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- June 6
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- A new Scott Pilgrim beat 'em up is coming from the developers of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge
- 2 years after getting too big to be Dying Light 2 DLC, Dying Light: The Beast finally launches this August
- This seriously pretty couch co-op platformer looks like a stop motion It Takes Two where "everything has been crafted by hand," and I need it in my veins yesterday
- Hollow Knight: Silksong disappointment hits its peak as Team Cherry gets a mention at Summer Game Fest, only to be replaced by Deadpool VR
- Geoff Keighley can't help himself, pours gasoline on the memes as he unveils a real-time boxing game starring puppets: "You guys all know I love my puppets"
- Shovel Knight devs unveil the demo and release date for the Castlevania meets Zelda: Link's Awakening game I've wanted for years, and I can tell you it's every bit as good as that pedigree suggests
- The 8th most wishlisted game on Steam, Arc Raiders, is still the extraction shooter to watch, and it's coming this October
- Lego Voyagers is a co-op follow-up to a critically underrated puzzle game, and it's just as adorable as its predecessor
- It's Bucky fan service galore in a New Avengers #1 preview that has the Winter Soldier effortlessly exploding his enemies before a steamy hook-up with Black Widow
- This new Game of Thrones strategy game will let you change one of the final season's biggest moments, and it's coming next year
- New strategy game Chronicles Medieval has you fight third-person battles with Tom Hardy narrating in a surpringly normal accent for once
- Bandai Namco unveils Code Vein 2, a stunning follow-up to the 2019 anime action RPG that still has one of the best character creators ever
- Sonic's Takashi Iizuka dunks on Mario Kart World as Sonic Racing Crossworlds unveils Hatsune Miku, Persona 5, and Minecraft Steve
- Death Stranding 2 shows a surprisingly normal new clip, starring the Metal Gear Solid doppelganger who Kojima's a massive fan of
- That's another Soulslike RPG for my list: Mortal Shell 2 is coming to consoles and PC next year, and I'm a big fan of the gigantic gross stuff in its trailer
- "Is this the best Nintendo could do?": Repair expert gives Switch 2 a 3/10 for repairability, citing "probably still drifty" Joy-Cons and "tamper-proofing hidden in plain sight"
- Black Panther 3 director Ryan Coogler confirms Denzel Washington is joining the film in a special role: "There's no fiction out there about that"
- Nintendo, what have you done: Moo Moo Cow has completely overtaken Mario Kart World lobbies as Switch 2 players embrace the best new character
- Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles will have a free Nintendo Switch 2 upgrade, which is great because the separate new version is just a code in a box
- How to the watch the Future Games Show Summer Showcase 2025
- Half-Life 3 obsessives put Valve boss Gabe Newell under the microscope, tracking his yacht as it gets kind of, sort of, actually not at all near the Summer Game Fest venue
- A live-action Care Bears movie is in the works from cult comedy director and Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves producers
- Silent Hill f actor spent so long playing her role that "I almost felt my own sanity slipping," and I'm starting to see a pattern here
- Amazon's Mass Effect TV show is moving forward with Star Trek writer as showrunner
- Nintendo Switch 2 has been out for a single day and there's already a Schedule 1 ripoff on the eShop
- Hollow Knight: Silksong fans are less OK than ever after Team Cherry confirmed a 2025 launch, with fresh Steam updates pre-Summer Game Fest provoking doubters and believers: "We've come full circle"
- Marvel boss Kevin Feige confuses all of us by saying the Fantastic Four ship in the Thunderbolts post-credits might not be "the same ship" as the Excelsior
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Maelle actor and her real-life partner play the French JRPG for themselves, immediately hunt down the notorious "sex hotel" – "a perfect way to balance out the darkness"
- Don't write off a Red Dead Redemption 2 remake or remaster, Arthur Morgan actor says: "We've already started to see it for GTA 5 and the original"
- Nintendo says it'll "be able to meet that demand" for Switch 2 through 2025, so don't worry about another PS5 situation
- I'm busy testing over 16 Switch 2 accessories but here are the top 4 that have already impressed me so far
- Scream and Ant-Man stars' horror sequel Ready or Not 2 gets 2026 release date, as they announce end of filming in the most on-brand way
- No Man's Sky boss assures fans Hello Games "did not have a secret room hiding deaf kids" following the survival game's unfortunately auto-captioned Switch 2 trailer
- You can play Cyberpunk 2077 on Switch 2 with a mouse and keyboard, and it makes the console feel like a handheld PC
- Lies of P Overture DLC seems to be closer than we thought - an Xbox leak points to a shadow drop coming very soon
- If you’re having Nosferatu withdrawals, there’s a new Dracula movie coming this summer from The Fifth Element director Luc Besson
- Mario Kart World recast Princess Peach, but Nintendo apparently only told her actor of 17 years yesterday: "I truly would have wanted to voice Peach and Toad forever"
- One of my favorite Switch 2 features is super boring, but it makes traveling with the handheld a dream
- As GTA 6 looms, Suda51's new action game Romeo is a Dead Man is only "probably" launching in 2026: "Every publisher wants to make sure to steer clear of That One Game's release date"
- Summer Game Fest 2025 Live Coverage - All the news as it happens
- Tencent reportedly snaps up 16% of Helldivers 2 studio Arrowhead, continuing a prolific spree of share buying that includes Ubisoft, FromSoftware, and more
- Our chests are bursting with excitement: Alien: Romulus director Fede Alvarez says the sequel begins filming in October
- New animated Predator movie with perfect Rotten Tomatoes score just gave Dan Trachtenberg's Prey a twisted new meaning
- Mario Kart World geniuses are already using the racing game's new mechanics to create incredible shortcuts and land some nefarious green shell snipes
- Dan Da Dan: Evil Eye co-director "didn't know" it was going to be a movie, but hopes anime continues the trend of big-screen releases
- The SteelSeries Arctis Game Buds are Switch 2 compatible and now I'm more obsessed with them than ever
- Fallout and Five Nights at Freddy's attractions set for Universal Studios' Halloween Horror Nights 2025
- Predator: Killer of Killers director Dan Trachtenberg says playing video games informed his filmmaking style: "How to [...] pull people through a journey they feel primally connected to"
- After Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Mario Kart World is the latest Nintendo game to feature cannibalism because, yes, the cow happily chomps down beef burgers
- Superman is locked and ready to go as director James Gunn confirms Superman is "100%" done: "Our last visual effect shot has been finished"
- The Wheel of Time showrunner reacts to "devastating" cancellation: "These fans deserve to see the story finished"
- Borderlands games are still being review bombed on Steam following Take-Two terms of service backlash, but modders say "the main clause everyone's freaking out about was already there"
- Mario Kart World rarely lets you play classic 3-lap races online, but players have found a workaround to avoid the divisive intermission tracks altogether
- This is probably the reason Switch 2's Joy-Cons aren't immune to stick drift
- Predator: Killer of Killers directors toyed with making it a TV series, but ultimately decided it would be "special" if the sci-fi horror was an anthology movie
- New horror movie Being Her Back launches in-universe black market website all but confirming Talk To Me connection, and its contents will terrify you
- After Thunderbolts underperformed, Fantastic Four could be on track to disprove Marvel fatigue with massive start at the box office
- Your Switch 2 will happily use a webcam without USB-C, and I feel like Nintendo should be telling you that
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs say "our game was crafted with love," and don't want anyone using their RPG "to spread hate"
- John Wick director gives The Continental spin-off both barrels for ignoring his and Keanu Reeves's ideas: "A group of individuals thought they had the magic sauce"
- Borderlands 2 is temporarily free on Steam and Randy Pitchford is even throwing in free loot keys, inviting even more negative reviews as Take-Two privacy policy backlash continues
- Predator: Killer of Killers director wanted to make sure the sci-fi anthology movie wasn't "going to just smash action figures together"
- Dune: Awakening launched to "Mostly Negative" reviews thanks to server frustrations, but it seems fans of the survival MMO are content now: "I don't hate it"
- Black Myth: Wukong is coming to Xbox a full year after hitting PS5 and PC, alongside the breakout action game’s first-ever discount
- Ballerina director says it was important that the new John Wick movie's action scenes "make you go, 'Okay, well, I haven't seen that [before]"
- Predator: Badlands director explains why the upcoming sci-fi movie is an "inversion" of the franchise: "This time, the Predator is the one being hunted"
- June 5
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- Epic's Tim Sweeney declares "the long national nightmare of the Apple tax is ended" as appeals court officially denies Apple's emergency motion
- Tom Cruise's death-defying stunts in Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning have earned him an impressively specific Guinness World Record
- Confirmed: Nintendo has freed the F bomb and you can swear in Switch 2 speech-to-text GameChat
- This gorgeous free-to-play pirate RPG from the studio behind one of the longest-running asymmetrical horror games stole the show in a State of Play that already wowed me with Silent Hill f and Ghost of Yotei
- Marvel Tokon devs want to push the whole tag-team fighting game genre forward with 4v4, and insist it's not that overwhelming: "Wait, do I have to practice four characters just to win?"
- It belongs in a museum: Indiana Jones' actual whip is up for auction, and it could be yours for the low, low price of $500,000
- A GameStop reportedly ruined new Nintendo Switch 2 consoles with receipts stapled to the screen, but hey, Walmart is giving out free chips and soda "to celebrate launch day"
- The White Lotus star wants to reprise her iconic Scream 3 character – and she already pitched her idea to the studio: "Can I just be in another dimension and come back?'"
- Some Oblivion Remastered players were shocked to find Oblivion gates inside other Oblivion gates, but this is one of the RPG's old quirks that thankfully survived the remastering
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (June 6 - 8)
- CDPR can't help itself, channels Terraria with yet another Cyberpunk 2077 update coming this month: "We have been cooking for you in secret for a bit"
- Baldur's Gate 3 player tragically loses 50-hour Honor Mode save in Act 3 to some rain that Larian added in just to screw with us: "Hate my favorite game so much"
- A Final Fantasy Tactics remaster appeared in the Nvidia giga-leak nearly 4 years ago, so with The Ivalice Chronicles announced I'm staring extra hard at the Final Fantasy 9 Remake that was also mentioned
- The Witcher 4 devs are inspired by RPGs like Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 and Baldur's Gate 3, but "definitely are not going to make a game like Larian did"
- Mike Flanagan says his Exorcist film is going to miss its release date and, hours later, Universal pulls it from the schedule – but it's "nothing to worry about"
- Lego One Piece was just revealed, and it's so much more ambitious than I expected
- After surviving 3 robberies, a dead game, and burnout, crabby indie studio says 'oops' and makes 2 more games: "You can't stop us, we're gonna keep making s**t"
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate on Nintendo Switch 2 has fixed the most annoying bit of loading the fighting game has to offer, even without a proper next-gen update
- From Batman: Arkham Knight to Bayonetta 3, Switch 2 is already improving the performance of several OG Switch games without a next-gen update
- You can stop pretending you played Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 now – they're on Game Pass, a year after a leak predicting this, so now you have no excuse not to try them
- Ridley Scott thinks his and James Cameron's Alien movies were good, but "the rest were not very good": "F*ck, that’s the end of a franchise which should be as important as bloody Star Trek or Star Wars"
- In a week, Elden Ring Nightreign players have turned the Revenant class into the new FromSoftware mascot, all but worshipping her as a tiny gremlin god
- After breaking Steam, Deltarune dev Toby Fox appears to aim to break the internet: "After you finish Chapter 4, make sure to load up your save file one more time afterwards"
- Oblivion Remastered player absolutely dunks on the Dark Brotherhood's most annoying target with a parkour kill that would put Assassin's Creed to shame
- Switch 2 marks the end of an era as Mario Kart World is the first time in 20 years Donkey Kong's voice actor has changed, and the replacement seemingly comes straight from the Mario movie
- The Witcher 4 doesn't just rival Red Dead Redemption 2 in hyper-realism – one equestrian expert says the RPG has "one of the overall most impressive and well-put-together game horse animations ever seen"
- Pokemon Scarlet and Violet speedruns are in a different league on Switch 2, with a day-one attempt already coming in around half an hour faster than the old world record
- Horizon Zero Dawn star Ashly Burch says she had no idea if she'd actually been cast as Aloy until she was suddenly in the recording booth: "It really hit me in that moment, like, oh this is a big deal"
- Undertale's Toby Fox offers "temporary workaround" for a Deltarune bug preventing people from loading demo save files into the full RPG
- Borderlands 4 boss Randy Pitchford wants to know what makes a game bigger or better, and he's using Borderlands 2 and 3 to find out
- After losing "eight or nine teeth" on season 1, Squid Game creator says he's lost two more making season 3 of the Netflix show: "I haven't put them back in yet"
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's Nintendo Switch 2 journey isn't going too smoothly as Nintendo asks "please avoid using Mii Fighter in online play as much as possible"
- F1 first reactions are calling it the "coolest and most entertaining movie you’ll ever see", and it's already being compared to Top Gun: Maverick
- Two months ahead of its premiere, the Alien TV series has finally released its first full trailer – and it's not just Xenomorphs you need to be afraid of
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs "knew within seconds" that Baldur's Gate 3's Shadowheart actress was the perfect pick for Maelle
- Nintendo Switch 2 owners are ripping apart their new Joy-Cons in record time to check the stick drift situation
- Nioh 3 isn't trying to be an Elden Ring behemoth: producer says with a true open-world map "it would no longer be Nioh 3," but tighter "open-field" design makes it shine
- Despite 123,000 fans signing a petition to save the canceled Amazon series, The Wheel of Time is reportedly not being shopped around to other streamers
- Oblivion Remastered's first patch is out now in beta to iron out the RPG's janky charm, and Bethesda is already working on another one that "will focus on performance"
- A new Helldivers 2 cape is in the works to "honor the service and victory of those who fought to defend Super Earth against the Illuminate invasion"
- After helping Nintendo with Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, Xenoblade devs brought their open-world expertise to Mario Kart World as well
- Madame Web star Dakota Johnson says the Marvel movie "started out as something and turned into something else," but she's not bothered that it flopped: "Who cares?"
- Anora star Mikey Madison in talks to play two roles in upcoming adaptation of the Edgar Allan Poe story that inspired a Mike Flanagan series and Wednesday season 2
- Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls was initially more faithful to the comics, but Marvel encouraged the Guilty Gear Strive and Granblue Fantasy Versus studio to lean into its signature style
- 007 First Light's James Bond actor hasn't been confirmed, but fans are convinced it's someone who only recently starred in Dexter: Original Sin
- Superman's runtime is just over 2 hours long, but director James Gunn denies rumors that the studio stopped it from being longer: "Zero truth to that"
- Final Fantasy 16's creative director is leading Final Fantasy Tactics' remaster, almost 30 years after working on the original JRPG at the start of his career
- The most memeable horror movie is finally getting a sequel, and fans are over the moon: "This might be the best day of Ma life"
- Seafaring adventure Tides of Tomorrow includes Dark Souls-style ghosts of previous players that can influence your own story
- Tom Cruise and Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning director have high praise for "very beautiful, very human" Godzilla Minus One: "You reinvented the genre"
- A Minecraft speedrunner nearly smashed a world record by one whole minute, but then an Enderman ruined everything: "This is the most depressing thing I've ever seen in my life"
- Sinister and M3GAN studio looks to acquire rights to Saw franchise, meaning original creator James Wan might make Saw 11
- Blumhouse has heard your complaints that Five Nights at Freddy's "lacked blood" and wasn't scary enough, promises it's going to fix that for the sequel
- The first Wicked: For Good trailer doesn't feature the new songs, but it has already made me cry
- How to transfer Nintendo Switch save data to the Nintendo Switch 2
- 007: First Light also includes other big screen James Bond regulars, and "players will choose how to utilize" the agent's "relationships"
- Ballerina star Ian McShane thinks there may be more to his John Wick character than meets the eye, but "the ambiguity keeps it nice"
- June 4
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- "The will to resist is in your hands": Final Fantasy Tactics writer puts capitalism on blast as the strategy RPG returns nearly 30 years later to a world still filled with "inequality and division"
- The new Ghost of Yotei trailer is really just one big teaser for the "gameplay deep dive coming in July," but it's still pretty cool and has a wolf
- Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is getting a prequel in 2026, and with the "largest and deadliest" map yet it's somehow even more Castlevania-coded
- Move over Marvel vs. Capcom, PlayStation invited Arc System Works out for drinks and now we're getting a new tag fighter in the absolutely gorgeous Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls
- Abzu and The Pathless studio's stunning new adventure game Sword of the Sea gets a release date, and it's right around the corner
- 11 years since the last stealth title, Thief returns with a VR game this year called Legacy of Shadow
- Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection isn't just modern fighting game rerelease, it's an interactive documentary with 20 different versions and even includes the completely awful GBA game
- 007: First Light brings Casino Royale energy to the Hitman devs' James Bond game
- Nioh 3 announced for 2026: Team Ninja's genuinely great Soulslike series is back with a bigger open world, and there's a demo out today
- Silent Hill f is coming in September, and after watching its twisted gameplay reveal trailer, I'm ready to let it dominate my Halloween season
- Metal Gear Solid 3 teases what certainly looks like a Metal Gear Online homage, complete with its adorable Kerotan frog figurines
- After 28 years, the Final Fantasy Tactics remaster is real: The Ivalice Chronicles is coming this September with original and enhanced versions included
- Suda51 reveals his new "ultra-violent science-fiction" action game, featuring an FBI agent tracking down and defeating criminals "across spacetime"
- PSP banger Lumines is making an overdue comeback in a Tetris Effect-style "synesthetic sensory wonderland"
- Digimon Story: Time Stranger lends a hefty chunk of Persona to its massive turn-based JRPG, which launches this October
- Capcom says "sorry" again, confirms Pragmata is "real" and coming in 2026 – and it looks a lot more like Dead Space than I remember from 2020
- Elden Ring Nightreign recovers faster than a two-phase boss, hitting Mostly Positive reviews on Steam as FromSoftware drops patches to improve the solo and duo experience
- Over 30 years later, the Street Sharks are back in a comic that continues their original animated series
- Deltarune launches to 12,865% more Steam players than Undertale had on day one, becoming the top-selling game on Steam after apparently crashing Valve's servers
- Hits like Schedule 1 are a dangerous bar for indies, Steam expert says: "That top potential has completely warped people's brains about what they should be making"
- Marvel's hot new swimsuit comic comes with a Marvel Rivals skin, but here's The Thing
- Localthunk says Balatro doesn't have microtransactions "because when I play other games that have those things it makes me want to put my computer in the dishwasher"
- Martin Scorsese "went all Raging Bull" when asked why he doesn't watch movies in theaters anymore, but his answer is sadly relatable
- The Witcher 4 design lead says the problem with yellow paint in games is subtlety: "Someone went into this specific spot and painted a yellow line ... at that point it's not necessarily believable"
- With hours to go until launch, Switch 2 has its very first firmware update enabling some of its core features
- Street Fighter 6 sees Capcom follow the road Nintendo abandoned in Animal Crossing by adding a collection of stone-cold NES bangers
- Nintendo Switch 2's Welcome Tour is not only a $10 version of PS5's free Astro's Playroom, you also have to buy extra peripherals to 100% it
- Everything announced at the PlayStation State of Play June 2025
- Move over, Barbie! Universal lines up M3GAN director to helm new movie based on Monster High dolls
- New Sims 4 teasers have fans convinced one of the most hotly anticipated features from The Sims 3 is finally making a return: "Yep, it's definitely fairies!"
- Mark Hamill once tried to hide his Star Wars credit, but Carrie Fisher talked him out of it: "Hey, get over yourself. You're Luke Skywalker. I'm Princess Leia. Embrace it."
- Fantastic Four unveils its epic Galactus-themed popcorn bucket, and it's going to turn audiences into the Devourer of Snacks
- Mario Kart World's Metacritic review score could be impacted by people who are still "big mad about the price," former Nintendo marketing lead predicts ahead of Switch 2 launch
- Nintendo workout enthusiasts rejoice: sleuth finds patents suggesting Ring Fit Adventure could get a Switch 2 sequel
- Palworld studio is releasing a psychological horror game so terrifying, even Pocketpair's own publishing manager has been "too scared to play it"
- Nintendo Switch 2 review in progress: let's unpack Ninty's new console live together
- If you want to avoid Deltarune chapter 3 and 4 spoilers, developer Toby Fox warns you to stay off social media, don't look up the soundtrack titles, and steer clear of anyone from New Zealand for a few hours
- Palworld devs making "certain compromises" in the survival game amid Nintendo lawsuit doesn't mean Pocketpair is admitting to patent infringement, expert explains
- Incredible things are happening in Oblivion Remastered's Mage's Guild, where one player has spent 6,000 gold on the spider-summoning 'Alone Time with Mommy' spell
- Fantastic Four: The First Steps drops a new trailer that's all about family – and a Marvel comics-accurate catchphrase
- Mario Kart World devs had to approach track changes with the entire world in mind, but "we don't call this world an open world"
- Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin doesn't like Hollywood screenwriters changing the source material because in "the majority of cases" they don't improve it
- No Man's Sky's new free update adds robot settlements you can be mayor of, and it'll be on Switch 2 day 1: "A huge leap forward"
- New Battlefield 6 leak shows the tank-on-tank combat, and it looks raw as hell: "Destruction and audio are back"
- Rick and Morty writer's new animated comedy show is headed to Netflix, and it looks like Scooby Doo meets Hazbin Hotel
- Mario Kart World almost cut iconic items like the banana peel and green shell, because Nintendo wasn't sure if they still made "sense" in the Switch 2's new generation
- Elden Ring's legendary no-hit saxophone player is having a tough time with Nightreign, which he says is "one of the hardest games I've ever dooted"
- The Witcher 4 dev says the tools behind its PS5 tech demo "unlock me as an artist," and that CDPR will use them "to create much bigger things" in future
- Final instalment in beloved found footage horror franchise Hell House LLC confirms release date with clown-tastic creepy teaser
- Crunchyroll's Anime Expo plans are here, and it involves exclusive episode premieres and a look ahead to "what's next" for Frieren: Beyond Journey's End
- The Witcher 4 is "shaping up to be something special" with "some of the best" devs working on the RPG, says CD Projekt Red: "Our team is full of wizards!"
- Pokemon Scarlet and Violet's Switch 2 update footage shows the "notorious frame drop lake" running at 60fps, and fans say it might be "the best possible advertisement" for the new console
- Team behind Netflix's Cyberpunk: Edgerunners tease follow-up announcement ahead of Anime Expo 2025: "The next datadrop's almost here!"
- Witcher 4 tech demo shows swapping to Unreal Engine was "worth it," CDPR says, and that "it's not like we lost things because of the transition" away from Cyberpunk 2077's RED Engine
- Jack Black's Tenacious D nearly soundtracked a film based on cult adventure game MediEvil, and one producer says it came "very close" to happening
- Vampire horror movie Sinners is now available to buy, and fans are rediscovering their favorite moments, from its killer soundtrack to Remmick’s line delivery
- Former GTA 5 lead's new studio sees 2 execs leave just 1 week before the launch of its debut Cyberpunk-flavored action-adventure MindsEye
- Fantastic Four director appears to rule out a Robert Downey Jr. Doctor Doom cameo before Avengers: Doomsday: "Doom is not part of my film"
- The Witcher 4 lead says CD Projekt Red's State of Unreal stream "showcases both our ambition for the game and the in-engine capabilities," but "isn't a demo" of the RPG
- Helldivers 2's "ongoing merriment and sanctioned frivolity" following our victory over the Illuminate cut short with a new Major Order to defend from incoming Automaton attacks
- Ballerina star Norman Reedus hopes his character returns for a sequel, and thinks his arc mirrors John Wick's: "He's willing to fight everybody in the world"
- Phasmophobia movie in the works from Paranormal Activity and The Conjuring studio Blumhouse: "We never could've imagined the incredible heights this game would reach"
- June 3
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- "For the first time in ESO's history," the MMO is moving past the events of the base game with Seasons of the Worm Cult: "We've never really moved time forward"
- After 4 years of rumors, Final Fantasy Tactics remaster hopes reach an absolute frenzy as director Yasumi Matsuno shares and hastily deletes PlayStation State of Play announcement
- CDPR barely mentioned my favorite part of The Witcher 4's new tech demo: this RPG is absolutely overflowing with medieval stank
- Elden Ring Nightreign wizard accidentally discovers 4-perk stack that turns the game into Vampire Survivors bullet heaven
- Steam expert points to the games you never see quietly "making hundreds of thousands of dollars for small devs" as a key sign "Steam is doing okay"
- As the third and final season approaches, Squid Game creator says a potential spin-off would "show that they did" between season 1 and 2
- Jagex lays off RuneScape staff and indefinitely pauses Old School RuneScape's Project Zanaris private servers, but says the MMOs won't be hurt in the long run
- CDPR says Ciri's face in the new Witcher 4 trailer is "a direct copy of The Witcher 3 model" despite "two subtle changes"
- Nintendo and Nvidia bosses say Switch 2 is the ultimate realization of late president Satoru Iwata's dream: "It is wonderful to see Mr. Iwata's vision come full circle"
- "It's not only chaos but an absolute clown show": Switch 2 price could still rise after launch in the US, analysts warn amid tariff uncertainty
- Mario Kart World won't have fan-favorite 200cc at launch, but the game's producer is being coy about it being added later: "I'm afraid I can't say just yet"
- Netflix unveils episode titles for The Sandman season 2 and reveals an unexpected surprise for fans
- Where is The Witcher 4 setting Kovir? Everything we know about the little-known kingdom that got a minor shout-out in The Witcher 3
- M3GAN 2.0 takes on the female Terminator in the upcoming horror sequel's final trailer, full of bodyswapping, explosions, and already meme-able moments
- "They pressed the AI button, it might have been a bad idea, but in truth there's no un-pressing that button," says Epic CEO, immediately after Epic shows a "conversation" with an AI that embarrasses us all
- Elden Ring Nightreign players finally discover where the game's most mysterious key item leads, and it's humiliating
- How to watch the PC Gaming Show – and what to expect this year
- The Penguin and Barbie stars new futuristic fantasy romance is giving Suzume vibes in first trailer
- Desperate to fight Steam, Epic burns money like firewood – but admits the Epic Games Store kind of sucks and "there's still a ton of work to be done" with "long overdue features"
- The Witcher 4 finally features manticores, and it sounds like protagonist Ciri might be able to fight one herself over 10 years after they were reportedly cut from the last RPG
- The Witcher 4 sees Red Dead Redemption 2's horse anatomy and submits "realistic muscles moving and stretching" under the skin of Ciri's horse Kelpie
- The Acolyte creator had one "guiding principle" for their canceled Star Wars show: "What would George [Lucas] do?"
- Helldivers 2 grunts afraid of what's next following 5 days without a Major Order after saving Super Earth: "Those f***ers are up to something"
- The Witcher 4 is targeting 60 FPS on current-gen consoles and will "bring in a new generation of open-world RPGs" with its Unreal Engine 5 tech, CDPR says
- 28 Years Later director confirms Cillian Murphy will appear in Nia DaCosta's The Bone Temple sequel: "I shouldn't give away too much, I’ll get killed"
- The Witcher 4 showcase literally tosses Ciri a coin in a valley of plenty and that damn Netflix song is about to be stuck in my head for the next 6 months
- Elden Ring Nightreign's top modder claims the game could theoretically support "up to 127 players" somewhere down the line
- The SteelSeries Arctis Nova 3 Wireless is on track to become my favorite budget headset, and it's available today for just over $100
- New The Witcher 4 screenshots show Ciri in a beautiful, bustling location, and a truly horrible monster
- Apple announces release date for Slow Horses season 5 and unveils first-look images with Gary Oldman and Jack Lowden
- The Witcher 4 setting could be the never-before-seen region of Kovir, as Ciri journeys to the far north in CD Projekt's new tech demo
- PlayStation State of Play confirmed for tomorrow with 40+ minutes of "news and updates on must-play" PS5 games, right before Summer Game Fest kicks off
- New thriller with great Rotten Tomatoes score is storming up Netflix's TV chart, and it's getting rave reactions from subscribers: "One of the best shows I've watched"
- Helldivers 2's Illuminate invasion brought players from around the world together, and our defence of Super Earth's Shanghai even made the news in China
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs held blind auditions, so they didn't know they landed talent from Final Fantasy and Baldur's Gate 3 until after they picked them
- Scream and Prey stars join Mike Flanagan's Carrie TV series, completing the Stephen King adaptation's main cast
- Reviving the long-lost Borderlands MMO may be one modder's "biggest challenge ever," but they're already eyeing up another that's even "harder to obtain" – a web browser game killed in 2012 called Mount Jackmore
- Fantastic Four director "delved into the 60-plus years of comics history" to make the Marvel movie, and he's revealed the run that made it into the film in "small and large ways"
- Marvel Rivals Vanguard mains say "there’s nothing we can do except hope a DPS can kill them" as the flyer meta dominates Season 2.5: "A tank exodus is probably not far from happening"
- Weapons director says the upcoming horror movie is "fun, scary" and even "weirder than Barbarian"
- As fans reject Switch 2 game-key cards, former Nintendo marketing leads say it's unlikely that physical games will ever "100% go away," because "they realize the importance of that"
- Tom Cruise's most dangerous Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning moment involved being "trapped" by real torpedoes: "Tom does not want an audience disconnected"
- A big Hollow Knight: Silksong Steam update has Metroidvania hopefuls daring to believe once again as Summer Game Fest and Xbox's Summer Showcase nears: "Doubters in shambles"
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director found something that "makes the game feel 10 times better" mid-development, then painfully realized they had to apply it to "like 1,100" different attacks
- Thunderbolts looks set to lose Disney $100 million, despite being the best-reviewed Marvel movie since Spider-Man: No Way Home
- Where to buy Nintendo Switch 2: live updates from launch week
- New single-location horror movie with in-tree-guing premise unveils nail-biting first trailer
- Elden Ring Nightreign director has soloed every boss "without relics," and he wants fans "to know that this is very possible" despite concerns over difficulty
- Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin throws his support behind Elden Ring movie: "Alex Garland is a first rate director"
- Godzilla Minus One director has incredibly wholesome response to hearing his movie inspired James Gunn's Superman
- Death Stranding 2 devs are taking a break after release, but Hideo Kojima is already working on his next game: "Everyone dislikes it when I submit the project plans at this point in time"
- Skyrim Grandma is "still learning" the ropes in Oblivion Remastered after 10 years of The Elder Scrolls 5 – and it's not easy: "This stupid thing won't die!"
- The Witcher 4 first look - State of Unreal 2025 Live Coverage
- Ballerina director says it was "wonderful" to work with John Wick star Keanu Reeves: "Stepping back from it, you could feel that this is iconic"
- An Elden Ring Nightreign two-player mode is coming later this year, as FromSoftware changes course after criticism over its lack of duos support
- June 2
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- Viral FPS dev hits back at "dead on arrival" comments and says it will never add microtransactions: "We don't need to sell millions of copies. We don't need millions of players online at once"
- Mass Effect 5 director hints that the sci-fi RPG series' notorious lens flares will be back in the next game, as BioWare apparently goes head-to-head with JJ Abrams
- Bring on the Bad Guys: Green Goblin #1 reveals Norman Osborn's secret pact with Mephisto
- Nintendo finally shows gameplay footage of Pokemon Scarlet and Violet on Switch 2, and the frame rate boost is honestly a lot nicer than I expected
- "I might have exhausted all my luck": Balatro God-King hits lucky streak so powerful that 1-in-1 billion odds don't even begin to describe it
- Zynga suddenly shuts down studio from Diablo and Torchlight creators before they even had a chance to reveal its first original IP
- The Witcher 3 devs "toyed with" making Geralt drown if he tried to swim with his armor on: "Immersive or just a bit too realistic?"
- Stellar Blade already has mods thanks to its Steam demo, and you simply won't believe this: the top 3 are all nude mods
- Mike Flanagan says he's working closely with Stephen King on his Dark Tower adaptation: "I'm not gonna let him down"
- James Cameron is set to adapt a fantasy novel described as "Suicide Squad meets Hammer Horror" as he finishes work on Avatar: Fire and Ash: "It will be a joyful new challenge for me"
- "600 Deaths & 54 Hours spent on this mod": Elden Ring's Let Me Solo Her takes on "lore accurate Promised Consort Radahn," the most absurd boss FromSoftware never made
- "Long time no see": Lethal Company update V70 is out now after several quiet months, adding a radar face cam and "the most powerful creature in the game"
- "Has that been announced?": Assassin's Creed Black Flag remake seemingly leaked by statue maker who said "you should be aware that there is something going on with Edward"
- Stellar Blade dev's game reveal sparks AI art accusations, sounds like its own take on Genshin Impact, and surprises nobody with art so horny I can't show you the whole thing here
- CDPR "thought it was going to be more of a challenge" porting Cyberpunk 2077 to Nintendo Switch 2, but beefier specs and microSD made it "surprisingly fast"
- Stellar Blade is already the third top-selling game on Steam more than a week before launch, and just its demo has reviews and players most full games would kill for
- The best new shows and movies streaming this week on Netflix, Apple TV Plus, HBO Max, and more
- One of Elden Ring Nightreign's many Dark Souls throwbacks also has players thinking about a very different action RPG: "What in the Monster Hunter?"
- 007 First Light is officially the name for Hitman studio's James Bond game, and it looks to be an origin story
- Before James Gunn took over, Warner Bros reportedly wanted a Henry Cavill Superman film directed by Michael Bay
- After splitting with Larian following Baldur's Gate 3, Dungeons & Dragons publisher signs God of War 3 and Star Wars Jedi director's new studio for a "single-player action-adventure" D&D game
- Tiny Tina's Wonderlands is free, but Borderlands boss Randy Pitchford has somehow found a way to make fans mad about it: "Dude's milking people for hate clicks at this point"
- Daredevil: Born Again season 2 behind-the-scenes photo sets up return of another major Marvel character
- Nintendo indirectly confirms the Switch 2 will have a glass screen, and asks you "do not peel" the film on it
- Move over, Galactus: Fantastic Four's Joseph Quinn confirms there's another unannounced villain in the Marvel movie
- After years of asking, Elder Scrolls Online fans hear the 3 words they've dreamt of since playing WoW and Lord of the Rings Online: Difficulty options are "in the works"
- Nintendo "won't know" if the Switch 2 eShop will crash on launch day as everyone rushes to download Mario Kart World, former marketing leads warn, but "they're prepared"
- Helldivers 2 players come together to "restore the game's rating to its original state" after the Equality-On-Sea debacle sank Steam reviews down to "Mixed"
- Elden Ring Nightreign player channels their inner Sekiro to parry the co-op roguelite's final boss to death – completely solo – just 2 days after launch
- Marvel fans are realizing that one Captain America: Brave New World character had an impact on past MCU movies, despite not being on screen for 17 years
- Upcoming horror sequel Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 releases first poster, potentially teasing the return of one of the game’s most terrifying characters
- Nintendo denies Switch 2 report claiming that Japanese retailers are getting a bigger cut of each sale following a timely drop in stocks and shares
- Elden Ring Nightreign patch 1.01.1 is here now that maintenance is over, offering better rewards if you can make it to Day 3
- Star Wars fans are debating a story detail that has never been fully explained about Uncle Owen
- Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul recalls the cruel but hilarious prank Bryan Cranston used to play on him: "He would not stop, and he would get everybody in on it"
- Hideo Kojima has offered his thoughts on the best horror movie of 2024: "It felt like being in a dream the entire time, utterly spellbinding"
- 15 years later, Red Dead Redemption's John Marston is playing the open-world cowboy game for the first time and reveals why "John is screaming at people for no reason" when riding a horse
- Death Stranding 2 may have "a man's hands and legs sliced off by a robotic samurai" but its ESRB rating just revealed the most shocking detail of all: "The word 'f**k' is heard in the game"
- Superman director James Gunn says the DC film is inspired by the best Godzilla movie in decades: "At its core it's a human story"
- Despite saying it was "always the plan" to leave after two seasons, Doctor Who fans are convinced that Ncuti Gatwa's regeneration was a last-minute change – all thanks to an old promo image
- First trailer for upcoming horror sequel The Black Phone 2 reveals its masked killer is back from the dead, and about to go full Jason Voorhees
- Stranger Things season 5 first look revealed some new characters, and fans are debating what it means for the Netflix show
- After Disney told him "streaming is dead," Andor creator had to fight for season 2 of the $650 million Star Wars show to get the budget it needed
- "We didn't start off by saying, 'let's aim to build a roguelike'": Elden Ring Nightreign director says FromSoftware wasn't really aiming for a roguelike feel, it just kind of happened
- Undertale dev Toby Fox tests jokes from RPGs like Deltarune on his friends – but "if none of my friends think something is funny," he "may try to improve" them
- 3 years since we last saw Luke Skywalker, Mark Hamill definitively rules out a Star Wars return: "There's no way I'm gonna appear naked as a Force ghost"
- June 1
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- Not content with his new strategy RPG having 100 endings, Danganronpa's creator wants to add even more in a DLC
- After 10 years, iconic streamer Skyrim Grandma is now Oblivion Remastered Grandma: "Sorry guys, you know I have to look at everything. I've never been here before"
- Sinners director Ryan Coogler says 2025's best horror movie won't be getting a sequel anytime soon: "I wanted to get away from that"
- Clayface writer reveals he was inspired by one of DC's most iconic animated series: "That two-parter knocked me out"
- Doctor Who season 2 finale shock twist seemingly introduces a familiar face as the new Doctor, but it might not be that simple: "You’ll just have to wait and see"
- Elden Ring Nightreign director had concerns "about not necessarily being able to play slow like previous titles," but FromSoftware "wanted to create something new"
- Gen V season 2 confirms release date with an action-packed first trailer that addresses Chance Perdomo's death
- With The Witcher 4, Cyberpunk 2 and way more on the horizon, having multiple projects on the go gives CDPR "more opportunities to be more creative"
- Dexter: Resurrection unveils star-studded first trailer as Dexter Morgan meets New York's most lethal serial killers
- Wednesday season 2 doesn't drop a trailer at Netflix Tudum, but does reveal 6 minutes of footage of Jenna Ortega trying to trap a serial killer
- Stranger Things season 5 is coming in three parts this holiday season – and a terrifying first look at Netflix Tudum teases the highest stakes yet
- First trailer for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein revealed at Netflix Tudum is a gothic fever dream with an obsessed Oscar Isaac and monstrous Jacob Elordi
- One Piece season 2 casts Superman actor as fan-favorite character Tony Tony Chopper – and introduces the reindeer in the most adorable way
- The Last Jedi director's Knives Out 3 gets cryptic first teaser at Netflix Tudum – and finally confirms a release date
- Squid Game season 3 trailer unveiled at Netflix Tudum teases two more deadly games, as star Lee Jung-jae promises the show "will shock the world one last time"
