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- January 7
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- This dev's first Steam release, a $3 banger with 3 hours of fun, is now one of the highest-rated games of the past month at 1,639 reviews averaging 98% positive
- Diablo 4 Season 7 faces new competition: the original Diablo, which is coming to Xbox Game Pass just a week earlier
- Marvel Rivals devs know Duelists are dominant, so they're nerfing the biggest offenders and giving Cap and Venom some help in Season 1
- More layoffs reportedly hit Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League dev Rocksteady, including another cut to QA
- Severance season 2 gets a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score with first reviews calling it "remarkable, unique, and mind-bending"
- The Witcher 4's gorgeous reveal trailer was "pre-rendered" on Nvidia's $2,000 RTX 5090
- I wish I waited for this stunning Midnight Black PlayStation Portal
- Citizen Sleeper 2 is doubling down on the RPG's tabletop roots, and the new push system already has me sweating
- Lenovo makes its new Legion Go family official, and I'm fixated on the handheld maker's $499.99 "Steam Deck"
- Helldivers 2 director says the reason saluting the flag makes it go faster is that all the devs did it anyway, "so one of the coders added it as an Easter egg"
- Skyrim was 2,403 days old when The Elder Scrolls 6 trailer dropped - and now that same trailer is also 2,403 days old
- Matt Reeves says that Robert Pattinson's Batman will join the DCU only if it "makes sense"
- Solo Leveling season 2 makes it one of the highest-rated anime series in Crunchyroll history at over 400,000 reviews
- PlayStation boss says good old-fashioned consoles like PS5 are their priority, but as PC gaming grows Sony also wants to reach players elsewhere
- Squid Game season 2 has a goof like Game of Thrones's Starbucks cup error
- Assassin's Creed Shadows has "unclimbable surfaces" that force you to find physical handholds because Ubisoft wants to be "more thoughtful" about parkour
- No doubt to Nintendo's fury, you can now pre-order a Switch 2 case on Amazon, and the dock has apparently leaked too
- Shure debuts a new way to make audio recording a breeze at CES with its new MV7i mic with a built-in audio interface and I want one
- RTX 5090 vs RTX 4090: How does Nvidia's next-gen Blackwell GPU compare?
- Anime giant Crunchyroll is getting back into manga with a new reading app coming this year promising "brand-new and beloved titles"
- Who is Commander Star? Batman #156 reveals the secret identity of Gotham’s sinister new hero
- Avowed is an RPG that's both the culmination of everything Obsidian has done before, and also an evolution of it: "There's really not a whole lot of our regions that's off limits to the players"
- Atomfall isn't Rebellion's Fallout, it's something far more interesting: "We like to think of it as X-Files in the Cold War Lake District"
- Scream star runs from another serial killer in the first trailer for Valentine's Day horror movie Heart Eyes
- World of Warcraft and League of Legends MMO veteran says he saw Riot and Blizzard "seemingly abandon" approaching development "from a place of humility instead of arrogance"
- SanDisk unveils new portable storage solutions at CES to make creating on the go more a-peel-ing
- Multiple movies, including Sonic 3 and Madame Web, are ineligible for Best Picture at the Oscars this year
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle has a survival horror surprise that echoes Cyberpunk: Phantom Liberty's – and I loved every second
- Marvel Rivals season 1 has "double the playable content of a regular season" and adds maps, heroes, balance changes, and more
- Severance season 2 review: "A mind-bending, emotionally charged follow-up to one of Apple TV Plus's best shows"
- Razer is releasing a budget gaming chair, and it might actually be affordable for the average player
- Get the Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle Earth board game for just $88 right now
- This new Xbox controller looks like a lawsuit waiting to happen, but it could be one of the best gamepads of 2025
- Where to buy RTX 5070: all the retailers to check when mid-range GPUs launch next month
- Florence Pugh reveals why she "can't do" roles like Midsommar again: "I’ve been broken for a long while afterwards"
- Doom: The Dark Ages gets 12 seconds of new footage as Nvidia shows off its souped-up DLSS 4 visuals
- Hideo Kojima's favorite movies of 2024 include Dune 2, body horror The Substance, and anime Look Back – as well as some deep cuts you might not have expected
- Legend in the Mist beats Discworld and Dolmenwood in Most Anticipated TTRPGs of 2025 vote
- Where to buy RTX 5090: retailers I'd pre-order Nvidia's latest graphics card at first
- Horror movie Wolf Man lands positive first reactions calling it "pulse-pounding" and "terrifying"
- Ghost of Tsushima anime adaptation is in the works from Demon Slayer studio and Star Wars Visions creatives
- Hopes that Overwatch 2 will fully return to 6v6 matches are raised as the playtest is extended thanks to "continued player interest"
- Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War reportedly surpasses Red Dead Redemption 2's huge development costs, with a massive $700 million budget
- MSI launches six new 18-inch gaming laptops at CES
- The Until Dawn movie will not adapt the horror game story, but feature new characters and a fresh premise
- My favorite gaming laptop announced at CES is actually a tablet - and it doesn't even have a graphics card
- A Horizon Zero Dawn movie is on the way from Sony, and it's in the "early stages" now
- Sony has just announced a Helldivers 2 film adaptation following the game's record-breaking release, but fans are saying the same thing
- Everyone is obsessed with Kaitlyn Dever's "spot on" Abby in new The Last of Us season 2 trailer
- New version of Catan is "modernizing" the board game and "updating it to today's standards"
- A new Alienware Aurora 2025 model is coming, but I'm more interested in its Area 51 sibling that takes a "DIY approach to desktops"
- Alienware Area-51 gaming laptops make a return at CES
- Razer launches new Blade 16 with Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 - but that AMD Ryzen AI CPU might do more heavy lifting
- HyperX just launched what could be the most customizable gaming mouse ever made at CES
- HP's Omen Max 16 gaming laptop has a unique cooling system I can't believe nobody thought of before
- 32 movies that inspired Star Wars
- The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 will officially burst onto the scene for a eye watering $1,999 this January
- January 6
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- Valve shuts down Steam Deck 2 speculation as AMD says it's building chips for a stronger handheld: "There is and will be no Z2 Steam Deck"
- The Metroidvania gods have spoken and answered my prayers with this horror game that looks like Majora's Mask if it let you play as an onion-headed freak
- After 12 years making custom Super Mario 64 levels, dev helps build an N64-style platformer whose demo sold me in seconds
- 26 years after he turned down The Matrix, Will Smith teases an upcoming reboot where he will star as Neo: "Wake up, Will"
- Stellar Blade was such a hit that its dev gave all employees a PS5 Pro and a roughly $3,400 bonus, and this horny action RPG isn't even on PC yet
- I'm hyped for what the new AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme will bring to handhelds, even if it doesn't power the Steam Deck 2
- The AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT is officially coming Q1 2025 with 16GB VRAM, but the first RDNA 4 graphics card isn't an RTX 5090 rival
- "There's always time to bone": Old School RuneScape players give a big vtuber so many dragon bones that she's nearly maxed one of the MMO's most expensive skills
- AMD is kicking off 2025 with two new Ryzen 9 X3D desktop CPUs
- Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford is "testing Borderlands 4 on Steam," and just wanted to check and see if you can tell
- Horror game legend Ikumi Nakamura swaps her love of gore for true romance by helping dev use custom sidequest as real-life proposal: "Moments like this remind me how lucky I am"
- Remember 3D displays? Well they're a thing again at CES thanks to the Samsung Odyssey 3D
- Marvel Rivals Season 1 kicks off this week as Eternal Night Falls sees the Fantastic Four join the Overwatch rival to put a stop to Dracula's antics
- Ex-Starfield lead looks at the open-world game boom and says "you can see Dark Souls and Elden Ring being a secondary trend: let's make third-person action combat really hard"
- Big in 2025: The 50 most anticipated upcoming video games of the year
- Getting Nintendo to approve a dark murder mystery, the first new Famicom Detective Club in 35 years, had one dev worried: "Is it alright for us to make this"
- Final Fantasy legends Nobuo Uematsu and Masayoshi Soken reunite to turn one of the greatest wrestlers ever into the ultimate final boss
- The Penguin showrunner debunks popular fan theory: "Well, I can say he's not the Scarecrow"
- Former Starfield lead says "people are fatigued" with huge games, and "I'm sorry" because "part of what happened is the success of games like Skyrim and Fallout 4"
- It's about sending a message: Elden Ring fan waits for Nightreign by no-hitting Shadow of the Erdtree's Messmer on NG+7 difficulty with a new weapon every single day
- In less than 24 hours, hit anime Solo Leveling season 2 broke its own Crunchyroll record
- Mario's iconic pipes only exist because Shigeru Miyamoto happened to see "a plastic pipe sticking out of a wall" while wandering the streets of Kyoto
- While you wait for Skyblivion, why not grab the Skyrim board game's Dawnguard expansion for less this January
- Before taking the lead on Alan Wake 2, its game director wanted Remedy to be the "European Naughty Dog" because "Naughty Dog games are f***ing awesome"
- Matt Reeves explains why The Batman 2 is delayed to 2027, but says they still want to film this year
- Nosferatu director Robert Eggers tried to make a Frankenstein movie, but gave up after two weeks: "It definitely sucked"
- Anthony Mackie crashes Marvel co-star Sebastian Stan's Golden Globe post-win interview to share the love: "Captain America and The Winter Soldier, we’re coming back!"
- Marvel Rivals looks set to get its first balance adjustments soon as a leaked schedule claims Wolverine is getting even stronger as Hela and Hawkeye get nerfed
- Squid Game star was worried he'd struggle with one of the show's most ingenious twists that you probably didn't even notice
- Exploding Kittens CEO is helping bring the Survivor reality show to tabletop, having watched "every episode of Survivor since the first season – 24 years ago"
- Bill Skarsgard thought he would play a different role in Nosferatu as Mads Mikkelsen was attached to play Count Orlok
- The Substance star Demi Moore reflects on a producer calling her a "popcorn actress" as she wins her first award in 45-year career at the Golden Globes: "I thought maybe this was it"
- James Cameron messaged Zoe Saldaña about her Golden Globes win while she was still in the audience: "He, after all these years, believes in me"
- The leaked GTA San Andreas source code is apparently fake and contains ransomware, so please don't download it
- Nintendo fans are convinced this supposed Switch 2 Joy-Con leak is real, but one piece of evidence isn't as compelling as it first seems
- The Penguin star Colin Farrell pays tribute to Heath Ledger and Joaquin Phoenix's "extraordinary" comic book performances after winning Golden Globe
- Balatro maker promises that the dodgiest odds in the hit roguelike aren't deceiving you
- January 5
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- One wasn't enough, so here's a second Doomer Shooter "inspired by the FPS classics of the '90s" where Doom Guy is an anime girl
- BioWare fans reckon they've found evidence Mass Effect 5 is bringing back the RPG series' classic Renegade/Paragon morality
- Some weird news: Amazon begins cancelling 3DS pre-orders for the failed Mega Man successor that came out 9 years ago
- "Sony would also turn to Mercury for all their tech demos for publishers": Jeb Mayers talks us through the creation of the portable puzzler
- January 4
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- Elden Ring Nightreign is saying goodbye to FromSoftware's beloved messaging system
- Tetris some towns together in this cute city builder brought back to life by Kickstarter after the studio "had to let everyone go" last year
- Balatro creator shares the GOTY love with other indie games while giving out a "very prestigious Golden Thunk award"
- OG Minecraft creator "basically announced Minecraft 2" in the oddest way, but he won't "sneakily infringe" on Mojang's work
- "Part of the genesis of Immortality was the three years I spent making a Legacy Of Kain game that got cancelled": Sam Barlow on the making of his "interactive movie"
- FC 25 NumeroFUT guide and full cards list
- January 3
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- This slick Hades-style action roguelike with 92% positive reviews mysteriously vanished from Steam and the devs say they don't know why
- Fallout creator Tim Cain reveals two playthroughs key to the RPG's history: his low-Int hero named Potato, and a mass-murderer who made them check "the entire game" again
- Borderlands 4 studio Gearbox gave the devs custom cast iron skillets for Christmas because "we f***ing cooked"
- "Action RPGs kind of outsell classic RPGs": Fallout OG Tim Cain says AAA RPGs default to violence because it sells, so support non-violent options when you get 'em
- 2 months later, Assassin's Creed Origins is getting pounded with negative Steam reviews because the Windows update that broke it still isn't fixed
- Angelina Jolie's new movie about a world-famous opera singer is a poignant story of life in the public eye
- Perhaps forgetting his game is a loaded parody of fascism, Helldivers 2 director says, "Make good games, don't make a contemporary political statement"
- Before Nintendo hired Shigeru Miyamoto, it tried to patent the kid's toy he made and brought to his interview: "I remember thinking, 'this is a shrewd company!'"
- Less than a year after launching 2024's best live service, Helldivers 2 creative director has already started working on "the next Arrowhead game"
- The Witcher 4 NPCs will offer a "more immersive experience" than other CD Projekt games: "We are trying to push the bar here"
- Seven director David Fincher shares what was actually in the box, though he says "you don't need to see what's in the box if you have Morgan Freeman"
- Peter Parker must face the unbearable truth as The 8 Deaths of Spider-Man continues
- Goal Oriented: How do developers invent their own sports – even when they're not too fond of the real thing?
- Helldivers 2 players beat the Illuminate back but they're still freaking out citizens, so High Command wants to build a surveillance center which definitely won't be used for spying
- James Gunn says we won't see Batman's origin in the DCU: "We don't need to hear the origin story again"
- The 32 greatest Leonardo DiCaprio movies
- "6 years of work leaving the nest": Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is already making its way into the hands of reviewers, and one dev is "nervous but also excited AF"
- A Balatro crossover, GOTY nods, and near-perfect reviews propelled one of 2024's hidden gems to its highest selling day months after launch
- Creature Commandos just gave us our first look at the DCU's Gotham City – and a glimpse of Batman
- BioShock Infinite “may not have been the thing I wanted, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it wasn’t the thing the audience wanted”: Ken Levine guides us through his entire gameography
- The Squid Game season 3 release date might have been accidentally leaked – by Netflix
- Vanilla Skyrim reaches a whopping 2 billion mod downloads, surpassed only by Skyrim: Special Edition's 6.2 billion record
- 39 years after its final animated episode, cult cartoon SilverHawks is back in a new comic that writer Ed Brisson calls "The Untouchables in space"
- Enormous GTA 5 mod adds GTA 4's Liberty City as a fully functional map, with a working subway, traffic, and even the notorious swing set glitch
- David Fincher was once in talks to direct Harry Potter, but his "creepy" version didn't align with Warner Bros.' vision
- Andrew Garfield denies being signed up for Spider-Man 4, but also knows "no one’s gonna trust" him after No Way Home
- BioShock's Ken Levine calls his most iconic FPS "a very, very long corridor," but his next game Judas is "made very, very differently"
- Marvel Rivals devs lift bans on players mistakenly banned for cheating: "We do not and will not ban players who are playing fairly"
- Solo Leveling season 2 release schedule – when is episode 2 on Crunchyroll?
- January 2
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- AGDQ 2025 kicks off this weekend promising Elden Ring on a saxophone and a 6-hour Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth speedrun, but I'm tuning in for two of the worst games ever made
- The Witcher 4 has "completely new regions" and monsters, including one the game director calls a "tricky, tricky bastard" that "plays with your own fears"
- GTA 6 will double GTA 5 and make $3.2 billion in its first year, analysts say – "The pent-up demand is greater than anything we’ve seen before”
- Somehow another roguelike RPG 17 years in the making launched last year, and sitting beside Caves of Qud it's gotten 4,700 glowing Steam reviews in near-total silence
- 2025 kicks off with another live service death as Friday the 13th: The Game fans sadly twerk on its grave
- The Switch 2 news drought sent so many Nintendo fans to the page for a new AI upscaling patent that they seemingly crashed it
- Marvel Rivals officially confirms first new characters: The Fantastic Four are coming soon
- You probably missed this heartbreaking Celebrimbor detail in The Rings of Power
- Trap star Josh Hartnett is stuck on a plane full of assassins in first trailer for new action thriller from the team behind John Wick
- Minecraft experts dedicate 3 years to building Breath of the Wild's entire open-world map out of blocks: "I put everything else aside"
- Everyone Goosebumps: The Vanishing star David Schwimmer talked to about it said the same thing: "Oh my God, you have to do it"
- Goosebumps: The Vanishing's David Schwimmer explains what actually gives him goosebumps
- Borderlands 4 CEO wouldn't call the shooter an open-world, but it is the "most open and free" game Gearbox has ever made
- Undertale creator Toby Fox brings a joyous New Year's reminder: "Deltarune Chapter 3 and 4 will release this year in 2025!"
- The Making of Baldur's Gate 3: "We really wanted to make it so that even if you don't know D&D or Baldur's Gate, you would still have exciting choices as a player"
- GTA 6 will be "worth waiting for" says CEO of Rockstar owner, who teases that "we really focus on presenting something to the audience that they just haven't seen before"
- Microsoft said "'Nah'" to the Halo x Doom crossover pitched for Amazon's Secret Level, but I'm crossing my fingers for Season 2
- Helldivers 2's Killzone-inspired sniper "could maybe use some tweaking," creative director admits, but "weapons are what weapons are" and "balance doesn't matter"
- Netflix's new number 1 movie may be a Christmas thriller, but it's still topping the streamer's charts after the holidays
- Squid Game star thought the season 2 brutal cliffhanger might make the audience "angry" and "curse" the ending: "How could you end the season at that point?"
- AAA – Developers discuss the three little letters that have shaped an industry: "It's a stupid term. It's meaningless"
- After 30 years of work on Capcom's Devil May Cry and Dragon's Dogma games, director Hideaki Itsuno has already started his "new project"
- With Jason Momoa switching Aquaman for Lobo, DC fans are convinced it's perfect casting
- Black Myth: Wukong lead blames the missing Xbox port on Series S specs, months after Microsoft claimed the delay wasn't due to "platform limitations"
- GTA Online fans find a "loophole" to enable crossplay across PC and PS4, and apparently all you need is a jailbroken console, a dev copy of GTA 5, and access to a private server
- Nosferatu star Bill Skarsgård is interested in playing the Joker: "I think that would be pretty sick"
- Squid Game season 2 beats Wednesday to have Netflix's biggest ever premiere week
- With Concord in the rearview, Halo Infinite dev is glad it's still kicking "in a climate where games can be shut down with little notice"
- January 1
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- "At the time survival horror was changing. 'How action-oriented do we get?'": 16 years on, Tomm Hulett reflects on Silent Hill: Homecoming
- The Making of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth: "I thought: if we just reproduce the original game with no changes, it will feel nostalgic, but not exciting"
- Mr and Mrs Smith was one of the best shows of 2024 and the perfect limited series – let's hope season 2 lives up to it
