Elden Ring Nightreign is saying goodbye to FromSoftware's beloved messaging system
News Seen in everything from Dark Souls to Bloodborne
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Deltarune, Hideaki Itsuno, and The Witcher 4 | Weekly News Roundup
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How to solve the Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Snake in the Garden puzzle
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How to solve Indiana Jones and the Great Circle House of God puzzle
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"Why am I saying Persona?" | Stewart Clarke didn't know what game he was in
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Will Jurassic World: Rebirth be a musical?
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Metaphor: ReFantazio Strohl actor Stewart Clarke on playing the role again
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Here are our top 5 TV shows of 2024
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Jonathan Bailey on the huge scale of the Wicked sets
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The iconic Wallace and Gromit villain wasn't meant to return
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Top 5 Early Access games of 2024
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Do Sonic 3's cast want to make more movies?
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How Shadow of the Erdtree got me through my darkest days
From the Gravesite Plain, to the Shadow Keep, the land of Elden Ring Shadow of The Erdtree is a bleak, haunting and desolate place. Yet I found comfort here, and I'd like to talk about why. Written and VO by Serena Cherry Video by Hal Dimond
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Sonic 3's James Marsden and Ben Schwartz say Shadow is like Batman
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Top 5 indie games of 2024
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Helldivers 2, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, and The Steam Winter Sale | Weekly News Roundup
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Top 5 games set at Christmas you can play right now
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5 Game Pass games like Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
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Top 5 movies of 2024
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Elden Ring: Nightreign | Will FromSoftware overcome its biggest weakness?
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Elden Ring has outsold the entire Dark Souls series by about 2 million copies
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"Sony would also turn to Mercury for all their tech demos for publishers": Jeb Mayers talks us through the creation of portable puzzler
Interview Feature | The mini making of Arthur Maclean's Mercury
"Part of the genesis of Immortality was the three years I spent making a Legacy Of Kain game that got cancelled": Sam Barlow on the making of his "interactive movie"
Feature Feature | "People kept calling these things 'interactive movies, and I was like, 'Yeah, they're not really, but okay. Let's do it. Let's do it. Let's make an interactive movie!'"
FC 25 NumeroFUT guide and full cards list
Guide Lewandowski and Leao kick off the new year with the FC 25 NumeroFUT promo
Borderlands 4 studio Gearbox gave the devs custom cast iron skillets for Christmas because "we f***ing cooked"
News That's one way to say you're proud of your team's work
"Action RPGs kind of outsell classic RPGs": Fallout OG Tim Cain says AAA RPGs default to violence because it sells, so support non-violent options when you get 'em
News Better stock up on Animal Crossing DLC
2 months later, Assassin's Creed Origins is getting pounded with negative Steam reviews because the Windows update that broke it still isn't fixed
News "Ubisoft and Microsoft are working on a resolution"
Perhaps forgetting his game is a loaded parody of fascism, Helldivers 2 director says, "Make good games, don't make a contemporary political statement"
News Helldivers 2 is notably filled with political statements
Less than a year after launching 2024's best live service, Helldivers 2 creative director has already started working on "the next Arrowhead game"
News Johan Pilestedt wants to know what your "expectations and desires" are
The Witcher 4 NPCs will offer a "more immersive experience" than other CD Projekt games: "We are trying to push the bar here"
News Are you ready to be immersed?
Borderlands 4 studio Gearbox gave the devs custom cast iron skillets for Christmas because "we f***ing cooked"
News That's one way to say you're proud of your team's work
"Action RPGs kind of outsell classic RPGs": Fallout OG Tim Cain says AAA RPGs default to violence because it sells, so support non-violent options when you get 'em
News Better stock up on Animal Crossing DLC
2 months later, Assassin's Creed Origins is getting pounded with negative Steam reviews because the Windows update that broke it still isn't fixed
News "Ubisoft and Microsoft are working on a resolution"
Perhaps forgetting his game is a loaded parody of fascism, Helldivers 2 director says, "Make good games, don't make a contemporary political statement"
News Helldivers 2 is notably filled with political statements
Less than a year after launching 2024's best live service, Helldivers 2 creative director has already started working on "the next Arrowhead game"
News Johan Pilestedt wants to know what your "expectations and desires" are
The Witcher 4 NPCs will offer a "more immersive experience" than other CD Projekt games: "We are trying to push the bar here"
News Are you ready to be immersed?
Helldivers 2 players beat the Illuminate back but they're still freaking out citizens, so High Command wants to build a surveillance center which definitely won't be used for spying
News Just a regular ol' citizen surveillance center for regular surveillance needs
"6 years of work leaving the nest": Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is already making its way into the hands of reviewers, and one dev is "nervous but also excited AF"
News It's a "a nerve-racking situation"
A Balatro crossover, GOTY nods, and near-perfect reviews propelled one of 2024's hidden gems to its highest selling day months after launch
News New Years Day was 1000xResist's best sales say ever
Vanilla Skyrim reaches a whopping 2 billion mod downloads, surpassed only by Skyrim: Special Edition's 6.2 billion record
News Easily the two biggest games on Nexus Mods
Nemesis review: "A magical sense of tension"
Review This horror board game perfectly captures the magic of Alien, and it deserves a place in your collection
Arcs review: "A whole lot of game in a small package"
Review Meet your new favorite strategy game
Path of Exile 2 review: "A stellar start to a thrilling and brutal dark adventure"
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Indiana Jones and the Great Circle review: "The best adventure Indy has embarked on in over 30 years"
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Marvel Rivals review: "So preoccupied with trying to be like Overwatch that it forgets to play to its own strengths"
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Blitz Bowl: Ultimate Edition review - "Boils the game down to its purest essentials"
Review Can this smaller, more bitesize version of Blood Bowl go the distance?
Secret Level review: "An uneven experience with serious highlights that ultimately make up for the misses"
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Space Marine Adventures: Tyranid Attack! review - "Simultaneously too easy and weirdly overcomplicated"
Review It's a swing and a miss due to lackluster gameplay, unfortunately
Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl review: "The best but most broken game I've played all year"
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"Sony would also turn to Mercury for all their tech demos for publishers": Jeb Mayers talks us through the creation of portable puzzler
Interview Feature | The mini making of Arthur Maclean's Mercury
"Part of the genesis of Immortality was the three years I spent making a Legacy Of Kain game that got cancelled": Sam Barlow on the making of his "interactive movie"
Feature Feature | "People kept calling these things 'interactive movies, and I was like, 'Yeah, they're not really, but okay. Let's do it. Let's do it. Let's make an interactive movie!'"
Goal Oriented: How do developers invent their own sports – even when they're not too fond of the real thing?
Feature Feature | "What I've realised is that any turn-based strategy game, like a Fire Emblem or XCOM, those are basically sports games"
BioShock Infinite “may not have been the thing I wanted, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it wasn’t the thing the audience wanted”: Ken Levine guides us through his entire gameography
Feature Edge: The Collected Works | From immersive-sim innovation, through undersea peril, and onto new beginnings back out in space, Ken Levine talks through his impressive and iconic gaming portfolio in his own words
AAA – Developers discuss the three little letters that have shaped an industry: "It's a stupid term. It's meaningless"
Feature Feature | Edge talks to developers to unpack the baggage around the blockbuster marketing term
Must-have board game deals for January 2025
Deals We've rounded up the very best of today's board game deals from across every price range
"At the time survival horror was changing. 'How action-oriented do we get?'": 16 years on, Tomm Hulett reflects on Silent Hill: Homecoming
Feature | Go big or go home? The developers of this series entry decided to do both when Silent Hill landed on PS3 and Xbox 360
The Making of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth: "I thought: if we just reproduce the original game with no changes, it will feel nostalgic, but not exciting"
Feature Feature | Edge Magazine: Remaking an iconic game was daunting enough – then the developers faced the difficult second entry.
30 years on, developers reflect on Super Metroid's impact: "Like Zelda and Mario, there is almost nothing else out there like it in tone. Still to this day, even"
Feature Feature | Super Metroid: An Enduring Legacy – As Nintendo's sci-fi classic turns 30, Retro Gamer revisits Zebes to speak with developers of both Metroidvanias and actual Metroid games to learn what makes Samus Aran's 2D adventure so special
Indie devs discuss why low-poly works so well for horror: "I actually think those limitations encourage weird, unique compromises"
Feature Feature | The indie developers of Back In 1995, Fear The Spotlight, and Crow Country on channelling PS1-era aesthetics in horror games to create the perfect combination of nostalgia and dread
Swery65 discusses Hotel Barcelona, his "accidental" collaboration with friend Suda51
Interview Interview | But make no mistake, this long-requested meeting of the minds is shaping up to be a truly unique experience
"We would look at all the American RPGs and the JRPGs at the time and just go, 'Right, if they're doing it, we're not": Peter Molyneux and John McCormack talk the development of Fable 20 years on
Feature Feature | The Making of Fable: Celebrating 20 years, Retro Gamer talk with Peter Molyneux and John McCormack about the highs and lows of creating Fable
Angelina Jolie's new movie about a world-famous opera singer is a poignant story of life in the public eye
Big Screen Spotlight Big Screen Spotlight | Pablo Larraín's trilogy about iconic 20th-century women comes to a fitting end with Maria
Seven director David Fincher shares what was actually in the box, though he says "you don't need to see what's in the box if you have Morgan Freeman"
News David Fincher has dispelled a "ridiculous" rumor
James Gunn says we won't see Batman's origin in the DCU: "We don't need to hear the origin story again"
News We won't see Batman's origin again
Creature Commandos just gave us our first look at the DCU's Gotham City – and a glimpse of Batman
News The Caped Crusader makes his DCU debut
The Squid Game season 3 release date might have been accidentally leaked – by Netflix
News Squid Game season 3 is coming this year
David Fincher was once in talks to direct Harry Potter, but his "creepy" version didn't align with Warner Bros.' vision
News "I remember saying, 'I just don’t want to do the clean Hollywood version of it'"
Seven director David Fincher shares what was actually in the box, though he says "you don't need to see what's in the box if you have Morgan Freeman"
News David Fincher has dispelled a "ridiculous" rumor
James Gunn says we won't see Batman's origin in the DCU: "We don't need to hear the origin story again"
News We won't see Batman's origin again
Creature Commandos just gave us our first look at the DCU's Gotham City – and a glimpse of Batman
News The Caped Crusader makes his DCU debut
The Squid Game season 3 release date might have been accidentally leaked – by Netflix
News Squid Game season 3 is coming this year
David Fincher was once in talks to direct Harry Potter, but his "creepy" version didn't align with Warner Bros.' vision
News "I remember saying, 'I just don’t want to do the clean Hollywood version of it'"
Solo Leveling season 2 release schedule – when is episode 1 on Crunchyroll?
Guide A look ahead to Solo Leveing season 2's premiere, streaming this January
Squid Game season 2 review: "Secures its place as one of the best shows on television right now"
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Doctor Who 2024 Christmas special review: "Ncuti Gatwa is as magnetic as ever in this delightful festive treat"
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Sonic the Hedgehog 3 review: "Keanu Reeves as Shadow is wasted whilst Jim Carrey steals the show"
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Mufasa: The Lion King review – "It's no Hakuna Matata but this Disney origin story is a class above the 2019 movie"
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Kraven the Hunter review: "The insistence on an R-rating helps save this, with a decent helping of bloodthirsty action"
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The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim review – "An uninspired expansion of the most iconic screen take on Tolkien"
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Angelina Jolie's new movie about a world-famous opera singer is a poignant story of life in the public eye
Big Screen Spotlight Big Screen Spotlight | Pablo Larraín's trilogy about iconic 20th-century women comes to a fitting end with Maria
Creature Commandos release schedule: When is episode 7 on Max?
Guide Here's how to stream the new DCU show
How many episodes are in Dune: Prophecy on Max and NOW?
Guide A look back at the sci-fi spin-off's episode count and how to watch Dune: Prophecy
Mr and Mrs Smith was one of the best shows of 2024 and the perfect limited series – let's hope season 2 lives up to it
Feature Opinion | The limited series may be a lost art, but hopefully Mr and Mrs Smith season 2 will live up to its great first season
One of my favorite horror movies of 2024 is a remake I disregarded months ago based on its lackluster trailer - I won't make that mistake again
Opinion Opinion: This year's Speak No Evil remake being a surprise hit and ending up in my top 10 movies of the year has made me rethink how we judge films based on their badly edited trailers
2024's best horror movie won't scare you in a traditional sense, but that's exactly why it's so hauntingly powerful
Opinion Opinion | Our writer on why I Saw The TV Glow is one of the scariest films of the year
2024 saw a whole bunch of TV shows get cancelled, but I'm still most upset about Netflix axing Jeff Goldblum's fabulous fantasy series Kaos
Opinion Opinion | Kaos was easily one of the best shows of 2024, and what a shame it is we won't get any more episodes
Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield say their new romantic drama changed them as actors: "I've never had an experience like that before"
Big screen spotlight Big Screen Spotlight | We Live in Time stars Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh, along with director John Crowley, take us through their decades-charting romantic drama
