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- November 30
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- Robert Eggers explains the twisted reason behind Nosferatu's big change to Bill Skarsgard's version of the vampire
- Borderlands 3 creative director says he's borrowing from Borderlands' character designs for his new co-op shooter
- The Witcher 4 studio CEO says the team will be staying pretty quiet before release, but he wants to "drop crumbs" to "whet the appetite" of the community
- Avowed dev with credits on RPGs dating back 25 years says this is the most confident he's ever been in a game at this point
- Need For Speed speedrunner who broke records using complex Half-Life tech wants to tackle Cyberpunk or Fallout next
- World of Warcraft devs used to joke about the MMO making $1 million per month - just months before it smashed through $15 million in monthly revenue
- Writer Steven Moffat promises that his Doctor Who 2024 Christmas special is lighter and more fun than his previous episodes: "It's not Blink"
- The Asus ROG Ally just dropped even lower ahead of Cyber Monday, so I'd grab it while it's hot
- Sony's own Black Friday sales confirm that a disc-drive is a must-have
- Dev explains why the wait for anything new about Wolverine or Wonder Woman has been so long
- Witcher 4 dev not sure if CDPR will take a Baldur's Gate 3-style PC-first release
- Balatro creator says the business aspect of making his hit roguelike is something he's still "learning the ropes" of
- A veteran Palestinian developer living under occupation is crowdfunding a "pseudo-3D stealth" game to "share the catastrophe that has haunted generations"
- After Cyberpunk 2077's rocky launch, The Witcher 4 CEO acknowledges the biggest myth in gamedev is a lie: "There's no magic"
- The Lord of the Rings anime producer explains why they didn’t want the movie "to involve Dark Lords or rings"
- Obsidian's Josh Sawyer thought Pillars of Eternity's Kickstarter had a 50% chance of failing, only for the RPG to be fully funded within 27 hours
- Arcane writer says they've been sitting on the show's final scenes, mostly unchanged, for 6 years: "We always kind of knew where we were going"
- Sonic 3's Jim Carrey got so into playing the new role of Robotnik's grandfather Gerald that he helped "design the prosthetics": "No detail was too small"
- One of the best value gaming monitors I've tested is now cheaper than ever
- November 29
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- My favorite Elgato gadget ever has just been given the Black Friday treatment
- Lego Nightmare Before Christmas hits its lowest ever price before vanishing again, but watch this space
- Move over, Silver Surfer: Moon Knight Marc Spector is the new Herald of Galactus
- Let me show you how to grab a 100-inch QLED TV this Black Friday and upset everyone you live with
- The next game from the Lies of P devs is reportedly a sci-fi survival horror
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard just took its first major price cut on PS5
- The Planescape devs mutilated BioWare’s engine in a good way while making the legendary 1999 RPG: "We were lucky we didn't break the game"
- This is your last chance to grab a PS5 Slim for its lowest price yet this Black Friday
- If you only buy one thing in 2024's Black Friday Pokemon deals, make it this
- Garry's Mod dev says he didn't want to sell it originally because no one would pay for it – 25 million copies later, he admits he was wrong
- On the 23rd anniversary of Metal Gear Solid 2's Japanese release, Hideo Kojima pays lengthy tribute to his "favorite song" in the Metal Gear Solid series
- This might be the last gaming keyboard you'd expect to buy this Black Friday - but I couldn't live without it
- I've been waiting for this gaming laptop deal all month, but Best Buy just swooped in at the eleventh hour
- This headstrap can add comfort and battery to your Meta Quest 3 this Black Friday
- Dragon Age players think Fallout creator's video about the worst RPG ever made is about The Veilguard, but he says it wasn't targeting anyone unless it "helps you make a better game"
- Have you ever wondered where GTA 5's powerlines go? Me neither, but the YouTuber who followed Skyrim's rivers to their source has found out and it's fascinating
- As the Final Fantasy 7 Remake saga nears its end, OG FF7 director says he's glad "we didn't mess it up"
- Steam Deck battery life torments my soul, but this $50 Black Friday gadget is the cure
- New Genshin Impact-style dragon-riding RPG borrows from The Legend of Zelda's "freedom of movement" to let you fly across its entire open world
- Stalker 2 first post-launch patch is here and includes over 650 fixes for everything from quest blockers to crashes, but GSC Game World isn't done yet
- Long time Ridley Scott collaborator slams the Gladiator 2 director for being "lazy" and "impatient" with his filmmaking: "Having lots of cameras I don’t think has made the films any better"
- The Witcher 4 will be "better, bigger, greater" than The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077: "We don't want to go back"
- Despite playing the hero in BioWare's latest, Dragon Age: The Veilguard's lead actor loved being evil in Star Wars KOTOR: "That feeling of power, it's seductive"
- Audiophiles, content creators, and control freaks, Rode has the best Black Friday deal for you
- Star Citizen has been in development for over 10 years, and it's just passed $750 million in community funding, but there's still no release date in sight
- A Studio Ghibli documentary is coming to Netflix in just a few days and it's appointment viewing for anime and Hayao Miyazaki fans
- World of Warcraft got its iconic MMO quest markers thanks to Metal Gear Solid
- This 4K gaming monitor with the same coating as your phone is down to a record low price, and I've never used a display quite like it
- Fortnite is adding more ways to bounce around the battle royale map soon with new movement mechanics, as well as a huge turtle that might make Chapter 6: Season 1 my favorite one yet
- Terraria developer says "there is no way" its sixth final update comes out before 2025 because it's "committed to being a quality-first studio"
- This essential purchase changed how I paint Warhammer
- Vin Diesel hints at behind the scenes Fast and Furious tensions as he admits he just wants the franchise to get back to "real street racing"
- Tencent's new Horizon Zero Dawn ripoff is so blatant that even Blizzard's former president is speaking up about it
- Arcane producer has the final say on explaining the Netflix show's $250 million budget: "We are a game company… We didn't lease out the work"
- Riot Games cracks down on Valorant and League of Legends streamers who promote boosting, smurfing, and buying accounts
- "There were things I wanted to say that I sometimes couldn't": Helldivers 2 community manager signs off from being a High Command spokesperson, says the shooter "has a bright future"
- The battle to be the highest-rated game of the year continues as Astro Bot finally claims the top spot from Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree
- We're not surprised this explicit Mickey Mouse joke didn't make it into Deadpool and Wolverine
- Race to clear Final Fantasy 14's latest Ultimate raid once again ends in the winning team being caught and disqualified for using one of the MMO's infamous plugins
- Acquiring the parent company of Elden Ring and Dark Souls creator FromSoftware outright might be too expensive for Sony, Japanese analysts say
- Deadpool and Wolverine hid its biggest cameos using Stranger Things code names in the script
- November 28
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- Don't buy an Xbox this Black Friday - stream Game Pass with this $75 bundle
- Marvel's answer to Overwatch is almost here, as Marvel Rivals finally goes gold
- Troy Baker originally turned down playing Indiana Jones, but took the job because it wasn't about doing "a bang on impression" of Harrison Ford
- Stop telling me I'm out of space! Here are the no-fuss PS5 SSDs I'd recommend this Black Friday
- Baldur's Gate 3 has had over 3,000 mods and 70 million mod downloads in just under 3 months, including a Larian favorite that makes enemies turn into cheese
- Black Friday Lego deals are massive this year - but I'm heading straight for these 11 sales
- I wouldn't dream of buying an RTX 4090 with this Alienware Black Friday gaming PC discount around
- This is the perfect capture card for YouTube, and its Black Friday price has made my jaw drop
- After 14 years, the 6-hour JRPG that dominated the Xbox 360's indie charts is getting a full remaster at a self-described "amazing price point"
- Avowed is "an evolution" of Obsidian's past RPGs, including The Outer Worlds and Fallout: New Vegas
- You can get 3 of the best sci-fi RPGs ever made for the price of a cup of coffee as Mass Effect Legendary Edition goes on sale for less than $5 on PC
- I've been looking for an LG OLED C4 deal all year, and Black Friday has finally delivered
- The Boys showrunner wasn't "designing it to reflect reality," but the world became bonkers and started "to reflect the show"
- Baldur's Gate 3's Patch 8 stress test is planned for early January across PC and consoles as Larian wants to "catch things before they can become an issue"
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (Nov 29-Dec 1)
- New Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning clip teases another major stunt, and you know it's a big deal because even Tom Cruise looks nervous
- Holy Black Friday Batman - this Meta Quest 3 deal comes with a $75 online gift card
- Arcane showrunner reminds fans that they "always will" listen to feedback, as long as it doesn’t overpower their vision: "At the end of the day, nobody asked for Arcane"
- Half-Life 2's anniversary update broke a simple speedrunning strat that was in use for 20 years, so Valve has now fixed the 'fix' in a new patch
- The Razer Edge does everything I wish the PlayStation Portal could, and it's new Black Friday price makes it a strong handheld alternative
- 18 years after Pokemon Diamond and Pearl, everyone is still adding Lucario and Garchomp to their parties as Scarlet and Violet player stats reveal the most popular team members
- This Half-Life: Alyx mod lets you play the entire VR game without VR, but many fans wonder why you'd want to
- Plague Inc's city-building sequel is "more happy and optimistic" than its predecessor, even if its creator thinks its $2 price tag is a "huge gamble"
- Kathryn Hahn says Agatha All Along was a "satisfying" way for her to say goodbye to Agatha Harkness, but offers one ray of hope: "We'll see what the future holds"
- Dragon Age The Veilguard player makes the number one dating mistake and pecks fan-favorite love interest’s face off with giant bird head
- Nintendo's putting a 200,000+ member Switch piracy subreddit in the crosshairs as it seeks to identify people who helped run 'Pirate Shops'
- Nvidia RTX 5090 and its kin will likely show up soon, so I'd check out this cheap Intel GPU instead of spending big
- You can grab huge discounts in Disney's Black Friday sale - but these 7 are the winners
- One GTA 3 veteran hid cheats in the code to stop hackers from finding them at launch, but his clever little trick accidentally tripped up speedrunners
- Cait and Vi's extended sex scene could still be released, but the show creator doesn't think it will happen on Netflix: "I guess it just depends on whether or not they would nuke our ratings"
- If you want more RGB in your life this Xbox Black Friday deal is sure to light up your gaming setup
- Mufasa actor Aaron Pierre pays tribute to late original Lion King star James Earl Jones: "His portrayal of Mufasa was my guiding light"
- Mufasa director Barry Jenkins ends Lion King debate on whether its animation or live action
- Indie phenomenon Balatro is one of the most-played games on Steam Deck this year, beaten only by Stardew Valley and previous GOTY winners Elden Ring and Baldur's Gate 3
- Dune's Denis Villeneuve has no interest in directing Star Wars and it's partly down to Return of the Jedi making him "so angry" in 1983: "It seemed like a recipe, no more surprises"
- Helldivers 2's current Major Order just got way easier as our bug-squashing target gets lowered by 90% after a "misplaced decimal" gave an "erroneously" large goal
- My Talking Angela celebrates 10th anniversary with a huge party event and a unique crossover
- Gearbox was "honored" to invite a terminally ill fan to play Borderlands 4 early: "His courage, strength, and determination are an inspiration to us all"
- We were all too distracted by Keanu Reeves in this Sonic 3 video to notice it spoiled a major Shadow character reveal
- Palworld's next update is coming next month, and it's 6x bigger than the survival game's last major patch
- New open-world survival game called "shameless" amid comparisons to Horizon Zero Dawn, although it'll play more like Palworld with robot creatures
- Bloodborne servers will undergo maintenance on the same day as a potential PlayStation tease, so surely nothing bad will happen this time, right?
- Arcane creator issues a 500-word response to clear up rumored behind-the-scenes issues amid negative fan reaction to season 2: "It would have been great to have more time... but we didn't have it"
- Diablo boss gets ratio'd for saying we should "normalize 'Diablo-like' for ARPGs that follow the Diablo formula," "much like 'Souls-like' and 'Rogue-like'"
- November 27
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- CD Projekt Red may not be remaking The Witcher 3, but it does want you to play the "NextGen Edition" mod that makes the RPG "more detailed and realistic"
- The new West Coast Avengers #1 explained - Everything you need to know about the new team, why there's an Ultron on the Avengers, and the classic Marvel villain behind it all
- One of the biggest mobile games ever gets a surprise 4X city-builder sequel, and its dev is "absolutely not" confident in its $2 price tag: "It's a huge gamble!"
- Sparking Zero is the best-selling Dragon Ball game ever released in the US and Bandai Namco’s biggest published title outside of Elden Ring and Dark Souls 3
- 8 years later, the No Man's Sky comeback is finally complete as it finally reaches "Very Positive" reviews on Steam: "You have no idea what this means to us"
- Keanu Reeves is somehow an even more perfect sci-fi dirtbag in Secret Level's Armored Core adaptation than he was in Cyberpunk 2077
- Larian wasn't kidding when it said it's "not quite done": Baldur's Gate 3 update will add 12 new subclasses, crossplay, photo mode, and more "next year"
- After 15 years, the ridiculous Guitar Hero DS fret grip accessory has made an unlikely comeback for Fortnite Festival
- Delta Force dev says hackers are a "long-lasting cancer" of FPS games: "It’s either us or the cheaters"
- Black Ops 6 fan gets a head start learning the new Zombies map by visiting the real-life location that influenced it
- Vampire Survivors shares a ton of updates for 2025, but they're practically indecipherable on a sinfully cryptic roadmap: "Good luck working out what's next"
- I adore the Steam Deck, and the dock I use to give it a comfy seat is under $30 for Black Friday
- Rare Lego Technic sets, Icons, and more get big discounts at Best Buy for Black Friday
- The Halo 2 Arbiter mission that Bungie scrapped 21 years ago has been officially restored as a playable Master Chief Collection mod
- Despite being the frontrunner, unlucky WoW Classic grinder loses the race to max level on the MMO's new Hardcore servers after disconnecting 6 levels before the finish line
- The best Dragon Age Origins character was nearly cut content before a writer’s pigeon trauma saved her: "The pigeons used the HVAC like some kind of sex den. Angry, ugly pigeon sex"
- Interstellar-style sci-fi RPG Exodus is getting a tabletop RPG from a former Mass Effect and OG Baldur's Gate developer
- If younger me could see how much this 4K 144Hz gaming TV is this Black Friday, they'd tell me I'm full of it
- Hey horror nerds, did you know there are new terrifyingly good Evil Dead and Halloween games? Well you do now - and you can grab them for less this Black Friday
- The same US Copyright Office decision that struck down a major game preservation effort also quietly reversed a historic DMCA win for accessibility advocates
- Death Stranding and Metal Gear Solid mastermind Hideo Kojima admits that his "work is often regarded as being similar to a movie, but at the core, games are what I create"
- While most CD Projekt Red devs are working on The Witcher 4, the RPG studio still plans to double Cyberpunk 2's team size next year
- The Witcher 4 dev says it takes 5-6 years to make a game after the idea's conception - but isn't saying when The Witcher 4 was thought up
- Alien: Romulus director says they are currently trying to find "the right story" for sequel otherwise it could be a "disaster"
- Fortnite cheaters beware, Epic Games is "ramping up legal action" and will even be banning tournament players who play in squads with hackers
- The Witcher 4 is still "the most far along" out of all of CD Projekt Red's upcoming projects as it starts "the most intensive phase of development"
- Moana 2 post-credits scenes explained: how many are there and does it set up a potential Moana 3?
- I've been testing this Game Boy micro-inspired handheld throughout Black Friday, and it's a steal for under $45
- Dragon Age and Anthem producer says live-service games can "dramatically" fail as they forget they're competing with juggernauts like World of Warcraft as they are now, not as they were 20 years ago
- This Sonic 3 popcorn bucket reveal might have spoiled a major, surprise movie cameo
- Netflix releases first trailer for latest manga adaptation of a hit psychological horror
- Some of the most popular Star Wars board games get big price cuts for Black Friday
- As The Witcher 4 enters its "full-scale production phase," fans of the RPG series think a new teaser holds answers about Project Polaris' plot
- As Troy Baker confirms he's in Naughty Dog's next game, director Neil Druckmann says it's the "most excited he has ever been" for a project
- The keyboard alternative that made me a better speedrunner is on sale for Black Friday
- Palworld and Terraria have a crossover coming in 2025, but the community manager is upset the AI accusations "will stick with us for years"
- The PS2 is firmly holding onto its astronomical sales record as Sony announces a further 5 million units were somehow sold since it last reported numbers in 2012
- Dexter prequel trailer sees Michael C. Hall return as serial killer, and fans are now convinced he's still alive
- The 75 best Black Friday deals for gamers 2024: top Nintendo Switch, PS5, Xbox, and PC discounts handpicked by a veteran deal hunter
- Loki season 2 deleted scene references the Thor: Love and Thunder post-credits, and name drops two Marvel comic characters who haven't appeared in the MCU yet
- Another studio from a legendary Dragon Age and Mass Effect veteran is set to "pause operations," leaving its AAA sci-fi game on hold indefinitely
- With Sony in talks to acquire Elden Ring developer's parent company, one investor reportedly jokes that the cost is worth it just to get director Hidetaka Miyazaki
- Terminally ill Borderlands fan who doesn't know if he "will be around for Borderlands 4" has been able to play the game early: "It was amazing"
- Keanu Reeves details the "internal journey" he went on to get into character as Shadow in Sonic 3: "It was intense"
- PlayStation veteran Shuhei Yoshida, who's been around since the very beginning, is leaving Sony after 31 years: "PlayStation is in really good hands"
- November 26
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- Squid Game season 2 trailer teases brutal new games and a whole new group of people to endure them
- Official Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero tournament ends in disaster as finalists fly up and down for 10 minutes straight, which some fans insist is peak performance
- An unlikely DCU actor says he "worked more days than anybody else" on The Suicide Squad, "including" Margot Robbie
- The devs behind the excellent League of Legends Metroidvania are making a Diablo-style co-op action RPG where everyone's a sexy surfer plundering randomized islands
- Creature Commandos star Frank Grillo says Peacemaker season 2 is all about revenge, teases his role in James Gunn's Superman
- Win a copy of Designing Terry Pratchett’s Discworld
- Win a Blu-ray of Alien: Romulus
- Star Fox 64 joins Mario and Zelda as the latest Nintendo 64 classic to get a native PC port
- You only have a couple of days left to get Disney Plus and Hulu for just $3 a month in this ridiculous Black Friday deal
- Aquaman battles a giant water kaiju in this preview of his new DC All In series
- The Lenovo Legion Go just keeps getting cheaper, and Black Friday is changing my opinion on the handheld
- Arcane season 1 teased Ekko's "boy savior" role in season 2's climactic moments – but actor Reed Shannon says he still "never saw it coming"
- Arcane showrunner reveals which death hit him in the hardest in season 2: "I just feel like more should've been said"
- Rune Factory creator and longtime Story of Seasons producer reveals new guild management fantasy RPG with romance elements
- The Witcher 4 has "entered the full-scale production phase," CD Projekt Red confirms: "Stay tuned for what’s on the other side of the coin"
- If I were you, I'd grab this Atari 400 mini and force the kids to play crusty old games over Thanksgiving
- How many episodes is Star Wars: Skeleton Crew on Disney Plus?
- Coffins and hedgehogs are the latest entries in the bizarre popcorn bucket race thanks to Sonic 3 and Nosferatu
- Crisis Core Final Fantasy 7 Reunion dropping back to its lowest ever price this Black Friday is worth a fanfare
- The Witcher and its sequel are 2 of over 100 games in GOG's growing preservation program as CD Projekt Red hopes Geralt's story will "live forever"
- Arcane's finale was originally longer as the showrunner admits "some things" were cut
- Star Wars: Skeleton Crew will arrive on Disney Plus earlier than expected as list of directors is revealed
- I'd recommend the Samsung Odyssey OLED G6 all day for 1440p gaming, and Black Friday just made it more affordable
- I'd be willing to bet your favorite podcaster uses this microphone, and it's discounted for Black Friday
- After releasing Zelda and Persona spin-offs, Dynasty Warriors dev would love to bring the series' brand of large-scale hack-and-slash fun to Star Wars and Lord of the Rings
- Vampire tale Blood Type will be the first serialized comic from Oni Press's EC Comics horror imprint
- The "choppy" animation on Powder and Ekko's dance scene in Arcane season 2 is actually a heart-wrenching Easter egg
- Arcane showrunner teases the next League of Legends project – and doesn't rule out a movie: "It comes down to finding the right people, the right vision, the right story"
- Here's how to get Paramount Plus for just $3 a month this Black Friday
- Shadow fans think they've spotted a heartbreaking video game reference in the latest Sonic 3 trailer
- Cowboy Bebop creator reveals what John Wick director told him after joining his new anime: "Don't worry about the cost"
- New Helldivers 2 Major Order acknowledges the Democracy Space Station's ability to kill friend and foe, but, "while system recalibrations continue," asks you to test some machine guns
- The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom finds its place on the official series timeline, and it comes right before the events of the first game
- Arcane showrunner defends the Netflix show against "rushed" criticisms: "I'm not happy they feel that way, but I respect that"
- Deadpool and Wolverine's Ryan Reynolds is now helping bring another, unexpected superhero to life on the big screen
- Hey Steam Deck early adopters, I found a Black Friday SSD deal specifically for you
- One of the best horror board games just got its biggest discount in a year
- League of Legends creator clarifies Arcane showrunner's comments, explaining it's actually "3 regions" not 3 new shows
- GTA 6 dev teases "integration of cutting-edge technologies" and "procedural generation" for objects and environments in Rockstar's upcoming open world
- 2K removes its unpopular launcher from Steam and Epic, just months after freeing Civ 6 from its grasp
- I'm convinced that a new Sonic 3 trailer might have solved the Rouge mystery
- Henry Cavill's live-action Voltron movie adds some unlikely cast members as director promises it will "stay true to the heart and the spirit" of the original series
- November 25
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- Mass Effect director's new studio shuts down before it can even reveal its first game after an "unexpected shortfall of funding"
- The Boys season 5 episode one title reveal looks like a direct reference to a supe with a power I cannot describe here
- Walmart Black Friday deals are finally live - these are the 11 gaming sales I'd grab first
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is "by far" the "biggest and longest game that MachineGames have ever done" with nearly 4 hours of cutscenes
- The Fantastic Four are back at the forefront of the Marvel Universe with a stunning recreation of Jim Lee's X-Men #1 cover and over 20 more homage variants
- Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer is "helping on Avowed," but he's "more interested in doing original IP" when he directs his next game
- Black Friday is trying to get me to buy an LG OLED G4, and it's winning with this deal
- After 3 years, Arcane's now responsible for a second League of Legends character revamp - this time it's a new Viktor
- I gathered the Dragon Balls and asked Shenron for a Sparking Zero discount this Black Friday
- After Echoes of Wisdom, Zelda actor says having the princess as the playable character in a Breath of the Wild-style open-world game would be "amazing"
- If you want a new obsession, this Lord of the Rings card game has never been cheaper
- I can't wait to shout about this Nintendo Switch accessory every Black Friday - and it's just dropped its price again
- First trailer for new Netflix thriller series based on another book by Fool Me Once's Harlan Coben
- Pokemon world record for the most shinies caught in 24 hours by a group has been smashed, as 92 hunters almost triple a previous record to capture 1,708 sparkly finds
- White Steam Deck OLED prices going bananas, so I'd try making your own this Black Friday
- Naughty Dog's next game will feature Joel actor Troy Baker, and suddenly I'm no longer convinced it's going to be The Last of Us 3
- One Piece creator says season 2's newcomers are the "perfect choice" after meeting them during filming
- This Black Friday deal makes starting a Pokemon card collection easier than ever
- Nova Hearts, Sanatorium, and Onirism to launch in 2025 from Shoreline Games
- Star Wars: Skeleton Crew creator says the kids in the new Disney Plus show think of Jedi like fairy tale characters: "We wanted to make sure it didn't feel like a weird meta thing"
- Stalker 2's first big patch targets main quest blockers and crashes as GSC Game World assures fans it'll "make every effort to constantly improve" the shooter
- Arcane showrunner says Cait and Vi's sex scene was originally longer and seemingly more graphic: "We got a slap on the wrist"
- As bugs weigh down review scores for Stalker 2, Dishonored and Prey creative director says the "Metacritic ecosystem encourages devs to make safe boring games"
- Sonic 3 gets an action-packed new trailer featuring Keanu Reeves' Shadow with a gun and a spot-on Pikachu joke
- The creator of Sonic 3's movie tie-in Genesis cartridge reveals what had to be cut from its 4MB storage and shares their reaction to its reveal: "I really wanted it to be something that Sonic fans would appreciate"
- Josh Brolin remembers James Cameron's reaction when he turned down a role in Avatar: "I heard he was angry"
- 2024’s most underrated horror comedy is now a hit on Amazon as it tops their charts
- Dragon Age 2 lead writer says fan-favorite Fenris "probably deserved some re-examining," even if he "turned out better than he had any right to" following the RPG's tight turnaround
- Spider-Man director canceled the sequel to his Brad Pitt and George Clooney movie because he "no longer trusted" Apple
- Dune 2 star Timothée Chalamet almost played Paul Mescal's role in Gladiator 2
- The Boys season 5 kicks off production with a behind-the-scenes cast photo, but there are a few key characters missing
- One Arcane character didn't get a single line in the finale despite an official tweet saying their story "continues" in Act 3 and fans are unhappy: "This is literally bait"
- Baldur's Gate 3 reportedly helped Larian Studios make a mind-blowing profit of $260 million in 2023, just 1 year after the RPG dev operated at a financial loss
- Arcane season 2 earns its stripes as one of the best video game adaptations of all time, ending its run with a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score
- Kraven the Hunter director asks audiences to "give us a chance" to "wash away some of the other stuff that's happened" in the Sony Marvel universe
- Arcane season 2's episode 7 masterpiece has a perfect multiverse Easter egg that you may have missed
- Sony is reportedly in the early stages of development on a new PlayStation handheld to rival the Nintendo Switch
- God of War actor Chris Judge says it's "absolutely not true" that he teased new content as "you can't tease something you know nothing about"
- November 24
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- After awards haul, Helldivers 2 devs lament the "dire state" of the games industry: "We need to be there to help each other"
- Arcane season 2 act 3 finally vindicates fans by confirming a major League of Legends theory
- Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto always knew that Navi was the "biggest weakpoint of Ocarina of Time" and once said "I wanted to remove the entire system"
- Avowed dev channels Baldur's Gate 3 by admitting that "the core of RPGs is missable content" that most players might not ever see
- A blink-and-you'll-miss-it Arcane season 2 Easter Egg makes the finale even more heart breaking and proves the animation budget was worth every penny
- Arcane may be over, but a new League of Legends show is already a year into development
- Unfazed by his Elden Ring marathon, streamer Kai Cenat sets himself up for a 1000-hour fall by saying he could beat time-eating MMO RuneScape
- Pokemon archivist spends hundreds of hours learning how to develop a website to create the ultimate TCG database, which currently includes over 23,000 cards from over 500 artists
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's director is an Xbox fan, and with Square Enix testing the multiplatform waters, he says he wants to bring the JRPG to "as many players out there as possible"
- The Simpsons: Hit & Run dev says they could've made 3 sequels without paying a penny for the license: "Some crazy person at the publisher - we never found out who - said no"
- A small detail in the Arcane season 2 finale confirms our suspicions about who the next major villain will be in future League of Legends shows
- Best Buy just dropped the best Black Friday Nintendo Switch deals I've ever seen
- November 23
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- I'm 100% sure that Arcane season 2 has introduced the next League of Legends champion, and I can't wait for them
- What happened to Jinx at the end of Arcane? A tiny animation detail and a massive throwback could explain Powder's fate
- The Final Fantasy 7 Remake team's 10 years working together puts it "in a really great position to move forward and do something even greater" once the trilogy wraps
- Super Smash Bros Melee Major ends up the first in 20 years to feature an all-new top 4, and the winner almost refunded his flight when he saw his "scary" bracket
- Skyrim player goes on intricate murder spree by stealth-killing every bandit in the land, before turning on the Emperor for their 1000th kill
- Arcane season 2 showrunner says the $250 million budget was "risky," but "it's just nice to see that we didn't waste people's money"
- Andor season 2 received no notes from Disney as showrunner reveals how the "critical appreciation" of season 1 helped allow for an unusual amount of creative freedom
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director thinks an MMO team-up with Final Fantasy 14 would be a "great idea": "There's definitely a lot of things that could possibly come up along those lines"
- Arcane season 2 showrunner says its animators were "always hunting" for chances to switch up the League of Legends show's animation style
- Avowed lead isn't worried about launching between Assassin's Creed Shadows and Monster Hunter Wilds because you're never "going to find a window where absolutely nothing is coming out"
- Borderlands 3 creative director says he left Gearbox partly because creativity can get stifled on 400-person teams: "There'd be great design ideas that would never bubble up to the top"
- Avowed might look like Skyrim, but its director says Obsidian's new fantasy RPG is actually much closer to The Outer Worlds than anything from Bethesda
- Borderlands 3 creative director says "co-op has been radically underserved for years" and that's why Helldivers 2 was such a breakout success
- "It was like f***ing Da Vinci": Almost every companion in one of the most iconic D&D RPGs ever made was crafted in "a day or less" by a guy who'd never made a 3D model before
- One of our most-anticipated JRPGs for 2025 was being made "just for fun in the beginning" and "everybody was working for free"
- Will there be an Arcane season 3? Here's what the creators have said about what's coming next
- Dragon Age creator admits "honouring previous game choices" is "a sucker's game" because "you will never be able to deliver divergent plot"
- November 22
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- Legendary Super Mario 64 speedrunner tries to beat the game blindfolded on a dance pad and fails, but not as badly as you or I would
- Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero is "strengthening timeout penalties" for rage-quitting, but all players want is for the quitters to lose
- Arcane season 2 showrunner admits he's "somewhat anxious" about the finale because there aren't many TV shows "that had an ending that everyone is satisfied with"
- Thor just came face to face with the last Asgardian he ever expected, and it could change everything
- Netflix subpoenas Discord to find the Arcane and Squid Game leaker who claimed responsibility for "the worst leak in streaming history"
- Baldur's Gate 3 dev says Stalker 2's commercial success is proof of a "seismic shift behind so much" and players are "hungry for hyper-engaging, focused experiences"
- On the eve of its finale, Arcane showrunner says "people will really not be ready" for the first episode of Act 3: "It lives a bit on its own"
- Spidey enlists the Black Cat to help him break into Doctor Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum in Amazing Spider-Man #62
- Amazon's full Black Friday sale is now live - these are the 10 deals I'd buy this weekend
- Diablo: Dawn of Hatred launches on Free Comic Book Day – 7 years after Titan announced that it would publish comics set in the world of Blizzard's dungeon crawler
- Assassin's Creed Shadows' new floor assassinations are as hilarious as they are deadly
- Mysterious Helldivers 2 update drops an Illuminate teaser so obvious that it's downright suspicious: "I wouldn't be surprised if they were just trolling us"
- Final Fantasy 14 Mobile kicked off 5 years ago when "a small team of die-hard" fans proposed the idea to MMO lead Yoshi-P, "armed with a 100-page proposal"
- The Simpsons: Hit & Run's own lead designer can't believe the open-world game's speedrunning scene: "I don't think we knew about a single one of these optimizations"
- The PS5 just crashed to a record-low price - and we're still a week away from Black Friday
- Stalker 2 sleuth discovers why the AI feels particularly harsh - it's because it is, but the devs say they're already working to fix the broken monster spawns
- Dark Souls' toughest boss duo has been transformed into some stylish glassware, which feels like fitting revenge for all the times they killed me
- Marvel star Anthony Mackie has a surprising favorite superhero – and no, it's not Falcon or Captain America
- An extended version of one of the past decade's best anime movies is now streaming for the first time ever and it's got 39 minutes of footage "never before seen outside of Japan"
- Black Friday DualSense deals have been cheaper but these PS5 discounts are better than nothing
- Rogue is dodging dinosaurs and romancing Magneto in our first look at The Savage Land #1
- Genshin competitor Wuthering Waves finally has a PS5 release date, and it's coming at the same time as the action RPG's big 2.0 update
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (Nov 22-24)
- Sorry Lego, but Mega Bloks has won me over with this Xbox 360 Black Friday deal
- Sci-fi horror series with a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score renewed for season 4 ahead of season 3 finale
- PSVR 2 is cheaper than the Quest 3S right now, and I know which one I'd buy this Black Friday
- The tragic references in Arcane season 2's opening credits could be foreshadowing the fact that none of your faves are safe as act 3 closes in
- Steam Next Fest hit that's like GTA but you're a cop instead of a robber has been delayed to 2025 to deliver "the game we believe you deserve"
- Arcane season 2 foreshadowed one of its most shocking deaths, but only if you caught this 0.2 seconds of footage in the intro
- Twisters director explains why his live-action adaptation of hit anime Your Name didn't work out: "I realized I had written something I just couldn't even shoot"
- I love playing DS games on this handheld, and Black Friday just made it a chunk cheaper
- After winning two awards, Balatro dev reveals they only started making their hit roguelike "because I had a few weeks of vacation to burn" and only thought it would be "a fun little project"
- Manor Lords dev says he's "looking forward" to updates following changes in fan requests for the city builder: "A sign things are moving forward I hope"
- Death Stranding 2 may have confirmed a returning celebrity cameo as Hideo Kojima tells Conan O'Brien "I want to scan you again" and "have you in my new game"
- Netflix removed an Arcane season 2 poster made via AI and Riot Games has swiftly responded: "It's disrespectful to the incredible artists who worked on the show"
- Henry Cavill's Highlander reboot gets new details as director explains how he convinced The Witcher star to sign up
- Enola Holmes 3 is moving forward as Netflix sequel finds director – and Millie Bobby Brown is expected to return
- Ryan Reynolds is teasing a holiday Deadpool appearance – and the Marvel sleuths are trying to work out what's going on
- After 11 years, The Witcher series is getting a brand-new book and it sounds like everything Geralt's actor wants from The Witcher 4
- Elden Ring and Dark Souls director Hidetaka Miyazaki teases that FromSoftware is already working on "various new projects" as he apologizes for the "lengthy wait" for Shadow of the Erdtree
- Sonic 3 is going to "the far reaches of space" and it's been confirmed in the most retro way imaginable
- Wicked post-credits: Is there a Wicked Part One post-credits scene?
- Marvel reveals its full slate of February 2025 comics and covers featuring the X-Men, Spider-Man, the Avengers and more
- Diablo 4 is finally getting an armory to swap between builds in season 7 PTR, which is Witchcraft-themed and also bad news for Spiritborn builds
- November 21
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- Diablo 4's season 7 PTR is an absolute bloodbath for broken Spiritborn builds as Blizzard unveils nerfs "for the long-term health of the game"
- Hideo Kojima has high praise for emotional new episode of hit Netflix anime show Dan Da Dan: "It surpassed The Boss"
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director says the JRPG's success in year-end awards proves "why it's a good thing to have it as a trilogy"
- Ralph Macchio explains how the new Karate Kid movie fits into the Cobra Kai timeline: "They're separate ecosystems"
- New Dragon Age: The Veilguard patch adds quality-of-life changes and bug fixes, but more importantly, "Rook's body shape no longer changes unexpectedly"
- GTA 6 devs tease that they're working on "absolutely mind-blowing things" and promise "more to come"
- From Deadpool and Wolverine to Dune: Part Two, all 10 of the highest-grossing movies of 2024 are sequels – and it's the first time that's happened in at least 50 years
- Here are all the Golden Joystick Awards 2024 winners
- Black Myth: Wukong is your Ultimate Game of the Year at the Golden Joystick Awards 2024
- The making of Arcane: Get a sneak-peek behind the most expensive animated show ever
- GTA 6 wins the Most Wanted Game award at the Golden Joystick Awards 2024
- After 25 years we're still only 3 games into Shenmue's 5-game saga, but the game's new publisher says "the story of Shenmue is far from over"
- Helldivers 2 takes Critics' Choice Award at the Golden Joystick Awards 2024
- Helldivers 2 wins Console Game of the Year at the Golden Joystick Awards 2024
- Satisfactory snags PC Game of the Year at the Golden Joystick Awards 2024
- Twitch streamer who gave chat the power to voice Skyrim NPCs hasn't learned his lesson and has now let them do it again in Red Dead Redemption 2: "This is my magnum opus"
- Silo season 2 stars discuss how the hit Apple sci-fi series changes things up from the books: "I was like, I’m going to die"
- Space Marine 2 devs ban mods because they're causing server stability issues, even for players who don't have mods installed
- Unreal Engine 5 shooter The Finals is going to release on PS4 this December
- The Steam Deck OLED wins the Best Gaming Hardware category at the Golden Joystick Awards 2024
- Poker roguelike Balatro wins the Critics' Choice Breakthrough Award at the Golden Joystick Awards 2024
- A new look at the immersive stealth-adventure Steel Seed is coming to the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted in December
- These colossal Black Friday PS5 game deals are making me worried for my shelf space
- Minecraft is the winner of the Still Playing Award at the Golden Joystick Awards 2024
- Tekken hits hard in the latest issue of Retro Gamer
- Josh Brolin says he’ll "quit acting" if "master filmmaker" Denis Villeneuve doesn’t receive an Oscar nomination for Dune 2
- New factory automation game Outworld Station is preparing for deployment into Steam early access
- Jotunnslayer: Hordes of Hel early access release date announced at the Golden Joystick Awards 2024
- Lethal Company wins Best Early Access Game at The Golden Joystick Awards 2024
- Assassin's Creed Shadows brings back double assassinations as it renews the series' stealth focus with dedicated crouch and prone movement
- Modders are already making Stalker 2 run better and have removed the most annoying mechanic in the game
- Astro Bot developer Team ASOBI is crowned Studio of the Year at the Golden Joystick Awards 2024
- I Am Cat VR arrived at the Golden Joystick Awards with a release date and one of the most chaotic trailers of 2024
- Forget Hollow Knight 2, this dazzling new hand-animated Metroidvania is the one I'm looking out for in 2025
- Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree wins Best Game Expansion at the Golden Joystick Awards 2024
- Avowed is an RPG that aims to respect your time: "I'm getting older, I got a lot of responsibilities, I don't got time for a 500-hour game"
- Helldivers 2 takes home the prize for Best Multiplayer Game at the Golden Joystick Awards 2024
- The Bad Guys 2 filmmakers break down the first trailer introducing a new all-female gang: "We wanted to play with something else than the typical James Bond male villain"
- Over 40 years after its anime debut, Disney Plus is reviving this adaptation of a beloved manga
- Dragon Age creator reveals that one of the RPG series' most iconic characters was originally cast thanks to a rendition of Baby Got Back
- Wicked director says he knew he'd captured movie magic with Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande on the very first day of shooting
- Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein gets spooky first look with Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi
- Are mobile controllers too small for your hands? You need to know about this Black Friday deal
- The Conjuring star's farewell message to the horror franchise seemingly kills off hopes of them appearing in the new TV series
- Shadow's Japanese voice actor in Sonic 3 is just as perfect as Keanu Reeves – he's the voice of Sephiroth in multiple Final Fantasy games
- Despite its perfect Rotten Tomatoes score, Arcane season 2 has been toppled in the Netflix streaming charts by an unlikely drama
- Best Buy's winning Black Friday for gamers - these are the 33 best deals I'd buy this week
- Square Enix finally removes its ban on sharing Final Fantasy 7's biggest spoiler, 27 years after it first happened in the original JRPG
- The Asus ROG Ally X just got Black Friday'd, and I'd pick it up if you're tormented by handheld battery life
- Mortal Kombat 2's R-rating description suggests it's going to be even bloodier than the 2021 original
- If your PC isn't powerful enough to handle Stalker 2's impeccably janky vibes, I'm here to tell you that the best way to play it is on GeForce Now
- New Wallace and Gromit trailer confirms Christmas release, teases more Feathers McGraw, and the return of Peter Kay’s policeman
- Iconic '80s horror The Fly was a big inspiration for new Wolf Man movie, says director: "This is about the tragedy of the human body falling apart"
- The identity of Sonic 3's post-credits character might have been revealed – thanks to this incredible poster theory
- I don't know who needs to hear this, but this huge 4K OLED monitor is worth grabbing for your PS5 instead of a TV this Black Friday
- Steam is forcing games to be more clear about what's in their season passes - and only allowing devs with "a proven track record" to sell them
- Wicked director teases "maybe a new song or two" in Part 2, and says "the best is yet to come with these characters"
- Helldivers 2 creative director once said transmog "doesn't make sense" for the shooter, but has now confirmed Arrowhead is "looking into" armor color customization
- Jack Black went "as method as it gets" to play Steve in the Minecraft movie: "He was just slaying it in the Overworld"
- Marvel Rivals reveals another new hero just weeks before the shooter's release, and fans think he looks like two Overwatch 2 characters
- Final Fantasy 14's Yoshi-P assures that the MMO's mobile spin-off won't be a gacha game as "that's not what we're about"
- Scream 7 just cast Sidney's daughter, and horror fans already think she'll be the killer
- Wicked director explains why the movie's version of Defying Gravity is different to the show's: "We had to break that up a little bit, which is scary"
- Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 disastrous launch meant it briefly surpassed Overwatch 2 as one of the worst-rated games on Steam ever
- Marvel might have dropped its biggest hint yet that the Young Avengers are joining the MCU in a very unexpected way
- The Batman star Robert Pattinson to reunite with director Christopher Nolan as a lead in his next mystery movie
- After the success of Baldur's Gate 3, Hasbro has a new Dungeons & Dragons game in the works: "We want to reach fans where they want to play"
- Assassin's Creed 2's Ezio actor says getting to play the iconic assassin remains "the single coolest thing I've done in my career"
- 24 hours after Diablo 4 players started using bugged Elixirs to give themselves millions of health, Blizzard is "rolling a patch" to fix them
- As Baldur's Gate 3 reaches bigger heights in 2024 than 2023, Larian publishing chief says it's a "pleasant surprise" and "we're not quite done yet"
- November 20
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- Star Wars Outlaws is "removing forced stealth from almost all quest objectives"
- Xbox Game Pass subscribers can now stream 50 "select" games from their own libraries, letting you "play Baldur's Gate 3 on mobile"
- Daniel Craig and Challengers director Luca Guadagnino are looking to join James Gunn's DC Universe with Sgt. Rock movie
- As Stalker 2 bug reports roll in, dev warns "there may still be rough edges" because "we literally haven't released anything of this scale before"
- Scott Pilgrim creator says the Scott Pilgrim Takes Off anime is officially dead
- After 35 years, the actor behind The Simpsons' lovable nerd Milhouse is retiring - but not before one last Treehouse of Horror
- Five years after it was announced, Marvel is finally releasing its Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker comic adaptation, complete with extra scenes not in the film
- Kingdom Hearts 2 streamer spends 2 hours grinding a 9999-hit combo, gets enough cash for 1.2 healing potions: "This is possibly the most stressful thing I've ever done"
- Suits fan-favorite character Harvey Specter will return in upcoming spin-off as actor teases: "When an old friend is in need, it’s time to take care of things"
- Mad Cave brings classic manga Speed Racer to comics next Free Comic Book Day with a special #0 from Savage Avengers and Space Ghost writer David Pepose
- Our number one favorite Xbox controller just received its debut discount at Amazon before Black Friday
- Fortnite is getting another new battle pass and its regular one is getting more expensive, but at least Crew subscriptions are about to become better value for money
- A speedrunner just beat Need for Speed: Most Wanted's world record by 90 minutes - by using Half-Life's Gordon Freeman instead of a car
- Jeff Goldblum says he has "no tips whatsoever" for Jonathan Bailey in Jurassic Park: "Your broad shoulders can handle any dinosaur"
- No Man's Sky dev says implementing 8K visuals into the PS5 Pro version "completely reset my world view" on the "repeated narrative" that there's no difference between 4K and 8K
- Michael Fassbender says "never say never" to returning as X-Men's Magneto
- The monstrous Asus ROG Phone 8 Pro is down to a record low price, and I'd use it as a catch all Black Friday pickup
- Avengers: Secret Wars really leads us into the age of X-Men at Marvel, says Kevin Feige
- This 3D printer deal for beginners feels like highway robbery
- Black Friday PS Plus deals will save you up to 30% on subscriptions this weekend
- Here's how to watch the Golden Joystick Awards 2024, hosted by Final Fantasy 16 favorite Ben Starr
- After Super Mario 64's new speedrunning GOAT prompts rumors of the game's death, another runner says it "isn't dead, and it won't be for a long time"
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard director says chasing industry trends with Mass Effect: Andromeda and Anthem "starts to dilute your focus," so he wanted to get back to BioWare's "very real strength"
- New Alien: Earth teaser trailer confirms we were completely wrong about the timeline, and sets up a close link to Ridley Scott's Alien
- Kevin Feige re-confirms Fantastic Four's future MCU plans: "All those characters go right into the next Avengers movies"
- As Sony's reported plans to acquire Dark Souls and Elden Ring developer's parent company get flagged as "unclear information" by Tokyo Stock Exchange, Kadokawa confirms "no decision has been made"
- We can't live without this Nintendo Switch accessory and it's now returned to its lower ever price before Black Friday
- Former Blizzard boss says "the only thing bigger" than Sony buying FromSoftware would be if it bought Valve or Nintendo
- Quick! Newegg's Black Friday price protection guarantee ends today - these are the six deals I'd buy before time runs out
- Shudder is releasing a new horror anthology series in December, and the first episode sounds suitably chilling
- The PlayStation Portal can finally stream games without a PS5, and I'll take that over a Black Friday discount
- Netflix's record-breaking sci-fi thriller Alice in Borderland gets season 3 release window, almost 3 years after its last season
- 54 years after its release, one of the best anime shows is finally making its streaming debut
- How to Train Your Dragon fans praise live-action movie trailer's Toothless despite initial concerns over his design
- One of Arcane season 2's most heartbreaking scenes was somehow hand-drawn "entirely in charcoal"
- Denzel Washington says two more Equalizer movies are on the way: "We’re doing four and five"
- One Superman actor has seen a sneak peek of the trailer for James Gunn's new movie: "I had goosebumps. That's how great it is"
- The new PlayStation Portal cloud streaming beta essentially turns it into a $200 PS5
- 7 years after being delisted for a second time, the 2013 Deadpool game just got a mysterious update on Steam alongside 6 other delisted Activision games
- "No, I don't think Palworld was snubbed": Palworld community lead responds to Game Awards backlash, says "Not everything is a conspiracy"
- The final Arcane season 2 trailer has totally sold me on a fan theory that suggests one character is finally locking in their signature ability
- James Gunn says the new Batman movie isn't ready to be made yet and no DC movie will be made until there's a "screenplay that I'm totally happy with"
- Star Wars' anime series returns in 2025 for a third season – including a short from one of the studios behind Attack on Titan
- Final Fantasy 14 is coming to mobile so sprouts can experience the "grandeur of the original's story and combat," and card game sickos like me have another way to play Triple Triad
- As Remedy nearly breaks even with Alan Wake 2 sales, Sam Lake tells investors "we strive to create commercial hits" but "we must never lose" the studio's special sauce
- November 19
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- DC says Absolute Batman is already the best-selling comic of 2024
- Fable 4 reportedly has Witcher 3-like combat, CDPR DNA, and a whole lot of polish for an alpha build
- William Shatner 'returns' as Captain Kirk in emotional new Star Trek short film, and it might be one of the best examples of de-aging we've seen yet
- Valve was "pretty close to going bankrupt" until it was saved from a pre-Half-Life 2 lawsuit by a summer intern who happened to major in Korean language studies
- James Gunn's DCU names its Clayface, starting with Creature Commandos
- Balatro creator reacts to The Game Awards noms by telling you to play other indie games that weren't nominated: "I just happen to be the lucky one to be propped up"
- New Minecraft movie trailer sees Jack Black "yearn for the mines" while being chased by skeletons alongside a pink leather jacket-wearing Jason Momoa
- Charlie Cox says Marvel considered "reinventing" Matt Murdock for Daredevil: Born Again before deciding to make it a continuation of the Netflix show
- New on Netflix: The biggest movies and shows to watch this week (Nov 19-24)
- This RTX 4060 Ti gaming PC might be the DDR5 upgrade you've been putting off
- Arcane season 2 showrunner teases "massive, massive repercussions" for Jayce, Vi, and Jinx as the League of Legends spin-off draws to its finale
- Sci-fi survival sandbox Starbound just got its first PC update in 5 years - a hotfix so tiny that it's pretty much the saddest update I've ever seen
- Arcane team break down Act 2's most shocking moment: "What's wrong with you? Why did you write that?"
- Arcane showrunner teases future of Caitlyn and Vi's relationship: "There is love, but the question is 'can it survive?'"
- Arcane star Ella Purnell broke the sound booth during her Jinx fight scenes: "I do karate chop movements in my booth"
- Silent Hill 2 creeps its way into Woot's early Black Friday game deals with its first ever major discount
- Manor Lords dev responds to criticism of his city builder's updates, saying that while they're not always "impressive to show off," he wants to "focus on issues that people comment on"
- Out of nowhere, League of Legends' "greatest roster of all time" is over as two-time world champion abruptly leaves his team
- Stalker 2 release time – the countdown to the horror-soaked FPS is finally on after 14 years
- For under $500, you can forget Black Friday and buy my favorite mini LED TV of the year
- After 28 years, Pokemon Red and Green have been dethroned as the best-selling Pokemon games in Japan
- Rockstar isn't done updating the GTA Trilogy after its recent big patch, with another now on the way
- Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree shouldn't be eligible for Game of the Year
- Palworld's best defense against part of Nintendo's lawsuit could be an 8-year-old GTA 5 mod, according to one patent expert
- First teaser for Dungeons and Dragons Secret Level episode is here tapping into some major game lore
- James Gunn reveals Lanterns has a 2026 release window, "around the same time" as Supergirl
- New Captain America: Brave New World image reveals first look at Danny Ramirez's Falcon
- Baldur's Gate 3 is doing even better in 2024 than it did in 2023, with daily users up 20%, and Larian thinks it knows why: "Mods are very good"
- Deadpool and Wolverine becomes the most watched live-action movie on Disney Plus since Black Panther 2
- Spider-Man fans are convinced a Beyond the Spider-Verse announcement is imminent after a 20-foot Miles Morales logo appeared in New York
- James Gunn answers everyone's big question about how Peacemaker's first season fits into new DC canon, but there's one exception that they will "deal with" in season 2
- Hey handheld kids, I want to talk about the MSI Claw before Black Friday kicks off
- Elden Ring and Dark Souls parent company is reportedly in talks to be acquired by Sony, so surely that Bloodborne remake is a step closer now
- Dev behind one of 2024's best indie horror games celebrates 1 million soundtrack streams on Spotify: "I can buy like two hot dogs with the revenue"
- Dragon Quest 3 remake producer wants Final Fantasy 6 to get the HD-2D treatment because it has "the highest quality pixel art"
- November 18
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- James Gunn says "more than one" potentially R-rated DC projects are currently in the works: "Whatever is worthy of the story"
- 3 months after launch, Star Wars Outlaws' next big update is starting to sound like a whole new open-world game
- As if Silent Hill 2 Remake wasn't scary enough, now you can play it in first-person VR with full motion controls thanks to this mod built for braver people than me
- After 4 years, Tom Hardy’s long-awaited Netflix action thriller finally gets a first look and release date
- Zelda cosplayer struggling with "impossible" Link design flaw finds solution after Smash Bros creator Masahiro Sakurai steps in to help
- After 7 years, a forgotten Team Fortress 2 taunt is in the spotlight as the ultimate meme expression of FPS dominance: "You either Yeti cancel or the Yeti cancels you"
- Star Wars Outlaws, Hellblade 2, and Space Marine 2 are leading Xbox's Black Friday offerings so far
- The Game Awards nominees prove that 2024 is the year of the JRPG, with Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and Metaphor ReFantazio leading the field
- Half-Life 2: Episode 3 never happened because Valve lead Gabe Newell thought just “pushing the story forward” wasn’t a good enough reason to make a game
- Ghost Rider '44 and the Hellhunters have a new recruit in their fight against demonically-possessed Nazis: a 15-year-old Bucky Barnes
- One of the most popular board games just got a massive discount ahead of Black Friday
- Tron 3 gets a new look as director teases a "grittier, more industrial" sequel
- New Arcane season 2 trailer teases the emotional final episodes – and it's hidden away on Netflix
- Apple TV’s Godzilla spin-off Monarch: Legacy of Monsters season 2 gets first look as production is now officially underway
- Nobody 2 first look sees a blood-soaked Bob Odenkirk ready for action
- Woot is holding nothing back for its early Black Friday Nintendo Switch game deals
- 13 years since the last movie, Jude Law has a promising update on Sherlock Holmes 3: "The hope is we’re still going to do it"
- Dragon Quest 3 remake producer would "love" to do more HD-2D JRPG remakes, but with 9 releases in 7 years, he worries fans may get "bored" of them
- Super Mario 64 speedrunning is "dead" after one runner claims all 5 major categories in what's being dubbed "the greatest speedrunning achievement of all time"
- Jayce's controversial arc in Arcane season 2 has fans shaken, but one theory suggests it could all tie to the most dangerous place in League of Legends lore
- Clementine Book Three promises a "heart-wrenching finale" to The Walking Dead spinoff
- New sneak peek of the Doctor Who Christmas Special teases a familiar enemy – and dinosaurs
- Ghostbusters star Dan Ackroyd doesn't think the original cast will return again: "I don't see that coming"
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure creator slams AI "fraudsters'" influence over the manga industry after seeing a drawing so eerily reminiscent of his work he thought it was his
- Red Dead Redemption 2's very own Arthur Morgan says he wishes that he could work with "genius" Metal Gear mastermind Hideo Kojima
- One Arcane season 2 theory is so good that it might have already spoiled act 3 – and could explain where Ekko has been this whole time
- I might just buy an Xbox this Black Friday - but you can bet I'm grabbing this early storage deal first
- Simon Pegg says Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is the best in the series and praises Tom Cruise's latest stunts: "It's absolutely bananas"
- Ryan Reynolds would love to return to do Deadpool 4, but says "there's a reason it's been six years since the last one"
- Criticism of Arcane's reported $250 million budget is "silly from our perspective," says LoL co-creator, and Hollywood just can't understand "why we would do this"
- As Metal Gear Solid 2 surpasses its 23rd anniversary, Hideo Kojima says "I sacrificed many things to create the games the way I wanted"
- League of Legends creator clears up "confusion" over Arcane's 'five-season plan': "Arcane was always written to be two seasons"
- As Helldivers 2's new Democracy Space Station guns down the divers who helped build it, one dev says Arrowhead need to "own that and adapt" but warns that "things are rarely crap or fantastic" at first
- November 17
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- Deadpool and Wolverine's ending was tweaked in a "day-and-a-half" of reshoots after a pitch-perfect note from Blake Lively
- Solo city builder dev says indie developers' efforts need to count: "You can't polish up that turd, you need to let go and move on"
- Piglet's kid-friendly take on Resident Evil and Silent Hill is having a viral moment, and now its old director is sharing a fascinating Behind-the-Scenes peek
- As Rockstar prepares for GTA 6, one former dev explains how the pitch for GTA 5 was to do everything "bigger and better" than GTA 4
- The Boys creator Eric Kripke says he "lives in absolute terror" that the show will become the thing they have been parodying
- Black Ops 6 player spent nearly 20 hours grinding to Prestige without getting a single kill, all by spamming Spy Cams
- Martin Scorsese has shared a movie recommendation for one of the year's most underseen horror films
- Ryan Reynolds reveals his favorite scene from Deadpool And Wolverine and it's an unexpected, emotional choice
- After 4 World of Warcraft events launched with bad loot this year alone, Blizzard admits that it can "start to seem like a pattern"
- After 20 years of WoW updates, will Blizzard ever need to wipe the slate clean? Maybe "at some long, distant point," but the MMO has already been totally "rebuilt"
- November 16
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- After he "lived in fear" of on-set leaks, Ryan Reynolds had a surprisingly straightforward plan to stop Deadpool and Wolverine spoilers from getting out: "Everyone runs for cover"
- "It makes me sick": Skyrim modder with 475,000 downloads, fed up with "daily harassment," abandons modding after "thousands of hours" of work on what she calls "the most advanced follower to ever exist"
- BioWare art director is sharing more Dragon Age: The Veilguard concept art, including the very first piece he made for BioWare's latest RPG
- After failing his deathless GTA 5 run 8 times, Red Dead Redemption 2 streamer spends 45 hours beating Rockstar's Western with no deaths on the third try
- Finally, our first look at the chaotic gameplay footage of The Binding of Isaac multiplayer, the online update we've been waiting a decade for
- As Arcane showrunners protest that their $250 million budget is quite cheap for 18 episodes, 1 anime director points out that its costs 25 times more per episode than his show
- Former The Elder Scrolls Online lead says Bethesda was such an amazing partner that it was harder to make a WoW-free MMO than it was to make a good Elder Scrolls MMO
- Arcane season 2 showrunner explains that some of that $250 million budget came about because "no one has ever made a great thing by not taking bets"
- Arcane showrunner explains why it's ending with season 2 as he once again hints at future stories: “We spent nine years at this point on these 11 or so characters”
- The plot for Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 is complete, and the team is now moving forward with the JRPG's development
- Dune: Prophecy star compares her character's dysfunctional marriage to another HBO show: "There are aspects of Tony Soprano somewhere in there"
- WoW lead says "big bets" with World of Warcraft: The War Within were worth it – "Of course, yes, if I could catch that scaling bug, I'd love to go back"
- Dune: Prophecy star Travis Fimmel compares his role in the sci-fi prequel to his work on Vikings
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (Nov 15-17)
- November 15
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- There are random shots of Wolverine's ass in one Deadpool and Wolverine scene because of a cut Captain America joke: "That's why I did that shot – to feature Canada's Ass"
- In an expansion-heavy time for Xbox, Phil Spencer says he doesn't like "expansions that are manipulative" – "I don't want it to be, like, the third level that you cut"
- Penguin theory argues one unsuspecting character is secretly an iconic Batman villain that we haven’t seen since the Christopher Nolan trilogy
- Meet Elden Ring's newest hero: the Lore Accurate Knight, a sword-and-board legend crushing bosses with a simple Dark Souls-inspired loadout
- Dune: Prophecy star Olivia Williams didn't realize what she was taking on when she joined the sci-fi franchise until she told the guy fixing her wifi: "I was like, 'Okay, this is something I've got to take seriously'"
- Arcane: What is the Black Rose in League of Legends, and what does it mean for Mel and Ambessa?
- Stellar Blade dev says no, its RPG shooter about staring contests with anime butts (which you always win because butts don't have eyes) isn't getting a Netflix anime
- Dune: Prophecy showrunner wants to "continue the momentum" of the movies: "It’s an amazing time to be a Dune fan"
- Deadpool, Wolverine, and Cable unite to form a "badass" new mutant strike force in Weapon X-Men
- One of last year's best PC survival games is coming to PS5 next year, and now it's got a 2-hour demo
- 10,000 glowing Steam reviews in, anime Stardew Valley-like Fields of Mistria reveals "major update" with, oh my goodness, mounts to ride around on
- DC reveals its full slate of February 2025 comics and covers featuring Batman, Superman, the Justice League, and more
- The official Fantastic Four: First Steps synopsis has been revealed in a surprising way, and it teases a "very personal" conflict in the Marvel movie
- Warcraft 3: Reforged's 2.0 patch temporarily blocked access to the original RTS, with players who've owned the classic version for decades told that their license isn't valid
- Mario & Luigi: Brothership sets sail with its first ever discount right before Black Friday
- PSA: More PS5 30th Anniversary Edition stock might go live over the next week
- Dune: Prophecy star praises Timothee Chalamet and Zendaya, talks stepping into 'unbelievably difficult shoes' when making the new prequel series
- After Starfield: Shattered Space's mixed reviews, Todd Howard wondered if Bethesda should "have waited to put buggies out"
- The early 2025 game avalanche just got worse: Fallout and Metro-inspired survival game Atomfall is coming in March
- The original Thunderbolts lineup is coming back – and now they're working for Doctor Doom
- Helldivers 2's new Democracy Space Station is killing so many Helldivers that the devs are giving out free shields and extra lives in a "temporary" emergency fix
- As viral Piglet game hits $300 resale amid Silent Hill and Resident Evil comparisons, collectors say it's "the perfect encapsulation of why retro game collection f***ing sucks now"
- After being announced 20 years ago, Tom Hardy's "awesome" Splinter Cell movie is now officially dead
- Matt Reeves has finally explained why Batman doesn't intervene in The Penguin
- Ubisoft kills "inaccurate rumors" around Assassin's Creed Animus Hub: rewards are "entirely free," no paid sub or battle pass, and "no extra cost" to missions
- Ryan Reynolds shares an "abandoned" scene from Deadpool and Wolverine, featuring a namedrop of X-Men's Jean Grey
- Phil Spencer says Xbox will "definitely do more consoles" as he seems to take a jab at the PS5 Pro: "We don't need to do incremental hardware for our own benefit"
- These early Asus ROG Ally Black Friday deals are keeping me from thinking about the white Steam Deck
- After leading his own RPG to release, Dragon Age: The Veilguard lead dubs Hideo Kojima as "one of the few people" who deserves the title of "auteurship"
- A new Sonic 3 image has a suspiciously large empty space – and it could be hiding a secret cameo
- The Boys season 5 cast still doesn't know how the series will end, but they do know when filming will start, and it's very soon
- Rogue One's Ben Mendelsohn teases his Andor arrival in perfect Krennic fashion: "I think it's a bit of a mismatch"
- Get $888 of Pathfinder RPG books for $30 with the best bundle I've ever seen
- Job ad reveals Blizzard's unannounced "open-world shooter game," and that's all the evidence I need to get overhyped about that rumored StarCraft shooter
- Mass Effect veterans' new sci-fi RPG Exodus teases that "all your missions are gonna include choices that have impact"
- CEO behind GTA Trilogy calls out Rockstar's "d*ck move" for removing his studio's name, claiming that "hundreds of fixes" had "stayed out of players' hands for years"
- Gladiator 2 post-credits scene: does the sequel have a post-credits scene?
- November 14
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- Dune: Prophecy star that previously said "it’s not like Star Wars" clarifies her comments about the upcoming prequel series: "Everything is relative"
- That slick Prince of Persia action roguelike from the Dead Cells co-dev is getting a huge update that throws out the old art style and doubles the content
- Avowed is selling 5 days of early access, and in a surprise twist fueled by Xbox buying everyone, Obsidian's RPG is coming to Activision Blizzard's Battle.net
- Star Wars fans get first look at underrated villain in Andor season 2
- Blood Hunt may be over but now She-Hulk and the Avengers face a new vampire problem: protecting them from the Nightstalkers
- Under PS5 dominance, Microsoft says you don't need a console at all, actually everything is an Xbox, and "you're probably reading this right now from an Xbox"
- Stardew Valley creator ConcernedApe says he's "got way into Balatro" after designing collab art for the poker-themed roguelike, and it's like being "in a trance"
- Recreating a 36-year-old JRPG classic put a mountain of pressure on the Dragon Quest 3 remake devs: "If this fails, I won't be able to stay in the industry"
- I don't usually see gift card deals like this until the very end of Black Friday
- Baldur's Gate 3 dev begs console players to exercise modding restraint, because a new hotfix is about to make your saves temporarily unplayable if you have 100+ installed
- Sonic the Hedgehog's associate lore manager shares an important correction: Sonic is still homeless and "always has been"
- No! Stay with me! – Rare and valuable sneak peeks into countless Steam games could dry up as "private branches" spread on SteamDB
- After the death and destruction of The Penguin finale, one of its most low-key scenes may be hiding the villains for The Batman 2 in plain sight
- 10 years after her last movie, Cameron Diaz teams up with Jamie Foxx in the first trailer for new Netflix action-comedy – and it's like Spy Kids meets John Wick
- Helldivers 2's Democracy Space Station only just started working, but it's already "under imminent and significant threat of destruction" as a brigade of flying bots arrives on the scene
- Silo showrunner teases season 2's dramatic opening episode, from a cameo twist to Rebecca Ferguson's Juliette's survival mission
- Legend of Zelda mastermind Eiji Aonuma says he always focuses on gameplay before story: "I've never really made a game where you think of the story first"
- Singer Robbie Williams is played by a CGI monkey in emotional new trailer for The Greatest Showman director's musical biopic with a great Rotten Tomatoes score
- GTA Trilogy developer seemingly unfollows Rockstar on social media after new update removes its name from menu screens
- PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted details trailers for its December showcase, and new entries to "the Council"
- Netflix's Top 10 movies just got a new contender for the #1 spot: Alita: Battle Angel
- The PS5 Pro just got its first ever price cut and Black Friday hasn't even started yet
- DC's Mistress of Magic Zatanna is back on tour in a new comic from Superman and Far Sector artist Jamal Campbell
- Airbnb and Gladiator 2 are teaming up to let you battle in the Rome Colosseum
- I've been tracking Black Friday iPad deals for five years - these are the tablets I'd buy this week
- Glen Powell is "grateful" that Christopher Nolan "took a shot" by casting him in The Dark Knight Rises when he was a struggling actor
- I hope you saved room after Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered because the Horizon MMO could be on its way as early as next year
- Helldivers 2's Democracy Space Station is finally operational, and the "Weapon of Mass Liberation" has already destroyed "a small moon"
- After a lukewarm reception to Ted Lasso season 3, Jason Sudeikis strikes back at the show's critics: "Some people want to judge – they don't want to be curious"
- Following millions of pre-registrations, cozy open-world game Infinity Nikki finally reveals its release date - and it's coming soon
- Denzel Washington reveals his Gladiator 2 character "actually kissed a man" in the movie, but it was cut: "I think they got chicken"
- The Rock watched Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan's IMAX seat and had an epiphany about Christmas car crash Red One: "It can be game over"
- Marvel TV head says there's a wider MCU future planned for Daredevil and Punisher following Daredevil: Born Again
- Massive Pokemon leak is over for now as leakers say staying online while Nintendo searches for them "would not be smart," but call out other leakers for spreading "fake" information before they leave
- Avowed wasn't delayed "because Obsidian needed the time" to improve the RPG, but rather because "they'll use the time"
- One Deadpool and Wolverine Easter egg just got debunked, even though director Shawn Levy also thought it was real
- Silo showrunner reveals that star Rebecca Ferguson did all of season 2's incredible underwater stunt scenes for real: "To her that's fun"
- Andor season 2 is introducing a ship from a beloved 30-year-old Star Wars game to canon
- November 13
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- Stardew Valley creator kills the coyote he just invented with new Switch update that fixes "the bomb crash, disappearing chickens, and more"
- Red Hulk gets his own comic series just in time for Captain America: Brave New World
- Sonic 3 director says "a lot of care and love" has gone into telling Shadow's story
- No Man's Sky dev shares another reminder of how hard game dev is: 20 different formats to balance, with "around 140 combinations of graphics options" on PC
- Netflix closes the loop as Wednesday season 2 casts Lady Gaga after her hit song 'Bloody Mary' went viral with videos of Jenna Ortega's dancing
- RTS classics Warcraft and Warcraft 2 surprise drop remasters with "brand new, hand-drawn visuals" that you can swap in and out in real time
- The First Descendant devs have "important news" for fans of the RPG shooter: "A decision has been made to add the much-requested 'Jiggle Physics'"
- Amazing Spider-Man #61 explained - Everything you need to know about Spidey's new powers, new villains, new costume, and his connection to Doctor Doom
- Netflix drops first The Night Agent season 2 trailer and release date as 2023's most-watched original thriller series returns in early 2025
- Diablo 4 season 7 promises an "upheaval" for your broken Spiritborn builds: "Enjoy what you've got now while it's there"
- WoW Classic is getting Mists of Pandaria servers next year, and Blizzard is "staying true" to the 12-year-old MMO expansion "pretty much across the board"
- Blizzard digs StarCraft out of the attic just long enough to release a Hearthstone mini set with cards featuring the Zerg, Terran, and more
- World of Warcraft is finally getting player housing: the Midnight expansion adds a feature that MMOs like Final Fantasy 14 have had for years
- Xbox faces hundreds of striking employees as union at Bethesda parent ZeniMax stages a walkout to "tell Microsoft to stop dragging their feet"
- Warcraft 3: Reforged was so bad that Blizzard changed its refund policy – now it's getting a second chance with a huge 2.0 update
- 50 years after it began, iconic sci-fi comic Metal Hurlant is back with Hawkeye writer Matt Fraction and a host of big name comic creators
- My favorite Lego Star Wars diorama just hit its lowest ever price
- Nearly two years later, the DualSense Edge refuses to drop by more than $10 for Black Friday
- One Silo season 2 actor wanted Apple to hold back details about his mysterious newcomer until after the show had aired: "That would have been kind of cool"
- Sonic 3 director teases that more "new characters" will be introduced at the end of the movie: "It's fun to see the fan debates about who's coming up next"
- "We've given up half the industry to games as a service," says solo city builder dev, and indies are "earning half of what we were earning 4 years ago"
- Before Persona veterans decided Metaphor: ReFantazio had to be a fantasy JRPG, they had "talks about making a science-fiction universe"
- Ryan Reynolds' mystery Deadpool project was actually a Disney Plus promo with a very un-Disney joke about that gross popcorn bucket
- After cutting 2,500 jobs in under one year, Phil Spencer says he feels good about the industry and that "the Xbox business has never been more healthy"
- This is the cheapest gaming laptop I recommend - and its RTX 4070 configuration just dropped below $1,000 ahead of Black Friday
- Directors of hit Netflix thriller Don't Move have talked with Spider-Man's Sam Raimi about doing a live-action Miles Morales movie
- Several Star Wars movies that you probably thought were scrapped, including from Taika Waititi and Shawn Levy, are still in development
- New Secret Level trailer features a closer look at scrapped game Concord's adaptation and John Wick star Keanu Reeves in Armored Core
- After their chill fishing game peaks at more than 20,000 concurrents, dev reveals they thought "maybe like 100 people would play it ever"
- Doctor Who writer reveals first plot details for the mysterious 2024 Christmas special
- Glen Powell has hilarious response to rumors he will replace Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible: "That's the worst gig in town"
- BioWare veterans place their new sci-fi space adventure Exodus on two crucial RPG spectrums: Skyrim to Final Fantasy, and Dragon Age to Mass Effect
- Xbox handheld prototypes are already in the works, Phil Spencer confirms, but the actual device is still years away
- Xbox boss Phil Spencer says there are "no red lines" preventing Microsoft games releasing on PlayStation, but it's too early to make decisions about Halo on PS5
- 38 years later, Dragon Quest creator says losing half of your money after falling in battle was intended as a kindness to get JRPG players on board with leveling up
- Deadpool and Wolverine creators used comic superfans to source Wolverine variants – and even Steven Spielberg was involved
- Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbender season 2 finds its villain in Mortal Kombat star
- A Quiet Place and Black Panther star joins Christopher Nolan's mysterious new movie
- Arcane season 2 Easter egg superimposes the Grim Reaper onto Caitlyn's face, and I'm sure that can only be good news
- HBO boss speaks out on George R.R. Martin's House of the Dragon criticism: "I would prefer everybody get along"
- We all wondered why there was no Fallout game announcement to go with the Fallout TV show, but Phil Spencer says it was a good thing: "That gave us some creative liberty"
- Arcane's animation director was "thankful" that CaitVi kiss didn't happen until season 2: "I don't think we would've done a good job"
- There are reportedly multiple Rey Star Wars projects in the works: "She is the most valuable cinematic asset"
- Helldivers 2's Terminid Jurassic Park has, shockingly, backfired horrifically, all while Super Earth soldiers are busy trying to get the Democracy Space Station running
- Deadpool and Wolverine's Shawn Levy was "one of 40 directors" who held talks over Channing Tatum's canceled Gambit movie
- There are so many changes in the GTA Trilogy patch that Rockstar didn't even try to list them - but the port's original devs have been scrubbed from title screens
- Marvel boss Kevin Feige says they used Logan as the blueprint for Iron Man's death in Avengers: Endgame
- "I accept the blame": Stardew Valley creator ConcernedApe address broken mods after recent patch, says he will "release fewer, large patches" in future
- Monster Hunter Wilds isn't the only upcoming Capcom action RPG, as it reveals Monster Hunter Outlanders – a mobile title with a "massive open world"
- Deadpool director and Amazon's Secret Level creator on PlayStation's failed FPS Concord: "I honestly don't understand why it didn't work"
- Nintendo is suing a streamer for over $7 million for streaming pre-release titles and wants $2500 more for each emulated game
- November 12
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- Doctor Doom is now Sorcerer Supreme, and the Avengers and Fantastic Four are going to do something about it in One World Under Doom #1 first look
- 21 years later, an obscure Disney game is selling out online after the internet found out it's basically Silent Hill and Resident Evil for kids
- New vampire horror movie Nosferatu used 5,000 "well-trained" rats which director Robert Eggers now admits was a mistake: "I didn't know that rats are incontinent"
- Joker: Folie a Deux actor says the musical-superhero movie is the "worst film ever made"
- Arcane season 2 act 2 trailer brings revolution to the undercity and promises to finally pay off an arc we've been waiting for since season 1
- Deadpool and Wolverine originally had a "deleted scenes extravaganza" that would've showed Deadpool "was in the MCU the whole time"
- V For Vendetta, Kingdom Come, The Authority, and Superman: Birthright are just some of the 15 new titles added to DC's Compact Comics range
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard was being imagined by BioWare's art director before Inquisition was even out, but this 10-year-old concept art makes it look like a very different RPG
- New Doctor Who merch could hint at the next big villain facing Ncuti Gatwa's Doctor – and it's a familiar face from the '70s
- Arcane star weighs in on whether or not Jinx is actually a villain: "I feel sorry for her"
- Arcane star teases Vi's guilt over Jinx's creation and her "complex" journey in season 2: "She’s willing to go as far as she can to save her people"
- Arcane's Hailee Steinfeld explains why that kiss between Vi and Caitlyn will be so important in season 2: "It unlocks a newfound vulnerability"
- 23 years on, Bridget Jones is still looking for love as new movie's trailer sees The White Lotus star join and Hugh Grant return to witty rom-com series
- Squid Game creator says he changed the ending of the Netflix show halfway through: "This is not where the story should be headed"
- This is one of the most impressive Lego sets I've built, and it's never been cheaper
- Dwayne Johnson addresses "ridiculous" set behavior controversy, admits to peeing in bottles: "Yeah that happens"
- As Overwatch 2 takes notes from Fortnite and goes back to its roots for a few weeks, Epic goes one better with the confirmation of Fortnite OG's permanent return
- Deus Ex actor tells the series' corporate overlords they "dropped the ball" over canceled sequel, because its protagonist is still his most popular character
- There isn't much point in buying an Xbox console these days, but Walmart's Black Friday prices make them more tempting
- As Final Fantasy 14's Yoshi-P hopes upcoming patches "show more of what makes Wuk Lamat so great," patch 7.1 makes a start by redubbing one of Dawntail's most memed-upon scenes
- Stardew Valley's adorable hat-selling mouse has gone missing in the latest patch, but only in Spanish - and you can still buy hats from him
- The Simpsons Hit & Run has quietly been the arena for an incredible 10-year speedrunning gauntlet, dominated by one runner who broke 45 records in a row
- Exclusive: New Star Wars action figures bring moody Jedi and droids aplenty to your collection
- Squid Game creator addresses rumors of David Fincher's English-language Netflix spin-off, saying if it were to happen, he'd be excited to see it "as a fan"
- Squid Game season 2's star Lee Jung-jae says he felt "horror" stepping back into the arena on the Netflix show: "It's a kind of feeling that I would never forget in my life"
- There's a white Steam Deck OLED in town, and it reminds me of silly light side Darth Vader fan art
- Marvel star Sebastian Stan wants to see Steve Rogers return to the MCU – and he has two prequel ideas for Bucky Barnes
- Walmart's early Black Friday sales are here and I'd jump on these seven gaming deals right now
- I'm a physical game girlie and even I want to grab this PS5 Slim digital edition bundle this Black Friday
- Loki season 3 gets the smallest tease from Marvel producer, and we're still holding out hope
- As Arcane fans wrestle with one major character arc, the show's creators admit struggling with "a very different perception" of cops: "The trust in the institution is much more shaken"
- Denzel Washington joins Black Panther 3 cast in a beautiful full circle moment after the late Chadwick Boseman once said: "There is no Black Panther without Denzel Washington"
- After 5 years of radio silence, Valve's all-but canceled game re-emerges with 6-seconds of rare gameplay footage, and I mourn not getting to see these incredible water shaders in real life
- Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom nearly broke Link's 30-year vow of silence, but Nintendo decided to keep him mute because no one knew what he would say
- Dragon's Dogma director Hideaki Itsuno is leading a new Japan-based studio "dedicated to crafting original AAA action game titles"
- Squid Game creator reveals why he changed his mind about making season 2: "Money"
- Andor season 2 and Alien: Earth get new teasers in new Disney Plus trailer – as well as fresh looks at Marvel's 2025 slate
- Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning has a Mission: Impossible 3 callback and the early theories say it's everything from a "red herring" to a de-aged Tom Cruise scene
- My favorite OLED gaming monitor of the year is now under $1,000 ahead of Black Friday, and it's like two screens in one
- Arcane season 2's intro has several blink-and-you'll-miss-it 'spoilers' that change with each episode
- As Zelda fans spot a big Master Sword mistake, Smash Bros creator Masahiro Sakurai reveals how he fixed it for his fighting game series
- The Harry Potter TV series might have found its Dumbledore – and it's the star of one of Steven Spielberg's best dramas
- Ryan Reynolds has one "problem" with the Deadpool and Wolverine opening – and it's a Logan detail you'll never be able to unsee
- November 11
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- How many episodes is Silo season 2 on Apple TV Plus?
- Life is Strange: Double Exposure director says Unreal Engine 5 improvements can help fix "the janky walk" which has blighted the series for 9 years
- Is Marvel secretly working on a new Young Avengers comic for 2025?
- Baldur's Gate 3 has been played for 17 million hours on Steam Deck alone, and one dev wants a massive battery to celebrate
- Stellar Blade is finally adding Photo Mode next week, just in time to snap some pictures of its fancy new Nier: Automata outfits
- Helldivers 2 issues a make or break Major Order to get the Democracy Space Station up and running before the flying bots plot their next attack
- George R.R. Martin teases secret meeting with Game of Thrones' Maisie Williams: "Do not want to jinx it. But it could be so much fun"
- Overwatch 2 is getting the WoW Classic treatment with a limited-time mode featuring the hero shooter's original 2016 lineup of 21 heroes, 12 maps, and 4 game modes
- Kevin Feige says X-Men are an "important" part of the MCU's future, but don't expect to see them for years
- Marvel star Josh Brolin recalls when Steven Spielberg brutally shot him down for overacting in The Goonies: "He wasn’t being an a**hole, he was right"
- I honestly think this excellent board game deal may be a mistake
- I don't think the Backbone One is worth $100, but I can recommend its early Black Friday price
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle gameplay deep dive shows off its optional puzzle hint system that God of War Ragnarok could have taken notes from
- Vi and Jinx's final Arcane scene has "never changed" since being written six years ago: "It has stayed our guiding light for the entire series"
- Matt Reeves reveals the scrapped Batman cameo idea for The Penguin that "ended up throwing things off too much"
- It's the beginning of the end for Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt in first Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning trailer
- I don't want to alarm you, but there's a bananas early 65-inch LG OLED Black Friday deal in the house
- James Gunn's Peacemaker season 2 gets a brief but bloody teaser trailer and release window
- Hideo Kojima reveals he did most of the Death Stranding concept work on his phone as he confirms that he's the hand behind the game's logo
- If I were you, I'd upgrade my PC with an RX 7800 XT for a chunk under $500 ahead of Black Friday
- Best Buy just unleashed its early Black Friday sales - but there's one big problem for gamers
- The Nintendo Palworld lawsuit hasn't stopped the survival hit from debuting at the top of Japan's PS5 charts, beating Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero and Metaphor: ReFantazio
- Colin Farrell has "five or six" scenes as the Penguin in The Batman 2 – and he's signed on for three movies
- Marvel boss Kevin Feige says Blade "will indeed make it to the MCU" despite severe delays
- Kevin Feige has a promising update on Deadpool and Wolverine's MCU return: "We're always wondering where we can fit them in, and how fast"
- The new Marvel Thunderbolts trailer has fans convinced that one of the characters dies early on in the movie
- Owner of Dark Souls and Elden Ring developer FromSoftware confirms its studios have 20 console games in development, and we can only hope one of them is a Bloodborne remaster
- A month after Switch emulator Ryujinx disappeared from the internet, Nintendo has seemingly taken ownership of its website
- The Witcher 4 reportedly gets its first character after Star Wars actor leaks their involvement - and the most Witcher-y name I can imagine
- Will there be The Penguin season 2? Here's what's been said about a possible return
- Does The Penguin finale have a post-credits scene?
- The Penguin finale just set up a major link to The Batman 2
- November 10
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- Asset Jesus behind thousands of free game building blocks shocked to find his latest release make its way into a game within just two hours
- Marvel boss Kevin Feige confirms when he plans to introduce Miles Morales' Spider-Man into the MCU
- Marvel boss Kevin Feige reveals his three favourite MCU moments of all-time, from a fan-favourite Avengers: Endgame scene to some surprises
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 creative director put parrying in his turn-based RPG after playing Sekiro and thinking "Why can't I parry in my game?"
- New Captain America: Brave New World trailer gives us our best look yet at Harrison Ford as Red Hulk as he battles Sam Wilson
- Avowed has a built-in glossary in case you get lost in the deep lore of its CRPG inspiration Pillars of Eternity
- Marvel's new Thunderbolts trailer reveals who bought Avengers Tower and finally addresses that asterisk, suggesting a name change
- Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer knew the Fallout 3 comparisons were coming, but also knew that what made his RPG special were the things that you couldn’t find in one playthrough
- Thanks to a big character change in Arcane season 2, I have a wild theory that might answer one of the Netflix show's earliest mysteries
- November 9
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- "We are just now starting to write the script" for Incredibles 3, says Disney, and we'll learn more about the all-new adventure in the future
- Metal Gear Solid Delta exists because Konami was starting to get worried that the “younger generation of gamers aren’t familiar with the Metal Gear series anymore.”
- The new Tron 3 trailer is "a spectacle", the soundtrack is "revolutionary", and Jeff Bridges is back
- Zelda: Breath of the Wild trickster finds the weirdest way to get the first Korok, all by luring a bokoblin to its untimely, parkour-filled death
- Black Panther VFX artist agrees the CGI was bad, but they had just 6 weeks and "given the time and resources we had this was the best we could do"
- GTA 5 dev says Rockstar would transplant entire missions "to make sure there isn't any section of the map missing content, missing gameplay" even when that meant starting from scratch
- Stardew Valley's popularity has creator ConcernedApe feeling like he "could work on it for the rest of my life," even if he still wants to "make a new game" like Haunted Chocolatier
- Avowed director defends the RPG’s lack of romance in the face of Baldur’s Gate 3’s intense relationships: “I think players will always respond well to a really good character”
- Arcane showrunners defend the League of Legends spin-off's reported $250 million budget: "The money is just a reflection of the amount of effort that was put into this"
- Skyrim player shocked to find they’ve spent 10 years hating the RPG’s combat all because they’ve been accidentally abusing the levelling system this whole time
- Arcane ends with Season 2, but the League of Legends spin-off's co-creators have shared their favorite stories - ones that could shape future adaptations
- Final Fantasy 14 soloist completes Heaven-on-High after 100 hours using the MMO's "squishiest" class, all as practice for an even worse challenge: "I'm still in for a world of hurt"
- Singed's experiment in Arcane season 2, episode 3 may have ties to League of Legends and a major season 1 character
- Arcane season 2: What actually IS 'the Arcane' in Netflix's animated series?
- Arcane season 2 returns to League of Legends' hottest ship, but the Netflix show's co-creator says getting the CaitVi pairing right was "scary": "We knew they were stepping into this s***storm"
- Call of Duty hacker says "I had my fun" after reportedly getting thousands of Warzone and Modern Warfare 3 players falsely banned
- November 8
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- Stalker 2 has finally gone gold after a 14-year saga where it was announced, canceled, reannounced, and delayed 5 times amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine
- BioWare reveals Dragon Age The Veilguard stats: one quest is killing absolutely everybody, and the most popular class and faction are no surprise
- "Please give it a chance": After 3,200 mixed Steam reviews for his new MMO, RuneScape creator explains the soft-reset class design confusing some players
- After 29 years, Donkey Kong Country 2 players have just discovered a brand-new cheat code in the SNES classic
- Christopher Nolan's new movie adds Zendaya and Anne Hathaway to an already star-studded cast including Tom Holland and Matt Damon
- Peter Parker and Miles Morales team up to mentor the all-new hero Elementary in Spectacular Spider-Men #10
- Transformers #15 puts Soundwave on the warpath with the Constructicons in tow
- 6 months after Take-Two's CEO said "we didn't shutter those studios," Take-Two confirms it shuttered the Kerbal Space Program and Rollerdrome studios
- Ultimates #6 reveals the new Ultimate Iron Fist, and he absolutely destroys the team in their first big fight
- Multiversus significantly underperformed, Warner Bros admits, but maybe its dedicated "Goth Girl Season" will be enough to pull everyone back
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (Nov 8-10)
- Sony boss admits forcing PC gamers into PlayStation accounts can "invite pushback," but insists they have to keep games safe – which doesn't really track in single-player
- Astro Bot has sold 1.5 million copies, but Sony says the platformer's real strength is grabbing people who didn't care about games like God of War Ragnarok or Marvel's Spider-Man 2
- Star Wars fans get unexpected first look at Andor season 2 at D23 Brazil
- Warner Bros knows its Batman games are popular, and plans to focus its "development efforts" on "core franchises" like DC, Mortal Kombat, Hogwarts Legacy, and Game of Thrones
- PS5 Pro support in No Man's Sky was a "tough gig" for the small team, dev says: "I spent around 4-5 months of my time spread over the last year"
- 2 years later, God of War Ragnarok PS5 and PS4 players finally get a solution to the game's most annoying 'feature' as it gets updated for PS5 Pro
- Early Deadpool and Wolverine drafts featured Ghost Rider and Ben Affleck's Daredevil, Ryan Reynolds confirms: "We did talk to Nic Cage"
- Amazon just launched its early Black Friday Holiday sale - these are the six gaming deals I'd buy this weekend
- 10 years after its release, John Wick co-director reveals Bruce Willis was originally cast as the action hero
- Attack on Titan movie's post-credits scene has been revealed – and it's not what we were expecting
- With Ghost of Yotei and Death Stranding 2 on the horizon, Sony reaffirms plans to release "major single-player" games every year going forward
- Save $111 on highly sought-after Pokemon 151 Japanese booster box
- Final Fantasy 14's patch 7.1 notes are here and it's good news, MMO fans - over 118 shoes have been spruced up to make your feet look better than ever
- PS5 Pro scalpers may be losing money on the console, but they're still making a profit on disc drives
- Nosferatu first reactions are in, and critics say the Bill Skarsgård vampire movie "goes harder than any other horror film this year"
- The Goddamn Tragedy is a gruesome horror western with "an atmosphere like The Shining" inspired by the infamous Donner Party
- I just learned there's a new Fallout vinyl and I'd fight Deathclaws for it
- Just writing the final line of Arcane season 2 took its creator 27 hours: "How do you end a show like this?"
- Sony leads say the company "gained a lot of experience" from Concord's failure and will have to do more "user testing or internal evaluation" in the future
- Death Stranding is finally on Xbox, but one of the console's best features triggers a game-ruining bug
- Ryan Reynolds says Marvel is "obsessed" with Channing Tatum's Gambit after Deadpool and Wolverine: "Sometimes they just need to see it in action"
- Arcane Season 2 creators don't want the League of Legends spin-off to turn into a new MCU: "If we're just doing another superhero thing there's no reason to do this"
- Palworld developer reveals the exact patents it's alleged to have infringed upon in the Nintendo lawsuit, and they all have application dates after the survival game's release
- Home Alone star Macaulay Culkin joins Fallout season 2 as "crazy genius type character"
- Paddington in Peru post-credits scenes explained: how many are there and does it potentially set up Paddington 4?
- November 7
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- Red Dead Redemption 2 modder makes "all wagons and horses travel at super sonic speeds," chaos and jumpscares ensue: "It's now a horror game"
- Lionsgate CEO on the disastrous Borderlands movie: "Nearly everything that could go wrong did go wrong"
- RG's minigun is the perfect Fortnite weapon: an OP monster that rapid-fires Eminem's most famous Rap God rhymes
- Captain America and Spider-Man chip in to undo Thor's "greatest shame" in the penultimate issue of J. Michael Strazcynski's Cap run
- Out of nowhere after 14 years, Sega's killing off one of the only sources of legal ROMs on the entire internet as it delists 60 classic games
- 18 years into the series, Gears of War devs confirm the original Marcus and Dom actors are "so back" for the prequel Gears of War: E-Day
- Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero "saw outstanding sales," and Bandai Namco says roughly 90% of that was from European and North American fans
- Alien: Romulus streaming date revealed - and it's closer than you might think
- Genshin Impact community rallies to pummel one player "shamelessly admitting that I want friends" with so many friend requests that they can barely respond to everyone
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard's first patch is an instant contender for BioWare's best patch notes: "NPC necks no longer grow unexpectedly" and "creepy corpse movement" is fixed
- Daniel Craig has hilarious, candid response when asked who should be the next James Bond: "I don't care"
- Spider-Man, Venom, Storm, and more don their Marvel Rivals costumes in comics for concept art variant covers
- After the success of Fallout, Amazon's next big video game TV show is Mass Effect
- A new Star Wars trilogy is on the way, but there's confusion over whether it's Episodes 10-12 of the Skywalker Saga
- This white Xbox SteelSeries gaming headset is a cozy gamer's dream and now it just received its first-ever price cut
- Batman #154: A shocking betrayal could spell the end of one of the longest partnerships in comics
- Boss of Rockstar owner Take-Two says "never count Nintendo out" as Switch 2 inches closer: "We support successful platforms"
- Agatha All Along fans are worried about one unexplained moment from the series finale – and it has to do with Wanda's son Tommy
- Mirthwood spins Stardew Valley into a medieval life sim RPG with more war, a hint of Fable, and "a fully simulated, breathing world"
- Netflix artist defends Arcane's reported $250 million budget: "Let this be the example for the standard if you want artistry and quality"
- You can pre-order the latest Steam controller now, but I'm not sure you should
- After 3 years, No Man's Sky brings back an "overhauled version" of its Mass Effect crossover for N7 Day, and you've got 14 days to grab the Normandy
- Horizon Forbidden West on PS5 Pro has "the best image quality I've seen in a console game," tech analyst says, and feels like "playing on a high-end PC"
- Now that's a nasty MMO bug: Old School RuneScape players watched in confusion as thousands of bolts and arrows vanished in a black hole strapped to their shoulder
- StarCraft 2 veteran says his new RTS exists because he "can't accept" that some players think "nothing can ever be better" than the Blizzard classic
- This is the cheapest RTX 4090 gaming laptop deal I've seen - and it's on the best rig I've tested yet
- Stardew Valley creator says Haunted Chocolatier isn't just a "copy and paste" of his iconic farming sim: "They haven't played the game, so they don't really know"
- Aliens vs. Avengers #2 shows how Xenomorphs came to the Marvel Universe with some wild connections to Prometheus and Alien: Covenant
- Amazon has nudged the Asus ROG Ally Z1 under $400, but some of you should wait for Black Friday
- The Rings of Power showrunners tease Elrond's arc on the Lord of the Rings series: "We're going to break him"
- Haunted Chocolatier will receive new updates "in time," as Stardew Valley creator ConcernedApe says he's currently "focused" on fixes for his farming sim
- Stranger Things fans think an episode title has confirmed a new monster for season 5 – and yes, it’s from the Dungeons and Dragons universe
- I didn't think we'd get a Lego Millennium Falcon deal this good until Black Friday
- Nintendo's Miyamoto says he isn't a genius and "I'd prefer not to work at all, but If I'm going to work, I want to do so as efficiently as possible"
- Pokemon TCG Pocket's Misty is a menace to everyone, even if she's on your side
- New Harlan Coben thriller series based on another book by the Fool Me Once author finally has a Netflix release date
- I was already impressed by this nuke-parrying soulslike, and that was before I found out it has entire cities that you can just miss
- New James Bond movie gets a promising update, as an Oscar-winner is reportedly being eyed to direct
- The PS5 Pro only makes sense on a monitor, and these are the displays I'd buy ahead of Black Friday
- The Sims rival Inzoi delayed to 2025, dev says play test feedback just wasn't good enough and then gets existential: "Humans must be prepared to endure and adapt"
- Quentin Tarantino names this Nicolas Cage cult movie as one of his favorites of the past five years
- Death Stranding just got a surprise launch on Xbox Series X as Kojima Productions now has full ownership of the IP and plans to bring it to more platforms
- As GTA 5 passes 205 million units sold, publisher Take-Two says hit titles "decay" and if they're not making new IP, they're "burning the furniture to heat the house"
- Arcane showrunner explains why the Netflix show had to end with season 2, saying it would have been "irresponsible" to continue
- Stranger Things fans think the episode titles of the Netflix show's final season reveal how Eddie Munson can come back
- Mass Effect fans can expect a "quieter" N7 Day this year as people are still "enjoying their time in Dragon Age: The Veilguard," says BioWare
- Agatha All Along creator says the finale was never about killing Agatha, but her "next phase" in the MCU: "There's more to explore with Agatha as a ghost. Get ready"
- Borderlands 4's 2025 release window just got narrowed down as Gearbox owner says it won't release before April, but also won't clash with GTA 6
- November 6
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- GTA 6 publisher says it "isn't complicated for us to support" PC and, great, cool, so where's that GTA 6 PC announcement?
- Rockstar owner says GTA 6 and Borderlands 4 won't release near each other: "We wouldn't, and no one would, stack up huge releases"
- X-Men #7 reveals the tragic legacy of Krakoa which could doom all mutants
- Fallout: New Vegas director took one look at the Strip on a console devkit and thought, "Oh my god, this isn’t going to run"
- The Borderlands movie's $90m box office failure "was indeed disappointing," but it did still help sell some old Borderlands games
- Monster Hunter Wilds players use the Palico character creator to remember lost pets: "I have shed tears multiple times but I also feel happy that I can still fight monsters with my buddy"
- Sega is finally reviving the world’s first 3D fighting game franchise after leaving it in arcade purgatory for 18 years
- Elden Ring remains undefeated: the PS5 Pro can't play it at a stable 60 FPS either
- Warcraft 2 Remastered has apparently leaked, and I sure hope it's more Diablo 2 Resurrected than Warcraft 3 Reforged
- Stranger Things season 5 set photos reveal new looks for Hopper, Dustin, Will, and more
- Days after Wii U gem Xenoblade Chronicles X was finally announced for Switch, Nintendo says the JRPG series has seen roughly 500% growth on Switch vs 3DS and Wii U
- Nintendo says it hasn't really changed its approach to first-party games in 39 years and that's why more people are "playing and enjoying our games"
- Manor Lords dev reveals more big changes to one of 2024's greatest city builders: "As some of you have requested, changes to ale and water distribution are finally coming"
- My favorite Elgato Stream Deck alternative has already been Black Friday'd
- This indie creature collector looks like a cozy Pokemon meets Stardew Valley experience, all at the bottom of your desktop
- Konami finally confirms that Metal Gear Solid 3's Eva is the same actor as The Little Mermaid, who kept this "deep, dark secret" for 20 years to protect her family-friendly image
- Riot Games hired Avengers directors the Russo brothers to help make a League of Legends movie, but reportedly paid them $5 million to walk away after script issues
- Rare Charizard card worth £30,000 returned to rightful owner after alleged thief tried selling it on Facebook
- New Stardew Valley bug can apparently make you rich with an army of 999 lobsters, players insist "it's a feature" as creator Eric Barone says he'll look into it
- The first look at Jack Black as a satanic fake Santa Claus for new Christmas movie with a wild premise has been unveiled
- Graphics card discounts are a bit pants ahead of Black Friday, but I'd pick up this RX 7900 XT
- Netflix's Arcane is the most expensive animated show ever made – with a reported $250 million price tag
- You can get unlimited gold in Dragon Age: The Veilguard thanks to one simple exploit - a pot-smashing method straight out of Zelda
- Stranger Things season 5's redacted title might be referencing a minor character in the Netflix show
- Legendary "god of horror" manga artist Kazuo Umezu dies at 88
- Fortnite OG is apparently making a full-time comeback next month as a separate experience to the all-new Chapter 6
- Starfield update fixes its long-bugged answer to Skyrim's Dark Brotherhood quests, so now you can't rob your targets and then get paid extra for killing them
- Stranger Things season 5 teaser confirms Netflix release window and episode titles – with one major omission
- Forget iPad Pro, my favorite gaming tablet just dropped to a new record low price
- Godzilla Minus One director says Kevin Feige told him Marvel is having meetings "every day" to see if they can replicate the monster movie: "I think it's just lip service"
- Paddington in Peru star Antonio Banderas talks playing multiple roles in the threequel and reveals which character is his favorite
- With over 99 million copies sold on the Switch alone, Nintendo says Pokemon has "found a new home on Nintendo Switch"
- Move over Monopoly and Uno, a new "survival thriller" is on the way and it's basically a horror take on Hungry Hungry Hippos
- New Netflix sci-fi horror movie clocks in 22 million views and takes streamer's #1 spot – despite divisive Rotten Tomatoes score
- Dev behind Bloodborne fan remake flees from potential Sony cease and desist, but returns a year later with something arguably better – a top-down Diablo-style Bloodborne ARPG
- Rockstar co-founder's 6-year-old claim that he was "thankful" not to be launching GTA 6 during a Trump presidency has aged like milk
- Before Baldur's Gate 3, there was Divinity: Original Sin 2 - and after 4 years, the Definitive Edition is finally landing on the PS5 and Xbox Series X
- Reviews for Dwayne Johnson's Christmas movie are in, and they're pretty brutal: "Will make you wish Christmas was canceled"
- After almost a full year of waiting, Netflix anime Beastars gets a return date for its final season
- Steam's new game recording feature is out of beta and fully available, so you can share clips of your best moments just like a Twitch streamer
- The Babadook director is adapting "a very well-known horror book", and word on the street it's one of Hellraiser author Clive Barker's novels
- As Nintendo confirms Switch 2 backwards compatibility, analyst claims investors are more confident that the next console is "a continuation" rather than "a risky experiment"
- Squid Game season 3 "naturally" feels like the finale of the Netflix show: "We don’t need any further stories from here"
- Nintendo remains tight-lipped on The Legend of Zelda movie, except to say it's releasing before 2030
- Nintendo Switch 2 will have backwards compatibility with Switch games, and Nintendo Switch Online will be coming back too
- Fallout New Vegas director's first D&D RPG launched on the same day as Diablo 2, "which sounds like it would be catastrophically bad," but it ended up helping it instead
- November 5
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- Artist reimagines Elden Ring as a Baldur's Gate-style top-down RPG "despite my love-hate relationship with the game," is surprised to see it's absolutely stunning
- Forget $2 million Super Mario Bros carts - in 1994 retro game collectors were trading price guides advertising the "Holy Grail of the game industry" at a whopping $100
- Scream star Matthew Lillard says Mike Flanagan’s The Life of Chuck is a movie "that the world needs right now"
- Ex-Rockstar dev says one of GTA 5's most mysterious Easter eggs was really "just put in there to mess with people"
- After 800 hours of practice finally paid off, hitless runner explains why a no-hit run of Borderlands 2 was way harder than games like Dark Souls or Skyrim
- Time to snipe like it's 2004: Halo Infinite just added Halo 2 throwback maps for the game's 20th anniversary, built in Forge "with the help of key Halo community members"
- Eric Barone has a new Stardew Valley PSA for players experiencing performance issues: "Remove all hats from pets," and yes, there's lore for that one too
- Hogwarts Legacy 2 is "coordinating" its plot with the HBO Harry Potter series as WB says the open-world game helped "unlock" the franchise after Fantastic Beasts flops
- Stardew Valley creator reveals "secret, experimental mobile multiplayer feature" hidden behind the most famous cheat code in video game history
- Titanic star Billy Zane looks unrecognizable as he recreates the Godfather opening scene for new Marlon Brando biopic from cult film director
- After 5 years, Apex Legends is going back to the beginning with a Fortnite-style mode letting you experience the launch version of the battle royale FPS
- Red Dead Redemption 2 dev reveals detail "99% of people never saw" that's part of "what makes Rockstar's games so good"
- From Warhammer 40K to Star Wars, Helldivers 2 creative director "would love to do a take on" loads of IP, but doing them all would be a "not Helldivers" experience
- I always have a spare pair of Nintendo Joy-Cons and now you can for cheaper with this new price cut
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard contains a heartfelt tribute to a BioWare developer, "an artist who lifted his comrades' hearts with his craft"
- From British TV royalty to Robert De Niro, the Paddington in Peru cast reveal their dream picks for future series villains
- It's been 10 years since Mario Kart 8 launched, and it still managed to outsell every single first-party new Nintendo Switch game in 2024
- Former GTA 6 dev says Rockstar will currently be trying to "really tighten" the game "in every corner" right now, because "90% of your work" is accounting for players who don't do as they're told
- Ahead of Five Nights At Freddy's 2, star Matthew Lillard talks reprising the role of supervillain William Afton after "being left out of many a sequel"
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard streamer spends over 21 hours in character creator out of extreme dedication to being sexy: “I have my priorities sorted, and they’re insane”
- The Star Wars community has ideas on what they'd make 'uncanon,' from Padme's death to Palpatine's return
- This Netflix animated series has been canceled for the second time in six months, but its creator offers a season 2 tease and a message of hope: "This is not the end"
- Netflix is removing 20 interactive movies and shows – but not the Black Mirror special
- Tormenture blurs the line between game and reality with its '80s-inspired game-within-a-game horror stylings
- I honestly can't see the LG OLED B4 getting any cheaper than this on Black Friday
- Agatha All Along's big reveal has changed the way Marvel fans watch WandaVision's final showdown
- Epic calls off Fortnite tournament after the same map-destroying bug comes up 5 times in a row
- Paddington in Peru director says the film pays tribute to the late Queen as "people have a lot of affection" for the beloved Platinum Jubilee sketch
- After 20 years of superhero movies, Tom Hanks weighs in on why he thinks audiences aren't as interested anymore – and reveals he's never had a meeting with Marvel
- The Black Phone 2 production has begun, as director shares first cryptic behind the scenes look at the horror sequel
- Pokemon TCG Pocket playground rumors about boosting rare card chances are running wild, but at least this in-game event offers a good shot at getting a sparkly Lapras
- Days after shutting its AAA game studio filled with former God of War and Overwatch talent, Netflix announces a "new initiative" powered by AI
- 38 years after the original, David Cronenberg's body horror classic The Fly is getting a surprise follow-up, and it's not a remake
- Blue Lock fans are all out of patience after the anime's latest season 2 trailer, as one animator says the poor quality "is not funny anymore"
- Orphan 3 is officially in the works – and the horror sequel's star has the perfect reaction to the announcement
- 11 years after it first aired, Netflix is getting the rare One Piece and Dragon Ball crossover episode
- Switch sales slump as Nintendo attributes the drop to a lack of "special" driving factors and the console's age, but don't worry, its successor will still be announced soon
- Agatha All Along's awards submission might have just hinted at a second season, but we've been here before with Marvel
- Hit Netflix show Outer Banks with a stellar Rotten Tomatoes score announces it will end with next season
- Deadpool and Wolverine's Ryan Reynolds is reuniting with Hugh Jackman and Shawn Levy for another movie but it's "not Marvel"
- The first patch for Dragon Age: The Veilguard is almost here, bringing new "minor balance changes" and squashing some of the RPG's peskiest bugs
- As The Binding of Isaac's multiplayer update gets a release date, the roguelike's legendary creator drops a sly roast of the entire community
- November 4
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- Helldivers 2's Joel gives cruelest Major Order yet as High Command eyes "disenfranchised families" as "cheap labor" to work on the dangerously sketchy new superweapon
- Don't expect a big Mass Effect 5 update on N7 Day: BioWare warns that it's going to "be quieter" after Dragon Age: The Veilguard
- Former GTA lead explains "probably the worst bug we missed" in San Andreas and why "anything that isn't visible to players tends to have swearing in it"
- Back to the Future director "would love" to adapt the musical version but the studio "doesn't get it"
- Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone invents new lore after the latest update starts killing chickens: "There is a wild coyote on the farm day 1 rn"
- Borderlands 2 player who spent 9 months trying to finish the game without getting hit was beaten to the punch just hours before finally accomplishing his goal
- PS5 Pro launch lineup is just like a regular console release: overloaded with sports and free-to-play ports, but the secret biggest addition is Xbox's own new Call of Duty
- "By far the funniest bug" sci-fi strategy hit Stellaris has seen in a minute won't be fixed immediately because the devs want to see what players do with it
- Blair Witch Project directors say they weren't consulted for the new sequel: "Studios are not your friends"
- "Games have bugs and GTA is no exception": Former Rockstar tech lead shouts out modder behind hundreds of fixes for the original GTA trilogy on PC
- Star Wars Outlaws devs are promising so many good improvements that I'm starting to feel bad about playing and liking this open-world game at launch
- BioWare dev says "maybe 20 people" left at the studio have used an old Dragon Age engine, so it's harder to remaster than Mass Effect: "Never say never, I guess"
- Monster Hunter Wilds player uses the power of math to prove why the beta left "some weapons feeling worse" compared to Monster Hunter World or Rise
- Demon's Souls modder creates a "demastered" edition that looks straight out of the PS1 era after being "inspired by early FromSoftware games"
- Agatha All Along's creator has "regrets" over not featuring more of Agatha and Rio's relationship: "I apologize to the community"
- Forget Black Friday, you can get Herman Miller's gaming chairs for 25% less right now
- 36 years on from Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the director says there's a really good sequel script that will "never" get made
- Stardew Valley 1.6.9 adds The Sims-style cheat codes and a "new friend" who can restore some of the game's rarest items "for a price"
- Assassin's Creed boss admits the series grew "more predictable" after the third game, but says Shadows can change the "perceived inconsistency in quality" at Ubisoft
- The Sims 4 Life and Death adds a sneaky reference to Baldur's Gate 3, with a dev saying there's "another small one buried in there somewhere" still left to find
- Hideo Kojima gives his verdict on Joker: Folie à Deux, and it's much more positive than his Venom or Madame Web reviews
- Desperate GTA 6 fans give up on predicting the elusive action-adventure game's release date through normal means, instead resort to astrology
- Agatha All Along creator wanted to include a fan-favorite character from She-Hulk but it "just didn’t work"
- Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man prequel comic takes Peter Parker back to his roots but will have "some surprising twists," says series writer Christos Gage
- One year after its ending, Attack on Titan is adding more to its finale with a movie post-credits scene
- Horror movie Smile 2's opening scene is now online for free – but you have to smile for 7 minutes to watch it
- You don't need the triforce of wisdom to appreciate this new Legend of Zelda price cut
- Voting for the Golden Joystick Awards Ultimate Game of the Year is now open
- Five Nights At Freddy's 2 will be more "fan-centric" according to horror sequel star Matthew Lillard: "The filmmakers listened to some of the criticism"
- I love playing retro games on this handheld, and the latest version is even cheaper right now
- 34 years later, Tom Cruise hopes to make a Top Gun: Maverick-style sequel to another of his classic action movies
- While Marvel Rivals devs are "honored" to be compared to Overwatch, their hero shooter is "faster paced and much more accessible to new players" than Blizzard's
- Silent Hill 2 Remake player uncovers a hidden message that could support a controversial story theory, but the creative director won't confirm it as canon
- The Boys spin-off Gen V celebrates end of season 2 filming with wholesome behind-the-scenes photos and seven new cast members
- Daryl Dixon season 3 teaser has serious Wild West vibes, as The Walking Dead spin-off sets its release window
- The LoL MMO has "a lot of momentum" and "a great direction," despite going dark for a reset earlier this year
- The lightest gaming mouse I've ever tested just took a rare price drop
- After "five years" of waiting, one Deadpool and Wolverine star wants to finally become their comic book alter ego in Deadpool 4: "I'm not getting any younger"
- As the Persona and Yakuza series fly beyond 20 million sales each, Sega says its JRPG successes are thanks to the power of multi-platform releases
- Marvel's newest duo Billy and Agatha will return "somewhere in the MCU" says Agatha All Along creator
- 210 days after Nintendo shut down the 3DS and Wii U online servers, the last connected player finally signs off after his console crashes: "It's over"
- Agatha All Along's creator was "instructed" by Marvel to use a certain word in the script and it might have just revealed Wanda's fate
- The Penguin episode 7 recap and Easter eggs: Oz Cobb's dark past comes to light in the Batman spin-off
- November 3
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- Final Fantasy 14's Yoshi-P confirms Square Enix remains committed to its multiplatform strategy, but hopes more Xbox fans actually play its new JRPGs
- One of the best roguelikes in early access has a beefy update that turns it into "what Dark Souls would be like with hordes of enemies"
- Diablo 4 boss' plan for Gears of War 6 would've taken the series to space, but "we weren't going to start Mass Effect-ing this"
- Monster Hunter Wilds players keep making Final Fantasy 14's Yoshi-P in the beta character creator, and he's not totally happy about it
- November 2
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- In a first for Dragon Age, The Veilguard director reiterates the RPG won't have DLC as BioWare pivots to work on Mass Effect 5
- Crashed your Baldur's Gate 3 save with a Skyrim-grade mod overflow? Larian made a video just for you
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance dev explains that the RPG had to take place at a very specific point in time - so that there aren’t any guns
- After 3 years and over 30 updates, Vampire Survivors finally has vampires - and even Baldur's Gate 3's Astarion actor is here as Dracula
- Fallout: New Vegas director on the “blessing” of working on the RPG: “I never thought I’d get a chance to work on Fallout [again]”
- Metal Gear Solid Delta dev says that Konami wants to make the remake feel familiar but not old: "Our whole goal [...] is to make sure that it still feels like the game that you played 20 years ago"
- Despite its crabtastic Soulslike hit, indie dev say funding for its "best game yet" just fizzled: "2024 is really taking no prisoners"
- Millions of Fortnite players watch Snoop Dogg and Ice Spice livestream a concert as part of a rap-themed Chapter 2 Remix that includes Eminem and a tribute to Juice WRLD
- November 1
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- Former GTA 6 designer says the open world sequel will "blow people away" and "people will be talking about it for ages" because Rockstar has "raised the bar again"
- Assassin's Creed Shadows aims to "restore the balance" between the series' historical and modern stories
- BioWare hopes Dragon Age: The Veilguard brings the studio "back into the conversation as a top game studio" after Anthem and Mass Effect Andromeda flops
- Assassin's Creed Shadows lead shuts down "attacks driven by intolerance" over the game's Black samurai and woman warrior, condemns "personal attacks" against devs
- Apex Legends was a top 50 Steam Deck game, but EA's dropping Valve's handheld because it can't tell if those players are actually dirty cheating Linux users
- Agatha All Along creator says she wrote several post-credits scenes but it was a "Marvel decision" not to include them
- The most emotional moment in the Christopher Reeve Superman documentary came from a poem his son accidentally found the night before filming
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (Nov 1-3)
- Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone unveils glorious collection of fan-made Jack-o'-lanterns and pledges to "add every Stardew pumpkin to my folder"
- Ubisoft stealth drops 9 seconds of new Assassin's Creed Shadows gameplay during Apple's latest Mac presentation
- Matthew Lillard thinks the Scream franchise is in a "good place," but that the movies got "too violent": "I don't think Ghostface ever needs a shotgun"
- Rick Remender and Paul Azaceta's new horror comic The Seasons feels like Tintin meets Wes Anderson in Hell
- A new Godzilla movie is on the way, from the creators of the Oscar-winning Godzilla Minus One
- Sony was working on the PS5 Pro before the PS5 even launched: "We design everything with having 1 ahead in our mind"
- Xbox has barely mentioned Conker's Bad Fur Day in 10 years, but popstar Doja Cat just put the cult N64 platformer in front of 24 million people in the funniest way
- Mike Flanagan is producing a new horror movie with Midnight Mass and Oppenheimer stars
- Eddie Redmayne reveals the big differences between The Day of the Jackal TV series and the best-selling thriller novel
- Horizon Zero Dawn remaster continues the series' curse as Dragon Age and Monster Hunter Wilds' beta soak up all the chatter
- Highlander reboot starring Henry Cavill from John Wick director gets a disappointing filming update
- Cult of the Lamb dev says the roguelike is "just like Animal Crossing" except "more realistic, since you can't buy a house"
- Everything coming to Netflix in November 2024
- After 3 years, GTA 5 on PC is finally getting upgraded to match current-gen consoles in 2025
- Pinocchio horror movie gets creepy first look, casts legendary Nightmare on Elm Street actor
- As Monster Hunter Wilds PC players fight horrible polygons and struggle to hit 60 FPS, Capcom says the game is "already in a more improved state compared to the beta"
- State of Decay 3 studio say it's bigger than ever with 6 times the amount of developers it had on its first zombie survival game
- Emma Ríos's Anzuelo is a beautiful and surreal story of survival and the sea
- Nearly a third of all PS5 Pro Enhanced games are on sale right now - which means I definitely need a disc drive
- "After all the chatter" about Baldur's Gate and Dragon Age, Baldur's Gate 3 director hints he's "very curious" to play The Veilguard - and he wasted no time on the download
- Final Fantasy 14 devs confirm patch 7.1 release date, and everyone's favorite lizard heartthrob is part of the MMO's FF11 raid collab
- Skeleton Crew trailer is a retro-style adventure through the Star Wars galaxy with mischief and pirates
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance creator says his RPG series only exists because he was “p***ed” at the lack of historical games
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6's hottest new XP farming trick has players flashbanging their allies for a measly 15XP
- "It's something between them" – Like a Dragon: Yakuza's Kiryu actor breaks down that final Dragon of Dojima reveal and what it could mean for a second season
- New horror with great Rotten Tomatoes score gets first full trailer, and it's all shot from the POV of a supernatural entity
- It looks like an Atari 2600, but I'd use it as a sub-$200 indie gaming Steam Machine
- Halloween Ends might not have closed the book on Laurie Strode after all, according to horror icon Jamie Lee Curtis
- Quentin Tarantino has a very specific reason for not watching Denis Villeneuve's Dune: "I don't need to see a movie that says the word spice so dramatically"
- Popular zombie video game The House of the Dead is getting the movie adaptation treatment from Resident Evil director, and the concept art is already terrifying
- The Witcher 3 quest designer behind a hilarious scene only accessible with mods is "glad to see it was found," even if it "took you a while"
- World of Warcraft devs set about rebuilding "core parts" of the 20-year-old MMO's infrastructure, accidentally making some of its raid content unplayable
- Turns out, people still like single-player BioWare RPGs as Dragon Age: The Veilguard tops sales charts and breaks Steam records for the studio
- Agatha All Along's costume designer reveals neat nods to Wanda and Vision in Billy's Wiccan suit
- After the success of Alien: Romulus, Ridley Scott is working on a brand new Alien movie
- Keanu Reeves has just convinced us with one syllable that he's the perfect Shadow in new look at Sonic 3
- Heretic star Hugh Grant reveals that they filmed two different versions of the horror movie's dramatic ending
- Monster Hunter Wilds beta pulls in nearly half a million concurrent Steam players, some of which are being turned into PS1-style low-poly blobs
- Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi reportedly reuniting once more with JRPG legend Nobuo Uematsu on a new unnamed game 38 years after their first collaboration
