News archive
January 2025
Filter
234 articles
- January 10
-
- Marvel fans have a surprising pick for the "most brilliant" villain in the MCU – and it's an underrated character
- New Skyrim lore just dropped, and it only costs $49 in the Bethesda store
- Jurassic World Rebirth release date, cast, story, and everything else you need to know
- 10 years later, "around 100" Witcher 3 devs are still at CD Projekt Red working on games like The Witcher 4
- It took 490 days, but the Super Mario Bros speedrun world record is now 4 frames better – and just 18 frames away from literal perfection
- New Wakandan hero Gold Tiger is the latest to join Marvel's New Champions
- Notch cancels the "Minecraft 2" he announced days prior because spiritual successors are "always kinda sad nostalgia dumps"
- Martial arts legend Donnie Yen enters talks to direct his own character's John Wick spin-off: "I think both the fans, as well as the studio, want this to happen"
- Manor Lords patch adds new maps and a city builder staple, bridge-building, and also makes it so "taverns realize ale isn't magic – it's just ale"
- After talking through an AGDQ Ratchet and Clank speedrun for 3 hours, trained Opera singer delivers an incredible 6-minute performance
- Steve Rogers is no more, now there is only Cap-Snake! Check out a first look at the final issue of Avengers Assemble
- AMD explains why the Radeon RX 9070 XT was pulled from its CES 2025 keynote, but I'm still confused at its approach to RDNA 4
- 28 Years Later director Danny Boyle says the horror sequel takes a "wholly different approach" as he also reacts to fans thinking that zombie was Cillian Murphy
- With just over a week until Severance season 2 premieres, you can now catch up on season 1 for free
- Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition looks like an incredible revival of one of the best Wii U JRPGs, but fans might be most excited about one simple thing – the larger text size
- Sorry Elden Ring sickos, the Nightreign network test only lets you play for a few short hours a day
- For the love of Lolth, please don't tell my DM smelly D&D dice exist
- Game of Thrones star is replacing the late Ray Stevenson as Baylan Skoll in Ahsoka season 2
- WWE wrestler says his Captain America: Brave New World role has been cut due to "a lot of rewrites and reshoots"
- Company behind viral Switch 2 mock-up backtracks, says its cover accessory was based on leaks as Nintendo wades in to clarify CES images are "not official"
- Baldur's Gate 3's Swen Vincke, feeling all "nostalgic," teases the "the story ain't over" for Larian Studios' "incredible journey"
- Creature Commandos star Maria Bakalova reacts to that shocking death scene from the finale: "I didn't want her to die"
- January 9
-
- The Sims rival inZOI uses special Nvidia AI tech to power its characters, but this kinda just looks like regular NPC AI to me
- Welcome to Derry director reveals three-season plan for the upcoming prequel series based on Stephen King's It
- 7 years later, Monster Hunter World player finally beats the whole game without using weapons, mostly with a Street Fighter Hadoken emote dealing 13 damage at a time
- Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii is getting New Game Plus for free after fans ripped Infinite Wealth to shreds for locking it behind DLC
- 28 Years Later won't feature Cillian Murphy, but producer says don't count him out from popping up "somewhere [down] the line"
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (Jan 10 - 12)
- Ubisoft "won't comment" on reports of Tencent buyout, only says it's "exploring different options" and "will inform the market if and when a transaction materializes"
- Marvel Rivals model "incredibly thankful to be able to say 'THAT'S MY ASS'" after realizing she's Sue Storm based on the curvature of her cheeks
- Jason Statham finds brand-new uses for construction tools in first action-packed trailer for The Beekeeper director's new movie co-written by Sylvester Stallone
- New Super Mario Bros Wii speedrunner gets AGDQ's standing ovation by playing the entire soundtrack on piano while beating the game with controllers strapped to his body
- A Lego Game Boy is on the way, and I'm losing my damn mind
- Deus Ex Adam Jensen actor responds to potential story plans for the cyberpunk RPG's canceled sequel: "Hey this would have been fun huh?"
- Assassin's Creed Shadows delayed yet again, this time to March 2025, amid Ubisoft's "renewed focus on gameplay quality and engaging Day-1 experiences"
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth PC trailer sells the beefier version of one of 2024's greatest JRPGs with better lighting, DLSS, 120 FPS, and a crucial shot of Barret's ass
- New horror comic Dark Pyramid looks like a Lovecraftian thriller featuring "the oddest monsters and weirdest creatures"
- Kingdom Hearts 4 has been radio silent for 1,005 days, but don’t worry - Tetsuya Nomura teases he has the story planned out
- Skyrim's iconic opening was done by Starfield's quest lead, but only after he was brutally called out for "everything we're doing wrong" in front of the Bethesda team
- I covered the RTX 4080 launch, and the RTX 5080 feels like serious GPU Deja vu
- Why have Nintendo trailers been flooded with water buffalo memes? Thank these Switch 2 leak enthusiasts, who I fear are losing it at this point
- Netflix unveils action-packed trailer for highly anticipated anime show about a retired hitman, adds Avatar: The Last Airbender and Cobra Kai stars to cast
- After its supposedly accurate Switch 2 mock-up went viral, accessory maker says it "didn't expect this much media attention" because it thought all the information had already leaked
- Xbox Developer Direct kicks off 2025 with Doom: The Dark Ages, South of Midnight, Clair Obscur, and a "surprise" fourth game
- Razer has a new RGB-clad Steam Deck dock, but it's missing one key feature I'd include for future handhelds
- This AGDQ icon hilariously speed-dated their way across Fallout: New Vegas, romanced all 12 characters, and still beat the RPG in 40 minutes
- Wicked star wants to play Storm in the MCU and explore the X-Men character's "inner turmoil"
- Before Slow Horses season 5 is even out, Gary Oldman confirms filming is already well underway on season 6
- Fallout season 2 filming delayed due to LA fires
- Former Switch marketing lead says "as wild as these leaks are Nintendo is going to stick to their plan," not budging on Switch 2 date "no matter what"
- 15 years after it was announced, the Shadow of the Colossus film adaptation might still be made according to director – and they have a script
- Denis Villeneuve doubles down on Dune 3 being his last Dune movie, but is excited to return: "After that, it would become unhealthy"
- Hold me back, levitating D&D dice are a thing and I need them
- CD Projekt Red prepared for The Witcher 4's "vibe" by having devs old and new make a fresh quest together in The Witcher 3's next-gen update
- The Boys star's new sci-fi horror from the creators of Barbarian gets an intriguing first trailer that reveals a big twist
- Despite Nintendo's Palworld lawsuit rumbling on in the background, developer Pocketpair releases its old roguelike card game on the Switch
- Creature Commandos star Maria Bakalova talks playing evil for the first time and that dramatic finale reveal: "I've never played the villain before"
- Marvel Rivals Season 1 release date and time – here's when Mister Fantastic and Invisible Woman join the hero shooter
- Creature Commandos season 2: Everything we know so far about the return of James Gunn's DC show
- Creature Commandos ending explained: Who dies in the James Gunn DC series? Will there be a season 2?
- Creature Commandos finale post-credits scene explained: does James Gunn's DC series have a post-credits scene?
- January 8
-
- For just $15, you can hang out with Hatsune Miku every day at work thanks to the power of Steam's latest desktop mascot hit
- Official Marvel Rivals stats show Mantis dominates, Magik is a sleeper hit, everyone loves Jeff even if he kind of sucks, and Black Widow is in the dumpster
- After a Game Awards reveal followed by 2 years of nothing, multiplayer Transformers game canceled as devs focus on "other projects" like an open-world survival game
- Analyst predicts Switch 2 supply will struggle with "significant early demand surge," PS5 will still end up the best-selling hardware for US in 2025
- I didn't have a fish version of Wingspan on my 2025 bingo card, but I'll take it
- Dwarf Fortress' Adventure Mode finally leaves beta on Steam this month, turning the notoriously complex strategy game into a brutal open-world roguelike RPG
- The Switch is the one console with a controller that splits in two, but these AGDQ speedrunners still cuddled up to break Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- Fallout lead Tim Cain wonders if "gamers know what they like" and reckons feedback is much better when it's specific and focuses on what you want
- Mecha Break, the lovechild of Armored Core and Titanfall, gets a closed beta test that you can sign up for now
- New trailer for Reacher season 3 sees the hero forced to face his haunted past – and square up to his new 7-foot teammate
- Ubisoft says it's "deeply disturbed" by abuse allegations at support studio that contributed to Assassin's Creed Shadows, Dark Souls, The Last of Us, and more
- Twitch star Shroud argues Overwatch is "absolutely a much better game" than Marvel Rivals, and "people forget" how good it was at launch: "That game took over the world"
- After 9 years staring at his face, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director's favorite character is Cloud: "I don't think there was a time that I haven't seen him in front of me"
- Imagine Infinity Nikki with a bazooka loaded with love rockets and you get this Doom Eternal-flavored shooter that’s all about killing with kindness – and guns
- James Mangold's Star Wars movie is set thousands of years in the past because he's "not interested in being handcuffed" by the massive canon
- Nexus Mods got death threats after removing Trump and Biden mods for Marvel Rivals, owner says it's been site policy for years: "It's so dumb, and these people are so dumb"
- Pokemon Go datamine finds that, yes, we're probably getting a Pokemon Presents showcase on Pokemon Day
- Mass Effect veterans have another Normandy-type "major hub" in their new space RPG Exodus, but this time it's an entire city
- This Lego PS2 design has moving internals, and it could become a reality alongside Simpsons and Jumanji kits
- The former Halo, Batman Arkham, and Doom devs' studio is "halting work" on its upcoming game to search for a new publisher to bring "creative vision to life"
- Deadlock updates will be "a little bit more spaced out" so Valve can "improve our development process," but you can expect bigger major patches when they arrive
- A classic '00s movie is getting a gender-swapped TV reboot at Disney Plus
- Nvidia's cloud gaming service is coming to VR headsets, but you'll only be able to play flatscreen games
- Fantastic Four star says motion-capture legend Andy Serkis helped with his performance and yes, he said that iconic Marvel catchphrase
- Squid Game season 2 is on track to beat season 1 on Netflix, but it's just been knocked off the top spot by something completely different
- With everything from Helldivers to Zelda getting the big screen treatment, OG Final Fantasy 7 director would "love" for the JRPG to get another movie
- Netflix is releasing two highly anticipated new anime shows based on popular manga on the same day this week
- GTA 3 dev thought riding the train was "boring," which led to the creation of the series' cinematic camera: "The team found it surprisingly entertaining"
- I'm really hopeful that The Last of Us season 2 flips a key part of the game's story – and I think the new trailer just confirmed it
- The Batman 2 director teases "completely different" sequel, as he promises the movie's main villain will surprise DC fans
- Microsoft says it's working on "bringing the best of Xbox and Windows together" to make handheld gaming better, and it should have more to share this year
- Skeleton Crew episode 7 ends with a sinister Star Wars callback to Revenge of the Sith
- In tweaking legendary creatures D&D Monster Manual designers admit DMs don't always "want to choose the most deadly option every round"
- Nintendo still hasn't announced the Switch 2, but one accessory maker is now showing off mock-ups allegedly created using the real console
- Taron Egerton's Die Hard-style thriller is Netflix's fifth most-watched movie of all time – but the director hasn't heard about a sequel
- Monster Hunter Wilds gets a second beta test with a "returning monster from the series," but improvements from the first round "won't be ready" in time
- January 7
-
- 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
- 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
- Anime giant Crunchyroll is getting back into manga with a new reading app coming this year promising "brand-new and beloved titles"
- 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
- Marvel Rivals season 1 has "double the playable content of a regular season" and adds maps, heroes, balance changes, and more
- Razer is releasing a budget gaming chair, and it might actually be affordable for the average player
- This new Xbox controller looks like a lawsuit waiting to happen, but it could be one of the best gamepads of 2025
- 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"
- HP's Omen Max 16 gaming laptop has a unique cooling system I can't believe nobody thought of before
- Alienware Area-51 gaming laptops make a return at CES
- HyperX just launched what could be the most customizable gaming mouse ever made at CES
- Razer launches new Blade 16 with Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 - but that AMD Ryzen AI CPU might do more heavy lifting
- January 6
-
- 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"
- 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
- 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
-
- 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
- January 4
-
- 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
- January 3
-
- 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
- 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
- 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"
- "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
- 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
- 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
-
- 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!"
- 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?"
- 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"
