates
- The Last of Us Part 3 theories get hotter as a former Naughty Dog dev claims Neil Druckmann has plans for "a whole congregation" of immune people
- April 18
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- How to watch WrestleMania 42 - live stream all this weekend's action across the world
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Gustave actor Charlie Cox says Sandfall "should get Robert Pattinson to play the part" for the movie, but "I should do the voice"
- Baldur's Gate 3 was canceled at OG Fallout studio "because of an accounting error" – "Very suspicious on Interplay's part," says former dev
- Pragmata is already one of the best-rated Capcom games on Steam, just 3% behind king of kings Resident Evil 4
- Halo dev accusing the studio of harassment fights "devs hate Halo" theories in tell-all post: "No one works a 60- or 80-hour week out of spite"
- Death Stranding creator Hideo Kojima is "not running out of ideas anytime soon," Higgs actor says, but wouldn't blame him if he wanted to leave the series behind
- 007: First Light's opening cinematic is here, and it just surpassed Skyfall as my favorite James Bond opening sequence ever
- April 17
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- 3 best new to Prime Video movies you need to stream this weekend (April 17–April 19)
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 follows Baldur's Gate 3 to become the second game ever to win all five major GOTY awards
- Bethesda "lectured" Fallout New Vegas designer for saying the RPG would run at 30 FPS: "'Why do you have a f***ing engine that can't run 30 frames per second?'"
- Arc Raiders players blast new Expedition system that requires you to play on specific days and ignores the money you've saved: "F you if you can't play"
- Fallout 2 and New Vegas designer still hates the series' Amazon TV show: "I had to shut it off within a minute"
- Lost Nintendo game lives after 50 years as arcade collector uses ancient film reels and Wii-style tech to create "what might be the only playable Wild Gunman" machine in the world
- Marvel actor left out of Avengers: Doomsday cast reveal announces return and reignites our hopes that a Young Avengers movie is next
- The best Prime Video top 10 shows, plus this week's complete TV chart (April 17–April 19)
- Ghost of Yotei Atsu actor says the game's wolf-petting scene was actually Sucker Punch's "director of cinematics, that was on all fours, getting his head patted by me"
- Arc Raiders makes huge Expedition changes, bonus skill points now free but earned by dealing damage: "We want expeditions to be fun and not an endless grind"
- Enjoying Valve's famous paid "vacation in Hawaii," engineer jokes he's "in a dark room like a vampire" on Github anyway – a fitting use of Steam bucks
- Doom co-designer still has the real chainsaw that inspired the OG FPS's iconic weapon, even though it leaks oil and "was kept in a bowl at the id offices"
- "One of the longest running secrets in the history of The Elder Scrolls": Redguard fans discover the 28-year-old game has a special way of protecting women from creeps
- As fans revive Nier Reincarnation, game devs say giving live-service titles offline versions is trickier than you might expect – potentially more than "building something from scratch"
- Skyrim mod has you slay dragons "by debating them on the geopolitics of Tamriel," turning Bethesda's RPG into an absurd game of Civilization
- Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream players turn the life sim into a Pokemon game with pixel art pets, because Pokopia apparently wasn't enough
- 3 best new to Netflix shows to stream this weekend (April 17–April 19)
- Among Us hits 1 billion downloads on Google Play after almost 8 years: "1/8 of the world are Crewmates... or Impostors... hard to say"
- RuneScape creators asked their mom to help design the MMO's first enemies: "Only much later did they even consider actually hiring people"
- Bethesda releases urgent Starfield hotfix players say "did absolutely nothing" for the RPG on PS5 Pro, base PS5 owners eagerly await their own patch "targeting next week"
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 chief "really proud" of LGBT Gayming Awards nom, insists Henry and Hans' gay romance isn't "woke" like other RPGs
- Congratulations, Slay the Spire 2 players: first "Major Update" lets you experience the pain and bliss Steam beta players have endured for weeks, and you're in for a treat
- Gamesir's excellent Pocket Taco Game Boy controller is finally at Amazon, but the price is weird
- Nacon RIG is slowly but surely fixing my biggest issue with its headsets: US availability
- Windrose hotfix should help connectivity issues, with more fixes "underway" as the open-world pirate game sails past 113,000 concurrent Steam players
- "Attrition is the core of the game": Original Heroes of Might and Magic creator's "Fun AI" approach is helping Olden Era developer Unfrozen balance PvE difficulty
- Strategy fans have spoken – Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era's fae faction "wasn't meeting expectations" and has been renamed
- 3 best new to Netflix movies I recommend you watch this weekend (April 17–April 19)
- I hate this Marvel theory about Doctor Doom in Avengers: Endgame's re-release – because I think it will happen and ruin Tony Stark's perfect goodbye
- Stranger Things: Tales from '85 release schedule – what time is the Stranger Things spin-off on Netflix?
- Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says good level designers shouldn't "assume anything the player is going to do in a particular order"
- Christopher Nolan's upcoming epic The Odyssey will be shorter than Oppenheimer's 3 hours, producer says
- Final Fantasy 14 patch 7.5 teases return of one of the JRPG series' greatest villains, Kefka – and I think he might be the MMO's new Ultimate boss
- The Division was originally "an MMO with World of Warcraft-style gameplay," devs reveal, and it had hotbars and all before it became a full looter-shooter
- Despite almost 4 years of slow progress, Netflix is "100%" behind Gears of War movie, director says
- Marvel moved away from Kang and towards Robert Downey Jr.'s Doctor Doom around the time of Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania, according to Kevin Feige
- GTA 6 is largely British-made, but UK politicians likely won't brag about it like France did for Clair Obscur Expedition 33, minister says: "If we were the US, we'd be puffing out our chests"
- The Mandalorian and Grogu debuts over 15 minutes of footage at CinemaCon featuring a first for Star Wars – and I think it makes perfect sense
- RTX 3060 is back in June. Neo Geo returns this November. Am I in a weird gaming tech time machine?
- Avengers: Doomsday may have lost the IMAX war to Dune 3, but Disney is fighting back, creating a new certificate to find the best screens worldwide
- Hopes for Persona 1 and 2 remakes crushed as Atlus mysteriously alters the JRPGs' new merch listings, despite seeming determined to tease a re-release
- Avengers: Doomsday directors returned to Marvel because they "wanted to move the story forward" with Chris Evans' Steve Rogers
- Avengers: Endgame will be re-released with new footage ahead of Doomsday
- New Avengers: Doomsday trailer sees Thor face off against Robert Downey Jr.'s Doctor Doom and gives us the X-Men action we've been waiting for
- Kingdom Come Deliverance and Animal Crossing inspired this medieval cozy game where you hang with tiny dragons and make art, and it's launching to great reviews: "Hans capon mentioned therefore GOTY"
- April 16
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- After months of confusing marketing, the final Mandalorian and Grogu trailer still doesn't reveal what the Star Wars movie is about
- Xbox wants Fable to have Diablo-level cutscenes as Matt Booty casually reveals Blizzard is helping out with the RPG reboot's cinematics
- Elder Scrolls co-creator believed bugs were a necessary evil for Bethesda's massive RPGs: "I think the trade-off has proven to be acceptable by the fans"
- Team behind Ubisoft's best game in years reportedly freed from support studio prison and allowed to pitch its own games again
- After 11 years in limbo, the live-action Call of Duty movie finally has a release date
- Arc Raiders and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 help show "mid-price is the new sweet spot" for games, analysts say
- Top Gun 3 in the works with Tom Cruise
- Xenosaga shows signs of life for the first time in 20 years as Japan-only spin-off JRPG gets official Steam and Switch port
- OG Last of Us designer is still "pissed" about Naughty Dog re-doing his work for the remake: "It is literally taking my scripts, pushing delete, and putting all new scripts in"
- Jughead causes a pie-fight apocalypse in new Archie one-shot from Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow writer
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, HBO Max, Disney Plus, and more (April 17–April 19)
- Daredevil: Born Again fans are debating if the latest episode retcons a foundational Murdock and Nelson moment from the Netflix show's first season
- Pokemon and Palworld clone Pickmos removed from Steam: "We are revising the game to ensure a controversy-free experience"
- Metro 2039 takes on tunnel Nazis in a story shaped by the Ukraine war: "Sheltering from rocket attacks are interrupting but not stopping us"
- Solo dev livestreams the moment his wife learns his 4-year indie project made $600k on Steam in just one month: "She didn't think it would be this much"
- Battlefield 6 2026 roadmap shows EA hopes to win players back with way more maps, including "legendary" Battlefield 4 and Battlefield 3 maps
- Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion and Lae'zel actors join D&D creator's official campaign, but not as their RPG characters
- Overwatch players beg Blizzard to revert changes to a popular mode after removing perks and 5v5 matches: "Who asked for this?"
- "Games like Cyberpunk 2077, Elden Ring, and Skyrim" help make PC gaming the only platform where over half of revenue is from "games outside the top 20," report says
- Wondering why GTA 6 Trailer 3 is taking so long? Rockstar already answered that question 14 years ago
- Final Fantasy 14's 8.0 update isn't going to be another "rebirth" for the MMO, Yoshi-P says, as it isn't on the scale of A Realm Reborn
- Buyers beware, fake Samsung 990 Pro SSDs are afoot in Europe but they're easier to spot than you think
- Stranger Things: Tales From '85 showrunner teases Will's relationship with Hawkins' punky new kid Nikki: "We liked the idea of bringing somebody in who's never gonna judge him"
- Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender leaker "decided to troll" Paramount, but had no intention of releasing the full movie
- The Neo Geo AES is back, but the retro console remake is effectively the real deal reborn with HDMI
- A year later, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Daredevil star Charlie Cox has finally played the hit J'RPG: "I'm not very good at it"
- Riot is "more committed to" the League of Legends MMO "than ever," co-founder says, but it did consider buying the now-dead Ashes of Creation
- In a post-pricey console world, this new budget GXTrust Forta PS5 headset is a sight to behold
- First Street Fighter trailer is a campy, '90s extravaganza with plenty of violence, and I will be seated
- These Star Wars action figures are causing a stir, and they're up for pre-order now
- KPop Demon Hunters and Spider-Verse animation studio making a modern-day Charlie and the Chocolate Factory movie, with Taika Waititi as Willy Wonka
- A new contender for my favorite headset has been revealed as Turtle Beach unveils the new Stealth Pro II
- Windrose sells 500k copies in 48 hours, proving the hunger for piracy is alive and well ahead of Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed Black Flag remake
- Hundreds of hours in, many Crimson Desert players are only just finding out they've not actually been completing Sanctums properly: "You need to what now"
- A web of Spider-Man: Brand New Day Lego sets and toys just got shown off, and they're spectacular
- The Boys fans are convinced Homelander will get his hands on V-One thanks to a hidden detail in the season 5 trailer
- Marvel star Simu Liu reacts to sudden TV show cancelation by praising his co-star: "You deserve the world"
- Steven Spielberg promises the Disclosure Day trailers don't spoil the movie, and that nothing from the third act has been revealed
- As Windrose servers buckle under nearly 100k concurrent Steam players, devs admit they "don't yet have a clear answer" for a fix, ask fans if they "happen to know someone at a major ISP"
- The Boys season 5 calendar theory may have spoiled when the show's biggest deaths will take place
- Stranger Things: Tales From '85 showrunner explains why he's not keen on fans describing the animated spin-off as a Saturday morning cartoon
- Henry Cavill is back as a swordfighting hero in first Highlander footage, and it could fix the Geralt of Rivia-shaped hole in my heart
- Capcom attempts to patch Street Fighter 6's controversial incest storyline, but it's really not any better as Alex's wife is still his "distant relative" and basically a stepsister
- First footage reports of Werwulf promise a horror on par with Nosferatu
- Invincible season 4 goof is an embarrassing animation mistake that should have been spotted
- Starfield is somehow coming to Switch 2, it appears, despite the RPG's "unplayable" PS5 launch and Skyrim's own initially disastrous port
- The search for the new James Bond is taking so long because of Amazon's "care and deep respect" for the process
- Christopher Nolan says The Odyssey was "an absolute nightmare" to film – and from the new footage reports I can understand why
- After Wolfenstein, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle felt "very natural" to MachineGames since it involved even more punching Nazis
- April 15
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- This Elder Scrolls-like RPG gets better and better: It's got Morrowind's weirdness, Skyrim's NPC schedules, and it'll cost "$20 max"
- Solo dev takes on the ultimate retro challenge, ports "Super Mario 64 meets Pokemon" platformer to PS1, N64, Saturn, Dreamcast, and far more terrible consoles all at once
- Arc Raiders' killer robots aren't learning in real time, but Embark will sneak in AI upgrades based on player behavior: "We keep trying to make the flying drones better and better"
- Masters of the Universe popcorn bucket is the coolest piece of He-Man merch I've ever seen
- After 102,000 "mixed" Steam reviews and a wild retcon, Wuchang: Fallen Feathers team reportedly gutted after losing director and refusing life as a support studio
- Despite starring in The Last of Us, Death Stranding, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, and many more, Troy Baker feels like he "just got started" and "my best work is ahead of me"
- Baldur's Gate 3 and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 may make Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 look like the "small kids in the playground," but star hopes it'll "live in people's memory" anyway
- A 100% discount on Steam is way better than a regular giveaway, indie boss says after Graveyard Keeper ploy pays off: "It’s why the original game spiked so fast and so hard"
- Bullseye actor reveals his main "frustration" with Daredevil: Born Again's divisive first season
- Because "the PS3 port is strange," Ratchet & Clank speedrunners can now beat Up Your Arsenal "in under 1 second"
- Nasty Pokemon XD Gale of Darkness Switch 2 bug that was costing players progress has been fixed: "This happened to me! 5 hours gone!"
- Nearly 23 years later, the Barbie horse gem that sparked my love of cozy games is basically back as a brand-new riding and rescue experience
- Still struggling with its League of Legends MMO, Riot Games was reportedly willing to spend $250 million on acquiring another MMO before it crashed and burned
- My inner child is screaming at this amazing new Cyclops replica visor
- Prince of Persia fans attempt to do what Ubisoft couldn't despite 6 years of trying – release a Sands of Time remake
- Nintendo says Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream is the "ultimate inside joke game," but I'm not sure fans' NSFW vision for the life sim is what they had in mind
- This new Lego Star Wars set recreates my favorite ship in the entire saga, and it's bloody gorgeous
- No Man's Sky patch tests out improvements to its Pokemon-like battling update, like letting creatures poop more often
- Hori has unveiled a new batch of Animal Crossing Switch 2 accessories that are so cute, I feel starry-eyed
- Arc Raiders studio contacted by crime scientist "intrigued by how players are interacting," dev says only 30% of players focus on PvP: "It kind of blew the whole extraction shooter open"
- After becoming a surprise horror hit, Nicolas Cage is making a new standalone Longlegs movie
- New Overwatch hero Sierra's "instant kill" ult slammed as OP by players, even if the rest of her kit is kind of mid: "It's literally a carpet bomb"
- Timothée Chalamet says Dune 3 matches the "scale of Lord of the Rings" – and based on reports of the first footage I can see why
- The Future Games Show returns in June as part of a trilogy of new shows
- Incredible Marvel Rivals action figures revealed, but I've only got eyes for Jeff the Land Shark
- Crimson Desert "on track to overtake Starfield's total lifetime copies sold by the end of the year," analyst says, as PS5 sales "not fantastic for a port of the biggest Bethesda RPG in a decade"
- Rumored PS6 pricing could mean we've got the entire generation backwards, AI will run Sony's next show not Orion
- The original actors' ages aren't the only reason Stranger Things: Tales From '85 is animated, says showrunner
- Marathon is a good game, former FPS pro Shroud says, "the problem right now is it's too hard"
- It sounds like Clayface is going to be a full DCU horror movie, as first footage is called "violent" and "highly disturbing"
- The Anbernic RG Rotate fuses my 2000s high school cellphone with GBA buttons to make what could be a magical MP3 player
- Hades 2 update adds new cutscenes for side quests, better romance options, and fixes a rare glitch that truly ruined the true ending
- Hideo Kojima has an under-the-radar anime suggestion that's just launched on Amazon
- The Boys' Karl Urban reveals which season 5 episode has "major" character deaths, and it's not the finale
- Black Cat joins Marvel Rivals, says "good boy" in her reveal trailer, and it's all been downhill from there, folks: "I have never folded so fast in my LIFE"
- Avatar: Aang animator lashes out at "incredibly disrespectful" fans choosing to pirate the leaked movie
- James Gunn's Man of Tomorrow gets a major filming update as David Corenswet explains the conflict at the heart of the Superman sequel: "Try saving the world with your sworn enemy"
- Blizzard promises an Overwatch patch for its embattled Nintendo Switch 2 port as fans say the hero shooter runs worse than it did on the OG Switch
- Crimson Desert sells "over 5 million copies worldwide" in under 4 weeks, and with Steam player peaks still holding strong at around 100k a day, I don't see it slowing down anytime soon
- The Game of Thrones movie is officially happening, and it will tell the story of one of the most important events in George R.R. Martin's fantasy lore
- Early drafts of Stranger Things: Tales From '85 featured way more Steve, Hopper and the adults, but the creative team cut scenes to bring back the franchise's "youthful innocence"
- New Lord of the Rings movie confirms Aragorn recasting, but it's another returning character that's the biggest surprise
- First trailer for follow-up to one of the best Godzilla movies ever made promises an epic, monster-filled sequel
- Jacksepticeye addresses the Bloodborne movie and his unexpected role: "I'm a producer, I'm not the writer or director"
- April 14
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- Open-world pirate survival game Windrose launches to 69,000 Steam players and 88% positive reviews: "Scratches that Black Flag itch in the best way"
- Take-Two stock jumps $1 billion after GTA leak as investors learn Rockstar really is making that much money off GTA Online
- Hideo Kojima would "rather have the player walk away impacted than entertained," says Death Stranding 2 Higgs actor Troy Baker: "The only way he knows how to swing is big"
- Overwatch Season 2 adds post-match voice chat, which is such a bad idea that Blizzard is already warning players: "Banter is encouraged, abusive communication is not"
- Disney delists 14 Steam games without warning, including a Star Wars strategy game whose scale has never been duplicated
- Despite previous reports from James Gunn, Andor star Adria Arjona is set to play alien queen Maxima in Superman sequel Man of Tomorrow
- Diablo 4 has been rated for Nintendo Switch in Indonesia, suggesting the ARPG could go handheld just like Diablo 3
- A24's Elden Ring movie has entered production, and fans have already determined the perfect popcorn bucket
- Bungie makes Marathon less vicious as players keep leaving: update adds free solo self-revives, a way to revive enemy runners, and a "stay together" option for good teammates
- Animal Crossing just turned 25, here's how we're celebrating the anniversary in style
- WoW Classic kills dungeon-boosting in Burning Crusade expansion because, oh no, the economy
- Todd Howard agrees Starfield is "creatively different" than Bethesda's usual RPGs – but says The Elder Scrolls and Fallout were also divisive early on
- Resident Evil Requiem completion rates soar to series-high records, with 90% of Xbox players and 67% of PS5 players beating the Capcom horror game
- How to watch Artemis: to the Moon and Back documentary for free around the world
- Sony is copying SteelSeries homework with the launch of its new retro-inspired 'Glass Purple' Inzone Buds, and I'm a fan
- The Witcher 3 director is "really comfortable" with fans comparing his new vampire RPG to CD Projekt Red's best game, and not just because he directed it
- Sony is adding a breath of literal fresh air to its Inzone line
- The Sony M10S II is a super speedy sequel to last year's killer QHD OLED that's absolutely not a PS5 monitor
- Amazon says The Boys shared universe is officially the Vought Cinematic Universe (or VCU)
- I got a first look at this amazing Endor Star Wars merch, and it took everything I had not to steal it
- Crimson Desert and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 don't copy other AAA games, The Witcher 3 director says, so they stand out in an industry filled with people focused on "how to make money"
- No Man's Sky updates like Xeno Arena take "2-3x" longer on Switch 2 and Steam Deck because Hello Games has to beat "impossible memory constraints," engineer says
- Arc Raiders players set up bounty board to hunt down rats, make streamer TheBurntPeanut the most-wanted target for being a "voice chat snake"
- Ahead of Metro 2039 reveal, series author Dmitry Glukhovsky says it "will be darker than anything you've seen before"
- After Mike Colter's big Daredevil: Born Again season 3 spoiler, there's a new fan theory linking Matt Murdock to Spider-Man: Brand New Day
- Xbox co-creator is more interested in Switch 3 than Project Helix because Nintendo hardware is "at least really interesting and cool, even when it fails"
- The Metal Gear Solid movie has competition, as an Escape from New York remake has been officially announced
- Xbox co-creator says Project Helix is stuck between Microsoft investors "psychotically interested" in AI and "a games division that's allergic" to it
- Giving your game away on Steam can earn you $250,000 in a few days, says Graveyard Keeper publisher: "Makes sense when you have a lot of DLC"
- GTA 6 PC release remains unconfirmed, but Rockstar leak reveals that could be because GTA Online gets 97% of its cash from consoles
- Arc Raiders' latest patch fixes crashes and issues before Riven Tides, but with another Project slated to expire, players say it's "utterly ridiculous" Embark still hasn't added a timer
- Studio behind one of the best monster-taming games around rejects the "Pokemon killer" tag, says its upcoming survival game isn't replacing anyone
- Classic 1998 card game Guillotine is back with a revolutionary new design, and here's your exclusive first look
- ONEXPLAYER just started teasing a Legion Go 2 rival with a Ryzen AI Max+ 395 chipset, but the handheld maker should read the room
- Pokemon Center tackles resellers with 'Early Access' for cards, merch, and more, and it's about bloody time
- Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse producers say it will "push boundaries" as new images and footage debut
- The Boys star says Homelander's most gruesome act is yet to come: "You think killing children is bad?! Just wait!"
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons update fixes a bunch of bugs and DLC issues – but most importantly, adds a special gift to make you feel old
- Helldivers movie gets a very promising update as the director teases why Jason Momoa was "the only person" to star
- The Haunting of Bly Manor star has the dentist appointment from Hell in first trailer for horror spin-off Insidious: Out of the Further
- This mobile controller has fixed a 24 year gripe in one simple solution
- Hit anime show Bleach kicks off its final season with a surprise theatrical release
- Avatar: Aang leaks can't be stopped, as non-watermarked versions of the full movie appear online
- Overwatch's worst map is finally returning to the game's rotation, this time reworked with more flank paths and choke points that aren't claustrophobic
- Palworld 1.0 is "still in the oven," Pocketpair publishing lead says, before teasing that the studio will "crack the oven open a little when it's nearly done"
- Krafton's publisher status vanishes from Subnautica 2 Steam and Epic Games Store pages amid ongoing legal drama
- Overwatch Switch 2 Edition launches today alongside Season 2, bringing "better visuals, higher fidelity audio, and up to 60 FPS"
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day will be the "most grown-up" and emotional movie in the franchise yet says Tom Holland
- Valve is now sitting on lots of Steam controllers, so releasing them before the Steam Machine is a no-brainer
- Zach Cregger says his Resident Evil movie will be "true to the spirit of the games" as mysterious first footage debuts at CinemaCon
- The Boys creator Eric Kripke responds to fan fears over a lackluster finale
- As Overwatch Season 2 welcomes Sierra, Blizzard says "we're proud to continue expanding our hero roster and the communities around the globe we get to represent"
- The Winds of Winter is not releasing this fall as George R.R. Martin's publisher issues statement on leak and "fake" release date
- As Starfield fans dub PS5 port "unplayable," Bethesda assures it's "narrowed" the problems "down to a small number of causes" and is working to fix the RPG
- Bloodborne is getting an official R-Rated animated movie produced by a YouTuber superfan
- Steam reviewer logs 30,000 hours in Cities: Skylines, decides it sucks: "BY FAR most frustrating, enraging game of my entire life"
- April 13
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- Final Fantasy 7 modder is bringing the OG character designs to Final Fantasy Rebirth because "them polygons got that aura"
- My favorite isekai anime is back after 4 years, and Ascendance of A Bookworm season 4 got a huge animation upgrade at the Attack on Titan studio
- Xbox Game Pass "has become too expensive for players," new CEO reportedly admits in leaked memo
- 2 years after the Chucky TV show was cancelled, franchise creator Don Mancini is making a "scary" new Chucky movie for theatrical release
- Luke Cage actor Mike Colter reveals his MCU return in Daredevil: Born Again season 3 moments before deleting the spoiler
- The first demented trailer for Eli Roth's Ice Cream Man is here and it looks like if the last 10 minutes of Weapons was a whole movie
- New Horrified D&D board game goes to Ravenloft, and here's your exclusive first look at it
- Capcom's golden age continues with Pragmata, which joins Resident Evil Requiem and Monster Hunter Stories 3 among 2026's top 10 highest-rated games on Metacritic
- First trailer for new Netflix sci-fi series from the Duffer Brothers is like Stranger Things for senior citizens
- "Elder Scrolls 6 is taking so long that we're just making our own," declare RPG devs taunting Todd Howard and wearing the skin of Morrowind like a jacket
- Nobody can touch the $10,000 Super Mario 64 speedrunning bounty except for the guy who started it in the first place
- Warhammer Classics brings over 20 RTS, FPS, and fantasy football games from the last 30 years to Steam "to safeguard this legacy for future generations"
- Fortnite's low-priority bug reports are regularly wiped, which Epic Games CEO says is "normal," but Rust boss says he'd "rather have them logged than forgotten," even if they're old
- New Skyrim mod turns Bethesda's RPG into the "ultimate" MMO I've always wanted by transforming NPCs into real players
- Founder of dead MMO Ashes of Creation denies blowing its Kickstarter fortune on trading cards, private chefs, and antiques: "Categorically false"
- Crimson Desert bosses are getting destroyed by the "Beekeeper Build" harnessing the power of friendship – and also thousands of bees
- Police visit 91-year-old woman who missed check-in calls only to find her "playing video games in her bedroom" and "trying to beat her record"
- The Steam Machine could pull some pretty big moves with just 8GB VRAM, thanks to a savvy Valve engineer
- Fans agree that this new Warhammer 40K mini is fantastic, and it leaves the Space Marines far behind
- The 6 best new shows and movies streaming this week on Netflix, HBO Max, Disney Plus, and more (April 13–April 19)
- 13 years after Breaking Bad ended, Bryan Cranston has the final word on viewers who hated Skyler White
- PS6 rumors suggest the next console war will be fought on a completely new battlefield, and the Steam Machine might be in prime position
- Massive 007: First Light spoilers and Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag remake details are just the start of a huge leak from an Indonesian ratings board
- Final Fantasy 14 patch 7.5 will lock limited jobs out of even more content, fans of the MMO unhappy Square Enix is "putting the 'limited' in 'limited job'"
- Artemis II hype sees Kerbal Space Program beat all-time Steam player record 11 years after launch
- Primer comic co-creator hints that an animated series about the artistic teen superhero might be in the works at James Gunn’s DC Studios
- That cameo in Daredevil: Born Again may have just been confirmed, but one fan theory perfectly justifies it
- 4 episodes into Maul – Shadow Lord, and Star Wars fans are still blown away: "Not a single second of this show has been wasted"
- The Boys releases its surprise casualty's "last words" – and it fixes the main issue I have with season 5 so far
- The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is now the third-highest-grossing video game movie of all time, as it crosses half a billion dollars at the box office
- Xbox confirms the leaks, the next Metro game is called Metro 2039 and will be showcased later this week
- The latest Analogue 3D update adds "advanced HDR" that will make your OLED screen look even more like a CRT TV
- Starfield "doesn't even run properly" and is "unplayable" on PS5, report fans requesting refunds from Sony: "Classic Bethesda"
- The movie has only just come out, but Super Mario Galaxy Movie toys are already receiving their first stellar discounts
- Rebellion brews in new Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping trailer
- The Punisher's Jon Bernthal says the upcoming special's comic-book inspiration was his "north star" when taking on the character again, as it shows Frank "in all his gruesome glory"
- New footage of The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping reveals first look at Kieran Culkin as a younger Caesar Flickerman
- Gloomhaven-style RPG declared dead because "continuing to make this game is just not feasible"
- Hackers behind GTA 6 maker Rockstar Games' latest breach say they're releasing the stolen data
- The Last of Us led Naughty Dog to accept crunch is "what it takes to make games at our level," former designer says, so Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet devs are probably deep in it
- Uncharted 2 dev says the truck chase "was taken directly from Resident Evil 5" because The Last of Us co-creator Neil Druckmann thought it was "f***ing awesome"
- After apologizing for generative AI use, Ascendance of a Bookworm anime studio replaces its opening credits
- Vincent D'Onofrio says Daredevil was at the "top of its game" when it was canceled at Netflix
- Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle's nine-month theatrical run has finally come to an end, and there's still no Crunchyroll streaming date in sight
- "Gabe's crazy" – Father of Xbox "vastly more excited" about Steam than Project Helix because Valve "f*** up business" and do "weird stuff"
- Call 911, Lenovo now wants nearly $3,000 for its Legion Go 2 handheld, but it might actually be discontinued
- Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear spiritual successor Physint reportedly casting for a villain with a German accent who evokes "Mads Mikkelsen in Hannibal but with flair"
- Daredevil: Born Again's Wilson Bethel says his fingers are "extremely crossed" for Bullseye to share the screen with Punisher in the future: "It would be a dream"
- Maul – Shadow Lord star hints we might finally learn the former Sith Lord's surname in the Star Wars show
- Pokemon and Palworld clone Pickmon changes its name by one letter to "better align with our brand identity and lore"
- Avatar: The Last Airbender sequel footage may have leaked after claims Nickelodeon "accidentally" emailed someone the "entire" movie
- As GTA 6 reportedly spooks Xbox into delaying Fable, Playground Games reiterates its RPG remains on track for Autumn 2026
- The wait for The Winds of Winter is about to overtake the time it took to release the first five Game of Thrones books
- April 12
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- Former Xbox exec regrets not securing Final Fantasy on the console, says Square Enix "wanted Sony to have competition but couldn't be too overt"
- Acclaimed indie dev is leaning into the "uncomfortable uncanniness" that comes from hyper-realistic graphics with its AI-centred horror game
- Skyrim lead says Bethesda is "going to feel it" when Todd Howard leaves because he's always touched everything during the development process
- Father of Xbox says PC gamers used to throw drinks at him for daring to suggest "Halo might be a good game" before the FPS console boom
- April 11
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- GTA 6 maker Rockstar confirms another hack, says "this incident has no impact on our organization or our players"
- World of Warcraft didn't scare the RuneScape devs, who were getting "tens of thousands of new accounts every single day" in 2004 and could barely build servers fast enough for the MMO to keep up
- GTA 6's satire may have less "impact" because reality has gotten so screwed up, says GTA 5 Lester actor
- Todd Howard says that Starfield's New Game Plus was "us asking you this weird, deep question that I actually think got lost on a lot of people"
- Splatoon Raiders' fresh PEGI rating suggests incoming news about the mysterious Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive
- I've finally swapped out my beloved six-button Sega Mega Drive controller for the 8Bitdo M30, but it has a gruelling weekend of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 ahead of it
- Skyrim was "the holy s*** moment" at Bethesda, says veteran Pete Hines: "You have to be concerned about us if you think you're going to win game of the year"
- New Crimson Desert patch adds skills for every character, weapon display toggles, and makes that controversial fast-forward feature even faster
- 3 new to Prime Video shows you need to check out this weekend (April 10–April 12)
- Legendary Capcom artist says Elden Ring's visuals hold up against higher fidelity games like Crimson Desert because "the viewer's imagination is constantly stimulated to the fullest"
- April 10
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- Prime Video has added loads of new movies: here are the 3 I recommend you watch this weekend (April 10–April 12)
- Pokemon Champions matches end in draws when the timer runs out, and no one can decide if that's a good thing
- The Boys Homelander actor Antony Starr says fans constantly offer him milk: "It's the best joke they can think of"
- Exit 8 becomes one of the highest-rated video game movies ever with a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score
- Netflix reportedly cancels Kerri Strug Olympic biopic Perfect as Mille Bobby Brown exits the starring role
- Bethesda king Todd Howard isn't a master of game design or programming, says Pete Hines, "but there is nobody that is better" at combining them: "Look around the industry. Who else?"
- Before his cancelled Star Wars movie, Steven Soderbergh pitched two James Bond movies, including a "parallel franchise" set in the '60s and a "contemporary extravaganza"
- Half-Life writer was surprised how few FPS games followed Valve's approach to story: "Medal Of Honor, for instance, and Call Of Duty both followed those principles, but it was inconsistent"
- People are debating the darkest horror movie endings and, yep, these will keep you up at night
- Fallout co-creator Tim Cain is "looking forward" to generative AI for games, TV, and his doctor appointments in dire predictions: "Like a game and you want more content? It'll just generate it"
- Disney extraction shooter like Arc Raiders reportedly coming from Fortnite maker Epic Games in November
- Marvel Rivals will become a "'moving anime' experience" by 2027, says creative director, as devs evolve past PvP with PvE, Infinity Saga updates, and more game modes
- "Go try that s*** in Red Dead Redemption 2": Nobody makes games like Bethesda, says studio veteran Pete Hines, so "put some respect" on Todd Howard and the Creation Engine team
- 3 new to Netflix shows you need to check out this weekend (April 10–April 12)
- Broken Sword devs showered in $400,000 after promising to drop AI upscaling and draw 55,000 frames by hand for remastered sequel: "No AI, just humans"
- Crimson Desert allows players to do what GTA 5 didn't – stop the train, but not by using a mech or a dragon
- Monster Hunter and Pragmata creators praise The Legend of Zelda as the series turns 40: "A source of inspiration in countless ways for so many game creators"
- "Feels a bit like Elder Scrolls": Starfield is finally "starting to feel like a solid Bethesda title," fans say following Free Lanes update with exploration improvements
- Indie dev who lives in a village of 1,000 people stunned as over 250,000 Steam users buy his roguelike: "It's not adding up in my head"
- Keanu Reeves' new Apple TV movie debuts to just 27% on Rotten Tomatoes as critics call it "a fascinating mess"
- Popular Stardew Valley-like Starsand Island removed from Steam for using "visual elements from a classic title" without permission, devs say they've already sent a new build to Valve
- The indie studio reviving Castlevania follows Clair Obscur Expedition 33's lead: "Being a French team, we were arrogant enough to set the game in France"
- Rhythm Heaven Groove pre-orders are live, and there's thankfully no game-key cards in sight
- The Boys season 5 theory speculates Homelander might face a fate worse than death
- Hytale devs hire Minecraft modders behind incredible Create mod, teasing that it "opens the door to automation and a whole lot more" in their sandbox RPG
- Keychron essentially just made its top keyboards 3D-printable
- Slay the Spire 2 players surprised by patch that actually makes the game easier with big Ironclad buffs and nerfs to infuriating enemies: "F*** that guy"
- Call me bananas, but having to buy a fancy new Asus GPU cable to avoid molten ports shouldn't be a thing
- Attack on Titan studio apologizes and heads back to the drawing board after using generative AI in an anime opening
- GTA 6 user-generated content monetization will make some players "millionaires," claims content creator who had a "party with Rockstar"
- Netflix has a new shark horror movie starring a former Bridgerton lead, and the reviews are actually pretty good
- Marvel fans think they've cracked why Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania flopped
- This cozy board game feels just like Stardew Valley, and it's my favorite game of 2026 so far
- Arc Raiders stamps out another duplication exploit in Embark's latest hotfix that also fixes some annoying PS5 crashes
- If your Netflix watchlist is looking a little barren there's a good reason – the number of movies released in the first few months of 2026 fell to an 8-year low
- Turns out the Nintendo Wii can run Mac OS X, and I've now got cursed Apple iMac G3 ideas
- No Man's Sky Xeno Arena update feels like "a really great and simplified Pokemon clone," fans say, and is basically "a whole new game" to play within the survival gem
- Phantom Blade Zero lead knows "a profound technological revolution is unfolding" with AI, but doesn't really care: "Human artistry is not merely a means for creating value"
- Maul – Shadow Lord features a very deep cut Star Wars: Battlefront Easter egg
- "Assassin's Creed Black Flag is the best pirate game of all time" according to Windrose devs, so of course they "took inspiration" from it for their viral open-world seafaring game
- Reports of One Piece's demise are greatly exaggerated – and Netflix has the season 2 numbers to prove it
- Marvel TV boss agrees What If…? should have given fans an episode on what happened if the other half of the Avengers were snapped
- Stranger Things star reveals he was supposed to make 3 more Power Rangers movies and the studio planned to make the franchise the next Hunger Games
- The Boys fans have some wild theories about what's going on with Black Noir in season 5
- I assumed the Atari Pocket Player Pro would be a modern version of my first ever crusty clone console, but it's actually a solid budget handheld
- Like a phoenix, Razer's Hammerhead gaming earbuds are back with a shiny new 2.4GHz charging case
- 10 years later, Overwatch co-creator Jeff Kaplan debunks the game's first controversy: "We actually didn't nerf Tracer's butt"
- Shigeru Miyamoto gave Exit 8's director some advice 10 years ago that completely changed the approach to his indie horror adaptation
- There's a wild Marvel Easter egg hiding in plain sight in Daredevil: Born Again season 2
- Homelander actor Antony Starr went full method after a phone went off during The Boys season 5 filming: "Scariest s*** I've seen in my life"
- Maul – Shadow Lord BTS video reveals cool detail that makes sure you'll never hear his lightsaber the same way again
- Crimson Desert roadmap reveals boss rematches, extra difficulty settings, new pets, and more coming to Pearl Abyss's open-world fantasy adventure over the next 3 months
- Theater chain listing claims that Spider-Man: Brand New Day takes place after the events of Avengers: Doomsday
- Star Wars authors including Thrawn creator Timothy Zahn say Lucasfilm has stopped them introducing Mara Jade to canon
- Palworld dev wishes "nothing but the best" for new Temtem survival game and says Pocketpair "thought the trailer looked great," but he knows comparisons are inevitable
- Bless the Maker, Dune: Awakening devs have answered our prayers and are turning the survival MMO into a "PvE-first" experience, as "over 80%" of us already play it that way
- After 9 years of acclaim for its depiction of sensitive themes, Google delists Doki Doki Literature Club for its "depiction of sensitive themes"
- First reactions to new horror movie from Evil Dead Rise director The Mummy call it "unrelenting" and a "freaky-as-f*** creepshow"
- Xbox exec who brought Bungie into Microsoft says it's "weird" to see Sony own the creators of Halo: "It was so weird to launch Marathon and see a PlayStation logo"
- April 9
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- My favorite Stardew Valley-like, the one where you manage a graveyard of course, is free for a few days as dev reveals sequel: Graveyard Keeper 2 is coming with a whole zombie-infested town to manage
- Bethesda was so indie when the Elder Scrolls launched that the devs packaged and shipped the RPG themselves: "We were in the loading dock and we learned how to assemble boxes, inserts and use the heat gun"
- New Mortal Kombat 2 trailer goes full side-scroller with actual levels from the game and confirms Sub-Zero's transformation into Noob Saibot
- The First Berserker Khazan dev restructure "not related to workforce reduction or team dissolution," Nexon says: "We're proud of the game's creative direction and the positive response"
- Buckshot Roulette dev's next unhinged multiplayer game is Mario Party, but instead of getting thwomped you get shot in the face
- Pokemon-like MMO Temtem channels Palworld with new open-world survival crafting game Temtem: Pioneers
- Metal Gear Solid movie finally makes progress after 12 years with Final Destination: Bloodlines directors signed on
- After spending $45,000 on an "unheard of" first-party Nintendo prototype, anonymous collector pulls the ultimate good guy move and releases the ROM for preservationists to study for free
- Daredevil: Born Again season 2 features an accent goof from Charlie Cox that you can't unhear
- New Don't Starve game announced: Klei Entertainment brings its survival crafting juggernaut back with magic and a jump button in Don't Starve Elsewhere
- One Piece fans, you need to see this new Lego set
- Marvel TV head says the original version of Daredevil: Born Again played "too fast and loose" with Netflix continuity before it was retooled
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime Video, Disney Plus, and more (April 10–April 12)
- Shock, awe, and disbelief as Rust devs confirm Rust 2 Steam teaser is "fake"
- The Punisher: One Last Kill trailer is a bloody first look at the MCU's most murderous project yet
- Open-world pirate survival game with over 1.5 million Steam wishlists, Windrose, finally has a release date, and it's sailing into early access next week
- New A24 horror Backrooms unveils creepy commercial, and you can ring the number for levelled-up scares
- Gearbox provided "creative guidance" on the new Borderlands game, which isn't actually Borderlands Mobile but is out now in a "limited-time test"
- Final Fantasy 14 patch 7.5 teasers have fans hoping the MMO's next big expansion will "resolve" a fan-favorite plotline Square Enix hasn't touched in nearly 3 years
- Xbox co-creator says "it's just not true" gaming is on the decline despite layoff apocalypse
- I need every 8Bitdo N64 controller owner to know there's now classic colorful buttons for under $4
- Some of the best writers making games today decided to form a publisher "an hour" after a call: Slay the Princess and 1000xResist devs team up for new sci-fi adventure
- Decades ago, Gabe Newell revealed that Super Mario 64 influenced Half-Life, and it seems future Steam god GabeN was a lot better at Nintendo's platformer than Valve's FPS classic
- This survival RPG with Stardew Valley-like visuals, published by Minecraft and Valheim veterans, was a Steam Next Fest hit, and it's finally releasing next month
- Star Wars fans are so blown away by the animation in Maul – Shadow Lord, they think the franchise should ditch live-action altogether: "Damn near photo realistic"
- World of Warcraft's current storyline is "like a Saturday morning cartoon," former Blizzard quest designer says: "Where are the stakes?"
- GTA 6 delays would only make it "cooler," GTA 5 Lester actor says, but he still wouldn't give Rockstar $100 for the game
- Ex-Nintendo marketing lead believes Illumination used Fox McCloud in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie as an "IP landgrab" after letting Zelda slip through its fingers
- Before you download the free Hello Yoshi app for your kids, please grab a Switch 2 screen protector
- "SteamGPT" mentions in Valve's code flagged by online sleuth, sparking fears of an AI Steam chatbot that will screw up your support requests and hallucinate anti-cheat
- "Fantasy-style GTA" open-world game reportedly canceled after 2 years of work at Nexon
- PUBG boss was "sad" to see Concord and Highguard get shut down, but hopes to learn from their mistakes
- I'm not sure anyone needs a 5K OLED ultrawide gaming monitor right now, but LG has you covered
- 6 years after it was announced, Marvel fans are convinced this forgotten project won't ever be released
- Alien: Earth creator set to remake cult hit Argentinian supernatural horror movie about violent, supernatural occurrences that plague a small neighborhood
- Rhythm Heaven Groove, my most anticipated game of the year, is finally launching in July, over a decade since I spent countless hours in Nintendo's last incredible instalment
- This game has been free on Steam for over a year, but the devs say they have to charge $4 now because "keeping the servers active indefinitely requires covering costs"
- Star Wars fans can't get enough of Maul – Shadow Lord's "delightfully evil" droid
- Incredibles director's sci-fi spin on classic detective movies gets a first look, as Marvel stars Scarlett Johansson and Sam Rockwell join the cast
- Portal 2 devs went through "nasty crunch" to get Valve's all-time classic out the door, partly because they kept "adding stuff" despite deadlines: "My wife was getting really tired"
- Evercade Nexus pre-orders are live, but I'm sad to say the fancy N64 edition is long gone
- Steven Spielberg developed Interstellar for a year, but says the sci-fi classic was a "much better movie" in Christopher Nolan's hands
- Elden Ring's Switch 2 port still has no release date, but Amazon pre-orders are live, and oh no, that's an $80 game-key card
- Microsoft forgot to include batteries with its Xbox controllers for over four months
- Brendan Fraser and Radio Silence have already started to promote the new Mummy sequel in the best way
- Almost 2 years later, No Man's Sky boss finally responds to fan asking for Pokemon-style update: "We did it"
- Wednesday star Jenna Ortega says she nearly quit acting before landing her breakout role in Netflix thriller You
- As Just Cause lead's new action game stumbles to mixed reviews, director promise fixes for "unacceptable" bugs and performance woes: "Samson is here to stay"
- Marvel fans debate whether Daredevil always needs Kingpin as a villain: "Daredevil has other enemies"
- Palworld and No Man's Sky crossover seems more likely than ever as Pocketpair lead shoots his shot for a "fun collab idea" moments before Hello Games' Pokemon-style update is unveiled
- Steven Spielberg says his "gargantuan" abandoned sci-fi movie Robopocalypse was so expensive it "would have ended a whole studio"
- Netflix's One Piece showrunner is making a new 'anime' show starring YouTuber IShowSpeed
- Peak co-dev says games like its iconic friendslop hit "wouldn't exist" if the studio tried to turn everything it makes "into the next Fortnite" with endless content updates
- The 007 First Light DualSense has the license to kill my future excitement for all limited edition PS5 controllers
- Bowser Jr.'s fiendish Super Mario Galaxy Movie 'level' is now playable in Super Mario Maker 2
- A character from The Boys spin-off Vought Rising will appear later in season 5, but the episode won't be "mandatory viewing"
- A Marvel fan edits together all the still-unseen Daredevil: Born Again season 2 footage, and the internet is convinced it means bad news for one character
- 20 years after losing the role, Henry Cavill is keen to be in James Bond, but not as 007
- Maul – Shadow Lord director teases that Maul's Star Wars Rebels death might not be permanent: "You never know"
- Marvel's upcoming X-Men movie could feature more obscure mutants, as the writer says he loves "the supporting members" over Cyclops and Wolverine
- Xbox Ally handhelds are finally getting thumb stick mouse controls, but I'm hoping it's not a desktop mode cop-out
- Classic family board game Labyrinth gets a KPop Demon Hunters remake
- Pokemon Champions devs squash a bug that left 'mons trapped between Pokemon Home, and promise to continue fixing the divisive PvP battler
- The Boys creator was "initially resistant" to killing off season 5's first big casualty so early
- New Pokopia update is the cozy life sim's biggest yet as fans celebrate "massive solve" that stops Pokemon from disappearing "to the shadow realm," softlock fixes, and more
- Weeks before The Boys season 5 aired, that Homelander and A-Train scene was already foreshadowed by the actors
- "Oh, we're going there" – Baldur's Gate 3 Halsin actor "burst out laughing" when he got the script for the RPG's most infamous scene
- April 8
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- Crimson Desert's "enemy density issue is very real in the late game," says Palworld publishing chief, so head to this spot for challenges
- PlayStation legend Mark Cerny tried to kick off the Spyro the Dragon speedrunning scene back in 1998, and he held the world record for 12 years
- Alien: Earth season 2 adds Game of Thrones icon Peter Dinklage in a mystery role
- Skyrim and Fallout artist says Todd Howard would tell devs "we can do anything but we can't do everything," and 95% of player-reported issues were flagged internally before launch
- Despite good reviews, The First Berserker Khazan development team reportedly dissolved over disappointing sales just days after Nexon CEO praised the game
- I can be a roguelike hater, but I slammed the Steam wishlist button on this one after my sicko coworker showed me its Hades upgrades and dark dollhouse world
- Alfred Molina goes from Doctor Octopus to actual octopus as the voice of a sentient sea creature in Netflix's new movie about an eccentric aquarium
- The Boys star Jack Quaid would "kill" to be in a BioShock adaptation: "Just to be involved even in the slightest"
- Daredevil: Born Again season 2 episode 4 is currently the highest-rated episode of any Disney+ live action MCU show
- Steam charts rocked by Road to Vostok, a "single player Tarkov" FPS by a solo ex-military dev who says "the past 24 hours have been absolutely insane"
- The OG Xbox was meant to be a PC-console hybrid, and the console's co-creator says Project Helix is "very similar"
- Pokemon Champions reportedly has a "massive bug" that's trapping 'mons from Pokemon Home "in limbo"
- James Gunn denies Fallout and Andor stars are testing for Superman-obsessed alien queen Maxima, but there's still one role to cast for Man of Tomorrow
- Marvel Zombies is returning for season 2 and will deliver "on an MCU thing that has never really happened before"
- Valve admits it's "time to make some bigger improvements" to Steam's mod system, drops massive Steam Workshop update with "completely rewritten" pages
- Just Cause co-creator made new crime game Samson because he is sick of "swallowing all the crap that the industry feeds us"
- Daredevil: Born Again star Vincent D'Onofrio says that Fisk becomes "more of a loose cannon" after that shocking episode 4 ending: "It's a dangerous thing"
- Everything Evercade: All the latest cartridge releases and consoles for Blaze's modern retro platform
- Street Fighter 6 director says Shigeru Miyamoto is "a North Star guiding all game creators" and working with him on Zelda: The Minish Cap "shaped the way I approach game development"
- Everything is cooler when it glows in the dark, and that includes this new Super Mario Switch 2 case
- Crimson Desert has everything except a female protagonist, so modders added one with 98 face presets and 159 hair styles: "F*** John Desert"
- Former GTA 6 artist also "can't wait" for Trailer 3, but warns the final game won't be exactly like what you see: "That view is getting madly polished"
- Stellar Blade 2 won't be revealed until it's good enough to be revealed, ShiftUp CEO says, which is probably something more devs should try
- Peak co-dev turned indie investor says "too many developers develop their game secretly for several years," and it's putting its friendslop fortune into helping devs find a better way
- Pokemon Champions patches out strategies competitive players have been using for years, but hey, at least Freeze has finally been nerfed
- New Star Wars book hints at a time skip between The Mandalorian season 3 and The Mandalorian and Grogu
- Astronaut shows how to roll D&D dice in space, so Artemis II has no excuse not to run a campaign around the moon
- Arc Raiders patch saves the whole game by fixing the Rocketeer sound, and also stops Trigger Nades from "sometimes" dealing 300% damage
- Glorious has entered the gaming audio ring with the GHS Eternal and GHS Eternal RGB gaming headsets
- The Boys fans are worried about the season 5 finale as showrunner Eric Kripke shares concerns that viewers may "retroactively judge" the whole show based on the last episode
- Who is Oh-Father in The Boys season 5? The new evangelical Supe explained
- Invincible season 4 episode 6's post-credits scene has everyone panicking, until the punchline
- Tom Holland can't believe Christopher Nolan's movie magic on "masterpiece" The Odyssey, despite being in the middle of it: "How on earth has he done that?"
- Game of Thrones star reveals her "very, very, very funny and kind of insane" role that was cut from Marvel's Thor: Love and Thunder
- The Boys season 5 just revealed how Homelander could survive the Supe Virus
- Dragonheir: Silent Gods is overhauling its entire gameplay system ahead of its partnership with Heroes of Might & Magic III
- No Man's Sky Xeno Arena update lets you "raise, train, and battle the alien creatures found across the universe," is inspired by Hello Games' love of Pokemon, Palworld, and World of Warcraft's pet battling
- Tom Holland says Spider-Man: Brand New Day is undergoing reshoots to add humor and "[layer] in a villain plotline in a new way"
- As Marathon faces the kind of cheat users Destiny 2 fans know all too well, Bungie promises "we have a zero-tolerance policy" and that anti-cheat improvements are on the way
- Marvel TV boss wants the MCU to follow Stranger Things and put its shows on the big screen: "Maybe we could do it for the finale of Daredevil"
- The Boys season 5 finally gives A-Train his Quicksilver moment, and fans spotted the Marvel gag immediately
- The Boys season 5 premiere features a full-circle moment with its big death and fans think it's a "perfect" ending
- Starfield's Free Lanes update comes with a quality-of-life feature fans have spent months begging Bethesda for, and many more: "One less mod in the LO!"
- Daredevil: Born Again season 2's shocking 'death' was literally in front of our eyes this whole time – in a previous trailer
- Star of Ryan Coogler's The X-Files reboot says there's a "massive amount of pressure" on the new series – but not for the reasons you might think
- I review Lego for a living, and I think these are the best new Lego sets in April 2026
- The Boys season 5 episode 1 finally reveals Ashley's superpowers, and gives a new tongue-in-cheek meaning to her hair loss
- Rumored new Star Fox game for the Switch 2 will be announced this month, prominent leaker claims, so you'll want to keep an eye on the Nintendo Today app
- I can't decide if this custom Sonic 2 controller with spin dash force feedback is genius or Eggman-levels of ridiculous
- Daredevil: Born Again fans can't decide exactly what this week's shocking episode means for one character
- Sorry, Hunt for Ben Solo truthers – Steven Soderbergh isn't interested in reviving his scrapped Star Wars movie under new Disney and Lucasfilm leadership: "If it was gonna happen, it would have happened"
- Pokemon Champions makes a poor first impression on fans, with 6v6 single battles, popular items, and hundreds of pocket pals missing: "Going from the perfection of Pokopia to this...whiplash"
- Daredevil: Born Again finally lives up to the Netflix series, all thanks to Bullseye
- Tom Holland is not the Marvel spoiler this time, as Shang-Chi star seemingly confirms that Spider-Man will appear in Avengers: Doomsday
- The Boys season 5 premiere leaves fans "literally breathless" and questioning "what the f*** just happened"
- Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone says Link's Awakening is his favorite Zelda game because it has an "indie" feel: "It was creative and unique in a way that seems harder to find in modern triple-A games"
- April 7
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- RoboCop show reportedly greenlit at Amazon 12 years after 50% Rotten Tomatoes-rated remake
- 2 years after the GTA 5 source code leak, fans think they've found the protagonist of Rockstar's canceled PS3 spy epic buried in the files
- A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms star Peter Claffey "didn't think we'd be able to ever hit the level of quality of season 1," but season 2 is "incredible"
- Exit 8 director took inspiration from The Shining for the upcoming horror movie's unique sound design: "I think [it] gets under our skin and kind of like mentally corners us"
- Crimson Desert players discover space travel, then find that space is strangely detailed for a game that isn't about space
- Crimson Desert players are literally running out of enemies to fight after blasting to the endgame: "Pearl Abyss needs to address the map"
- Exit 8 director wants to reinvent video game adaptations and blur the "borders between the movie and game mediums"
- "Video games are cooked": Publisher head says "it doesn't matter" how many of us hate gen AI, Pandora's box has opened and "it's gonna get used now"
- CD Projekt Red veteran tells game devs to unionize after Epic adds 1,000 people to the layoff pile: "Collectively, we can influence things"
- "We had everything that I've seen from Crimson Desert," former Just Cause boss says of Avalanche's cancelled fantasy open-world game
- Artemis II launch sends legendary astronaut sim Kerbal Space Program rocketing to its biggest Steam player peak in 10 years
- Witchbrook's taken 10 years because "Harry Potter meets Stardew Valley" got old and the devs wanted time to make "something more unique"
- As the shadow of GTA 6 looms, Just Cause lead isn't put off by comparisons to Rockstar's goliath as he prepares to release Samson: "There are times when you want to put GTA down and pick up something else"
- Resident Evil Requiem dataminers find an unused form for villain Victor Gideon that could've fixed my least-favorite part of the game
- No Man's Sky boss Sean Murray once again gets the community dancing with just a few short posts: "Save some emojis for Light No Fire buddy"
- X-Men director says he's already thinking about sequels: "What hasn’t been explored as much, and how can that be incorporated?"
- The animator behind Fox's intro in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie has been revealed, and they previously worked on Jujutsu Kaisen
- Another obscure Final Fantasy game could come to PC with Square Enix "exploring the possibility" of porting Dissidia Duellum
- OG God of War actor has a message for "all you men": He thinks the sex scenes will be back in the Greek trilogy remake
- InZoi devs say Baldur's Gate 3's early-access success story helped inspire them to try it themselves, even though it "was not really a thing" for Korean studios
- Naturally, the Artemis II launch was shot on a Nintendo 3DS, and you know what? It has all the charm of the '60s missions
- Sony is doing its best Hideo Kojima impression, scanning fans into games like Gran Turismo 7, but only if you can impress with your player stats and "authentic love for PlayStation"
- Hideo Kojima put Low Roar in the Death Stranding games because he thinks gamers need more culture in their lives: "I believe that is the role entertainment is meant to play"
- Re:Zero Starting Life in Another World season 4 release schedule: what time is episode 4 on Crunchyroll?
- The 6 best new shows and movies streaming this week on Prime Video, Netflix, Disney Plus, and more (April 7–April 12)
- Despite Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum scheduling conflicts, Andy Serkis will return as Alfred in The Batman 2: "I'm pretty certain it's all going to work out"
- Crimson Desert super fan "played 56 hours straight and slept 8" on repeat to earn its Platinum trophy, and even Pearl Abyss is concerned: "That's not enough sleep"
- The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask lead worries Link speaking in the movie will ruin the magic for some fans
- Netflix's One Piece returns in 2027 for season 3, and it could wrap up one of the manga's best arcs
- Keys Factory is launching a new wave of Switch 2 Animal Crossing New Horizons accessories, and it's about time
- Daredevil: Born Again's Bullseye almost starred in a canceled Star Wars video game over a decade ago, and everyone's suddenly realizing what a missed opportunity it was
- Mark Hamill says Dave Filoni is the best choice to lead Lucasfilm: "He knows George's sensibility"
- Overwatch will free Anran from her "baby face" in Season 2, director confirms, and her voice actor approves: "She looks much more like the strong older sibling we knew her to be"
- Marvel's X-Men director explains why Thunderbolts and Beef writers are the perfect fit for the "soap opera" superhero movie: "[They] understand how to drive ideology from personal stakes"
- After Dune 3 IMAX tickets sold out in minutes, scalpers are reselling tickets online for $1000
- The Super Mario Galaxy Movie releases a taster of its best moment online for free and, yes, we're talking about the Star Fox anime sequence
- Super Mario 64, Star Fox programmer says devs weren't historically given free copies of their games, so they had to "wait until supply caught up with demand" if their work sold out
- New Daredevil: Born Again season 2 teaser spoils a pretty big plot development for Jessica Jones, and fans aren't happy
- GTA 6 might not feature an entirely rebuilt Rage Engine after all, as one report says it's more of an expansion on what Rockstar used in Red Dead Redemption 2
- Maul – Shadow Lord becomes one of the highest rated Star Wars projects on Rotten Tomatoes
- Marvel TV boss says that She-Hulk is one of the MCU's "best-performing shows" and he'd "love to make more" despite negative fan response
- Nvidia's own DLSS 5 video being blocked on YouTube thanks to an Italian TV station is pretty funny, but boy, it sure makes me worried about AI copyright infringement
- Netflix casually confirms Steel Ball Run's episode 2 release plans – but JoJo's fans might not like it
- April 6
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- Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream's viral soap opera lore expands as Nintendo embraces the "drama" and "silliness" of the life sim: "NOT HUGH FRIENDZONING ANGIE ON LIVE TV"
- After making 2 of the best indie games of all time, Lucas Pope won't even talk about his third because "it's getting slurped up by AI or people are gonna copy it"
- Indie dev inspired by PS1 Resident Evil tells arachnophobes to get bent, creates first-person survival horror where you're trapped in an apartment "infested by giant spiders"
- I'm staring at "Persona 1 Origins" and "Persona 2 Duality" merch from Atlus and willing myself to believe that the OG PS1 JRPGs are finally making a comeback
- The Boys season 5 debuts to a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score, breaking the final season curse
- Steven Spielberg calls Denis Villeneuve's Dune trilogy his "favorite science-fiction movies of all time"
- "When we are going to make an open-world RPG, it's better played on high-end PCs": Arknights Endfield lead says it's a good thing "the player base of high-end PC gaming is increasing"
- Dune 3 runtime reveal puts it as the shortest of the Denis Villeneuve trilogy, defying expectations
- Crimson Desert fan spends days watching NPCs build a statue in real time like a Red Dead Redemption 2 fan watching clothes dry, Kingdom Come: Deliverance boss says "this is absolutely insane"
- The Punisher: One Last Kill gets a tiny teaser that will leave you wanting more Frank Castle
- AAA developers are getting forced into "dangerous" siloes, says Guilty Gear creator: "Even if you quit your job, your chances of finding another one will be slim"
- Crimson Desert players average over 20 hours a week in the open-world game, blowing away almost everything else on consoles
- Ignoring Valve's Half-Life lessons, Baby Steps dev says trolling players with level design is important, actually
- Finally, a sim for the real sickos: plushie crafting simulator buried in more than twice its Kickstarter goal is less than a year away
- A24's Elden Ring movie seems to be in production with an elaborate set discovered in a random field
- Sandbox RPG dev spends 5 years combining No Man's Sky with Minecraft in "voxel survival game where the world is a planet" in a solar system with "seamless" space travel, smashes Kickstarter goal in 3 hours
- 4 years later, new Elden Ring cutscene uncovered with massive lore implications for DLC star Miquella
- JRPG fans crushed again as latest Tales announcement turns out to be another bust: "The way they hype things up is just terrible"
- The hottest new sim on Steam is a love letter to Blockbuster stores and everyone who remembers winding a VHS tape, made by 2 people who sold 100,000 copies in 5 days
- Nintendo's live-action Legend of Zelda movie is filming in same location as the Lord of the Rings trilogy
- Daredevil: Born Again season 3 set photos reveal Luke Cage and Iron Fist, setting up a full Defenders reunion
- Robert Pattinson hopes people will be "really pleasantly surprised by" The Batman 2: "This is a different type of Batman movie"
- Twisted Metal dev was "convinced" the PS3 would "never be" emulated, and now he's congratulating RPCS3 on proving him wrong: "Amazing work"
- X-Men Origins: Wolverine is "better than the movie," says dev, but "it was harrowing" to make the PS3 action game before the film was done
- First Faces of Death reviews call it a "terrifying, stark, oppressive horror film" and "bold and sinister reimagining" of the original "snuff film" franchise
- Steven Spielberg says he doesn't need to make a horror movie after watching Weapons: "It satisfies me so completely"
- The Steam Machine may still be a long way off, so these are the accessories I'd use to make a Steam Deck workaround
- Arc Raiders devs would love to have machine takedowns "like the Hoth invasion scene in Star Wars," and "we could do that if we just had better rope physics"
- After deleting the console's fourth-biggest publisher, Sony has unleashed another wave of delisting across the PlayStation Store's shovelware collection
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 actor Ben Starr hasn't romanced Baldur's Gate 3's Shadowheart because it'd be "so weird" after Jennifer English's role as Maelle, and he's more of a "Gale girly"
- The clip of Resident Evil 2's Ada Wong actor teasing the character's return is a dud, as it actually surfaced from a fan's Cameo request
- Baldur's Gate 3 Shadowheart actor says Hades has become a comfort game, though she's "too bad" to get into Hollow Knight: Silksong
- April 5
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- "My 20-year tenure is no longer good enough": GTA 5, Red Dead Redemption veteran says getting a job is a "toss of a coin" right now when everyone is as experienced as you are
- "We should be building new IPs": Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Final Fantasy 16's Ben Starr doesn't want games to be stuck in the past
- The Mass Effect TV show reportedly goes through rewrites to make it "more appealing to non-gamers," and I'm hoping it follows Fallout and not Halo in that direction
- This Super Mario Switch 2 headset is as cheap as it is stylish, and it's my go-to pick for little Nintendo fans
- State of Decay 3 lead says the game only existed in a Word document when its reveal trailer dropped 6 years ago: "We're not doing zombie animals"
- Achievements for Starfield's Terran Armada DLC seemingly tease whole new locations and features Bethesda's remained quiet about
- April 4
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- I'm an RGB defender, and this Mario and Luigi Switch 2 controller is prime reason why
- GTA 6 parent company Take-Two reportedly lays off its AI-focused staff: "Shifting priorities from upper management have impacted my team"
- Shadow Lord is "a whole 'nother level of character depth" for Sam Witwer's Maul "where you get to go into his mental psyche"
- Veteran Halo developer of 17 years accuses the studio of blacklisting, fraud, and "multiple harassment campaigns"
- Ghost of Yotei Legends' upcoming Raid won't launch with matchmaking, despite devs warning it's impossible to beat without 4-player co-op
- Crimson Desert patch expands private storage up to 1000 slots, just as the open-world game's fans were struggling to juggle all their bugs and rocks
- No Man's Sky player creates stunning underwater city reminiscent of BioShock's own Rapture, and I'm not even sure this is the same game anymore
- April 3
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- Indie dev sees Ubisoft fail to bring back Splinter Cell for 13 years, says fine, I'll do it myself with a "short, focused stealth" game "inspired by classic PS2-era games"
- It's the start of the month and Prime Video has added loads of new movies: here are the 3 I recommend you watch this weekend (April 3–April 5)
- New MMO rebuilding 2008's AdventureQuest Worlds cleverly becomes 164,000,000% funded on Kickstarter by asking for $1 and raising $1.6 million
- Spider-Noir swings through old-timey Metropolis in Marvel and DC's Spider-Man/Superman crossover
- It only took 6 years, but Xbox's open-world zombie game State of Decay 3 is back from the dead with "a series of alpha playtests" starting in May
- Japanese company says it sent half of a game's $345,000 crowdfunding campaign to the wrong people – who, uh, did not return the money
- Arknights: Endfield dev says launching a new gacha RPG in a post-Genshin Impact world is tough when "some titles are so similar that players go into a game for 1 hour and they know what will happen in the next 20 hours"
- Sinners director Ryan Coogler is executive producing an Animorphs show because hell yeah
- "Completing the Game" is the radical plan for The First Descendant after 2 years, and the latest roadmap cooked up by Nexon just days after it called the game a flop
- Crimson Desert players have a common foe, and his name is Yann: "An absolute disgrace to the Greymanes"
- Charlie Day wants It's Always Sunny co-star Danny DeVito to play Wario in the next Super Mario movie: "[He] would fit so well in this universe"
- Massive Nintendo court document reveal shows Shigeru Miyamoto saw Donkey Kong as a man in a gorilla suit and wanted his original arcade game to be called "Build On"
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 writer says one actor's "charisma" did "some heavy lifting in helping us get the players over the hurdle of accepting Verso" and moving on from the RPG's big early twist
- Crimson Desert is still the best-selling new game on Steam after 2 weeks, and its user reviews have jumped to 85% positive as more players get past the weak opening
- Crimson Desert weapon lets you create deadly tornadoes to blow down enemies and buildings: "Looks like a Naruto reference"
- Andy Serkis confirms Viggo Mortensen won't return as Aragorn in Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum: "We are recasting the role"
- FromSoftware experts find evidence Hidetaka Miyazaki's breakout RPG Demon's Souls deleted the biggest middle finger in the series: giant birds that hurl you off cliffs
- New Supergirl teaser gives a behind the scenes look at the next big DC film courtesy of James Gunn
- InZOI boss says the success of Crimson Desert and other Korean games is "really nice to see" but Asian developers "still have a lot to learn from Western developers"
- After 40 years, Super Mario Bros speedrunners discover "the Holy Grail of glitches"
- Invincible has quickly bounced back after last week's series low, as the latest episode of season 4 becomes the show's second-highest rated ever
- Succession star Brian Cox will play New York's biggest, scariest killer in Dexter: Resurrection season 2
- Crimson Desert players beg for more storage as their rock collections start getting out of hand: "If they can do it in oblivion back in the day they can do it now"
- Persona 3 Reload fans are redoing every cutscene in this huge JRPG to add forgotten Portable female MC Kotone – the first scene was just released, and it looks incredible
- As ex-Helldivers 2 devs prepare to launch a Resident Evil-inspired horror game, they reminisce on their past Metroidvania that was too "happy": "'I need to get to blow someone's head off with a shotgun in the next game'"
- Who will kill Homelander in The Boys season 5?
- Get an exclusive first look at new Star Wars Loungefly bags inspired by Grogu, Darth Maul, and more
- Baldur's Gate 3 performance director knew Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 would be a hit, and even took a bet "to win 33 baguettes"
- Netflix just added loads of new movies: here are the 3 that I recommend you watch this weekend (April 3–April 5)
- I reckon revisiting Sega's weirdest egg-rolling GameCube romp is the perfect way to spend Easter, especially if you've still got the 2000s retro console
- Even though Maul's story continues after Shadow Lord in Solo and Rebels, it's "not necessarily a straight line," the Star Wars show's director says
- "What if the gameplay was fun? This blew our f***ing minds": Dispatch devs had a revelation after years of tired Telltale mechanics
- A fanmade Jak and Daxter 3 PC port is now in beta, finally making Naughty Dog's most underrated trilogy fully available on PC
- Red Dead Redemption 2 dev would "be surprised" if GTA 6 doesn't feature any ideas from Rockstar's open-world cowboy hit
- "Marathon is gonna be Game of the Year," actor Ben Starr says, because it has Elden Ring, Baldur's Gate 3, and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 award magnet Jennifer English
- GTA 6 is taking so long that Rockstar has "probably rebuilt the entirety of the Rage Engine," former GTA 5 and LA Noire dev says: "I'll be amazed if they didn't"
- New Slay the Spire 2 patch gives players a pat on the back with Badges, "little reminders to let you know what was unique about each run"
- Skyrim and Fallout 4 artist says Bethesda's Todd Howard has too many yes men: "A lot of people were afraid to say no to Todd and that hurt him"
- April 2
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- Immersive sim pioneer Warren Spector's new stealth game Thick as Thieves makes the blessed pivot, dropping PvPvE in favor of single-player and co-op
- Prime Video's top 10 shows and the 3 you need on your watchlist right now (April 3–April 5)
- Spider-Man star Zendaya says she wants to work with Black Panther director Ryan Coogler: "He means so much to the world, but he also means so much to us"
- Sony may never support PS3 games again, but at least the platform's best emulator is getting massive improvements on PC handhelds like Steam Deck
- Cyberpunk 2077's best shopkeeper was originally a "vapid" side character devs had no idea what to do with, says actor, until a few redrafts made her "one of my favourite characters I've ever voiced"
- "Gabe really had a great vision": Steam became a PC gaming cornerstone because Valve built a community with "stickiness," says Nightdive chief who worked on GameStop's Steam competitor
- Frodo actor Elijah Wood says he regularly gets mistaken for fellow '00s movie icon Tobey Maguire: "Hey, Spider-Man!"
- Sony buys machine-learning company to help "enhance gameplay visuals, improve rendering techniques, and unlock new levels of visual fidelity" in PlayStation games
- Elijah Wood appears to confirm Aragorn recasting rumors in Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum: "Those are tough boots [to fill]"
- "Fortnite's cultural moment is starting to fade," games analyst says amid mass layoffs, and its downturn is part of the "erosion of American leadership" in video games
- It took 3 years for PlayStation to earn $300 million in PC sales according to former manager, which makes the platform less than half as lucrative as the PS4 and PS5
- Hunt for Gollum "doesn't have to" live up to Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy, says Elijah Wood: "It is a side quest"
- Arknights: Endfield lead says good gacha systems don't "impact the player's ability to enjoy the gameplay," and Endfield is "trying" to fix its confusing gacha
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime Video, Disney Plus, and more (April 3–April 5)
- Slay the Spire 2 dev teases 3 new modes: something "very competitive," one for players who don't "have the time" for "the Slay the Spire experience," and a new multiplayer setting
- Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord is officially renewed for season 2 before season 1 has even premiered
- Slay the Spire 2 devs were caught off guard by 13,000 negative Steam review spike: "It was much more extreme than any previous types of negative feedback"
- Pokemon Pokopia speedruns are already a thing, and they somehow don't use the cozy life sim's fastest ability
- Final Fantasy 14 lifts restrictions on gifting after 4 years, allowing players to give other fans of the MMO single-character mounts, minions, and more: "Finally"
- Anime Awards 2026 nominees revealed as Demon Slayer and Chainsaw Man battle for Film of the Year
- Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream fans say who needs an official Switch stylus when you can use carrots and inside-out bags of chips for next-level Mii creation instead
- After 7 years of development, The Last of Us Online was 80% complete and was scrapped to make room for Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet
- Restore the flow of life in this XCOM-style roguelite from the Othercide creators, coming to Steam Early Access on May 21
- PS5 price increases be damned, Amazon still has consoles at their previous rates - for now
- The Last of Us Part 3 hopium will never die as former Naughty Dog lead confirms the studio's secret game besides Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet has been in the works for at least 3 years
- The Replay theme for April is Starfield: send us your gaming clips for a chance to win Amazon vouchers!
- Call of Duty Zombies dev starts new studio with 2 failed PlayStation collabs behind him, just 1 week after Sony shut down his last project: "Third time's the charm"
- Here's the Replay March winner: an epic Arc Raiders escape
- The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Rosalina actor Brie Larson proves being a space princess can't save you from experiencing peak Mario Kart: "Are you actually kidding me right now?"
- Over 5 months since Pokemon Legends: Z-A's release, Home compatibility finally lets you offload your shiny-stuffed boxes ahead of Pokemon Champions
- After nearly 1 year, viral Steam horror hit Lethal Company is back with another big update boasting 3 new creatures that are sure to leave my pals and me screaming
- Crimson Desert modder restores a full-fat food system left on the cutting room floor: "Everything this mod uses already exists in the game files"
- It sure sounds like Homelander will kill A-Train in the final season of The Boys
- Witch Hat Atelier release schedule: what time is episode 6 on Crunchyroll?
- Arc Raiders Flashpoint's new map condition is "hell on Earth" and it's giving players "flashbacks" of Helldivers 2's Malevelon Creek: "Nothing but pure chaos everywhere"
- Maul – Shadow Lord's Twi'lek apprentice is in a "tug of war" between Maul and her Jedi Master, and the Star Wars show's creatives are "fascinated" by the fan theories
- "It would just be Palworld 2": Pocketpair lead says adding a best-in-class feature from the viral pirate game it's publishing would be near impossible
- Barely a week later, GTA 4 pre-release build that was a treasure trove of cut Rockstar ideas is being scrubbed from the internet
- The Boys season 5 release schedule: what time is episode 5 on Prime Video?
- Minecraft introduces Herdcraft, Mojang's latest annual joke update, and suddenly I'm a pseudo-summoner with a sentient inventory to command
- New Daredevil: Born Again season 2 trailer introduces a copycat Bullseye – and fans have a theory who's behind it
- One Piece Elbaph Arc release schedule: when are episodes 1159 and 1160 on Netflix and Crunchyroll?
- Nintendo fans are torn on The Super Mario Galaxy Movie's big Peach and Rosalina twist: "It's a blatant retcon"
- God of War Greek trilogy's Kratos actor T.C. Carson says Sony Santa Monica "realized that they let me go prematurely," but "they came back" to him for the remake
- Resident Evil's PS1 trilogy finally comes to Steam alongside cult classic JRPG Breath of Fire 4, but Capcom's retroactive DRM isn't going down well with everyone
- Avatar's future seems secure as one producer says they're going "full speed ahead" on Avatar 4 and 5
- Despite a low Rotten Tomatoes score, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is already breaking box office records
- Crimson Desert has made around $200 million on its 4 million copies sold, analyst estimates, and PlayStation 5 sales account for almost half of that
- Charlie Cox thought one of Daredevil: Born Again season 1's fan-favorite episodes was "really dumb"
- The Boys season 5 features the "craziest line" the writers could think of, but someone already beat them to it in real life
- PlayStation handheld rumors suggest it will beat the Xbox Series S, but I wouldn't bother thinking about it or the Steam Deck 2 until at least 2028
- Gears of War 6 was considered before The Coalition decided on E-Day, JD Fenix actor says as he pitches a bonkers sequel about Marcus fighting his zombie son
- Forget Fox, we can't stop thinking about the Metroid Easter egg you may have missed in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
- Valve has another Steam "refresh" up its sleeve, revamping its storefront with new sections that look way cleaner – and honestly, I kind of love it
- Weapons prequel Gladys adds Godzilla writer as we get one step closer to horror villain Aunt Gladys' return
- April 1
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- Crimson Desert players are speed-gliding using this "game changer" of a trick that may or may not be a bug: "Dear devs, please do not patch this"
- Marvel's next big comic event kicks off with a special release that includes an exclusive Magic: The Gathering Card tying into its new Marvel Super Heroes set
- "Any update is a bonus not a right": Peak co-developer Landfall reminds impatient fans it's not a live-service studio
- Switch 2 prices will go up, says ex-Nintendo sales lead: "It's inevitable"
- Nintendo's physical price split is "a pro-consumer move," says ex-sales lead, and the company is just passing profits on cheaper digital games back to you while it swims in "Scrooge McDuck money"
- Eli Roth says his upcoming horror movie set around a killer ice cream man is "totally insane": "I want to outdo Hostel and Green Inferno"
- 110,000 mixed Steam reviews later, Nexon bluntly puts The First Descendant in the "did not work" category: "Strong launch, no staying power"
- Resident Evil's Leon and Ada have a son, fans decide, and he's in Love and Deepspace: "Welcome to the Kennedy family, Zayne"
- Illumination CEO says the "secret" to the massive success of the Super Mario movies is working directly with Shigeru Miyamoto and Nintendo
- Crimson Desert is "opposite" to most open-world games because the "magic kicks in" later, says Arkane Lyon boss: "Might be why so many find investing time in it rewarding"
- Karl Urban promises the final season of The Boys will feel closer to seasons 1 and 2: "It really feels like peak Boys this season"
- Arc Raiders boss promoted to Nexon chief backs AI push for "redesigning game development" after building a hit "at a fraction of the cost you'd expect for a AAA game"
- Nintendo's Pokemon battling claim is too "obvious" to stand, US patent office says as it revokes the application, but the door's open for the publisher to fight back
- Nearly 2 weeks after Crimson Desert's launch, tons of players are still in the first region: "136 hours in the game so far and STILL haven't left Hernand"
- World of Warcraft lead asks how players would feel about playing the MMO on controller with a dedicated UI, but fans "fear that the PC experience will get worse"
- 18-year-old Super Mario Galaxy mystery is finally settled in the movie, since Shigeru Miyamoto and Nintendo "never came to a conclusion" in the original Wii game
- After gracing Final Fantasy 16 and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 with his silky voice, actor Ben Starr is ready to tackle dating RPG Love and Deepspace: "I love feral people"
- No, this thumb-sized NES controller isn't an April Fools gag, and I'm staggered by how accurate it feels
- From Arena to Skyrim, Elden Ring streamer beats Bethesda's entire RPG series "first try" with 0 damage – and "if Elder Scrolls 6 comes out in my lifetime," he'll do it all again
- "Players shouldn't feel fully safe" in Arc Raiders even in friendly lobbies, production director says, and after Flashpoint I definitely do not feel safe
- Shigeru Miyamoto thought there would be "significant resistance" at Nintendo to Fox McCloud appearing in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
- Palworld dating sim "obviously" isn't NSFW, Pocketpair publishing boss clarifies: "We might be goofy but we aren't that goofy"
- Ex-StarCraft and Warcraft veterans' new RTS is losing online features as server partner is sold to an AI company, and devs don't know when or if they'll be restored
- Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream fans dub 70 Mii limit "kinda lame" – and as someone whose 3DS island filled up quickly with babies, I get it
- Rockstar said GTA 6 marketing wouldn't start until the summer, but the wait for Trailer 3 has been so long that some fans have decided to disagree
- Gabe Newell "stepped back" from making games at Valve after Portal 2 because everyone kept agreeing with him when he wanted "to be part of the team and come up with ideas"
- Invincible fans "can't believe" how gory Mark and Conquest's rematch was in season 4, episode 5: "It's so gross to watch"
- Dbrand wants us to "touch grass" again with these Switch 2 skins, but the joke's on them as I'm a fan
- Super Mario Galaxy Movie creators ran every cameo past Miyamoto, saying if it's "not going to work for him, we're not going to do it"
- Glen Powell was cast as Fox McCloud in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie after calling Nintendo and Illumination directly: "His dream was to one day be part of a Star Fox movie"
- Maul – Shadow Lord's Inquisitors are "creepier than we've ever seen them," including Ahsoka's mysterious Marrok
- Nintendo fans aren't happy that The Super Mario Galaxy Movie "sidelines" Princess Rosalina in favor of Fox McCloud
- Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord release schedule: when are episodes 9 and 10 on Disney Plus?
- All the Super Mario Galaxy Movie toys available on release day, avoid fakes with official figures
- Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era set to finally release into early access later this month, arriving as the latest entry in the beloved 40-year-old RPG franchise
- Xbox Ally handhelds just gained Game Bar display and Auto Super Resolution widgets, but Windows put me through hell fetching the update
- Where to buy Hatchin' Yoshi, the must-have toy that keeps selling out
- This mini elago Game Boy is designed to store your Switch games and not play them, but I fear I'd lose this cute keyring
- "One stick movement = 10 pushups" - GameSir teases a controller with four back buttons and up to 40kgs of adjustable stick tension for April Fools, but its commitment to the bit is puzzling me
- Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto is "on a mission" to include Pikmin in every Nintendo product after the critters' surprise appearance in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
- Diego Luna thinks Andor and Han Solo would be friends, but that there's one droid Cassian wouldn't get on with
- The Super Mario Galaxy Movie debuts to a disappointing Rotten Tomatoes score – and fails to beat the original film
- The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Yoshi popcorn bucket is already going for nearly $100 at eBay, but Cinemark just dropped new pre-orders
- Resident Evil director Zach Cregger says he expects fans to "crucify" him if his movie deviates from game lore
- Capcom finally confirms the theory that Pragmata is a stealth Mega Man game, just don't look at today's date
- Dave Filoni explains why Darth Sidious only appears in a handful of The Clone Wars episodes, and we might have his cloak to blame
- Turns out you can make a PS1 mini that's better than the original out of two consoles
- After Scream 7 broke franchise records, Scream 8 is officially in the works, with Suits writing duo penning the script
- Arc Raiders players are getting literally vaporized by Flashpoint's new Arc, but one daredevil has already figured out the best way to kill them: "I think I just peaked"
- Avatar star says the sci-fi franchise is "unlike Marvel movies" because there are no "outside pressures": "We can take more risks"
- Resident Evil director's new AAA studio is "joining forces" with Stellar Blade developer Shift Up "to create a masterpiece of a game" – and no, this isn't an April Fool's joke
- Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto says "there's only so many people" Nintendo can reach through consoles like the Switch 2, so "we want to expand" outside of video games
- Yakuza writer "can't think of any role" for Jack Black, but wants to reach out anyway
- Robert Pattinson says The Batman 2 script is "so, so good" as he confirms filming starts in April
- Miyamoto says not to expect a Smash Bros-style crossover in future Mario movies
- The Super Mario Galaxy Movie post-credits scenes: how many are there and what does it mean for a threequel?
- "Slay the Spire 2 is a masterpiece," Palworld lead says, but Crimson Desert "makes me feel a sense of wonder I've not felt since Oblivion"
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