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- March 31
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- Palworld dev says the studio went dark for months because "the team was getting burnt out from all the social media stuff, I was getting burnt out, our CEO was under attack in Japan"
- Metaphor: ReFantazio had to dial back an early battle system inspired by a notoriously brutal 2003 JRPG, because 20 years later, players found it "irrational" and "just not fun"
- Spider-Man's ex Mary Jane Watson is officially Venom, but she and the symbiote are "not together by choice"
- At a ridiculously detailed showcase of the open-world engine behind the RPG Crimson Desert, I asked a ridiculously detailed question about water and all hell broke loose
- Super Mario Bros 2 player crashes the game, casually posts the clip online, and accidentally makes "the biggest 2D Mario speedrun discovery in years"
- The world's "largest PC strategy game" has a novel idea – what if it was OK for people to leave?
- Balatro creator LocalThunk stays so anonymous, a GDC attendee couldn't believe how he "crushed" the roguelike's base difficulty: "'Wow you must have played this before!'"
- The Last of Us showrunner says "flat out" that "I am not going to go past the game" like Game of Thrones did with George R.R. Martin's novels
- Larian boss defends mods as D&D owner Wizards of the Coast blasts a Baldur’s Gate 3 Stardew Valley mod offline with a DMCA: "There are good ways of dealing with this"
- New Black Mirror season 7 trailer reveals how Will Poulter's Bandersnatch character returns to the Netflix show - with a Sonic the Hedgehog namedrop
- Former Nintendo marketing leads say the Wii U flopped so bad that getting third-party support on Switch was "really hard," but the Switch 2 marks a new era: "There's no more proving yourself"
- The Baldur's Gate 3-themed Stardew Valley mod that Larian boss Swen Vincke called "amazing" gets DMCA'd by D&D publisher Wizards of the Coast
- After PlayStation boss praises Nier Automata as a savior for Japanese games overseas, Yoko Taro says he was specifically told to focus on Japan because it wouldn't fly overseas
- 24 years later, RuneScape gets its own survival game – RuneScape: Dragonwilds turns the MMO into a co-op game with RPG juice and Valheim energy, and it's out this year
- The best new shows and movies streaming this week on Netflix, Prime Video, Disney Plus and more
- "I'm lookin' at you, Korok Seeds": Former Diablo and Ghost of Tsushima dev outlines what makes a good collectible, and dunks Zelda: Breath of the Wild's worst grind into C tier
- Hollow Knight: Silksong is so late that this stylish and extremely Hollow Knight-inspired Metroidvania, made by a studio called Whalesong, might launch first
- GTA 3 on the Sega Dreamcast now has a 60fps "performance mode," but it makes the game almost unplayable
- House of the Dragon will introduce one of the most "truly memorable Game of Thrones characters" in season 3: "He's one of those true fan favorites"
- Tomodachi Life sickos waited 12 years for a sequel, and now it's so popular it's even overshadowed the Nintendo Switch 2 buzz in Japan
- Zack Snyder is trading in superhero movies for the UFC – and everyone is making the same joke
- The PS5 stutter issue is real, and players are still begging Sony for a fix months later as even more extensive testing proves it
- James Gunn calls Milly Alcock "indomitable" as he shares new look from the Supergirl film set
- Over a year after it was axed, Coyote Vs. Acme is finally coming to theaters after getting a new lease on life from Hellboy studio
- Jack Black weighs in on the amount of hate the first Minecraft Movie trailer got: "There's always so many people that are sensitive to everything you put out there"
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake's Aerith actor is throwing her hat into the ring for the Legend of Zelda movie: "I just wanna audition for Zelda so bad"
- Dread it, run from it, the Palworld dating sim is real – and Pocketpair is tripling down with a Steam page starring "Chillet's little sister" and "Yandere Splatterina"
- It took Assassin's Creed Shadows players 9 days to find a new way to insta-kill certain enemies, and Hitman's Agent 47 would be proud
- The Witcher 4 has "a huge team" focused on the believability of the RPG's world, because even things like trees and foliage always need to belong
- Marvel fans are desperate for Doctor Doom to face off against Thanos in Avengers: Doomsday
- Silent Hill's Pyramid Head creator is getting tired of some fan theories: "I occasionally need to deny the f*****g ridiculous headcanons"
- Monster Hunter Wilds breaks out the big guns, promising higher difficulty, PC fixes, layered weapons, hammer and other weapon buffs, and better endgame variety
- Devil May Cry producer hopes new Netflix anime inspired by Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy will show fans that "the villain of your story is the hero of their own story"
- Devil May Cry producer says he wanted the new Netflix anime to feel "like a Hollywood blockbuster" inspired by The Matrix and Christopher Nolan's Batman
- Death Stranding surpasses 20 million players amid spike of Steam users presumably trying to finish it before the sequel
- "Joel was right": The Last of Us director Neil Druckmann defends his character's decision at the end of the first game
- Ghost of Yotei will let you cut loose with dual katanas, ōdachi, and more new weapons when it launches this year, PlayStation confirms
- Heat director Michael Mann says the first draft of his sequel script is finished and handed in to Warner Bros.
- Final Fantasy 9 gets website celebrating 25th anniversary with hints of "various projects," leaving fans of the JRPG hopeful for the long-rumored remake
- Starfield could release on PS5 with a second expansion this year according to Xbox insiders, but it was reportedly originally meant to launch with Shattered Space
- The Boys showrunner offers big update on season 5 while teasing "brilliant scripts" for Soldier Boy spin-off
- 22 years after playing Nightcrawler, X-Men star Alan Cumming reacts to Avengers: Doomsday casting news in the most iconic way
- Death Stranding 2 inches ever closer to completion as Hideo Kojima says sound mixing is finally finished just 3 months before release
- Following whispers of a StarCraft revival at Blizzard, 4 game companies are reportedly in competition to secure publishing rights and develop new games in the series
- Iron First actor wants to return to Marvel and "prove people wrong": "Give me a f***ing chance, man"
- Netflix's Daredevil showrunner says they "didn't have the money" to make Matt Murdock as acrobatic as he is in Born Again
- Helen Mirren doesn't want to see a female James Bond because the character is "born out of profound sexism"
- Helldivers 2 is having players return to 'space Vietnam' as the Automatons have returned one year after we liberated Malevelon Creek
- Monster Hunter Wilds continues its record-breaking streak, with Capcom now celebrating over 10 million sales for the new action RPG
- A Minecraft Movie lands extremely positive first reactions: "A video game movie with Napoleon Dynamite DNA"
- March 30
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- Metaphor: ReFantazio wanted to fix the JRPG grinding problem, but Atlus went too far at one point and accidentally broke the whole combat system
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake and Rebirth battle director says combining everything he learned on Monster Hunter: World with Square Enix's technology and unique skills created a "chemical reaction"
- "Minutes after Palworld released," Pocketpair was already getting game pitches from "some really big names" before it even set up its own publisher: "No one has money at the moment"
- Palworld dev "secretly" brought a game it's publishing to an event that's "not like anything we've been involved in" and reactions are "very positive"
- After preserving the AI ghost of a fan's late brother, Tekken 8 boss says it might be a glimpse of the future where you don't "need an opponent who is human that has the exact same skill level"
- After struggling to make sequel-sized changes, fans think Blizzard might retire the '2' in Overwatch's name based on Season 16 leaks
- Valve leads considered making a "mediocre" game before Half-Life to build the team up, but original marketing exec said "if you do that, the company will fail"
- Take-Two won't begin marketing GTA 6 until it's closer to release: "The anticipation for this title may be the greatest anticipation I've ever seen for any entertainment property"
- The Black Phone writer and director are prepping for Siberian-set horror Road of Bones
- The Legend of Zelda movie and Sonic 4 are game for competition with both set for release a week apart
- Gen V creator gives exciting update on second season of The Boys spin-off
- Bill Murray regrets not working with one director in his illustrious career: “It’s one of the few regrets I have is that I didn’t do it."
- Ryan Coogler promises "I’ve got every intention of working" with Denzel Washington on Black Panther 3
- March 29
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- Ahead of GTA 6, Take-Two CEO says he’s “not worried about AI creating hits” because it’s built on recycled data: “Big hits […] need to be created out of thin air”
- Getting Over It creator Bennett Foddy threatens the world once again: If you want Baby Steps to be a brutal rage game, "you can inflict that on yourself"
- PlayStation games like The Last of Us are dominating the silver screen, but former Sony boss Shawn Layden says "an entire generation had to retire" before Hollywood took him seriously
- Assassin's Creed Shadows devs "actively looking at" an even harder difficulty mode for the RPG: "How challenging do you want it?"
- Former PlayStation boss says the Nintendo Switch 2 will determine if the OG Switch can ever claim PS2's best-selling console of all time title
- Kingdom Hearts 4 director rears his head 1,085 days after the JRPG's reveal to share a potentially crucial piece of fruit lore that baffles even Square Enix
- Assassin's Creed Shadows' delays were mostly used to polish the RPG, creative director confirms, not for deeper changes brought about by Star Wars Outlaws reaction
- 37-year-old studio behind iconic PC game Myst and one of the longest-surviving indies in the world just laid off "roughly half the team"
- Filming has started on the second season of beloved Hulu show Paradise, only weeks after the hit Disney Plus show ended
- Reacher star is being fan-cast as the MCU version of Tom Hardy's fan-favorite Spider-Man character
- This Avengers: Doomsday theory suggests that X-Men Days of Future Past may have created Robert Downey Jr.'s Doom
- Superman star doesn't want to compare James Gunn's movie to Guardians of the Galaxy: "It’s going to be its own thing"
- New movie from Ex Machina director lands more than 90% on Rotten Tomatoes with reviews calling it "relentless" and "gruelling"
- Inzoi dev says "highly inappropriate" bug that let you kill kids with your car has been patched out: "We are strengthening our internal review processes"
- March 28
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- "30 years of history reside in our tape backups": PlayStation's building a game preservation mineshaft vault with 200 million files going back to a 1994 build of PS1 JRPG Arc the Lad
- The other big Soulslike out this week has some Bloodborne and Dark Souls 3 in its combat, dev says, but "we would rather call AI Limit an action RPG"
- The Last of Us showrunner says "so much" has happened in the five-year gap since we last saw Joel and Ellie: "That's part of the mystery of the season"
- Netflix anime producer says new Devil May Cry series cast member and Batman star Kevin Conroy is posthumously "entitled to some awards here": "His contributions to the world of animation are just vast"
- Marvel Rivals puts fun first in game balance, but new heroes and maps can still get complicated: "We joke about when we develop a hero and when we develop a new map, it's just doing science research"
- "Are the 8-year-olds and 10-year-olds dreaming of owning a PlayStation 6?": Netflix gaming boss thinks consoles and controllers will "restrain us"
- After Best Buy removes its own apparent leak, new report claims Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders open April 9 with bonuses for early buyers
- The Last of Us showrunners say it might be stretched over four seasons as they talk taking their time with the storyline: "We have a destination in mind"
- The Last of Us showrunner explains why they included the cut therapy scene that Pedro Pascal loved in season 2, and says it gets to the "heart" of the show
- It's not just your favorite JRPGs, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 takes notes from Studio Ghibli movies like Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle too
- Nintendo Today just told me how to beat World 1 of Super Mario Bros 40 years too late
- The lead UI designer on Metaphor: ReFantazio had never designed for a game before – he just rolled up and made some of the best UI I've ever seen in a JRPG
- As Krafton irons out the InZoi bugs, devs "recommend avoiding repeated remarriage and, if necessary, proceeding only when there are no children involved"
- Instead of leaking Avengers: Doomsday secrets, Paul Rudd has some choice words for his "emasculating" Ant-Man chair
- In 15 hours, Elden Ring Nightreign beta players managed to beat the Day 3 boss over 58k times, which sounds pretty good until you hear about the 38 billion runes lost
- Take-Two CEO says AI users who think they "can push a button and say, 'Create the next GTA 6'" are completely wrong: "The big creative leaps forward will be generated by humans"
- Thirsty Marvel Rivals fans are getting exactly what they wished for: Venom throwing it all the way back in a new emote
- One of the best horror films of the 2010s, with a 90% score on Rotten Tomatoes, is leaving Netflix in April
- Hit animated show from Scavengers Reign co-creator is renewed for second season ahead of finale
- Former PlayStation boss says Nier Automata "revived" the Japanese games industry and convinced developers to stop chasing overseas trends
- Over 10 years later, Tomodachi Life fans find relief for their long suffering with a sequel, Living the Dream, which might feature long-requested queer romance
- A grim Marvel theory could explain why the Avengers: Doomsday cast was revealed in that order
- Dune 2 stars re-teaming for new movie described as "The Martian meets 127 Hours" from the director of an underrated recent horror film
- These breathtaking Studio Ghibli Lego sets could one day hit shelves, with your support
- Doctor Doom and Luna Snow's personal super-team adds three more heroes in Doom's Division #2
- The Legend of Zelda live-action movie finally has a release date, Nintendo randomly confirms through its newly released app
- Ridley Scott once pitched The Studio's Seth Rogen a Monopoly movie and well, it sounded great: "[We] were like, 'F***'"
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot will reportedly have a main character who's "more Willow," with Sarah Michelle Gellar as a guest star
- 25 years later, Bryan Cranston teases a "different dynamic" in Malcolm in the Middle revival, and says he's been trying to make it happen for over a decade
- Assassin's Creed Shadows has an early secret weapon that's easy to miss, but you have to get: "I haven’t even been hit once since I found it"
- How to watch Buffy The Vampire Slayer online and from anywhere
- The mysterious button on the Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con has finally been revealed – it's a C, and fans are desperately trying to figure out what it's for: "Either Community or Connect"
- Marvel fans think Avengers: Doomsday announcements sealed the fate of this Thunderbolts character once and for all
- Realistic The Sims competitor inZOI already has 86% "Very Positive" reviews on Steam as fans praise its visuals and lack of paid DLC
- After wondering what the heck Pokemon Legends: Z-A's name actually meant, we now know it's tied to a pretty cool ranking system
- Neil Druckmann says he's letting HBO worry about "what to spoil or not" ahead of The Last of Us season 2 after Part 2's leaks: "[It] all blew up in my face"
- New Avatar movie (not that one) adds Invincible star Steven Yeun in mystery role alongside Dave Bautista
- Reacher star Alan Ritchson says he was knocked out cold during that explosive season 3 finale fight with a 7ft 2in Dutch bodybuilder
- Pokémon Company issues statement around barren TCG stock, with promises of "maximizing production" for new Trading Card Game expansions
- Nintendo quietly confirms "Nintendo Switch 2 Edition games" as a separate thing to console exclusives following Virtual Game Cards' big reveal
- Dev of cancelled Front Mission game wants to resolve Square Enix's copyright lawsuit "amicably" by swapping assets in its new strategy game
- March 27
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- The surprise theme of today's Nintendo Direct was classic PlayStation franchises getting a comeback without Sony's involvement
- Unannounced Hogwarts Legacy DLC reportedly canceled, partly because the studio wasn't sure it'd be worth players' money
- Ultimate X-Men #14 pays homage to a classic Wolverine moment as the Shadow King returns
- The Last of Us showrunner says he isn't worried about fan reaction to season 2: "The best way we could respect our fans and honor them is to not worry about them"
- The Last of Us season 2 showrunner talks new and even more terrifying types of infected with a big tease: "The Rat King is something that anybody who has played TLOU Part 2 is traumatized by"
- English is no longer the biggest language on Steam as Chinese gamers embrace PC gaming even harder after Black Myth: Wukong
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (March 28 - 30)
- Ubisoft reaches deal with Tencent to create $4.3 billion mini-Ubisoft subsidiary to "spearhead development" on new Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six games
- Ex-Bethesda dev says his new studio isn't making a "little Skyrim," but does channel a key part of the iconic RPG: "Stuff got built because somebody cared about building it"
- Chair makers Bouiles just launched a new standing desk that only takes five minutes to put together
- The new Thunderbolts teaser namedrops the Avengers twice, less than a day after the cast was confirmed for Doomsday
- The Avengers vs. X-Men logo may have been spotted in the latest Doomsday reveal, fueling theories for the upcoming Marvel movies
- Elden Ring Nightreign isn't pushing Lies of P to go multiplayer, but the director is "open" to co-op games in the future
- The spirit of those incredible '90s arcade comic book brawlers lives on in Marvel Cosmic Invasion, a new retro beat-em-up game from the creators of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge
- 17 years after The Dark Knight was released, Michael Caine recalls being "floored" and "terrified" by Heath Ledger's performance as the Joker
- Leonardo DiCaprio is a gun-slinging ex-revolutionary on a mission in first trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson’s black comedy One Battle After Another
- Assassin's Creed Shadows shoots past 3 million players and 40 million hours played with the "second-highest day 1 sales revenue in Assassin's Creed franchise history"
- After telling The Last of Us fans don't "bet on" a Part 3, Neil Druckmann says "so many stars have to align, I can't guarantee it" but he treats every game "like it could be my last"
- Rhythm Heaven Groove has one of Nintendo's longest-suffering fandoms absolutely feasting: "AFTER 10 YEARS WE FINALLY WON"
- Jason Statham and The Beekeeper director's new movie co-written by Sylvester Stallone debuts to mixed reviews with a divisive Rotten Tomatoes score
- The Last of Us' Neil Druckmann has a cryptic response to whether the TV show could pull a Game of Thrones and continue beyond the games: "I leave nothing on the line"
- Shin Megami Tensei's overlooked action spin-off is coming back this summer after almost 20 years, and the OG JRPG's director hopes "things don’t end here"
- Attack on Titan studio rebooting a cult classic '80s shonen anime for Netflix, and it starts streaming very soon
- The Wheel of Time showrunner defends Prime Video show's big changes from the books following season 3 backlash: "You have to be careful not to be swayed by Reddit"
- There's a Nintendo Direct app now: Miyamoto himself reveals Nintendo Today to beam "daily" Switch 2 news straight into your eyeballs, and it's out today
- Preparing for the Switch 2, Nintendo announces "Virtual Game Cards" you can move between consoles and loan to friends for up to 2 weeks
- Pokemon is a stealth game now: Pokemon Legends Z-A wants you to sneak attack trainers during its nighttime battle royale
- Gorgeous pixel art life sim Witchbrook blends Stardew Valley and Hogwarts Legacy, as the wizard school RPG arrives later this year
- Our best look at Metroid Prime 4 yet shows Samus with a new suit and some psychic abilities, but we're still staring down a 2025 placeholder
- Pac-Man, the gritty Metroidvania seen in Amazon's Secret Level, gets a new launch date and some very dark gameplay
- Robert Downey Jr's WandaVision Easter egg in the Avengers: Doomsday announcement has me thinking Scarlet Witch will be in the movie after all
- The Nintendo Switch 2 pre-order date has just been confirmed as Best Buy publishes leak
- Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies reveals why season 2's Eurovision inspired episode has him taking the "sexiest f***ing risk"
- "They are really feelin' the pressure": Former Nintendo staff think today's Direct, just 6 days before the Switch 2 Direct is a "bad idea strategically"
- Marvel fans are hoping Channing Tatum's Gambit return in Avengers: Doomsday will be different from Deadpool and Wolverine
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate director "can't hope to compete with what doctors do," but he's content to "buff peoples' lives" with games
- Former Skyrim dev says "a lot of the great stuff" in the RPG came from the devs having "quite a bit of freedom" to create what they wanted, even if it wasn't "on schedule"
- There might be an obvious reason why Tom Holland's Spider-Man wasn't announced for Avengers: Doomsday
- There may still be some big names missing from the Avengers: Doomsday cast list, but Marvel teases that "there's always room for more"
- Marvel fans are already theorizing how Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, and James Marsden's X-Men will be integrated into Avengers: Doomsday
- Despite fans begging for Tifa, Final Fantasy 16's Clive is "significantly more popular" than any other Tekken guest fighter
- Simu Liu had the best reaction to Shang-Chi’s announcement for Avengers: Doomsday, but fans think it's "criminal" there hasn’t been a direct sequel
- Daredevil's Charlie Cox isn't in the Avengers: Doomsday cast list – but Marvel fans have an idea about how he might still show up
- Happy Death Day director says he once wrote a movie based on "a very big" horror franchise, but a studio rejected it because it had a gay lead
- The Last of Us director Neil Druckmann wanted to make sure the first game "was complete" because "I wasn't sure they would ever let me direct a game again"
- Everything announced at the Nintendo Direct March 2025
- Rocksteady's rumored single-player Batman game is in development for PC, PS5, Xbox, and "the next generation of consoles"
- March 26
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- Andor showrunner hopes that the Disney Plus show's success helps convince Lucasfilm to sign off on either a Star Wars horror movie or sitcom
- 10 years later, in a post-Baldur's Gate 3 and Avowed world, Obsidian is giving its own throwback CRPG Pillars of Eternity a turn-based combat mode
- The OG Fox X-Men are back, with Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, and more joining the cast of Avengers: Doomsday alongside a whole new Avengers team to take on Robert Downey Jr's Doctor Doom
- When Destiny 2 "weekly active users dropped lower and faster than we'd seen since 2018," Bungie assembled an A-Team to put out some fires: "We needed to do something"
- The Handmaid's Tale will go back to basics with a "classic" series finale that's been years in the making
- Netflix is rebooting Scooby-Doo as a live-action series from the producer of Supergirl and The Flash centered around a "supernatural murder" at a summer camp
- Astro Bot went through 23 pitch iterations before its director promised PlayStation "happy gameplay" and "overflowing charm," though it did once end with robot decapitation that made "some people really upset"
- 5 years after Avengers, 2 years after its last layoffs, and who knows how long before Perfect Dark and Tomb Raider return, Crystal Dynamics announces another round of layoffs
- Charlie Brooker promises Black Mirror season 7 is "a bit more OG", having previously said that he didn't want the series to be known as "the 'tech is bad' show" anymore
- "AI is not as effective as it might appear": Dev of AI-focused Soulslike RPG says they didn't use any AI-generated content and it can't match "genuine creativity"
- Sue Storm and Namor are officially both in Avengers: Doomsday, and fans are wondering if Reed Richards has something to worry about
- The First Berserker: Khazan isn't even out yet, but the new Soulslike RPG already has over 1,300 94% positive reviews on Steam from early buyers
- Harlan Coben’s new novel is set to be "more of a sequel" to the hit Netflix series Fool Me Once: "I don’t know any time that’s ever happened"
- Getting Assassin's Creed Shadows on PS5 and Xbox Series X was all about adding "dynamism" to the open world, but the devs seem most proud about the trees
- Former PlayStation boss "deathly concerned" about ballooning budgets of AAA games, questions how many live-service "forever games" like GTA Online and Fortnite fans really have time for
- This cozy RPG promises a Pokemon and Stardew Valley mashup with "limitless customization," 208 monsters, and more, so no wonder its Kickstarter was funded in just 16 minutes
- Somehow this keeps happening: Another game with a Persona 5 collab is going under, and this time it's JRPG comrade War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius
- Schedule 1 is Steam's latest viral hit – an open-world drug dealing simulator with 98% positive reviews, co-op, and a free sample to get you started
- Andor star Diego Luna urges Star Wars fans to watch Rogue One immediately after season 2 ends: "You're going to see it differently"
- Reclaiming their crown, pacifist Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 player beats the whole RPG as "Merciful Henry": 1,741 strikes blocked, 472 knockouts, and zero kills
- Following Assassin's Creed Shadows controversy, Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director says "every big AAA game could be better," but players shouldn't be mad "just because some dude told you to"
- Daredevil: Born Again fans are loving the MCU cameos in this week's episodes – especially the Hawkeye reunion
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard director is leading an unannounced game for Wizards of the Coast, which recently hinted at more Baldur's Gate
- Lies of P director loves FromSoftware and respects the Soulslike tag, but says "I'm really serious, I'm not lying, I'm very truthful, our focus is to create our own style of game"
- Lies of P director says Overture DLC is at least 15 to 20 hours long for "experienced" players, packing tons of bosses and ideas the devs couldn't fit at launch
- Alien Evolved Edition TRPG just burst through the million dollar crowdfunding mark with the vigor of a face-hugger on steroids
- Everything announced during Marvel's Avengers: Doomsday cast reveal live stream
- 15 years on from his last horror movie, Halloween's John Carpenter says he'd "love to direct again" – but he has one condition
- David Ayer admits James Gunn has good reason not to release his cut of Suicide Squad, but he remains hopeful it'll happen
- If you missed the last one, the new Monster Hunter Wilds event quest is another way to stock up on rare ingredients before the big update drops next week
- Final Fantasy 14 patch makes an effort to combat mods that can enable harassment, but players report it's "very easy" to reverse newly hidden account IDs
- Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies says that the mysterious Mrs. Flood will be in every episode of season 2, as "spectacular answers" are finally delivered
- A Star Wars actor just quietly confirmed that filming has begun on Ahsoka season 2
- InZoi has a long way to go before it can actually rival The Sims as its director says EA's "spent decades perfecting" the formula
- An Assassin's Creed Shadows fan is showing off some of the RPG's most impressive little details, and it's done more to get me interested than Ubisoft ever did
- A surprise bonus Nintendo Direct is coming a week early: "There will be no updates about Nintendo Switch 2 during this presentation"
- No Man's Sky's latest free update lets you live out your childhood dreams of digging up dinosaur bones
- 20 years later, God of War's original monster art has been revealed: behold this army of stick figures slapped on a whiteboard, no clue Kratos is coming for them
- 20 years after Doctor Who returned to our screens, fans are sharing their favorite moments including from comeback episode Rose
- I'm about to spend over $400 on this iconic T60 Power Armor figurine because "Communism is the very definition of failure"
- Sorry, Adolescence season 2 isn't happening, despite its 99% Rotten Tomatoes score and record-breaking Netflix audience
- The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 developer enters into partnership with Pokemon Go owner to create a new game "set within one of CD Projekt's IPs"
- Daredevil: Born Again episode 5 just nodded to Thanos and the Avengers movies in the most obscure way
- Fantastic Four star says the Marvel movie "will go down in history" for rejuvenating the MCU, "in the same way the Guardians of the Galaxy and Black Panther hit"
- Daredevil: Born Again's long-awaited moment has been called "pure cinema" featuring one of the "best lines in comic book movie history"
- "This is unlike Nintendo": Former marketer thinks Mario Kart being a Switch 2 launch game isn't as ideal as OG Switch's Breath of the Wild combo
- Assassin's Creed Shadows hits out at Elon Musk after he criticized the new RPG: "Is that what the guy playing your Path of Exile 2 account told you?"
- Assassin's Creed Shadows is shown running on a Nintendo 3DS in an impressive bit of fan homebrew
- Daredevil: Born Again has pulled another scene straight from the comics – and it's one of the darkest moments yet
- Porting Mario Kart 8 Deluxe to the Nintendo Switch was "kind of an afterthought," and now it's so popular that getting fans to switch could be a challenge
- Black Mirror's USS Callister team says surprise sequel episode in season 7 is less '60s Star Trek and more big-screen Star Wars: "It feels a bit Return of the Jedi"
- Shaun of the Dead star Nick Frost is playing one of the most beloved Harry Potter characters for the new HBO TV show
- The Witcher 4 and Naughty Dog's Intergalactic are reportedly skipping 2026 and won't be ready until at least the year after
- Doctor Who showrunner says season 2's new companion brings a "whole new energy" that "defines the whole series"
- Step on board the set of Black Mirror’s new USS Callister episode with the latest issue of SFX
- Andor showrunner says season 2's more fast-paced structure is a "fascinating experiment" that is "born out of desperation": "I don't know if anyone's ever done it before"
- Daredevil: Born Again just made a perfect reference to Matt Murdock's cameo in Spider-Man: No Way Home
- Daredevil: Born Again episode 5 gives an important Ms. Marvel update – and it might have confirmed a major team-up in the next Avengers movie
- March 25
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- "Will today’s players still enjoy a game from 30 years ago?": JRPG icon Kei Shigema says he was thrilled to see Lunar getting a remaster even after all this time
- The Last of Us season 2 showrunners tease a "gorgeous" episode akin to season 1’s Emmy-nominated Bill and Frank story: "Just you wait"
- CD Projekt boss says "cutting-edge single-player games" – you know, like The Witcher 4 and Cyberpunk 2 – will "continue to enjoy great popularity" despite industry shifts
- Despite releasing exactly zero new games, CD Projekt bagged $120 million in profit for 2024 – the Witcher and Cyberpunk studio's third-best result ever
- Daredevil: Born Again midseason trailer teases Matt Murdock’s violent fight with Muse, including a gory scene straight from the comics
- The PS2 Batman Begins game was considered such a "disaster" that Christopher Nolan turned down a Dark Knight-inspired game
- Assassin's Creed Shadows' first title update is a hotfix with three lines of patch notes and a download size up to 9GB
- GeoGuessr is coming to Steam and you can go head-to-head to prove you're the best geographer of them all
- Cozy Lord of the Rings game Tales of the Shire aims to be something "Tolkien would be happy with," and "add to his world like a real mythology"
- "GTA 6 is basically a huge meteor, and we will just stay clear of the blast zone": Publishers are in a frenzy over when to release their games to avoid Rockstar
- Ben Affleck isn't in The Odyssey, but he plans to visit the set anyway to watch Christopher Nolan work: "He's one of the greatest filmmaking architects to ever live"
- Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 "is done," but it's been delayed again to October for "bug fixing, stability, and performance"
- The Godfather and Godzilla x Kong stars' new exorcism horror The Ritual gets a creepy first trailer
- Abby star Kaitlyn Dever played the Last of Us games with her dad and has been a fan "for a very long time"
- Ben Affleck reflects on the "excruciating experience" playing Batman in the Zack Snyder movies: "A lot of it was misalignment of agendas, understandings, expectations"
- Monster Hunter Wilds' first major update rights its greatest wrong by adding a proper Palico cooking animation, and it's letting you change Alma's glasses
- Assassin's Creed Shadows has been the series' best launch since Valhalla, but that was "a perfect storm we may never see again," says Ubisoft
- Samwise Gamgee reveals Lego The Shire in a video nostalgic enough to make you tear up
- Metaphor: ReFantazio dev once thought turn-based JRPG combat "was starting to get outdated," but now thinks the format has a "long future ahead"
- Death Stranding 2 Japanese voice recording has officially "wrapped," director Hideo Kojima says: "Thank you so much"
- Disney Plus finally adds heavily requested feature, and we're surprised it took this long
- Final Destination: Bloodlines drops new trailer with a first look at the return of the late Tony Todd to the horror franchise
- Monster Hunter fans lose their minds as Monster Hunter Wilds confirms Lagiacrus will return this summer, finally answering 7 years of prayers
- Monster Hunter Wilds Title Update 1 is out April 4 and looks stacked: Zoh Shia returns, the Grand Hub adds a social space, plus Arch-Tempered Rey Dau, arena speedrun contests, and Mizutsune
- The Last of Us season 2 showrunners changed the way they introduce Abby so fans don’t get "spoiled in between seasons": "It felt appropriate to give viewers that context right off the bat"
- Assassin's Creed Shadows players are questioning the lack of modern day segments: "what happened to Layla, Desmond, and Basim?"
- SteelSeries' new gaming keyboard shrinks my favorite Hall effect deck
- Ex GTA 6 dev says free and live service games are "eating everyone's time," and combined with "open world fatigue," it's getting harder to make players explore
- 25 years after Malcolm in the Middle first aired, the revival series starts filming in just "a few days" – and Frankie Muniz is rewatching the original to prepare
- My Hero Academia and Gundam animator explains the issues behind anime shows getting shorter: "There is a shortage of professional staff in all sections"
- The Last of Us showrunner Craig Mazin praises Bella Ramsey and Pedro Pascal for "spectacular" take on one of Part 2's most iconic scenes in season 2
- Billy the Puppet gives Saw fans some hope on the future of the horror franchise by updating his LinkedIn profile to "employed"
- Fellow witchcore weirdos, prepare your cauldrons for a classic potion-making board game refresh with Quacks: All-In Edition
- The Last of Us showrunner praises Abby actor's "physically tremendous" performance ahead of season 2: "We just haven't f**ked up in casting"
- "I didn’t have a single ally": Tekken 4's negative reception put series boss Katsuhiro Harada under so much stress that he left Namco for a year
- Marvel Rivals has an unintentional Team-Up ability for Jeff the Land Shark and Doctor Strange, who can join forces for a bug that sends foes into an inescapable void
- Paul Rudd is still thinking about that one Thanos and Ant-Man fan theory: "I often wonder, though, could he really have stopped Thanos in that way?"
- The 10 best new shows and movies streaming this week on Netflix, Prime Video, Disney Plus and more
- Jason Isaacs says Meryl Streep should play Lucius Malfoy in HBO's Harry Potter series: "She can do anything"
- "We slept under our desks and lived in chaos": Before the Witcher 3 became an RPG phenomenon, CDPR's CEOs had a tough time making the original game
- Superman star to lead upcoming thriller movie from Deadpool 2 and Bullet Train director
- Following a high-profile guild quitting WoW Classic Hardcore, Blizzard makes the unprecedented decision to revive MMO characters that die during DDoS attacks "at our sole discretion"
- Scarlet Witch star Elizabeth Olsen is one of the first Marvel actors to say she's not in the next pair of Avengers movies
- As Assassin's Creed Shadows is showered in positive reviews, Ubisoft is "truly overwhelmed by the incredible support and enthusiasm we've received"
- Almost a year after losing Talk to Me directors, Sony's Street Fighter movie has been pulled from the studio's release schedule
- Pedro Pascal opens up about his "unhealthy mindset" going into The Last of Us season 2: "I kind of feel their pain"
- Andor season 2 could be about to turn one of the darkest events in Star Wars even darker
- Lego Optimus Prime is currently 5 cents off its best price ever
- March 24
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- Dune Awakening launches for $50 without a stay in early access, and while the survival MMO "will not have a monthly subscription" it will have "optional" paid DLC
- Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 studio CD Projekt Red won't make survival games just because they're popular, but Netflix's Edgerunners anime is fueling dreams bigger than RPGs
- Linda Cardellini cast as Jason's mom, the original Friday the 13th killer, for Crystal Lake prequel series
- Assassin's Creed Shadows Naoe actor was terrified to perform until her first mocap scene earned "a standing ovation" on set: "Maybe I can do this mocap thing"
- Marvel may have just sneakily confirmed one of the biggest Daredevil: Born Again fan theories
- Beloved PS1 JRPG Legend of Dragoon wasn't meant to be a Final Fantasy 7 killer, Super Mario RPG's battle designer just said "I want to make a new RPG"
- Assassin’s Creed Shadows Yasuke actor says that Naoe could beat his samurai in a fight: “Especially with that big a** helmet of mine”
- After 14 years at Bethesda, Skyrim and Fallout veteran made his final settlement in just 2 days – but only because he'd made some rough ones before that
- Half-Life devs worried Gabe Newell "promised things that they couldn't possibly deliver" for the iconic FPS, but "they just didn't know" that they'd be able to do it yet
- Pokemon Legends: Z-A will allegedly introduce 27 new Mega Evolutions, leakers claim, and we can only hope Flygon gets its chance this time
- After dethroning The Force Awakens, the surprise animated hit taking the box office by storm could claim a record from James Cameron next
- Midsommar star cast in new Mummy movie, but still no word from the original stars
- Team Rocket is blasting off again in new Pokemon TCG expansion, Destined Rivals
- Dune: Awakening will launch with full Razer Sensa HD haptics
- New Apple TV show with 97% on Rotten Tomatoes teases all its cameos, including Martin Scorsese and Zac Efron
- I hope your affairs are in order, because Bandai Namco just dropped Tekken: The Board Game
- After his excellent debut Metroidvania took 7 years, Animal Well's solo dev says his next game shouldn't "take nearly as long"
- Reacher star is rooting for Alan Ritchson to be the next Batman in the DCU: "I think he would be the best Batman we've ever had"
- Tekken lead Katsuhiro Harada says he's spent decades "mentally preparing" for AI to overtake humans, but it's not happening: "If AI had really advanced, we wouldn't be pouring 10, 20, 30 billion Yen into making games"
- The Sims competitor inZOI dethrones Hollow Knight: Silksong to become most wishlisted game on Steam
- Ubisoft reminds Assassin's Creed Shadows players that you control the buttons you press, even when it comes to romance: "Flirting in RPG games is always optional"
- 16 years after Minecraft first released it's getting a modern visual upgrade with a retro lighting trick that Mojang hasn't seen "in any other game"
- Tatiana Maslany canceled a Comic Con appearance due to "filming commitments", and it could mean She-Hulk is in the next Avengers movie
- Snow White popcorn buckets are here, but they’re pretty tame compared to Nosferatu and Deadpool
- New Andor season 2 trailer is an intense new look at the returning Star Wars show that sees the Rebels discover the Death Star
- Severance star reveals the one finale moment that you may not have realized is "essential" for what comes next in season 3
- A quickly killed off Agatha All Along star thought she'd be a witch: "I get there and no one is really looking me in the eye"
- Fans react to Sigil shutdown with a callback to Gleemax: the Myspace for gamers that never came to be
- Palworld isn't coming to the Switch as the open-world survival hit is a "beefy game," but Pocketpair says Switch 2 is "100% worth considering"
- After it landed 99% on Rotten Tomatoes, Hideo Kojima has also given his verdict on everyone's new Netflix obsession Adolescence
- A new look at Matt Murdock suiting up in Daredevil: Born Again has Marvel fans saying the same thing
- It's Bloodborne's 10th anniversary, and FromSoftware is celebrating with an Elden Ring patch that "does not contain any game related changes"
- As Assassin's Creed Shadows passes 2 million players, Devil May Cry creator Hideki Kamiya reveals "I felt bad that it was being criticized so much"
- Amid Assassin's Creed Shadows' controversies, shrine popularized by Ghost of Tsushima bans all tourists after "unforgivable act of disrespect"
- A year after Malevelon Creek became Helldivers 2's fiercest battleground, it looks like the Automatons are coming back for more
- "If this is just how it is, then yeah, that's the end": WoW Classic's most famous hardcore guild calls time for now after multiple raiders lose their MMO characters to DDoS attacks
- 43 years later, John Carpenter has hinted at who turns into The Thing in the horror movie and one eagle-eyed fan has worked it out
- Star of cult hit Jennifer's Body says marketing "ruined" the horror movie's chances, but they may get another shot with a sequel 16 years later
- Weeks after modding GTA 6's map to GTA 5, modder pre-emptively pulls all their work offline after a single YouTube strike from Rockstar's owner
- My newest MMO hero is World of Warcraft Priest 'Chimneytime,' who got an official "warning" from Blizzard for making too many people get trapped inside chimneys
- Hollow Knight: Silksong gets unprecedented second update in 2 weeks, with a Steam page tweak pointing to a 2025 release
- One Piece co-showrunner announces he's stepping away from the "life changing journey" of working on the Netflix show to "focus on myself and my mental health"
- The Minecraft movie director says it isn't "the official story": "We're not canonizing anything"
- Peacemaker season 2 star says the show feels like the DCU's "cool kid" as it's one of James Gunn's "first babies": "I'm excited to see how that expands and grows"
- John Boyega was tired of "doing a lot of falling" in the Star Wars sequels, so asked director J.J. Abrams for a "level of growth" between The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker
- Silent Hill f hasn't actually been banned in Australia, but it's not out of the woods yet
- After four years, Disney's anime show based on hugely popular gacha game gets a proper trailer
- James Gunn reacts to Jason Momoa almost spoiling his Lobo costume in an interview: "I just want to profoundly thank Jason’s publicist"
- Daredevil star Charlie Cox says keeping his Spider-Man: No Way Home cameo a secret for two years was a "nightmare"
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is releasing on PS5 in April, Bethesda confirms in a very appropriate teaser featuring Uncharted's Nathan Drake actor Nolan North
- As Assassin's Creed Shadows overtakes Valhalla and Odyssey, Ubisoft promises "this is just the beginning" in heartfelt thanks to players
- Netflix unveils a stacked anime trailer filled with hits like Sakamoto Days and upcoming releases like Fire Force and Moonrise
- After no big Jujutsu Kaisen announcements on a week packed with anime news, fans are now convinced season 3 is skipping 2025
- March 23
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- "There are so many games": Legendary dev behind GTA 3, GTA 4, GTA 5 and many more says the industry needs to "get smarter" about what players want
- Fallout 76's art director "had to fight really hard" so Bethesda would make the MMO's map bigger than Skyrim's
- Don't expect Minecraft to go free-to-play anytime soon, as Mojang says "It doesn't really work with the way we built it"
- Assassin's Creed Shadows has an entire island stuffed with adorable kittens you need to check out, and it's based on an actual Japanese cat paradise
- Shadow of Mordor's Nemesis System was only created because WB Games wanted something to combat Batman Arkham Asylum's second-hand sales, exec says
- Former Witcher 3 and Dying Light devs reveal their Resident Evil homage, complete with PS1-style fixed cameras
- After 15 years and a $120,000 Kickstarter push, this cult horror dev has finally released a successor to their 2006 breakout game
- With 97% positive reviews on Steam, Rogue Light Deck Builder is a hilarious $3 parody game that takes its name very literally
- The new Resident Evil movie may have found a lead in a Euphoria star
- Glenn Powell could be taking a swing at a new Texas Chainsaw Massacre
- Chainsaw Man movie release date confirmed
- New Alien: Earth clip shows the last of another expendable crew
- March 22
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- There might have been another reason for Mark's decision in the Severance season 2 finale
- Silent Hill f has been pre-emptively banned in Australia, with no reason given for the 'refused classification' rating
- Assassin's Creed Shadows has already "surpassed the launches of AC Origins and Odyssey" with 2 million players and counting
- BioWare makes a return to Dragon Age: The Veilguard with a surprise PC update, months after layoffs and a seemingly final patch
- Helldivers 2 boss says "death and rebirth" is a natural part of the games industry, but it's "unnecessarily brutal" right now "because we don't diversify enough"
- God of War PSP's seamless loading was only possible because a Jak & Daxter game was also running in the background
- "I believe in experiencing life and art through human expression, not software": Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion actor calls for proper AI regulation
- GTA 5 veteran's new open-world game sounds like a mix of the wildest Roblox and Minecraft servers
- Thank Goodness You're Here's developer says it was trying to design a game normally before realizing "we're s**t at video game design"
- Star Wars fans have ignited an age-old debate, and there are some seriously hot takes
- A potential The Last of Us season 1 plot hole has sparked a lot of debate among the fans
- Assassin's Creed Shadows dev says "it's not a documentary," and Ubisoft is "not trying to show Japan from a very clinical or an overriding stereotypical view"
- Jason Momoa has gone method taking on the role of Lobo: "I asked everybody to call me by my character's name"
- Avengers: Doomsday directors admit it's a "difficult" movie to make but tease some great Marvel collaborators "old and new"
- The Russo Brothers' $320 million movie has already been overtaken in Netflix's Top 10
- Famed Silent Hill artist Masahiro Ito, creator of Pyramid Head, says scrapped concepts of freaky creatures "still exist in my mind" and "their children may be" used in future titles
- March 21
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- The actors behind Split Fiction's main characters nearly botched their first auditions because they didn't know the script had two sides: "We were just stood there, sweating"
- Devs behind beloved destruction-focused racing game Wreckfest launch the sequel in early access with a trailer full of physics glitches and fatal error messages
- The Russo Brothers say Robert Downey Jr. "tried to talk us into" doing another Avengers movie but they "said no" until they heard the pitch for Doomsday: "That story has to be told"
- Former Sony exec Shuhei Yoshida says the PlayStation marketing team had to completely redesign Crash Bandicoot in PS1 commercials because he was too ugly for the Japanese market
- 3,348 days later, American Truck Simulator is finally delivering the DLC I've been waiting for longer than Hollow Knight fans have been anticipating Silksong
- Marvel Rivals devs know exactly how popular Invisible Woman is, and say that "body shape or silhouette" add to a character's popularity in a way far more innocent than the internet deserves
- Baldur's Gate 3 director Swen Vincke says indie poker roguelike Balatro was his 2024 GOTY, beating out Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Astro Bot, and Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree
- Cherry just launched its first ever wireless headset, and it's going big on battery
- Ahead of Terraria's sixth final update, one dedicated fan has led the creation of the sandbox survival game's ultimate (and first) modpack
- Helldivers 2 players "became obsessed" with Malevolon Creek, but it was Gabe Newell who really kicked off one of Super Earth's bloodiest battles
- Pokemon Legends: Z-A's director appears to be a Xenoblade Chronicles fan, and I'm now feeling very validated about a tiny detail I spotted in the upcoming RPG's gameplay trailer
- Less than 40 hours later, Bloodborne master completes world's first, no leveling dance pad run of the 10-year-old Soulslike after proving herself with Dark Souls 3 and Elden Ring: "I knew this would be a grueling experience"
- Christopher Nolan is "like an indie filmmaker" with a huge budget says The Odyssey star: "He's not doing it by committee"
- Meet Gold Tiger, the young Wakandan hero whose origin will be revealed in New Champions #4
- Marvel Rivals exec isn't afraid of roster bloat after NetEase promised new heroes every 6 weeks: "There's no limit for the sky. We just throw everything at it"
- Sci-fi JRPG Xenoblade Chronicles X's overpowered combat system is back in Definitive Edition, and it's taken fans mere hours to deal millions of damage in 1 hit: "New Arts are so broken"
- Lenovo Legion Go S SteamOS pre-orders are now live, and I'm hoping it's a second wind for the handheld
- Pokemon TCG Pocket is getting yet another new expansion as the addition of shinies and Gen 9 Pokemon keep free-to-play players drowning in new cards to collect
- Assassin's Creed Shadows lets you add dozens of cute animals to your hideout, and all you have to do is pet them
- One Severance season 2 fan theory gives even bleaker meaning to Mark S's Cold Harbor mission
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Hans Capon actor wants another sequel, and even though he's already got his own ideas, he thinks "Warhorse will smash it" regardless: "They never get it wrong"
- Joining the chorus of positive reviews, Baldur's Gate 3 developer says Assassin's Creed Shadows has the series' best combat "in years"
- I didn’t expect this post-apocalyptic anime RPG to be a cozy game, but a new Girls’ Frontline 2 update is bringing the vibes
- Alien: Earth gets "suspenseful" teaser in behind-closed-doors showcase of Noah Hawley’s new sci-fi show
- Sweet Tooth creator Jeff Lemire revisits the early days of Batman's second Robin, Jason Todd
- A viral creepy Reddit story about a missing girl is being made into a thriller movie with Madame Web's Sydney Sweeney
- Silo and Severance season 2 may have scored over 90% on Rotten Tomatoes, but Apple is reportedly losing over $1 billion a year on streaming
- Netflix's new horror anime series The Summer Hikaru Died is coming this year, and it has a creepy new poster to set the tone
- While Bethesda celebrates The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion's 19th birthday with a "Happy Anniversary" post, fans of the RPG had more in mind: "It would be perfect to... announce something"
- "I don't think AI can take away our creative voices": Assassin's Creed Shadows Naoe actor thinks AI will only push people toward "human creativity"
- Severance renewed for season 3 at Apple TV Plus, and Adam Scott has the perfect Lumon-style response
- Embrace your inner bear-lover in a Baldur's Gate 3 sidequest-style tale of social turmoil in this Slavic storytelling board game, now crowdfunding
- Assassin's Creed Shadows looks like the success Ubisoft needed as it tops Steam charts
- Mean Girls star Amanda Seyfried was offered the role of Gamora in the MCU, but turned it down because she thought Guardians of the Galaxy would be "Marvel's first bomb"
- Monster Hunter Wilds' first free title update is getting a showcase next week to unveil "a host" of new additions coming to the action RPG
- Severance season 2 finale's original script "explained more" about Lumon's agenda, but creator Dan Erickson "wanted to leave room for people to discuss"
- Harry Potter and Spider-Man producers reportedly in talks to develop new James Bond movie
- A WWE champion has joined the roster of an under-the-radar Netflix wrestling anime
- James Cameron's early cut of Avatar 3 is "absolutely breathtaking," according to Disney CEO Bob Iger
- Split Fiction is already being turned into a movie as "top Hollywood studios" reportedly start a bidding war over the co-op sensation
- Baldur's Gate 3 Karlach actor says CEOs "just want to save money" with AI: "It'll destroy their reputation, their company, everything"
- There's a perfect Game of Thrones parallel in the Severance season 2 finale
- Legendary GTA 5 veteran's new open-world game is actually a "fake open world," but its central city sounds a lot like Cyberpunk 2077
- Former Valve exec recounts the meeting where Half-Life's publisher almost killed the iconic FPS: "Half-Life would quietly die. I was stunned"
- Kevin Feige was behind the decision to bring Robert Downey Jr. in as Doctor Doom, and the conversation was had "a while ago"
- Ryan Reynolds has given us the weirdest Marvel movie marathon ever to mark 10 years since the first Deadpool movie started filming
- Devil May Cry and Dragon's Dogma director Hideaki Itsuno says he's working on a new AAA action game that'll make you say "'I've never seen that in a game before'"
- March 20
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- Astro Bot director says precisely what the industry needs to hear: "It's OK to make a small game" because "players today have a backlog of games" they can't complete
- Put the 'die' in diving with Dark Mass' fully underwater survival horror adventure
- After a huge meteor strike brings humanity close to extinction in this apocalyptic city-builder, will you be able to Survive the Fall?
- Permafrost is a moon-wrecking survival game that seems anything but chill
- Almost no NPC is safe in Atomfall, because its devs were "desperate to avoid" having unkillable quest-givers: "It's been a challenge"
- Slender: The Arrival VR puts you directly into the creepy horror alongside the Slender Man
- FBC: Firebreak may be Remedy's first live-service game but the Control creators are going about it the right way, confirming that all playable post-launch content "will always be free"
- City Tales - Medieval Era is the next city builder destined for my Steam wishlist, and it's coming to Early Access in May
- South of Midnight's heroine isn't much of a hero at all, because its devs thought it was "good to not have a Chosen One"
- Among Us 3D introduces its brand-new zombified game mode
- Strategy roguelike game The Deadly Path poses an uncomfortable question: "Am I actually any good at strategy games?"
- Marvel Rivals goes manga in a new comic from Peach Momoko and three other Japanese artists that reveals several new in-game costumes
- Infinity Nikki brings the spirit of carnival to it's charming open-world with its new update
- FUZE is the newest social media platform, and it's focused solely on gamers and gaming culture
- Arcas Champions lets you jump into battle as an ape with a fruit gun
- Steel Seed combines stealth with fast-paced action game combat to help you bring down legions of machines, and it's launching in April
- This adorable 3D platformer draws from genre greats like Banjo-Kazooie, Crash Bandicoot, and Super Mario Odyssey - and there's a dash of Zelda: Ocarina of Time in there too
- LAN Party Adventures captures the spirit of the early 2000s but now with added mystery
- Go big or go home in Rise of Industry 2 as you claw your way to the top in this complex 1980s business management sim
- Clone yourself to escape a hostile planet in this sci-fi game that blends survival, base-building, and adventure elements
- Voicemod is bringing voice-changing software to console for the first time, letting you tweak your sound in more than 200 different ways
- Even Balatro's publisher doesn't know when LocalThunk will be done with 1.1: "Maybe I should whisper in his ear, like, 'So how's those 200 new jokers coming?'"
- Everything announced at the Future Games Show Spring Showcase 2025
- After more than two decades since the last full game, Painkiller is back - with a vengeance
- Travel through time rifts to search for survivors in sci-fi survival horror Cronos: The New Dawn
- With an impressive new FBC: Firebreak trailer at the Future Games Show, Remedy confirms a Summer 2025 release window for its co-op shooter set in the Control universe
- Get a behind the scenes look at Reanimal's creature filled horror, from the creators of Little Nightmares 1 and 2
- Disney's Robin Hood collides with Manor Lords in this charming city-builder where everyone is a fox
- Crown Gambit's card battling tale of political intrigue and tough choices shuffles on to PC this Summer
- Musical turn-based RPG Fretless adds two new guests to its epic soundtrack
- Take a look at Mecha BREAK's Global Storm in its all-new PvPvE extraction mode
- This roguelike lets you be a sword-wielding robo-sheep and it's launching in the summer, but you can playtest it right now
- Legendary $12 million Kickstarter success Frosthaven is making the leap from board game to video game
- Artis Impact is a striking RPG where you fight bears, take out corrupt AI and eat tasty little snacks
- Karma: The Dark World is a psychological thriller set in a dystopian 1984 East Germany, and it's out this month
- Locomoto is a literal on-rails cozy game because it puts you in charge of conducting your very own train and it's launching really soon
- 2D zombie survival horror Into the Dead gets a brand new traumatic trailer and Early Access release date just around the corner
- Sail, scavenge, and rebuild to help humanity endure in The Last Caretaker, a survival shooter coming launching in Early Access on PC this summer
- Raise companions and blast your way through chaotic pixel roguelike Neon Abyss 2, now with a single-player beta that's open for 7 days
- Metal Eden looks like sci-fi Cyberpunk Doom Eternal, and I'm already sold on that pitch alone
- Protect your property or steal the hidden treasures in asymmetric burgle 'em up Bandit Trap
- Delve into top-down roguelike shooter Section 13 when it hits 1.0 in May and prepare to die and die again
- Assassin's Creed Shadows reaches 1 million players on day one, and it sounds like even Ubisoft's having a tough time believing it: "It's not even 4PM here"
- Master Cloudheim's chaotic physics based combat with up to three friends in this cooperative action RPG
- Palworld devs tried, but the "certain franchise plus guns" brand in the West "has stuck with us to this very day despite our best efforts to shake that off"
- Beautiful puzzle game Will: Follow the Light shows off its first seafaring gameplay in a new trailer
- Strategy RPG Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord heads to the seas for a Viking-inspired expansion
- Run, jump, swing, and slide for your life as you try to survive twisted parkour game show Finding Frankie
- The spirit of Burnout heads to the future as Rivals Hover League brings destruction derby to the skies
- Hell Clock is a roguelike action RPG that asks what if a Path of Exile league only took 20 minutes, and it's just got a new Steam demo
- Grim Soviet sci-fi inspired FPS Pioner reveals more of its MMO gameplay in a new trailer
- The Last of Us 2 Remastered finally gives the most underrated character from Part 1 the love he deserves by making him one of two new playable heroes in the roguelike mode No Return
- From giant catfish to tortured trees, South of Midnight has an eclectic cast of creatures in need of some serious therapy
- Romestead is a new co-op survival game where you've got to beat the hordes of undead to rebuild ancient Rome
- Escape a parallel dimension being consumed by AI in creepy, atmospheric FPS Industria 2
- Skyrim's lead designer is just part of the RPG royalty bringing this sandbox world filled with anthropomorphic animals to life
- Turn quiet streets into a comedic combat zone with slaphappy PvP Neighbours: Suburban Warfare
- Check out Bionic Bay's frantic physics fueled racing in this new Future Games Show trailer
- Let your imagination run wild as you take down wayward toys in roguelike FPS Shelf Heroes
- Chains of Freedom is a brutal turn-based strategy game where nothing can be trusted, except the sharpness of a mutant's talons
- Rhythmn platformer Billie Bust Up dazzles with an exclusive look at a new song from villainous wolf Dutch in his flying hotel
- Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree promises lethal combat and a forbidding world from the the writer of gaming's greatest vampire game
- System Shock 2 celebrates 25 years with a remaster that brings the iconic sci-fi shooter to consoles for the first time ever in June
- Elsewhere Electric is a co-op puzzle game with a twist: one player is in VR while the other plays on mobile
- Remember that bonkers Kingmakers trailer where an attack helicopter blew up some knights? It's back with a deep dive of its simulated attackers and destructible buildings
- Dinosaur survival horror game Deathground gets new trailer and 2025 release window
- First trailer for The Walking Dead: Dead City season 2 sees Maggie fight a bear, Hershel plot revenge, and Negan give Lucille a terrifying upgrade
- Inayah – Life After Gods is an anime-inspired, hand-drawn take on Metroidvanias like Hollow Knight, and it's coming to Steam this month
- Thanks to Doctor Doom, Ben Grimm is no longer the Thing and his kids don't even recognize him in Fantastic Four #30
- Revenge of the Savage Planet's interestingly-named special edition program offers three days' early access to the comedic sci-fi sequel
- A magical theatrical journey awaits in Once Upon a Puppet, where strings hold more than puppets
- Get a first look at I Hate This Place, a new hardcore isometric open world survival horror revealed at the Future Games Show
- Solve puzzles to deduce how to complete The Remake of the End of the Greatest RPG of All Time
- Anime mech RPG Nitro Gen Omega looks like it's taken straight from your next favorite Crunchyroll show
- Iconic JRPG dev behind Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny Remastered says the new Hell difficulty is so hard that even he hasn't beaten it yet
- Animal Use Protocol shows off its Half-Life style gravity tool, but I'm way more interested in its sassy rat companion
- New trailer for JRPG-inspired Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 teases what the character played by Baldur's Gate 3's Shadowheart actor is all about
- Lost Rift is the brand new survival game coming from the studio behind Bulletstorm and Painkiller
- "Valve would never ship another game": Former exec forced Half-Life publisher's hand by saying Gabe Newell and the team would pivot away from game dev
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (March 21 - 23)
- Assassin's Creed Shadows channels the MCU with an intro that celebrates Ezio, Altair, and other heroes from the series' 17-year history
- Win a Blu-ray of Godzilla vs Biollante
- Win a copy of Wicked prequel Elphie
- "Something for true collectors": CD Projekt CEO shares his nostalgia for the "super retro" Witcher comics that are coming out in English for the first time
- A new Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 8 stress test update is here, targeting "several crashes and gameplay fixes" while it "brings us closer to release" of the RPG's big update
- Persona 4 fans are in shambles as website domain for "p4re" appears, potentially following in the footsteps of the Persona 3 Reload announcement
- AnimeJapan 2025: times, dates, panel schedule – and all the possible big announcements
- This MTG Tarkir: Dragonstorm card might be the prettiest I've seen
- Daredevil: Born Again fan compiles all the teasers the show hasn't used yet, and it seems Wilson Fisk's scariest scene is still to come
- The first trailer for The Suicide Squad star's new serial killer movie makes Jaws look like Finding Nemo
- Assassin's Creed Shadows has an innovative accessibility feature for hard-of-hearing and neurodiverse players, and I hope it becomes the industry standard
- Arcane Season 2 gets one last dance as the League of Legends spin-off animators return to bring Jinx and Ekko back to the series' most iconic song
- A Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty cinematic lead endured a "personal nightmare" bringing Idris Elba to life because of his "very specific eyebrows" – "how he moves them is amazing"
- Just days after hinting at Ark 2, a new AI-generated trailer for Ark: Survival Evolved's upcoming aquatic DLC drops – and fans aren't impressed
- F.U.R.R.I.E.S Act could stand to persecute Texas school D&D and LARP groups, in attempts to weed out "any non-human behavior"
- Spyro the Dragon speedrunner caps off a 5-month grind with a legendary world record milestone: "They said it couldn't be done!"
- Assassin's Creed Shadows' open world rivals Red Dead Redemption 2's attention to detail thanks to snow that melts in real time in sunny weather
- Nintendo history comes full circle as it puts the Switch 2 logo on the baseball team its late president Hiroshi Yamauchi bought 33 years ago
- The Mandalorian and Grogu has the lowest budget of any theatrical Star Wars movie since Disney bought Lucasfilm
- Helldivers 2 boss outlines the single design trick that eventually led to his breakout success: "This works, I think we're gonna be rich someday"
- Voice acting is "complete" on Invincible season 4, which is a major boost to its 2026 release plans
- The emotional journey behind indie adventure Once Upon a Puppet reinvents puzzle-platforming through a magical, theatrical lens
- Daredevil: Born Again fans have a Bullseye and Punisher theory after Frank Castle's appearance in the latest episode
- Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree welcomes all players with Soulsunlike accessibility options
- Razer just launched a new white Razer Huntsman V3 Pro Mini, and its switches solve one of the biggest problems in 60% gaming keyboards
- League of Legends shadow-drops a Balatro-style roguelike, but the catch is that to complete it you'll have to actually play League of Legends
- Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four team up in a new story from Jay and Silent Bob creator Kevin Smith
- Gwyneth Paltrow can't believe how many Marvel movies she's been in: "That can't be right"
- Maggie Gyllenhaal’s upcoming horror movie starring Christian Bale and Jessie Buckley gets delayed in big Warner Bros. shake-up
- There's an official new Cyberpunk 2077 game, but the bad news is that it's housed in a 9-foot, 1,500lb arcade machine
- Assassin's Creed Shadows' day-one patch removes blood and makes shrines indestructible following backlash
- Sonic gets an official lore timeline that goes "tens of thousands of years" into the past and 200 years into the future, and somehow canonizes a party game spin-off
- Not even 1 day after release, Assassin's Creed Shadows' player count on Steam already has Valhalla beat – and now it's coming for Odyssey and Origins
- Disney's live-action Snow White lands divisive Rotten Tomatoes score from first reviews, as critics call it everything from "deeply frustrating" to "enchanting"
- This gorgeous Ghibli-style Dungeons & Dragons 5e campaign setting just dropped on D&D Beyond
- "Balatro was a pain in the ass to market," but it started getting better once players started cracking open the demo so they could play forever
- Ahead of his new Gundam series, Evangelion's director reveals he's currently writing scripts for five more anime projects
- Soldier Boy-centred The Boys prequel adds two stars in mystery roles for the upcoming superhero show
- Jack Black almost played a talking pig instead of Steve in the Minecraft movie, until Mojang realized "very, very late" that the story "needed an expert and host"
- Assassin's Creed Shadows draws attention of Japan's Prime Minister, who says "defacing a shrine is out of the question" in real life, but politicians acknowledge "freedom of expression must be respected" in the game
- Unearthed Daredevil-like fight scene from DC's canceled Batgirl movie gives us a taste of what we could have had
- Samuel L. Jackson shares the best advice that Bruce Willis gave him after making bad movies, and it led him to Nick Fury
- Frank Castle and Matt Murdock's reunion in Daredevil: Born Again was originally meant to happen in a later episode
- Hideo Kojima knows fans thought Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes was too short, as he thinks back to negative comments: "'Why would they sell a trial version even at a low price?'"
- Assassin's Creed Shadows' "Canon Mode" gives you the official RPG experience – but it'll cost you almost every romance option
- John Cena comedy Coyote Vs. Acme might come out after all, over a year after it was controversially shelved
- The RTX 5060 Ti allegedly isn't coming until mid-April but a delay could help Nvidia's dreadful stock situation
- Rapture's number one fan Jack Quaid is back with a perfect idea for a BioShock TV show
- Ben Stiller says it won't take another three years to make the third season of Severance, teasing they're "announcing what the plan is very soon"
- Valve literally gives Half-Life away now, but 27 years ago it was carefully crushing its angry pirates: "None of them had actually bought the game"
- Blizzard came up with Diablo 4's most powerful item modifiers at the last minute: "Literally, we had 2 weeks left in the development schedule"
- March 19
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- Almost 90 years of DC history will be refined into an official timeline in New History of the DC Universe: "It's a chance to realign all of DC's sprawling continuity into one master timeline"
- Blindfolded Super Mario 64 speedrunner declares "70 Star is DEAD" after he "absolutely obliterated" his old record
- One of the oldest action MMOs around gets its first level cap update in years: "The main focus of this update is to emphasize the core RPG experience - the fun of farming"
- Ghost Rider takes on Galactus in the Marvel Universe's most one-sided fist fight this summer
- Balatro's first big update is still on track for 2025, but it'll be "done when it's done, because it's got to be good before it's fast"
- "Don't tell Valve I told you this": Industry expert warns devs that Steam "is an engine that turns magic into money," and you can't break into "Real Steam" until you have the magic
- Helldivers 2 director says "balance is a myth," and devs shouldn't spend more than 5% of their time on it: "If you balance out all the chaos, you've made an uninteresting game"
- Netflix CEO breaks silence on the streamer's continuing Best Picture dry streak: "We have to make a movie that people love"
- A brand new live-action Power Rangers TV show is in the works from the creators of one of the most underrated Disney Plus shows
- The first trailer for Peter Dinklage's long awaited Toxic Avenger reboot movie channels all the raunchy weirdness of the '80s original
- Monster Hunter Wilds beat Monster Hunter World, Capcom's previous defining mega-hit, by 40% in US launch month sales
- Helldivers 2 boss told launch players not to buy until servers calmed down, and it "took 5 minutes until I got a call from the friendly people over at PlayStation asking what the f*** I was smoking"
- Tech analysis finds Assassin's Creed Shadows is "one of the largest" PS5 Pro upgrades yet, and praises "a generational divide in lighting fidelity"
- Steam expert says devs need 250 reviews "in the first month" after launch or else it's probably "not gonna happen," but admits one ingenious factory game defied the odds: "They somehow pulled it off"
- With lots of loot and focused levels and missions, Soulslike RPG The First Berserker: Khazan is giving me all the right Nioh vibes: "Players aren't required to grind to farm for decent items and make progress"
- Jason Momoa says the DCU's Lobo is "exactly like" the comic book character in upcoming Supergirl movie
- Alison Brie and Dave Franco's body horror with 100% Rotten Tomatoes score gets a chilling first trailer
- Monster Hunter Wilds director joined an online hunt in the new action RPG himself "only to promptly cart before anyone else" did: "I feel bad about that"
- After Square Enix cancelled the first new Front Mission in years, it’s suing the developer behind it for releasing another very similar mech game
- Netflix boss says Marvel was "thrifty" about its Defenders shows: "We wanted to make great television; they wanted to make money"
- Monster Hunter Wilds' new event quests give you an even better way to farm Decorations, and a brand new headpiece
- New Shudder horror starring Haunting of Hill House and Riverdale stars sounds like the perfect mix of The Craft and Mallrats
- Split Fiction players defeat secret challenge so tough that some of the devs themselves can "barely" complete it, and get rewarded with the promise of an early peek at the director's next game
- 2024's best single-player game Metaphor: ReFantazio threatens to be 2025's best multiplayer game as one modder works to add online co-op to the JRPG
- Dev behind cozy mashup of Ghibli and Zelda says working on Diablo and Overwatch taught him "storytelling isn't just an enhancement to world-building – it's what gives it meaning"
- The Analogue 3D just got delayed again, but here's what I use to play N64 games and upscale to HD
- "Valve knows it, I know it, and you need to know it": Steam expert tells indie devs to "give away" demos, because actually playing a game beats all other marketing
- On its 30th anniversary, A Goofy Movie is getting a Disney Plus documentary charting its "untold story" and why it still remains a "beloved classic" in 2025
- Invincible creator reveals fan-favorite villain is already cast ahead of season 4: "He's amazing"
- New Daredevil: Born Again episode sees Frank Castle call one fan-favorite villain by his comic book name for the first time - and Marvel fans are loving it
- Assassin's Creed Shadows' best trailer yet doesn't actually show a second of the game and is instead fuelled entirely by '70s nostalgia
- How to watch The Future Game Show Spring Showcase 2025 – and what to expect
- This indie mashup of Zelda and Studio Ghibli is gorgeous, though its creator didn't want to "mimic" the iconic animation studio, but to "find out what makes it special, and recreate those watercolor movies in a game"
- Marvel fans have a new theory about which member of the X-Men Sadie Sink could be playing in Spider-Man 4 – and it's not Jean Grey
- New trailer for John Wick spin-off Ballerina teases backstories, brutal action sequences, and a showdown between Ana de Armas and Keanu Reeves
- Ted Lasso season 4 is recasting a key character for the show’s return, but for a good reason
- If these flying cars are anything to go by, development on the GTA 3 Dreamcast port is well on its way to becoming GTA Online
- After a year of trying, Zelda: Majora's Mask streamer becomes world's first to pull off randomized no-hit run where even blocking causes a game-ending Mooncrash
- Nathan Fillion says his version of Green Lantern in James Gunn's Superman is "a jerk": "He's not nice, which is very freeing as an actor"
- New Daredevil: Born Again episode references an all-but-forgotten Disney Plus show - and fans are happy to hear it
- Popular animated series Solar Opposites will end with season 6 marking an "unforgettable farewell"
- Deep-pocketed Evil Dead fans can buy the original Necronomicon, Deadite Linda's head, and more as special effects artist auctions off his personal collection
- Skyrim and Fallout veteran left Bethesda after 14 years because he'd already made 3 runaway GotY winners: "That's a really hard thing to top"
- Microsoft launches its new Adaptive Joystick with 3D printable accessories
- "Even if The Elder Scrolls 6 is great," Skyrim veteran thinks Bethesda developers will face harassment and "death threats" anyway
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance had to add complex pathfinding for just 2 NPCs that owned horses: "If you want to do this feature, you have to support it"
- Daredevil: Born Again fans are loving Punisher and Matt Murdock's reunion, calling it the "best scene" of the show so far
- Zack Snyder celebrates 4 years of the Snyder Cut of Justice League: "Still humbled by the fact that this exists at all"
- The Witcher 3 devs' new vampire RPG introduces new enemies - and even the devs are calling them "annoying little b*******s"
- Despite Arrowhead trying to fix it twice, Helldivers 2 still features a chaotic bug that lets you slide around like a snake, and "it's even more hilarious" after the latest update
- Invincible season 3 video shows just how well the Conquest fight was adapted from the comics
- Despite being one of the most expensive movies of all time, The Electric State isn't set to break any viewership records for Netflix
- Daredevil's Vanessa actor "never really understood" why she was initially recast in Born Again: "I thought there was so much more to explore with her"
- An MCU-like Marvel Gaming Universe was allegedly scrapped since Disney didn't want to deal with its complexities, but it's been revealed by Marvel Rivals' writer
- A new anime movie is "the world’s first fully interactive theatrical film" with 48 different versions – and requires you to use your phone to choose its ending
- Punisher star Jon Bernthal walked away from the original Daredevil: Born Again because he disagreed with his character's direction: "I thought would not appeal to the fans"
- Punisher has returned in Daredevil: Born Again, on the 9 year anniversary of his first MCU appearance
- WoW Classic might be getting a legendary weapon that's been the subject of rumors in the MMO's mainline version for 20 years
- When starting development on his hit roguelike, Balatro creator set out to recreate a made-up card game he played "thousands" of times with his friends
- Assassin's Creed Shadows reviews are in but the only thing I care about is all the adorable monkeys you can buy and have live in your hideout
- If you can't get enough of killing Sims in The Sims 4, iNZOI offers "16 different types of deaths" to inflict upon your poor unsuspecting Zois
- Despite new ownership's iffy history, Pokemon GO lead claims intrusive ads and playtime restrictions won't plague the game: "Not now, not ever"
- Daredevil: Born Again episode 4 finally revealed the Marvel show's most mysterious character so far
- Baldur's Gate 3's corporate overlord says news on the future of the RPG series is coming "in pretty short order"
- Silent Hill 2 Remake devs spent many hours "watching, reading, discussing" fan theories about the iconic Labyrinth level and wanted to "incorporate as many" of them as possible
- March 18
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- Jean Grey's "miraculous return" will solve an X-Men mystery that's been lingering for over 30 years
- Assassin's Creed Shadows release time – the countdown to Ubisoft's Japan-inspired RPG is on
- GTA 6 is "definitely gonna be a big economic boost for the games industry" that'll help "bring a lot more people back into the ecosystem," says Day of the Devs' lead curator
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 builds on a "heritage of JRPGs" like Final Fantasy 7, 8, 9, and 10, but it's also "inspired by Sekiro" and taking pieces from deckbuilders
- Silent Hill 2 remake dev says Bloober played up the original's iconic toilet scene to punish its protagonist for being a bad husband: "The theme here is disgust"
- Christopher Priest returns to Black Panther after 22 years alongside Marvel Knights architect Joe Quesada for a story that foretells the future of the Marvel Universe
- Palworld community manager admits the survival game is "ripe for toxicity" and has a simple solution: "You just call 'em losers and you kick 'em"
- After 28 years, competitive GoldenEye players have documented what happens when you tie in the N64 FPS: "We experienced something that was only theorised"
- New Daredevil: Born Again season 2 behind-the-scenes photo sees Karen Page actor Deborah Ann Woll wearing an absolutely baffling wig
- 'No-one wants to play a Match-3 game': Prolific indie dev made his Match-3 Metroidvania to "definitively prove" his publishers wrong
- Hades 2's 1.0 release date is still a mystery, even to its devs: "Whenever that will be"
- On a scale of Bloodborne dodge to Sekiro parry, Soulslike RPG The First Berserker: Khazan seems dead in the middle: "Players can choose the defensive approach that best suits their skill level and playstyle"
- Pac-Man and Tetris are "the two most important games of all time," says Bethesda lead Todd Howard, with Doom and Super Mario Bros. standing as the most "influential"
- The Assassin's Creed Shadows metacritic score is here, and it's level with Valhalla
- New look at Monarch season 2 drops as production on the Godzilla show wraps
- A canon spin-off of beloved JRPG series Xenosaga was once feared to be lost media, but 21 years later, it's been preserved and is finally getting a fan translation
- 6 years and 1 prolonged delay later, Xbox is still calling "incredible" Hollow Knight: Silksong one of its "upcoming games"
- "I'm not trying to escape s**t": Brennan Lee Mulligan on why D&D isn't escapism to him
- Sci-fi JRPG Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition is tied with Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 as the 3rd highest-rated game of the year on Metacritic so far
- The first teaser for the Severance season 2 finale episode hints at one of the biggest mysteries of the show
- After months of radio silence regarding Ark 2, Studio Wildcard finally makes mention of the upcoming survival game sequel once more
- Even as costs spiralled to $100m, founder of shuttered Wonder Woman studio says "I don't think I ever really considered the possibility that it would shut down one day"
- Disney Plus is adding a channel that plays The Simpsons 24/7 - and this is exactly what the world needs right now
- Saber CEO knew Space Marine 2 would be a success after playing it for over 300 hours, but he was still surprised when it sold 6 million copies
- Modretro teases FPGA Nintendo 64 console that could solve my current HDMI woes
- Silent Hill 2 remake director had no choice but to make Pyramid Head "more aggressive and faster" during his iconic fight: "We've been losing something, but we've been gaining something, too"
- The first trailer for new body horror movie that's been described as "Cinderella meets Cronenberg" is here
- Helldivers 2 only had 20 devs working on it when development began, but High Command is now over 6 times larger and has continued to expand since launch
- Lego Pokemon revealed for 2026 after 'shocking' Pikachu tease
- 29 years later, Happy Gilmore 2 trailer sees Adam Sandler return to the course with familiar faces – and confirms release date
- LG OLED G5 TV pre-orders just arrived, but you'll get it a lot earlier in the UK
- Marvel fans are talking about the biggest mistakes the MCU has made - and everyone seems to agree on one particularly tragic moment
- Pedro Pascal's new R-rated romance with Dakota Johnson and Chris Evans feels like a classic ode to cult rom-coms past in first trailer
- Microsoft says the gaming AI it showed off in Overwatch 2 last week will only be added if devs don't think it's "unfair"
- Palworld dev revisits "totally not real, or maybe real" dating sim Pocketpair teased last year, fully aware of furry fandom: "There is a very large and very vocal community of passionate individuals"
- Netflix is removing fan-favorite show The Legend of Korra only weeks after a new Avatar: The Last Airbender animated series is announced
- Black Swan's Darren Aronofsky reportedly in talks to direct Netflix's new take on Stephen King horror Cujo
- Super Smash Bros. creator says instead of making more "Americanized works," Japanese devs should "seek the uniqueness and fun of Japanese games"
- After 2 days, Hideo Kojima still hasn't shared his thoughts on The Electric State, and fans fear it won't even get a Madame Web-style six-word review
- Luke Cage actor still has "hopes" that his character will return: "I don't think it's impossible"
- Harley Quinn references The Batman with hilariously specific Easter egg you might not have noticed
- The Sopranos star is the latest actor to join the cast of Dexter: Resurrection
- A new Portal game with Glados' original voice actor is on its way, but the catch is that it's a pinball machine that costs $12,500
- Helldivers 2 update makes the shooter a "little bit harder, but hopefully in a fun way" as Automatons get smarter and weapons get buffed to help deal with them
- Bo-Katan's actor may have accidentally answered whether she is appearing in The Mandalorian and Grogu movie with this cryptic response
- As the new Looney Tunes movie that Warner Bros passed on makes a strong start, one of its artists urges fans to "buy a ticket it and support it" saying "word of mouth and hype works"
- Silent Hill 2 remake dev says he was "afraid there might be no good way" to rebuild the classic game without "archaic solutions and mechanics"
- Baldur's Gate 3 and Larian Studios lead Swen Vincke declares that single-player games are, in fact, not "dead" at all – "they just have to be good"
- Fans are excited for Colin Farrell to join the DCU, but some are a little conflicted about The Penguin star's new role
- First look at Star Wars anime Visions season 3 is a "psychedelic battle" exploring the "tormented psyche" of a stormtrooper
- Giancarlo Esposito confirms he was originally set to play Marvel's King Cobra in Captain America: Brave New World: "It was a bit of a whirlwind"
- Saw 11 quietly cancelled amid reports of production squabbles on the horror movie: "It's totally dead"
- A year after fans were told "please wait for further news", JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is getting ready to announce its next anime series
- Split Fiction and It Takes Two director is already "fully focused" on Hazelight's next game, which the studio started work on around a month ago: "It's quite early"
- Blade Runner 2099 will feel more like the original than Denis Villeneuve's version, says star
- "We hit this disgusting number that makes me feel sick": Palworld devs don't know why their survival game was so successful - "If we knew how to do it, we'd do it again"
- March 17
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- Nintendo's Palworld lawsuit "came as a shock" to Pocketpair because patent infringement was "something that no one even considered"
- For 30 years, PC gamers have been keeping this cult classic horror game based on a 58-year-old short story to themselves, but next week it's finally coming to consoles
- Palworld dev reckons "very few companies could survive" a launch like theirs: "A lot of companies might crumble under the threats, under the pressure, under the negativity"
- Penguin actor Colin Farrell could be going from villain to hero as the star of DC's Sgt. Rock movie
- No Man's Sky programmer shares the "first 3D world" he co-created at 18 years old, which was "a foundational step for me from there to No Man's Sky"
- Dragon Age The Veilguard's playtesters were initially confused about almost every aspect of the game's combat: "It's OK, sometimes we have to let it go"
- Robert De Niro talks embodying his "mythological" gangsters in The Alto Knights, whose real conflict inspired The Godfather
- Saber Interactive CEO says Saints Row had to die because the games were too expensive: "The days of throwing money at games other than the GTAs of the world is over"
- World of Warcraft's latest raid race ends in disappointment after 12 days with a final boss so lackluster the team who won was visibly confused to have beaten it
- 8 years later, Super Mario Odyssey players are still getting awed by the discovery that you can destroy metal crates by turning into a bird and pecking them 200 times
- Skyrim and Fallout veterans' new open-world RPG is now a roguelike that's not open-world, after funding issues brought the team "down to a skeleton crew"
- Mortal Kombat 2 director teases the return of characters that were killed in the first movie: "There are ways to bring dead characters back"
- Andor showrunner Tony Gilroy says his Star Wars show is trying to be "more serious about this sh*t than anybody ever has been"
- Baldur's Gate 3 animation impresses Larian Studios, prompting one dev to say "mature" animation of the RPG "would pop the f*** off"
- Marvel Rivals devs reveal Season 2 is already completed, and that the studio has already completed designs for Season 3 and 4
- 28 years after Final Fantasy 7 introduced a generation to the concept of waifus, Tetsuya Nomura says Tifa's popularity is "not just about appearance"
- God of War TV show writer reveals Amazon has already ordered two seasons, and that he can’t play the video games at all
- Sick of waiting for GTA 6, one modder has put its map into GTA 5, and you can try it out right now
- Sadie Sink addresses Marvel casting rumors after Jean Grey and Spider-Man 4 reports
- Viewers are raving about Stephen Graham's hard-hitting new Netflix crime drama with a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score: "Some of the best TV I've ever seen"
- The first look at Karl Urban's Johnny Cage in Mortal Kombat 2 is here – and he's already a hit in early screenings
- Robert De Niro talks playing dual roles in his new gangster movie from the co-writer of Goodfellas and Casino – and his surprising personal connection to the film
- Japanese locals show that the real-world inspiration for Silent Hill f's new town can be just as scary as the game
- Jenna Ortega says Wednesday season 2 features a slasher themed episode and compares one moment to Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket
- Jared Padalecki opens up on the "effing terrifying" experience of joining The Boys season 5 – and the possibility of a Supernatural reunion with Jensen Ackles
- John Lithgow teases his character's return in new Dexter series: "Turns out he didn't die after all"
- As the wait for more Deltarune continues, Undertale goes on sale for just $1 on Steam and reaches a new peak player count after 10 years
- Qualcomm just revealed its latest Snapdragon chips, and the G3 Gen 3 will power what could be my dream 3DS handheld
- Pokemon Legends: Z-A is the first game its lead has directed, and he's focused on making the RPG a "good one" as it reportedly continues through its "final fine-tuning phase"
- Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet is apparently taking inspiration from Elden Ring and could be a new direction for Naughty Dog
- Freerunning experts reckon Assassin's Creed Shadows' Yasuke probably has very bad knees due to his poor climbing etiquette and "crimes against Parkour"
- X-Men '97 season 3 just got an exciting update, even though we still don't know when season 2 will be on Disney Plus
- Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies says "there's conversations" about who could eventually replace him: "I won't go back a third time"
- Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul has perfect response to being cast as Invincible's Powerplex: "Just another role being traumatized"
- The Russo brothers defend use of AI in The Electric State: "There’s a lot of finger-pointing and hyperbole because people are afraid"
- Solo Leveling just broke a Crunchyroll record we thought would never be beaten
- Warner Bros. removes nearly 40 years of Looney Tunes shorts from streaming service Max, a year after the studio canned Coyote vs. Acme
- Weeks before the Switch 2 Direct, updated Nintendo patent shows AI upscaling technology that could give the next console more in common with the PS5 Pro than expected
- The Boys star Jack Quaid is fans' top pick to play Max Payne after his new action movie, but the actor admits he's never played the games
- Dark Souls Remastered seamless co-op is officially coming from the creator behind the same Elden Ring mod, and it's set to include everything from PvP to scaling
- Despite The Electric State's $300 million price tag on Netflix, the Russos say it "doesn't make a ton of sense to continue to spend that way"
- After blowing up on Steam, indie horror hit Repo confirms its first major update will include a new map and a 'duck bucket'
- The Russo brothers hope that Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars are a "new beginning" for the MCU
- John Boyega reveals Tom Cruise actually helped him get cast in Star Wars
- Avengers: Doomsday directors say there's "nobody else in the world" who could play Doctor Doom like Robert Downey Jr. in "the way he's about to"
- Paul Rudd gives cryptic response about potentially returning to Marvel for Avengers: Doomsday: "As far as the Russos, they have my number"
- Death Stranding 2 collector's edition is a sight to behold and here's where to pre-order yours
- Legendary director Spike Lee says he had "the greatest experience of watching a film in years" with Michael B. Jordan's new vampire horror movie Sinners
- March 16
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- Act fast – This astounding AU$679 PS5 Astro Bot bundle is the very best Aussie console offer so far in 2025
- Before you buy anything else on PS5, check this deal out: get AU$135 worth of PSN credit for AU$115
- Compare it to FromSoftware all you want, but the devs on this extremely promising hardcore action RPG say they're making "more than just a Soulslike"
- Ubisoft's surprisingly ambitious King Kong game faced a sudden change because Peter Jackson's son didn't like the ape's face: "I had to rework Kong’s head, alone in the studio"
- MMO scholar puts a $500 bounty on old versions of RuneScape as part of a community archive project: "You might have ALL of the game's lost versions!"
- "Games are meant to be engaging, not exhausting": Lead dev on promising Soulslike RPG pushes balanced difficulty because "if stress keeps piling up without relief, players will eventually want to quit"
- There's never been a better time to play Chrono Trigger than on its 30th anniversary as the all-time JRPG great is just $4 in Steam Spring Sale
- The Boys star's new horror movie gets great first reactions calling it "truly terrifying" featuring some of the "best performances" of 2025 so far
- Deep Rock Galactic roguelike dev says innovation for innovation's sake is too expensive to survive: "We're a studio of 50 people with bills to pay"
- One of the best new Metroidvanias just got a huge update with New Game+ and heaps more content like a boss rush mode
- Marvel star Elizabeth Olsen says she's enjoyed playing Scarlet Witch for over 10 years and would "love to keep doing more"
- Assassin's Creed Shadows' expert difficulty looks like the best way to play since it does way more than just dial up enemy HP bars
- Lethal Company creator shouts out another viral co-op hit that already has 28,000 Steam reviews, says it has "the most funny objective for a horror game"
- Cloverfield 2 is still moving forward as director teases the long-awaited sequel: "You're gonna get something amazing"
- Invincible creator "didn't hesitate" to include that Walking Dead reunion in the season 3 finale: "It’s a nice bit of justice"
- First reactions for Snow White live-action remake praise a "stunning" Rachel Zegler and "show-stopping" new musical numbers
- March 15
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- Can't wait for the No Man's Sky dev's new game Light No Fire? Well, its latest and much smaller game is $1.49 in the Steam Spring Sale 2025
- One of Hideo Kojima's most overlooked games is under $6 in the Steam Spring Sale 2025 to make the wait for Death Stranding 2 more bearable
- The Russo brothers reveal that Marvel has an ingenious way of working out which actors they can use for upcoming Avengers movies
- Wednesday star Jenna Ortega denies rumors of big Marvel role after her disappointing MCU debut 12 years ago: “I count that and I move on”
- Deep Rock Galactic Survivors devs were scared the roguelike spin might not sell, but thankfully they have "one of the most active communities on the planet"
- Percy Jackson series gets unusually early renewal for season 3 before upcoming season 2 even airs
- Silent Hill f trailer suggests Konami’s newest nightmare will bring back an iconic weapon central to every game in the franchise
- "What if we […] make it 100% Japanese?": Silent Hill f producer worried Konami's horror series was "starting to feel too westernized"
- All 55 of these games are under $5 in Steam Spring Sale 2025, which is just silly for Metroidvanias, RPGs, roguelikes, and more gems this good
- Pokemon streamer builds a controller so bad that it takes them a full 80 minutes to walk to FireRed's first city
- Spider-Noir star says the show might be released in black and white as it was shot like a "very genuine film noir"
- Breaking Bad star's new sci-fi horror movie debuts to an almost perfect score on RT as first reactions compare it to Event Horizon
- Mass Effect veteran's new sci-fi RPG Exodus introduces an alien race, and they're so hardcore they put the Krogans to shame
- As Jurassic Park Survival, John Carpenter's Toxic Commando, and the Star Wars KOTOR remake remain MIA, Saber CEO promises "everything that we have talked about is still in development"
- March 14
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- Horizon Zero Dawn star Ashly Burch responds to Sony's controversial AI Aloy by pushing for actor protections: "You have to compensate us fairly, and you have to tell us how you're using this AI"
- Silent Hill f's ESRB rating has zero chill: "Faces ripped apart," "a character burned alive inside a cage," and "entrails and sinew displayed on serving platters"
- District 9 filmmaker Neil Blomkamp is working on a Starship Troopers reboot that goes back to the original 1959 novel
- Silent Hill f writer says many of the franchise's female characters experience "a great deal of suffering," so he wants his protagonist "to be able to make her own decisions, for better or for worse"
- Jonathan Hickman will "revolutionize Marvel's galactic canon" in a new event that brings in the Hulks, Black Panther, Nova, and more
- Solo Leveling anime producer calls out "act of betrayal" after footage leaks ahead of latest episode: "It’s a shame”
- Valve "followed" 1.7 million Steam users for over a year, and now reports those gamers spent $20 million on microtransactions and another $73 million on games and DLC
- Just weeks later, Ubisoft walks back some disappointing Assassin's Creed Shadows news: it will be fully Steam Deck Verified "despite the fact the team thought it would not be the case"
- God of War's 20th anniversary announcement comes without a remaster, but PlayStation is giving us some sick new God of War Ragnarok skins and a 67-inch Jörmungandr plush
- Ubisoft is reportedly laying the groundwork for a new company unit focusing on its most valuable series, including Assassin's Creed
- Wednesday star Jenna Ortega and Escape Room's Taylor Russell in talks to lead reboot of beloved '90s thriller
- Matt Mercer thanks "lifelong threat of imposter syndrome" for keeping him and Brennan Lee Mulligan grounded, despite still thinking "People like it, what the hell?"
- Super Nintendo consoles have been quietly overclocking themselves for 35 years, but it took until 2025 for the SNES fandom to notice
- Capcom promises "lots in store" for Monster Hunter Wilds beyond just "the planned title updates," not to mention the "series as a whole"
- New Nintendo patent implies veteran Splatoon developers are behind that mystery Minecraft-like game playtested last year
- It Takes Two sold over 20 million copies and won GOTY, but Hazelight's Josef Fares says "all the numbers looked really, really bad" before the co-op studio became "this really big developer"
- The Russo brothers finally debunk that Avengers: Doomsday concept art leak: "Nothing spoiling in there"
- Freaky Friday 2 trailer promises more body-swap hilarity from Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan in long-awaited sequel
- Daredevil: Born Again star Vincent D'Onofrio swiftly shoots down reports of his involvement in Spider-Man 4
- Michael Fassbender recalls his "awful" Mad Max: Fury Road audition: "I couldn’t wait to get out of there"
- EA gets "so much s*** they don't deserve" according to Split Fiction director who says the oft-maligned publisher has always been "super good" to his studio
- Final Fantasy 14's Yoshi-P was unsure about referencing Final Fantasy 9 so heavily because it's a "masterpiece, and everyone has a strong emotional attachment to it"
- As Deltarune Chapter 3 and 4 seem closer than ever, Toby Fox's unforgettable RPG Undertale is just $1 in the Steam Spring Sale 2025 and everyone should play it
- Ted Lasso season 4 confirmed with Jason Sudeikis returning, but with one major change
- Reacher season 3 breaks a new record for Prime Video as the action show becomes its most-watched returning season of television ever
- Silent Hill f may be the scariest game in the 26-year-old series, or at least the first one rated 18+ in Japan
- One Piece Egghead Arc release schedule: when is One Piece returning with episode 1123 on Crunchyroll and Netflix?
- Bridgerton star to join Jake Gyllenhaal in a new romantic supernatural thriller from M. Night Shyamalan and the author of The Notebook
- New Prison Break reboot adds Sucker Punch and Euphoria stars to its cast
- Steam's new game revenue is 10x higher than it was 10 years ago, but only around 200 made more than $1 million in their first 30 days
- Roblox CEO tells concerned parents not to "let your kids be on Roblox" even if it "sounds a little counter-intuitive"
- The cast of Christopher Nolan's Odyssey has grown again, with a Sons of Anarchy and God of War actor joining the stacked line-up
- "That, to me, is what Silent Hill truly embodies": Silent Hill f's A-list team now includes legendary series composer Akira Yamaoka
- New Pokemon leak reveals a surprise first for the next chapter of the anime series – and it fixes a complaint fans have had for over 25 years
- Seth Rogen says Sony wouldn't let Jonah Hill use a PlayStation in Superbad as his character was too "reprehensible": "They're like, 'We can't have him interact with our products'"
- Stellar Blade is set to run smoother than ever on PC as its multi-frame generation support promises to triple its frame rate, as long as you have the pricey hardware needed
- Invincible season 3's finale is one of the highest-rated TV episodes of all time on IMDb, second to only Breaking Bad's Ozymandias
- Silent Hill f disclaimer is even making a horror buff like me shudder: "If you feel uncomfortable at any point while playing, please take a break"
- Marvel Rivals developer NetEase sued by State of Decay co-creator for $900 million following claims of "false and defamatory statements"
- "Rising cost of living" has contributed to an estimated $2m loss for Zombicide publisher, CMON
- Don't ask Pyramid Head's creator what he knows about Silent Hill f: "I didn't work on it"
- Marvel fans are convinced Daredevil has a new, black suit in season 2 thanks to new set photos
- Avowed DLC seems likelier than ever as Obsidian Entertainment promises "ongoing support" and a roadmap coming soon
- Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson breaks his silence on being cast in Martin Scorsese's new movie, calling it the "most creatively inspiring time" of his career
- Invincible season 3 post-credits scene is a tease for a hellish comic storyline adaptation that Robert Kirkman "never got around to doing"
- Final Fantasy 14's 7.2 patch launches in under 2 weeks, kicking off a run of MMO content that the community has been waiting for since Dawntrail launched last year
- Pokemon Legends: Z-A is breaking years of tradition to get 10+ age rating, and I think I might know why
- The Final Fantasy series has sold a whopping 200 million copies, while the Pixel Remaster reportedly outsells FF16 with 5 million copies
- The anime for stylish action manga Gachiakuta will be a Crunchyroll exclusive, and the hit series could be the next big shonen star
- Famed Higurashi When They Cry creator Ryukishi07 says he worked so hard on the Silent Hill f story that "I don't think I would mind if it was the last thing I ever wrote"
- Nintendo Switch 2 could cost $400-$500, say analysts, but it might launch with a Super Mario Odyssey follow-up and Metroid Prime 4
- March 13
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- Silent Hill f's re-reveal trailer shows some of the freakiest monsters I've ever seen in the 25-year-old survival horror series
- Vampire Survivors devs launch official wiki "free of ads, banners, and all of the junk that gets in your way," joining Stardew Valley and Terraria in community wikis with minimal intrusions
- "Staying MTX and advertisement free is absolutely key": Almost 20 years later, RuneScape fan turns his MMO love into an old-school RPG where fitness is the grind
- Hideo Kojima says Death Stranding 2's Collector's Edition 15-inch Magellan Man is part of his studio's "spirit and soul," so the crew went to China to make sure it's good enough
- Here's your first look at Peter Dinklage as the Toxic Avenger in ultra-violent, unrated, and long-delayed superhero movie remake
- "Success beyond expectations, earning over $100,000": This weird job sim made in a year would be torture for me, but it's changed its developer's life after "bitter failure"
- We'll finally learn if Sonic is faster than the Flash as Sega's famous hedgehog and pals team up with the Justice League in a new mash-up comic
- Ori director says Microsoft thought the beloved Metroidvania was too hard, but he's "on the Miyazaki side" and believes "you have to overcome challenge"
- The first trailer for Mike Flanagan's Stephen King movie gives us a cryptic glimpse at the end of the world, and I'm already crying
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (March 14 - 16)
- Beetlejuice 2 star Jenna Ortega would love to star in another classic horror comedy franchise: Gremlins
- Xbox's new gaming AI aims to "help you get good" at everything from Overwatch 2 to Minecraft by watching you play and giving you advice
- Console players, good news – you might be able to play custom Baldur's Gate 3 campaigns soon, thanks to the D&D RPG's official mod manager
- Helldivers 2 board game inbound from the same studio as the Monster Hunter World adaptation
- As Sony trots out an AI-powered Aloy, Horizon Zero Dawn fans revel in the irony: "The entire game is a warning against this kind of nonsense"
- First trailer for Black Mirror season 7 teases USS Callister sequel and the return of Will Poulter's Bandersnatch character
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 star hints Warhorse already has "a very good sense of what's happening next," and says he'll play Henry "as long or as little as anybody wants me to"
- Blizzard boss says keeping World of Warcraft players happy for 20 years is so hard because the MMO is filled with "different demographics that only have so much time in their day"
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 3 is in development following the explosive success of Space Marine 2, and it's promising even bigger battles
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 patch brings mod support, barber shop, and over 1,000 changes like this: "Mutt can no longer enter the fighting arena in the Jewish quarter"
- X-Men star Michael Fassbender says he auditioned for James Bond, but ended up suggesting they go for Daniel Craig: "I don't know why I was promoting him"
- Despite its history of taking action against GTA mods, a Rockstar-approved GTA 5 modding tool is on the way to "assist the modding community" in the wake of the recent PC upgrade
- Peaky Blinders star Stephen Graham's new Netflix one-shot crime drama is out now, and it has a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score
- As Final Fantasy 14 fans gear up for patch 7.2, Yoshi-P teases that the update will be the MMO's largest ever
- Jack Quaid’s favorite The Boys moment is an iconic scene that was actually more dangerous than you think
- The Boys star and self-proclaimed "huge video game nerd" Jack Quaid says his dream role would be in a BioShock movie because it's "one of my favorite games of all time"
- After 10 years, a new animated movie has beaten a box office record set by Star Wars: The Force Awakens
- First reactions to Ex Machina director's "intense" new war movie are comparing it to Black Hawk Down
- After 3 years and 44,327 overwhelmingly positive Steam reviews, viral hit PowerWash Simulator is finally getting a sequel complete with split-screen co-op
- After a landmark RPG, Disco Elysium mobile wants to "captivate the TikTok user," which is maybe the worst thing I've ever read in my entire life
- After 20 years, a second Nintendo Store is set to open in the US this May
- Dev of unhinged open-world game where you parry everything says "f*** it" again, adds something farming life sims like Stardew Valley need: a way to fight the fish you catch
- Daredevil: Born Again fans would love this Marvel character to appear, even if it's extremely unlikely
- Lady Dimitrescu actor wasn't a gamer before Resident Evil Village, so she "pulled a lot of Shakespeare stuff" into her vampire mommy role
- Play as a Mindflayer or a swarm of bees in this upcoming D&D supplement from a Pathfinder 2E co-creator
- Where to pre-order the Limited Edition Last of Us DualSense controller today
- World of Warcraft's new housing system lets you decorate without the floating hacks I've been using in Final Fantasy 14 for 11 years, and I weep
- I've found my Assassin's Creed Shadows playstyle, thanks to this clip of Yasuke smashing dudes with a huge club instead of sneaking around
- Eternals star Gemma Chan is hopeful she'll return to the MCU someday: "There's unfinished business there"
- "A lot of the joy is in the difficulty": After spending 400+ hours dying 15,000 times in a painful Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree run, streamer admits challenges have "ruined normal gaming" for him
- The Last of Us season 2 trailer breaks HBO viewing records, becoming the network's most-watched trailer
- Nicole Kidman’s hit Netflix show could be returning for another season, but she won’t be coming back
- Sony just dropped new PS5 Astro Bot console bundles with the best savings I've seen in a year
- Netflix wants Daniel Craig to join the cast of Greta Gerwig's Narnia movie – but it's not certain if he'll take it
- 4 years after shutting down, this dead sci-fi MMO is being brought back to life, but there's no word on its canceled TV show tie-in
- City-builder dev implores Valve to give devs real social media tools on Steam, because they're "terrified of the future market" and need a "solution for indie sustainability"
- 21 years later, the Friends spin-off nobody asked for is streaming for free
- George Lucas' unmade Star Wars show was so expensive and risky that it would have cost $40 million per episode and “blown up the whole Star Wars universe"
- Graphic novel that inspired one of Tom Cruise's highest-rated actioners is being turned into an anime movie
- New trailer for Disney’s live action Lilo and Stitch movie pulls a Sonic redesign, finally giving us the Stitch we have been waiting for
- Invincible fans are reeling from the season 3 finale, calling it the best episode of the Amazon show and some of the best animated TV ever
- If you're craving more D&D after Baldur's Gate 3, Critical Role is "hard at work" on a video game – and it'll be unveiled "any day" now
- Star Wars confirms Watto isn’t dead after all in new comic, and fans are celebrating his miraculous survival
- The Last of Us "became the brand name for quality and storytelling within games" says Joel actor Troy Baker: "It became like the fridge"
- Invincible proves how comic accurate episode 7 is with a mind-blowing side by side comparison
- Despite more than $60 million in investments, Shroud-backed FPS Spectre Divide and its dev are shutting down after the first season failed "to cover day-to-day costs"
- Devil May Cry TV show creator calls Kevin Conroy's posthumous role in the Netflix series an "amazingly nuanced performance" and confirms "no AI" was used
- My hopes for an Overwatch anime or Diablo horror movie are going strong as Blizzard president points out "we are Blizzard Entertainment, and not simply Blizzard Games"
- March 12
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- Marvel's New Thunderbolts* comic steals the MCU's asterisk, and the reason why is just as big of a mystery
- Pokemon Go players brace for the worst as Niantic is sold off for $3.5 billion: "This game is entering its death knell"
- A 16-year-old pitch for a newly discovered first-party PSP game has me mourning the death of PlayStation's Japan Studio all over again
- Over 20 years later, live-action adaptation of beloved Claymore manga and anime in development by Heroes star
- Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion actor Neil Newbon says he "got rid of" agents who deliberately kept him away from video game gigs: "They just didn't want me to do it"
- Jennifer Hale says she didn't see a single line as Mass Effect's Commander Shepard until it was time to record: "It was all cold reading on the spot"
- Meet the Venomouse, an all new Eddie Brock, and more in Web of Venomverse: Fresh Brains #1
- 5,000 gold, 2,500 hours, and one priceless scroll: Baldur's Gate 3 player cooks up a "Midas run" by turning the RPG's bosses into solid gold trophies, because "why not"
- Stranger Things star Sadie Sink joins Spider-Man 4 and fans are already theorizing she might be X-Men’s Jean Grey
- Resident Evil and Witcher 3 mocap director says video game industry layoffs have made it so "nothing is guaranteed," but AI won’t be replacing real actors "anytime soon"
- Retiring Insomniac boss says developers should still tackle new genres, but it's much riskier these days due to time and money
- Atomfall dev doesn’t understand how massive development teams manage to keep organised: "How do you organize a game that has 2,000 people working on it?"
- Absolute Superman #5 puts a devastating new spin on the Man of Steel's origin story
- Stardew Valley player bringing a bit of Baldur's Gate 3 to ConcernedApe's farming sim, now with Larian's seal of approval, says they've played over 1,500 hours and will improve the mod
- Monster Hunter Wilds' final boss is even cooler than we thought: series experts point out attacks stitched together from iconic monsters throughout the series
- New Marvel Rivals balance patch only tweaks "a handful of heroes" to maintain the "rich diversity" of the shooter's current strategies, but it also includes a much-needed buff for Human Torch
- First Spinal Tap 2 teaser reveals release date for comedy sequel that’s over 40 years in the making
- First Poker Face season 2 trailer sees Natasha Lyonne team up with Yellowjackets, Wicked, and Orange is the New Black stars, sets a May release date
- Avowed director says Xbox and Microsoft are "very happy" with the reception to its new Obsidian RPG
- After concerns from Valve, creators of CS:GO mod that aimed to "recreate the 1.6 vibe" are now "auditing the current build" to comply with guidelines
- 32 years after Star Fox hit the SNES, one of the shooter's original creators is building an indie spiritual successor
- Picking up where Chrono Trigger left off 30 years later, this love letter to the classic JRPG has me in awe of its stunning pixel art – and now there's even a sky pirate
- The $5 roguelike banger that turned Terraria into a sci-fi tower defense game is getting a bigger, deeper sequel
- Monster Hunter Wilds' new event quest is the best one yet: bully a Chatacabra for "a pile of Hard and Advanced Armor Spheres"
- Actors supporting AI protections didn't know they were being replaced in Zenless Zone Zero update 1.6: "I found out the role was recast today alongside all of you"
- Ubisoft shareholder plans protest in response to mismanagement, Assassin's Creed Shadows delays, and alleged acquisition talks with Microsoft and EA
- Palworld is finally getting crossplay across PC, Xbox and PS5 this month as Pocketpair teases "some little surprises" to come to the survival game
- Cinderella body horror movie that made viewers sick gets release date, and it’s coming very soon
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 has another secret skill, and this one is an absolute game changer - looking down makes you duck under branches while riding your horse
- Hideo Kojima left "a number of clues" in the new Death Stranding 2 trailer, including hints of a day/night cycle
- All of the Best Picture winners of the last 10 years combined still have a lower budget than the Russo brothers’ new Netflix movie
- Amazing PS2 gifts in this month’s Retro Gamer
- 28 years after its original release, one of the best Studio Ghibli movies is getting a restored IMAX re-release
- The final season of Fallout star's HBO comedy has debuted to a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score
- World of Warcraft guild cheats its way to winning Race for World First, gets caught, banned, then reverses its name and does it all over again
- Balatro creator hits back at AI art spread on the roguelike's subreddit: "I don't use it in my game, I think it does real harm to artists of all kinds"
- The fan-made Dreamcast version of GTA 3 is looking way better in the latest look, introducing tech that "would’ve previously been a slideshow"
- AMD's new Ryzen 9 X3D processors launch today, here's the stock I've found so far
- Pokemon Go developer Niantic is being bought for $3.5 billion, CEO says it'll help its games be "'forever games' that will endure for future generations"
- Jurassic World Rebirth studio asked Scarlett Johansson to join Instagram, but she refused: "The film will do fine"
- Undertale creator Toby Fox's tomfoolery leaves Deltarune testers thinking an intentional nerf was actually a bug after they "independently" discovered it
- Former Pokemon world champ uses a "stupid strategy" that "should never work" to transform a Lapras into an OHKO machine so powerful it can even take out enemies in alternate dimensions
- Minecraft movie's popcorn bucket is an explosive, game-accurate continuation of a cinema trend that shows no signs of slowing down
- The Running Man reboot is bringing back key aspects of Stephen King's novel to turn it into "the deadliest game of hide and seek"
- Good Boy, a new scary movie told from a dog's POV, is being called "one of the best horror films of the year"
- After stepping away from Balatro for 3 months, the developer only resumed work "because I was bored but the internet was out so I couldn't play Rocket League"
- RPG board game designer's revelation was searching for a D&D quick start guide to find "You needed to pull together lots of different pieces in order to play"
- The Skate reboot isn't even out yet, but it already has an EA specialty: microtransactions
- Marvel fans think that Daredevil: Born Again episode 3 just referenced Spider-Man's Miles Morales – but a key detail might have already debunked the theory
- John Wick 5 is still in the works, but Lionsgate isn't confirming Keanu Reeves' return just yet: "We're all on bated breath waiting to find out"
- Daredevil: Born Again fans are reeling at episode 3's "brutal" ending: "It made me gasp in shock"
- The Russo brothers say Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars will draw inspiration from multiple comics – which explains how Doctor Doom might fit into the story
- Daredevil: Born Again's end credits just paid a perfect tribute to episode 3's slain character
- Devil May Cry and Bayonetta veteran Hideki Kamiya is still leaning on Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami's wisdom at new studio Clovers: "I have always made decisions based on his teachings"
- As Palworld studio's publishing branch teases new reveals, its head is "nervous" that "people will just expect more" games like its survival hit
- The creator of upcoming life sim Inzoi says he was "recklessly brave to even think about creating a game of this scale"
- March 11
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- A year after its PS5 launch, Rise of the Ronin debuts on PC to "Mixed" reviews and performance complaints: "Stuttering on a 4090 is just... no"
- New Devil May Cry trailer reveals surprise twist for Netflix show and gives Dante a nu metal soundtrack
- On the heels of Rise of the Ronin's PC launch, its director says there's a "significant" amount of Japanese Switch gamers: "I am closely watching how this will change with the release of Switch 2"
- Stardew Valley Expanded creator is building an "even more ambitious" mod with a whole new city and "dungeons inspired by The Legend of Zelda"
- Dino Crisis gets a fresh trademark filing by Capcom, but it might not mean the 26-year-old survival horror franchise will get a new installment like fans expect
- Netflix is making a brand new adaptation of Cujo, the infamous Stephen King book about a killer dog
- Veteran Dragon Age dev says one big delay is better than several small ones: "You are laying band-aid on top of band-aid on top of band-aid"
- Dark Souls 2 fans remind Death Stranding 2 director Hideo Kojima that he won’t be taking the DS2 acronym that easily
- Minecraft Pocket Edition got its name because one of its devs was a big "Nintendo nerd" who wanted to pay homage to the Game Boy Pocket
- Monster Hunter Wilds players are tricking the action RPG into thinking they completed hunt quests in mere seconds using the power of poison ammo
- 30 years after the original Age of Apocalypse, Ms. Marvel Kamala Khan will travel to the alt-reality to save X-Men history
- Monster Hunter Wilds' infamously confusing menus spare no player, not even Gemma's voice actor herself: "This is honestly what I’m struggling with the most"
- Hideo Kojima says Death Stranding's themes of connection came about because "I thought I lost everything when I became alone nine years ago"
- Hideo Kojima says "it was very difficult to direct" Death Stranding 2's big kiss scene, but Norman Reedus thinks "it was niiice" locking lips with Léa Seydoux
- Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin has a new update on The Winds of Winter: "I wish it would come faster"
- DC Pride 2025: A revamped special issue starring Green Lantern Alan Scott, new books, and a host of variant covers
- Balatro creator says it's "useless" for him to give advice to other devs because "I only have one data point" and it was a 5 million-sale success story
- Ori and the Blind Forest developer is now "fully independent" after "months of negotiation" with what remained of its gutted publisher
- Marvel fans are revealing who they'd like to see added to the Thunderbolts lineup, from Moon Knight to a major Hulk villain
- Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion actor comes face to face with what might just be the best merch to come of the RPG yet – a 5-foot Funko Pop figure of his character
- First reactions to new clown horror movie say the slasher is giving Terrifier a run for its money
- New horror movie starring White Lotus and Yellowstone actors gets a great Rotten Tomatoes score as early reactions call it the "perfect date night movie"
- The first all-new Katamari Damacy game in almost 8 years is trapped in Apple Arcade jail, and I can only hope it follows in Hello Kitty Island Adventure's footsteps to eventually escape
- After 11 years, Family Guy suddenly brings back a deep-cut character for season 23
- Atomfall boss "very familiar" with Baldur's Gate 3 director's frustrations with publishers, as he recalls horror advice that games are "faster to make" if you "make fewer bugs"
- BlizzCon 2026 is official, and after missing 4 BlizzCons in 6 years, Blizzard aims to "meaningfully elevate" the event
- Despite those retirement reports, Lucasfilm boss Kathleen Kennedy is "very involved" in the Rey Star Wars movie, according to Daisy Ridley
- "You can't rewrite the past just because of a bad breakup": Legendary indie devs' feud is going public
- Rare Blade Runner board game prototype is being auctioned for over $500 but there’s a far cheaper way to bring the neo-noir classic to your tabletop
- Scarlett Johansson doubles down on never coming back as Black Widow: “Natasha is dead. She is dead. She’s dead. Okay?"
- Lady Gaga jokingly celebrates Joker 2 reception and Razzie nominations: "Joke's on them. I love winning things"
- Legendary farming board game Agricola just announced a zombie-fueled horror standalone, but fans seem to think it's an early April Fools joke
- Monster Hunter Wilds dev says the game's success is thanks to an "emphasis on the story," but I think that's only a tiny aspect of it
- Game of Thrones creator makes sudden cameo in TV show for apparent joke about The Winds of Winter
- I just watched the first 10 seconds of this indie roguelike’s trailer, and it's not even trying to be subtle about being an unlicensed 40K game
- The battle to steal the Disco Elysium successor's spotlight continues as former and current ZA/UM devs reveal teasers for their new RPGs simultaneously
- After 37 years, this Commodore 64 classic returns with a new Metroidvania sequel that gives serious old-school Castlevania vibes
- Resident Evil director offers update on his horror movie adaptation of Until Dawn-sounding video game from over 20 years ago: "It's going to be very, very scary"
- Daredevil: Born Again had Disney Plus' biggest premiere of 2025, but its viewership is lower than Agatha All Along and The Acolyte
- The Boys star Jack Quaid's commitment to the bit is unmatched as his latest marketing stunt for upcoming action movie Novocaine goes viral
- A TV remake of a '90s cult classic movie has been canceled by Prime Video after only one season
- Matthew McConaughey still thinks his own season of True Detective is the best one: "It was one of the great events in TV"
- Andor season 2 showrunner Tony Gilroy calls Cassian “Star Wars Jesus” ahead of the show’s return on Disney Plus
- Logitech just refreshed its wireless charging gaming mouse pad, and it might finally be cheap enough to be worthwhile
- Fortnite has had Tomb Raider's Lara Croft locked away in battle pass exclusivity jail for almost 4 years, but she's reportedly getting a new skin very soon
- The Doctor Doom actor from 2005's Fantastic Four thinks Robert Downey Jr.'s take on the role in the next Avengers movies will be "pretty extraordinary": "I love watching his work"
- My Hero Academia prequel series lands streaming date and brand new trailer, and it looks just as action packed as the original show
- James Gunn reveals Jason Momoa text him about Lobo the day he was announced as DC Studios co-head
- MTG's meme-filled Spongebob Secret Lair is enough to kill the average player from the 1990s
- Horizon Zero Dawn's Aloy is the star of Sony's leaked AI-powered character prototype, which allows users to ask questions to an unsettling, emotionless version of the protagonist
- James Cameron's wife cried for four hours after he showed her Avatar 3: "She kept trying to get her s**t back together"
- Square Enix remembers that Chrono Trigger exists, announcing various new projects as it celebrates the Dragon Ball, Final Fantasy, and Dragon Quest royalty behind the cult JRPG
- Hideo Kojima says he chose Death Stranding 2's Solid Snake lookalike because he needed an actor who "would surpass" Mads Mikkelsen
- The Last of Us creator Neil Druckmann sounds like he's contemplating the end of his career: "When is it time to stop?"
- As Final Fantasy 14 raiders tear through the MMO's hardest duty with no healers and then no tanks, the community can only see this going one way: "Now it's time to clear without DPS"
- The rumored Xbox handheld isn't what you think, and I'm hoping it'll solve my Windows 11 problems
- A One-Punch Man controversy has erupted after it was revealed the divisive new season 3 trailer was the work of only one animator: "Morale isn't great right now"
- Andor season 2 showrunner Tony Gilroy breaks silence on the weird release schedule: "It's a Disney decision"
- 5 years after starting development, Neil Druckmann says Naughty Dog's new game Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet is "still evolving and changing as we're making it"
- March 10
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- After 2 years of silence, the next mainline Silent Hill game is getting a dedicated stream this week with "the latest news"
- Former Microsoft exec says the first Xbox was killed early in favor of 360 because it was "losing money left right and center," but luckily "we could afford to hemorrhage cash"
- Despite Monster Hunter Wilds suffering monstrous performance problems on PC, it still outsold the PS5 and Xbox Series X versions in the US
- Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet is "a game about faith and religion," which Neil Druckmann jokes will surely get less hate than The Last of Us 2
- The Last of Us creator Neil Druckmann says Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet will also be about "being lonely," as if his zombie apocalypse wasn’t isolating enough: "I really want you to be lost"
- The Last of Us is "better" than 28 Days Later, says movie writer Alex Garland: "This is so much more sophisticated and moving"
- JRPG producer says people prefer their anime girls to have thick thighs when the economy's in the tank, and he's not even joking a little bit
- Andor season 2 showrunner talks the much-anticipated Star Wars moment that we haven't seen on screen before: "It's a very significant part of our show"
- It took Skyrim players nearly 15 years to discover ingenious loot hack that completely changes the game and, uh, requires you to desecrate a couple corpses
- Fallout season 2’s dazzling and dystopian New Vegas is coming to life in a new leaked video
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle PS5 release date reportedly set for April after ESRB leak
- An AI's mission to 'teach' itself Pokemon Red is going as well as you think - after escaping Cerulean City after tens of hours, it went right on back
- Snootch to the nooch! Mallrats director Kevin Smith is writing an Archie Comics/Jay and Silent Bob crossover
- Pokemon Legends Z-A's visuals aren't "great" say former Nintendo marketing leads, but hope Switch 2 could allow Game Freak to "go back to the drawing board" and add more detail to future RPGs
- The first three episodes of the best Star Wars show are now available to watch for free ahead of the Andor season 2 premiere
- Brave New World box office crosses milestone for Captain America movies, even though it still might not break even
- Michael Bay and James Cameron had a call to commiserate over the state of the movie industry: "No one can greenlight anything anymore"
- Hideo Kojima says he'll "apologize beforehand" for Death Stranding 2 moments with Troy Baker's Higgs which are "so ridiculous" that "you'll probably throw the controller"
- Split Fiction blows It Takes Two out of the water by selling 1 million copies in 2 days, becoming Hazelight's fastest selling game ever
- Erenshor, the 'MMORPG' with fake players that's not actually an MMO at all, gets an imminent release date
- Atomfall devs don't mind Fallout comparisons "because it's got that post-apocalyptic quarantine zone atmosphere," just like Bethesda's RPGs do
- Guitar Hero expert finally annihilates world record 200% speedrun of the game's hardest song after trying and failing 50,000 times
- You season 5 trailer introduces Joe's new love interest and teases familiar faces in the final installment of the Netflix thriller
- A Quiet Place 3 is finally happening, but it'll be a while because John Krasinski is so busy: "It's hard to get him"
- Fallout: New Vegas is a big inspiration for Atomfall, which is why you’ll be able to kill every NPC in post-apocalyptic Cumbria
- Warzone's original map is returning next month, but it's still not enough: "We don't just want Verdansk back. We want everything back"
- Death Stranding 2 packs on a third obvious Metal Gear Solid reference with cover art throwing back to MGS2's bizarre box art featuring Japanese pop superstar Gackt
- The Electric State star Giancarlo Esposito explains why adapting the bleak novel into a family friendly adventure was the right decision: "I'm going to bring my children with me"
- Absolute Batman writer Scott Snyder teases the arrival of Robin, crossovers with Superman and Wonder Woman, and building up to the Joker
- Wednesday star Jenna Ortega teases Lady Gaga's appearance in season 2 of the Netflix show: "It was just a really, really special environment"
- After 423 hours and over 15,000 total deaths, Elden Ring player finally beats Shadow of the Erdtree without the upgrades FromSoftware urged everyone to use: "Never give up"
- The new Lego Mario Kart set is so much better than I was expecting it to be
- James Bond will reportedly remain male and British under new Amazon management, as Pierce Brosnan says it's "a given" that the next actor must not be American
- Hasbro CEO, D&D DM, and self-professed "AI bull" Chris Cocks says AI is "supercharging fandom" which is "just net good for the brand"
- You can look like Solid Snake with this Death Stranding 2 watch, but it'll cost you over $1,500
- Monster Hunter Wilds' Gemma actor requests "tips for beginners" from fans of Capcom's action RPG as it's the "first MH game that I've ever played"
- Doom director claims The Dark Ages can be beaten without using a gun, but "the game's not necessarily built to do that"
- The Electric State may be the Russo brothers' most challenging VFX project yet, but stars Stanley Tucci and Giancarlo Esposito say it's one of the easiest films they’ve ever done
- The Last of Us season 2 is bringing in one of the biggest game omissions from season 1 – and the showrunners say it's for a "good reason"
- Manor Lords dev confirms "castles and sieges are now in the works" for the city builder, as well as a new map that could get its own game mode in the future
- Vincent D'Onofrio responds to a fan who thinks Daredevil: Born Again has "ruined" Kingpin: "Thanks for the support dumbass"
- After 18 years, the English dub of long-running anime One Piece has finally caught up with the original Japanese version
- Hideo Kojima aims to beat the ‘walking simulator’ allegations as Death Stranding 2 releases combat-heavy trailer
- GTA publisher is suing a GTA Online website that lets you buy hacked accounts, which "risks upending the GTA 5 player experience"
- Suikoden lead hopes to expand the cult JRPG series "beyond where it ended" and would happily follow Zelda to the silver screen: "If you have any friends in Hollywood, please let us know"
- Stars Stanley Tucci and Giancarlo Esposito say their new dystopian sci-fi movie The Electric State is more like our own reality than we might realize
- Elden Henson jokes that what happened to Foggy in Daredevil: Born Again went down because he ran over Kevin Feige's foot with his car
- Baldur's Gate 3 director Swen Vincke gives his official approval to the Stardew Valley mod that brings the D&D RPG to Pelican Town
- Jon Bernthal teases upcoming "dark" Punisher special: "It's the version that this character deserves"
- The Last of Us season 2's Abby star Kaitlyn Dever admits it's been hard to not look at character backlash on the internet
- God of War turns 20 this month, but before you get too excited, Santa Monica Studio says "there are no planned announcements" at its celebratory panel
- Hideo Kojima is still hung up on his ex, as Death Stranding 2 features a Metal Gear Solid doppelganger the director says is the spitting image of Solid Snake
- March 9
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- Balatro creator started "properly playing the game myself about a week before launch" and had "a pretty emotional moment" where he realized it's "actually fun"
- Hideo Kojima reveals Death Stranding 2: On the Beach release date, and the Collector's Edition includes exactly what I predicted it would
- Kingmakers is a strategy game about taking on medieval armies with a gun, but its devs thought the giant mech was too much
- The Witcher 3 lead says "not many games" were trying to match the RPG back in 2015, and that meant "there was a risk" to making it in the first place
- The Witcher 3 dev says his new vampire RPG Blood of Dawnwalker wants to challenge genre conventions, but only if "we're changing them to actually achieve some goal"
- Marvel fans are discussing which of the Netflix series characters would have survived the Blip
- PUBG creator's wilderness survival game actually draws inspiration from an unexpected place - a whole raft of zombie games like DayZ, Project Zomboid, and Left 4 Dead
- The Witcher 3 devs created a Jekyll & Hyde-style character for their new vampire RPG "because nobody yet has done that"
- Daredevil fans are wondering if Born Again season 2 will set up a darker comic book arc for Matt Murdock
- It might only be March, but Stephen King adaptation The Monkey is now the highest grossing horror movie of 2025
- Balatro creator initially considered a Steam release in part to help "get a game developer job somewhere," and after 5 million sales I'd say he found one
- Justice League stars Ray Fisher and Ben Affleck are teaming up for new thriller Animals
- The Sims rival InZoi has 300 people hanging out in each of its in-game cities and they all "interact with each other in real-time"
- The Last of Us showrunner says newcomer Kaitlyn Dever was "within The Last of Us DNA" before the show existed
- March 8
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- The Last of Us season 2 trailer brings the heart and the horror back to Joel and Ellie
- From "I stopped working on the project entirely" to "we are so back," Balatro creator says the roguelike's development was always about passion and taking breaks was essential
- The Witcher 4 devs explain how Ciri's fighting style will differ from Geralt's: "He's nimble, but he feels like a block...she's liquid"
- True to the anime, Stardew Valley's hottest mod adds two romanceable Demon Slayer dudes who are both "rude and standoffish" at first
- The director behind The Sims competitor InZOI spent 20 years making MMOs, but he ditched the massive RPGs after playing life sims with his son
- Arrowhead reveals the Helldivers 2 ideas left on its cutting room floor, from 5-player squads to low-gravity planets and a whole new armor system
- Vikings creator is heading back to his Norse roots with this new historical drama on Amazon
- Balatro creator intentionally avoided roguelikes but did eventually play and "steal from" Slay the Spire anyway: "Holy s***. Now that is a game"
- Robert Pattinson is hoping to team up with his The Batman co-star Zoe Kravitz on another project soon
- With 18,000 glowing Steam reviews on their lovely debut game, this indie team's game about leading cute fantasy yaks up a mountain is instantly one to watch
- Justin Lin to helm Keanu Reeves' comic book movie adaptation BRZRKR for Netflix
- Before selling millions of copies, Vampire Survivors creator says he'd "given up on the idea of success," and he's not interested in making something just to be successful
- Train to Busan director is returning to the horror sub-genre with a new movie described as the culmination of his zombie universe
- Although Netflix is making the Peaky Blinders movie, fans need not to worry as it will be released in theaters too
- Former Xbox boss says GTA: San Andreas and its infamously NSFW Hot Coffee minigame "signified a maturing of the industry" and put games "on par with movies and music"
- March 7
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- James Cameron had "too many great ideas" for Avatar: The Way of Water, so the cut content became Avatar 3 which "will actually be a little bit longer" than its 3-hour predecessor
- As Suikoden returns from the dead, Konami wants the cult JRPG classic to "become a huge title that can rival other AAA" games
- The Monsterverse expands with Return to Skull Island, a comic tying into Netflix's King Kong-centric animated series
- Diablo 4 season 8 is revamping the boss ladder system with new mechanics and bosses, including one of the best from Diablo 3
- "I was in super crunch mode": Balatro creator opens up on the toll the stress of indie development took on his "physical and mental health"
- $320 million in the hole, the Russo brothers' new Netflix movie debuts to their worst Rotten Tomatoes score even though it's one of the most expensive films ever made
- Co-op zombie FPS Killing Floor 3 delayed to "later in 2025" 3 weeks before it was supposed to release following disastrous beta: "We missed the mark"
- "Bow down to the White Queen" as Emma Frost gets her own X-Men solo comic that flashes back to her time as a villain
- New Nintendo Switch 2 filing answers my prayers: both USB-C ports can charge, and NFC support suggests those 223 Amiibo are about to have new friends
- Celeste composer releases soundtrack from canceled Metroidvania game Earthblade, and it's a tearjerker mash-up of classic anime soundtracks and synth: "We'll never get a chance to tell that story in game form"
- Razer just dropped a brand new colorway on its cutest gaming headset yet
- Disney Lorcana: Archazia's Island has one major advantage over MTG, and the new decks prove it
- Monster Hunter Wilds is slowly recovering from a rough PC launch, finally hitting 60% positive reviews on Steam – but some big issues remain
- The Sims 4's colorful competitor Paralives is bringing one of my favorite features from The Sims 3 back – the ability to customize literally everything
- Amazon boss reportedly said "I don’t care what it costs" to buy James Bond after they approached long-time producers with a Moneypenny spin-off
- Avengers Tower will have a new name in Thunderbolts, and the movie's director says it's "a symbol of things taking a darker turn"
- Balatro creator was "shocked" at his poker roguelike's high review scores: "I don’t think I would have rated Balatro higher than an 8 and I made the damn thing"
- Director of popular Netflix anime Ultraman: Rising offers disappointing update on sequel
- Forget Pokemon Red and Blue, Nintendo's finally brought the secret best Game Boy game to Switch: an expanded version of Donkey Kong with 2425% more levels
- Genre giants Metal Gear Solid and Splinter Cell might not be kicking like they used to, but underrated stealth gem Styx is coming back for another game
- The Recruit fans are blaming The Night Agent for the show's cancelation: "It's Netflix's fault for releasing at the same time"
- Netflix expects to spend $18,000,000,000 on shows, movies, and more in 2025: "We're not anywhere near a ceiling"
- The Russo brothers and The Electric State cast talk the surprisingly emotional core of the Netflix sci-fi movie: "I was definitely very, very, very moved"
- The Russo Brothers and The Electric State cast talk the Netflix movie's "stunning" VFX – and say the graphic novel's creator is "fully supportive" of the movie lightening the tone
- This new spy thriller starring Michael Fassbender earns near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score with glowing first reviews
- Oni Press's new Biker Mice From Mars comic will take a "hard-hitting approach to the stories" and "definitely won't pull any punches"
- Death Stranding 2 pre-orders are estimated to go live this month, and will reportedly include a $230 collector's edition that I pray doesn't come with another creepy baby statue
- HBO boss says new Game of Thrones spin-off's battles "match" the mainline series at a "fraction of the price"
- A new action thriller from the John Wick team described as "a corporate thriller with a samurai twist" is finding its cast, and I've never been more seated
- The follow-up to a weird RPG with Undertale energy and over 10,000 overwhelmingly positive Steam reviews is, you guessed it, another weird RPG that's already flying on Steam
- This Harry Potter parody game is more than just a meme - it's a co-op "comedic sandbox with a complete lack of safety nets" and 100% positive Steam reviews
- Former Xbox boss admits the company once "encouraged" the console wars, which he believes "were healthy for the industry" as "a rising tide that lifted all ships"
- Attack on Titan studio's new anime series just got a release date, three years after Netflix unveiled its first teaser
- A mysterious Steam user has over 13,000 pairs of PUBG pants worth just 3 cents in his inventory, and players can't figure out whether it's hoarding or money laundering
- This fan-favorite action show just got canceled for a third time – but this time, it's permanent
- Battlefield dev reveals more of his Bad Company 3 script and confirms the plot would revolve around the squad getting kicked out of the military and brought back for a final suicide mission
- Monster Hunter Wilds' next update arrives next week, fixing another progression blocker, crashes, and weird monster behavior
- "What the f*** is this?": Split Fiction's Josef Fares shuts down players upset by the game's two female protagonists
- The Evangelion studio's Gundam anime finally gets a release date and streaming home
- Split Fiction, the new game from the It Takes Two devs, launches to Overwhelmingly Positive reviews on Steam and is the highest rated game on Metacritic this year
- Reacher star Alan Ritchson wants to play Batman so bad, he says "you wouldn't even have to pay me"
- Balatro's first few hours generated over $600,000, "far more money" than the roguelike's creator had ever made: "It is the most surreal day of my life"
- After a comics Easter egg was spotted, Daredevil: Born Again fans now think that [SPOILER] is secretly alive
- Hero Forge custom dice Kickstarter is live, and will let you design your own additions to the asset catalog
- Split Fiction and It Takes Two director still hates microtransactions: "I think it's a huge problem and it's stopping our industry from a creative perspective"
- BioWare lead proves he's onto us while celebrating Mass Effect 3's birthday, clarifying that's all he's doing so that "nobody can say I purposefully teased them"
- Director Bong Joon Ho explains his new sci-fi film Mickey 17's surprise end title card: "It's a coming-of-age-story"
- One-Punch Man season 3's return date has been narrowed down – thanks to this hard-hitting new trailer
- Yet another Respawn shooter has reportedly been canceled, following the studio's Star Wars FPS and rumored Titanfall Legends game to the grave
- Mickey 17 ending explained: Your biggest questions answered
- Avowed has a Skyrim Easter egg that pokes fun at the RPG's most memed about companion NPC
- Split Fiction director says he'd "really appreciate" winning GOTY again, but if GTA 6 comes out in 2025 "it's going to be really tough" and he's fine with that because he's "a huge fan"
- March 6
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- A GTA streamer is trying to beat every single 3D entry without dying, and in 33 hours he's made it as far as San Andreas but keeps getting caught in Vice City purgatory
- Charlie XCX is in talks to star in Greta Gerwig’s The Chronicles of Narnia movie - and that is so Brat
- Gwen Stacy and Loki team-up for a cosmic adventure in Spider-Gwen: The Ghost Spider #12
- Monster Hunter Wilds players are so obsessed with Palico armor that turns your cute cat into a freaky little octopus that even Capcom is sharing fan art of it
- After a years-long battle with its publisher, Ukraine-based studio reveals first gameplay footage of survival horror sequel The Sinking City 2, launches Kickstarter, and hits $100,000 goal in hours
- Monster Hunter gets the collab of the century: Hello Kitty Island Adventure’s resident stalker Cinnamoroll joins Capcom’s puzzle game to stare at you without blinking
- Daredevil: Born Again episode 1 has a heartbreaking and deep-cut Easter egg from the comics
- Xenomorphs have taken the island as Alien: Paradiso nears its endgame
- Thunderbolts director says the new Marvel movie is inspired by Toy Story 3: "Can they get out of the trash can together?"
- Naughty Dog has done it: it's remastered the PS5 controller with a Last of Us-themed DualSense announcement 24 hours after Neil Druckmann dashed our hopes for The Last of Us 3
- Bethesda breaks silence as Starfield fans hope for an update: "We have a lot of exciting things planned for the game this year"
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (March 7 - 9)
- Assassin's Creed Shadows reverses roles to show off Naoe's combat and Yasuke's stealth, and I'm suddenly sold on playing Yasuke like a clumsy Snake in Metal Gear Solid 3
- New Alien: Earth teaser introduces us to new cast members and the cutest little cat – and if a Xenomorph eats it, I will be furious
- I'm surprised to see some RTX 5070 gaming PCs under $2,000 - these are the three prebuilds I'd buy this week
- Pokemon's literal god of the universe is almost unstoppable in TCG Pocket – the only thing that can save us is a smiley tree and a concussed dinosaur
- 13 years after his New 52 series ended, cult DC hero Resurrection Man is back in Quantum Karma
- "They will cancel their subscription and your investors will have your head": This management sim about making the perfect MMO is so detailed it lets you play your own game
- Although the Mickey 17 cast were at first baffled by the unique way Parasite director Bong Joon Ho works, now they want it no other way
- Changing your pants in Monster Hunter Wilds also changes your most important weapon: the little knife you use to carve beasts, with at least 25 different skins available
- Alienware's latest gaming monitor packs a 180Hz QHD panel for less than $300
- New baby Lego Jurassic World dino has not a single thought behind its eyes
- The Monopoly movie from Margot Robbie's production company will be written by the Dungeons and Dragons movie directors
- 2025's first standout GOTY contenders, Monster Hunter Wilds, Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, and Split Fiction, are coming to GeForce Now
- Day 1,251: Hollow Knight's strongest soldier has been fighting the boss version of Silksong star Hornet every day for over 3 years, and watching them master the Metroidvania in real time is truly amazing
- No one is safe from Monster Hunter Wilds' monstrous menus: BioWare lead says he forgot "how…interesting…the matchmaking and world sharing in these games were"
- Until Dawn Remake developer “effectively closed” following an unannounced wave of layoffs hitting the company
- "I can't go through [with] this": The weirdest Zelda ad didn't get Nintendo's approval, but it probably happened anyway because the marketing execs were already on-site
- The trailer for the lost Powerpuff Girls live-action series has been recovered after two years – and it's a camp fever dream that feels like something you should only discover at 2am on Adult Swim
- The Walking Dead boss looks to squash hopes of The Ones Who Live season 2 – though that doesn't mean we won't ever see Rick and Michonne again
- Avatar star to lead Harlan Coben’s next gut-wrenching drama
- Marvel star joins former Scream directors for highly-anticipated upcoming horror sequel
- Rumored Gears of War Collection reportedly includes campaign co-op for the OG Xbox 360 games, but no PvP multiplayer
- Pokemon fans prove they'll buy anything as a Cheeto shaped like a Charizard sells for almost $90k
- Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4 could be making a major change to Pro Skater 4, with the apparent removal of free-roaming in favor of "streamlined goals"
- Black Myth: Wukong empowered fellow soulslike devs to become China's first "elite" devs on par with Naughty Dog or Capcom: "The market has been validated"
- The Russo brothers reveal why they wanted to direct The Electric State and talk the "very intentional" exploration of timely technology fears in the Netflix sci-fi movie
- 4 years after Marvel's Runaways ended, the gang is back – and Doctor Doom is coming for them
- After 26 years, a secret Star Wars reference to George Lucas has been uncovered: "We got a new Phantom Menace Easter Egg before GTA 6"
- This stunning open-world horse game smashed its $65,000 Kickstarter goal straight away, and it's bringing my favorite part of Red Dead Redemption 2 to 13th-century Mongolia
- Dark and Darker's legal battles are far from over as the popular extraction RPG has been pulled from the Epic Games Store again
- RX 9070 stock will hopefully last longer than the RTX 5070, but I am worried about another wipeout
- Monster Hunter Wilds' motion capture actors look like they have one of the best jobs ever, because yes, there are actual humans behind those monster and Palico animations
- Dungeon Alchemist community manager is "a little concerned how it's behind a paywall to run games" in D&D's official Sigil VTT
- Parasite and Mickey 17 director Bong Joon Ho doesn't want to make a franchise film – unless it's an Alien musical
- Marvel fans have spotted a neat link between Daredevil: Born Again, the 2003 movie, and The Sopranos
- Two years after first teasing it, Jeffrey Dean Morgan has arrived in Invincible – and he could be the show's best villain yet
- Discord is reportedly "in early talks with banks" about going public, but the company won't comment on "rumours or speculation"
- Vampire Survivors creator admits his success was “lucky” amid a wave of cheap mobile knock-offs: “For everyone else, they have to stand out among the hundreds"
- Robert Pattinson says he got so scared watching a horror movie that he fell asleep holding two kitchen knives: "I'm too sensitive"
- Suits star coming back for one-off appearance in LA spin-off, but there could be more if season 2 happens
- Doom: The Dark Ages' new cutscenes exist because of fans' unlikely obsession with the series' lore: "A Doom game that doesn’t have a story is just an arcade game”
- The Last of Us season 2 is giving a game character the Bill and Frank treatment – and he's so deep-cut you might barely remember him
- "The Nintendo way is to take it that much further": Legendary Star Fox dev says the company's philosophy was to push games past the point anybody else "would be happy with"
- After raising $220,000 on Kickstarter, this art history board game is ready to be the prettiest one in your collection
- Star of Netflix thriller show reveals sudden cancellation after two seasons: “Such a bummer”
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is getting its new 1.2 update soon, and it sounds absolutely massive as Warhorse reveals there are "34 pages of patch notes"
- Cities: Skylines 2 on console is still delayed at least until summer as devs work on "improving performance and stability"
- The Last of Us season 2 will tell "a different version" of the story, but Neil Druckmann loves the changes they've made: "Its DNA is in there"
- Daredevil: Born Again premiere features a small MCU cameo you may have missed
- Assassin's Creed Shadows' DLC will take place after the main game's "definite ending" in a "spookier" location, creative director says
- Daredevil's Charlie Cox breaks silence on Born Again killing off the "heartbeat of the MCU": "You have to have a reason for remaking the show"
- After dominating 2024 with Sonic, Persona, Yakuza, and Metaphor, Sega is the first company to become the year's best-rated publisher 3 times
- “The reveal was a big mistake”: MCU fans pick the twists they wish Marvel movie trailers didn’t spoil beforehand
- As Ultima Online approaches its 28th birthday, former creative lead reveals what it takes for an MMO to last for decades, and why they sometimes fail: "Content does not last forever"
- March 5
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- A Zelda movie is finally happening, but Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto used to adamantly oppose the idea even "if Steven Spielberg himself" wanted to do it
- "He is so dialed in": Robert Downey Jr. is coming up with backstory and costume ideas for Doctor Doom ahead of Avengers: Doomsday
- With another "thank you," Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone brings an update arc to a close with "the Switch patch to fix the last Switch patch"
- Over 80 countries and 42 days: the first Demon Slayer Infinity Castle movie's remarkable staggered release plans have been revealed – including a US date
- Monster Hunter Wilds' story is as divisive as expected: some players hate the "relentless on rails handholding," others love the build-up to "the best scene in Monster Hunter history"
- Pedro Pascal says "beautiful" scene that made him want to join The Last of Us got cut, but it’ll thankfully appear in season 2: "He was like, ‘That’s half the reason I’m here!’"
- The other devs behind the best retro beat-em-up in recent memory are making a co-op roguelike brawler that "channels the spirit" of Capcom's classic D&D games
- Monster Hunter Wilds art director and 20-year series vet says the new game intentionally leans into a question fans have debated forever: "What is a hunter?"
- "I am freaked out by how much might actually have been accurate": Battlefield Bad Company 3 writer unearths forgotten script
- Absolute Green Lantern puts Far Sector's Jo Mullein front and center as a cosmic mystery comes to Earth
- Skyrim is still an all-time great for asset reuse: this hunk of human flesh could be some poor guard's glute, or probably just a piece of repurposed beef
- Terraria is forever: look no further than its go-to mod tool, which just hit an all-time Steam peak ahead of surely, for real, definitely final update 1.4.5
- "Don't bet on there being more of Last of Us": Asked about The Last of Us 3, Naughty Dog's Neil Druckmann says "this could be it"
- "Wise mentor" or "awful Jedi"? Star Wars fans are debating if Qui-Gon Jinn is to blame for Anakin's turn to the dark side
- Assassin's Creed Shadows devs added a Canon Mode removing RPG choices after Odyssey fans "expressed their disappointment" over not having a "definitive" story
- Sega outlines plan to "strengthen" Persona, Yakuza, and Sonic studios, says "Atlus is an important studio for us to expand Japanese IPs overseas"
- Bambi decapitates a man, chases victims through the woods, and ruins your childhood in new trailer for twisted horror from the creators of Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey
- Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra is still on track for 2025, Black Panther actor claims: "We're thinking like a Christmas situation"
- Upcoming Netflix movie is like the Speed sequel we never got, and it’s coming next month
- Two popular FBI spin-off shows have been canceled, and unhappy fans think it's "a big mistake"
- How to watch Haikyuu in order (anime series and movies)
- Philips just launched its first Roku OLED TV and it looks like a steal for PS5 owners
- Red Dead Redemption 2 has some of the most accurate rivers in video games, according to the video game geographer who charted Skyrim and Zelda's waterways
- Loads of NSFW "Hentai" games have disappeared from the Switch eShop, sparking hopes Nintendo is taking moderation more seriously
- Dexter fans praise "insane" casting for new series' second season as Doctor Who's Neil Patrick Harris joins Peter Dinklage, Uma Thurman and more
- Following MTG Final Fantasy, another Square Enix Magic collab is “likely a matter of ‘when,’ not ‘if’”
- Fantastic Four: First Steps concept art contains an unexpected MCU Easter Egg that could change the Marvel movie completely
- The Russo brothers have an idea about Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars runtimes, and one might reach Avengers: Endgame's record
- A new "edge-of-your-seat" Harlan Coben thriller series has been quietly added to Netflix
- 16 years after it was released, cult '00s horror movie may be getting a surprise sequel: "We're working on it"
- I just watched the RTX 5070 effectively sell out before it even launched
- Netflix's The Witcher casts its first game-exclusive character with a Witcher 1 deep-cut who Geralt first took care of in the 2007 RPG
- The Russo brothers tease the "incredible opportunity" of returning for Avengers 5 and 6: "We want to beat those younger versions of ourselves"
- 6 years after Avengers: Endgame, Chris Pratt talks reuniting with the Russo brothers for new Netflix movie The Electric State: "I have much more responsibilities in this film than I had in the Avengers movies"
- Millie Bobby Brown talks the "really emotional" goodbye of Stranger Things season 5: "I'll always be grateful for the Duffer Brothers for hiring me"
- Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 pre-orders include Doom Slayer and an actual full-sized skateboard
- One of the best fantasy anime in recent years gets January 2026 release window for season 2
- Mickey 17 director Bong Joon Ho would love to tackle the book's sequel too, but has a "plethora of new, weird ideas" he wants to make first
- Terraforming Mars TTRPG crowdfund hits almost $200,000 in one day as fans flock to name a space city after themselves
- Helldivers 2 has a Major Order problem, but the solution isn't simple because "having 100% participation means the MOs will always be won and that introduces other issues"
- Daredevil: Born Again episode 1 references Spider-Man, and Marvel fans are excited about what it might mean for the future
- Fans are concerned Critical Role's Suikoden one-shot will be ruined by one player's "complete incompetence and blaming the game"
- Lego just revealed a Beauty and the Beast set and it'll destroy my bank balance
- Minecraft modder uses "3 hours of my life that I'll never get back" to create a new mod that gives Steve Jack Black's voice
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate villain Minecraft Steve is the star of the "best Smash clip of all time," as genius player makes a literal Trojan Horse to destroy an unsuspecting opponent
- Director Bong Joon Ho says Robert Pattinson was "born" to play one of his Mickey 17 characters, with The Lighthouse convincing him he could take on both parts
- Hori's latest gamepad is up for pre-order, and it's nearly $100 cheaper than other pro controllers for PS5
- Assassin's Creed's Kassandra stole the show in Odyssey, popped up in Valhalla, and she's still "very much alive" during AC Shadows
- Daredevil star Charlie Cox was behind one of the most emotional parts of Daredevil: Born Again's premiere: "That was a brilliant idea"
- Daredevil: Born Again fans are in shock after "sickening" death scene of a fan-favorite character
- Scream 7's casting continues to confuse as David Arquette's Dewey Riley confirmed to return
- Daredevil fans have spotted a Punisher detail in the Born Again premiere, and Frank Castle is not going to be happy about it
- Assassin's Creed Shadows file size is the second-biggest in the series, beaten only by Valhalla and dwarfing Mirage
- Daredevil: Born Again's Rotten Tomatoes score is a series low, but one star is still happy about the reception
- It looks like a key Star Wars event mentioned in Rebels will be shown in Andor season 2
- After Square Enix's attempt flopped, Avengers: Endgame and Doomsday directors are "open" to working on their own Marvel team-up game
- A major character is returning in Daredevil: Born Again season 2 – despite being killed off in the first 10 minutes of season 1
- Monster Hunter Wilds' first time-limited event quests are here, giving fans just 2 weeks to snag special armor and rare materials in the action RPG
- The end is nigh for the 3DS as Nintendo runs out of parts for 2 more models in Japan, with only 1 iteration still accepted for repairs
- Marvel Rivals publisher indefinitely delays its other hero shooter on Xbox and PS5 2 days before its free-to-play launch
- Longlegs director pitches horrifying Star Wars movie with Darth Vader, and we want it to happen
- Game of Thrones writer George R.R. Martin's In The Lost Lands could get an on-screen sequel, and Martin is apparently keen too
- Daredevil: Born Again directors believe the brutal death scene was "done right," but there’s "definitely some worry" about fan reaction
- Daredevil: Born Again showrunners say shocking death scene of a fan-favorite character was in the scrapped version of the show, but it occurred off-screen
- Daredevil: Born Again directors say it "felt bad to direct" shocking death scene of a fan-favorite character: "We wanted it to feel wrong"
- Who does Michael Gandolfini play in Daredevil: Born Again? Daniel Blake explained
- When does Daredevil: Born Again take place on the Marvel timeline?
- Marvel fans are convinced Wednesday star is playing a major MCU villain in Daredevil: Born Again
- Dragon Age actor says the last time he played Inquisition, he upheld the RPG tradition led by Baldur's Gate 3 actors and romanced his own character: "Which is the best — the best"
- Capcom promises "this is just the start for the next generation of Monster Hunter" as Wilds shatters sales milestones: "The Guild authorizes this celebration!"
- March 4
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- Some GTA 5 players can't bring their characters to the new PC upgrade, and the open-world game's mixed Steam reviews are hammering FPS caps and a lack of text chat
- 45 years after the original Dark Phoenix Saga, Ms. Marvel Kamala Khan will travel back in time to save X-Men history
- Assassin's Creed Shadows is the first game in the series with "a fully customizable sandbox" as your base, which is where Yasuke and Naoe hang out and pet baby animals
- Monster Hunter Wilds takes an infamously rare and annoying material from the old games and absolutely buries you in it – and also buries you in tiny spiders
- Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey adds Shogun star to its massively star-studded cast, and I'm getting Oppenheimer vibes all over again
- Ben Stiller asked President Barack Obama to appear in Severance and he declined in the most Obama way: "Hey Ben, big fan of the show"
- After 7 years, one of my favorite manga is suddenly ending and I don't know how to feel: My Dress-Up Darling finishes this month before the anime even gets season 2
- Marvel Rivals' new Clone Rumble mode sounds like the kind of absolute chaos multiplayer games need more of
- Doom Academy #5 brings the series to a close with a confrontation between Doctor Doom and his students
- It Takes Two dev's new co-op game Split Fiction launches as Metacritic's highest rated game of 2025, beating out Monster Hunter Wilds and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
- Cult text-based zombie MMO Urban Dead is shutting down after "a full 19 years, 8 months and 11 days" because of new UK legislation
- Echoing Xbox and Steam, PlayStation rolls out a beta program where you sign up to "test participating games for the PS5 console and PC" plus new features
- "Don’t gaslight me": Borderlands 4 CEO Randy Pitchford begs fans to be optimistic about the upcoming FPS, otherwise "we'll all pay the price"
- Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 launches this July with new parks for "for the first time in 10 years," and you can pre-order to get a demo in June
- First trailer for Guy Ritchie’s new crime drama sees Tom Hardy and Pierce Brosnan rule a brutal mafia empire
- Doctor Who fans think they've spotted a tease for surprise villains in new season 2 trailer
- MTG Tarkir: Dragonstorm’s autistic hero may be able to protect the multiverse but that doesn’t make her immune to sensory overload
- Helldivers 2 has an endgame problem, but a developer assures us "things are coming," they just can't say what yet because otherwise our expectations will be too high
- James Gunn confirms that the Starfire animated TV show will be Elseworlds like Batman and Joker
- The Sims 4's hyper-realistic competitor inZOI will only "sort of" have sex – but I'm sure a Wicked Whims-style mod will take care of the rest
- Marvel star Vin Diesel might be teasing a Groot movie: "Disney wants their Planet X!"
- This Slavic folklore inspired TRPG is the Thea-style D&D 5e supplement I always wanted, and it's live on Kickstarter right now
- Nintendo knows you're waiting for Mario Kart 9, but it still wants you to run a million laps in Mario Kart 8 first
- Dell just launched a brand new Alienware QD-OLED monitor, and it boasts the "world's highest pixel density"
- Robert Pattinson worries he will be a "f*cking old Batman" by the time filming on The Batman 2 finally starts
- Undertale's Toby Fox teases arrival of Deltarune Chapters 3 and 4: PS5 testers are "slurping the last drops of soda from between the ice cubes now"
- TV show based on underrated Disney movie quietly cancelled amid streaming shake up
- Blumhouse horror movie The Woman in the Yard's new trailer has genre fans trying to predict its twist – and some of their theories sound pretty plausible
- Dave Bautista says playing a vampire is "at the top of my list" after starring in Resident Evil director’s werewolf fantasy In the Lost Lands
- We all yearn for construction jobs as simulator RoadCraft takes a podium spot in Steam Next Fest's most-played demos just behind PvP mech game Mecha Break
- Assassin's Creed Shadows will take upwards of 80 hours for completionists, creative director confirms, and Ubisoft is considering adding New Game+ post launch
- Capcom asks Monster Hunter Wilds players how they feel about the game in a survey longer than most hunts, and I guess y'all had feedback because it crashed due to "heavy traffic"
- New graphic novel Magda, Intergalactic Chef puts a sci-fi twist on The Great British Bake Off
- This Catan Kickstarter will yassify your copy of the board game, and it's already hit $300,000 in pledges
- Lord of the Rings star Elijah Wood gives unexpected answer on what movie should be removed from cinematic history: "There's nothing pure about it"
- The first look at Thunderbolts' Sentry suit seemingly leaked in new Marvel merchandise
- 22 years after the release of Bruce Almighty, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is now officially Jim Carrey’s highest-grossing movie
- Konami spent over 5 years bringing an iconic JRPG series back to life as reviving Suikoden "would be over" before it began if they released a "half-baked product"
- A Monster Hunter Wilds bug doomed one player to fight the 5-minute punching bag tutorial boss for a freakin' hour: "I’ve had to sharpen my weapon at least 15 times now"
- Cobra Kai mock trailer that sold the Karate Kid revival is revealed by the Netflix show’s co-creator
- Dave Bautista says "I always look to Clint Eastwood" when approaching a western role: "He's always going to be my gold standard"
- New Monster Hunter Wilds patch fixes a bunch of progress-blocking bugs, but there's still a network error bug playing havoc with SOS signals
- I figured Assassin's Creed Shadows' Red Bull collab would just be some naff cosmetics, but it's actually a pair of surprisingly useful gameplay boons for Naoe and Yasuke
- This roguelike city-builder casts you as a benevolent Lord of the Rings villain, and its Steam Next Fest demo accidentally consumed my entire evening
- After the successes of Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon, Dave Bautista and Milla Jovovich talk pressures of starring in the first George R.R. Martin movie
- Monster Hunter Wilds' worst feature is its "ridiculously poorly built UI," according to fans of the new action RPG – but there's already "a mod that fixes that"
- This is why fans think Spider-Man will become the MCU's most important character after Avengers: Doomsday
- New look at Alien: Earth has fans theorizing over whether they can hear a Predator in the background
- First look at the legendary Invincible War in Invincible season 3 promises a comic-accurate adaptation of a fan-favorite storyline
- This year's Best Actor Oscars speech broke a record that was over 80 years old
- The Among Us 3D demo did so well that you can still download it even though Steam Next Fest has ended
- The new D&D Starter Set is the first one I've been excited about in years
- You can let fate decide your Pokemon Legends Z-A starter with a random plushie pre-order bonus, just in case you couldn't pick between Totodile, Tepig, and Chikorita
- James Cameron responds to Zoe Saldaña's Oscar win: "I was so happy to see Zoe acknowledged as the world-class performer we, in the Avatar family, have always known her to be"
- Underrated JRPG series gets anime show from Pokémon filmmaker as first game turns 30
- Monster Hunter Wilds breaks a Capcom record as the action RPG passes 8 million sales in 3 days, "the fastest a title has reached this milestone in the company's history"
- The Baldur's Gate 3-arization of Dungeons & Dragons continues as Astarion gets 2 official mentions in the new source books
- March 3
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- "Both Marvel Rivals and Overwatch are excellent superhero shooters" says the Chinese publisher behind both games as they make the move to China: "The market is large enough to accommodate both games"
- 6 months after the Visions of Mana team was closed down the day after releasing its JRPG remake, one of its leads has started a new studio: "Management needs to protect creators"
- Sonic fans are leading the charge on a new preservation tool that can help give any Xbox 360 game a native PC port
- "Thank you, Monster Hunter": Japanese restaurant's sales jump after Monster Hunter Wilds gives millions of players a hankering for stretchy cheese
- Beastars manga creator's new Christmas-themed series Sanda is getting an English release ahead of its anime adaptation
- Final Fantasy 14's Yoshi-P quietly removed from Square Enix's board after years of wanting out: "It's much more fun to just make games"
- "You are incorrect": John Romero has been correcting Doom history for the past 4 years, and he's not about to stop now
- I've played Monster Hunter Wilds for almost 60 hours and somehow missed this game-changing gathering tip
- "Give him both": Legendary director thinks Robert Pattinson should win two Oscars for his dual performances in new sci-fi movie Mickey 17
- GameSir launches the Super Nova controller packed with a charging stand, 1,000Hz polling rate, and swappable faceplates
- "We got heel Cena before GTA 6": Even John Cena himself is comparing the 20-year wait for his WWE heel turn to the 12-year wait for the next Grand Theft Auto
- InZOI director hopes the Sims rival will be "successful and beloved," continues moonlighting as a philosopher: "Life is a tragedy when seen up close, but a comedy when viewed from a distance"
- With over 5,000 "overwhelmingly positive" Steam reviews already, a new co-op horror game with the spirit of Lethal Company has officially popped off
- Devil May Cry and Bayonetta veteran Hideki Kamiya would still "love to make" his canceled dragon action RPG Scalebound: "Let's do it, Phil!"
- D&D Sigil VTT Community Manager responds to negative comments about the software on Discord: "Things are not where you want them to be but this is not a full release"
- Ahead of Daredevil: Born Again's premiere, Marvel fans are discussing how Iron Fist could be introduced to the MCU
- Star Steven Yeun is now playing 18 more characters in Invincible, because clearly one wasn't enough
- Masahiro Sakurai says Super Smash Bros "might have died out" if not for late Nintendo president Satoru Iwata: "There's no doubt that he influenced me in many ways"
- New Monster Hunter Wilds mod lets you change your character's appearance as many times as you want for free, bypassing Capcom's paid DLC
- A single D&D spell in Solasta 2's Steam Next Fest demo proved to me that not every RPG needs to be Baldur's Gate 3
- MTG players will pay more in future as Magic’s Head Designer confirms “higher MSRP” will be the norm for Universes Beyond sets
- GTA developer Rockstar opens new Australian branch by acquiring the studio that's been working on its ports for "this past decade"
- Netflix’s most popular K-drama in 2024 wasn't Squid Game season 2, it was this show with a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score
- A new Mad Max movie has a script, but director George Miller isn't sure it will ever be made: "All I can say is we’ll see"
- House of the Dragon season 3's opening battle is "beastly", according to one of the show's stars
- Pokemon Champions could be the series' "biggest announcement in over a decade," says former world champ, because Nintendo might finally be about to separate competitive play from single-player
- One of 2024's best anime movies has a sequel coming, and the first trailer has been revealed along with a new special
- PSVR 2's price drop makes it cheaper than the Meta Quest 3, and I know which one I'd buy
- This streamer just beat a no-hit run of Dark Souls 3 with a saxophone controller, and they've got their sights set on Monster Hunter Wilds next
- The first MTG Spider-Man previews have landed, and you can pre-order the set right now
- There's a moment in Deadpool and Wolverine involving Spider-Man that you might have misinterpreted
- Death Stranding 2: On the Beach gets new details from PlayStation, teasing fans with info on its combat, story, and "large open-world environments"
- Monster Hunter Wilds might be a bit too popular as one indie dev says their sales totally flatlined around the action RPG's launch: "We haven't sold a single game"
- We've only seen one shot of Invincible season 3's final two episodes in the trailer so far – and it reveals basically nothing
- The first full-length trailer for Doctor Who season 2 is here – and fans think they've spotted the mysterious Mrs. Flood
- I'm finally sold on Assassin's Creed Shadows after seeing Yasuke boot a bad guy through a building in a move that puts Assassin's Creed Odyssey's Spartan Kick to shame
- Gen V star reveals he unsuccessfully auditioned for Superman and Homelander
- Severance director says no CGI was used for one incredible episode 7 shot, as they shot it through the cables
- The rarest Avowed ending has only been seen by 0.2% of all the RPG's players, but to get it you'll have to commit to a path of death and destruction
- Steam has doubled in size in just 5 years, as Monster Hunter Wilds' launch pushes it beyond 40 million concurrent users
- 2025 Oscar winners in full: Anora wins big as The Brutalist and Wicked pick up multiple awards
- Anora wins Best Picture to seal its place as 2025's big Oscars victor
- Mikey Madison wins Best Actress at the 2025 Oscars, thanking director Sean Baker: "This is all because of you"
- Anora's Sean Baker wins Best Director at the 2025 Oscars and immediately pleads, "Filmmakers, keep making films for the big screen"
- The Brutalist's Adrien Brody becomes a two-time Best Actor winner at the 2025 Oscars: "This is the chance to begin again"
- Emilia Pérez's Zoe Saldaña delivers a tearful speech after historic Best Supporting Actress win at the 2025 Oscars
- Kieran Culkin wins Best Supporting Actor at the Oscars 2025 and makes a hilarious and heartfelt dedication to his wife: "Ye of little faith"
- March 2
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- Oscars 2025 live coverage: All the winners, red carpet, and the 97th Academy Awards' biggest moments – as it happens
- After 32 years, Mortal Kombat 2 has finally been ported to the one hyper-expensive '90s console that could actually do it justice
- Ultima Online lead says "Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley and all these other kind of cozy games" are filling a gap in modern MMO design
- I went from "I hope this is good" to "this might be GOTY" within 5 minutes of picking up the Steam Next Fest demo for this ridiculous stealth game
- PlayStation's cancelled reboot of its vehicular combat classic was reportedly a battle royale that let you exit the vehicles
- Steam Next Fest's biggest Soulslike is about to jump from PC to PS5 and Xbox, and everyone seems to love the demo just as much as we did
- Keanu Reeves has a very blunt reaction to if he'd return for another John Wick movie: "The character's dead"
- After 24 years, classic RPG Gothic returns as a top game in Steam Next Fest with a remake demo that has almost 5,000 reviews
- Daredevil star Charlie Cox is keen for She-Hulk to appear in Daredevil: Born Again: "Maybe we'll get to see the favor returned"
- Monster Hunter Wilds PC players claim that fixing a random typo in the game's files actually helps its poor performance issues
- Avengers: Doomsday concept art reportedly "leaks" to reveal major returning MCU characters
- The Sonic team had the perfect response to Shrek 5's controversial redesigns: "Take notes"
- Demon Slayer Infinity Castle release date confirmed
- March 1
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- The devs of a legendary indie Zelda-like have a new retro action game with "bumpslash" combat, and its Steam Next Fest demo is a gem: "Fans of Ys, take note!"
- And you thought Hollow Knight: Silksong is late – 37 years in the making, this retro Metroidvania has a whip-smart Steam Next Fest demo that's as Castlevania as it gets
- Among Us is popping off all over again thanks to a 3D version of the viral hit that's climbing up Steam Next Fest's charts
- Hyper-realistic The Sims rival inZOI will announce a "roadmap for future updates, and pricing and DLC plans" in this month's showcase
- Star Wars fans are sharing their favorite unbelievable canon cameos – and some of them are seriously deep-cut
- Marvel fans are sharing their dream Avengers team-ups, including one that would be "the biggest payoff" in the MCU so far
- In Assassin's Creed Shadows, "Naoe and Yasuke share their progression" and you'll have to complete special quests to get the best abilities
- Lumiose City is going through an "urban redevelopment plan" in Pokemon Legends Z-A, and I bet it has something to do with the 1100lbs battles on its rooftops
- Longlegs director has shared his dream project outside of horror, and now we're hoping it happens
- "I'm very ashamed to say this": Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone warns players to avoid certain areas thanks to a major Nintendo Switch bug
- Stardew Valley patch squashes Nintendo Switch bug that made your favorite villagers incredibly easy to romance
- A divisive new revenge thriller being compared to John Wick has landed on Netflix
- The Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola has given a legendary response to his Razzie win for Megalopolis, which he is "thrilled" to accept
- Survival horror clatters into soccer royalty as "Silent Hill mixed with FIFA 98" offers up a Steam Next Fest demo that I could never have imagined would work this well
