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- May 31
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- Bloodborne was a no-show at this week's State of Play, but hey, Bloodborne Kart - I mean Nightmare Kart - is out today
- 26 years after it debuted on PS1, veteran Resident Evil developer's cult classic "open world" platformer is returning on modern platforms
- Gearbox bought the IP for roguelike icon Risk of Rain, planned a free-to-play mobile spinoff with a new dev, and has now canceled it before it's even out
- New One Piece spin-off puts heroines Nami, Robin, Vivi, and Perona in the spotlight
- After 13 years and at least 6 final updates, Terraria devs let you return to the "final update" that started it all
- Silent Hill 2 remake will "expand this world" and show "new elements that were previously inaccessible" by ditching the original's fixed camera
- A 300 TV show is in the works - and Zack Snyder might be back to direct
- Arkane Austin goes out with a tribute to its roots as Redfall's final update references the 30-year-old imm sim genre it championed with Prey and Dishonored
- Spyro remake devs are officially "partnering with Xbox" on their next game, and the teaser already has fans convinced it's a new Spyro game
- Looking to save $707 on Pathfinder 2e? Humble has you covered
- A cyborg samurai saga set in post-apocalyptic Japan is set to get its first English translation
- The Walking Dead's Danai Gurira praises co-star after big death scene in The Ones Who Live episode 5
- CEO of Rockstar owner sizes up GTA 6: "The world's in a different place than it was when we launched GTA 5," and the sequel could be "unmatched in the industry"
- Fortnite has already nerfed its new season's big gimmick, and players can't decide whether that's a good thing or not
- The Walking Dead's Danai Gurira on introducing rom-com fantasy to the zombie horror franchise in latest spin-off The Ones Who Live
- After 20 years, Monster Hunter Wilds gives players two weapon slots for the first time, and veteran hunters already know what to do with them: "Two Charge Blades"
- Valve trademarks Deadlock, the Overwatch-style hero shooter it won't acknowledge but is making no efforts to hide
- Manor Lords dev "really stressed" after the hit city builder's first official patch, which buffs archers, adds mourning, and cuts back on ale
- The Walking Dead star Danai Gurira talks that intense Rick and Michonne reunion in The Ones Who Live episode 1
- Captain Marvel star Brie Larson "always" reaches out to new superhero actors to give them advice
- 6 years after its release, a beloved Batman anime movie is getting a surprise sequel
- Silent Hill 2 veterans debate Angela and Maria's redesigned looks for the horror remake: "They just made Angela look her age"
- A Helldivers 2 hotfix is dropping "as soon as possible" to squash a bug that's making the Meridia Major Order unnaturally difficult
- GTA 6's fate on PC isn't "set in stone" says CEO of Rockstar Games owner, but "the right strategy for our business is to be where the consumer is"
- 14 years later, one of the '90s best sci-fi TV shows returns to comics
- Fallout's burst of popularity following the TV show is "beyond anything I’ve ever seen in my 30 years of doing this," says Todd Howard
- Deadpool 3 popcorn bucket is finally here in all of its gross glory and fans are absolutely loving it
- The Dungeons and Dragons TV show isn’t coming to Paramount Plus and will instead be given a "creative update" before being sold elsewhere
- Former Blizzard boss says PlayStation probably can't convert PC players using single-player exclusives alone
- Astro Bot's lack of PSVR 2 compatibility isn't going down well with VR fans: "It should at the very least be a hybrid game"
- Monster Hunter Wilds will portray "a more hostile world," but Capcom has been "very careful" to do it "in a Monster Hunter way"
- RIP your backlog: Destiny 2's The Final Shape needs 300GB of free space on Steam
- Compared to PS4, most PS5 owners spend 176% more on add-on content but 12% less on full games despite today's $70 prices
- After putting 6 years into Baldur's Gate 3, its lead writer says the team "were just relieved" to see the RPG do so well
- Chris Hemsworth looks set to lead Transfomers and G.I. Joe crossover film, with Michael Bay set to produce
- Off the back of a strong Season 4 launch, Diablo 4's anniversary event introduces roving packs of Treasure Goblins with staggering amounts of loot
- Monster Hunter Wilds is trying something brand new for Capcom's series – your mount will automatically find its way around the open world
- Astro Bot is "a new beginning" for the PS5 mascot, and Team Asobi's biggest game ever with over 80 planets to explore
- Astro Bot has every single PlayStation cameo you could think of - except Bloodborne
- God of War Ragnarok requires a PlayStation Network account on PC, suggesting that Sony learned very little from its Helldivers 2 snafu
- May 30
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- Marvel's Overwatch rival is coming to consoles, adding Venom and Adam Warlock, and getting a PS5-exclusive Spider-Man skin
- Dev behind Horizon Zero Dawn and God of War-inspired action-RPG reveals new free-to-play co-op soulslike Ballad of Antara coming to PS5 in 2025
- Monster Hunter Wilds trailer shows off new monsters, updated weapons, the best graphics in the series, and bonuses for World and Iceborne players
- Path of Exile 2 finally kicks off early access later this year, and the long-awaited action-RPG is introducing cross-play and couch co-op too
- Silent Hill 2 remake gets terrifying new gameplay trailer and October release date
- The secret best game on PS5 is getting a long-overdue sequel
- New open-world game headed by Breath of the Wild dev blends your favourite childhood dress-up games with Pokemon Snap
- God of War Ragnarok arrives on PC in September, bringing its excellent roguelike DLC along for the ride
- 5v5 competitive shooter Concord reveals July beta and August launch, looks like Overwatch meets Guardians of the Galaxy in new gameplay trailer
- After 7 years, Dynasty Warriors Origins brings the beloved musou series back in 2025
- During a slow year for PS5, new PlayStation CEO says "we plan to have at least one tentpole single-player launch during the holiday season" every year
- Marvel star Mahershala Ali in talks to join Scarlett Johansson in new Jurassic World movie
- The average PS5 owner spends an extra $731 on "content, services, and peripherals"
- Xenomorphs are on the loose and it's Carter Burke's fault yet again in Aliens: What If…? #4
- Knives Out 3 adds Black Swan star Mila Kunis and Marvel star Jeremy 'Hawkeye' Renner following his hot sauce-related cameo in Glass Onion
- New Helldivers 2 Major Order brings back an iconic character to tell players to blow up an entire planet using the Dark Fluid that "spaghettified" people last week
- The original Sinister Six is back and Marvel is marking the occasion with a pair of killer connecting covers for Amazing Spider-Man
- Assassin's Creed Shadows, Star Wars Outlaws, and XDefiant headline Ubisoft Forward showcase during Summer Game Fest
- Everything announced at the PlayStation State of Play May 2024
- Exclusive: D&D Dungeon Master's Guide alt cover channels every DM's inner schemer
- Almost 60 years after it was first published, Astro Boy creator Osamu Tezuka's samurai manga classic Dororo is getting a cyberpunk makeover
- Bungie dev asks "F***ing... how?" as Sony seemingly leaks the entire Destiny 2: The Final Shape expansion via PlayStation's own streaming service
- The Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth team wants to give "even more freedom" and a "different kind of experience" in the Remake Trilogy's finale
- Diablo 4 Necromancers are currently running wild with an elixir capable of melting through enemy health bars in seconds
- Top Gun: Maverick's Glen Powell auditioned for Han Solo but blew his final audition: "I can joke about it now"
- It's OK if you didn't fully understand Doctor Who episode '73 Yards' - you were never meant to
- The Evercade Alpha is a compact arcade machine that uses cartridges and comes in two Capcom flavors
- Todd Howard has "nothing to talk about" for Fallout 5, but says Bethesda is "in plans for future games" in the sci-fi RPG series
- Hogwarts Legacy gets photo mode, Harry Potter glasses, and unlocks the PS5-only quest in its big summer update
- Viggo Mortensen uses Aragorn's sword in his new movie, but had to ask Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson for permission first
- MMO dev explains why we rarely get to see games early following feedback on the first new skill in 17 years: "It doesn't look finished because it's not finished"
- Silent Hill 2 remake's James looks "kinda meow" now after what appears to be a slight redesign
- After 8 months and 1000 hours of work, the Dark Souls Re-Remastered mod remasters Dark Souls Remastered
- The Crow reboot star Bill Skarsgard reveals he’s disappointed with how the new film ends, setting up a sequel
- Stellar Blade boss speedrun breaks a record set by the developers, shaving off a whole 24 seconds in a fight so flawless you'd think it was easy
- Baldur's Gate 3 studio's next RPG is officially codenamed Excalibur, but even its director doesn't know "what the hell it is"
- Lord of the Rings star Viggo Mortensen is open to returning as Aragorn for new Gollum movie, as long as it makes sense for the character
- On its 15th anniversary, Minecraft is being turned into a Netflix animated series
- X-Men '97 showrunner reveals how the finale was inspired by Zack Snyder's Man of Steel
- Batman writer Chip Zdarsky is the latest big name to join DSTLRY, as the innovative publisher announces three new series
- Bill Skarsgård says he hopes Nosferatu viewers will be "disgusted by their attraction" to his "gross" titular vampire
- Top Gun 3 still has "ways to go," says producer – but there have been "preliminary" conversations with Tom Cruise
- RPG veteran Josh Sawyer "threw everything I knew" at Icewind Dale, which is partly why the D&D CRPG has "a reputation for being pretty hard"
- Manor Lords publisher thinks it's "a little unfair to judge us" on the massive city-builder success because "publishers shouldn't be judged by their biggest hit"
- "Can you guys stop taking out loans?": League of Legends third-party store says players are getting into debt to afford new $500 skin
- Marathon dev nervous for "all eyes" to be on his Bungie team after Destiny 2's Final Shape expansion launches next week
- Years after its RPGs' releases, Bethesda's Fallout series is once again smashing US sales charts: "That Fallout show - it did some work"
- One of my favorite graphics card makers is releasing a gaming handheld that could take on Steam Deck OLED
- Haunting Of Hill House's Mike Flanagan officially directing next The Exorcist movie which promises to be "a radical new take"
- PlayStation's CEO drastically underestimates the Steam crowd's patience, thinks PC gamers will buy a PS5 for exclusive sequels
- After making one of the best RPGs in years, Wildermyth's studio is going into "hibernation"
- Bungie confirms Destiny 2: The Final Shape leak "accidentally pushed live on PS5's streaming service," warns against "spoilers being shared online"
- Bill Skarsgård is back as Pennywise for IT spin-off TV show so get ready for more nightmares
- Django Unchained and Fatal Attraction stars latest to join Daniel Craig in Knives Out 3
- Tron 3 director talks wrapping the sci-fi movie: "I've basically been inside the computer for a year"
- PS5 is Sony's most profitable console gen ever after just 3 years, beating PS4 by over $36 billion in sales
- First trailer for The Umbrella Academy season 4 teases regained powers, rescue missions, and new enemies in the Netflix superhero show
- A Call of Duty Fallout crossover has leaked and there's something about Captain Price wearing a Vault jumpsuit that just doesn't look right
- May 29
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- The Witcher: The Edge of the World brings one of Geralt of Rivia's earliest adventures into comics
- Sweeten the wait for Nier 3 with this Nier Automata wine that was blasted with the RPG's amazing soundtrack during aging, which had to be Yoko Taro's idea
- Open-world action favorite Just Cause is getting a movie from The Fall Guy producers, and I already want the most ridiculous parachute stunts ever put to film
- The new Ultimate Universe Green Goblin and Doc Ock have surprising ties to Iron Man
- New The Bear season 3 trailer reaches a fever pitch as Jeremy Allen White clamors for a Michelin star
- In a stunning commitment to playing RPGs your way, Genshin Impact player spends 3 years min-maxing the worst character: "I usually advise others not to build her"
- Tom Hiddleston reveals the kind words Josh Brolin told him before Thanos killed Loki in Infinity War
- Guy Ritchie is returning to Sherlock Holmes in an unexpected way
- Larian boss says Baldur's Gate 3 doesn't "strike fear in the hearts of AAA developers," reckons The Witcher 4 and GTA 6 "can dwarf what we've been doing"
- Mass Effect fans are remembering the time somebody used science to prove you can get high on Tali: "Her sweat's a drug and a natural performance enhancer"
- The long-delayed Masters of the Universe movie has found yet another He-Man actor - and it's unexpected to say the least
- It's not just you - speedrunners confirm an essential Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door move is way harder in the RPG remake
- Celeste's composer announces a shoot 'em up RPG that recalls Undertale - a pitch almost as grand as I know the soundtrack will be
- Former World of Warcraft lead speaks out on the problem plaguing MMO combat – the "bajillion buff and debuff icons"
- New Helldivers 2 CEO says "we don't think weapons are as fun as they could be," but also "I don't think it's reasonable to threaten people over weapon inbalance"
- The Lord of the Rings' strangest character is joining Rings of Power Season 2
- Daisy Ridley teases her Star Wars comeback as Rey: "There are lots of discoveries to be had"
- Ahead of the Elden Ring DLC, veteran Tarnished advise all players to level the most important stat in the whole RPG: "Having Vigor is crucial"
- After simulating 1.8 million battles, Pokemon professor finds the series' strongest creature isn't literal god but an unobtainable form you only see for one fight
- Why did it take me 9 years to find out you could hold VATS in Fallout 4 to free aim?
- Sony’s Days of Play sale packs some of the biggest PS5 deals I’ve seen in weeks
- Soulslike dev doesn't want speedrunners using "lame ass strategy" to win streamer's $10,000 contest, adds "5k to the pot" following rule change
- Sony finally confirms May State of Play, including details on "PlayStation Studios games arriving later this year"
- Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon director's cuts get alternative titles, which have been secretly revealed
- Brad Pitt and George Clooney reunite in the first trailer for comedy-crime thriller Wolfs
- Helldivers 2 director reveals Arrowhead once made a prototype for a Star Wars TIE Fighter successor: "It could have been amazing"
- League of Legends has a new skin to commemorate esports GOAT Faker - and with its near-$500 price tag, it's already got players planning forced boycotts as a form of protest
- 11 years after its release, a cult sci-fi thriller is getting a new follow-up movie from the original director
- I've been waiting a long time for a PSVR 2 deal this good
- No Man's Sky's new Adrift update puts you in an alternate galaxy without help - or other players - but at least there's a ghostly frigate to bargain with
- Miyazaki is seemingly working on another Studio Ghibli movie - and fans think it's a sequel to this anime classic
- Moana 2 sets sail on a new adventure as first trailer for Disney sequel drops
- New D&D Dungeon Master’s Guide cover art delivers some big 80s nostalgia
- Emma Stone dances and a dog drives a car in new trailer for Poor Things director's next movie
- GTA 5 gets one of GTA 4's funniest mods, making warp-speed vehicles fly across the map, and breaking tennis forever
- Tom Cruise made a six-hour "film school" movie that will never be released: "This is just for my friends"
- As Doctor Who confirms starring role for Susan Twist in finale, it looks like the mystery will finally be resolved
- Terraria creator in shambles as a Terraria mod beats the game itself on a list of the best soundtracks: "I'm gonna hire your sound guy"
- XDefiant dev agrees that with no SBMM, if you're not finding "easy enemies" in Ubisoft's shooter, it's because you are the easy enemy
- Hades 2 developers left all of the roguelike's code "exposed" says iconic indie dev, making it "the easiest to mod game ever"
- Call of Duty publisher wins huge lawsuit against cheat maker EngineOwning, set to receive $14.5 million in damages
- Stellar Blade is the latest 'technically free' reward available via PlayStation's loyalty program, assuming you've spent $1,750 on games since it launched
- 12 years after its original announcement, Cyberpunk 2077 has no developers left working on it, but the RPG series is definitely "not dead"
- Destiny 2: The Final Shape can't make guns too OP because Bungie's "got to keep the game going" for years: "We need to not consume all of the power space"
- Baldur's Gate 3's lead writer worried he'd joined the dev "on the downward curve" as he "thought that Divinity: Original Sin 2 may be the best game Larian will ever make"
- May 28
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- New Helldivers 2 studio CEO says you can expect "more and better stuff" long-term: "We knew it would be impossible to keep up with demand"
- Sherlock and Fleabag star Andrew Scott joins Daniel Craig in Knives Out 3
- The Witcher 4 has "over 400 people" working on it already, and CD Projekt Red hasn't even entered full production yet
- X-Men '97 season 2: Everything we know so far
- After 22 years, Ghost of Tsushima dev's cult classic PS2 platformer is back on PS5
- Shin Megami Tensei V summons PLAY’s RPG Special issue
- Haunting of Bly Manor star responds to missing out on Fantastic Four role, praising Pedro Pascal: "I can’t think of a better actor to play Reed"
- Hey, listen, Lego Legend of Zelda is actually real
- Marvel's new Kid Venom series brings a manga style to its young symbiote hero
- Resident Evil Zero and Code Veronica remakes are reportedly in development as Capcom continues its horror remake streak
- Stardew Valley creator approves of "anyone making any mods" as long as it's clear they're "not canon"
- George Lucas thinks people were critical of Star Wars prequels as they didn't want to watch "kids' movies"
- George Lucas says a "lot of the ideas" from the original Star Wars have been lost since the sale to Disney
- The Lenovo Legion Go ‘Lite’ could be either exactly what I’ve been waiting for or a big flop
- The Boys season 5 has been in the works for a month – and the showrunner says "some crazy sh*t" is being talked about
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is a day one Xbox Game Pass release in a major move for Microsoft's subscription service
- Feline soulslike with Sekiro vibes made by Bloodborne-obsessed devs finally gets its early access release next week
- 20 years later, Paper Mario: The Thousand Year door is calling Switch players out for cheating in the RPG's lottery, just like the original GameCube version
- Netflix CEO sees no reason why Barbie and Oppenheimer wouldn't have been just as big on Netflix
- Valve's unannounced hero shooter had nearly 1,000 concurrent PC players over the past 24 hours - but the developer is staying silent
- Giancarlo Esposito says fans will never guess his Marvel character, while revealing he will get his own series
- Challengers and Civil War stars join Daniel Craig in Knives Out 3
- Helldivers 2 director believes "live service is a good thing" for the industry, but only if games don't "nickel and dime" for skins after charging $70 upfront
- Doctor Who showrunner is never going to reveal the answer to *that* 73 Yards mystery
- Lady Gaga teases her take on Harley Quinn in Joker 2 is "very authentic," and unlike anything she's ever done before
- Genshin Impact studio's new roguelike RPG joins Final Fantasy 14 Dawntrail in setting early July release date to avoid Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree
- JRPG legend Yuji Horii hopes Dragon Quest 12 will be a fitting posthumous work for two beloved developers who passed away
- May 27
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- No Man's Sky lead teases a second look at Light No Fire, Hello Games' hotly-anticipated open-world game
- Hades 2 turned one bug into a feature after a fan-favorite roguelike character unexpectedly yeeted themselves into the abyss
- Legend of Zelda developer explains how an unexpected item became Tears of the Kingdom's best vehicle-creation tool: "Even we didn't predict that"
- Baldur's Gate 3 lead says Larian "did start pushing around ideas for Baldur's Gate 4, and they didn't excite us"
- One of our favorite Metroidvania’s grappling hook action gets 7-8 hours of new content and a second playable character in a free update big enough to fill an entire sequel
- Elden Ring player creates the perfect build for using everything in the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC by using the strongest school of magic: math
- Baldur's Gate 3 sadist beats the RPG's hardest mode with an even more brutal custom ruleset: No companions, no hirelings, no long rests, no tadpoles, no trading, and not even any stealing
- Veteran Pokemon developer explains how a single question in Pokemon Crystal led to a major Gen 2 challenge
- Stardew Valley creator wishes he'd known how popular it would be, so he could have "made my life easier for making all these updates"
- Cyberpunk 2077 developer says there are still "many" undiscovered Easter Eggs in Night City - and probably in The Witcher 3, too
- Xenoblade Chronicles game's final speedrunning world record can never be beaten - because it was set just before Nintendo killed the Wii U and 3DS servers forever
- After 3 years of silence, Dragon Quest 3's gorgeous remake rears its head with a tease that more HD-2D JRPG remakes are in the works: "The legend of Erdrick draws near"
- The Prince of Persia roguelike had to change its story because of the Prince of Persia metroidvania - and was forbidden from using an iconic weapon
- May 26
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- Helldivers 2 studio working on a "solution" for players "getting kicked by an a**ehole lobby leader" before getting mission rewards
- After a string of defeats, Helldivers 2 players have defeated the Automatons on Varylia 5 to unlock the new Emancipator Exosuit mech
- I've been building PCs for over a decade, here are the Newegg Memorial Day deals I'm excited about
- 9 years on, the devs behind my favorite sandbox game say "it's amazing" to see Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom innovating on the genre
- Miss physical gaming? I use this handheld to fulfil my retro cartridge cravings
- Lead Baldur's Gate 3 writer says "I don't care" what happens in a potential RPG sequel, as long as it doesn't get made to just "hit our earnings next quarter"
- Can't wait for Assassin's Creed Shadows? Here's another action RPG about its samurai protagonist Yasuke that will "leave you in tears"
- Baldur's Gate 3 had less crunch than Larian's previous RPGs, but its director says "you will always have a little bit" of overtime"
- With Oscar Isaac’s Metal Gear Solid film MIA, Hideo Kojima eyes a Furiosa actor as the perfect lead: "I could only see him as Snake"
- Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom's biggest change from Breath of the Wild was made to give players unrestricted freedom in a "world free from self-destruction"
- 2024’s best Metroidvania Animal Well might not get a sequel, but its creator wants to make another game in the same 8-bit universe
- May 25
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- Helldivers 2’s next update will begin to reverse some controversial weapons nerfs, but won’t be “the patch to rule all other patches”
- The brand-new LG OLED C4 just took its first price cut for Memorial Day
- Baldur's Gate 3 lead writer reveals that his favorite line in the entire RPG is a super-subtle callout: "We know what you did last time around"
- Google's AI is teaching Pokemon fans a thing or two about LGBT pocket pals - Bulbasaur is a "plant-loving queer," Mewtwo is an "older, cultured gay," and oh so much more
- "If Overwatch didn't exist, I think LawBreakers would have had a shot": Gears of War lead blames Blizzard's hero shooter for his failed FPS
- Almost 30 years later, Batman: The Last Halloween closes the book on fan favorite story The Long Halloween
- After making a game with a file size so tiny it was dwarfed by its own PS5 background, developer of hit Metroidvania Animal Well says "I didn't do anything clever"
- The Last of Us co-director responds to backlash over his controversial comments, claims his "words, context, and intent were unfortunately lost"
- May 24
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- Helldivers 2 players beg for an in-game PSA after learning online that certain planets grant liberation boosts that go away for good after a defeat
- After a shaky launch, the new ARPG hungry for Genshin Impact's lunch is making its lengthy cutscenes skippable and giving away a 5-star character of your choice
- What the Green Goblin's big return means for Spider-Man
- New The Bear season 3 trailer shows no matter how much changes, some things stay the same
- 43 years later, an early pioneer of the RPG genre that inspired Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest gets a remake using the original source code
- The Last Of Us video game star Jeffrey Wright will reprise his villain role in season 2 of the hit show
- Get 20% off Dune: War for Arrakis as part of early Memorial Day sales
- Baldur's Gate 3 player rewrites the entire RPG to grind all the way to max level without ever leaving the lower city - all thanks to a D&D cliche
- 10 years after it was released, fans are calling this forgotten Marvel film one of the "greatest superhero movies" ever made
- Ryan Reynolds confirms another Deadpool 3 cameo and fans are already thinking they are a TVA agent
- Zelda dev says "the true menace" of Tears of the Kingdom wasn't Ganondorf, but the programming that would have let players destroy the world
- After beating all 165 Elden Ring bosses on the hardest possible difficulty despite being level 1, streamer reckons they might "finally be ready for Shadow of the Erdtree"
- Keanu Reeves is returning to writing comics with BRZRKR: The Lost Book of B
- Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans roast their MCU co-star Chris Hemsworth as being the "second best Chris"
- Daniel Craig to return as Benoit Blanc as Rian Johnson shares teaser and title for Knives Out 3
- Helldivers 2 explosives enthusiast targets the record books with 118-kill Hellbomb but blows themselves up in the process, making it 119 kills if you ask us
- Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom physics lead knew the game was going to be "great" when he saw its first prototype, but then reality hit: "Are we really doing this? Development is going to be chaos"
- Genshin-like action-RPG Wuthering Waves has been out for one day, but players have already managed to access unreleased content via virtual time travel
- This soulslike dating sim's best-kept secret - an "invisible grilled cheese" - should have taken players "weeks" to find, but instead they found it in barely 8 hours with no hints: "This sucks man"
- Helldivers 2's review-bomb cape might not exist after all, even though the game's director teased it weeks ago
- Save 64% on Nerf blasters and kick off summer this Memorial Day weekend
- Soviet city builder with 14,606 Steam reviews and a 'Very Positive' user score is finally leaving the Early Access Gulag after 5 years
- The Samsung Odyssey G8 just dropped to its lowest price, and it’s my favorite Memorial Day deal so far
- Here are the Genshin Impact 4.7 codes from the livestream
- Game developers hit back at The Last of Us director Neil Druckmann following controversial AI comments: "I'd hope he'd know better than to look at AI as some kind of magic wand"
- New Netflix anime based on beloved manga gets a trailer with a theme song performed by My Hero Academia’s Japanese Rock Band
- First reactions to new Star Wars show The Acolyte are calling it Twin Peaks meets The Batman
- Scarlet Witch & Quicksilver #4 is an ending but also a new beginning for Wanda Maximoff
- The Boys creator wants to complete his game of "Supernatural Pokemon" in season 5 – by adding Jared Padalecki
- The Boys drops first look at The Seven in season 4, but there's one major thing wrong
- Before 23 games and 21 million copies sold, the first Yakuza game was "flat out rejected" by Sega because it wouldn't appeal to women and children
- Mad Max game lead hits back at Furiosa director's "complete arrogance" over the open-world game, blames Metal Gear Solid 5's release as a factor for "bad sales"
- New open-world Genshin competitor Wuthering Waves offers players compensation as it reiterates commitment to "take performance concerns seriously"
- 9 years later, a character from the Mad Max video game makes a cameo appearance in Furiosa
- Persona 3 Reload is getting a 3-hour game trial that might let you fight a battle or two, if you're lucky
- Helldivers 2 director confirms 'we are the baddies' as he says the game's original pitch was based around a classic Star Wars moment
- Furiosa Mad Max cameo explained – where does the action hero appear in the prequel?
- Furiosa post-credits scene explained – does the Mad Max prequel have a post-credits scene?
- Furiosa streaming date: When will the Mad Max movie be on streaming?
- When does Furiosa take place on the Mad Max Timeline?
- Neil Druckmann says AI will enable Naughty Dog to make "more adventurous projects and push the boundaries of storytelling" despite "ethical issues we need to address"
- May 23
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- 10 years in, EA forms new The Sims 4 team dedicated to fixing "the core game experience" with new patches every 2 months
- Marvel reveals its full slate of August 2024 comics and covers featuring Spider-Man, Deadpool, X-Men, and more
- Over 40 years later, video game consolidation puts a definitive end to an early console war
- Steven Spielberg's next movie will be released in 2026 – and he's re-teaming with Jurassic Park and War of the Worlds screenwriter
- Former Pokemon world champ slates a Gen 2 mon as the series' worst starter, says it's like the devs "designed a Pokemon with the express purpose of punishing anyone who uses it"
- New Beetlejuice 2 trailer sees Jenna Ortega accidentally summon Michael Keaton and the return of a fan-favorite monster
- The Witcher fans have mixed feelings on first look at Liam Hemsworth as Geralt: "No thanks, I'm not watching discount Geralt"
- Helldivers 2's new Major Order offers a shiny new dual-cannon Emancipator mech as a reward - but only if the community can overturn its losing streak
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Direct confirmed to follow the Xbox Games Showcase with its "first in-depth look at all-new gameplay"
- Can't get enough Critical Role? There's a new deluxe hardcover comic with extra material on the way
- The Witcher season 4 has another character with a brand-new look and, no, we’re not horsing around
- After surviving Embracer's $460 million studio shuffle, director of anticipated open-world roguelike hits back at "cascading effect" of corporate consolidation
- Lords Mobile and Doomsday: Last Survivors join forces for The First SLG International Offline Championship
- Star of fan-favorite Netflix show to play young Dexter in prequel to hit serial killer show
- XDefiant opens with skill-based matchmaking but drops it quickly, and players are loving the SBMM-free life
- After 30 years, Spawn's greatest enemy is finally getting an in-depth origin story
- Elden Ring director Hidetaka Miyazaki has a "strong will" to make an Armored Core 6 follow-up, because "there's still room for improvement"
- Tantalizing new Elden Ring DLC images might be teasing Miquella, a classic FromSoft castle, and an odd Dark Souls 2 reference
- 20% off the Lego Millennium Falcon makes this build the ideal Memorial Day activity
- This iconic Witcher 3 sword made it into the RPG's best expansion, all because a modder won a replica of it years before
- Saw and The Conjuring creator is rebooting a beloved ‘60s horror-comedy
- GTA 3 multiplayer was in the works, but creating the open-world blueprint for the next 20 years meant there "was too much to be done"
- The Last of Us director Neil Druckmann says his next game could "redefine mainstream perceptions of gaming" - but it still doesn't sound like The Last of Us 3
- One of the best recent horror movies lines up streaming date – and it's next week
- The Boys spin-off show gets disappointing update as creator reveals there are "lots of hurdles" to make it a reality
- 30 years after the last film, Eddie Murphy is on the wrong side of a jail cell in new trailer for Beverly Hills Cop 4
- Chris Pratt explains why The Garfield Movie expands from the comics: "It’s a modern day version of a classic tale"
- After beating Elden Ring in 167 hours with more than 1,700 deaths, Twitch streamer Kai Cenat is turning his attention to Shadow of the Erdtree, Sekiro, and the entire Dark Souls trilogy
- This year's Call of Duty has been officially confirmed as Black Ops 6, a "dark new chapter" in the franchise
- With the Nintendo Switch 2 looming, dataminers reportedly find code supporting 4k in the Paper Mario remake
- Furiosa director George Miller says 2015's Mad Max game "wasn't as good as we wanted it to be" - but he'd love Hideo Kojima to make a new one
- The Acolyte takes notes from one of the best Star Wars RPGs around: "Darth Traya really stuck out to me as an inspiration"
- The actor behind a chilling Star Wars villain has joined Rogue One director’s new Jurassic World movie alongside Scarlett Johansson
- This chonky power bank saves my Steam Deck during long trips, and it’s down to its lowest price for Memorial Day
- Chris Pratt explains why the new Garfield movie is just like a Mission: Impossible film
- Heaping praise on The Witcher 3's vast new modding tool, Cyberpunk 2077 sequel lead says some of the "best devs in CD Projekt are former modders"
- As Miyazaki remains cagey about Shadow of the Erdtree's length, Elden Ring DLC theorists reckon the 30-song soundtrack is enough of a clue
- The world’s tallest bodybuilder has been cast as a new villain in Reacher season 3, and fans cannot wait for this showdown
- First Sonic 3 poster features Keanu Reeves’ Shadow looming large
- Sony CEO says although AI "has been used for creation," it's "not a substitute for human creativity"
- Helldivers 2 director wants Arrowhead to be "the next FromSoftware" and like "Blizzard before 2004"
- May 22
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- Over 80 years after comics' greatest love triangle started, Archie will finally choose between Betty and Veronica
- After surviving 28 days, 23 hours, and 30 minutes, the last person to play Pokemon on the Nintendo 3DS servers shares one final message: "It's an end of an era"
- After 60 years, Ultraman x Avengers brings comic and kaiju icons together for a four-issue run following Spider-Man's disappearance
- For the first time in 28 years, Super Mario 64 has been beaten without using the A button – and it only took 86 hours
- House of the Dragon showrunner teases the "awful depths" of season 2's Red Wedding-esque event
- It finally happened: in The Final Shape, Destiny 2 is nerfing the crap out of Well of Radiance, the most overpowered Super in the MMO's history
- Doctor Who season finale to screen in theaters across the UK this Summer
- First epic fight clip from new Star Wars TV show is giving us serious Rogue One vibes
- Paul Bettany returns for a surprise Vision Marvel TV show that should answer a big WandaVision cliffhanger
- My most anticipated Metroidvania gets even cooler with extremely in-depth customization for the killer anime girls exploring 3D Zelda-like dungeons
- Your home can now run at a steady 60fps thanks to Noctua’s latest fans
- An incredible Pokemon roguelike just lost its creator to Jesus Christ: "I am first and foremost a man seeking to follow God's path"
- This Avengers: Infinity War goof makes one of the saddest MCU moments ever a lot less of a tearjerker
- First look at Liam Hemsworth taking over from Henry Cavill as Geralt in The Witcher will ease any lingering doubts
- Helldivers 2 director calls out "really s****y" players who issued a "horrifying" number of threats to staff
- Years before Palworld became the biggest survival game in the world, its CEO loaned out part of the studio's office for poker chip storage
- New Helldivers 2 studio CEO wants to avoid the poison currently destroying the games industry: Publicly traded companies and endless growth
- As Helldivers 2's creative director steps down as CEO, he agrees guns are too weak, armor is too boring, and planets are too repetitive
- MTG Modern Horizons 3 pre-orders are already $100 off – that’s 36 Play Boosters for $7 each
- Netflix's new #1 show with a great Rotten Tomatoes score breaks a streaming record
- Jake Gyllenhaal takes the stand in tense new trailer for upcoming Apple crime thriller
- Helldivers 2 director hands off CEO responsibilities to Paradox vet to deepen his "love" for game creation as successor points out "Bethesda has Todd Howard, Kojima Productions has Kojima"
- As live service juggernauts struggle with balance, Super Smash Bros director reveals all 86 fighters have almost identical win rates
- Shrek 2 is being remade shot-for-shot by over 800 filmmakers and the trailer is just as weird and wonderful as you'd expect
- 20 years later, the director of the best Harry Potter movie recalls how Guillermo del Toro’s forthright advice made him take it on
- The best external capture card there is just got 4K144 support, and it’s going cheap ahead of Memorial Day
- I took a chance on this $17 retro handheld that’s also a power bank, and it’s surprisingly not awful
- The Witcher 3 modders might beat The Witcher Remake devs to the punch, as one mod ports the The Witcher 1's biggest city into the latest game
- After a $250 paywall snafu, Escape From Tarkov somehow upsets its community even more with refunds that are actually just coupons
- New heist thriller that sounds like Heat meets Sicario lines up a reunion for Marvel stars
- New Witcher report reveals why Liam Hemsworth’s first Geralt moments are a redo of a Henry Cavill scene
- Kraven the Hunter producer says the upcoming movie was delayed again to Christmas as people will watch it "over and over" - learning the wrong lesson from the infamous Morbius rerelease
- Baldur's Gate 3 director refused to sacrifice quality even amid concerns the RPG would be "impossible to finish" and budget was running out: "We were in a lot of trouble"
- Despite sticking to level 1, Elden Ring streamer abuses crit stats to deal 450,000 damage in a single hit
- Hugh Jackman explains why he came back as Wolverine in Deadpool 3 – and he committed to it before telling his agent
- After a year of silence, the Street Fighter movie finally gets an update – and it’s good news for fans of the games
- The Diablo 4 Season 4 good vibes keep coming as the action RPG hits new heights on Steam
- Fallout premiere’s "love scene-slash-murder scene" featured a trick stolen from Christopher Nolan
- Valve's rumored Overwatch rival has 19 playable heroes, Bioshock Infinite-esque rails, and Dota-style lanes in allegedly leaked footage
- Godzilla x Kong director not returning for next MonsterVerse movie
- Destiny 2 patch notes for The Final Shape's abilities and armor changes are so big they would have been one of the biggest posts in Bungie's 33-year history
- Dark Matter showrunner says star Joel Edgerton came up with *that* big change from the book
- May 21
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- Amid reports of XDefiant server issues, Ubisoft acknowledges "some players are unable to join a game" and says "we are seeing progress"
- X-Men '97 is so popular that Marvel is ramping up development on its X-Men movie with Hunger Games screenwriter
- Meet the new Ultimate She-Hulk, Ultimate Sinister Six, and more in Marvel's August Ultimate Universe solicitations
- Immediately after releasing my new all-time favorite strategy RPG, Japanese juggernaut Vanillaware is hiring for a new action RPG
- In some of 2024's best patch notes, Manor Lords dev rescues players from sheep that were "breeding exponentially" and taking over villages
- Bill Skarsgård has a sword for some reason in new look at controversial The Crow reboot
- The Rock looks unrecognizable in first look at new sports drama from Uncut Gems director
- Helldivers 2 is slowing down the release of new patches "to maintain the quality standard we want and you deserve"
- Just 3 known players remain in the Nintendo Network servers as beloved JRPG Xenoblade Chronicles X, "known to have the worst netcode on the Wii U," loses its last
- Wolverine takes on Deadpool, dinosaurs, and more in his new red band comic from superstar creators Jonathan Hickman and Greg Capullo
- I thought I couldn't be any more excited for my most anticipated strategy game, and then the tank showed up
- Marvel's Overwatch clone isn't even out yet, but Doctor Strange players are already cheesing their way to an easy victory
- First look at Game of Thrones star in a much-loved drama's third season
- The new Elden Ring DLC story trailer is peak FromSoftware: 3 minutes of messed-up war lore beamed straight into your eyeballs
- BioWare veterans' new hard sci-fi space RPG just teased a story that sounds way scarier than anything in Mass Effect
- Assassin's Creed Shadows marks another first for Ubisoft's stealth-turned-RPG series: It actually revealed both of its protagonists at once
- A first look at Lord of the Rings star’s new adventure-comedy is here – and fans are all saying the same thing
- Pirates of the Caribbean producer confirms two new movies are in development – including the Margot Robbie film
- After 12 years, Stardew Valley creator still thinks he could "keep working on the game forever," but "at some point you have to move on"
- Revenge-fueled MMO fiend wins race to max level in WoW Classic Cataclysm in just 3 hours to right a near-2-year-old wrong, despite Blizzard nerfing them twice
- M. Night Shyamalan worked as a second unit director on his daughter’s debut horror movie
- Now that Madame Web has hit Netflix, people are loving it and the memes are incredible
- Furiosa star Tom Burke thinks Praetorian Jack should get his own Mad Max Saga
- The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 studio dev thinks "it only makes sense" for CD Projekt Red to make a new IP that comes "straight from us"
- Mad Max creator George Miller "often thinks" about what happens to Furiosa after Fury Road
- House of the Dragon star says we should "expect the very worst possible" as season 2 will include one of Game of Thrones' most brutal moments
- With 30 million people signed up already, imminent open-world RPG Wuthering Waves is another Chinese action darling to watch
- One Gremlins scene was so divisive, the studio asked theater projectionists to cut it during screenings
- Wade Wilson himself stumbles through Deadpool 3's official synopsis, promising Marvel's "most significant mistake to date"
- Kingdom Hearts hopeful held off buying the RPGs on Epic for 3 years - only to cave 5 days before the Steam version was announced
- Legendary indie dev behind hit roguelike Spelunky says we might get a third game, but it'll be "pretty different"
- The first look at a new Star Wars show has arrived in an unexpected way
- Deadpool 3’s latest trailer has a hidden Easter egg which dismantles the MCU in 30 seconds
- Nintendo snaps up Hogwarts Legacy and Mortal Kombat 1 Switch studio to aid "porting and developing," just in time for the Switch 2's full reveal
- GTA 6 publisher CEO says he wants to "vastly over-deliver" on price and offer "more value than what we charge"
- After nearly 15 years, League of Legends finally gets the anti-cheat boost that might help solve its massive botting problem
- Baldur's Gate 3 devs had to overcome "incredible pressure" when starting its "very ambitious" new RPG: "If we can't follow our gut," then "it's going to be a disaster"
- May 20
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- The devs behind PS5 exclusive Stellar Blade are "considering" a PC port and a sequel
- The Sims 4 challenger Life by You delayed again, again, and this time there's no new release date
- Elder Scrolls Online lead says "we're the most prolific AAA game studio" after making an MMO that's "the equivalent of more than 10 single-player games"
- Elden Ring player wins $1,000 bet with her husband by beating the RPG after nearly 50 hours of grinding: "It was extremely painful ... I don't play games often"
- The scariest movie of the summer starring Nicolas Cage as a serial killer just got a disturbing new trailer
- Sandman season 2 gets first look and new cast members: "It’s going to be one Hell of a family reunion"
- One of the best anime shows of all time with a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score is climbing Netflix charts
- 25 years later, Star Wars has released the original teaser trailer for The Phantom Menace, and we've got goosebumps
- Two years after it was announced, MCU's Nova series gets a positive update
- A tiny new bit of footage has landed for Deadpool 3 and it's just as NSFW as we'd hoped
- Baldur's Gate 3 director isn't giving advice to whoever makes Baldur's Gate 4, but he did have one thing to say: "They have to do their own thing"
- Bad Boys 4 directors say the surprise action-comedy sequel was inspired by video games
- The hosts for The PC Gaming Show's 10th anniversary have been confirmed
- Hades 2 director challenges roguelike convention: "If you don't finish the run, it doesn't mean that you failed"
- Helldivers 2 devs need "more time" to sort out the shooter's divisive weapon balancing: "We're cooking"
- Poor Things director's new movie with an all-star cast earns a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score, but not everyone agrees
- Everything revealed at the Warhammer Preview Show at a glance, including a Necromunda dungeon-crawler
- Alien: Romulus director had an extensive call with James Cameron to go over granular details, right down to the ship’s engine sizes
- Daisy Ridley absolutely wants John Boyega back in her Star Wars film: "It feels like we should"
- Baldur's Gate 3 director bragged it could be the "RPG of the decade" during development - then immediately regretted it
- Sorry Venom fans, Venom 3 has been confirmed to be the last movie in the saga
- The Boys star says the ending of season 4 is "f****** nuts" – and wants the superhero show to run for as long as possible
- X-Men '97 season 2 gets a major update, but Marvel streaming boss is asking people to be patient
- Upcoming horror sequel MaXXXine starring Mia Goth is a "very rich movie" with a "Terminator-like aesthetic" says director
- New horror movie debuts to a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score, as first reactions call it an "instant body horror classic" that is "one for the sickos"
- Baldur's Gate 3 developer is gearing up for its "two very ambitious RPGs" by opening a 7th studio on the Witcher devs' territory
- New Doctor Who companion actor breaks silence on surprise early appearance in the show
- Death Stranding 2's filming and recording is complete, but now it's entering an "adjustment phase" that'll last for over a year
- GTA 6 publisher says "perfection is hard to measure," but Rockstar is trying to create "an experience that no one has seen before"
- May 19
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- Ghost of Tsushima becomes PlayStation's biggest single-player launch on PC, beating God of War and Marvel's Spider-Man
- After 35 years, the silliest debate about one of the most beloved NES games has finally been settled by the original director
- Terraria meets FTL in this open-world pirate game from a solo developer - and its early access reviews are glowing
- Jodie Comer teases "emotional" 28 Years Later script, and says it's "so exciting" to work with Danny Boyle on the horror movie sequel
- Peter Jackson messaged Richard Armitage to ask if he needed money when he saw his stolen The Hobbit sword for sale online
- Undertale mastermind Toby Fox says Deltarune is still far away, but "We haven't burned out making it yet! Actually, the opposite!! We're on fire!! A lot!! Ouch!!"
- Free Stars, sequel to the 1992 open-world game that inspired Mass Effect, smashes its Kickstarter campaign over 600% funded
- May 18
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- Two JRPGs inspired by the classics are doing great on Kickstarter right now – one ended over 750% funded, and the other's fully funded in less than 48 hours
- 20 years after quitting Bethesda, veteran Morrowind dev returns to the funky RPG to create new mods
- Over 50 hours later, one Manor Lords player builds a city so big that "the game is no longer really playable" and even the developer himself is "impressed"
- Austin Butler addresses Heat 2 rumors and teases his new Western from Hereditary director
- Long-time Dark Souls and Elden Ring dev thinks Miyazaki stores the entire story in his head: "The lore probably only exists in Miyazaki's imagination"
- House of the Dragon season 2 actor says the world of Game of Thrones has never seen a more "insidious" character before
- Yes, that is Doctor Who’s new season 2 companion in Boom – but the mystery cameo leaves us with more questions than answers
- Former XCOM boss Jake Solomon says he doesn't play XCOM-likes, but "Into the Breach is incredible" and he's honored to have inspired it: "I'll put that on my resume"
- May 17
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- Every Spider-Man ever teams up for the "final evolution" of the Spider-Verse saga
- Chris Claremont leads an all-star cast of creators including Alyssa Wong, David Aja, and TMNT co-creator Kevin Eastman to celebrate 50 years of Iron Fist
- Stephen King has high praise for new horror movie calling it the darkest movie he has ever seen, and fans agree
- After 22 years at Rockstar, former Red Dead Redemption and GTA lead seemingly turns to near-future sci-fi in his new open-world action game
- As Diablo 4's 'we're so back' arc continues, loot pro shares a key season 4 PSA: Temper first, Enchant later
- Cillian Murphy is returning for 28 Years Later, but in a "surprising way"
- FromSoftware producer reappears after 3 months, drops an Elden Ring DLC image that looks exactly like Bloodborne, explains nothing, leaves
- Five Nights at Freddy's star Matthew Lillard shares incredible behind-the-scenes photo paying respect to one of his best roles from 20 years ago
- Redfall is getting its final update with an offline mode after all, even after Microsoft closed Arkane Austin
- Sabrina's enemies take center stage in The Wicked Trinity - a new one-shot which looks like Archie Comics' take on The Craft
- Stranger Things star Joseph Quinn’s new drama is a queasy meditation on grief that will break your heart
- The return of the Green Goblin is on the horizon in Amazing Spider-Man #50 preview
- Fallout is officially coming to Fortnite, and it looks like Epic's already teasing a new POI and the Brotherhood of Steel
- The filming for new extreme weather disaster movie Twisters kept getting shut down by bad weather
- DC reveals its full slate of August 2024 comics and covers featuring Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and more
- Hades 2's first "Major Update" is months out, but Supergiant just gave the roguelike's community a project: "If you play the game deeply enough, you'll find clues"
- Ghostbusters star Ernie Hudson admits he's always the last to hear about upcoming sequels, but has plenty of ideas about how to take the franchise to the next level
- Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom players chase the elemental dragons after one player discovers a different Triforce on their backs
- Bad Boys 4 first reactions praise "phenomenal" sequel as new trailer released
- New Pokemon Shrouded Fable expansion brings Pecharunt and an unexpected art history lesson to the TCG
- Don't hate me, but I think The Strangers: Chapter 1 is better than the original 2008 version
- Top Gun: Maverick star Glen Powell says he brought his own tornado experience to disaster movie Twisters: "I remember the fear"
- Call of Duty is really coming to Xbox Game Pass, according to new report
- Arise, Tarnished: a new Elden Ring DLC image just dropped, and it looks like a fresh take on an old enemy wielding a cool new weapon type
- Hades 2 director teases the roguelike's first "Major Update" and what the patch process will look like "until we consider the game complete"
- Transformers, Wonder Woman, Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees, and more: The Eisner Award 2024 nominations are here
- Studio behind action RPG Dauntless and farming RPG Fae Farm sees major layoffs, "about 140" devs cut and 3-year game "abruptly canceled" mere weeks before reveal
- Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones will blow you away in these exclusive new images from Twisters
- Megalopolis release date, news, and everything we know about The Godfather director's divisive new movie
- One of Amazon's Spider-Man spin-offs is no more after several rewrites – including one bizarre version
- A Total War Star Wars game is reportedly in development at strategy game studio Creative Assembly
- Asus ROG Ally X rumors point towards 24GB RAM and an eight-hour battery
- The first reviews for The Godfather director's "bonkers" new movie are in – and critics are saying it might be "the craziest thing" they've ever seen
- 2025 is officially a big year for horror as Five Nights at Freddy’s, Insidious, and M3GAN sequels all get new release dates
- Borderlands' new corporate owner has big plans for the series and "Gearbox's catalog" after a $460 million buyout
- "Perfect the moment you open it": Ghost of Tsushima PC players praise Sony's port after past stumbles with The Last of Us
- The Crow star Ernie Hudson is only now "thankful" for the cult classic after some "difficult" years, but still has mixed feelings on the Bill Skarsgård reboot
- This cult D&D-style RPG just dropped a new DLC, and at 180,000 words, its single campaign is longer than almost every base game story combined
- Good luck finding somewhere to store the massive new Warhammer Age of Sigmar boxset
- "I'm sure your hill has a lovely view": Assassin's Creed Origins actor comments on the vitriol surrounding Assassin's Creed Shadows' Yasuke
- Shogun is coming back for season 2 and 3, but everyone is confused about how that will work
- The Daredevil reboot originally wasn't going to crossover with the Netflix series at all
- Final Splatoon player cheats death on abandoned Wii U servers, recovering from an almost fatal freeze as only 4 remain after Nintendo's purge
- Valve sleuths believe mystery game trademarked 2 years ago is Overwatch meets Team Fortress 2, and they're still trying to manifest a reveal
- Elden Ring's Malenia was just defeated by Twitch's biggest streamer - and it only took him 24 hours and 400 straight deaths to do it
- May 16
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- Don't worry, Manor Lords players, the game didn't mean to call your town "Loserville" - that's just a Quentin Tarantino reference
- Rob Liefeld promises he's retiring from Deadpool for real this time, but not before teaming him up with some incredibly obscure Marvel characters
- Final Fantasy 14 players are obsessively camping outside the in-game house of Big Sippin, the Mountain Dew employee who hangs out in the MMO to promote soda
- BioShock and Borderlands publisher teases a June SGF reveal for one of its "biggest and most beloved franchises"
- A 4,000-hour Final Fantasy 14 diehard made his own MMO raid-infused roguelike and it's tearing it up on Steam, beating the 4-year sales of his last game in 24 hours
- GTA 6 officially launches fall 2025, dispelling rumors of a potential delay
- After weeks of ad-riddled apps and bizarre delistings, RetroArch is finally on the App Store to handle all your retro emulation needs for free
- Eric Barone isn't worried about "pressure" on Stardew Valley follow-up Haunted Chocolatier: "It's a game that I'm deciding to make. I don't need to make it"
- Marvel declares Storm the "most prominent, most respected and most powerful mutant on the world stage" as she gets her own X-Men solo title
- 30 million copies later, Stardew Valley creator says "I'm just a dude who made a game" and still spends "all day hunched over the computer"
- Furiosa takes the fight to a very scary Chris Hemsworth in a 6-minute sneak peek a week before the Mad Max prequel's release
- Hades 2's Early Access journey gets the roguelike off to a great start with a patch that's actually way bigger than it sounded
- Microsoft announces new Activision studio working on a new "narrative-based" IP just over a week after shuttering four teams
- Captain America 4 star says the Marvel film will be a "reality-based superhero movie"
- After an 11-year wait, EA Sports College Football 25 launches in July, but Ultimate Team-laden pre-orders have fans worried this'll be a Madden clone
- Doctor Who villain star hits back at viewers who think the show has got too inclusive: "Why don’t you let your favorite show teach you something new?"
- The Last of Us season 2 leaked footage reveals another key location from the games
- Summer Game Fest confirms GTA 6 publisher, Xbox, and PlayStation will all be in attendance during next month's show
- Solo dev behind breakout Metroidvania hit Animal Well says his game has 256 encounters, but he had to cut at least 500 of them during development
- After its finale earned rave reviews, X-Men ’97 matches a Rotten Tomatoes record previously held by a surprising Marvel show
- Here's why Final Fantasy 14's upgraded characters looked so bad in its Benchmark test, and how Square Enix is improving them for 7.0's launch
- Manor Lords publisher had "some wild hopes," but after 2 million sales the city builder has smashed every expectation
- First trailer for Halle Berry's new horror movie looks like A Quiet Place meets The Village
- Return to Silent Hill first look unveils the Silent Hill 2 adaptation’s game-accurate take on Pyramid Head
- Upcoming horror trilogy The Strangers will answer some burning questions from the 2008 original and bring fans closure, says director
- Hit D&D podcast The Adventure Zone returns to comics with new graphic novel The Suffering Game
- Here are your Future Games Show Summer Showcase hosts and when you can tune in on June 8
- The Acolyte showrunner's pitch for the Star Wars show was so great, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy cried
- Twisters storms onto the cover of the new issue of Total Film
- Cozy MMO Palia seemingly on the rocks after studio goes through a third round of layoffs, this time affecting 40% of staff
- Assassin's Creed Shadows "will not require a mandatory connection at all times," but internet "will be needed to install the game"
- New Netflix anime trailer shows the only thing harder than protecting humanity is raising a kaiju
- Final Fantasy 14's Dawntrail expansion is in the final stage of development, so rest assured it won’t suffer an Endwalker-style delay
- The Last of Us season 2 first images have left game fans worried about the timeline of the HBO show
- New Netflix anime movie Ultraman: Rising comes from a nearly 25-year-old idea from its director: "I never thought there would be any way I could get the rights to the characters"
- Blade Runner RPG’s replicant-focused expansion is hitting Kickstarter and it just seems too perfect not to back
- 2023's best Soulslike gets even bigger (and probably better) with DLC coming later this year
- The most popular Netflix show ever finally gets a return month, courtesy of its star
- Quick, the Pokemon Twilight Masquerade booster box just hit its lowest price
- Jaws and Hitchcock's Psycho inspired new horror movie The Strangers: Chapter 1, as director explains its lack of gore
- First leaked look at Liam Hemsworth’s Geralt in The Witcher season 4 is here – and it appears to recreate a Henry Cavill scene
- The Acolyte producers tease that the show is different to what we've ever seen before, but "still utterly Star Wars in its essence"
- Canceled Division game began as a battle royale mode for The Division 2 before Ubisoft had "other ideas" for the free-to-play spin-off
- House of the Dragon season 2 producers says reduced episode count for the Game of Thrones prequel wasn’t their choice
- 22-year-old PS2 shooter Star Wars: The Clone Wars looks set to be the next PS2 game coming to PS5 via PS Plus emulation
- Game of Thrones prequel by The Batman writer will be like "Napoleon or Alexander the Great," as another spin-off goes into production
- With over 96 million copies sold, the Nintendo Switch surpasses the Game Boy to become the most successful Pokemon console ever
- Helldivers 2 devs reveal the first Galactic War was just "an elaborate special operation," and "The Second Galactic War" has already begun
- Fantasy MMO gets removed from sale by devs buying back the rights - so that they can take out microtransactions and effectively un-MMO their MMO
- Chris Hemsworth gets "teary-eyed" during 6-minute standing ovation for Furiosa at Cannes following great reviews for the Mad Max: Fury Road prequel
- Netflix hit 3 Body Problem gets renewed until it reaches "epic conclusion" – but the streamer won’t say how many seasons that will take
- Assassin's Creed Shadows fan theory might have pinpointed the open-world game's historical setting with a crucial event in Japanese history
- Roguelike witchcraft from a master’s spellbook: in Edge 398, Supergiant explains the secret sorcery behind its first-ever sequel, Hades II
- Furiosa star Chris Hemsworth says it was "liberating" to shed his heroic Thor persona for the Mad Max prequel
- 6 days before launch, Xbox breaks Hellblade 2's long marketing silence with a 5-minute recap of the first game
- May 15
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- Assassin's Creed Shadows has a grappling hook to let its shinobi character reach places its samurai can't
- Peter Jackson says The Lord of the Rings Gollum movie explores territory "we didn't have time to cover" in the original trilogy
- A John Wick 4 spin-off movie starring Donnie Yen's Caine is in the works
- The X-Men's mutant pop star Dazzler is embarking on a big world tour in her own solo series this fall
- Rockstar co-founder and former GTA lead Dan Houser is making an "open-world action-adventure game" of his own at his new studio
- Ubisoft CEO says "I expect a lot from gen AI in our games" and thinks it'll make them feel "more alive and richer"
- Assassin's Creed Shadows is making a big change to the series' iconic towers to encourage you to explore its open-world Japan
- Poker Face star Natasha Lyonne joins Marvel's Fantastic Four reboot in mystery role
- Meet the new hero of Helldivers 2: Dremskiy, a player kicked despite insisting "Im frend," who now has a full Steam friends list after even PlayStation shared the love
- Ubisoft has canceled The Division Heartland and "redeployed resources to bigger opportunities" like its Call of Duty-style FPS XDefiant
- Assassin's Creed Shadows' dual protagonists each have their own "clear advantages" in stealth and combat, "even if they can do a bit of both"
- X-Men ’97 resolves a decades-long Spider-Man: The Animated series cliffhanger
- Ubisoft wants to "return to leadership in the open-world" genre, and its CEO says the company is already "back on track" after some rough years
- The Assassin's Creed Shadows open-world map is about the same size as Origin's Egypt, but exists on a more realistic scale because Ubisoft "really wanted the mountains to feel like mountains"
- Lord of the Rings' corporate owners know that you "have to respect" the books, but after Gollum, says that "not everything is going to hit it out of the park"
- Assassin's Creed Shadows trailer unveils dual protagonists - one the first Black Samurai in Japanese history, the other a Shinobi
- Yes, Black Widow still has her symbiote - and that means she must choose a side when Venom War breaks out
- The Strangers: Chapter 1 might "deal with the same premise" as the original, but its sequels shed light on some unanswered questions from the 2008 horror movie
- In a first for dying consoles, Microsoft is giving Xbox 360 games deep discounts before digital purchases end for good
- Dune prequel series set 10,000 years before Denis Villeneuve’s epic gets its first trailer
- XDefiant is ditching skill-based matchmaking because Ubisoft thinks it's not good for fun or variety, and it "means every casual game is repetitive"
- Helldivers 2 dev threatens to make the hardest difficulties even harder: "I think we might have some things in store for the players who coast through everything"
- New Wicked trailer takes us back to the Emerald City as Cynthia Erivo's Elphaba goes up against Jeff Goldblum's Wizard of Oz
- Hi-Fi Rush receives a "final patch" after Xbox closed the studio while physical editions are still incoming
- The Assassin's Creed Shadows map might have already been teased, with codebreakers solving a cipher to reveal a potential link to Kyoto and Osaka
- The Acolyte will be a gateway to Star Wars – and you "don’t need to know anything" about the franchise to watch it
- First look at Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey in The Last of Us season 2 teases Joel and Ellie's emotional confrontation at the barn dance – and we're already crying
- Manor Lords player figures out how to hack food production and "put out a ton" - just surround your massive vegetable patches with huge corpse pits
- Netflix’s Terminator anime series looks like Ghost in the Shell meets James Cameron’s classic movie in first look images
- Playing Elden Ring becomes a sweaty workout with this 7ft Greatsword peripheral that acts like "a very complicated Wiimote"
- Fantastic Four star teases his mysterious character is from the comics, and Marvel fans think they've worked it out
- Pouring fuel on the Nier 3 fires, series producer says several Automata leads have reunited for a new game that "might be Nier" but also "might not be Nier"
- Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and more hit the beach on DC's fun - and only slightly thirsty - 2024 swimsuit covers
- Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies sent Jonathan Groff six key episodes to watch ahead of his debut
- These itty bitty plushies might be the cutest thing to come out of MTG Bloomburrow
- First teaser for Marvel's Ironheart series sees Riri Williams pinching parts to build her super suit – and confirms 2025 release date
- CEO behind Warcraft and StarCraft vets' new strategy game defends asking players to invest in the studio, even after raising $35 million across fundraising efforts
- Daredevil star Charlie Cox hopes he can continue playing the superhero for another 10 years
- New D&D Player's Handbook art is a promising start to the game's big update
- It seems like James Gunn's DCU is planning a new movie every year as Supergirl lands 2026 release date
- After a string of poorly-received patches, Helldivers 2 dev confirms test servers are being discussed
- Someone, protect me from Hellblade 2's unbelievably impressive photo mode and its moveable light bulbs
- Nintendo Switch 2 isn't the only handheld Nvidia is apparently planning to power
- Sting director says he's "kind of remaking Alien" with the giant spider horror movie
- Elden Ring publisher Bandai Namco responds after ex-employee arrested for embezzling nearly $4 million by selling a whopping 4,400 mobile devices over 7 years
- WandaVision's Agatha spin-off confirms release date and FINAL title, as it becomes clear the Marvel show really was trolling us all along
- Helldivers 2 CEO wants the galactic war to last "forever" even if Arrowhead has to "sunset" the game in the far future and the devs have to make an AI game master
- First trailer for Marvel's Daredevil: Born Again has been secretly shown, featuring glimpses of returning characters and the hero back in his iconic suit
- Palworld dev "hates" seeing the survival game pitted against Helldivers 2 "in pursuit of 2010 era 'console war' updoot farming"
- "This is Diablo 4 as it should have originally been released": Blizzard's action-RPG continues its very uneven trajectory with huge praise for Season 4
- Amid rave reviews and 200,000 sales, Idle Stardew Valley-style farming sim dev can hardly believe their success: "I'm only now realizing how life-changing this is"
- After a bumpy road, the long-awaited Mortal Kombat 2 finally has a release date
- Leaked Assassin's Creed Shadows details point to dual protagonists, potentially including Yasuke, Japan's first black samurai
- Helldivers 2 will revert enemy spawn rates after player outcry, but it's been "so hectic" that it'll take some time to fix
- Doctor Who team say filming season 1's "apocalyptic" finale was an "emotional ride every day"
- May 14
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- Analyst estimates PS5 outsold Xbox Series X|S by "almost 5x" last quarter
- Daredevil: Born Again gets a new logo and release date, but a reduced episode count
- Tom King returns to Batman as the Caped Crusader teams up with Jenny Sparks of The Authority in a new Black Label title
- In an era of 100GB games, breakout Metroidvania hit Animal Well is only 34MB - so small that its 4K PS5 background is "likely larger than the game"
- Single-player Dead by Daylight game from Until Dawn dev looks like a straight-up horror movie, and I'm here for it
- Fortnite shop updated as Epic gets fined over microtransactions once again, this time for $1.2 million amid claims "children’s vulnerabilities were exploited"
- After 13,151 races in Mario Kart 7 tragically crashed one 3DS, the dying Nintendo Network servers are down to the final 4 players
- Helldivers 2 patch has 10 bug fixes and 17 lingering "known issues," from an infamous primary that "deals too little damage" to confirmation your gun's crosshair is a lie
- Storm is declared "Earth's Mightiest Mutant" as she moves from the X-Men to the Avengers this summer
- Following Japanese giants like Sony and Capcom, JRPG powerhouse Square Enix says it wants "to win over PC users" as the Final Fantasy 16 port nears completion
- "If Silksong shadow drops in the next two weeks I'm burning the whole thing down": Prince of Persia roguelike dev is at its limit after a delay to dodge Hades 2
- Helldivers 2 led one of PlayStation's most active periods "in history," second only to the COVID stay-at-home boom
- Years after lawsuits were filed against Nintendo for drifting Joy-Con controllers, 2 class action complaints are reportedly set to be dismissed
- A new live-action Tomb Raider series from Indiana Jones star Phoebe Waller-Bridge is in the works
- Outsiders #7 doubles-down on its links to Planetary - and reveals which long-running character has died
- Nintendo 64 games can now be instantly ported to PC, and there's a widescreen, 60 FPS Majora's Mask to play right now
- Stardew Valley creator says he's "doing everything within my power" to get update 1.6 out for console and mobile players, and a new PC patch is coming too
- House of the Dragon reignites war of the fantasy shows by releasing season 2 trailer hours after The Rings of Power
- Asus ROG Ally X price leaks match up to what I was expecting, but it’s not all bad news for handheld fans
- Enormous new Lego Lord of the Rings set is giving me goosebumps
- Ahead of Monster Hunter Wilds, Capcom's action RPG behemoth hits 100 million copies sold, with World and Rise chipping in nearly half of that in just a few years
- Nicolas Cage is reprising his role as Spider-Man Noir, this time in a live-action series adapted by Prime Video
- Lord of the Rings villain Sauron is poisoning Middle-earth in first look at Rings of Power season 2, as fantasy show’s return date is confirmed
- Stellar Blade studio head says outfit redesigns were intentional, not censorship: "Just because the costumes are vulgar doesn't necessarily mean they're good"
- The Boys season 5 has been confirmed and is already being written, as Homelander star shares cryptic warning about who will return
- Former Marvel's Midnight Suns dev wants his debut life sim to focus more on storytelling than similar games: "we feel ourselves drifting off into our own little bubble"
- Chris Pratt wants a role in James Gunn's DCU, but to also keep playing Guardians of the Galaxy's Star-Lord
- Spider-Man director has shared his advice for whoever directs Spidey 4 and fans aren't happy
- In a huge win for democracy, latest Helldivers 2 patch adds "optional" PSN account linking, which is hopefully the end of that whole debacle
- "There are more Helldivers than Swedes" says Helldivers 2 lead as his game becomes Sony's fastest-selling title ever
- Doctor Who's Steven Moffat won’t return for season 2, but he has written the 2024 Christmas special
- This Sony OLED TV is practically made for PS5, and it’s down to its lowest price
- Joker 2 star Steve Coogan reveals his surprise role in the DC sequel
- The Last of Us season 2 set photos show off Bella Ramsey's Ellie looking absolutely perfect for her Part 2 debut
- PlayStation will unveil its new "long-term vision" later this month as new CEOs are brought on board
- The Witcher star says she's relieved the show is ending after season 5
- Adam Driver and Aubrey Plaza star in surreal trailer for new sci-fi epic Megalopolis, as The Godfather director calls it his "best work"
- The actor behind Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's main character recorded 508 hours of dialogue over 127 sessions for the RPG sequel
- May 13
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- PlayStation replaces outgoing CEO Jim Ryan with two new bosses as co-CEOs: Hermen Hulst and Hideaki Nishino
- Shaun of the Dead's Edgar Wright reportedly in talks to direct Sydney Sweeney-starring Barbarella remake
- Assassin's Creed Shadows release date seemingly leaked by Ubisoft in its own trailer placeholder
- Many Helldivers 2 devs lost a week of work due to Sony's "PSN-gate," and they were already struggling with "massive pressure" from the shooter's explosive launch
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles relaunch turns Michelangelo into a Japanese TV star
- Hades 2's first patch is in the works, Supergiant wants to improve the roguelike's dash, sprint, and resource gathering but "don't expect too many" balance changes
- Marvel shares and quickly deletes another new title for WandaVision spin-off Agatha, and fans can't decide if they're just messing with us at this point
- Game devs wake up and choose violence, randomly crank values in their code to 1,000 just to see what happens: "I could definitely make this a game mode"
- After 250 hours, a Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom player lost an 82% complete save and declared "I'm free" until he tragically realized he could get it back
- Bethesda adds the Fallout 4 graphics settings the community wanted from the first next-gen update, but the devs "highly recommend" you don't use them
- Steven Moffat thought he had got new Doctor Who so wrong, he threw his script away
- 5 years after falling flat in its own game, Pokemon Sword and Shield's worst legendary is back from the dead, and it's running rampant in the competitive scene
- A surprise Star Wars movie is Disney Plus' most-watched out of the whole franchise
- Assassin's Creed Red is now officially Assassin's Creed Shadows, and the open-world game set in Japan will finally be revealed this week
- The Meta Quest 2 is still worth buying, and its price ahead of Memorial Day is ludicrous
- Tapple is the TikTok viral board game that you need to add to your party collection
- Chris Hemsworth is still defending Marvel movies, despite his Thor comments
- Red Dead Redemption PC port seemingly spotted in new datamine, ending 14 years of console exclusivity
- Helldivers 2 dev asked players for Warbond feedback, and boy did it get some: after 21,000 votes, over 70% of recruits don't like the new gear or would prefer more patches
- Helldivers 2 might get its review bomb cape after all, whether Sony likes it or not: CEO teases a wearable tribute as the game recovers to "Mostly Positive" on Steam
- Atlus is delisting one of the best JRPGs on Nintendo Switch next month as its definitive version is released
- One of Marvel's most famous mutants wasn't allowed to be in X-Men '97
- Manor Lords dev begs modders to stop submitting bug reports after wasting time trying to fix a bug that wasn't even his fault
- Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes producers have nine films planned for the modern saga: "This is crazy ambitious"
- X-Men ‘97 creator sets homework for the finale – and it’s a classic ‘90s X-Men episode
- A Walking Dead spin-off with a great Rotten Tomatoes score finally gets UK release date
- Skyrim's been out for 13 years, but players are still being surprised by the fact that NPCs die if you steal their hearts
- Anya Taylor-Joy only has 30 lines of dialogue in Fury Road prequel Furiosa, despite the Mad Max movie's 2.5-hour runtime
- As EA considers in-game ads, one Baldur's Gate 3 player dares to imagine the RPG as a Raid: Shadow Legends marketing machine
- It took almost 28 years, but Super Mario 64 players have finally opened an "unopenable" door - using a penguin and a sick backflip
- This record-low Samsung Odyssey G9 price makes it hard for me to recommend any other ultrawide monitor right now
- Mad Max director is open to directing Furiosa star Chris Hemsworth in Thor 5: "I would work with Chris on anything"
- Doctor Who fans think they have worked out who The One Who Waits is and it all ties back to the first Doctor
- Kingsman star seemingly confirmed to be joining The Penguin TV show – and fans know who they want him to play
- Frustrated dev of misunderstood city-builder changed his game's name to remind players that it's "a bloody creative sandbox not a f***ing strategy game"
- Square Enix to "shift from quantity to quality" as it "aggressively pursues a multiplatform strategy" which could spell the end of PlayStation-first Final Fantasy games
- Legendary Alien star Sigourney Weaver set to join the Star Wars universe
- Mario movie star Chris Pratt thinks we will be getting "lots" of Nintendo films over the next decade - and he's just as excited about it as you are
- May 12
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- After Valve said no to Portal 64, the dev is making a new Nintendo 64 game that sounds a lot like the co-op cult classic that put the Helldivers devs on the map
- Former Helldivers 2 lead writer "burned out hard" while updating the near flawless live service game: "I absolutely destroyed myself"
- Banjo-Kazooie enter the Nintendo 64 Multiverse in an incredible-looking mod that spans Pokemon, Conker, and FPS classic Goldeneye
- Following Sony's Helldivers debacle, Ghost of Tsushima's PSN requirement also gets it removed from Steam in over 170 countries
- Helldivers 2 CEO dances around a potential new faction that sounds like the Illuminate from the first game, immediately insists "I'd never" tease such a thing
- Former World of Warcraft lead says AI is fine for the MMO "grunt work," but not the creative tasks that "thousands of talented people" are dying to do
- Hang out with The Boys in the new issue of SFX
- May 11
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- Helldivers 2's D&D campaign was set up "about halfway through development" to support over 10 million people "all collaborating on a story"
- Fallout's TV show renaissance inspires New Vegas fans to celebrate the RPG's… interesting dialogue
- Mass Effect and Dragon Age veteran invokes BioWare's biggest RPG flop as he rails against EA's newfound "hunger" for AI
- After calling the next Battlefield "another tremendous live service," EA CEO threatens to put ads in AAA games
- Helldivers 2 gets delisted in more countries without PSN access, blindsided devs call for it to be "available worldwide"
- A Dragon Quest fan remake 11 years in the making is available to download for free, and it adds 6-8 hours of new content
- May 10
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- Hideo Kojima says Mad Max creator George Miller is "my God, and the SAGA that he tells is my Bible" in totally normal Furiosa verdict
- Godzilla x Kong sequel in the works from Shang-Chi screenwriter
- Former vampire Jubilee of the X-Men joins Blood Hunt in June with her own spin-off one-shot
- Oh no, they're adding the Oregon Trail to American Truck Simulator and I think it's a horror game now
- Shogun season 2 seems likely as main star inks deal to return
- Former Blizzard president gives Xbox advice after brutal studio closures: "This all comes down to making great games"
- Marvel star back to play Rick Flag, Sr for the DCU in an entirely unexpected way
- After 30 years, the beloved Bungie FPS that paved the way for Halo is now on Steam
- Harley Quinn, Catwoman, and Poison Ivy reunite as the Gotham City Sirens for the team's first new comic in over a decade
- A new Zelda timeline updated for Tears of the Kingdom might be on the way, and lore sickos are already bracing for their theories to be obliterated
- Xbox founders reportedly mourn the loss of its identity: "It's not Xbox anymore, it's Microsoft gaming"
- Despite Palworld's success, Game Pass needs the likes of Call of Duty or GTA 6 to become sustainable, former senior PR lead says
- 30 years after its release, The Crow is still a timeless cult classic – and the reboot has a lot to live up to
- After Helldivers 2 fixed the bug that helped players squish 2 billion Terminids in 24 hours, a new Major Order pits them against 2 billion bots instead
- Nicolas Cage's new movie called "the best horror of 2024" in glowing first reactions
- Russell T Davies explains how his "accidental" criticism of Loki led to the Marvel show's director writing a Doctor Who episode
- The Obi-Wan Kenobi series is apparently one of George Lucas’s favorite new Star Wars projects
- Manor Lords might get pigs, but the developer "can't decide" if they should live inside or outside like chickens
- First major Manor Lords patch takes aim at enemy AI, underpowered archers, plus "overly high ale consumption" - and adds a steep tax to prevent gold hoarding
- Huge Tears of the Kingdom book reveals 8 scrapped Princess Zelda redesigns, and a loving Rauru and Sonia scene
- A Fallout: New Vegas fan is trying to raise $500,000 to put the RPG's enigmatic antihero on the Vegas Sphere
- Former Helldivers 2 lead writer didn't think anyone at Arrowhead "was expecting Malevelon Creek to be a thing" before it turned into the Galactic War's deadliest battleground
- Dead Cells dev's Prince of Persia roguelike delayed to dodge Hades 2's surprise Early Access launch: "We are not prideful enough to ignore the implications of that"
- The next Asus handheld isn’t the ROG Ally 2, but I’m still hyped for a refresh
- Doctor Who boss Russell T Davies hopes that the divisive Timeless Child storyline continues "for seasons to come"
- Forget Five Nights At Freddy's, another popular horror video game is getting the movie adaptation treatment, and it looks terrifying
- Cyberpunk 2077 devs celebrate ‘Overwhelmingly Positive’ recent Steam review comeback
- One of 2024’s surprise breakout streaming hits is coming back for a second season
- God of War: Ragnarok is reportedly the next PlayStation exclusive coming to PC with an announcement "imminent"
- Doctor Who stars Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson reveal their all-time favorite villains – and one is a "misunderstood" fan-favorite
- Hi-Fi Rush dev hits back at Microsoft exec calling for more award-winning games with their own awards: "Not enough?"
- Helldivers 2 veterans are making a Fire Emblem-style strategy RPG complete with "horny" romance thanks to Baldur's Gate 3 and Hades 2
- Call of Duty on Xbox Game Pass could still happen this year as Xbox president appears to confirm Activision games will hit the subscription service
- Ncuti Gatwa's first season of Doctor Who earns rare perfect Rotten Tomatoes score
- Fantastic Four's Galactus actor already appeared in the MCU – 10 years ago
- Fallout 76 player who nuked Phil Spencer says it was nothing personal: "He was the final boss in my eyes - In an RPG I prefer to be the bad guy"
- Xbox president swerves question about closing Hi-Fi Rush and Prey teams, says "success for each game and studio is really unique"
- Marvel's new Galactus actor has the perfect response to his casting: "World devouring cosmic villain is it?"
- Doctor Who stars Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson tease how new companion will make season 2 "bigger, better, hotter"
- The Witcher season 4 set photo gives us our first indication of what Liam Hemsworth's Geralt could look like – thanks to his stunt double
- Former Helldivers 2 lead writer praises the shooter's community for uniting against the PSN mandate: "We trained them to fight together. And then they fought together"
- 26 years later, an April Fool's joke turned urban legend comes to life as a Resident Evil 2 mod that lets you Shoryuken zombies as a Street Fighter character
- May 9
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- Game of Thrones star Ralph Ineson joins Marvel's Fantastic Four as big bad Galactus
- Diablo 4 lead says "obvious" bad ideas used to "fall through the cracks" because the devs didn't fully realize "doing this 2,000 times is actually terrible"
- Final Fantasy 3's programmer is so legendary that people are starting to think it took 16 years to bring back the JRPG because nobody else could replicate his code
- John Malkovich joins Marvel's Fantastic Four reboot in mystery role
- Venom's co-creator brings him back to his Lethal Protector days to take on one of Marvel's most evil villains
- Hades 2 devs don't know how many runs it'll take to reach the roguelike's true ending because it doesn't have one yet
- Indie developer says Warner Bros isn't forcibly delisting his game after all: "Ownership and store listings will return to me"
- Win a copy of the new Stephen King collection!
- This beginner-friendly 3D printer is the best we've tested - and it's $210 off right now
- Carmy's back in the kitchen – The Bear season 3 finally gets a release date and a cryptic first tease
- Ncuti Gatwa's favorite new Doctor Who episode is Steven Moffat's return, despite admitting he "hardly understood what was going on" at first
- Three years after it was first announced, a new animated Batman series from the creator of the '90s classic gets a release date – and a new-look Harley Quinn
- "It's an amazing time for the medium." Brian Michael Bendis on Joy Operations, comics, and his upcoming Amazon shows
- This dark new Metroidvania is already 2024's second best-reviewed game, making it a perfect tonic to ease my Hollow Knight Silksong blues
- Andy Serkis responds to his new Lord of the Rings movie – with a Gollum selfie
- Win a Jada remote-control Godzilla figure!
- Hostilities break out in the first issue of DC vs. Vampires: World War V - and it's all Damian Wayne's fault
- Prototype Super Nintendo abruptly disappears after reaching at least $3.2 million at auction, and nobody knows why
- Helldivers 2's new SMG gives Stalkers a taste of their own medicine with a stun-locking effect that slows them right down
- Developers pay tribute to immersive sim titans Arkane Austin and the career-shaping Dishonored series: "One of those games that changed my world view on game design"
- X-Men ’97 is setting up two major – and devastating – comic book storylines for a potential season 2
- Nintendo Switch successor looks unlikely to launch before April 2025
- Manor Lords player pushes the city-builder to the limit by building a 3,000-strong 'village' that only has 1 market
- New trailer for sci-fi horror A Quiet Place: Day One trailer sees Lupita Nyong'o, Joseph Quinn, and a cat try to escape from New York
- A Gollum movie with Andy Serkis marks first of a new "batch" of Lord of the Rings movies – and Peter Jackson is involved "every step of the way"
- After millions of sales and a glut of awards, Baldur's Gate 3 director says he's nearly done talking about his smash CRPG hit: "I really want to focus on new things"
- Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies wants to make a musical episode one day, despite once turning down ABBA's idea for a stage version
- A horror movie you might have missed with a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score is now climbing Netflix charts
- 10 years after its release, a forgotten Robert Downey Jr. movie is climbing the Netflix charts
- Disney Plus/Max bundle is the latest streaming mega-deal – but it sure does sound like a slow return to traditional TV
- Helldivers 2 director agrees with balancing complaints: "It feels like every time someone finds something fun, the fun is removed"
- Sorry Zelda and Mario fans, Nintendo's president says game development will only get even longer and more complex in the future
- Fallout 76 players appear to protest Xbox's studio closures by directing nukes at Phil Spencer's MMO camp
- Where is the Ghoul’s family? This Fallout theory might have the answer to one of the show’s big season 2 mysteries
- Chris Pine is also baffled by the Star Trek 4 new writer news: "I thought there was already a script?"
- Sydney Sweeney lines up next movie after smash hits Anyone But You and Immaculate – and it's a boxing biopic
- Former Dragon Age writer thinks pressure will be on for Dreadwolf to release in 2024
- Bad news Mad Max fans, Max’s cameo in Furiosa isn't played by Tom Hardy
- Terraria creator and indie publisher channel their inner Kendrick vs. Drake with an online feud: "I've sold more copies of Terraria than all your games combined"
- This Samsung QLED TV is a great PS5 display that looks like a painting, and it's down to its lowest price
- X-Men ‘97 just brought a brutal Wolverine comics moment to life on Disney Plus
- Hi-Fi Rush lead reacts to Xbox exec asking for "smaller games that give us prestige and awards" - right after closing studio that made prestigious, award-winning, smaller game
- Helldivers 2 gets icy new Warbond after Arrowhead holds community vote to decide whether it was "tone deaf" to do so after PSN debacle
- Helldivers 2's helmets once played a far larger role, but the devs "unfortunately had to cut it due to, well, having to ship the game"
- The Office spin-off finally gets plot details, confirming links to the original and a major location change
- Helldivers 2 director still talking to PlayStation and Valve about relisting the shooter "everywhere" after PSN mandate saw the game pulled in over 170 countries
- Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes doesn't have a post-credits scene, but there's still a reason to stick around
- May 8
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- Helldivers 2 devs are worried it's "tone deaf" to drop a new Warbond so soon after the whole PSN kerfuffle, so they're letting voters decide "in true democratic fashion"
- The last Pokemon player has made the ultimate sign-off as 6 survivors hang on to keep the Wii U and 3DS servers alive
- Dark Matter star Jimmi Simpson says Apple's new sci-fi series is his "favorite thing I've ever been a part of" and explains why he joined the cast of Westworld
- Mark Hamill voices the Joker in MultiVersus alongside Kevin Conroy's Batman
- Hi-Fi Rush developer was reportedly "in the process of pitching a sequel" when Xbox shut it down
- I've been obsessed with this open-world take on Ghibli and Zelda for months, but its indie inspirations are just as exciting
- Marvel celebrates 50 years of Wolverine with a new comic series that reveals "a major addition" to the character's lore
- Dark Matter stars Jimmi Simpson and Jennifer Connelly share what makes the sci-fi show different: "They just articulated this universal human wondering so beautifully"
- Under no circumstances should you use this Manor Lords glitch to shoot yourself up into the stratosphere, because that isn't historically accurate at all
- My retro gaming heart is already in love with Nintendo's newly revealed Switch collection of NES speedrunning challenges
- Superman and Lobo's uneasy alliance is put to the test in a massive House of Braniac art preview
- Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes cast totally get why their characters are being compared to Elon Musk and Luke Skywalker
- Marvel's answer to Overwatch has its 39-character roster datamined, including Spider-Man, Squirrel Girl, and a beloved Avengers character
- After spending 2 years setting 17 straight world records, this Minecraft speedrunner is finally "taking a break" following an unbelievable "near flawless" run
- Fast X director's next project is a claustrophobic horror movie led by actors from two of 2023's most-hyped films
- Hit webcomic Covenant is a manga-inspired adventure about "hot priests battling even hotter demons"
- As Xbox shutters studios, community concern mounts for the teams behind Doom, Avowed, Hellblade, and more
- Revenue from game subscriptions like Xbox Game Pass has barely grown in 2 years, potentially explaining Microsoft's studio closures
- Final Fantasy 14 hit with 3 days of DDoS attacks just weeks from Dawntrail, as Square Enix scrambles to fix the MMO's servers
- Massive open-world survival RPG Decimated promises to let you build your own future in its apocalyptic world
- Upcoming horror movie amps up its marketing by having crazed killers pop up all over the nation
- New Twisters trailer sees Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones go to war against not one but two tornadoes
- Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes cast and director reveal most important piece of advice "franchise godfathers" Andy Serkis and Matt Reeves gave them
- Manor Lords players trying to expand into the city-builder's new territories are getting stung by settlements that aren't self-sufficient
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom supercharge the series as Switch Zeldas account for 40% of all sales
- Hi-Fi Rush fans mourn studio closure despite critical acclaim and millions of players: "what hope is there for anyone?"
- William Shatner is open to returning to Star Trek as a de-aged Captain Kirk, as long as it's "not just to make a cameo appearance"
- Two of Netflix’s most hard-hitting anime collide in bloody and brutal new crossover trailer
- Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock really want to co-star again: "I would love to work with you again before our eyes close"
- We shouldn't talk about this exclusive Disney Lorcana card reveal... but we will
- Star Wars Outlaws lead explains how relationships with criminal factions "lends itself very well for an open-world game"
- I’d recommend this Game Pass Ultimate deal to any gamer - even if they don’t own an Xbox
- We’re gonna’ need a bigger boat as popular shark horror movie franchise 47 Meters Down is getting another installment
- Secretly recorded audio from gory horror In a Violent Nature screening has viewers clapping, gasping, and... vomiting
- Indie devs react to Hades 2's stealth launch: "Good thing we picked a quiet news week to launch a video game"
- Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes director would like to see the series build to the 1968 original - but hopes we never see a remake
- Star Wars Outlaws' Reputation system will change "the gameplay around the story" rather than "the story itself"
- Good news, Hollow Knight: Silksong hopefuls - the Microsoft Store says we'll only have to wait another 7,974 years to play it
- EA boss doubles down on commitment to AI, believes "more than 50% of our development process" will be impacted
- We finally have a return date for one of the most popular ongoing anime shows – over a year after season 2 was announced
- A new movie about the making of Rocky is in the works, featuring a character inspired by young Sylvester Stallone
- Move over Barbie, another classic childhood toy is being turned into a movie, and it's got a big action director behind it
- Deadpool 3 gets a new look – and one key Loki detail has fans excited
- Dragon Age: Dreadwolf reportedly set to release before April 2025, but you'll see the RPG's gameplay this summer
- Helldivers 2 players get mixed signals around the Eruptor nerf as one dev calls the changes unintended and another says it's still "absolutely viable"
- Rockstar detectives think GTA 6's cover art and screenshots could be revealed very soon
- Baldur's Gate 3 publishing lead shoots down iPad Pro release rumor, but is "consistently impressed" with Apple tech: "It's wild"
- Deadpool 3 director suggests it won’t be a mindless cameo-fest: "We let the story dictate the characters"
- Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami calls Microsoft's decision to shut down the studio he helped found "sad"
- After posting daily updates for 7 years, Prey fan account that was counting the days until a sequel reacts to studio closure: "It's over"
- May 7
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- Helldivers 2 community manager seemingly fired after encouraging negative reviews over now-canceled PSN mandate: "I knew I was taking a risk with what I said"
- After a year of Xbox execs celebrating Hi-Fi Rush as a "break out hit" and saying "we don't quit" on games like Redfall, everyone wants to know what changed
- Nintendo president says "Switch next model is the appropriate way to describe" the company's next console
- DC fans are poring over the details in the new Superman suit and what it might reveal about James Gunn's movie
- X-Factor joins the new X-Men line this summer as a team of government sanctioned mutant influencers
- Batman #147 debuts a new look for the Caped Crusader - but his enemies are only getting stronger
- Nintendo's Switch-era profit hasn't just surpassed the Wii and DS generation, it's beaten the entirety of the publisher's previous 35 years in video games
- The Goonies-inspired Star Wars show starring Jude Law will finally hit Disney Plus just in time for Christmas
- Redfall, Hi-Fi Rush leads respond to Xbox's sudden closure of their studios: "I don’t quite have the words"
- The other, other Game of Thrones spin-off adds Black Mirror director, changes its title, and reveals a shorter than expected first season
- Blade Runner 2049 TV show casts Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh in lead role
- Demon Slayer season 4, episode 8 release date and new streaming time on Crunchyroll
- Invincible season 3 will see the return of another fan-favorite character
- Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes director says he can see a movie about Caesar's son happening one day, but it's just not this film
- Helldivers 2 grunts want the PSN drama immortalized as an in-game cape, and the devs are already working on "a good name for it"
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom sells 20 million copies in 1 year, right on the cusp of a quiet period for Nintendo
- Star Wars is basically releasing its own version of Marvel's What If – and it features the franchise's most popular fan theory
- Marvel is cutting its output to "two, maximum three films" a year to combat superhero fatigue
- Redfall’s previous update will be its last, with premium edition buyers offered credit for the two characters they'll never get
- Netflix shares first look at Wednesday season 2 as Sixth Sense and The Addams Family stars join Jenna Ortega hit
- How many episodes are in Ncuti Gatwa's first Doctor Who season?
- The Legend of Zelda movie director says it’s a "a dream come true" to work on the live-action adaptation – even if Nintendo won’t let him say anything about it
- Marvel's Blade and Deathloop director says Microsoft's closure of sister studio Arkane Austin is a "f***ing gut stab"
- 11 years since the last film, Vin Diesel's Riddick sequel is finally going into production soon
- Nicolas Cage is set to take on another horror movie, this time about… Jesus?
- The Witcher 3's wildly creative official modding tools release for free later this month
- Microsoft closing the Bethesda studios behind Redfall, Hi-Fi Rush, and more following “reprioritization of titles and resources”
- Director of fan-favorite horror movie trilogy teases idea for fourth instalment in the franchise, says it'll be more like Pearl than X
- Manor Lords nearly let you fight rebelling villagers, but the city builder's dev decided against it as "something felt off with rallying militia to fight your own villagers"
- Hades 2 veterans think one returning character has been granted a "HUGE glow-up," but lore questions remain
- Gen V season 2 sets production return and confirms they won’t recast Chance Perdomo's role in The Boys spin-off
- Netflix drops new One Piece season 2 teaser revealing which arc the show will follow next
- Tron 3 wraps filming with a Jared Leto behind-the-scenes image and the director teasing he "can’t wait to show the world what we’ve done"
- The Godfather director's new sci-fi starring Adam Driver gets a first teaser, as he dedicates the film to his late wife
- Helldivers 2 fans commence "operation clean-up" on Steam reviews after Sony walks back controversial PSN mandate: "Real-life Major Order complete"
- Helldivers 2 patch stops a deadly situation where troopers would "randomly one-shot themselves" with explosive shrapnel
- 2024 D&D core rulebooks will be under creative commons, if that helps you forget the OGL drama
- The Witcher star feels "sorry" for Liam Hemsworth as he takes over from Henry Cavill and wants fans to give his Geralt a chance
- Looks like the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 could arrive before the RTX 5090
- Slick action RPG Black Myth: Wukong is Steam's most-wishlisted game after roguelike gem sequel Hades 2 stealth launches into Early Access
- After seeing his hit Steam city builder get the Shrek treatment, Manor Lords dev admits "you can't deny the potential" of official mods
- Mad Max prequel Furiosa fires up the hype train with first reactions calling it everything from a "visceral triumph" to "action filmmaking at its absolute best"
- From Gen V crossover to a deep-cut Supe cameo, here's every Easter egg in the new The Boys season 4 trailer
- Nintendo Direct coming next month, but don't expect any updates on the Switch successor that's finally been acknowledged
- Nintendo says it will announce its next-gen Switch successor "within this fiscal year"
- Manor Lords creator "kind of" agrees that he isn't really a solo dev but says he's earned the title because "if I quit, it's game over"
- May 6
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- Baldur's Gate 3's principal narrative designer is also the man who decades ago coined the D&D term 'XP' in "like 20 minutes on a Thursday afternoon"
- The uber-rare prototype Super Famicom that Nintendo built years before the SNES is set to fetch thousands at auction
- Hades 2 already has more "environments, foes, and fully-voiced characters" in Early Access than the full version of the first game
- New trailer for upcoming Star Wars TV show The Acolyte may have revealed the big bad – and a new poster all but confirms it
- Ahead of Elden Ring's new DLC, Bandai is giving away a 10-foot "life size" statue of a Shadow of the Erdtree boss
- Manor Lords dev asks what the city builder should do next in Early Access, and the community is split
- Hades 2 roadmap reveals the roguelike will be in early access "at least through the end of 2024," while devs add to the "biggest, most replayable, most feature-rich game we've made"
- James Gunn shares first look at David Corenswet as Superman and teases a surprise villain
- Marvel fans think they’ve spotted yet another reference to Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man in a new Deadpool 3 clip
- Helldivers 2 PSN fiasco forces Ghost of Tsushima dev to clarify its PC account linking plans
- First Doctor Who reviews are calling Ncuti Gatwa the "best Doctor" of the series
- Helldivers 2 players triumph as Sony walks back PSN account linking decision and studio CEO says he's "impressed by the willpower of the community"
- May 5
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- A month after Nintendo killed 3DS and Wii U servers, eight final players beat a 14-year-old record held by Halo 2 superfans
- Helldivers 2 Steam rating nosedives as one dev says refunds and the 145,000 negative reviews "gives us more pull in discussions with Sony"
- Avowed and Cyberpunk 2077 leads weigh in on Baldur's Gate 3 setting a new standard for RPGs: "Baldur's Gate is a D&D game, we're not going to start rolling now"
- Helldivers 2 has been pulled from Steam in 170 countries without PSN access, while Valve ignores its own policy to issue refunds for players with over 100 hours
- May 4
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- Helldivers 2's PSN mandate won't stop players in unsupported regions from playing the game, while devs look "for better options"
- Manor Lords player complains about undead animals taking up space, dev pops up to say "I fixed it already – will be added to the next patch"
- Cyberpunk 2077 lead reveals the smoke and mirrors behind one of the RPG's most unique quests: "Our cinematic team wanted to kill me"
- May 3
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- Breaking Bad baddie Giancarlo Esposito joins the MCU, and no, not as Professor X
- There are two impossibly massive Skyrim mods remaking classic Elder Scrolls RPGs, and both had some extensive, gorgeous gameplay to share this week
- Manor Lords dev suspects players think "farming sucks" because of other city builders and isn't sure "players actually understand each region has its strengths"
- Dark Matter showrunner talks helming the adaptation of his own novel: "Why would I let someone else raise my child?"
- Chris Claremont brings together Nightcrawler, Destiny, Mystique, and Rogue for a mutant family reunion in X-Men #700
- "Ouch, right in the review score": Helldivers 2 boss responds to 20,000+ negative Steam reviews sparked by Sony's PSN mandate, says "I guess it's warranted"
- Oh no, the open-world Terminator survival game has its own Resident Evil-style Mr. X, "a relentless and formidable hunter that cannot be stopped"
- After 6 years, the Magic: The Gathering manga with a title too weird to ever fit in this headline is finally getting an English release
- You thought Hidetaka Miyazaki lied about the length of Elden Ring, so he won't tell you how long the DLC is
- Dark Matter producer explains what Spider-Man villain The Green Goblin and Joel Edgerton's new sci-fi series have in common
- Some of our favourite Star Wars Lego sets get big savings for May 4
- After 37 years, the best weapon in video game history gets a new life in Vampire Survivors
- I think this is the best way to watch some of the finest films ever created, and Amazon just made it cheaper
- Helldivers 2 devs remind players "it's Sony's decision, not ours" amid PSN backlash: "We always knew this day would get here, and it's going about how I expected"
- Cyberpunk 2077's open world posed a "significant challenge" for CD Projekt RED when it came to "adjusting to the scale and characteristics of American settings"
- Like the Ori Metroidvanias, No Rest for the Wicked director says his new ARPG starts with a rainstorm to pay homage to Zelda games as a "good luck charm"
- Wolverine and Killing Eve stars team up for a dark reimagining of Robin Hood, and it’s the match-up we didn’t know we needed
- X-Men '97 isn't technically canon but it could crossover with the MCU in the future, teases showrunner
- Hyper Light Breaker director says the open-world roguelike's runs aren't "the be-all and end-all" so players will have "a lot more freedom"
- I've been waiting 10 years for this Wii U hidden gem to make a comeback, and an ESRB Switch leak says Nintendo's heard my prayers
- Saltburn and Gone Girl star joins anticipated threequel Now You See Me 3
- Feast your eyes on an exclusive Star Wars Vintage Collection reveal for May 4
- Military survival FPS Gray Zone Warfare blows past even Manor Lords to become Steam's new hit, selling 500,000 copies after just 3 days despite Early Access troubles
- After 343 reportedly shot down a Helldivers 2-style ODST game, Halo Infinite players are making it themselves in Forge
- Helldivers 2 player's cinematic last stand against the bots saluted by tens of thousands: "One of the most epic clips I have seen yet in a sea of epic clips"
- Black Panther star would love to play Batman in James Gunn's DCU: "Start that campaign"
- Spider-Man star Tom Holland proves that he really is the best big brother ever by saving his sibling's short film
- Legend of Zelda movie director promises that he will go "to the ends of the Earth" to ensure the movie is great
- Manor Lords farmer raises 2,100 sheep and counting, immediately regrets defying the city builder's dev: "Send help, I'm drowning in wool"
- Beloved British comedy returning for one final episode this Christmas Day
- Adam Scott teases Severance season 2 release: "Your patience doesn't have to hold on too much longer"
- Colin Farrell says *that* wild Sugar reveal was originally supposed to happen in the first episode
- Silent Hill speedrunner smashes through the horror game's hardest difficulty in 4 hours using a dance mat: "Do not ask me for this s*** ever again"
- Ori and the Blind Forest devs decided not to go with Microsoft for its new ARPG as PlayStation players always begged for the Metroidvania
- DC reveals the answer to a long-standing mystery in this week's Superman: House of Braniac special
- Helldivers 2 players are shocked at the community kill-to-death ratio being a dire 0.3, but some are convinced it's inaccurate
- Thousands of negative Steam reviews hit Helldivers 2 after players learn they need a PSN account to continue playing
- Mike Flanagan in talks to direct next The Exorcist film for Blumhouse
- Elden Ring director Hidetaka Miyazaki is "very happy" there are other Soulslike games, and says he could "learn a lot" from them
- The handheld I use as a makeshift PlayStation Portal is down to its lowest-ever price, but only through this weekend
- Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes first reactions are calling the movie "A New Hope for the Apes franchise"
- A year after Redfall's disappointing launch, players are still waiting for a $100 special edition bonus
- Shadow of the Erdtree will be about as difficult as the second half of Elden Ring, but can be altered with a new progression element
- This Mass Effect deal is so good that even its producer thought it was too good to be true
- Helldivers 2's new weapon is a "real tentacle-tearer," fuelling conspiracies about the Illuminate faction's return or another Terminid variant
- Helldivers 2 PC players will be forced to link to a PSN account later this month for greater security from Sony
- May 2
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- Before the days of patches, Elder Scrolls creator's first game shipped with OP bugged killers, so he just made them canon at the last minute: "Be on the lookout"
- 9 years after becoming the second-biggest gaming Kickstarter ever, beloved Metroidvania Bloodstained is finally about to fulfill its last stretch goal
- Baldur's Gate 3 director says some Larian devs were "uncomfortable" with the RPG's horniness but the goal was to "treat it like what you would see on TV"
- Marvel's Fantastic Four film adds Cobra Kai star to stellar cast in mystery role
- After 3 years of playtests and delays, Ubisoft's free-to-play crossover FPS XDefiant is finally launching for real this month
- 12 years after Twilight, Kristen Stewart is set to star in a new vampire movie with Oscar Isaac
- Baldur's Gate 3 mods have reached peak wholesomeness with one that lets you hug and be hugged by "most characters"
- A long-running Spider-Man villain is now a full-on vampire as Blood Hunt arrives in Amazing Spider-Man #49
- Nintendo hits 8,535 clones of Switch emulator Yuzu with a DMCA all at once
- This Fallout TV show backpack and Pip-Boy are perfect wasteland wear, and you can preorder them both right now
- Starfield fans are convinced that the plot of the RPG's Shattered Space DLC is hiding in plain sight
- After enormous Fallout-related traffic spike, Nexus Mods announces increase to its subscription costs to keep up with increasing demand
- Cobra Kai's final season gets a first look and release date – and the Netflix show isn't ending in a hurry
- Manor Lords publisher celebrates 500,000 wishlists for another medieval city-building strategy game with more sex, drama, and Game of Thrones-style backstabbing
- Stephen King doubles down on his love of hit Netflix show, calling it one of the best things he's ever seen
- After selling 100,000 copies of its idle Stardew Valley-like, Rusty's Retirement dev celebrates "spawning a genre" of games that run at the bottom of your screen
- Todd Howard says the Fallout TV show was so detailed that set designers were 3D printing game files sent from Bethesda
- A Witcher 3 dev just released a mod bringing one of the RPG's best quests closer to what it originally looked like during development
- First trailer for Benedict Cumberbatch's Netflix thriller Eric teases a dark, off-kilter mystery series
- Stellar Blade features a cameo of the legendary dev behind one of the longest-running MMOs ever made
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1: Raphael is in prison in a bruising first look at the new series
- Thought The Revenant’s bear attack scene was bad? An upcoming thriller is using a real grizzly in the movie
- Helldivers 2's next Warbond is already incredibly popular among Super Earth's soldiers thanks to the new pistol and SMG: "All these guns look really good"
- "A completely cruel and baffling decision": Industry anger over GTA 6 publisher's closure of two acclaimed studios despite commercial successes and CEO's $26 million pay rise
- Professor Layton studio CEO wants to make "erotic" and "violent" games one day and I'm afraid of what that means
- Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer says his approach to RPG weapon balance is "mostly vibes-based": "the important thing is to see how things feel in practice"
- Marvel fans think they know what's going on with Deadpool 3's Wolverine thanks to X-Men '97
- Three of the most essential Pathfinder books for newbies are on sale right now
- Stephen King hypes up new spider horror movie with great Rotten Tomatoes score
- I use Razer’s in-ear gaming monitors every day, and they’re now cheaper than ever
- Helldivers 2 players discover giant tunnels in the ground, are convinced they're teasing the return of the huge Hive Lords
- Chris Hemsworth says playing Dementus in Mad Max prequel Furiosa was a "wonderful departure" from Thor, even though they share a similar costume detail
- Legend of Zelda movie director shares his rules for making the live-action Nintendo film, and what he'll take from Planet of the Apes
- Mad Max creator already has a complete idea for another movie he wants to make, this time telling Max’s story before Fury Road
- Todd Howard says Starfield criticism is "perfectly understandable" as the RPG is a "different experience" to Bethesda's other games - but not everyone agrees
- Helldivers 2 players love the post-patch revolver, but not just because it's stronger – you can now spin it like a democracy-loving cowboy
- Elden Ring's Shadow of the Erdtree DLC will feature multiple decisions, but has no definitive ending
- Love Lies Bleeding star explains how Kristen Stewart's last-minute improv in a certain scene set the gory romantic thriller's whole tone
- Elden Ring will only get one DLC in Shadow of the Erdtree, but FromSoftware isn't ruling out a full sequel for the RPG
- Chris Hemsworth really wanted Tom Hardy's role in Mad Max: Fury Road, but he couldn't get an audition
- Ninja Theory is sharing "something" Hellblade 2 related every day until launch, and the first drop is a real nice-looking new screenshot
- May 1
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- Ahead of Diablo 4's season of loot changes, Blizzard teases other system reworks "similar in scope" and says it's "very open to revisiting other parts of the game"
- Stellar Blade's director is unsurprisingly a big fan of 2B and Tifa, but his inspirations also include some of Tekken's leading ladies and a GameCube cult classic
- You can now stay the night in the X-Men Mansion and the floating house from Up
- After 24 years, an infamous cute-em-up finally makes its English debut, but it has the devs struggling to define the difference between a remake and remaster
- Starfield's still getting some "major features" after the May update, including the RPG's "first land vehicle"
- Mike Flanagan to produce supernatural horror movie from popular film YouTuber about missing paranormal investigator
- Stunning Sea of Thieves PvP encounter proves even the wiliest pirates need to re-learn the game after Season 12 as lead dev watches in awe: "This is gold"
- Jake Gyllenhaal stars as an accused killer in first trailer for crime drama based on same book as Harrison Ford thriller
- Star Wars star and Ahsoka's best villain scores lead role in M3GAN 2
- A new drama based on a chilling true story is climbing up Netflix's streaming charts, and viewers are calling it a must-watch
- Fallout director Jonathan Nolan says it would be "a dream" to return to The Dark Knight series
- Helldivers 2 is already one of PlayStation's all-time bestsellers, and it's all thanks to the PC version
- I bought an awful $30 PlayStation Portal clone so you don't have to, but I surprisingly love it
- It took eight months, but Starfield is finally getting proper surface maps in the RPG's largest update since launch
- Todd Howard finally relents after calling out encumbered Starfield hoarders, as the May update will let you buff your carrying capacity without a mod
- Starfield at 60FPS is finally a reality for Xbox Series X players thanks to a new Performance Mode in a huge update this month
- Baldur's Gate 3 lead went from "joy to anxiety" in seconds after hearing Larian's next game would be a follow-up to the beloved RPG series
- Helldivers 2 grunts say "bots are now easier than bugs" thanks to huge Stalker changes which make them way harder to spot
- GTA: Vice City almost had a much more complex police system, but its developer says it was "too much hassle to set up"
- New chilling look at upcoming horror movie Terrifier 3 features Art the Clown back in his regular outfit and a new release date
- Fortnite creator knows exactly how he would make the Fortnite movie, but says he can't see it happening "anytime soon"
- Fallout 76's Vault was referenced in Fallout 3, a whole 10 years before it eventually released
- Almost 3 years later, veteran Elder Scrolls leads reintroduce their "Grand RPG" as a straight-up Daggerfall spiritual successor and tease Early Access launch
- A new Batman Arkham game is coming, but it's a VR game that's not being developer by the original studio
- After hours of Skyrim NPCs blurting out NSFW dialogue courtesy of his Twitch chat, streamer concludes "this entire thing was a mistake"
- Dune star Rebecca Ferguson's hit sci-fi show has received high praise from a very important person, calling season 2 "one of the best things I've ever seen"
- Two years later, SteelSeries just refreshed my favorite gaming headset
- One of the deadliest killers in Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty has slain 2.6 million players - and it isn't even a boss
- Devious Baldur's Gate 3 player discovers you can keep Wyll even if you raid the Grove - you just have to slaughter him
- Fortnite creator reveals how Avengers: Endgame directors and J.J. Abrams were pivotal in the shaping of the battle royale
- First trailer for My Adventures with Superman season 2 confirms a curious team-up, a Supergirl cameo, and its official release date
- Say cheese: the Xenomorph bares its teeth in terrifying new look at Alien: Romulus
- Doctor Who and Rings of Power stars' new horror with a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score finally gets release date
- New look at Deadpool 3 shows more of Deadpool and Wolverine’s suits, and it looks like Marvel fans approve
- The last Splatoon player still standing after Nintendo's Wii U shutdown is now trapped in map purgatory for the next ten years
- Everything we expected about Marvel's Blood Hunt event just got turned upside down by the shocking reveal of its secret villain
- Batman Arkham veterans are making a G.I. Joe that's aiming to be a "shot in the arm" for the franchise
- Todd Howard says Fallout: New Vegas "is a very, very important game to us" and that it's "hard to canonize" for the TV show
- Rebel Moon director’s cut seemingly gets a new title as the R-rating confirmed
- Helldivers 2 players are discovering what a mess the bugs made of their towers, and it looks like a sign of some very big bugs to come
- Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt explain how improvising helped craft a relatable love story in The Fall Guy: "We just started taking things from what was happening on set"
