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- November 6
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- GTA 6 publisher says it "isn't complicated for us to support" PC and, great, cool, so where's that GTA 6 PC announcement?
- Rockstar owner says GTA 6 and Borderlands 4 won't release near each other: "We wouldn't, and no one would, stack up huge releases"
- X-Men #7 reveals the tragic legacy of Krakoa which could doom all mutants
- Fallout: New Vegas director took one look at the Strip on a console devkit and thought, "Oh my god, this isn’t going to run"
- Take-Two boss says the Borderlands movie "was indeed disappointing," but it still helped sell some Borderlands games
- Monster Hunter Wilds players use the Palico character creator to remember lost pets: "I have shed tears multiple times but I also feel happy that I can still fight monsters with my buddy"
- Sega is finally reviving the world’s first 3D fighting game franchise after leaving it in arcade purgatory for 18 years
- Elden Ring remains undefeated: the PS5 Pro can't play it at a stable 60 FPS either
- Warcraft 2 Remastered has apparently leaked, and I sure hope it's more Diablo 2 Resurrected than Warcraft 3 Reforged
- Stranger Things season 5 set photos reveal new looks for Hopper, Dustin, Will, and more
- Days after Wii U gem Xenoblade Chronicles X was finally announced for Switch, Nintendo says the JRPG series has seen roughly 500% growth on Switch vs 3DS and Wii U
- Nintendo says it hasn't really changed its approach to first-party games in 39 years and that's why more people are "playing and enjoying our games"
- Manor Lords dev reveals more big changes to one of 2024's greatest city builders: "As some of you have requested, changes to ale and water distribution are finally coming"
- My favorite Elgato Stream Deck alternative has already been Black Friday'd
- This indie creature collector looks like a cozy Pokemon meets Stardew Valley experience, all at the bottom of your desktop
- Konami finally confirms that Metal Gear Solid 3's Eva is the same actor as The Little Mermaid, who kept this "deep, dark secret" for 20 years to protect her family-friendly image
- Riot Games hired Avengers directors the Russo brothers to help make a League of Legends movie, but reportedly paid them $5 million to walk away after script issues
- Rare Charizard card worth £30,000 returned to rightful owner after alleged thief tried selling it on Facebook
- New Stardew Valley bug can apparently make you rich with an army of 999 lobsters, players insist "it's a feature" as creator Eric Barone says he'll look into it
- The first look at Jack Black as a satanic fake Santa Claus for new Christmas movie with a wild premise has been unveiled
- Netflix's Arcane is the most expensive animated show ever made – with a reported $250 million price tag
- You can get unlimited gold in Dragon Age: The Veilguard thanks to one simple exploit - a pot-smashing method straight out of Zelda
- Stranger Things season 5's redacted title might be referencing a minor character in the Netflix show
- Legendary "god of horror" manga artist Kazuo Umezu dies at 88
- Fortnite OG is apparently making a full-time comeback next month as a separate experience to the all-new Chapter 6
- Starfield update fixes its long-bugged answer to Skyrim's Dark Brotherhood quests, so now you can't rob your targets and then get paid extra for killing them
- Stranger Things season 5 teaser confirms Netflix release window and episode titles – with one major omission
- Godzilla Minus One director says Kevin Feige told him Marvel is having meetings "every day" to see if they can replicate the monster movie: "I think it's just lip service"
- Paddington in Peru star Antonio Banderas talks playing multiple roles in the threequel and reveals which character is his favorite
- With over 99 million copies sold on the Switch alone, Nintendo says Pokemon has "found a new home on Nintendo Switch"
- Move over Monopoly and Uno, a new "survival thriller" is on the way and it's basically a horror take on Hungry Hungry Hippos
- New Netflix sci-fi horror movie clocks in 22 million views and takes streamer's #1 spot – despite divisive Rotten Tomatoes score
- Dev behind Bloodborne fan remake flees from potential Sony cease and desist, but returns a year later with something arguably better – a top-down Diablo-style Bloodborne ARPG
- Rockstar co-founder's 6-year-old claim that he was "thankful" not to be launching GTA 6 during a Trump presidency has aged like milk
- Before Baldur's Gate 3, there was Divinity: Original Sin 2 - and after 4 years, the Definitive Edition is finally landing on the PS5 and Xbox Series X
- Reviews for Dwayne Johnson's Christmas movie are in, and they're pretty brutal: "Will make you wish Christmas was canceled"
- After almost a full year of waiting, Netflix anime Beastars gets a return date for its final season
- Steam's new game recording feature is out of beta and fully available, so you can share clips of your best moments just like a Twitch streamer
- The Babadook director is adapting "a very well-known horror book", and word on the street it's one of Hellraiser author Clive Barker's novels
- As Nintendo confirms Switch 2 backwards compatibility, analyst claims investors are more confident that the next console is "a continuation" rather than "a risky experiment"
- Squid Game season 3 "naturally" feels like the finale of the Netflix show: "We don’t need any further stories from here"
- Nintendo remains tight-lipped on The Legend of Zelda movie, except to say it's releasing before 2030
- Nintendo Switch 2 will have backwards compatibility with Switch games, and Nintendo Switch Online will be coming back too
- Fallout New Vegas director's first D&D RPG launched on the same day as Diablo 2, "which sounds like it would be catastrophically bad," but it ended up helping it instead
- November 5
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- Artist reimagines Elden Ring as a Baldur's Gate-style top-down RPG "despite my love-hate relationship with the game," is surprised to see it's absolutely stunning
- Forget $2 million Super Mario Bros carts - in 1994 retro game collectors were trading price guides advertising the "Holy Grail of the game industry" at a whopping $100
- Scream star Matthew Lillard says Mike Flanagan’s The Life of Chuck is a movie "that the world needs right now"
- Ex-Rockstar dev says one of GTA 5's most mysterious Easter eggs was really "just put in there to mess with people"
- After 800 hours of practice finally paid off, hitless runner explains why a no-hit run of Borderlands 2 was way harder than games like Dark Souls or Skyrim
- Time to snipe like it's 2004: Halo Infinite just added Halo 2 throwback maps for the game's 20th anniversary, built in Forge "with the help of key Halo community members"
- Eric Barone has a new Stardew Valley PSA for players experiencing performance issues: "Remove all hats from pets," and yes, there's lore for that one too
- Hogwarts Legacy 2 is "coordinating" its plot with the HBO Harry Potter series as WB says the open-world game helped "unlock" the franchise after Fantastic Beasts flops
- Stardew Valley creator reveals "secret, experimental mobile multiplayer feature" hidden behind the most famous cheat code in video game history
- Titanic star Billy Zane looks unrecognizable as he recreates the Godfather opening scene for new Marlon Brando biopic from cult film director
- After 5 years, Apex Legends is going back to the beginning with a Fortnite-style mode letting you experience the launch version of the battle royale FPS
- Red Dead Redemption 2 dev reveals detail "99% of people never saw" that's part of "what makes Rockstar's games so good"
- From Warhammer 40K to Star Wars, Helldivers 2 creative director "would love to do a take on" loads of IP, but doing them all would be a "not Helldivers" experience
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard contains a heartfelt tribute to a BioWare developer, "an artist who lifted his comrades' hearts with his craft"
- From British TV royalty to Robert De Niro, the Paddington in Peru cast reveal their dream picks for future series villains
- It's been 10 years since Mario Kart 8 launched, and it still managed to outsell every single first-party new Nintendo Switch game in 2024
- Former GTA 6 dev says Rockstar will currently be trying to "really tighten" the game "in every corner" right now, because "90% of your work" is accounting for players who don't do as they're told
- Ahead of Five Nights At Freddy's 2, star Matthew Lillard talks reprising the role of supervillain William Afton after "being left out of many a sequel"
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard streamer spends over 21 hours in character creator out of extreme dedication to being sexy: “I have my priorities sorted, and they’re insane”
- The Star Wars community has ideas on what they'd make 'uncanon,' from Padme's death to Palpatine's return
- This Netflix animated series has been canceled for the second time in six months, but its creator offers a season 2 tease and a message of hope: "This is not the end"
- Netflix is removing 20 interactive movies and shows – but not the Black Mirror special
- Tormenture blurs the line between game and reality with its '80s-inspired game-within-a-game horror stylings
- Agatha All Along's big reveal has changed the way Marvel fans watch WandaVision's final showdown
- Epic calls off Fortnite tournament after the same map-destroying bug comes up 5 times in a row
- Paddington in Peru director says the film pays tribute to the late Queen as "people have a lot of affection" for the beloved Platinum Jubilee sketch
- After 20 years of superhero movies, Tom Hanks weighs in on why he thinks audiences aren't as interested anymore – and reveals he's never had a meeting with Marvel
- The Black Phone 2 production has begun, as director shares first cryptic behind the scenes look at the horror sequel
- Pokemon TCG Pocket playground rumors about boosting rare card chances are running wild, but at least this in-game event offers a good shot at getting a sparkly Lapras
- Days after shutting its AAA game studio filled with former God of War and Overwatch talent, Netflix announces a "new initiative" powered by AI
- 38 years after the original, David Cronenberg's body horror classic The Fly is getting a surprise follow-up, and it's not a remake
- Blue Lock fans are all out of patience after the anime's latest season 2 trailer, as one animator says the poor quality "is not funny anymore"
- Orphan 3 is officially in the works – and the horror sequel's star has the perfect reaction to the announcement
- 11 years after it first aired, Netflix is getting the rare One Piece and Dragon Ball crossover episode
- Switch sales slump as Nintendo attributes the drop to a lack of "special" driving factors and the console's age, but don't worry, its successor will still be announced soon
- Agatha All Along's awards submission might have just hinted at a second season, but we've been here before with Marvel
- Hit Netflix show Outer Banks with a stellar Rotten Tomatoes score announces it will end with next season
- Deadpool and Wolverine's Ryan Reynolds is reuniting with Hugh Jackman and Shawn Levy for another movie but it's "not Marvel"
- The first patch for Dragon Age: The Veilguard is almost here, bringing new "minor balance changes" and squashing some of the RPG's peskiest bugs
- As The Binding of Isaac's multiplayer update gets a release date, the roguelike's legendary creator drops a sly roast of the entire community
- November 4
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- Helldivers 2's Joel gives cruelest Major Order yet as High Command eyes "disenfranchised families" as "cheap labor" to work on the dangerously sketchy new superweapon
- Don't expect a big Mass Effect 5 update on N7 Day: BioWare warns that it's going to "be quieter" after Dragon Age: The Veilguard
- Former GTA lead explains "probably the worst bug we missed" in San Andreas and why "anything that isn't visible to players tends to have swearing in it"
- Back to the Future director "would love" to adapt the musical version but the studio "doesn't get it"
- Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone invents new lore after the latest update starts killing chickens: "There is a wild coyote on the farm day 1 rn"
- Borderlands 2 player who spent 9 months trying to finish the game without getting hit was beaten to the punch just hours before finally accomplishing his goal
- PS5 Pro launch lineup is just like a regular console release: overloaded with sports and free-to-play ports, but the secret biggest addition is Xbox's own new Call of Duty
- "By far the funniest bug" sci-fi strategy hit Stellaris has seen in a minute won't be fixed immediately because the devs want to see what players do with it
- Blair Witch Project directors say they weren't consulted for the new sequel: "Studios are not your friends"
- "Games have bugs and GTA is no exception": Former Rockstar tech lead shouts out modder behind hundreds of fixes for the original GTA trilogy on PC
- Star Wars Outlaws devs are promising so many good improvements that I'm starting to feel bad about playing and liking this open-world game at launch
- BioWare dev says "maybe 20 people" left at the studio have used an old Dragon Age engine, so it's harder to remaster than Mass Effect: "Never say never, I guess"
- Monster Hunter Wilds player uses the power of math to prove why the beta left "some weapons feeling worse" compared to Monster Hunter World or Rise
- Demon's Souls modder creates a "demastered" edition that looks straight out of the PS1 era after being "inspired by early FromSoftware games"
- Agatha All Along's creator has "regrets" over not featuring more of Agatha and Rio's relationship: "I apologize to the community"
- Forget Black Friday, you can get Herman Miller's gaming chairs for 25% less right now
- 36 years on from Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the director says there's a really good sequel script that will "never" get made
- Stardew Valley 1.6.9 adds The Sims-style cheat codes and a "new friend" who can restore some of the game's rarest items "for a price"
- Assassin's Creed boss admits the series grew "more predictable" after the third game, but says Shadows can change the "perceived inconsistency in quality" at Ubisoft
- The Sims 4 Life and Death adds a sneaky reference to Baldur's Gate 3, with a dev saying there's "another small one buried in there somewhere" still left to find
- Hideo Kojima gives his verdict on Joker: Folie à Deux, and it's much more positive than his Venom or Madame Web reviews
- Desperate GTA 6 fans give up on predicting the elusive action-adventure game's release date through normal means, instead resort to astrology
- Agatha All Along creator wanted to include a fan-favorite character from She-Hulk but it "just didn’t work"
- Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man prequel comic takes Peter Parker back to his roots but will have "some surprising twists," says series writer Christos Gage
- One year after its ending, Attack on Titan is adding more to its finale with a movie post-credits scene
- Horror movie Smile 2's opening scene is now online for free – but you have to smile for 7 minutes to watch it
- Voting for the Golden Joystick Awards Ultimate Game of the Year is now open
- Five Nights At Freddy's 2 will be more "fan-centric" according to horror sequel star Matthew Lillard: "The filmmakers listened to some of the criticism"
- 34 years later, Tom Cruise hopes to make a Top Gun: Maverick-style sequel to another of his classic action movies
- While Marvel Rivals devs are "honored" to be compared to Overwatch, their hero shooter is "faster paced and much more accessible to new players" than Blizzard's
- Silent Hill 2 Remake player uncovers a hidden message that could support a controversial story theory, but the creative director won't confirm it as canon
- The Boys spin-off Gen V celebrates end of season 2 filming with wholesome behind-the-scenes photos and seven new cast members
- Daryl Dixon season 3 teaser has serious Wild West vibes, as The Walking Dead spin-off sets its release window
- The LoL MMO has "a lot of momentum" and "a great direction," despite going dark for a reset earlier this year
- After "five years" of waiting, one Deadpool and Wolverine star wants to finally become their comic book alter ego in Deadpool 4: "I'm not getting any younger"
- As the Persona and Yakuza series fly beyond 20 million sales each, Sega says its JRPG successes are thanks to the power of multi-platform releases
- Marvel's newest duo Billy and Agatha will return "somewhere in the MCU" says Agatha All Along creator
- 210 days after Nintendo shut down the 3DS and Wii U online servers, the last connected player finally signs off after his console crashes: "It's over"
- Agatha All Along's creator was "instructed" by Marvel to use a certain word in the script and it might have just revealed Wanda's fate
- The Penguin episode 7 recap and Easter eggs: Oz Cobb's dark past comes to light in the Batman spin-off
- November 3
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- Final Fantasy 14's Yoshi-P confirms Square Enix remains committed to its multiplatform strategy, but hopes more Xbox fans actually play its new JRPGs
- One of the best roguelikes in early access has a beefy update that turns it into "what Dark Souls would be like with hordes of enemies"
- Diablo 4 boss' plan for Gears of War 6 would've taken the series to space, but "we weren't going to start Mass Effect-ing this"
- Monster Hunter Wilds players keep making Final Fantasy 14's Yoshi-P in the beta character creator, and he's not totally happy about it
- November 2
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- In a first for Dragon Age, The Veilguard director reiterates the RPG won't have DLC as BioWare pivots to work on Mass Effect 5
- Crashed your Baldur's Gate 3 save with a Skyrim-grade mod overflow? Larian made a video just for you
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance dev explains that the RPG had to take place at a very specific point in time - so that there aren’t any guns
- After 3 years and over 30 updates, Vampire Survivors finally has vampires - and even Baldur's Gate 3's Astarion actor is here as Dracula
- Fallout: New Vegas director on the “blessing” of working on the RPG: “I never thought I’d get a chance to work on Fallout [again]”
- Metal Gear Solid Delta dev says that Konami wants to make the remake feel familiar but not old: "Our whole goal [...] is to make sure that it still feels like the game that you played 20 years ago"
- Despite its crabtastic Soulslike hit, indie dev say funding for its "best game yet" just fizzled: "2024 is really taking no prisoners"
- Millions of Fortnite players watch Snoop Dogg and Ice Spice livestream a concert as part of a rap-themed Chapter 2 Remix that includes Eminem and a tribute to Juice WRLD
- November 1
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- Former GTA 6 designer says the open world sequel will "blow people away" and "people will be talking about it for ages" because Rockstar has "raised the bar again"
- Assassin's Creed Shadows aims to "restore the balance" between the series' historical and modern stories
- BioWare hopes Dragon Age: The Veilguard brings the studio "back into the conversation as a top game studio" after Anthem and Mass Effect Andromeda flops
- Assassin's Creed Shadows lead shuts down "attacks driven by intolerance" over the game's Black samurai and woman warrior, condemns "personal attacks" against devs
- Apex Legends was a top 50 Steam Deck game, but EA's dropping Valve's handheld because it can't tell if those players are actually dirty cheating Linux users
- Agatha All Along creator says she wrote several post-credits scenes but it was a "Marvel decision" not to include them
- The most emotional moment in the Christopher Reeve Superman documentary came from a poem his son accidentally found the night before filming
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (Nov 1-3)
- Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone unveils glorious collection of fan-made Jack-o'-lanterns and pledges to "add every Stardew pumpkin to my folder"
- Ubisoft stealth drops 9 seconds of new Assassin's Creed Shadows gameplay during Apple's latest Mac presentation
- Matthew Lillard thinks the Scream franchise is in a "good place," but that the movies got "too violent": "I don't think Ghostface ever needs a shotgun"
- Rick Remender and Paul Azaceta's new horror comic The Seasons feels like Tintin meets Wes Anderson in Hell
- A new Godzilla movie is on the way, from the creators of the Oscar-winning Godzilla Minus One
- Sony was working on the PS5 Pro before the PS5 even launched: "We design everything with having 1 ahead in our mind"
- Xbox has barely mentioned Conker's Bad Fur Day in 10 years, but popstar Doja Cat just put the cult N64 platformer in front of 24 million people in the funniest way
- Mike Flanagan is producing a new horror movie with Midnight Mass and Oppenheimer stars
- Eddie Redmayne reveals the big differences between The Day of the Jackal TV series and the best-selling thriller novel
- Horizon Zero Dawn remaster continues the series' curse as Dragon Age and Monster Hunter Wilds' beta soak up all the chatter
- Highlander reboot starring Henry Cavill from John Wick director gets a disappointing filming update
- Sound the alarm, the Lego UCS Millennium Falcon just hit its lowest price
- Cult of the Lamb dev says the roguelike is "just like Animal Crossing" except "more realistic, since you can't buy a house"
- After 3 years, GTA 5 on PC is finally getting upgraded to match current-gen consoles in 2025
- Pinocchio horror movie gets creepy first look, casts legendary Nightmare on Elm Street actor
- PS5 Slim takes its own price cut ahead of PS5 Pro - and I know which one I'd rather buy
- As Monster Hunter Wilds PC players fight horrible polygons and struggle to hit 60 FPS, Capcom says the game is "already in a more improved state compared to the beta"
- State of Decay 3 studio say it's bigger than ever with 6 times the amount of developers it had on its first zombie survival game
- Emma Ríos's Anzuelo is a beautiful and surreal story of survival and the sea
- "After all the chatter" about Baldur's Gate and Dragon Age, Baldur's Gate 3 director hints he's "very curious" to play The Veilguard - and he wasted no time on the download
- Final Fantasy 14 devs confirm patch 7.1 release date, and everyone's favorite lizard heartthrob is part of the MMO's FF11 raid collab
- Skeleton Crew trailer is a retro-style adventure through the Star Wars galaxy with mischief and pirates
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance creator says his RPG series only exists because he was “p***ed” at the lack of historical games
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6's hottest new XP farming trick has players flashbanging their allies for a measly 15XP
- "It's something between them" – Like a Dragon: Yakuza's Kiryu actor breaks down that final Dragon of Dojima reveal and what it could mean for a second season
- New horror with great Rotten Tomatoes score gets first full trailer, and it's all shot from the POV of a supernatural entity
- It looks like an Atari 2600, but I'd use it as a sub-$200 indie gaming Steam Machine
- Halloween Ends might not have closed the book on Laurie Strode after all, according to horror icon Jamie Lee Curtis
- Quentin Tarantino has a very specific reason for not watching Denis Villeneuve's Dune: "I don't need to see a movie that says the word spice so dramatically"
- Popular zombie video game The House of the Dead is getting the movie adaptation treatment from Resident Evil director, and the concept art is already terrifying
- The Witcher 3 quest designer behind a hilarious scene only accessible with mods is "glad to see it was found," even if it "took you a while"
- World of Warcraft devs set about rebuilding "core parts" of the 20-year-old MMO's infrastructure, accidentally making some of its raid content unplayable
- Turns out, people still like single-player BioWare RPGs as Dragon Age: The Veilguard tops sales charts and breaks Steam records for the studio
- Agatha All Along's costume designer reveals neat nods to Wanda and Vision in Billy's Wiccan suit
- After the success of Alien: Romulus, Ridley Scott is working on a brand new Alien movie
- Keanu Reeves has just convinced us with one syllable that he's the perfect Shadow in new look at Sonic 3
- Heretic star Hugh Grant reveals that they filmed two different versions of the horror movie's dramatic ending
- Monster Hunter Wilds beta pulls in nearly half a million concurrent Steam players, some of which are being turned into PS1-style low-poly blobs
- Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi reportedly reuniting once more with JRPG legend Nobuo Uematsu on a new unnamed game 38 years after their first collaboration
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