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- September 2
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- A new Destiny 2 event is giving players bugged 8-year-old loot from content so deleted that Bungie literally could not come up with it to show in court
- Call of Duty eases the grind with 20 free skips for the battle pass mess it created, but you only have 2 weeks to claim them
- After Ubisoft's shutdown of The Crew spawned the Stop Killing Games movement, a group of fans are finally ready to release a server emulator to keep the racer alive: "No one will ever be able to take this away from you now"
- Gambit actor Channing Tatum has to sit out of Avengers: Doomsday filming due to injury, so his double will take on a "big fight" with Robert Downey Jr's Doctor Doom
- $112 million Borderlands movie was a critical and commercial disaster, but Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford just wants you to know "it would have been way worse if I directed it"
- Call of Duty movie officially heading to theaters with new Paramount chief comparing the film to Top Gun: Maverick - "We're approaching this film with the same disciplined, uncompromising commitment to excellence"
- Team Cherry hoped Silksong could be anyone's "first Hollow Knight game," and one reason it took 7 years is they were "comfortable" not knowing what's gonna happen: "The really interesting things are the things you sort of discover along the way"
- No Man's Sky boss Sean Murray turns the meme tables and begs Silksong developer Team Cherry to let him pay more than $20 for the upcoming Metroidvania
- Final Fantasy 14 might follow in World of Warcraft's footsteps with its own housing system, as Square Enix is "heavily discussing the possibility" of adding "special techniques for decorating"
- 28 Years Later: Bone Temple star says it's the "weird, deranged cousin" to Danny Boyle's movie, reveals the infected won't be "purely antagonists" in the horror sequel
- Helldivers 2 rivals Call of Duty's notoriously chunky file sizes as its latest update takes the shooter above 140GB on Steam: "This is getting beyond ridiculous"
- It took 3 years but Xbox has finally delivered on its Silksong promise: Team Cherry's latest hits Game Pass day one, exactly one day after an amazing Metroidvania you shouldn't miss
- This PS5 controller has dropped to a record low price, but its camo print is giving me the ick
- With the future of Doctor Who still up in the air, former showrunner Steven Moffat says there's a "national duty" to keep making the long-running sci-fi show
- Losing Final Fantasy Tactics' source code meant The Ivalice Chronicles devs had to use any available resources to rebuild the remaster, "whether that be the retail copy of the game or the smartphone version"
- "FromSoftware was my very first job after graduating": Legendary Bloodborne and Elden Ring composer says she'd watch the games in debug mode "partly because I couldn't beat the boss myself"
- After report on MMO's bot problem, players bait piles of "clankers" to their doom like they're poisoning AI: ask "how many" and armies of bots reply in eery unison
- My favorite ever Disney Halloween decoration is available again, so don't miss it
- Helldivers 2 Into the Unjust update comes with "one of the funniest patch notes yet," preventing our own democratic gear from turning enemies into unstoppable menaces
- Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles devs "haven't made any changes to characters that were powerful," because they "didn't really want to disappoint" OG fans with nerfs
- Knives Out 3 gets a limited 2-week run in theaters, despite director Rian Johnson pushing Netflix to put the film in "as many theaters for as long as possible”
- Hideo Kojima's overlooked cyberpunk adventure game is one of the three games Atari's CEO would love to remaster: "I don’t know if it would do well, but I’d probably push it through"
- Clayface set photos contain way more DCU world-building than we expected, thanks to this complete map of Gotham
- Wednesday season 2 part 2 reveals first look at Lady Gaga's Rosaline Rotwood, and fans are convinced she's part of the Addams Family
- EA and DICE tried to stop them, but Battlefield 6 players keep leaking maps and content from closed tests and Labs experiments – but at least the leaked news is good news
- Upcoming Persona-inspired tactics RPG Demonschool was delayed due to Silksong, even though it doesn't share the Hollow Knight sequel's genre – and it's all thanks to our "capitalist society"
- 20 years on from the original, The Descent director reveals he's "got a few ideas" for a prequel to the hit horror movie
- The weirdest ever Warhammer game is back, and I think you need to see this
- The cutest Razer headset has never been cheaper, and I'm finding it impossible not to add it to my cart
- Nobody 2 is now available to watch on digital, just 18 days after the action movie was released in theaters
- Everyone is freaking out at the rumored $650 Lego Pokemon set, but here's why I wouldn't panic yet
- 40 years later, The Goonies' long-awaited sequel is "moving in the right direction," says writer: "This is the movie I want to see as one of its biggest fans"
- Dwayne Johnson opens up over frustrations on being "pigeon-holed" as a blockbuster star: "This is what Hollywood wants you to be"
- Star Wars' only female starfighter pilot in The Phantom Menace says she was "told off" by George Lucas for wearing lipstick
- Former Assassin's Creed director who also worked on Arkham Origins joins Rocksteady, sparking more hopes for a new Batman game
- Agents of SHIELD star says she should have been in poorly received Marvel show Secret Invasion, even though they're not "considered canon": "It would have probably been better"
- Lenovo Legion Go 2 leak reveals full specs, and I'm cautiously hyped for the handheld sequel
- No Man's Sky hits a Steam player high it hasn't seen since the survival game's disastrous launch 9 years ago, thanks in part to yet another free update
- Marvel star says filming Avengers: Doomsday "feels like a dream", as he hypes up Robert Downey Jr's Doctor Doom: "Everyone will be blown away"
- Monster Hunter Wilds' struggles aren't just down to PC optimization issues, Capcom boss says – the PS5's lofty costs are also to blame
- Hollow Knight: Silksong will have a free Nintendo Switch 2 edition upgrade at launch, meaning you don't have to pay extra to get the 120hz mode
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer revival series pilot has wrapped filming, as director Chloé Zhao confirms a 25-year time jump
- DC fans chime in with their picks for The Batman 2 villains after Robert Pattinson said he likes "all the really fantastical ones"
- Borderlands 4 could have looked very different – the OG RPG initially had realistic visuals that were too similar to Fallout 3, so Gearbox "rebuilt the whole game" after 2 weeks of experimenting led to its iconic comic style
- September 1
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- Clayface set photos tease a connection to The Batman, and fans are hoping that Matt Reeves' Elseworlds movies will merge with the DCU
- Solo star Alden Ehrenreich hasn't completely ruled out a Star Wars return, but it sounds like it would take a lot to convince him: "It would have to really, really be the right version of it"
- Infinity Nikki devs "sincerely apologize" yet again – this time for "frustration and confusion" caused by furniture pricing, but at least we're getting freebies in return
- From passing on Lord of the Rings to Cleopatra's infamous budget, film fans are debating some of the worst mistakes in movie history
- Skyrim player marries a literal dragon with the help of a mod, giving "Dragonborn" a whole new meaning as he breaks the RPG and makes it run as "buggy as Oblivion"
- Helldivers 2 studio CEO says the "vast majority" of people "silently play" the shooter, which means the devs can't just look at Reddit and what streamers are saying for feedback: "This is a challenge for all games"
- Battlefield 6 won't have ray tracing at launch and devs "don't have any plans in the near future for it either" because "our effort was focused on making the game as [optimized] as possible"
- The best new shows and movies streaming this week on Netflix, Disney Plus, Paramount Plus, and more
- Borderlands 4 can't even win in its own ads, as WWE has cosplaying wrestlers take the L in their own championship match
- CD Projekt Red is teasing something Cyberpunk 2077-shaped with a mysterious new message, and fans are desperately trying to work out if it could be sequel news, DLC, or something else entirely
- Pirates of the Caribbean and Arkham Asylum are the best new Lego sets in September 2025, if you ask me
- Hideo Kojima will give a "glimpse into future projects" at his "Beyond The Strand" anniversary event for Kojima Productions' 10th birthday this month
- Analogue 3D footage finally just surfaced online, and I'm hoping the 4k N64 is as slick as it looks
- Call of Duty drops a whopping 100 GB on PS5, and fans think it's due to Battlefield 6: "Competition is always good for gaming"
- Chloé Zhao's first movie since Eternals is already getting Oscars buzz as critics call it "the most devastating movie I've seen in years"
- Battlefield 6's battle royale mode is looking very promising if these alleged leaks are anything to go by, and FPS fans are already excited: "This made me uninstall Warzone"
- I lost my Switch 2 controller straps, but this small Labor Day saving has come to save the day
- 007 First Light is getting its own dedicated PlayStation State of Play this week, with "over 30 minutes of gameplay" including James Bond's "first mission as an MI6 recruit"
- Frankenstein star Christoph Waltz is in favor of Guillermo del Toro's use of practical effects: "CGI is for losers"
- Final Fantasy 14 devs have "quite a big plan for jobs moving forward," Yoshi-P teases, cooking up "major changes" for the MMO to "make jobs more interesting for players to use"
- Final Fantasy 16 Clive actor Ben Starr was "quite nervous" about voicing a villain in Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles because he didn't want to "soil" his contribution to the series
- After Final Fantasy Tactics' source code was lost, the remaster's devs looked at fan-made websites' preservation efforts: "We know you guys do such a good job of keeping all of that up to date"
- A new behind-the-scenes Thunderbolts photo is making fans even more disappointed with one character death: "She showed her face for like two seconds for absolutely no reason"
- Hollow Knight: Silksong price is $20, Team Cherry confirms, laughing in the face of $80 games as it cements one of the most anticipated indies of all time as just $5 more than its predecessor
- You can watch Jujutsu Kaisen season 3 early – if you see this new compilation movie
- Stranger Things creator teases "logistically insane" season 5 episode, which is "as big as any finale we've ever done"
- The MSI Claw A8 arrives this month for £850, but I'm fearful of its US price
- After 3 years, Terraria devs confirm the sandbox game's long-awaited 1.4.5 update is "well into the final push" with devs "ready to push this over the line" once and for all
- Jujutsu Kaisen season 3 releases an epic trailer as Crunchyroll confirms a January release
- After 13 years, the fan-led Oblivion remake developed in Skyrim's engine – Skyblivion – is right around the corner: "Recent developments made us come closer to a potential date announcement"
- Borderlands 4 boss Randy Pitchford says "Nintendo just had the most successful new console launch in the history of video game consoles" with the Switch 2, so of course he wants to "bring more games to it"
- The Fantastic Four: First Steps has finally crossed a major box office milestone over 1 month after release, but only just
- Resident Evil Requiem's director was always curious to return to Raccoon City: "It was like rice I'd left forgotten in the rice cooker for a week... eventually curiosity makes you lift the lid"
- Avengers: Doomsday directors tease it's even bigger than Endgame as Paul Rudd hints at more practical, "jaw dropping" sets in the MCU crossover
- The Office creator reveals why only one main character returns for The Paper spin-off, and it's a decision that stems from the comedy classic's finale
