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- February 29
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- Amid mass layoffs, Crash Bandicoot and Warzone studio Toys for Bob is going indie, but says it's exploring a "possible" partnership with Xbox
- Spider-Man's Gang War event finally gets rid of one of Marvel's most arbitrary rules
- Immortals of Aveum dev blames flop on "murderer's row of big games," insists it'll gain a Dead Space-like cult following, and quietly announces new project
- Borderlands studio Gearbox reportedly close to a sale once again
- The Mad Thinker plots to break the Avengers and only their butler Jarvis can save the day
- Terminator: Survivors is the extremely descriptive name for the Terminator open-world survival game launching in Early Access this year
- As catastrophic layoffs rattle the games industry, FPS legend John Romero says "I've never seen anything like we're seeing now"
- WoW Classic guilds come together to flatten a new MMO boss that's so far resisted the efforts of an entire server, all for a datamined mount they might not even get
- Adam Sandler opens up about the "tough" shoot for his Netflix sci-fi movie: "It made sense to try to keep myself alone"
- Helldivers 2 players died over 10 million times taking a single planet, Mort, from the Automatons this week – and even then barely pulled it off
- New "platform fighter roguelike" dubbed 'Hades meets Smash Bros' hits full release, immediately tops Steam trends chart
- Kevin Conroy's Batman and Mark Hamill's Joker to reunite one last time in new DC movie
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake studio reportedly cutting ties with flailing corporate overlord Embracer in $500 million deal
- After five years away, legendary anime One-Punch Man returns with a brutal season 3 trailer that teases Saitama’s ultimate showdown
- Helldivers 2's first balance patch is coming, dev responds to meta-weary fans tired of "underperforming" guns and stratagems
- Critical Role really wants you to break their upcoming TTRPG, Daggerheart
- Final Fantasy rhythm game literally unplayable on Feb 29 as Square Enix apparently didn't account for leap years
- The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon season 2 is set to premiere a *lot* sooner than we expected
- The PS5 Slim is now cheaper than ever - and comes with Spider-Man 2 for free
- Guy Ritchie is making a spin-off show from one of America's best crime drama series
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director says it's just like the original JRPG in a key way: "We've reached for something that was never possible before today's technology"
- Homelander High-Tops, anyone? The Boys teases season 4 plot point with another perfect Trump parody
- Fantastic Four theory suggests Loki is the key to understanding why we've not seen the group in the MCU yet
- Deadpool 3 confirms it will feature one of the weirdest-ever X-Men characters
- New Netflix movie features the biggest superhero you’ve never heard of and anime’s answer to Grogu – and it’s finally got a release date
- The Omen prequel star says "it’s about f***ing time" women dominate the horror genre
- A woman is turned into a chicken nugget in new trailer for Netflix's strangest K-drama of 2024
- Move over, X-Men '97! The head writer on Spider-Man: The Animated series is keen to do a comeback show too
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth didn't always end where the original JRPG's most heart-wrenching twist occurs, but it soon became obvious that it's the "best turning point in the story"
- Wizards of the Coast wanted a lion upskirt for MTG Modern Horizons 3 (seriously)
- Helldivers 2 player claims they've found mechs and AI soldier reinforcements buried in game files
- The Batman’s Paul Dano explains how he tackled his weirdest role yet in a new Netflix sci-fi movie: a giant alien spider
- An adaptation of a beloved manga could be the biggest anime of this spring as it sets release date with new trailer
- "Malevelon Creek was literally an inside job": Helldivers 2 grunts in pieces after learning a real-life D&D game master is beating their asses in the Galactic War
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem sequel confirms release date – though it's still a long way off
- Work on The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 3 has already begun – and season 2 is coming this year
- Amid nearly 700 layoffs at EA, Mass Effect 5 reportedly remains in pre-production as BioWare focuses on Dragon Age Dreadwolf
- AMD’s efforts to fix HDMI 2.1 have been shot down - here’s why I think PC gamers should stick with DisplayPort
- Modder confirms Stardew Valley's 1.6 update won't break the beloved community mod project that's been adding new NPCs, locations, and more to the farming sim for the past 5 years
- Years after Liam Neeson joked it might "finish his career", The Naked Gun reboot sets a release date
- Pokemon Legends Z-A sleuths are using fashion history and Gen 6's French-inspired setting to work out exactly when the new game is set
- Exclusive: Discworld TTRPG in the works by studio behind Fallout wargames
- February 28
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- Grant Morrison teases first work with All-Star Superman co-creator Frank Quitely since 2015
- EA is laying off 670 employees, sunsetting games, and canceling "development of future licensed IP" including Respawn's Star Wars FPS
- As GTA 6 enters final development stretch, Rockstar is bringing its developers back to the office 5 days a week for "security" and "productivity"
- MMO community celebrates beloved player's release from hell after a truly filthy 2,500-hour Old School RuneScape grind: "I'm astounded at the sheer willpower"
- Marvel confirms Magneto is one of its deadliest villains, with thousands of deaths on his hands
- With Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth finally upon us, producer and Zelda fan Yoshinori Kitase says he can at last finish Tears of the Kingdom
- Helldivers 2 escort missions are out of control, but we're in this together so the community's desperately trying to help their fellow recruits stay alive
- Amanda Waller turns up the heat on the Titans - and a new artist is on the way
- Ghostbusters 4 cast and director already have ideas for more sequels: "We know what the next stories are going to be"
- Horror movie with near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score gets a first trailer, and it looks like A24’s modern-day answer to Poltergeist
- After turning the Switch into a massive emulator, Nintendo files lawsuit implying emulators are "unlawful" and only good for piracy
- Stardew Valley fans are debating whether update 1.6 will introduce an island filled with raccoons, and I hope they're right
- 30-year Tekken veteran explains why your favorite games all have microtransactions now: "If we do nothing, the game will simply stop running in a few months"
- As Helldivers 2 draws Metal Gear Solid 5 comparisons, Obsidian RPG master Josh Sawyer says "more games should just directly copy stuff that feels good"
- Shogun release schedule: when is episode 3 out on Disney Plus and Hulu?
- Dune 2 director Denis Villeneuve explains why there is a big focus on his "secret weapon" Zendaya's Chani in the sequel, honoring Frank Herbert's original intent
- G.I. Joe comic Duke introduces - and then immediately kills off - a classic character
- Dark Souls speedrun record considered unbeatable for 3 years gets absolutely smashed thanks to a Silent Hill fan and the last weapon anyone expected
- Adam Sandler gets why the director of his new Netflix sci-fi wanted his character to have "zero Adam Sandler" in it
- Gamescent uses AI to let you smell the blood of your enemies right from your couch
- Oops, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's physical edition discs have shipped with a massive printing error in Japan
- Pokemon fans use Mega Evolutions and French history to uncover Legends Z-A starters, and I'm sold
- Saint Maud director says her new romance thriller Love Lies Bleeding has unexpected parallels to the horror movie
- A year of surprise hits continues as Balatro beats the peak player count of its greatest roguelike rival and becomes one of the highest-rated Steam games of all time
- Pokemon Legends Z-A was hinted at in Arceus a full 2 years ago, and barely anyone noticed
- First look at upcoming reboot of cult horror The Crow features an unrecognizable Pennywise star Bill Skarsgård
- From Luke vs Vader to Anakin vs Obi-Wan, Star Wars fans are debating the best lightsaber duels in the saga
- Guardians Of The Galaxy star Dave Bautista would return to the MCU, under one condition
- Scream directors' new vampire horror Abigail is so bloody, they spent the majority of the shoot apologizing to the actors
- This Pokemon card problem has finally been fixed after 25 years
- First trailer for Twilight and Barbarian star's new horror movie promises a freaky folklore frightfest
- Call of Duty: Black Ops legends reunite to make an "intimate," character-focused new game that sounds absolutely nothing like Call of Duty
- Netflix prices are expected to rise again this year – despite recent cost increases
- Malevelon Creek, Helldivers 2's most infamous planet, has been lost to the robots - but players are already fighting to retake the world they've dubbed "space Vietnam"
- Netflix's new #1 movie with divisive Rotten Tomatoes score has everyone losing their minds over a shocking final twist
- More than 3 years after it was announced, a new anime movie from the studio behind Death Note gets an intriguing teaser
- Netflix adaptation of hit manga series, from the director of one of the best zombie movies ever made, gets a new look and release date
- This X-Men arcade machine has me hyped for the cartoon’s revival
- Sydney Sweeney's new R-rated horror movie features her "most unhinged" performance yet according to director
- My most-anticipated city-builder gets pushed to its limits with this 20,000-construction build that took 32 hours to complete
- Jar Jar Binks actor teases role in mystery Star Wars game project: "Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in"
- New look at animated Batman movie reveals a cool, fresh take on the beloved DC hero
- Dune 2 director Denis Villeneuve is "very proud" of Timothée Chalamet's transformative performance in the sci-fi sequel
- Reacher star Alan Ritchson was told the role of Thor in the MCU was his to lose, but he didn’t take it seriously
- The Last of Us director says he doesn't have many games "at this scale" left in him, and God of War's Cory Barlog feels the same way
- Can’t find Shogun on Disney Plus? Here’s how to change your profile age settings
- Nearly 7 years later, we finally have a new look at the follow-up to two of the greatest, darkest platformers of all time
- Young gamer lists rare copy of NES Zelda hoping for "something like $15,000 or $20,000," sells it at auction for $288,000 after scrupulous eBay users informed him "what I had"
- February 27
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- Nintendo takes Switch emulator Yuzu to court in major lawsuit, alleging it fueled 1 million illegal downloads of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom before release
- 17 years and 7 movies later, Paranormal Activity is finally getting a game, and it's from the creators of 2022's scariest horror game
- Undemocratic Helldivers 2 players off the hook as dev sets the record straight, confirming XP farmers aren't helping the Automatons win
- "The biggest revolution in gaming in decades" is a $180 AI-powered fart box that makes your room smell of blood, gunfire, explosions, and – seriously – "clean air"
- Palworld players up in arms about new breeding limitations, dev says "we will roll this back, but it will take a day or two"
- FromSoftware's Hidetaka Miyazaki wants to make more games as big as Elden Ring: "If I am allowed, I want to try"
- Dune 2 star Stellan Skarsgård says it's always easier playing a villain - "don't show any empathy and then you end up with a psychopath"
- Pokemon Day deal brings new Temporal Forces booster box to its lowest ever price
- Co-op RPG 13 years in the making is a gorgeous tribute to SNES classics and finally, officially out this month with a bonus roguelike mode
- Pokemon Legends: Z-A reveal trailer hints at a Nintendo Switch 2 release
- Even "high-level" Elden Ring veterans will have a tough time in the DLC thanks to unique Sekiro-like difficulty scaling
- Fans are going nuts over Redwall-style MTG set, Bloomburrow
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth countdown - release date, time, and everything you need to know for launch
- Palworld devs "apologize for inadvertently fixing a bug" that was apparently intentionally left in the survival game so players could have fun with it
- Dune 2 star Stellan Skarsgård couldn't wait to work with Austin Butler on the sequel and praises his "deliciously evil" performance
- Pokemon Legends: Z-A has got fans celebrating the X and Y sequel we never got: "Pokemon Z is real, we just needed to wait a decade"
- Move over Astarion, MTG Outlaws of Thunder Junction has another pointy-eared bad boy for me to fawn over
- Baldur's Gate 3 and Final Fantasy 16 stars will host the Future Games Show Spring Showcase 2024
- Pokemon Legends Z-A is "set entirely within Lumiose City" so don't expect to explore all of the Kalos region
- One of Netflix's best movies was initially axed by Disney – and now it's a fan favorite after a limited free release on YouTube
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director wants the Remake dev team to stay together even after Part 3: "I do really hope to continue to foster this type of environment and grow"
- Contagion, Mars Attacks, and... The Brave Little Toaster are just some of the scariest flicks that aren't horror movies, according to film fans
- From young Obi-Wan to Baylan Skoll, fans share their wish list for season 2 of one of the most underrated Star Wars shows
- Resident Evil 4 Remake devs were convinced it would be delayed because of tech issues: "I've never seen bugs like this"
- Here are all the entries in the Pokemon Legends: Z-A Pokedex
- New Pokemon TCG Pocket game feels like Nintendo's version of Marvel Snap
- PlayStation cancels several unannounced projects amid heavy layoffs and a studio closure: "Sometimes, great ideas don't become great games"
- Pokemon Legends Z-A launches in 2025 with the return of Mega Evolutions
- Game of Thrones creators say Cillian Murphy's underrated sci-fi movie Sunshine was inspiration for their new Netflix show
- Sony lays off 900 people, with reductions at Spider-Man, The Last of Us, and Horizon studios
- Persona 3 Reload boasts complex turn-based RPG combat and so much more
- I can't get enough of this retro hot-swappable keyboard - and it's never been cheaper
- Stardew Valley has sold 30 million copies, and its creator says it's "thriving more than ever"
- Everything announced at the Pokemon Presents
- Ms. Marvel designer Jamie McKelvie returns with "stylish, supernatural suspense thriller" One For Sorrow
- Helldivers 2 is so wholesome that a single notorious team-killer called Gantz the Demon is being put on blast by the community
- Palworld's latest patch obliterates the survival game's best gold-farming method, sending min-maxers straight back to the drawing board
- Godzilla Minus One isn't "a direct response" to Oppenheimer, says director – but he'd love to make a film that is one day
- The Last of Us star responds to homophobic Bill and Frank backlash: "It's a love story, you a-hole"
- Star Wars spin-off star says new series The Acolyte will "honor" but "challenge" ideas about the Force
- Christopher Nolan explains why he's "plagued" by the most famous line in The Dark Knight
- Disney Plus announces surprise debut for a hugely popular manga adaptation that may as well be called John Wick: The Anime
- Ghostbusters star Paul Rudd was worried he'd crash the iconic Ecto-1 car while filming the upcoming sequel Frozen Empire
- Despite Marvel's Spider-Man 2's ending, Peter Parker's voice actor doesn't think we've seen the last of his character
- The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live star "bullied everybody" into including *that* big moment in episode 1
- Yoko Taro follows up Nier 3 frenzy he sparked with another tease pointing toward his mobile game that's due to shut down next month
- One of Netflix's best shows is getting a surprise second season with an A-list cast
- Road House stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Conor McGregor respond to director's premiere boycott of the new movie
- Dune 2 director says "there is absolutely a desire" for a third film, but he won't rush
- 3 days before Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth launches, its 4-year-old predecessor makes a confusing change to Aerith's final line and no one knows why
- Former UFC champion Conor McGregor explains why he rejected multiple movie offers before Road House
- February 26
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- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director threatens "close to 30 minigames" in the massive JRPG, including a card game so in-depth it had its own nerd club within the dev team
- Marvel is giving away "Must-Have" free comics featuring Spider-Man, Deadpool, Ms. Marvel, and more
- Oh no, here I go again: Genshin Impact dev's new-again action RPG Honkai Impact 3rd gets Part 2 release this week
- Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts veterans have a slick new action-RPG coming this year, and it's now confirmed for a global release
- Larian finally breaks silence, confirms "way over" 10 million people have played Baldur's Gate 3
- Stardew Valley update 1.6 is coming next month, ConcernedApe confirms: "Now, back to the grind"
- Skyrim diehard claims to have the RPG's strongest unmodded character after grinding to level 1,337 by spamming Illusion spells for 43 hours
- Game of Thrones creators wanted their new Netflix sci-fi series to "feel different in many, many ways" to the fantasy epic
- Helldivers 2 avoided PvP to reduce toxicity, so of course some players are being toxic anyway by fighting over shared resources and team-killing to steal weapons
- After 27 years, a Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth book has reignited efforts to solve a mystery that's been lingering since the original JRPG
- Palworld tycoon has kept the survival game running "since launch" some 900 hours ago to farm a million gold off a honey farm: "Almost scared to look at the hours played"
- Jake Gyllenhaal says the fights in Road House are unlike anything seen on screen before
- One of 2024's most anticipated horror sequels finally gets a promising update, as director teases "weird idea" for fourth movie
- After T-Pain reveals he's working on GTA 6, rapper Schoolboy Q teases his involvement in the soundtrack
- The Simpsons former showrunner's favorite deleted scene involves Moleman and a briefcase of embezzled money
- Jake Gyllenhaal and Conor McGregor are ready to rumble in these exclusive Road House images
- Diablo 4 player bags a perfect roll on an ultra-rare Ancestral Unique bow estimated at 1-in-175K odds, declares it's "still crap"
- Dragon's Dogma 2 director on giving players a fighting chance against the RPG's giant enemies: "You have to have ideas for gameplay that goes beyond basic one-to-one combat"
- The studio that somehow improved on Half-Life with Black Mesa teases beta tests for its next game
- Baldur's Gate 3 players realize they can kill one of the RPG's most canonically powerful characters, all because he's missing a bunch of D&D spells
- AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE arrives tomorrow for $549, and it could be my new favorite 4K GPU
- Pokemon Presents February 2024 time – How to watch the Pokemon Day stream
- The co-creator of American Horror Story and Netflix's Dahmer announces surprise new horror series with cryptic teaser
- MSI Claw is set to arrive next month, but UK shoppers can pre-order the Steam Deck rival now
- Venom 3 star teases "wild ride" as filming for the sequel comes to an end
- Malignant and M3GAN writer lines up next horror movie project
- The Boys showrunner teases season 4 "finishing touches" with sneak peek of final episodes
- Dune 2 director Denis Villeneuve responds to Christopher Nolan comparing the film to his "favorite Star Wars movie"
- As if the year of the JRPG couldn't get better, Bravely Default 2's producer is teasing something new
- Avatar: The Last Airbender star thought he auditioned for James Cameron's Avatar: "I thought I was going to be blue"
- Dune 2 gets high praise from the author’s son: "It’s gratifying to see my father's story told with such great care"
- As Helldivers 2 players lose ground to Automatons, attention turns to the XP farmers not helping: "We are handing bots planets like candy on Halloween"
- Vin Diesel says he's working on the "grand finale" of the Fast and Furious franchise
- The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live is seemingly setting up a Morgan crossover
- Helldivers 2 dev now focused on improvements and returning to its "original plan" after the shooter celebrates its first weekend without server issues
- "Please stop that": Baldur's Gate 3 lead speaks out against "threats and toxicity against our devs and community teams" as the RPG gears up for long-awaited mod support
- Marvel's Fantastic Four star Pedro Pascal breaks silence on "unbelievable" Reed Richards casting
- Pedro Pascal says filming The Last of Us season 2 "feels strangely brand new"
- Co-creator of one of Apple TV Plus's best sci-fi shows steps down over season 3 budget clash
- Game of Thrones showrunners confirm they wanted a trilogy of movies to end the series – but HBO didn't
- An Across the Spider-Verse detail no one noticed until now reveals how Miles could escape after *that* cliffhanger
- Nintendo Switch 2 reportedly delayed to March 2025 to hinder scalping
- Superman’s new suit gets a glowing response from Lois Lane star: "I was blown away"
- Nier: Automata director teases third main-series game by dunking on its publisher
- Andor star Stellan Skarsgård says the "Star Wars show for grown-ups" will end on a high and hints at season 2 release date
- The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live episode 1 gives fans the comic-accurate Rick they've been (morbidly) waiting for
- February 25
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- Elden Ring director can't stop making poison swamps, says Shadow of the Erdtree's one was a point of "introspection and reflection for me"
- Elden Ring DLC reveal ignites a fierce lore war, with some RPG scholars convinced the big bad Messmer was foreshadowed for years
- Speedrunner sacrifices precious time to perform Alan Wake 2's musical number during their run
- Helldivers 2 servers are being raised to support 800k players to tackle long queues: "How crazy is this message from a studio of 100?"
- February 24
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- This indie Metroidvania sequel is looking just as incredible (and melancholy) after a 3 year gap
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director's respect for the original JRPG's source material was influenced by a Disney live-action remake
- Nier Automata's 2B goes viral once again thanks to a fighting game collab that, like Yoko Taro's RPG, makes her skirt explode
- Elden Ring director says FromSoft doesn't "set out to make a lot of these games and characters funny," it just sort of happens
- Mario Kart smashes into The Finals and Mirror's Edge in this bloodthirsty sports game
- February 23
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- Helldivers 2, burdened by its own success yet again, calls out Discord for blocking its community manager for "sending too many DMs too fast"
- Baldur's Gate 3 dev still floored by the RPG's sustained popularity: "644,205 average daily players in the last 7 days is still so insane to me this far from launch"
- 40 years after the cult classic film, The Toxic Avenger gets a comic book reboot
- If you like Palworld and Pokemon games, I'm once again asking you to try Monster Hunter Stories as the slept-on creature taming RPG gets a well-deserved remaster
- Live-action Naruto movie is officially in the works from Marvel's Shang-Chi director
- This manga got 6 amazing chapters and then vanished for over a year, and it's finally coming back next month
- How does FromSoftware release AAA games so frequently? Elden Ring boss says "we are just blessed with a great staff" that the studio empowers and retains
- Call of Duty Mobile and Pokemon Unite dev lift the lid on Age of Empires Mobile, and how they plan to bring the beloved strategy series "to a broader audience on a mobile platform"
- Marvel has Deadpool and Wolverine fever and they're counting on readers catching it too with yet another comic crossover
- You can finally play Doom on a $2,000 lawn mower
- Indie Soulslike walks into a boss fight with FromSoft by announcing the same release date as Elden Ring's DLC: "We are no longer Maidenless"
- How many episodes are in The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live?
- New Netflix true crime show is closing in on #1 spot and is "one of the scariest documentaries" viewers have seen
- Helldivers 2's engine was "discontinued" 6 years ago: "Our crazy engineers had to do everything, with no support"
- This cozy farming sim answers an important question: What if Stardew Valley was set on the high seas?
- Marvel theory speculates how Fantastic Four might go down – and gives Doctor Doom a fascinating backstory
- Baldur's Gate 3's Honour Mode world record drops under 19 minutes as two top RPG speedrunners battle it out
- Helldivers 2 players are pushing back against 'meta' builds because they just want to have fun
- One of 2021's best JRPGs escapes the Switch with a Persona 5 Royal-style expansion in Shin Megami Tensei 5: Vengeance, with updates that will eat 80 hours of my life
- Jake Gyllenhaal’s Road House is on the cover of the new issue of Total Film
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles get not one but five new comics to celebrate their 40th anniversary
- Fallout: New Vegas director reveals the RPG's most twisted Vault was inspired by the Haunting of Hill House's author
- Steven Spielberg reveals which of his movies he thinks is his best
- FromSoftware and Elden Ring head Hidetaka Miyazaki doesn't feel pressured by competing Soulslikes: "Players seem to enjoy our games"
- The Harry Potter TV show is coming to our TV screens in 2026 – and that’s just the beginning of "a decade of new stories"
- This actor's tweet has everyone convinced that Spider-Man will be in Invincible
- This is my go-to gaming laptop recommendation, and it's now under $1,000
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director says reaching over 90 on Metacritic was "one of our goals" as the RPG sequel's review scores surpass Remake
- The Purge 6 star claims it'll be the last in the hit horror series as he confirms its script is finished
- The Walking Dead star joins Arrow's Stephen Amell in Suits spin-off
- DC moves back to Wednesdays for new comic releases, and shares a gorgeous new Jim Lee cover for DC Versus Marvel
- League of Legends fighting game spin-off has such an odd title fans want the boring Project L codename to return
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth fans are getting cooked by the Junon demo's combat
- Steam's most wholesome dwarf game took a year to shift 500,000 copies, but its roguelike spin-off managed the same feat in just a week
- Minecraft star teases the "lifelike" nature of the movie – and hopes Jack Black will sing in it
- Baldur's Gate 3 fans in shambles as they realize the RPG's most notorious dungeon can be skipped with one of D&D's simplest spells
- Sam Raimi-produced action movie Boy Kills World has unveiled its first trailer, and it's giving us John Wick meets Squid Game vibes
- Helldivers 2 players hope for the best and prepare for the worst as CEO warns "we might still hit the limit" after devs raise server cap to 700K for the busy weekend
- James Gunn told Joe Manganiello to move on from playing Deathstroke again: "Let it go"
- Elden Ring wouldn't be the same without Dark Souls 2, says FromSoftware head Miyazaki
- After a 'Mixed' start on Steam, new survival game from Mass Effect and Dragon Age boss pulls out offline mode to win fans back
- Diablo challenger Last Epoch dips to Mixed reviews amid strained servers, but its founder thanks fans for "patience and kindness" anyway
- The Borderlands movie will kick off the "Borderlands Cinematic Universe"
- FromSoftware's devs don't like using "Souls series" to describe Elden Ring, Dark Souls, and Bloodborne
- February 22
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- Suicide Squad supremo Amanda Waller is close to achieving Absolute Power in DC’s next big event
- 25 years later, the story of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace is expanding
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's Metacritic rating is the series' highest in 23 years
- The Dead X-Men are prepared to give their lives again in #2 preview
- Miyazaki says Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree's map is "probably" bigger than Limgrave, but he also said the base RPG would take about 30 hours and it took me 125
- John Wick spin-off Ballerina starring Ana de Armas delayed by a year
- Uncle Scrooge goes all Thanos in new Marvel comic
- True Detective renewed for season 5 with Night Country creator Issa Lopez to return
- Temtem CEO says the MMO's audience expects "infinite content" even though "it is not feasible to continue" big updates at all, so the dev's making a new game instead
- As cries for an English version of Mother 3 intensify, the creator of the cult classic JRPG series tells fans to "talk to Nintendo"
- Baldur's Gate 3 dev pledges "robust, cross-platform plan" to add mod support to the RPG this year
- The debut game from former Doom Eternal and Witcher 3 devs is a co-op horror shooter with big Kojima energy
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's biggest competition as the best-reviewed game of 2024 is the roguelike deck builder darling of Steam Next Fest
- Meet the new Ultimates team, coming this summer
- James Gunn shares first photo of Superman: Legacy cast together and yes, Nicholas Hoult is bald as he takes on Lex Luthor
- The latest Nintendo Direct's graphics change has got Switch 2 hopefuls expecting some kind of announcement soon
- The Boys announces its season 4 release date the only way it knows how – with an f-bomb
- New Tomb Raider TTRPG lets you beat Lara Croft at her own game, but someone needs to check its characters are OK
- Avengers, Spider-Man, X-Men and all of Marvel's May 2024 solicitations revealed
- FromSoftware tried something new with Elden Ring's Shadow of the Erdtree: "We wanted to go more in-depth and bring a denser and richer level design"
- After 21 years trapped in a $300 GBA cart, one of the greatest cult classic platformers ever made is getting a modern re-release
- Before he joins Fantastic Four, Stranger Things’ Joseph Quinn has lined up a movie with one of the best sci-fi horror directors
- After a catch-'em-all MMO, TemTem dev reveals a co-op roguelike that looks like Pokemon meets Vampire Survivors
- Netflix’s Avatar cast explain why their live-action characters are so much more than a "carbon copy" of the Nickelodeon series
- Sony just casually announced PSVR 2's biggest upgrade yet, and I'm ecstatic
- Action-RPG Last Epoch launches to rave reviews, over 162,000 concurrent Steam players, and glowing comparisons to Diablo
- Mystique and Destiny get married in this year's Marvel Pride special
- Dwayne Johnson said he wants to "make films that matter" and next up is a wrestling biopic about Ric Flair
- Pennywise actor Bill Skarsgard sets horror movie return as The Crow reboot gets release date – and it's sooner than you think
- The Superman: Legacy logo has been revealed – and it could be an intriguing comics Easter egg
- Gearbox co-founder calls unannounced Borderlands game "the greatest thing we've ever done"
- Uncharted's Mark Wahlberg offers a surprisingly positive update on the video game movie's sequel
- Marvel's Spider-Man 2's new suits are getting Barbie and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air comparisons from fans
- Elden Ring's Shadow of the Erdtree is FromSoftware's "largest expansion" ever, beating even Dark Souls 3 and Bloodborne DLC
- The next live-action Star Wars show gets a reported release date – and it's very soon
- Dune 2 becomes Denis Villeneuve's highest rated movie with a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score
- Helldivers 2's new patch kicks the AFK players obstructing democracy after they've been idle for 15 minutes
- Elden Ring's banging Shadow of the Erdtree trailer has sent the open-world RPG straight back to the top of Steam's top sellers chart
- February 21
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- As layoffs batter the industry, FromSoftware boss Hidetaka Miyazaki says now is the time "for us to continue to grow and continue to cultivate this talent"
- After 15 years, the cult classic Wii diving series Endless Ocean is coming back on Switch, and this time it's got 30-player co-op
- At long last, the cult classic action-RPG Kingdom Come Deliverance is releasing on Switch next month
- Adventure Time returns with new comics in 2025
- Fear the Walking Dead star responds to Kang casting rumors, says he's been in talks with Marvel for "years"
- FromSoftware's Hidetaka Miyazaki can't confirm a Bloodborne remake, but he's "very happy" so many people want one
- Sea of Thieves officially hits PS5 in 2 months
- Xbox and Nintendo are finally allowing more Rare games on Switch, but 3 obvious N64 classics are still missing
- It's been 14 years but Mickey Mouse and Oswald are back in a "faithful" remake of one of my favourite Wii games
- First Borderlands trailer sees Cate Blanchett and Kevin Hart take us on a treacherous, Mad Max-style treasure hunt
- Elden Ring 2 after Shadow of the Erdtree? Hidetaka Miyazaki says "we don't have any current plans to make a second DLC or a sequel," but the "possibility" is there
- For hardcore Elden Ring players going into Shadow of the Erdtree, director Hidetaka Miyazaki promises optional bosses as brutal as Malenia
- Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree brings a new map called the Land of Shadow, and Hidetaka Miyazaki says it's at least as big as Limgrave from the base RPG
- The Ferris Bueller’s Day Off remake from the makers of Cobra Kai finally finds a director
- Dune 2 stars became "absolutely fluent" in the Fremen's fictional language, says director Denis Villeneuve
- Dying Light the Board Game is coming to Kickstarter with a UV board, parkour structures, and tiny Volatiles
- Hi-Fi Rush is the first Xbox exclusive to cross the divide to PS5
- Spawn marks its 350th issue with a new ruler of Hell and big changes to the record-breaking comic's status quo
- Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time looks like the RPG take on Animal Crossing: New Horizons that I've been waiting for
- Elden Ring is getting yet another swamp in the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC, but surely this one won't have poison in it
- Oppenheimer actor says he "begged" The Fantastic Four director to cast him as The Thing: "Obviously that didn't happen"
- The Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree Collector's Edition is $250 and comes with 18 inches of Messmer
- Elden Ring's Shadows of the Erdtree "expansion" looks sequel-sized, and it's got the $40 price tag to match – two-thirds of the base RPG
- Avengers 5 will no longer be called The Kang Dynasty as Marvel reportedly looks to "minimize or excise" Kang from the MCU
- The Bad Batch season 3 reviews say the Star Wars show has saved its best until last
- Parasite director and Robert Pattinson's new movie finally gets release date just months after indefinite delay
- This McDonald's anime from the makers of Naruto is the wildest thing you'll see today
- Zendaya is playing a sexy, dangerous game in new trailer for next movie from Call Me By Your Name director
- Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection is heading to Nintendo Switch, and it's bringing playable Kit Fisto with it
- After 18 years, Nintendo's JRPG cult classic Mother 3 is back – on Switch too, but only in Japan
- This Elden Ring fan pledged to sell their bone marrow if a DLC trailer didn't arrive this month, and now they've "won"
- Avatar: The Last Airbender's auditions were so secretive, one actor's test scene was set in a bank
- Nintendo confirms 2 of the 4 Xbox games going multiplatform: Grounded and Pentiment are coming to Switch, and soon
- Beloved anime series with near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score announces season 3 release date with new trailer
- Survival game fans think Nightingale has "the weirdest character creator ever," and they're not sure if that's a compliment or not
- Elden Ring DLC trailer live coverage - All the details on Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree
- Sonic star Ben Schwartz gives promising update on the upcoming third movie
- Defeated Hollow Knight Silksong fans are keeping expectations in check for the Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase: "I have run out of clown makeup long ago"
- Rogue One director to helm new Jurassic World movie after Bullet Train filmmaker drops out
- Everything announced at the Nintendo Partner Direct
- Helldivers 2 players think they’re getting mechs soon, as well as a faction from the original game
- Subscribe to SFX and get a pair of earbuds worth £69.99
- With ace Bloodborne and Dark Souls expansions in FromSoftware's back pocket, Elden Ring fans would like to remind you that it doesn't miss with DLC
- Elden Ring's Shadow of the Erdtree DLC release date finally confirmed after a leak
- February 20
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- Long-awaited Elden Ring DLC trailer will debut 3 minutes of Shadow of the Erdtree footage tomorrow
- Xbox isn't giving up on discs yet, Phil Spencer says: "Our strategy does not hinge on people moving all-digital"
- Marvel wants you to take a big bite out of Blood Hunt with a whopping 59 issues including 8 full limited series and 6 one-shots
- Helldivers 2 boss says matchmaking is "defo infinite amounts better" after latest patch fixes more bugs and crashes
- Scarlet Witch's ongoing title gets un-canceled (sort of) with a new #1 this summer
- I was already on board with Sand Land's open world and gorgeous Dragon Ball-style art, and that was before I knew the action-RPG also has anime Animal Crossing and Mad Max Kart
- The personal note Christopher Nolan left for Cillian Murphy on his Oppenheimer script is the most wholesome thing you'll see today
- After years in his little brother's shadow, a young Tetris pro has emerged to obliterate the game's world record score
- This "impossible" Yu-Gi-Oh speedrun can take three days to complete and only has a 3% chance of being viable, and after 25 years only 100 people have done it in under 9 hours
- Blade Runner TV show sets director, gets filming update – which is very soon
- Gorgeous concept art from unmade Batman Beyond film looks like Batman's answer to the Spider-Verse movies
- Cult roguelike dev says multiplayer "isn't off the table" after its recent sex update
- Helldivers 2 player believes in the democratic power of parkour to salvage a mission almost doomed to failure
- A Deadpool 3 theory about the TVA may explain a key moment in the trailer
- Assassin's Creed Mirage's new update finally adds permadeath mode
- Sokka actor responds to character change backlash in Netflix’s live-action Avatar: "He's still the Sokka we know and love"
- Madame Web gets the perfect review from The Haunting of Hill House creator Mike Flanagan
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle relying on Nazis is a "creative lapse," says director of 32-year-old adventure game
- James Bond director to helm four Beatles biopics – and they're all releasing in the same year
- New Lara Croft image is a "unified vision" of the character and isn't how she'll look in future Tomb Raider games
- Nine years after its announcement, we’ve finally got a first look at the Borderlands movie – featuring Cate Blanchett as a game-accurate Lilith
- I am begging you to watch more than 23 seconds of the trailer for my most-anticipated strategy game of the year
- Halo 3 player discovers every single rock in one of the game's most memorable levels is the same rock: "I can't keep this knowledge to myself anymore"
- Netflix's new #1 movie is the perfect follow-up to Oppenheimer
- Crucial's new Gen 5 SSD is compatible with PS5, but there's a catch
- Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase – when and where to catch the stream
- Massive Fallout mod recruits voice talent from Baldur's Gate 3, A Plague Tale: Requiem, Final Fantasy 16, and more
- Disney and Hulu's next big show just got a perfect 100% Rotten Tomatoes score
- The most controversial comics imprint of all time is back from the dead at Oni Press
- Stephen King says the new Salem’s Lot movie is full of "old-school horror filmmaking" and has no idea why Warner Bros. is holding it back
- 15-year-old PlayStation shooter gets surprise new Trophies for PS4 and PS5
- Tank controls are fine, but Tomb Raider Remastered's modern camera and controls are proving problematic
- Grogu and Mandalorian join Star Wars: Shatterpoint, but I'm honestly more excited about another warband
- Netflix's short and sweet stop-motion Pokémon series is finally getting more episodes
- Netflix has put one of its best movies on YouTube for free for one week only – so you best be quick
- Helldivers 2 player tinkers with the epic loading theme, and it somehow sounds even better
- True Detective season 4's finale features a direct reference to one of its biggest horror influences
- Apple's hit sci-fi show is finally set to resume filming following production delays
- Chickens ride axolotl dinosaurs into battle in new Warhammer 40K reveal
- Someone finally hacked the PlayStation Portal, and it runs PSP games
- Helldivers 2 director says it's fine to play the shooter later if you can't afford it now: "It's worth waiting until the servers can support the capacity"
- Pokemon Presents set for next week as fans hope for Nintendo Switch Online finally getting the Generation 1 RPGs
- February 19
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- Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase confirmed for this week, following Xbox multiplatform announcement
- A collection of every major Fallout game spanning 27 years of the RPG - complete with a replica mini-nuke - launches this Spring, but only on PC
- Excited by that Deadpool and Wolverine trailer? Boy, have Marvel got the ideal new comic for you…
- 27 years later, this cult sci-fi film is getting a new lease of life thanks to Helldivers 2
- After a $2m kickstarter on a fully-funded game, the strategy game from former Warcraft and StarCraft devs is now looking for even more funding
- Helldivers 2's player-made comedy comes from the lead's many years playing D&D: "It always ends with us crying of laughter"
- One of Netflix’s most loved crime shows is getting a second season despite being released just last year
- Dell could be the key to grabbing an RTX 4090 this Presidents Day
- This soulslike RPG inspired by Italian folklore channels Lies of P and The Witcher 3, and it lets you steal your enemies' faces
- When Harry Met Sally originally had an unhappy ending – until the director met his wife
- Unknown to them before joining, Helldivers 2's titular democracy enthusiasts are frozen and thawed between missions and have a 2-minute life expectancy
- Watchmen co-creator Alan Moore's final comics will be published in October - in a grimoire
- The Aang actor in Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender has watched the original Nickelodeon series 26 times
- I just scrolled Best Buy's entire Presidents Day sale - these are the 5 gaming deals I'd actually buy
- Helldivers 2 player discovers a helmet that quietly grants bonuses for movement speed and stamina
- Channelling Helldivers 2, this Stranger Things-style survival MMO smashes through open beta audience limits, even after doubling its capacity to 50,000 players
- Xbox Cloud Gaming "should" finally allow you to stream games you own this year
- Fool Me Once author and Hunger Games star's new show gets first look
- Star Wars’ Daisy Ridley turns action hero in first look at new thriller from Casino Royale director
- 22 years later, one of BioWare's D&D RPG alternatives to Baldur's Gate gets a community patch held together with "copious amounts of adhesive"
- Pedro Pascal reveals the “psychotic” method he uses to learn his lines, and it's pretty strange to say the least
- X-Men star to lead an epic new Dracula origin movie from Léon director
- Terminator star Linda Hamilton says that joining Stranger Things has "ruined" the show for her
- Madame Web is the first time a Marvel movie hasn't opened at number 1 at the box office since 2015's Fantastic Four
- Looks like we could be getting a Dragon's Dogma 2 demo very soon
- As Helldivers 2 servers stretch beyond their limits, players beg Arrowhead to kick the AFK troopers taking up space
- Former Halo devs say they pitched dozens of spin-off games, including a rumored ODST game similar to Helldivers 2
- Massive Presidents Day Nintendo Switch deals hit Super Mario Bros. Wonder and RPG
- Star Wars Jedi video game actor says he wants to play his character in live-action, but only if it "continues the story or character in some way"
- One of Amazon’s most popular series has nearly wrapped filming its third season, months after it last aired
- Deadpool 3's trailer has been recreated in Lego and it already has the director's seal of approval
- Your D&D party could be official Lego minifigures soon
- Persona 3 Reload finally gets Portable's beloved and missing female protagonist thanks to some very dedicated modders
- New Netflix thriller with 100% on Rotten Tomatoes is being called Dexter meets Death Note
- One Mortal Kombat actor confirms the return of his iconic character in the sequel
- One of the biggest Skyrim mods ever is 10 years into development and still going
- Death Stranding 2's Norman Reedus says the sequel is more violent than its predecessor: "I feel like this one has a bit more violence in it"
- February 18
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- Helldivers 2 quickly overtakes Destiny 2 and Starfield to become the biggest Steam launch from PlayStation or Xbox Studios
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's Barret actor on playing the original JRPG: "This is awesome - I've never seen a Black character in an RPG!"
- Baldur's Gate 3 player "invented an exploit" to somehow beat Honour Mode by only casting the RPG's worst spell 2,469 times
- Oppenheimer dominates the 2024 BAFTA Awards ahead of Poor Things
- After overwhelming success, Helldivers 2 raises player cap to 450,000 to improve server stability: "We are still struggling to keep up"
- February 17
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- In a community-wide RPG scavenger hunt, Baldur's Gate 3 players share the things they're convinced most people have missed
- Red Dead Redemption 2 player shaves Arthur's head, has him drink 100 hair tonics just before a cutscene, then watches his beard and hair explode in barely a second
- It's not just you, Palworld players keep accidentally blowing up their bases with rocket launchers: "I thought I had my grapple out"
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 is "in the same situation today" as Rebirth was when development on the first game ended
- Mass Effect veteran says Valheim showed him what an "accessible" survival game could look like in a genre defined by games like Ark and Rust
- February 16
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- A new Avengers team forms, Morbius returns, and much more as Marvel adds 9 more Blood Hunt tie-ins
- Dang, The Witcher 4 studio says its new IP "definitely is NOT a cosmic horror in feudal Japan," which is precisely what I was hoping it was
- The latest entry in the best-kept JRPG secret finally leaves Japan this year
- Sea of Thieves' rarest item meets its most unlucky player as server maintenance spells unfathomable tragedy: "If you didn't capture it, nobody would believe you"
- Reacher star Alan Ritchson "would absolutely love" to be the DCU's Batman
- Respawn's Star Wars FPS is reportedly a Mandalorian game, and it sounds like everything I wanted from Titanfall 3 and then some
- Switch 2: Nintendo reportedly targeting early 2025 release date
- Crash Bandicoot dev explains how the series kept its identity separate from Nintendo's 3D platformer: "When Mario 64 came out it shifted everybody's thinking"
- Limited-time Cyberpunk Red & Classic Megabundle means a tabletop trip to Night City has never been cheaper
- A major DC character is dead on the cover of Outsiders #7
- New horror movie Sting is giving us major Eight Legged Freaks meets Alien vibes
- "S**tposting is a blessing and a curse," say GTA 6 community mods in a futile bid to weed out silliness
- After releasing some of the best Metroidvanias in the business, Ori dev shows off its very different action RPG
- This cozy camper van survival game takes the best elements of The Sims and Stardew Valley and puts them on wheels
- Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and all of DC's May 2024 solicitations
- The creator of anticipated city-builder got their start by making one of the most iconic Skyrim mods
- Christopher Nolan would love to make a horror film, he just hasn't found an "exceptional idea" yet
- Nintendo has only missed a February Direct once in the past 12 years, and there's no reason to expect them to stop now whether or not you believe the leaks
- Juni Ba puts a cool, cartoony spin on Damian Wayne in new DC Black Label book The Boy Wonder
- Imaginary director explains how horror classic Poltergeist influenced the new Blumhouse movie
- On the heels of Alan Wake 2's success, Max Payne remakes and Control 2 are picking up the "development pace"
- Diablo 4 Rogue suffers another wardrobe malfunction, as this time their underwear gets nerfed
- This Lian Li standing desk could replace your gaming PC case and monitor, all while giving space age realness
- Exclusive Disney Lorcana reveal shows off a big change for Enchanted cards in Into the Inklands
- It's been 24 years, but the 'father' of the original Xbox says people are still worrying about the same things following new console tease
- Baldur's Gate 3 and Marvel's Spider-Man 2 win big at DICE Awards 2024
- Developer of legendary CRPG thinks the team behind the beloved hit is gone forever, and that the company "will forever stay a one game studio"
- First reactions to Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbender call it a "fun new take on a timeless classic"
- Yellowstone creator's next show adds Jon Hamm to the cast
- After a chaotic first week, Helldivers 2 director says the team is "completely exhausted" but "very, very pleased" with its success
- Next James Bond movie gets a disappointing update: "Nothing is happening yet"
- Skull and Bones' coolest feature - a hand-crafted Ship Wheel controller with a dedicated "Shanty Mode" button - isn't even real
- Dakota Johnson hasn't actually seen Madame Web yet, and we're guessing she probably never will
- Horror movie with a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score finally gets release date – and it's coming to streaming
- Former BioWare lead says his new survival game is only $30 because "there's only so many dollars to go around" in a competitive genre
- Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire director says the original cast will be "actual characters" rather than just cameos
- Ghostbusters 4 director promises fans that the sequel is "scary" as he teases new villain
- Timothée Chalamet teases "cautionary tale" of Paul Atreides in Dune 2 and how it could continue in Part 3
- MSI Claw struggles against Asus ROG Ally in early benchmarks, but don’t write the handheld off just yet
- Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey director responds to that 3% Rotten Tomatoes score, and teases Disney horror universe
- The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live showrunner explains how Jadis's long-planned arc informed the Rick and Michonne spin-off
- Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 6 is live now, with improved smooching, a long-awaited fix for party management, and hangovers
- Xbox boss Phil Spencer isn't ruling out Starfield ever coming to PS5
- Early Gladiator 2 footage has reportedly blown studio executives away
- Dune 2 reveals a surprise cast member at the world premiere: Anya Taylor-Joy
- Super Smash Bros Ultimate director says "work has finally come to an end" now that the Sora amiibo is here
- As developers attempt to "survive 2024", analyst says the industry's "gotta get to GTA 6 and hope"
- Elden Ring trademarks goes through "change of ownership" that sees FromSoftware fully own its magnum opus
- Netflix’s new sci-fi epic from the creators of Game of Thrones will feature a key difference from its original novel
- The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live says Rick and Michonne's potential reunion is inspired by "sweeping historical dramas"
- Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown gets high praise from director of her new Netflix movie: "We were very lucky to have her"
- Florence Pugh says her Dune 2 character is "one of the quietest characters" she has ever played
- February 15
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- This "spooky" indie RPG is actually dark as hell, and even though it's inspired by Zelda, Chrono Trigger, and Undertale I've never seen anything like it
- First Dune 2 reactions call it a "magnum opus" that ups the action and politics alike with "incredible" performances from Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya
- The Xbox Showcase will return in June, presumably over E3's dead body
- After buying many of the biggest publishers on PlayStation and Nintendo, Phil Spencer says Xbox is already one of the biggest publishers on PlayStation and Nintendo
- Marvel and Westworld stars' hit supernatural show announces supersized final season with new trailer
- Here's which Xbox games could be coming to PS5 and Switch, based on Phil Spencer's clues
- Xbox boss Phil Spencer believes exclusive games "are going to be a smaller and smaller part of the game industry" within the next decade
- Phil Spencer shuts down multiplatform concerns, says next-gen Xbox console will "respect the investments that people have made" in the platform
- Robert Downey Jr. plays multiple villains in new trailer for A24 comedy-drama from Oldboy director
- Delayed sequel to Gerard Butler's underrated 2020 disaster movie starts filming soon
- Xbox chiefs assure players "hardware is a critical component" of the business amid speculation that Microsoft could stop making consoles
- Microsoft teases Xbox Series X's successor, promising "the largest technical leap you will have ever seen in a hardware generation"
- 4 Xbox games are coming to other consoles, but Starfield and Indiana Jones aren't
- After 3 years of "a lot of painful work," first-time dev had no idea his game was one of the best-reviewed Steam releases of the year
- Dr. Strange is here for Matt Murdock's confession in a preview of Daredevil #6
- Another beloved Disney icon is getting the Lego treatment
- Disco Elysium studio has reportedly canceled a standalone expansion to the beloved RPG as potential layoffs loom
- Invincible season 2 part 2 trailer teases bloody fights, alien wars, and at least one funeral
- Move over Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell, the internet has crowned Godzilla and Kong as the new rom-com power couple
- Upcoming sci-fi RPG from Mass Effect veteran unveils its second companion - a sarcastic weapons expert with a "deep sense of loss"
- "And I took that personally": Baldur's Gate 3 speedrunner has her time beaten by an obscene margin and then takes back the world record one day later
- Madame Web star Dakota Johnson can’t name a single Tom Holland Spider-Man film, and that’s OK
- Xbox Podcast - everything announced at the Future of Xbox event
- Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom engineer creates tree-felling machine that I'd honestly kill to have in my favorite survival game
- Helldivers 2 players get the whole Discord locked down by pressing F to pay too much respect
- First trailer for X-Men ’97 is an action-packed, nostalgia-fueled treat for '90s kids
- The Tomb Raider Remastered trilogy was led by a fan who's spent the last 8 years working on an unofficial Tomb Raider game engine
- Helldivers 2 goes full "robot Vietnam" with new mission types against the horrible Automatons
- Paul Neary, legendary artist, inker, and Marvel UK editor, has died at 74
- Embracer Group quietly cancelled 29 unannounced games and shut 7 studios within six months last year
- Kong's gauntlet in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire has a surprisingly simple origin
- I need every MMO to take notes from Star Wars: The Old Republic, which just added 'Date Nights' so you can spend personal time with your favorite Sith Lord
- M3GAN 2 release date has been pushed back four months, and horror fans aren't too happy about it
- 5 years after its release, one of the biggest Stardew Valley mods hits 2 million downloads
- Win a Star Trek: Picard making-of book
- Christopher Nolan says the MCU helped keep movies alive after COVID: "Thank God for Marvel movies"
- Win Freaks vs The Reich on Blu-ray
- Terminator star Linda Hamilton says that appearing in Stranger Things is "different from anything else" in her career
- Baldur's Gate 3 patch 6 didn't arrive on Valentine's Day like everyone expected, and players are in shambles
- Netflix's new true crime thriller lands a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score
- A hidden TVA detail may reveal if Deadpool 3 takes place before Loki
- Expect more PlayStation games on PC as Sony reveals its plans "aggressive" work on multiplatform releases
- This Redwall-style spin on D&D is everything I didn't know I needed
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 prices are on the decline in Europe, but I’m still not seeing any bargains
- A convincing new fake Valve VR headset appeared last night - but it was all a joke that started at a furry convention
- New Joker 2 pictures show fresh look at Lady Gaga's Harley Quinn – and the first trailer is coming soon
- "From our family to yours": Pedro Pascal breaks silence on Fantastic Four casting by all but confirming the 1960s setting
- Five years after it was announced, Hollow Knight: Silksong devs assure rabid fans they are "still hard at work on the game"
- A 23 year-old cult classic pirate series has been revived as a free open-world RPG inspired by the best pirate game ever, and it's getting great Steam reviews
- February 14
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- The Midnight Sons return, Black Panther becomes a vampire, and much more in Marvel's Blood Hunt tie-ins
- After 14 years, one of the devs behind the "fourth-best shooter" of 2010 says it was perfectly positioned to be a cult classic
- Granblue Fantasy Relink is an early frontrunner for my GOTY after years of development hell, and the hit action RPG has now sold 1 million copies in 11 days
- Just when I think it can't get any cooler, the most underrated JRPG of 2022 gets a whole roguelike with a "completely unreasonable difficulty mode"
- Ahead of Xbox briefing, Microsoft lead reportedly told staff "every screen is an Xbox" and stressed ambitions to be the number one cross-platform gaming company
- "Palworld only really begins from here," says Pocketpair dev who once thought the megahit survival game would be doing great if it hit 50,000 players
- Actor behind Star Wars' most underrated villain "would give his eyes and teeth" to play the MCU's Doctor Doom
- Marvel's big Fantastic Four reveal features another team member: H.E.R.B.I.E
- After graphics complaints, the Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth demo is getting an update with visual improvements that'll come to the full game too
- Palworld dev says it's alright to stop playing: "If you're no longer playing Palworld, we still love you, and we hope you'll come back for round 2"
- Helldivers 2 will "never" add a PvP mode because the dev wants to "reduce toxic elements"
- The Sims 4 joins the likes of Baldur's Gate 3, Minecraft, and The Outer Worlds in adding vitiligo skin options
- Thunderbolts release date shifts due to Fantastic Four Valentine's Day announcement
- Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire trailer is packed with seriously epic action
- We may have just figured out Fantastic Four's big secret: it's set in the 1960s
- I dropped everything to play the free viral game that's suddenly matching Palworld and Persona 3 Reload as 2024's highest-rated Steam game, and you should too
- "On. Your. Knees": Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion fans in a frenzy as Larian shows off another of the RPG's improved kiss animations, this time with Gale
- As Overwatch 2 tries to shake things up with bigger bullets, players are struggling to actually tell the difference
- Marvel reveals Fantastic Four casting in most unhinged way as Stranger Things and Mission: Impossible stars join
- Helldivers 2 players discover that its lethal friendly fire also applies to enemies, and getting bugs to destroy each other is my kind of meta
- The Handmaid's Tale season 6 finally has a release window after strike delays
- After 12 years, Zelda speedrunners just made Ocarina of Time's most popular strategy "obsolete" with a technique discovered by accident
- Almost a year after Netflix scrapped its Masters of the Universe reboot, the movie is finally making progress again
- Denis Villeneuve says we won't see Dune 2 deleted scenes – despite there being over four hours of footage
- Stranger Things star Joseph Quinn to lead horror movie from American Psycho author
- Madame Web's Dakota Johnson reveals whether or not she'd return for a sequel
- Sony chairman says PlayStation's studios are full of "great creative minds" but need to understand business better
- Archie must purge a demon-infested Riverdale in new event series Archie Comics: Judgment Day
- The mystery of GTA 3's three moons has finally been solved by an ex-Rockstar dev
- A Lego remake of the coolest shot from the Deadpool 3 trailer has everyone hoping for a feature-length version
- Legendary roguelike The Binding of Isaac has its multiplayer tests taken offline after impatient fans hacked their way in
- Severance star Adam Scott promises "so much crazy stuff" in season 2
- The PS5 is in the "latter half of the console cycle," but Sony says a price cut is unlikely
- The Last of Us season 2 star praises Kaitlyn Dever and talks the first day of filming: "We kind of ate"
- The Finals devs have been trying to stop players from lobbing C4 at each other for months, and they might have finally managed to kill the 'nuke meta'
- Helldivers 2 dev follows in Palworld's footsteps and starts a hiring spree to keep up with player demand
- Xbox Game Pass gets a meditation app deal right before major update, and that timing has drawn plenty of attention
- PS5 won't get new "major existing franchise titles" before April 2025
- Madame Web director explains why she tweaked that iconic Spider-Man line for new Sony Marvel movie
- February 13
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- A dungeon crawler RPG, a "next-gen" RTS, and a moody survival game top Steam Next Fest's 50 most-played demos as Valve reveals record-breaking wishlists
- After $90 million driven by Baldur's Gate 3, Hasbro says games will be "huge" for D&D and Larian's hit RPG is "just the first of several new video games" to come
- Marvel fans think they spotted a Deadpool variant in the trailer
- Dead Island 2 finally has a Steam release date, and Valve is giving away a co-op horror freebie to celebrate
- Palworld player turns the survival game into a city builder with a mod-free tribute to Attack on Titan that took 2 weeks to make
- Suits spinoff casts Arrow star Stephen Amell in lead role
- Batman #143 adds a surprising new twist to the Joker's origin story - and a connection to Bruce Wayne
- After Palworld and Enshrouded, Sons of the Forest keeps a year of survival games going with update 1.0 coming this month
- James Gunn asked fans who Dave Bautista should play in the DCU and the most common choice is a forgotten Superman villain
- Chainsaw Man creator lands a new anime adaptation, and the first look is already here
- One extremely dedicated Minecraft player has spent 12 years constructing their own incredible fantasy kingdom
- This Steam Next Fest was dominated by two massive strategy games, and that feels weird for an event all about discoverability
- Baldur's Gate 3's leading speedrunner sets a new world record on the RPG's hardest difficulty, and it's only 12 seconds slower than the easy mode
- 17-year-old Counter-Strike prodigy carries his team to tournament victory in a performance dubbed one of the greatest in the history of the game
- The best adventure game of 2023 will let players have sex with its otherworldly god, but not in the game
- Baldur's Gate 3 patch 6 finally fixes the RPG's second-biggest party management sin after 6 months of waiting
- You can now talk to your Nvidia GeForce graphics card using AI, just like in my wildest nightmares
- Starfield and Halo are reportedly not part of the first Xbox exclusives coming to PS5
- Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown fights a fire-breathing dragon in epic new trailer for Netflix fantasy
- Marvel fans think Charles Xavier is hidden in the Deadpool 3 trailer
- When will Madame Web be available to stream?
- Naughty Dog, Infinity Ward, and other devs praise Helldivers 2's stellar animations: "Give them awards"
- Deathloop and Dishonored developers reveal the effort they go to guide players without using that immersion-breaking yellow paint
- D&D is doing a major throwback with these refreshed retro adventures
- As the wait for Silksong continues, Hollow Knight fans threaten to "sacrifice" their own forum to get the developer's attention
- The Marvels villain actor reveals Captain Marvel "combusted" with Dar-Benn in alternate ending
- Is Mark Ruffalo in Captain America 4? He suggests yes, reports say no
- The comics that crossed over Marvel and DC characters are being reprinted for the first time in decades
- I am SO ready to return to Ravenloft and face one of the most compelling D&D villains in Vecna: Eve of Ruin
- Baldur's Gate 3 now has over 500,000 Steam reviews and a 96% score, putting the RPG with Stardew Valley and Hollow Knight among the store's best-reviewed games
- After more than 16 years, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth fans think now is the time for Genesis to return
- There'll be no Hulk solo movie in the MCU, according to Mark Ruffalo
- Pokemon is using AI powered by Japanese Chess to make its upcoming tournaments more beginner-friendly
- The next edition of D&D arrives in September, but there's a catch
- First set photo from The Last of Us season 2 reveals a key location from the games
- Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse star says the third movie will be the best in the trilogy
- Baldur's Gate 3 dev shows off Patch 6's new kissing animations with steamy smooch between Shadowheart and Lae'zel
- Helldivers 2 PC patch rolled back after "significant" performance issues is now live on PS5
- From Metroidvanias to roguelikes, survival games to strategy games, here are the best things we played during Steam Next Fest
- Madame Web reactions say Morbius is better
- PS5 exclusive Stellar Blade reportedly rated for adults only thanks to nudity and gore
- From Gorillaz to Gotham: Jamie Hewlett draws Batman for DC
- February 12
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- This Palworld player's 1800-strong Relaxaurus army is truly a weapon to surpass Metal Gear: "It was magnificent"
- Deadpool 3 international trailer makes an extremely careful swap from the NSFW version
- Total War: Warhammer 3 dev surrenders in game of DLC chicken, says unpopular $25 update "didn't give you enough" and will be expanded alongside "FreeLC"
- Space Ghost gets his first solo comic in almost 20 years this summer
- EA flop Immortals of Aveum reportedly cost around $125 million, former dev says "a AAA single-player shooter in today's market was a truly awful idea"
- True Detective stars weigh in on season 4's most shocking death and how it changed from the script
- After 10 years, Twitch Plays Pokemon is going back to the beginning, and this time Twitch chat isn't getting any help to beat the classic JRPG
- Acclaimed N64-style spiritual successor to Banjo-Kazooie and Spyro finally gets the Nintendo Switch release it deserves
- Helldivers 2 creative director says games have to "earn" microtransactions, which is why its purchasable revolver is anti-pay-to-win and "not that good"
- The Xbox news everybody's desperate for is apparently coming in a podcast with Phil Spencer this week
- The Conjuring 4 will conclude the series with the return of a familiar face from the franchise
- Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes star reveals Andy Serkis' secret role in the new movie
- The Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes cast attended six weeks of 'ape school' to prepare them to do mo-cap for the first time ever
- Batman: Black and White artist Dean Motter draws new historical graphic novel Whistleblowers
- Diablo 4's latest microtransaction controversy is a $30 portal recolor: "You can get Palworld for this price"
- Phil Spencer reportedly tells Microsoft colleagues that Xbox is not done making consoles ahead of upcoming business strategy update
- Former Mass Effect and Dragon Age director says he "wouldn't go back" to the way BioWare makes games
- The Boys Super Bowl parody ad features a Gen V cameo you may have missed
- Helldivers 2 player fails the tutorial after discovering a grenade returning bug in the worst way possible: "We're off to a great start boys!"
- The Star Wars community has worked out the most emotional way to watch the saga
- This roguelike bullet hell from a Devil May Cry and Okami veteran promises old-school chaos amongst the stars, and it hits Early Access this week
- New sci-fi RPG from Mass Effect veteran recruits Halo support studio to bring its spacefaring gunplay to life
- Ryan Gosling is a stuntman crying to Taylor Swift in new action-packed teaser trailer for The Fall Guy
- Lethal Company creator shares the most chaotic dev plan of all time: "I really want content updates to feel like I broke into an alien zoo and released all the animals"
- Matthew Macfadyen's Deadpool 3 character has finally been confirmed, and everyone is making the same Succession joke
- From Secret Wars to Loki, here's every MCU Easter egg in the first Deadpool 3 trailer
- As Ubisoft CEO dubs Skull and Bones a quadruple A game, beta players say it's not worth the $70 price of entry
- Oscar Isaac knows what Marvel project he wants Moon Knight to appear in next
- Dev Patel’s Monkey Man is Robin Hood meets John Wick in new teaser trailer
- After 16 years, this 'lost', canonical Metal Gear Solid mobile game that was exclusive to just a handful of phones has been re-discovered
- One detail in the Deadpool 3 trailer may give away the Marvel movie's plot
- Helldivers 2 dev doubles the player capacity of its servers, but tells fans it's "still not enough" to meet the demand
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth fan makes shot-for-shot comparison with the original Nibelheim to show how faithful it is
- One of the most exciting upcoming Star Wars projects has a reported release window, and it's very soon
- Hugh Jackman had the perfect response to Wolverine’s barely-there cameo in the Deadpool 3 trailer
- Elden Ring speedrunner completes no-hit randomizer run after more than 1,000 attempts and nearly a year of trying
- My very patient customers were obsessed with cooking oil in this chill supermarket management Steam Next Fest demo
- First trailer for Twisters sees the sequel take disaster movies to a new extreme level
- Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes trailer sees the series enter an epic new era
- First trailer for Wicked defies gravity as Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo bring the magic
- February 11
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- First Deadpool 3 trailer spills blood as Hugh Jackman's Wolverine returns and Ryan Reynolds' antihero is declared the "Marvel Jesus"
- Nintendo Switch 2 will reportedly have digital and physical backward compatibility, plus "enhanced" older games
- Skyrim player spends 150 hours beating their own hardcore permadeath version of the RPG, still recommends stealth archers as the best way to win
- Kill someone every 10 seconds or die in this must-play Steam Next Fest FPS that's set inside a classic anime style
- After 20 years and 5 corporate owners, RuneScape players joke past reported $1.1 billion buyout of MMO icon Jagex: "Time to pool our money, boys."
- February 10
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- Geometry Wars' bullet hell mayhem gets a roguelike remix in this throwback Steam Next Fest demo
- After Resident Evil 4's remake, that notorious yellow paint discourse has come for Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth
- Medieval expert who had never heard of Skyrim until 2024 breaks down what would happen if you took an arrow to the knee in painstaking detail
- Artist spends 9 months combining all 152 original Pokemon into a horribly beautiful abomination
- Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is starting an entirely new leaderboard thanks to an absolutely broken build "far beyond what the game was balanced for"
- February 9
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- Hideo Kojima minces no words on his new action espionage game: "If your mother walks in and sees you playing this game, she'll think you're watching a movie"
- Game of Thrones stars Sophie Turner and Kit Harington to reunite for new horror movie
- Jonathan Hickman and Sanford Greene will reveal the "final fate" of Doctor Doom this summer
- The Steam Next Fest demo of this bullet hell roguelike has big Risk of Rain energy, and some cool tricks of its own
- Finally, a way to use the worst NES controller on N64
- Hideo Kojima took Phil Spencer to a Japanese ceremony to purify his new Xbox horror game OD
- New Predator movie in the works from Prey director
- The co-op roguelike from indie powerhouse and Don't Starve dev Klei Entertainment is even better than I'd hoped, and a must-play Steam Next Fest demo
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's demo has some fans worrying about the JRPG's graphics: "At least it runs well, I suppose"
- After 39 years, it looks like modders finally have a fix for the NES's fatal flaw
- Martin Scorsese's life story is being transformed into a graphic novel
- This stealth platformer in Steam Next Fest combines satisfying Splatoon movement with Dishonored-style stealth missions
- After Batgirl cancellation, Warner Bros. is set to totally delete a completed movie – and the CEO made the call without watching it
- The Steam Next Fest demo for this magical adventure game is like a mix between Little Nightmares and It Takes Two
- Baldur's Gate 3 patch 6 is coming in hot next week with "improved smooches"
- Some mad geniuses have turned the viral Lofi Girl into a life sim with a fabulous character creator, and it's Steam Next Fest's chillest demo
- Baldur's Gate 3 player spends 41 hours beating the RPG as 4 cats, murdering NPCs with cuteness and breaking half of the cutscenes
- Oppenheimer composer reveals which scene was the toughest to score: "I had to go to some difficult places to capture that"
- Lethal Company mobile version "was made with no explicit permission and is most likely a scam," warns community moderator
- A foe from the future is gunning for Batgirl in Birds of Prey #6
- Death Stranding 2 actor compares it to The Godfather Part 2 for how it builds on what came before
- A crime drama that viewers are comparing to Broadchurch is getting a second life on Netflix
- Moana 2 release date, cast, trailer, and everything you need to know about the Disney movie
- Denzel Washington and Spike Lee finally reuniting for a remake of a Akira Kurosawa classic
- Stellar Blade director explains how the PS5 action game is really an RPG: "Depending on what you choose, you can change your Eve"
- After 7 years, roguelike legend Dead Cells ends development with a final update as its original devs pursue their new co-op game
- One of Infinity War's biggest mysteries is still unresolved, and fans are speculating about the answer
- Hideo Kojima says it will be "difficult" to adapt Death Stranding into a movie, but hits like Super Mario Bros. have given him hope
- Hideo Kojima says Jordan Peele is just one of the big names working on his upcoming horror game, and that he calls the group 'The Avengers'
- Minecraft players are blown away by the blocky builder's newly-added Wind Charges
- The Mandalorian composer wants to return to Star Wars to score the upcoming Mando and Grogu film
- My dream of having a full Lego D&D setup is one step closer thanks to this new set
- Talk to Me’s Sophie Wilde says her dream role is DC villain Harley Quinn
- First look at Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles spin-off show is super fun – and the cast is back
- One of the biggest and hottest demos in Steam Next Fest is a 40-hour slice of this tribal survival game with flashes of a Palworld-style management sim
- Hideo Kojima's return to action espionage was prompted by a health scare in 2020 and 8 years of fans begging for another Metal Gear
- Oppenheimer composer reveals why his favorite piece of music from the movie was nearly impossible to pull off
- New Netflix drama debuts to near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score - and fans are absolutely loving it
- Talk to Me’s Sophie Wilde addresses potential of returning for the sequel: "It’s all up in the air"
- Cult Western horror show announces surprise return three years after it was canceled
- Fantastic Four actor debunks Deadpool 3 leak but then reveals he knows who is playing The Thing: "I'm a fan of his work"
- Death Stranding 2 actor says he has "no clue" what to expect from the sequel, because Kojima won't tell him until recording starts
- Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League might have been teasing Batman's return right in front of us
- Returning after 17 years, Persona 3 Reload is the quintessential way to experience a modern JRPG classic
- The maker of one of Counter-Strike's most iconic maps says he regrets selling it to Valve
- Another Game of Thrones spin-off is in the works from The Batman 2 screenwriter – and it's a prequel to House of the Dragon
- Christopher Nolan says Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man is one of the most important casting decisions "in the history of the movie business"
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's demo hides Easter Eggs for two of the original JRPG's biggest boss fights
- 'Florida Joker' says he's giving up on his $10 million GTA 6 lawsuit threat, because he now wants to voice the character
- In just 24 hours, Helldivers 2 overtakes God of War to become the biggest PlayStation Studios game launch on Steam
- February 8
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- The Finals kills its most hated event because it "punishes melee users too much," but the devs want to bring it back after a "re-work"
- The classic '90s X-Men haven't looked this good in decades
- Rockstar is "seeking perfection" for GTA 6 and will release it when it's "optimized creatively"
- Garth Ennis returns to Punisher to send Frank Castle on the hunt for Nick Fury
- After weeks of DLC speculation, Elden Ring fans crash back to Earth as FromSoftware parent company hits them with a vague "we are currently working hard"
- Microsoft says its 1,900 layoffs "cannot be attributed fully to the merger" because Activision was already planning massive cuts of its own
- Subnautica 2 devs rush to put out fires after their publisher calls it a live service game: "No season passes. No battle passes. No subscription"
- Ubisoft CEO addresses Xbox multiplatform rumors: "Activision Blizzard used to be multiplatform," so it wouldn't have "a huge impact on the industry"
- Just like every Palworld player, developer Pocketpair needs more workers and is desperately looking for new hires
- Spider-Man makes a most solemn vow as Gang War nears its brutal end
- Assassin's Creed Red, Ubisoft's open-world RPG set in Japan, is set to launch by March 2025
- Indie devs say Steam Next Fest is a massive win for finding early success: "Wishlists go brrrr"
- Ubisoft says it's going to make good games again after a "turnaround" led by Assassin's Creed Mirage
- Dakota Johnson says it was a "dream" getting to wear her Madame Web suit as she points out hidden detail
- Game of Thrones star Sean Bean takes on another bloody and brutal historical drama in trailer for new Disney Plus murder mystery
- After 37 years, one of the most influential JRPGs of all time is finally being rereleased in its original form - but there's a catch
- Talk to Me's Sophie Wilde addresses the lack of awards recognition for horror movies
- This impossibly colorful Metroidvania is an early frontrunner for best art of the year, and my favorite Steam Next Fest find so far
- ThunderCats #1 reinvents the iconic animated series for comics
- Helldivers 2 dev in "crisis mode" as matchmaking problems hit the co-op shooter's launch, CEO says "we are seeing the issues" and advises joining friends directly
- Channelling Diablo 4, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is nerfing an overpowered endgame build
- Michael B. Jordan and Ryan Coogler's top secret vampire movie rumored to be set in the 1930s and have anime influences
- My winning tactic in this certified hit Steam Next Fest strategy game is eating as many bananas as possible for Skyrim-style healing
- Sonic spin-off Knuckles drops its first trailer, complete with a 30-year-old throwback
- Stellar Blade dev, also known for butt-jiggling game Nikke, says he "put special attention" into the female lead's back because that's what players see most of the time
- The original Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Ti has finally dropped in price, and I think it’s worth buying again
- New Netflix sci-fi show is being compared to Interstellar and Ad Astra after intriguing first trailer
- James Cameron and Paul Rudd have teamed up for a documentary about "the most mysterious creatures on Earth"
- Elden Ring parent company buys studio behind some of the best JRPGs of recent years
- "Without any shareholders to please," The Sims competitor Paralives isn't doing paid DLC, because "the money we make from selling the game alone will be enough"
- Chaotic platformer Pepper Grinder lets you take on monsters with a truly gigantic drill, and it's one of my highlights of Steam Next fest
- There's a clue hidden in Amazon's Mr. and Mrs. Smith that might solve that brutal ending
- Steam Next Fest has delivered a stunning post-apocalyptic city builder that might be the prettiest I've ever played
- First trailer for 1970s-set horror movie with 100% Rotten Tomatoes score sees a live TV broadcast hijacked by a demon
- One of the most popular Disney Plus shows has been renewed for season 2, just 8 weeks after it first hit the streamer
- Two big Marvel movies are missing from Disney's 2025 lineup
- In-game currencies "are fictions created by game publishers" says GTA 5 and NBA 2K game publisher in attempt to dodge lawsuit
- The Walking Dead boss teases future crossover event for spin-offs
- Diablo 2 speedrun gets derailed after runner finds the RPG's uber-rare 1-in-3 million drop, and sells it immediately
- FTC criticizes Microsoft for laying off Activision Blizzard workers after claims it would operate independently
- Moana 2 songs are coming from the team behind The Unofficial Bridgerton musical, not Lin-Manuel Miranda
- Star Wars finally sets its return date to the big screen, 7 years after The Rise of Skywalker
- RIP Funimation: the anime streaming service will close in April, and there’s even more bad news for subscribers
- Spyro and Crash Bandicoot developer lays off at least 86 developers amid mistaken reports of full studio closure
- The video game industry is "a disaster zone" according to Starfield and Deux Ex star who had three projects canceled in quick succession
- February 7
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- The dark gem of Steam Next Fest is a hauntingly beautiful Dark Souls and Princess Mononoke-inspired boss rush horror with couch co-op where you die in one hit
- If The Joker: Year One isn't an origin story, then what exactly is it?
- Eddie Brock loses his symbiote to one of Marvel's most sadistic villains in Venom: Separation Anxiety
- Surprise! Moana 2 is coming and it's less than 9 months away
- Homeworld 3 gets another delay in the middle of its Steam Next Fest demo after feedback from people who were brought in to "play through the full game"
- Fortnite is turning into Kingdom Hearts as Disney pumps $1.5 billion into Epic Games to make a "persistent universe" with Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, and Avatar
- More Daredevil set photos have leaked – and we have our clearest look at the new suit yet
- Ultimate Black Panther #1 is a perfect comic jumping on point for fans of the MCU T'Challa
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director doesn't care if you call it a JRPG: "I'm making the game I want to make"
- Spider-Man 2's long-awaited New Game Plus mode launches in one month, alongside new suits and other "big requests"
- America’s sweetheart Pedro Pascal is starring in an A24 rom-com from the director of one of 2023's best films to make all of your wildest dreams come true
- Madame Web director explains how her work on Netflix's Jessica Jones influenced the new superhero film
- What goes down in this Steam Next Fest demo is too dark to put in a headline, but this PS2-style indie horror has my full and undivided attention
- Halo newcomer Joseph Morgan played one of the best games in the series to prepare for season 2
- I found the perfect Steam Next Fest demo for my Steam Deck OLED: a psychedelic shooter where you use one bullet to chain-snipe a bunch of cultists
- Final Fantasy and Tactics Ogre veterans unite for a new JRPG with 8 "highly customizable" characters and gorgeous hand-drawn landscapes
- If you loved Life is Strange or A Space For the Unbound, you need to play this visual novel's Steam Next Fest demo
- A supernatural horror show with a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score is being brought back for a third season five years later
- The Last Mermaid marks the cutesy, apocalyptic return to comics of Eisner Award-winning writer and artist Derek Kirk Kim
- The Iron Claw’s Zac Efron wrestled 20 matches in a day as Kevin Von Erich
- Mini open worlds are my jam, so Steam Next Fest's most charming demo goes to this chill sim about a witch in a Zelda: Wind Waker-style world
- Madame Web director on those Final Destination comparisons, and injecting the movie with "thriller-slash-horror moments"
- The dark horse of Steam Next Fest is this open-world zombie survival game that feels like an homage to the best game in the genre, but you'll have to be patient with it
- Netflix’s upcoming Scottish crime drama from the makers of The Queens Gambit finds its cast
- Halo season 2 release schedule: when is episode 4 on Paramount Plus?
- New trailer for Kristen Stewart thriller from Saint Maud director is a bloody tale of revenge – and it has a great RT score
- This Steam Next Fest demo with shades of LA Noire and Tangle Tower saw me play as a gumshoe divorcee duck with a serious bread problem
- Joseph Quinn and Lupita Nyong'o run for their lives in first trailer for A Quiet Place prequel
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth lead is down for a Final Fantasy 6 remake in the HD-2D style of Octopath Traveler
- Elden Ring experts are far from impressed by the idea of a Genshin-style mobile game
- Netflix may already be about to drop its weirdest 2024 release, which involves a woman being turned into a chicken nugget
- Helldivers 2 release time – the countdown to the long-awaited co-op shooter is on for PC and PS5 fans
- Diablo 4's Lunar Awakening event falls foul of cosmetic confusion as Season 3 continues to struggle
- Marvel star Kumail Nanjiani says he was very affected by negative Eternals reviews: "It was really, really hard"
- Dakota Johnson never imagined she'd be in the superhero world, until she read the "gritty" script for Madame Web
- Henry Cavill is "not a fan" of sex scenes in movies: "Is this really necessary or is it just people with less clothing on?"
- The Godfather director’s new sci-fi epic starring Adam Driver and Aubrey Plaza gets first look
- One of the first open-world games ever is getting a sequel 25 years later, and you can play its demo during Steam Next Fest
- Palworld update finally fixes Lifmunk Effigy catch rate issue, and stops breeding Pals from going to sleep "forever"
- Deadpool 3 will release earlier than planned in the UK
- Josh Brolin has the most relatable reaction to that Dune 2 popcorn bucket
- Oh no, Dragon's Dogma 2 is totally going to make us fight our infected Pawns
- Marvel stars team up for new comic book movie adaptation described as Indiana Jones meets Children of Men
- Final Fantasy 7 veteran Tetsuya Nomura is "even more nervous" about fans' reactions to Rebirth's ending than its predecessor's
- Obi-Wan Kenobi season 2 is being championed by Ewan McGregor: "Can everyone write to Disney?"
- Tetsuya Nomura says he can't claim full responsibility for Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts' wildest twists, but he's "happy if people enjoy the game"
- February 6
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- Star Trucker is such a realistic trucking sim that I somehow managed to jackknife my rig in space in its Steam Next Fest demo
- Frustrations with Cities Skylines 2 are starting to boil over among city builder fans and content creators alike
- Steam got a dwarf tag just in time for the screen-destroying, ore-collecting mining roguelike that I'm struggling to put down this Steam Next Fest
- Silent Hill and Resident Evil-inspired horror game resurfaces after a deal gone wrong nearly killed it: "I thought I might never finish this game"
- I played the lawless competitive RPG dominating Steam Next Fest like the second coming of Dark and Darker, and I'm immediately biased because I haven't died yet
- The "first big patch" for Enshrouded brings sweet relief for one of the survival game's grindiest grinds, and nerfs Water Aura because "it was just too good"
- Dark fantasy Western Ain't No Grave pitches one woman against the ultimate enemy: Death itself
- Stellar Blade director says it's a "great honor" for the action RPG to be called "Korean Nier" because he's a big fan of Yoko Taro
- Sonic the Hedgehog designer teaming up with One Piece anime studio for new movie starring JK Simmons
- Jurassic Park fans are hyping up the most underrated film in the franchise, and we love to see it
- I woke up and destroyed my heartstrings with the Psychonauts-esque Steam Next Fest demo for this surreal puzzle platformer about family
- I missed this new Fallout wargame being announced, and now I can't wait to play it
- Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 Season 2 release time - the countdown to the new MW3 update is on
- This cozy Steam Next Fest sim looks like Animal Crossing, plays like Overcooked, and finally lets me live one of my biggest dreams: serving coffee to capybaras
- Nightingale, the fantasy survival game from former Mass Effect devs, will now release two days early
- To survive as an indie dev, "I must reuse everything," says solo designer who pivoted from an aerial combat sim to a hotly-anticipated city builder
- Kick-Ass director Matthew Vaughn has filmed a secret action movie with Chris Hemsworth and Sam Rockwell
- I've waited 8 years and now they're finally putting my hometown in American Truck Simulator
- "Deadpool Daddy" Rob Liefeld is retiring from working on the Merc with a Mouth this summer
- Halo season 2 is the perfect jumping-on point for newcomers – according to one of its stars
- Spider-Man 2 fans need to check out Best Buy's deal of the day
- Cyberpunk 2077 sequel Project Orion recruits veteran devs from Control, Diablo, Mortal Kombat, and BioWare RPGs
- A nun, the devil, and Russia star in the Steam Next Fest demo for the wildest story-driven game I've played in years
- The Iron Claw director responds to Zac Efron’s "disappointing" Oscars snub
- Nintendo Switch overtakes the DS to become Japan's best-selling console ever
- Paramount Plus joins Netflix and Disney Plus as the latest streamer to remove multiple original shows
- Apple TV Plus reveals its 2024 lineup in new trailer, full of original series, documentaries, and Oscar-nominated movies
- Konami is training an AI to beat you at Yu-Gi-Oh
- Unearthed Star Wars concept art shows detail that could have made Anakin's fall to the dark side even more sinister
- The Last of Us Part 2's early concept development was nearly derailed by Uncharted 4: "During the entire production, that's all I could think about"
- Henry Cavill says his upcoming Highlander reboot from John Wick director is "extraordinary", and won't play it safe
- Prolific Baldur's Gate 3 speedrunner who turned Shadowheart into a 10,000-pound bear to set a 20-minute category record says the RPG's community spent months figuring the strategy out
- The Palworld community's new boss-killing strategy defeats end-game Pals in an instant by dropping them off massive flights of stairs
- One Stranger Things star thinks the show would be "much better" if the main cast could be killed off: "We’re all too safe"
- Jurassic World 4 sets 2025 release date, while Bullet Train helmer is in talks to direct
- The first big breakout of Steam Next Fest is a Souls-y dungeon crawler that's coming for Dark and Darker's crown
- My early Steam Next Fest highlight is like an idle Stardew Valley, but I promise it's not as distracting as it sounds
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth demo looks certain as PlayStation leaks its own State of Play announcement
- CDPR boss confirms The Witcher 4 and Cyberpunk 2077's sequel will remain multiplatform despite Xbox exclusivity debate
- The Mandalorian movie looks set to start filming sooner than expected
- Dark Souls gets 'Re-Remastered' thanks to a mod that replaces all the in-game lighting and shadows with huge upgrades
- Forget The Witcher and Superman, Henry Cavill says leading the Warhammer adaptation is the "greatest privilege" of his career
- Daredevil’s Born Again suit has been leaked and some Marvel fans think it’s missing something
- Netflix’s new live-action adaptation of a beloved horror manga gets chilling first look
- Elden Ring is reportedly getting a free-to-play mobile port with Genshin Impact-style microtransactions
- Amid Xbox multiplatform rumors, Halo job listing says future games will be "for all players, on all platforms"
- Lords Mobile partners with hypercar company Pagani to celebrate its 8th anniversary
- Dragon’s Dogma 2 rises onto the PLAY cover
- February 5
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- Moon Knight and Ms. Marvel TV writer comes to creator-owned comics with sci-fi anthology
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth State of Play countdown – how and when to watch the livestream
- Square Enix says more and more games either crash and burn or find big success "as players throng to a handful of major titles"
- Pocketpair has a new co-op Metroidvania roguelike that rips off Dead Cells way harder than Palworld ever copied Pokemon, and its Steam Next Fest demo is awesome
- A new Evil Dead spin-off movie is in the works
- Netflix’s most-watched series of last year starts filming season 2
- Phil Spencer says we'll see "the future of Xbox" next week following rumors of a multiplatform future for Microsoft
- After 24 years, a new Yu-Gi-Oh retro collection is bringing back a classic Game Boy Color card battler never before released in English
- Thanos could return to the MCU, according to Josh Brolin
- I'm a DM and I couldn't live without these D&D expansions - thankfully they're 54% off right now
- Enshrouded dev wants to fix the survival RPG's controversial server-wide quest progression
- New Halo showrunner and actor explain why season 2 feels like a "different" show: "I think this is the Halo that I wanted to see"
- Sekiro, Bayonetta, and especially Nier Automata all inspired stylish PS5 action RPG Stellar Blade
- Opening weekend of new Henry Cavill spy movie Argylle barely makes a dent in its reported $200 million budget
- Chucky creator knows where he wants to take the franchise next… to outer space?
- Daisy Ridley's favorite films of all time are certified bangers
- The Apple Vision Pro could replace every gaming monitor and TV in your home, and it's horrifying
- Palworld genius builds two bases right next to a boss fight to defeat a level 45 monster in seconds
- Spider-Man 2, Prince of Persia, and Final Fantasy included in Amazon's latest 50% off PS5 deals
- Chronically unlucky Baldur's Gate 3 streamer tries to stop, but accidentally murders Lae'zel in front of the RPG character's own voice actress with some truly awful timing
- Tears of the Kingdom streamer spends six hours trying to beat the game without using key items, only to be beaten by a closed door
- True Detective fan theory suggests a major character could be season 4's killer
- I lucked out on my first RPG demo of Steam Next Fest, a clever "simultaneous turn-based" tactics game with incredible art and 4 different campaigns
- Amazon’s new series adaptation of a hit film lands a great Rotten Tomatoes score
- A sweet Star Wars reunion has fans very emotional: "I love them"
- Kojima says Mads Mikkelsen will not return for Death Stranding 2 "because we care about the character of Cliff"
- Nearly 20 years later, Persona 3 Reload is still calling out players for creating a "harem"
- Yellowstone’s next series could star Matthew McConaughey and Michelle Pfeiffer
- The best bit of my new favorite city builder is the massive, hulking LEGO towers it lets me build
- The Last of Us 2's director says he was "uncomfortable" writing its romantic elements, but his co-writer pushed for them
- Artist documents their Elden Ring journey in stunning 600-page sketchbook inspired by Arthur Morgan's journal from Red Dead Redemption 2
- Mads Mikkelsen gives a promising update on possible Hannibal revival
- Robert Downey Jr recalls meeting Christopher Nolan over Batman Begins' Scarecrow – and realizing he wouldn't be getting the part
- Vision actor Paul Bettany reveals that one of the MCU's most heartbreaking moments was improvised
- Battle royale fan sentenced to 18 months in jail for dodging military service after Supreme Court rejects claim he's 'anti-violence' because of his PUBG playtime
- Silent Hill fans love The Short Message's "beautiful" new monster
- Avowed director says "We're working on" the RPG's combat after a lukewarm reception during the Xbox Direct
- Dune 2 has got an ideal early review from Christopher Nolan as he compares it to The Empire Strikes Back
- The first look at canceled Game of Thrones spin-off emerges five years after filming
- Pedro Pascal, Sylvester Stallone, and more pay tribute to Carl Weathers
- Persona 3 Reload's amazing UI might have the best menus in the history of JRPG menus, and shows the value of keeping devs around long-term
- Starfield, Indiana Jones, and more Xbox exclusives reportedly lined up for PS5 launches
- February 4
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- Elden Ring, Bloodborne, and Dark Souls' seminal composer is now making music for the last game anyone expected
- The best Palworld bug yet gave one lucky player a gigantic Vixy the size of their entire base
- The Last of Us Part 2 director wanted Laura Bailey to bulk up for her Abby role: "I was training like crazy, and then I got pregnant"
- Like a Dragon director explains why Yakuza games release much faster than GTA or Assassin's Creed: "I don't think many companies are doing this"
- Steam Next Fest countdown – here's when Valve's next demo extravaganza kicks off
- February 3
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- Avatar The Last Airbender's elemental weaving shot this spectacular indie Metroidvania past 30,000 Steam wishlists
- The Last of Us Part 2 studio admits "we have a reputation for crunching" and pledges that "it's something we're not going to do anymore"
- Stardew Valley creator says the game's name "just came to me," after the original "was not pleasant to say"
- Steam's surprise JRPG hit of the year almost has more players than Persona 3 Reload and Infinite Wealth combined
- February 2
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- This upcoming survival indie has something for horror sickos that Enshrouded and Palworld don't: a terrifying horned stalker from urban legends
- After 5 years, beloved factory base builder Satisfactory is finally leaving Early Access in 2024
- Nicolas Cage is a serial killer in the terrifying trailer for occult horror Longlegs
- Star Wars: Ahsoka adapts the fan favorite Jedi to comics
- Palworld dev CEO jokes server fees could bankrupt the studio after it spends $478,000 to "never let the service go down no matter what"
- Sonic the Hedgehog 3 adds Marvel and Ted Lasso stars to cast
- Rocky and The Mandalorian star Carl Weathers dies
- Neil Druckmann on The Last of Us 3: "It does feel like there's probably one more chapter to this story"
- The Last of Us 2 was originally a Bloodborne-inspired open-world game because Naughty Dog wanted it to be "as different as humanly possible from the first game"
- Sims 4 competitor Life by You delayed again, this time by three months
- Louder than ever, Steam records suggest Elden Ring DLC is entering the final stretch as FromSoftware moves onto QA and debugging
- Schitt's Creek star Catherine O'Hara joins The Last of Us season 2 cast
- The Sims 4 and House Flipper set me up perfectly for my new favorite indie game trend: designing tiny cozy rooms
- Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League's 'Return to Mission Area' punishment is a genius nod to the squad's comic book origins
- PS3 emulator devs have a massive update on netplay, touting online support for co-op Metal Gear, classic fighting games, and more
- Netflix has quietly dropped a new movie from an Oscar-winner - and it's got a great Rotten Tomatoes score
- This action platformer puts a JRPG spin on one of the most underrated roguelikes
- Jeffrey Wright addresses rumors he will reprise his The Last of Us character in the HBO TV show
- Enshrouded players are literally going deep on the survival game's building systems, with underground homes to rival the halls of Moria
- 5 movies and TV shows to watch after Netflix’s newest crime drama Griselda
- Indie dev accused of plagiarism reminds players that "it's okay if you steal ideas from yourself"
- Death Stranding 2 fans think that a 30-year-old movie is the inspiration for its guitar-gun wielding villain
- The biggest Stardew Valley community warns users that it is "not affiliated" with "exclusive" Discord charging for membership
- Jeffrey Wright reveals why his late mother was the first person he thanked after receiving his first-ever Oscar nomination
- Jim Carrey confirmed to return in Sonic 3 alongside new teaser that's giving serious Sonic Adventure 2 vibes
- The Shrouded Man Saga concludes with Canto: A Place Like Home
- Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League lead teases an Easter Egg only 10 people know about, only for someone to find it in 3 days
- Apex Legends patches out movement exploits, developer tells malding cheaters to "kick rocks"
- The Steam Next Fest demo for this physics-based farming sim gave me the unhinged Stardew Valley experience I was hoping for
- Squid Game season 2 release date, cast, story, and everything you need to know
- Get ready for greatness: SpongeBob's best scene ever is being recreated at the Super Bowl
- Patrick Stewart throwing Hey Arnold into a mountain while Peppa Pig and Master Chief watch on: This Paramount Plus ad is the most unhinged thing you'll see all year
- Persona 3's legacy makes it the most important game in the series - and maybe even modern JRPG history
- New RTS from Warcraft and StarCraft veterans smashes through nearly every stretch goal in $2m Kickstarter campaign, even though it was already fully funded
- True Detective creator isn't a fan of season 4 – calls certain decisions "so stupid"
- Steam survey suggests more players are upgrading to 16GB RAM
- 'Dwarf' is now a tag on Steam following silly yet "very serious" demands from Dwarf Fortress and Deep Rock Galactic devs
- A group of cinemagoers had the ultimate Holdovers immersive experience when they got locked inside a theater
- 7 years later, Persona 3 Reload seems to squash a fan theory that connected the JRPG to successor Persona 5
- Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is the fastest-selling Yakuza game ever, and free in-game items are on the way in celebration
- Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbender series is hoping to appeal to Game of Thrones fans, says showrunner
- Quentin Tarantino's final film takes shape as Brad Pitt joins the cast
- Suits spin-off show gets significant update, including the surprisingly soon filming start date
- Palworld's Lifmunk Effigies promise to improve successful capture chances, but some players are seeing the exact opposite results
- Persona 3 Reload is the series' biggest Steam launch ever, but there's still no critical consensus on which version of the JRPG is best
- Argylle post-credits explained: how many are there? Do they set up a sequel?
- February 1
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- My Palworld prayers have been answered: being severely encumbered no longer stops you from moving completely, even at 1000% carry capacity
- Fan-favorite femme fatale the Baroness is back in Duke #3
- Tim Burton to direct Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman remake with Gone Girl writer
- The Day Before fallout continues as former devs allege awful working conditions and management so bad that some staff didn't know they were supposed to make an MMO
- Avengers Inc. #5 brings the Marvel Universe a little closer to the MCU as it teases a new Avengers team
- Metro 4 resurfaces as devs confirm "development continues" separately from that new VR game
- Steve Rogers faces the demonic power of The Emissary in Captain America #6 preview
- Thanksgiving stars Nell Verlaque and Rick Hoffman talk *that* Scream-style killer theory
- This Spanish mythology-infused JRPG is a love letter to Persona, Zelda, and Grandia, and it's doing gangbusters on Kickstarter
- Tim Burton's Beetlejuice sequel gets first poster and official title
- One Dune 2 fan went to a wild amount of effort to decode one second of footage from the trailer
- Palworld has patched my favorite glitch, and I'm quietly devastated
- Julianne Moore's new historical drama looks like The Favorite meets The Great in steamy new trailer
- Death Stranding 2 gets even more of Hideo Kojima's band back together as Metal Gear Solid 5 dev signs on as action director alongside other veterans
- Hideo Kojima seems to be working on 3 games right now: Death Stranding 2, OD, and the "action espionage game" with PlayStation
- Zoe Saldaña teases James Cameron's Avatar sequels: "He's blown our mind"
- This cyberpunk platformer is neck-and-neck with Palworld as the best-rated Steam game of 2024 so far
- Sam Rockwell is the reason there's so much dancing in spy movie Argylle
- John Wick producer and Martial arts star Donnie Yen team up to remake classic action movie Kung-Fu
- One year after its reveal, James Gunn explains how plans for DCU Chapter One have changed
- Rise of the Ronin seemingly ditches Nioh's overwhelming action RPG loot system, and fans like the move
- Lord of the Rings and House of the Dragon stars re-team for new action comedy from Jurassic World director
- Squid Game season 2 and The Umbrella Academy season 4 get first look in Netflix's 2024 trailer
- Jack Black wants Tropic Thunder co-star Tom Cruise to do another comedy with him
- This new 3D platformer from the Sonic Mania devs is everything I love about the '90s classics packed into a single game
- Percy Jackson fans pay tribute to late actor Lance Reddick's "powerhouse" performance as Zeus as season finale airs
- My go-to gaming headset is now cheaper than it was on Black Friday
- Margot Robbie has classy response to Barbie Oscars 'snub': "There's no way to feel sad when you know you're this blessed"
- I couldn't be more excited for PDP's new Guitar Hero-like PS5 controller
- Palworld isn't on PS5, but PlayStation is getting another mega-hit survival game thanks to V Rising
- Disney Plus follows Netflix in rolling out password sharing crackdown – and here's when it begins
- PlayStation Vita 2 rumors are spiralling, but it's not what you might think
- Dragon's Dogma 2's new Wayfarer Vocation can pinch spells and weapons from other classes
- Silent Hill: The Short Message is dubbed the start of a "new wave" for the series, sweeping ill-fated live-stream project Ascension firmly under the rug
- Hit apocalyptic thriller breaks Netflix's all-time top ten most watched movies
- Henry Cavill-led Argylle sequel gets an update from director Matthew Vaughn
- Kick-Ass director Matthew Vaughn thinks Henry Cavill should play Superman in a Red Son movie
- Dune director Denis Villeneuve says Dune 3 will likely be the last movie he makes in the franchise
- Death Stranding 2's weird dummy is making Alan Wake 2 fans do a double-take
- D&D developer says it's "not looking to sell" amid reported discussions with Baldur's Gate 3 studio shareholders
- 20 years on from his James Bond audition, Henry Cavill discovers the Casino Royale director preferred him over Daniel Craig
- Palworld patch stops fire decimating your base and your saves corrupting once you catch 7,000 Pals
- BioShock creator's new game will give players more choice than ever before: "How the story unfolds is up to you"
- One Piece star Taz Skylar opens up about the challenges of signing up for a huge Netflix show
- It took approximately 0 minutes for Metal Gear Solid fans to claim Hideo Kojima's new espionage game as a spiritual successor
- Genshin Impact dev's action-RPG Zenless Zone Zero is coming to PS5 later this year
